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|accept=Unblocked with the ] revert restriction imposed in the following section. To be clear, this constitutes a finding that outright sockpuppetry is unlikely to have occurred here, but that there was a failure to exercise independent judgment in some restorations, without a finding as to how intentional the ] was. Dovidroth, I note your stated intention to comply with the revert restriction even outside the PIA topic area, and think that that's a very good idea, even if it's not formally required by the restriction I've issued. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she&#124;they&#124;xe)</span> 19:47, 6 May 2023 (UTC)}}
{{re|NinjaRobotPirate}} Dovid asked me for my thoughts on this block. Compliance notes: They and I have no previous interactions that I can recall, and they did not specify why they contacted me or whether they'd contacted others. Having been adminshopped, I don't intend to take any action here unless by agreement, but I <em>would</em> like to inquire about this, as someone's who's made a lot of behavioral-only blocks of Yaniv sox.{{pb}}With that out of the way: At a glance, nothing in Dovid's contribs is jumping out at me, and at least one tell I'd expect to find isn't there. Is there something subtle I'm missing, or am I just losing my touch? (Admittedly, getting back into SPI work after several months away.) Happy to talk by email if that's preferable. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she&#124;they&#124;xe)</span> 05:45, 4 May 2023 (UTC) {{re|NinjaRobotPirate}} Dovid asked me for my thoughts on this block. Compliance notes: They and I have no previous interactions that I can recall, and they did not specify why they contacted me or whether they'd contacted others. Having been adminshopped, I don't intend to take any action here unless by agreement, but I <em>would</em> like to inquire about this, as someone's who's made a lot of behavioral-only blocks of Yaniv sox.{{pb}}With that out of the way: At a glance, nothing in Dovid's contribs is jumping out at me, and at least one tell I'd expect to find isn't there. Is there something subtle I'm missing, or am I just losing my touch? (Admittedly, getting back into SPI work after several months away.) Happy to talk by email if that's preferable. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she&#124;they&#124;xe)</span> 05:45, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
:I was a little surprised at this tbh, but after going through the contribs the thing that struck me was the number of times Dovidroth restored past Yaniv edits. See for example ] then ] and then ]. Was a story played out repeatedly. So, me personally, surprised but then disappointed I didnt see it way earlier. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap">''']''' - 12:22, 4 May 2023 (UTC)</small> :I was a little surprised at this tbh, but after going through the contribs the thing that struck me was the number of times Dovidroth restored past Yaniv edits. See for example ] then ] and then ]. Was a story played out repeatedly. So, me personally, surprised but then disappointed I didnt see it way earlier. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap">''']''' - 12:22, 4 May 2023 (UTC)</small>
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:::I have thoughts, but you're right that I forgot to ask for a straight answer on whether Dovid has been in touch with Yaniv. So I'd like to know that too, Dovid; and let's expand that to whether you've been in touch with Yaniv, and/or whether anyone has reached out to you about ARBPIA article content who isn't an established Misplaced Pages editor. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she&#124;they&#124;xe)</span> 21:20, 5 May 2023 (UTC) :::I have thoughts, but you're right that I forgot to ask for a straight answer on whether Dovid has been in touch with Yaniv. So I'd like to know that too, Dovid; and let's expand that to whether you've been in touch with Yaniv, and/or whether anyone has reached out to you about ARBPIA article content who isn't an established Misplaced Pages editor. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she&#124;they&#124;xe)</span> 21:20, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
::::No, I haven't been contacted by this Yaniv nor I have any intention to edit on behalf of banned users. I agree not to restore sock edits if unblocked, even if I like those edits. ] (]) 18:31, 6 May 2023 (UTC) ::::No, I haven't been contacted by this Yaniv nor I have any intention to edit on behalf of banned users. I agree not to restore sock edits if unblocked, even if I like those edits. ] (]) 18:31, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
::{{re|Nableezy}} When I became an SPI clerk, I expressed a reluctance to calling people liars. That got a chuckle out of one or two colleagues, but I've with very few exceptions stood by that. So I'm not going to get into whether I believe Dovidroth's response or not (and I don't like creating situations where someone would have a perverse incentive to falsely confess), and rather will just stand by what I said before: There is adequate evidence that they have failed to exercise independent judgment in restoring banned users' edits within the PIA topic area. In CTOP areas, admins sometimes have to make decisions based on a ] in terms of what appears to be in the best interests of the encyclopedia, and I think this is one of those times. So I want you to know I have seriously considered your objection to an unblock with restrictions, but stand by it being the best way forward here. Dovidroth is of course welcome to appeal as described below.{{pb}}As a final bit of housekeeping, since I'm unblocking with a finding that negates BANREVERT, as discussed before could you please either self-revert or dummy-edit re-justify all BANREVERTs that didn't originate from Dovidroth restoring Yaniv content? <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she&#124;they&#124;xe)</span> 19:47, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
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Every claim in the article is carefully and accurately sources. Can you please explain what the problem is? Dovidroth (talk) 13:39, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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As far as I can tell, I selected "Non-free historic image". Please let me know if there's something else I need to do. Thanks. Dovidroth (talk) 13:36, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks. So how do I make it into an article now? Dovidroth (talk) 04:43, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

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Sure, I will try to look over what you write. Dovidroth (talk) 05:33, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

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The 'small minority' bias

Hi Dovidroth. Thank you for this edit. If you could review the introduction to the article of the Balfour Declaration and comment on it, I'd appreciate it. I think it suffers from similar biases. Thanks in advance! Tombah (talk) 07:58, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

@Tombah:Thanks for your support and I will try to get to it soon. The person who made the edit that I reversed is fighting with me on the talk page. If you could write something supporting me, I would appreciate it.Dovidroth (talk) 08:05, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

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Nice try. You are the one who broke 1RR:
first revert
And...
second revert
We can take this to WP:AE whenever you want. Dovidroth (talk) 15:08, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
To be clear, if another editor breaches the WP:1RR limit, you should ask them to self-revert on their talk page, and you certainly should not take it upon yourself to revert them when it means you in turn breach the WP:1RR. You've now done this twice, both on Six-Day War and Sam Kassin. Both of you would find yourself in hot water if either of you took this to AE. Iskandar323 (talk) 17:40, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't know that. I thought I was allowed to revert someone who already broke 1RR, in a case of 'status quo ante bellum'. My apologies. Next time I'll ask the breacher to revert himself and make a report at AE if he refuses. Although I'm not sure whether Sam Kassin is under 1RR restrictions like ARBPIA articles. Either way, I'll be careful. Thanks for your help. Dovidroth (talk) 18:08, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
You're right, I got muddled on Sam Kassin, but yes, there's no status quo ante bellum. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:57, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

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Uncited but ...

Hey, in this edit, it's all uncited and semi-duplicative, but there were quite a few related wiki links that I can't see used anywhere else on the page - the Nebi Musa riots one for instance - isn't it remiss not to have a link to that Jerusalem-specific event? Iskandar323 (talk) 04:58, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

The Nebi Musa riots is already linked, just like the other ones. Dovidroth (talk) 09:47, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
I see. It was some deep piping. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:56, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

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Request reason:

I have been blocked without evidence. I am not a sockpuppet. In the investigation of the sockmaster in question, my user account is not even mentioned. This is a clear mistake.Dovidroth (talk) 04:27, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Unblocked with the WP:CTOP revert restriction imposed in the following section. To be clear, this constitutes a finding that outright sockpuppetry is unlikely to have occurred here, but that there was a failure to exercise independent judgment in some restorations, without a finding as to how intentional the proxying was. Dovidroth, I note your stated intention to comply with the revert restriction even outside the PIA topic area, and think that that's a very good idea, even if it's not formally required by the restriction I've issued. -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 19:47, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate: Dovid asked me for my thoughts on this block. Compliance notes: They and I have no previous interactions that I can recall, and they did not specify why they contacted me or whether they'd contacted others. Having been adminshopped, I don't intend to take any action here unless by agreement, but I would like to inquire about this, as someone's who's made a lot of behavioral-only blocks of Yaniv sox.

With that out of the way: At a glance, nothing in Dovid's contribs is jumping out at me, and at least one tell I'd expect to find isn't there. Is there something subtle I'm missing, or am I just losing my touch? (Admittedly, getting back into SPI work after several months away.) Happy to talk by email if that's preferable. -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 05:45, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

I was a little surprised at this tbh, but after going through the contribs the thing that struck me was the number of times Dovidroth restored past Yaniv edits. See for example SoaringLL then WatchIonly and then Dovidroth. Was a story played out repeatedly. So, me personally, surprised but then disappointed I didnt see it way earlier. nableezy - 12:22, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
I've edited literally thousands of articles over the last few years. If there is an edit made by a user that was banned but I consider helpful for the article, I usually restore it. I judge changes based on their own merits, not by who did it. I didn't know that was apparently forbidden on Misplaced Pages. In any case, that doesn't make me a sockpuppet. Dovidroth (talk) 12:40, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Stecantur is  Confirmed, and there isn't really any arguing that point. Stecantur edited Michael Oren, after which Dovidroth and Spencer Stevens showed up to restore Stecantur's edit using the same arguments. At Abba Eban, Stecantur and Dovidroth showed up within hours of each other to revert the same edit with the same argument. I'm not really 100% sure of Spencer Stevens, but that account is on the same IP range as a bunch of other socks. Dovidroth is on a different IP range that doesn't seem to have any socks. However, this account is showing up in the same articles, with the same arguments, within hours of a confirmed sock. I didn't make it a CU block, though, so anyone can look into it. I could believe this is meat puppetry or proxying, but it wouldn't matter – the end result is the same. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:48, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
With all due respect, you are making a mistake. It's Spencer Stevens who copied me. I'm the one who reverted that edit for being pure WP:Gossip. If a sockpuppet then took advantage of that and jumped into the fray and took my side, it's not my fault. He copied me, not vice versa. Also the edit that I reverted and nableezy was referring to was made by an actual sockpuppet (GizzyCatBella). At this point it's impossible to avoid some interlaps with sock edits, since there are so many in Israel-related articles. Dovidroth (talk) 13:04, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Regarding Stecantur, at the time that sock appeared in the article, he wasn't blocked, so I had no idea about their identity. Why that article wasn't under extended-confirmed protection is beyond me. It belongs to arbpia. Dovidroth (talk) 13:13, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
I'm still looking into some of this, but I will say off the bat, Dovidroth emailed me from an address that is associated with a specific identifiable person, and their edits are extremely consistent with being that person, including at least one self-cite. Now that only gets us halfway, since AFAIK we don't know Yaniv's IRL identity, but GHBH where the GH identity is known is pretty rare. So to me the question would come down more to if this is meatpuppetry, and for that the question we need to answer per WP:PROXYING is whether Dovid had an independent reason for making these edits. It's worth noting that Yaniv edits often have a fair amount of constructive ones mixed in; the many times I've massrollbacked him, I've often had to manually exclude edits that reverted Holocaust denial, POV-pushing, etc. @Nableezy: I've always known you to be a straight shooter in this topic area, even regarding editors you disagree with. In your opinion, are the restorations that Dovidroth has made wider-ranging than one would expect of someone who (I gather) shares Yaniv's right-of-Israeli-center Zionist POV and interest in Jewish practice? -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 16:55, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
I started looking at it more and to be frank Im not sure. I could see the Oren sequence going either way, since one of the socks does a Yaniv thing in posting to what he thinks is a friendly editor's talk page and deleting it right after (, ). The one I cited may have happened from going through GCB's contribs to revert but it just doesnt make sense to me, how do you even come across that edit months later to restore the exact quote with the same phrasing. If you want my best guess? Been in email contact with Yaniv (I just dont buy how you show up at a bunch of discussions with a bunch of other rarely active editors when there is established proof of Yaniv email canvassing, eg the exodus to expulsion and flight move request), but right at this second not totally sure is actually Yaniv. nableezy - 17:24, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Hmm. Well, Dovidroth: At The Clinton Parameters, Michael Oren, and Abba Eban, you restored Yaniv content despite having never edited the articles before . Could you please explain what drew your attention to these pages? -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 21:17, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
I saw the Clinton Parameters after I found out that GizzyCatBella, an editor so dedicated to revert sock edits across arbpia, turned out to be a sockpuppet herself (oh, the irony). But I didn't revert her out of spite or revenge, but simply because that quote by Bandar is actually pretty famous among those Israelis in the peace camps (no, I'm not a "right-wing" nutjob because I'm religious). Regarding Abba Eban, I had been monitoring the article for a while, which led me to find out about a similar addition on Michael Oren by this new editor with less than 200 edits who is not an extended-confirmed user that should be able to edit arbpia articles or content anyway. Dovidroth (talk) 03:55, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Okay, here's where I come down:

  1. It seems unlikely that Dovidroth is Yaniv Horon, nor someone working entirely at his direction
  2. The charge that Dovidroth has at least sometimes edited at Yaniv's direction is, in my view, not proven, in the Scots sense: A good case has been made for it, but there's no definitive proof, and Dovidroth has provided an alternate explantion, albeit one that requires a fair amount of assuming good faith.
  3. Regardless of Dovidroth's intentions, regarding Yaniv edits he has acted in a manner that, overall, showed a failure to exercise independent judgment.

In light of that, I would propose the following: Dovidroth is unblocked, but with the following WP:CTOPIC revert restriction issued:

Within the WP:ARBPIA topic area, Dovidroth may not reinstate any edits that were correctly reverted under WP:BANREVERT, except with permission of the reverting user, by talkpage consensus, or under the usual edit-warring exceptions.

Dovidroth, would you agree to that restriction? (Strictly speaking I can impose it either way, but I'm not interested in doing so if you're not on-board.) @NinjaRobotPirate: Would you be amenable to this? -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 06:33, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, thank you. I agree not to restore any edit made by a banned user that was reverted (at least without previous agreement from the reverting editor or previous consensus in the talk page). However, if I'm unblocked, I do intent to restore my own contributions that were reverted under the false pretense that I'm a sockpuppet, including Bandar's quote in the Clinton Parameters that was removed by a sockpuppet (GizzyCatBella) and gossip addition in Michael Oren that is supported by unreliable sources (assuming that's ok with you Tamzin). Dovidroth (talk) 06:52, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
So, right after agreeing not to restore sock puppet edits, you say the first edits you're going to make are to continue an edit war to restore sock puppet edits in a topic under discretionary sanctions. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:53, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
I was asking to avoid misunderstanding, but I see you object to that. In that case, I will refrain from restoring the reverted edits in Michael Oren, Abba Eban and Clinton Parameters. I will just restore my own contributions that were reverted by Nableezy after I was accused of sockpuppetry. Dovidroth (talk) 14:03, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
You canvass an admin via email, and this admin somehow determines that there's no real proof that you've engaged in email collusion with a banned editor. You get offered a mild restriction that only slows you down from restoring edits by banned editors and agree to it. But you then argue that it's too burdensome, and you need to immediately return to edit warring to restore edits made by that banned editor. I would agree to a restriction that you're indefinitely topic banned from restoring edits by blocked or banned editors in WP:ARBPIA. No asking permission to restore edits. If you restore edits by a blocked or banned editor, or you propose restoring edits by a blocked or banned editor, your indefinite block is restored. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:37, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
@Dovidroth: Echoing NRP: If any reverts of your edits are found to not fall under BANREVERT (e.g. an edit you made that had no connection to Yaniv, in the eventuality where you are unblocked), that's an administrative matter I can sort out with Nableezy—who is, like I said, a reasonable guy, and I trust will do the right thing in that eventuality (either self-reverting or correcting his reverts to use some different rationale). This is all independent of the question of any sanctions; it's what I expect in any case where a BANREVERT is later found inapplicable. So, that's something Nableezy and I can sort out; if you do want to get unblocked, you should be looking forward, not backward. Now, I do tend to agree with NRP that, if this is how you're looking at the proposed sanction—immediately trying to return to the disputes that contributed to your block—that a more black-and-white sanction would be better. It's really not much of a burden; I've restored banned users' edits maybe... 10 times in my last 40,000 edits, something like that?You could also just take a TBAN from ARBPIA. That might be for the best in the long run. Frankly, just looking at your edits from the perspective of a content editor (and the author of, I think, the only Good Article on a Jewish prayer), you seem to be much more in your element when editing about Jewish topics than ARBPIA topics. Just a thought.So, like NRP said, this is a pretty good offer you're getting. You—I think just by luck?—reached out to one of a pretty small handful of admins who will hear out an "actual innocence" defense to sockpuppetry, and happened to get me the week that I returned to admin work after several months' absence. And, like I said, this is only something I'd be interested in pursuing if you're affirmatively on-board with the idea. I'm not going to drag you kicking and screaming into your own unblock.On that note, @NinjaRobotPirate, I was serious when I said that, having been adminshopped here, I have no intention of doing anything that isn't by mutual agreement. Maybe I'm misreading tone, but you seem unhappy with the idea of an unblock, and if your partial endorsement here is reluctant, then my involvement will be only a recommendation to whichever admin draws this page out of CAT:UNBLOCK. If there's one thing I do not want to be as an admin, it's that admin who shows up on a blocked established user's talkpage to give them special treatment. I don't think that's what I'm doing, but if it seems that way, I won't be pressing any buttons. -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 18:44, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
No, it's OK. I'm just not in a good mood. I'm bipolar, but I've got it under control. Just have to do damage control occasionally. I shouldn't have been that hostile; sorry. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:24, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Idk tbh, this seems a bit Kafkaesque. If Dovid is not a sock then the BRV reverts are not by themselves something they should be prohibited from doing. Any editor in good standing can take responsibility for content reverted under BRV, and I dont see why somebody should restricted from that. If you are unconvinced about the MEAT/PROXYING possibilities, and my non-admin view is Id appreciate Dovid saying flat out if they have been contacted by email to participate in any discussion, and Id take a yes as a reason to forgive and unblock personally, then he would by the book stay blocked. But it does not strike me as reasonable to both say he is not socking and treat him as though he maybe sorta might have been with these restrictions. nableezy - 20:50, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

I will also say that I do think Dovid has been attempting to POV push through edit-warring in a number of articles and using edit-summaries improperly with their edits (eg this is not an attribution, and then there was this repeated effort to remove what had previously had an explicit talk page consensus for (Special:Diff/1145637062, Special:Diff/1145359349, Special:Diff/1145085395, Special:Diff/1143673243, Special:Diff/1143151184). But those issues are independent of whether or not Dovid should be blocked for sockpuppetry or meatpuppeting or proxying. nableezy - 20:57, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
I have thoughts, but you're right that I forgot to ask for a straight answer on whether Dovid has been in touch with Yaniv. So I'd like to know that too, Dovid; and let's expand that to whether you've been in touch with Yaniv, and/or whether anyone has reached out to you about ARBPIA article content who isn't an established Misplaced Pages editor. -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 21:20, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
No, I haven't been contacted by this Yaniv nor I have any intention to edit on behalf of banned users. I agree not to restore sock edits if unblocked, even if I like those edits. Dovidroth (talk) 18:31, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
@Nableezy: When I became an SPI clerk, I expressed a reluctance to calling people liars. That got a chuckle out of one or two colleagues, but I've with very few exceptions stood by that. So I'm not going to get into whether I believe Dovidroth's response or not (and I don't like creating situations where someone would have a perverse incentive to falsely confess), and rather will just stand by what I said before: There is adequate evidence that they have failed to exercise independent judgment in restoring banned users' edits within the PIA topic area. In CTOP areas, admins sometimes have to make decisions based on a preponderance of the evidence in terms of what appears to be in the best interests of the encyclopedia, and I think this is one of those times. So I want you to know I have seriously considered your objection to an unblock with restrictions, but stand by it being the best way forward here. Dovidroth is of course welcome to appeal as described below.As a final bit of housekeeping, since I'm unblocking with a finding that negates BANREVERT, as discussed before could you please either self-revert or dummy-edit re-justify all BANREVERTs that didn't originate from Dovidroth restoring Yaniv content? -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 19:47, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction

The following sanction now applies to you:

As a revert restriction, you may not restore any edit within the Arab–Israeli conflict topic area that was made in violation of a ban or block and reverted for that reason.

You have been sanctioned for failure to exercise independent judgment in your restorations, as described above.

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Index/Palestine-Israel articles#Final decision and, if applicable, the contentious topics procedure. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction using the process described here. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you.  -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 19:47, 6 May 2023 (UTC)