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User:Osli73 violating parole again

Osli73 was put on one year edit parole requiring that he make only one revert per week and discuss edits on discussion page before making edits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo#Probations

Osli73 is again making multiple reverts -- several per day -- at the Srebrenica Massacre article. See this page for number of recent edits and number of undo's by Osli73. http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Srebrenica_massacre&action=history

You can see on this page that he has made all of these July 21-22 edits with no discussion at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Srebrenica_massacre&action=history

Osli73 appears to have no intention of abiding by his parole. He has used a sockpuppet to avoid parole, but mostly as soon as he has any freedom at all, he simply ignores his parole using user:Osli73. It usually takes a few weeks -- if not longer -- for administrators to sanction him. Hopefully that will not be the case this time. See at the link below that Osli73 has been blocked several times but as soon as his user name is allowed to edit again he goes right back to violating parole.

Examples:

Blocked Osli73 (talk · contribs) for 2 weeks for breaking the revert limit on Srebrenica massacre; also banned from editing Srebrenica massacre for 3 months. Thatcher131 02:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Blocked Osli73 (talk · contribs) for two weeks for directly violating his probation and revert parole at Srebrenica massacre. --Jayjg (talk) 01:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Blocked Osli73 (talk · contribs) for one week for directly violating his probation and revert parole by using a sockpuppet to edit war at Srebrenica massacre. --Srikeit 10:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Blocked KarlXII (talk · contribs) indefinitely as a sockpuppet of Osli73 (talk · contribs) proven by checkuser. --Srikeit 10:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Recently he made a rather strange revert deleting the fact that Dutch peacekeepers were armed. In some cases in Bosnia, they were not armed, for example in the Bihac area. There is no question the Dutch troops in Srebrenica were armed. He knows this. He also knows that the sentence he deleted parts of is a sentence that editors have taken a lot of time and effort composing. I believe he has made this edit to test whether anyone is watching what he is doing. If no one holds him accountable, then, if he follows his earlier pattern, he will continue to revert the article more aggressively until there is a full blown edit war.

Please address this as soon as possible.

Thank you. Fairview360 17:16, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Green108 behaving exactly like banned user 195.82.106.244

Regarding arbitration case Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Brahma_Kumaris.

It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that Green108 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is an incarnation of 195.82.106.244 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Perhaps his account is being shared or he is editing and posting as a proxy. Green108 appears to have edited logged-out as 212.126.146.163 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). The usual behaviours such as taunting opponents, edit waring, posting off-topic trolls , ignoring policies, guidelines and consensus are now in full evidence. Admin Utcursch recently cleaned up the article after it was tagged to reflect the problems identified here and Green108 didn't waste anytime trying to revert all the changes . This pattern is still continuing. I suggest that it is absolutely impossible to keep the article within Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines while it is under this kind of sustained pressure.

Addition suspected sockpuppets are Faithinhumanity (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Bkangel (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). These are being used to astroturf on the talk page and support his edit revisions .

Regards Bksimonb 18:54, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Re Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Intangible

I edited the Neofascism article yesterday and today (hardly an article in good state), and pointed out on the talk page , that one section named Neo-fascism#Neo-fascist_international.3F is an original research synthesis of source material, and thus not allowed under WP:OR policy. This got me a rebuke by User:Cberlet, who brought the above Arbcom case against me. My edits on the article were reverted today by another user, User:Tazmaniacs, involved in my earlier Arbcom case. Part of revert edit summary talked about this material sourced, but this is not case, as the notions on Lega Nord, hardly a neo-fascist party, are still left unsourced in his reverts. I have now added POV tags to the particular sections , and explained the reasons therefore on the article's talk page . But there seems to exist an unfair burden on my part to justify any edit I make. It's a catch 22 situation, if I make edits to an article, they get easily attacked as being "tendentious," if I go to the an article's talk page, and discuss things before making edits, I get attacked of having a particular POV, while the only thing I ask for are properly sourced edits. It is annoying to be accused of "sanatizing material", while just a few days I started an article on Movement of Organized Nationalist Action, a group in Guatemala involved in killing César Montenegro Paniagua. Intangible2.0 17:34, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Archived as stale. Thatcher131 17:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Request of enforcement - User:Hajji Piruz/User:Azerbaijani

I have made this request at 3RR report page , but as no action was taken in 2 days, I am filing to ArbCom enforcement. By the ArbCom decision , User:Hajji Piruz/User:Azerbaijani has been placed on 1RR per week parole. User:Hajji Piruz has violated his parole by POV/OR pushing, revert warring, gaming the system with partial reverts and spoiling the consensus achieved on the page for several months.

Safavid dynasty (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Hajji Piruz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log): Time reported: Atabek 16:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

• Previous version reverted to: 23:44, 6 July 2007

• 1st Partial Revert: 15:21, 7 July 2007 -- over User:Atabek - removing prior edit, and replacing "Azeri Turkic" with "most probably Kurdish".
• 2nd Partial Revert: 23:50, 7 July 2007 -- over User:151.204.41.4 and earlier edit by User:Grandmaster -- removing prior edit, replacing "probably Kurdish" with "most likely Kurdish".
• 3rd Partial Revert: 16:08, 11 July 2007 -- over User:Aynabend -- removing prior edit and reinserting again "were probably of Kurdish descent".

Thanks. Atabek 11:18, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

WP:Canvassing, you have already brought up your case on the 3rr page.

These were edits, not reverts. I never reverted to any previous version or removed anyones edits in favor of a previous version, I simply made edits.

The Safavids article has the clean up tag, and all I'm doing it is cleaning it up by making fixes and re-writing sentences for them to make more sense. This is not reverted, I havent reverted anything, I simply edited. For example, in the second diff shown, I never changed what the article said, I merely changed the sentence for it to make more sense (I did not change anything at all except to make the sentence sound better and make more sense, did not remove anything at all or revert to any previous version). Again, in the last diff Atabek has posted, I simply re-wrote a sentence for it to sound better, I did not change anything drastically, like he suggests.

The second diff Atabek posted, I changed "...is compounded by the ideological distortions which took place during their political reign, although they were probably of Kurdish or Iranian descent" to "is compounded by the ideological distortions which took place during their political reign, although they were probably Iranian, most likely Kurdish, descent" because the previous sentence did not make sense. Since you are not familiar with the subject, I will explain, Kurds are an Iranian people, so it doesnt make sense to say that they were probably of Kurdish or Iranian descent, because how can someone be of British and Indo-European descent, the British are a sub branch of Indo-Europeans, its the same with Kurds and Iranian. So I changed that sentence to say "probably Iranian, most likely Kurdish" which means that they were probably of Iranian origin, most likely of the Kurdish sub group.

Its the same situation for the third diff Atabek posted. None of these were reverts, these were fixes. None of these were reverts to any previous version and the second and third diff's had no removal of information at all, contrary to what Atabek claims. Examine the diff's closely.Hajji Piruz 13:43, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Archived as stale. Thatcher131 17:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for enforcement on St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine

ThePackLeader (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is a single purpose account who appeared shortly after the page was downgraded to semi-protect from full protect, and is making disruptive edits to St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine and Talk:St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine who is restrained from doing so by the final ArbCom decision Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/St_Christopher#Single-purpose_accounts_restrained. These disruptive edits include: 1) archiving or just plain blanking the section discussing spa accounts on the talk page , and 2) revert warring on the main page against consensus: , . I request that this editor be banned from making edits to these pages as specified in the final ArbCom decision. Leuko 11:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

ThePackLeader (talk · contribs) has been blocked indefinitely per terms of that arbitration case. Picaroon (Talk) 18:00, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Buzybeez (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is another single purpose account that has appeared, and is making similar disruptive edits against consensus to the blocked ThePackLeader. Most likely a meatpuppet. Leuko 18:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

It does not look like a single purpose account to me; only about half of its contributions are to the pages in question. If you think the user is being disruptive in general, raising it at the incidents noticeboard is best. If you think it is a sockpuppet of thePackLeader, you can file a request for checkuser. But I'm uncomfortable blocking it as a single purpose account. Lets see if any other admins have a difference of opinion on the matter. Picaroon (Talk) 19:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, all of the users' initial edits were to the article's talk page, and as soon as the editor could edit the article (after the 4 days due to semi-protect status) he/she did so. After that, the editor did make a few minor edits to other articles, but I still think that this is an WP:SPA and probable sock. Leuko 19:27, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Iantresman and Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience

There is a discussion on the conflict of interest noticeboard regarding this user. One participant bought up the possibility that said user has violated the terms of his arbcom probation. Please comment over there, as to keep the discussion in one place. MER-C 04:42, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

No action. He has been banned by the community and may only appeal directly through Arbcom. There's nothing to be done here. Thatcher131 17:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

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