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Motions and requests by the parties

Motion on case scope

1) Given comments by User:Shell Kinney, I request that a motion be passed that this arbitration should only deal with disruption in the EE editing post-EEML. --Russavia 10:33, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by Arbitrators:

I don't think we need a formal motion on this, but yes, I think we do expect this to be limited to on-going problems which means we expect to see recent diffs. In rare cases where there's an on-going pattern of behavior, it's appropriate to briefly mention that pattern, but any evidence that consists largely of stale problems will not be helpful to resolving the situation.

A good example of this would be - "Editor X has been edit warring about Trees. They have been edit warring about Trees for 3 years Editor X doesn't use dispute resolution. On April 1st, they edited Dogwood 22 times (5 were reverts ) without ever discussing on the talk page." - stay brief, to the point, keep your evidence full of actual evidence and present things factually rather than emotionally. The more we're overwhelmed with background noise from old issues, the less likely we'll be able to craft useful solutions to the current problem. Shell 05:40, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

I do not see why this case should be at all related to EEML. Just because two its participants have been previously involved in EEML case? But many other were not involved. All articles and disputes in question are related to Russia or USSR. Why Eastern Europe? I also agree with Colchicum. Only the behavior of members of the list has been examined by the Committee during the EEML case. Thus the motion could make sense only for them. As a practical matter, is it relevant that Russavia has been previously blocked for harassing me? Is it relevant that he invited Vlad_fedorov , Offliner , Igny, LokiiT , and Donald Duck to "deal" with me?Biophys (talk) 22:24, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I completed my evidence section. Can anyone take a look please and decide if we need to include more participants of the case? Thank you.Biophys (talk) 22:08, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by others:

As the purpose of this case is to deescalate the battleground, the battleground has to be thoroughly examined from the very beginning in order to identify its causes. Otherwise the issue will be repeatedly relitigated forever. As it is painfully obvious that the battleground started well before the EEML, it is perfectly natural to look for its causes in the past. Furthermore, the scope of the EEML case was on the behavior of only one of the parties here in relation to the mailing list and not on "everyone involved". The pre-EEML individual patterns of disruption do belong here as long as they are not abandoned, and many of them aren't. Colchicum (talk) 12:11, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Motion for CU on Biophys

2) Given the amount of evidence related to Biophys proxying for banned HanzoHattori, and given that it was discovered in WP:EEML that EEML participant was sharing his account, I move for CU on Biophys to establish whether other users (HanzoHattori) were using his account. It would be helpful to check whether Biophys indeed himself was editing. Vlad fedorov (talk) 09:41, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by Arbitrators:

Proxing != socking. Checkuser is not for fishing. Shell 15:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Declined, even if this is the case, checkuser would show nothing of value. We can see - at most - what computer someone is using, but not who is using the computer. Hersfold 18:39, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

I did not give my password to anyone, and no one else edited from my account so far. Since the question has been raised, I tried to edit biological subjects from two alternative accounts, ATMH (talk · contribs) and My very best wishes (talk · contribs) to avoid the constant harassment. But I could not do it. To be involved in hiding or deception is something I can not do. There is nothing else to disclose. My very best wishes.Biophys (talk) 14:44, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Vlad, whilst I can totally understand why you would be asking for this to be done, it doesn't appear to be within the scope of asking for check-user to be done. Also, as much as I do think that Biophys has been a long-term disruptive editor, I sincerely do not believe he would be stupid enough to lend anyone, particularly someone who is easily banned as Hanzo, his password - his account is too important to him to just throw away like that. --Russavia 05:17, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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Motion to allow more space for evidence

3) I ask to allow more space for evidence than 1000 words (I probably need around 2000). There are too many groundless accusations to be responded with diffs. I am sure that arbitrators can decide themselves what was relevant and what was not.

Comment by Arbitrators:

You've already been told no more than once, so this is quite disappointing. As I tried to explain on User_talk:Amorymeltzer#Arbitration, we do not want or need long explanations from any party. We will review the diffs for ourselves and decide what they mean; we will scrutinize diffs that show more than one revision and look at article histories to ensure we have more than just one side of the story. We really don't care about your back-and-forth and frankly, that's what this case is meant to stop. Just as an example, again, if User:Y says "User:X edit wars ,,", User:X doesn't need to tell us it's not edit warring - we'll check the diffs for ourselves to make that determination; it makes literally no difference that User:Y called it edit warring and User:X disagreed, what matters is what an independent review would call it. Shell 14:30, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
- A suggestion Biophys - if you remove the evidence you presented that is years old, you would have considerably more space. As discussed earlier, unless you're establishing a pattern (which means you have very new diffs as well), old evidence is not going to be much use. Shell 16:31, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
These length limits are in place to help the Committee review the case and vote in a timely manner. If you need to include more evidence, make your existing evidence more concise and remove any unnecessary responses like Shell recommends. Hersfold 20:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

I thought that allowing more space would be good for the sake of fairness and for convenience of arbitrators. We can not talk in general terms here. Fine, I moved this content: . It includes a lot of important diffs. If you think that helps you and other arbitrators to better study the case, well, this is certainly something for you to decide.Biophys (talk) 15:19, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: I am not sure what exactly do you mean. Most of my Evidence is rather recent. As about this part, yes, it is exactly my assertion that the older actions by Russavia are practically the same as his recent and current actions. Perhaps my diffs with their explanations are not convincing, but that is something I ask arbitrators to examine.Biophys (talk) 17:05, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by others:

Comment by Vlad_fedorov: It would be than more than natural to allow more space for everyone, because frankly I have checked the latest edits of Biophys, but not all since the end of WP:EEML.

Moreover Biophys' evidence in some cases leads to very old edits before WP:EEML, or sometimes his diffs do not show intermediate edits which make his diffs look abosultely different. For example, provided by Biophys diff in Invasion of Dagestan (1999), which doesn't show one intermmediate edit by which Biophys removed properly sourced text and which was marked as a conspiracy appropiately. What Biophys does is effectively reverting one conspiracy, which is not beneficial to his own (not in accordance with his WP:TRUTH, by another one. And he claims in evidence that he "removes poorly sourced conspiracy theory".

However, at the end of the day, I generally against such extention of limit, because it would unappropriately drag out this arbcase by allowing each party to write what think about each other, although arbs, even without these explanations by parties, should themselves analyze it. Vlad fedorov (talk) 13:23, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Request regarding Fut.Perf's intervention

Russavia has complained to Fut.Perf regarding my contribution to this case page. Not withstanding the question why Russavia chose to request clarification from Fut.Perf rather than directly from the Arbitrators on this very page, it appears that Fut.Perf has taken a legalistic approach to my topic ban and has told me to cease and desist from further posting to this page. I don't know what authority Fut.Perf has over the Committee, since Shell has already responded to my proposals and comments on this page. Russavia had previously made known on this page that I am subject to a topic ban , so I don't see how Shell (or the clerk) would have been unaware of that as Fut.Perf implies. My impression is that being dissatisfied with the response of the Arbitrators, Russavia sought admin assistance outside the realm of this case. Nor do I know why Fut.Perf addressed his question to the clerk rather than directly to the Committee as well. So therefore in order to get to the bottom of this, I will directly ask the Arbitrators here whether Put.Perf's apparent unprecedented action to act on the behest of one of the participants to warn off another participant from continuing their participation in this active case stands. --Martin (talk) 08:48, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by Arbitrators:

Since a recent SPI on Martintg by Russavia has been brought up in this case, it would seem that he's been involved in this dispute by others. I see no reason that he cannot participate in a civil manner. Given the topic ban, Martintg should be very careful that his participation here is above reproach.

Russavia, please do not make any more personal attacks or incendiary comments on this Arbitration such as "just because you were (and prob still are) an WP:EEML brigadier where support canvassing was part and parcel of the cabal's modus operandi". We're here to resolve ongoing issues, not to provide a new battleground. Shell 18:21, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

I did not complain, I simply was seeking clarification based upon exactly what was written there. Given the lack of any faith of Martintg in the above and below, it should be self evident why he has been topic banned from this area of editing, and furthermore raises the question as to why he feels it is necessary to breach his topic ban to comment on things in this area that do not concern him. Unless Martintg strikes the above assumptions of bad faith, I may be more inclined to introduce a finding of fact that he has in fact breached his topic ban by even participating on things within the topic ban area. --Russavia 17:54, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Shell, I really, and honestly, don't care about WP:EEML. It is a fact that some editors here were on EEML. It is also a fact that even whilst that Arbitration was ongoing their pathetic tactics continued. It is also a fact that they engaged in canvassing. I see no problem in pointing out that an editor has been found to have engaged in such behaviour, when they have basically 1) accused myself of canvassing 2) all but accused myself and FPaS of being in some sort of relationship. Just because they engage in such behaviour, does not mean that everyone else is. I get sick and tired of what has actully being written being twisted by people with an obvious agenda - read what was written on FPaS' talk page for a start, not just the diff, but the entire thread (there's that selective diffs again). And you say to Martin to ensure that his behaviour here is beyond reapproach? That is anything but. --Russavia 00:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by others:

No objections, of course, if the Arbitrators should wish to allow him to participate here. However, I don't see Shell's reactions on this page as automatically constituting such a permission, as there is no indication Shell was aware of the restriction at the time she gave those responses (I generally don't assume Arbs know by heart who is under which kind of restriction at any given moment). Martintg is under a topic ban covering all Eastern European articles and process discussions regarding them, and under an interaction ban regarding Russavia except for "legitimate and necessary" dispute resolution. In my reading, this bars him from commenting on disputes beetween Russavia and any third party, especially when that dispute is related to their editing of Eastern Europe articles. Of course, Martintg would be free to make comments directed at resolving disputes he himself has with Russavia owing to interactions that were initiated by Russavia himself, but Martin's comments on this page don't seem to fall in that category.

Unless and until instructions are given by the committee to the contrary, I see this as an enforceable application of the existing restrictions, and would expect Martintg to refrain from further postings here. I leave it to clerks and arbs to decide how to deal with the comments and threads already posted. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:08, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I have no idea what your relationship is with Russavia, given he previously attempted to canvas your support in an earlier dispute with the Committee, however I thought it was the Clerk's role to enforce order on these ArbCom pages, not random admins passing by. Why Russavia asked you and not an Arbitrator (or even a clerk) for clarification, I do not know. First you say I am free to make comments directed at resolving disputes I myself have with Russavia owing to interactions that were initiated by Russavia himself, then you state I should refrain from further postings here. Which is it to be? Your premature involvement here effectively hinders my attempts at developing a case aimed at resolving that dispute I myself have with Russavia. Is that your intent? --Martin (talk) 10:56, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Martintg, just because you were (and prob still are) an WP:EEML brigadier where support canvassing was part and parcel of the cabal's modus operandi, does not mean that you should be assuming bad faith in everyone else. FPaS had previously asked the committee for a clarification, and did not receive any response. As I am in contact with Offliner, and because Offliner had shared with me the reasons for his ban, and because FPaS had asked previously, Offliner gave me his permission to email to FPaS the contents of his appeal to the committee. Other than that, there is no relationship between myself and FPaS, other than fellow Misplaced Pages editors. But again, I don't see why anyone owes you any explanation here, because you are topic banned, and it doesn't concern yourself, but your continued assumption of bad faith does need to be replied to, and that has now been done. --Russavia 18:14, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

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Proposals by User:Russavia

Comment by others:

Threats by Biophys to create POVed articles diff, diff are unacceptable. Instituting arbitration by Biophys with users over the content issues Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Commodore Sloat-Biophys are unacceptable. Vlad fedorov (talk) 06:05, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposed findings of fact

Biophys has engaged in edit warring

1) Biophys has engaged in massive edit warring, conducting over 65 reverts in the first months of 2010.

Comment by Arbitrators:

Biophys and many of the other parties here have edit warred in this topic area. Shell 22:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Biophys for you specifically, check the histories of Cyberwarfare by Russian state, Russian apartment bombings, Battle for Height 776 for starters. Whether or not you think your edits were more correct than the edits you reverted, you were clearly edit warring. This is not the way to resolve differences of opinion over content. Shell 16:21, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Others in this case are being looked at as well; being named in the case doesn't mean that things will be focused entirely on one person. If there are editors who's conduct or editing is problematic that aren't part of this case, then earlier stages of dispute resolution are the way to handle things, not edit warring. It's important to remember that above all else, Misplaced Pages is a collaborative encyclopedia. Whether other editors are right or wrong, easy to get along with or difficult, we need to find a way to work together for the betterment of the project. Shell 19:25, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Russavia, I'm a bit concerned about the diffs Biophys just supplied which seem to reflect the polar opposite of your statement. Biophys repeatedly removed the information and you put it back - you then reported Biophys for a BLP violation. Can you explain this? Shell

19:01, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Can we take this to evidence or the talk page if it's going to be lengthy? Best not to clutter up this area any further. Thanks. Shell 19:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

A list of all reverts is listed at User:Russavia/Reverts - 67 in total. --Russavia 11:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Most of the diffs are not reverts to any previously existed versions. Reverts are not prohibited by our policies. However, every editor must follow and enforce WP:RS and WP:NPOV. That's the rule. I worked to enforce these policies in the diffs by Russavia. I failed just like others.Biophys (talk) 13:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

That is not true Biophys. Take for example, and compare it to the lead of the article from September 2008. Since September 2008, several users have attempted to compromise with you on the article, and you have for the most part reverted to a 1.5 year old version of the article. You have done this on other articles such as Alexander Litvinenko in the past as well. --Russavia 23:03, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

- No, Russavia. By reverting to your preferred version you ignored the latest consensus: .Biophys (talk) 16:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Re to Shell. Can we have some informal conversation, please? In the diffs by Russavia I restored some important information sourced to books by experts. Was it wrong? I provided sources and debated everything at the article talk pages, in response to personal attacks, outing and harassment. Was it wrong? I resisted a sock master , SPAs (Saiga12 and YMB29) and persistent political POV-pushers (HistoricWarrior007 and Ellol) , after explaining everything to them. Was it wrong? I finally gave up and allowed them to revert everything to their versions. Was it wrong? If I am a political POV-pusher myself, what's exactly my bias? Using books for the sourcing? Is it right to sanction me at the request by Russavia who did this? The choice is yours. Biophys (talk) 16:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Re to Shell: Yes, let's be specific and consider the "Battle..." (one of the most highly publicized episodes of Second Chechen war). This is the debate . This is the revert: . This is the user: . That is what he tells: , . But it is me who became a subject of this case and your sanctions. That's fine. Let's leave this article to users like Tebepizdetssuka and Revan2338. Biophys (talk) 18:22, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I don't want to discuss your bias in detail here, but basically it comes out as anti-Russian and anti-Soviet.

And like I said before, simply providing a source does not make your edits correct and give you an excuse to revert to versions that are months old. -YMB29 (talk) 14:38, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

What is your bias? How about you edit based upon your belief that Putin is a paedophile? You affirmed this belief on the talk page of Alexander Litvinenko, and you even threatened to create Accusations of Putin of paedophilia because other editors took issue with your using WP to engage in advocacy. Yes, you use WP to engage in advocacy, and I am not the only one who says this Biophys. Refer to User_talk:Ezhiki/2009#Can_you_provide_some_assistance_here_please where Ezhiki states:

I cannot in good conscience respect a person who would write something like "phone call to Putin" and not only present it as true encyclopedic material, but fiercly defend it when pointed out that it is, in fact, not, and completely ignore several requests for finding qualified sources. To me, that's a giveaway that the person is not here to contribute, s/he is here to advocate, and no matter how much I agree with the cause being advocated, my duty here is first and foremost to the encyclopedia.

People can go on about me being "pro-Putin" and "defending Putin" - given what Biophys has engaged in, then yes, I am defending Putin, because so long as we have editors on Misplaced Pages who choose to engage in WP:BLP violations, gross violations of WP:NPOV, etc, then I will do what needs to be done, and I will press for them to be removed from that area of editing, and if need be, to be banned from editing altogether. Misplaced Pages can do without editors who so blatantly choose to engage in advocacy. --Russavia 17:42, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Russavia was indefinitely banned for threatening to sue wikipedia over this issue before (in ). That and this comment above shows indeed how far he wants to go with protecting articles about Vladimir Putin. Grey Fox (talk) 20:01, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Grey Fox, a serious question for you here. Why are you here and presenting evidence? You don't edit Misplaced Pages anymore (at least not under that username), and only appear to return to Misplaced Pages to support Biophys. Has Biophys asked you to comment here with yet more disinformation? Firstly, the links you showed were when I was topic banned by Sandstein, partly as a result of WP:EEML intervention. I was hot under the collar, and many editors understand why I would be. As to your disinformation, I did not threaten to sue Misplaced Pages at any stage. The words that I wrote were as follows:

But hey, given what you are saying, and given that according to you I am not allowed to remove, discuss, advise or anything else relating to libellous materials on WP, I will in future attempt to contact the subjects of said articles directly, and advise them of the violations and urge them to sue the Foundation for allowing libellous to remain on the project, and will provide them with a link to your answer above which bans me from touching, discussing or advising of the libellous materials about any such subjects. This is not a legal threat, before anyone accuses me of this, but according to Sandstein, this is the only option that I have, and it is an option that one has to consider. But, I won't do that, I will let basic common sense prevail. I will resolve myself to ignoring your interpretation of the ban as it stands right now, and I will remove any potentially libellous information on sight, and in cases of borderline material which may breach WP:BLP, I will raise it at the appropriate place.

That was in relation to Sandstein claiming that I would not even be exempt from removing BLP violations from articles, nor even bringing them to the attention of editors on appropriate noticeboards. Of course, this is not something that would have the support of the Arbcom, as per rulings and motions in the recent WP:EEML case. --Russavia 22:31, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I've been observing Misplaced Pages on occasion. It's true that I've become inactive but that doesn't mean I will remain inactive. I wasn't planning on commenting on this case but because of the large swift in balance since the WP:EEML case and the impossibility for many users to comment here I thought I'd point out some things from the past. In answer to your query I've sent Biophys an e-mail, after this case was launched, in which I gave him a heads up and told him about the benefits of retirement to which he briefly responded. Apart from that I have no contact with anyone from Misplaced Pages and nobody has ever asked me to do things here.

The fact of the matter is that you were banned for this legal threat which was turned around only due to the discovery of the EEML. Shortly before this you were put on a 6 month topic ban for telling a user you would "Fight him to death" on a subject (a violation of WP:BATTLE). I could indeed sympathize with you on making mistakes due to the existence of an EEML list, but the comment to which I responded above in which you admit to defending Vladimir Putin and the trouble you would go through to do so shows that even without the existence of an EEML, you haven't changed at all. Grey Fox (talk) 12:48, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

- Re to Russavia: No, it was me who removed this claim from the article on the request by Russavia , and it was Russavia who repeatedly reinserted it back: , , (this is his final revert made on 03:07, 13 November 2008 ). He did this to support his false claims about BLP violations (see above and here: , ). Russavia was so obsessed that he repeatedly reverted me in this article, even with "in use" template (see his edit summary: he indeed effectively "blocked" me by starting this arbitration case, and then reverted this article to his version). And he refused to respect the "in use" template when I asked him: . No, I am not interested in Putin and almost never edited his BLP.Biophys (talk) 18:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
  - A response to your usual disinformation will be forthcoming Biophys, and it will show the full facts of the matter. And not only will it demonstrate that you have used that article for advocacy, but will also show it in general across other articles. --Russavia 19:04, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
    - The response to Biophys' disinformation is noted at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys/Workshop#Allegations_of_Putin_being_a_paedophile --Russavia 22:19, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Of course Biophys has engaged in edit warring; he has always edit warred, often with someone helping him (as shown in the evidence). What makes it worse is his avoidance of discussion. -YMB29 (talk) 14:38, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by others:

Agree. Biophys had crossed all the possible lines in edit warring. I understand why Grey Fox is here - he could loose his long-standing POV ally in Chechen articles, but with all due respect the amount of reverts by Biophys and the last article Attacks on humanitarian corridors in Chechnya were the last pill to take. Humanitarian corridors for the terrorists? This is potential know-how discovered by both of you. Vlad fedorov (talk) 06:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Arbs should we seriously respond to these type of provocations? Grey Fox (talk) 08:17, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Biophys has proxied

2) Biophys has edited on behalf of banned User:HanzoHattori

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Not convinced this is the case. Shell 22:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Since Biophys has stated he did not know who emailed him, that he reviewed the material himself before posting and since this doesn't appear to be a pattern, I'm not certain this specific bit rises to the level of needing a finding. Shell 22:50, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

The policy says: "Wikipedians in turn are not permitted to post or edit material at the direction of a banned user (sometimes called proxy editing or proxying) unless they are able to confirm that the changes are verifiable and they have independent reasons for making them." So yes, if edits are verified and you feel there's a reason to make them, you can even if the material originated from a banned user. You are required to take responsibility for those edits as if they were your own, i.e. if someone passes you bad information and you didn't check, it's your fault if it gets caught.

About the pattern, you're claiming quite a few different edits here and there because you think they resemble what a banned user might have done. Another explanation might be that Biophys has some of the same viewpoints as the banned user. I just don't find the evidence given particularly convincing and I think there are far more important issues here. Shell 23:38, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I guess will just have to agree to disagree on this point then. Shell 00:20, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I've made my position on the issue clear and you clearly disagree on a number of points. This will be looked at by the other Arbs who may well feel differently. Shell 01:04, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

I always edited only on behalf of this project and frequently against my own best interests. I never edited on behalf of any outside employers or parties including HanzoHattori. Period.Biophys (talk) 13:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Contrary to what Martintg says (possibly in breach of his topic ban), WP:DUCK applies; there is no need to look into any big grand conspiracies. The articles that Biophys edited were on articles which were favourited by User:HanzoHattori, and in some instances Biophys' edits sparked edit warring. To this end, I asked Biophys if he would send the emails to Arbcom in order to verify, and although he has apparently retired, he removed the request with the summary "Removed. Yes, I am gone. All your postings will be ignored.". WP:KISS and WP:DUCK absolutely apply. --Russavia 10:58, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Question to Shell, in what regard are you not convinced? Can you please clarify that. --Russavia 22:39, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Shell, please refer to Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys/Evidence#Proxying_for_a_banned_user, in particular, Biophys claims he "did not know the person's real name." Interestingly, Biophys does not deny that he knew this person was HanzoHattori. (see Non-denial denial). If it is obvious to me, then it should be obvious to others, for if they simply read the original AE thread. He was previously questioned about it in September 2009. He denied it. He announced to the EEML that a sockpuppet of HanzoHattori was active, but that he wouldn't do anything about it. He also disclosed in EEML email 20090624-0311, that he had previous email contact with HanzoHattori. I asked Biophys if he would send the emails to Arbcom in order to verify, and although he has apparently retired, he removed the request with the summary "Removed. Yes, I am gone. All your postings will be ignored.". It is pretty much clear cut that he has acted as a proxy for a banned user, and would request that you re-read the evidence, for it is all there in black and white, and there is a clear pattern. --Russavia 23:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Additionally Shell, a request for clarification on your part. Is editing on behalf of banned users prohibited or not? If it is, shouldn't an editor get sanctioned for doing it? You mention "having reviewed the edits" as a migitating factor; does this mean that I can just pick a banned user and start making edits on their behalf if I "review" them before posting? Also, is at least 20 identified edits which have obviously been made as a result of editing on behalf of a banner user, not classified as a pattern, moreso, when it can be shown to date back to at the very least September 2009? --Russavia 23:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Shell, you say the that editing on behalf of banned users is allowed if "the edits are verified and you feel there's a reason to make them". I'm sure you are aware that during WP:EEML several editors (Piotrus, Jacurek, Tymek and Radeksz) were SANCTIONED for proxying for banned editors, although they may well have "verified" the edits and certainly did "feel like there's a reason to make them." Your interpretation of the guideline seems to be different from what was applied in practice by the ArbCom itself.

You mention that Biophys' claim that he "reviewed" the edits sent to him by HanzoHattori is a migitating factor and a reason why Biophys proxying should not be sanctioned. But what about edits like this? The article was edited before by HanzoHattori, and Biophys had never been interested in German history before. How exactly did Biophys "verify" THIS edit? The edit is completely unsourced. There is not a single source used in that article. So how can he have verified the edit? Note several of the other edits Biophys made on behalf of HanzoHattori are unsourced as well.

You say that "another explanation might be that Biophys has some of the same viewpoints as the banned user." How does "a similar POV" explain edits to little-known articles where the ONLY major editors are HanzoHattori and his socks? For example this edit. It was made to an article created by a HanzoHattori sock. HanzoHattori is the only one who has made major edits on this article. Moreover, Biophys never edited anything related to Japanese culture or Japanese people before. How does "similar POV" explain this edit? As additional examples, Biophys also edited Tomoyuki Yamashita , another article which has seen editing by Hanzo and his socks, and again on a topic he have zero interest in. He then edited Operation Bürkl , another article which has seen heavy editing by socks of Hanzo, and again on a topic he have zero interest in - Hanzo on the other hand, who is Polish, edited heavily on Polish-Nazi WWII history. --Russavia 00:18, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Shell, what do you want to agree to disagree on here?

The sanctions handed out in WP:EEML for proxying for a banned editor? You do realise that a mitigating factor in my seeking sanctions on Biophys for proxying for HanzoHattori was the results of the EEML which all but deemed that proxying on behalf of a banned user is sanctionable? Given that my report has brought us here, and I am under the possibility of sanctions myself, a firm stance from arbitrators is required. Proxying either is or isn't ok. It is not fair to editors to say it is not ok, and then have a threat of sanctions placed upon the messenger when a violation of that is brought to the attention of admins.

Or do you want to agree to disagree on the fact that Biophys has introduced unsourced material into an article on behalf of a banned editor. Biophys claimed that all edits were verified by him, but this is obviously not the case. You also said yourself that there would be no problem if those edits have been verified. You have been presented with one prime example of where those edits could not have been verified as there are zero sources.

Or do you want to agree to disagree on the WP:DUCKiness of Biophys' edits to articles which have either been created by Hanzo (or his socks), or have seen heavy involvement by Hanzo (or his socks), and which are not within Biophys' interest?

Please also remember that it was yourself who indicated that you only wanted evidence from the post-EEML period, and evidence on my part has been limited only to this. Anyone editing in this area of WP would clearly be able to tell that they are proxy edits. --Russavia 01:02, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Re to Russavia. Please stop collecting all my recent edits to declare them reverts or edits on behalf of other users. I do not work for any third parties. Yes, I am perfectly capable of editing anything on politics or biography. This is not rocket science. Yes, I have a lot of books on my shelf at home about political repressions. No, I do not necessarily check the sources if I only move some phrases or paragraphs around (the changes only look significant). In all such cases I follow AGF with respect to editors who worked before me. And even if I look at the sources, I do not necessarily include the references. But if anyone asks about the references, I provide them with pages, like in these your examples: . Those are my edits, and I am fully responsible for them.Biophys (talk) 13:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
- Biophys, I posted on your talk page asking you if you would forward the emails that led to you making those edits to the Polish, German and Japanese, and Chechen articles, to Arbcom, but you deleted the request without response and declared that you would be ignoring everything from then on in. The issue has been raised, and not without good reason, as the evidence is pretty clear actually, so one would think you would be sending those emails to Arbcom to demonstrate that the edits weren't Hanzo's. --Russavia 23:06, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
  - If Arbcom needs them (and it is not evident that they do, after all, what bearance does it have on the issue whether any disruption took place?) they will ask, and you are not in a position to demand anything from Biophys, private emails even less so. After all the things you have said and done over the years it is hardly surprising that you are not welcome on his talk page anymore. As you were probably aware of this, your message looked very much like taunting. Colchicum (talk) 23:27, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
    - This is the request on his talkpage. Hardly taunting, but a mere suggestion. That he chose to remove it, and with the edit summary he used, it can only suggest that he has something to hide. If it were me, and I was proclaiming I was innocent as he is, all of those emails would have been sent to the Committee even before it was suggested to me. But that's just me; one who is open about their editing on this project. --Russavia 00:33, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by others:

Disagree. There is no evidence that these alleged emails actually came from Hanzo. The fact is that Biophys' email address was outed with the publication of the EEML archive, so anyone could have sent them.

There is some evidence of the possibly that some kind of scam to entrap Biophys was perpetrated. For example the article Ludolf von Alvensleben, HanzoHattori made two tiny edits way back in 2006 and yet this mysterious emailer allegedly asks Biophys to make extensive edits to this article and these edits are presented as evidence of proxying in the AE case. Why would the real Hanzo bother with this particular article which he has not shown any real interest in the past other than a minor drive by edit? On the other hand, anyone could compile a list of Hanzo contributions and feed requests to an unsuspecting editor. It has been demonstrated that the banned user Offliner is in close email communication with one of the complainants, and there has been no denial of the allegation that this complainant may have presented evidence compiled by Offliner.

In any case, Biophys has confirmed that his changes are verifiable and he had independent reasons for making them. --Martin (talk) 21:13, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Agree. Given all coincidences taken together. There are no doubts for me that it was banned HanzoHattori. All e-mails which Biophys may transfer to arbcom could be easily faked by installing two local mail servers and by putting the clocks back to the time desired. They have Digwuren who could easily inform how to make it. This incident certainly should be taken into consideration for future. Arbcom should not rely on Biophys responses (because they are unverifiable), but should evaluate overall real effects and evidence. Biophys was never editing these articles before in such a manner. Vlad fedorov (talk) 06:16, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Additional important comment. Biophys has admitted himself that he was editing on behalf of another editor. Whether he reviewed his edits or not - cannot be reliably established. Given that the edits were one-sided, biased and sequential, should we belive Biophys' unveriviable claims? Vlad fedorov (talk) 09:03, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Biophys broken promise

3) Biophys has broken his promises to avoid edit warring.

Comment by Arbitrators:

Not certain this is necessary; a finding about edit warring should be enough. Shell 22:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

Actually, Shell, this is necessary, because Biophys has clearly avoided sanctions in the past based upon these supposed promises. It is a tried, and tired, tactic used to specifically avoid sanctions, and before long it is back to edit-warring. --Russavia 17:51, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

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Agree. Doh, after three blocks on 3RR and two 3RR board warnings issued to Biophys, his violation of promises not to edit war should not be taken into account? Well this is an example of clear pattern of his continuing disruptive behaviour. He is not going to reform himself. Any promises he made (to stop edit war, to stop editing contraversial articles, to retire) - were broken. This means probation, admonishment are not an option for him. Vlad fedorov (talk) 06:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Biophys behaviour

4) Biophys has received several prior warnings and sanctions. These have not caused Biophys to change his behaviour.

Comment by Arbitrators:

More likely this will refer to recidivism in general since many of the parties here have had ample opportunity to remedy their behavior. Shell 22:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

I had no prior sanctions by Arbcom/AE and followed all your official recommendations: not talking with/about Commodore Sloat, unsubscribing from the EEML and not fueling the unhelpful speculations. I also worked toward reducing the battlegrounds by not submitting any ANI/AE requests after the end of EEML case and not supporting any former allies (please compare with Russavia). I debated all content disagreements at the article talk pages, limited myself to 1-2 RR per day, and worked toward compromise versions, as in "Russian apartment bombings" . But it did not work very well. After the continuous outing, harassment and battleground by Russavia, Vlad and others, I do not see any other options but to stop editing here, as stated in my last email to Arbcom. But I will appear to receive your sanctions if any. Biophys (talk) 20:48, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I did not see a change in Biophys' behavior after the EEML case. -YMB29 (talk) 14:50, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed principles

Not a battleground

1) Misplaced Pages is not a battleground. It is not a place to hold grudges, import personal conflicts, or nurture hatred or fear. Making personal battles out of Misplaced Pages discussions goes directly against our policies and goals. In particular, agitation based on a misplaced, retributive and vengeful sense of justice goes counter to the necessary collegiate atmosphere required to write an encyclopedia.

Comment by Arbitrators:

Combining this idea with one Russavia mentioned - this is similar to the standard principle about the purpose of Misplaced Pages:

The purpose of Misplaced Pages is to create a high-quality, free-content encyclopedia in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual respect among contributors. Use of the site for other purposes, such as advocacy or propaganda, furtherance of outside conflicts, publishing or promoting original research, and political or ideological struggle, is prohibited. Shell 22:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

Disagree The second sentence has obviously been written by Martin in order to call any report of wrongdoing on the part of a sanctioned editor, "a misplaced, retributive and vengeful sense of justice". Refer to simpler version I have offered. --Russavia 18:41, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed. --Martin (talk) 11:40, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Disagree Nothing said on who would be the ultimate judge for determining whether something is "agitation". Orwell's Ministry of Truth? What is agitation? We have to deal here with massive attempt to spam Misplaced Pages with material degrading Russia. I haven't seen any camaraderie or respect to this end from Colchicum. Vlad fedorov (talk) 05:50, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Harassment

2) Harassment of any editor is not tolerated on Misplaced Pages. Harassment is defined as a pattern of disruptive behavior that appears to a reasonable and objective observer to have the purpose of causing negative emotions in a targeted person or persons, usually (but not always) for the purpose of intimidating the primary target. The purpose could be to make editing Misplaced Pages unpleasant for the target, to undermine them, to frighten them, or to encourage them to stop editing entirely.

Comment by Arbitrators:

I'm not certain something this specific has been demonstrated, maybe something more along the lines of:

Misplaced Pages users are expected to behave reasonably, calmly, and courteously in their interactions with other users; to approach even difficult situations in a dignified fashion and with a constructive and collaborative outlook; and to avoid acting in a manner that brings the project into disrepute. Unseemly conduct, such as personal attacks, incivility, assumptions of bad faith, trolling, harassment, disruptive point-making, and gaming the system, is prohibited. Shell 22:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Note: All remedies that refer to a period of time, for example to a ban of X months or a revert parole of Y months, are to run concurrently unless otherwise stated.

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1) Russavia in a hostile manner approached Wikipedians prohibited from commenting on or unnecessarily interacting with him per EEML restriction #11A.

Comment by Arbitrators:

There is a concern here about promoting a battleground mentality, but I don't believe it's limited to Russavia. Shell 22:25, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

That particular comment may not be a good example, however the evidence shows quite a few times when many of the editors here have been incivil, made personal attacks and in general hurled abuse at others. The persistent edit warring, failure to resolve disputes and POV pushing also contribute to a battleground atmosphere in this area. Shell 01:16, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I don't have time to dig up diffs (some are on the evidence page already) but will provide them if I propose a remedy to this effect. You could start by looking at the number of times you've referred to the content of EEML emails since the close of that case. Shell 01:41, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I've already suggested you review the evidence page where several links have been provided; the accusation is not mine, rather evidence has been provided by other editors that seems convincing. As for continuing to repeat personal information from EEML emails, no, that's not all right. If you needed to demonstrate a pattern and the items were part of the case outcome, you could have easily referred to the case rather than bring up private communications if they were all included as you suggest. Shell 02:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment by parties:

Disagree I presented evidence on what was, and still is, a likely case of an editor under a topic ban evading their ban by way of an IP. The evidence I presented is clear. What was seen at that thread was WP:EEML participants making all sorts of accusations against myself, in what seemed to me to be an attempt to derail what was likely a case of ban evasion. Note, the evidence I presented all but cleared User:Vecrumba from those accusations. Given Martintg's previous admission of voting anonymously in AfDs, there was evidence available with which to show a likely connection between the two IPs and Martintg. --Russavia 22:09, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

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Comment "All but cleared" myself? So, nearly but not quite? I regret that while I am topic banned, Russavia continues to cite private EEML correspondence while I am prevented from commenting on his actions or pointing to the mounds of combative accusatory evidence he presented against me at EEML claiming I am a disruptive evidence when I believe my response (N.B., I responded to accusations, not made accusations) indicates otherwise. As for myself being "all but cleared," that indicates to me (my perception) that Russavia had hoped to implicate me but failed and appears to now be presenting said failure as some sort of exculpatory beneficence toward me—as he has in the past been first in line to accuse me of breaching my topic ban at the most minor of infractions (at Aspic and elsewhere). As I am specifically mentioned as a potential suspect, I believe I am within my rights to comment. PЄTЄRS VЄСRUМВА ►talk 16:31, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Support. Injecting himself into discussions, taunting and baiting by making derogatory comments and quoting material out of the EEML archive (which was only permitted during the EEML case), knowing full well that these people aren't themselves permitted to interact with him, is symptomatic of this battleground mind set. --Martin (talk) 21:34, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Disagree. 1)Well the link above is a link to SPI investigation on two suspicious IP which intervened into discussion of Baltic states occupation. If Martintg, claims he has been interacted with by investigation of these IP's - then he admits, these were his socks. I suggest then to check whether these two IP's were Martintg. Too many coincidences happen these days - mysterious mails to Biophys (from HanzoHattori), mysterious IP's appearing out of nowhere.

2) There was no derogatory comments and quoting material out of the EEML archive on SPI pages by Russavia. Here Martintg deliberately confuses both arbitrators and case participants.

3) Martintg, your comments about Colchicum "don't collaborate with RuSSavia" posts? Is it OK to hint on another user as SS member? Or you prefer ~~artificial~~ creative single-sided coverage? Vlad fedorov (talk) 06:53, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

2) Russavia repeatedly tried to post other persons' personal information on-wiki (see as well as several records in his block log). In particular, the piece of information on Martintg's whereabouts had been erased ( -- 08:52, 6 May 2010 (UTC)) by an admin by the time of Russavia's comments and wasn't available anywhere on Misplaced Pages.

Comment by Arbitrators:

There does seem to be a pattern of using editor's personal information in what could reasonably be seen as an intimidating manner despite requests to stop. I note that Vlad Federov appears to have the same problem. Shell 22:25, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

There is a large difference between mentioning this information briefly on an SPI as appropriate and using personal or private information as a bludgeon to bring up repeatedly while in disputes. Yes, you can't put the genie back in the bottle but respecting other editors when they try to remove the information is important. There are other examples where you referred to private information related to Martintg, Biophys and other "opponents" from the EEML case. Shell 01:20, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

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Disagree The information on Martintg's whereabouts was indeed onwiki. Colchicum has chosen a carefully selected diff above. He should have presented this diff which clearly shows Misplaced Pages:Meetup/Melbourne_9#Comments. Additionally it is not WP:OUTING to present evidence of an editor's location, when that editor has themself stated that information in public view, and it was in fact on his userpage for as long as I can remember. When part of legitimate reports such as the SPI (which I didn't even start mind you), evidence such as that can and should be presented. In fact, a previous case for Arbitration confirms what I have written -- Misplaced Pages:ARBMAC2#Outing - quote: Per WP:Outing, outing has not occurred if an editor has previously voluntarily self-identified his or her country, language, nationality, or other personal information. Subsequent posting of that information by other users does not constitute outing. If a user has redacted that information, their wishes should be respected. - yes their wishes should be respected, but in the case cited by Colchicum, there is good faith reason to believe that Martintg was evading his topic ban by using IPs, and evidence was presented to clarify this. --Russavia 22:09, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment to Shell: C'mon now, a fair suck of the sausage here. You say that when there is clear evidence of an editor editing on behalf of a banned user that there is no pattern, but here you are saying there is a pattern. A pattern of what exactly? I posted what I did, and straightaway User:Sander Säde (an EEML'er) tries to divert attention away from evidence, which forced me to not only to disclose where information was obtained from, but also how it is clearly not WP:OUTING as claimed. Then we have User:Colchicum, who likes to refer to myself as Ruavia joining in on the fray. Not exactly the most objective people wouldn't you say? Or are you saying that if an editor discloses their location, and places it in public views (onwiki) for all to see for an extended period of time (years), and then removes it at a later stage, that this information can not be used under any circumstance, particularly when there is a good chance that they are violating a topic ban as a result of Arbcom sanctions? --Russavia 00:57, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Shell, I am now going to have to ask that you provide evidence of me referring to ANY private information in relation to any of the EEML brigadiers, with the exception of the one time in relation to Martintg. I await your response. --Russavia 01:35, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Shell, if you are going to accuse me of something, you need to provide evidence, and not only if you decide to propose a remedy to that effect. You can not make such comments in a hit and run way. Any references I may have made to EEML emails were introduced into evidence during WP:EEML proceedings, by either myself, other editors, or arbitrators themselves, and those references have been made in order to demonstrate a pattern of continued behaviour. Please familiarise yourself with WP:EEML proceedings, and then kindly provide the evidence, or retract your comment above, because you are suggesting that I have used references to evidence introduced into arbitration as a form of WP:OUTING or WP:HARRASS, when that is not the case. --Russavia 02:06, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

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Re Shell comment on disclosing personal info. Shell, you cannot deny that here I was deliberately provoked to explain past events that were raised here by Colchicum, before you confirmed that these events certainly lie out of the scope of this arbcase. I never was receiving any warnings from administrators or Biophys himself about his personal information non-disclosure.

And, anyway, there is certainly a problem in case were editor who previously was disclosing his personal information, but suddenly without any public warning starts to enforce his confidentiality. The same case is with Marting, who having written virtually anywhere in WP information about were he resides (including wikipedians meeting in Australia pages, etc.), suddenly starts to accuse everyone of outing.

If you accept possibility of such mind change, then you inevitably should acknowledge the same pattern with Colchicum, who posted in WP a link leading to harrasment page, where in addition to harrasment I was outed.

In total let's face the facts of last 5 months: Biophys hadn't stopped edit warring, edited for banned editor, Radeksz violated his ban, Marting by commenting here repeatedly violated his ban after warning, Marting most likely attempted socking, Colchicum came here to support his buddy by provoking other editors (see his contribution activity), Birutorial most likely violated his ban. Conclusions? Vlad fedorov (talk) 05:41, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Support. Publication of personal information, via off-wiki sources like PageFreeze or Google searches and linking back, even after being requested to stop, is completely unacceptable. For all the wrong doing of the EEML, one thing members have never ever done is to OUT the identity of Russavia (or any other person) anywhere, off or on-wiki, even though his identity has been long known to the EEML. Inappropriately canvassing an AfD is one thing, but repeatedly OUTing to harass and intimidate people is something else entirely. --Martin (talk) 21:18, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Oh really Martintg? What about this outing of Biophys to Digwuren's ~~EEML board~~ talk page giving link to the document with real name and address of Russavia? Could we analyze EEML archive to see when Russavia's real name and address started to be discussed by EEML and compare it with this message?Vlad fedorov (talk) 09:25, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Disagree. Bad faith claims to enforce personal information previously disclosed by "the offended" virtually on all WP pages. As for Martintg, simple Misplaced Pages search gives tons of not oversighted links to his whereabouts. What normal editor, who is not involved with us and with this case, would do when he runs into Misplaced Pages Australia meeting page with Martintg info and latter communicates this info further in WP to someone? Would you sanction him? If there any tool in Misplaced Pages that could inform all users that from now on, Martintg personal info is "sikrit" and couldn't be mentioned or disclosed, even if it is accessible and easily found? Vlad fedorov (talk) 06:53, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Assumptions of bad faith by Russavia

3) Russavia has engaged in chronic assumptions of bad faith (recent diffs: and to show that this is an established pattern: )

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Oppose There is no need to assume good faith, when evidence to the contrary indicates that an editor is not working for the best interests of this project. Refer to example Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys/Workshop#Allegations_of_Putin_being_a_paedophile and Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys/Workshop#Alexander_Litvinenko_.28other_issues.29, where there is no need to assume good faith, because Biophys has clearly lied and/or clearly presented disinformation into evidence, and because there is clear evidence that he has acted WP:TEDIOUSly, AGF only goes so far I am afraid. --Russavia 12:16, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed. Colchicum (talk) 00:01, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. Well, it is not funny anymore. Two editors - Biophys and Colchicum accuse Russavia of bad faith by pointing to Russavia evaluation of their POV, ADVOCACY contributions. You forgot to include all other editors then - me, Ellol, LokiiT, DonaldDuck, Saiga12, YMB29, Irpen, Ghirla, Commodore Sloat, Offliner, Skäpperöd, PasswordUsername, Dojarca, Paul Pieniezny, M.K. and many others. This is because your POV, ADVOCACY contributions have only aim - to degrade Russia. Are you still surprised after 5,6,7 years that people do disagree with you? Vlad fedorov (talk) 06:53, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Vlad fedorov

1) On September 5, 2007, Vlad fedorov was banned from Misplaced Pages for a period of one year for a wide variety of disruptive behavior, including threats, personal attacks, sustained revert-warring, and egregiously inappropriate commentary

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Oppose Whilst him being banned may be true, this has nothing to do with this case which is centred on post-EEML disruption. --Russavia 09:54, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed. Colchicum (talk) 09:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

2) Since then, Vlad fedorov has engaged in a wide variety of disruptive behavior, including revert-warring (for very recent diffs see , , , , ), ban-evading sockpuppetry, outing attempts and general disregard for other people's privacy, as well as chronic assumptions of bad faith and personal attacks (there are plenty of diffs right here on these pages).

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Oppose Again this is centred on post-EEML disruption. --Russavia 09:54, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed. Colchicum (talk) 09:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Far-fetched misrepresentation of state of affairs:

Neither case is edit warring, since I contributed material.

1) Stepan_Bandera What about my final edit, which is pretty explaining all other edits diff? And note, I haven't been edit warring.

2)Khaibakh massacre - why the nationality of the executioner shouldn't be known?

If it was edit warring why no one discussed with me it in other venues, but rushed directly to arbcase? Vlad fedorov (talk) 09:55, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposed remedies

1) Russavia is prohibited from commenting on or unnecessarily interacting with the editors sanctioned by name in the EEML arbcom decision, as well as Biophys, on any page of Misplaced Pages, except for purposes of legitimate and necessary dispute resolution.

Comment by Arbitrators:

A more general interaction ban might be helpful on this case since these same editors do seem to keep having problems interacting. Shell 22:26, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

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Disagree I have not been involved in contentious areas of editing for many months. Partly due to my "Russia" topic ban, and since the expiration of that ban because I have been working on various other things. Having said that, since the beginning of WP:EEML I have been keeping an eye on the email list members, in particular those who have been sanctioned. They have been sanctioned for a reason. As an editor who is now in good standing, there is no sound rhyme nor reason why I should not be able to raise issues relating to this area. I have come across several editors violating their topic ban, and if what Colchicum proposes is put into force, this is akin to shooting the messenger. If editors didn't edit war and didn't proxy for banned users, there would be no need for involvement from myself. I reported User:Radeksz for violating his topic ban, and rightly so. He jumped into Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Richard_Tylman_(4th_nomination) (in violation of his topic ban), not to offer any constructive criticism, but to engage in a personal attack against another editor by referring to him as a WP:DICK. This is after he called another editor an arsehole, and was warned not to leave aggressive messages related to topics from which he is banned. I did not start, nor did I participate in, the AfD discussion. I have only just had to report another EEML editor under a topic ban for violating that topic ban since January. Clerks and admins are not keeping an eye on problem editors and possible violations of Arbcom sanctions, so basically, don't shoot the messenger, shoot those editors who refuse to abide by their topic bans and continue their behaviour. --Russavia 01:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment. Just a messenger? Do you mean this message? Asking a two-year ban for me was only a message? Outing me (your block by Moreschi) and other people (your block on 4 December 2009) was also only a "message"? You started this entire case to "win" a content dispute about Alexander Litvinenko and ignore the previous consensus . Was it also a message, and who sends such messages? You tell: "this is not interpersonal in nature mind you" . Yes, I believe you. Yes, you explained everything here: . Biophys (talk) 17:10, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes it was just a message. A message that you have edit warred, and continued to be quite tedious in your editing. And I asked for a two-year ban because it would send quite a message that you have continued to be quite disruptive to the project - whether it is taken on board or not is a diff matter, but we have one admin who has said he would have indef blocked you, so the report is not without merit. And that is what I will argue and continue to argue, that reports are not just made for no reason. --Russavia 10:02, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

I have not admitted to stalking. I have said I have reviewed some contributions of some editors; and this has been done after they have appeared on pages on my watch list - if it is on my watch list, there is a strong likelihood they should not be there in the first place. Only afterwards have I checked their contribs. I've got better things to do than to spend my time on WP worrying about EEMLers, such as the creation of content is a major priority of mine - in fact, it is the only priority of mine on this project. --Russavia 10:02, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

That's correct, I have actively looked at contributions, when they have appeared on my radar. I have not for example bothered to look at your contributions for example, because I have better things to do, and the same goes for those were sanctioned at WP:EEML. If they have not appeared on my radar, I haven't looked at things they have done. It's as simple as that, and if you continue pushing what you are saying, it only shows you have zero good faith. --Russavia 10:23, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

You may read it as you like. But if you take User:Biruitorul for example, he had broken his topic ban back in January, and had done for some time. If I was stalking editors, it would have been reported back then, but it wasn't. It wasn't until he appeared on my radar a couple of weeks ago that I have taken notice. Anyway, regardless, and this goes to the crux of the matter. If editors did not breach their topic bans in the first place, there would be no need for anything to be brought up anywhere. It is simple as that. So instead of having a go at me for being the messenger, why don't editors such as yourself have something to say about these editors breaking their Arbcom topic bans? Because that is not why you are here now, is it? --Russavia 10:58, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

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Support. Russavia has openly admitted stalking his opponents in hope of finding incriminating edits, going even as far as trying to paint vandalism reversions (as specially allowed by ArbCom) violations of ArbCom remedies. In another case he managed to file an arbitration enforcement request even before the user in question refreshed his watchlist, literally in minutes. Possibly it is currently banned Offliner, who does most of the stalking, as several of the reports are in a very different style (amusingly, including the enforcement request which started this case, accusing Biophys of proxying for a banned user...), and Russavia has openly proxied for him in other situations.

I think that stalking EEML members has become an obsession for Russavia, creating more than strained editing atmosphere, and seriously damaging Misplaced Pages. Like Shell said, a more general interaction ban could be a good solution.

--Sander Säde 06:41, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually, Russavia, you have admitted stalking, , "...I have been actively watching participants in the EEML for evidence of continued disruption...". But then again, it was probably not your own text, so it is understandable if you don't remember it. --Sander Säde 10:13, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

What you are describing is passive watching, we all do that - whenever I see, say Colchicum, Martin or Vecrumba in my watchlist, I look what they have been up to. If they mind me doing that, they can just let me know and I'll stop. I, myself, have no issues with people looking at my contributions, as I don't do things I should be ashamed of.

Actively watching is checking user's contributions just to find incriminating edits (i.e. stalking) - and I cannot read the quote above as anything else.

--Sander Säde 10:44, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Support. At a minimum. This battleground behaviour needs to be stopped. --Martin (talk) 21:31, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Strongly disagree. Bringing complains on violations by EEML members of their sanctions or reporting them to boards is not harassment, but exercise of Russavia and everyone's rights. Complain on Radeksz was substantiated, complain on Biophys was more than substantiated, SPI investigation on Martintg was substantiated in my opinion, complain on Martintg violating his boundary of interacting with Russavia was substantiated. EEML members are there to support their buddies by commenting out of the scope of their own complains and violate ban for interaction with Russavia. POV edit warring by Biophys has nothing to do with Martintg and Vecrumba. Both Martintg and Vecrumba do not condemn violations of WP policies by Biophys and Colchicum. They demonstrate biassed approach in their judgement here. If they feel, they were offended in some way by Russavia, why no one of them has brought complain to ANI or AE board previously? Instead they come here and bring their grievances distracting us from the case before us - edit warring and disruptive editing by Biophys and Colchicum. Vlad fedorov (talk) 07:05, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Vlad fedorov

1) Vlad fedorov (talk · contribs) is banned from editing Misplaced Pages. He has used up his second chance.

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Proposed. Colchicum (talk) 09:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Wow. Thank you. You are so kind and friendly. As I remember communists were sentencing people to shooting for taking three ears from the wheat field. Wish you good luck. Vlad fedorov (talk) 09:55, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposals by User:Biophys

Proposed findings of fact

Russavia

1) Russavia (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was engaged in outing (his blocks on 15 September 2008, 4 December 2009 and ), making legal threats (his block on 16 September 2009 ), other threats , inappropriate canvassing , , , , , creating battlegrounds (edit summaries) ,, , personal attacks , inappropriate commentaries , bad faith assumptions , and BLP violations combined with soapboxing , , , , ,, ,, .

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Proposed.Biophys (talk) 00:05, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose In it's current form, it is full of pre-EEML issues, and is also full of usual disinformation. Refer to Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys/Workshop#Problem_with_evidence_thus_far_presented. For example, Biophys refers to as a threat, where in fact, I posted for outside opinion on WP:RUSSIA - if posting to WikiProjects in the fashion I did is a problem, I suggest Biophys introduce a remedy to shut all projects down, as we must all be out to get him. Sorry, but this FoF is ridiculous, and hence it does not get my support. --Russavia 09:36, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. Inter alia, old edits (e.g. unrelated to this case), far-fetched statements with bunch of diffs taken out of the context and twisted with a drop of unreasonable misinterpretation. Vlad fedorov (talk) 07:11, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Any finding about Russavia needs to distinguish clearly between incidents before his topic ban and subsequent rehabilitation, and whatever happened after. If the claim is being made that problematic behaviour resumed afterwards, the finding needs to be reworded accordingly. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:28, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

I consider this case as unrelated to EEML (please see arguments here), and I do not see any difference in his behavior before and after the "rehabilitation". What "rehabilitation"? Was it a statement by Arbcom I have missed? Regardless, many diffs above are very recent.Biophys (talk) 14:20, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Vlad fedorov

2) Vlad fedorov (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) created a sockpuppet to evade his one-year block by Arbcom and report real-life identity of Biophys to user Ellol. He then outed Biophys again, during these arbitration proceedings.

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Proposed.Biophys (talk) 00:23, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose Vlad fedorov has already been sanctioned for the creation of the sock puppet, so is irrelevant to this case. He also has not outed you at all during this case. --Russavia 07:59, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose First claim is out of the scope of this arbcase as was communicated by Shell and was already presented in WP:EEML case. Second part is not outing because it was:

deliberately provoked by Colchicum who posted numerous irrelevant to this case accusations;
there is no outing pattern since Biophys has voluntarily disseminated previously his personal information;
his personal information was futher disseminated because of Biophys' sockpuppetry on Wikimedia;
there was no disclosing any personal info on Biophys during this case, since all links belong to currently accessible Misplaced Pages and Wikimedia pages;
Biophys hasn't asked previously to oversight these edits and info (I just recently learned that he addressed Tatcher), no official warnings were given to all editors and to me about use of publicly accessible information;
there was no clear declaration by Biophys that previously disclosed personal information should be from some moment confidential;
Grey Fox commited outing of Biophys at the Evidence pages disclosing information on Biophys personal life, e.g. his trips abroad, etc., and neither arbs, nor Biophys protested against it.Vlad fedorov (talk) 09:21, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Support When a user posts about how another users has visited Spain for a vacation this is completely different than posting an outside link (wiki commons isn't wikipedia) containing the users FULL NAME! I don't see how any remedy but a permaban (like so many others for similar violations) can be of any effect since the damage done is irreversable. If Vlad Federov gets away with a mild sanction or no sanction at all other users should be able to get away with posting a users full name and location too, and that would be an extremely dangerous path to follow. Grey Fox (talk) 13:37, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Biophys was stupid enough to sockpuppet on Commons, and he got caught. That other users saw this is not, well, unexpected. On his sockpuppets userpage he mentioned an article on Misplaced Pages he created on his place of work. I looked at it, and saw some things wrong with claims it made. I then placed a very carefully worded COI template on his enwiki talk page, advising him that he may have a conflict of interest. No mention of any names or anything was made. The peanut gallery called this outing. (I was actually blocked Moreschi for alleged harrassment, not outting). But ok, if we use the line that Commons is not Misplaced Pages, and everyone wants to construe what I did was outting, then Biophys is equally guilty of outing myself! Back in October 2008, I uploaded to Commons commons:File:Kremlin authorisation-English.pdf and commons:File:Kremlin authorisation-Russian.pdf. I uploaded it to Commons, not Misplaced Pages. Biophys has all but outted me with this comment - he points to the letter directly, which includes my name. When the EEML co-ordinated that I entered into evidence at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern_European_mailing_list/Evidence/Russavia#WP:OUTING_and_harrassment_by_list_members_on_myself, this is when I knew for sure that there was co-ordination. And as can be seen from evidence there, some pathetic individuals pointed to that file for my real name, and were discussing ways that they could mess with my real life, including putting me into ASIO as being a Russian spy. How come none in the gallery have anything to say about that outting? Don't bother to answer that question, we know the reason already. --Russavia 14:44, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Shows indeed you still believe your block for herassment of biophys was unjustified like so many other of your blocks. As for Biophys supposedly outing you, he probably wasn't even aware your name was in the document which he quite obviously linked to for completely different reasons (showing that the Kremlin is interested in Misplaced Pages). Also you've linked the document only a few thousand times yourself? With every kremlin picture you uploaded the document was shown on wikipedia (and not commons). Again something completely different than what Vlad federov did which was placing a link that had no value except for showing what Biophys' real identity was or where to find it. Grey Fox (talk) 15:54, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Your arguments are flawed and contradictory. Do you honestly believe someone is allowed to post your full name on wikipedia because you were "stupid enough" (in your own words) to disclose your full name on Wiki Commons? I assume not because you are afraid of off-wiki herassment. Yet you still believe users are allowed to mention Biophys' real name, who amongst other users has received threats off-wiki. Grey Fox (talk) 16:06, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Wasn't aware? Yeah right. It was only addressed to me in at least two places right at the beginning of the document. Look at the document now, and see where it is blacked out. Also, if I have linked to the document on Misplaced Pages, the same can be said for those files which Biophys uploaded onto Commons and placed into Misplaced Pages. I'm not going to point to them, anyone who knows what is what can find them for themselves. But he was stupid enough to sockpuppet, and blamed everyone else for pointing this out to him, and then for pointing out he may have a conflict of interest. As to that block, if someone has a conflict of interest, I will do the same thing again. As I did with User:Aapple6. Oh wait, people are going to cry outting of Anne Applebaum now aren't they? Or what about User talk:Airasia webmaster who I advised about WP:COI. Advising of a conflict of interest is neither outting nor harrassment. Anyway, I got the answer I expected, so there ya go huh, so I'm off to do some editing for a while, something you should be doing, other than simply coming back for disputes. --Russavia 16:45, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Here's a fact that you people don't know. In early May of 2009, before the existence of WP:EEML became known, my business website came under intense attack (albeit unsuccessful due to security) by an IP that resolved itself to Pärnu. Being in Australia, there isn't much we can do, but it was reported to the Australian High Tech Crime Centre for their information. This is after Biophys posted the link to the file (in a discussion about myself, not about anything to do with the Kremlin), and after their co-ordinated attack, and after I had the original oversighted on 26 April, and only a couple of days after this particular file (along with my name) was advertised on EEML by Biophys. Given those circumstances, one could put two and two together, and reach a possible reason how that real-life harrassment on my business came about, couldn't they? And if anyone doubts a word I've said, I'd be more than happy to provide some further information to Arbcom for their verification. So please, excuse me when I choke when people scream about outting and harrassment. --Russavia 16:45, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

It's quite obvious you don't care at all about articles related to Biophysics let alone a WP:COI violation there. This turned out later to not be a WP:COI violation at all (after it was questioned) and the only reason why you filed a WP:COI warning was to show Biophys you knew who he was in real life and to just plain annoy him. This was harassment no matter how hard you deny. A fact is that users have been banned for outing Biophys or others in the past and it's made clear that revealing his or anyone elses name is not allowed. You were blocked for it (or something in the same sense), another user was banned and there's probably more sanctions that I fail to remember. Of course nobody is allowed to reveal your name either. You've brought up supposed outing by Biophys before during the EEML case, but no sanctions were given to him probably because he had no intent of revealing your identity by linking to that document and you linked to this document yourself as well. A comparison between Biophys linking to his commons himself makes sense (though I recall you were openly discussing the placing of this document on wikipedia) but has little relevance because I'm not allowed to link anyone a copy of your document today that still carries your name (if such a document were to exist). Your WP:COI notion and Biophys linking to that document are things of the past, whereas Vlad federov's obvious violation is a thing of the present.

The facts are: 1) Both Russavia and Biophys revealed their real names on wiki commons, probably because they were both naive. 2) Both Russavia and Biophys later regretted this and attempted to hide their identities. 3) Because Commons is a different medium nobody is allowed to mentioned either Russavia or Biophys' real name. Agree with me so far? That means NOBODY IS ALLOWED to mention your names and Vlad federov did just that. If you truly believe Vlad federov is allowed to reveal Biophys' real name on wikipedia, how would you feel if I posted your name here right now? A hypothetical question because I don't know your real name nor do I want to. I'm asking you because it seems you want to change rule number 3 into 3) Everyone is allowed to reveal Biophys' name yet nobody is allowed to reveal Russavia's name. Grey Fox (talk) 18:03, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Grey Fox, it seems to me that you forget what is the reason for Biophys complain. His reason is my edits on Workshop talk page, not something that I've done previously which is out of the the scope of this arbitration. Once again read carefully WP:OUTING, you have outed Biophys trips which were not published anywhere in WP by him, so you were contacting each other off-wiki, and you have reavealed his personal information about his trips to Kavkaz. So, it quite curious that you, guys, personally, out each other, and demand something from others, not to mention clear provocation by Colchicum.Vlad fedorov (talk) 19:08, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually he did tell me about his hiking adventures on Misplaced Pages and not off Misplaced Pages, including showing me the mountain range which he thought was most beautiful and details on some ethnos related topics. It's completely irrelevant though, everyone knows the difference between mentioning someones vacation and placing his full name like you did. Especially when its about such a vast area. It would be the same if I were to mention that a user has visited the Rocky Mountains. Calling that outing is just a ridiculous attempt at defence. Grey Fox (talk) 19:42, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Great so he told you this off-wiki, and you were communicating off-wiki? Well, I think EEML pattern continues. Excellent. Now answer the question, have you revealed personal inofrmation on Biophys' trips to Kavkaz on wiki, yes or no? I never placed his full name or any info, don't lie. Vlad fedorov (talk) 03:23, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes you did. And read properly, I said he told me ON-wiki. Grey Fox (talk) 08:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you that you have silently agreed that you have been disclosing personal information of Biophys. This is very indicative. Vlad fedorov (talk) 08:41, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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I am calling bs on Russavia's website attack. Unless you were running the website on two cans and a string, one computer doesn't do squat against a website (and I am speaking as an IT professional here). Much more likely it was a zombie, taken over by malware. And of course, no one from EEML lived in Pärnu anyway...

Not to mention, this simply is not something EEML members would do. We were tenured professors, respected scientists and professionals, we did not ever do something as low and shameful as creating Encyclopedia Dramatica pages about our opponents with detailed personal info and inviting to kill them all, outing them, publishing private information in and out of Misplaced Pages - or made copies of oversighted Misplaced Pages edits. Something like attacking a website is out of anything that any of us would do.

--Sander Säde 19:43, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

I am sorry, but regarding "Here's a fact that you people don't know. In early May of 2009, before the existence of WP:EEML became known, my business website came under intense attack (albeit unsuccessful due to security) by an IP that resolved itself to Pärnu...." Since I've already been accused of killing Transnistrian children, what's one more unfounded accusation? Let's add world hunger while we're at it. EEML was formed to get away from this sort of on-Wiki crap, it's unfortunate and in retrospect somewhat inevitable that it got sucked into it—for which I owe an apology to myself and other EEML members for allowing us to get sucked down that WP black vortex. I certainly don't owe an apology to those devoting article sections on ED titled "Fascist crybaby Vecrumba is trolled by ED." IMHO, this sort of wild accusation is just another example of how low some editors are willing to stoop to eliminate all editorial opposition. It's one thing to fantasize over beers and another to out, smear, and threaten individuals who are respected members of their professions and communities. Some people are obviously having trouble telling the two apart. PЄTЄRS VЄСRUМВА ►talk 22:10, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oooooo.... Vecrumba says it was the famous and glorious KGB internet troll squad operating from Estonia to intensely attack Russavia site? I better make stocks of popcorn immediately. Anyway, Vecrumba, given your eternal inability to make NPOV contributions I am not wondering why you are casted in that light. Vlad fedorov (talk) 03:23, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

YMB29

3) YMB29 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was engaged in personal attacks ,, , and inappropriate canvassing of administrator Mikkalai ,, who supported YMB29 in the editorial "battle" using his main account and two sockpuppets . Most of edits by YMB29 are reverts in several articles .

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Proposed.Biophys (talk)

Again Biophys makes baseless accusations hoping that others won't notice that they are baseless...

Also Biophys is the one who is guilty of "inappropriate canvassing" of the sock master admin. -YMB29 (talk) 05:26, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose YMB29 has clearly been pointing out to Biophys his mistakes on articles, and Biophys uses the usual tactics he employes - pretends to engage in discussion, whilst reverting and misusing/misunderstanding sources. That YMB29 has approached Altenmann is not inappropriate, and that Altenmann has used sockpuppets is not something that should be held against YMB29. --Russavia 08:03, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. Clear attempt by Biophys to take revenge on the editor who gave evidence against him and fantastic misrepresentation of the facts. Vlad fedorov (talk) 07:16, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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LokiiT

4) LokiiT (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was engaged in extensive sockpuppetry , and personal attacks , , , ,

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Proposed. Biophys (talk) 22:51, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose The only diff which is even relevant to this case is as it is post-EEML. And it LokiiT, rightfully, taking you task for the removal of information which Biophys doesn't like - something which has been demonstrated you do time and time again. --Russavia 08:06, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. I see no personal attacks. Biophys POV contributions and his edit warring were the reason for the edit. Vlad fedorov (talk) 07:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Saiga12

5) Saiga12 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was engaged in vandalism with numbers ,,, threats and incivility . Almost all his edits are reverts .

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Proposed.Biophys (talk) 23:23, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose This is a complex issue, the "numbers" accusation goes down to the use of sources - official Russian government sources (which Saiga12 has used), as opposed to Chechen terrorist sources (which Biophys has used). If Biophys insists, then a similar FoF should be raised in relation to him for the same thing. Calling you a terrorist supporter is incivil, but that alone is not enough for this FoF to see my support, and I must oppose it in its current form. --Russavia 08:09, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

See the diff: . Those are numbers not found in the source. This is forgery, no matter what the source might be.Biophys (talk) 14:10, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Again with the selective offering of diffs by yourself Biophys...this is again disinformation on your part. For if you look at this edit, done 4 minutes after the diff you show, it clearly shows the source used, and the source backs it up. So who do we use? A source with a reputation for fact checking, such as Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or The Independent, or the terrorist-supporting Kavkaz Center which is nothing but a propaganda website (Israelis harvesting Palestinian organs indeed!). Please Biophys, enough with the disinformation. --Russavia 14:21, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. In this case Biophys who has initiated SPI check for Saiga12, was issuing warnings to him on Saiga12 talk page, deliberately provoked this newcomer to Misplaced Pages. This poor guy was subjected by Biophys to harrassment in unsuccessfull SPI investigation by Biophys. Biophys in this case was adding to Misplaced Pages material from terrorists sites and was promoting terrorists POV, which undoubtedly provoked this user. Vlad fedorov (talk) 07:25, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Biophys

6) Biophys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was a target of harassment by a group of like-minded users that includes Russavia, Vlad_fedorov, YMB29, Saiga12, LokiiT (see above) and a few others , . He informed Arbcom that he must retire from the project because of the on-wiki and off-wiki harassment conducted by Vlad_fedorov, Russavia and Offliner , , .

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Proposed.Biophys (talk) 04:22, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Biophys probably thinks we have a mailing list set up... But I have never even interacted with any of the "like-minded users" outside of this case and the EEML one. The same cannot be said of Biophys and his EEML friends... -YMB29 (talk) 05:28, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose Biophys has not been the target of any campaign. As YMB29 mentions, there is no mailing list to co-ordinate such a thing. And interaction on my part with named users has been absolutely limited (and in some cases, not at all). Biophys' contentious edits have caused editors to take issue with them, and have attempted to point out problems, etc, but these have for the most part ignored by Biophys. That Biophys deems it necessary leave the project is not due to any campaign, but is something that he has done by his own free-will. His mention of retirement is an old tactic that Biophys has used when his editing is under review. If Biophys wants to leave, then so be it. I say Misplaced Pages:Don't feed the divas. --Russavia 13:39, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Additional comment Biophys mentions off-wiki harrassment. I demand that he say exactly what has been done by myself that would even be classified as off-wiki harrassment. Unless he has some evidence of this, he best be striking the entire lot, because this is tantamount to an accusation which shows absolutely zero good faith in anything anyone does. --Russavia 13:52, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Where is that great world universal conspiracy against Biophys? It's very exciting to see that Biophys, the one who has participated in EEML cabal plans to report Russavia to Australia Secret Service, now pretends he is an object of harrasment. Too many editors disagree with you and you have to edit war? The more you edit war, the more other editors report you to ANI and arbcom? Well, think about your contributions. If you really think that everyone here is not tired of your FSB/KGB conspiracy injection to every Russian article, then it would go forever unless you would be permabanned. Vlad fedorov (talk) 19:15, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

I can concur with your latter sentiment Vlad. Immediately after I was topic banned, Biophys added this to the Aeroflot article (mainly sourced to Death of a Dissident ). He all but admitted on EEML it was to taunt myself. Note that he completely forget to add to the article that it was Boris Berezovsky who was found guilty of embezzling $9 million from the airline, and is wanted by Russia for this act. If one was truly interested in bringing NPOV to articles, they would do this from the very get-go. The lack of covering all POVs in articles by Biophys is one of the reasons that so many editors have a problem with his editing, and it is not harrassment to make this known to him. The fact that he continues to do such things demonstrates he is only here to advocate, and this is evidenced when he continually ignores consensus and removes information from articles that he doesn't like, because it doesn't conform with the POV that he wishes to push. --Russavia 19:29, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

I provided some links about off-wiki harassment as requested by Russavia above, but I will not explain everything even to Arbcom for serious personal reasons. This my edit quoted by Russavia was fully consistent with our RS and NPOV policies and tells nothing about Russavia. However, that edit by an SPA, which gives reference to Russian wikipedia, was not . This is just another perfect example how Russian nationalistic SPAs degrade wikipedia content. What Australian Service? Why would me wanted to report you to police? No, I did not. Are you going to continue your ridiculous and false accusations even during these proceedings? Biophys (talk) 02:41, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

1) Oh, "Aeroflot performed myriad of other functions". Terrific. Most people would die for learning this very informative and sourced info. Very encyclopedic, indeed, I would think about inclusion of it to all other articles.

2) Claims by Suvorov and Kuzminov are mentioning Aeroflot only tangientially, could you prove that their information (opinion, belief) about Aeroflot is notable enough for inclusion? I don't even mention that defector Suvorov is highly contraversial person. If there any other independent sources to verify these claims? No? Then what the problem, Biophys? I could find many insulting, defaming etc. material about Suvorov in Internet published in many respectfull newspapers. Why I am not following your logic and spam Misplaced Pages with this garbage? Any ideas?

3) Aeroflot case. Here Biophys you really crossed beyond the line. To represent this case based only on the info of Berezovsky employee? What about official investigation which found that Berezovsky was stealing the money? I've thought that shareholders such as Berezovsky receive dividents and not proceeds from tickets sales. Transfer of sales proceeds to Berezovsky company Andava in Switzerland is stealing the money. What FSB has to do with this? Vlad fedorov (talk) 05:57, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Comment The circus continues with Vlad Fedorov's utterly preposterous contention that there were "EEML cabal plans to report Russavia to Australia Secret Service." PЄTЄRS VЄСRUМВА ►talk 01:43, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

P.S. Are we here to re-litigate EEML? How long will I need to read these baseless and libelous interpretations of my personal correspondence fashioned into personal attacks against editors? PЄTЄRS VЄСRUМВА ►talk 02:39, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. Like I already said, you find that many editors do not share your conspiracy theories? You have to edit war to keep your POVed conspiracy material in the article? Because you edit war, you find that many editors bring complains about you to ANI, AE, etc? The more arbcoms and complains are, the more you find that these complains and arbcoms about your outrageous POV are harrassment? Well, seek the answer whithin yourself. I don't even mention that you have dared to institute arbcase against Commodore Sloat just to win content dispute.Vlad fedorov (talk) 07:31, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposals by User:Vlad_fedorov

Proposed. If you are in absolute minority with your conspirac then, you should agree with majority if you don't want to reach consensus, not vice versa. Edit wars go against the WP policy. Proposed. Vlad fedorov (talk) 04:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Permanent violations of WP:NPOV

1) Biophys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) engaged in permanent and systematic violation of the Misplaced Pages:NPOV policy. In particular, Biophys disrupted Misplaced Pages by adding Anti-Russian non-neutral, POV-pushing material without any self-reliant attempts to make it neutral and disrupted Misplaced Pages by removing sources representing views that do not conform to his believes, without attempts to reach consensus with other editors.

Artyom Borovik, diff, previous behaviour: diff, diff, diff Anatoly Trofimov, diff, diff, and diff Alexander Goldfarb (microbiologist), diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff Human rights in Russia, diff, diff Yuri Felshtinsky, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff Valeria Novodvorskaya, diff Dokka Umarov (applying WP:terrorist)diff, diff, while not applying the same policy in Revolutionary terror in Soviet Union to advocate his personal views diff, diff Russian apartment bombings [bombing by FSB agents is a majority view. Red flag, diff, diff, diff Red Banner, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff Human rights in the Soviet Union, diff, diff, diff,diff diff diff diff diff Russian apartment bombings ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Battle for Height 776 ,,,,,,,,,,,, Cyberwarfare by Russian state ,,,,, Invasion of Dagestan (1999) ,,,,

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Proposed. Vlad fedorov (talk) 04:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Revert wars

2) Biophys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) maintained and fueled systematical revert wars, despite previously being blocked three times for violations of WP:3RR, despite being warned twice on 3RR board and violating his previous promises to cease edit warring.

Red Banner, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff Human rights in the Soviet Union, diff, diff, diff,diff diff diff diff diff Russian apartment bombings ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Battle for Height 776 ,,,,,,,,,,,, Cyberwarfare by Russian state ,,,,, Invasion of Dagestan (1999) ,,,, Yuri Felshtinsky, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff Anatoly Trofimov, diff, diff, and diff Alexander Goldfarb (microbiologist), diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff Human rights in Russia, ,,,,,,

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Just like I said, because nobody, except Grey Fox and Colchicum, supports your conspiracies this doesn't give you any right to go on such a large scale edit war with all editors in all articles. Vlad fedorov (talk) 04:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Biophys disruptive editing

3) Biophys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) engaged in permanent and systematic disruptive editing by inserting to various Misplaced Pages articles POVed, unreliable and defaming information about Russian president, FSB/KGB and Russia in general, including Russian history in order to advance his believes.

Putin being paedophile, Aeroflot is flying KGB and outrageously POVed representation of Aeroflot case, Putin phallus defamation injection to Misplaced Pages, knowing this was defaming material for which author was sanctioned, use of Misplaced Pages with the purpose to insult and defame, diff inserting defaming and contentious material to memorial articles, diff outrageous claim that Krupskaya was poisoned, Red banner, diff inserting insulting material containing words "whore" "fuck" to national symbol article.

Threats and intimidations to other users to create POV'ed articles about Russia in Misplaced Pages: diff, diff.

Deleted personal page of Biophys which was emptied during EEML arbitration contained as one of the main links a link to methods of propaganda and disinformation, consisting of very detailed description of how to disinform and how to advance propaganda.

This is aggreviated by membership of Biophys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) in WP:EEML.

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Proposed. Vlad fedorov (talk) 05:02, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Colchicum disruptive editing

4) Colchicum (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) assisted Biophys in WP:revert wars and injection of WP:POVed information Artyom Borovik diff, Aeroflot, diff, diff Russian apartment bombings diff, Andrei Babitsky , insulted WP:CIV and provoked other editors and demonstrated hostile battleground mentality, posted in Misplaced Pages links to attack pages where WP editors are insulted and outed .

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Proposed. Vlad fedorov (talk) 05:21, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Outing by Biophys

5) Biophys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) engaged in outing of Russavia diff.

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Proposed. Everything is not so straight simple with Biophys behaviour. Vlad fedorov (talk) 09:17, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Articles involving Saiga12, YMB29 and Mikkalai

I was indeed involved in edit warring in articles Red banner, Human rights in the Soviet Union and Battle for Height 776. My opponents were Saiga12 (talk · contribs) and YMB29 (talk · contribs) who made very few edits in the project, most of which are disruption or reverts (please check their edit history). Contrary to all our policies, they removed huge pieces of perfectly sourced content , and one of them was involved in vandalism with numbers .

Moreover, one of them issued me a threat telling that "may be we can meet you in Moscow..." and resorted to other incivility . User:YMB29 did the same, launching a series of personal attacks ,, , .

To add insult to injury, Mikkalai played a complicated game in these articles, pretending to be a neutral editor who created compromise versions , only to revert himself using one of his socks, Timurite, to a version he really wants or intervene in "Human rights" as Dzied Bulbash .

Two first articles were "won" by YMB29 who reverted them to his preferred version , because I followed 1-2 RR.

Battle for Height 776 was reverted to the more complete version with compromised numbers of losses . Later on, a suspicious Revan2338 (talk · contribs) came to edit war (a sock of Saiga12?). How about blocking someone like him on spot? Biophys (talk) 21:26, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Re to Vlad below. It was me who substantially expanded "Human rights in the SU" article from the stab level, and I do include information you are talking about . As about the "Battle for Height 776", that was my last expansion of content which is not identical to any previous version. The same with many other edits declared "reverts" by Russavia.Biophys (talk) 13:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Re to YMB29. You tell: "I hope you are not implying that I was teaming up with him against you." Yes, I do. You asked him to appear on your side in the both articles: ,, . I explained to you my edits in Red Banner: . And remember that WP is not censored. Biophys (talk) 20:46, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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You keep on saying that your edits are perfectly sourced, and so no one has the right to modify or revert them? Sourcing is one thing and we know that you can source your edits, but as mentioned by others you have trouble with WP:RS, WP:SYNTH, WP:UNDUE, WP:Notability, WP:NPOV...

How many times can you make the same personal attack accusations against me? Where exactly do you see a personal attack in your diffs? Me saying that you misuse sources (and providing evidence of that) or warning you that I will report you to an admin are not examples of personal attacks...

As for Altenmann/Mikkalai/Timurite/Dzied Bulbash, funny how you yourself brought him to our editing conflict. So I hope you are not implying that I was teaming up with him against you. -YMB29 (talk) 17:13, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: I asked Altenmann to look at your behavior thinking he was an honest admin, but this was after you already called him to the article and he protected it. You were not bothering to discuss anything and I wanted to get the article unprotected. So your accusation is ridiculous. -YMB29 (talk) 14:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Also you did not explain what was asked of you in Red Banner. Reverting POVed jokes is not censoring... -YMB29 (talk) 19:42, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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Comment By Vlad_fedorov. Just face value. Please, note that in this Biophys' "piece of perfectly sourced content" the links to losses of Chechen militants are to Islamist propaganda website Kavkaz Center, and in non-Biophys version - to US Military site. This "piece of perfectly sourced content" removed essentially contends that criminalization of speculation is equal to Red terror, a notion related to Russian Civil War, but not to USSR which was established after Civil War. Nothing is said in this POVed text about price control in USSR and why it was important. Nothing is said how speculation affected the governmental price control. Just the text from opinionated Pipes and Albats projecting Red Terror on USSR without proper evaluation of White Terror. WP:SYNTH, WP:FRINGE, WP:ADVOCACY, and left long time ago by Biophys WP:NPOV.

Red Banner obscenity and disruption. I am not convinced by Biophys that antisemitic jokes about Rabinovich is a "huge piece of perfectly sourced content", or that this perfectly sourced obscene anecdote which says "What a whore! How many times I told her: Do not fuck on the Red Banner!" is a perfect addition wo WP. In each case there is no notability. On pretty much the same contention, Biophys could come to Ronald Reagan and insert many many Russian anectodes about that old daddy, or to Israelis and Chukchi people. Biophys are you really gonna do this?

Re Biophys. Biophys, you are showing us your edit in "Human rights in the SU" dated February 10, 2007 to prove something done by you in 2009-2010? Vlad fedorov (talk) 16:04, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Articles involving Ellol

Situation with Russian apartment bombings was more complicated (please see my explanation of this to Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise . In my opinion, User:Ellol stalked and blindly reverted me in several pages. He started every day from reverting whatever I did ignoring all my compromise solutions. See: February 20,February 21,February 22,February 23. He also reverted me in other articles at the same time:, . The dispute was "won" by Ellol who reverted page to his version , because I followed 1-2 RR.

I avoided "blind" reverts to previous versions of this articles, extensively debated all disagreements ,,,, and asked an advice from an administrator who was on the "opposite side" Biophys (talk) 21:26, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

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Your comment is simply to say, that your move to push through your POV was not supported by a party like in the case of Misplaced Pages Mailing List. However, you started pushing your view through, and did up to 20-30 reverts to your version. (Technically, you tried to contribute a little while making another reverts.) You attempted to resist your POV at the talk page, but after you were run out of arguments you stopped responsing.

The dispute ended, because

1) I provided the compromise version of the introduction, which suited all sides.

2) Your persistent attempts to insist on your version of the "Ryazan Incident" ended when I agreed to your version but found that you have omitted one important fact (the firing tests were done, and the fake explosives did not explode), supported by the up-to-date newspapers.

However, all of your contributions were ultimately agreed on, despite the cases where you attempted to remove valuable information. In fact, you won the case.

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Re to Ellol. My "contributions were ultimately agreed on"? What? Just to start from something, this is my version of introduction: . Please compare with your (current) version: And everyone can easily see who made last reverts to "his" version (see my diffs above). I never tried to remove any valuable information from this or other articles, but I objected diluting articles with large quotes that totally duplicate another content that was already present in the article, like you did here.Biophys (talk) 13:18, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Re Ellol. "virtually all reverts you attempted to remove evidence that the fake explosives found in the Ryazan incident did not explode at firing tests". What? The episode when FSB allegedly tested at the firing range something they declared to be "sugar" was described in books, and I am fully aware of it (see my comment here). Therefore, I only moved this thing around, but did not remove it .Biophys (talk) 19:59, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

1) It was not the FSB, but a service of the city. 2) They tested the faked explosive, and it did not explode. This thing is referenced down to the primary source, a most influential independent Russian newspaper Kommersant. .

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В Рязани в отличие от других городов обезвреживанием бомб занимаются не специалисты ФСБ, а муниципалы. ... Килограмм вещества, изъятого в доме, взрывотехники вывезли на свой полигон, расположенный в семи километрах от города. Там они попытались подорвать его с помощью детонатора, также изготовленного из охотничьего патрона, но взрыва не произошло.

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Your Russiphobic secondary sources, obviously, are lying. Surprised? Why do you think Edward Lukas is commonly recognized as a Russophobe? Do you think it's because he helds an unfavourable but plausible view of Russia? Like hell, not. He is a Russophobe, because he lies, like you could see right now.

And IMHO, you should acknowledge to yourself, that you took the side which lied. Providing false evidence is one of the mortal sins. Consider that if you are a believer. ellol (talk) 20:36, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

You quoted a publication in Russian newspaper immediately after the bombings. It tells that testing of the substance was conducted by the local police rather than by the FSB. It does not look like a serious contradiction. Regardless, calling a reputable journalist Edward Lucas a "Russophobe" and a lier is hardly an appropriate argument.Biophys (talk) 20:58, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

1) It tells that testing was conducted by a municipal service -- one which is ran by a city. Looks like several miners/ explosive experts employed by the city?

2) It tells that 1-kg sample of the substance was detonated with a hunting cartrige like the one found in the sacks, and no explosion occurred.

Please, do not mistake cause and effect. Cause is that secondary source (a book by Lucas) contradicts the primary source (Kommersant). This is the argument why we cast serious doubt on the secondary source by Lucas, why we can't use it. The effect is that Lucas is a Russophobe and a liar.

Okey -- how many lies do you usually have to count to call a person a liar? The single one can be always ascribed to a terrible mistake, whatever. For me, the approppriate count is 3. If a person lies in 3 different places, it's enough for me to call him a liar. Would you like me to show you two more lies in a book by Lukas ? This would have no effect on Misplaced Pages, just I want to show you who are you dealing with. ellol (talk) 08:18, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Re to Biophys. Your point of view can be described as radical. However, my compromise version of the introduction fully reviews the point of view that you support, while viewing it only as one of possible viewpoints. It's more support than you would get while working with almost every Misplaced Pages editor. You are extremely lucky that you have me as an opponent.

Contrary to what you are saying, in virtually all reverts you attempted to remove evidence that the fake explosives found in the Ryazan incident did not explode at firing tests, what seriously compromises the conspiracy theory.

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Ellol Kommersant was owned by Berezovsky in 1999 who at that time was close to Vladimir Putin so I doubt how reliable your 'primary source' really is.

As for the discussion page, I agree with neither your nor Biophys' viewpoint on the bombings. One thing I do know and that's that alleged FSB involvement in these bombings have been mentioned by hundreds of books, academic publications and the highest quality newspapers worldwide. The newspapers always show both views and never draw their own conclusions and that's what the article should look like too. Therefore both views should be presented and the reader should be the one to draw their own conclusions. I see neither you or Biophys trying to do that. Biophys was wrong with trying to present the FSB involvement as a 'majority view' and what I've seen you do is attempting to riducule the view of FSB involvement, for example by constantly referring to it as merely a conspiracy theory both on talk and the article page itself. I don't want to go through all the effort to find more disruptions as my hopes of that article ever becoming readable are slim. Grey Fox (talk) 10:39, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Then try to fix this article yourself (I am going to run away). But you have already tried and could not. And that was not because of me.Biophys (talk) 16:03, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

No and that wasn't my point. Grey Fox (talk) 16:29, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Grey Fox, you assume that a newspaper owned by a person translates the point of view indicted by its owner. That's a terrible mistake in your logics, which renders all of your viewpoint senseless.

However, you drastically misunderstood my point of view. Imho, the issue of apartment bombings is highly important. That's why I have always spoken so and continue to: folks, please, add more of the factual information which would prove or disprove the conspiracy theory. I have said it like five times already to Biophys which can be tracked on talk pages. I think, this proves that I have no particular interest in this topic. ellol (talk) 19:01, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I just wanted to point out that you have a different concept of what an "independent newspaper" means. Perhaps it has a different meaning in Russia. Anyway the issues raised at this arbcom about this article are mostly content related and not disruption, that's what I tried to say. If there was edit warring it was from both sides, but since it was accomponied by a lot of discussion maybe it wasn't. Grey Fox (talk) 00:28, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Okey. Just to note, that I have no different notion of "independent media". Technically I see no difference between a media outlet owned by Berezovsky and a media outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch. If private ownership of media is the way media operate nowadays, that's not the problem of Russia. Surely, there are the media like BBC which is technically owned by the whole society of the U.K., but that's more an exception, rather than a rule. ellol (talk) 15:53, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

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Allegations of Putin being a paedophile

On 6 November 2008, I came across Alexander Litvinenko, at which stage it included a section entitled Accusing Putin of paedophilia. At that stage the section read:

In July 2006 Litvinenko accused Putin of being a paedophile. He compared Putin to rapist and serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. He wrote that among people who knew about Putin's paedophilia were Anatoly Trofimov, assassinated in 2005, and the editor of the Russian newspaper "Top Secret", Artyom Borovik, who died in what he called a "mysterious" aeroplane crash a week after trying to publish a paper about this subject,. His allegations came after Putin had kissed a little boy on his belly while stopping to chat with some tourists during a walk in the Kremlin grounds. Putin commented: "I tell you honestly, I just wanted to stroke him like a kitten and it came out in this gesture. There is nothing behind it."

It was sourced to - both articles written by Litvinenko, and published on the website of a Chechen politician in exiled in the United Kingdom, and a notable opponent of Putin, with ties to Boris Berezovsky, another noted opponent to Putin. Due to poor sourcing, and the inflammatory nature of the accusations (which are almost presented as fact ), I removed the entire section and noted in the edit summary "removing section that is in its current state a WP:BLP violation - this section requires very specific, totally neutral wording before it can be included."

I then started a discussion on the talk page (entire section here) and noted it was a BLP violation, noted Arbcom decisions on such issues, and pointed to a thread I started on the BLP noticeboard. Some discussion (and misunderstanding of the BLP policy) takes place on the article talk page (refer entire section link just above). There is zero input from uninvolved editors on the BLP noticeboard. Biophys argues for the inclusion of the claim (note edit summary), as does Grey-Fox. Biophys then reincludes the claim in its BLP state. I remove it again. Discussion continues on talk page.

After some work, I post a neutrally, reworded and expanded version to the article talk page, the version of which reads:

In an article written by Litvinenko in July 2006, and published online on Zakayev's Chechenpress website, he claimed that Vladimir Putin is a paedophile, and compared Putin to Andrei Chikatilo. Litvinenko also claimed that Anatoly Trofimov and Artyom Borovik knew of the alleged paedophilia. The claims have been called "wild", and "sensational and unsubstantiated" in the British media. A report by the Conflict Studies Research Centre of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, in which the author states that Litvinenko was a "one-man disinformation bureau", suggests the claim was made with "no evidence to support" it, and further stated that this claim, and Litvinenko's claim that the FSB was behind the Beslan school hostage crisis, was accepted without challenge by the British media. Litvinenko made the allegation after Putin kissed a boy on his belly whilst stopping to chat with some tourists during a walk in the Kremlin grounds on 28 June 2006. The incident was recalled in a webcast organised by the BBC and Yandex, in which over 11,000 people asked Putin to explain the act, to which he responded, "He seemed very independent and serious... I wanted to cuddle him like a kitten and it came out in this gesture. He seemed so nice...There is nothing behind it." It has been suggested that the incident was a "clumsy attempt" to soften Putin's image in the lead-up the 32nd G8 Summit which was held in Saint Petersburg in July 2006.

As one can see, it is neutrally worded, and it involves other information which counters the claims, and it doesn't paint one side over the other. To this end, I posted on Ezhiki's talk page asking for his opinion, and for his possible help in explaining core policies, as it is obvious they were either not understood or were being ignored (WP:BLP for one). He agreed with my points on the article talk page. Some discussion, mainly between myself and Grey-Fox, takes place. Biophys then states that he checked a book (Death of a Dissident, written by Litvinenko's wife and a Berezovsky associate, so hardly authoritative) and there is nothing in it, so it should be removed (note also the other text Biophys removes in this edit). (Of course, it has nothing to do with the fact it includes criticism of those claims.) Biophys then removes the entire section from the article claiming some sort of consensus to do so. If one reads the talk page discussion in their entireity, one can see that both Biophys and Grey-Fox wanted the accusation in the article (see just above), but as soon as it includes information he doesn't like, it has to be removed, and it would appear Biophys simply wants the article to be a WP version of Death of a Dissident. It is obvious gaming of the system on his part. I revert his deletion.

Biophys then introduces into the article, what he calls in the edit summary "a shorter version instead (undue wieght)". This shorter section read:

In July 2006 Litvinenko accused Putin of being a paedophile. He compared Putin to rapist and serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. He wrote that among people who knew about Putin's paedophilia were Anatoly Trofimov, assassinated in 2005, and the editor of the Russian newspaper "Top Secret", Artyom Borovik, who died in what he called a "mysterious" aeroplane crash a week after trying to publish a paper about this subject,. His allegations came after Putin had kissed a little boy on his belly while stopping to chat with some tourists during a walk in the Kremlin grounds. The incident was recalled in a webcast organised by the BBC and Yandex, in which over 11,000 people asked Putin to explain the act, to which he responded, "He seemed very independent and serious... I wanted to cuddle him like a kitten and it came out in this gesture. He seemed so nice...There is nothing behind it."

Note that it is essentially the same BLP violation that I initially removed, and it has omitted anything to do with the claims being called "wild", "unsubstantiated" and "sensational", and also omits information which notes Litvinenko's history of making such "wild", "unsubstantiated" and "sensational" claims. When Biophys does such things, he refers to them as "compromise" versions - anyone editing in this area, that his compromise versions usually involve the massive deletion of information he doesn't like.

Other issues relating to this information was also brought up at Misplaced Pages:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_23#Is_the_Conflict_Studies_Research_Centre_of_the_Defence_Academy_of_the_United_Kingdom_a_reliable_source.3F - this due to both editors suggesting that a scholarly report is an WP:OPED. Fortunately, this request for input did receive some input.

Whilst this was going on, I was reported for breaking 3RR on the article, and raised issues of WP:BLP which were not taken into consideration, nor investigated. I got blocked for WP:3RR. And I stand by my comment there, that so long as BLP violations are taking place, I will remove them. And yes, I did post at Lokshin's talk page, and got no response nor input from him. There was no response from anyone in any regards to what was a BLP violation, so much so, that I posted on Jimbo's talk page, because it is in my mind unacceptable for issues such as BLP to be raised, and for them to be completely ignored when raised in all the right places. --Russavia 22:17, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

On a related, and somewhat humourous (considering) note, I was preparing this information at User:Russavia/Disinformation for placement here. As I was completing my second edit, the page was deleted under G10 because it was written as a fact that Putin is a paedophile. Much the same as Biophys' assertion that accusations are probably true, and the assertion as it was originally written in the article originally before I amended it. --Russavia 22:43, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

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The above by myself presents a true and accurate reflection of that entire sordid episode. It is necessary to present the entire episode as has been done, because the selective diffs presented by Biophys do not present the reality as it happened, and has happened. Additionally, as a result of this, and other analysis, I will be presenting a couple of proposed findings of fact. But perhaps discussion is needed here. It is clearly obvious to me that Biophys was happy for the inclusion of the accusations so long as there was no counter information, but as soon as that critical information appeared in the article, it had to be removed. This is in essence WP:NOTADVOCATE, and is something that myself and others have said about Biophys for the longest time. Further analysis of other evidence presented will only reinforce that opinion. There is also the issue of whether Biophys understand policy, or ignores policy. I presume he simply ignores policy. Imagine if this episode had occurred on an article in reference to one of the more litigious members of the anti-WP brigade...I don't need to mention any names, the arbiters will surely know some of those prime examples. Furthermore, it absolutely disgusts me that to this day, not a single admin, with the exception of User:Ezhiki (he needs to be commended), has bothered to get off their arse and investigate this properly. --Russavia 23:21, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I said (see above) the following. No, it was me who removed this defamatory claim from the article on the request by Russavia , and it was Russavia who repeatedly reinserted it back: , , (this is his final revert made on 03:07, 13 November 2008 ). He did this to support his false claims about BLP violations (see above and here: , ). Russavia was so obsessed that he repeatedly reverted me in this article, even with "in use" template (see his edit summary: he indeed effectively "blocked" me by starting this arbitration case, and then reverted this article to his version). And he refused to respect the "in use" template when I asked him: .

This is all correct and fully supported by diffs. This is our complete discussion: . At the very beginning, Russavia asked this information to be completely removed. I initially objected telling that it was notable and sourced to BBC and other press reports. But after looking in several books, I found nothing and decided that Russavia could be right, and it might be safer to remove the claim . But Russavia restored the claim (see my diffs above) and demanded it to be included. Fine, I agreed with Russavia again and asked him to leave me alone , especially since he reverted my edits anyway . But Russavia used this discussion to report me in a very negative light to Kirill and Jimbo. This is defamation, plain and simple. That is why I do not want to be here.Biophys (talk) 23:23, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

It also needs to be mentioned here, because it goes to the crux of the issue in this respect. When I was blocked for 3RR on the Litvinenko article, User_talk:Russavia/Archive_6#Regarding_reversions.5B3.5D_made_on_13_November_2008_to_Alexander_Litvinenko was posted on my talk page. (Read the entire thread thanks). User_talk:Russavia/Archive_6#Courtesy_notice is also posted. This refers to User_talk:Tiptoety/Archive_19#Inappropriate_use_of_account.3F where Biophys has used the opportunity to launch into claims that I am a sock/meatpuppet immediately after I am blocked -- that was covered at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern_European_mailing_list/Evidence/Russavia#Persistent_sock.2Fmeat_puppet_accusations. --Russavia 14:16, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, you disputed your block (two first links). Yes, you frequently edited 18 to 24 hours non-stop from the same account (your 3rd link: ). Yes, a checkuser concluded that all your "editing is done from one computer" although he can not "absolutely rule out the idea that there are two people in the same building using the same machine"(your last link ). But how this is relevant to the claim about Putin by Litvinenko? Biophys (talk) 19:12, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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The story told by Russavia proves again that Biophys is not a reliable contributor. He can remove some bit of reliably sourced evidence that dramatically changes the whole picture, like a brick in the foundation of a tower (in this case, it's that claims of Putin being a paedophile were called "wild", "unsubstantiated" and "sensational" in British media).

Biophys is not a vandal, any way, but a person with a strong and persistent POV. He can contribute a lot of good text. But you can't ever be sure if some important brick was not tossed away. That's a pain. ellol (talk) 20:22, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

What are you talking about? The only significant difference between two versions was essentially this phrase: "A report by the Conflict Studies Research Centre of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, in which the author states that Litvinenko was a one-man disinformation bureau, suggests the claim was made with no evidence to support it, and further stated that this claim, and Litvinenko's claim that the FSB was behind the Beslan school hostage crisis, was accepted without challenge by the British media.". But source tells nothing about the pedophilia claim. Regardless, that was an ordinary content dispute. But Russavia created a battle from nothing by complaining to Jimbo, Kirill and numerous noticeboards.Biophys (talk) 22:09, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, too often your edits are prone to cause content disputes, and instead of admitting your faults you prefer to claim innocence. Like in the case of Litvinenko's allegation, it's true that the British Newspaper Guardian has written about Litvinenko :

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Many of his 'political' texts were too obviously rants to take seriously: one of his wildest claims was that Putin was a paedophile.

”

I followed some links in Russavia's story and think his report is correct. ellol (talk) 07:46, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

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Alexander Litvinenko (other issues)

Biophys has continued to supply disinformation into evidence. He refer to this edit as my enforcing my version of the article. This is a fallacy and disinformation, and Biophys would be well advised to explain the whole episode. He hasn't done so, so I will do this.

In April 2009, I posted a long list of problems with the Alexander Litvinenko article at the talk page. This includes too many problems to list here, so I suggest people read what was wrong with it, but it includes WP:NPOV, WP:NOTADVOCATE, WP:COPYVIO, WP:LINKVIO, WP:V problems, external link problems, Biophys' ownership of the article, etc.

The full section is available at Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#Comparing_of_articles. This came about due to Biophys' continued removal of mass amounts of fully referenced materials that he didn't like to see in the article.. Read the talk page section in its entireity please, because it is evident what Biophys was doing on this article, and as usual, he normally uses a year old version of the article which was explained at Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#Biophys.27_continuating_revertion_of_article.

Completely ignoring the problems on his talk page, Biophys introduces his infamous compromise version. Biophys' compromise versions are a running joke - they always include the mass deletion of material he doesn't like, and nromally includes the reverting to a very old version which omits other's improvements to the article. I revert this, due to the massive problems as explained on the talk page. A month later he introduces yet another compromise version, which again includes the massive deletion of materials he doesn't like and is basically the first compromise version. I revert this and note his compromise version. Two months later Biophys does the same thing. A month later, he does the same thing again, and tries to attribute it to me.

As I was topic banned I was unable to take part at Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#In_search_of_compromise, but let's analyse this, and let's use the version Biophys attributes to me to see how Biophys has big problems with his disinformation presented here into evidence.

Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#Early_life_and_Career_in_Soviet_Union - Biophys version separates both sections
Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#Career_in_Russia_and_Dissidence - Biophys ignores the problems of Dissidence with
Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#Work_for_Berezovsky_during_his_FSB_career - This sourced information is removed by Biophys , as it has been done on all previous occasions.
Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#Dismissal_vs_Persecution - Biophys agrees, but ignores it in his revert
Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#Detail_of_the_flight - Biophys agrees, and then ignores everything written there.http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Alexander_Litvinenko&oldid=321133573#Flight] Note the existence of the {{when}} template in Biophys' version, which was previously sourced

and on it goes. Biophys has clearly ignored consensus on the talk page, and in many parts ignored consensus he agreed to.

My edit to the article after the expiration of my topic ban, reintroduces materials into the article that Biophys has wilfully and knowingly removed. I also went thru the article and re-included information which may have been removed in my re-introduction. I also posted at the talk page Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko#Changes_made_to_article explaining this edit. No response has been received by Biophys. Perhaps he will now take the opportunity to explain his actions on this article here at this Arbitration, and in doing so, not engage in disinformation, and also explain why he completely ignored Talk:Alexander_Litvinenko/Archive_3#Comparing_of_articles with his so-called compromise versions. --Russavia 12:10, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

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This to my mind reflects a true picture of events on this article, and demonstrate that Biophys has violated so many core policies that it isn't funny. The violations include WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:NOTADVOCATE, WP:EL, WP:LINKVIO/WP:COPYVIO, WP:OWN, etc. --Russavia 12:10, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

- Last version of the article (prior to your recent edits) came as a result of consensus of several users, one of whom was Alex_Bakharev . He is not on my side, he is a highly experienced editor, and he is familiar with the subject. For example, he admitted that your claim about copyright violations was wrong , although you claimed this on numerous occasions. Same with your other accusations. But we should not discuss content issues here.Biophys (talk) 01:11, 10 May 2010 (UTC)