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:::::::Sorry, these q's appear too fast to keep up. Tried re names and got an 'edit-clash', and lost the reply. The name, actual, was an attempt at being personal and constructive, acknowledging edits in spite of power-outage changed IP. As I'm not sufficiently familiar with the arcania of WP-rules, and not really interested in time-consuming learning to master it and the intricacies of wp-bickering, I'm outta here. No block evasion, though - rather the contrary by acknowledging by real name. Tnx for the discussion, it's been interesting. Now to real-world issues :-). Good luck to you all, and tnx for replies. * And 'edit-conflict' happened again (!). I'm deluged, sorry. ] (]) 22:12, 7 February 2015 (UTC) | :::::::Sorry, these q's appear too fast to keep up. Tried re names and got an 'edit-clash', and lost the reply. The name, actual, was an attempt at being personal and constructive, acknowledging edits in spite of power-outage changed IP. As I'm not sufficiently familiar with the arcania of WP-rules, and not really interested in time-consuming learning to master it and the intricacies of wp-bickering, I'm outta here. No block evasion, though - rather the contrary by acknowledging by real name. Tnx for the discussion, it's been interesting. Now to real-world issues :-). Good luck to you all, and tnx for replies. * And 'edit-conflict' happened again (!). I'm deluged, sorry. ] (]) 22:12, 7 February 2015 (UTC) | ||
::::::::No real need for an answer from you, those IPs are obviously all you. And calling a person you don't know by a diminutive version of their name is insulting, which I would guess (from the content of those "constructive" messages) was your intent. You were annoyed that your unsourced, OR, or poorly sourced BLP edits were being deleted, and you lashed out at one of the editors doing it -- but the very fact that multiple editors have removed your contributions from verious articles means that you're not getting it. ] (]) 22:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC) | ::::::::No real need for an answer from you, those IPs are obviously all you. And calling a person you don't know by a diminutive version of their name is insulting, which I would guess (from the content of those "constructive" messages) was your intent. You were annoyed that your unsourced, OR, or poorly sourced BLP edits were being deleted, and you lashed out at one of the editors doing it -- but the very fact that multiple editors have removed your contributions from verious articles means that you're not getting it. ] (]) 22:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC) | ||
::::::::: 'Edit conflict' happened again. * Your claims and accusations are entirely subjective. E.g. abbreviating a long name according to convention, with first syllable + "y", is no insult. In addition, disparaging my clarification as "no need for an answer" is in itself a condescending attempt at insult - so you're overreacting and being unfactual. I repeat, my edits were/are all about including correct info on WP. E.g. why is the statement "Bootlegs exist" re Fogerty's "Hoodoo" unacceptable to you, when they most certainly do, as amply demonstrated on Youtube? - That's a fact just silly to delete. In spite of whatever pretext of sourcing-faults applied. Let it rest. Or btr yet, improve the ref.s yrself, accomplished WP-editor that you appear to be. (Unless, of course, you have some ulteriour motive for deleting verifyable facts - like not liking that smbd tried to keep those facts on WP. But that wouldn't be the case w you, would it? - Sure hope not). Still trying to get out of here, w/o too many misconstructions left standing.] (]) 23:27, 7 February 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::::::: I was trying to remember where I had heard an editor call ] "Binky" before and it was in the course of the hubbub prior to ] with one editor receiving an indefinite block and several others receiving topic blocks. I don't if there is any connection but since Binksternet has stated he doesn't like that nickname, I thought it was curious to see it again. <font face="Rage Italic" size="4" color="#800080">]</font> <sup><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006400">] ]</font></sup> 23:01, 7 February 2015 (UTC) | ::::::::: I was trying to remember where I had heard an editor call ] "Binky" before and it was in the course of the hubbub prior to ] with one editor receiving an indefinite block and several others receiving topic blocks. I don't if there is any connection but since Binksternet has stated he doesn't like that nickname, I thought it was curious to see it again. <font face="Rage Italic" size="4" color="#800080">]</font> <sup><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006400">] ]</font></sup> 23:01, 7 February 2015 (UTC) | ||
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Conduct of J Doug McLean
Closure is easily attained: there is nothing here for an admin to do. I have looked at a number of diffs and find that none of them cross any kind of civility boundary. The discussion may well be interminable, and while there may be a few avenues to resolve that (RfC, dispute resolution, etc.), ANI is not one of them. If anything, this appears to be a content issue which needs to be handled by content editors, and a pointed RfC, or a series of them, may well be the only way forward--RfCs are typically set up for a limited time frame, and if discussions get out of hand an admin could step in and hat excessive content, judge insults, etc. Good luck to you all. Drmies (talk) 23:16, 7 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
This user is a published author, who has made some valuable contributions at Talk:lift (force). However, I am concerned about his conduct towards myself and others.
I joined the discussion last August, partly because of this comment, arguing from authority against other authors and implying they were not "aware of these pressure forces". This was refuted by evidence from the sources. Since then, I have seen an ongoing pattern of incivility towards anyone who disagrees with him. To highlight just a few examples:
8 October 2014: Claim that different numerical results are, "comparing what different sources say about precisely the same question".
13 November 2014: Dismissal of reasoned review of evidence as 'intuition', 'speculation', and 'protestation' (previously brought to ANI).
5 December 2014: Claim that source "supports what I've been arguing all along." (Refuted.)
11 January 2015: Refusal to listen to another user, "at this point yours would seem to be a minority view. Does anyone else oppose my adding this new subsection?"
Finally, I asked for specific evidence of verifiability for one of his claims and was not satisfied with his response. He has already been asked publicly and personally to refer to WP:VERIFICATION. He proposes insertion of a footnote that looks to me like WP:OR, but he only seems to refer to policy when it supports his argument.
I've had enough of arguing with him. Please evaluate his conduct and take any steps necessary to protect the community. Burninthruthesky (talk) 13:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
- Doug McLean is a cited author in the article. In his published works he also criticises a standard introductory approach to the subject, and for many months now has been trying to push his minority PoV on the article. He has a clear conflict of interest, and to his credit has avoided editing himself but has confined himself to the talk page. However the discussions became interminable and sometimes less than gentlemanly, and I joined the debate to help manage them. That succeeded partially, though they now fill at least two archives,7 and 8, as well as the current talk page. Despite a strong warning there, and again on their talk page, the excessive pedantry still trickles on. I should like to propose a voluntary topic ban for say six months, both to give us all a breather and to give Doug a chance to learn more constructive approaches to editing Misplaced Pages. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
- Support. I certainly need a break from this endless conflict. It would be much easier for me just to remove the article from my watchlist, but I don't think that's the right thing to do. Burninthruthesky (talk) 07:57, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
I participated in the discussion in question, often re-reading Doug McLean's and others' comments several times in order to better understand them, so I am quite familiar with the issue. There were/are disagreements among the editors including myself. In my view, at the times when the discussion began to border on incivility it was not Doug McLean who was being uncivil. While the administrators are welcome to wade through the walls of text on the Talk page, I don't think there's anything actionable there at least as far as Doug McLean's behavior. And I don't think bringing this up in AN/I is conducive towards building consensus. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 12:48, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
- Mr. Swordfish, after some pause for thought, I can perhaps understand why you don't see it. Doug is very knowledgeable, eloquent and persuasive. He would never sink to the level of calling someone a "dilettante" (as someone else did). But no amount of careful wording can hide the underlying message, "you're wrong" that has been consistently levelled against others, regardless of what the evidence says. No doubt some of the mistakes that have been alleged were in fact wrong. We all make mistakes. I know I've made some, and I've corrected myself where I can. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as we're willing to learn.
- You were rightly offended by the other incident, and chose to report it, as you are entitled. Personally I found that event far less distressing than the remainder of the last six months. Perhaps this helps you understand how I feel about this situation. If you do have any unresolved concerns about another editor's conduct, you should raise it with them, with evidence, in the appropriate place. If you have unresolved content issues, they should of course be raised on the article talk page. Burninthruthesky (talk) 20:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC); edited 22:12, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
- As a participant in one of the most recent discussions, I have found Doug a bit verbose and maybe hard to get on the same page with, but definitely nothing actionable at AN/I. Sometimes debates go over-long. I think things have mostly been handled in a responsible way. That said, I haven't been over to that page in the last few months - I'll look at where things have gone since then and comment again if possible. That said, it's not at all unreasonable for people with a disagreement to be negative about one anothers' positions. Obviously he thinks we're wrong; we think he's wrong! I kinda wonder if any remaining content disputes might actually be best resolved with a conference call between the primaries or something, if that's feasible. 0x0077BE 15:20, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- @0x0077BE: I can't agree that things were handled in a responsible way. To give a relevant example, at one point we were asked, "If 0x0077BE and Burninthruthesky think The Statement is true for some control volume other than the infinitely tall sliver, they need to tell us specifically what control volume that is and provide citable sources for their assertion."
- As a participant in one of the most recent discussions, I have found Doug a bit verbose and maybe hard to get on the same page with, but definitely nothing actionable at AN/I. Sometimes debates go over-long. I think things have mostly been handled in a responsible way. That said, I haven't been over to that page in the last few months - I'll look at where things have gone since then and comment again if possible. That said, it's not at all unreasonable for people with a disagreement to be negative about one anothers' positions. Obviously he thinks we're wrong; we think he's wrong! I kinda wonder if any remaining content disputes might actually be best resolved with a conference call between the primaries or something, if that's feasible. 0x0077BE 15:20, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think I made any such assertion (see my link to "evidence" above). Did you? Burninthruthesky (talk) 10:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
- Time to make a decision and close this now
Another editor is attempting to restart the endless discussion, see diff. please can somebody at least give us some closure here? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 12:04, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
For reference, the conduct of that IP user was previously reported here. Still today, he continues to make groundless allegations that I'm both biased and wanting to impose my understanding of the topic on society. WP:DENY may be applicable in that case.
- For this issue, shall we assume consensus for the suggested voluntary ban unless we hear otherwise? Burninthruthesky (talk) 17:48, 6 February 2015 (UTC); edited 22:04, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I think that would be discourteous if not invidious. Doug McLean has not been back since I posted this incident, effectively operating the voluntary ban himself for now. I think he deserves closure on our allegations as much as we do. The IP editor is a different problem and (as you may have noticed) I am still trying a less formal approach with them. It is not helpful to have both issues hanging over the same discussion at the same time. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 20:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry for misreading the intent of the diff being linked above. I was trying to highlight the fact there are unrelated conduct issues there. I have struck my paragraph which is, of course, irrelevant here.
- I think that would be discourteous if not invidious. Doug McLean has not been back since I posted this incident, effectively operating the voluntary ban himself for now. I think he deserves closure on our allegations as much as we do. The IP editor is a different problem and (as you may have noticed) I am still trying a less formal approach with them. It is not helpful to have both issues hanging over the same discussion at the same time. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 20:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I agree it would be better for all concerned to have closure on this. Burninthruthesky (talk) 22:04, 6 February 2015 (UTC); edited 08:24, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Malik-Shah I
Qara xan keeps removing sourced information! it is really getting annoying now and i am surprised that no one have seen it yet. In the Malik-Shah I article, he keeps removing the Seljuq statesman Nizam al-Mulk out of mention during the campaign of the Seljuq ruler Alp Arslan in Caucasus in 1064, when the source I added clearly says that he took part in the campaign;
Alp Arslān was quick to resume his military activity. In Rabīʿ I, 456/February-March, 1064, he undertook a campaign in the northwest which resulted in significant gains at the expense of Byzantine Armenia; Neẓām-al-molk and the sultan’s son, Malekšāh, operated separately during part of the campaign, each taking a string of fortresses. They rejoined the sultan to take Sepīd Šahr and Ānī.
And when Qara xan runs out of words, he suddenly keeps accusing me of being uncivil (or ignores me and continues his reverting). I seriously don't know what to do anymore. I have created over 320 articles and expanded even many more, and tried to expand the Malik-Shah I article too, but sadly he is stopping my progress. By the way, I have notified him about this. --HistoryofIran (talk) 16:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- At best this is a content dispute as it doesnt appear to be vandalism. No eidts have been carried out in the alst week so this also is quite stale. Best option would be to take it to the talk page to discuss or seek dispute resolution. Amortias (T)(C) 18:24, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, Amortias. That user HistoryofIran is a liar. Just take a look on Talk:Malik-Shah I. --Qara khan 19:59, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Take it to the talk page? I have already done that, and as i said, when Qara xan runs out of words, he suddenly keeps accusing me of being uncivil, or ignores me and continues his reverting. So I don't think that would work. A admin told me this would be the best place to fix this problem. --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:05, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- @HistoryofIran: Actually, a lot of your comments can be taken as uncivil. For example:
if you randomly accuse me of vandalism (you probably don't even know its meaning)
— User:HistoryofIran
Take a look on Al-Mu'tadid FOR EXAMPLE (writing it with caps lock so you actually read the word properly).
— User:HistoryofIran
Or maybe because you speak a very broken and confusing form of English.
— User:HistoryofIran
I don't know the Misplaced Pages rules well? that is coming from you? don't make me laugh.
— User:HistoryofIran
didn't i already tell you that i had to convert it? is your English that bad? if so, then please leave the English Misplaced Pages, because you are making it hard for everyone here when you simply revert stuff and then don't understand a word of what others say.
— User:HistoryofIran
- I've bolded all the statements I consider offensive, and this is only from one of your discussions.... -- Orduin 20:49, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but how is it uncivil when I tell him his English makes it harder for himself and me to fix the problem? seriously, you should read some of the stuff he writes and how he responds. About the caps lock thing, there are actually many times where he doesn't really want to properly read what I write (which can be quite irritating when I am trying to solve a dispute and he does such things like that, like he didn't even care). Yes, he don't know the meaning of the word "vandalism", or else he wouldn't randomly accuse of me being one in order to avoid discussing with me. About the Misplaced Pages rules, there are actually many cases where he breaks the rules, yet tells me and other users to learn about them, which is quite irritating and I am not the only person he has done that to. I think the problem is that the way I write can be easily misunderstood. Of course, I never mean to be rude or something like that. If it is really that easily misunderstood-able, I will write in a different way. But even if wrote in a different way I would probably still randomly accused of being uncivil, as it is not the first time Qara xan have done that and I am not the only one he has done that to (here is a example ). Anyway, now with that problem hopefully fixed, can we get back to the main subject? --HistoryofIran (talk) 21:20, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but will this issue be taking up? --HistoryofIran (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Anyone? i thought this was where you could fix such issues? --HistoryofIran (talk) 13:08, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
- N Stale: It seems that everyone is ignoring this as a 'simple' content dispute. -- Orduin 23:03, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't get it, what should I do then? --HistoryofIran (talk) 21:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- @HistoryofIran: if you think the issue is still outgoing, then you should probably open an RFC on an affected talk page. -- Orduin 18:19, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Chaheel Riens (that's me) and Ghmyrtle being accused of both being the same user - sockpuppets.
There was a bit of an editing brouhaha over at Casual (subculture), and an IP editor seems to have now registered under the name of Richie bedfellows.
During the exchange he has accused GhMyrtle and myself of being the same editor twice in different edits.
I objected to this each time and gave him the chance to redact - his response is here, however, he invites me to not "be waiting around for the weekend to finish, my friend" - so I'm not. Both involved editors informed. Chaheel Riens (talk) 21:07, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Richie bedfellows:
I have plenty of legitimate reasons for suspicion.
Please do share these reasons, as accusations of sockpuppetry are serious, and not showing any kind of support behind them is concidered harassment, and can get you blocked. Don't be quick to assume that someone is a sockpuppet. Please take care. -- Orduin 22:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)- He's posted provocatively on my talk page again, exactly one minute after doing so on his own page - inviting @Orduin: to message him, whereupon he will reveal his suspicions. I've replied, asking him to post here instead. His reply seems to suggest that he thinks Orduin is watching his talkpage (which may be the case - but also may not). Chaheel Riens (talk) 09:44, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
- Looking deeper, it seems that Richie and the IP editor are not the same - Richie was just duplicating the errors made by said IP editor, so I've struck that particular comment. Chaheel Riens (talk) 10:29, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
- He's posted provocatively on my talk page again, exactly one minute after doing so on his own page - inviting @Orduin: to message him, whereupon he will reveal his suspicions. I've replied, asking him to post here instead. His reply seems to suggest that he thinks Orduin is watching his talkpage (which may be the case - but also may not). Chaheel Riens (talk) 09:44, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
This is getting to me, as the user has yet to supply us with his evidence, and seems to be putting this on hold. -- Orduin 20:14, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
- Personal attacks too - inviting me (twice) to stick my head up my arse. Chaheel Riens (talk) 14:00, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hmm, that 'special' comment was added by an IP editor, but it could have been by the same person, but logged out. I removed the comment.
- It does not seem to fit in with the later comment added by Richie bedfellows. -- Orduin 18:05, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, given the latest posts on your talk page, the editor in question has pretty much confirmed that it is him editing while logged out. This also casts doubt on the previous IP edits to the Casuals page, which are not only similar in tone, but geolocate to the same region. That (somewhat ironically) suggests that Richie is in fact a long time sock puppet himself. Chaheel Riens (talk) 10:12, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Either he's stupid enough to do so. Or he did it accidentally. Whatever it is, you cannot know for sure without a CheckUser, so there's no point accusing. They might IPs in the same region but who's to say Richie's related. I'm just giving Richie the benefit of doubt. And tone's is something which only experts in linguistics can comprehend, definitely not us. The accusation was of course a grave offense. I believe his failure in providing evidence and not showing up here is of great concern. --Ankit Maity «T § C» 13:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Fair point - I was just drawing attention to the fact that the duck test - if applied - would be more likely to pass Richie and the IP addresses, than GHMyrtle and myself. Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:30, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Either he's stupid enough to do so. Or he did it accidentally. Whatever it is, you cannot know for sure without a CheckUser, so there's no point accusing. They might IPs in the same region but who's to say Richie's related. I'm just giving Richie the benefit of doubt. And tone's is something which only experts in linguistics can comprehend, definitely not us. The accusation was of course a grave offense. I believe his failure in providing evidence and not showing up here is of great concern. --Ankit Maity «T § C» 13:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, given the latest posts on your talk page, the editor in question has pretty much confirmed that it is him editing while logged out. This also casts doubt on the previous IP edits to the Casuals page, which are not only similar in tone, but geolocate to the same region. That (somewhat ironically) suggests that Richie is in fact a long time sock puppet himself. Chaheel Riens (talk) 10:12, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Transcluding the discussion on my page here. -- Orduin 21:57, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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Same pathHello O. Looks like we are tracking the same editor. Do you happen to know if a speedy should be used on this Template:Infobox Developer and if so which one? Thanks for your vigilance and cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 20:32, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
Alki DavidD'oh! I'd be happy to move it, but if you were doing it anyway.... Thank you so much for the alert! --Tenebrae (talk) 21:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
RE DharmendraThanks. Quis separabit? 21:36, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Dej LoafThanks for catching the vandalism that I missed on this. It's been hard to keep up with the frequent vandalism to this article today. I have asked for page protection, which I do infrequently, for this page because of the high level of vandalism by several IP users today. Donner60 (talk) 21:09, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
MyTuppenceSlight correction on your recent ANI closure. I am pretty sure MyTuppence was only blocked for 1 week. The sock account was indeffed. Thanks for taking care of the close. -Ad Orientem (talk) 19:23, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Yonassan GershomHello, I am currently using this IP address (it's a public computer). I was attempting to figure out how to propose for deletion the article Yonassan Gershom. The reason I was attempting to do so is because this page is written by the person of the article. It's a self-promotion biopic. Being from Minnesota, Mr.Gershom is not WP:Notable either nationally or regionally. In Minnesota, he is a local author and that's about as notable as he is. While the original AFD discussion added some thoughts about links to the Mineapolis Star Tribune - it was known to promote local books. If you asked soneome from Miami who Yonassan Gershom is they wouldn't be able to tell you. Even a simple google search produces limited results that appear to be self-promoted or discuss his books (of which have limited distribution). All respect to Mr. Gershom - he isn't wikipedia article worthy. Blanksamurai (talk) 20:07, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
Michelle Lombardo pageI have been trying to update the information on this page and you keep deleting it and putting the old information back up which is not accurate and true. Why do you keep doing it? and can you please stop. Michelle has not modeled since 2005, nor ihas she been with Next Model management then. Montana108 (talk) 21:05, 25 September 2015 (UTC) My UserpageThank you for keeping my userpage clean of vandalism. I may not contribute stuff anymore, but your cleaning did not go unnoticed :) Lucky13pjn (talk) 22:35, 24 October 2015 (UTC) ArbCom elections are now open!Hi, Wikiclaus' cheer !
A barnstar for you!
Backtracking about what, exactly? You seem to be under some misapprehension here. As much as you would clearly love this to be something else, this has now become nothing more than a slightly inconvenient, mildly amusing sideshow to the real issue for me... Which is unreferenced, personal subjective opinion, purposely undermining long standing appropriately cited contributions. Given the behaviour from both user-pages and the pattern of events, I made the accusation(which i still stand by). I then told you to do your worst after you 'gave' me the weekend to think about it before issuing me with a 'warning'. Unfortunately, you then decided to undermine the whole 'procedure' when hijacking Orduin's talk page with the kind of bizarre, semi-relevant self posturing that only serves to turn the whole thing into an absurdity . Now, obviously seeing as I'm a big believer in 'if a big mouth has something to say, let them speak', I simply ran with it. I have no qualms about 'showing up here' and presenting my evidence. If, as I have stated already, the accusations turn out to be unsubstantiated, then i'll also have no qualms over retracting the accusation before appropriately editing the posts in question. I'll then (if allowed) get back to the real issue. Also, Just for clarification, i may well have responded to Gymrtle over this issue then logged out before noticing the edit, then reverted the page without logging back in. There was no malicious intention.,Richie bedfellows (talk) 09:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I haven't refused to to pre(s)ent anything of the sort. As i have already explained, Orduin gave me the choice of submitting the evidence either here or on on his talk page. You chose to hijack that page and i simply went along for the ride. Hi Orduin. here is the evidence as leading to my suspicions as requested. The following conversation took place between myself and Grmytle: https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Ghmyrtle#Casual_.28subculture.29_.E2.80.8E In between this conversation there were also intermittent contributions from Chaheel over on his talk page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Chaheel_Riens This conversation above also ran along side intermittent changes from Chaheel here. https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Casual_%28subculture%29&action=history This is presented this way because I am no longer able to access the 'highlighted comparison' changes. My suspicions were then felt to be unsubstantiated when Ghmrtle informed me he was now happy with the wording here: I wasn't "arguing a point about someone else not bothering to cite some dubious info". I was removing words which you added that made no sense. You've now come up with a better wording. Thank you. Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:05, 29 January 2015 (UTC) Then proceeded to argue Chaheel's subsequent change here: Your wording said, in effect, that something else happened before something that happened at the same time. It didn't make any sense at all. And, you ought to be aware that accusing two editors of being the same person is accusing them of sockpuppetry - which is a serious allegation. You might like to withdraw it. Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:39, 29 January 2015 (UTC)This seemed strange to me at the time simply because he had now started to argue previous points already covered with Chaeel's exact same points after telling me he was happy with the wording just moments before. I had no choice here but to highlight the whole conversation with Ghmyrtle simply because of the sheer amount of changes since the exchange and the highlighted changes from Chaheel are no longer obvious in their availability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richie bedfellows (talk • contribs) 15:41, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Block evasion by Claudia McHenry?Hello, I'm Claudia and i'm a user on Misplaced Pages, and was blocked out of nowhere by ponyo on some block evasion grounds. Several days ago, i forgot to log in to my account when i made an edit adding the birthday to the Christina Hoff-sommers page, and found that the IP address that my son usually edits from was blocked. It strikes me as strange that this block was put on the IP out of nowhere, so instead i have to edit from my appartment to ask the an/i to review the block on the IP address. I don't care about my account and there's no point blocking this IP as i'm moving march second to Vancouver. Please review the block on the address, or explain where the block evasion accusation originates. Was there a user formerly known as Claudia McHenry that was an unruly user years ago? Thanks. 209.202.4.50 (talk) 22:55, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Again, i'm sorry if i broke a rule by not logging in before editing that page. Serg, the guy who edits from the IP accoutn usually says his edits were undone or something like that. Also if i'm breaking a rule by posting here, i appolojize deeply. 209.202.4.50 (talk) 23:45, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
I travvle a wholel ot so if i seem to jump accross the map, it's because i attend different sociological events including talks, as well as i'm currently in the process of moving to Vancouver so i can get better care for my mesothelioma. So if people see me on bad Ip's, then you know why. I'll do my best to remember to log in from now on if that's the issue. 209.202.4.50 (talk) 00:02, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Ok, I’ll do that from now on, apologies I’m sure that ponyo’s a good person and I have nothing at all against them, nor do I wish to attack them in any way. I only want to know why they are charging me for a murder I did not commit.
I've attempted to contact Ponyo several times to ask him/her the reason for this block, and my post on his/her page gets promptly deleted and i get promptly blocked. I then sent an e-mail to their account using the e-mail this user function, no response, and it's been one week, which is plenty of time to get back to me. If something was truely wrong then i think Ponyo would have explained it or would be willing to explain it to me. Instead, i question, the question is deleted, i get blocked and have to go accross town to have any chance of defending myself, it's madness is what it is. I really hope Ponyo replies to this or is at least willing to leave a message on my account's talk page with an explanation, else i be unblocked or at least the 199 IP be unblocked. I'd highly recommend that if people suspect any bad activity that they first notify the user of this activity and how they came to that conclusion before they even think about blocking and speedy-deleting it. Even with 34 years of studying psychology and sociology behind me i still don't understand how this could be considered benefitial to Misplaced Pages in any way. Again, i don't think Ponyo's a bad person, i just want to know why he/she screams bloody murder when i did nothing wrong to my knowledge. I admitted my mistake to Ponyo and that should be enough. End with a "don't do i again please" then move on, not "block her," then move on and hope that this goes away. I came here with the intent to help Misplaced Pages, and help it i shall, I'd like to follow the rules while doing it and if problems arise, i want a chance to address them before any punishment of any kind is dished out. That's all i ask Ponyo, you're a good person, but you made a mistake. Sorry if i seem angry in this post, it isn't intended to be any form of attack, i'm just stating things from my point of view that's all. Good night, i have a long day tomorrow and won't be able to reply for a while after, i'm going to be away untill the 8th, so won't be able to reply back untill then. Thank you guies for your help. PS, don't edit when you're using a smaller touch screen and you have big hands, it's a nightmare to correct. Claudia 209.202.5.171 (talk) 06:07, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Sorry I haven’t been able to post, lately, I had a few meetings and I have to fly out again today. I don’t want to start a bunch of Drama; I want any drama over this to end. I’m only asking for a chance to be able to defend myself from these accusations here which quite frankly came out of nowhere and are unfounded. Even if you at least grant me talk-page access then I’ll at least be able to contest the claims made against me when I’m finished with my meetings. I don’t expect a full unblock in the near future if some crazy person is going around creating accounts and causing problems here and my account is linked to it, but I do expect to be able to defend myself. It certainly wouldn’t look good for Misplaced Pages if people can just be blocked because of secret/invisible and probably non-existent evidence that nobody has the right to know of for reasons and not be able to defend themselves from these accusations. Now if you guise don’t mind I have a 6:00 AM flight to Toronto to catch so I won’t be able to respond for a bit. Have a good day. 209.202.5.236 (talk) 11:07, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
@Ponyo:, first to decipher my argument. "I don't get how are we giving attention to Claudia." means that this isn't a thread for giving someone attention. "We've blocked the Tor network completely, not to mention random IP autoblocks here and there and ofc the most reputed proxies are blocked too." means that we've blocked most anonymizers of the internet. "Fine, but how about granting the IPBlockExempt right to Claudia and put her on some admin's to-do?" means that we give the IPBlockExempt explicitly to her and put her in some active admin's checklist, to verify that the edits are fine. "Is it that hard?" means exactly what it means. "Well, not possible? Need BASC approval? But then think of all that BASC drama (it clearly says ~6 weeks and we know it's never less that that)." means that even if BASC is the only way, it's also the last straw. Who would wait for 6 weeks to get unblocked? "In all that time, she might just edit through a VPN and that's that." is the display of human nature, that's it. By hook or by crook. "Yes, and ofc we still expect editor retention." means that this community expects its editors to stay after pasting 100s of boilerplates on their user talk pages and everyday is nothing but a new scene of a continuous drama. I have nothing more to say. I am placing my faith in Ponyo (talk · contribs) for now. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 14:54, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Topic-ban proposal for Robert Walker (2)Unfortunately, there is not enough consensus of any kind for the drastic measures that are proposed. Indeed, a one-way interaction ban isn't even an instrument, just a recipe for disaster. An interaction ban has barely any support, and a a topic ban, which appears to have most support, needs more than what is presented here.There does seem to be some evidence of harassment by Robert Walker, at least of inappropriate behavior. My suggestion to Robert Walker is to cut that out; my suggestion to other editors is to attempt and treat this, if it requires treatment, with the usual warnings, templated or not, and an appeal to an administrator for a block--if indeed this is required. I'm sorry: given the amount of words you all have invested I am sure you want more, but this is all I see a warrant for. Drmies (talk) 21:57, 7 February 2015 (UTC) The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
After a previous ANI-discussion, which ended stale-mate, Robert has continued his disruptive behaviour.
Enough is enough: I propose a topic-ban for Robert for Buddhism, Hinduism and India related articles. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 13:10, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Interaction banI found Robert Walker's entry into the WP:FTN thread whose closure he has requested be reviewed, in the middle of the thread. I concur with User:Joshua Jonathan and User:VictoriaGrayson that he has been stalking Joshua Jonathan's edits, since WP:FTN is not a place he had previously edited. Recommend a one-way interaction ban on interactions of Robert Walker with Joshua Jonathan. That is, Robert Walker may not respond to any posts by Joshua Jonathan. This may seem harsh, but following another editor is harsh. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:24, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Site banSince some respected administrators think that a one-way interaction ban is inherently unfair or unworkable, and since there is evidence that Robert Walker has been stalking the edits of User:Joshua Jonathan, I have to offer a second-choice greater remedy, and that is a site ban.
Reply to topic banI want to keep this short as I have warned in the past about length of my post. Do I get a chance to reply? If you are interested in my POV on this proposal, please see reply to the topic ban. (Here I am using the third of my Work arounds for lengthy talk page posts which I developed in response to the previous ANI action.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertinventor (talk • contribs) 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Requesting an Admin to assess and close the above discussionsRequesting an Admin to assess and close the above discussions.VictoriaGrayson 23:57, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Background informationFor the sake of the admin who will need to evaluate this case, I would like to clarify the sequence of events leading up to these latest accusations:
IMO Joshua Jonathan’s accusations are without merit. IMO Jonathan and (to a lesser extent) Victoria are basically trying to assert ownership over all of the Buddhist-related articles and assert their own POV. What RobertInventor and I are seeking through the DRN is to have experienced neutral editors review Joshua Jonathan’s edits to the articles mentioned above to determine if Joshua Jonathan’s edits are justified per Misplaced Pages guidelines. Regards, Dorje108 (talk) 21:25, 7 February 2015 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.User Is not aIs not a (talk · contribs)
Insinuates I’m associated with Larouche, making a personal attack and casting aspersions. Denies evidence of my association with Larouche, harps on about defamation, suggest blanking the page in his edit summary.
Fails to follow WP:CONSENSUS, WP:BRD and WP:PUBLICFIGURE
Ubikwit, alas, has had major problems in the past with edit war behaviour, and has been cited for such by ArbCom. On Neoconservatism he has 4 reverts in just over two days, in Robert Kagan he has 4 reverts in just over two days, and so on. Some of his edits on Kagan were clearly problematic in the past, was a revert to call Kagan "Jewish", etc. Cheers. Collect (talk) 21:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
breakAs an individual that has been associated with the "Israel lobby", it would seem that such categorization is merited, but two reverts have been made, with the reason given in edit summary, "request by article subject on talk page" and a link to blpcat. I don't know whether the assertion about the Talk page request is verified or not, or whether it matters, as it would seem that Kagan is a public figure.--User:Ubikwit (signing was on the original page) shows Ubikwit does regard the "Israel Lobby" as being important to Kagan. Note also that had been warned in the past about his positions and topic-banned from the Arab-Israeli conflict "broadly construed" primarly due to his battleground attitude. There is no doubt in my mind that labelling a person as "Jewish" in such a case while asserting they are part of the "Israel Lobby" might be deemed problematic. Cheers. Collect (talk) 12:23, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 14:02, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Which is a basically indecipherable passage, seeming to imply either that you agree that the source Is not a smeared as anit-semitic, or you assert, like Is not a, that I violated my topic ban. I don't see a third reading of your statement, so consider that you intended the later, based on an oversight, rather than the former, a more serious WP:PA. So I queried you about it, and your response was indeterminate. It seems that maybe you actually didn't read HJ Mitchell's comment, and upon recognizing that deny that you too asserted that I violated that topic. Otherwise, you have no grounds to comment on my editing what you refer to as "Jewish topics" on Misplaced Pages. Your POV in that regard is exceedingly narrow. You do not own those topics, and Jews do not own those topics. The other diffs I provided don't need further explanation.--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 23:24, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
The edit war continues on Robert Kagan... Ubikwit's edit here EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 23:10, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
@EvergreenFir: You should also take a look at this thread at RS/N. , and note that there has been absolutely no response to my post. --Ubikwit見学/迷惑 23:44, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
This whole thread turns out to be really about its original poster, User:Ubikwit. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Gamaliel and BinksternetI requested that Gamaliel ask for a review of his administrative actions here, on my talk page ( 10:26, 4 February 2015 (UTC)), to which he has failed to respond. Here, I request first that Gamaliel's unilateral IBAN be made a two-way ban or removed, not only for fairness but to avoid violations of WP:BLP and other policies, which have been addressed in my contributions to articles (, ) (Regardless, I request an immediate suspensions of Gamaliel's unilateral IBAN for only this ANI discussion. 10:29, 4 February 2015 (UTC)) Second, I am also confused that others have been discussing problems with the treatment of Judaism or Israel in related WP space without having been cautioned, where I was blocked in the middle of the night when I could not respond or alter any offending text. This does not seem to be consistent with blocking policy or fairness, particularly since I had indicated the lateness of the time (, responding to Gamaliel's ultimatum here, despite the time. 09:55, 4 February 2015 (UTC)) and there was no disruption being prevented by the Block, which seems to have been punitive. Third, I would like a review of user:Binksternet's behavior particularly on my talk page. ( 09:51, 4 February 2015 (UTC)) is a 08:36, 4 February 2015 (UTC) 08:58, 4 February 2015 (UTC) 09:38, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Unilateral IBAN imposed by one administratorMotion: Gamaliel's unilateral one-sided IBAN is void. Gamaliel or another editor is welcome to propose such a ban to be discussed by the community at ANI. Support: Gamaliel's ban was improper because individual administrators lack the authority to impose bans. Gamaliel's ban did not represent the consensus of a discussion at ANI (although one can claim it represented agreement of BMK and himself, at least for an hour or so); also, it has not been entered in the community sanctions list, which is where ANI-sanction bans are supposed to be listed. Gamaliel's ban was not claimed to be a WP:BLP Arbcom-authorized ban, and it has not been entered into any Arbcom list of bans. is a 09:14, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
One-Way Interaction Ban by User:Collect against User:UbikwitThis topic is listed here only to permit it to be ridiculed or dismissed. Unfortunately, this proposal appears to be an attempt at wikilawyered bullying by Ubikwit to silence Collect.
Reinstate Proposal to Topic-Ban Ubikwit from AN and ANI
Extend Topic-Ban to All Jewish-Related Topics, broadly defined
Propose full two-way interaction ban between Ubikwit and Collect
Propose Topic Ban and Interaction Bans all roundFor everyone who has commented in this discussion, from anything unrelated to actual content writing.
EnoughThis has apparently been going on for a few days now, with the same few people talking in circles. I'm going to take some bold actions in the interest of putting this thread out of its misery. First of all, Is not a (talk · contribs) is an obvious alternate account, and is being used to engage in combative and contentious editing. This is an inappropriate use of an alternate account. Our policy on alternate accounts is very clear: such accounts may not be used to segregate combative edits or conflict, per WP:SCRUTINY and WP:GHBH. I've therefore blocked Is not a (talk · contribs) indefinitely; the owner of the account is free to use his or her main account if s/he wishes to contribute to contentious topics.I will recuse from any action regarding Ubikwit and Collect and leave the proper handling of their behavior to other admins, noting that neither has exactly covered himself in glory: Ubikwit has edit-warred to restore extremely dubious external links, while Collect has repeated unsubstantiated and irresponsible accusations of anti-Semitism against Ubikwit. MastCell 06:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Conduct of Dan56User repeatedly violates WP:POINT, WP:AGF, WP:OWN, is stubbornly Wikilawyering, and repeatedly edit wars in the process as he willfully pushes his view without considering other editors' input.
I'd addressed his behavior in article and talk page with a cordial message on his page, asking him to stop disrupting and start working collaboratively. I know I have a disadvantage here as Dan56 has promoted many GAs or FAs (reading over ANI, that apparently tends to give you automatic pardon of Wiki guideline violations), but this user has a history of eschewing collaboration, of disruptive and tendentious editing, pushing POV, OWN attitudes, WP:battleground, disrupting editing to make a point, not assuming good faith, genre warring, accusing others of what he is exactly doing or has done, and many editors have called him out on his behavior and editing practices in the past, on various article talk pages (particularly RfCs). Dan56 evidently is not interested in changing his behavior as he feels his promotion of GAs absolves him of any responsibility for his actions and that he's potentially answerable to no one (as his unsanctioned acts would lead him to believe), evidenced, recently, here and here. Most of my encounters with him have been on the band Garbage's articles, at which he arrived about 7 months ago after being canvassed by another editor (who possibly didn't know about the policy then) in a content discussion, and where he willfully employed the same editing tactics and violations he's still willfully and freely employing. Please see see this relevant RfC here, which is the (recent) source of this dispute, and where much of the aforementioned is evident further. Dan56 does not appear to want to contribute to a collaborative, disruption-free environment at this band's pages, where he has quarreled with me and engaged in all the aforementioned countless times. My request is a topic ban for this band's articles. What he's contributed (e.g., copy edit of reviews, date formats) (by essentially shutting out others, really) can just as easily be and have been contributed by myself or any of the other editors watching the article. And, as I pointed out in the RfC, If Dan56 had actually bothered to give me a minute or two to copy edit and fix issues and continue improving and augmenting the article, as opposed to just reverting and disrupting constructive edits none of that would occur. Of course, that appears to not be in his nature, particularly for these Garbage articles, for which he, going by all prior indication, has a bias against. --Lapadite (talk) 18:25, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Did I mention Dan56 had a history of accusing people of things, never admitting he has done anything wrong, and creating striking lies and misleading statements which are easily refuted by the actual, readable evidence? In that Garbage album RfC, which one can readily see, toward the end, editors called him out on his intentionally misleading tactics (for which he took 0 responsibility for and ignored the comments, and which he again similarly employed in this recent RfC, which I commented on). I created a new poll, because the other was corrupted by Dan56's tactics and lies and more useful content had also been included in the article, with an updated proposal based on recent article edits, and it went smooth and successfully. Exactly the opposite of what he claims here. This accusation - "this is appears to be another attempt at creative control" - and the hypocrisy is utterly laughable. As you can see, in accordance with my report, Dan56 does not believe he does anything wrong. All of the aforementioned, articles and diffs linked, speaks for itself, regardless of how Dan disregards and reinterprets his actions and assumes of others'. If one were to bring all the editors that have called out Dan56 on his disruptive behavior and editing practices throughout various articles they would all agree with this. I don't link to past talk discussions not directly pertaining to this dispute because it may be tacky and doing so might be interpreted negatively but I have no problem doing so if asked. This is far from a personal dispute or vendetta, which I don't care for. You can see my cordial message on his page, and after that Garbage album content dispute he linked, I had very amicably discussed with him on his page some content matters on another article; unlike him, I don't hold grudges and I'm not here for battlegrounds and disruptive practices, only to improve articles. Dan56's presence at this band's articles has been continually disruptive as his POINTy, POV-pushing, OWN, Wikilawyering, NPOV/Stick to sources-eschewal, genre warring (a significant issue during that album article discussion he linked) and lack of collaboration inhibits progress. For instance, If he hadn't disrupted improvement of that article's section (specifically the start of my constructive edits which, as I said in the RfC were far from finished) that section would've been completed right soon and without the need of all that came after it. Of course he credits the current version (which needs a checking of sources and copyediting for POV, cherry picking, sticking to source) to his mighty self, since, liked I stated above, he shut editors out and steamrolled his edits, and while RfC had just started. Again, this isn't the first time here Dan56 inhibits or significantly slows down progress here, takes ownership of an article and disregards collaboration, in the process perpetuating an environment of only disputes (as I remarked near the end of the current RfC I linked: "Is there an RfC that's not a battleground with you? To which he replied, "that's cute and all".). I strongly believe a topic ban is best. --Lapadite (talk) 04:02, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Is this thread still open? Dan56 does like to ram a point home when he thinks he's right, the problem with that of course is that sometimes he is right. He's been very helpfully sorting out the "critical response" sections to numerous album articles to the extent that when I start improving one for WP:ALBUMS/500 I look at that and think, "good stuff, Dan's done it". With that in mind I'm just reluctant to come down like a ton of bricks on him. As others have said, he's never crossed the line into personal attacks, so all I can really advise is to just stick to the article and forget about who's saying what. It's the only sane method. Ritchie333 12:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC) I won't pretend I've read all of this thread, but I'm not at all surprised to see Dan56's behaviour become the subject of another discussion. Just over a year ago, I talked GabeMc out of opening an RFC/U on this user, when Gabe and several others were fed up with him, and, although I could be wrong, I believe this was the near-miss referred to in a subsequent RfC on Dan56, in August 2014. I chose not to have any input into that discussion either, but the references there to Dan56 being so obviously pro-Robert Christgau and overly controlling of article content were all too familiar. My direct contact with Dan56 has been limited mainly to tedious discussions about album genres at Talk:All Things Must Pass and Talk:Led Zeppelin IV#"Heavy metal album"; I've seen numerous, similar discussions going on over the last year or two – for instance, at Talk:Crime of the Century, Talk:Are You Experienced (can't access the archive for that page), Talk:Sgt. Pepper's – but, quite honestly, just the sight of his username is enough to ward me off, unless I consider speaking up really important. Ritchie's correct when he says that "sometimes he is right", but at the same time, Dan56 behaves as if, by divine right, he must be so at all times – there's no element of compromise, nor any awareness that he might be making working on music articles a miserable experience for others. He drives editors away from the encyclopaedia, I'm convinced of it – and I can't help thinking that's fine by him, if he alone is left working on album articles here. Doc commented above that Lapadite needed to supply specific diffs rather than launching an unsupported attack. I don't doubt that that's the correct way to proceed, but I sympathise with the frustration that Lapadite seems to be expressing. As Sergecross73 says about Dan 56: "unfortunately, I think he's one of those editors that treads the line carefully …" So, by and large, everything appears correct per the letter of the law but (I think) at the same time he's continually falling foul of the spirit of Misplaced Pages – pillars four and five, as I understand them. Dan56 is the only editor I've ever felt the need to watch, and for all the wrong reasons. I see him constantly laying down the law with new editors and regularly removing the protests that arrive on his talk page, when those editors are not time-wasters but have a case to present. He initiated the removal of terms such as "favourable", "mixed", "unfavourable" from the album reviewer ratings template without (as far as I can see) posting any notice at all on relevant project pages such as Albums or Rock; if those terms have to go in favour of recognised scores and ratings, then fine, but anyone proposing such far-reaching changes, you'd think, would want as broad a consensus as possible. A select few were similarly invited to a proposal on alphabetising album articles' personnel sections (after which Mudwater and I put the word out to a wider audience). To me, along with the other actions mentioned, these are examples of how this user wants to – and does, unfortunately – dominate album articles on the encyclopedia. I don't have bad feelings towards anyone on Misplaced Pages but I think admins need to address this behaviour. I said to John around the time of an episode in March 2014, it's not just about looking at diffs and specifics, it's about the entire way this user conducts himself on Misplaced Pages. That's the problem, that's why a thread like this gets opened, and it's why there'll be another one about him within six months. And as I've mentioned, there are other conflicts concerning Dan56 (the January 2014 episode) that don't even get the attention they deserve. JG66 (talk) 16:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC) Constant addition of contentious material by obvious sock and/or meat accountsMisplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Korean influence on Japanese culture ended with only a slim majority (8-5 at closing time, 7-3 a little over a day earlier, 6-2 one week after opening) in favour of deleting the page, but no one arguing that the current article wasn't rotten. I removed most of the contentious/POV/unverified material, but was immediately reverted by Jagello and a little later by KoreanSentry, who made only tiny cosmetic changes but claimed they had "verified" the material. Neither of these accounts had ever edited the article before, and neither had they edited any other article for years before suddenly turning up and reverting me. I can't figure out exactly who is whose sockpuppet, or even if there was some off-wiki collusion by Korean nationalists who know each other in real life, but both of these accpunts are super-suspicious. Could we get some admin input? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:38, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Following is the lower part of a section Hijiri88 deleted without any consensus. Reischauer wrote two books. Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law (Ronald Press, New York: 1955) and Ennin's Travels in T'ang China. The first one is a mere translation of Ennin’s Diary by Reischauer. The second one is a discussion lead by Reischauer on Ennin's travels, includes materials from other sources. This is cited from ‘Ennin's travels in Tʻang China'. written by E. O. Reischauer. This is obviously a secondary source.
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My conclusion is the editors who contributed this section actually footnoted multiple sources, but the sources from Reischauer alone support exactly each relevant sentences in this section. So that there was no place to make any misinterpretation or synthesis of the sources, which is against the Misplaced Pages's policy. Hijiri88's assumption or speculation merely by checking the titles of sources is weak and invalid as an argument for saying the source is misquoted. The contents in the article must be verified by checking sources. The source text should be given and made comparison with the relevant footnoted content on this page. This can be one reason, why Hijiri88 failed to get any consensus for massive removing the contents on this article.--Jagello (talk) 15:15, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Indefinite block?KoreanSentry seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth, so at least for now I don't see any need for admin action. But Could someone please block Jagello? Everyone here seems to agree that he is engaged in some form of sockpuppetry or the like. On top of this, he's a POV-pushing WP:SPA who is WP:NOTHERE to build an encyclopedia but to start fights. I've been arguing with this guy since October on the talk page, and he is still refusing to be coherent or recognize what others' problems with the article are. I'm getting pretty tired of having to explain these things to him over and over and over again. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 23:35, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
BLP with the whole nine yards (COI, Copyvio, NOT, MEAT, etc)See Krista Tippett (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and On Being (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views).An editor with a self-identified COI (I won't give diffs here to avoid outing, but the editor uploaded an image as "own work", associated with his real life name, which is also given in the articles) added a large amount of NOT a webhost, directory, or indiscriminate list text to both articles (sample here.) Bibliophile227 (talk · contribs · logs) reinstated the text, that was earlier added by Ghz89med (talk · contribs · logs) without discussion on talk. Neither of them has engaged talk: I have also removed several instances of copyvio or too close paraphrasing, and correctly cited information that was previously uncited, which new accounts are reinstating or removing. When I listed on talk the problems with the article, including sourcing, copyvio and others, and that Bibliophile227, SPA Ghz89med and a Minnesota IP, SPA 50.241.48.62 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) had all edited User:Bibliophile227/sandbox, Bibliophile227 blanked the sandbox. Within minutes of the sandbox blanking, four new accounts were registered and began editing the articles: Gibsonten (talk · contribs · logs), Stellapensac (talk · contribs · logs), Convsa2 (talk · contribs · logs) and Jacsman (talk · contribs · logs). Jacsman and Stellapensac, for example, have made the same edit. It is a curious deletion since her well-known divorce was mentioned in the article already, albeit uncited. So, there's a lot going on (BLP issues, COI, NOT, possible MEAT, instances of COPYVIO/too close paraphrasing, etc), and I'm not sure to which individual noticeboard this might go, including possibly MEAT along with COI. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:02, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
And now everything needs to be checked for copyvio and plagiarism. Here's the latest example, an edit just made (in spite of me raising plagiarism for several days): We've gone from uncited text everywhere, to now seeing that the wording is taken directly from the source, without quotation marks. ("The project resources have been used by ... Harvard Law School.") This is pervasive, I've found it on every source I've checked, and I don't have time to check it all. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Where do things stand on blocking all of these socks? Should it be done via CU, or just done based on the admission above? I do have concern that there are more socks, since they were not all admitted, but am not sure a CU is needed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:43, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) and redlinkingNAC close by OP: Although some of the discussion focused on general matters regarding redlinks rather than on RAN's specific unique situation, it's still clear to me that it's very unlikely that any consensus will emerge to alter RAN's sanctions to direct him not to create redlinks for articles waiting in his userspace for promotion to mainspace. Since this is the case, I'm being WP:BOLD and closing the thread. Anyone who disagress with the close for any reason at all is free to reopen it without objection from me. BMK (talk) 21:14, 4 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. Please bear with me. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is an editor with a number of WP:Editing restrictions logged against him, one of which forbids him to create new articles in mainspace until his numerous copyvio'd articles are cleaned up. Since, as far as I can tell, he doesn't seem to be spending much time working on those copyvios, it's probably going to be some time before the sanction is lifted. Nevertheless, RAN's userspace is chock-a-block with new articles he's written. This would be fine, if a little sad, if RAN didn't want to redlink in connection to his userspace articles. Since his articles are unlikely to see the light of articlespace any time soon, any redlinks he adds are going to remain redlinks for quite a long time. This appears to contravene WP:REDLINK, which says:RAN is indeed writing the article(s) in his userspace, but since he can't publish them in mainspace, he's not "writing" them in any real practical sense. These redlinks essentially serve no purpose at all. There's no benefit to the reader to have a redlink to a non-existant article, and there's no need to prompt an editor to write the article, since RAN is already doing that. The redlinks will therefore just sit there, a distraction to the reader. If RAN's sanctions are lifted, it will take no more time and effort to link the articles then, after they're moved to mainspace, then it is taking to link them now, when it serves no practical purpose. (Of course, RAN may be anticipating a waterfall of article moves if and when his sanctions are lifted, and taking the time to make links then would slow down what he perhaps hopes is an impressive flow of new articles.) I came across this problem on the article Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital, in which RAN added the names of people who died in the hospital (which in itself is a WP:WEIGHT problem, since the article is about historic buildings and not very much about the operation of those institutions, so his list of deaths creates the false impression that what happened at the hospital is that people died). Most of the names he added had articles, but one did not, an obscure actor. He redlinked it, I removed it on the grounds that he should link it after he wrote the article (I had forgotten at the time about his restrictions), and he responded that he would write the article. Which he did. In his userspace where it will wait until.... It worked the other way as well. RAN is working on an article on "Eccentric dance" (which could well have problems if it ever moved to mainspace, because it appears to be more of a description than a true genre), and went around redlinking "eccentric dance" in various articles. I came across this in the Eddie Foy, Sr. article, reverted, and RAN reverted it back. A discussion was started on the talk page and RAN initiated an RfC, but he also tried to institute a compromise whereby he removed "eccentric dance" from the article and removed the name "Eddie Foy, Sr." from the article he was writing. To me, that seemed like no compromise at all. (The term has since been restored with a source.) So... what am I looking for here? The question of when a redlink is and isn't appropiate isn't one of the great Misplaced Pages debates, but it sometimes can be prickly. I generally think that if it's likely that an article will be written, or should be written, a redlink is OK. If the subject is obscure then no redlink is needed. For an editor creating a new article, I don't think pre-linking is a good idea - write the article first and then link it - it's no easier to prelink than it is to postlink. In RAN's case we have an editor who is well able to write articles, but whose previous misbehavior leaves those articles -- at this moment, and for the foreseeable future -- moldering away in his userspace. He is sui generis in this regard, and because of that, I propose that RAN be told that until his sanction is lifted, and he is able to freely move articles into mainspace, he may not prelink those articles. It think this would be beneficial to the encyclopedia. BMK (talk) 07:40, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
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- I tend to agree. Having it removed citing "consensus" after my attempt to seek consensus was shut down is especially grating. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- EEng has put a disruptive userbox again . It appears that he/she gets butthurt everytime he/she gets blocked or a "It has been x days since..." userbox is removed from his/her talk page and decides to put a userbox related to what he/she put, and he/she also calls "thin-skinned" admins just because he/she gets blocked. I suspect (again) a case of WP:NOTHERE. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 19:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Disclaimer: I have not reviewed EEng's actions. He may be a real jerk; he may well not be here to build an encyclopedia. But, that latest userbox is 100% true. It is (IMO) not disruptive -- unless you want it to be.
- To me this is just another iteration of a very old issue. It is a power struggle, pure and simple. When users do something that administrators don't like, but when the users not only disagree but have the temerity to object to the sanctions levied against them by administrators, is this an unacceptable dissent against the powers-that-be that must, always, be quashed by any means necessary?
- I'm probably hyperbolizing here, but I think this is how the issue appears to the EEng's of the world. And some, at least, of the EEng's of the world are here to help build the encyclopedia. We say "The 💕 that anyone can edit", not "The benevolent dictatorship encyclopedia that docile and compliant rule-followers can edit as long as they remember their place and are always properly respectful towards ADMINISTRATORS." So, please, if that's not the message you want to send, just let these userboxes go. And if you want to boot a user off the project for not being here to help build the encyclopedia, please do it for a more substantive reason than that the user refuses to say "Uncle" when confronted by admins. —Steve Summit (talk) 19:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Just so. Let me just repeat something I said here recently :
- And finally, to each admin who says, "Well, I wouldn't have blocked, but I don't feel like overturning it": what you're condoning is a situation in which every editor is at the mercy of the least restrained, most trigger-happy admin who happens to stumble into any given situation. Don't you see how corrosive that is? It's like all these recent US police shootings: no matter how blatantly revolting an officer's actions were, the monolithic reply is "It was by the book. Case closed." This character was way out of line from the beginning in deleting multiple editors' posts (as someone suggested, hatting would have made complete sense, and troubled me not at all) and when called on it above, he gives a middle-finger-raised LOL. No wonder so many see haughty arrogance in much of the admin corps around here. EEng (talk) 05:38, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
- And let me be clear: I have no problem with 97% of admins, who do noble work in return for (generally) either no recognition or shitloads of grief, only occasionally punctuated by thanks. But the other 3% -- whoa, boy, watch out! EEng (talk) 20:02, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Just so. Let me just repeat something I said here recently :
- Now, I'm no fan of userboxes. And there may or may not be thin-skinned administrators on Misplaced Pages who exercise dictatorial control over mere editors and who can't tolerate criticism of their actions. But I can hardly think of a better way of proving that there are such administrators (and that their actions are condoned) than by banning userboxes suggesting such. —Steve Summit (talk) 19:11, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- This whole user-box thing is childish, removing the userbox in question prevents anyone else from having to click on it out of being curious. If you want your chuckles and giggles at another editor's expense then this isn't the place for you. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 20:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Prior to this ANI complaint, no one would have known about it unless they frequented the user's page - in which case they would already know what's going on. Bringing it here only serves to advertise it. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:42, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- You don't know that as fact though, over time new editors who work with other editors visit their talk-pages or else we wouldn't have new editors commenting there. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 20:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The main issue with the userbox originally complained about, is that it targeted a particular admin, as if that admin was the most recent admin to block the user - which was not the case. That's better grounds for having it zapped than complaining about such a lame "polemic". ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Under WP:POLEMIC: "Users should generally not maintain in public view negative information related to others without very good reason. Negative evidence, laundry lists of wrongs, collations of diffs and criticisms related to problems, etc., should be removed, blanked, or kept privately (i.e., not on the wiki) if they will not be imminently used, and the same once no longer needed" I have already said that new users can and do access talk-pages, having info-boxes like these causes the issue to sit there and fester while over time have the potential for more editors to see the admin involved as a bad person without getting the whole story. The only so called positive thing I have heard so far is that it is satire and a laugh which in my opinion isn't helping things either. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 21:28, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The main issue with the userbox originally complained about, is that it targeted a particular admin, as if that admin was the most recent admin to block the user - which was not the case. That's better grounds for having it zapped than complaining about such a lame "polemic". ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- You don't know that as fact though, over time new editors who work with other editors visit their talk-pages or else we wouldn't have new editors commenting there. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 20:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Prior to this ANI complaint, no one would have known about it unless they frequented the user's page - in which case they would already know what's going on. Bringing it here only serves to advertise it. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:42, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I think we should talk and talk and talk and talk some more. Guy, we definitely need more user input, and I propose you make us get that for each and every single administrative decision that's taken here. I mean, why close anything just because a decision has been reached? Y'all have fun--I got better things to do. (I know--cauliflower pizza isn't much better, but it whines less.) Drmies (talk) 21:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Off Misplaced Pages conversation to push a POV?
This seems odd to me. Could anyone look at the IP address to see if it is a registered user? Is it okay to get together with other "good guys" to push against the "house POV"?Casprings (talk) 00:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Checkusers won't do that. But whatever you do, don't activate your e-mail. Have the IP tell you on-wiki who he really is, and if he won't do it, then ignore. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 00:48, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Was not my talk page. However, the editor, @Arzel: has apprently created a means to talk to the IP.
- Geolocation says they are in or near Wichita, KS. See here. --Mr. Guye (talk) 01:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Well that is the home of the Koch brothers, known for their political activities. Moreover, it is an editor who has pushed a conservative POV in the past and has been found to. Casprings (talk) 01:18, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Casprings:, this suddenly feels very nefarious. . .--Mr. Guye (talk) 03:11, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I expect the Koch brothers have other things to do. In any case, Wichita IP's have frequently been smacked down for trolling, so this is probably just another one. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 03:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Casprings:, this suddenly feels very nefarious. . .--Mr. Guye (talk) 03:11, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I feel I was unjustly blocked
- Kelly (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Earlier tonight, I was blocked by HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). He also added me to the ArbCom sanctions log. Apparently, the reason they did so was because of an edit I made to Emma Sulkowicz - a woman who claims she was raped and has since been carrying a mattress around her university as an art project. The man she accuses of raping her, Paul Nungesser, has recently come forward and given an interview to to The Daily Beast to clear his name. (He had previously been named against his will in other sources.) His family also came forward and named themselves in the interview.
I edited the article to add the name of the individual. It was reverted by SlimVirgin (talk · contribs) per WP:BLP. I did engage on the talk page, but I also reverted because I felt that this was a clear case of WP:CRYBLP - the individual obviously wanted themselves to be named, and their name cleared, in reliable sources. However, shortly after, I was blocked without warning or discussion.
I'm a productive contributor of many years - I just ask to have a notation added to my block log that this was an incorrect block, Also, I'd ask to be removed from the ArbCom sanctions log, or for at least a note to be added. Kelly 00:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- If the name of "the accused" is widely reported, there can't be a BLP issue. And quoting him and his family should be considered, in order to give some balance to the story. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 01:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I believe that's a misrepresentation of the situation, and I do not believe the block as incorrect or unjust. The article in question is a BLP that has been the subject of problematic editing recently. An edit war broke out earlier tonight over a name which was added to the article and removed on BLP grounds. Twice. The edit war petered out and a discussion ensued on the talk page. Kelly, a third party, re-added the name. It was removed on BLP grounds, again. Kelly re-added it for a second time. I observed that Kelly had previously been notified of the BLP discretionary sanctions, so I imposed a short block to prevent a potential BLP violation from being restored again, and unblocked once Kelly agreed to stop. This is absolutely not a case of "crying BLP"—the objections have been explained and merit discussion, so the name should not be re-added until and unless there's a consensus for it. We should not allow editors to bat away good-faith BLP concerns just because they disagree with them—concern for the real people discussed in our articles comes before our theoretical policy discussions. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Could you explain the specific BLP concern involved, given that the individual concerned had gone public? Also, could you show some evidence of the previous warning for BLP sanctions? Kelly 01:22, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Kelly, FYI the DS alert was here. --Tgeairn (talk) 01:28, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- (ec) The "specific concern" is that some people feel that naming him in the article could cause him harm; it's a reasonable enough objection that it needs to be discussed and a consensus found. I don't have an opinion on whether the name should or shouldn't be included. And the discretionary sanctions notification is here (type "discretionary sanctions notification" into the 'tag filter' box in the page history). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- A BLP violation on The Federalist (website)? What specifically was it for? It has to be bogus and probably related to Neil deGrasse Tyson. What exactly was the nature of my BLP violation on that article? Or are we just giving people unjustified warnings and blocking them later for other unjustified reasons? Kelly 01:39, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- (ec) The "specific concern" is that some people feel that naming him in the article could cause him harm; it's a reasonable enough objection that it needs to be discussed and a consensus found. I don't have an opinion on whether the name should or shouldn't be included. And the discretionary sanctions notification is here (type "discretionary sanctions notification" into the 'tag filter' box in the page history). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Good block. Kelly was simultaneously edit warring against consensus on multiple articles under arbcom sanctions, including Talk:Neil deGrasse Tyson. He says he's "productive", but he deliberately and consistently disrupts articles related to left-wing politics, liberals, and conservative causes. His idea of being "productive" involves misusing the file deletion process to delete images that go against his POV. I think we can do without that here. Viriditas (talk) 01:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Evidence please. Kelly 01:41, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Good block The specific concerns involved are nearly irrelevant; there was a reasonable discussion going on at the talk page, which you knew about; other editors had asked that there be a pause for consensus to develop before this information was re-added. Was it really so important that it be added again immediately and couldn't wait for a talk-page consensus? IMO probably a good block, if perhaps slightly - just the slightest bit, not more - hair-trigger.
- As for the notification, it doesn't matter what the notification was for; you were notified and should have been aware of DS for BLPs. GoldenRing (talk) 01:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
So if someone throws a BLP warning against someone, no matter how flimsy or bogus, the receiving editor can henceforth be blocked for any disputed edit on a BLP? Kelly 01:55, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yes. It's a notification warning you that discretionary sanctions are authorized for a particular subject. The notice says clearly 'Please carefully read this information' and then outlines the scope of DS, 'for pages regarding living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles'. After that, you're expected to be aware that DS are authorized in that scope of subjects. It's not flimsy nor bogus; DS are authorized for that scope and you were formally notified of it. That you didn't read it, or didn't believe it, or thought it was idiotic, or didn't keep it in mind, or whatever justification you have, doesn't matter. That's the process. GoldenRing (talk) 04:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Bad block Blocking has one purpose, and one purpose only - preventing disruption in a situation where no other effective remedy exists. Blocking a well-established user with a largely problem-free history of years of constructive contributions without talking to them first is a bad call. Sure, there was a technicality that allowed HJ Mitchell to carry out the block and get away with it, but is that really what we want? When an admin considers whether to block or not, what I'd expect him to think is "Is there really nothing else I can do?" rather than "Let's see, if I institute this block, will I be able to plausibly explain it thus getting away with my questionable conduct?"
- HJ Mitchell, do you honestly believe that simply TALKING to Kelly would've been ineffective in preventing him from doing whatever he was doing? If yes, what makes you think that? If no, why did you block him when there was another solution? Do you want to drive Kelly out of here perhaps? 70.189.56.157 (talk) 02:12, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The above is the IPs third edit ever. BMK (talk) 02:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Some of us have been editing from IPs for the better part of a decade. Personally, I keep ANI bookmarked for the delicious drama. 206.41.25.114 (talk) 14:40, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The above is the IPs third edit ever. BMK (talk) 02:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Comment - Of course a concern/feelings is not the same as a violation of policy. Could you (HJ Mitchell) please answer two questions:
- 1. Is there any reason why you couldn't have just asked Kelly to stop adding the sourced content, on his talk page?
- 2. What part of WP:BLP policy was violated given that the name of the accused party has been published in at least one reliable source, based on that source's interview of both him and Sulkowicz?- MrX 02:17, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Ridiculous block: NY Daily News 9 news AustraliaWashington Post. "BLP" is not supposed to be a magic wand someone can wave because they WP:IDLI an edit. NE Ent 02:32, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- New York Times.- MrX 02:34, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Google "Searches related to Emma Sulkowicz"... slate... NE Ent 02:47, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Good block. Personally, I'd have warned Kelly first, but Kelly's subsequent behaviour has demonstrated a warning would have likely been ineffective. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 05:08, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Kelly appears to have violated the conditions of her unblock by re-adding name shortly after agreeing to not do so as a condition of her unblock request. --BoboMeowCat (talk) 02:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The information was reported by the New York Times. Is there a better source? Kelly 02:53, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I raised the issue at the BLP noticeboard. What is the rush to re-add it absent thorough discussion? This seems pretty concerning given you just assured an admin you would not re-add it as condition of unblock request and then turned right around and re-added it.--BoboMeowCat (talk) 02:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- A legitimate BLP concern had been raised, the name had been removed twice, there were two objections on talk to inclusion, and a discussion was underway. Kelly then went ahead and restored the name, and when reverted restored it again. After the block and unblock Kelly added the name to this AN/I report, then restored it again to the article.
Whether anyone agrees that the name should be in or out is a separate issue. The point is that this isn't a frivolous objection. It's true that the student has given two interviews, but only after he was outed, and he's still trying to maintain some anonymity by being photographed in the shadows. Publishing a name on Misplaced Pages increases its visibility in terms of reach and perhaps endurance, so we should consider this carefully rather than racing ahead. Sarah (SV) 03:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Except that it seems part of the motivation for going public was to clear his name - interviews specifically cited that Internet search results were depicting him as a rapist. "And yet if you Google him, in half of the articles you´ll find, he is still labeled a serial rapist.” (a quote from his father) Kelly 02:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- So keeping his name out of the article is a BLP concern, because it keeps him from clearing his name. The university cleared him of rape, our article is doing him more harm than good. Kelly 03:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- @SlimVirgin: What was the "legitimate BLP" concern? Was it "I would appreciate it if the discussion could wait until tomorrow, because I would like to take part in it but don't have time today. This needs some careful thought before we do it, because names on WP become more widespread."? - MrX 03:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- We are not here to litigate the merits of including the name, that's what the talk page and BLPN are for. We are here to discuss the block and Kelly's conduct the precipitated it. The block was not for BLP violations in their own right, but for repeatedly restoring material that had been objected to on BLP grounds. A legitimate concern had been raised and was under discussion, so reigniting an edit war to restore it before the discussion has even fully got underway if grossly improper. Given the speed of the reverting, I did not feel that warnings or advice would have adequately prevented disruption. I feel this belief is vindicated by Kelly's continuing to revert, despite the sole condition of the unblock being that they stop. I suggest Kelly be re-blocked and/or topic-banned; note that this can be done under discretionary sanctions. Again, the issue of whether to name the accused is irrelevant to this discussion; the issue is that it was removed in good faith on BLP grounds and should not be restored (much less edit-warred over) until consensus is established. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:08, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Could you explain exactly why I was warned for BLP violations to begin with? I have an extensive history of protecting BLPs. Check the Sarah Palin arbitration case that got Jossi (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) banned. Kelly 03:11, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- You are not hearing the message, so here it is again: Stop pushing your view. Wait for the community to deliberate. There is no rush. Good-faith editors have said there is a BLP problem, and such issues are not resolved by determining who is willing to edit war the longest. The only question for ANI has been answered by HJ Mitchell above. Johnuniq (talk) 03:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Check the edits. There was no view "pushed". It merely replaced "the accused" with "Paul Nungesser". That's it. Kelly 03:27, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Kelly, you've pushed your view here in this discussion and on the BLP board. Your view is that adding his name helps him clear his name. That's your POV. Viriditas (talk) 04:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Agreed. This case (like many involving similar allegations) is an absolute minefield. Anyone curious to know more should read the abovementioned NYT article. Maybe one person is guilty, maybe another person is innocent, maybe it's a complicated mixture. Columbia University and/or the judicial system will be hard-pressed to determine Truth here; Misplaced Pages (let alone AN/I) certainly won't, and must do its best to follow RS and BLP policy in deciding what and how to report. Whether or not to mention the guy's name, whether that helps or hurts his case, whether it is what he would or wouldn't want -- none of these questions is trivial, they're all difficult, and not at all to be decided in a moment by one user. —Steve Summit (talk) 19:04, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Kelly, you've pushed your view here in this discussion and on the BLP board. Your view is that adding his name helps him clear his name. That's your POV. Viriditas (talk) 04:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Check the edits. There was no view "pushed". It merely replaced "the accused" with "Paul Nungesser". That's it. Kelly 03:27, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- You are not hearing the message, so here it is again: Stop pushing your view. Wait for the community to deliberate. There is no rush. Good-faith editors have said there is a BLP problem, and such issues are not resolved by determining who is willing to edit war the longest. The only question for ANI has been answered by HJ Mitchell above. Johnuniq (talk) 03:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Could you explain exactly why I was warned for BLP violations to begin with? I have an extensive history of protecting BLPs. Check the Sarah Palin arbitration case that got Jossi (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) banned. Kelly 03:11, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Since the "legitimate" BLP concern was bogus, maybe the one who claimed there was a concern is the one who should be blocked. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 03:30, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Also, isn't the article title itself a BLP violation? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 03:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- So we're supposed to write biographies without using the name of person now? How is using someone's name as the title of an article about them a BLP violation? GoldenRing (talk) 04:22, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- What makes this person notable per Misplaced Pages standards? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 06:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Multiple reliable sources covering her story over a pretty decent amount of time or, in other words, "per GNG". You can play coy all you like, Bugs, but it doesn't help anyone, least of all Kelly. And restoring information when legitimate (meaning "not crazy") BLP objections are brought up is always going to lead to a predictable outcome. Next, Drmies (talk) 19:20, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Beware of putting Misplaced Pages in a position of advocacy. Next. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:39, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Multiple reliable sources covering her story over a pretty decent amount of time or, in other words, "per GNG". You can play coy all you like, Bugs, but it doesn't help anyone, least of all Kelly. And restoring information when legitimate (meaning "not crazy") BLP objections are brought up is always going to lead to a predictable outcome. Next, Drmies (talk) 19:20, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- What makes this person notable per Misplaced Pages standards? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 06:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- So we're supposed to write biographies without using the name of person now? How is using someone's name as the title of an article about them a BLP violation? GoldenRing (talk) 04:22, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
"Personal attack"
I feel like this !vote on the Rollback RfC is unnecessarily insulting. I first reverted it altogether, Kelly reinstated it, I then redacted the nastiness but left Kelly's core point untouched, and now they have un-redacted the insults. I've no taste for fighting such petty battles but a second admin opinion is very welcome. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:57, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think there are many people who would argue that Ryulong was a reasonable user of rollback. Kelly 02:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Why single out Ryulong though rather than a more neutral term? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 02:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Because he was a particularly bad example. I provided a link to his WP:RFCUC for the evidence. Kelly 02:09, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The problem in my opinion is that you provided an example rather than just saying "Some users abuse the tool" and then providing written examples on how in your own words rather than diffs. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 02:11, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Because he was a particularly bad example. I provided a link to his WP:RFCUC for the evidence. Kelly 02:09, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Why single out Ryulong though rather than a more neutral term? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 02:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- In light of that I can see this turning into a WP:BOOMERANG case. HJ Mitchell unblocks Kelly after the editor agrees to stop reverting and now this is brought into the light when Kelly takes the issue to ANI. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 02:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I'd love to see who defends Ryulong's rollback practices. Kelly 02:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not arguing Ryulong is a reasonable user of Rollback. In fact, he's a perfectly valid example of the abuse that can result from warring with the Rollback right. But there's a way to present an argument without resorting to insults -- if anything, you'll be taken more seriously. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:08, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Ryulong was such a spectacularly bad example of an editor and admin that I expect to use him as an example for decades to come. Kelly 02:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- ... Don't, unless it is both justified, and done in an acceptable manner and tone. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:28, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Ryulong was such a spectacularly bad example of an editor and admin that I expect to use him as an example for decades to come. Kelly 02:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not arguing Ryulong is a reasonable user of Rollback. In fact, he's a perfectly valid example of the abuse that can result from warring with the Rollback right. But there's a way to present an argument without resorting to insults -- if anything, you'll be taken more seriously. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:08, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I'd love to see who defends Ryulong's rollback practices. Kelly 02:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Please, it's a shining example to his point. It would be like jamming someone up for a personal attack after dropping Essjay's name for why we don't accept "credentialed" Wikipedians as reliable sources. GraniteSand (talk) 02:22, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Dropping someone's name and insulting them are two things. It's perfectly fine to present a specific case (Ryulong's or otherwise) as an example of possible abuse. But there are ways of doing that without coming off as holier-than-thou-art and condescending. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Well, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy but I take your point. Still, not a totally out of bounds, you have to admit. GraniteSand (talk) 02:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Advice taken. I guess it's good enough that he's history. Kelly 02:39, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Dropping someone's name and insulting them are two things. It's perfectly fine to present a specific case (Ryulong's or otherwise) as an example of possible abuse. But there are ways of doing that without coming off as holier-than-thou-art and condescending. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
73.166.187.154 - League City, Texas IP
User has on at least four occasions added content knowing that it is unsourced, but attempting to justify the addition by adding citation needed templates. These edits have been opposed by two editors. The content added should be reliably sourced, and by now the IP is engaging in slow edit warring. User seems ambivalent and has been warned about this before via other IPs they've used. See also 98.196.41.58 and 50.171.11.116. They rarely participate in civil discussion, preferring instead to make changes per their own preference. When the user is contacted on their talk page, they typically remove all discussions and warnings from their talk pages and issue an antagonistic summary in response. Their behavior is inconsistent with community editing and they have previously been brought to ANI: . Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Report edit warring here. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 02:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Issue isn't only about edit warring, @ToonLucas22:. As indicated, this is a problematic user who has a number of issues related to community editing. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- With all due respect I just can't take both Anguswoof and Cyphoid's bickering and being strict with their so called "rules" and on top of that I am not antagonistic I just don't like to be cyberbullied just like what happened in KHWIKI where the users were not being nice and fair. You want me to stop letting them mess with me then I'll stop already, besides I already found the sources were Yuri was in Skylanders thank you, I just feel I want to (Redacted) because of this conflicts and feel I'm a cotton headed ninny muggins. :(73.166.187.154 (talk) 02:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Issue isn't only about edit warring, @ToonLucas22:. As indicated, this is a problematic user who has a number of issues related to community editing. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Suicide is never the answer, do not kill yourself over wikipedia. Weegeerunner (talk) 17:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Apparent suicide threat made by IP
Erpert 02:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Erpert: emergency is this way Lor 02:56, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I already did that, but I thought I was supposed to make a post here too (the message above states "please also email"...). Erpert 03:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Should this really be posted immediately below the said IP's comment? I can see everything all in just the bottom half of my screen without scrolling at all. Dustin (talk) 03:04, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I thought about that, but I didn't want to waste any time with a threat of suicide. Erpert 03:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've redacted it. emergency@wikimedia.org should've been emailed immediately, but... Epic Genius (talk) 03:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've emailed emergency as I'm sure others have. I'll hold off on commenting further on the ANI report above. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:12, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've redacted it. emergency@wikimedia.org should've been emailed immediately, but... Epic Genius (talk) 03:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I thought about that, but I didn't want to waste any time with a threat of suicide. Erpert 03:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Just for a refresh for all, Misplaced Pages:Responding to threats of harm gives the steps (including reaching an administrator immediately, which the OP correctly did by posting here). --Tgeairn (talk) 03:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- ANI is quite slow, firstly. He preferably should've gone to IRC and used the emergency !admin tag to attract attention to this issue. But he e-mailed WMF, so it's fine. Erpert's posting at ANI is no problem at all, take this in good spirit, please. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 14:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Edit request - removal of stub tags from hoax articles
There are currently a number of hoax articles that have been moved to Misplaced Pages namespace, but still have stub tags and are hence still categorized as stub articles. Normally we keep encyclopedia articles and Misplaced Pages administration (such as this) in separate categories. The stub tags should be removed (or placed in nowiki tags, or replaced by what looks like a stub tag but doesn't categorize the page). Note: I can't edit the talk pages to place an edit request there. The pages affected are:
Thanks in advance. DexDor (talk) 07:32, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- It looks as though Shirt58 has taken care of these. Deor (talk) 12:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Why are we keeping hoax articles in the first place? Gnome de plume (talk) 14:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Presumably so people don't try stuff like that. Epic Genius (talk) 15:22, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I don't see the logic in creating a hall of fame for hoaxes as a means of preventing people from creating more. Resolute 16:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Presumably so people don't try stuff like that. Epic Genius (talk) 15:22, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Why are we keeping hoax articles in the first place? Gnome de plume (talk) 14:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Somebody needs to check those and make sure they're full-protected, as per the instructions. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Some of these hoaxes are pranks on living people, must we keep these? Spumuq (talk) 15:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Redirect to redirect to redirect to ...
User:Jax 0677 recently made a string of redirect pointing to redirects. Meet the Fat Kids->Pirate House->The Pirate House->Air Drew->...Is Your Biological Father->Spring Break '99->Mario and the Brick Breakers: Greatest Hits->Brighter (album)->Brighter (Patent Pending album). Another step on this editors problematic editing. duffbeerforme (talk) 12:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Redirects deleted, I'll warn the user. GiantSnowman 13:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've also notified them about this discussion. GiantSnowman 13:12, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Already done . duffbeerforme (talk) 13:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Wait, are you sure it was a good idea to delete Brighter (album)? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't notice the final destination was also a redirect to a section on the band's main article. It still seems like the second-to-last would be a more useful redirect than the one that was spared, though. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:18, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
India Against Corruption again
IP blocked and article semi-protected for a year. Favonian (talk) 13:18, 6 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
There seems to be yet more block evasion from India Against Corruption by the account who did this. Please can someone deal with it as appropriate before things spiral out of control again? Semi-protection of Aam Aadmi Party would seem to be a decent starting point. - Sitush (talk) 13:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.Ownership issues, undue weight, and soapboxing
I request some additional eyes on edits by Dahnshaulis (talk · contribs).
I initially encountered the user at ITT Technical Institute (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), where they inserted a long list of sites that were called out by USA Today as having default rates higher than graduation rates. I trimmed the list, and I moved the text of the criticism to the section "Investigations, Lawsuits, and Controversies" where the study results remained visible, just omitting the excessive site listing that overwhelmed the rest of the article.
The material was then restored by the original editor, where they posted on my talk page arguing that the material should not be "whitewashed" and that if I have questions I should email the user. When I then looked at the edits by the user, I noticed that they are adding comparable content to multiple articles, frequently using an edit summary asking that they be contacted first before any changes are made to the content or its inclusion in the articles. I am concerned that this pattern needs additional attention to address. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Barek, I welcome a peer review by people who are familiar with this field. At the same time, I would hope that I would know their names to assess their credibility and trustworthiness. If we could get Suzanne Mettler, for example, a Cornell professor who did six years of research in this area, that would be great.Dahnshaulis (talk) 16:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The fact that you want to only allow people whom you feel have appropriate credentials to edit the articles shows you have a misunderstanding of how Misplaced Pages works. The content and who can edit the articles is not determined by user credentials, but by what is stated in third-party reliable sources and structured in a way that meets our content guidelines. One of those, re: due and undue weight, was mentioned when I purged the bulky list of sites, but there are many others as well which you may want to review, such as WP:OWN and WP:SOAPBOXING. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:44, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Barek, the problem is bigger than that. This is For-profit higher education in the United States before Dahnshaulis really got to work; this is the "after" version. Note the POV phrasing in the lead, note the many unreliable (or really way too POV-y) references. It seems to me that Dahnshaulis is on a mission here, and while that mission is--in my opinion--a laudable one, Misplaced Pages should not be engaged in what are, for our intents and purposes, crusades. Those ITT edits are of course unacceptable, and there's too much naming and shaming in edits like this and this. The problem is the presentation and the tone, and, as you noted, in addition the editor has a somewhat skewed idea of how we are supposed to work here ("Please talk to me before removing this information", "Please review carefully and talk to me before editing"). I think a topic ban here is in order, unless this editor successfully undergoes reprogramming in our gulag in San Francisco. Seriously, Dahnshaulis, I'm with you, but not inside Misplaced Pages. Drmies (talk) 19:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I think a topic ban would be useful. If the editor wishes to draw attention to problems with these institutions, he has to learn how to make his point without absurd lists, poor sources, and unclear accusations. BTW, I have just been accused of "whitewashing" for removing this uninformative and space-hogging list. However it's nice to know that I "may be an intelligent person". Paul B (talk) 20:24, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The more I look at the editor's work the more I am convinced that they are indeed on a crusade of sorts--for instance, on their talk page to another editor, "I'm not here to make friends, but to make entries that will be helpful in the democratization of education. As I have said in other places, your attempt at so-called 'neutrality is actually an act of complicity"--this displays the kind of us vs. them mentality that is counterproductive in a collaborative environment, and WP:NOTHERE seems more relevant by the minute. I am also struck by the comments by Bahooka and ElKevbo (editors with cool heads, experience, and common sense) and Dahnshaulis's response to their comments. Drmies (talk) 20:28, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Oh, yeah, El "Whitewasher" Kevbo, that's who I meant: User_talk:ElKevbo#Colorado_Tech_Whitewashing. Drmies (talk) 20:30, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Seeming like they have the best of intentions but are unwilling to listen or incapable of understanding, either way an attention getting block might be in order. CombatWombat42 (talk) 20:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't believe in those, and it would have to be phrased somewhat differently. An option is indefinite per WP:NOTHERE with an attached offer of "change your ways and we'll unblock you". An hour ago I thought that was way too drastic a measure. Drmies (talk) 20:39, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I think the best thing to do would be to consult an expert in the field of discussion, such as Cornell Professor Suzanne Mettler, who spent more than six years doing research in this area. Dahnshaulis (talk) 20:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Before you put me in the Misplaced Pages "gulag" as you call it, why not also consult ITT Educational Services (ESI) and ask them about the entries? Dahnshaulis (talk) 21:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Dahnshaulis we cannot be expected to "consult" experts on the whim of an editor. If you wish to draw attention to the shortcomings of commercial universities, do so by quoting scholars and other relevant commentators with due weight. Your current editing comprises listings of often irrelevant material, such as obscure law-suits the content of which is often not even identified. You would be better served looking at good quality articles and learning how to identify key content and arguments. Nor can you expect us to defer to your own alleged superior experitise. Paul B (talk) 21:17, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Paul, for people doing research regarding higher education in the US, this information is not obscure. Nor is this information trivial for people interested in matriculating to ITT Tech. Please carefully check the USA Today article and see how many ITT campuses are "red flag" schools. ITT Tech dominates the list. If an organization dominates a list, does one just make a small footnote (e.g. years the Yankees won the World Series)?
That's why I am politely asking you to undo your edit.Dahnshaulis (talk) 21:54, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) The best thing to do is to follow established Misplaced Pages policies as well as and content guidelines.
- As to contacting ESI directly - that would only provide non-verifiable commentary, which falls under the category of original research - so their comments would not be directly usable within an article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:22, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Does that mean someone else has to write about the information first, for it to be credible and trustworthy for Misplaced Pages?
Barek, what happens when the media and other organizations systematically censor information? For example, no major news outlet has written about Richard Blum's relationship with for-profit colleges in five years, even as for-profit schools have gained greater public scrutiny. Conservative as well as liberal media outlets haven't touched the subject. Yet Richard Blum is a California Regent and Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband. Does that mean that this story is insignificant? link Dahnshaulis (talk) 21:54, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- You should read Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not, and if you can't figure out how your comments here are completely at odds with what Misplaced Pages is, then you cannot edit here. I feel like I'm flogging a long-dead horse: no original research, and neutrality at all time. Drmies (talk) 22:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Extra extra, all you Twitterers: you've read by now that Dahnshaulis told the world that "Misplaced Pages editors considering a ban on my activities for presenting too much information". Well, Dahnshaulis, they are not: they are considering a ban for your lousy and non-neutral editing, for your abuse of Misplaced Pages as a soapbox from which to declaim the rights and wrongs of the world. Misplaced Pages was not invented for that--that's what you have Twitter, MySpace, Wikia, and WordPress for. Let me just add that I am highly sympathetic to your cause, but you are going about it totally wrong--if you had had a bit less zeal and more smarts, you could have improved these articles and thereby bring out what some might refer to as the truth of, basically, taxpayer-funded "education" that does no one any service but the CEOs and stockholders. I would never say that; it's not a neutral statement.
I am this close to blocking you per WP:NOTHERE, so you can ponder the problem with statements like "no major news outlet has written about Richard Blum's relationship with for-profit colleges in five years" (hint: if no reliable source has written about it, it can't be in an encyclopedia). Drmies (talk) 22:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Dahnshaulis: You wrote, "Does that mean someone else has to write about the information first, for it to be credible and trustworthy for Misplaced Pages?" Yes, that's exactly what it means. You may have thought you were being ironic, but in fact you've quite accurately paraphrased the formal, written Misplaced Pages policy on this. Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, a tertiary source. —Steve Summit (talk) 22:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
User intentionally editing while logged out
I know issues like that should be reported at WP:SPI, but I don't know who is the sockmaster, so I'll do the thing here.
The thing is that: An user was editing while logged out and has put an uncivil comment at User talk:Malik Shabazz, so I removed it and gave the user a level 1 npa user warning. Then, I went to his contributions and reverted an edit that was supposely "vandalism revert", but it was just a "revert of vandalism revert", since it was just a re-add of nowiki tags on a template that screwed it up. He then sended me a message which harassed an administrator, so I replied to it and gave him a level 2 harass user warning, and left a Talkback template just in case. Then, he replied to me saying that I was a "budding administrator" and that I was not here to contribute to the encyclopedia only because I removed his comment, gave the level 2 warning and left him a Talkback template, then the user said that I was not able to really improve articles just because I didn't know to spell "harass". After that, I replied to him saying I was not an administrator (since I accidentally misinterpreted the thing) and that I fight vandalism which counts as being here to build an encyclopedia, and told him to take a look at WP:NOTNOTHERE and that he is the one that appears to be not here to build an encyclopedia. Then he told me to look at WP:NOTNOTHERE, which I had already did, just because he said that he was expressing unpopular opinions in a "non-disruptive manner". Then I told him that he was expressing unpopular opinions in a disruptive manner because at least 85% of his contributions were uncivil comments which appears to meet WP:NOTHERE. Then he told me I was not civil just because I didn't add "Thanks" or "Regards" at the end of my messages, so I told him that that applies only to level 1 and some level 2 user warning templates. Then he told me he had made about a thousand constructive edits to Misplaced Pages on various IP addresses and an user account, and that he has edited while logged out just to not risk being blocked by expressing such unpopular opinions. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 19:47, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The learned administrators here can, as can anybody else, see what I told you and what you told me by looking at the discussion itself. Thanks, 223.227.222.20 (talk) 16:24, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- The Ip address might be useful. Not sure what can be done without some more information but we might be able to do some detective work to figure something out (no promises mind you). Amortias (T) (C) 19:50, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Good luck to you! 223.227.222.20 (talk) 16:24, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Scratch that is 223.227.98.130. Amortias (T)(C) 19:55, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I hardblocked the IP, let's see what happens. — east718 | talk | 20:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
With this post here, ToonLucas22 has provided a public exhibition of his appalling writing skills. From writing "Then" repeatedly and without succeeding it with a comma, to the usage of incorrect English constructs like "an user" not one, but two times. His post should removed as soon as possible from here because if a normal reader chances upon this page, he would be left wondering whether this is the quality standard of those of who write for Misplaced Pages.
ToonLucas22 is unfit for editing Misplaced Pages because (i) he cannot spell simple English words, (ii) he easily misinterprets others' comments, and (iii) he forgets to sign his posts. All this happened in a single discussion (User talk:ToonLucas22#Reply to comment on User talk:223.227.98.130). Besides, he is prone to needlessly replying to the snide comments of fun-seeking editors, showing his mental and emotional incapability to continue on Misplaced Pages. Thanks, 223.227.222.20 (talk) 16:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Did you even know English is not my main language? And it looks like you changed your IP in an attempt to evade a block and/or avoid scrutiny. Lets begin answering: (i) As I said, English is not my main language, but I have a lot of knowledge, though not full knowledge. (ii) I know humorous content is acceptable, but your uncivil comments are just not humorous. (iii) It is common to forget to sign a post for when someone is rushed dealing with other editors. Now stop attempting to avoid blocks. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 16:38, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Im hearing a duck form the direction of 223.227.222.20 (talk · contribs).Amortias (T)(C) 16:42, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Continued personal attacks, despite warning and requests to stop, and apologies made
Princessruby has continued to throw personal attacks against me (1 2 3 4) as a user, despite being asked and told several times (by myself) that she should comment on edit content, and not editors themselves. This user has exhibiting owning of a page they've created and incivility with their words. While I acknowledge I might've been harsh in my actions, they were never in bad faith at any given time and I did apologize for them, stating that if they felt attacked by my actions it was not the intention (which was ignored); I've tried discussing my edits and reasons for editing, as requested by another editor at Talk:Max A. George, and upon explaining myself, I'm still given personal insults thrown at me. This user exhibits extreme anger (as evident in their editing and their user page where they claim their edits as "their work"). They've expressed their interest in "not discussing with me" anymore, so I am bringing this here to the ANI. Again, my edits have remained in the good-faith of Misplaced Pages, and while they might've been bluntly bold and that pages are always a work in progress, I feel as if my attempt to further help pages grow are being over-looked and not accepted; instead, I'm being called names and talked about, as if I'm some evil-spirited human being, which I am not, even following an apology if I had made Princessruby feel attacked, as that would never be my intention at all. livelikemusic 21:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Okay so it was wrong of me to call you stubborn and annoying and etc, and for that I' sorry. But what you have been doing lately isn't right either. You keep removing the citations and information added by me, its like it has become your hobby. It's like you're always after the articles that I create. This isn't the first time or second or third. User:Livelikemusic has already done that so many times that I lost count of it. Editors are suppose to help other editors and not make them feel down. I'd also like to point out that this user left me a warning message on my talk page on January 16th 2015 - "You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Misplaced Pages, as you did at Max A. George". I found this message quite rude, because I did not disrupt Misplaced Pages. This person deletes every citation and information I add, and when I retype the information back and add the citation, he gets back at me by leaving me a warning message. I don't comprehend what his problem is. It's like he can never be wrong, he's always right, but it doesn't work that way. Nobody is perfect, when you're wrong you're wrong, no matter what. I've never had problems with other editors why just him? It's because he's at fault or maybe we both are. I've been a Misplaced Pages editor for a really long time now, and it's really frustrating when someone keeps removing the citations and information added by a user with the right sources. --Princessruby (talk) 21:42, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- As stated on the talk page of Max A. George, I apologized for the removal of certain citations; the complete removal was not made intentionally, something I did acknowledge when inquired by another editor, and have apologized multiple times since then (which continue to be ignored). As explained, I merely moved selected pieces of information to the appropriate places within the article, or I removed certain statements that were not appropriately written or stated within a source; again, all in good-faith. And again, I've stated my apologies if the user felt attacked, and that my editing is very blunt and bold (as pointed above), however, I feel they were all valid and justified. I'm following guidelines lined up by Misplaced Pages, and have even cited them in my reasons behind my edits, which have been automatically undone. livelikemusic 21:48, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- But can't you see that you keep doing that all the time and that it's starting to bother me. So you keep removing the citations added by me unintentionally all the time? The source which I added to support the information was correct because I checked it. I know which sources to add and which ones to not. Yes, I felt attacked, frankly speaking I've been feeling this way for a while now, I even thought of quitting Misplaced Pages once because of the way you made me feel. But I didn't not to, because of my love for Misplaced Pages and being an editor. And btw everything was appropriately written, but yes about the elocution classes that he took it was right of you to add it in the career part, but the rest was just wrong. Like removing the "After The Wanted split up, George moved to LA to pursue an acting career. " This information is true all the way. I has also added the source that supports it but u removed it along with the information. Anyway....I've made my point clear. I will just wait for the Admins reply now. Whatever he or she decides will be for the best. Thanks. --Princessruby (talk) 22:55, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- As I stated on Max's talk page, multiple times, information concerning his elocution classes or move to Hollywood does not belong in "early life" as it has zero to do with his early life. Everything was re-worded and moved to the appropriate place within the article (his acting career portion), nor does that excuse the personal attacks that were made, which are in clear violation of Misplaced Pages's policy, as pointed out both at the talk page and here. I've apologized (as I've stated) multiple times; I don't know how many more I'm expected to do such. I'm not going to bicker back and forth once, and to refrain from speaking in continued circles, I will await for an administration to request my comments further. livelikemusic 23:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Comment I've come here as a result of livelikemusic asking me to take a look at what's been happening at the Max A. George article as well as that article's talk page. After having read what's been going on there, I noted this report had been filed. From looking at everything at the article and the article talk page, I can see why livelikemusic was, and is, so concerned. In addition to the numerous and egregious personal attacks aimed at livelikemusic, it does appear that there is article ownership occurring on the part of Princessruby. The lack of edit summaries are also troubling -- over 2000 of Ruby's 3600+ edits have had no edit summary. I've always seen chronic lack of edit summaries as something that typically goes hand-in-hand with article ownership, but that's me. The article in question was originally created by Ruby, and on her own user page she states, "One thing I hate the most is when people mess my work up." Ruby is essentially saying livelikemusic is intruding on her "territory" and is an edit warrior. As far as the edit warring, it always takes two to perform that dance, but Ruby's EW behavior definitely has an intentionally disruptive (and not caring whether she's being disruptive) tone to it. Ruby has already established she dislikes anyone editing her work, hence, she's going to protect her "work" no matter what. There seems to be a severe lack of understanding on Ruby's part over what contributing here means, that it's a cooperative work, not something we do on our own with our "work" never being changed, altered, or improved upon. I do see good faith on the part of livelikemusic (he seems to be attempting to take the high road) and nothing in the way of good faith on the part of Princessruby. From my perspective, a come-to-jesus meeting regarding article ownership behavior and a subsequent attitude adjustment seems to be in order here. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 23:13, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Meters
OP blocked as a trolling sock. Someone (not me I'm lazy) probably ought to make a note at SPI to help keep track. --Floquenbeam (talk) 01:47, 7 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Meters has kept removing my messages on His talk page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Meters and is in a edit war its got soo annoying I also warned him but would not listen its gone way to far. Please get him blocked I wanted to have peace with him but he would not and say I am trolling my talk page even though i am not. I was just saying sorry about my mistake to him but made it an ego issue. Thank you Admin Ranabhai (talk) 22:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I am not being obnoxious do not treat me that is rude. Ranabhai (talk) 00:24, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- He has the right to remove messages on his talk page. Removal of them implies he has read them. Edit warring would be another matter. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 22:36, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Also, why are you removing comments from his talk page which are not directed at you? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 22:40, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Ranabhai:, if you post to his talk page again, I will block you from editing. You're being obnoxious. -- Floquenbeam (talk) 22:39, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
He has been in an edit war and has no right to do that I was trying to cooperate and team up and was accusing me that I am trolling him for no reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranabhai (talk • contribs) 22:41, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- An edit war on which article? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 22:42, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
On his talk page g He had an edit war — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranabhai (talk • contribs) 22:43, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- He has the right to delete messages on his talk page, and you do not have the right to delete messages he has posted there, especially when they aren't directed at you. It is YOU who is edit-warring on his talk page. And as the admin notes, you will stop it. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 22:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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- People can remove comments from their user talk pages if they want to. See WP:BLANKING. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 00:01, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- User:Ranabhai. The only one in an edit war on Meters talk page is you. Look at Misplaced Pages:Edit warring#3RR exemptions #2. And you forgot to notify him about this section which I'll do for you. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 00:06, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Cambridgebayweather please block Meters he is in an edit war with me becuase he kept deletin my messages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranabhai (talk • contribs)
- Im starting to see this might be a competancy issue as the editor either hasnt understood or is ignoring the information being presented to them about WP:3RR.Amortias (T)(C) 00:28, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Like I said, people can remove messages from their user talk pages when they want to. See WP:BLANKING. Also, please see WP:3RRNO. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 00:34, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Admin, meters never lisened to me but kept deleting my messages even though I said sorry for my mistake and don't block him but tell him that please stop removing my messages and listen to me for once all he does is bad things to me and a note to all comments from other editors who said I am wrong HE Needs to stop this arrogance and learn to forgive people instead of ignoring and Plus YOU people worry about yourself and don't interfere when I am talking to an administrator do your own thing And one last Thing Let meters know that he has made this an ego issue and must stop it or else you may get blocked in The future. That is my side of the story whether you agree with me or not and to the editor who is calling me obnoxious is that you should mind your language cause what you think is wrong. If you agree with me or not I will not talk with this Meters or even mention him ever again I am done with this Issue.
Ranabhai (talk) 00:56, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- How many times do I have to tell you? See WP:BLANKING. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 01:22, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- If the complainant were pulling those shenanigans on my talk page, he'd have been blocked already. When an admin says a user is being "obnoxious", it is well to pay attention. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 01:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Stop arguing and get over with it you brat and how many times did I tell you to to mind your own business stop talking about it and shutup
Ranabhai (talk) 01:30, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Your stay here is going to be a short one. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 01:32, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Let's see how many how many ways this is wrong. Ranabhai
- took me to ANI without letting me know.
- took me to ANI rather than 3RR to complain about edit warring.
- took me to ANI for edit warring 10 minutes after leaving a warning, when I had made no edits.
- is complaining about me removing his comments from my talk page.
- was told in my last response to him I explicitly stated that I would delete rather than respond to any further edits from him on my talk page. I also left this message on his talk page .
- agreed to stay off my talk page
- This is all after he was warned by another editor for edit warring on my page for deleting my comments (comments that were not directed to him). There seems to be a behavioral similarity between this user and the various socks of User:Theshitman that I have recently reported (a new account with an interest in Indian topics shows up on my talk page very quickly after creation even without any interaction with me). See Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Theshitman
- Could I ask for boomerang block for trolling and harassment please (unless someone sees enough for a sock block)? Thanks, Meters (talk) 01:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I believe User:Sniping Goonz is also related to the sock family. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:38, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I'd be shocked if it weren't. Could be worth adding to the SPI, even though already blocked (and having named another sock in the process, Ian Doyle Capita). ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 01:42, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I believe User:Sniping Goonz is also related to the sock family. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:38, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Let's see how many how many ways this is wrong. Ranabhai
Gaming the outcome of a requested move
I have just closed the requested move at Talk:2014 Odessa clashes. RGloucester (talk · contribs) was against the move, and is apparently trying to game the outcome of the RM by removing all article content at the new title and turning it into a DAB page, presumably ending up with the other page being back at his preferred title.
I reverted his edit to restore the article, and asked him not to do so, but he immediately reverted back to his DAB page.
Some action is clearly needed here, so can some other admins please intervene. Locking the article might be a start. Cheers, Number 57 23:49, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- The scope of the article has changed. The move is fine, as the editors involved must've wanted an article on the other Odessa incidents of 2014. Therefore, I'm happy to oblige, as I said in the move discussion. This is now a summary article, and the individual incidents will get their own articles. There is no other way to move forward. The RM participants decided they wanted an increased scope, and I'm granting them that wish. If they did not want to broaden the scope of the article, they should not've have voiced support for this proposal. RGloucester — ☎ 23:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Can I have administrator assistance please? I've just finished writing the new summary article on the 2014 Odessa clashes, in line with the RM result. I now need the old edit history transferred to 2 May 2014 Odessa clashes, so that article can be restored. I'll start working on the December clashes article shortly. RGloucester — ☎ 01:04, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- As I requested, the history logs were moved to May 2014 Odessa clashes from 2014 Odessa clashes. --George Ho (talk) 12:30, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
@George Ho and Anthony Appleyard: Can I ask why you have moved the pages? The 2 May 2014 Odessa clashes article was moved to 2014 Odessa clashes as the result of an RM now located at Talk:2014 Odessa clashes#Requested move 30 December 2014. The claim above that the summary article was written " in line with the RM result" is a blatant falsehood, and I'm not sure why anyone has fallen for it. This is a clear gaming of the system – an article which there was clear consensus to move has now ended up back at the title preferred by the sole opposer. Number 57 21:12, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- The scope of the article changed with the move to "2014 Odessa clashes", to encompass all 2014 clashes in Odessa. I've done this expansion, wrote a new article on the subject to match the RM result. The 2 May clashes have their own article, and a summary section in the 2014 clashes article. RGloucester — ☎ 21:15, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Back then, I probably would have been aware of the December bombings in Odessa. However, I was uncertain about its notability because no mainstream media have reported such event. Also, voters were not aware of it, and RGloucester neglected to notify us about the bombings. I requested that the mess be cleaned up, but I see that consensus must be adhered. Unfortunately, the discussion has become useless and void since the mess. George Ho (talk) 22:59, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- The scope of the article changed with the move to "2014 Odessa clashes", to encompass all 2014 clashes in Odessa. I've done this expansion, wrote a new article on the subject to match the RM result. The 2 May clashes have their own article, and a summary section in the 2014 clashes article. RGloucester — ☎ 21:15, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- See (A) User talk:Anthony Appleyard#!!!! and (B) this edit of the history-merge request page. In (B) I realize that I may have misunderstood what "the proposed article" and "that article" meant :: that is another reason for people writing instructions to repeat names and avoid elegant variation. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:10, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of new articles
Nothing to see here. Amortias (T)(C) 00:39, 7 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
New articles should not be tagged with a {{speedy}} 43 seconds after their creation, and spamming talk pages with a speedy is utter dubious: If I'm a vandal or still working on the page, I'll simply remove the speedy and end with a disfigured user talk page. –Be..anyone (talk) 00:31, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- The user in question has been advised about this (in a much friendlier manner I might add) by anotehr user only a few minutes before your warning and has advised they will be more careful in future. Amortias (T)(C) 00:39, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Persistent harassment, sockpuppetry, and vandalism by long-term disruptive editor - Again
- K6kaisme (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- K6katherollback (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- K6kaisbacktorollback (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- K6kaisasockpuppet (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- K6ka19 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- ChristmasHaterK6ka19 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- FredisK6ka (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Ilovethesims5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- 50.82.40.187issorry (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- CoryMach (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- CoryMach2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- CoryMach3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- CoryMach4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- 50.82.40.187 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
You guys have already had this incident brought up by another member of the Sims wiki community. I'm bringing this up again for the following reasons.
The issue originates at The Sims Wiki on Wikia, where IP 50.82.40.187 vandalized the wiki. I happen to be a roll-backer over there as well as an experienced editor, though not as experienced as this user.
But anyway, that user has since then tracked me down to Misplaced Pages, where they began vandalizing. They often leave me talk page messages falsely accusing me of being homosexual and wanting me to have sex with them, even though we're not in the same country. They said that they were sorry for creating all these sock-puppets on wikia, yet they are showing no signs of improvement, or any evidence that they have improved their behaviour.
In addition to harrasing me here on the wikipedia, they continually send me private messages on ModtheSims on how they think I should seek revenge against those who haven't supported my Sims wiki request for administrator-ship. Surely they realise that if I ever want to become an administrator on the Sims wiki, there is no way that I'm going to threaten to become a troll instead, or purposely land myself in the bad books of my fellow Sims wiki editors, not after being a dedicated and featured editor of that wiki.
Their behaviour at this stage can easily be ignored, but nonetheless it would be nice if an administrator could resolve this situation and stop this user from harassing me.
Forgive me if my message isn't in good standing, but I don't recall ever reporting another user here on the wikipedia before. -- C.Syde (talk | contribs) 01:16, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- It appears that it all started when User:CoryMach threatened to make sockpuppets and vandalize Misplaced Pages and The Sims Wikia if he was not unblocked . Clearly not here to contribute to the encyclopedia. BTW vandalism is reported here and sockpuppetry is reported here. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 01:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- The username was taken from the username of a heavily disruptive sock-puppeteer from 2012. Apparently CoryMach (or as he is known on the Sims wiki Ilovethesims199) claims to be CoryMach7 (MachkovichMonster777)'s successor.
- P.S. Do I have to report it to both the WP:RVAN and the WP:SPI? This behaviour seems to fall under both types of unacceptable behaviour. -- C.Syde (talk | contribs) 02:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Quick note: WP:AIV is the same page as WP:RVAN, but "AIV" is much better known; I've never seen "RVAN" before. Response to your question: AIV/RVAN is for stuff that's rather blatantly obvious, e.g. what Housecrasher157 was doing. You should generally go there in an open-and-shut situation for a quick resolution. When you have a more complex situation, like this one, you're better off coming here or going to WP:SPI, since they're set up to allow investigations, but even if you come here for a blatant vandal, it's not wrong: you just might not get as fast of a response. Nyttend (talk) 07:01, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- C.Syde65, whom exactly should we investigate? I began to create a report at WP:SPI to request checkuser (looking for sleepers, related accounts that haven't done anything yet), but then I noticed that all of these accounts are already blocked. I'm just not clear about which accounts, or which IPs aside from 50.82.40.187, have been causing problems. Nyttend (talk) 07:11, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- P.S. Do I have to report it to both the WP:RVAN and the WP:SPI? This behaviour seems to fall under both types of unacceptable behaviour. -- C.Syde (talk | contribs) 02:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Harassment and attempted outing
NAC: User:Nola Carveth indef blocked by Drmies. BMK (talk) 19:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
User:Nola Carveth registered on Feb. 5, and within two hours was on Jimbo Wales' talk page making untoward, non-AGF "promotional" allegations about me, on circumstantial evidence that three other editors, none of whom I know, are also refuting. One of those disinterested third parties agrees that Nola Carveth appears to be attempting an Outing. And despite having four editors, myself included, telling him to lay off this harassment, he is obsessively combing through 10 years worth of edits to make accusations.
Other editors have told him he's off-base, and I have told him to stop obsessing about me and stop harassing me on Jimbo Wales' talk page, at this thread. When I finally, after one polite request, asked him to heed four editors and stop this remarkably personal harassment, he would not. When I said I would need to escalate this to ANI if he keep harassing me, he told me to go ahead.
Have you ever seen anything like this, where someone registers with the apparent agenda to go after somebody? No matter what I or anyone else says, he simply continues on this obsessive path — "building a case" from some 45 edits out of nearly 95,000 in 10 years. This is obsessive, and I sincerely request help to end this harassment. With thanks, Tenebrae (talk) 01:27, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've seen that kind of thing many times, and typically it's a block-evading sock. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 01:29, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yeah it sounds like a blocked editor with a grudge. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:31, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Revert war at Bobbi Kristina Brown
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One editor says this data is fodder because the "altercation" is only "possible". The other says it is an active police investigation and therefore is germane. Need eyes, please. —ATinySliver/ 02:39, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Edit warring reports go here. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 02:42, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Procedural: If you're going to close something as moved, do you not have to actually move it first? —ATinySliver/ 02:50, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Happy? You won't get the needed response here warrior, head to edit war board, or better use twinkle for a nice neat report. EoRdE6 02:53, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
@ATinySliver: please read WP:NOTNEWS. Admins, we need page protection. Viriditas (talk) 03:10, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I am quite familiar with NOTNEWS, and I stand by my assessment that the data is germane. —ATinySliver/ 03:16, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- In that case I recommend a topic ban based on the BLP sanctions already in place. You have been edit warring over a TMZ source, contrary to the stipulations of the sanctions. Viriditas (talk) 03:29, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Unnecessary; I am fucking done with this article. If this is the response to good faith efforts to improve the encyclopedia, I'll just revert to my own tiny sliver. —ATinySliver/ 05:04, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- In that case I recommend a topic ban based on the BLP sanctions already in place. You have been edit warring over a TMZ source, contrary to the stipulations of the sanctions. Viriditas (talk) 03:29, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Vandalism report of Mariaavamidouathens
Article deleted. Nothing to justify blocking here, but the user has been appropriately warned. Lankiveil 07:40, 7 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Hello, I am reporting a user named Mariaavamidouathens. I am reporting him for creating-vandalising an article called "Nikko Sunset". I tagged the article with a deletion tag due to copy-paste material and a wrongly formatted article, with no sources whatsoever. I am requesting the article be deleted and this user be blocked, due to him taking the tag down, when clearly that article should be deleted. I would like somebody to look into it ASAP! CookieMonster755 (talk) 04:59, 7 February 2015 (UTC).
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ANI is not RSN Spartaz 11:04, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Endorse Spartaz. RSN is certainly a place more apt. All collapsed discussions are now archived. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 13:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC) |
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Consensus is that TMZ is at the tabloid journalism end of sources and its use should be avoided on BLPs where possible. Nobody has been blocked; further discussion should continue on the talk page or WP:BLPN. Ritchie333 09:54, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. See also: Misplaced Pages:Edit warring § User:Winkelvi and User:ATinySliver self-reported by User:ATinySliver (Result: ) Sysop: Seicer I have now been threatened twice with blocks by this sysop; once for something that never happened and once suggesting I would "persist" in an "edit war" that consists of one partial reversion and one full reversion, the latter made more than two hours ago. In addition, this sysop has engaged in circular, unsupported reasoning in response to my cited arguments with respect to whether TMZ is a reliable news source. Finally, "we are done here" is dismissive if not outright disparaging. This cannot possibly be conduct becoming a sysop. Can it? —ATinySliver/ 05:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
I am seeing comments above such as "TMZ is a celebrity gossip site (it's their slogan!), not a reliable source. Anyone who persists in adding unreliable content from a gossip site to an article, despite warnings to the contrary, needs to be blocked." and "TMZ is not a reputable nor a credible source. That's pretty well been established for some time now." While I would tend to agree in the case of BLPs (which have a higher standard ), in general, multiple discussions at RSN show that the reliability of TMZ it is not as open and shut as the above comments imply. See
Note that I am not commenting on any behavior by Seicer or ATinySliver. I have not examined the edits in question. I am simply pointing out that the reliability of TMZ outside of BLPs is not as open and shut as the above comments imply. --Guy Macon (talk) 06:01, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
I did not start an edit war; I ended it. I reported myself as part of the "war" in an effort to be equitable while requesting clarity from editors and/or sysops who might actually be willing to provide an answer. Instead, I am confronted by someone who, in essence, is saying "the opinion of this single editor supersedes the opinion of that single editor" (despite circular arguments presented by this editor and actual evidence presented by that editor). I am perfectly willing, able and happy to abide by a consensus, were one actually reached; I am excoriated instead (and threatened with formal excoriation), for doing everything right, by a sysop who is saying, in so many words, "fuck consensus, I am consensus, and I'll block you if you go against me." The article in question is off my watchlist, and permanently. —ATinySliver/ 06:21, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. (edit conflict) There is no consensus that TMZ.com is not a reliable source. (Again, BLPs have a higher standard; I am talking about non-BLP uses.) The reliable sources noticeboard links I gave above contain the following quotes (which should be read in context -- the same threads contain plenty of comments expressing the opposite view):
Simply asserting again and again that TMZ is not a reliable source is not a very compelling argument given the rather obvious lack of consensus on the reliable sources noticeboard. --Guy Macon (talk) 09:58, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
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How long must a given IP address stay suspected of being a so-called "sockpuppet"?
When any given IP user gets accused of being a sockpuppet of a named user (which should only be done if the IP user was abusing the system at the time of their writing, but is unfortunately sometimes done even without abuse from that IP user), and then if, for some dumb reason, that IP user is given the suspected-sockpuppet label, how long must it stay there--even if that IP user was never blocked, and regardless of how long, if for any time, the named user the IP is accused of socking was blocked? Is it just like that for the remainder of the Misplaced Pages's existence, or... what, exactly? And whose decision is that supposed to be, anyway? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.166.13 (talk) 07:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Remainder of Misplaced Pages's existence would be more like it. It's the decision of SPI clerks entirely. And they can only be over-ruled by ArbCom. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 08:08, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, QEDK. But why, if most IP addresses are shared, and so a new person using that address then has to hold onto that label, as well as the named user never being let go of that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.166.13 (talk) 08:31, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Shared IP addresses are blocked for a short period of time (the maximum can be ~2 months) - keeping in mind that it's shared. However, if we find a LTA from such an IP for years, admins will indef block the IP. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 08:34, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I believe IPs are almost never indef blocked - static ones are blocked for long definite periods. By the way, I think the relevant term is dynamic (vs static) rather than shared - dynamic ones are re-allocated at intervals, sometimes very short ones, and I don't think sock tags would be left on those for very long. Squinge (talk) 11:03, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- By shared, he does mean "shared" i.e. when one IP is used by a number of people. For example, intranets which have only one exit point to the internet have one external IP address only and a WHOIS will only point to that intranet and not be able to pinpoint a specific computer in it, since all have the same IP address. Since, institutions and work places have a lot of computers, shared IP addresses save resources (i.e. hardware load and money) because only one or a few addresses need to be allocated. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 13:20, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I believe IPs are almost never indef blocked - static ones are blocked for long definite periods. By the way, I think the relevant term is dynamic (vs static) rather than shared - dynamic ones are re-allocated at intervals, sometimes very short ones, and I don't think sock tags would be left on those for very long. Squinge (talk) 11:03, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Shared IP addresses are blocked for a short period of time (the maximum can be ~2 months) - keeping in mind that it's shared. However, if we find a LTA from such an IP for years, admins will indef block the IP. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 08:34, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, QEDK. But why, if most IP addresses are shared, and so a new person using that address then has to hold onto that label, as well as the named user never being let go of that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.166.13 (talk) 08:31, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Lowercase sigmabot III
I notice that Lowercase sigmabot III archives some of the open discussions here when they have gone quiet for a few days, but not other open discussions which have gone equally quiet. Is this a malfunction to be reported, or some subtlety I have missed? Either way, it's darned annoying. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 13:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, that's how it functions. The date of the last reply in a thread is taken into consideration. Add to that the no. of days defined in the template and that's when it will be archived. One more consideration is the no. of bytes and no. of threads remaining. For example, archiving will occur only when pages exceeds a certain no. of bytes and a talk page will not archive if the no. of threads falls equal to the one defined in the template parameter. If you could point me to the page, I could make more deductions. If you are sure, you can contact Σ (talk · contribs) and if you're sure that it's malfunctioning, you can go to the shutoff page and change the text to "false" with a reason in the edit summary and talk page message to Σ. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 13:47, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- This right here is the page in question.
- Here is ANI moments before the bot ran:
- Note the last edit timestamps in two discussions:
- Conduct of J Doug McLean - last edit 10:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC), although the diff betrays it as 10:42:
- Tom Ruen warring with gross incivility - last edit stamp 22:06, 31 January 2015 (UTC), and in fact edited again at 22:47:
- At 00:41, 4 February 2015, Lowercase sigmabot III archived the topic edited more recently at 22:47 but not the topic that had lain unedited since 10:42:
- — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 20:50, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
User:Darkstar1st on a site-wide purge of any mention of "libertarian socialism"
Darkstar1st (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has declared on the Libertarianism talk page that libertarians should like capitalism and that libertarian socialism, libertarian communism and libertarian marxism are (apparently) some kind of myth. The editor has chosen to expunge that myth from WP by starting up edit wars on just about any page describing libertarian socialist politics:
None of these mentions of libsoc are the least bit controversial, to my knowledge, and the political groups in question all describe themselves as libertarian, as typically confirmed by native-language articles. Offering citations doesn't seem to make any difference at all, so I don't know how to proceed. fi (talk) 00:54, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Looked at the ref for PPK and Darkstar1st appears to be correct. All references to liberarianism are in reference to Öcalan, not PPK. Can't comment on others, but the user does seem to be editing specifically on this issue. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:38, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- The reference on PKK describes it as communalist, which is a strain of libertartarian socialism, and aligns it with Murray Bookchin, a prominent libertarian socialist. fi (talk) 01:54, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- We need an RS that says specifically that it's libertarian socialist. Otherwise it's OR. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 03:35, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- I don't understand. That document does specifically identify it as libertarian socialist unambiguously, in exactly the same way that a manifesto proclaiming Maoism would identify a group as Marxist-Leninist. Bookchin's communalism is a form of libertarian socialism, just like a lemon is a type citrus fruit. B ⊃ A fi (talk) 03:50, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, you're assuming the result you want. You say a lemon is a citrus fruit, but another editor objects, unless you have a citation from a reliable source that says that a lemon is a citrus fruit, you can't use that in an article. If someone disputes it, you need a citation from a reliable source that says Maoism is a form of Marxist-Leninism, or you can't use it. Does your source say specifically that "Bookchin's communalism is a form of libertarian socialism" (or words to that effect)? If it doesn't, then it's not the source you need. Your prior knowledge is not sufficient, you need a source. BMK (talk) 13:48, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- It doesn't specifically say it. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 17:48, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- No, that's just patently silly. Misplaced Pages (on the articles for communalism, Murray Bookchin, libertarian socialism, for example) is absolutely plastered in references confirming that Bookchin's communalism is uncontroversially a type of libertarian socialism. What you're saying is like saying it's OR to call a "poet" a "writer" because a source explicitly called him a "poet" and there's no reference literally saying "writer." I'm not offering my personal knowledge as a reference; it's just documented all over Misplaced Pages that one is a superset of the other. A square is a rectangle, so we don't need a reference on something being a rectangle if we have a source saying it's a square. More importantly, the editor has not objected as you say and has brought no credible objection or dispute to the discussion. This is just a continuation of the abuse already on the editor's rap sheet. fi (talk) 19:04, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- "Common sense", for want of a better word, tells us that a lemon is a citrus fruit, and a poet is a writer. It tells us no such thing about the relationship between Bookchin's communalism and libertarian socialism. It is way outside the bounds of common knowledge, and therefore needs a source. BMK (talk) 21:20, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Then "common sense" tells us, in the exact same way, that a Maoist is a Marxist-Leninist, especially when there's dozens of citations, all over WP, saying B ⊃ A -- same as references describing Bookchin, communalism and (shockingly) libertarian municipalism as libertarian. You can pick your favorite reference, but you're the first person to challenge this, as User:Darkstar1st did not. So, I don't even understand why we're talking about it. fi (talk) 21:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- How does common sense tell us that the World Socialist Party of the United States is libertarian socialist? Contrary to your claim upthread, I'm not aware of them ever having described themselves as such. —Psychonaut (talk) 17:51, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- WSPUS was the US contingent of the World Socialist Movement, which was described as libertarian socialist, for example, in Anarchy Magazine, Volume 3, 1963, page 178 (can't link directly, so search for "World Socialist Movement" and "non-state libertarian socialists"), among numerous other sources. "Common sense" would just be transitive logic. If we know where a superset belongs, we know how to describe a subset. fi (talk) 21:39, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- How does common sense tell us that the World Socialist Party of the United States is libertarian socialist? Contrary to your claim upthread, I'm not aware of them ever having described themselves as such. —Psychonaut (talk) 17:51, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Then "common sense" tells us, in the exact same way, that a Maoist is a Marxist-Leninist, especially when there's dozens of citations, all over WP, saying B ⊃ A -- same as references describing Bookchin, communalism and (shockingly) libertarian municipalism as libertarian. You can pick your favorite reference, but you're the first person to challenge this, as User:Darkstar1st did not. So, I don't even understand why we're talking about it. fi (talk) 21:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- "Common sense", for want of a better word, tells us that a lemon is a citrus fruit, and a poet is a writer. It tells us no such thing about the relationship between Bookchin's communalism and libertarian socialism. It is way outside the bounds of common knowledge, and therefore needs a source. BMK (talk) 21:20, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, you're assuming the result you want. You say a lemon is a citrus fruit, but another editor objects, unless you have a citation from a reliable source that says that a lemon is a citrus fruit, you can't use that in an article. If someone disputes it, you need a citation from a reliable source that says Maoism is a form of Marxist-Leninism, or you can't use it. Does your source say specifically that "Bookchin's communalism is a form of libertarian socialism" (or words to that effect)? If it doesn't, then it's not the source you need. Your prior knowledge is not sufficient, you need a source. BMK (talk) 13:48, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- I don't understand. That document does specifically identify it as libertarian socialist unambiguously, in exactly the same way that a manifesto proclaiming Maoism would identify a group as Marxist-Leninist. Bookchin's communalism is a form of libertarian socialism, just like a lemon is a type citrus fruit. B ⊃ A fi (talk) 03:50, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- We need an RS that says specifically that it's libertarian socialist. Otherwise it's OR. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 03:35, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- The reference on PKK describes it as communalist, which is a strain of libertartarian socialism, and aligns it with Murray Bookchin, a prominent libertarian socialist. fi (talk) 01:54, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- User:Finx may well be wrong, that is a content issue for discussion. However, if, as they claim, User:Darkstar1st is not discussing the disagreement, we have a behaviour issue. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:45, 4 February 2015 (UTC).
- A quick look shows that, for example, this edit by Darkstar1st does have an edit summary that points to the a discussion section on the talk page. I think, therefore, that it would be a better plan to engage on the article talk pages than pursue this AN/I. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:54, 4 February 2015 (UTC).
- A quick look shows that, for example, this edit by Darkstar1st does have an edit summary that points to the a discussion section on the talk page. I think, therefore, that it would be a better plan to engage on the article talk pages than pursue this AN/I. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:54, 4 February 2015 (UTC).
- In one edit Darkstar reverts the addition of a Spanish language source (in an article on a Chilean political party) with the edit summary "Engligh language sources only please". That is unjustified. We have no requirement for sources to be in English. For writing about political parties in non-English speaking countries particularly it would seem a particularly silly requirement.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 21:48, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- On the face of it, this certainly appears to be a behavioural issue - and if Darkstar1st thinks that it is appropriate to remove all mention of a significant trend in the historical development of socialist thought from Misplaced Pages, as appears to be his/her objective, we need to do something about it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Note that, as of now, the user is still edit warring and Wikilawyering all over the place. I don't feel like getting into fifteen separate games of revert pong, so I'll just let this roll on until someone wants to do something about the continuing pattern of disruptive behavior. fi (talk) 23:28, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Recommend admin action. Well there is some pretty obvious POV pushing. It's a systematic removal of references to left wing libertarianism, presumably to POV push that it does not exist, and only right-wing libertarianism exists. So in effect it is vandalism, as a clear pattern has emerged. If left unhindered he may remove all mentions of left-wing libertarianism. --Mrjulesd (talk) 23:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Comment: there's a larger problem involving libertarian editors and articles. For an example, look what's happened to our article on free society. This kind of assimiliation of a non-libertarian topic, takeover, and OR is going on everywhere. Darkstar1st is only one of many editors engaging in this kind of behavior. Viriditas (talk) 03:42, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
- Comment: I think part of the problem is that User:Finx is a bit clueless about citations and original research. (See example.) In the example, Citation A, did not support the statement, but Citation B did. User:Finx did not understand that Citation B needed to be by the statement, not Citation A. Regarding original research, User:Finx seems to think that if a party is socialist, and says it has liberal/libertarian values, that makes it a libertarian-socialist party. What Darkstar1st seems to be trying to do is to clean up this kind of thing.-- Toddy1 (talk) 09:20, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
- Okay, I don't stoop to personal attacks, but if you want to charge me with being "clueless" on ANI, let's review the absolutely mind-boggling level of incompetence you have displayed on the Freedom and Solidarity Party article. First of all, the citation already present before the titular POV warrior arrived used the word "özgürlükçü" which, beyond any reasonable doubt (as was explained), translates to "libertarian" in this context. So, no further citation was even needed. Assuming good faith, however, (and way beyond what is reasonable) the very first thing I did was add an inline English-language citation from a respected authority on the subject with a quote that just could not possibly be any clearer: "the ODP, or Freedom and Solidarity Party, is a Turkish socialist libertarian party founded in 1996." This was removed and ignored. When I pointed this out, it was ignored again by both yourself and the POV warrior, followed by complaints about the original reference using "özgürlükçü" instead of "liberter" -- which are synonyms, as can be seen here. When that objection clearly fell apart, the Wikilawyering moved on to ridiculous claims of OR: it's OR to assume that political groups claiming to be libertarian are... libertarian. I mean, this is just comedy. "Liberal" and "libertarian" are mutually exclusive groups: one is capitalist, the other, in this (and practically any) context, anticapitalist. That is also not original research. It's the most basic level of comprehension you can have on the topic. Libertarian, outside of its isolated use in the US as another word for advocacy of laissez faire "free market" capitalism, universally means socialist. The libertarian qualifier in libsoc qualifies the type of socialism (to distinguish from state-socialism), not the other way around, i.e. the type of libertarianism. When a socialist political organization declares itself libertarian, that means one thing only: libertarian socialism. If you are this confused or just know absolutely nothing about these topics, why not ask for clarification instead of calling others "clueless"? And, speaking of clueless, I invite you to find me one article on Misplaced Pages -- or anywhere else for that matter -- where "özgürlükçü" translates to liberal, let alone where that's a reasonable translation in the context of describing far-left socialist groups. The only thing in your contributions so far that would have even vaguely resembled a rational thought -- had it been concerning a non-socialist party -- is based off a funny Google translation error which you couldn't be bothered to verify when it produced an obvious absurdity. fi (talk) 10:48, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
- Normally I would recommend a topic ban from libertarianian-related articles, but the editor's history shows that he has not made a positive contribution anywhere, and has carried out this type of editing in other areas such as the Tea Party movement. He's had years to change, but seems more interested in conflict than improvement of articles. So probably best to ban the editor and avoid having to discuss him at ANI again and again. TFD (talk) 17:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Restored this section from archive: Request admin attention
I've restored this section from the archive Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive872#User:Darkstar1st_on_a_site-wide_purge_of_any_mention_of_.22libertarian_socialism.22 as he is back to his old tricks: removing references to libertarian socialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Equality_Party_%28Chile%29&diff=prev&oldid=646028069
He previously removed references to these ideologies, put on tags, and now he is removing the socialist libertariansim, pretending that he did not put on these tags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Equality_Party_%28Chile%29&diff=645713026&oldid=645692112
I've reported him for edit warring, which is pending. Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:Darkstar1st_reported_by_User:Mrjulesd_.28Result:_.29
Also see the original diffs. Definite POV pattern to his editing, I request admin action.
--Mrjulesd (talk) 13:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
IP user is on a spree of unsourced additions
Now blocked for disruptive editing by PhilKnight. I'm sure no one minds if I close this--thank you, participants, and thank you, Phil. Drmies (talk) 16:14, 7 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
IP user 24.44.232.114 keeps adding unsourced content to music articles. Almost every edit is about the same list called Now That's What I Call Music! 50. I think he is trying to promote the list rankings. Diffs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Furthermore he has made a joke edit as well,Diff: 6--Chamith (talk) 13:47, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Best place to report this is that away. Generally quicker response time. Amortias (T)(C) 14:04, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I decided to report it here because at first I wasn't sure whether it is obvious vandalism. I thought it would be better if we discuss this first as this might be a newbie who doesn't understand Misplaced Pages's rules and warning system.--Chamith (talk) 14:13, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Fair enough, might be worth leaving a message on their talkpage explaing what they need to do rather than the templates? Are you able to throw something together? Amortias (T)(C) 14:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Aside from the abdomen thing, is there anything that's an outright problem? I mean, if we found a good source, there wouldn't be a problem with including the bit about the list; the problem with adding unsourced stuff like this is that it forces us to work to find the source, not that there's an inherent problem with the information. Definitely not obvious vandalism. Nyttend (talk) 14:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Agree. But the problem is half of his edits are about the same list rankings. I was getting suspicious whether he is trying to promote this list. And I've advised him couple of times not to to add unsourced content. But he keeps neglecting my notifications.--Chamith (talk) 14:23, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Aside from the abdomen thing, is there anything that's an outright problem? I mean, if we found a good source, there wouldn't be a problem with including the bit about the list; the problem with adding unsourced stuff like this is that it forces us to work to find the source, not that there's an inherent problem with the information. Definitely not obvious vandalism. Nyttend (talk) 14:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Fair enough, might be worth leaving a message on their talkpage explaing what they need to do rather than the templates? Are you able to throw something together? Amortias (T)(C) 14:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I decided to report it here because at first I wasn't sure whether it is obvious vandalism. I thought it would be better if we discuss this first as this might be a newbie who doesn't understand Misplaced Pages's rules and warning system.--Chamith (talk) 14:13, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Repeated censorship of politician Michael Portillo's page
Ex MP and cabinet member Michael Portillo appeared on a BBC television programme and said that he has dual Spanish and British nationality and that his Spanish name is Miguel Portillo Blyth. I add this fact. User:Smerus keeps removing the information claiming variously that the reference isn't valid - it is per Misplaced Pages:Biographies_of_living_persons#Using_the_subject_as_a_self-published_source, or inferring that Portillo was joking - for which he provides no evidence. Smerus mentions on his biography page that he was involved in politics in the same political party and town as Portillo. Consequently I believe that Portillo's article is being censored. It's all been discussed on the talk page - Talk:Michael_Portillo#Spanish_name.3F. Thanks, -- John (Daytona2 · Talk · Contribs) 16:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Correction is not censorship; the discussion on the talkpage does indeed speak for itself, and the opinions of other editors there will I am sure be taken account of by administrators. They may also note that I made a polite suggestion to Daytona2 today on that talkpage, at 13.39, about how this information could be used in the article if he wished. Instead of responding to this he has proceeded to make the above complaint (at 16.18 today). I am seriously upset at his utterly unjustified and aggressive suggestion that I am attempting to 'censor' Misplaced Pages; however, as I am not of a vengeful nature, I will merely suggest that he tries to be little less bumptious, and that he tries to AGF with editors whose opinions differ from his. I haven't a clue what he is seeking to imply by posting bits of my biography here. It is the case that nearly 20 years ago, Portillo was my MP; and it is also true that we were then (but are no longer) members of the same political party. I do not see why this should prevent me interesting myself in his article on Misplaced Pages, any more than my interest in classical music has been held against me in writing on Richard Wagner and others.
- As Daytona2 has been going on about this since last September, I hope that the opinion of administrators can bring closure to his aggrievement.--Smerus (talk) 17:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Historical revisionism and use of an unreliable source
Alesgeriy (talk · contribs), a newly registered user, added a problematic section to Akdamar Island. He cites http://www.historyoftruth.com/, a clearly POV website which is devoted to the Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide. Interestingly, he calls the genocide "1915 incidents", which is a widely used phrase in denialist circles.
Furthermore, he uploaded an copyrighted image to the Commons which bears the POV caption "Muslims Protests Armenian Aggression Against Women".
He twice (1, 2) re-added the section. First time he called its removal by me "Vandalism" and the second time his edit summary was "it is a source for the subjekt about the Commemoration in Akdamar island". --Երևանցի 17:41, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- nonsense and a ridiculous claim from the user Yerevantsi (talk · contribs). the subjekt is clearyly about Commemorated in Akdamar Island. It does not matter if this user like it or not, this commemoration takes place in Akdamar Island, and this topic isn't about genocide etc. Yerevantsi (talk · contribs) should stop his Vandalism, because this entry is comply with the rules Եalesgeriy
- First, and most important, this is not vandalism. Also, the image does not belong on wikipedia. It is already tagged with copyvio speedy deletion. As well, this source does not seem to be reliable. Basically, the whole thing does not belong here. If you believe it does, then please link to why you think it belongs. -- Orduin 18:15, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- The image was deleted. -- Orduin 18:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
i have chose this source because is English written. This entry belong here because is strongly associated with Akdamar Island and its about Akdamar ısland's history. the source is reliable because this commemoration is held every year, denial about this fact would be a hypocritical policy which is don't belong to wikipedia terms. btw theire is many such informative entry in wikipedia. and yes, the removal act with his comment "nonsense" of user Yerevantsi (talk · contribs) is vandalism.
- I'm not at all concerned with the source, or the information right now. (I have marked the source as unreliable.) I am most concerned that you insist on calling the edits by Yerevantsi vandalism. That is harassment on your part. -- Orduin 19:58, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
so you trying to white wash of the act of this users as "editing" ? that is hypocritical on your part, at the same time your behavior harassment me with your baseless claimes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alesgeriy (talk • contribs) 20:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Alesgeriy: whoever's right, it's not vandalism. I won't comment on what it is, but it isn't vandalism. —George8211 / T 20:34, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I view this as a content dispute, and was commenting on behavior. I am not saying the content is incorrect or correct, I am merely providing note that your behavior is not proper. -- Orduin 20:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
i indicate the fact which is pretty proper, but your behavior towards this issue is hypocritical and rude which i do not recommend to you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alesgeriy (talk • contribs) 21:15, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Please don't accuse me of harassing you for me indicating that your behavior is verging on harassment. This will get us nowhere. -- Orduin 21:32, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Recommend a block of Alesgeriy for competency reasons (including very strange use of links). Robert McClenon (talk) 21:23, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Misuse of rollback by exeprienced editor
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Rollback is undo without an edit summary. Please focus on resolving the content dispute without escalating it needlessly. If you see a pattern of abuse of rollback, you can complain about it, but as you admit, you don't want to spend the time to investigate it, so this thread isn't useful. Let's stop it early and refocus energy on deciding whether 1980 or 1979 is the appropriate date. The method used to revert a contested change isn't worth an argument. Jehochman 19:19, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
I bring to the attention of admins User:David Gerard who treated me like a common vandal at Love Will Tear Us Apart with this contribution. My reason for disappointment here is that I have read all the rules of rollback and have twice been turned down this feature yet I would have never used it where AFG is indisputable such as in my case. My reason for the change from 1980 to 1979 is that, apart from it not supported by a source, the article states in second paragraph that the song's debut was in 1979. Obviosuly there is the question of the version that is known to people and whether this was some kind of re-recording of a demo but these are all talking points, they are not reasons for flagrant abuses of rollback.
Furthermore, please see the following:
- LibreOffice, evidently AGF since the reverted version contained summary.
- LessWrong, another case of non-vandalism, just an unsourced change.
- Not vandalism on Agent - attention being drawn to minor artist, not notable but nor a call for rollback either.
- Windows Media Audio, again, removal of external link rightly or wrongly but not a case of spam or vandalism and clearly a case of good faith.
These are just a few I found by looking quickly at the past three/four weeks. I'm not about to investigate how long this editor has had rollback and what other abuses he has committed but it looks like he is using it any old time he doesn't like the look of something. There is no problem reverting but summary should be used every time in these cases. --!BSGT! (talk) 19:02, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Without commenting on the value of the report I want to point out that David Gerard has rollback by virtue of being an admin. I mention this because when it is a non-admin with rollback it can be taken away without much red tape. Chillum 19:11, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- You changed it to something it couldn't be, without adding a reference. Did you have a reference? (That it debuted in 1979 does not mean it was recorded then.) Also, this is ridiculous - David Gerard (talk) 19:13, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I will also point out BSGT that it is often better to talk with the person before reporting them. Chillum 19:14, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
User Binksternet deleting discussion of his deletions from his talk page
User Binksternet keeps deleting discussion of his deletions from his talk page, with claims of "vandalism"/ "trolling", in spite of admitting "the truth of what you were inserting". This is not constructive, only obstructive to well-meaning IP-editors editing.
Binksternet deletes WP-content he actually agrees with, according to himself, only to embroil IP-edits in edit warring where he then games the system to exclude the primary edits and their content. That seems unconstructive to WP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.88.22.29 (talk) 21:20, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- He is free to delete whatever he wants from his own user talk page. You can discuss his edits on the talk page of the article. Gamaliel (talk) 21:22, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- :: Tnx - didn't know that. It still seems an unfactual way of handling attempted constructive criticism, even though acceptable. Sorry to've forgotten signing. 88.88.22.29 (talk) 21:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- In the comment you posted on his page, you called him "Binky" and signed yourself "Kris", as if this was a name he would know. Do you have an account on Misplaced Pages, and, if so, why are you editing as an IP? BMK (talk) 21:25, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Last month, the IP 80.212.111.41 tried to post the same material to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and left a similar note on Binksternet's talk page. I presume this was you. The material you posted this time has been removed from the article by multiple editors, but not by Binksternet, so your current comment seems like an egregious and unwarranted slap at him. On top of what would appear to be block evasion, I wonder if an admin might consider blocking both of these IPs? BMK (talk) 21:36, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- User:88.88.36.157 is you as well, I presume. BMK (talk) 21:50, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- And User:80.212.4.12. Your edits to John Fogerty and Hoodoo (John Fogerty album) were deleted by a number of editors as being OR, unencyclopedic, unsourced, etc. Didn't stop you from repeatedly restoring, though. That behavior got one article protected, and got
onetwo of your IPs temp blocked. BMK (talk) 21:55, 7 February 2015 (UTC)- That last IP also left disparaging notes to Binksternet on his talk page. There's a pattern here. BMK (talk) 21:59, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- User:85.164.61.86 joins the group. Editors with accounts are not allowed to use multiple accounts to avoid scrutiny of their edits, but editors without accounts who have dynamic IPs avoid scrutiny just by the nature of the beast. Perhaps we shouldn't allow dynamic IPs to edit, only static ones. BMK (talk) 22:04, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think that would be fair. -- Orduin 22:09, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, what's not fair is the situation right now. BMK (talk) 22:35, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry, these q's appear too fast to keep up. Tried re names and got an 'edit-clash', and lost the reply. The name, actual, was an attempt at being personal and constructive, acknowledging edits in spite of power-outage changed IP. As I'm not sufficiently familiar with the arcania of WP-rules, and not really interested in time-consuming learning to master it and the intricacies of wp-bickering, I'm outta here. No block evasion, though - rather the contrary by acknowledging by real name. Tnx for the discussion, it's been interesting. Now to real-world issues :-). Good luck to you all, and tnx for replies. * And 'edit-conflict' happened again (!). I'm deluged, sorry. 88.88.22.29 (talk) 22:12, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- No real need for an answer from you, those IPs are obviously all you. And calling a person you don't know by a diminutive version of their name is insulting, which I would guess (from the content of those "constructive" messages) was your intent. You were annoyed that your unsourced, OR, or poorly sourced BLP edits were being deleted, and you lashed out at one of the editors doing it -- but the very fact that multiple editors have removed your contributions from verious articles means that you're not getting it. BMK (talk) 22:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- 'Edit conflict' happened again. * Your claims and accusations are entirely subjective. E.g. abbreviating a long name according to convention, with first syllable + "y", is no insult. In addition, disparaging my clarification as "no need for an answer" is in itself a condescending attempt at insult - so you're overreacting and being unfactual. I repeat, my edits were/are all about including correct info on WP. E.g. why is the statement "Bootlegs exist" re Fogerty's "Hoodoo" unacceptable to you, when they most certainly do, as amply demonstrated on Youtube? - That's a fact just silly to delete. In spite of whatever pretext of sourcing-faults applied. Let it rest. Or btr yet, improve the ref.s yrself, accomplished WP-editor that you appear to be. (Unless, of course, you have some ulteriour motive for deleting verifyable facts - like not liking that smbd tried to keep those facts on WP. But that wouldn't be the case w you, would it? - Sure hope not). Still trying to get out of here, w/o too many misconstructions left standing.88.88.22.29 (talk) 23:27, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- No real need for an answer from you, those IPs are obviously all you. And calling a person you don't know by a diminutive version of their name is insulting, which I would guess (from the content of those "constructive" messages) was your intent. You were annoyed that your unsourced, OR, or poorly sourced BLP edits were being deleted, and you lashed out at one of the editors doing it -- but the very fact that multiple editors have removed your contributions from verious articles means that you're not getting it. BMK (talk) 22:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry, these q's appear too fast to keep up. Tried re names and got an 'edit-clash', and lost the reply. The name, actual, was an attempt at being personal and constructive, acknowledging edits in spite of power-outage changed IP. As I'm not sufficiently familiar with the arcania of WP-rules, and not really interested in time-consuming learning to master it and the intricacies of wp-bickering, I'm outta here. No block evasion, though - rather the contrary by acknowledging by real name. Tnx for the discussion, it's been interesting. Now to real-world issues :-). Good luck to you all, and tnx for replies. * And 'edit-conflict' happened again (!). I'm deluged, sorry. 88.88.22.29 (talk) 22:12, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, what's not fair is the situation right now. BMK (talk) 22:35, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think that would be fair. -- Orduin 22:09, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Last month, the IP 80.212.111.41 tried to post the same material to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and left a similar note on Binksternet's talk page. I presume this was you. The material you posted this time has been removed from the article by multiple editors, but not by Binksternet, so your current comment seems like an egregious and unwarranted slap at him. On top of what would appear to be block evasion, I wonder if an admin might consider blocking both of these IPs? BMK (talk) 21:36, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- I was trying to remember where I had heard an editor call Binksternet "Binky" before and it was in the course of the hubbub prior to Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics with one editor receiving an indefinite block and several others receiving topic blocks. I don't if there is any connection but since Binksternet has stated he doesn't like that nickname, I thought it was curious to see it again. Liz 23:01, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Username hard block
Not going to happen, no point in wasting time on this. --Kinu 22:07, 7 February 2015 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Tedickey (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Currently, that username is a blatant violation of our username policy. First, it begins with the prefix "Te-", which is good, but the suffix "-dickey", is not. I suggest that this account be blocked indefinitely.
He was making constructive edits to Misplaced Pages. However, it says that, according to Misplaced Pages:Username policy#Inappropiate usernames and Template:Uw-uhblock, users are not permitted to edit with bad usernames. I think we should not deal with that username. And of course, I should notify this user later on. 2602:306:CC2E:EFB0:BD8C:1E99:DE0A:7A04 (talk) 21:58, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Or it could be the user's last name, you know. --Kinu /c 22:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- Is it just me, or is it curious that this user has edited with no complaints about his username for over eight years, and this complaint is the IP's first edit? I think there's more than meets the eye here. Recommend no action against Tedickey. —C.Fred (talk) 22:03, 7 February 2015 (UTC)