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Wendigo image

I suspect people will keep removing the image until some referenced material backs up the image. I recommend adding some sources that confirm it is a depiction of a wendigo...cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:11, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Since the person who claims to have discovered this so-called carving is named Steve Benassi, it appears that you have a conflict of interest in publicizing this. Meters (talk) 05:49, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Since you link your user page to one of Steve Benassi's off-Misplaced Pages pages, it is clear that you are claiming to be Steve Benassi. Meters (talk) 05:54, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2018

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Wendigo. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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You have added this image four times now. It has been discussed on the talk page and there is clear consensus that this picture should no tbe in the article. Stop adding it. Meters (talk) 05:51, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

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May 2021

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As per link above you have to reach 500 edits to edit about the conflict 500/30 Rule: All IP editors, users with fewer than 500 edits, and users with less than 30 days' tenure are prohibited from editing --Shrike (talk) 14:20, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

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Edit warring

OhNoitsJamie 15:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Just a word of advice. Don't revert anything. You never know - wait a day or a week or whatever and someone out there might do, or support, the edit you yourself wish to make. No one is alone. Yes, Misplaced Pages content can be a numbers game at time, but getting sucked into revert or edit wars, rather than exercising patience and doing a lot of small but incremental work no one would challenge, is, in those cases, is self-defeating. Some good edits take months, as one works through the various processes. It's crazy, and not the norm, but detachment, rather than being cornered, is what stable editing requires.Nishidani (talk) 07:56, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, I admire your dedication, intelligence, and heart, is there anyone else out there like you? I intentionally made a scene to draw attention to the Ostrer issue, I knew I would be put in wiki-Jail for a day or two, I thought it was worth it, and it worked, Huldra came to the rescue. My grandparents are from north of Venice, they were shepherds in the Dolomites where they filmed the Pink Panther. I am a Computer Engineer in Minnesota, I developed a new way to do archaeology on my laptop. See Example 11, Giza Pyramids map to the Strait of Magellan,

Last warning before longer block

Reverting to this edit again or anything broadly construed as edit-warring will result in a longer block. OhNoitsJamie 20:57, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

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Moving discussion here from Talk:Wendigo

Name Taboo?

I've noticed a few trending posts on social media from Algonquin, etc., folks claiming that saying the name is taboo for fear of attracting it (much like the etymology for "bear"), to the point where some refuse to write out the name fully (replacing letters with asterisks, etc.). Is anyone aware of any sources that may or may not back this claim up? Noir LeSable (talk) 14:26, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I met with a young reporter in his office and an Elder (conferenced in on the phone) in 2019 at the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in Bemidji Minnesota to discuss the photos of the Wendigo Manitou archaeology recently discovered on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Tettegouche State Park, and at Wolf Ridge ELC, and at the "Magnetic Rock Minnesota" Trail on the US-Canada border near Gunflint Lake northeast of Grand Marais Minnesota. While waiting, two of the staff at the front desk knew me from my previous emails to the Band and we discussed the Wendigo briefly. They told me that the Elders tell them not even say the word Wendigo because bad things might happen. So they did not say the word Wendigo more than a few times before they stopped. See photos of the Wendigo carvings ...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_aaoLKe9yOpJd_NtxwgeHSI29W1VQ7XSlHIXIMaVZJk/edit

I grew up in Silver Bay Minnesota and found a mountain size carving in what is now Tettegouche in 1974. In 2014 I took photos of everything I had found and sent them to the State of Minnesota, they interviewed me, and eventually published a link to my page in their August 2019 newsletter, page 5, "A Facebook page about the Marshall Mountain Triple Point map in northern Minnesota and its interpretation". All documents can be seen here ...

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_C4dVzq7bSOCM-JzBDAWtM4fb1CxaTAm

So, long story short, I believe the Wendigo myth, oral history, is based on real events that began during the last glacial maximum. We have a theory, the Solutrean Hypothesis, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43094925.pdf, DNA evidence, Haplogroup X2g present day Ojibwe-Egyptian in the Great Lakes region, X2j present day Egyptian, and X2-225 from Egypt which is 21,000 years old, and archaeology, the Wendigo Manitou carving of a Human Face with a Beard, and Magnetic Rock Minnesota, the Triple Divide Watershed Map Stone, and the Brule Glacial Spillway in Wisconsin, which form 3 points in a straight line 124 miles apart, creating a whole new category of archaeology, Great Circle Navigation Archaeology. See Example 1 Minnesota Triple Divide, and Example 11 Giza Pyramids map to Strait of Magellan.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zc-33fFcEigXncfuApLUyaA6ANRJFDhksMohilFknQ8/edit

I tried to put a photo of the Wendigo carving up but it was taken down. See ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Wendigo&type=revision&diff=803439550&oldid=802612087 and https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Wendigo&type=revision&diff=842903503&oldid=842826807

I do not know how to proceed, I want to make this info public on Misplaced Pages, but I have no third party references to my work besides the State of Minnesota newsletter above. SteveBenassi (talk) 14:42, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Please read the policies about Original Research, and Reliable Sources. Misplaced Pages is not a publisher of original work. I'm also going to move this discussion to your talk page. - CorbieVreccan ☼ 20:07, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Moved. - CorbieVreccan ☼ 20:13, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

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May 2021

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Request reason:

Please copy my appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard or administrators' noticeboard.

Dear Fences,

I am new to Misplaced Pages, it is a lot more complicated than I could ever imagine.

I am not a good writer, and I am not a Vandal.

I care deeply about the fate of the world, and I am doing everything I can to stop the next war, by getting the truth out there. I have been doing talkbacks on Israeli news sites for over 10 years, but have stopped because the far-right in Israel doesn't care about the truth. Israel is a powerful country, they have a lot of support from Christians and Jews, especially in the US Congress, and in the Oval Office with the UN Veto. I know, and Jimmy Wales knows, Israel has been training their population on how to use Misplaced Pages, and there is a coordinated effort by the Israeli government to promote the Zionist narrative and stop all legitimate criticism of Israel, including on Misplaced Pages.

Three Users of unknown background are consistently blocking me and others, Shrike, NonReproBlue, and Skllagyook. They are probably Israeli or Zionist trained SockPuppet civilians.

I do not understand what I can and cannot do since I only have 100 edits and need 500 to avoid your sanctions. Are you saying my talk edit would not be a violation if I had 500 edits? "Are most modern day Jews or their ancestors indigenous to the Levant? The answer is no."

I was specifically reacting to a user who said Jews are indigenous based a magazine article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Zionism&diff=next&oldid=1024907542

I thought I could counter that with an actual paper that says most Jews are not indigenous to the Levant.

I was not trying to be provocative. I was trying to be to the point.

You say "You are allowed to post at that talk page under the ARBPIA restrictions only to make edits requests and constructively discuss the article content. Your post was a provocation, not a constructive comment. I advised you to stay away from such editing and discussions until you were extended confirmed; you chose to ignore this."

I really don't know what extended confirmed means. You say I can only make request to edit the page, and constructively discuss, which I thought I was doing. From now on I will make specific edit request and constructively discuss.

I will not appeal this 72 hour block, because it is a waste of everyone's time, and I know I will lose.

I came to Misplaced Pages with a new paper that supports Eran Elhaik's position that Jews are not a "race". I admire him for going against the grain at great risk to himself. He has helped me with my archaeology, haplogroup x, via emails in the past.

I will not be silenced. I will play by the rules, once I understand them, and know where the red lines are.

Thank You,

Steve Benassi

p.s. nuke them from space, its the only way to be sure

SteveBenassi (talk) 16:00, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Decline reason:

This is not an unblock request. 331dot (talk) 16:46, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Hi Steve, I was going to comment here but I see you've posted the above already. Please take this advice below to heart, because it may be your last opportunity to avoid a WP:NOTHERE block or a topic ban.

"Playing by the rules" is good, but Misplaced Pages:Gaming the system and Misplaced Pages :Wikilawyering are not - so be sure to learn the difference, i.e. believe in the spirit of collaborative editing to create a neutral encyclopedia. Coming here specifically to counter Zionists is not a good approach, see WP:GREATWRONGS and WP:BATTLEGROUND. Your comment on my talk page that "You lost" to someone involved in an RSN discussion I'm afraid shows the wrong mindset. You're allowed to have interests as a Wikipedian, but bringing a strong point of view doesn't help, see WP:POVPUSH. Trying to add one particular review article that supports your view of Jewish genetic history isn't the correct approach, see WP:NPOV and WP:FRINGE. It can be part of the mix of what sources can be used, but you also need to acknowledge the mainstream view in scientific debates.

WP:EXTENDEDCONFIRMED explains what extended confirmed means. Certain pages are protected from editing by users who have fewer than 500 edits or who have been editing for under 30 days. Both criteria need to be met. The Arbitration Committee (WP:ARBCOM) have also put in place rules in certain topics, often to do with nationalism, to restrict editing to extended confirmed users. This is because that topic has a history of problems. Admins are enabled under Arbitration Enforcement to impose sanctions in those areas without discussion, to limit disruption.

When your block expires, I advise you to find something adjacent to the areas that have caused you problems, perhaps archaeology or genetic genealogy, but nothing relating to Israel, Palestine, or Zionism until you've properly taken on board how to be a Wikipedian. Fences&Windows 19:06, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

A friendly warning

Your pushing of Sax's debunked theory about Hitler's Jewish ancestry is beginning to be WP:DISRUPTIVE. Sax is patently unqualified in the subject area, and no qualified subject expert I am aware of accepts his contention that Hans Frank was correct. In their commentary on Adolf Hitler the editors of that page have thoroughly and completely rejected your contention, and yet you continue to press for it.

I advise you that if you continue on this path, it is inevitably going to end up with your being reported for WP:IDHT behavior, at the very least. Please consider dropping this issue now before it potentially leads to a sanction against you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:11, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken: I am not trying to be disruptive. I brought 2 new papers to Misplaced Pages that no one seems to have known about, the Sax paper, and the Yardumian paper, like new technology new information can seem disruptive. Zero0000 said "If Sax is correct, the matter is again open. However, until there is more serious research on the subject it should be considered fringe." And I accept that. SteveBenassi (talk) 21:08, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Good, thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:24, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User talk:SteveBenassi

User talk:SteveBenassi, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:SteveBenassi and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User talk:SteveBenassi during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:30, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

• Withdrawn. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

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