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Unjustified mass ban of wikipedia accounts including mine with procedures that were not properly followed
Hello,
First, I want to introduce myself, I am a 14 year old teenager who loves wikipedia, specifically I am interest in finance (I am the best of my class at economics), I also like and edit topics like countries of the ex soviet union and the Balkans. I can show you my ID for verification purposes (I will just do so privately and hide the serial number with my finger or a paper so it cannot be used to buy anything online) and I am even ready to go on call and talk as a witness to what happened.
I am now contacting you from another account as my original account which I have been using for a relatively long time has been blocked (I cannot do anything with it and cannot even send a call for help), I was accused of smth known as "sockpuppetry" which is totally fine to suspect me or anyone on wikipedia and then launch an investigation into it but the investigation would have shown my innocence whereas here, me and 6-9 more people were blocked WITHOUT any investigation. Had an actual REAL investigation been conducted, it would have been directly verified that me (and probably the other users) were not sockpuppets.
It is easy to see that me and 6-9 other people are not sockpuppet using simple verifications such as the other people can make edits at the exact same time (exact hour/minute/second), be awaken at different hours and many other ways of verifying. Also, administrators have tools to verify that I am not the other user using tools which are very easy to run and using that admins will see my location. I am sure that even my 11 year old sister could've run such tools but here nobody did it.
Had anyone run that tool, they would've seen that all the time my location will be traced to the country of Belgium as this is where I live and I have never left the country in the past 2 years whereas most of the other users are Indians and Pakistanis and other people around the world, I do not know where they are all from tbh.
Moreover, prior to that, some of these other users were harassed on the talk page because they were new users and someone told them that their votes will not be counted which totally breaks the wikipedia rules !
Had someone actually done their job properly and actually looked into it, they would've seen all of this, instead they believed the lies of one user (idk why he lied) and based on that they blocked a bunch of people all at the same time.
The issue arose because I made a page which for some reason a lot of users found triggering in some way (maybe they had a conflict of interest) but it was just about a company offering financial services and investments which did not go against wikipedia policies in any way, I previously made and edited pages about other financial institutions. In fact, to make sure that I followed all guidelines and in order to do the best job possible, I used WP:NOTE and WP:FIND during my development.
I made the page 2 weeks ago and it seemed alright, I made sure to write in the most grammatically correct way and I followed all the rules and guidelines as I said before but then all of a sudden the page got raided.
After about a week of the page being live, a bunch of users raided it. Mainly, it was Mr Kuru who attacked the page and the other users just repeated after him ( he mainly attacked the references because he said they were paid and a lot of other users kept on repeating after him that "it was paid" without adding any information as though Mr Kuru was a cult leader and the few other users were his cult).
Mr Kuru was also saying very unreasonable things like all sources are incorrect which is not true. All sources could not have been incorrect and not valid at the same time as I was following guidelines. For example he said that a financial article on the official website of the University of British Columbia was paid propaganda but that is not correct. He also mentioned that on that website of the University of British Columbia he saw a lot of other articles and they were all promotional but if you check the website yourself, you will see that there will be no promotional content at all, I mean I have looked around and there is really no such thing on there.
Here is the link, they have even moved the link for some reason but this is the link:
Also, the same article was published on the official website of the cybersecurity department of the University of Harvard but the problem was that this specific website was made in the form of an open wiki and so any user could edit it and because of this, a lot of people hid their own links and advertising articles on the Harvard cybersecurity website. I was silly enough to think that content from Harvard university will always be reliable but I did not consider that a freely editable wiki page could be used for evil.
But nonetheless I should not be blocked for committing a mistake of inattention and not even attacked for this. University websites always publish reliable information and they make sure to verify it. I double checked that those were the exact domains for both the university of British Columbia and the University of Harvard (and not fraudulent imitations like with scams) and it was indeed the case, it is just that the website on Harvard reposted the article from british columbia and because their website was freely editable, it was used for advertisement.
Mr Kuru mentioned many unreasonable things such as those, he also said that all the sources I used was paid propaganda but this is not true given that only about 30% of sources were paid releases by companies non related to the company which I wrote the article about. It was just that the company which I was covering was mentioned in those articles and I thought that I should use those references because they were not paid by the company I covered but by a third party. The other references I used were totally relevant as per wikipedia policies and I see them constantly being used on the platform, I mean really regardless of the level of relevance, I see all sorts of sources being used all across wikipedia and I think it is good and needed to use various sources of various opinions (left wing websites and right wing websites) to make a valid balanced article, it is for the wikipedia editor to judge the sources and what is being said in order to write the best possible content and not just blindly copy data from there.
It looked like Mr Kuru lost his mind or he was very tired that day but he was saying smth that does not make sense, it really looked like he was brainwashed and he was saying very unreasonable things.
Because I had a lot of problems and things to do for school, I did not do much of wikipedia this week and forgot to reply and I did not really even think much about it, I kinda forgot. But yesterday, I saw that my account has been blocked for this sockpuppetry which makes me sad and depressed and makes me suffer, I really think it is unfair, it creates a lot of anxiety for me.
If Mr Kuru did not like the sources I used, it is ok, I could have looked for more sources or someone else could have done it but this is not a reason to attack the page (and then block me), I actually think that I did a really good job at making that page, at least in what concerns my work I did because I said everything in the most grammatically correct way and I see all the time badly worded articles being written on wikipedia. I was also editing many things as well as Solomartel before I was blocked and I think I was bringing lots of value to the project.
Then after Mr Kuru, other users were attacked on that talk page who wanted to keep the page which I created because they were new and threatened that their point of view will not be taken into consideration. It is a certain MrOllie who threatened users but Idk specifically which ones. He also opened an investigation of sockpuppetry in which I was included but I did not care and I did not check my account very much this week as I said.
It is perfectly understandable that someone may suspect other users of sockpuppetry but what is strange is that it is the person who attacks other users and threatens them who opens this investigation.
Normally once such a sockpuppetry complaint is made, (just like a complaint at the police), it is meant to be investigated by administrators but it was not investigated at all ! Instead based on lies smth was assumed and me and other users have been blocked !
Instead of the investigation, a user who seemed to be very interested in attacking one user named Murgh Krahi (who commented on the page which I created) lied so that Mr Murgh Krahi was condemned without investigation.
Mr Spicy is this person and he was 100% lying because there are things he said which are totally incorrect and there is no way Mr Spicy could not have known them.
For example, he said that the user Murgh Krahi was a sockpuppeteer and that an investigation against him was conducted many years ago and proved the sockpuppetry. The problem is that if this was indeed the case and Mr Murgh Krahi was found guilty of sockpuppetry back in the days, then he would have directly been blocked and banned then and he would not be able to edit wikipedia and comment on the page I have created like he did but because Murgh Krahi was able to post his comments on my page, it means that Mr Murgh Krahi was found innocent of the sockpuppetry complaint of many years ago.
Mr Spicy used a similar accusation against a user named Anjum Sharjeel.
He used the investigation led about Murgh krahi of his alleged sockpuppeteerness but had this investigation yielded the result that she/he was a sockpupeteer, Mr Murgh Krahi would already not be part of wikipedia a long time ago (or any other project of meta wiki) so this means that the result of the investigation was negative yet Spicy used it as an argument to get me and multiple other users blocked so clearly his actions were deceitful and machevelian.
One thing I do want to mention is that I am a person living in Belgium and I speak french, English, Russian and Serbian whereas most people interested and having commented on that page are from India and Pakistan where this company seems to be particularly known in. Another user is a user who said he translates the encyclopedia from english to Italian and vice versa, even if we were to consider this, how is it possible that the same user who is a sockpupetteer could speak both french, english, Russian, Serbian, English, Indian, Pakistani and Italian at the same time.
This is just impossible and had the administrators actually investigated it, they would've right away seen that the likelyhood of such a person existing is close to 0. To prove my point, I would even agree to go on call and would invited the other users to do the same, this is how such problems should be resolved I think.
Another argument Mr Spicy used to lie in the investigation was that all accounts commenting were either users that were inactive for a long time or new users but I know this is a lie because my account is not recent and Have not been inactive also I am sure it is the same thing for the other users, I am almost sure that Mr Spicy lied. Plz verify this.
Also, other users on there were suspecting Mr Kuru and Mr MrOllie of sockpuppetry because they were all saying the same thing or giving the same arguments. Initially I did not agree with them but now I think it may be the case because I was just blocked without investigation and Mr spicy lied to falsify the investigation.
One thing that makes these claims even more absurd is that most users commenting about that company were from India or Pakistan (if I am not mistaken) and I am always located and connected from Belgium, if you use administrator tools to track me down you will see that my location and all the devices and everytime I have been connected will always be tracked back to Belgium as I have never left the country for the past 2 years so all the accusations and this condemnation is baseless, someone just needs to actually verify and they will see instead of believing liars.
I am even ready to go on call to prove who I am and invite all other people who were blocked to do the same and so we can clearly and transparently see that they are real people.
I am contacting you because you are an administrator and I want to ask to start an actual investigation as I know that I am innocent and the investigation will 100% show it.
Also, once the investigation will be finished and my innocence will be proven, I would ask that my real account because be unblocked as I have tons of achievements and edits on that one, I do not want to lose it, also, I was developing friendships and good relations on that account, I would not want to lose them and now if I contact users from this account they will now think it is now another person with a similar name. So I really want fairness and my account to be unblocked. It would be the best Christmas gift for me that my innocence is proven and my account is restored.
Plz help me, the loss of my account is really making me depressed and sad and it is really unfair.
I want to give all the information so you can conduct the investigation:
The name of my account is @@SUPERGTOR:
The page is Solomartel
The users are Spicy, Kuru, MrOllie, Njd-de you can easily see it by going to the page Solomartel and seeing the edits made to it and the harassment on the talk page for the deletion of the page.
I thank you very much in advance for your help and I really apologize if I contact many administrators, I am not trying to spam I just need help and I do not know who is active and who can help me with this.
Sup3rgtor 2 (talk) 01:13, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Hossam Mohammed Amin
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You previously (in 2007) removed a brief article on Edwin Franko Goldman's "On the Mall" march. Nonetheless, this march is famous with marching bands, and it is the most well known composition by Goldman. Will you approve another attempt to create an article on that march? Rammer (talk) 03:39, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.
Administrator changes
NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
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Guideline and policy news
- A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Misplaced Pages talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
- Misplaced Pages:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
- Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.
Technical news
- When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
- Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Misplaced Pages, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
- The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.
Obituaries
- JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Misplaced Pages seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
hi...we could use your help
I noticed that your an administrator and a member of computer science. I'm a member of wikiproject Medicine, basically this happened to us and so we have a source code but we need someone's help to do 2016 version (of 2015), I can assist in whatever is needed, though I don't know too much about this field. ...thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:57, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Precious
historic personalities around the world
Thank you for quality articles such as Leontius (usurper), Conrad II (bishop of Hildesheim), Dirck van der Lisse, Sophie Löwe and Willi Schmid, for gnomish task such as spelling corrections and adding categories, for "even minor subjects help illustrate the contours of a time and place", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:43, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for the kind words! --Delirium (talk) 20:28, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
- Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1712 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:30, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Rivier
Good evening Delirium, I've come here because of an article that has been suggested for deletion in the German Misplaced Pages: de:Rivier. Over there, some argue that the term rivier would not actually be a specific term for dry river beds in Namibia but that it would signify nothing more than river (as it does in Afrikaans, see af:Rivier). Now, we have found that the Namibian German which was used in colonial times actually did borrow the term rivier from Afrikaans and did narrow its meaning from river to dry river (bed). But the question remains if this actually established a general regional term or not. I am writing all this because a long time ago :), you wrote the magic sentence Rivier can mean Wadi, dry riverbed, called rivier in southwest Africa. Do you remember the source of your information back then? The word rivier does pop up in English texts, but in my impression only occasionally. Do you have any more information on that? That would be tremendous. Thanks and best regards, --Andropov (talk) 20:02, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Andropov! Surprisingly enough I was able to remember why I wrote that disambiguation page. I had previously written Tsauchab, which used the term, so I wanted somewhere for the link to go. Alas, I don't think I had an especially solid source. I was in fact translating a German Misplaced Pages article originally: the initial version of Tsauchab was largely a translation of what used to be at de:Tsauchab, though that edit history has since ended up at de:Sesriem-Canyon due to a page move. In that version, the German Misplaced Pages described it as a rivier and linked to de:rivier, the article now in question for deletion, which then, like now, claimed it was a Namibia-specific term. I naturally looked it up on the English Misplaced Pages to see if it was also used in English. There was at the time no English article at rivier, but the article wadi did at the time have this sentence: In southwestern Africa, the term rivier is used. I think between that sentence, and doing a little poking around on Google Books, I convinced myself that people did call the Tsauchab a rivier in English and that it meant something close enough to wadi to be worth having a disambiguation page at rivier linking to wadi. But I don't remember specifically which books I would've run across on Google Books. In any case, since then, all three articles in question (en:wadi, en:Tsauchab, and de:Tsauchab) have been edited to remove the term, so the disambiguation makes less sense now (unless you manage to turn up a better source!). --Delirium (talk) 20:38, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
- Wow, thank you so much for this very precise recollection! Unfortunately, I have not found much more in English texts. But I will have another, more thorough look around and will report any incidents back to you :) Kind regards and thanks again, --Andropov (talk) 22:54, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
- Not that I have found much more, but you might be interested in the thorough (yet not exhaustive) list another user prepared of the various terms used worldwide for dry rivers/intermittent rivers at de:Benutzer Diskussion:W!B:#Namen für Trockenflüsse (see also this PDF (p. 206) as the main source). The article de:Rivier has been saved from deletion today, but as of yet it remains to be seen if it can be expanded again. Best regards, --Andropov (talk) 22:55, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Women in Red World Contest
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