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As the ban log shows Copperchair has not followed their arbitration ruling and was given a 1 year ban. Since the 1 year ban they have continuously created sockpuppets and continued their edit warring as shown by multiple RFCUs . Their latest sockpuppet is Esteban "Lex" Saborío (talk·contribs) who is currently unblocked and continuing Copperchair's removal of War on Terrorism from the Iraq War.
Summation
A block of their latest sockpuppet.
Change of Copperchair's block from a 1 year block to indefinite.
He is using an obvious sock-puppet, User:Warfarin eater, to revert to the Ellis version of the page. This diff compares the edits between Warfarin and User:Something in Argyle (checkuser-confirmed sock, see here). Warfarin's only other edits have been to the Kinsella talk-page where he calls for removal of the law-suit (another issue Ellis is obsessed with).
Summation
This is about the tenth or twelfth offending sock.
This user is believed to be continuing to edit the BKWSU article in an provocative and biased manner using various sock puppets. The article was semi-protected for a while due to the use of what appear to be random IP proxies but the protection has now lapsed however even semi-protection would be insufficient since this user seems to be using various named accounts also.
Now the user is believed to be using the handles Quickerection (talk·contribs), Jankijunky (talk·contribs) and Fineupstandingmember (talk·contribs). The first of these three is already blocked for being an obscene name. In the latest bout I have not yet seen the usual pattern of taunting other editors but the type and style of edits is very familiar.
Removal of NPOV tag . The 244 editor has always strongly contested any NPOV warning tag . This view is unique and quite unusual since an NPOV tag is usually applied for much less reason to many other articles.
Re-insertion of obvious bias .
Biased opinions being referenced as a source for flatly stated facts
Misuse of references. The Misplaced Pages:OR tag is removed, reference inserted, but the reference does not address the fact being queried (that murlis were ever on sale to the general public).
Summation
Often the edits deliberately undo changes made by pro-subject editors which were made with consensus on the discussion page. We are currently building consensus on the talk page between editors with differing views. It is a shame that this disruptive editor seems to be able jump in at any time and make a mockery of our otherwise promising efforts to form a balanced team of editors. I was a participant to the arbitration case. Two other participants are currently active on the article, TalkAbout (talk·contribs) and Appledell (talk·contribs). It has never been possible to reach any consensus with 244 due to his/her agressive stance towards other editors, even editors with similar views . I've noticed that 244 just seems to edit as he/she sees fit.
Thanks Thatcher131. FYI the username Jankijunky is a reference to one of the administrative heads of the organisation, Dadi Janki. Obviously adding the word "junki" after it indicates that a point is being made. Regards Bksimonb09:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
What appears to be the same user is now continuing the reverts as 86.152.174.239 (talk·contribs). They follow exactly the same pattern and preferred version as the sockpuppets listed above. This is a static IP address based in London using British Telecom. Thanks & regards Bksimonb18:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
While I can't prove/nor will I assert that the vandalism is .244 (I don't trace IPs nor seek to find out identities), I will ask here as I did on the bot (it removed the protection on some automated basis) page, to please put the protection back on the article as it is only creating havoc. We are just now beginning to get some level of decorum and peaceful working agreements in working with the resources available. Thank you for your time and consideration with regards to this matter. PEACETalkAbout19:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
File:Yellow warning.pngWarned It is clear that he is cooperating with Adil in edit warring against others, although just past 24 hours. Gaming the system is not to be tolerated, and 1 Revert parole is not a license to continue the same edit war but in slow motion. Thatcher13106:36, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
After being banned for a month, and appealing same. Instantnood returned as an IP to perform the same reverts reported before. Please {{userarticleban}} him from Demographics of the People's Republic of China.
I blocked the IP, but it's probably dynamic. As long as he is blocked for the month, any edits he actually signs can be reported to AIV or AN/I for a faster response, as well as reverted wthout limit. I'll get around to some article bans tomorrow. There's no rush at this point. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thatcher131 (talk • contribs) 07:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC).
The problem was that you were taking the advantage of my absense and have tried to speedy two stub categories which you wanted them disappeared. Both of them would have disappeared if I did not put on the {{hangon}} tag. — Instantnood11:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Classic case of 'two wrongs make... two wrongs'. Schmucky's depopulations and speedy-taggings were quite inappropriate, given this was known by him to be a disputed matter. There's a venue (or several) for discussing these matters. Amd IN's hangons were besides the point: one of them was deleted anyway; the other I removed becaused I was going to that page anyway to take the matter to WP:SFD. (The other I didn't notice it unless after it'd been speedied.) Accordingly, I'd caution IN to respect his ban, and StC to desist from behaviour essentially similar to what got IN and H. sanctioned in the first place. Alai18:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Disputed behaviour did not cease when asked to stop without using dispute resolution User_talk:Instantnood#Revert.2C_hello.3F, and other messages left by other users. An extension to his ArbCom penalties was requested. The reverts did not stop during, or now immediately after: Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 4. ArbCom declined to create a new sanction and prefers the remedies of article bans and site bans, potentially including an indefinite site ban with the support of any three administrators.
In order to understand the seriousness and ArbCom sanctions him you have to understand Instantnood. He games the system to stay under any revert limit but he carries on the same revert war for years which is what makes ignoring him disruptive to those trying to maintain consistency. He makes a few reverts to an article once a week or once a month to what he prefers then leaves it for a bit and returns after the disruption has died down to do it again. His edits singularly enforce his POV and his edits are usually minor changes to categories, templates, intro, etc that change the presentation of articles. Changes to templates and categories can affect hundreds of articles at a time. He often makes changes to two templates/categories, each individually looks like a minor content change but together he has re-classified something entirely the opposite of what it was.
In every ArbCom case, and every excuse for enforcement, he always argues about why his content is right, and he seemingly ignores or is entirely oblivious to his behavior. It is his behavior that is sanctioned. Time base blocks on Instantnood do not work, as soon as the block is over he will return to reverting. Given his method of making disruptive reverts, then leaving the article alone, the time based block is ineffective - he would have left it alone anyways. He needs to be blocked from editing these articles using the {{userarticleban}}.
the majority of his edits over the last week are content reverts based on his solo crusades. For offending behavior, I offer his entire contrib history for the last week, since Lunar New Year (Displays as Feb 18 or 19 in his contrib list depending on your time zone).
Revert warring on policy/guideline pages is particularly disruptive. This revert now goes on for years. In this case he was making this revert in 2005, after long heated discussions with many participants this sentence/phrase was removed. Nood restored it repeatedly and was banned from editing this page for a year, and on expiration of the page ban, he made the exact same revert.
The following list of articles contain general revert warring, generally without discussion, anywhere from 2 to 10 reverts in a few days. Alternatively, they contain particularly egregious examples of POV re-organization which his ArbCom sanction also prohibits. This is only a list from the last week and is incomplete. The worse examples are bolded. He should be page banned from each.
Demographics of China restoring text from 2005 after this content was moved to the next article, so he could point to this article on a talk page and state the next article was superfluous. Not checked
Demographics of mainland China continuation of above revert war, here he objects to changing the article title, so he is reverting both articles to remove what he doesn't like and make it appear consistent, though lots of discussion in 2005 resulted in the community changing these way back then. Not checked
Instantnood has edit warred at all the articles and categories listed above, including many violations of his 1 revert per day parole imposed by admin Eagle 101 (talk) on 8 December 2006, see here. Many of these edit wars involve categorization of articles and categories. Instantnood specifically targets category changes made by Huaiwei, even if they were days or weeks earlier, showing that Instantnood is specifically tracking and reverting Huaiwei.
Huaiwei has edit warred. The changes he makes may or may not be in good faith. However, when Instantnood reverts, Huaiwei edit wars rather than seeking other forms of assistance.
Instantnood is banned from editing any category page related to China, including but not limited to its history, culture, territories and disputed territories.
Instantnood is banned from adding or removing any category related to China from any article related to China. He may be blocked without further warning for up to a week for each violation.
Huaiwei is also banned from editing any category page related to China, and from adding or removing any category related to China from any article related to China. Huaiwei may be blocked for up to one week per violation without further warning.
I run the Web site plasma-universe.com. *My server logs note various visits by IP address 71.57.90.96 and 216.125.49.252 (Misplaced Pages contributors) whose timing coincide with the actions from two users named "Asshole" (on 23 Feb | Log (359K) ) and "Anon" (on 25 Feb | Log (285K)). Yesterday (11 Mar) I also received over 400 emails (example available on request) sourced from IP address 71.57.90.96, and another contributor to the plasma-universe.com web site received numerous emails,
Both IP addresses 71.57.90.96 and 216.125.49.252 resolve to ILLINOIS, and an email I received from someone at "Harold Washington College" in Illinois, also shows the IP address of 216.125.49.252.
ScienceApologist is the username of Joshua Schroeder , and he works at "Harold Washington College"
WP:NPA on "Off-wiki personal attacks notes that "Misplaced Pages acknowledges that it cannot regulate behavior in media not under the control of the Wikimedia Foundation, but personal attacks elsewhere may create doubt as to whether an editor's on-wiki actions are being conducted in good faith."
I was informed about this notice from a third party who monitors this board. The first time I heard about Ian's website was when Ian made mention of it at Talk:Plasma cosmology, but I thought that he was simply spamming for his website. Now it seems he is accusing me of unbecoming behavior and trying to sully my reputation at Misplaced Pages. I have some ideas who might be orchestrating this (I believe it is a student of mine), but I'm pretty upset that Ian would accuse me of this behavior without ever having asked me for assistance. I do use the two IPs in question to log into Misplaced Pages, but the accusations he is leveling against the ScienceApologist account are not connected with the person who logs into Misplaced Pages as such. --ScienceApologist12:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
wikimedia.org).
Confirmed Thatcher131 00:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
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