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Lightbringer banned from editing articles relating to freemasonry

Lightbringer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is banned from editing articles relating to freemasonry pending resolution of the arbitration case concerning him Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Lightbringer/Proposed_decision#Lightbringer.

Rktect banned from editing weights and measures

Rktect (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is banned indefinitely from editing any article which relates to weights and measures (metrology). Rktect may be briefly blocked should he do so, see Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Rktect#Remedies

Ban on editors involved in Bogdanov Affair

All user accounts used by participants in the external controversy (involving the Bogdanov Affari) are banned from Misplaced Pages pending resolution of this matter. The criteria for determining external involvement shall be a review of their edit history, it being presumed that if the vast majority of their edits were to the Bogdanov Affair and related pages such as this arbitration that they are not Misplaced Pages editors but persons involved in the external dispute. This group includes: YBM (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), XAL (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), ProfesseurYIN (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), Igor B. (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), CatherineV (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), 82.123.187.53 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Laurence67 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), EE Guy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), 82.123.46.149 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), 82.123.57.232 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), Luis A. (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and all others who meet the criteria. Rbj (talk · contribs), a regular Misplaced Pages editor, and User-multi error: "Ze_miguel" is not a valid project or language code (help)., a new editor who has edited other areas, are banned from editing Bogdanov Affair, pending resolution of this matter.

A less restrictive injunction Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Regarding The Bogdanov Affair/Proposed decision#Ban on editing Bogdanov Affair is under consideration and may replace the total bans. Fred Bauder 19:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Additional editors included

Zen-master

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Zen-master
  • Zen-master is placed on Misplaced Pages:Probation for one year from the date of closing this case. Should any sysop feel that it is necessary that Zen-master be banned from an article where they are engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article, or any other activity which the user considers disruptive, they shall place a template {{Zen-master banned}} at the top of the talk page of the article, and notify them on their talk page. The template shall include the ending date of the ban (one year from this decision) and a link to Misplaced Pages:Probation. The template may be removed by any editor, including Zen-master, at the end of the ban. If Zen-master edits an article they are banned from, they may be briefly blocked from editing Misplaced Pages, up to a week for repeat offenses.
  • Zen-master is banned for one week for making personal attacks.

James F. (talk) 16:12, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Limited ban on ArmchairVexillologistDon

2.3) User:ArmchairVexillologistDon is banned from the editing of any Misplaced Pages page related to vexillology, fascism, or Canada pending a decision their arbitration case. What constitutes "Vexillogy," "fascism," or "Canada" shall be interpreted broadly. Fred Bauder 21:15, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Yuber and Guy Montag

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Yuber
  • Yuber and Guy Montag are each placed on Misplaced Pages:Probation for one year from the date of closing this case. Should any sysop feel that it is necessary that either Yuber or Guy Montag be banned from an article where one of them is engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article, or any other activity which the user considers disruptive they shall place a template {{Yuber banned}} or {{Guy Montag banned}} as appropriate at the top of the talk page of the article, and notify them on their talk page. The template shall include the ending date of the ban (one year from this decision) and a link to Misplaced Pages:Probation. The template may be removed by any editor, including Yuber and Guy Montag, at the end of the ban. If Yuber or Guy Montag edit an article they are banned from, they may be briefly blocked from editing Misplaced Pages, up to a week for repeat offenses.
  • Yuber is instructed to use only this account, and no anonymous IPs. What editing constitutes Yuber's is up to any sysop to decide. If Yuber violates this, any sysop is authorised to ban them for up to a week.
  • Guy Montag is banned from editing any article related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for three months from the date of closing this case.

James F. (talk) 11:32, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

AI

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/AI
  • AI (under any username) is banned from Misplaced Pages pending the final resolution of all legal disputes with Misplaced Pages. Any edits AI attempts to make until this time, under any account or IP, should be immediately reverted.
  • AI is instructed to use only this account, and no anonymous IPs. What editing constitutes AI's is up to any sysop to decide. If AI violates this, any sysop is authorised to ban them for up to a month for one-off offences, and up to a year for repeat offences.
  • Further, AI is banned from refactoring dialogue on talk pages, or rearranging any talk page, including material which constitutes "personal comments" or personal attacks (this applies to all talk pages except AI's own user talk page), and also banned from editing any article related to the Church of Scientology. If AI violates either of these, any sysop is authorised to ban them for up to 24 hours for one-off offences, and up to a week per violation for repeat offences.

James F. (talk) 01:09, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

OldRight

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/OldRight
  • OldRight (under any username) is placed on Misplaced Pages:Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban Old Right from any article he disrupts by inappropriate editing. OldRight must be notified on his talk page of any bans and a note must also placed on WP:AN/I. Should Old Right, using any account, edit any article from which he is banned, he may be briefly banned from Misplaced Pages, up to a week in the case of repeat offenses.

James F. (talk) 02:02, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Gabrielsimon

Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 09:53, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Dot Six temporary injunction

Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 22:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Skyring

Internodeuser

Irate (personal attack parole)

Zivinbudas

Tkorrovi and Paul Beardsell

Netoholic

Trey Stone

Njyoder

LevelCheck

John Gohde

Rex071404

Irate

Baku Ibne, et al.

Xed

JonGwynne

CheeseDreams and Rienzo

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/CheeseDreams 2
  • Effective 3 Mar, 2005
  • User:CheeseDreams is banned for a total of one year until 3 Mar, 2006.
    • already implemented as part of a previous injunction
  • User:Rienzo is banned for 6 months until 3 September, 2005.
  • CheeseDreams is restricted to editing from the account User:CheeseDreams
  • CheeseDreams is a vexatious litigant. As such she is prohibited from initiating any requests for comment or requests for arbitration.

WikiUser

Robert the Bruce

Herschelkrustofsky

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2
  • Effective 17 February, 2005
  • Herschelkrustofsky is restricted to one account for editing.
  • Herschelkrustofsky is placed on POV parole for up to and including one year, until 17 February 2006. (Reset to 30 September 2006.)
  • Herschelkrustofsky is banned from editing any article relating to Lyndon LaRouche for up to and including one year, until 17 February 2006. (Reset to 30 September 2006.)

Gzornenplatz

ChuckF

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Chuck F
  • Effective 6 Feb, 2005
  • ChuckF (and all user accounts and IP addresses used by him) are banned from editing any article related to libertarianism, socialism, or political ideology.
  • For 1 year, Chuck F is limited to 1 revert per article per day and must discuss all reverts on the relevant talk page. Until 6 Feb 2006.

Vfp15

Antifinnugor

Rienzo, Lady Tara, Baffinisland, Nasse (Piglet) and NahChyps

''See also "CheeseDreams and Rienzo" above.

Libertas

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Libertas
  • Effective 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Libertas and all sockpuppets are banned for a year, until 28 Jan, 2006.
  • Blocking admin:
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  • Libertas is limited to one revert per twenty-four hour period
  • Libertas is prohibited from having any sockpuppet accounts

-lothario-

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/168.209.97.34
  • Effective 22 January, 2005
  • -lothario- (168.209.97.34) is placed on POV parole for one year, until 22 January, 2006.
  • Further vandalism by -lothario- (168.209.97.34) may result in temporary blocks of up to a week by any administrator at the administrator's discretion.

HistoryBuffEr

CheeseDreams

See also "CheeseDreams and Rienzo" above.

Ciz

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Ciz
  • Effective January 10, 2005
  • Ciz (using whatever account or IP address) is banned from editing Zoophilia and its closely related articles, including their talk pages.
  • Ciz (using whatever account) is placed on standard personal attack parole indefinitely.

Alberuni

Lir

Irismeister

Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily

See also "Gzornenplatz" above

Jimmyvanthach, Celindgren, and Tran Van Ba

  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Jimmyvanthach
  • Effective November 6, 2004
  • Jimmyvanthach/Celindgren (blocked indefinitely for other reasons) and Tran Van Ba (blocked indefinitely for other reasons) are banned from editing articles which relate to the royal family of Vietnam and articles which relate to the recent history and politics of Vietnam.
  • Edits by Jimmyvanthach, Celindgrenand and Tran Van Ba and obvious sockpuppets to articles which relate to the former royal family of Vietnam or to the recent history and politics of Vietnam may be removed by any user. In the event the banned users attempt to restore removed edits they may be banned by any administrator for a brief period (a day or less but up to a week in the event of repeat offenses).

Kenneth Alan

PolishPoliticians

Cantus

Mr-Natural-Health

See also "John Gohde" above

William Connolley's parole - enforcement

  • User William M. Connolley is violating the parole .
I missed this bit of junk before... that was a temporary iunjunction during the arbcomm case, as it says. It no longer applies. William M. Connolley 22:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC).
  • See e.g. the page on "Skeptical Environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg where he reverted the page without explaining his reasons on the talk page, although he is specifically forbidden to do so. Together with MichaelSirks, we are looking for tools to enforce the parole. Could you please help us? Thanks, --Lumidek 15:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  • At least one violation of the 1 rv in 24 hours restriction took place.
    • 10:24, 28 October 2005 (hist) (diff) Peat (→Peat fires - Change pic to one also showing increase. Leave text.) (top)
    • 09:54, 28 October 2005 (hist) (diff) Peat (rv to WMC. Its perfectly clear from the graph that there was no such boost to explain)

— (SEWilco 17:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC))

I may have missed some and only looked at the recent 500. — (SEWilco 17:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC))

This is the tedious old climate wars again with the same old suspects. SEW has stuffed this page with a pile of gross irrelevance.

I can't be bothered to go through the full list - as SEW himself says (is he mad?) Some are rvv - SEW is just trouble making. If he has a serious complaint, he needs to winnow it down to real cases and remove the dross. William M. Connolley 19:16, 28 October 2005 (UTC).

Oops, missed some more dross: SEW supposed viol of 1RR: Peat fires - Change pic to one also showing increase. Leave text.) (top) - *its not a revert*. This is just malice/trolling. William M. Connolley 19:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC).

Comment by Rd232

Since this is about WMC's parole, let's remind ourselves of the key part of that text: "Due to a long history of reverting, often without giving adequate explanation for the reverts, William M. Connolley is hereby prohibited for six months from reverting any article relating to climate change more than once per 24 hour period (vandalism excepted). Each such revert must be backed up by a talk page comment where a reputable source is cited or asked for as appropriate."

which I interpret as 1. no more than 1 revert in 24 hrs, i.e. a return to previous page state; 2. this excludes responses to vandalism; 3. where there is a dispute about sourcing a Talk page explanation is required, unless 3a. adequate explanation can be fitted into an edit summary, and is provided. I interpret 3a as a reasonable extension 3. as it otherwise imposes needless burden on others - to visit Talk page to see every WMC edit summary, instead of seeing in watchlists. If this is way off base from what was intended or what others think, sorry; but I comment below on this basis.
  • 1. WMC came in and supported Orsetto (and Tsavage?) in dipute with MichaelSirks, over major revision of page; it seems difficult to interpret this as a breach of the citation/Talk page requirement.
  • 3,4. , - the initial edit from Mikkalai wasn't a revert (removed some material only); one revert from SEWilco, with adequate edit summary (not regarding a citation); one edit to change picture, not a revert

Picking some WMC contributions from SEWilco's lengthy list:

  • 5. is removal of 2 of 3 links over 2 edits a reversion?
  • 10. is a straightforward re-addition of an internal link, with explanation;
  • 20. was with edit summary and discussed on Talk by others who agreed
  • 25. - two edits that day, neither reverts, and discussed on Talk;
  • 30. not a revert (only restored deleted statement and fixed link after major addition)
  • 35. not a revert (and a removal of his section after my rewriting of which I didn't object to!);
  • 40. related to a dispute over citation, in which WMC didn't quite revert but didn't explain properly either. It included WMC changing a link (in the intro) from to , which SEWilco reverted with edit summary "rv WMC's destructive wiki edit" , which someone else remarked was "inflammatory and uncalled for".
  • 45. a revert of vandalism
  • 50. not a revert and had clear edit summary
  • 55. reverted removal of link/citation on basis link was dead but citation still useful
  • 59. removal of vandalism.

Of which only this comes close:

  • explained on Talk; ; WMC tried to justify second revert in 24h by reference to vandalism which a dubious interpretation. But since WMC didn't revert the subequent readdition, it not's much to hang a man by. I would suggest that after four months of a six months parole a minor slip is grounds for gentle reminder, no more; Misplaced Pages is not a police state. If there are more serious/demonstrable violations in SEWilco's list, it's entirely his fault for padding it with irrelevancies and trivialities.

All in all this looks like renewed animosity on the part of a number of people, sparked by the recent return of a contributor ('return' as he made only 4 edits between 20 July and 14 October) involved or at least affected by the case. This is now four months into WMC's parole and in that time I haven't seen any disputes on this (not that I've been looking for them). So it looks a bit like a settling of old scores, given that SEWilco's trawl of WMC's edits (imagine how time-consuming that must have been!) reveals so little.

Finally, I have concerns about this remark on my talk, a reply to a request by WMC to check out this enforcement request and comment if appropriate: Hi. Let me mention that WMC has brutally violated the rules of Misplaced Pages, and if you follow his order, you will be a violator, too. --Lumidek 20:44, 28 October 2005 (UTC) Which further supports my concern that this enforcement issue is being raised as a vendetta. Finally-finally, I've spent an hour+ seeing whether there was a basis for the accusations; time that could have been spent more productively. Let's get back to actually working on Misplaced Pages. Rd232 22:58, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

I find your "defense" of WMC bizarre. It's like someone who is accused of 50 murders and someone else proving that the killer is innocent because 20 of the victims were actually just children. There are well-defined rules here on Misplaced Pages and they have to be obeyed unless we want to support the tendencies that damage the Wikicommunity and its goals. --Lumidek 00:06, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Looking over, the diffs, it appears that Rd232 is correct in his assessment. I don't think WMC has done anything wrong. On the other hand, Lumidek's and SEWilco's actions have the appearances of a vendetta. Like Rd232, I received the same threats from Lumidek. His comments on this page are bizarre and, IMO, constitute personal attacks. Guettarda 02:29, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

SEWilco comment on Rd232

I'd thought some of WMC's edits looked odd, but hadn't looked at the situation until this complaint popped up. Anybody monitoring? No parole officer? There are still a number of oddities; without reexamining the last 500 edits there are still 8 items listed below, from Rd232's list.

  • I had interpreted "(vandalism excepted)" as imposing the penalty upon vandalism by parolees, but it being an rvv exception fits the phrasing better.
  • "unless 3a. adequate explanation can be fitted into an edit summary, and is provided." is an exception which is not in the Remedy. You might not recall that Talk descriptions were required due to a history of problematical edit summaries.
  • I provided the link to WMC's Contributions because it is easy to see oddities there.

Some remaining items in Rd232's partial list:

  • 1. WMC came in and supported Orsetto (and Tsavage?)... I see no group rv exception in the ruling. I didn't try to judge whether this was a group revert war because a war is not a requirement either.
  • 3,4. - ...revert from SEWilco, with adequate edit summary... Actually, there was an unsigned Talk entry with a graph-reading explanation to counter the removed sourced statement. Is trying to interpret a graph the required "reputable source"?
  • 5. is removal of 2 of 3 links over 2 edits a reversion? It is an rv, labeled rm, of the link created during the preceding 2 edits. Required Talk missing.
  • 10. is a straightforward re-addition of an internal link, with explanation; Required Talk missing.
  • 20. was with edit summary and discussed on Talk by others who agreed Required Talk missing. (nearest Talk edit over 11 hours later)
  • 40. ...WMC didn't quite revert... ... but didn't explain properly either. Comparison with WMC's previous version shows it was a revert with a destructive citation conversion added. Required Talk missing. (nearest Talk edit 5 hours later) This conversion replaced
    with only the less descriptive URL:
  • 50. not a revert and had clear edit summary Comparison with 3rd preceding version shows it was revert with two phrases also changed. Required Talk missing.
  • 55. reverted removal of link/citation on basis link was dead but citation still useful A good and necessary edit which violates parole. Required Talk missing.

— (SEWilco 05:54, 29 October 2005 (UTC))

SEWilco comment on WMC

  • Connolley points out the injunction link is to a temporary injunction. That is correct.
  • Connolley neglected to point out there is a revert parole elsewhere in the document.

— (SEWilco 05:54, 29 October 2005 (UTC))

= Creation of this item

"Only Arbitration Committee members can add new items to this page." Is Lumidek on the Committee? Don't see an entry on WP:AC. (SEWilco 06:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC))

Absolutely right. Didn't realise that. Guettarda 14:27, 29 October 2005 (UTC)