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Conduct of Dan56

Dan56 (talk · contribs)

Topic ban requested.

User 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.

• AGF: [1], [2], [3], [4]
• Recent edit warring, & WP:POINT in article editing (in the first diff, he disruptively removes [while I was still improving the section] reviews I'd added from the album ratings box) - chronologically: [5] + my response: [6] + [7]; [8] + [9]; [10] + [11] + [12] + [13]; [14] + [15] + [16] + [17] (←linked to Wikiproject discussion in which he said himself recently it was only a guide)

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)

Lapadite77 is personalizing a dispute which stems from my involvement at Talk:Garbage (album)#Album genres and the subsequent RfC for those genres, which didn't go Lapadite's way exactly, partly because I was invited by Andrzejbanas to weigh in and sided with him. Last October ([18]), I began cleaning up and expanding a section at Version 2.0 and have been involved there since. My recent revisions to Lapadite's edits were justified by guidelines I don't feel he can fully grasp at the on-going RfC, where he canvassed two of his recent collaborators at other "Garbage" articles to weigh in. Lapadite argued for his version of the article by drawing comparisons to other stuff in the RfC, so I dont believe he had any intention to drastically trim and properly paraphrase the quote farm he added to the article in question. The section in question is essentially complete, considering the notability of the reviewers and the viewpoints researched, so this is appears to be another attempt at creative control. Dan56 (talk) 02:12, 3 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 [contrary to what he too claims here] 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)

You need to file a report here. I recommend including only good evidence in the form of diffs. This thread will likely be closed, by someone else, accordingly. Or do you expect an admin to jump in and block the user per this report? Doc talk 08:10, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

I expected admins to comment on ANI and consider the irrefutable content in all the links provided. Why do you think I should file a report there instead? That page says it is inactive, and the topic dispute isn't limited to RfC conduct, it also, and primarily, regards editor conduct on this band's articles, hence my request of a topic ban, and not another kind; WP:TBAN →"The purpose of a topic ban is to forbid an editor from making edits related to a certain topic area where their contributions have been disruptive, but to allow them to edit the rest of Wikipedia.". --Lapadite (talk) 09:15, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

• Another tendentious edit, which I partially restored. --Lapadite (talk) 09:15, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

• Another tendentious edit and reversal of copyedit/improvements, demonstrating again WP:OWN, POV, and Wikilawyering issues:

I copyedited, as edit summary details: [19]

He wrote, in another section on the talk page, at 10:08: [20] and 2 minutes later, made the following revert (including restoring of his tendentious, NPOV, undue weight-violating ratings replacement [mentioned in the first "Another tendentious edit" diff above]): [21]. The pre-copyediting version (his) that he restored is in many respects cherry picking, giving undue weight, and not sticking to source.

My response to his talk page post: [22])

I sincerely hope what has been provided and continues to be provided (obviously, again Dan56 has no plans to change his habits here) is more than enough to see why I, with reason, request a topic ban for Dan56, due to his considerable, disruptive OWN issues on this band's article, his complete disregard for collaboration, his consistent tendentious editing, knee-jerk reverts of improvements he disagrees with, violations of WP:PRESERVE and all else aforementioned.

Can any admins bother to tend to this thread? All that continues to happen is disruptive and more disruptive editing from Dan56. Lapadite (talk) 18:25, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Pinging a couple of editors, spotted while skimming ANI, that I believe are admins, to see if maybe this could start getting some attention (sorry if you're not one): Drmies, Stalwart111

I understand what Lapadite is saying, as some of my debates with Dan56 were similar in the past, but unfortunately, I think he's one of those editors that treads the line carefully, where he can come off as rude or abrasive, not its not really bad enough to warrant a block. Unless it starts escalating to personal attacks or hounding, I think a better approach would be to just keep starting discussions or RFC's, to come to a consensus that combats the WP:OWN issues. Sergecross73 msg me 20:27, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, the disruptive editing guideline mentions some "tread the line" behaviors these kinds of editors may engage in such as: "Their edits often avoid gross breaches of civility, by refraining from personal attacks, while still interfering with civil and collaborative editing meant to improve the article". Dan56 doesn't do blunt personal attacks, although others may disagree, and this isn't a report on personal attacks nor a proposal to ban him from editing Wikipedia but a request for a topic ban, to rid of his considerable, still ongoing (after 7 months) pattern of disruption at this band's articles, his considerable OWN and WP:POINTy behavior, and considerable disregard for collaboration. He's still doing it, still reverting. And presumably this guy has many editors not wanting to speak against him, perhaps admins. Pretty much every other thread at ANI has several comments. This is just ridiculous. --Lapadite (talk) 22:50, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

More tendentious editing: [23] --Lapadite (talk) 01:29, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Part of Dan56's tendentious edits, is (first mentioned above) the constant replacing of a positive score with a negative score in the album ratings box (which already contains 10 review scores). It has been called out and explained multiple times on the talk page, noted how it's not only tendentious, but violates WP:UNDUE and WP:PRESERVE, but Dan56 keeps restoring it. There's also the persistent claim that reviews that agree on some element of an album are virtually incompatible in that regard in a reception section; summaries of reviews can't include similar opinions, unless of course for something that contradicts positive notions. Any admin's care about this pattern of disruption, OWN and tendentious editing? Seriously, this article would've been completely improved by now if Dan56 hadn't gone (and still continue) on a disruptive, tendentious crusade. --Lapadite (talk) 16:05, 5 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 ^{(talk) (cont)} 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 Wikipedia – 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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia. 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)

Yes, you hit the nail on the head JG66. That is precisely the grand problem. My frustration is exactly because this concerns a longstanding pattern and is far from the first time Dan56 does this on this band’s articles - which I discussed above. Dan56 certainly has had numerous disputes with other editors on other articles regarding this kind of behavior, and he does immediately delete all objections and warnings he gets from his page, sometimes mocking the editor that leaves a message or asserting his ‘status' (e.g., here and when I left him a disruptive editing notice in September of 2014. I’d actually mentioned a few of those past disputes, admittedly inappropriately, out of frustration, in that Garbage album talk page (inside the “off topic” shell) he linked in his post here. If what admins need is more proof of Dan56’s pattern of disruption I personally and perhaps others would have no problem linking several examples there and elsewhere. But like I said before, this is a topic ban proposal for this bands’ articles as my own interactions with Dan56 have mostly been there, and his constant disruption, disregard for collaboration, and POV pushing there is intolerable at this point. The problem is Dan56, as usual, might temporarily stop his overtly tendentious disruption and then start up later after ANI thread is closed, but especially if objecting editors leave the article. Like JG66 said, It will certainly reemerge, again (like it did months after the last album dispute); editors like Dan56 who don’t get sanctioned for their disruptive actions never learn and change; obviously they'd have nothing to learn from since, as they mask POINTy, OWN and tendentious behavior largely through Wikilawyering and 'status', hiding behind it and professing no wrong doing (others are at fault and personalizing), they normally don't see consequences, beyond a ‘don’t do it again’ slap on the wrist. In fact, the lack of consequences only reinforces that behavior. I’ve personally stopped improving this particular article, at least temporarily, as I find it futile; only thing I'm still doing is restoring Dan56's tendentious, POV edits/his inability to stick to source when it doesn't suit his bias. Like JG66 mentioned, Dan56 likes to appropriate an article, shutting out others who object to his editing practices, wanting to be left to his own devices. Other editors in the past have noted how he edits tendentiously on articles of artists he does not like, but he also edits tendentiously on artists he does like (for example, the reception section of this album - an article he wrote, and fixed after much FA dispute [ironically, concerning things of which he has accused others]). You can see this in his comments in both talk pages initially linked here. I don’t know how many more diffs from this particular article are needed; figured I’d linked enough and was already tired of linking as the thread received no comments. The page history is plenty evidence of how much revert/restoring happened there as a result. Much of that has been linked here, as well as the talk page discussion.

In the recent RfC that I'd linked, the three editors that responded clearly want nothing to do with the dispute, understandably. At the start of the RfC you can see that one editor noted the inappropriateness of removing the initial reviews I’d added from the album ratings box ("simply removing everything Lapadite added seems drastic"). I'd be shocked that anyone would agree with Dan56’s egregious behavior unless they’ve agreed with Dan’s POV editing in the past. That he may be “sometimes right” - everyone is at least “sometimes right” at some point - does not remotely null or invalidate his history of disputes and disruption, disruption at this band’s articles, or any he makes in the future there and elsewhere. --Lapadite (talk) 15:23, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

More, under false pretexts: [24], [25]. For how long would this need to go on? 5, 10 revision history pages? Lapadite (talk) 17:11, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Dan56 apparently went on overdrive instead; More again, this being the first of multiple edits largely of the same nature as previous ones and as described above (his edit summary merely repeating what I stated in the previous edit): [26]. Restored by me here, with some fixes and additions on further edits. --Lapadite (talk) 02:22, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Action needed here; proposal

• Dan56 was the subject of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Dan56 in October 2014, which (despite the stricken participation of a sock) was closed by Beeblebrox with findings that Dan56 be reminded of WP:COPYVIO, WP:BITE, and WP:OWN.
• AN/I threads involving Dan26 after his RFC: [27], [28]

This is a complex case that I think is headed to ArbCom if it doesn't get resolved here. I have observed Dan56 in many places (he's difficult to miss if you work on any music articles) but I assert that the primary sources of his conflicts on Wikipedia are: plagiarism, music reviews, and music genres. I will attempt to concisely demonstrate that Dan has continued to exhibit problems with WP:COPYVIO, WP:BITE, and WP:OWN pursuant to these three items since his RFC, and then propose a remedy in an attempt to avoid ArbCom.

You haven't concisely demonstrated anything. If anything, you've barely inspected what flimsy evidence you provided below. Also, the second AN/I thread you cited above was opened by a frustrated, genre-warring IP, since blocked for being the sock I suspected. You're building a flimsy case just to draw more attention to me, simply to have some action done to me. Also, since my RfC, I fixed the close paraphrasing issues at Talk:Of Human Feelings and performed source checks before I reopened its FAC. I haven't exhibited any problems with WP:COPYVIO since then. Dan56 (talk) 05:08, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Plagiarism

I last interacted with Dan56 directly at this FAC where 3 different editors expressed concern about plagiarism and close paraphrasing in his writing. I was surprised by his aggressive and uncivil response to such concerns, and to my own concerns. By the second nomination, I had given up dealing with him and so had anyone else who initially offered constructive criticism. He then asked for it to be withdrawn, saying it was "tainted" because he believed one of the objectors to be a sock. Rather than conceding that Rationalobserver had any legitimate objections to his nomination, he accused her of being a sock with a grudge against him who was only opposing his nomination out of spite. He succeeding in getting Rationalobserver blocked as a sock of Jazzerino (talk · contribs), which was later demonstrated incorrect. However, Dan56 edit warred to maintain a note in the second FAC nomination calling Rationalobserver a sock. I will note that Rationalobserver will not be commenting here because she actually agreed to an interaction ban with Dan56 to demonstrate that she wasn't here just to harass him. I will also add that I thought it was sneaky that Dan56 opened this second nomination and notified several editors, but specifically did not notify the editors who opposed the first one.

The situation at Xx (album) demonstrates that the plagiarism problem has continued despite the RFC, and demonstrates how Dan56 reacts to normal constructive criticism in this realm.

I stand %100 by my suspicions and what I had to say on that matter, a matter which I did not provide the deciding evidence but @Mike V: had, who then offered this cryptic explanation as to why that decision was overturned, NOT that it was "incorrect"--it'd be great for the purposes of this insulting thread that you get your facts straight about the situations and disputes you decide to use as "evidence" here, because I feel you're painting an inaccurate picture of that situation in broad strokes. I find it equally dubious that you pretend to forget I responded to what you claim as finding "sneaky" at that FAC page. You're forcing me to explain and discuss a dispute I've been warned not to, so it's incumbent upon you not to misrepresent it. Btw, you do realize I have an open FAC for Of Human Feelings where I "reacted to normal constructive criticism"? Dan56 (talk) 04:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Music reviews

One of the constant sources of conflict for Dan56 is his interminable addition and removal of music album ratings and reviews to suit his personal opinion, many times with a fixation on Robert Christgau. Lapadite77 provided diffs above for recent conflicts involving reviews and ratings at Garbage-related articles. I'm concerned that Dan cherry-picks and promotes/demotes sources to back up his preferred vision for how the reviews and rating should be reflected. Here is a good example of his removing a source he doesn't like under an unclear and disingenuous edit summary. You would think he was simply adding Newsweek and NME, but he is also removing a source he has argued against without clear rationale or consensus. These are clear WP:OWN violations post-RFC.

I'm tired of having to defend myself against this type of nonsense. Being as active and involved as I am means you're going to butt heads with some fancruft and POV-driven editors from time to time, but I'm offended by your accusation that I add or remove ratings or reviews based on my personal opinion--on one hand you say I'm fixated on Robert Christgau, yet support Lapadite77's assertion that I have a negative opinion of an album (article) which Christgau gave a positive review of? I addressed and explained my role in this "Garbage-related" dispute already in my comment above on 3 February. Furthermore, your above example demonstrates what a flimsy case you are making--did you bother to read anything at the article's talk page where the review sources were being discussed?... because that edit was made when I made a case for a source I had originally added be removed in favor of obviously more notable sources per MOS:ALBUM#Critical reception. Either make a close inspection of this dispute--that article's talk page, each editor's edit summaries and arguments--or don't bother slinging vague accusations of ownership at me when the same could and should be said about the other guy (WP:BOOMERANG). The burden is on you to read through Talk:Version 2.0#Revisions to Critical reception and the corresponding revisions made to the article during that discussion, if you're to introduce it here as some kind of evidence of disruptive editing made on my part. Dan56 (talk) 04:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

This, for the record, is emblematic of the ownership issues exhibited by Lapadite77 on Garbage-related articles, articles I hardly care about, with the exception of Version 2.0, whose Critical reception I took upon myself to improve and expand starting last October, with (take a guess)... positive reviews! ([29]) But then I continued my research and found reviews not to the liking of Lapadite77. Dan56 (talk) 14:57, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Music genres

Again for anyone editing music articles, you will see Dan56 all over your watchlist because he reverts anonymous and established editors who attempt to alter the genres on any article he watches, without any rationale or explanation. This is well-documented in his RFC, and he has continued the behavior despite the RFC findings. You needn't go further than the first page of his contributions to find him reverting genre changes calling them vandalism ("rvv"). Most of the time he's changing one unsourced genre to another. This violates WP:BITE (calling people's good-faith contributions vandalism) and WP:OWN (attempting to control the genres on large selections of articles without sources or discussion).

Untrue. Also, the link you provided is my revision restoring the genre sourced in the body of the article. With what I've contributed to Wikipedia, including the improvements I stand by at Version 2.0, I deserve for my accusers to get their facts straight rather than relying on their impression of isolated disputes I've been involved in. Dan56 (talk) 04:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposed solutions

We need some help here. Beeblebrox, since you closed the RFC, perhaps you can be of some assistance in putting this to bed. I don't think any progress has been made since the RFC. Therefore, I propose the following:

1. Dan56 is required to solicit an independent plagiarism review for any article he's developing before nominating it for either GA or FA status.
2. Dan56 is prohibited from editing reviews or ratings on music articles unless he is specifically preparing that article for GA or FA status.
3. Dan56 is prohibited from adding, removing, or changing genres on music articles unless he is specifically preparing that article for GA or FA status. --Spike Wilbury (talk) 21:00, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Comment - The genre warring too characteristic of past dispute at the album Garbage article. I support the proposed solutions, especially the second and third. However, Dan56 could just use the 'preparing article' as a pretext, augmenting the OWN and WP:POINT issues. --Lapadite (talk) 04:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Comment - Dan56 characterizes the aforementioned as "isolated disputes". Let's see, a scan through the ANI archives of the past year also brings up: [30]; [31]; [32], where an editor who initially disagreed with the OP of the report said:

"All that said, I do not think Dan's hands are clean here. Some of his reverts are questionable: Reverting here to revert Harmelodix's "unexplained removal", for instance struck me as odd; it's not an "unexplained removal" in the content blanking sense. Harmelodix merely restructured the first two sentences. If Dan's intent was to invoke WP:BRD, he should have explained it and started a discussion. This revert, which the edit summary says was in order to revert an unexplained reversion... is just weird. I believe that Dan's behavior in these articles is a bit controlling; I'm not prepared to invoke WP:OWN just yet, but it's what I'd call petty. Wikipedia doesn't need to have the exact verbiage that Dan prefers ... I think Dan's inscrutable edit summaries, picky reasons for reverting, and curious unwillingness to engage in discussion at article talk pages serve to violate WP:BITE. While I don't think a sanction is needed at this point, Dan needs to try to work with Harmelodix rather than revert when he sees something he disagrees. Wikipedia is a group project, not an adversarial proceeding; work needs to take the form of a collaboration, not a negotiation with offers and counter-offers. Finally, I would formally warn Dan that WP:TEDIOUS is a redirect for "tendentious editing": if his intent is to suggest that another editor's edits are tedious, he should not be putting that link in his edit summaries (I would also argue that calling another editor's edits "tedious" is not particularly friendly)."

and [33], where Dan56 is reminded: "I see the changes as improvements, albeit minor ones. Just because the article is an FA, does not mean that it cannot be improved or changed for the better. Please remember it is a collaborative project, repeatedly templating good faith editors is just not good practice and often invites a hostile response." --Lapadite (talk) 09:47, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Both the report and the ANI threads you are referring to involve editors who were found to be sock puppets or IPs evading a block--Harmelodix and 5.81.225.225. Just like in your research for the articles you edit, you haven't critically assessed the sources for the case you are trying to make and instead are relying on making a lot of noise with weak evidence in hopes that whoever makes a decision on this matter wont carefully look through it. Dan56 (talk) 14:57, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Dan's insubstantial, retaliation claims shtick was addressed in the talk page here, where he first professed them. On that note, again the start of more disruption and WP:TE of the same from Dan56, likewise just mimicking my previous restore edit summary (mentioned in above section). Does he care, think he's at fault in anything, or believe he will see any real consequences? Clearly not. He is still reverting what has already been called out for multiple guideline-violations or cleared up on the talk page. Given the nature of some of the content in this subsection created by Spike Wilbury, I'd remind that after the first disagreement and dispute with Dan56 at this article he too accused me of Wikihounding (addressed here), as previously noted in the first post of this ANI thread. --Lapadite (talk) 00:21, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

"Shtick"? That's cute, you used a word from the Newsweek review you've removed numerous times without explanation. And on that note, the start of more "disruption and WP:TE of the same" from Lapadite77, who is still reverting after having been called out for multiple guideline-violations or cleared up on the talk page. Given the nature of this insulting thread, I'd like to bring up the fact that Lapadite made these edits here while editing had grown hot and tempered between us at Version 2.0. In any case, I've opened multiple RfCs now at the article's talk page, because Lapadite is showing little civility or competence concerning the guidelines his edits are violating. Dan56 (talk) 05:51, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

It is clear Dan56 is merely repeating exactly what I've said to him regarding his gross guideline-violating behavior and edits, on talk page and edit summaries, and projecting exactly what he's been accused of doing. Everything is on the talk page and page history, and detailed above. Dan56 opened two more RfCs (with multiple misleading statements, unsurprisingly) and restored his WP:TE, WP:POV, possibly WP:OR edit again, which was questioned and challenged on the talk page; one of his reverts states: "unexplained removal", which is not the case and is something one of the editors quoted above from a past ANI questions Dan56 on *. It is beyond clear, from all that has been discussed and linked, how much WP:OWN is exhibited, and how disruptive, biased, and uncollaborative Dan56 is; particularly at this band's articles. He has been called out and warned multiple times on various talk pages and ANIs before, and, looking through ANI, edit warring, and SPI archives, Dan56 appears to been been blocked multiple times in the past for disruptive behaviors, largely edit warring. It is clear he has not learned and has no plans to. Nor does he appear to have read the entire ANI thread as I pointed out more than once his lack of ASG and baseless accusation of Wikihounding, which, like I'd said. and linked, was addressed on the talk page.

* An editor's comments from a past ANI thread are relevant here again:

I do not think Dan's hands are clean here. Some of his reverts are questionable: Reverting here to revert Harmelodix's "unexplained removal", for instance struck me as odd; it's not an "unexplained removal" in the content blanking sense. Harmelodix merely restructured the first two sentences. If Dan's intent was to invoke WP:BRD, he should have explained it and started a discussion. This revert, which the edit summary says was in order to revert an unexplained reversion... is just weird. I believe that Dan's behavior in these articles is a bit controlling; I'm not prepared to invoke WP:OWN just yet, but it's what I'd call petty. Wikipedia doesn't need to have the exact verbiage that Dan prefers ... I think Dan's inscrutable edit summaries, picky reasons for reverting, and curious unwillingness to engage in discussion at article talk pages serve to violate WP:BITE. While I don't think a sanction is needed at this point, Dan needs to try to work with Harmelodix rather than revert when he sees something he disagrees. Wikipedia is a group project, not an adversarial proceeding; work needs to take the form of a collaboration, not a negotiation with offers and counter-offers. Finally, I would formally warn Dan that WP:TEDIOUS is a redirect for "tendentious editing": if his intent is to suggest that another editor's edits are tedious, he should not be putting that link in his edit summaries (I would also argue that calling another editor's edits "tedious" is not particularly friendly)."

--Lapadite (talk) 09:37, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

No one has questioned what Lapadite calls my "WP:TE, WP:POV, possibly WP:OR edit" other than Lapadite himself, who has been the one accusing me of tedious or tendentious editing at Version 2.0 since the content dispute began. After I had opened the first RfC there, he canvassed other editors who had worked with him on other "Garbage-related" articles ([34], [35]). His most recent "unexplained removal" that he is referring to is his removal of text expressing criticism of the article's topic from The Times and NME magazine, a removal he did not explain in any way, either in an edit summary or at the talk page. I don't understand why he continues to refer to the sockpuppet case of Harmelodix, who was in fact found to make tedious GNOME-like edits at good/featured articles I had either created or promoted. Dan56 (talk) 01:14, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Regarding this thread, it's nothing new for a disgruntled editor whose edits have been disputed to accuse those disputing his edits of disruptive editing and edit warring at an ANI thread. In fact, Lapadite's done it before, here and here, where he accused Homeostasis07 (talk · contribs) of ownership and edit warring at, you guessed it, a "Garbage-related" article. Before Andrzejbanas (talk · contribs) invited me to a discussion at one, I had no interest in Garbage articles. I regret having the idea of improving Version 2.0 because of having to interact with such fan-fueled ownership on the part of Lapadite, but all this crap he's flinging at my character and motives doesn't obligate me to bow out. Dan56 (talk) 01:14, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

More projecting from Dan56, like I noted at the beginning of the ANI, throwing out accusations and (laughably) claiming things of which he is guilty. How predictable; randomly citing the two times I've posted on ANI - one seeking resolution on an article tag dispute after reverts of by two editors who were uncivil, the other, reporting an editor's edit warring on an article, as one can clearly see. On the other hand, one can see from all aforementioned part of Dan's history of being the subject of ANI and other disputes, regarding various articles and various editors, as well as his block history. Obviously Dan56 is "disgruntled" with and inconvenienced by having another ANI report on him, and the possibility of actual consequences, such as a topic ban or the aforementioned by Spike Wilbury, which then won't allow him to freely and persistently subject others to his WP:OWN, WP:TE, WP:EW disruptive behavior on selected articles. See how he's continued engaging in all the aforementioned while the ANI is opened, but arguably to a less degree than before the report; I can imagine his drive after it is closed if nothing were to come of it. More WP:TE from Dan56, also misrepresenting a tag: [36] --Lapadite (talk) 03:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

IMO, Lapadite's only concern in this thread is removing my presence from Version 2.0 so he can develop that article to suit his preferences (WP:OWN), by any means necessary. Dan56 (talk) 04:02, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

And again, which is, in actuality, precisely Dan56's concern and source for being "disgruntled" at this ANI and his retaliation claims. --Lapadite (talk) 04:37, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

In reference to Lapadite's accusation that I "misrepresented a tag", he is not being truthful. this diff clearly shows he added a "failed verification" tag without good reason, to which I responded in my following revision and removed the tag. He then added a different tag, albeit with the edit summary "Undid revision by Dan56", and is now falsely accusing me of misrepresenting it. He added a "failed verification" tag, and I responded to it in my revert. Dan56 (talk) 04:12, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Dan56 lies and misleads again; The actual order is as follows: I added the 'failed verification' tag (6:02), changed it to the appropriate one (6:49), then many hours and edits later, Dan56 removed the tag, misrepresenting it as the old one that was replaced (19:28).

He's also edit warred again, whilst violating BRD during another RFC he opened: [37], [38], my talk page comment --Lapadite (talk) 04:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:BOOMERANG. Also, you removing my original addition of prose from NME's review and then choosing to revise it after I had restored what you'd reverted doesn't make your revised version the original. Dan56 (talk) 06:06, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Responding to Dan56's initial edit, which was replaced by the one above; Another frankly pathetic projection of what Dan himself has been called out on multiple times, by various editors. Dan56 also said this on the talk page. Notice how he also sidestepped evidence of his lies. Dan56, re the above, you need to respond on the talk page, not here. That is not the case at all, and I suggest you read WP:BRD thoroughly. --Lapadite (talk) 06:19, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

That Wikihounding accusation Dan56 made and linked to (as did I initially) on articles Coexist (album) and Xx (album)? Now, Dan56 has reverted the two edits made by me which he formerly agreed with → revert #1 , revert #2. Did I not mention the retaliation, hypocrisy and projection of his own behaviors? --Lapadite (talk) 06:36, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Problem is, ANI is for incidents, not behavior. The RfC on Dan, mentioned above and available at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Dan56, was railroaded by a sock, but as closer Beeblebrox mentioned, there were legitimate concerns there, and a shortlist of recommendations. We've done away with the RfC/U process, of course, and I don't know what it is replaced with, but RfC/Us were precisely for these kinds of situations, for patterns of behavior that indicate disruption of one kind or another without crossing the boundary of CIVIL, for instance, or EW. I'm not familiar with the editor who filed the claim here, but I am with Ritchie333, whose opinion I value, and JG66 has a slew of GAs and doesn't seem to have fallen off a turnip truck. Dan56, I strongly urge you to make a substantive comment here, not just a repartee of an individual comment by Lapadite. Because it is possible that an admin in a foul mood comes by here and says, hmm, yes, longterm issues of OWNership and favoritism of this source over that, BITEyness of new editors, borderline edit warring, canvassing and copyright issues, hmm already suggested by an RfC going back a half a year and still happening--perhaps some action is warranted. I'm not going to be that admin since I think the good outweighs the bad, and you do a lot of good stuff around here, but sheesh Dan, please address the actual criticism. You may not want to be a teamplayer, but you simply have to be. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 18:39, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your input Drmies. The problem is that, Dan56 merely getting just another slap on the wrist, another "be a team player, don't do it again". As he has shown and actually implied himself countless times, he has no plans to change his disruptive editing practices and behavior. The conglomerate of evidence presented is unequivocal, the long pattern of disruption and disputes unequivocal, the number of editors in the past speaking out against Dan56's behavior unequivocal, and yet because Dan56 has promoted some GAs and FAs (I'm sure given his history, appropriating articles himself) or has some admin connection, there's hesitation? If this were an IP, or a new editor, they would have been sanctioned, blocked or topic banned right quickly. I've edited collaboratively with multiple editors from various Wikiprojects who've written and promoted multiple GAs and FAs and have never had any problems with any of them; they actually work collaboratively, are civil and uphold guidelines, and don't hide behind some 'status' to go on doing as they please where they please. 'Status'/WP accomplishments doesn't and shouldn't give one a free pass for such egregious editing behavior. WP:HERE, WP:NOTHERE. Drmies, ANI appears to be the only place to report this, something that isn't remotely an isolated incident. See Dan56's hypocritical, laughable, projecting claim above: "IMO, Lapadite's only concern in this thread is removing my presence from Version 2.0 so he can develop that article to suit his preferences (WP:OWN), by any means necessary" - speaks volumes. I mean what more is there to say, beyond more corroboration and more links? Admins either disregard (thereby implicitly validating) this long pattern of WP:DIS, WP:OWN, WP:TE, WP:POINT, WP:BITE, WP:CHERRYPICK, WP:Wikilawyering, WP:HOUND, not WP:AGF (e.g., [39]; [40], [41], [42], [43], [44]), WP:POV, WP:GWAR +, or they actually decide to take long due action. --Lapadite (talk) 00:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Lapadite, I don't know what to tell you. I'm somewhat on the fence and since I participated in the RfC I'm hardly uninvolved, even if I did know what to do here. This needs more eyes, no doubt. Drmies (talk) 02:45, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Dan56 - I will say again what I said six months ago, and what User:Drmies alluded to four months ago. There is a counter-intuitive aspect to extremely possessive involvement with articles or with the characterization of their genres. You have been so heavily involved in some articles that you risk losing the ability to be involved with them at all, because Wikipedia does not allow an editor to assume ownership of articles. A common response to article ownership attitudes is a topic ban, and you risk being topic-banned from music articles. I warned you of that six months ago. I won't make the proposal to impose that ban at this time, but I don't see a positive or collaborative response by you, and I am likely to support a proposal by another editor to impose a topic-ban. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:21, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

This thread has gone on for more than a week, and it is time either to consider a topic-ban or to close the thread with one final warning. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:21, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

You might find an uninvolved admin by posting on AN. Sadly TParis left us--that's one fewer admin who wasn't afraid to jump in and cut Gordian knots. Drmies (talk) 03:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Drmies, is it appropriate to post this on AN? The noticeboard says: "If you are seeking administrator intervention for a specific issue or dispute, you should post it at the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents (ANI) instead." I think, if uninvolved admins aren't available and this is unresolved then ArbCom would be the final step. --Lapadite (talk) 05:02, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Lapadite77 - Yes. Yes, I will explain. Your reading is correct that this board is for specific issues and disputes, and this is a specific issue or dispute; but User:Drmies was suggesting that a request for formal closure of this thread be posted to WP:AN, not that this thread be restarted on AN. This thread has gone on for more than a week, and is getting nowhere. You are continuing to dump about Dan56's article ownership, with which I agree, and about Dan56's copyright issues, which I haven't looked at, but have not taken the time to make a formal proposal. You are just venting, and are continuing to engage in personal attacks. (Yes, it is still a personal attack to say that an editor is lying.) At the same time, Dan56 is continuing to restate his issues with the editing by other editors and to say that there are other bad editors who are worse. Since you, Lapadite77, won't make a formal proposal for a topic-ban, this thread is just wasting pixels. What is now needed is a request for formal closure of this thread, which has degenerated to just two editors dumping on each other. It probably will end in another final warning to Dan56, and it should also end in a warning to you, Lapadite77, about accusations of lying. This thread needs formal closure. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:08, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Right: AN is the place to find a sucker admin willing to read this over and close it. I do think that Robert McClenon has a valid point, that this is devolving into little more than namecalling: "more heat than light" is likely a phrase used by a closing administrator, and that's kind of a shame. Drmies (talk) 16:20, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Drmies; Robert McClenon, I'd hoped you had read the entire ANI thread as I did formally request a topic ban, and direct evidence (Diffs) was provided of Dan56's lies. I was not asking if the thread should be reposted on AN but if it would be appropriate to ask for admin input there on an ANI incident (I'm not familiar with it). This has gone on for however long it has gone on because no admin has cared enough to do anything about it. The reason there's been a "back and forth" here is precisely because Dan56 has decided, instead of giving a substantive response, to throw out baseless accusations and retaliation claims; and I respond to such, otherwise normally a lie unanswered to is a lie confirmed. So you're suggesting because nothing has been done, that it should just be closed, with a warning for both of us? Another warning for Dan56, and a warning for me for bring up editing abuse by an editor that has been the subject of numerous similar disputes, from various editors? It's just another confirmation that regardless of how much evidence provided, however many diffs, points laid out, specific action requested, ANI is essentially useless and editors like this are given free will to do as they please, disrupting where they please, driving editors away, as I'd been suggested by others. Very constructive to Wikipedia. Dan56 has restarted edit warring and POV pushing on the article in question (Version 2.0) - e.g., removing positive reviews from reliable sources and refusing to provide verification of a citation/source he found online and didn't access himself - , and without discussion, without waiting for Rfc response, anything: [45]. So the expected thing is: edit warring continues, and nothing happens? --Lapadite (talk) 23:52, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Okay. I see that you, User:Lapadite77, did include a request for a topic-ban in your post above that was too long, difficult to read. You buried it in there with a dump. If you had provided a heading requesting a topic-ban, you might have gotten Support comments, but you expected that everyone would read its whole length. In a fairer world, we would have read it, and you wouldn't have posted it, and you might have been blocked for the accusation of lying. (Even if you know with 100% certainty that Dan56 is making incorrect statements, can you read his mind to know that he knows that they are incorrect? If not, saying that he is lying is a personal attack.) I have taken the advice of Drmies and requested closure. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:03, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Robert McClenon I'm not familiar with proper protocol here. You're right it was muddled in explanations. I'll add it to the heading for what it's worth. I see you had already requested closure on AN. --Lapadite (talk) 00:09, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Robert McClenon (talk · contribs), unless you take a considerate and meaningful look into whatever disputes or "evidence" brought up in this thread, including the pathetic example posted under "Music genres" which I exposed in my response to it, then I don't feel the need to dignify this thread any longer. If you're interested in editors who exhibit ownership attitudes, then refer to this AN/I thread below, where Lapadite has responded by throwing the same accusations (WP:OWN, tendentious editing, etc.) at Homeostasis07 (talk · contribs). Dan56 (talk) 15:39, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Dan56 is misrepresenting again. Homeostasis isn't a random editor that reported me, Homeostasis was with Dan56 in the past dispute at a Garbage article, doing the exact same thing Dan56 was doing (all in the links provided here), albeit to a lesser degree there (Dan56 really had it covered). He was reported by me for edit warring for tendentious editing on another of that band's article in October 2014 (which was linked here and in the report below). I haven't had any interaction with him since; he's disgruntled about this report (which he mentions), and the only thing he's doing is retaliating, accusing me of the things Dan56 is reported for here using the same links used here, sticking up for his likeminded ally there, and engaging in 'character assassination'. Like I said there, just a baseless retaliation report; And that is the kind of thing that would warrant a warning for the editor who posted it. --Lapadite (talk) 23:52, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

^ An absolutely ridiculous and misrepresenting summation of events. I was never "with" Dan56, I merely opposed Lapadite77's proposal here, since then I've stayed well clear of this mess. Here is the bogus edit warring report Lapadite filed against me in October (nothing to do with "tendentiousness", like he's trying to suggest). As you can see, it was dismissed as "no violation", that still didn't stop him complaining to the closing admin. I'm surprised @Robert McClenon: and @Drmies: have reacted to Dan56 the way they have. If you actually delve in to what Lapadite is posting, you'd see some serious skewing and misrepresentation of the entire situation. The links Lapadite77 posted here to demonstrate Dan56's "long pattern of WP:DIS, WP:OWN, WP:TE, WP:POINT, WP:BITE, WP:CHERRYPICK, WP:Wikilawyering, WP:HOUND, not WP:AGF" were in fact Dan reverting genuine vandalism. At least he attempted to post some diff's this time. He usually just calls you "tendentious" and accuses you of Cherrypicking, OWN, NPOV and OR without ever providing a diff. Lapadite77 has a seriously unhealthy attitude towards contributing to Wikipedia, and this entire situation stems from it. He has a huge "me-against-the-world" mentality. Instead of discussing something decently, he immediately accuses opposing editors of all sorts of things - pick a WP:, any WP: - and has demonstrated Badfaith and lacked Civility at every turn. And despite FOUR separate RfC's at Talk:Version 2.0, he is still edit warring there. Action of some kind would be appreciated either here or here, because the level of disruption [46] is ridiculous. Homeostasis07 (talk) 02:28, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Hasteur's Alternative Proposal

Since this thead is way over the TL:DR threshold, I suggest we reset it with some basic ground rules.

1. Lapadite77 come up with a short and concise posting explaining the problem, what supporting documentation they have (diffs only, no editorializing), and what resolution they seek from Dan56.
2. Dan56 responds in 1 section without cutting up Lapadite77's comments explaining what mitigating circumstances may be present.
3. Both "disputants" then step back and not post unless specific questions are directed at them (probably via {{U}} pings).
4. The community at large reviews the issues at hand and decides what the best way to resolve this dispute that has passed over from content to conduct disruption.

Please feel free to comment, but I'm frankly sick and tired of raging back and forth with no resolution. Hasteur (talk) 14:14, 16 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:

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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. Wikipedia (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 Wikipedia 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)

Transitive logic works only if you accept the premise. Perhaps you're not aware of just how contentious political labels can be? I'd advise you to find multiple reliable sources before slapping labels on political organizations, especially when (as in the current case) the organization itself rejects or has never used that label. —Psychonaut (talk) 14:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Whether a premise is wrong is another thing, while this is about validity: if A and B then also C. If someone's arguing that it's valid but unsound, could you please link me to the discussion? Like I said though, I am aware of zero controversy and I rather doubt WSPUS would have rejected being called libertarian Marxist (had the term been more widely used in the early 20th century) or libertarian socialist (had the term not been associated almost exclusively with anarchist communism then). It's just the most accurate description of their politics and it's not considered pejorative... not that it particularly matters if they *had* rejected it. Whether a group likes the label they're given or not is hardly the one criterion for verifiability. Anyway, I still don't understand why we're talking about this when Darkstar1st's only stated contention was that he doesn't like how libsoc exists, historically. fi (talk) 21:04, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Again, it seems you're just making stuff up. Darkstar1st's stated contention for the removal in question was the reliability of the source, not with his distaste for the idea of libertarian socialism in general. You even linked to his edit summary upthread. (And as a matter of fact, your doubts about the label are without merit; the WSP(US) denies that it is "Marxist" so it's a safe bet it would also take issue with "libertarian Marxist".) Of course, disputes about our categorizations of parties are best resolved on article talk pages, not here. There's already a talk page discussion about the categorization of this particular party, to which you're welcome to contribute. —Psychonaut (talk) 22:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

What on earth are you even talking about? WSM and WSPUS were founded by anti-Bolshevik Classical Marxists. It's pretty much the first thing both articles say. So far as the editor in question and that editor's POV crusade, I can back up everything I've said with diffs, like the user's insistence that libertarian socialism isn't real libertarianism, refusal to enter into discussion and the removal of perfectly legitimate sources on statements contradicting that POV. I'm here to talk about that editor's conduct. fi (talk) 22:29, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

If you're trying to build a case for Darkstar1st's POV, then it help if you got the facts of your complaint straight, and demonstrated a modicum of familiarity with the examples you're invoking. First you stated upthread that Darkstar1st removed the "libertarian socialist" label from the WSP(US) article, even though you claim they "describe themselves as libertarian". However, the WSP(US) has never referred to itself as libertarian. Then you said that "Darkstar1st's only stated contention was that he doesn't like how libsoc exists" (my emphasis), though your own diffs show a variety of stated contentions on his part, including objections to the reliability of one citation (a perfectly reasonable argument, even though it proved to be mistaken) and to another's language (much less reasonable grounds, but still nothing to do with political ideology). Then you claim that the WSP(US) would refer to itself as Marxist, when in fact they have always quite vocally rejected this label. In short, I'd be taking your complaint a lot more seriously if it wasn't so easy to poke holes in your evidence. —Psychonaut (talk) 23:08, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

WSM is commonly labeled libertarian socialist and describes itself as Marxist, which takes all of ten seconds to verify. If you have some reason to believe both the WSM and WSPUS articles are 100% wrong in their descriptions of these groups, please fully rewrite these articles accordingly: articles presently describing anti-Leninist Classical Marxists. So far as Darkstar1st's removal of the source for being unreliable, that source was a pamphlet published by WSPUS, so I find it difficult to believe that the WSPUS is not a relevant source on the topic. There may be a worthwhile discussion to be had about whether this Marxist group (according to every source available on all relevant WP articles) is more accurately described as impossiblist, libsoc, both or neither, but the editor was not interested in having one. I encourage you to take your own advise and stay on topic. fi (talk) 23:23, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

The topic is your failure to present a coherent argument about Darkstar1st's disruptive editing. Neither the document you just cited nor the one Darkstar1st originally objected to say what you claim they say, and in this thread you continue to argue against strawmen. (I never said that the WSP(US) is not Marxist or libertarian socialist, and I never said that our articles shouldn't describe them as such.) I think I've seen enough of your line of reasoning (such as it is) to come to a conclusion as to what needs to be done here. —Psychonaut (talk) 08:53, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Don't backpedal. Nearly everything you've tried to derail this with has been total nonsense and just factually wrong; e.g. apparently WSPUS is so adamant about rejecting allegations of Marxism that they devoted a quarter of their website to a "Study Guide to Marxism." I'm sorry you tried to grandstand and got called on it. Good call on bailing out. fi (talk) 09:17, 9 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)

• 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).
    

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 Wikipedia, 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.[47] 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. [The same non-English word translates as "liberal" or "libertarian".] 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 Wikipedia -- 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)

Site ban proposal for User:Darkstar1st

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)

• Support Site ban for Darkstar1st. This battleground behavior and tendentious editing has been going on for years in many articles related to his interests. He has failed to respond to the many requests and warnings to stop. There's no reason to believe that his behavior will improve in the future. I think he has exhausted the patience that has been extended to him. SPECIFICO talk 04:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose any action against Darkstar1st. The editor who brought this complaint has failed to make a coherent case for any serious disruption by Darkstar1st, willful or otherwise. Most of the edits I've checked seem to be correctly, or at least plausibly, tagging or removing claims which are not supported by citations. And for cases where the edits are disputed he has requested and/or engaged in talk page discussions. He seems to have been confused about the acceptability of non-English sources, though solving that ought to have involved drawing his attention to WP:NONENG rather than dragging him to WP:ANI. —Psychonaut (talk) 08:53, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

@Psychonaut:This disruptive behavior is just the latest in a long history of such conduct in articles on related subjects. This user repeatedly either ignores or fails to understand warnings and guidance as to behavioral and sourcing policy. He's been blocked numerous times for misconduct. Unfortunately, there is no reason to expect things to get any better. SPECIFICO talk 19:29, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose At worst he got into an edit war on Equality_Party_(Chile), but it was such a slow burning edit war that he never came close to violating WP:3RR (and he wasn't trying to game the system either doing reverts every 24 hours) and he tried to just use tags for the part he thought failed verification but those were removed. He did misunderstand WP:NONENG and removed sources that were not in English. And I should note that when WP:NONENG was pointed out to him on his talk page he said "thank you both for the clarification. Mea culpa" This is far from siteban worthy (I don't think it is even topic ban worthy). --Obsidi (talk) 13:23, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Like I said below, it made no difference if the sources were in English and it made no difference if they said what the article said, verbatim. Nothing was read or considered. If previous comments on the talk pages of libertarianism, libertarian socialism, etc, are any indication, it's hard to imagine how one can suspend enough disbelief to see this behavior as something done in good faith. Nonsense like this seems to happen all the time and I'm tired of it, for one. fi (talk) 17:43, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

The only English source that he removed did not support the statement (sense been corrected by a different editor). --Obsidi (talk) 06:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

That is absolutely, 100% false as I've already explained three times now, here and on the article's talk page. fi (talk) 06:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support per clearly WP:NOTHERE "Having a long-term or "extreme" history that suggests a marked lack of value for the project's actual aims and methods". His editing resembles a WP:SPA purely to WP:POVPUSH his view that libertarian socialism is not a movement, and thus removes references to libertarian socialism from numerous articles, To further his cause he uses edit-warring, pretends he can't translate, and uses the deceitful practices of double-editing (first removing the reference and tagging, then removing the actual statement a few hours later). This whole process causes considerable time wasting and acrimony. This isn't just recent behavior but a long-term problem, just look at his record. WP would be a better place without him. --Mrjulesd (talk) 15:38, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support. I wasn't sure until reading the objections, but now it's clear that this is all pretty disingenuous, and that some people are just repeating the same falsehoods in defense of this user, no matter what anyone says. Five years is plenty of time for someone to change their behavior. fi (talk) 06:58, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose. Wikipedia works best if people question flaky citations, and that is what Darkstar1st has been doing. Finx and Mrjulesd feel threatened by that and so are campaigning to have Darkstar1st blocked. This is wrong. Various editors have looked into their objections to Darkstar1st, and found that the accusations did not really stand up. Mrjulesd claimed that Darkstar1st was edit warring in a report at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive271#User:Darkstar1st reported by User:Mrjulesd (Result: declined, leaving up to WP:ANI), but when I looked into the accusations, the case against Darkstar1st had been overstated, and Finx and Mrjulesd had edit-warred just as much on the page in question as Darkstar1st, and none of them had broken the 3 revert rule. As for accusations of POV pushing - Finx and Mrjulesd make statements like: "non-Marxist communists are generally known as libertarians"!-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:49, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

For the context on that quote, which is totally and verifiably true in context (as explained in the article on anarchist a.k.a. libertarian communism), see this discussion thread started by Darkstar1st's wanting to remove libsoc from the article on libertarianism. I find it hilarious that I'm supposed to be in some kind of conspiracy with Mrjulesd, who only stepped into this matter after seeing it on ANI, AFAIK. fi (talk) 09:39, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Look if we're all wrong he really needs to come to ANI to defend his position, and give an explanation for his editing patterns. These are serious allegations, his lack of input here is plainly unsatisfactory. --Mrjulesd (talk) 11:58, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support. Have we really been discussing this problem for five years? I think that's enough time to come to a decision. Viriditas (talk) 08:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support with WP:STANDARDOFFER, which would of course entail a topic ban if he were ever reinstated. If someone so clearly WP:NOTHERE is to get the message, he needs an indef ban. Softlavender (talk) 09:53, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose, why are people complaining that Darkstar1st removed political labels which had no reference? Finx is adding labels with no reference or bad references, so Finx is breaking policy, not Darkstar1st. Spumuq (talq) 12:19, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Where have I done this? None of those labels were originally added by me and I was usually not the first to revert their removal. I did provide sources on four occasions: three from the concerned parties' own publications, one from a respected American academic and authority on regional politics and several others on talk pages (from pertinent and well known political journals, Kevin Carson's think tank, etc). I'm not sure where I broke policy. fi (talk) 13:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

A lot of articles about socialist groups are old and have few if any references. Your first example, Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum) is entirely unsourced. Rather than improve articles on socialism, Darkstar1st has decided to remove any reference to libertarianian in them, believing that libertarianism and socialism are incompatible. He has also as mentioned above removed sources before deleting text, and argues that reliable sources are using incorrect translations when they call foreign groups libertarian. But it is no defense at ANI to say one is right - that is an issue of content that should be decided in the relevant content noticeboards. Right or wrong, editors must work collaboratively with others, which Darkstar1st vehemently refuses to do. TFD (talk) 05:09, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I think you are mistaken. If you look at (for example) Talk:Freedom and Solidarity Party you will see useful collaborative behaviour by Darkstar1st, Mrjulesd, Finx and other editors that resulted in better citations in the article. None of that would have happened if Darkstar1st had not questioned a the citation to the statement that the party were socialist libertarians.-- Toddy1 (talk) 21:43, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Actually, this is just the latest in a succession of clueless campaigns of POV editing and WP:IDONTHEAR from Darkstar1st. For example he has repeatedly tried to insert ill-sourced contentious material about Paul Krugman and other left-of-center figures, and he tried repeatedly to portray Adolf Hitler and Nazism as a leftist socialist. Check his contributions if you wish to familiarize yourself with his history. SPECIFICO talk 22:24, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose Draconian solutions are very rarely wise, and I see no evidence that this is an exception. Wikipedia does not benefit from removing editors of disparate opinions, and I see no reason why this should be an exception from that precept either. Collect (talk) 11:56, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support Topic Ban Even if some edits aren't technically against the rules (such as deleting unsourced), Rules are principles, and the larger impact has been disruptive and not intended to improve the wiki. ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 12:02, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Comment It looks like this will go the way of no-consensus. Perhaps ArbCom would be better if both sides of the argument have issues with one another? ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 18:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Comment Normally i would agree with you, but have you looked at his history? See the content in "Examples of past disruption" below. This is long term abuse. --Mrjulesd (talk) 22:14, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose It's apparent from a little research that routinely getting honest editors banned is used as a tactic to remove them from the consensus pool, resulting in a consensus of a dedicated few for politically motivated bias in several articles. This attempt is just another example of this effort. Blue Eyes Cryin (talk) 21:43, 15 February 2015 (UTC) — Blue Eyes Cryin (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

User:BlueEyesCryin seems to be a single-purpose account, thus a tag seems appropriate per WP:SPA. El duderino ^(abides) 21:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Comment So far all you have have done is contributed to Talk:Libertarianism a few times, an active interest of User:Darkstar1st. And you support his views. That and two userspace posts, and this post here. Are you in anyway connected to User:Darkstar1st? It looks a lot like a sock account. Maybe WP:SPI will be interested. --Mrjulesd (talk) 23:09, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• Then take it up with WP:SPI. Maybe you'll succeed in getting me banned, too, strengthening the consensus for the politically motivated bias I pointed out above. Blue Eyes Cryin (talk) 23:47, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• "Maybe you'll succeed in getting me banned" are you admitting it then? Btw can't you realise you've doing been doing wrong? It's one thing to have political views, but it's another thing completely to try to bias WP articles for your cause. If you want to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS you're in the wrong place. --Mrjulesd (talk) 00:13, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Your false and dishonest accusations and bullying tactics won't work on me. May peace be with you. Blue Eyes Cryin (talk) 00:29, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Comment just in case anyone thinks this is recent behaviour take a look at the archive [48]. Here are a few choice examples:

• Support the ban, clearly Darkstar1st is unable to edit neutrally on contentious topics. I recall seeing their name as a part of the (relevant?)Tea Party arbcom procedures where, afaict, they seemed to have escaped direct sanctions -- yet should have taken that inclusion as a clear warning. El duderino ^(abides) 20:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Restored this section from archive: Request admin attention

I've restored this section from the archive Wikipedia: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/w/index.php?title=Equality_Party_%28Chile%29&diff=prev&oldid=646028069

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Socialist_Party_%28Netherlands,_interbellum%29&diff=prev&oldid=646028553

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Socialist_Party_of_the_United_States&diff=prev&oldid=646028899

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/w/index.php?title=Equality_Party_%28Chile%29&diff=645713026&oldid=645692112

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Socialist_Party_%28Netherlands,_interbellum%29&diff=645669261&oldid=645538134

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Socialist_Party_of_the_United_States&diff=645518380&oldid=645442331

I've reported him for edit warring, which is pending. Wikipedia: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)

Note: I've invited Darkstar1st to join this conversation, and let them know that the discussion is currently moving towards their being blocked. -- The Anome (talk) 14:52, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

• I don't care if he is changing 100 articles, if he is doing so for good policy based reasons. To ask for a source for a disputed claim is fine (which is what most of his edits have been). He did get into a bit of an edit war on Equality_Party_(Chile). That was wrong, he should have gone to the talk page after he got reverted. He did remove some content that was sourced to a site in a foreign language, he should have asked for a translation if he disputed it before removing. Other then that I don't see the problem --Obsidi (talk) 18:28, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

• Doesn't that suggest a POV pusher? Removing references to "Libertarian" from lots of socialist political parties? And that's all he's been doing. And there are ample references he's ignoring. There is a definite pattern to his editing suggesting heavy POV against libertarian socialism, like he doesn't like that it exists. --Mrjulesd (talk) 19:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:POVPUSHEditing a POV in an article that corresponds with one's own personal beliefs is not necessarily POV-pushing. If there are references he is ignoring, first make sure that he is aware of them, and then it becomes behavior issue if he continues. Demanding sources and removing unsourced labels (until a source is provided) even on multiple pages is not quite enough to be a problem. If he was repeatedly adding, especially fringe material or expanding sections beyond what would be due weight that would be far more of a problem which is what POV pushing is. --Obsidi (talk) 01:55, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The editor "asked" for sources and then deleted them when they were provided, or when clarification on the correct and already present sources was offered. fi (talk) 21:17, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

I did see a few that he removed even after a source was provided because the source was not in English. That was wrong. And if he persists and keeps removing it, he should be blocked until he acknowledges that he cannot remove sourced material just because it isn't in English. So far I have seen him remove stuff cited in other languages because it wasn't in English, but after it was added back in he doesn't appear to have kept removing it (meaning a block isn't yet appropriate for that). --Obsidi (talk) 01:57, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

... removed sources in English that stated what the article said word-for-word, as well. There were up to six or seven reverts on about dozen separate articles, each. Indiscriminate mass deletions by political POV warriors call for a complete topic ban, at the very least, IMO, though I'm tempted to agree with TFD that it might be too lenient in this case. Honestly, the editor above who pointed out that US libertarians are a site-wide problem hit the nail right on the head. I don't know of any other political group here that causes so many problems repeatedly, or spends so much time on shameless appropriation and recuperation of absolutely anything that has some imaginary tenuous connection to the USLP marketing campaign. The issue, as far as I can see, is religious fanaticism. fi (talk) 03:45, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Can you provide diffs for those in which he "removed sources in English that stated what the article said word-for-word"? There are a lot of different articles and lots of different edits, I have been through all the diffs posted on this thread so far. --Obsidi (talk) 06:17, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

sure fi (talk) 06:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

So I followed the link for the source cited in the diff and got "Aradığınız sayfa sistemde kayıtlı değildir" which is Turkish for "System is not registered on the page you are looking for" did you get something different? Oh, I see now, your talking about the ref to the book (he didn't remove any content just the ref to the book) I am not sure why he did that, that doesn't seem right. His edit summary seems to be related to the other two edits he made about the weird Turkish page not found message. --Obsidi (talk) 07:00, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Maybe he felt that it did not support the statement. The text in Wikipedia is "The prominent grouping within the party is Revolutionary Solidarity (former Devrimci Yol (Revolutionary Path) - also known as Dev-Yol) which was formed following the split of Libertarian Socialism Platform in 2007." But the source only says "The remnant of Del Yol, now called the Libertarian Socialism Platform, is also a member of the ODP." Close, but a bit different (or at least doesn't support all the sentence). --Obsidi (talk) 07:15, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The source explicitly says: "the ODP...is a Turkish socialist libertarian party" -- which was made clear about four or five times, by my count. fi (talk) 07:32, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes it does, and like I said that is a good source for that. But he removed the reference in the diff above for a different sentence not dealing with if it is a socialist libertarian party. --Obsidi (talk) 12:31, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

It does not matter if an editor is following content policy and is not something we can decide here. TFD (talk) 18:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

There is a discussion above about a possible site ban for Darkstar1st. I have just created the heading "Site ban proposal for User:Darkstar1st". Please give your views there. --Mrjulesd (talk) 02:06, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

British are deleting from Gibraltar Article that this territory is under the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories

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It is a campaign of deleting from the Gibraltar article that this territory is under United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Then they report the users that try to edit the article. Imposible to insert this very important statement as the colonial power is trying to desinform. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pep2co (talk • contribs) 16:52, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

[49] This is undue weight, it is not neutral, WP:NPOV Spumuq (talq) 16:56, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

And Pep2co has seven reverts now, [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] , this must stop Spumuq (talq) 17:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

• Pep2co was indeed edit warring against multiple editors, so the block was justified, however, Pep2co is also correct that there appears to be a coterie of entrenched editors who control the page to make sure that no fact which could conceivably be considered to show the British in a bad light makes its way into the article. My own attempt to find a compromise placement for what is, after sall, an undisputed fact (that Gilbratar is on the UN's list of non-self-governing territories) was stomped on by Wee Curry Monster without discussion or even, from the timestamps, a lick of forethought.

  That appears to be a content dispute, but when a group of editors works together to control the content of an article, that is a behavioral problem. However, it's one beyond the capacity of AN/I to correct, and would have to be handled by ArbCom.

  In the meantime, I would suggest that uninvolved and neutral editors take a good look at Gilbraltar to make sure that it is written from a WP:NPOV, that the content is fairly presented, and that all viewpoints are given appropriate coverage. BMK (talk) 23:33, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

"Pep2co is also correct that there appears to be a coterie of entrenched editors who control the page to make sure that no fact which could conceivably be considered to show the British in a bad light makes its way into the article." — What. A. Surprise. Carrite (talk) 08:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

On cue, the House POV is locked down with Full Protection. Carrite (talk) 08:47, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

please block randkitty

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Please would you block Randkitty from editing the following pages: R. Bruce Bury, Stanley E. Trauth, Malcolm L. McCallum, Walter E. Meshaka, Christopher T. McAllister. This individual is applying his own personal opinions regarding content to the pages I have been developing. The opinions of this individual may apply to whatever discipline he/she got their PHD in, but it sure does not apply to my discipline in which I have earned my PHD. IN fact, his comments are largely completely incorrect EXCEPT when it is in regard to technical issues directly related to Wikipedia pages. The only alternative that is possible is that this individual is a confrontational adversary (and very well could be) who desires to suppress information about these people. This would be a direct conflict of interest as inappropriate as writing your own bio on here. These pages have been raked over by multiple other editors and the ONLY one who has randomly deleted material without warning is Randkitty. I believe it is an intentional attack and has nothing to do with Wikipedia appropriateness. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Herpetology2 (talk • contribs) 04:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Diffs? Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 04:43, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I can't find a user named Randkitty; are you sure you spelled that right, Herpetology2? Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 04:45, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Randykitty — Preceding unsigned comment added by Herpetology2 (talk • contribs) 04:49, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Oh, you mean Randykitty. I haven't read into the whole dispute yet, but what I can say is this...Randykitty is an admin, so for him/her to be flat-out blocked for a content dispute due to a new user's request would be an extreme thing to happen, imo. Also, please read the instructions directly above this text area:

“ When you start a discussion about an editor, you must notify them on their user talk page. ”

I did that, however. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 04:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Are you also 71.50.25.97 ,Herpetology2 (talk · contribs) ? seicer | talk | contribs 05:05, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Nope, sorry; I don't sock. BTW, Herpetology2, comments like this are a violation of WP:NPA, so I suggest you start being more courteous. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 05:11, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Wasn't referring to you. seicer | talk | contribs 05:14, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Herpetology2: I've looked at a couple of these articles, and what I see is Randykitty removing "academic genealogies" that are both redundant - the articles already state where the subject earned the doctorate and in what year - and unencyclopedic. Notability is not inherited, and it does someone no favors to suggest they would be less of a scholar had they studied under someone else, now does it? Also, while we appreciate your writing these articles, and I know how much work it takes, this is a collaborative project and it's important for you to realize that no one "owns" the articles they write to the extent of being able to decree that others may not edit them. If you feel edits are diminishing an article, rather than edit war, you need to discuss the matter - either on the article talk page or, without insults and threats, on the talk page of the editor if the same person is doing something you object to on multiple pages. But you may not be right, and in this instance, so far as the "academic genealogy" goes at least, I fear you are not. We don't have such sections on Wikipedia unless, as Randykitty has said, a reliable source has pointed to that as a significant feature of someone's career. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:08, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• • First off, does not wikipedia state taht we are not to delete material without discussion? I remember reading something to that effect. Second, I did not feel the comments were all that insulting, especially considering not being given the curtisy to make corrections myself with a warning in even a single edit made. YOu will notice that if you look through my correspondenses with other editors, it is less confrontational, because they ahve actually been more-or-less helpful. I did not threaten the guy/gal either. I informed him/her I was requesting he/she be blocked exactly as it says we must do. But, whatever you want to call it, it does not matter. As for notability and geneologies. Is this ONLY purpose of wikipedia to assess notability? Because this is not the purpose of the geneologies. The ideals, approaches, and philosophies of academics stem from their mentors and their mentor's mentor's on down the line. Therefore, when you provide the academic lineage, it is clear that certain things are more than likely true of that lineage. For example, some lineages value writing for the public, others value only writing for the highest journals, others value conservation over evolution and vise versa. These are not fluff. They tell a lot about a person. It is no coincidence that when you discuss a topic with another academic and that academic came out of E.O. Wilson's lab that it will reflect on his/her importance and say a lot about who these people are. IN fact, those who came out of Archie Carr's lab are largely conservation-minded and interested in informing the layman. THis is not restricted to his lab, but it certainly stems from that lab and bleeds all the way down through the descendents. This is not a foreign concept, in fact, when doctoral students are advised to choose their mentors, they are largely informed to understand where their prospective advisor came from, hence what is hsi/her academic line. This has been outlined and discussed widely in the academic sector, which simply mystifies me how this individual has not heard of it. It has been discussed in Advice to a Young Scientist, which was only written by a Nobelaureate. It was discussed in courses I took at three different universities. It was mentioned to me by not by a few, but by dozens of scientists in biology, chemistry, EVS, and mathematics. But, if Wikipedia feels that it would rather have their pages be LESS informative than more, so be it. However, this problem with RandKitty is not limited to geneologies. This person has deleted citations, then turned around and deleted text stating it was not cited at least once. IN another case, he/she deleted part of a sentence, changing the meaning, then coming back and stating the info was wrong. Later, he/she listed a section as unsupported by citations which literally had the citation right there at the end of the paragraph and outside the final period as is proper to indicate that citation is for the entire paragraph, not just the sentence. I guess I could have pasted it after every sentence, but it seemed pretty obvious to me at the time. THen, he/she deleted a News release claiming it was "some email on a forum post." An official news release from a national organization is in his mind nothing more than an email? This is what makes me believe this person is in a field with very different standards of communication and which uses media in much different ways, thus making his/her opinion (although valid in his/her field) destructive to the pages I have constructed. As I said, every single editor has been largely polite and mostly helpful. But this person has been neither, refering to material as silly? That is an insult. Referring to it as fluff? border-line insult. Heck, I have interviewed every one of these people, then have been tracking down citations to fill in their background to make sure it is supported. It is pretty difficult to tweak these things when someone is editing all your material every few hours. It seems like you might give it a week or something. Does this person have a day job or are they paid by Wikipedia to do this (seriously?). IN one case I was making corrections and tried to save, only to have the guy/gal delete the section I was correcting before I could save it....because I had saved the text first, then went back to add in the cites. With all the pages on Wikipedia, why is one person dedicating so much time to deleting everything that is uncited, when some of it was up for maybe an hour, a day, or a little longer. No one else was doing this in this manner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Herpetology2 (talk • contribs) 06:28, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• I would like to draw Herpetology2's attention to WP:BOLD regarding the fact that I made edits to "their" articles without first asking their permission. In addition, I have provided long and detailed edit summaries, as well as explanations on talk pages. Herpetology2 inists on adding peacock stuff that is either unsourced or not supported by the sources given, source stuff to [cherokeecountykansas.yuku.com/topic/382/quotJoseph-T-Collinsquot-Kansas-Herpetological-Society?page=14#.VNgWg_54pcQ news releases posted on some email list], or claim that Christopher T. McAllister is a "prominent coccidiologist of international stature" based on a simple list of names of coccidiologists that uses none of these qualifications. Herpetology2 also insists on inserting OR/SYNTH by comparing numbers of publications of an individual with the mean number of publications of other people in their fields (for example, here. There's a long-standing consensus at WP:ACADEMIC that just having large numbers of publications does not add to an academic's notability, what counts is whether these publications have had a significant impact. Herpetology2 is also edit warring on Herpetological Conservation and Biology, insisting on inserting citation data that (per consensus at the academic journals wikiproject, see also the journal article writing guide) should not be listed in articles on academic journals, including at least one measure ("Universal Impact Factor") that is known to be fraudulent (see this list by Jeffrey Beall). I have at each stage pointed Herpetology2 to the relevant policies and guidelines, to no avail. --Randykitty (talk) 08:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Seems like theres's a little WP:IDHT going on here; in addition, Herpetology2, please direct your attention to WP:TLDR. Longer arguments aren't necessarily going to help you get your point across, especially after that point has been rejected. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 11:11, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Beal's list is just a list on the internet. What makes that more important than any other list? Further, UIF was removed from the page and I left it off. However, the labeling it as fake is HIS OPINION and not a fact. They do calcuate an impact factor, and you know what else? Thomson Reuters selects their journals based on such completely objective metrics as "Will the journal expand their market share in another country!" Basing a decision like this on a simple list on the internet is, I don't know, kind of like placing a link to a list of coccidiologists put together by three coccidiologists who listed only those coccidiologists who were meritable. Logic seems flawed, but hey, I do more international research than wikipedia pages so I'll just fall in line with your biased opinoin. Enjoy your life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Herpetology2 (talk • contribs) 18:00, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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Sockpuppetry accusation on Claudia mcHenry

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Is there anything I can do without revealing any overly personal information I can do to prove that I am not a so-called sock puppet? PS, if this isn’t the right place, then where is? I want this matter cleared up now.

209.202.5.212 (talk) 05:39, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

We've said it now and we're saying it again. BASC is where the authority lies. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 13:34, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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Comments by User:SveinFalk

I'm growing increasingly concerned about somewhat aggressive behaviour from SveinFalk (talk · contribs) towards other editors, in particular this comment on Fenix down's talk page, this comment and this exchange on their own talk page, and their comments directed at me at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patipan Unop. Normally, I wouldn't mind so much. I'd much rather they vent their frustration at me than at someone who might be driven away from Wikipedia, or worse retaliate, but they've been warned several times about this sort of thing already. Most recently, they received this warning from GiantSnowman. More significantly, they were given a final warning following another ANI three months ago failed to come to a satisfactory close. (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive861#I really stepped into it: South-east Asian association football article problems). I'm hoping a brief block will make it clear to them that this sort behaviour is unacceptable and that final warnings need to be respected. Sir Sputnik (talk) 07:04, 11 February 2015 (UTC):

I agree with everything above. More irritating than anything else. SveinFalk is clearly here to build an encyclopedia, it's just he has created a significant amount of content that a number of editors have highllighted as of questionalble notability. Rather than attempt to discuss or improve the articles, he has got a bit own-y, highlighted by his talk page comments above and examples such as this, this and this which were the rather tedious results of his "declaration of war", although this at least seems to have stopped.

There have been repeated attempts to engage with SveinFalk and repeated warnings as to his general conduct, but whilst he is here with good intentions he needs to be aware that WP is not a repository for any and all information, that he has no ownership of Thai football articles and that he needs to engage with other editors in a productive way when the notability of his work is questioned. Given the history noted above I would approve of a block, although I note he is involved in a number of AfDs relating to his articles and would not want his ability to continue with these to be impeded. Fenix down (talk) 12:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm obviously INVOLVED here, as I have !voted on a number of these AFDs, and yes I have advised this editor to calm down. Their content work is good (even if their grasp of notability requirements are not) but their attitude just stinks. He has threatened to edit war and block evade - on balance I would suggest we topic ban from creating new articles, let him work on improving existing ones. If that doesn't work he should be blocked. GiantSnowman 13:28, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I too was drawn into this circle by another editor who edited in an area that I watch (North American association football articles). I followed that editor to Thai and South Asian association football articles a few months ago and SveinFalk is an editor of those articles. The subject's understanding of the content is good. That's unquestionable. The editor is not, however, a WP:RS and does not support edits with RSes. That's a problem, but one that can be fixed. As an editor who has been blocked for edit warring myself, I certainly can't point fingers, but I have never promised "wars" and understand that block evasion is inappropriate. I agree with GiantSnowman that the editor's attitude stinks. The examples are concerning and merit a block. I would argue that its duration should be determined by SveinFalk's response. Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

@SveinFalk: your input here would be welcome, as would input from other, non-INVOLVED parties. GiantSnowman 19:06, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Lugnuts

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Needs to be reblocked back for a blatant personal attack [57]. Unfortunately I can not do it since a couple of weeks ago after a series of personal attacks against me I informed him (and had to do it several times since they would not stop) that they are not welcome to communicate with me and post at my talk page. I appreciate if someone informs them of this topic.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

How is that a personal attack? In reference to your issues with me - this user added several incorrect edits to an article and didn't like being told so. Clearly out to prove a WP:POINT. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 09:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Until you understand how this is a personal attack, you should not be editing the English Wikipedia.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Blocked for 36 hours. Clear personal attack of the lowest kind. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 10:08, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

For the administrator who is going to consider the unblock request: Pls check the page history since the user removes whatever he does not like.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:35, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I endorse FreeRangeFrog, Ymblanter and Stephan Schulz. I don't know what Lugnuts (talk · contribs) is trying to achieve - I've seen some constructive criticism by him at ANI but these personal attacks have way crossed the line. Diffs for his infamous comments:

• Against Sluzzelin - 1
• Against Bishonen - 2
• Against FreeRangeFrog - 3
• Against FreeRangeFrog again - 4

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Self-Promotion

I have just discovered a new user, User:Yahad-In Unum who, starting in December, is going through the towns of Ukraine adding trivial detail about Nazi atrocities to dozens of articles. While that, in itself, is not a violation of Wikipedia policy, although the content is generally unencyclopedic, the user is citing his own original (non-Wikipedia) research and using his own website as the sole source. While I could go through and revert all these edits, at this level of violation, it would be better coming from an admin. --Taivo (talk) 12:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Be bold and revert all of them. Then, leave a lengthy warning on his talk page explaining why the hell are his edits nonconstructive. After that, close your eyes for a minute and pray to God, that he reads it. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 13:13, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

OK. But what is the policy that says, "You can't quote yourself?" It's used so rarely that I don't remember what it's called. --Taivo (talk) 13:22, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:COI--Ymblanter (talk) 13:24, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. --Taivo (talk) 13:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

@Taivo: Verifability#Sources that are usually not reliable(section#Self-published sources) would be it. COI is when the person is related to/involved as a subject and is preemptively being asked not to edit because of probable bias (which is normal, according to human nature). --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 13:31, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I fail to see what problem there is here. This user's contributions appear to me not only encyclopedic and on-topic, but very much needed: the history of the extermination of Jewish communities in Ukraine by the Nazis is a crucial part of the history of the Holocaust, and one that is much less known than extermination camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka. Jews often were the majority of inhabitants in these towns, and that the articles' history sections did not mention either their existence or their mass murder was not to the credit of Wikipedia. Furthermore, I doubt that Taivo's characterization of these edits as COI and/or non-reliable sourcing is accurate: the user's name could denote interest in the organization's work rather than membership in it. Yahad-In Unum, as its well-referenced article shows, is a respected NGO that works with various universities and has received praise for their work documenting Nazi atrocities. We could discuss it better on WP:RSN, but at first glance, information published on their website seems reliable. Susuman77 (talk) 14:21, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

@Susuman77: Well, the issue is that - this account is operated by YU and according to our conflict of interest policies that is strictly disallowed. Furthermore, they evaded their self-declaration of COI (and also, people failed to notice) and went to to add sources violating WP:SPS. I say is because firstly no uninvolved individual would ever undertake work just in this category, so it's either someone from the organization or someone who's involved with the incident. I don't think any random person would take up the NGO's name as their username and randomly edit only such niched articles citing YU as sources. Just my two cents. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 14:37, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

@QEDK: Sorry, but I fail to see an explicit "self-declaration of COI" by User:Yahad-In Unum. Maybe we should ask them about it directly, and if they're not affiliated with YI-U they should change their user name. If on the other hand they indeed are affiliated with the NGO, we should ask them to mostly make edit suggestions on the talk pages of the articles, if I remember the COI guidelines correctly. I don't understand your assertion that "no uninvolved individual would ever undertake work just in this category", as many people are indeed interested in the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine, and YI-U has provided in the last years much new information on the subject. I guess that in order to prove that, I'll have to undertake some editing of my own... Last, I still contest that YI-U is a WP:SPS: the "interactive map" is a misleading title as I can't see any ways for users to directly add info to it, and it rather seems to be the fruit of historical research by their team which, once again, has been widely lauded by specialists in the field. Would you object to me opening a thread on WP:RSN on this matter? Susuman77 (talk) 14:49, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:SPS is for stuff that's self-published by average people, e.g. personal websites or AuthorHouse books, and it applies regardless of who adds it. When your organisation's produced reliable documentation on its website, citing that documentation isn't an SPS problem; we don't object on self-publishing grounds to the use of stuff from the US Census Bureau, a federal government agency, even though it's published by the federal government. The only thing that matters here is whether Yahad-In Unum's publications are reliable: if they're not, this is a problem regardless of who's added it, and if they are, this is fine regardless of who's added it. Nyttend (talk) 15:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

@Susuman77: You said, "... but I fail to see an explicit "self-declaration of COI...". That is what the problem is. He never declared that he has a COI w.r.t. the articles. And he added yet-unreliable sources. I would prefer you go to the RSN noticeboard - that's a place more befitting to establish consensus for reliability for the sources as they currently violate WP:SPS. But then, the COI issue can't be forgone. @Nyttend: Well yes (except for BLPs which is an exception). But then, we haven't yet established reliability, just as you stated. Then, we have the COI of course. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 15:14, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I started a thread at WP:RSN#Use of Yahad-In Unum. Feel free to comment there regarding reliability of the source. Susuman77 (talk) 15:33, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I am sorry if I broke Wikipedia's policy - I am somewhat new to Wikipedia. My point was simply to add results of Yahad-In Unum's research that I thought would be useful. I don't think this information is trivial and there isn't much content about this on Wikipedia (for instance, there is no article about the Holocaust by bullet on Wikipedia). The information I used is the result of original, extensive and continuous field research. The process is validated by historians and recognized worldwide. I used links to Yahad's map, because this is the only website with this specific kind of information. This map is updated regularly, with information about villages where the atrocities went, new information and videos of witnesses. Please advise me on how to go forward and if I need to modify my edits.Yahad-In Unum (talk) 15:22, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Yahad-In Unum, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope this experience is not too unpleasant for you... I generally share your opinion regarding the usefulness of the information you've been adding. In my mind, there is just one issue related to Wikipedia's rules regarding conflict of interest: someone affiliated with an organization (company or NGO) should avoid directly adding info sourced to their employer to articles. So the tough question is: do you work/volunteer at Y-I U? If not, in order to clarify it, you should request a change of user name (I can help you do that). If you do, first it would also be a good idea to change your user name to a more individual one (like "John at Y-I U" or whatever) and figure out together how you can add info to the encyclopedia without infringing the policy. Please tell us so that we can move forward. Thanks! Susuman77 (talk) 15:33, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Please follow the indentation, guys. Fixed for now. And I would recommend a response from YU before any resolutions for this thread. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 16:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments and responses Susuman77. Yes, I am involved with Yahad-In Unum and I will change my username right now. Please let me know how to go forward from here and how I need to modify my posts. I am a bit confused as to why it's against Wikipedia policy for "encyclopedic" information (facts and statistics) to be posted by someone involved with a non-governmental organization that is investigating and confirming these facts. Thanks for alerting me to the problem.Yahad-In Unum (talk) 10:09, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

User:79.97.222.210 - Persistent disruptive POV pushing and edit-warring

The IP 79.97.222.210 is at present trying to enforce controversial and highly POV's edits on various articles by editing warring and a by on large refusal to discuss. I've decided to break the evidence down to an article by article basis rather than a daily one as it fans out a bit:

The Troubles

• On 26th January I reverted [58] several edits made that day by this IP to the sensitive and can be highly charged The Troubles article. The edits involved rewording and rearranging sentences/paragraphs to push an underlying bias making the section worse off. I called these "Nonsense edits".
• They then restored their edit [59] claiming it improved the article. I again reverted it citing to them WP:BRD and saying that "Improvement is a matter of opinion".
• After that they stopped trying to push it.

Military Reaction Force

• On 26th January the IP made a [60] large alteration to the Military Reaction Force article, which like The Troubles article is a contentious article. The edit consisted of rearranging the lede to give prominence to a "Death Squad" claim and the addition of unsourced statements with highly selective and bias wording. They claimed that they where "removed systemic bias, if it would be called a death squad in the developing world, it should be called one in an English speaking country".
• On same day I reverted this edit [61], though I admit with a bit of sarcasm with the summary "Reverting systematic bias". I was thanked for this edit by User:Asarlaí who has done most of the work on this article.
• The IP restored their edit on 1st February [62] with exact same edit summary: "removed systemic bias, if it would be called a death squad in the developing world, it should be called one in an English speaking country". I reverted [63] telling them to take it to talk.
• Again, on the 5th February, they restore it [64], to which I revert again on the 6th February [65] stating "What do you not understand about WP:BRD and taking it to talk?".
• I then make a follow up edit [66] edit to the article to reflect the sources actually used.

Republicanism in the United Kingdom

• On 26th January IP made the following additions: [67] and [68] to this article.
• On same day I reverted [69] because the information was irrelevant to the article.
• IP restores [70] citing the fact that it is sourced, as if that alone is enough for it to be added. Yet they also include unsourced additions.
• I reverted [71] stating "Sourced doesn't make it better. Please abide by WP;BRD".
• IP restores edt [72] on 30th January stating "irish republicanism IS republicanism in the united kingdom and extremely relevant", despite fact most of what they add has nothing to do with republicanism of any kind. I again revert [73] stating "Please abide by WP:BRD. Discuss your controversial addition and get consensus first.".
• IP again restores [74] stating "No, because nobody is objecting to it. You have to give a reason why republicans from the united kingdom shouldn't be in this article". This time another editor, User:Red Jay, reverts them [75] stating "Irish Republicanism although present with in the UK is separate issue, and is already mentioned on this page. I have added a see also to Irish Republicanism".

Parachute Regiment

• On 30th January IP [76] makes a large addition giving in my view undue weight to one event, the prominence of which is open to debate.
• I revert on 2nd February [77] on the basis that this was already detailed in the article.
• On 5th February [78] IP restores stating "it should be in lead as it is their most famous action along with normandy and market garden", which is open to debate. I revert [79] telling them to abide by WP:BRD.
• The IP then finally opens a discussion about it on the talk page [80], however that itself is troublesome: the title and opening sentence of it tries to imply that I am removing something established in the article from it. This is willful deception.
• By opening this discussion the IP then decides to re-add [81] their edit stating "re added per talk" despite the fact they where thr only particpant in their discussion. I revert [82] and respond to the discussion. After two comments I no longer respond so that other editors can give their view without an endless too'ing and frow'ing between us.
• On 10th February they again [83] reinsert their edit citing "readded per talk" despite no other participation by anyone in it and no consensus. They are then reverted by another editor [84] User:Edward321 who states "rv - no consensus on talk page,its barely even been discussed yet".

Universal suffrage

• On 6th February at [85] and [86] at the Universal suffrage article, which includes removing accurate sourced info and adding inaccurate unsourced info whilst stating in their edit summary "removed unsourced bias". I revert this [87] stating "Controversial and biased".
• On 10th February the IP restores their edit [88]. This is despite me posting a rebuttal of their edit on their talk page on February 6th.
• On 11th February User:Vyselink reverts the IP [89] stating "rvt unexplained removal of sources, changing of information".

Young Turks

• As far back as 16th December they make this edit. It is reverted by User:Melikbilge on 22 January who states "Already resolved long ago, see Talk".
• On 9th February the IP restores their viewpoint [90] stating "there's nothing progressive about murdering people because of their religion".
• As the addition is unsourced and the fact the sentence in question is on about an idiom I revert [91].
• I alter the statement altogether to better reflect the source [92].
• IP restores edit [93] with a highly subjective response of no "sources" deny the Turkish genocides despite the fact the source and statement is on about an idiom.
• IP is then reverted [94] by User:Herostratus who states this period of Turkish history" is associated with a lot of things. Here we're talking about the phrase "Young Turks" and what it actually means in English, not what you think it ought to mean.
• On 11th february IP again restores their edit [95], stating it's so important to include because genocide is the opposite of liberal, which young turks are described as. They then open a discussion with the first statement once again implying that editors are removing an established edit.
• Herostratus once again reverts the IP [96] stating Reverted per WP:BRD, thread opened on talk page, take it to talk and make your case there. Herostratuopens a discussion with a full response.

Notifications to IP

• On 26th January I posted a message on the IP's talk page detailing the problems with their edit and to abide by WP:BRD.
• On 30th January I issued a caution on their talk page explaining again Wikipedia is a collaboration and to get consensus.
• On 2nd February I issue a disruptive editing warning. On 5th February I issue a further two warnings. [97]
• On 6th February I posted a lengthy response to their edits at Military Reaction Force, Springhill Massacre and Universal suffrage.

Note the IP responds to none of my cautions, warnings or responses.

Conclusion As far I can see this is everything covered, if not my apologies. I have given this IP numourous notifications of WP:BRD, to take it to talk, and warnings to desist trying to push their edits. I have even explained to them on their talk page why many of those edits are wrong. Several other editors have also reverted them with one or two given them WP:BRD notices. They have ignored them all and continue to insist on pushing their agenda, and agenda which belies in all but the Young Turks article an anti-British establishment bias. As such I believe a sanction of some form is required to try to encourage this editor to behave more appropriately.

Mabuska ^(talk) 14:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm going to comment only because I was notified by User:Mabuska that he had pinged me in the ANI for reverting the changes made at the "Universal Suffrage" page. I had not noticed this ANI before then, and other than that one revert have no knowledge of the situation. I happened to look up the article for my own research, noticed that it looked odd, saw the edit and undid it.

As for the revert at the "Universal Suffrage" page (diff above added by Mabuska), the IP editor removed sourced information, the source itself, and drastically changed that particular part of the page. While I can't comment on his overall bias/lack-there-of etc, that change was extreme and incorrect as far as information and removal of sources. Vyselink (talk) 15:17, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

These are content disputes in which no rules have been broken and nobody is behaving disruptively. Mabuska claims I am a POV pusher. I am involved in discussions on several of these talk pages, and whether my edits are correct or not is not a matter for ANI.--79.97.222.210 (talk) 17:09, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, I believe "The Troubles" is covered by ARBCOM sanctions (not sure if they are general or discretionary). I think if this was a dispute about content on one article, it would be best resolved on the talk page or in DR but if there is a pattern of disruptive editing and failed attempts at resolution, then this belongs at AN/I. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

In the past people a 1RR has been enforced on some editors of article relating to the Troubles. However, a content addition, a talk page post and 1-3 reverts all over a periods ranging from 5 days to 58 days hardly constitutes a breach of 1RR, never mind 3RR. Additionally in the Troubles case Arbcom passed "editing in someone else's area of interest in retaliation is inappropriate", and Mabuska has followed me to articles unrelated to the troubles to revert my edits, which he shouldn't do. However, I do not think this warrants sanctions either.--79.97.222.210 (talk) 18:31, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

This AN/I was opened not because of the exact content but due to your persistent pushing of your edits regardless of protocol, which the above evidence shows quite clearly. You have been told many times to discuss and take it to talk. You have only done so twice, and both times implied the reverting editor is at fault. You also used the opening of a discussion as reason enough to re-add your edit twice!

What is your defense for your going on despite warnings and ignoring the responses I left you on your talk page which made it clear you should discuss? The ignoring of reasons why your edits where POV and incorrect. How many times have you been told of WP:BRD (by more than myself) in the past 2 weeks and ignored it completely?

In regards to following you, as a long-time established Wikipedia user, I have a responsibility to revert vandalism and try and keep tabs on troublesome and disruptive editors, which you have proven yourself to be. This means checking your contributions to this site, which in the past few weeks shows quit a bit of disruptive editing on your behalf. This is not "retaliation" and not a sanctioning offense. Mabuska ^(talk) 19:53, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Also your current edit to the Parachute Regiment is also fraught with issues, containing a convolution of the source to push a more scathing sentence about the Parachute Regiment that the source does not explicitly say. This can be classified as an example of your POV-pushing.

I would suggest you leave editing these articles alone at present and stick to their talk pages until this AN/I has concluded. Mabuska ^(talk) 20:03, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Despite the opening of this AN/I and statements that they are discussin edits, the IP is still going around trying to enforce their edits. This time a different editor is reverting them.

• Removed this information from Etruscan society citing "removed racist theory", which is stretching it. Edward321 reverted it [98] to which the IP does it again [99] citing "Unsourced information can be remove by any editor who questions it. If you dispute my changes, please say so in an edit summary and we can take it to talk". The fact they where reverted makes it obvious enough that the edit is disputed and that they should take it to talk. Edward321 then again reverts [100].
• At Idealism in international relations the IP removes detailed information [101] highly relevant to the article citing "removed needless focus on american politics in the intro". Edward321 once again reverts this vandalism rightly citing "rv to better version" before the IP restores it [102].
• The IP then clearly gets annoyed with their edit summary in that last edit: "Why are you following me around reverting every single edit I make without giving any reason in your edit summary?". Though having already giving the IP an answer above to that question when they posed it to me, it should be quite clear to them that their edits are detrimental to Wikipedia and add next to nothing to site to improve it.

This IP should be placed on some form of editing restriction, such as if they are reverted they must take it to talk and seek consensus. If they restore it (tweaked or otherwise) then they should get a temporary block that lengthens each time they violate. Mabuska ^(talk) 12:00, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Zzaxx1

Zzaxx1 (talk · contribs) has been edit warring across multiple pages and templates against multiple editors. The main article being List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films, which resulted in page protection but the user has continued to add the disputed content to other articles and linking articles to pages outside of articlespace, despite warnings not to do so. He has also ignored invitations to discuss the matter with the rest of the community. Thank you.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 15:04, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

While I have a certain amount of sympathy for your position, it does appear that you've been edit warring to remove cited material as well. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I contend that I have not removed cited material, as the sources did not cite what was being expressed, but regardless I have not crossed WP:3rr unlike the above user. But if it helps, I'll excuse myself from editing anything about the disputed content anywhere on Wikipedia until consensus is reached.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 15:40, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

For example, here -- it appears that the text you removed correctly explains the content of that link. Holding off on article editing while discussion is ongoing is probably a good thing, though. You can edit war without violating 3RR, after all.... --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:05, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

As you can here that particular bit of information was already present under the subject heading Sony Pictures. The edit was redundant and mislead readers by placing it under the wrong heading. Maybe a better edit summary would have been in this instance.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 16:22, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

But that is not what your getting, it has been confirmed by both Marvel and Sony, that Spider-Man (though the character and the film rights will stay at Sony) will appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will appear in a Marvel movie which would be distributed by Disney, before the character's standalone movie. Heres the source that was from the Wall Street Journal confirming what I just said. I honestly don't get why we are having this discussion its been confirmed by Marvel that Spider-Man will appear in the MCU, and its completely unnecessary for Triiple to disgorge edits that editors on Wikipedia put with confirming sources stating that Spider-Man is in the MCU, like Marvel.com, Wall Street Journal, Variety but he keeps on deleting them and saying there is a discussion which is totally unnecessary. --Zzaxx1 (talk), 12 February 2015 (UTC)

References

@Zzaxx1: If you would join the discussion then you would see the arguments being made by myself and other editors. I am not alone in my reasoning and your reverting of other editors besides me shows that. None of the sources you cited state that the proposed Spider-Man film is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe only that they reached a deal for the Spider-Man character to appear in the MCU and that they are "exploring opportunities" for MCU characters to appear in future Spider-Man films. However this is not the place to discuss content but behavior. It seems you still have not gotten the idea that discussion is a crucial part of collaborative editing.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 18:21, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Zzaxx1 appears to be continuing his edit war.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 20:27, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Mass creation of empty "Year in Country" articles

It has come to my attention that in early January OccultZone, Jackninja5, National Names 2000, and <Ser Amantio di Nicolao mass created hundreds of Year is Country articles. Most of which remain completely empty a month later. The Year in Jordan articles have now all been deleted under A3 (by other admins) or moved to draft space (by me before I realized the extent of the problem). Now I see there are literally over 1000 of these worthless "articles". For a random example, see 1996 in Estonia. I would like 1) to know how these users all simultaneously came to start creating these. And 2) consensus to mass delete these. --ThaddeusB (talk) 17:49, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I did not create any of those articles. Edit them, yes - I AWB'ed some talk pages once they had been created. But I didn't create any. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:52, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

My apologies, Ser Amantio di Nicolao appears to have only created talk pages, for the article after they were created by one of the others. --ThaddeusB (talk) 17:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Note: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/National Names 2000. No comment on other editors. Chillum 17:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Put them in a blank userpage, only the links. Nuke them using Twinkle's batchdelete function. Voila! --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 18:09, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Well yes, I am aware of the tool to do the deletion. I didn't, however, want to just deleted 1000+ articles (and an equal number of talk pages) without any discussion. There is also the oddity that two well-established users and one newish user all started creating these at the same time. I think some sort of explanation is in order. --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

The empty shells should all be deleted IMO. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 20:07, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Investigating further, I found that while some have content added by Jackninja5, it is generally a copyright violation. For example, 2006 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a single item "The three main militia groups in the troubled Congolese eastern province of Ituri have agreed to lay down arms and begin integrating into the Congolese army" which is an extremely close paraphrase of the linked source's "The three main militia groups in the troubled eastern province of Ituri have agreed to lay down arms and begin integrating into the Congolese army." I'm afraid all of Jack's contributions on other subjects now need scritizinedscrutinization too. --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Other items, such as those at 2005 in Jordan have been copied from other Wikipedia articles without proper attribution. --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• I have requested a copyright investigation. --ThaddeusB (talk) 21:32, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

A dreamer's rumination of an indented mind. Off-topic conversation. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 05:42, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Whoever breaks the indentation again shall get a trout for free. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 04:07, 12 February 2015 (UTC) You do realize that you are not required to indent one step further at each comment, right. My level of indention reflects who I am replying to and was done on purpose. --ThaddeusB (talk) 04:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC) Well, my policy is that unless it's a reply to myself, I add one more : --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 04:45, 12 February 2015 (UTC) It might as well be wrong. And I might just do it all the same. My bad. I give up to thee if I'm in the wrong, le ThaddeusB. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 04:49, 12 February 2015 (UTC) Not wrong, just different, as there is no universal "correct" way to indent - which is part of the reason people don't normally change someone else's indent. I wasn't replying to Lugnuts, for example, and thus put the next comment at the start of the line since it was a new thought. (I think his comment wasn't indented to begin with either, but don't recall for sure.) --ThaddeusB (talk) 04:57, 12 February 2015 (UTC) Nope, it wasn't. I guess I would rather collapse this since it's off-topic. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 05:42, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, I don't know and I'm not accusing anyone but isn't there a possibility that these 3 users in anyway related, sockpuppet or otherwise? Other than that, I endorse MassDelete. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 04:07, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Edit warring/Not asking for consensus

User: Atomic Meltdown keeps changing the performers table on some Academy Awards ceremonies tables. See here:[103] and [104]. He did not ask for consensus with other people involved in similar lists promoted to FL. --Birdienest81 (talk) 18:48, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Stop edit-warring. Both of you are past WP:3RR and can be blocked. Read the dispute resolution policy, which will tell you to discuss on the article talk page (if necessary, after you both come off block), and will then provide some dispute resolution procedures to use if discussion on talk pages fail. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

TowerData Rapleaf page merging.

A user seems to have merged or redirected pages in good faith. TowerData www.towerdata.com is a large company (thousands of employees) that purchased a smaller company called Rapleaf (less than hundreds of employees). It appears that the larger TowerData page content was blanked and replaced with Rapleaf. http://www.towerdata.com/company/news/towerdata-acquires-rapleaf-press-release

Maybe an admin can help to revert the old TowerData page? I have no idea how to do this... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TowerData&oldid=636672162

Then if user User_talk:OverlordQ wants to add some data about the Rapleaf product on the TowerData page and then redirect it might be logical.

If I am confused and TowerData never had a wikipedia entry until this Rapleaf entry was redirected, please forgive me. But in that case the redirect needs to be deleted as redirecting Rapleaf to this new page implies that TowerData is only Rapleaf. Rather, TowerData is a large company with many products.

Jtbobwaysf (talk) 19:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

This is a page move. Jtbobwaysf, you can move the page back if you want to, though I strongly suggest you discuss with User:OverlordQ first. Epic Genius (talk) 16:04, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

User Flyer22 and User EvergreenFir - Hounding, harassment

User Flyer22 has been repeatedly making accusations of me, and posted harassing and insulting comments despite my request for them to stop.

Harassing comments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Binksternet#Feminism_article Request to stop, and failure to do so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Flyer22#Dispute_resolution

Same goes for the user EvergreenFir, who has been following me around to pretty much everywhere I post and making snide comments and remarks. Requesting an Administrator review their actions to ensure they are in line with Wikipedia policies and rules. BrentNewland (talk) 19:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Forgot to mention, additional comments by EvergreenFir are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#Men.27s_Rights_Movement

I'm just sick of these guys following me around everywhere and trying to start an argument. BrentNewland (talk) 19:56, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

What specifically do you consider to be "harassing and insulting comments"? Chillum 20:12, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

You should include some diffs to show what you mean. -- Orduin ^Discuss 20:23, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't know why Flyer22 started talking about me. They suddenly appeared on Binksternet's talk page, solely to comment about me. This user started making accusations about my account and another user's account (failing to follow the standard Wikipedia protocol for investigating sockpuppets). I proceeded to tell them they could have and administrator review my account (subtly hinting that they should actually go find one, instead of talking on a talk page). They did not take the hint, and decided to yet again post making accusations of me being a "sockpuppet". They also attempt to invoke some form of official authority by linking to a section of their user page about "WP:Sockpuppet_watch". To be honest, I would expect someone who claims to be part of a "sockpuppet watch" to actually know what the procedures are for dealing with a suspected sockpuppet (hint: proper procedure is NOT to follow them around hurling accusations at them). Finally, I decided to track the information on dealing with sockpuppets down myself, gave them a link to the proper procedures, and asked them to stop making accusations against me outside of the proper venue. Another post from flyer22 at the same time (probably was making their comment while I was making mine).

Here is one of the biggest problems I have with Flyer22: After (politely) giving them the information on reporting sockpuppets and asking them to stop posting these accusations against me in talk pages, they did exactly that. Incredibly immature, crosses the line. And they did it again. And then they got rude with another user.

Finally, I initiated the formal dispute process. I went to their talk page and formally asked them to stop. And they didn't. They got rude and aggressive. And then ruder.

And that's where things stand with Flyer22.

Now, with EvergreenFir: I first encountered them on the Feminism talk page and the Men's Rights movement talk page, no problems there. They followed me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#Men.27s_Rights_Movement (which is also not a problem).

However, they got rude. Made an edit with the notes being "rp - STICK" and basically accused me of "beating a dead horse". Generally, insulting and condescension are not acceptable arguments for discussions following pre-approved guidelines. The use of the word "equal" in quotes is also quite condescending in context - though that one is harder to quantify. That, plus their other comments, makes it clear they want no discussion to take place on this subject - in which case, their other actions are cast in a different light.

I responded, letting them know that I thought their comment was aggressive, hostile, and condescending. I suggested they be more careful with the wording of their posts, as well as some other suggestions.

EvergreenFir's response was not to own up to their mistakes, but to say "I don't need to be your friend". Then they (again) use condescending language by accusing me of being a "new editor and all". I pointed out that their comment had not addressed nay issues, and asked them to refrain from comments that did not add to the conversation. Then there's an implication that I am using multiple accounts due to my knowledge of "hounding"/google/search phrases. I respond reminding them how to report a sockpuppet account, and that their comment was otherwise offtopic.

HERE'S THE KICKER: EvergreenFir followed me to Flyer22's page and left yet another rude and condescending comment.

If anyone is using sockpuppets, I would imagine it's Flyer22/Flyer2222 (Flyer2222 left a comment on EvergreenFir's page - account name is quite close to Flyer22). But I won't report them for that because it could be seen as harassment having multiple reports. BrentNewland (talk) 23:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Looks like a straightforward case of meatpuppetry to me. There has been considerable off-site coordination regarding the men's rights page. In this Reddit discussion, for example, activists bemoan the state of the article and plan their collective resistance against Wikipedia's feminist oppressors or something. One redditor suggests Let's edit the feminism wiki article in the EXACT same way, then document how those edits and editors are treated. That's when BrentNewland arrives to demand equal (one might say, the "EXACT same") treatment for feminism and the men's rights movement [105][106][107], regardless of the RS for the subjects. Men's rights related pages are on article probation but more (admin) eyes would help deal with the recent influx of new editors or relatively new reactivated accounts. --Sonicyouth86 (talk) 21:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm shocked to discover that there's been off-site canvassing from MRM. Shocked. Ravensfire (talk) 21:56, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

It's gotten worse after the GamerGate ArbCom decision. They talk about GamerGate a lot and what it means for their strategy in approaching the article about "their" movement. Maybe that adds to your shock;) The most recent coordination on Reddit is definitely at least partially responsible for the arrival of so many new and reactivated accounts. --Sonicyouth86 (talk) 22:08, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I only have one Wikipedia account. As I told them, if they suspect me of something, they can follow the proper process. Harassing me, hounding me, following me around is not following the proper process. There is no excuse for their actions. I have been editing Wikipedia for years. Just because I don't always do it when logged in doesn't mean I'm some new guy. BrentNewland (talk) 21:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't think you understand what is meant by meat puppetry, you are not being accused of having another account. I am however glad you have drawn attention to this issue. Chillum 22:17, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Boomerang? Shot myself in the foot? Please. I am no puppet - sock or meat. The fact that you have linked to WP:Boomerang while saying "drawn attention" leads me to believe that nobody here has any intention of actually investigating my complaint. Instead, you've gone on a Wikipedia:Witchhunt. BrentNewland (talk) 23:07, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) Regardless of whether or not BrentNewland is operating another account - and his comments about editing as an IP are not exactly exculpatory - he's clearly editing as a single-purpose disruptive account that, given the long dormancy, has probably been recruited from offsite. ArbCom sanction 1.2 may be applicable? –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:20, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Single purpose account? I have edited several articles. If the admins check my IP logs, they'll see I've made many useful contributions. Just because a few edits recently have been on one subject does not make me a "single-purpose account". And as far as "disruptive", if attempting to address flaws in an article, then following the rules and bringing these flaws to the Admin's attention on the NPOV noticeboard is "disruptive", then perhaps the rules should be changed so following them isn't considered "disruptive". Also, Wikipedia:Witchhunt. BrentNewland (talk) 23:07, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• So I was not nice. Okay. Nothing requires me to be nice. However, BrentNewland flatters themselves if they think I followed them to Flyer22's talk page. I'm sure Flyer22 and any admin if such data exist and are accessible to them can tell you that Flyer22's talk page has been on my watchlist for quite some time. I am alerted to edits there via my watchlist. Imagine my delight to see BrentNewland's edit. Anyway, too much WP:MEAT around here for my formerly-vegetarian tastes. Ciao. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 02:23, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Ok, I think it's about time to invoke WP:NOTHERE and the various probations/discretionary sanctions he's been notified of and impose at least a topic ban. Anybody? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:34, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Need to be a little bit careful here; the notifications issued were at 22:22, 10 February 2015 (MRM article probation) and 23:03, 11 February 2015 (gender-related DS; less than four hours ago). I'm not seeing good signs from the editor, but I'm not really seeing anything that would justify invoking the probation sanctions or DS after the relevant notification. I note also that the article probation notification was not correctly logged. GoldenRing (talk) 02:50, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

My experience with Flyer22 and EvergreenFir

It's very easy to get rattled by the aggressiveness of Flyer22 and EvergreenFir. They do seem to suddenly appear, as BrentNewland says above. As a newly returned editor, I thought I could edit as I had before. But when I edited Mansplaining, in terrible shape at the time, with very poor sources, original research and a huge quote, see:[108], I received a series of 11 posts from EvergreenFir (who hadn't edited the article before), starting with:[109] [110] She reverted me three minutes after my edit, clearly not having evaluated my edit, and threatened me. [111] [112] I finally reverted her with the edit summary "FFS give me a couple minutes to put shit together" is not a reason to revert - stop battleground and ownership behavior)". And she stopped editing it.

I had tried to explain myself both on my talk page and on the article talk page, where I was accused of causing the talk to disintegrate into some sort of a men's rights discussion (by an editor who had never edited the article or the talk page before), though I'm a female. EvergreenFir had not edited that article before I did, and hasn't edited it since then. Almost all of my edits and my suggestions on the talk page were in one way or another ultimately implemented, after EvergreenFir and her supporters left. But I won't edit that article again, or any other article that's been edited in the last few years. I finally banned her from my talk page, an act that was used as evidence against me in an SPI report.

As for Flyer22, she also posted on my talk page several times in a very boastful and offensive walls of text, related to Lightbreather's request for her help in proving I was a sock of someone or other. Examples:[113] [114] [115]

I felt bullied and ganged up on and haven't really been able to seriously edit articles since.

I respectfully suggest that Flyer22 and EvergreenFir to be encouraged to be more respectful and less abrasive and confrontive in their comments to other editors, even if they disagree with them. For my part, I'm trying to be so in dealing with editors on talk pages. (edited) EChastain (talk) 13:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Additional comments. EvergreenFir says above:

So I was not nice. Okay. Nothing requires me to be nice. However, BrentNewland flatters themselves if they think I followed them to Flyer22's talk page.

Not exactly constructive. I don't think this type of response is a helpful to en:wiki, and I empathise with any editor who gets it. I give kudos to Gerda Arendt and her support of kindness, while all the while getting her points across, even when she disagrees and the same for GoodDay. And it does feel like "dogpiling" as Spudst3r says below. It makes for a terribly tense atmosphere, and hinders editors like me who aren't used to it to try to response well on talk pages when you feel under fire. Thanks! EChastain (talk) 13:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Sockpuppet accusations

Also, I see that Flyer22 is accusing Spudst3r of being a sockpuppet on the NPOV Noticeboard[116] where EvergreenFir is also participating in a "Men's Rights Movement" discussion. I take no position on whether they are or are not a sock. But these accusations are used all too frequently to discredit an editor, rather than replying with evidence of POV sources etc., as is the purposed of that noticeboard. Since Flyer22 thinks Spudst3r is a sock, I think she should file an SPI rather than fling those accusations around on another forum, rather than addressing the issues at hand. She made it clear regarding me that she excelled at sniffing out socks.[117] [118] So file a report, Flyer22. If these accusations are repeatedly brought up, it tends to start being accepted as true and damages an editor's reputation. It also means an editor tends to feel that they've got to defend themselves against such attacks, rather than solely dealing with, in this case, the sourcing questions at hand. The NPOV noticeboard is not the place to gain support for your "side" by attacking an editor whose view is different. It doesn't further the goal of building an encyclopaedia. EChastain (talk) 17:48, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

BrentNewland Topic ban propoal

I endorse a temporary topic ban but not anything else for the user, BrentNewland (talk · contribs). My proposal would be:

• 4 months (proposal to change in progress) of topic ban in the subjects of MRM and Feminism for BrentNewland (talk · contribs). After the period is over, in consultation of an admin (who'll review his edits), he can again reach out to the community to gain approval in the editing sphere to go back to that niche and perform un-biased edits. He's also admonished for accusing editors of harassment when none has taken place.
• Flyer22 (talk · contribs) is not admonished since he has accused him of meatpuppetry, rightly and not sockpuppetry. He's however directed to be a bit more pleasant in tone and not suggest that someone might be a sockpuppet or meatpuppet with no evidence at all.
• EvergreenFir (talk · contribs) is not admonished at all.

Proposal revised. (x2) --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 16:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC) All in support may say "Aye" or "Nay" if not, below this proposal. Any constructive change to this proposal is also appreciated. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 04:40, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Why only 4 months? They are clearly editing those articles just to be disruptive. Do we really want to invite them back for more later? There are plenty of other people working on those articles. I don't think BrentNewland will be missed. MoreTomorrow (talk) 05:41, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

@MoreTomorrow: 4 months of topic ban is quite a lot for almost a SPA, isn't it? And, he'll need to regain community approval after the period is over, so I guess, it's fine. If one more reputed editor supports an increase to 6 months or such, I'll change my proposal. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 05:51, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

A tedious bureaucratic comment. First, sockpuppet allegations should be presented at WP:SPI rather than here. Second, harassment allegations are serious and require evidence, which hasn't been provided so far. Third, a proposed topic ban with exemptions for typo fixes or bots would be hard to administer, and would widen WP:BANEX beyond even its current complexity. Fourth, being a SPA is not an offence. --Euryalus (talk) 09:25, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

@Euryalus: He's apparently not a sockpuppet but a meatpuppet and it's not possible to verify the credibility so we cannot have investigations either. I've revised the proposal to fix the issue put in the third point. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 11:52, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Being a SPA is not an offence. Ofc, it's not. I argued on the same thing a few days ago at ANI. But, once someone's a proved SPA, it becomes hard to judge the POV and decide whether it's unbiased or not. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 16:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

• I'm somewhere between meh and nay. As GoldenRing mentioned above, the warnings are fresh. Either the user will improve, they will cease to edit, or we just give them more rope. Waiting is a win-win-quasiwin. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 06:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

  Improving doesn't seem to be in the cards. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps time to buy stock in the rope making industry. My stocks in glue manufacturers has paid off. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 18:33, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I think you are all being absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe how far Wikipedia has fallen. I made, what, 2 edits, which were reverted, then I made no more. I'm harassed for it, I report the harassment following your rules, and you all decide to discuss banning me? Because of my political views? Even though I haven't broken a single rule? And your only evidence is you FEEL I MIGHT be a "meatpuppet"? And you let one of the people I brought claims against VOTE on this topic!?!?

You know what, fine. Whatever. Ban me. Delete my account. If this is how you treat people who are just trying to help, I don't WANT to be on Wikipedia. 17:33, 12 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrentNewland (talk • contribs)

Tell you what. Edit something else. Prove that you understand how to use Wikipedia policies and guidelines, not just how to quote them. Then we'll all shut up. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:35, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

@BrentNewland: I think you haven't carefully observed two things. First, EvergreenFir is actually speaking for you. Second, this isn't a vote, this is a discussion to seek consensus on whether you presence in the community is appreciated or not. And the point is, we are not happy but we are willing to give you a second chance. For what it's worth, we are not endorsing a site-ban but just a topic-ban, your edits to the aforementioned subjects are actually quite nonconstructive and you should know it by now. I am honestly fed up with the community too. I've almost left the place. I mostly come on ANI just to defend newbies, just to defend them. Here you might think, I want to ban you. No, it's as simply as, at some point you've got to stop. You have been making quite biased edits which are not really quite satisfying to the community and if you want to survive, you're going to have to deal with it. The only reason that you have an allegation of a meatpuppet is because of your edits. I've realized that atleast, you are here in good faith. Most people are not. Let this be your first and last time, someone points a finger at you for your edits, but I believe reprimanding is necessary. All I want you to prove is that the community is damn wrong. You must prove, you're not a SPA, not a meatpuppet, not a biased article editor. Prove them wrong, in these 4 months, which you should accept, and I guarantee that you'll achieve happiness but respect from the community is not. Our community's a hidden dystopia, deal with it. If you ever have time, read The Bet and you'll realize things about life, that you should take in. Very respectfully. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 13:19, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• I say Aye. Regardless of the meatpuppetry issue, BrentNewland has fundamentally misapprehended our core content policies, especially NPOV. He continues to argue that feminism and men's rights movement need to be treated equally although other editors have explained (e.g., [119][120]) to him that feminism and men's rights movement are treated differently in RS and that Wikipedia must reflect that. His subsequent disruptive edits, like the tag bombing [121][122] on the feminism page, are based on that fundamental and persistent misunderstanding of NPOV. Sure, we could give him more rope as EvergreenFir suggests, try to explain to him for the fifth and sixth time that he misunderstands how NPOV works, and waste more editors' time and patience in the process. Or we topic ban him for a few months so that he can work in less contentious topic areas and get experience following our NPOV policy and working with other editors. I think that the later option is preferable. However, all of us could be "more pleasant in tone" and I don't get why Flyer22 and EvergreenFir need an extra special reminder of that. They didn't cross the line into personal attacks or harassment. Their more or less oblique (I assume to avoid accusations of OUTING) suggestions that meatpuppetry is involved don't deserve that kind of censure. --Sonicyouth86 (talk) 15:53, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

They didn't harass Brent or otherwise, which is why they're not written in the proposal. He's cited nearly every Wikipedia policy to what he's done and it sounds really template-ish. EvergreenFir has been fine but Flyer22 has put forward quite agitated comments. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 16:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

• nay: I say this with all due deference to WP:FAITH, but this plain and simple looks like a Wikipedia:Witchhunt against BrentNewland (talk · contribs) for bringing up valid concerns that he has backed up with evidence. What's even scarier is that by commenting here, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm targeted similar to BrentNewland (talk · contribs). The reaction he's getting is exactly the kind of chilling effect BrentNewland (talk · contribs) was trying to bring attention to. It's the same attempt at a chilling effect that participator Sonicyouth86 is doing to me on my talk page. For admin considering actions here, I think WP:AOTE is instructive.

I have already been a target of aggressive attempts by Flyer22 (talk · contribs) to have me banned, so I'm speaking up to corroborate BrentNewland (talk · contribs) concerns. [If that makes me a meatpuppet, then I struggle to see how the coordinated actions of Flyer22 (talk · contribs), Sonicyouth86 (talk · contribs), and EvergreenFir (talk · contribs) as like minded editors do not also constitute "meatpuppetry". I want to emphasize that the WP:MEATPUPPET policy was enacted to prevent genuine abuse or dogpiling by like minds (much like we are seeing right here against BrentNewland (talk · contribs) by Flyer22 (talk · contribs), Sonicyouth86 (talk · contribs), and to a lesser extent, EvergreenFir (talk · contribs)), it's purpose is *not* to prevent WP:FAITH edits, or to stop WP:BOLD edits made with an awareness of WP:CAUTIOUS and WP:IMPERFECT.Spudst3r (talk) 18:58, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Your argument against the points about BrentNewland being a long dormant single purpose account would be far more convincing Spudst3r if you were not a long dormant single purpose account yourself. For example: two of your 3 edits in 2014 were to Masculism and Men's rights movement. 78% of your edits since suddenly returning in 2015 are about gender conflicts. And prior to those 3 sporadic edits in 2014 you were not active since 2012. Something brought both of you to Men's rights topic after Feb 5th and to many of the same pages. After the call for meatpuppets to make calls for edits to this site that reflect exactly what was suggested on reddit. That is prima facia meatpuppetry. And that policy reads that doing the bidding of offsite entities, organizations, groups etc in order to manipulate wikipedia in ways contrary to its own policies and regulations is meatpuppetry.
The newly closed Gamergate Arbitration allows for any administrator to act against accounts "with a clear shared agenda may be blocked if they violate the sockpuppetry policy or other applicable policy". Abusing noticeboards, lobbying for misrepresentation of sources and breaches of WP:BATTLE constitute clear breaches of WP:DE and WP:POINT. This is part of a deliberate long-running campaign of ownership by off site entities designed to frustrate this site's rules, goals and standards in this topic area, in order to promote a point of view that may be popular on the internet but is not part of mainstream scholarly opinion.
Thus as it stands I agree with the topic ban for BrentNewland 4 months is ok (I'd have gone for 3 TBH) however meatpupptry by definition does not happen in a vacuum and I see at least 1 other account here deserving of the same prohibition--Cailil ^talk 11:45, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

A few points: 1. I picked up editing activity before this article in January, making big contributions to the securitization (international relations) article.

2. Since my edits to masculism and men's rights movement, going back to those articles to improve them has always been on my to do list. If you want to know why my editing has picked up it's because I found a freelance job that gives me much freedom to pursue my own pursuits, such as editing wikipedia on my spare time. Do I have a big focus on this subject? Yes, but as noted earlier single purpose account are not against the rules on wikipedia -- if you really want to call me that.

3. Instead of repeated ad hominem on my intentions to limit my ability to contribute, I challenge you to look at the content of my edits. You will see I make extensive use of the talk page, and have collaboratively worked with other editors to find a consensus where disagreements exist.

RE: meatpuppeting accusations: Looking into the reddit article posted by sonicyouth86 that began these meatpuppet claims, I noticed that one of the commenters there points out that Reddit posts about this wikipedia page a lot. It's unfortunate the men's rights subreddit is doing this, but I don't see how I can be blamed for their actions. Furthermore, I'm a little concerned how this page can ever receive valid contributors from a masculinist perspective if outside sources constantly judge them to be meatpuppets because of this subreddit constantly calling attention to this page?! Spudst3r (talk) 22:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Forgive me if my expression above was terse or came across as personal - there is no ad hominem above it is an accurate reflection of your contrib history. However the fact that wikipedia is again dealing with off-site interference is a problem for wikipedia. Single Purpose accounts that don't edit neutraly ARE against the rules. Making edits to one topic area is ok but doing so in order to achieve something outside the aims of this site, "raising profiles", "counter acting" perceived academic bias etc etc are all things that we have had years to develop rules to deal with (see the ARbCom rulings on Israel-Palestine and other nationalist, as well as the many Psuedo- and Fringe science wars). The fact that it took Gamer gate and the massive juvenile disruption of this site for ArbCom to act in relation to the long running (almost a decade) problem of gender conflict on wikipedia is more of an indictment of the shortsightedness of previous committees than anything else. I agree this is extremely unfortunate that redditers are doing this. It adds to the MRAs bad rep. And to the defcon on Wikipedia. It achieves the 100% opposite of what they want. But that's not my problem or wikipedia's it's those individuals'. For Wikipedia one of the most serious red flags is the repeated clamour to edit Men's movement pages to be the same as Feminist pages. Doing this is likely to raise eyebrows. It's the same as asking to edit Obama articles the same as GW Bush articles. It's prima facia agenda driven partisan editing that has nothing to do with Wikipedia's goals and everything to do with PR campaigns of offsite entities (that's not an accusation just an FYI). But you have to understand that in the context of pages where significant meatpuppetry occurs, on a regular basis, when a group of people show up, out of the blue, clamouring for the same things (which are BTW against policy or which require impossible changes to said policy) we'll see meatpuppetry. Especially when we see them acting deliberately against policy repeatedly--Cailil ^talk 14:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Economy of Serbia

I/We have a problem with one IP-address editor who seems to copy-paste material from some source, material of his/her last accepted version of the article - Economy of Serbia. In his/her version, as it is here: [123], there are few things removed, which are in my opinion very important. Also, he/she provided some unreliable sources, overriding IMF, CIA and other representative bodies for such topic, with portal ones, like b92.net etc. These edits have been repeated almost for several times and I'm not interested in edit-warring with this contributor, as it is against wiki's rules to do so. So, here am I, waiting for some admin to revise my/his/her work and give a judgement and a possible solution. Thanks!--AirWolf ^talk 19:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Multiple new editors filling the Recent Changes with "vector.css" edits

I was checking the recent changes and found out there was too many "vector.css" activity going on, and involving the same content on each user which I suspect sock puppetry. However, I can't open a SPI case because I don't even know the sockmaster. They first create the page, then blank it. Sometimes they create a blank vector.css page, then add content to it, then blank it again. Massive sockpuppetry going on. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 21:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

BTW I forgot to tell something, I can't notify all the socks because it is very expensive to do so. --ToonLucas22 (talk) 21:07, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Could you give an example at least? What are they adding to their vector.css files. Could it be a class? --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:08, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks to Drmies for the example below. I see there are lots of others. I don't know what's going on - I'm technically nearly illiterate - but someone could, you know, ask them. I'd be careful of quick assumptions of nefariousness, though. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:16, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

As far as I can see (by installing the code myself), it just changes the displayed format of a Wikipedia page. Not sure why anyone would want to do that, but it seems harmless. I'm guessing some kind of class of some sort. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:22, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

OK, so I'm not the only one who saw some weird things go by--like this one, User:Jc3652/vector.css. What's going on? Drmies (talk) 21:12, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Well, first off, there is no executable code changes going on here and all of the changes only affect the users making the change. So, nothing to worry about overall. Regarding what it does, it is a stylistic change to make Wikipedia look like this screenshot for the user making the change. At least, that's all I gather from reading the code and the github link in the CSS comments.--v/r - TP 21:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• A Reddit story linked to the WiTeX thing, and people are trying it out. There is no conspiracy. -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 21:28, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I would surmise the css is designed to make the page suitable for printing in a book. It appears to have just been released and people are trying it out. I don't think it is a problem. With any luck we might get some new users. Chillum 22:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah these are for sure not socks. I think the best t hing to do would be to wait for someone who's using the CSS script to make a regular mainspace edit and ask them why they chose to use the script. Although it doesnt seem like it's geared towards editing since it seems to remove the edit links. So never mind I guess. We could also see if we can get hold of Andrew Belt and ask if he knows hundreds of people are now using his script. —Soap— 00:30, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Actually, it would be hard for them to make a mainspace edit, as that CSS removes the "Edit" link. :-) Some Admin might want to take a swing through there and comment out the appropriate code for everyone. Not everyone will think to look at https://github.com/AndrewBelt/WiTeX/blob/master/README.md for the instructions on how to kill it. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:37, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, it's not impossible to edit. These editors can technically edit pages even though there are no links for doing so. They need to just enter the version of the URL that looks like this: /w/index.php?title=PAGENAME&action=edit instead of this: /wiki/PAGENAME. Epic Genius (talk) 03:41, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Just a note that I've left the author a note here. Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 10:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Andrew Belt here. A few points have been brought up, so I'll try to address them all.

• WiTeX (the name of the stylesheet everyone is pasting into their Vector.css) is mainly designed for display rather than printing, although many may be using it for printing as well. Thus many are now browsing without the [edit] link. This could be a problem for the Wikipedia community since it separates editors from readers, but I see it as a side effect from the minimalistic design style. I'd be willing to add support for I can work with someone on the issue tracker at https://github.com/AndrewBelt/WiTeX as I think there can be a compromise between functionality and design in this sense.
• Is there a way to prevent "abuse" of many people editing their Vector.css file? Zhaofeng Li recommended using the @include declaration in users' stylesheets, although this doesn't solve the problem of many additions and deletions of the pages while people are trying it out.
• Since fonts are loaded from an external domain (first pawnmail.com, later changed to cdn.rawgit.com although most may be using the first), in what way are users breaking the privacy policy? What are the implications of using an @include declaration with an external domain?
• Any other things I should address?

Vortico (talk) 13:15, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@Vortico: The issue about the privacy policy is that when users view a Wikipedia page using the stylesheets, third-party servers serving the fonts/css/whatever may be able to track the users, regardless of our privacy policy. Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 13:22, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• I realize this is more of a technical pump issue, but could Wikipedia incorporate some sort of button for any user to create a similar view on their end without making edits on our end? Put all of the fonts, css, etc, on our servers, so maybe it'd work within the privacy policy? Ian.thomson (talk) 13:28, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
  • It's a good idea, but maybe WMF can just prevent editors from adding 3rd-party fonts in the first place. Epic Genius (talk) 20:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
    • Just get yourself a Wikitech account, go to Tool Labs and upload all your files there and then ask AndrewBelt to pull some updates from Legoktm (who's worked on the documentation, I see) and it will work fine. --QEDK ♠ T ♥ C 06:54, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Refdesk troll resuming activity after returning from block

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• 92.236.100.51 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• Csssats (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

See also: previous thread.

IP has a history of asking racist and stupid questions, and then edit warring over it. They've been blocked before because they're a clear troll. After returning from their block, they're at it again.

I've given them a warning not to use the reference desk for anything but requests for sources. They ignored that, creating the account Csssats to restore the question.

Troll block, please. If they're "not" a troll, they're clearing incapable of not acting like one. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Erm, sorry, it's not over yet. They've hopped to this IP. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

The IP's locate to opposite sides of the Channel, so it might be a copycat. But if it continues, it might be a good idea to semi the ref desk page for a short time. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:18, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Proxy is another possibility. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:21, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes. All the more reason to semi the page(s). ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:22, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Note: refdesk misc protected -- Orduin ^Discuss 22:28, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I think that was all that was needed to be protected as the other page has not been touched by either of these two for over a year. -- Orduin ^Discuss 22:49, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I think all actions have been done here. (archive bottom moved) -- Orduin ^Discuss 20:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Talk: William Double

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Vandalism and WP:BLP violation. Needs to be deletted. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:31, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

G8 should apply. -- Orduin ^Discuss 22:32, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I think that this should summarily be blipped and the history fragged. WP:BLP issue trumps procedure. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Deleted and creator blocked. Newyorkbrad (talk) 22:45, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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Behaviour of user:Big Chief Thinker

This relative newcomer to Wikipedia has managed to make a few constructive edits (e.g., [124], [125]) but also several questionable ones ([126], [127], [128], [129]). However, when he/she was notified about the problems with his/her edits (mostly using standard templates), he/she reacted in a rather aggressive and disparaging manner: [130], [131], [132] (see also edit summaries!). Would anyone take time to explain this kiddo that this is not Romford High School and a degree of civility is expected from all contributors? Thank you and regards, kashmiri ^TALK 23:13, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I made an attempt, although reading through I'm afraid I may have left a wall of text. I think this editor has a lot of upside, if he can fundamentally understand our civility policy. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 01:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Brilliant! Let's see if it has the desired impact :) Regards, kashmiri ^TALK 13:18, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Legal threat

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Please see diff from IP account. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 00:04, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

handled with alacrity by Materialscientist see Special:Contributions/173.73.141.248. Jytdog (talk) 00:05, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Two editors making repeated changes

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We have two editors @Wasp-1992: and @Acdcguy1991: making repeated changes which need to be discussed, here also. A lot of WP:OWN going on despite multiple reverts, warnings and pleas to start a discussion to gain consensus. These edits need to be reverted but, I'm not going to press a 3RR situation, hoping an Admin can help. Mlpearc (open channel) 00:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Çomment - these editors are refusing to engage in a meaningful way and are ignoring requests to edit by consensus. Flat Out let's discuss it 03:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I was ready to start a dialoge but my arguments were fully ignored by Flat Out. Just sayin' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wasp-1992 (talk • contribs) 03:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Comment this edit confirms that the editor is unwilling to seek consensus. Flat Out let's discuss it 05:23, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Unusually high influx of newspaper articles

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Not sure if there is a policy violation occurring here or not, but thought it should be brought to administrators attention just in case. I'm not really sure what to make of this, but several new editors have been creating pages about Australian newspapers. It's odd that so many are being created at the same time all by new users. Here's a selected list of Articles that I'm talking about:

1. Corryong Courier created by User:Lib6212
2. Rutherglen Sun and Chiltern Valley Advertiser created by User:Zactherat
3. Rushworth chronicle and Goulburn advertiser created by User:Bulldogs73
4. Dimboola Banner created by User:Librarytraining
5. Daylesford Advocate created by User:AliceBallantyne1914
6. Ovens and Murray Advertiser created by User:MLY2014
7. Wangaratta Chronicle created by User:Salve58
8. Nathalia Herald created by User:Houdain
9. Ararat Advertiser created by User:Alfrulz
10. Snowy River Mail created by User:K2lib
11. Euroa Gazette created by User:Russellbrooks
12. Mortlake Dispatch created by User:Bc.infoservices
13. Casterton News created by User:Imforlibraries
14. Dunmunkle Standard created by User:Kmudnim

All of these articles were created within an hour of each other today. I had noticed an influx of Australian newspapers articles a few days ago, but just today realized the severity of it. This may be some sort of sock/meat farm. I have no opinion as to whether all of these articles meet WP:GNG or not, but just was concerned by this activity. -War wizard90 (talk) 06:34, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

These appear to be articles being created as part of Wikipedia:GLAM/Australian libraries and WP/Events/2015 ALIA Workshops. -- Whpq (talk) 06:41, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Oh yes, that seems to explain it, okay sorry to waste time, we can close this discussion now. -War wizard90 (talk) 06:47, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I noticed it too, and left a message (HERE) on the talk page of one of the trainers. No reply yet... Deunanknute (talk) 06:49, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Maybe we need some kind of notification system to notify new page patrollers and recent change patrollers that a workshop is occurring and to expect and influx of "xx style" articles. Otherwise how are we supposed to know of this type of creation en masse, and differentiate it from sockpuppets? I would assume because it's a workshop that the trainer is requiring that all articles be notable. -War wizard90 (talk) 06:56, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I think such publications are inherently notable and I regularly make citations to newspaper publishers for contemporary reviews and showings for my century old film articles. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 07:00, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Probably just need a temporary tag for the top of the page with a link to the project page that contains a list of articles being created/edited. Deunanknute (talk) 07:07, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

"How are we supposed to know?" Nearly every one of those editors has the training linked on their user page. WP:MEAT is about debates and !votes. I'd say that meatpuppeting a series of articles is good editor recruitment and training, especially if they are clearly referenced to quickly check WP:V. Anyway, if you do want a temporary tag (careful: more on-the-spot work for the trainer and less time for teaching), I'd suggest putting it on the talk page, not the article itself. 99of9 (talk) 10:08, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

This is very sad. A group of librarians attends a training session. They create nicely-crafted and illustrated articles about newspapers. They are met by notes on their talk pages telling them that their work is being discussed at ANI, and in two cases by AfD notices (Cobram Courier by User:Rkgbro was left off the list - I don't know how many others there are). Not so much as a talk page welcome (I've done that now). Crossed wires, lack of AGF, generally a very unwelcoming experience for a group of potential editors. I think some apologies are needed, and I hope these new editors will stick around despite this mess. (Perhaps I'm being hypersensitive in this case, out of professional solidarity - and the belief that librarians and ex-librarians are among some of our best editors!) I don't know whether the trainers were being misguided in encouraging articles on non-notable newspapers - AfD might show - but I think it was inappropriate to bring these to ANI without checking a little further: every editor's user page says that they're attending a training session. PamD 14:47, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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So is this a case where people should not have been notified that they were being discussed? --NE2 03:31, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

attacks at Talk:Christian terrorism

Would someone kindly look there? I fear I do not liked being called [133] "You guys are as bad as Holocaust Deniers" in an edit summary,

You two continue to prove my assessment of the situation correct. You're deleting Reputably Sourced sections off of the India section, piece by piece. You're PRETENDING that the items hadn't been thoroughly vetted and sourced for months or years prior to your sudden deletions based on your "Consensus of 2". You are everything that is wrong with Wikipedia. I guess the Christian terrorists in India will applaud your actions at minimizing and covering up for their murderous activities, and give you a nice big "thumbs up". My blood pressure can no longer take this kind of deliberate POV abuse by you two. I'm taking a break from WP. I'm sure when I come back, you will have completely destroyed this page, and all references to anything Christians have ever done wrong in the history of the planet.

[134] [135] etc. including:

I have tried to WP:AGF with you on many occasions, but you will have none of it. You resort to deleting every edit I make, regardless of how many reputable sources I add, and you consistently attempt to eliminate any wording that does not agree with your pro-Christian weltanschauung. We've both been editing this page for years, and you've been quite consistent in your edits. I don't need "consensus" to overcome your personal opinions regarding the NSCN. I need reliable sources, and I've been adding them...and you've been deleting them. Again, that's not how WP works

So really, you're just proving my earlier point that you would just make up some excuse to deem the source "untrustworthy" because it's Indian. Just admit you really have no understanding of this subject and move on. We all understand that you want to delete everything off this page, and you are always doing your best to whittle away at it, but you really need a new hobby

No need for overkill the mere claim that editors are like "Holocaust deniers" is quite beyond the pale, and he has done same sort of defamation in the past.

[136], (This is exactly the kind of absurd "fake logic" used by Holocaust Deniers, and used for similar reasons: Apologetics...not facts. Apparently, he thinks if he repeats a lie often enough, it will become fact... --Bryon Morrigan -- Talk 21:08, 31 July 2012 (UTC) ) [137] Saying that they don't, in spite of news articles from the BBC [36] and elsewhere [37][38][39], is no different than Holocaust Denial, and done for the same reason: Apologetics for murderers. --Bryon Morrigan -- Talk 13:37, 31 July 2012 (UTC) ,

You are suggesting that acts of murder and atrocity were just made up by "Hindu radicals," and didn't happen, even though they are reported in the media. And that kind of behavior is exactly the same as saying that the Holocaust didn't happen, or any other acts of murder or atrocity...and you are doing for the same kind of reason. Neo-Nazis do it to make excuses for Nazis. You're doing it to make excuses for Christian Terrorists. So no, I'm not retracting anything. --Bryon Morrigan -- Talk 16:06, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

In short, his attacks have gone way past anything normally accepted on Wikipedia, and he has been brought to noticeboards for his proclivity to compare editors to "Holocaust deniers". (I am not listing his many other uncivil remarks, as this is way beyond the pale). (user notified) Collect (talk) 14:50, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Bryon Morrigan is misrepresenting what other editors say and using personal attacks. The content dispute at Christian terrorism is whether the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, a Maoist insurgent group representing a majority Christian Sino-Tibetan minority in North-East India that uses terrorism should described as Christian terrorists, i.e., a group whose primary motivation is Christianity.

This user has an info-box on his user page that says, "This user believes that Monotheism, not Religion itself, is the source of the World's problems." ["Monotheism" refers to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.] This belief prevents him from editing in a neutral manner and leads to him making accusations against other editors whom he sees as part of the monotheist problem. He is unwilling to accept that there are other opinions about the causes of the world's problems, such as conflict over resources, ethnic division, ideology and many others.

Given the edtior's lack of collaborative editing I would suggest a topic ban on articles related to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

TFD (talk) 15:40, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Map in Westarctica's article

User Vyacheslav84 keeps on reverting my edit to the Westarctica article, more specifically keeps on bringing back the old map of the land claims of the Antarctic Micronational Union and its members, while I added the new one, which comes from the AMU's website. I'm not sure if he doesn't realize that the old map is outdated and no longer represents reality, or if he purposefully vandalizes the page, but in either case it's clearly an example of counter-productive edit warring. It's worthy of noting also that he nominated the new map for deletion for violating copyright, even though on the website it clearly states that it's licensed under Creative Commons. --Escargoten (talk) 14:56, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

• The new map is based on non-authoritative source and replacing the old card is a new is war edits. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

It's the map of the AMU, and it comes from the website of the AMU. The one you keep on reverting to doesn't have a source at all. --Escargoten (talk) 15:25, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Escargoten, it doesn't look like this issue over the map has been discussed on the article talk page or on the user's talk page. That is where you should start addressing this dispute first. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

• • edit conflict I'm not seeing any discussion between you two other than some edit summaries. Maybe you should speak with the editor in question on his talk page. At the very least did you notify him of this discussion at ANI? JodyB _talk 15:20, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
    • And I am always ready to discuss this issue, but first let the participant ceases to wage war edits. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:29, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
      • Indeed, so stop edit warring - you already violated the three reverts rule. --Escargoten (talk) 15:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
    • He started a discussion on my talk page and is now throwing insults at me, particularly calling me a "creature" in Russian. --Escargoten (talk) 15:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
      • it is a synonym "friend" Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:25, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
        • It isn't, the word "существо" in Russian is applicable to animals. --Escargoten (talk) 15:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I would suggest you take this to the article page and discuss it in English. That would allow for greater clarity of other editors on the English Wikipedia. JodyB _talk 15:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

• "However, editing from a slanted point of view, general insertion or removal of material, or other good-faith changes are not considered vandalism." - Wikipedia:Edit warring Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:34, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Yet you accused me of vandalism too. --Escargoten (talk) 15:40, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Please stop vandalizing the page.) --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:47, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Grand_Duchy_of_Westarctica#Maps_from_Self-published_sources --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:43, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Haven't seen it, so made my section too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Grand_Duchy_of_Westarctica#Westarctica.27s_map Not a self-published source in any case though. --Escargoten (talk) 15:51, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

• Blocks All Around I have blocked both editors for 24 hours for violating the 3RR policy. The page is protected too but I will probably drop that now that they are blocked. Please check the page history and see how they both blew right past the 3RR. JodyB _talk 15:55, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
• All this fuss over an entity which has no legal standing? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:28, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

The Clash and legal action

So we have had a bit of a problem over at The Clash. I originally removed some text added to the lead that looked like it was copied from another website. After some investigation I think this was an error...however In the proceeding time we have had a few meatpuppetes make some comments and taking the topic to social media. Most recently a threat to take legal action has been made as seen here. There seems to be a lack of understanding of whats going on by the new editors. Just need an admin here to slow down things down. -- Moxy (talk) 16:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't know that rises to the level of a direct legal threat (they hope someone else will take legal action). I left them what is basically a final warning on their talk page. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 19:13, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

While I agree that what Andypunkfan said was probably not a legal threat, this posting by Kathydi1977 clearly was one: The statement "This matter is being referred to Keith's lawyer for further handling." was clearly intended to affect the discussion and suppress comment. The fact that it's "Keith [Levene's] lawyer" is largely irrelevant in light of the fact that Kathydi1977 has admitted in this posting that she's the co-author with Levene of the book that a quote from which was the root source of this brouhaha. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 20:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Now that is a clear legal threat. Indefed. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 20:21, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

opps sorry about that ...i was meaning to link Kathydi1977 post not the one I linked....good to see it got solved anyways. -- Moxy (talk) 20:46, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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NBA All-Star Weekend

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re: NBA All-Star Weekend (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

We have a link to the NBA's own page covering the All-Star Weekend. But, the article had some spamming issues, legal threats[138], and block evasion by user(s) claiming to represent a website that believes it has the right to advertise itself on this article. (see talk pages at User talk:50.89.112.136 and User talk:Idriveorlando)

Today I blacklisted to url after an additional IP began adding the link. However, shortly afterwards I received an email pointing me to a page on the spammed website (link disabled due to blacklisting): allstarweekendnewyork.com/wikipedia-blocks-all-star-weekend-new-york-external-link-lawsuit-pending

I just wanted to mention it here in case anyone feels it should be forwarded to legal@wikimedia.org. It seems the definition of frivolous, but would appreciate other opinions. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Forewarned is forearmed so might be worth warning them. Another alternative would be to ask them to read WP:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox_or_means_of_promotion before posting here again. Amortias (T)(C) 18:51, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

• Shoot them a message but I would be surprised if this "pending" suit ever made it into a letter from a lawyer. Sounds like a lot of junk to me. JodyB _talk 20:08, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
• The IP's and registered editor have been blowing hot air for a couple weeks. Their threats are about as credible as this claim. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:39, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
• I'm tempted to post a notice on the comments on the spammed site. But, its just someone attacking Wikipedia because they got blocked —fairly. I hope this is all just hot air, and it most likely is. -- Orduin ^Discuss 20:57, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Edit warring, personal attacks and hounding by former EEML member

Volunteer Marek:

• Followed me to an article he never edited to revert text that was added over nine months ago, claiming he knows what the consensus there is.[139].

And again removed the same text and more.[140][141] He is claiming that I added the text, even though the diffs show that others added the text long ago.[142][143]

• Continuously made disruptive edits in Rape during the occupation of Germany, such as removing text on false pretexts:

Reverted a paragraph, claiming that RT is not a reliable source.[144] This is debatable, but RT was only used as a source to prove that the person quoted is a historian; the main source for the paragraph was not RT.

Added the revisionist label to the same historian without providing a source,[145] which he should know is a WP:BLP violation.

Reverted text from a review criticizing the use of statistics,[146] claiming that the review is positive and I cherry picked[147] and "willfully and blatantly misrepresented" the source.[148] I made no claim that the review is negative. The text simply states a fact from a review.

Re-added a sentence to the intro[149] that violates WP:MOSINTRO; this sentence was recently added without consensus by a disruptive user (who eventually was banned for edit warring).[150]

Change historian to journalist,[151] even though reliable sources call the person a historian.[152] He has his own explanation of why they are wrong [153](comment below).

Removed relevant text without any discussion or consensus claiming he is shortening the section, when in fact he is removing important points.[154]

• Constantly made personal attacks: "You are full of it",[155] "Bull...",[156] "you're just gaming the 3RR rule and engaging in tendentious editing",[157] "only reason you haven't gotten blocked is because you're much better at gaming the system",[158] that I sneaked in edits against consensus.[159]

Defended a disruptive user in the 3RR report I opened and accused me.[160]

Also he attacked an admin who presented more evidence on that user in the 3RR report ("someone rightly calls you on your bullshit").[161] Ddstretch replied that Volunteer Marek simply did not read his comment carefully and there was no reason to call it "bullshit."[162]

Told me to go away on his talk page.[163]

Demanded that I provide a quote for the sourced text I added (almost right after I added it), implying that I did something wrong.[164] I provided the quote, but he continued with threats.[165][166] And no I did not misquote the author; it is almost a direct quote.

• Followed me to an admin's talk page to accuse me and stick up for like-minded users,[167] even though the conversation had nothing to do with him.

All this is in the EE topic area covered by WP:ARBEE. He was an active member of the WP:EEML under his old name.
This is only one example of harassment by former EEML members. -YMB29 (talk) 20:41, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

This is a relevant quote from the EEML findings: members coordinating in order to protect each other and their point of view in articles against a perceived "Russian cabal". This included coordinating around the three revert rule, commenting in process along "party lines", supporting each other in disputes even when otherwise uninvolved in them. Tactics organized on the list include baiting, harassment and vexatious complaints against specific users in order to have them sanctioned or driven away from participating.[168] -YMB29 (talk) 21:05, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Response

This is a "preemptive strike" by user YMB239. In this edit YMB239 misrepresented a source. Pretty blatantly and pretty grossly. I inquired about the actual text in source on the talk page here [169]. YMB239 responded by providing a partial quote, trimmed just so it looked like the source supported the source. The KEY information was omitted in the little "...". I gave them another chance but told them that unless s/he was ready to stop misrepresenting the source (and changed his article text accordingly) I was going to report them. Apparently they decided that it'd be a good idea to preempt that by filing this bogus report here against me first.

This is a textbook illustration of WP:BATTLEGROUND attitude, combined with tendentious editing and POV pushing. When caught red-handed playing fast and loose with sources, quickly start attacking the other person that points out your misbehavior. And YMB239 has a history in this regard. The EEML is a irrelevant red herring, a bullshit excuse. As pointed out here [170] at least six uninvolved users have had problems with YMB239's behavior. To repeat, they were: User:Iryna Harpy, User:Diannaa, User:PBS, User:Kierzek, User:Sayerselle,User:Serialjoepsycho, User:Paavo273, User:Buckshot06 - there's at least one or two admins in there. These editors are unrelated to EEML or anything else that YMB239 might dream up. And just recently, User:PBS (a veteran editor like myself, who's been on Wikipedia since 2003) wrote in response to YMB239's false claims that they had "consensus" (apparently a consensus of one), quote: "I stopped arguing with you YMB29, not because I think that you have not harmed this article by including the text that you have, but because it was too much of a time sink, and I have more constructive things to be doing with my time. A am pleased that someone else has taken up the baton and is willing to discuss it further with you. " (my emphasis)

That's what YMB239 has been doing for the past several months on this and related articles. They have been engaged in months long slow motion edit war, combined with a complete lack of good faith discussion on talk, characterized by WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT, apparantly designed to just simply wear, tire, and bore, those who take issue with YMB239's POV and edits, out, until they quit and let them have their way. This is extremely disruptive, has been noted and commented on by several users (in addition to those 6 listed above) and a topic ban from the relevant articles has been mentioned. Personally, as a content editor, I think the dishonest misrepresentation of sources to be worthy of a month long block on top of a topic ban.

For anyone who's interested, the full text source is here. The text says pretty much the OPPOSITE of what YMB239 pretends it says.Volunteer Marek (talk) 21:25, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Comments

Just to make this a bit less likely to hit the too long cap the request to stay away from his talk page is a perfectly valid request on their part. Amortias (T)(C) 21:07, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Ok, but he could have said it in a more civil tone. -YMB29 (talk) 21:11, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Mentioning users like Sayerselle and Paavo273, who were banned or warned for edit warring, is misleading. I never had any real problems with Serialjoepsycho or Buckshot06. There was no reason for you to try to canvass these users here. -YMB29 (talk) 21:33, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Also, I had disagreements with PBS, but he never resorted to personal attacks or following me to other pages. He was not the only one editing that page. The idea that I somehow fooled everyone and pushed edits through without consensus months ago is ridiculous. -YMB29 (talk) 21:39, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I've no clue what this dispute is over. Which article? This all sounds vaguely familiar. This have anything to do with Soviets raping Germans in Berlin at the end of world war 2?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 21:53, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Yep. Battle of Berlin and Rape during the occupation of Germany.Volunteer Marek (talk) 21:56, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

You are just canvassing users to distract from the topic. This is not about content dispute. Me and Serialjoepsycho never had problems, only regular talk page discussion. -YMB29 (talk) 22:14, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

The place where I encountered YMB29 was Talk:Battle of Berlin, which is the same place where he is currently edit warring. The problem is the refusal by YMB29 to accept consensus and move on, as seen in Archives 8, 9, 10, and the current talk page, which has wasted an enormous amount of editor time (essentially our only resource). In March through May 2014, and again starting in February 2015, when the consensus is clearly against him. -- Diannaa (talk) 22:16, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

So you are claiming that I edited against consensus when I was not the one who added the recently removed text?

Go read the archives and look at the page history. There was consensus to add the text to the footnotes. I wanted it in the article text, but accepted that there was no consensus for that. -YMB29 (talk) 22:21, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

PBS added the text to the footnote.[171] and Paul Siebert added the other text back in 2009.[172] -YMB29 (talk) 22:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Also, how does the source say the opposite of what I quoted? Here is the link to the page in the book,[173] so anyone could look and see that you are making false accusations again. -YMB29 (talk) 22:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

@YMB29: Before this turns into a pointless rehash of the talk page. I took the time to read through the talk page for Rape during the occupation of Germany from point 15 on before commenting here. I am completely uninvolved in this dispute. I have worked with User:Volunteer Marek exactly once and found him perfectly willing to change his position when the sources warrant it. I have not worked with any of the other editors

Based on the talk page conversation I would say that everyone has been admirably restrained in dealing with your POV pushing. Trying to use Alexander Dyukovand Albert Axell (Who as far as I can tell has published a couple mediocre popular histories and according to JSTOR no peer revieved work) in a controvercial article demanding the highest quality sources shows you are more interested in finding people that agree with your POV than representing what academic consensus is.

• You accuse Iryna Harpy of meat puppeting 10 February 2015, last Tuesday [174]

• You are informed that consensus was required for including of your sources by My very best wishes based on RFC on Soviet Rapes which you participated in. [175]

• You were notified of ARBEE DS on 27 Dec 2015 by EdJohnston

• It looks like you have moved your edit waring to the talk pages by apparently removing another users comments here and here. Then proceeding to argue about it in an entire section on the talk page. If it was an accident a simple 'ooppss I'm sorry' would have likely have been the end of it.

All of the above suggest to me that you are suffering from a very bad case of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT and are engaging in battleground behavior to push a fringe POV on this article against the consensus of every other author involved with it. If you do not understand that Wikipedia operates on consensus you need to take a break from editing this topic either willingly or enforced. There is currently no consensus for the changes you wish to make it is time to WP:DROPTHESTICK and move on. Based on what I have read I would endorse the targeted application of WP:BOOMERANG. JBH (talk) 22:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Did you bother to look at the evidence?

Accusations like moving comments by a user (who was actually the one removing my comment) are ridiculous. I moved his comment to a new section to help along the discussion.

Iryna Harpy and "My very best wishes" are also both hounding me. I did not present evidence on them because this section was big enough.

You are going by claims by others without looking at what actually goes on. -YMB29 (talk) 22:40, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I realize that the numbers are against me, but that is exactly what the EEML ("My very best wishes" was also a member of that) was about. Converging on other users who were deemed hostile and creating a false consensus. -YMB29 (talk) 22:46, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

YMB29 (talk · contribs) I assure that I'm not on good terms with Marek and the Ukraine are has been a disaster for years, BUT, when will-intentioned editors, lioke Jbhunley (talk · contribs) give you good advice, you need to heed that. Basically, you need to learn more about Wikipedia policy and learn how to address content disputes (and conduct disputes) in those terms. If you can accomplish that, you will be much more effective in seeing that the articles reflect the content as represented in WP:RS.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 23:00, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Jbhunley simply looked at the number of accusations against me and concluded that the problem is with me. He did not look at the evidence I presented, and at the histories of the users he mentioned.

The problem here is a group of users (you should recognize them from the Ukrainian conflict articles) going around to different articles and removing sourced text for dubious reasons. -YMB29 (talk) 23:14, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

@YMB29: Yes, I have read the background and looked into the sources - did I not state that? You are trying to put a revisionist interpretation of history in a very controversial article based upon absolutely crap sources. Everything else is drama. An editor with the barest understanding of Wikipedia consensus policy would have stopped by now. Based on the RFC you were doing the same thing almost a year ago with much the same result. I can not imagine the frustration the other editors must be feeling with your behavior. If, with all the passion and dedication you exhibit in pushing your POV you have been unable to find better sources than you have presented then they likely do not exist or you would have found them by now. If they are out there then I strongly suggest you use the time and effort you have been expending on this futile war to go and find them. If you can not find any then drop it and move on.

I care not one iota about who did what to whom so please do not take this as an invitation to rehash accusations. Stripped of all the drama and crap the issue is simple. You do not have the sources to support what you want to say. You are being disruptive. One will not solve the other. Your disruptive behavior should not be allowed to continue. It is a detriment to the project. That is not to say that you are a detriment to the project. If you can put the goals of Wikipedia ahead of your own personal ideology then you can help shape the Encyclopedia. The end result sought is for your disruption to end. JBH (talk) 23:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Crap sources? When you make accusations like that I wonder about your objectivity here.

These are reliable sources (meet the RS criteria). They represent the majority Russian view, but I understand that this is a minority view on the English wiki. However, they are not fringe. Simply trying to make sure they are properly presented in articles here is not pushing some "ideology."

Consensus is not reached only by an RfC, although the RfC's closing stated that the sources are credible. The RfC, started by user Diannaa, also was not fair as it did not represent the dispute properly. There was a lot of discussion and editing going on after the RfC ended. -YMB29 (talk) 23:33, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

You are also overlooking the constant personal attacks and going around to different talk pages to advocate for like-minded users (see the 3RR report I filed for example). -YMB29 (talk) 23:41, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Also, how do you comment on what I said earlier:

"PBS added the text to the footnote.[176] and Paul Siebert added the other text back in 2009.[177]"

So the users were not reverting text that I supposedly pushed into the article. Regarding the second text (sourced to Bird), it is not a Russian source and I did not even edit the article back in 2009. -YMB29 (talk) 23:41, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

I will say for the third time: I read the talk page history. I looked into the authors you want to use. I applied Wikipedia rules and policies as I understand them in an objective manner. One source was a popular historian with no peer reviewed writings. The other was so far out on the fringe that even Wikipedia, with its BLP policy, unambiguously labeled him as a revisionist historian The only qualified author you wanted to use was Yelena Senyavskaya who as far as I can tell is a lone voice in the wilderness. Even her, according to the talk page discussions, you wanted to use in an inappropriate manner. Just because my analysis is not what you want to hear does not mean it was not objective. It means that after assessing them I found them to be crap, particularly for use about such a contentious subject.

As to the accusations flying back and fourth I already said I give not one iota about them. Based on our exchanges it seems you do not understand when I say I have done something I have done that thing. When I say I do not care about something I do not care about that thing Your inability to grasp that tells me you either suffer from a lack of ability to comprehend what someone is saying to you or you are using an exceedingly juvenile debating tactic in am attempt to discredit.

As to your specific questions. The first is a quote from Yelena Senyavskaya which the RFC said required consensus to include, obviously consensus right now is not to include. The other one I have no opinion on as I have not looked at the source.

As to your third point. Again,I just do not care who did what. The point you raise is irrelevant to your behavior. What you fail to understand is even if you are right on one of the issues you raise it in no way excuses your disruptive behavior. If you continue acting the way you are now no one will care whether you are right or wrong and the one constructive edit you could have made is lost in all the disruption. If you concentrate on one good edit you would make a positive contribution to Wikipedia. What you are doing now is, in my opinion, a net negative.Also, please do not attempt to again represent to others how I formed my opinions on these issues.JBH (talk) 00:41, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

The issue here is not Axell or Dyukov (Dyukov I agreed to remove even though he was RS). You constantly referring to them shows that don't know what you are talking about.

Maybe if you don't care, you should not comment here... Your selective review of evidence and insults like "sources are crap" are disruptive.

So it is ok to stalk users, make personal attacks, commit BLP violations just because you think the users doing that are right on a content dispute?

Is it also ok for users to come into articles they never edited before, make false claims and reverts, and suddenly form a "new consensus."?

As for Senyavskaya, no she is not alone. You simply overlook the other sources. -YMB29 (talk) 01:04, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Also, these diffs[178][179] show that you have interacted with Volunteer Marek before, so you are not a neutral observer here. -YMB29 (talk) 01:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Wow! Did you really not read my opening statement where I said: "I have worked with User:Volunteer Marek exactly once and found him perfectly willing to change his position when the sources warrant it. I have not worked with any of the other editors"? Hmmm I bet it is not a reading comprehension issue. Try addressing the issues I have brought up to you rather than trying to discredit my opinion.

The locus of the dispute is you have been continuously attempting to edit a controversial subject against consensus. This has lead to UNCIVIL acts on both sides. However, based on the conversations I have read much of the other editors UNCIVIL remarks stem from from frustration with your continuous WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT behavior. At the minimum, as I and other have pointed out above, you come here with UNCLEAN hands on the UNCIVIL issue.

Attempting to address UNCIVIL behavior here is all but futile except in the most extreme cases. I chose to focus on your WP:TENDENTIOUS editing, which the source issue directly relates to. Whether it is source choice, NPOV wording or an argument over talk page editing you seem completely unable to recognize when consensus is against you. He said, she said ultimately makes no difference. You seem to think other editors' behavior excuses your own. It does not. Hence my not caring about it.

When no one agrees with you the wise man considers that maybe he is wrong. I have said what I have to say. I hope an admin will take a look at this but it has become a wall of text for which I share the blame. If you bring up an issue of substance I will address it. I am going to wait now for some more uninvolved editors to comment. We seem to have reached a point of diminishing returns in our conversation. JBH (talk) 02:06, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Well again you are not an uninvolved editor, so maybe you should not have posted walls of text accusing me and excusing violations of policy by others.

Your unexpected aggressiveness against me shows that you are not neutral and commenting in good faith. I never interacted with you before and yet you know that I am some highly disruptive user so quickly...

Advocating for other users, even when it is clear they have violated policies, is a common problem here. The same thing happened when I filed my last 3RR report, but that did not help the user being reported. -YMB29 (talk) 02:20, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I can read and I can understand what the rules are. It was not difficult to see the behavioral problem. Working with one editor on one article does not make me involved. All that claim does is show you try to deflect when you can not address the issues. The purpose of ANI is to solicit uninvolved opinion. That is what I gave you. I advocate for no one. Cheers. JBH (talk) 02:30, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Well simply stating your opinion, instead of throwing accusations and insults at me and excusing misconduct by others, would have been enough, if you were truly uninvolved and neutral. -YMB29 (talk) 02:46, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Is there actually *anyone* on Wikipedia that you don't immediately start a fight with when they try to interact and discuss something with you? The list of users who are telling you to lay off and that you're in the wrong has greatly increased in the short time since you filed this AN/I "report", but somehow that's still not getting through.Volunteer Marek (talk) 03:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Who, Jbhunley? Like said, I never interacted with him, so his attacks were uncalled for. -YMB29 (talk) 03:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Honestly this was many months ago when I was there. Surprised it's still going. But honestly I really don't have much to add.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 00:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support topic bans on all editors active in this dispute. I am not a fan of the "block 'em all, let Jimbo sort 'em out" approach, but in this case, it seems appropriate. Regarding Volunteer Marek, this user has been nothing but a thorn in the side of anyone attempting to have a civil discussion or improve an article, so a topic ban on him would greatly improve the editing environment. Viriditas (talk) 03:24, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Dude, seriously? Still pursuing your little grudges from months ago? You obviously have not even bothered to read either the article or the discussion, just jumped in here in a pathetic attempt to get back to me for some criticism I at levied at you months ago. Who is this "anyone attempting to have a civil discussion or improving the article" that I've thwarted, you're referring to? No-one (it can't be YMB29)? Point'em out please. Name'em. List'em. Anyone? Anyone? Buller? Didn't think so.Volunteer Marek (talk) 04:40, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support WP:BOOMERANG topic ban for YMB29. Per everything I said above and based on the diffs I have looked fully into the edits YMB29 is complaining about being wrong were correct:

1. Dyukov is a revisionist historian

2. Yep cherrypicked the reviewer does not say his methods call into question the magnitude of the rapes as this quote seems to imply.
3. Removing the weasaly "A frequently iterated claim that thewar time rapes had been surrounded by decades of silence." and replacing it with "The" does not violate WP:MOSINTRO
4. Albert Axell is not a historian by any accademic measure.
5. Saying that "There is dispute from Russia concerning these claims." Re the rapes is unsupported. Saying some Russian historians dispute the rapes is supported.
   

I see no point in continuing through the rest, I want to go to bed.

Volunteer Marek and the others(not going to list them VM is the one brought up by name in the sanction) may have been UNCIVIL but I can not say I would have remained civil in the same situation. It would be great if we had a civility policy with teath but we do not. Topic banning all the other editors for responding to a WP:TENDENTIOUS editor is extreme. I am sure VM and the others can be a real pain in the ass but this is not the issue to topic ban them over. JBH (talk) 04:14, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Jbhunley, why must you misrepresent the dispute and accuse me of things I did not do? If you have real evidence against me, present it. Otherwise, you are simply advocating for Volunteer Marek.

Again, your continuing attacks against me here is proof that you are not just a neutral editor commenting.

Also, you are posting a "wall of text" again. -YMB29 (talk) 04:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@YMB29: Evidence? You mean other than the four diffs in my initial statement and my analysis of five of your diffs? Just what things did you not do? Try addressing the issues I have brought up rather than using WP:BATTLEGROUND tactics to attempt to discredit and redirect. I am supporting a topic ban because based on my reading of your history and your continued attempts to deflect any responsibility for your disruptive editing make me think you need a break from this topic area. PS yep I admitted to sharing the responsibility for the wall of text with you. Can you not even quote a conversation froman hour ago without cherrypicking? JBH (talk) 05:05, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Well again you are just continuing with attacks against me... This only further proves my point about your "neutrality" here.

I have addressed most of your accusations here already, and pointed out that the fact that you continue to refer to Axell and Dyukov shows that you don't know what you are talking about. You are also bring up content dispute, and this page is not about that. -YMB29 (talk) 05:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@YMB29: You have done nothing to address what I brought up. I am not attacking you I am informing you of problematic behavior in the hope you can take aboard honest criticism and modify your behavior. What you continuously fail to get it that your behavior in content disputes is not acceptable you came here complaining about people following you and reverting you and acting in what you call an UNCIVIL manner (yes some was, not disputing that). I looked at the diffs you brought here and gave my opinion.You brought up the dispute over Axell and Dyukov. Your behavior in those disputes is relevant, your WP:TENDENTIOUS editing in those disputes is relevant I looked at the talk page you brought up here and I found that you were at least as UNCIVIL as the other editors and I supplied the diffs to back it up.

You can not come to ANI and say people are being mean to you and not expect people to look at why they did the things you said was mean and whether the edits you claim were bad actually were. I showed in this section 5 that were not. I focused on your behavior in the content disputes because, in the sections I read, you are more UNCIVIL than they are. cf calling Iryna Harpy a meat puppet. You really think that was CIVIL? As I have told you now *four* times all the he said she said crap does not matter. If there was something terrible done by the other users you have buried it in a bunch of diffs of content edits you are complaining about having reverted and using as evidence of bad behavior. Wait are you now saying those were only content issues and not what this ANI is about?

Maybe if you will not take my other advice you will take this bit:make sure the evidence you present does not convict you. As you are not listening I am done trying to explain things to you. I will however address my Support for your topic ban in this thread where appropriate. Any other interaction seems futile. Good night.JBH (talk) 06:07, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Another wall of text... I am not going to reply to your dubious accusations again.

The fact that you commented here more than Volunteer Marek himself speaks for itself. -YMB29 (talk) 06:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support topic ban for User:YMB29 from this issue. Currently he is again repeating the same behaviour that User:JBH has identified at my talkpage. Buckshot06 (talk) 07:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

:@Buckshot06:Actually I am User:Jbhunley. Did not realize there was an actual User:JBH ooppss. Looks like they have not been active since 2005 though. JBH (talk) 14:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

What behavior are you talking about? JBH is just making disruptive accusations here; the fact that this is my first interaction with him and he already posted so much against me here should tell you something...

I simply provided evidence of what was going on in the Berlin article on your page, since you were the admin who was last involved in the article. I added the diffs to make it clear. If you did not want to look at the issue and did not want any more comments on your talk page, you should have told me.

Did you even look at the evidence here and what I added to your talk page? -YMB29 (talk) 08:08, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I went back through the talkpage, and then scanned your recent contributions to find this discussion. I read your original note on this page, and then the comments that followed. I would again emphasise that it is much better to debate the issue rather than arguing about the users. To illustrate, I would expect a user sincerely interested in advancing the debate over mass rape in Germany at the end of World War II to be comparing arguments from different scholarly sources based upon their relative credibility. Such comparison of reliable sources would tend to indicate to me that the user concerned was truly engaged in improving the encyclopedia. Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 08:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@Buckshot06: I was and am willing to discuss the content issues on the talk pages and even offered dispute resolution, which others were not interested in (see this reply[180]).

However, this is the ANI, so the discussion here can't be about content dispute. The reason I went here is the constant personal attacks by a group of users and them following me to other articles that I have edited. Volunteer Marek is only one of the users who is doing that. There is much more evidence for the other users (including me being referred to as a "Stalinist Neo-Nazi").

On the talk page of the article in question I always try to focus on the content,[181][182] and it is the users I am talking about who focus on me rather than discussing the content (for example this section[183] was created just to accuse me of something). -YMB29 (talk) 13:38, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

So I don't understand why you support a topic ban for me if I am doing exactly what you are saying on the talk page. -YMB29 (talk) 13:46, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Nobody called you a "Stalinist Neo-Nazi". Stop making stuff up.Volunteer Marek (talk) 14:19, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

See here[184]. I was the last person he talked to before posting that. -YMB29 (talk) 14:22, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Like I said, nobody called you a "Stalnist Neo-Nazi". You're making stuff up.Volunteer Marek (talk) 15:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

You are ignoring the obvious again and continuing with accusations even here... It was definitely directed at me. I can post more proof of this if required. -YMB29 (talk) 16:23, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Buckshot06, maybe if you post on the talk page that users should comment on the content only and use dispute resolution if required (no personal attacks and disruptive reverts), and everyone agrees, this matter can be resolved. -YMB29 (talk) 15:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Comment I am an involved editor. If I were not I would suggest that YMB29 be topic banned from editing any of the World War II Eastern Front articles, or at the very least reduced to a 1RR on the same range of articles. This whole ANI is full of the reasons why this would be useful for the project. The way this ANI is mushrooming with unnecessary long comments and repeated replies to distort the points being made. As a microcosm of the problem just look at the two postings by YMB29 directly above (16:23 and 15:52, 13 February). There is no accusation in the statement 'Like I said, nobody called you a "Stalnist Neo-Nazi"' (made by Volunteer Marek), YMB29 reply 'You are ignoring the obvious again and continuing with accusations even here' -- is just a tenacious retort to continue a thread that already should have ended. In the comment to Buckshot06 that '"(no personal attacks and disruptive reverts), and everyone agrees, this matter can be resolved."' YMB29 is being disingenuous. The discussions over changes to the Battle of Berlin page went on for more than six months and in the end YMB29 was able to force through changes for which there was no census by simply wearing out the opposition. If YMB29 is true to form then there will be reply to this posting which is either obfuscation or disingenuous or both, as I have yet to see an example of where YMB29 is willing to let someone else have the last word. -- PBS (talk) 22:39, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support topic ban under WP:ARBEE per PBS. This farce has gone on long enough. RGloucester — ☎ 22:40, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I should note that User:Nick-D blocked YMB29 for a week, and I have just extended that block to a month. Regards Buckshot06 (talk) 22:53, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support topic ban for User:YMB29 as set out at User talk:Nick-D#User:YMB29 I've checked a couple of the sources YMB29 was using against what they were adding. In both cases YMB29 was clearly misrepresenting the source to further their views. This is entirely unacceptable, and a topic ban is in order - at minimum. Nick-D (talk) 02:38, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support topic ban. While I appreciate that being blocked for a month will prevent disruption for that period of time, and that blocks and bans are not intended to be inherently punitive, YMB29 has already demonstrated patience enough to ride things out, then begin tendentious, disruptive editing from scratch. We're not dealing with someone who needs a cooling off period, or demonstrates any willingness to back down and learn from prior BATTLEGROUND behaviour. I've been at the receiving end of the user's aspersions and can confidently say that we're dealing with a POV warrior who's really WP:NOTHERE. I've even staved off from commenting on this ANI as YMB29 spurts walls of text for every comment made by another editor, all of which add up to "This is a cabal of non-neutral editors harassing and bullying me because I'm right and they're wrong (and they know it!)". This editor is incapable of working collaboratively with anyone who doesn't concede to their POV in relation to Soviet WWII history and should simply not be allowed to edit in this area at the least. I've seldom encountered an editor this obnoxious and immovable, and that's saying a lot. S/he has managed to exhaust and alienate good editors... who may possibly never edit again as a result. For the sake of the project, I'm all for a full topic ban. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:02, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

YMB29 (talk · contribs) is continuing to misrepresent sources on their talk page and not take responsibility for material they added. As such, I have extended the block duration to indefinite as this behaviour implies that they will continue their disruptive conduct when the time-limited block expires. Of course, indefinite isn't permanent. Other admins are very welcome to review the block - YMB29 has lodged an appeal. Nick-D (talk) 06:29, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support block by Nick-D. YMB29 was caught with misrepresenting sources. This is serious. It means that no one can trust his edits. I quickly checked and fixed his contributions in several pages, and I do not think that YMB29 made too much damage. Nick-D checked only English language source. Speaking about Russian language sources which were cherry-picked by YMB29, some of their authors were also accused of fabricating or inventing non-existing sources by other Russian historians [185], so I am not surprised that YMB29 did something similar here. I think main problem with YMB29 is that he simply does not want to discuss anything in a good faith. This should be clear from his discussion on his talk page with Nick-D. There are many other examples. YMB29 can edit war to keep certain content in articles, but argue it was not him who initially included this text. He can forge comments by another contributor and claim that nothing happened [186]. And he always blames others of stalking, tag-teaming and even ... misrepresenting sources (in the end of this discussion). Well, based on the discussion above, it is obvious that checking his edits in the project would be something very much reasonable. My very best wishes (talk) 14:47, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Some more observations -- PBS (talk) 15:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Some of the affected articles Soviet war crimes Rape during the occupation of Germany Battle of Berlin "Get your retaliation in first" - (Willie John McBride) Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive266#User:MiGR25 reported by User:YMB29 (Result: Blocked) 22 Dec. 2014 Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive271#User:Sayerslle reported by User:YMB29 (Result: blocked for other EW) 3 Feb. 2015 There are telling exchanges in both of these 3RRs. The first point is that they were brought by YMB29, it seems that to defend his/her position, if the opponent (I use that word deliberately as YMB29 treats Wikipedia as a battle ground), does not keep to the 3RR rule, then YMB29 uses the process to silence an opponent. This in itself is a positive use of the Wikipedia rules, but when, as is pointed out by MiGR25 in the MiGR25 report: YMB29 uses tenacious editing techiques Comments: "There was no attempt to initiate any discussion" There was a dissucsion:Talk:Battle_of_Berlin#Need_to_obtain_actual_consensus_for_controversial_edits yet, you still continuing to widespreed the contested source to the webpages: Soviet_war_crimes, Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany; Berlin:_The_Downfall_1945 without any acknowledge to the consensus of an WP:NPOV just because (you) I don't like it YMB29, please stop bickering about process. You have been edit-warring to insert your preferred text but it is disputed by every other editor who has commented or acted to revert it. You have no consensus to make the changes you want to make. Binksternet (talk) 18:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC) [Y]ou have implied Beevor is the only one by your edit. I have stated valid reasons as to the problems as has PBS; it appears it is you YMB29 who "don't like it." Kierzek (talk) 18:54, 17 January 2014 (UTC) I am categorically opposed to statements implying that mass rape did not happen in Berlin. A ten-minute search on Google Scholar will show multiple independent historians reporting that Red Army forces committed mass rapes. The scale of the rapes is up for contention, using scholarly or academically sound sources, but YMB29, you are warned (a) not to imply that these rapes did not take place, and (b) not to edit war. I encourage anyone to report instances of WP:3RR to me. Buckshot06 (talk) 20:15, 19 January 2014 (UTC) (User:Buckshot06) So MONTHS LATER when other editors are tired of your contentious, tendentious editing approach and take a break, that doesn’t mean you’ve suddenly “won.” Even after another editor who is also an admin. told you to disengage, you’re still at it using the same tired m.o. It’s really time to add a few additional strings to the instrument you’re playing. And a good way would be to familiarize yourself with the WP policies that have been cited to you seemingly ad infinitum to no effect. "Outlasting" other editors who tire of your behavior does not mean you’ve suddenly arrived at consensus. On the contrary. Another suggestion would be to read Wikipedia:Tendentious editing, an IMO excellent essay that, although it is not black-letter WP policy, has a lot of valuable info. MiGR25 (talk) 20:37, 22 December 2014 (UTC) Digging up an old discussion (a lot has changed since) from another article, where you did not even participate, does not count as an attempt at discussion on your part. For a completely new user, you sure seem to know a lot about my history... -YMB29 (talk) 21:06, 22 December 2014 (UTC) The above is also mostly a copy-paste from a post on a talk page made in May.[187] -YMB29 (talk) 15:18, 23 December 2014 (UTC) then it becomes part of a strategy where the alternative is to out-wait editors who do not edit war. When MiGR25 points out that YMB29 uses tenacious editing techiques to out-wait those who do not edit-war, YMB29 simply dismisses MiGR25 observation as "Digging up an old discussion (a lot has changed since) from another article". As someone involved in that dispute I know nothing has changed. In the Sayerslle report there is a analysis of the history of edits to the article Rape during the occupation of Germany I've looked over the article history, and there really only seems to be one long term edit warrior: 80.117.117.225 removes the text [188]. YMB29 reverts [189] MiGR25 removes the text [190]. YMB29 reverts [191] MiGR25 removes the text [192]. YMB29 reverts [193] MiGR25 removes the text [194]. YMB29 reverts [195] Nug removes the text [196]. YMB29 reverts [197] Volunteer Marek removes text [198]. YMB29 reverts [199] Iryna Harpy removes the text [200]. Page protected. YMB29 reverts [201] a series of minor edits My very best wishes removes the text [202]. YMB29 reverts [203] Sayerslle removes the text [204]. YMB29 reverts [205] Sayerslle removes the text [206]. YMB29 reverts [207] Sayerslle and My very best wishes remove the text [208] [209]. So by the looks of it, YMB29 has reverted no less than 6 editors. Note, I've only looked at the edits with >500 bytes changed, and haven't read the contents of the material added/removed. Stickee (talk) 23:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC) @Stickee: So what is your point? This is since October. I undid removals of text that were done without any sort of consensus. MiGR25 was a "new" user whose sole purpose was to revert; he was blocked for edit warring on this page.[210] Most of the other users have a history of edit warring in the EE topic area and harassing others. -YMB29 (talk) 00:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC) So here we have the thee techniqies that YMB29 has been employing for what is now well over a year Be tenacious on the talk page (there is over 300k of discussion in the archives of talk:Battle of Berlin (starting with the section Goebbels's fevered prophecies)) 300k+ all over one sentences and a couple of footnotes in the article! Be tenacious with editing -- as shown on in the collapse box the Sayerslle report "Get your retaliation in first" (as shown by the two 3RRArchives and this ANI all of which were initiated by YMB29) This behaviour has not been against any one editor or group of editors, but against many and as can be seen is a huge time sink for everyone involved. It is telling that not one editor responding to this ANI has given any support for either YMB29's behaviour or the content YMB29 has been forcing into articles. -- PBS (talk) 15:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Comment - As far as the Russian language sources go, I supported YMB29's contributions to the articles in question. Oleg Rzheshevsky and Yelena Senyavskaya are respected and well credentialed scholars, and for historical events in which Russia was involved it only makes sense to include the research of leading Russian historians. Consistently the individuals who opposed these sources were just complaining about how they contradicted the views of non-Russian historians, but as Senyavskaya noted herself, most historians in Russia do dispute the occurrence of "mass" rapes by Soviet forces at the end of the Second World War, and I suppose if Wikipedia were more biased in favor of Russian-language sources and less biased in favor of English-biased sources, then in that case the same users would find it equally strange and shocking to include English-language sources asserting that mass rapes did occur. One of the reasons other users are saying that YMB29 should be banned is POV-pushing, but this is a sort of Anglophone narrowmindedness. Users are insisting that English-speaking historians somehow know more about what Russian soldiers did in World War II than Russian-speaking historians do. Try as I might, I couldn't think of any reason why Wikipedia should not represent the views held by most Russian historians on an issue directly linked to their own country's history. Trying to exclude their opinions because they are different from what English-language speakers are used to hearing is POV pushing.

Having said that, I was a bit embarrassed to have YMB29 as an ally. It was partly because of his nonstop personal attacks on other users, which were extremely unacceptable and uncalled for, that I was hesitant to back his position too strongly. There were also some legitimate concerns raised about whether YMB29 was cherry-picking quotes from English-language sources, though to accuse him of misrepresenting these sources completely is an accusation that goes too far. The specific information cited to Bird and Roberts did say what YMB29 said that they stated, but it's also true that the specific parts which were inserted into the articles did not reflect the tone of the sources as a whole. It was cherry-picking to some degree, but not dishonesty.

It's possible that either some form of topic ban or some restrictions on reverting may be the right course of action to take. One way or another though, the least I can say is that an indefinite ban is not appropriate. Most of YMB29's edits were constructive and I think that his indefinite ban ought to be reduced back to one month. However, whatever other penalties are applied to him after that is a matter that I'll leave to others to discuss.CurtisNaito (talk) 23:46, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Unfortunately, as a Russian-speaking and educated user, I can not agree with this. Views which were pushed by YMB29 do not represent anything accepted by majority of real Russian historians. Science is the same in Russia and in other countries. These are views by several nationalist/revisionist historians, which were cherry-picked by YMB29. These revisionist historians, for example Senyavskaya or Stalinist historian Zhukov, were criticized for fabrications and scientific misconduct (no less) by other Russian historians, such as Mark Solonin (for example here or here). Unfortunately, these revisionist historians (e.g. Vladimir Medinsky) were placed "in charge" of History by the Putin's administration [211]. Thinking that majority of real historians in Russia share these ridiculous views is nonsense and just another misrepresentation by YMB29. My very best wishes (talk) 01:37, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, we need to distinguish between the viewpoints of Wikipedia users and the viewpoints of reliable sources. We do have available to us a reliable source by a leading scholar, Senyavskaya, who says unambiguously that most Russian historians dispute the occurrence of "mass" rapes at the end of the Second World War. By contrast, we have no reliable source saying that a majority of Russian historians disagree with Senyavskaya's views. The idea that her views are fringe is solely the view of Wikipedia users, and not of the sources which have been presented. Mentioning Medinsky is not relevant since no one ever tried to cite him, and using one claim on one single issue from the blog of an amateur historian like Solonin does not somehow discredit Senyavskaya's entire corpus of work. It's true that not all of YMB29's sources were included in the best possible manner and some legitimate concerns were raised about phrasing, and obviously I don't condone YMB29's uncivil behavior. However, no one has proven any deliberate dishonesty on the part of YMB29, and no valid, policy-based reason has yet been presented by any user to exclude the views of Rzheshevsky and Senyavskaya from the relevant articles.CurtisNaito (talk) 01:55, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Relevant WP guideline is WP:FRINGE where these authors belong. There is no doubt (per vast majority of RS) that mass rapes in Germany indeed had happened. Authors who openly deny this belong to WP:FRINGE (for example, Senyavskaya has declared these rapes to be a "myth" by the Goebbels and Western propaganda). We do not use people involved in Holocaust denial as sources about Holocaust. By the same reason, we should cite Soviet crimes deniers (such as Senyavskaya and some others) only in pages about themselves, propaganda or pseudoscience, rather than in pages about actual events. This is precisely the reason why YMB29 has a trouble around here: he promotes works by fringe authors, but misleadingly presents their views as a legitimate scientific discourse. For example, we are not going to quote views by Trofim Lysenko as a legitimate scientific discourse. My very best wishes (talk) 02:35, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

P.S. And no, I believe that Medinsky is relevant. He tells, for example that "The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact "deserves a monument." and "The U.S.S.R. never occupied the Baltic states, it just "incorporated" them.". This is precisely what YMB29 promotes here: he removes information about war crimes by the Soviet military [212] because he believes that Baltic States were not occupied by the Soviet Union [213], and that is WP:FRINGE. We do not need contributors who edit war to promote fringe views in WP. My very best wishes (talk) 03:23, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

CurtisNaito, where and how on earth did you come to the conclusion that "Oleg Rzheshevsky and Yelena Senyavskaya are respected and well credentialed scholars." Have you actually read through this discussion or the relevant articles? Senyavskaya, alone, has been criticised by Russian peers for essentially basing major conclusions drawn in her research based on forgery she could not have taken seriously if she were an honest, impartial historian. Her work has been questioned in no uncertain terms, and determined to be revisionist agenda driven! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I read through all the talk page discussion, and plenty of sources were presented demonstrating that Rzheshevsky and Senyavskaya were historians with credentials and respectable publications. It's true that one source of dubiously reliability, put forward by an amateur historian with no credentials comparable to Senyavskaya's, did suggest that Senyavskaya may have misused one document, but that does not automatically invalidate all the research Senyavskaya has done on the subject. Other users have put forward their view that Senyavskaya is an unreliable revisionist, but not a single reliable source has been put forward by anyone to prove this point. Whatever other flaws he had, one had to respect YMB29 for understanding that Wikipedia should be based principally off reliable sources and not the opinion of users. He proved with reliable sources that the scholars he was citing were reputable, in sharp contrast with other users who believed that they could dismiss Senyavskaya as a dishonest revisionist without actually bothering to present any reliable sources proving this accusation.CurtisNaito (talk) 06:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Do you actually read Russian? Have you checked the texts? I find it a little strange that you're referring to Senyavskaya as a he when she's a 'she' (which you would have understood without thinking twice if you knew Russian). Therefore, I have to ask myself whether you have any idea of who the 'amateur' blogger is, or the depth of that which he revealed about her research. He's not an amateur historian of any description. If you bother to check into his credentials, you'll find that he is considered an expert on WWII Soviet military history, is published (and peer reviewed). Please don't just mimic what YMB29 claims just because you've decided to pick a side and stick with it. What is on the curriculum for state-sponsored scholars is, as has already been pointed out to you, WP:FRINGE. It isn't a matter of what Russian historians are saying about themselves, nor what Anglophone sources say: other language sources agree with the Anglophone sources (or, to be more precise, Anglophone sources are in agreement with other language sources regarding the research). If you care to go to one of the other language Wikipedias, you won't find the FRINGE Russian theories represented there. Please don't try to treat the matter as a court of law where 'both' sides (they're more than one side involved) get to have their hearing: i.e., that's known as WP:GEVAL. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 09:32, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

As I said above, the criterion of WP:FRINGE is very simple. There is absolutely no doubt (per vast majority of RS) that mass rapes in Germany by the Soviet Army indeed had happened. However, Senyavskaya has declared these rapes to be a "myth" by the Goebbels and Western propaganda. That denial qualifies her work about Soviet rapes in Germany as "fringe". My very best wishes (talk) 14:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I never referred to Senyavskaya as a "he", and incidentally I did check some of the other language Wikipedias and found that Senyavskaya's views on rapes by Soviet forces are cited in several articles on both French and Spanish Wikipedia. But at any rate, the point I'm trying to make is that YMB29 had reliable sources stating that the historians he was citing were reliable and that their views were not fringe. Those who trying to remove Senyavskaya did nothing more than repeatedly insist that her views were fringe without bothering to take the time to find even a single reliable source saying so. It should be noted that when it came to the sourcing which was used during the talk page discussion, YMB29 by and large had the sources on his side, whereas most others had only their strong personal opinions to back up what they said.CurtisNaito (talk) 17:09, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Please see above why her work is fringe. There were numerous discussions by multiple participants who explained to YMB29 why his sources or the way he is using them were inappropriate, for example here, here, here and here (one could easily provide 10 more links to similar discussions), but he did not get it. My very best wishes (talk) 17:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I already read those discussions. As I said, the problem was that those who disagreed with YMB29 relied either heavy or entirely on their own personal opinions, whereas YMB29 cited reliable sources which proved Senyavskaya's credibility and also suggested that her viewpoint is not fringe in Russia. After YMB29 provided a reliable source saying that Senyavskaya's views were not fringe, both I and YMB29 repeatedly asked other users to provide a source contradicting it as a counterpoint. But, again and again, those who disagreed with YMB29 just kept on ignoring the question and continued to assert their own opinions without corroborating sources. The only reason why I took YMB29's side was because when he was asked to provide sources to back up his view, he did. Everyone else who was asked to do the same just ignored the question.CurtisNaito (talk) 17:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

One can not be sure that any sources by YMB29 were reliable because none of them was decided to be reliable on WP:RS noticeboard. You can not tell that 10 independent contributors, who all happen to strongly disagree with YMB29, were wrong. YMB29 acted against WP:CONSENSUS for years and failed to admit it. I can not speak for others, and I did not read all Russian language sources by YMB29, but those I read were fringe propaganda pieces, as also noted by experts [214] [215]. I did spent some time trying to explain this to YMB29 [216],[217], but he did not listen, just as in all other discussions with other contributors (see above). My very best wishes (talk) 18:23, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Uniquark9 repeatedly deleting content and refusing to engage in constructive discussion on talk page, telling another user to edit war

User:Uniquark9 has repeatedly deleted content that he doesn't like from the articles Yuan dynasty and Northern Yuan dynasty, often giving no reason at all or just saying in the edit summary that he is reversing my edits without giving a reason why. He deleted multiple sentences on different issues/topics.

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Note that User:Uniquark9 is not actually disputing the content itself. He isn't challenging it or its factual veracity (I provided sources for the content on the talk page at Talk:Yuan_dynasty#Content_deletion. He just doesn't like it so he blatantly deletes it repeatedly. Most of the time on these two articles he gave no edit summaries or no explanation for his deletions. He just says things like "Restoring to a version before Rajmaan's edits."

User:Uniquark9 instead of discussing the content deletion, went to another Mongolian user and told him in Mongolian that I am a Chinese (hyatadiig) and that he should help User:Uniquark9 revert my edits. In other words he is telling another editor to help him engage in an edit war with me based on ethnicity.

After I opened on the discussion on the talk page, Uniquark9 only addressed one of the sentences he deleted, provided no source for his claim, and then totally disappeared from the discussion. [228] He totally ignored the other sentences he deleted and refused to talk about them. He hasn't addressed anything else he deleted or justified the deletions, he didn't address any of the sources I provided on the talk page which justified keeping the content.

He also has issues with civility and uses words like "bullshit" and "bullshitting" like on Talk:Genghis_Khan.

He is refusing to engage in discussion and reach a consensus and instead is resorting to edit warring and trying to promote an ethnic nationalist based edit war to get what he wants. This is not about a content dispute, this is a behavioral issue. I am trying to get him to address the content dispute on the talk page and he is ignoring it. We need a third party admin to make all the relevant users engage in the discussion on the talk page and make sure it proceeds in a civil manner.Rajmaan (talk) 01:37, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Uniquark9 has repeatedly engaged in edit wars at Genghis Khan and Mongol Empire. He was blocked in December for edit warring and using a sock in an edit war. He frequently blanks his talk page to hide all the warnings and complaints about his disruptive editing.

A friend of Uniquark9, User:Ceithe, engages in similar behavior. They also communicate in a foreign language, possibly coordinating edit wars. Ceithe has been in an extended edit war recently at Genghis Khan. He also blanks his talk page to remove complaints and warnings, though some are still present there. Ceithe has openly stated his anti-Chinese attitude. He repeatedly calls other users "vandals," currently because they are adding sourced content that he doesn't like (see here and here). He has been repeatedly asked to cease his disruptive editing and to familiarize himself with WP norms and practices, yet he continues with edit warring and abusive comments towards other editors. Laszlo Panaflex (talk) 05:51, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I cannot comment on the merits of the textual edits, but I do concur on the Uniquark9 as being uncivil based on ethnic origin, as well as unwilling to discuss and/or consider any other views. I did not personally take action because I want clearly-uninvolved administrator(s) to look at the situation (given that I've collaborated with Rajmaan on a number of articles). --Nlu (talk) 05:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

In my interactions with Uniquark9 on Genghis Khan, and also List of Turkic dynasties and countries, I've found that they can do excellent research, and are willing to compromise up to a point. However, I agree that they also are frequently are disruptive and prone to edit warring. I do want to make it clear that one series of reverts exchanged between myself and Uniqark9 just barely went over 3RR, but I consider myself as edit warring since I could have defused things earlier before racking up reverts. Finally, as Laszlo Panaflex brings up, editor Ceithe, a frequent collaborator with Uniquark9, is also disruptive. I've found them more difficult to work with and very inflexible, and they take a much more hostile, insulting, and patronizing tone to those who disagree with them.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 15:37, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Forgot to mention this in my comment: Rajmaan above has confirmed what I thought, which is that there is some collusion between Uniquark9 and Ceithe to enforce a certain point of view here on Wikipedia. Evecurid I think is part of this as well, though I've found them to be far more reasonable and easier to collaborate with.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 15:40, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I haven't researched whether Uniquark9 or Ceithe do excellent research. I do see that Uniquark9 is communicating with some other editors in a foreign language, and is frequently blanking English content, both templates and reasoned discussion, from his or her talk page. Since the warnings have been going on and have been repeatedly deleted, I have to Support a block. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:49, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Please see my comments here.  Philg88 ^♦talk 17:08, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Um... could you explain how those comments about a retired editor are applicable here? Is the preventive/punitive comment what you are referring to? There have clearly been 3RR violations here, as well as repeated disruptive behavior. Whether a block is preventive/punitive is inapposite as well. Not seeing the connection. Laszlo Panaflex (talk) 17:44, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@Laszlo Panaflex: Sorry about that—it's an unrelated matter that I inadvertently confused with this one.  Philg88 ^♦talk 09:25, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Could I also bring up Toguchar on this report as well? Their behavior and attitude is very similar to that of Uniquark9 and Ceithe (edit warring, disruptive and abrasive attitude, communicating in a foreign language, blanking warnings and notices from their talk page, etc.).--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 19:22, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Uniquark9 deleted the ANI notification I left on his talk page. I also summoned him here using the User Link template at the beginning and he hasn't responded to any of itRajmaan (talk) 05:58, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

He/she's not required to respond, although I tend to think it's in his/her interest to do so. But he/she doesn't have to. --Nlu (talk) 17:11, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Disruptive IP user removes sourced content

• 165.228.41.149 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

I've had several issues with this IP user, as can be seen on the IP user's talk page. I have twice asked the IP user to stop removing sourced content, but this seems to be an ongoing problem: [229], [230], [231]. I'm tired of cleaning up after this uncommunicative user, and it's a drain my time to monitor his/her activity. It doesn't matter how many warnings this user gets, he/she goes right back to making the same disruptive edits. For example, these older diffs are all in the same article: [232], [233], [234]. This is a long-term issue with the user, who refuses to change or even discuss it. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:03, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Not seeing anything here honestly. Really seems like a waste of time on ANI. One looks like he replaced a dead link. Another looks like he changed the number figure to line up with the source. The others looked like he may have changed them to a more up to date source. The only one that seems questionable to me is his removal of the of information about the hypothetical sequel of Interstellar. The only actual question I have is why he removed it. Since wikipedia isn't a crystalball I don't actually see a problem with the removal. Reviewing everything provided here I wonder if the actual long term issue is WP:JDLI.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 22:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@Serialjoepsycho: He didn't just replace a dead link. He changed the number. You can't just erase sourced content like that, even when a link goes dead. In the other, he didn't change the number to line up with the source, he removed sourced content. I'm not sure what else to say. The number that he removed was sourced. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:11, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

[235] Oh no. So you mean He changed the dead link with a new source and then replaced the number with one from the source? We must kick him off wikipedia immediately. There's nothing to see here.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 03:18, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

You can't just cherry pick data like that. Can I get an admin to look at this? It's clearly a case of content blanking. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:21, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Serialjoepsycho cited one of your examples. I'm honestly not seeing what the issue is in any of the links you provide. He's replacing sources with other sources in each of those instances. That's normal. The only link you provided where he actually removed content was this one, which could be interpreted as justified under WP:RECENT and WP:UNDUE bordering on WP:CRYSTALBALL.

The only real issue is that he hasn't been discussing things and ignoring discussion, but no one has actually left him a message asking him to discuss things on the relevant article talk pages -- just told him he's doing stuff wrong without actually encouraging what positive behaviors he is engaging in. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:38, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

This is frustrating. The IP user removed a dead reference in violation of WP:DEADREF. The content was sourced, and it is undue to cherry pick sources. When reliable sources disagree, we must report all the sources, not just replace the sources. In the case of the film above, there are two numbers reported for the gross: The Numbers reports $10 million, and Box Office Mojo reports $13 million. The correct way to report this is with a range, not to remove on of the numbers. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:43, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Here is an archive of the Variety source that says $50 million. Why should this information be removed from the article? Just because it was temporarily unavailable? We've got a guideline that says not to do that. I'm not sure why I have to keep saying this, but we can't cherry pick data – it is original research to assume that one reliable source is more up-to-date than another. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:58, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, we have those guidelines, but did the IP edit war when you replaced the dead link with the archive link? Did the IP refuse invitations to discuss the matter on the article's talk page? Or did he just ignore being told that he was wrong? Did you try being welcoming to the IP?

I'm not asking these questions to be a smart ass or out of some delusion that the world should be inherently nice or something like that, I'm asking those questions because those are the tactics necessary to separate newbies who just made some mistakes from uncooperative users who aren't going to improve the site. The IP was simply given a wall of text explaining that what he's doing is wrong. He was never encouraging to try something different, just told to stop doing what he thought was helping the site. He was never invited to discuss matters on a talk page. In short, you didn't treat him like a part of our community (which, by merit of trying to improve the site as far as he can understand it, he is a part of), giving him no reason to see you as a fellow community member (and so no reason to listen to you).

I could be wrong, and the IP might refuse to seek cooperation out of the mistaken notion that the slogan "anyone can edit" means "do whatever you want," but we haven't been given evidence that that's the case. All we've been presented with is an IP that is trying to help the site, who has been told that his actions (which are, if you assume the least amount of good faith possible, made in good faith) are wrong and to stop, and not invited to discuss anything until he gets dragged to the admin's board.

I'm usually the first to call for blocking or even community banning trolls, vandals, and users who are too stupid to be of any use to the site. But I can't see any evidence of that here. Ian.thomson (talk) 05:31, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

What? The user has been edit warring with for some time! Didn't you notice that four of the diffs provided are removing the same exact sourced data from an article? I have pointed this out to the user on his talk page twice. I have complimented the user on his/her knowledge of the MOS. What do you want me to do? Award a barnstar for removing citations? NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:36, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

The links you provided didn't exactly do a good job of demonstrating edit warring on his part. Taking a quick glance over, this edit starts to qualify, but it's only one revert. The All is Lost links you provided are too far apart and are a bit too distinct.

I've left a message on their page encouraging discussion and explaining the need for it. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:47, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• I was asked to weigh in on this. I can see where the first edit with Invictus was removed since the previous source wasn't laid out in the formal fashion and there was a current source that could replace it, but I do have to say that I can see NRP's point with All is Lost in that we have two different sources that are saying two different things. Unless there are a lot of sources that back up one number over the other, I think that it's reasonable to have two different box office numbers. The blanking on Interstellar is a little confusing but I suppose I can see it from a WP:RECENT point of view, but I do think that it would have been better if the IP had posted a message on the talk page. From what I can see on their talk page, it looks like this is a fairly ongoing problem where they will make changes without ever actually responding to comments or posts on their talk page or on the article talk page. A look at their edit history shows where this seems to be a fairly ongoing habit with them. They've been editing since March of last year and I think I've only seen once instance where they actually made an edit summary comment. They've also had a few people come on to their talk page and ask them about edits they've made where they didn't make any comments on the edit summary or article talk page. One editor (User:SummerPhD, tagging them since I am mentioning them) even posted a block warning about this at one point, so it does look like it has been and likely will be an ongoing issue. Perhaps NRP could have been somewhat nicer in his talk page comment (I think he was fairly nice in his post but I can see others' argument), but I am concerned that the IP editor has never really communicated with anyone since they started editing. Maybe this isn't quite an ANI issue yet, but I do think that it would be prudent for one of us to post on the IP's talk page asking them to start communicating better with other editors. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:39, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Basically what I see here is an IP that has a history of making unexplained edits to pages, many of which have been reverted by other editors. NRP was not the first editor to warn this user about this, although he is the first one to post a lot of information about basic editing. He was blunt, but I don't think his post on their talk page is really that much cause for concern given that he was largely posting about things that the IP editor had already been warned about. Maybe it's a bit too soon to really take any big actions against the IP address but I don't think it would be extremely wise to just hand wave it away since they have had a history of this and NRP is not the first person to revert their edits and make a comment about said edits on their talk page. I think that in this case it'd be a good idea to warn the user about not using the edit summary field and make sure that they understand that communication on Wikipedia is key. By large people can make a lot of edits without using the edit summary but that if/when your edits are reverted frequently and people start to communicate with you on your talk page, that's when it's important for them to start responding to other editors in some form or fashion to explain their edits, even if it's just in an edit summary. That's what concerns me here and ultimately I think that NRP did do the right thing by posting on their talk page. Sure he could have put a little more carrot in there, but I don't think that this would have made a huge amount of difference since they've already shown a history of not responding to comments, so I don't think that NRP's comments are intimidating them into silence. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:57, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• So let's get this straight. You bring it to ANI. You don't get a response you like. So then you WP:CANVAS another editor.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 08:20, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• He wasn't asking me to agree with him, he just wanted me to take a look at the conversation. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:12, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• It doesn't matter if he was asking you to agree with him since he thought you would agree with him if you had looked at the conversation. It's clear that the biased message he sent to you was intended to have an effect. Classic sign of campaigning. I also say that he choose you viewing you as a partisan individual knowing that you were involved ina previous but similar situation like this as his message on your talk page indicates.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 19:56, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• I looked and while I can see things from both perspectives, I do see that the IP has a history of making edits and not leaving any comments in the edit summary or replying to usertalk posts by at least one editor (SummerPHD) that I can vouch is a pretty decent editor. This shows that the IP user (who may or may not be several people editing under one address) should at least be somewhat aware of this to some degree and if they're following the policies as written above, they do have some awareness of the most basic guidelines. NRP was the first person to actually leave a longer post on their talk page about all of this, but he isn't the first person to comment on their editing as a whole and we could argue over whether or not his post intimidated the IP user, but the IP's edit history has shown that he has not directly replied to anyone that has posted on their talk page so odds are that it could be an exceedingly kind post and odds are the IP still would not have replied. In other words, the tone of the post is slightly a moot point since the IP has already established in previous posts and edit patterns that they do not reply to comments on their talk page or in the articles they edit and as such would likely have not responded to even the most gentlest posts on their page. (I think I found maybe one comment on the edit summary since they began editing in March.) Really all that I think needs to be done here is for one of us to give them a gentle but stern reminder that communication is an incredibly important aspect of Wikipedia and that if their edits are contested, it's a very, very good idea for them to engage the other editor in conversation. I don't think that we need to block them, but it is important that we stress to them that communication can help keep things from getting to this level. I've seen this happen before where well-meaning IPs will come on and edit articles without leaving a comment in the edit summary and without replying to any attempt to engage them in communication in any sphere. In the cases where they didn't receive reminders about communicating with others, many IPs received blocks because their edits didn't make sense without some sort of communication and in many instances, were just considered to be vandalism or generally unhelpful- despite other edits that could be seen as helpful. In other words, the negatives outweighed any of the positives. On the other hand, receiving a gentle warning (or reminder, if you want to think about it that way) caused them to communicate better and got rid of a lot of the issues they'd have otherwise. It's not necessarily this simple, but I do think that we should address the fact that the IP has made several edits and been cautioned on using unreliable sources on more than one occasion- many of these warnings by pretty established editors. Maybe NRP could have phrased himself better on the talk page or given different suggestions, but I don't think that he's the reason the IP isn't communicating. This probably would have been more appropriate to bring up at dispute resolution perhaps, but there is an issue here of an editor that is blanking sections, removing sources, and otherwise making edits that come across as confusing to other editors, all without the IP responding to comments in the edit summary, article, or in the usertalk where people are asking him to explain what he's trying to do or trying to explain why editing in certain ways can be seen as unhelpful. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:37, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Should we ban the IP? No, of course not. It hasn't reached that point yet and the IP user does deserve at least a few more warnings before we essentially begin getting incredibly strict- especially since this might be a shared IP. I just think that this thread is sort of focusing on the wrong thing (NRP's tone) and we do need to look at the fact that the IP editor does already have a history of unexplained and possibly disruptive edits which should be addressed. True, the IP has already been warned back in November, but another, longer reminder/warning that goes more into depth with policy would be helpful. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:44, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• I don't really have anything to say that is specific to this editor, only a comment about how I think we should be handling them and all uncommunicative editors. Much of the discussion above is spent trying to figure out what they were doing and why: Was this a good edit? Was that is good faith? Why did they do this? Should they have done something else? It's discussion with a ghost. When you disagree with an edit or cannot figure out why it was made, revert the edit and give a standard warning (or free form comment on the editor's talk page). After several warnings of the same or similar type without response, a quick trip to AI/V will lead to a brief block. If they return with the same or similar problems, the blocks get longer. Eventually, the editor will begin to discuss issues on talk pages and use edit summaries or longer term blocks will drive them away. - SummerPhD (talk) 15:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• It is a very good point that the ip has been contacted in order to resolve this dispute and has failed to pursue any communication back. This behavior is very disruptive to a consensus based system like what we have at Wikipedia. It would be a very good call to block them from editing indefinitely until they make some sort of contact with an administrator to open a line of communication and acknowledge that in the future they will attempt to communicate with others as a part of their future editing practice.

Further NinjaRobotPirate should be made aware of the of the canvassing policy. It shouldn't be anymore acceptable to canvass your friends to a ANI discussion than it is to canvass them to an article discussion. I certainly hope they aren't employing these tactics elsewhere. Just as lack of communication is a detriment to the consensus making process, so to is canvassing. -Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 20:16, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Maybe I'll go the route of templated warnings and AIV, then. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

users: Smuckola, Asher196, RetroGameFan

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Am in the process of being harassed and Wikistalked by these "three" editors, who seem very much to be the *same* editor. I've been editing under this IP for a long time, mainly because I don't have any need to actually create an account; it's a simple hobby of mine. I edit various interest articles, including things I have knowledge about regarding analog control mechanisms and antiques. Frankly, Asher196 has been a problem editor for years. And I mean years. He has a long history of vindictivly reverting pages, such as this one right here [236], where he attempts to remove reliable sources from a page because he's unwilling to accept them (another editor stepped in at that point and basically erased any rationale he might have hid behind with a very well done explanation of how they were valid sources [237] at which point he backed off. For a while. The problem has begun to re-emerge on the analog stick page a few days ago; a user named RetroGameFan had been trying to erase common-sense items from the article regarding the Vectrex (he was attempting to claim that the statement the Vectex controller was "self centering" was OR, despite the fact that all joysticks except one in history have all been self centering). In the interest of eliminating doubt, I took the original reference that I had initially added to the article (this one here [238])and replaced it with a better source, one that specifically described the Vectrex's Analog Stick as self centering. [239] Inexplicably, without discussion, and quite in the style of how a vandal operates, out of the blue Asher196 remerged from his long absence and erased the source that I had put on the page. Again, he erased the sourced information I had put on the page and bafflingly put back the old source that had no mention of the Vectrex's self centering analog stick! [240] He did it two more times, not bothering to give ANY explanation for his actions whatsoever, [241], [242], only stopping when an RFC was threatened against his conduct. He then began a sustained campaign of wikistalking, going through my user contribs and trying to revert or otherwise undo contributions I've made to the Wikipedia project. Note, for example, that he had never made a single edit to either the Nintendo 64 Controller article or to the Joseph DeArnette article until after he decided to label me a "problem editor" and begin to attempt wholesale reversion of the edits I had made. [243]

To add to this mess, there is an editor that strongly smells of sockpuppet that is engaged in a campaign of harassment, such as here, [244], here, [245], here, [246], here [247], here [248]

I've given up trying to keep my page clean of his personal attacks, because I'm trying to be as thorough as I can at this point.

I must also note that he's inappropriately attempting to involve administrators in this without at all following proper wikipedia channels, creating, at the very least, some severe conflicts of interest. [249]

So I ask, how many more years is Asher196 going to be stalking me? 67.139.40.166 (talk) 08:40, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Looks like a WP:SPI thing. Doc talk 08:49, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Whatever may be the case, I just want to edit in peace. :( I'm very, very tired at this point and... I just want it to end. 67.139.40.166 (talk) 08:54, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't see any evidence of harassment of sockpuppetry in these difs, just content disputes and breakdowns in communication. What I do see, is an IP who has been editwarring across multiple articles, and not discussing on article talk pages. Like here, where you reverted 3 times in a row, re-introducing excessive, unsourced content into an article, all the while making all sorts of accusations of "vandalism (its not vandalism to cut out unsourced info, or remove excess plot details from non-plot heavy games) and people being "stalkers". And not a single word of it on the talk page. If this is representative of your editing on a whole, then these editors (of which you did not notify of this discussion as far as I can tell) seem more like they're rightfully admonishing you, rather than "harassing" or any other negative spin you're tying to put on things. Sergecross73 msg me 11:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Yup, here's another example too, 3 reverts of unsourced information despite being asked to provide a source, and all your edit summaries do are make more empty accusations. You're honestly lucky you haven't been blocked yet for editwarring. Sergecross73 msg me 14:41, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Tagging Smuckola, Asher196, and RetroGameFan, to make sure they know they're being discussed on ANI... Sergecross73 msg me 13:48, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@Sergecross73, RetroGameFan, and Asher196: So we've established that the original poster has come here to successfully load, aim at foot, disengage safety, and pull the trigger (without notifying anyone involved, as instructed on this page). The WP:BOOMERANG has landed. We have the harassment of three editors (three admitted, with countless others unmentioned) and one completely uninvolved admin (Sergecross73 was idly accused in the conspiracy). We have the voluntary admission that he is the perpetrator of at least three years of personal attacks, edit wars, and ignoring of countless escalated warnings—his only response to which has been hateful invective and refusal to discuss. The editor instantly labels anyone who disagrees as "vandal", "stalker", or incredibly, "sock puppet"; then, he responds by falsely issuing CVU vandalism templates at them, reverting their comments as "stupid crap" or "vandalism", and claiming that he can "do as he damned well please". My one and only attempt to contact of the individual (offering CVU instructions, asking what is wrong, and offering to help) was instantly met not with a response but with the reverting of my attempt to help and being called a vandal and sockpuppet for having offered it. The user is saying that the entire concept of basic criticism is so repugnantly unfathomable to them, that they even think that anyone who criticizes them obviously must be the same person, in a giant elaborate administrative conspiracy. That's the meaning of his whole story up there. I was directly involved on one article in the final minutes, and I couldn't even decipher the situation until the rant unfolded here. This is all perfectly obvious from glancing at the user's edit messages in the edit history of the Talk page of the IP address that the user claims to WP:OWN. It's time to deliver his requested respite in the form of the only possible response: blocking. Thank you! WP:TEND WP:NPA WP:3RR WP:RS WP:OR WP:NPOV WP:OWNER (and whatever the false abuse of CVU templates is). — Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 20:24, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I agree, there seems to be no evidence of sockpuppetry. Three people reverting unsourced content to a page is enforcing Wikipedia policy. Since this IP user hasn't attempted to have a discussion about the content before coming here, I think this can be speedily closed. Epic Genius (talk) 15:05, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

@Epicgenius and Sergecross73: Ok, but how does it not close with a blocking of the admitted serial offender of all those policies, both fresh and old? — Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 00:08, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

We don't need to block them now, as we can't do it punitively. If the IP editor keeps doing this after the thread closes, even if they do it just one more time, then they can be blocked. Epic Genius (talk) 01:52, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

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User:Colton_Cosmic

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An anon, (205.144.171.31 (talk · contribs), was on my talk page asking for lessening of ban restrictions related to Colton_Cosmic (talk · contribs). Also asking of @PresN:. I have previously referred CC to Arbcom for appeal requests. FYI ping to @KWW: who appears to have been involved with ban enforcement. I've also temporarily blocked the IP for socking. Any admin is welcome to reverse or change this block at their discretion without consultation. — xaosflux Talk 21:46, 13 February 2015 (UTC) Note that CC did basically the same thing back in October; e.g. posting as an IP on 3 random admin's pages asking to be unblocked (xaosflux and I were 2 of them). At the time, we told him to got to WP:UNBAN, rather than just shopping around for admins who didn't know what the deal was to unblock him. --PresN 21:58, 13 February 2015 (UTC) I am innocent. I am a good editor. I have never socked Wikipedia. When I went to PresN I wasn't seeking an ignorant administrator but rather one willing to inform himself or herself. I will come back and sign this post in a few minutes unless Kww's filter stops me. Colton Cosmic. As a terminological point, Colton Cosmic claims that he has never socked Wikipedia because he is using a non-standard definition of socking. He claims that it isn't socking unless it is done for deception. Wikipedia defines sockpuppetry also to include deliberate block evasion by editing from IP addresses, which is what Colton Cosmic does to protest his ban. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:40, 14 February 2015 (UTC) Right. Except even if it is self admitted and solely to post to ANI (and admin talk pages), you're still effectively socking right now per Wikipedia:Sock puppetry so you proved with the very post that the claim you never socked wikipedia is false. I'm not an admin, but such nonsense is a good sign to me it's not worth wasting time examining any other circumstances and I suspect I'm not the only one. Edit: Either you don't even know what sock puppetry is and have never bothered to read the policy, or you do know but don't care because you think you're beneath such things or your just talking crap or whatever. Anyway, a good sign there will be more cases where there is a problem, but you're going to claim there wasn't. (Of course, an editor who is told to stay away from wikipedia for a period, without any socking regardless of whether it's just to request an unblock or whatever but is continually unable to do so but instead thinks continually violating this condition is somehow going to convince people to unblock them even if the amount of time they've wasted doing this has long since exceeded how long they were told to stay away, is likely to have serious problems making them unsuitable to edit wikipedia.) Nil Einne (talk) 06:41, 14 February 2015 (UTC) Bad idea to unblock this guy, as he evaded his block at least once.[250] The original disruption was bad enough to give one pause... Binksternet (talk) 23:44, 13 February 2015 (UTC) Yeah, that edit wasn't me, just one more false accusation to throw on the pile though I suppose, Binksternet. Directed at a guy who's not allowed to defend himself. Back to sign in a few minutes if the filter doesn't stop me. Colton Cosmic. Blatant socking right here, just like before. Block all socks, keep main blocked indef per ban. BMK (talk) 15:04, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

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Problems on 'The Final Destination'

For at least three years (!), someone using different IPs has been persistently re-adding a section that claims The Final Destination film predicted the Norwegian terror attacks of 2011.

Example diff here; see also the Talk page here.

Removal gets reverted within hours, but I'm not a regular Wiki contributor, so felt it worth flagging up here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.1.14.132 (talk) 23:17, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

It sounds like a good number of regular editors have this article on their Watchlist so they can revert the edits when they occur. With the changes being done by different IPs sporadically over time, it's impossible to pro-actively prevent these occurrences. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:01, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Yeah, what Liz says. It's not worth protecting for since it's not that frequent, and the IPs keep changing. Thanks for reverting and for notifying, though: your continued vigilance is appreciated. Drmies (talk) 02:11, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• FYI this has continued to happen but now User:Diannaa has protected it for a week. Presumably there is no three revert rule issue in continuing to remove/revert this section? 94.1.14.132 (talk) 13:31, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
  • It doesn't matter because there's no point in blocking dynamic/hopping IPs. Blocks are typically useless. Drmies (talk) 16:06, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
  • It's disruption, not clear-cut vandalism, so please follow normal edit warring guidelines. I have protected for a week and will protect again for a longer period if the disruption resumes when the protection wears off. Sorry you will not be able to edit the article for a while. -- Diannaa (talk) 16:12, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Just a thought, this might be a situation where pending changes protection is a good option.Beeblebrox (talk) 19:42, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Pending changes bleeeeeeh. Drmies (talk) 16:21, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script

Would an admin assess the consensus the consensus at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script (initiated 5 February 2015)? According to this post at WP:ANRFC, this is an "RfC for an emergency measure". Thank you, Cunard (talk) 00:31, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

You mean to assess if there is a clear consensus? Despite this being an emergency measure, the RfC itself says "this RfC will run for 30 days or until a clear consensus emerges" so it should probably be allowed to continue to run the 30 days if there is no clear consensus. BTW, I'm seeing !votes on 1st February so I think the 5 February date must be wrong. Nil Einne (talk) 14:48, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for reviewing the discussion and correcting the start day. Cunard (talk) 08:06, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Trabant1963

Trabant1963 (talk · contribs) "fixes" articles into pro-Russian politics way without edit summaries and no discussions. Repeatedly warned. Recently blanked his talk page and merrily continues his disruptive editing. -M.Altenmann >t 05:12, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Diannaa has reverted one series of edits--but I'm not sure what we're doing here, what the big Incident is. Can we get examples, with explanations? And have you discussed this with the user? What I see are talk page edits like this one. Drmies (talk) 04:38, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

What more do you want? The user plainly refuses to discuss the issue and merely deletes referenced information about Russian military bases (again). -M.Altenmann >t 16:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

The user is clearly NOTHERE and keeps hammering away at being disruptive on articles and on talk pages: starting new sections on talk pages like this + this; constantly returning to articles in order to be WP:POINTy (such as the List of Russian military bases abroad article), but ensuring that s/he stays under the radar for edit warring. Having to revert them, or having other editors being dragged into sinking their energy into bothering to explain why their 'improvements' and suggestions are not acceptable seems to be a game with the user. Supercilious responses in Russian - such as this one - are hardly indicative of a user with a 'collaborative project' mentality. It's a waste of everyone's time taking this to the ANI when all the evidence of slow edit warring and no intention to discuss the content is evidenced by their contribution history. I've just has to revert after Diannaa's last revert on List of countries with overseas military bases was reverted by the user here. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:56, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Nidhi Razdan

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Please take a look at that article. More than a hundred edits in the last few hours, three users, one of them an IP reverting each other calling each other impersonators etc.OrangesRyellow (talk) 12:54, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Knock Knock !! They are revering each other furiously.OrangesRyellow (talk) 13:07, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Blocks All Around for violating WP:3RR JodyB _talk 13:23, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

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Conduct of User:Denisarona

User:Denisarona has changed the redirection of the article Moldavians from the established Moldavia to Moldovans. All attempts to restore to the established version were reverted by user Denisarona. At the same time, he refuses to engage the issue on the talk page of the article in question, and instead posts notifications on my talk page despite they being the person on which the burden of evidence falls. Acting in good faith, I have approached him and stated my arguments on the 26 of November 2014. The appeal was ignored and my message was deleted on the 13th of December 2014 (also please note that he also deleted another comment from User:Dragonmagicediter, and his history of engagements with other users is not sterling). I kindly ask for the article Moldavians to be reverted to the established version (redirect to article Moldavia) and for user Denisarena to be warned and prohibited from touching the article for a set period of time. Thank you. 12:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.122.25.236 (talk)

I have reverted the target to Moldavia, which does appear to be correct, but I see back and forth on this since at least September 2012. Since I can't find an article talk page discussion and am stuck at work with limited time, pinging Denisarona to come and discuss here; it looks like a good-faith misunderstanding that's turned into a slow-motion edit war. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:51, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

I agree that it might be a good-faith misunderstanding. Otherwise, I couldn't see how one would overlook the fact that this is a very sensitive issue (cf. Moldovenism, Moldovan language, Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova, Cultural appropriation). I'm pretty sure, for instance, that nobody would even think about solving the Macedonian naming dispute just with a click of the mouse. 14:33, 14 February 2015 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.122.25.236 (talk)

@Yngvadottir: your ping failed due to typo. Pinging @Denisarona: JBH (talk) 15:06, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Denisarona has a history stretching over many years of reverting people's edits without explanation.[251] 200.83.101.199 (talk) 19:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

The original redirect was to Moldovans until 20 July 2014, when 85.122.25.236 changed it to a disambiguation page and subsequently to Moldavia. I then redirected it again to Moldovans because it refers to an ethnic group and not a geographical or historical region, as stated in the introduction to the Moldovans article:-

Moldovans (in Moldovan/Romanian moldoveni pronounced [moldoˈvenʲ];) are the largest population group of Republic of Moldova (75.8% of the population),[2] and a significant minority in Ukraine,[3] and Russia.[4] Under the variant Moldavians, the term may also be used to refer to all inhabitants of the territory of historical Principality of Moldavia, currently divided among Romania (47.5%), Moldova (30.5%) and Ukraine (22%), regardless of ethnic identity. In the Romanian part of the historical region, term moldovenean (pl. moldoveni) is widely used as a cultural-geographical self-designation by people who otherwise self-identify as ethnic Romanians.

This seems more logical (e.g. The article about Italians does not redirect to Italy, the article about Irish people does not redirect to Ireland). If I use an encyclopedia to learn about an ethnic group, I don't go to the geographical location.

The comments of 200.83.101.199 don't deserve a response. See Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Best known for IP‎.

Regards Denisarona (talk) 17:57, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. The series of reverts would have been easier to understand with edit summaries. As a matter of fact, I think what you quote supports Moldavia as the better redirect target: "Under the variant Moldavians, the term may also be used to refer to all inhabitants of the territory of historical Principality of Moldavia". But a hatnote of the form "Moldavians redirects here; for other usages see Moldovans" is indicated. Would you agree to that solution, in view of the disputes linked to above by 85.122.25.236. Please don't dismiss the concerns of 200.83.101.199 just because they are (also) an unregistered editor; if you read that "abuse" page you will see they are not under any sanctions. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I have no problem with your first suggestion. I have no comment on your second suggestion. Up to now I have spent 98% of my time on Wikipedia looking for and reverting vandalism. I will now re-think that idea. Denisarona (talk) 05:59, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

@Denisarona: There is already a hatnote of the "see also Moldavians (disambiguation)" type, so I have posted at Talk:Moldavia asking whether people agree it's a good idea to add "and Moldovans" ... and whether anyone knows how! I hate to think you will quit vandal-fighting because of this disagreement. But please do start using descriptive edit summaries - it does wonders to reduce misunderstandings - and please don't revert an edit substantially because it was by an unregistered editor. I've so frequently seen IPs quietly fixing things, most of us started as IPs, and there are regrettably innumerable registered vandals at any one time, that even if you disagree as many do with the policy of allowing IP editors, it doesn't make sense to assume they're all bad. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:54, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Disruptive editing by User:Pagesclo

User Pagesclo (formerly blocked user:Craftdraw) is repeatedly moving pages to his/her preferred title, without seeking consensus, in particular Valley of Mexico to Mexico Valley. I set out the reasoning behind the title Valley of Mexico on the article talkpage Mexico Valley#Recent page move from Valley of Mexico to Mexico Valley, and attempted to initiate dialogue with the user (diff). The user re-moved the page, blanked my attempted communication, and left edit summaries that indicate an unwillingness to engage. Simon Burchell (talk) 13:26, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• This user has been notified by Simon Burchell of this discussion. He appears not to have edited for about the past 8 hours. When he comes back, he will have get the notice. He has made many such page moves recently according to his contributions log. JodyB _talk 14:11, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Lapadite77

Lapadite77 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

I'm surprised that this complete character assassination from Lapadite77 has been allowed to continue for that length of time. Over the past seven months, this user has instigated three massive content disputes at Garbage articles, here, here and here. Each one of these became protracted to such an extant that the discussion could only be closed several months after being initiated. The discussion at Talk:Garbage (album)#Album genres was opened on 24 June 2014, but could only be closed on 2 December 2014, despite him being a lone voice against at least a dozen editors. He has never willingly accepted a consensus. And over the past 6 weeks, he has become increasingly disruptive. The way he interacts with fellow users leaves much to be desired: he is often downright unpleasant to talk to, immediately accusing others of edit warring and of having some sort of bias when they disagree with his position. And when he doesn't get his way at an article, he resorts to bogus ANI Reports. When these are resolved as "no violation", he then continues his complaints on the talk pages of the closing admin, with him claiming a multitude of false "WP:OWN, WP:TE, WP:DE, WP:NPOV, WP:CHERRYPICK, WP:AGF, WP:ONLYREVERT" violations. He just can't let anything go. While I appreciate some of the work he has done, I would suggest a topic ban from Garbage articles for a period of time, until he learns to edit constructively and interact with fellow users in a decent manner. Homeostasis07 (talk) 16:47, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Homeostasis has a personal vendetta against me from disputes on the band Garbage's articles, where he has edited tendentiously, edit warred, and exhibited WP:OWN; He was reported on ANI for edit warring by me in October 2014; as you can see in the report link provided, s well as here and here, Homeostasis has shown he has a bias against that band, in the article discussion/dispute in question there, and where he participated with Dan56 (who is currently being discussed on ANI, above), on the links he gave above. Homeostasis laughably calls the report on Dan56's a character assassination; in reality, as one can easily see from all the evidence provided there, Dan56 has a long history of disputes with various editors on various articles, and pattern of disruptive and tendentious editing, which is why he is again the subject of an ANI report. Of course the dozens of reports and disputes various editors have had on/with Dan56 are merely "character assassination".

This "report" is merely an extension of Homeostasis' vendetta against me, as he naturally supports Dan56's disruptive, tendentious behavior at this band's articles. It is no surprise he's disgruntled that his ally is being reported for behavior he himself has participated in at that band's articles. As you can see in the linked ANI report on Dan56, Dan56 mentions my edit warring report on Homeostasis, trying to use it against me for some reason. This is not an isolated incident; these two editors (and there's potentially a third, who I won't name because he's not at all a part of this dispute, but either of them might due to his similar involvement with them in the past content dispute at a Garbage article) are entirely likeminded and on the same page with respect to these editing practices, particularly at this band's articles. He, like Dan56, has been called out repeatedly on lying and misrepresenting, which he does again here; As I noted above on Dan56's repot, where he also, like Homeostasis has done, misrepresented that dispute (unsurprisingly), I was never a lone voice, as most editors there agreed and were eventually on the same page, the content dispute resolved when I recreated another poll/discussion that was actually honest, straightforward, with no red herrings or smoke screens, unlike Dan56's first (on which he was called out on too by other editors). Just an aimless, vendetta-driven non-report from Homeostasis, sticking up for disruptive and tendentious editing. --Lapadite (talk) 00:10, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

^ Case in point. Bad Faith and baseless accusations and completely misrepresenting the only relevant diff he did provide. This and this in no way demonstrates that I have any sort of "bias". I have never edit warred (or been sanctioned for edit warring) in Garbage articles. And notice how he never provides a diff to support all the WP guidelines he's constantly accusing other users of infringing. I don't know @Dan56: from Adam, yet Lapadite77 has it in his head that he's some sort of victim here; that there's some kind of massive conspiracy and every one is disagreeing with him because they're biased. This perfectly illustrates the entire problem: instead of logically discussing an issue, he immediately resorts to these above tactics. He can link to enough WP guidelines when he wants to, but then neglects to follow those guidelines himself, particularly WP:Civility. With all this in mind, as well as the so-far 3 needlessly messy and protracted discussions at Garbage articles, surely WP:Competence has to come in to play here. Homeostasis07 (talk) 01:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Disruptive edits on my talk page

• EChastain (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• User talk:Ivanvector (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)

I have politely asked this user, per WP:NOBAN, to stop posting comments on my talk page about their misunderstanding of the talk page guidelines, but the user insists on spamming my page ([252] [253] [254]) with quotes from the guideline. Requesting that this user be topic-banned from my talk page. I am not requesting an interaction ban; our discussions have been otherwise productive. Thanks. Ivanvector (talk) 18:54, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Make that asked twice. Ivanvector (talk) 18:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Thrice, actually. Note that these diffs aren't in order. Ivanvector (talk) 18:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

I want to add that this user also took a swipe at @Rationalobserver: [255] without providing any evidence. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 19:05, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• I've asked them to supply the link that supposedly shows my off-wiki activities, but they refuse to answer. Rationalobserver (talk) 20:02, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• The dispute stems from this edit where Ivanvector hatted a discussion on his talk page and copied it to the talk page of the redirect under discussion. EChastain apparently viewed this as a violation of WP:TPG even though Ivanvector did not edit any of the comments.[256][257] Ivanvector was well within his rights to hat the discussion on his talk page and move it to a more appropriate venue. He even noted that the discussion started elsewhere before it was copied to its present location. —Farix (t | c) 21:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

IMHO, it would've been best if Ivanvector only hatted the discussion at Ivanvector's own talkpage. Moving it to another place, seems to have caused the dispute. GoodDay (talk) 17:54, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, GoodDay. Ivanvector moved my comments, without notifying me, to another talk page where I was deliberately avoiding getting involved. The disruption occurred because I was trying to post my objections to his page and kept getting edit conflicts, unaware I was disrupting. For that I apologise, and I'm most happy to oblige by never posting on your talk page again. EChastain (talk) 02:12, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

IP making legal threats

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An IP left a legal threat in their edit summary, here. Mlpearc (open channel) 23:08, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

I have left a warning about legal threats. I've also explained the key issues (we don't know who they are, we don't have a published reliable source to verify against, and legal threats stifle discussion). I'm waiting to see their next edits. —C.Fred (talk) 23:16, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

There next move was to revert again, so I blocked them. -- GB fan 23:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

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Repeated addition of copyrighted material

• Andlarryofficial (talk · contribs) @ 2015-02-14T05:30:10
• The copyrighted material can be found at at http://www.everfoundmusic.com/, http://www.amazon.com/Everfound/e/B00CFRPBIM ("This biography was provided by the artist or their representative.") and until recently on their Facebook page. It appears after warning the eitor about the material being an exact copy of what was on the Facebook page, the material was removed from there, but Google still shows it as being there. We may also have a WP:COI.
• Warning: Copyright violation on Everfound (band)
• Andlarryofficial (talk · contribs) @ 2015-02-15T00:50:19

Perhaps another editor could explain the situation and the problems around included publicity material, clearly falling within US copyright laws, to the editor. A block wouldn't be in any way out of the question. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:36, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Just a minor comment, Walter Görlitz: The |topic= parameter in {{subst:ANI-notice}} links to a page being discussed; you were probably looking for the |thread= parameter. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 02:10, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I've posted a clear and final warning on his talk page. Any further copyvio will result in an indef block. -- Diannaa (talk) 04:16, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Further discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Everfound (band). JoeSperrazza (talk) 12:17, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Economy of Iran (only country economy GA) listed on WP project's page

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Someone (with an agenda?) has been reverting the recent listing of the Economy of Iran on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.87.51.51 (talk) 06:57, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

My bad, apparently. Forget about it :) 67.87.51.51 (talk) 08:03, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

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Vandalism of userpage

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Seems User:69.204.0.58 thought it would be funny to respond to a caution I placed on his/her Talk page for disruptive editing by vandalizing my userpage. I would appreciate if an administrator could remind this editor of Wikipedia's code of conduct. -Kudzu1 (talk) 07:18, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Level-three warning issued; no need for a block or anything else, yet. Nyttend (talk) 07:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Hopefully that will take care of it. -Kudzu1 (talk) 07:33, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I've seen a lot worse. But if it persists, go to WP:RFPP and ask for semi-protection of your user page. That will fend off the IP's. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:35, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

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Shani Shingnapur Edit

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Dear Indian and particularly orthodox editors, i would like to bring your attention to Shani Shinganapur article please don't add biased and discrepant information about Shani Dev, Shani Dev is known as the God of Justice in Hinduism but the content almost proves him to be a punisher deity which is not true in all contexts.

Sumedh Tayade (talk) 11:43, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• Please work it out on the article talk page with the other users. Thanks! JodyB _talk 13:20, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

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WordSeventeen and WP:GNG/WP:RS

WordSeventeen (talk · contribs)

WordSeventeen has a pattern of adding references that are trivial mentions and/or from unreliable sources to articles that have been PROD'ed or AFD'd. For example here, the user added such references then stated that the article passed WP:GNG. Similarly the user will vote keep at AFD's such as this one based on sources with other issues such as lack of independence.

This editing shows a misinterpretation (assuming good faith) of WP:GNG and WP:RS. I have tried to engage here and here with no response. When I took it to WordSeventeen's user page here, I was accused of harassment. I can accept that someone may have a very loose interpretation of WP:RS, but this goes beyond interpretation into willful disregard: the user dePRODed the article Berry Town by adding this single source, which is a blurb on the site of the web designer that developed Berry Town's website (which is now defunct). This is so far from WP:RS that it begs the question what the user's agenda is, particular given that WordSeventeen appears to have been around for a while.

Since I haven't been able to elicit a response I can't say what the rationale for this behavior is, but I can surmise from the user's responses to questions from other editors that it comes down to "their view and assessment" of what an RS is. I don't think that argument flies anymore, WordSeventeen doesn't seem to be evolving in their understanding of guidelines. Since I have been accused of harassment I have brought this to ANI for community discussion. I request someone explain to this user what constitutes a reliable source and what is required for a subject to pass WP:GNG. Vrac (talk) 13:39, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• I see what you mean but that Berry Town link was over a week ago and you have made your position clear to him. If there hasn't been any issue since you posted on his page maybe we should allow him time to change. He need not state agreement with you but should, as you say, evolve, to a better place. JodyB _talk 13:56, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

@JodyB: This is from yesterday, on the article Janicel Lubina. Check out those sources and the amount of coverage on this individual in them... Vrac (talk) 14:33, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Copyrighted material added to Morteza Avini

From the Morteza Avini article, I have removed a couple of instances of what seemed to me as definite copy-pastes:

• [258] by User:Saeegh (as removed by me)
• [259] by User:Saeegh (as removed by me)
• [260] by User:Saeegh (as removed by me)
• [261] by User:Saeegh (as removed by me)

--Anders Feder (talk) 16:52, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

He had copy-pasted copyright material from news articles into his sandbox, which I have now deleted. Articles he has created use foreign-language sources but spot checks do not reveal any obvious copyvio issues. I have placed a warning on his talk page. -- Diannaa (talk) 17:46, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Tendentious COI editing and socking at Christ Myth Theory

• Renejs (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• GMarxx (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Because ANI threads about this article invariably turn into content disputes instead of focusing on behavior: If anyone tries to treat this as a content dispute or turn it into one (regardless of the direction they take it in), I will ignore their input as either in bad-faith or incompetent, and I recommend others do likewise. If you wish to defend the behavior of these two accounts on their own merits, I will acknowledge what you have to say, but if you do so for content-based reasons, you will be ignored. Insinuations about editors' personal beliefs that lack behavioral evidence will be treated as an insulting failure to assume good faith. This is about editor behavior, not article content nor personal beliefs.

Renejs is René Salm, an author focused on the Christ myth theory (what his position is on the matter is irrelevant), and a single purpose account dedicated to promoting the views he writes about. His research is self-published, and the consensus at Talk:Christ myth theory is that it ultimately is not worth including. In response to the consensus that we remove the material about his research from the article, he suggested that we delete the article on claims that the article somehow doesn't meet notability (despite the dozens of the secondary and tertiary sources that remain after removing the material about him). Obviously, he is here with a WP:COI to promote his views, and WP:NOTHERE to build a neutral encyclopedia. What he is here to promote does not matter, it is that he is here to promote it, and how he chooses to do so.

Despite WP:RS, WP:DUE, and so on being cited and explained repeatedly, and a consensus that we need to remove less noteworthy or more fringe subjects from the article, Renejs insisted that we should use the article to list every proponent (including himself, again), simply because he agrees with their work. Regardless of what his views are, this is unacceptable case of COI and RGW.

When policies, guidelines, and other pages such as WP:RGW, WP:NOTPROMO, and WP:COI were repeatedly explained to him, and the consensus clearly sided with reducing the proponents to those discussed at length in secondary sources (i.e. not him), he left an advertisement-like message to announce that he was going to take a hiatus to work on his next book.

The issue is not that he disagreed with consensus or that he accepts the CMT, it is his total disregard for consensus, policies, and guidelines unless they suit him, and his obvious tendentious COI-based POV-pushing in the matter. If he was writing against the CMT he'd've been removed sooner.

GMarxx is a single purpose account focused on:

• Defending Renejs
• Emphasizing René Salm's focus on Nazareth: [262] [263] [264]
• Creating the same sort of artificial prominence for the CMT that Renejs called for
• Generally carrying out edits that Renejs would have wanted, even apparently citing Renejs's posts on talk as GMarxx has only made a !vote.

I raised the possibility that Renejs had not really left but was socking as GMarxx on the CMT talk page, and Renejs responded right away (despite having gone on a hiatus to complete a book). If it had been a few days later, I'd totally buy that Renejs just decided to check on things. If he said he was backing away from just the CMT article and had activity on other articles, I'd totally buy that he just saw the discussion on his watchlist. But, given the obvious similarities between GMarxx's and Renejs's aims, Renejs's immediate response is most readily interpreted as confirmation that Renejs is socking. They are also never on the site at the same time, but there is enough overlap in their range of activity to conclude they're in the same time zone. What information the two accounts are attempting to add to the article is not relevant -- what matters is that they are socking to edit war over that information, and are either not participating in discussion or are only acknowledging discussion that goes their way.

The two accounts are being used to carry out edits that are against the consensus on the talk page, one not engaging in discussion, the other paying no attention to discussion that he doesn't agree with. In particular, they are both restoring material on Richard Dawkins that is original research, a potential BLP violation, and against the consensus on the talk page. And yet, Renejs has the gall to tell the baldfaced lie that there's "no consensus" because the consensus does not go his way. While the consensus on other matters is not universally identical, the changes he suggests have no support whatsoever.

There is disagreement among the other editors, but even the most disagreeable can see beginnings of agreement, and even the most pessimistic can hope for consensus -- just not with Renejs or GMarxx, because his behavior is completely incompatible with this site's practices.

At a minimum, we must:

• temporarily block both accounts to prevent further edit warring on the article, and so we can arrange a...
• topic ban both accounts from articles relating to Early Christianity and Salm's work

That's if we don't just block (or even community ban) both accounts on the grounds of WP:TEND, WP:NOTHERE, WP:COI, WP:SOCK, WP:EW, and WP:NOTPROMO.

Ian.thomson (talk) 19:20, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• Comment At a minimum, it looks like a sockpuppet investigation is in order. Capitalismojo (talk) 19:44, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• Comment I should point out that there is no WP:OUTING in identifying Renejs as René Salm as the user has done so himself, event used article talk pages to promote information about his books. I have no comment on the sock-pupping, but what Ian.thomson describes does evoke WP:DUCK. More serious is that Renejs is using Wikipedia to make himself more known, in violation of WP:COI. This includes putting out information about his upcoming book [265] and vehemently disagreeing with proposals to restructure the article in line with WP:RS to exclude Renejs and other self-published non-experts. There is a major conflict of interest in both of these actions. That Renejs is an SPA is obvious [266]. It is not a problem in itself, but when he misuses Wikipedia to promote himself, his books and his pet theory, it's more problematic. He's attitude to Wikipedia is also problematic, openly declaring he'll violate the rules to push for the WP:TRUTH [[267]. The whole history of Renejs at Wikipedia shows that he is here to promote himself, gladly edit war to that end, and that he has no interest in constructing an encyclopaedia beyond his personal interests.Jeppiz (talk) 19:46, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
• Comment: Enough is enough. This user was discussed here last month: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive870#Extensive edit-warring, severe COI-violations and refusal to hear. I'm a relatively latecomer to this issue, and have been appalled by Renejs' behviour - blatantly COI editing, edit warring to add in BLP violations,[268][269][270] and personal attacks like this one. I should also point out that when I saw another editor identify renejs as René Salm, I reported this as a possible outing, but the advice I received from oversight was that this is not the case - the user in question has previously admitted his identity. StAnselm (talk) 19:49, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
•  Checkuser note:. GMarxx (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is a  Confirmed sock. The others are MithrasPriest, Spacelib, and most concernedly, Gekritzl. I've blocked them all indefinitely, though Gekritzl's I don't intend to be permanent. I've also blocked Renejs 36 hours for edit-warring, totally independent of any checkuser action. Courcelles 20:06, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• Update Even though Renejs is currently blocked for 36 hours, he is now back socking [271]. The socking, in addition to earlier policy violations, only goes to show once more that Renejs, who exclusively edit this topic, is on Wikipedia only to right great wrongs.Jeppiz (talk) 10:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Under the circumstances, I think it is incumbent upon me to point out, as I already have on the talk pages of the editors concerned, that Jeppiz is wrong. I am not René Salm and I consider him to be a particularly unpleasant and not over-bright liar. The only thing we have in common is that we have both been professional musicians. Otherwise, I am a professional historian and publish what I hope is sound work, if not world-renowned, via peer review while trying to fit in all my teaching commitments which is why it takes years to finish anything. The comment was based on my current research project and was designed to inform a debate about Carrier. It is hardly important one way or another. There is however a certain delicious irony in Salm being criticized and having his block extended when for once in his miserable and futile career of lies, attacks, smears and intellectual incoherence he had actually done nothing wrong!109.156.158.20 (talk) 13:58, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Yet you're on an anonymous account, which also seems to be an SPA, and you've concluded that Renejs had done nothing wrong with his most recent edit warring, which is clearly inaccurate. Zarcusian (talk) 15:12, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm on an anonymous account for purely professional reasons. I am not a SP, although due to the instability of my phone line my IP address changes fairly frequently. As for: 'you've concluded that Renejs had done nothing wrong with his most recent edit warring, which is clearly inaccurate'; where do I say that? On the contrary, I have made clear my distaste for Salm's actions on numerous while trying to untangle this wholly unnecessary mess.

My one aim in contributing to WP is to try and improve the content of the articles. Salm clearly is here to promote his work. From that point of view, if I had a vote it would be for at the very least a topic ban.109.156.158.20 (talk) 16:09, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Ah, now I understand. My 'for once...he has done nothing wrong' reference in the initial comment was specifically to block extension on the charge of socking, which whatever else he is guilty of (and let's face it, the man's guilty of practically everything else) was an erroneous charge. That has in any case now been corrected.109.156.158.20 (talk) 16:12, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I think it's pretty unlikely that 109.156.158.20 is Renejs. However, I would urge the IP editor to establish a named account—it allows one to preserve anonymity and avoid the suspicion that is often directed at IP editors who contribute to articles with contentious histories.

I also think it would be a good idea to reverse the recent lengthening of Renejs' block, since I don't think he's been using this IP to evade his initial block. --Akhilleus (talk) 17:23, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I agree with Akhilleus on both accounts. I no longer think the IP is Renejs. I do think it was a reasonable assumption at first: Renejs talks about his book project on CMT, is blocked, and an IP turns up whose first actions is to head to CMT to talk about his book project. It looked like a WP:DUCK. So it would be quite helpful if the IP would create an account. As for Renejs, I've already asked the admin who first blocked him (and who has checkuser rights) to verify that the IP is not Renejs and then reverse the lengthening of Renejs's block.Jeppiz (talk) 18:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Already done a few hours ago, guys. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Comment It's not that I'm overly sensible, but I'm getting a bit tired of all the personal attacks directed at me by Renejs. loose canon", "hypocrite", "bully", "malicious", etc [272], [273]. I can understand he is dissatisfied that I thought he was socking, but I wasn't the only one, I've retracted that when it became clear it was a mistake, I've called on the first blocking admin to shorten the block, which has been done. I don't expect Renejs to like me, but I believe my accusations against him have been factual (vowing to edit war [274] and a strong WP:COI [[275]). Insults like loose canon", "hypocrite", "bully", "malicious", etc. seem a bit uncalled for.Jeppiz (talk) 18:50, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

One Four down, one to go: Time to sort out what to do with Renejs

(edit conflict)Ok, Courcelles confirmed via CU that GMarxx as a sock of Gekritzl, and blocked him noting that he used three accounts.

Courcelles has also blocked Renejs for 36 hours for edit warring, with no comment as to socking. That Renejs returned so quickly still makes me believe that he and Gekritzl were at least engaging in off-site collusion.

Given Renejs's other behavior (even without the socking issue) is unacceptable, we still need to discuss the possibility of at least topic banning Renejs from all articles relating to Early Christianity and his offline research, if not just an indef block.

To repeat:

• Renejs does not want the article to exist without mentioning him
• he is aware of his own COI but does not care, and wishes to use the article to promote a particular view against policy, guideline, and consensus
• he intends to use this site to promote his offsite work
• he edit wars to restore primary-source BLP-violating based original research he likes, claiming there's no consensus because he doesn't agree with the consensus; and has made it clear that he intends to continue edit warring
• he has been brought up for this behavior before, and was only let off after making a false promise to change
• he believes that his off-site research amounts to credentials that justify his actions on this site

What his beliefs are do not matter, what his research is does not matter (beyond the fact that it is self-published and fringe) -- all that matters is that he believes he is entitled to do as he pleases to push his beliefs onto the site, and will act against the site's interests, policies, guidelines, and consensus because of that entitlement.

Ian.thomson (talk) 20:14, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

While I of course can't speak to offsite collusion, technically, Renejs is  Unrelated to the other four socks. And while I've indeffed Gekritzl for now, I don't object to someone changing that after discussion. Courcelles 20:21, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

That is good to know, thanks Courcelles. So we've established that there was extensive socking but Renejs was not involved. That doesn't change things, of course. He is still using Wikipedia to push himself, advertising his self-publish books, and obstructing any change to the article that would remove him (based on WP:RS as he has no expertise in the field). That, combined with the edit warring and even explicit promise/threat to continue to edit war is the issue.Jeppiz (talk) 20:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose topic ban I read Renejs's comments on adding the fringe tag and on that alone, he should not be be topic banned. Raquel Baranow (talk) 16:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm having trouble figuring out what you mean. Do you mean:

• That a topic ban is not enough in the light of his other behavior?

-or-

• That his content-based position in those comments excuse his openly stated plans to edit war, insistance on including primary-source-based original research against BLP, his clear agenda to self-promote his work, and so on?

Or do you have something else to excuse those behaviors besides a content-based? Because content does not excuse disruptive editing, especially when there's complete overlap between a user's content and the disruptive editing. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I think this ANI is an ad hominem attack against him, that he's a thorn in the flesh against many editors . . . can you say anything good about him? Maybe he doesn't understand completely how things work here (he only edited occasionally over many years but he's very knowledgeable), I like his website and don't think he's inappropriately promoting it. I don't see how the dif you provided above shows he insists that the article mentions him. At this point I don't think there's any valid reason for a topic ban or at the very least, I'd hate to see him gone because I think he knows the subjects he edits but maybe not what a RS is and that can be very frustrating. Raquel Baranow (talk) 18:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

So, people trying to add content you like excuses any disruptive behavior and trumps policy, guidelines, and consensus on their part? Ok, I'm now ignoring anything else you have to say in this discussion now, and encourage others to do likewise. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:13, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The previous ANI involving this editor was closed as a WP:OWN issue with a few guidelines recommended. Raquel Baranow (talk) 20:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

For the record, the previous ANI about the user was closed by an involved non-admin. Closing by an uninvolved admin is good. Closing by an involved non-admin on ANI is rather bad. And I must agree with Ian.thomson in finding it rather extraordinary that somebody should argue that the fact that they like a person's webpage should be an excuse for said person's behavior on Wikipedia. There are persons whose opinions I like a lot who have been blocked, and I've never opposed that, nor even seen anyone oppose it before. Could I respectfully suggest focusing on the actual issue instead of our personal likes or dislikes. As Ian said when filing the ANI, the issue here is behavior, not content.Jeppiz (talk) 21:20, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Recent vandalism of many articles

User Krakkos, probably one of a masters' many sockpuppets, is consequently deleting sourced content and replacing it with own POV-content, accusing everybody who is not of his opinion with sockpuppetry and searching for allies. He has been warned many times for being involved in disruptive editing in the revision history and at the talk page. Especially these articles are affected: Tashtyk culture, Karasuk culture, Kangju, Wusun, Bashkirs, Qiang (historical_people), Shang dynasty, Zhou dynasty. How to respond to such vandalism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:E620:A260:414F:9801:C8B7:E1B3 (talk) 22:16, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi 2A02:908:E620:A260:414F:9801:C8B7:E1B3, if you can provide specific examples of this users editing that you have mentioned above. If you havent done it before see WP:SDG for guidance on how to do so. Amortias (T)(C) 22:20, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zhou_dynasty&diff=640306580&oldid=639271469 ; POV-pushing resulted in a edit warring.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shang_dynasty&diff=640295114&oldid=639186591 ; POV-pushing resulted in a edit warring.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wusun&diff=647011527&oldid=646999999 ; POV-pushing resulted in a edit warring.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qiang_(historical_people)&diff=640310830&oldid=639428161 ; POV-pushing resulted in a edit warring.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kangju&diff=647251410&oldid=647238173 ; POV-pushing.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tashtyk_culture&action=history ; POV-pushing.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karasuk_culture&action=history ; POV-pushing.

I have counted at least 15 sockpuppets of the same master. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:E620:A260:414F:9801:C8B7:E1B3 (talk) 22:48, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)According to this site, the IP OP geolocates to Germany, where other socks of Tirgil34 also locate. Krakkos usually gives the edit summary that he's reverting another sock of Tirgil34, and the evidence leaves me only inclined to believe he's right. Only thing left to do here is block the IP. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:25, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I've notified Krakkos about this discussion. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:34, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I can't follow you. Do you mean everybody from Germany is a sockpuppet of this Tirgil34? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:E620:A260:414F:9801:C8B7:E1B3 (talk) 22:49, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

No, just people who behave just like Tirgil34. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:28, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

What kind of behavior is this? Being interested in central asia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:E620:A260:414F:9801:C8B7:E1B3 (talk) 23:41, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I was actually considering adressing this issue on ANI myself. Recently i've been making an attempt to revert disruptive edits by User:Tirgil34, who has been promoting turanist fringe theories on Wikipedia for years through the use of a vast number of socks. In accordance with CFD G5, article creations (including edits i presume) by banned users qualify for immediate deletion. Tirgil34 edits have especially done signicant damage of WP's coverage of Central Asian history, a good example is the nonsense article Turushka, which had been present on WP for months until deleted upon my request earlier today. Tirgil34 uses agressive tactis to attack serious editors who attempt to repair the damage he has done, for example, the respected User:Florian Blaschke was blocked through Tirgil34's scheeming a couple of months ago after reverting fringe additions by User:Ragdeenorc, later confirmed to be a Tirgil34 sock, to the article Kurgan. Tirgil34 appears to have access to an impressive number of IP's (as examplified in the editing history of Andronovo culture), making it practically impossible to prevent his disruptive edits through blocking. He has been pursuing his agenda with extraordinary tendentiousness for years, and appears to be still active despite his numerous bans, as examplified by the appearance of a ducky IP within minutes after i revert Tirgil34's additions to Wusun. Upon the ducky IP's fulfillment of the WP:3RR, the User:Yagmurlukorfez enters the article to enforce the IP's edits. Yagmurlukorfez has earlier been pushing Tirgil34's theories on a wide range of articles, including Issyk kurgan, Karasuk culture, Andronovo culture, Paleolithic Continuity Theory and many more, which seems to be his only purpose on WP. Given Tirgil34's tendentiousness and access to a large amount of IP's, i fear the only solution is careful monitoring of victimized articles by responsible editors. I will not be able to do this on my own. If any responsible admin would join in this effort i would assist with all means possible. Krakkos (talk) 23:23, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

You are hiding four facts: 1. Tirgil34 is not related to Hirabutor's sockpuppets, 2. fringe theories were never detected, 3. you are pushing your own POV by deleting sourced contents, 4. you are using many IP's around the world to hide your sockpuppetry. That's the matter and this is what should be discussed. Another matter which should be discussed is how you attack other users with psychological warfare:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Atama&diff=prev&oldid=609971489

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yagmurlukorfez&diff=609967624&oldid=609896550

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yagmurlukorfez&diff=610458850&oldid=609973978

- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yagmurlukorfez&diff=prev&oldid=609536743 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:E620:A260:414F:9801:C8B7:E1B3 (talk) 23:38, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm uncertain weather your accusations are even worthy of a reply, but i'l reply nevertheless.

- 1. User:Hirabutor is a confirmed WP:Sock of User:Tirgil34
- 2. WP:Fringe has been pushed by Tirgil34 and his socks on countless articles, a good example is the revision history of Issyk Kurgan
- 3. Deletion of articles made and edits made by banned users is WP:Policy in accordance with CFD G5.
- 4. The last "facts" concerning racist attacks refer to edits made way before i even started cleaning up User:Tirgil34's mess on WP. These edits are obvious trolling. On Wusun an IP which appears connected to you 2A02:908:E620:A260:F836:FBF:6432:6776 accused me of a "false-flag operation". Perhaps you were mistaking me for yourself?

Am I the only person who finds it oddly curious that they were able to pull four such differently linked diffs together at short notice. Amortias (T)(C) 23:41, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

What is your point? All of them are related to one and the same time frame. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:E620:A260:414F:9801:C8B7:E1B3 (talk) 23:45, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

According to your contributions youve been editing for less than 24 hours and have managed to track down diffs from almost 9 months ago in under 15 minutes. Have you previously edited under a different IP or account that would have provided you with this insight prior to today? Amortias (T)(C) 23:49, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Does ipv6 tell you something?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:908:e620:a260:414f:9801:c8b7:e1b3 (talk • contribs)

Unfortunatley yes, but without knowing who your ISP is to find out what the address lifetime they have allocated to your IP address is its not much help in proving/disproving what addresses youve edited under previously (legitimately or otherwise) to disprove or prove the concerns mentioned above.Amortias (T)(C) 00:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)The "evidence" provided by the OP for "POV-pushing" consists of Krakkos replacing unsourced or poorly sourced information or adding new information, usually citing a Princeton-published work. In this case, he only improved refs. He also shuffled info to give due weight, or removed material that appears somewhat undue. The last bit I point to (the removal of information) is the only thing that I could begin to be worried about, but would still need good evidence to not assume that it was ultimately in good faith.

As for the IP's claims that Krakkos is socking under the last four links he provided: we should all be insulted the IP thinks we're that stupid; and at the very least, treat the poorly-evidenced accusation as a personal attack on Krakkos, if not trolling.

We should block the IP OP. They're clearly not here in good faith, and can only be assumed to be a sock of a blocked POV-pusher who Krakkos has tangled with before. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:50, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Seems you would like to block me before I can provide the sock accounts?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:908:e620:a260:414f:9801:c8b7:e1b3 (talk • contribs)

If you really had anything beyond insinuations, you should've revealed them by now. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:03, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

What a coincidence, all of them are related to Tirgil34:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zheek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mendsetting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Krakkos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ergative rlt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cantspans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Banderheits

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Alsace38&offset=&limit=500&target=Alsace38

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=46.143.214.22&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2015&month=-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ArordineriiiUkhtt

here the master even admits he is using socks for "different topic areas": http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rajmaan&oldid=525645285

... and what coincidence we see the main operating ip's 188. + 187. + 46. consequently in context with the same tactics of ip socking including name changing and allying with the same admins/users, and all of them are connecting Tirgil34's and Hirabutor's edits with one and the same Kurdish sockpuppet master. What a coincidence... also read Hirabutor's earlier evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Materialscientist&diff=prev&oldid=607457239 . Possibly more sock accounts were created, only an investigation could reveal it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:E620:A260:414F:9801:C8B7:E1B3 (talk) 00:59, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Hey buddy - if you're going to claim I'm a sock account, do me the favor of starting an investigation at SPI. I would love to know who I'm actually a sock of! Ergative rlt (talk) 20:22, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• I agree with the concerns of repoter. The Reported user doing personel attacks (such as turanist, sockpuppet etc.) and pushing his/her POV and deleting countless reliable sources on several articals with the reason of "sockpuppet edits." But also same removals doing by sevaral IPs with the same reason. These are might be related. We have a serious problem with that. These actions harming neutrality of articals and need to be stopped.Yagmurlukorfez (talk) 23:55, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Long-time Pan-Turkist sock puppetry

If you review some Central Asian or Eastern European article (usually topics about Indo-Europeans, Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans (even Ossetians), Tocharians, Archaeology, Languages and cultures), you'll find tracks of Tirgil34 edits and his socks. All of them are German! editors who are interested in Turkifying articles. Just check Turanid race article. For example, this is and old unblocked sock: User:FACT NEEDED, see his userpage and contribution, again another German who loves to Turkify anything he finds in wikipedia:

• I am a German historian. I love history.

All of them have same behavior, editing-style, edit summaries, and etc. He plays a "Good Cop Bad Cop" tactic, and that User:Yagmurlukorfez restores his edits every time. These guys are not here to build encyclopedia. They tries to push fringe and unreliable content in every article that they don't like. The above IP who submitted this laughable report, is Tirgil34 himself. Again a German from Germany! It was confirmed by SPI, that all of these users are one person or they work as a team/group. If his edits are not problematic, why different users and admins reverted all of his edits? And now he attacks other editors to find a way to return to wikipedia. Another point is, why all of this so-called GERMANs (who love history) act similar?! Admins should ban him and any IPs related to this Pan-Turkist sock master. Protect those articles and other editors watch similar edits to prevent this non-stop revisionist. --175.179.5.45 (talk) 08:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Completely agree. Tirgil34 and Yagmurlukorfez (same person or not) are only interested in pushing their pet idea, a classic fringe view claiming that the Scythians (and related peoples) were Turkic and Turkic/Altaic languages are native to Europe. No long-time editor who is interested in Indo-European, Iranian or Turkic languages and peoples, or the history of Central Asia, can avoid having run into them and their socks at some point. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 09:23, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Some IP socks still attacking me with being sockpuppet and "pan-turkist/turanist" claims. Admins should do something to these harassments. It's obviously personel attack but always ignoring by admins and moderatos. Same for user Florian Blaschke. This is not the first time. On the other hand, I (or someone else) can edit whatever I/they want, you can't blaim the people with such thing for their interests on wikipedia.Yagmurlukorfez (talk) 16:41, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Florian Blaschke looks actually ok, you can at least talk with him in a fine manner, even though he doesn't understand the seriousness of the situation with Krakkos, who appears now with the same Korean/Japanese/Viatnemese proxy-server as Hirabutor made evident. The problem is the sock master, being recently very active with his sock Krakkos, blames other users for being in disagreement with the sock masters' opinion. When debating with Krakkos in the revision history I've noticed the sock master employs three different tactics ; 1. distraction: divert attention from the argument at hand and avoid debating the issue directly 2. ad hominem logical fallacy: blaming the messenger and not debating the message 3. fallacy of relevance ("red herring"): the submitter will attempt the "two wrongs make a right" tactic. In employing these tactics the sock master unwittingly admits the correctness of the opponent's orginal argument. Every attempt to discuss with Krakkos, as this user never admits own mistakes, will enter a dead end finally. The mass-removal of sourced academic content still continues and nobody is doing anything against this. 2A02:908:E620:A260:AD6B:2337:7976:A2AF (talk) 18:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

And 193.154.234.138 is now making a loud quacking on a related article. Amortias (T)(C) 21:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Unrelated to the other IP's which are usually geolocated in the US, Iran, Japan and Korea. 22:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)~

Comment: I have filed a sockpuppet investigation against Yagmurlukorfez, based on the fact that their edits at Wusun are very similar to earlier edits by Radosfrester and Pioikdiyma, blocked sockpuppets of Tirgil34. Hirabutor, mentioned in the paragraph above, is also a blocked sockpuppet of Tirgil34. See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Tirgil34. --MelanieN (talk) 22:29, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• I'm really getting sick of these nonsense actions. It's been a year since I joined wikipedia, I'm already investigated several times and nothing happened. Not sure is this some kind a tactic or stupidity of those troll IPs but ironicly, they still keep accusing me with being sockpuppet. I have no directly or indirectly relation with Tirgil34 or his sock accounts. I don't even know who is he. But here, even admins (such as MelanieN) keep opening investigation about me again and again. This negative attitude among some admins against me is harming their neutrality.Yagmurlukorfez (talk) 23:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

User SchroCat is vandalizing my talk page

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Looking for some assistance. User SchroCat has twice vandalized my talk page.[276] [277] Jb 007clone (talk) 22:55, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• I am not sure those diffs rise to the level of vandalism. If he is saying you something you don't like just ask him to stay away. Have you done that? It might work. If it doesn't let someone know. JodyB _talk 23:03, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

It's doubtful, as I deleted his first comment and he replied with another straight away. I will delete this latest one and see what happens. Jb 007clone (talk) 23:10, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Politely tell him on his talk page not to post to yours. If he continues then you can come back here. Bear in mind, he is likely to ask you not to post on his talk page. TFD (talk) 23:37, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice. There doesn't seem to be any further activity so I don't think any further actions are necessary. Jb 007clone (talk) 00:28, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

No. SchroCat has not vandalized your talk page. He or she has made uncivil posts to your talk page that certainly are not vandalism, and do not appear to be blockable for incivility. The editor who is closer to a civility block is User:Jb_007clone for the personal attack right here of claiming vandalism. If you have been editing Wikipedia long enough to know what vandalism is, you have been editing Wikipedia long enough to know what is not vandalism. You can tell SchroCat to stay off your talk page, but basically the two of you should leave each other alone and stop the incivility. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:53, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Robert McClenon, thanks for your comment. I was unaware of the specific distinction between the terms vandalism and uncivil as it pertains to Wikipedia. The comments on my page were unwelcome and I first tried to delete them only to have the user comment again. I have not posted any comments on the user's page, nor do I plan to in the future. There will be no further contact on my end in regards to this user. Jb 007clone (talk) 00:25, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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Ayman Mohyeldin

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• Ayman Mohyeldin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The issue of Aymans comments on the MSNBC show Morning Joe regarding Chris Kyle has resulted in death threats against Ayman. It has also initiated vile and abusive behavior on Aymans social media pages towards he and others. There is no huge relevance for this issue to be included in Aymans Wiki page other than to continue the harassment of Ayman. Please allow me to keep it off 00:48, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Hokiechicklet — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hokiechicklet (talk • contribs)

If it has resulted in death threats, should that be added to the article? The comments have been reported in two reasonably major news sources that are cited in the article, and it's widely reported on the internet, so we're hardly the only place where this appears.

This seems like Hokiechicklet has an issue with the content of the article, and that should be discussed at the article talk page; so far, the user has refused to do so. —C.Fred (talk) 00:55, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Note. Hokiechicklet has been blocked for 48 hours for edit warring. —C.Fred (talk) 01:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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Randykitty's commentary at AfD

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At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Viscardi (3rd nomination), User:Randykitty made this incivil remark, forgetting that 1) afd is not for scrutinizing user behavior but for discussing articles 2) not contributors but contributions are generally to be commented on (outside afds of course where only articles should be discussed) 3) good faith should be assumed and 4) casting WP:ASPERSIONS is never a good idea.

The user that Randykitty attacked reverted the edit[278] but Randykitty restored it.

I removed it again after stumbling upon it today[279] and discussed the matter on Randykitty's talk page, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Randykitty&oldid=647307430#Disruptive_editing

Randykitty restored his improper comment to the afd discussion and refuses to get the point. Action is needed. I suggest 1) removing the disruptive remark from the afd discussion and 2) blocking Randykitty until the afd discussion is closed to prevent further disruption. 2600:100E:B129:1508:0:4A:4935:B901 (talk) 03:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Nothing here warrants a block, and it's probably more shady that this is your first edit... Sergecross73 msg me 03:42, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Disruption that can't be stopped other than with a block always warrants a block. Even failing that, the incivil comment should be removed and the admin trouted, not so much for making it to begin with as for defending it and reverting it back twice. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 03:55, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

There was no disruption until you tag-team IPs started complaining about a stale comment that probably isn't even problematic. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Incivility/casting aspersions/misusing AfD to examine user conduct, etc. are all disruptive. As for stale, well, not any more. The issue was raised with Randykitty earlier today and his response is definitely not "stale". 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:08, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Let me ask you a question: do you think it is disruptive to dredge up old incidents when this noticeboard is already so full that it takes way too long for the page to load? Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:11, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Personally, I'd like to see ANI shut down permanently as 99% of the posts here are a waste of time. Still, a user came here and in good faith reported what he or she considered to be an issue requiring admin attention. Who's to decide which of the 100 petty issues is too petty for ANI? You? It's here, let's deal with it. I'd say pointlessly pontificating on how unimportant the issue is is more disruptive than the original report. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Dear IP, you need to learn to make diffs if you are going to file a report at ANI or anywhere else. Please edit your report, using diffs rather than version iterations. Also, since you never participated in the AfD, nor indeed have you made any edits to Wikipedia, why did you file this ANI report? Are you MicroPaLeo or Herpetology2 posting while logged out? If so, you need to log in and sign this report, or you will be censured and/or blocked for abusing multiple accounts. Are you Markgall12 using yet another alternate account? Then all you will have accomplished here is to get this IP account blocked as well. Softlavender (talk) 03:56, 16 February 2015 (UTC) PS: This comment goes for the second IP in this discussion as well. Softlavender (talk) 03:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Picking on a new well-meaning user because they didn't format their post properly while derailing their ANI thread is unhelpful to say the least. How about a comment on Randykitty's behavior instead? No? I see. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:04, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I have to hand it to you. This may be the dumbest trolling job I've ever seen. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:24, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I was actually coming here to open a thread about 206.125.140.113 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)'s conduct, but I've been saved the trouble. It should be noted that Randykitty's disputed comment on the AfD happened over a month ago and it doesn't appear to have been an issue until 206.125.140.113 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) made a fuss about it. If anyone should be blocked to prevent disruption, it's these two IPs. It's more than obvious that someone is editing while logged out and also either trolling or incompetent. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:00, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The discussion on Randykitty's talk page happened not a month ago but earlier today. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:04, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, and in what way was that discussion necessary? If the first IP hadn't felt a need to revert a harmless comment from last month, none of this foolishness would have happened. This community has enough problems without you three IPs going around and making more. Randykitty isn't harming anything, too bad I can't say the same for you. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:08, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Rude remarks like the one Randykitty posted at that afd very much do hurt the community as they discourage editors from participating. They're why afd's basically a ghost town these days. The insulted editor reverted the comment, Randykitty restored it, and the editor backed away to avoid getting blocked for daring to revert an admin attacking him. That's not a recipe for a healthy community, and your defense of the admin's misconduct's not helping either. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:12, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Look, everyone sees right through what you're trying to do here - editing anonymously in order to report someone you've got a problem with. Sadly, people attempt this all the time. You've presented an extremely weak case coupled with a ton of melodrama. Unless some new, better difs are presented, this discussion is going to by closed pretty soon. Sergecross73 msg me 04:18, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Are you planning to remove the uncivil comment or not though? 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

There is no uncivil comment. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:33, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

No, nothing warrants removal. Sergecross73 msg me 04:38, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposal

• Propose blocks for all three of these IPs for sockpuppetry per WP:DUCK and for making claims against Randykitty one month after the fact about a discussion in which none of them participated. Softlavender (talk) 04:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

He made the comment when he made it, but the most recent reinstatement of the comment after reversion happened not even a day ago. It's pretty much the same as if the comment was made today. The issue isn't stale at all. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:32, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

So you still don't understand why it is disruptive and fishy for an IP with no prior editing history to dredge up an issue from last month? Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:38, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Easy support and some investigating should be done to determine if the accounts behind these IPs can be identified and indeffed. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support, as it will contradict the sock farm's assertion about threads here being a waste of time. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The willingness of registered users to cry "sockpuppetry" each time an IP user says something they don't like always amazed me. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

You are amazed by the fact that we would be suspicious to see 3 IPs with no apparent prior editing history making an isuse over a very mild comment from last month? Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:36, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm always amazed that socks think they're the first time anyone has tried sockpuppetry and/or that veterans of Wikipedia have never seen socking before. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Amazed, yes, every time! But never surprised. Every time an IP user says something a registered user doesn't like, the word "sockpuppet" is being used as a billy club to silence said IP user. It is indeed amazing. The predictability of it that is. And just look the fervor with which Randykitty's uncivil remark is being defended! Good ol' ANI, you're just the way I remembered you! 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:42, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I do feel like my intelligence is being insulted. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:41, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

You're lucky it's just a puny IP user insulting it! If it were Randykitty insulting it, they'd get out of it unscathed. But with an IP user, you can just cry "sockpuppetry" until we're all blocked! And that's what you're doing. Good job! 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support - WP:NOTHERE. Sergecross73 msg me 04:39, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposal 2

• Propose Remove Randykitty's uncivil comment from the AfD and admonish him for making it, and then reverting it back twice. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support as proposer 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose - The boomerang approacheth. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:31, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose because I don't think we want every aggrieved editor out there to create a thread over some weeks-old issue and demand a retraction. If we give in this time, we are setting a mindless precedent. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:33, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The issue isn't stale, the comment was reverted back earlier today. And the issue was discussed with Randykitty prior to posting this thread. It's not like the originator of this discussion went straight here. In fact, Randykitty gave the user a go-ahead to come here, see the discussion at his talk page. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:37, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

What comment? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:38, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The IPs' complaint stems from this original comment [280]. Mind you, this comment was made on January 27. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 04:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, and then reverted yesterday, and reverted back also yesterday. Thus it isn't stale. Nevermind that though, focus on screaming "sockpuppetry" as does your friend who didn't even bother to read the original post apparently. 70.60.119.199 (talk) 04:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose and double the boomerang on 70.60.119.199 and his sockmaster account. Likewise for any other IP that !votes on either of these two proposals. Softlavender (talk) 04:37, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose - Come on, there are more pressing things to deal with on this website. Sergecross73 msg me 04:38, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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Heads-up: User:RevertBastard

It looks like RevertBastard (talk · contribs) is building themselves a Twinkle-derivative tool. While they haven't yet done anything anything against policy, their username does not inspire confidence about their longer-term intentions. -- The Anome (talk) 12:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Duly noted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RevertBastard (talk • contribs) 13:04, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• We better hope he doesn't create a tool that vandalizes articles in a flash or even worse, a Vandalbot. Snowager (talk) 15:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Enkhzaya.b

User Enkhzaya.b (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) keeps removing well sourced information from Nambaryn Enkhbayar and Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (2010) even after having been blocked for doing so. Previous ANI notification here. For almost a year this has been exclusively a single-purpose account trying to whitewash one politician and his party. In this edit note she basically admitted to being an appointed propaganda drone. --Latebird (talk) 14:23, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Editor is blocked for a week. Perhaps the article can stablize and the editor can understand our policies. JodyB _talk 15:53, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Legal threat and harassment on Amy Pascal's talkpage

There is a legal threat: "Libel suit waiting to happen as he ha now demonstrated an uninterest in truth." as well as a hysterical personal attack (with my misspelt username in the title) full of spelling mistakes on Amy Pascal's talkpage. Not the first time I have been harassed for editing Pascal's page (even after I added her limited philanthropic work). In the past, the page had to be protected and I had a personal threat with a swearword posted on my talkpage, plus multiple personal attacks as you can see on the talkpage. I would like to see the legal threat and personal attack removed if I am to keep improving the page (which needs a lot of work now as the new editing does not match what the references say at all). Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 15:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

In the future, it's best to notify Elinruby on her talk page with the code in that orange box: {{subst:ANI-notice}}, so that she knows she's the subject of ANI topic. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 27 Shevat 5775 16:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

OK, I might make minor mistakes, but I am not the one issuing legal threats and making personal attacks about other editors on talkpages. Why is it taking so long to remove the legal threat? I fear I may be accused of more mistakes if I do it myself.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:37, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Legal threats are usually left util the subject who has issued them has had time to retract them. If they dont retract them and the threat is obvious then they could be blocked per WP:NLT if they've been notified of this and havent edited since then it may be left for them to remove the next time they edit to give them chance to retract it. Amortias (T)(C) 16:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining. What I don't understand is that User:CambridgeBayWeather thinks it is not a legal threat. Yet the direct quote is very clear "libel suit." I honestly don't feel comfortable editing that page as long as it's not been removed. The aim is not to block anyone, but to remove the threat and also the personal attack, so that we can focus on constructive editing. So I'm just waiting to feel welcome on that page/talkpage again. I hope this makes sense. It seems reasonable to me!Zigzig20s (talk) 17:25, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Here's the difference to where the comment was posted. I indicated that I didn't see it a clear cut legal threat but that they should seek a second opinion. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 17:26, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, so I am asking for second opinion(s) here. I should add that I wrote nothing libellous about that woman, so the legal threat is void. Those editors who can't spell and issue threats are just harassing me for the sake of it--or to intimidate me so that I stop editing Pascal's page in a fair and balanced way. Redacting the legal threat and my username from the headline/title on the talkpage would seem the first step, but I don't want to do it myself in case it is "against the rules." Please help.Zigzig20s (talk) 17:31, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Agreed having looked at the link all they have claimed is that they feel its possible that there may be a lawsuit. Theres no claim or threat to actually sue. It might be a very loose chilling effect but it doesnt appear to be setting off any alarm bells. I'll strike the perceived threat and leave a note explaining why. Amortias (T)(C) 17:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

There is definitely a chilling effect, and thanks for redacting the legal threat, but the tone is still very inappropriate. Calling me "dud" (I think they mean "dude"?), accusing me of all kind of inappropriate behaviour, etc. It sounds hysterical, doesn't it? I thought it was written by a drunk person when I first read it. I'm sorry, I still don't think it is appropriate. And my (misspelt) username is still in the title/headline, which is a way to shame me publicly--completely inappropriate. I would like to discuss the content of the article (there is a lot to say about the new edits), but NOT in a personal manner. Editing Wikipedia is not a personal matter; it's a neutral/objective editing process, which has nothing to do with "zigizag"...I can't deal with hysterical editors who attack me personally. Please help?Zigzig20s (talk) 17:58, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure theres much more we can do with the particular post. There are strict criteria for editing other users comments and I'm not convinced that anything else there is anything more than prehaps being uncivil. The best thing to do would be to provide evidence to refute their accusations on the talk page.Amortias (T)(C) 18:03, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Noting WP:BOOMERANG… Per WP:DIFFS: Non-vandalism rollback-use[281] notification[282] and follow-up. Similar wholesale undo [283] and follow-up [284]. I've spotted that the Amy Pascal article has been taken to WP:RfC twice [285] [286] recently, the second one by me (ie. WP:DDE first step over concerns of potential WP:NPOV pushing). "Harassment" could be polite reminders of WP policy, of which I'm aware of eg. [287] [288]. Whilst the account has been around a while, there's still the scope for learning, as indicated in responding a couple of months ago at [289] regarding what makes libre content. These diffs are obviously slanted towards my own memory and edits—other editors may have had different experiences elsewhere.

Zigzig20s: I can see that Amortias has now struck out some words over on Talk:Amy Pascal per [290]; I'm not sure I see that as a directed legal threat. If this was the problematic line, excellent. But, if it is still something elsewhere in contravention of WP:NLT please could you help us understand the precise words that constitute the legal threat, where it appears, and whom it is from and whom it is directed at. —Sladen (talk) 18:04, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I removed my misspelt username removed from the title--nobody tried to help at all about this and it was simply horrible. Also writing "you does have a balance and an ownership and an edit warring problem" not only makes me wonder what language they speak, but also, it is very vituperative and abusive. I would like to see an apology if we are to move forward. Moreover, Lisa Kudrow is not a "starlet," but a producer like Pascal. But this is not a one-off. Sladen has been watching my contributions (see my response in that section, "Very creepy of you...") and trying to get me blocked on someone else's talkpage, about a topic they have absolutely nothing to do with. The harassment is constant.Zigzig20s (talk) 18:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Zigzig20s, removing your username from a section that is about you makes it very difficult to understand what the section is about, this is most likely why no-one intervened to remove the information. The perceived legal threat was removed as per your request. The information the other user has posted with regards to both yourself and Lisa Kudrow is there opinion on the matter, they are entitled to their opinion (even if everyone else disagrees with them) and the best thing that can be done if they havent broken any of the policies on Wikipeida is to just ignore them. Sladens warning is quite serious, trying to out an editor is quite a serious matter. It may not have been your intention but in a similar manner as to the perceived legal threat things are open to interpretation including a possible outing. The best thing that you can do for now is ignore the edits that have been made that originally brought you here as it will be difficult to prove they meet the criteria for admin intervention. Amortias (T)(C) 19:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I was joking around with Edward; that is ridiculous. My point is Sladen is watching my contributions and has been out to get me. I am traumatised by his comments on the talkpage.Zigzig20s (talk) 19:50, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

User:SeBySpeeDy

User:SeBySpeeDy does not seem to be here to build an encyclopedia: [291] [292] [293] [294]. Thank your for your action in advance. Borsoka (talk) 17:05, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• User shown the door and article temporarily semi-protected. I don't see the need for a rangeblock at this time, but any admin is free to implement one if appropriate. --Kinu ^t/_c 17:08, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Kinu, thank you for your prompt and adequate action. Borsoka (talk) 17:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Tendentious editing, removal of well-sourced material, etc., at Sam Harris

Xenophrenic (talk · contribs), Collect (talk · contribs), LM2000 (talk · contribs), Jonotrain (talk · contribs)
WP:GAMING, WP:TE, WP:IDLI, WP:IDHT
I have to sleep after posting this, so won't be back until tomorrow, so take your time.
I add material to Criticisms section[295]
Jonotrain (who originally posted it, seemingly an SPA with too much Wiki knowledge) re-adds sentence to lead [296]
Xenophrenic deletes criticism from lead[297]
I restore.[298]
Deletes again, with untrue edit summary (i.e., “no summary”). There was a summary of the Al Jazeera and Salon pieces before sentence was added to lead.[299]
I revert and tell him “take it to Talk”[300]
And again[301]
Deletes it again even after I remove “racism” as compromise.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam_Harris_(author)&diff=646784582&oldid=646775831]
Jonotrain restores my version[302]
Xenophrenic makesdubious claim of “copyvio”[303]
Then he deletes Criticisms section including Chomsky quote as well as sentence from lead, adds one paragraph to the portions of the Criticism section and retitles it “On Islam” under umbrella category of Views. [304]
Created “Political” section under Views, reinserted Chomsky quote, with support from two secondary news article sources, one from the Independent, as well as academic sources taken directly from the New Atheism article.[305] Jonotrain (who originally posted it, seemingly an SPA with too much Wiki knowledge) re-adds sentence to lead.[306]
A new editor to the page (LM2000) starts with a delete and claims UNDUE out of the blue [307]
Same editor, following Xenophrenic’s pattern, deletes Political section and merges some of it under “On Islam”, again deleting Chomsky quote, Lean, etc., and then self-reverts, claiming that he saw Talk and didn’t want to fight for the changes [308]
SPA reverts LM2000 self-revert (as well as his own edits, contradicting himself), and suddenly expresses a change of faith that he agrees (i.e., declaring that his own edits were wrong, basically), including Mondoweiss quote he inserted (from piece linked to and praised in Guardian piece by Greenwald)[309]
After reverting, I integrate quote that Jonotrain “signed” and posted in an exaggerated manner, apparently with the aim of having it declared UNDUE later. [310]
After I move Mondoweiss quote to Political section, Collect deletes it, dismissing the source as “very editorial”, then he removes categories (four of the five) under which Harris is categorized as Jewish.[311] Collect had directly edited the categories (Harris was categorized as a Jew four or five times) in his second of only two minor edits to the article before 2/16.[312]
As shown by this BLP/N thread, his apparent aim was solely the removal of the Mondoweiss quote, claiming I violated BLPCAT with it.
I continue to build the article. [313]
Xenophrenic continues to tendentiously revert[314]
After which LM2000 rejoins with a revert, and I expand the Political section further, after addressing Xenophrenic’s unfounded dismissal of sources on the Talk page as well as misrepresentation of HP piece[315] , and he reverts again, claiming my edits are problematic.[316] Regarding sourcing, etc., see this Talk page thread[317], such as this comment dismissing Chomsky and two other sources on false grounds[318].
Collect also started a bogus RfC.[319]
--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 18:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

If any editors are edit-warring, then take it to the edit-warring noticeboard. Otherwise all I see is a content dispute. I do not see btw what is bogus about the RfC. It identifies specific text and asks if it should be included. This discussion thread should be closed. TFD (talk) 19:31, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

While I agree that Xenophrenic should not have necessarily flat removed this material, I do agree that the material was not an accurate summary of the citations at all.

Xenophrenic was right to tell you to take it to the talk page, per WP:BRD (which is not BRRD, or BRRRRD). Per WP:BRD, after the material was removed, you should have gone to the talk page seek consensus for its restoration. That is the spirit of the policy on edit warring, even if the letter defines it as more than three reverts.

Removing "racism" as a compromise was the wrong issue entirely. The articles cited (especially the Aljazeera piece) totally did support including the word "racism" in there somewhere, they just didn't support the notion of "widespread," and needed more exacting summaries (such as "Aljazeera, the Guardian, and Nathan Lean have accused Harris of racism.") Which is pretty close to what Xenophrenic did here. I would be happier if he then summarized the new section in the intro as well, but otherwise the edit was doing your work for you.

The copyvio claim is hardly dubious. This edit removes outright plagiarism from the Salon article cited. Your original addition was a quote (not plagiarism), but it was eventually turned into plagiarism by removing the blockquote tags.

Harris represents a great deal of what I'm personally opposed to, (such that an article that represented only my personal views would portray him as just the pretentious, upper-class, and better-spoken version of the sort of redneck that beat up Hindus after 9/11, combined with the grown version of a teenager who becomes an atheist after finding flaws in his own misconceptions about religion) -- but I have to find Xenophrenics edits and behavior were within site policies and guidelines. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:54, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Hope you got a good night's sleep. I agree with TFD - this is a content dispute. Try working it out on the TP. Atsme☯^Consult 20:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Addendum: I could imagine that this edit goes against WP:GEVAL in the intro, but I'd have to study the article in fuller detail to make a solid decision one way or the other.

As for LM2000, I'm seeing edits to WrestleMania 32, List of WWE personnel, Garett Bischoff, and lots of other wrestling articles, going all the way back to Extreme Championship Wrestling. I'm also seeing edits relating to movies, and other forms of entertainment. Is he editing outside of his usual area? Maybe. Is he a single purpose account? Hardly. Does calling him a single purpose account border on a personal attack? Possibly.

Collect's RfC looks to me to be a separate issue, and I do have to ask why OP want to classify a well-known New Atheist proponent he doesn't like as Jewish. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:05, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The salient facts are at Talk:Sam_Harris_(author)#RfC, and at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Sam_Harris_.28author. The desire of some to label an outspoken atheist as "Jewish" even to the extent of using a non-notable person's opinion from a non-notable blog to stress their Jewish tribal attitudes seems to be to run directly counter to both letter and spirit of WP:BLP. Clue: When four editors not particularly known for agreeing on much, but agree that one editor is wrong, there is a slight chance that the person posting here is the one who is wrong. Cheers. Collect (talk) 21:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC) Count is now seven - looks like "trying one more forum" failed. Collect (talk) 21:24, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Pattern of abusive behavior from Montanabw

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User User:montanabw has a history of referring to Slovenian Wikipedia editors as "nationalists" in edit summaries and talk pages, often in the context on the article about the Lipizzan, regardless of the merit of their contributions (which, coincidentally, are about a horse breed and have nothing to do with "nationalism"). Here is the latest example: [320]. Of course, she is perfectly entitled to dislike the country and its people, but I believe her behavior constitutes harassment based on national origin, as well as a failure to presume good faith. --LJU2ORD (talk) 19:29, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Maybe you could have talked to the user before raising the issue here. As far as any "history" is concerned, you're essentially a newbie, so how you are an expert on the user's "history"? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:00, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Google "montanabw" and "Slovenian"/"Slovenia" and "nationalists" and you will see that this wasn't the first such incident.--LJU2ORD (talk) 20:49, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm confused. Why is "nationalist" considered "abusive", or even insulting in any way?? (hey Bugs, how ya doin?) — Ched :  ?  20:05, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

It's abusive because it presumes a nefarious, ideologically driven agenda instead of a simple disagreement about the facts. --LJU2ORD (talk) 20:49, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• First off, do not attribute motive to other editors. Second, you are WP:CANVASS Canvasssing at WikiProject Slovenia and poisoning the well. I have no "dislike" of Slovenia or its people, but I DO uphold the WP:NPOV policy against POV-pushing. And there has been a problem in the now GA-class article Lipizzan article for YEARS with pro-Slovenian activists/nationalists constantly wanting to alter the article so that Slovenia is credited as the sole source of where the Lipizzan horse breed was developed. This is in part linked to a larger issue where Slovenia even sued in the EU courts to claim exclusive use of the breed name "Lipizzan" and take it away from Austria, the nation otherwise most closely affiliated with the breed due to the Spanish Riding School and the Piber Federal Stud. It is true that the breed takes its name from the stud farm that is now at Lipica inside of present-day Slovenia, but the horses were developed in the Austria-Hungarian Empire and foundation animals came from across Central Europe and about five different nations could "claim" them for various reasons of either national boundaries surrounding Lipica or the locations of other stud farms that contributed foundation bloodstock. (Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Italy). The article has been carefully worked on over the past five years to address this issue. OK, so here's the deal about "here we go again": This is not the first rodeo about this issue: 2013. This goes back even farther: [321] 2009 example So yes, "here we go again." I will note that this user made one good contribution to the article in 2013: [322] content which is now in the article in the "history" section. Montanabw^(talk) 20:08, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

  I note the irony that you would chide me for attributing motive to other editors, considering that you have no qualms about attributing motive ("nationalism") to me. I see you also got your facts all wrong. It was Austria, not Slovenia, that tried to claim its status as a sole inheritor of the Lipizzan by trying to convince the EU that it should become the only official keeper of the breed's registry books. The Slovenian government tried to prevent that from happening. Slovenia is a tiny, thoroughly insignificant country with no international influence, so it's laughable that you are trying to portray it as some sort of a villain out to steal Austria's heritage. But that's besides the point. The issue is that you presume "nationalism" on the part of Slovenian editors even though you make no such claims about editors of other nationalities, who have also added information about the Lipizzan to the article (and alphabetized lists, etc.).--LJU2ORD (talk) 20:49, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm not suggesting that it was intended this way, but in the Slovenian context, "nationalist" can have a pejorative meaning. See Slovenian National Party. If that's the case, perhaps this can be chalked up to a misunderstanding and disagreement over content. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 20:26, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I see absolutely no abusive behavior on the part of Montanabw. Your recent edits were intended to give more weight to one country's contributions. Whether that is correct or incorrect, it is a nationalistic edit. Calm down, discuss on the talk page, abide by the reliable sources. [Full disclosure: I already warned LJU2ORD about incivility today, and I learned of this ANI notice from Montana] Karanacs (talk) 20:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Speaking of disclosures, you somehow forgot to disclose the fact that you urged me to take my complaint to this page. --LJU2ORD (talk) 20:49, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• I do not see a pattern of abuse from Montanabw there. I see a slightly uncivil edit summary when you tried to make a WP:BOLD edit on a good article. Discuss your contetn suggestion in article talk. Nothing else to say here. --John (talk) 20:24, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Comment: LJU2ORD, any accusation of "harassment" (being used as a euphemism for bigotry, it would seem) and "abusive behavior" and not assuming good faith is pretty ridiculous in connection with a respected and well-liked editor such as Montanabw. If anything, Montanabw consistently demonstrates the exact opposite. Aside from the ridiculous premise, this report appears to be retaliatory because the reported editor isn't having any of LJU2ORD's POV pushing. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 20:25, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• (edit conflict)LJU2ORD, please use the article talk page to discuss the issue. Also see WP:3RR.
• Montanabw, please don't use edit summaries to comment on other contributors -- "do not attribute motive to other editors" is really good advice; AGF says LJU2ORD truly believes the white horses came from wherever they think they came from. I understand the same ol' same ol' is frustrating, but focusing on the sourcing and the like works better (saves you having to post on ANI, if nothing else).
• Karanacs, please see User:Bishonen/Calm_down. NE Ent 20:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
  • To the degree that my edit summary was snarkier than it needed to be, I apologize. I'm still sick of this stuff though. When we took this article to GA, Dana boomer and I bent over backwards to be fair and to present an NPOV on the issue. My fatigue on this matter is rather pronounced. Montanabw^(talk) 22:25, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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Behavior of Karelian P.

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User Karelian P. issued a personal attack against me on Party of Democratic Action: Revision history, calling me a moron in one of his edits. He also deleted 3 vandalism warnings that I have posted on his talk page (although you are not supposed to do that). Please act accordingly. The Destroyer Of Nyr (talk) 22:47, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

On your last comment (removing warnings), you are incorrect. Please read the page user talk page and note that it explicitly says "The removal of a warning is taken as evidence that the warning has been read by the user. This specifically includes both registered and unregistered users." User are absolutely allowed to remove warnings left by others, it is interpreted as they have read the warning. Nothing more, nothing less. No comment on anything else. Ravensfire (talk) 22:56, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Why no comment on anything else? Since when are personal attacks allowed? The Destroyer Of Nyr (talk) 23:00, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

So does that mean we can freely insult each other here? Aren't personal attacks a violation of the core rules? Why won't he be sanctioned like everyone else? The Destroyer Of Nyr (talk) 23:06, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Serb1914 violates ban

Serb1914 has recently violated his topic ban on the Balkans by using another IP adress to go around his topic ban on Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović, and then openly editing Party of Democratic Action despite the fact that both articles fall under his topic ban. Please act accordingly. The Destroyer Of Nyr (talk) 22:54, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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