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Legal threat User:Real77

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Contentious and difficult user is making legal threats. It's not clear from WP:Legal what I do now, tag it, what? KP Botany 06:29, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I found the template to tag the user, but other than that, what, if anything. Is there a notice board for this? "If Wikpedia is not going to play ball with 3rd aprty verifable issues then this shall be referred to lawyers as an individual has the right to control his or her reptutation and,name and likeness through themselves or third parties." KP Botany 06:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

This be the place. There's no NLT noticeboard, thankfully! Keep us posted on his response. El_C 06:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

User has been blocked indefinitely (or until they agree to not make any more legal threats). Someone should probably go over Anna Wilding and cleanup any unsourced statements, as this is the article the user appears to have a problem with (though from what I can tell, they want to add content, not remove). --- RockMFR 07:03, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

More eyes on the article could not hurt, however there are a group of excellent Misplaced Pages editors who are already attempting to clean up the article. Real77 claims to be working for Anna Wilding but is doing nothing but trashing the article's talk page and making the article as ugly as possible. My concern at this point is that because he claims to be working for Ms. Wilding, he is making her look awful with his edits, particularly his talk page ranting which is largely incomprehensible. This sounds reasonable, though, blocking until a user agrees to not make any more legal threats. Thanks. KP Botany 07:20, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

There is no response from the user. However, another editor quit editing because of nasty and potentially threatening (legal) comments to him. Without Real77 around a small handful of those who have weathered the nastiness have removed the poofunery, the bad grammar, the horrid punctuation, the fluff, and the poor English, so the article looks halfway decent. In light of what has happened, most of the article has been tagged for fact checking and all sources will be individually verified. Thanks. KP Botany 21:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Legal threat by Anna Wilding's representatives

It appears that Ms. Wilding has attempted to pressure others into publishing her resume and self-publicity. She filed some complaint against the New Zealand Press Council for failing to publish her photos and press release. At this point I ask that administrators consider reblocking both User:Real77 and User:Tonyx123 who are both working for Ms. Wilding, from editing Misplaced Pages. Real77 issued a legal threat, was blocked, agreed not to issue any more, so his block was removed--as seemed appropriate. However, in light of the fact that it appears Ms. Wilding filed a formal complaint against another entity for failing to do what she is attempting to manipulate Misplaced Pages into doing, namely publish her publicity materials and resume, I think blocking these users might be appropriate. Deleting the article about her might be appropriate also. KP Botany 03:39, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

PS, In spite of saying he would not issue any more legal threats Real77 calls an editor's edits to the Anna Wilding article defamatory. I don't think that his behaviour is something ordinary Misplaced Pages editors should be dealing with. KP Botany 03:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

My bad, he wasn't unblocked, I forget he can edit his own user page while blocked. Sorry! I suggest he not be unblocked, then. KP Botany 03:56, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

• The legal threats have really gotten out of hand. I have also received numerous harassing e-mails and phone calls from Anna Wilding herself. I originally suggested to her that to shore up some of the lack of credible sources I do an interview with her for Wikinews; this offer to help her has suddenly become, in her mind that I am trying to "blackmail" (her words) an interview out of her. I have barely edited the article. I only came across it because I photographed her at the Spiderman 3 premiere. I have sent her my own "cease and desist" letter and copied her attorney on it. They are completely in the wrong here, both Misplaced Pages-wise and legally; I'm not sure how to proceed from here, but days ago I removed myself from assisting Anna Wilding and the article in any way. --David Shankbone 14:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Do they realize they are more likely to get her article deleted as a not notable actress then to get her preferred version out there? --Rocksanddirt 20:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Can we get this sock puppet of Real77 blocked? User:66.65.119.19 I don't feel threatened, but it's boring. KP Botany 02:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes. --Alvestrand 02:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. KP Botany 03:51, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

And this one, please. 121.72.12.98 KP Botany 14:04, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

That one isn't a sockpuppet, that IP is from New Zealand. Given the single edit, I don't think it needs blocking unless and until it becomes a problem. — Timotab 17:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Timothy has the time to check, thanks. KP Botany 03:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

The article is AFD'd. ⇒ SWATJester 01:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I fail to understand how anyone could possibly think a legal threat on the internet would in any way have any sort of effect on someone. Generally, such a mail would be replied to by me with a fairly lengthy article on how, where and what they can fuck themselves with. HalfShadow 01:28, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Both users are blocked. (IP and Real77). Can we close this, now? M. 03:38, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to all for the quick and no-nonsense responses. KP Botany 05:37, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

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User:Radiant!'s editing behaviour

Over the course of the last two weeks a great deal of sound and fury (most of it signifying nothing) has occurred at the WP:MOS. The proximate issue has been the inclusion of a gender-neutral advisement and the ultimate discussion is over the relative weight accorded the MoS itself.

OK, that's only meant for background; I'm here to talk about neither gender neutral language nor the MoS. Rather, there are serious issues with User:Radiant!'s behaviour that I think deserve scrutiny. So let's just imagine we're talking about Spoo, and not get lost in em dash diversions:

1. The reverting. Over the course of a week Radiant! has been repeatedly removing the GNL section, over the heads of multiple editors, including at least two other admins. After ringing up three in 24 over 17th/18th, he appears to have backed off. "...wherein indeed various people including me could be viewed as disruptive" is a touch misleading because it was basically lone gun reverting on his part.
2. Moving the Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style to Misplaced Pages:Style without discussion on the corresponding talk page. Truly weird. Having been told by people that it was rude and poor form, Radiant is still insisting: "Sam - I fail to see how renaming a single page can be considered disruptive by any stretch of the word." This is an editor into his third year and a long time admin—I find the attitude frankly worrisome. (I thought we had move protect for a reason) When I pointed out that the page has had the title for approximately six years he called my response "shrubbery."
3. Lastly (and this is the one that ultimately prompts my posting here) Radiant has taken to a) placing archive tags around comments he doesn't like and b) refactoring talk pages to suit his weight in a dispute. After I reverted the refactoring in last link, he did it again. The archive tags are just childish but refactoring a talk page to alter meaning is just not on. More importantly, Radiant ought to know that. Now, he might say "well, I wanted to compartmentalize that response" but it's still deceptive.

As a last point, practically every criticism presented to Radiant is greeted with a mention of WP:KETTLE or WP:NPA. Real show-stoppers. Taken individually, perhaps these behaviours could be ignored. Taken in sum, I see a very troublesome pattern. Marskell 15:54, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

There's always a healthy level of sparring at the WP:MOS, but since Radiant! has arrived the quality of discussion has really deteriorated. I'm not saying that was his intent, but that's definitely been the result. I actually agree with Radiant! on most of the issues in question, but his attitude and behavior have made compromise nearly impossible. I've tried to appeal to Radiant!'s calmer side, as have many other editors. But edits like this are incredibly unhelpful, and only exacerbate the situation, and nobody on the other side is doing anything comparable to this. Everyone seems willing to work on these issues, but Radiant!'s disruptive and unilateral behavior is making the compromise I'd like to see slip further and further away. When moving the MOS (which seemed like a deliberate provocation to me, going behind people's backs to "get a clueful response," implying the participants at MOS lacked "clue") Radiant! also reformatted Template:Style-guideline to remove language referencing the MOS. This was never mentioned at the MOS talk page and caused all sorts of templature errors. Even though the errors were mentioned, and objections to the move raised, Radiant! reverted to the broken version of the template. --JayHenry 16:53, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Radiant! has been discussing issues outside of the fora where they should be discussed rather consistently now. The latest example is this page move of WP:MOS with no discussion at the talk page of MOS, rather at WP:AN, and in spite of no consensus at AN. These are not admin noticeboard issues. On the one hand, Radiant! has expressed that the "clueful" responses are from admins (discounting the need to discuss with other editors on relevant talk pages), but reviewing User talk:Radiant!, it doesn't appear that Radiant! is heeding other admins or engaging in talk with them either. With Radiant! spreading the fire around and refactoring talk pages, it's hard to get to the bottom of Radiant!'s concern about something as trivial as dashes or resolve these issues on talk. It's strange that Radiant! asked other admins to watch the page move, while never mentioning or discussing the move on the relevant talk page. The appearance is that Radiant! believes non-admins have no input of relevance. On a personal level, I'm worried: Radiant! has always been regarded as a good editor. It's painful to watch this sort of conduct unfold since my first response to what I thought was an innocent query on my talk page. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:08, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I let User:Radiant! know about this thread. -- Flyguy649 _contribs 17:06, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if I could charaterise Radiant!'s actions as having any sort of bad intent, but they are highly confusing, and in many cases (such as lone-wolf edit warring over the GNL section, or the refactoring of talk pages) impolite. I'm just thrown by the whole series of unfortunate events. SamBC(talk) 17:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

What is the point of this being here on the Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents? Is this a Request for Comment? What administrative action do you wish to see performed? If you are raising general behavioral problems, then a Request for Comment might suit you better, and lessen the amount of grousing needed in this section. Mahalo. --Ali'i 18:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I had thought of that. As the above indicates, there's clearly behaviour worth talking about but user conduct RfCs are cumbersome and can be awfully drawn out. I consider AN/I a step you might take before an RfC. Advice to user: consider your behaviour. If that can be achieved amicably and quickly, this is the better forum. Marskell 18:17, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The name of the Manual of Style violates the Manual of Style; it also encourages the deplorable tendency to treat that insufficiently thought-out mass of whims as though it descended from heaven. Radiant! was bold, after significant discussion at WP:AN; she was reverted; the thing to do now is to discuss, not waste ANI's time on this groundless complaint. (Mass of whims? Yes. One major stylistic decision is now being defended on the grounds that "my liberal arts electives insisted on one method at college; so I'll get back at them by insisting that Wikipedians use the other one." (This is a paraphrase of a much longer rant; but it's all in the diff.) Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:07, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Furthermore, the previous discussion was indeed largely favorable to Radiant's suggestions; the opposition consisting largely of somewhat heated complaints by Marskell himself. I last saw this tone in those who claimed that Esperanza was indispensible to WP. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:15, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Diversion. (An expected one.) We're not talking about Manual of Style v. Style (perhaps it's good, perhaps bad—not the point). We're talking about: disruptive reverts; refactoring talk pages; the really weird decision to insert archive tags into active discussions; flaming header insertions; and moving long-established titles without discussion on the talk page in question. In short, we're talking about admin Radiant's editing behaviour—the page in question isn't the fundamental issue. Marskell 20:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Let's see. Responding to your first complaint is now a diversion? Then please strike it. As for the rest of this:

• Radiant reverted an addition which she profoundly disagrees, denying it has consensus; this resulted in altering the language to remove a sentence which she reads as a mandate for GNL. That's how consensus-building is supposed to work.
• Radiant put a divbox about personal attacks by Tony, and comments on editor's actions by Sandy (and called them, arguably, a flame-war). So what? Some editors would have removed them.
• And your last complaint is the move, again. Radiant was bold, and was reverted. Your complaint is an appeal to a non-existent, bureaucratic, proceedural issue; there is no requirement to go to WP:RM if there appears to be consensus for a move. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:11, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

• The thing is, there is no consensus for this move anywhere. Titoxd 22:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
• Whoah, where did the mention of WP:RM come from? I think the talk page in question was WT:MOS, the talk page for the actual page that was moved. Elsewhise, your first point is fine, apart from the fact that she kept removing the version that no-one seemed to actually raise objection to on talk, whilst relabelling a supplementary document a proposal when no-one was suggesting that it should become a policy or guideline. This appears to have been resolved, but took more time and effort than it should have done to do so. No explanation was given as to the reason for the archive-boxes, and there does not appear to be any general agreement that they were personal attacks. I think that covers your points. SamBC(talk) 22:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

• • Actually she did object to the version she removed, quite strongly; so did I, until some concessions were made. As for the divboxed comments, look at the diffs. All of them contain personal comments (a couple with a small amount of other material); some are personal attacks. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:37, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:BOLD: "Although it is generally fine to be bold in updating articles, it is easier to cause problems in other namespaces by editing without due care. The admonition "but do not be reckless" is especially important in other namespaces. Being bold in updating or creating categories and templates can have far reaching consequences. This is because category changes – and even more so template changes – can affect a large number of pages with a single edit." This has changed since I last read it, but the general point has been there for some time. Sorry, we're not passing this off with a nod to BOLD.

And placing the archive tag around postings that were minutes old is childish and insulting. I mean really Pma, it's fine to defend your friend, but you look silly arguing in favour of silly practices. There were no personal attacks from Tony to speak of, incidentally.

But this isn't accomplishing much. I'd just like some indication from Radiant that these editing behaviours won't continue. Marskell 09:17, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I have some comments to make, but not here. This should be an RFC. Carcharoth 09:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree. If this were an RFC, I might comment, but I see no point in doing so here. A Musing 20:17, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Radiant! hasn't edited since the thread started, so we can wait. Marskell 09:19, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

From a sysop, such as Radiant, editors expect an ability and willingness to calm tempers, settle disputes, ensure that normal procedures are observed, and be a good citizen as a model to all. But she has displayed the very opposite of these behaviours in the past several weeks; as a result, WP has become a struggle and a drain on time and energy. I'm sorry if I've not handled her with greater diplomacy during this time; however, I do note that when I offered an olive branch, it was rebuffed as ingenuous. I'm willing to believe that she's a respected WPian, and hope that things will settle so that we can all contribute in the relatively calm environment that pertained before things came off the rails. Tony (talk) 14:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I think Radiant is waging a good-faith campaign to roll back instruction creep, generally to good effect. The result is a lot of disgruntled process wonks and a few genuinely confused people (because the disputes seem to spread everywhere). I'd suggest a WikiProject:Processcruft, but that would be processcruft... Guy (Help!) 17:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Process wonk? Moi? Surprised—at the accusation, and that you would sanction such poor editing behaviour. Marskell 18:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

To quickly respond to the above,

(1) there is substantial discussion about that section on the talk page, and various incarnations of it have included weasel words, incorrectly summarized the page it referred to, and/or been inserted through badgering. Calling this "lone gun reverting" is a blatant misrepresentation of what's going on.

(2) it was discussed here, where several people expressed strong support and several others said it wouldn't help. Renaming a single page after discussing it is truly not disruptive by any stretch of the word, and saying that a page can't be moved simply because it hasn't been moved for a long time is really not an argument.

(3) certain people respond to content discussion by attacking the person initiating the discussion, thus having the former drowned out by the latter. I am trying to keep the thread about content separate from the thread about conduct. If you want to complain to or about me, that's all fine and dandy, but do not do that in a thread about the MOS content; there's plenty of other sections, and I have a talk page for a reason. This has nothing to do with "suiting my weight", and calling it deception is, once more, a blatant misrepresentation.

(4) and I'm mentioning NPA because several people, in particular Marskell and Tony, have used many ad hominems in their responses lately. I suppose it is human nature to not see attacks as problematic as long as they're made by someone on your side of the debate. That does not, however, make them acceptable.

So in summary, the report above is highly biased and lopsided; it strongly exaggerates and assumes bad faith of one side of the dispute, and entirely ignores misbehavior on the other side of the dispute. We're having a simple content dispute here, and we would have resolved it by now if there weren't so many unproductive personal remarks around. See next thread for a suggestion on how to tackle this. >Radiant< 09:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Radiant! you never mentioned or discussed the move of the page at the page, while you did ask other admins to tend to your move. Do you consider that good editing practice? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 11:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The point is that it was discussed. It is easy to demand that it should have been discussed some place else, but this is not productive and merely bureaucratic. Had the debate been on the talk page, people could have asked for WP:RM; had it been at RM, people could have asked for debate at the village pump, and so forth. That's pretty circular. >Radiant< 12:07, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I think that it's pretty well (and widely) accepted that the first place to discuss a move is on the talk page for the page in question. If it had, it would likely have been referred off to the village pump, or at least linked there. It's a major, core guideline page, and a short (physically and temporally) discussion that most of the regular contributors to the page didn't know about simply isn't sufficient. No-one has claimed that it was sufficient except you, as far as I can see. SamBC(talk) 12:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. Talking about a page rename on WP:AN is like talking about deleting a category at WP:ANI. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 05:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

• And the people who claimed it was insufficient have undone the change and continued discussing it. That is called WP:BRD. For the issue that "Radiant did something that some others disagreed with, this has now been reverted and is being discussed", it strikes me as a severe overreaction to create an ANI thread to claim that "Radiant is a disruptive lone gun revert warrior who is rude, worrisome, childish, ignorant, deceptive and troublesome".
• In other words, like I said already, the report above is highly biased and lopsided; it strongly exaggerates and assumes bad faith of one side of the dispute, and entirely ignores misbehavior on the other side of the dispute; and the simple content dispute we're having here would have been resolved by now if there weren't so many unproductive personal remarks around. >Radiant< 13:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Looking at your "Radiant is..." summary there of what those irritated with you have to say about your actions latelt, I personally would remove some of those words. But I think a few of them tend to stick, too. It's not like this is "Tony1, alone, picking on Radiant just to be a jackass"; this is a substantial number of editors with criticisms for you. It might be constructive to listen to them and think about what they are saying and do a little self-analysis. And yes, of course, the views they express are biased; they are people, not computers, and are irritated people, and are not psychic empaths who know precisely what it is you feel about the situations under discussion, and ergo cannot be expected represent your side of the coin. So calling this "biased and lopsided" is about like opening a letter to your Senator (or MP, or whatever), "I'm a voter and a taxpayer, and I'm writing because..." It's assumed and understood already by everyone present. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 05:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thread Moderator

What this needs, simply, is a thread moderator. I and several others are trying to hold a discussion about the content of the MOS. Other people are trying, in the same threads, to talk about user conduct, which has run the full gamut from asking whether process was followed, to calling me a motherfucking nazi (and no, that's not in the least exaggerated). Whether this is the result of passion for a hot-button issue, or of clever rhetoric, is not the issue; the point is that this second type of discussion is making the first impossible.

This is an encyclopedia. It is ALWAYS about content. The best way to proceed here is to archive the MOS/FAC talk pages and start a fresh discussion about the content issue, and have a volunteer who is neutral on the issue who will swiftly move any and all comments that are off-topic or not about the content to a different page. >Radiant< 09:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps. But will you swear off the behaviours outlined above? I have no desire to have a discussion with someone who refactors and arbitrarily archives posts. That you have just reverted JayHenry on the template does not bode well. Marskell 09:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I was talking about a solution to people interrupting a content debate with conduct debate. It strikes me as ironic that you interrupt the debate on that solution with conduct debate. Aside from that, Marskell, will you swear to stop beating your wife? >Radiant< 13:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

If user conduct is seriously disrupting a debate over content, then an interruption is in order. Suggesting that we can't pause over your reverting and bizarre talk edits because It is ALWAYS about content is dissembling. Having been told as much by eight or so good faith editors, I was expecting you might finally see a little sunlight. I take the last as a no. Marskell 13:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

There appear to be continual attempts to deflect the discussion away from the actions by Radiant that numerous people, including me, regard as having been highly disruptive to normal process. I'm sure that we're all willing to have a content debate, but I for one want an end to the tactics that have been outlined above by Marskell and others; they've been destructive to the whole fabric of congenial debate that is central to WP's culture and product. I think we all want to return to an environment of trust; that is hard at the moment. I just glaze over when I read the deflections. Tony (talk) 14:02, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Before you complain about the sawdust in another's eye, remove the log from your own. >Radiant< 14:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, he who is without sin and all that, in other words... better desysop... well... everyone. SamBC(talk) 14:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Radiant, you continue without fail to do exactly what I described: deflect criticism or requests for a change in behaviour. You do it either by steering the issues onto a superficially related topic, by using this KETTLE thing (which you've done here in effect WRT to my posting), or by accusing people of personal attack. It's all too easy to predict by now. I understand the impulse for these reactions: you believe the criticism is unjustified and the result of a cabal that is out to get you, and you attack; I wish you would see it otherwise. This has been getting nowhere, and is stopping the emergence of a calmer environment in which trust can be rebuilt. It looks as though you've built a solid wall around yourself, impervious to attempts to resolve the matter. The project needs you to re-enter the collaborative, collegial environment. Please? Tony (talk) 15:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I think a moderator might be a good idea. It is not appropriate for Radiant! to continue as both primary disputant and self-appointed moderator and arbiter. --JayHenry 16:19, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

We're all admins and/or long term contributors here; we should be able to work this out. Outside voices would be good but this particular thread has gone nowhere. Marskell 22:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Nazism

In the article Nazism, the User:EliasAlucard, for example here and the User:Mitsos, for example here repeatedly make an edit which results in a) the insertion of a direct (that is, in the form of a primary source) Hitler-quote b) the insertion of a direct (primary source) Goebbels-quote. In my, and other editors opinion, unmediated direct quotes, in which criminals explain their world-view, should not be used as a primary source. Since EliasAlucard and Mitsos don't respond to this argument on Talk:Nazism#Sentence_about_Sparta_removed, I request either to fully protect Nazism (in a version without the quotes) for a certain time (say some weeks), or to ban EliasAlucard and Mitsos from editing the article. --Schwalker 18:07, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I have successfully protected The Wrong Version for a period of 1 week, or until you can achieve some kind of consensus on the talk page. I'm a long period of edit warring, by multiple editors. And, no, I'm not getting involved in your content dispute — I'll protect the page in the state its found. --Haemo 18:44, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I see EliasAlucard replying to you three times on the talkpage you mention. This looks like a simple content dispute to me - IMO, brief quotes from leading members of a political party are perfectly valid in an article about that party's ideology (there are multiple quotes from Dick Cheney et al on Neoconservatism). Whether it belongs in the main article, or the separate Nazi eugenics article, seems to be the matter under debate. Personally, I agree with you as otherwise it's a content fork, but there are at least valid arguments for having it on the main page, and agree with protecting it to stop you all revert-warring over this.

I don't think there's any merit at all in the "Please don't give nazis a stage by quoting them" argument, incidentally; Misplaced Pages is not censored, and primary sources are perfectly legitimate when they're a simple statement of fact along the lines of "X believed this; here's a quote of him saying so". — iridescent (talk to me!) 18:48, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I honestly don't know what Schwalker's problem is, but he seems to have NPOV-issues as far as this topic goes. He removed the quote becase he thought the website was some kind of anonymous blog. I subsequently provided two other websites, one of which is a governmental one, where the quote is listed, which to me, complies with WP:RS. Why Schwalker wants the quote removed, is totally beyond me, but banning me from editing the article when I've done nothing wrong, seems like a very severe approach. Look, it's a Hitler quote, all right? If you can disprove this quote's validity, then it has nothing to do in the article (perhaps it should be in Adolf Hitler's Wikiquote misquoted section). However, so far, you haven't proven jackshit (excuse my French) as far as this quote being false goes. Why are you opposed to include this quote in the article? I just don't get it. — EliasAlucard|Talk 22:55 18 Sept, 2007 (UTC)

Hallo iridescent,

Dick Cheney is not a racist as far as I know. There seems to be only one quote of him in the arcticle Neoconservatism#1990s, which isn't sourced at all. Thus, since it stems from neither a primary nor a secondary nor a tertiary source, in my opinion the Cheney quote it is no good precedent for the Nazism article.

No, whether to put the H.quote on Nazism or Nazi eugenics is not the main matter of debate I had tried to discuss on Talk:Nazism#Sentence_about_Sparta_removed.

The process by which the now blocked version of Nazism has been created seems to be as follows: Hitler writes a book in 1928, which is kept secret, and first (incidentially illegaly) published in 1961 in an obscure translation, which in turn is cited by some anonymous blogger on[REDACTED] (to support an anachronist interpretation of Sparta, as user:Tazmaniacs has pointed out). Or, G. writes a booklet, which is published in 1932, which is translated into English by some anonymous, this translation is cited by some anonymous blogger on Misplaced Pages. As a result, since there is no critical historian or renowned instance with a real world name in between, Misplaced Pages is written by G. and H without any critical control. On the other hand, the victims of the racist and eugenics policy don't get an equal chance to spread their opinion about nazism. We can't expect that this process will result in a NPOV article.

--Schwalker 11:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages does not exist to spread anyone's opinion about anything, merely to report on it. We have an article about Adolph Hitler not because anyone wants to spread his opinion or spread hating Hitler or anything - we have an article on Hitler because he is notable. Similarly, we have articles on many victims of racist and eugencist policies, but again, not because we are intending to spread any kind of message. We have articles on Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, Carrie Buck, ad inifinitum, because these people are notable. The victims of racism and eugenics don't get to spread their opinion because no one gets to spread their opinion. This is an encyclopedia, not an inspirational tract. Natalie 13:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Apart of the problems arising from the indiscriminate use of primary sources (see WP:PSTS), User:Elias has not respected the standard way of citing sources: "Say where you got it" and please do not modify it. The "source" advanced by Elias was not "Hitler, Adolf (1961). Hitler's Secret Book (1961)", as he claimed, but Dónal P O'Mathúna in "Human dignity in the Nazi era: implications for contemporary bioethics", published in BMC Med Ethics 2006; on-line on March 14, 2006), who cites Hitler. Mathúna's citation does not say that Hitler said that Sparta was the first National-Socialist State, but: "Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state." Finally, there is an undue weight problem arising from the insertion of this quote in this small subsection. Tazmaniacs 13:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Pardon me for pointing this out but of all the things you could fight about on that talk page this is the best you could do? Seriously, this is not a major issue. The Sparta thing is not at all an important part of Nazism as an ideology (which I presume we can agree is the actual topic of the article). To fight about this to the point where protection is needed is just way out of proportion with the actual dispute here. EconomicsGuy 14:59, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree with EconomicsGuy. — EliasAlucard|Talk 17:48 20 Sept, 2007 (UTC)

I agree too. Mitsos 17:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Natalie, I do accept that Misplaced Pages does not exist to spread anyone's opinion. To make the point clear, I repeat that the problem is that the article in the current form does spread Hitler's and Goebbels' (and their followers) opinions.

EconomicsGuy, I suggest that you read carefully for example the Nazism article, or the diff-links I've posted above, before commenting. Than you will see that two editors try to push into the article a quote by Hitler demanding the destruction of "weak, sick or deformed" children, and a quote by Goebbels spouting antisemitic libels. So no, this not just about a "Sparta thing".

I don't reply directly to EliasAlucard here, who on Talk:Nazism, when politely asked to "review WP:CITE#HOW" answers with phrases like "This is getting lame.", "Do you have something else to pester me about this?". So please excuse me when I try to avoid to annoy others by addressing them.

--Schwalker 19:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually I did read them. I also noticed how you try to make a federal case out of nothing. When quoting dead people you don't need obsessive sourcing. This is guideline/policy wonking. If the majority of editors on the talk page want the quotes in the article then leave the quotes in the article and stop making all this noise. This is like people who edit war over a detail in the MoS such as date linking etc. It's disruptive more than anything else. It's a quote or rather a set of quotes. There is not reason to believe they aren't genuine. Move on. EconomicsGuy 05:53, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Violetriga use of admin tools in a dispute

There is a dispute at Misplaced Pages:Article message boxes over the redesign of these boxes. I placed a disputed policy tag on the project page. Other users then edit warred over it, so the page was protected by AzaToth. User:Violetriga has been heavily involved in the dispute, but unprotected the project page, in agreement with those on her side of the dispute. I pointed out to Violetriga that this was an inappropriate use of admin tools and asked her to revert. She didn't but responded, "That's a bit silly really." There is still a dispute over the guideline, and there is still a dispute over the disputed tag, which has been removed again and which I have restored. Violetriga has agreed the guideline is disputed. I would be grateful if the week-long protection could be restored. It would be a good thing to have a pause for discussion and wider editor involvement at this point. Also Violetriga should be cautioned not to use admin tools when she is an involved editor. Tyrenius 19:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Though I'm marginally involved in this "dispute," it's my opinion that Violetriga acted in good faith and didn't intend to abuse his / her admin tools, s/he simply wanted to allow editing to the article with the agreement that the disputed tag would remain. --MZMcBride 19:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Give it a rest, man. This really isn't a dispute at all. From what I see, people are getting along and we're discussing even more great ideas on how to format these templates. There's no fire here, not anymore. -- Ned Scott 19:29, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't see any dispute. I see a discussion. --Haemo 19:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Was Violet an edit warrior in the dispute? FunPika 19:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I see lots of dispute. But the {{disputed}} tag means there's a dispute over whether or not the page should be a guideline. Disputes over how to change the page don't warrant a disputed tag, or else nearly every guideline and policy in Misplaced Pages would have one. Equazcion • argue/contribs • 19:54, 09/18/2007

The dispute is about the content and the recent changes, basically over most of what is on the page. Tyrenius 20:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

As a participant in discussion on Misplaced Pages:Article message boxes, I concur with MZMcBride that Violetriga acted in good faith. What I wonder is, what would she have to gain from the page being unprotected? "Don't use your admin tools in a dispute you're involved with" doesn't mean you can never use your buttons on any page you happen to edit regularly. I think she unprotected because (a) it was a short and silly edit war that (b) was unlikely to repeat itself, and (c) because of the many changes involved in the article message box standardization project, it's more beneficial to open the page to editing than to leave it protected. szyslak 19:58, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I really don't see the point in trying to make trouble in this way. You seem to ignore the fact that I agreed that the tag should remain and specifically said so when I unprotected the page. violet/riga (t) 20:04, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Try as I might, I'm really struggling to see anything that be even faintly construed as a potentially dubious use of any sort of buttons. Moreoever "ZOMG Violetriga is evil sysop" threads at ANI are getting just a tad tiresome. Moreschi 20:26, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm tired of "ZOMG is an sysop" threads in general. In fact, your comment has inspired a new WP:RAUL law: "In any discussion on WP:AN or WP:ANI about how someone is an evil/abusive/corrupt/immoral sysop, the odds that the admin in question is indeed evil, abusive, corrupt or immoral are about 1 in 100,000." szyslak 20:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Please avoid strawman arguments. There is no mention of evil. Then presumably you have no objection if I reprotect the page as an involved editor. Tyrenius 20:32, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Of course I do, that would be wheel warring! No, not seriously. Actually, I think we should all wheel war a bit more and talk a bit less. Not enough actually gets done on this wiki. Moreschi 20:49, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

That was not a straw man argument. This indeed began as a "Violetriga is a bad sysop" thread, whether one uses the word "evil" or not. szyslak 20:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

It did not. It merely addressed one action. Tyrenius 00:59, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

My first accusation of being a rouge/evil/abusive admin was six months before I was given the admin bit. For a month or so earlier this year (I was doing image deletions, natch) my day wasn't complete without at least one shrieking mental pointing out how I was rouge/evil/abusive and should be hung/drawn/quartered forthwith. Therefore, when I see thread like this here, I'm sorry, but my first thought is not "OMG!!!!!!! ROUGE ADMIN!! STOP EVERYTHING!". It's "oh, another mentalist, perhaps his/her contribs need to be examined more closely". I doubt I'm alone in this (well, perhaps the language, but not the sentiment) and I think we might need a note somewhere to say to the specials who pitch up here "Administrators will examine the edits of all who are involved and your own edits may therefore be considered". ➔ This is REDVEЯS 20:58, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

You are heavily involved and not in a position to make an objective judgement. That should be left to an univolved admin. As it happens, as soon as the page was unprotected, the dispute tag was removed again. Tyrenius 20:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I was not involved in the presence (or lack thereof) of the tag, which is the main thing here. Please go and try and come up with something constructive in our discussions rather than going on about this nothingness. violet/riga (t) 20:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Given the fact that the tag wasn't removed again until more than fourteen hours after the page was unprotected, I can no longer assume that you're acting in good faith. —David Levy 23:34, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Violetriga did not remove the dispute tag. He/she just unprotected the page so we could continue to improve it. So Tyrenius, you are pointing fingers in the wrong direction. Personally I was very surprised that AzaToth protected the page after the dispute tag had only been removed twice. It wasn't like the page was heavily vandalised or something. The one who have done several strange things as an admin in this case is AzaToth, but that is another story. And previous to that I was also surprised that the box at the top of the page was changed from "how-to guide" to "guideline" this early. Don't we have a box for "suggested guideline" or so? And of course, if some say they dispute the guide then of course it is disputed. Although it seems to be a very small but very vocal group who do the disputing. So though I was/am involved in formulating and implementing this guide I agree that for the time being it should have the dispute box on top but that the page should be unprotected. (Even thought I was pretty satisfied with that version so the protection was more beneficial to us who is for this guide than the disputers I think.) By the way, the dispute box itself doesn't hinder our work so it really doesn't disturb.

--David Göthberg 20:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

{{proposed}}, yes. That probably would've been a better way to go. Equazcion • argue/contribs • 20:51, 09/18/2007

In fact, it was tagged as {{proposed}} until just a few days ago. But the changes have been implemented without mass edit warring on the templates between supporters and opponents of the change, so I don't think it's still "proposed". szyslak 20:55, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Outside Opinion: Well I am not involved in this dispute at all nor have I edited the page. IMHO I do not see gross abuse of the tools here. Though I'm not in favor of undoing protections without some discussion with the protecting admin (especially when a page has been protected so recently)...I still do not see how the unprotection is going to be drastically harmful at this point? The only significant dispute to date is the actual use of the dispute tag on the page. Its not like the entire guideline is being worked around or hacked away by multiple editors. The visual design is just being discussed and tweaked. <humor>Its not like we are having editors warring over whether a circle instead of a box should be used for the tags</humor>. All that there is to this matters is that it might have been more considerate for Violetriga to propose the unprotection first.¤~Persian Poet Gal 20:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Just as a point of information, some discussion did take place here: Wikipedia_talk:Article_message_boxes#Protection.3F before the unprotection. -Chunky Rice 21:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

To Szyslak: In order for something to become a guideline, consensus needs to be explicitly shown on its talk page; not inferred from a mere lack of opposition to its effects elsewhere. Equazcion • argue/contribs • 01:04, 09/19/2007

As TheDJ points out below, {{ambox}} isn't going away anytime soon. The essence of the guideline is "article message boxes are standardized now". I'd still support tagging it as proposed if there were serious opposition to the concept of standardization. No, opponents have been focusing on its implementation. szyslak 21:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Quoth Misplaced Pages:Policies and guidelines, "a guideline is any page that: (1) recommends actions that editors should either take or avoid; and (2) reflects consensus." There is no requirement that said consensus be established via a particular forum. —David Levy 01:12, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

That's some good quothing. You're right in a policy sense. But in a practical sense, for this particular case, I really don't think a lack of opposition should have signified a consensus. Besides which, there is now a fair amount of opposition, so maybe this should be kicked back to a proposal until the talk page settles down. It's a bit insane right now. Equazcion • argue/contribs • 01:52, 09/19/2007

I wasn't addressing the issue of whether or not consensus exists in this case. I was addressing the claim that "in order for something to become a guideline, consensus needs to be explicitly shown on its talk page."

I will, however, note that I'm not seeing opposition from all that many users. I'm seeing a small number of extremely vocal opponents. —David Levy 03:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Basically, {{ambox}} is not gonna disappear anymore. People will probably fight forever over the designs, but what else is new. I saw proper discussion on the talk page, and no movement in the large to undo all the work. When i removed the disputed tag, i did this with the editsummary: Even Reinis said: "Please note that what's being disputed is the design, not the standardization as such.") Reinis being one of the most vocal anti-AMB people. Really i don't see why this is a disputed guideline. It's a guideline under active discussion at most. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:26, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Violetriga and I have not always seen eye-to-eye, but I'm utterly disgusted by Tyrenius' absurd accusation of impropriety. At this point, I'm convinced that Tyrenius is not interested in actually discussing the relevant issues in good faith (and instead seeks to wear down opponents by making as much noise and stirring up as much trouble as possible). —David Levy 23:34, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The undesirable tendency of dedicated member of this project to OWN it and adopt a tactic of attacking any critics has been pointed out more than once on the project talk page. There are valid concerns about the nature of this design and the the haste of its implementation, which will have an effect throughout the whole of wikipedia. Tyrenius 00:58, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

How does that pertain to your unfounded accusation against Violetriga? —David Levy 01:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

It pertains to your comment immediately preceding it, as I'm sure you realise. You might like to check this out. Tyrenius 01:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

My comment pertained to your accusation of impropriety on the part of Violetriga. I obviously don't expect you to agree with my assessment that it's unfounded, but your reply has absolutely nothing to do Violetriga's unprotection of the page. The alleged haste with which the change was carried out and rudeness of its proponents are not germane to the discussion.

Incidentally, I'm waiting for you to explain why you claimed that the dispute tag was removed "as soon as the page was unprotected." —David Levy 03:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Your comment obviously extended beyond this thread to the project, where you have made similar negative comments about editors who question the change, as has Violetriga. However, it does serve to illuminate the background to my complaint. It was a 7 day protection, and the template was removed 14 hours after unprotection. Tyrenius 04:57, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

1. I'm not a member of the project. I discovered its existence and briefly commented shortly before the new design was implemented. I am, however, satisfied with the overall result, and I believe that much of your conduct has been ridiculous. I say this not because you've questioned the change, but because you've been discourteous, disruptive and even dishonest.

2. Please quote the "similar negative comments" that I've made about other editors.

3. Yes, the tag was removed more than fourteen hours after the protection was lifted. So why did you claim that it was removed "as soon as the page was unprotected"?

As for the seven-day duration, I certainly hope that you aren't suggesting that this was set in stone (even if the dispute that led to the protection was seemingly resolved). —David Levy 07:40, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

SqueakBox

Can something please be done about User:SqueakBox? He's deleted sourced information from articles before based solely on WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Now he's made another edit to Axl Rose (previously he had deleted information from the article as 'unsourced', blithely ignoring text with footnotes and checkable online sources) with a very threatening edit summary, claiming that the editors who work on the page are "abusive," threatening "mediation and RfC" if anyone reverts his edit, etc. Frankly this user's behavior is on the verge of abusive, seems to violate both WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA and is disruptive, and I don't think he should be allowed to try to strong-arm other editors this way. DanielEng 21:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

• SqueakBox is a reasonable guy, he is pretty hot on WP:BLP but undoubtedly not averse to a civil discussion about things. Bold, revert, discuss - try the third of these now. Especially since it looks to me as if he's right, the category is not for the purpose for which it's apparently being used. Guy (Help!) 21:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I actually agree with Squeakbox that the cat appeared to be inappropriate to the article, so I don't have a problem with its deletion at all. I do' have a problem with threats and personal attacks against other editors as he made in his edit summary. In my past dealings with him I have found him to be stubborn, unreasonable and capable of disruptive edits...a while back he was trying to tweak admin guidelines to suit his purposes. DanielEng 21:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

It's a bit over the top, but mediation or an RfC would be a reasonable dispute resolution path for this conflict. -Chunky Rice 21:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I should point out that there was no edit war going on here. If there had been, mediation might be an option. Threatening it when one makes their first edit to specific content is completely out of line. DanielEng 21:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The child abuse victim category that was disputed is now deleted and thius re-insertion of a wrong category was not acceptable. This is the second time in 2 days I have been reported here for things that dont require admin intervention. Why? I notice Dan making generalisations about me that are basically a PA, and without diffs to back himself up, SqueakBox 21:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

My name is Daniel. Not Dan. As I said on my comment to you on your Talk Page, deleting the cat would have been fine. When the previously debated cat was removed by consensus, that was cool and nobody questioned it. Pointing out the cat was being used out of context would have been fine, since the editors tending to the page (including myself) obviously hadn't caught it. Leaving a threatening edit summary saying "My edit! Revert and I'm RfCing you!" was not. I should point out that there was no edit war happening; this was the first time he came in and deleted that cat, and nobody had objected. As to my "generalizations," exhibit A, Squeakbox deleting stuff from a Wiki-wide admin guideline page based solely on his personal opinion: exhibit B, Squeakbox claiming material is "unsourced and not in text," when in fact it was cited and in the first paragraph, he just couldn't be bothered to read it? DanielEng 21:27, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Put down the Spider-Man suit and step away from the Reichstag. This does not require admin intervention, and it can probably be solved by stopping the huffing and puffing and actually engaging in discussion. I've blocked SqueakBox before now for other things, but he has consistently impressed me with his self-awareness and philosophical attitude. Try actually being nice about things, and I'm sure it will pay dividends. Guy (Help!) 22:47, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm generally very nice, but I've dealt with Squeakbox before, and he tends to tune out whatever is said to him if he doesn't agree with it. I'm going to take your advice here on leaving the Reichstag behind (LOL) and stay as far away from this editor as I can, but really...I'm not the first editor who has brought Squeakbox up to ANI. IMHO ignoring this sort of behavior just lets him think it's acceptable to continue to carry on this way.DanielEng 04:00, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Well there was nothing wrong with being bold on the deletion guide for admin page, that is why we have an edit button, if I had edit warred over that point it would have been different thought he policy clearly is a violation of one of our pillars, do no harm. Axl stating he belioeved he was sexually molested by his father is not enough reason to include him in the cat (now deleted as inappropriate for obvious reasons) and indeed without firm evidence shopuld be removed as outing his father based on hearsay so again your claim that I hadnt read the Rose article is another mistaken allegation on your part. You seem to have a bee in your bonnet about me which concerns me, and because of my attempting to impose BLP policy and thus do no harm, and that concerns me more. Your claim that admins have specail editing priovileges shows a popor understanding of how things work here, it doesnt work like that. So what exactly do you want tdone about me, Daniel? SqueakBox 21:38, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Except that a) the admin guideline page very clearly stated that any changes made should be done with consensus. In addition, if you recall, you told me yourself you had read the Rose article and "couldn't find" the information, so you are changing your story here. Not to mention that if you had read the source given, you would have noticed that Rose's father is DEAD, so there is no BLP vio involved. DanielEng 21:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

And pray what adnmin intervention is needed here? If Rose's father ids dead or alo=ibve makes no difference to our duty to respect thim and not publish gossip allegations about him that are unproven. And indeed I did read the article and could find no relaible source that he had suffered child sexual abuse. Consensus is suggested but an edit button does leave one free to edit and I was using my judgenment based on consdiderable experience of both lif and wikipedia, and no one even reverted for 3 days. it appears you are greasping for straws with which to attack me because you feel angry but please do not use me as a scapegoat for your anger. thanks, SqueakBox 21:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

You don't know me, and I'm not angry, I'm annoyed. So now we don't believe survivors of abuse when they say they've been abused? It's not gossip, it's from the man's mouth, and it's clearly said in the article "Rose stated..." ie, it's presented as his belief and not fact. Seeing as he's gone public in the interviews, in songs, onstage and elsewhere, and other abuse Rose suffered has been corroborated by outside sources (again, if you read the RS article you WOULD have seen that), it's obviously something true to him. In addition, you never brought any of this up when you deleted the cat, did you? No, you just said "unsourced" (which wasn't true, since there were citations there) and "not in text" (which it was, and I notice you've conveniently ignored the diff where you said you couldn't find it and had to be handheld to find the lines in the text). In addition, in regards to the Admin Guidelines, you know as well as I do that it was not a regular Wiki article. When a page explicitly says that you are to have to have consensus to make changes, but you don't have consensus and you edit on your own opinion, you're out of line. You're not an expert "on life and experience" any more than anyone else on Wiki.DanielEng 03:59, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this is a content dispute. --Haemo 22:04, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually it isnt even that as Daniel agrees the cat should have been removed, SqueakBox 22:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Wait, so SqueakBox's edit is agreeable, but the edit summary is not ... ok. I'm a bit confused. SqueakBox may have had a "threatening" edit summary, but it is a threat of action within Misplaced Pages's dispute resolution processes. That is a perfectly acceptable threat. Then an RfC would come, and we would all comment, and you and SqueakBox would know what the consensus of the community is. Isn't that a good thing? If there were even a content dispute in the first place... --Iamunknown 22:26, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that is what I am saying. The edit summary was not even a threat against me, because I didn't add the cat. It was a blanket strong-arm tactic and threat leveled against anyone who would be editing the page, and it was added, again, on his first edit of that cat, not after an edit war. I don't think Squeakbox or any other editor has the right to come onto a page and say "if you don't do it my way, you're being abusive and I'm RfCing you," especially when nobody had disagreed with him, nobody'd said anything on the Talk Page for the article, nothing.

RfC and mediation are wonderful tools, but shouldn't they be the last resort step in an edit conflict, not a preliminary measure taken by an editor who just wants to make sure things go his way? DanielEng 03:59, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

For the record, I think that SqueakBox is not "a reasonable guy undoubtedly not averse to a civil discussion". He was on personal attack parole for a year, got blocked twice in the process, was blocked repeatedly for 3RR violations, routinely accuses people standing in his way of having a pedophile agenda , of being trolls , he routinely uses the "I know Misplaced Pages better than you so please shut up now" argument . Pascal.Tesson 22:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Assuming I am not reasonable is a PA, and from you who has launched so many PA's against me this is becoming totally unacceptable. You should strikle your statement as you have no evidence to back it. people who have been subject to arbcom rulings are not exempt from our NPA policy and your following me arounfd harrassing me is utterly unaceptable, and based on your obvious anger that your beloeved rape victims category got deleted. please either modify your behaviour or seek dispute resultion, ie mediation because IMO your own behaviour re me has been appalling for some time now. Just because you are an admin does not give you the right to claim that I am not a good faith user, especailly when nobody agrees with you, SqueakBox 00:27, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Indeed it strikes me that having seen your complaint rejected here you that are raking any old mud to besmirch my character because you have taken a personal dislike to me and this is not acceptable, SqueakBox 00:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

My beloved rape victims category? I got a chuckle out of that one... I stand by the statement I made above and as you may have noticed it is full of very recent diffs showing that you're prone to wild accusations and there are many more in your talk history. I can't say I'm really surprised that you would try and write me off as some kind of rape-loving pervert or whatever it is you had in mind when you wrote the above. Please, look at the diffs I provided. They are mine, not yours. Ask yourself: "would I consider this acceptable editing if it was someone else's work?" Ask yourself, why are editors constantly bringing me to the 3RR noticeboard and to ANI? Why did a number of admins warn be about unacceptable behavior? Why did Morven ask me once again to tone it down and stop labeling everyone a crypto-pedophile? Why did he ask me to stop insinuating I have the ArbCom's support? Go back in your archives and look at what I told you about the rape victims category. I said "send it to AfD, don't depopulate it out of process" and added "I understand (though I probably don't quite share) your concerns about how appropriate this category is but in any case, this is something that should be properly debated". In other words, I said respect your fellow editors or don't expect respect from them. Pascal.Tesson 04:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. DanielEng 04:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• Pascal, SqueakBox has strong feelings and can be provoked. Same here. But as I say, it has been my invariable experience with him that reason is met with reason. He's open about his biases and views, at least. Guy (Help!) 17:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I am criticized twice in this page for giving honest edit summaries. Would you rather I didn't give edit summaries at all? I was under the impression that honest edit summaries are good. And, of course, removing unsourced rape victims claims is absolutely necessary under outr BLP policies, nothing ot do withe whether the cat should have been deleted (I didnt cfd it). I should not be criticised for enforcing our policies just because someone else doesn't like our policies, and thinks that not removing the work of other editors is more important. Enforcing our BLP policies will always create enemies but BLP is more important because it is about the way we treat living beings, and we must treat their right to accuracy and privacy as much higher than we do the work here of our editors. Generally being involved in conflicts can be a good sign of putting[REDACTED] first and of getting the job done, all the ebst editors have similar histories, and all get a hard time from others too but that is the[REDACTED] way. I have asked Pascal for mediation and he has iognorede the request but his continuous attacks against me does need dispute resolition and if he wont let me edit[REDACTED] in peace then dipute resxolution will habvve to happen. This is the admin who blocks people while his email is disabled and who expected me to know he was an admin when he was not in the admin list and has no email availabaility, then gave me a hard time for not knowing he was an admin so Ithis is clearly not a situation where I am at fault and he isnt, SqueakBox 18:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I think that the problem with the edit summary as noted was probably misinterpretation. It wasn't your most eloquent, and was open to some misinterpretation I think, but no I don't think it was anything like bad enough to justify dragging up here. Guy (Help!) 21:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm engaged in a (separate) BLP discussion with SqueakBox that is going quite well and quite civilly. I agree with Guy's statement above at 17:43, 19 Sept. ⇒ SWATJester 01:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

User Calton

Why does this behavior continue to be allowed? I was blocked for harassing Calton a few days ago, and I freely admit that I was, but I am just so frustrated at the way he is continually allowed to abuse editors, and administrators, on occasion. Why isn't he at least reprimanded, or told to be civil? 66.35.127.0 21:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

He didn't abuse you, he told you what Misplaced Pages's policies are. He wasn't overly nice to you, but as you freely admit you don't deserve the kindness of Misplaced Pages's volunteer contributors, who are actually spending their free time writing an encyclopedia rather than harassing others and filing bogus complaints. If you can't handle frank and sometimes rough talk then frankly you should be contributing to the Tellytubbies Wikia. 81.86.235.169 21:54, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

That link didn't take you to any type of abuse that Calton gave to me. It takes you to an example (one of many) of Calton abusing someone who has been a long-time, productive editor at Misplaced Pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.35.127.0 (talk) 21:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

It's not that bad. It's barely even incivil. If you have a problem with his behavior, then I suggest you discuss it with him, or file a request for comment. This oblique "look at this edit" nonsense is totally unproductive. --Haemo 22:08, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I apologize, I've never made a link before, I didn't give you as much information as I intended. How about this So if he only breaks the rules a "little" bit, that is ok? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.35.127.0 (talk) 22:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Without commenting on anyone's conduct, I second Haemo's recommendation that concerned editors engage Calton in discussion or file a request for comment. The messages regularly left here pointing administrators to a single edit by Calton are, at best unhelpful, as nothing has ever come of them and, at worst, disruptive, whether intentionally or not. ("Disruptive" is not a characterisation of any individual editors, but a general comment on the effect these types of messages have to this noticeboard.) --Iamunknown 22:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

• Nothing to see here, move along now. Guy (Help!) 22:40, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

It is not my intention to be disruptive, so I will make one more comment in this particular discussion then quiet down for the moment. It would seem to me that if messages are being regularly left here about Calton's behavior, that should be a red flag. But if your point is that people are reporting them only one at a time, then I will solve that problem. Here..., , , , , , , , . That's only going back to September 5th. Several of these were to users who were confused about something and were just looking for help and/or clarification. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.35.127.0 (talk) 00:14, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Nothing wrong with any of those, as far as I can see. Carcharoth 09:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I see nothing there that requires admin action. --Fredrick day 09:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I have given Calton a warning for his frequent and extreme violations of Misplaced Pages's behavioural policies. --CBD 11:55, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

User:JJJ999

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 September 18#World Public Speaking Championship

This user has referred to a comment I made with the response, "Stronger delete recommended for lying". I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, suggesting that he might be intimating that the article was a hoax. His reponse was ""The Author"? No, we're talking about you. Did you or did you not post the misleading/false number of 148,000 hits for this page? And if so, why should your vote be taken seriously, it appears to be blatantly false..." When I admonished him against that type of attack, his response was "I stand by my question. And you may refer it to the mods. Your response also indicates you are attempting the "shout loudly" variety or rebuttal. If you don't answer it'll be me asking the Mods about conduct for lying anyway, so feel free to draw it to their attention. Now, you claim here the following: "Notable in the world of college and high school debating. It's found more often under "Toastmasters", where the championship returns 148,000+ ghits Mandsford 12:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC) " I observe, upon 3 google searches of the relevant terms that it produces 278, 1 and 200 hits accordingly, and ask you where you got the 148,000 from, and if you either made it up, or lied. Unless my google is broken these seem to be the 2 possibilities. If either is true, it seems like we shouldn't take your vote seriously, and I will put that to the mods too.JJJ999 00:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)"

Now, I recognize that we sometimes get carried away in a debate, but I've never seen anyone get called a liar. I don't appreciate that type of attack. Mandsford 01:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• what a comical complaint. You flat out posted a number which you have not, despite several requests from me, ever explained how you came up with this number (I'd take a link to the google search if you're wondering), and you refused to back down from it. Your latest claim, that you used different terms, still only comes up with 2170 hits. So, what to we have? A guy who initially posted false numbers, was asked were he got them, and told he was wrong or lying, spent a while dodging and refusing to admit the numbers were wrong, and who has once again posted clearly inaccurate information in his subsequent "explanation" of his conduct. Have fun with that. JJJ999 01:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • While you're actually overstating the number of hits (you need to go to the last page to get the number of Ghits), IMO you need to assume good faith - everyone makes mistakes. A search without the quote marks brings up what at first glance looks like 132,000 hits (albeit actually 772), which is much closer to the number claimed — iridescent (talk to me!) 01:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • (ec) ***Querying without any quotes gives me 133,000 results which is relatively close to his stated results. It seems more logical that he queried without quotes (and perhaps some slight variation on wording) which is a common mistake. You need to review WP:AGF and WP:NPA. Your initial post failed in both regards. It is fine to question someone's comments, but immediately calling them a liar is not. -- JLaTondre 01:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• There seems to be something very odd going on here and a possible COI - User:JJJ999's first edit was to create an article on a debating society, and virtually all the rest of their edit history has been to prod/AfD articles on other debating societies & their members, sometimes in a way bordering on a personal attack - see this for example — iridescent (talk to me!) 01:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• Oh, and posting to AfD debates under a false name yesterday. Something is definitely going on here — iridescent (talk to me!) 01:56, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• No, he changed his name from Jembot99 to JJJ999. However, he has engaged in canvassing with multiple requests to people who had recommended deletion on a previous nomination (just a couple of the many examples: & ). -- JLaTondre 02:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• Someone may also want to look through Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Christopher_Erskine and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Erik Eastaugh (2nd nomination) for potentially escalating heated discussions. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 02:04, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• (4 Edit conflicts...)Canvassing also appears to be going on a lot SQL 02:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• • • The irony of being accused of bad faith while warning someone about AGF. Gold. The accusation of "canvassing" in a forum designed for it is also amusing. I have no claim on those people, asking them to give their opinion on my recent deletion noms sounds fine, some even went against me on one (Erskine) but for (Eastaugh). I invited everyone on the former to the latter too, and vice versa. It is also silly to assume other people don't ask others their opinions. You can call it bad faith, but I have yet to hear one satisfactory explanation of why his conduct was not deceptive, and I don't believe a poster with his record of edits would have made such a mistake innocently, certainly not the 2nd or 3rd time down the road. I can't prove his intention, but then one could never call anyone a liar... also dispute my edits are all debating, but even if they were it'd make sense to focus on something I knew a bit about.JJJ999 02:08, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

It may "sound fine", but it is against Misplaced Pages's guidelines, for many reasons. You can read more at the appropriate page. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 02:17, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• And what "canvassing" it was... it included exhortations like "I have renominated this for deletion. I notice you voted against last time. If you have any views one way or another, please post them. It appears like it will be a clear deletion anyway. Cheers." and "Notice you voted for deletion last time, I have renominated it. If you have any comments of this deletion, or any of the other debating ones I have made, please feel free to give input on them. JJJ999 03:27, 18 September 2007 (UTC)" and "so if you could ask objective people to look this over and give their thoughts, this page can be decided on sooner rather than later". Man, can you feel the push voting? On the other hand I'm certain some of the people voting keep to some of the gratuitous articles I have mentioned are undoubtably friends, but hey, as long as it's done by e-mail, rather than an open request for objective assessment from someone...JJJ999 02:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Google

Slightly off-topic, but we need some good instruction somewhere on how to use and interpret a Google search, including

• use quotes in your search
• don't be deceived by a low number of Ghits at the end of the search: it gives the number of distinct pages from the first 1,000 hits only, not the actual number of distinct pages, and so can only be used with searches which have only less than (or slightly more than) 1,000 results to begin with
• do not look at what national version of Google someone uses (google.com, google.be, google.de, ...), since they all give basically the same results (excluding China perhaps). Almost everytime Google hits are discussed, people make errors in interpretation (including myself, probably).
• Do not quiblle about slight changes in numbers returned, Google searches are rarely identical on different tries (althouygh the numbers should obviously be close to one another). Fram 09:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

As to point 3, looking at national versions of Google and checking off "pages from country" can skew the results greatly. Try and search for NRL in Google Canada and Google Australia and the results are similiar. But check off "pages from country" gives (Google Canada and Google Australia) very different results. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

True, but I thought that was obvious. All my comments were about a standard Google search. Google news can also give completely different results depending on your country. Fram 14:36, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Alternatively, we could follow WP:GHITS and step away from using the Google test altogether, instead focusing on the contents of search results. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 17:28, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, if Google returned 3 results, all of them reliable sources that's more important than a million GHits. --Haemo 18:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Of course, but if we deal with curent popular culture topics (which are a major portion of AfD debates anyway), like an American band or a British webcomic, a low number of Google hits is a pretty good indicator of a lack of notability. "There are only 50 google hits" is a bad deletion reason, but "there are only 50 google hits, and none of them from reliable sources", is quite good. "There are 1,000,000 google hits, and none of them from reliable sources" may be correct, but it is hard to believe that anyone checked all the hits :-). IF the google test is used (which will continue to happen fairly often), it should at least be interpreted in a correct way. Fram 09:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Personal attack

ILike2BAnonymous called me Idiotic here, I request that an admin give this user an appropriate blocking for violating WP:NPA.Cholga 03:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Are you a "that?" It seems that he was referring to your comment, and while I'd suggest that he be a tad more civil about it from now on, a block is not needed here. The Behnam 03:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes I am indeed a that, this user cleverly objectifies me and others to avoid directly refering to individuals as idiots amoung other perjorative terms.Cholga 05:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

He called me ignorant too, and said i was obsessed with feces, and he also called me idiotic on another page, how about that?Cholga 05:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• May sound funny to you, but was fine; and why the obsession with "feces"?

N.B.: It should be obvious here that I was pointing out her obsession with the use of the word "feces", not the thing itself (refer to article edit history for that story if interested). +ILike2BeAnonymous 05:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• You show your ignorance once again —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cholga (talk • contribs) 05:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
• Someone here seems to have an unnatural affection for "feces". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cholga (talk • contribs) 05:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
• The park doesn't "employ" the bags, it provides them for others to employ. And please, enough with the graphic dog shit stuff! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cholga (talk • contribs) 05:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
• Sorry, that that is just idiotic: You haven't said what valley the town is in. I mean the specific valley, by name. Do you even know the name? (I don't.) If you can find the exact name of that valley, fine. For now, we know that it's in a valley, and that that valley was formed by the S.A.F. Right? Can we agree on that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cholga (talk • contribs) 05:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
• What the hell does "73% average annual brightness" even mean?)
• ...And notice I said "slack cut IF you're not a native English speaker" (emphasis in IF in case you missed it). You cannot accept the slightest courtesy without shitting all over it. I give up. Sheesh.
• Just to head off another of Cholga's mini-shit storms...

I am feeling rather harrassed by ILike2BeAnonymous at this point, this is ongoingly very rude and crassCholga 05:38, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm no admin but you'll probably need to post diffs for those last couple of claims there too. Equazcion • argue/contribs • 05:14, 09/19/2007

Yes... diffs please. Don't expect other people to go fishing for you. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 07:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

So are those enough diffs? Because I can dig up even more where he refers to me as idiotic or an idiot. Is it okay for this user to claim I "shit all over him" and that I am obsessed with "'Feces'" even if he claims in his or her defence that s/he was only claiming that I was obsessed with the word "feces" which I highly doubt. Is it okay for this user to continually debase my attempts to discuss, to edit...to harrass and attack me? Please have a word with this user and block him/her for a while.Cholga 05:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

From an outside perspective, 1 is pretty innocent and is a remark about the word which is used little outside the medical community, 2 is a statement about the idea you put forward (Ignorance is not necessarily a bad thing). 3 and 4 is tied to 1 and may be part of the lamest edit war I have seen yet "feces versus waste" (For the record, I like his wording a bit better. Less graphical description, commons terms are used, and the message is still conveyed). 5 is attacking the idea, not the person. Why is #6 is even here? 7 is a response to your question. I can see why he would respond that way. And finally #8 is a response to your tendency to be very pedantic about the wording of certain things. To be honest, while you claim to be a native speaker of english, the way you word things does not appear to be the most common way. This is the first time I have seen the term "dog feces" instead of "dog waste" at any dog park/facility. In addition, provides conveys that group A makes available item B for group C to use. Allocates can be construed differently. Employs implies the park itself uses the bags instead of the public. Finally, I have studied geology and in particular, earthquake zones and tectonics. In the locale you are talking about, Fault would be the appropriate term. A fault is a rift but in layman speak, the fault caused the rift valley. The rift is the whole zone we are talking about. Spryde 11:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

It's innocent to tell someone they have an obsession with feces when they disagree with you!? I find it hard to believe this users intentions were to use the word ignorance to mean "misinformed" or "unknowing" Thanks for your input but this is not about any disagreements it's about this user's abusive language. The point is, is that this user is personally attacking me repeatedly.#8 is not a response to me being "pedantic" I was trying to avoid an edit war so I tried to discuss the matter and he called my discussing a "mini shit storm" and 7 may be an answer to my question which this user used to accuse me of "shitting all over them" that is just beyond uncivil, instead of even (uncivilly) rudely replying he takes the opportunity to ridicule me by accusing me of "Unaturalness" "Feces Obsession" calls me "idiotic" and says i repeatedly show my "Ignorance" and says i cause "Shit Storms" and that i am "shitting all over him"Cholga 12:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Undid revision ... by User:X per User:Y

"Undid revision ... by User:X per User:Y" is the edit summary of many of User: Karl Meier's reverts. What makes at least a set of such reverts unacceptable is that this user has made zero contributions to the talk pages of those articles. In the following, I have selected some of his reverts from Sep and late Aug that have such edit summaries & are made to the articles that he has had no activity on their talk pages. That is, I have excluded reverts that either include some explanation, or are made to the articles that Karl has at least one edit to their talk pages.

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

I'd like to see Karl joining the discussions on the disputes he decides to involve himself through reverting. --Aminz 09:19, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

The above mean that I agree with the comments that has already been made on the discussion page and/or in edit summaries, and there is nothing wrong with that, especially when things has been explained to you over and over again by other editors. Your endless circle discussions that is meant to simply make people become tried and give up is well-known, and so your harassments on various noticeboards. I find it interesting that Aminz is posting this behind my back, and without notifying me. -- Karl Meier 10:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

And what admin intervention is required here? Natalie 13:36, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

What Aminz would like to see if of course that an Admin somehow warn me not to oppose his and his opinionated friends biased editing or support the efforts of anyone else that does. Biased editing works best without opposition. -- Karl Meier 15:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Karl, AGF. But really, perhaps the two of you would benefit from some from dispute resolution, which is down the hall. Natalie 15:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I didn't say Karl should not revert me or others, but if he does, I'd like to see him on the talk pages. In most of the above cases, he seems to agree with a certain user. I can understand that a user at times completely agrees with another user but this is happening too often in Karl's case. As I indicated above, all I'd like to see is a more active talk page participation of Karl himself.

Karl, sorry for forgetting to let you know about this. Good that you yourself saw this very soon :) --Aminz 19:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Aminz, when things has been explained to you or one of your similarly opinionated brothers (and I can also name a few that you are agreeing with a bit too often), then I do not believe that there is always a reason for me repeat what has already been said. Sometimes I and other editors might simply refer to the explanations that has already been made. That shouldn't be a problem. ...Oh and you where just "forgetting" to notify me? Well, that explain everything. :) -- Karl Meier 20:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Karl, you should follow the[REDACTED] rules such as WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA and WP:AFG. Yes, it is odd that you help reverting a certain user over a number of articles you have not edited their talk page & when that user changes his edit, you too change it in exactly the same way. It is odd at least. --Aminz 20:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• Normally I'd agree, but here those reverts look to me to be sound, within the limits of my knowledge of the subject. Someone appears to be trying to advance an agenda. Guy (Help!) 17:38, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

JzG, would you please let me know what that agenda is? Also, if you are knowledgeable in these topics, please help us with the content disputes. Since the eventual consensus in some of the above cases was in disagreement with the reverts, and you think the reverts are sound, you might be able to help us maintaining the neutrality by posting your arguments on the relevant talk page. Consensus can always change. --Aminz 19:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

This will be discussed again in a likely RfC regarding Aminz's patterns of editing. Arrow740 04:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Mikerussell and interactions with other users including User:Lar

User:Lar and I agree that there should be an entry on this incident on this Admin Incident board. I will keep it short. I post now, before the article AfD ends so it doesn't seem I am a poor loser. User:Lar wrote on my user page a comment in regards to my manner of approaching the Afd for the above article on Monday . I responded politely, but honestly on his Talk page. I have never had any contact with him before this comment. I responded and explained why I removed the comment from my Talk page here- . Immediatly upon reading my response he threatens with blocking or other type of punitive action here -. I then responded finally here ]. This admin now has additional material on his Talk page that may provide info but I have no idea why he includes sinebot reverts when I date and sign all my posts anyway, and that day my Sign button was sticking for some reason, so reverting these things have nothing to do with the debate. Moreover, he seems to be saying my actions led to User:Loodog quitting[REDACTED] which is just factually wrong, since he had his User page unchanged prior to the issue. Obviously when a heated AfD is started and the nominator User:Will Beback states in his first paragraph that the contributor and not the content is the reason the article should be deleted, and I am the editor he refers to, heated personalizing of issues is likely to result. But I really find the above named admin is flaming the fires, choosing sides, if you will, taking personal shots by "not naming names" on the AfD itself and in general trying to label me as a problem contributor based solely on this one issue/debate. Personally adminship to me means you are not allowed to use the position to inforce personal policing. --Mikerussell 11:28, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

For reference: Lar (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), Mikerussell (talk · contribs · count · logs · page moves · block log) ... It is my considered view that the behaviour of Mikerussell in the AfD Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Tourism in metropolitan Detroit was disruptive, and continued to be disruptive even after being counseled about it. (I can provide diffs if necessary, but I recommend just reading the AfD, just about every post he made has at least one issue with it) Note that as of yet, Mikerussell has not actually been blocked. Rather, he has been counseled by several users that his approach in this deletion discussion is at best, not effective. The series of diffs on my user talk page demonstrate that he has repeatedly removed that counsel in a dismissive way (characterising a neutral notice of an AfD as "unpleasant" is not collegial in my view). Users are always welcome to do just that, to remove things from their own talk pages, but after some number of warnings that do not result in a change in disruptive behaviour, further action may be justified. Pointing that out, which is what I did, is not a threat. I never threaten, and I don't think my pointing things out is in any way shape or form out of line. I think there are a lot of mischaracterisations by Mikerussell in the above about the sequence of events, about whether his responses are polite, about who did what in this AfD, etc, and in particular about why the AfD is heated... the heat there is coming entirely, or almost entirely, from Mikerussell and Thomas Paine1776 (talk · contribs · count · logs · page moves · block log), who seem to be exhibiting some WP:OWN at best. Note that I have changed the title of this section as I think the focus ought to be on Mikerussell's interaction pattern (he introduced nothing about my interaction with any other users) in this matter. I don't necessarily see him as a problem contributor, overall, (although his contribution history suggests past minor dustups), just that he may have lost perspective about this particular thing, and would benefit from some outside voices commenting about it. This is not a major deal, and I don't think any blocks are warranted at this point if Mikerussell gets the point that his approach needs changing and the disruption needs to stop. As always I encourage and welcome review of my actions, which is why I encouraged Mike to bring this here. Sorry for the longwindedness :) ++Lar: t/c 15:44, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

(after ec)I'm not sure I understand fully what is going on but from the diffs I looked at, Lar seemed to be trying to give you some reasonable advice and warnings and you were being repeatedly snarky. In my personal experience, Lar is not a person known for "flaming the fires" or "choosing sides", so perhaps you could provide some evidence supporting those allegations. Sarah 15:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• Sounds to me as if Mike got a bit carried away with advocacy for a pet article. He's been around for over two years, I'm surprised he fell into this trap. Maybe he doesn't go near the cesspit of AfD often, I don't know. Anyway, if Mike is content to live and learn (especially about canvassing) and he and Lar can shake hands and agree to differ I don't see why this would be a lasting problem. Guy (Help!) 17:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• I don't have time now to go into details, but I believe the canvassing in this matter was done by another editor, user:Thomas Paine1776. What I got from Mikerussell were wild accusatians and negative personal remarks (the worst of which he had the good sense to go back and refactor). To the extent that AfD is a cesspit, it is due to reactions like his. In any case, the editor has made valuable contributions and this does seem out of character, so if there's no future repetition then we needn't worry about it further. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 17:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • I agree the canvassing was done by Thomas. There may have been some suggesting and encouragement going back and forth, hard to say. I actually knew it at the time of my initial message, and I may not have been clear about that. But the wild accusations being flung in the AfD well predated any canvassing. I agree with Will, that if a word to the wise is sufficient, that will be that. I certainly bear no animus, and am willing to gloss over the misstatements. I merely want Mike not to disrupt things, and my read of everyone else's comments is that we all want the same thing in that. ++Lar: t/c 19:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Having reviewed the communications, it seems to me that Mikerussell may be suffering from a malaise that strikes all editors here sometimes. I see absolutely nothing wrong in Lar's actions. --John 20:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for everyone's opinions and feedback; its been an interesting exercise.--Mikerussell 01:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I do not wish to add anything further; however, this morning as I casually re-read this section, it did occur to me for "the archives" of this debate, it should be mentioned for the record the AfD in question was too Keep; and the closing admin gave an interesting reason. Thank you to everyone, and I have no reason to hold any lasting animosity to any of the above editors.--Mikerussell 11:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree it's an interesting outcome (and in fact I've asked the closing admin editor about it... not favouring a DRV though), but it may not have much bearing on the issues raised here. As long as you recognise (to yourself, I'm not looking for any public acknowledgement, those are often counterproductive) that consensus seems to be that your actions in this matter were not uniformly helpful and endeavour to do better in future I think all will be well. In fact, I hope the opportunity arises for us to work together in future on other Michigan related projects. ++Lar: t/c 14:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The result of the AfD says it all in my opinion. I cannot waste any more time and energy squabbling so I think we will have to agree to disagree and leave it at that for my part. --Mikerussell 15:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry Mikerussell, there are several things that need correcting in that response. First, the ends do not justify the means. That the AfD came out a keep (which is a good thing, recall that my final comment was not in favour of deletion) does not in any way justify your behaviour during the course of it, or your behaviour when that was pointed out to you. Second, you need to internalise that others feel that you acted unacceptably, and that others feel that being counseled about it was not a bad thing. Everyone else in this thread is telling you that, yet you still seem to be dismissing it. I agree you should not "waste any more time and energy" but it's not squabbling that you were engaged in, (which has two sides) it's mild disruption (which has just the one side), and the time and energy wasted is that of the other folks that have to deal with it, not your own, which is why it's disruptive and why it's discouraged... I'm fine with dropping it, since my actions and those of the others that counseled you have been endorsed, but you need to stop being snarky is what it comes down to. Don't be surprised if your activities now get a bit more scrutiny than before, though, and I'd highly recommend that if you choose to participate in AfDs going forward that you moderate your tone significantly. ++Lar: t/c 16:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Geez, guy, give it a rest already. Your nervous chatter is pathetic. I don't take your opinion seriously, never have in the three days I've known of you, and you take your own opinion waaaay too seriously. (This will launch another essay I guess. Tisk, tisk on me.)--Mikerussell 23:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Just for the record, I don't think that John254 is an admin. Sarah 15:12, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I've reworded that remark, thanks. ++Lar: t/c 16:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Just for the record too. This is the real lesson about this whole ugly affair- it is the commonsense of the silent majority of level headed contributors that make[REDACTED] worthy of any credibility it has in the swollen sea of Internet information sources. Block all the admins on 'pedia and no harm would come. Take away a few handfuls of the small contributors, non-admins by choice, with their own modest sense of importance, place and perspective and this website would be just Google spam. Thanks to the non-admins wherever you are!--Mikerussell 23:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Continuous accusations of bad faith

The following discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this page.

This thread is not going anywhere or generating any productive discussion. Ghirla, if you don't like this thread, then why is trying to close it grossly incivil? You can suggest sanctions over at WP:CSN.

I happened to notice article Moderated nuclear explosion, and as anonymous editor on talk page claimed it's possibly WP:HOAX as the term results in 0 google hits and claiming he is an expert on the area and that the article is factually incorrect. He/she tried to mark it for speedy deletion, but this was found inappropriate and AFD was recommended instead. As far as I know anonymous editors cannot start AFD process (can't create pages), I decided to help him/her out and started AFD myself. Because of my quite unclear connection with ongoing conflict surrounding Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Digwuren. I am being continuously accused of nominating the article in bad faith.

My nomination was done in good faith:

• The article subject has only one reference which is NOT connected to the topic being discussed. Thus failing WP:V.
• The title of article does not produce any google hits, is not mentioned in any nuclear science journals, etc. Thus failing WP:NN or WP:OR.
• Several suggestions of (googleable) terms in form of "(some word with similar meaning to moderated) nuclear explosion" have been made, but so far none of the results match with the topic discussed in article.
• The article is probably factually incorrect.

This behaviour is disruptive to[REDACTED] where real consensus needs to be found about the fate of the article by leading attention away from the article itself to the possible conflict between editors. User:Suva User_talk:Suva 12:12, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Exactly what are you asking administrators to do? --ElKevbo 12:27, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure, I am not an administrator, so I don't know what or if they can do anything. I am just tired of personal attacks and my faith being doubted every time I accidentally meet with one of the people related to the named RFAR case. User:Suva User_talk:Suva 12:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

How about a block, indefinite but to be lifted immediately upon display of remorse, to prevent further violations of WP:CIV? Baseless accusations are, after all, grossly uncivil. 泥紅蓮_凸凹箱 13:36, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Digwuren and Suva, please stop trolling, at least pending the arbitration. If you need to attract attention to your umpteenth attack on pages authored by User:Petri Krohn, I suggest you use appropriate venues for this activity. WP:ANI is hardly the place. Either you leave Petri alone, or the adminsitrators may wish to review the history of your interactions with this editor in terms of WP:STALK. It is remarkable that you don't "happen to notice" and nominate for deletion articles by editors other than your long-standing opponent. I also find your new signatures highly annoying. Let me remind you that they may be refactored by any editor who finds them deliberately misleading or disruptive. --User:Ghirlandajo 14:57, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

This is not true. I have nominated several articles for deletion. Many more for speedy deletion and I have instructed many people how to nominate articles for deletion on IRC. User:Suva User_talk:Suva 15:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Refactoring non-Latin sigs. Requests for comments is thataway. Digwuren and Suva, kindly explain the purpose of hiding behind such sigs, and of bringing this non-admin issue here. Don't fuck with ANI or you'll be pagebanned from it. Bishonen | talk 16:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC).

There is no rule against non-Latin in sigs. Their sigs link to their userpages, and your reaction (both here and in edit summaries) was highly uncivil. You also missed another one (User:Ghirlandajo, odd that you complained when you yourself use cyrillic characters in your own sig) --Random832 17:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

"There is no rule against it" is the all-time Bad Answer.© Please don't wikilawyer. Bishonen | talk 18:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC).

Your grasping at straws is obvious. Don't bother. 泥紅蓮_凸凹箱 22:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

In fact, let's refrain from expressing ourselves at all in our sigs. On second thought, that a mistake. But still... Random832 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 17:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikilawyering, sig guidelines, and inappropriate ANI reports aside...lets calm down here. Its a bit harsh to accuse people of using this board inappropriately as f-ing around with it Bishonen. AGF doesn't hurt every once in awhile and there is certainly a better way to say it than hot remark like that.¤~Persian Poet Gal 18:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Afraid not. The time for a hot remark had just arrived as the best possible way of saying it, after me trying to assume good faith from Digwuren and Suva till I was blue in the face, as you would know if you knew anything about the situation you're commenting on, Persian Poet Gal. Bishonen | talk 20:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC).

If a signature contains, in a prominent position, a link to a User: or User Talk: page, and does not contain anywhere any links to User or User Talk pages belonging to any other user, it cannot reasonably be characterized as "hiding" anything, no matter what the text of those links is or what alphabet that text is in. I don't call PPG's sig fraud because she's not User:¤~Persian Poet Gal (or, even, ]). I don't accuse Ghirlandajo of "hiding" because he's not User:Ghirla or User:-трёп-. Putting aside any assumptions of good, bad, or any other kind of faith; when an accusation is simply factually not true and you know it, I think that goes over a line. No matter how improper the post itself may have been, nitpicking at their sigs is unproductive. —Random832 20:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Frankly, I don't understand the point of your comments here. Sometimes it pays to familiarize oneself with the underlying dispute before rushing to comment. Suva and Digwuren changed their signatures immediately before popping up on this noticeboard, apparently with a view to obfuscating their identities. Unlike mine, their signatures are utterly devoid of reason. If you believe that I'm trying to obfuscate my identity, or that people are confused by my signature (there have been no complaints for a year), or that people are unable to distinguish Ghirla and Ghirlandajo... actually, I'm not going to spell it out for you. You should make your point clear yourself. --Ghirla 22:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Making more nonsensical accusations? Suva has been spelt his signature in Cyrillic for about a week by now, I think. I changed mine to Kanji two days ago, well before you had even shown up at that AFD, and used it at , for example. I'm expecting your apology and (still) remorse. 泥紅蓮_凸凹箱 22:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

That is EXACTLY why I started this thread. Ghirla, please don't make baseless accusations. I changed the signature quite long time ago, possibly the first occurence is here. As you can see LONG before, I came to this board. It is unrelated to you, Petri or whoever else on wikipedia. Also I explained my signature change before to someone. You tell other people to investigate things, but have you? Anyways fight over signatures if you want, I am not interested in this. Владимир И. Сува Чего? 22:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't follow these discussions, and you know that. You and Digwuren have been active this week primarily on IRC, discussing your ArbCom ad nauseum, raving about "logs read in loghouses", "guys who roll vobla into pravda and drink vodka", etc., as well as agitating for Petri's article to be deleted. Now you are back to the old tactic of spawning meaningless threads on this page. That does not impress me at all. --Ghirla 22:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Ghirla seems to be a redirect to User:Ghirlandajo. I remember somewhere that someone got slapped for redirecting an userpage, but if my signature is so big deal I can possibly make a redirect at User:Владимир И. Сува. Владимир И. Сува Чего? 21:03, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Frankly I am shocked and appalled at Bishonen's outburst here. Is civility and assumption of good faith optional for admins? I think an apology to the community is in order here. --Martintg 21:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Your day for being easily shocked and appalled, is it, Martin? And here was I thinking you were used to that kind of thing. I'm afraid I don't do the prissy "f-ing" spelling, if that's what you're after. Bishonen | talk 21:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC).

AGF presumes no indication of bad faith - and as one of the parties is in Arbitration, and Bishonen mentions some past history of which the community at large (and PPG in specific) may be completely unaware, I'd suggest not bringing up AGF. It is all too often used to attack experienced editors who are trying to deal with problem editors and trolls. I personally don't ever AGF Jason Gastrich any more, for example, and I make no apologies for it. He's lied and sockpuppeted his way across Misplaced Pages for years. I'm not implying this situation is anything like Gastrich, mind you - merely saying that AGF is not permanent license to play the innocent and cry wolf. KillerChihuahua 21:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

While I support your position regarding WP:AGF depending no no evidence to the contrary -- and have made this very point before myself --, you shouldn't put your trust into Bishonen here. Consider, for example, the above-referred ArbCom case, which has now waited for Irpen, who requested it, to present a case for more than a month. The history Bishonen is hinting at is not of "problem editing" or "trolling"; it's about a cabal -- which she supports -- being upset about accurate historiography of Soviet Union, whilst everybody should know that in fact, USSR was a worker's paradise with milk streams and porridge mountains, and ice-cold toilet seats made out of pure gold. Being unable to refute the facts, the so-called Cartel USSR Forever! -- whose associate member Bishonen appears to be -- has tried to portray the opposition as "troublemakers" for months. Not much progress, I must say. 泥紅蓮_凸凹箱 22:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand what's wrong with my signature. I am not hiding anywhere. As my signature has my name in it, although with cyrillic letters. The fact that I preferred to write my name in cyrillic letters doesn't mean I should be stalked and harrassed when I am trying to build an encyclopedia. User:Suva talk 18:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

You're not being stalked nor harassed that I see; I see a strongly worded admonishment against using something other than your username as your sig. If you believe you are being stalked or harassed, please provide a diff - in fact, for stalking and harassment you'll need more than one diff. I am quite certain Bishonen isn't stalking or harassing anyone, so who are you saying is stalking and/or harassing you? KillerChihuahua 21:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Is it not harassment when, pretty much whatever Suva does, Ghirlandajo jumps at it and yells "Bad faith! Bad faith!"? 泥紅蓮_凸凹箱 22:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Side note: as I have noted on the article talk page and AFD page, though the current article Petri wrote is not entirely accurate, there is some historical background (google on 'atomic bomb "uranium hydride"'; see Operation Upshot-Knothole tests Ruth and Ray, or Upshot Knothole at the nuclearweaponarchive.org website). I can AGF on the confusion (if you're not in the field you don't know what terms to look for, on this specific one), and the article is a pretty bad muddle right now, but there is some actual physics behind it. Georgewilliamherbert 20:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I suspect you might have fallen victim of the Barnum effect. Simply put; you're looking at a nonsensical article, trying to make sense of it, and your mind has eventually drawn up an image of a somewhat reasonable article whose connection to the actual article is merely the use of common keywords.

However, it also means you're probably able to create a better article. Please, go ahead -- that's what encyclopædia-writing is all about. 泥紅蓮_凸凹箱 22:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know anything about physics, so no vote from me. What I do see is a term mentioned in a wide range of scholarly publications and nominated for deletion on the basis of WP:NOR. The quality of an article about a notable phenomenon is not a reason to delete it instead of improving. It is the background for this AfD that alarms me. Petri nominated for deletion several articles by Suva and Dig, and they ended up by being deleted. Now these guys go through Petri's contributions and nominate them for deletion, seemingly on a random basis, and advertise their deletion request on this noticeboard, after modifying their sigs to something incomprehensible. Is it productive or civil? I believe the answer is obvious. --Ghirla 22:38, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

If you see the randomness, what makes you think that it's a result of systematic "going through his contributions"? You're contradicting yourself. 泥紅蓮_凸凹箱 22:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

As someone else noted in moving the article back, contained nuclear explosion is usually used to describe underground testing; moderated nuclear explosion describes slow (moderated) neutron fission reactions rather than fast neutron ones. They're unrelated terms. Georgewilliamherbert 22:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. 泥紅蓮_凸凹箱 22:57, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Side note: If there is any way to ban Suva and Digwuren from this noticeboard, the idea is not unwelcome. The noticeboard has already seen several dozen threads initiated by either with the sole purpose of trolling or harrassing their opponents (primarily me and Petri Krohn). Unlike AfD and IRC (where the campaign continues unabated), it is well within the means of the community to put an end to new attacks on this page. --Ghirla 22:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No further edits should be made to this page.

User:DonnEdwards and defrag utilities AfDs

This user DonnEdwards (talk · contribs) "cunningly" deletes AfD messages on pages with ongoing AfD discussions by commenting the message out, as here and here . I have warned him, but should be watched out. 131.111.8.104 15:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Follow-up: He appears to have stopped now. – Quadell 17:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• Hmmm. Donn seems a bit single-minded about this subject, and I think we cite his reviews in some places don't we? Is there a potential COI here? I don't know, it may be completely kosher, but it does look a bit odd. Guy (Help!) 17:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• As an aside, I blanked his user page due to a spammy blog post there... Same with talkpage... SQL 20:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Turkey

Not so much an incident, as the VoABot II bot reverting my removal of around 10k from the article as vandalism. Here's the dif: ]. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Hiberniantears 17:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• Yeah it doesn't seem the bot is malfunctioning. However, you removed quite a bit. Was this mostly an uncontroversial removal? I'm searching the talk page and I can't find a post yet about considered to removing 10k's worth or reducing (has it been discussed in the past?). But if its all peachy keen, I'll see if I can help!¤~Persian Poet Gal 17:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I used the admin rollback button on it ... we can see if that keeps. I assume/hope it knows better than to revert admins. ;) --B 17:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok ... it reverted me ... I'll protect the page, revert it, then unprotect. --B 17:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Wow I guess the bot is being naughty.¤~Persian Poet Gal 17:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Bad Robot!! -- Flyguy649 _contribs 17:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. My edits are on the level, but the page tends to be the source of a lot of controversy. I removed some images, and consolidated the history section, leaving in place links to the articles that discuss the removed sections (i.e. all pre-Ottoman history, and most of the Ottoman materials as well). This was only to make the page load faster, as it had grown rather large with images, and redundant text. Hiberniantears 17:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I protected it at pretty much the same time Flyguy649 re-re-reverted the bot. I let it sit for a couple of minutes and then unprotected. It should be fine now. --B 17:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Admins should never be reverted, that means the list is out of date or the checking is bad. Working on it atm. Voice-of-All 20:14, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. The admin list fell out of date. Voice-of-All 20:17, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism against a vandal-fighter

I've been doing a lot of vandalism-fighting recently - undoing, warning on user talk pages, then posting to WP:AIV if appropriate. Now it seems to have provoked a reaction by some vandal. He vandalized my own talk page. I treated it just like any other vandalism - undid, then put a uw-vandalism2 warning on the vandal's talk page. My question is should I do anything else in a case like this? Sbowers3 18:08, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

No, for vandalism like this, that is sufficient, though we do have {{uw-tpv}} warnings if you wish to be specific. If the vandalism contained personal attacks, you would want to give a stronger warning or report directly to AIV for extremely serious attacks. Its somewhat expected that you will anger some people when you revert their vandalism. If it becomes a serious problem, you can request protection of your user/talk pages at WP:RFPP. Mr.Z-man 18:14, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Treat it like a badge of honour - by doing all the right things, you pissed off someone who was trying to piss off others and they proved that you managed it. Well done! ➔ This is REDVEЯS 18:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yup. It's inevitable. Guy (Help!) 21:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

It can also be a handy way to flush out sockpuppet accounts. Natalie 23:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Copyvio

Hi, 67.168.217.5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) continues adding material taken from IMDB to the Departed article (Here is one diff, check his contribs for more ). I warned him about it on his talkpage, but he continues adding it. Could an admin look into this? Sasha Callahan 18:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Blunt and effective final warning by Irishguy appears to have worked - 15 minutes of silence so far. Shout if the IP comes back again. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 18:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

If you click on WHOIS, you'll find this user is from Portland, Oregon . Nathantillett (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) says he's from Portland, Oregon on his talk page, and he removed the discussion on copyright info from the article's talkpage and restored the same information to the article that 67.168.217.5 added , both edits coming after Irish's warning to 67.168. Sasha Callahan 19:03, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Don't mean to be belligerent, but you're looking at the DNS location, not the IP user's location. Comcast has a center in Portland. Sounds like you may still be right about the user's identity, though I haven't looked into it much. — xDanielx /_C 06:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

User talk:66.93.254.200

Could somebody take a look at the history of this page and take whatever action is deemed necessary? I'm on vacation and don't have the time or patience to deal with it right now, but I've previously blocked one user involved in the debate. Accusations of vandalism and harassment are still flying, and DavidCharlesII (talk · contribs) may need a permanent vacation. Thanks, - auburnpilot talk 19:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll wade into this morass. --Haemo 19:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Having the first edit on this talk page, it became part of my Watchlist including the fight. I don't think any measures should be taken against Zsero, who apparently got involved as a vandal fighter reverting the blanking of that talk page but is now taking it a little too personally. DavidCharles, in contrast, has few edits, used sockpuppetry and personal attacks and seems to harass Zsero (see User talk:Zsero) for restoring the edits. Sciurinæ 19:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Apparent sock of User:Joehazelton

It appears that TEAMCrocko (talk · contribs) is another sock of the indef-blocked sockpuppeteer Joehazelton (talk · contribs), with the same kind of POINTy disuption at the Tammy Duckworth and Peter Roskam articles. If someone wants to administer the quack test, that would be great, otherwise I can file a checkuser. Thanks! Videmus Omnia 19:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I will keep this short... BE NICE To me and I'm nice to you. IF you are not nice, nether will I. TEAMCrocko 19:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

(ec, posting anyway for the record):Maybe you can begin by "being nice". First off, by not abusing the AGF policy yourself as you have admitted to doing (here). Where you have as much as admitted to making disingenuous arguments over the better part of a day (wasting my time, and others') in order to push your POV for Peter Roskam, thus violating Wp:disrupt. That you have done so as a (former?) staffer for Roskam's campaign puts you in violation of WP:COI. And since I don't believe that you were arguing in good faith (link again, for clarity) to keep Tammy Duckworth's personal info in her article (against her reasonable request) -I don't believe you when you say you've been watching[REDACTED] and not editing yourself. You have made more than one comment that indicates you are probably a previous editor (here and here). You included a wikilink in your very first edit summary, which new users don't typically do (link here). When gently asked about your unusual edit habits (for a newbie) you don't deny, but deflect (links here and here, where you "admit nothing"]). Most unusual for someone wrongly accused. So, "be nice", yes! But that doesn't mean so much coming from someone, while claiming to be a 2 day old editor, has managed thus far to demonstrate himself (at the very least) to be a POV pushing, single purpose account with a COI who uses disingenuous arguments as "a lever" in editing an article about his (old?) boss. And, I note that, after being warned by Crockspot, TEAMCrocko deleted information at Dennis Hastert to make a point. . .yep clearly TEAMCrocko is here to help the project. I would wish you happy editing, but your "beginning" here seems to be down a contentious and presumably short path. R. Baley 19:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

It's abundantly clear based on TeamCrocko's comments that he is both the incarnation of a previous user and here to do battle for a cause. User:Crockspot has also expressed concern of the closeness of TC's username to his (though he hasn't expressed support for a block). As everyone but TC seems to agree that he's a sock, I feel that we've indulged TC's behavior enough and I'm blocking per the duck test and WP:USERNAME. Gamaliel (Angry Mastodon! Run!) 19:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Alientraveller

Alientraveller (talk · contribs) is engaging in general incivility and personal attacks directed against me. Examples:

1. "don't be argumentative" when I informed the user (using a template warning) about a disputed fair-use rationale.
2. "why you argumentative", where user blanks my fair-use dispute.
3. "fair use hound"
4. "insufferable fair use curs"
5. "you are annoying me", "you will continue to just be a nuisance"

I have asked the user to be civil and to refrain from personal attacks but these attacks continue. Alientraveller claims on his or her user page to suffer from Asperger syndrome which may possibly be complicating this matter somewhat. Can someone please take a look at this situation and do whatever is necessary? I think any further comments from me will simply inflame this user further. --Yamla 19:58, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

"how rude, how silent, how ignorant you were". In an effort to further disengage, I will not post any further examples of incivility or personal attacks unless they are significantly worse. --Yamla 20:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I've asked Alientraveller to also disengage, with the idea that some time can pass and we can try some sort of mediation. I've deliberately not whacked Alientraveller for the quotes above, as that would seem to pour petrol on an already stoked fire. A few deep breaths on both sides and we'll come back to this tomorrow. Okay? ➔ This is REDVEЯS 20:56, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Great, thanks. For the record, it is clear that Alientraveller has contributed very productively to the Misplaced Pages and almost certainly has resulted in more articles reaching good-article or featured-article status than I have. --Yamla 21:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Josh Gibson Page

I am simply looking into someone helping us at the Josh Gibson page find some kind of reasonable solution. We tried to file for an RFC but that hasn't seemed to help. The page was protected and that doesnt seem to help. I tried to ask around for help, but I believe that is canvassing. We have 2 administrators looking into this, but we are at a stalemate. Is there anything anyone can do to help? YoSoyGuapo 20:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I have been saying from the beginning that we need to present as many facts as we have. Those huge numbers are based on nothing except some comment in a website, but they're fair game for citing as in "these sources say..." such and such. Then you present the Negro League numbers, and explain the huge discrepancy by pointing out that many of the numbers came from barnstorming, which played a much larger role in the Negro Leagues than in the majors, in that many more games in the Negro Leagues were barnstorm games. The majors also barnstormed, but to a rather lesser extent. Baseball Bugs 01:02, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Burgz33

Based on this edit and the other charming ones by the same anon, could the block on Burgz33 be extended to indefinite? Corvus cornix 20:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd endorse that. However, I don't think he's going to care, since he's using dynamic IPs to evade it anyways. --Haemo 21:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I third that. All he's doing is unplugging his modem/restarting it after each block. I've requested an indef block for this person and all sockpuppets a number of times back in March/April of this year. The user has a long term pattern of abuse and vandalism. CambridgeBayWeather can verify past dealings with this person.--Yankees76 23:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Check out User:HuStL_MO, and look at his contributions. Up until an admin abused their powers, he made well over a couple hundred HIGHLY constructive edits. Go ahead and indef block, but for all you know, he has 100 other accounts he edits with. Can't block everybody, now can you? 75.43.137.125 00:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, including you. As socks come up, they will get swatted back into the drawer. And this isn't the first time a blocked user's copped admin abuse. Show proof, or it didn't happen. -Jéské 00:50, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Does this kind of abuse warrant an autoblock? I know it's dangerous to block a range of dynamic IPs, but it looks like this user is going to keep creating socks. Cheers, ARkY // ¡HaBLaR! 01:02, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

This a 6 month+ case of abuse. I got this nice little message on my talk page just yesterday. In fact my talk page has a long history of abusive posts from this individual - to the point that I've had it semi protected to avoid ongoing harrassment. He has zero respect for other editors on Wikpedia, edits certain pages like he WP:OWN's them, and has now posted racists comments on a number of unrelated users talk pages. I can provide all diffs in the world to show this. What else is needed? Quartet 01:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to see those 'racist' comments.... Is it another CambridgeBayWeather saying the phrase "He's A Hero To His People" is racist? LOL --Edit-- Jewish isn't a race, so saying it is is VERY VERY racist as I practice the Jewish religion.75.43.137.125 01:29, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Can we report him to his ISP? Oh, and, by the way, Jew is the race, Judaism is the religion. -Jéské 01:32, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"i hope you die, you stupid jew." Very classy. Definitely the edits of an upstanding Wikipedian. While we're at it, we can ad anti-gay comments as well.--Quartet 01:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

A CheckUser case has been filed in regards to Burgz33 (talk · contribs)'s evasion of his 6-month block. OhNoitsJamie 02:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Malfunctioning bot: User:^demonBot2. Shut off appropriate?

In Sudden_infant_death_syndrome demonbot2 replaced a {{unreferenced|section|date=June 2007}} with {{refimprove|section|date=June 2007}} leaving the comment "(removing {{unreferenced}} if contains at least one reference, replacing with {{refimprove}})". However, there were no references in that section (not then, not now). I theorize that it's ignoring the "|section" part of the unreferenced tag, which means it refers to just the section, not to the entire article. It seems to be performing a few substitutions per minute, so mistakes are probably mounting, although I'm not sure how frequent the use of "|section" is within {{unreferenced}}; maybe it's a recent alternative to {{unreferencedsection}}. -Agyle 21:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I've stopped my bot for the time being. Can we get a list of every article it messed up on? I've made 968 edits and 1514 pages. 73000+ to check. Any insight from others? ^demon 21:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

It got Bushidō. -Jéské 21:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

That was quick...I was just leaving a msg on demonbot2, but I'll leave the discussion here. :) I'm no admin, but as a suggestion, if ignoring "section" was the problem, then it seems like if you modify it to pay attention to that, then it would be as easy to have it change "unreferenced|section" to "refimprove|section" as it would be to reverse it and change "refimprove|section" to "unreferenced|section." And in that case, you could just re-run the bot on the same articles it was already run on. That avoids needing a list of the articles it messed up on - the bot would correct any incorrectly tagged sections, and leave the correct ones alone. -Agyle 21:38, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

We've taken this to the bot's talk. This is resolved now. ^demon 14:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Admin repetitively reverting double redirect fixes

Page history is full of reverts by the same admin. The admin is repetitively reverting to a version at which a redirect points to a redirect.

Admin also blocked User:Computer that was properly fixed the double redirect in a manner as explained in Misplaced Pages:Double redirects. The admin block itself was reversed in less than 30 minutes. The approved bot operates perfectly fine and is doing what it was given permission for.

I was not going to bring this here but the admin is continuing the behaviour despite warnings not just by me but also by a fellow admin.

-- Cat 21:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks to me like this matter was talked out on his talk page.--Atlan (talk) 21:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yep, one for WP:LAME. Now resolved, the block of User:Computer was inappropriate, GDonato (talk) 21:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah ok then, that wasn't very clear to me. Sorry for the bother then. :) -- Cat 21:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiSpaceboy

I just talked to him on Eragon wiki. He says he didn't do it: . Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 22:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I've filed a request for CheckUser to see if they can get the hijacking IP blocked, as well as check it to see if its an open proxy. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 03:15, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Alpinist

Alpinist (talk · contribs) has been editing Simon Wessely in a tendentious fashion, resulting in an edit war and protection of the page. He has made numerous personal attacks on Talk:Simon Wessely as well as legal and physical threats on my talk page. JFW | T@lk 22:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I've already warned him twice for same, and I'm inclined to meet the next such outburst with a block. Diffs I noted were (as 88.108.70.119) and . His stated goal on Misplaced Pages appears to be to "intellectually terrorize" neurologists. On a related note, I was about to post here for advice - having come across User:Alpinist's home page, I was surprised to discover a rafter full of barnstars (as his behavior seemed distinctly below barnstar-level). It appears he's awarded himself the barnstars by cut-and-pasting those awarded to User:Jfdwolff onto his userpage (though he did bother to rub out JFW's name and insert his own). This is, at best, childish and misleading. I'm inclined to remove the barnstars, but before monkeying with others' userspace I prefer to run it through here for feedback. MastCell 22:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Setting oneself out to the community as something that one is not, ie recipient of barnsatrs from well respected editors, is at best childish and at worse disruptive in this a collaborative project. I've removed material as per Misplaced Pages:User page#Removal of inappropriate content and issued a template:uw-agf3 warning to user. If further disruption, then I'd advise a short initial block. David Ruben 23:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Concur with all. Alpinist is behaving very poorly. His comments/IP comments purporting to be him on JFW's page are especially disruptive. -- Samir 05:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Sounds like the One-Click mob again. This is yet another single purpose account, here to Right Great Wrongs. Tolerance for this, especially given the history of gross defamation on the Wessely article, should be extremely limited. There are thoughtful editors on that article, but the peace is fragile. We absolutely do not need warriors there. I would suggest an immediate topical ban or simply an indefinite block, but others may feel that the user should be given a chance to correct their behaviour. In my experience the warriors on Simon Wessely do not reform. Guy (Help!) 09:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Spammer

User:Stnich is mass-spamming dozens of pages — as I haven't the energy to revert each one individually, could any admin use their Magic Botlike Powers to fix this? — iridescent (talk to me!) 23:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorted. --John 23:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikistalking and possible WP:COI

I suppose this has gone on long enough and has consumed much of my recent time. The conflict began at Robert Byrd, when WatchingYouLikeAHawk (talk · contribs) began removing valid sentences, such as this, from pages asserting that the Slate reference was nothing more than an opinion-based, Republican-bashing article, per comments left in his edit summaries. This was reverted with statements regarding that the Slate was a valid reference, and I added an even more surmised valid reference from the Charlotte Observer here, where the Slate reference had derived much of their content from.

I later applied the source from the Charlotte Observer and Slate to Strom Thurmond, as both references revolved around the now-dead Senator, on September 17 from 13:43 to 13:47 here. The applied statements included both references and were taken directly from the interview Thurmond gave to the newspaper, in which he stated that he was not renouncing his prior views on segregation. This was promptly reverted here, however, WatchingYouLikeAHawk (talk · contribs) was corrupting a citation template and rendering the page un-viewable, as the sources were used elsewhere in the page. Moreover, even after I included why I was reverting it, basing it on the corruption of the citation template and the inclusion of two reliable sources, the user continued to edit-war instead of initiate discussion on a talk page or file a WP:RFC. I later reverted an edit (due to citation template corruption) under the 74.140.132.75 (talk · contribs), as I had accidentally logged myself out after doing some personal banking online -- it was unintentional in using the IP address. I logged in immediately after realizing this and made a post later on the IP addresses' talk page.

I began discussions Talk:Strom Thurmond#Regarding recent edits, but it was only replied on by my spelling error and threats that I was abusing good faith by itimidating users, to which I would be "sanctioned." He later created Category:Suspected Misplaced Pages sockpuppets of Seicer, but never filed a potential sock case or even a WP:3RR. He strongly believes that I had intentionally reverted edits for vandalism, not because the user was corrupting citation templates, to which another editor agreed.

Since the user refuses to initiate discussion, use a talk page to discuss the various edits, file an WP:RFC outside of edit warring, I am looking for options and opinions on the matter. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 00:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

It seems as if he is backing down, but not without potential Wikistalking comments, such as this and this. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 00:40, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Note that both Seicer and WatchingYouLikeAHawk have just been blocked by User:Spartaz for edit-warring. MastCell 18:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks by anon editor User talk:72.145.142.139

Could an admin keep an eye on this this contributor and consider a block?

The personal attacks are really pretty over the top, (quoting) "WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS FOR REVEALING YOUR TRUE COLORS (BLUE AND WHITE THROUGH AND THROUGH)...YOU ARE A RACIST SWINE AND YOU DISGRACE YOURSELF HERE; THE WAY YOU DEFAME A GOOD MUSLIM MAN'S NAJME WITH YOUR ZIONIST BIGOOTRY IS DISGUSTING1...GO TO HELL ZIONIST MUNAFIQEEN SWINE1" Bigglove 01:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

He's been blocked. <Barbrady>Move along, people, there's nothing to see here.</Barbrady> -Jéské 01:38, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Danke shein Bigglove 01:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Erm, an administrator blocked him. I'm not an admin. You want User:Avraham. -Jéské 01:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Thamarih - Continued Incivility and personal attacks after warnings and block.

User:Thamarih has returned from a previous block for incivility and personal attacks with more personal attacks and general incivility. The user was warned once more after his return and responded with more personal attacks. The personal attacks are:

• Opening up an attack page. This is the second one of these.
• Accusations of "sock-puppetry" (He means "meat-puppetry".) which are attempts at discrediting opposing views because of the holders' affiliation. MARussellPESE 01:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks like they're heading straight for another block. If anyone is interested, see here for some personal attacks cited by the blocking admin in their edit summary. Happy editing, ARkY // ¡HaBLaR! 01:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I've blocked for one week for incivility... Feel free to review/overturn the block if necessary. --D_arkF_alls 06:19, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Edit War

On two pages related to Kanye West's new album, Wiki-Guy-16 and Ayoleftyz have been edit warring (view their contribs: Wiki-Guy and Ayoleftyz). An admin may wish to look into the matter. Sorry for not going through WP:AN3, but this is a little more complex and urgent. Sasha Callahan 03:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Improper name, edit warring and civility

User User:KimboSlice continues to revert to a porn site who hosts illegal videos on the Kimbo Slice page. This user has been constantly reverted by myself and other users for the past few days. User now calls me a vandal and my edits vandalism over and over again and is making me feel very uncivil. I am getting frustrated and pissed off by this users behavior. I also don't think that someone impersonating Kimbo Slice should have a User:KimboSlice username. I am very frustrated with this situation and hope someone will look into this. Thank you. Turtlescrubber 04:10, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Seems to me KimboSlice may need to take a time-out per WP:3RR ( ). Unfortunately, Turtlescrubber may need to as well... thoughts? — madman bum and angel 04:37, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"Improper name, edit warring and civility" - er, why do you complain about civility? --Kaypoh 04:42, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion, Turtlescrubber was making a good-faith effort at removing ancillary information that will probably never be verifiable... this doesn't excuse the recent edit-warring by both of them though... on the other hand, KimboSlice has been disruptive, blanket reverting several other editors' contributions solely to include a link to a copyvio porn site while accusing said editors of vandalism, and making no effort to discuss the issue. I'm not sure why this issue needs sysop attention though, short of a timeout which madman already seems to have taken care of... east.718 at 04:58, September 20, 2007

Indeed; I have protected the article for twelve hours and warned editors involved not to continue edit warring. — madman bum and angel 05:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I think I will stop editing that page for awhile and I do apologize about my reverting and civility slips. I want to thank everyone who helped diffuse this situation. Thanks. Turtlescrubber 14:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Improper name, edit warring and civility-Part 2

Edit war now continues without me. Starting again, just minutes after the page protection expired. User User:KimboSlice is now at around 10 reverts for the day. Erased messages on his talk page about his name impersonation. Quite an edit war if you look at the Kimbo Slice page history. Turtlescrubber 22:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Press up

This article has had a history of page moves from the original editor's British English name of Press up to the American English form of Push up. A survey about a requested move recently resulted in no consensus for a page move from Press up to Push up (issue was closed on 13 September 2007.) Since then, there has been a sub-3RR edit war involving the proposer of the page move (User:Tyguy92 and mainly User:Matt Crypto, but in the last instance, myself) in which the opening lead sentence is changed to give the American English version priority over the British English term, and, thereafter, every incidence of "press up" being changed to "push up". This gives the impression that the article name is incorrect. A redirect to this page exists which is Push up. As stated, I reverted the last incident which changed "press up" to "push up", as described above, and summarized the reversion as correcting a disruptive edit, which I consider it was. Since the survey was closed with no consensus, User:Tyguy92 has made these changes three times. Can I ask what advice should be done to stop this sub-3rr edit war that is happening after the survey went against what User:Tyguy92 wanted?  DDStretch  (talk) 09:17, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

There will never be consensus on something like this. Since the article remains at press up that term should be used throughout the article and changing it is inappropriate. Tyguy92 should be warned of this and reminded that he is violating the 3RR in spirit and could still be blocked for disruption, but hopefully it won't come to that. violet/riga (t) 09:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for the advice. I see that I missed some cases of "push up", so the term was not used throughout the article. Another user has now kiindly corrected those. I will give User:Tyguy92 the advised warning.  DDStretch  (talk) 10:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Can this be added to WP:LAME? This sounds as bad as the Orange (colour) debate. hbdragon88 19:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Fightin' Texas Aggie Band and ThreeE

user to consult the two admins already involved. --Dweller 13:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

First of all, I am not sure that this is the place to post this particular problem, so if I am in error here, I'd be happy to move this elsewhere. Second, I make no bones about the fact I have been brash in the past, violated Misplaced Pages policy, and have been chastised & even banned blocked for it. If I am in the wrong, I expect to be held accountable for it, but I expect the same of others.

That said, let's get into the meat of the discussion. User:ThreeE has made consistent disruptive edits to the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band article, a TFA, and its talk page, and my user page. He demands that this article be held to his personal standards, which are far above Misplaced Pages's. ThreeE managed to get himself banned blocked twice in the same week for violation of WP:3RR. He insisted on adding a {{POV}} tag on the article's page, but with no intention of removing it. As a consequence of his insistence and complete disregard for WP policy, I initiated a Request for Comment, but this ultimately seems to be going nowhere since the only people who have weighed in are in the discussion already. I requested mediation, but he refused, which leads me to question his sincerity to build a consensus. He has been told by 2 admins, a third party, and the majority of the editors that his demands are outside the scope of Misplaced Pages, but refuses to listen.

Normally, I would include every single diff, but this issue is simply too complex and the list would be far too long. I request you read the talk page at Fightin' Texas Aggie Band and the RfC. I realize this is not your usual request, but would like at least one admin (preferably more than one) to instruct this user that his demands are not in accordance with Misplaced Pages policy and guidelines, to cease demanding extraneous information, and that a certain phrase that is well documented be removed from the page. I am certainly all for rephrasing it IAW WP policies, but all he wants is removal.

Additionally, this user seems to want to waste the time of editors with frivolous requests. While we should assume good faith, this particular editor has said he would do one thing, and then done the exact opposite, so his trustworthiness is an issue.

If anyone has questions or would like more specifics, I can easily add 30-60K to the page, but I felt cluttering it up would be counterproductive at this time. — BQZip01 —  10:57, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not sure what you want. If you say 2 admins have already told him, then what good will a third do? If 2 admins have told him to do something he repeatedly refuses to do, I suggest you go to those 2 admins directly and ask them to intervene. (Incidentally, "block" and "ban" don't mean the same thing here - see WP:BAN) --Dweller 11:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see your point, fixed the ban/block problem. As for the two admins, they have already stated as such. Are they supposed to block him for being disruptive? or something like that? — BQZip01 —  11:17, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

That is an option at their discretion. This is a complex matter and it's very hard for an outsider to leap in and get up to speed. However, if (and I stress "if" - I don't know if this is the case here) mediation and consensus firmly point a certain way and a user refuses to accept this and disrupts an article, admins can take firm action. However, a key word here is "disrupts". Posts to user/article talk pages may be disruption, but may not be. Revert warring is disruption; but beware, it's a knife with two blades. --Dweller 11:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Which is why I want an outsider's view. Aw crap. I just realized I forgot to put the problem with the tag in the initial problem. Please re-read; I've added it. If his actions were merely academic and were confined to the talk page, I wouldn't have such a problem with this, but he has tagged something with a {{POV}} tag and has no intention of removing it. While everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, this person's opinion is marring a FA which I put a lot of effort into. I do not assert ownership of said article, but his implications that everything in it is nothing more than a myth, my additions are plagiarism, etc. are becoming extremely disruptive. — BQZip01 —  12:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Take it up with the two involved admins as your first course of action. --Dweller 13:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, I wouldn't say the issue is resolved, but I certainly will do as you suggest. — BQZip01 —  16:20, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

User Anwar saadat and TMMK article

Reposted report

• User: Anwar saadat (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Article: Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazagham (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The user's edits to the article have repeatedly:

• added many inline external links to the TMMK website
• added a lengthy ‘Organisational structure’ section with several subsections of tables of ‘wings’ with red linked names of over two dozen ‘officers’
• removed tags (e.g. {{fact}} {{newsrelease}} {{primarysources}} {{POV-check-section}} {{wikify}} etc.)
• removed citations
• removed the references section

He has continued this disruptive pattern of editing (now with misleading edit summaries) in spite of requests to stop. Several editors have invited discussion on the article talk page and have asked him, in edit summaries and on his user talk page, to discuss his changes. He removed such requests from his talk page, and has not discussed any issues on the article talk page since June.

A Request for comments (politics) on WP:NOT#SOAPBOX cleanup issues, listed ten days ago, has so far yielded no additional input in the RFC section on the article talk page.

Because only one editor has been persistently adding non-neutral content and removing references, this is not a request for page protection. — Athaenara ✉ 09:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Chronology

• 09:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC) The report above originally posted here on AIV.
• 18:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC) Thread among others archived by MiszaBot II.
• 20:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC) User Anwar saadat's next TMMK revert.

(User Anwar saadat's own previous report about reversions of his edits to this and other articles, and npov responses to it, are pertinent — see "Editor on blanking spree on multiple pages" section in archive 299.)

During the approximately 32 hours while the report was on the active noticeboard, the user did not edit the article, but 2 hours after the thread was archived, he again repeated the type of edit reported. I re-added the report in the hope of admin attention for the user. — Athaenara ✉ 12:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

This pattern goes back several months — the first time user ‘Anwar saadat’ edited the article (which was originally added in February 2007 by user Ayubkhan2020 in the only en.wikipedia edit from that account) he removed {{ad}} and {{npov}} tags. — Athaenara ✉ 15:25, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I've had problems with Anwar saadat editwarring before. ⇒ SWATJester 17:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

(unindent)As an aside, has this user been cleared to use a name very close to Anwar Sadat (and does it have any bearing on articles edited)? LessHeard vanU 22:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Not exactly vandalism

I've run across something that is a bit unusual and I'm not sure how to handle it. At Communication it appears that a teacher is trying to teach students that not all sources are reliable, that they should verify all information. A useful lesson but the way s/he is teaching it is by temporarily adding false information to the Communication article's References. It's a harmless addition and the edit summary marks it as temporary so I assume that the teacher would remove it - but other editors have caught it first and have removed it.

This "vandalism" does no long-term harm and maybe does some long-term good by teaching students a useful lesson. I take the candid edit summary to indicate that the teacher intends no harm and would remove the info before long. Of course, the bad information hasn't stayed there long enough to find out if the teacher would have removed it and might not have been there long enough to teach students a lesson.

What's the best way to handle this? Is there a better place the teacher could use? Sbowers3 12:25, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I would say treat it as vandalism regardless of the intention; who's to say who else has read the article in the meantime and read the false information, especially on a high-traffic article like this? Misplaced Pages is a valuable teaching tool, but it's not this teacher's personal tool. Just my opinion. — iridescent (talk to me!) 12:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Semi-serious suggestion: Pick any random article about an "up an coming band" and have them look at the sources. Also point them to WP:RS as a good suggestion on what to consider reliable and such. See if any of the "up and coming band" souces meet those critera. Sorry, been on new page patrol where every future Metallica and Microsoft seems to want an article and whines when CSD get put on it. Spryde 13:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

IMHO: It's clear vandalism, but possibly a helpful comment could be added on the user's talk page to indicate that changes could be made in a sandbox, or for some made up entity, that will not affect others' use of the resource. The same person wouldn't tear pages out of a library encyclopaedia to make some equally valid teaching point.

It is likely this a shared IP and wouldn't be subject to a block - but would certainly waste a lot of people's time fixing it. Kbthompson 13:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Don't we have some sort of essay/suggestion page about using Misplaced Pages in the classroom? Maybe this teacher could be directed to that essay, which might have some better ideas. Natalie 14:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree with KBthompson's opinion and suggestion. Talk to the user, hopefully that'll be the end of it. -Agyle 20:07, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

may or may not be spam and/or vandalism, but it sure as heck doesn't look like the character! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.200.169.202 (talk) 05:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Sneakily disruptive SPA

User IDIFTL, created today, has done nothing but leave comments on AfDs, almost all simply saying Keep or Delete with no explanation, always opposite of whatever consensus seems to be developing. I might give the user the benefit of the doubt, except for the name and the userpage, which contains only the URL for the "I did it for the lulz" page on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Pinball22 12:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Well, I was going to indef him, but JzG beat me to it. >Radiant< 13:24, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Veiled threat & Incivility by User:Wjbean on WQA

Hi. I was answering the proverbial phone banks over at WQA, when this post appeared (diff). It seemed polite, but led to the user construing the posting as an attack (diff), leading to more back and forth arguments (in which it seemed the editor misunderstood the point of WQA (diff). Then this lead to Wjbean making a veiled threat, and suggesting that insults are ok as long as they work (diff). Given the irony of all this happening on a Wikiquette forum (and my doubts that it can be resolved there), I'm forwarding it here where it can hopefully reach some resolution. --Bfigura 13:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Bean strikes me as very incivil on the WQA thread. Saying that "X comes across as a troll" is not a personal attack (because X wasn't actually called a troll) is dodgy at best, and wikilawyering at worst. I dropped a note on his talk. >Radiant< 13:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Much obliged. Hopefully that will do it. --Bfigura 14:02, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Please note that my "incivility" started when I was accused of having an alternate motive for disputing a tag. I have voiced no such motive. I also disagree with placing this entry here in less than a twenty four hour period. My concerns have never been properly addressed. Instead I have been accused of having other motives for disputing the tags. Again, I have never expressed any other reason for disputing that tags except that they were thrown improperly. I have suggested that both a POV tag without a stated reason and a nomination for deletion without that nomination appearing on the proper dated page smack of vandalism. Both of these actions do whether you wish to acknowledge it or not. Finally, I feel this is turning into a kangeroo court without my issues being address; at all. William (Bill) Bean 15:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

As I stated, I have no position on any content editing taking place, just on the civility issues. I placed this issue here after you were repeatedly uncivil (despite receiving admonishments from several editors), and after you made veiled threats on WP:WQA. I believe my actions were relatively justified (veterans of AN/I, please correct me if I'm wrong). Best, --Bfigura 15:42, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I think this is now resolved, Bean seems to have realized the source of the issues over on WQA. (Basically a mistaken assumption). --Bfigura 22:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Not really. I waiting to hear an administrator chime in; that's all. By the way I have screen shots entry (and the date) the AFD was posted. The shot clearly shows September 18th. I just don't know where to post it. William (Bill) Bean 00:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

It was the 18th where you live, in the United States. However, English Misplaced Pages is worldwide and the logs are based on Greenwich Mean Time. By the time, the nomination was posted, it was the 19th in London. The tag was placed on the article, the nomination was made, and the nomination was added to the logs, all at 4:06 19 September 2007, GMT. I've explained this to you several times before. In any event, it was one of the most widely commented AfDs in recent memory. I don't understand where you get the idea it was hidden from the community. These baseless accusations about not following procedure are getting tiresome. ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 01:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages was started by an American (Jimbo Wales) in America. That said I consider the English language version of Misplaced Pages to be American. Your stating that my attitude is "tiresome" is insulting. I'm not here for your pleasure. I'm here to help edit pages, supply references, resolve disputes, and insure that wikipedians follow established guidelines and policies because those guidelines and policies are established to insure neutrality, accuracy, and the free flow of information. Three attributes that apparently take a backseat to civility by certain apparently over-zealous members of this little community. My position is that the three attributes stated above trump all others. Yes, I a brusque. That is my nature. I'm sorry you don't like it, but if I were to act in any other way I would not be true to my own nature. It also got everyone's attention. Akin to shouting into a megaphone in a crowded room where everyone is talking at, but not to, each other. I will not shove my nature aside for your or anyone elses 'delicate sensibilities.' I suggest you grow a thicker skin, take the criticism as just that, and stop the amazingly insulting tactic you employ whereby you try to assign an attitude to me that I do not, in fact, possess. Once again (for the ninth or tenth time), my only concerns are that proper procedures be followed when applying tags (something, that in my humble opinion, should not happen for three to five days with a new article) so that other wikipedians are granted the right, not opportunity, to respond to those tags appropriately. If I made a mistake then I made a mistake. It is done, I cannot take it back, nor can I correct it. However, the guidelines and policies here are more important that I am, more important that my ability to post here, and more important that my continuing to be allowed to be here. In short I will risk banishment, if that's what it takes, to ensure that[REDACTED] remains accurate, neutral, and open for the dissemination of information. Finally, the nomination for deletion struck me as an attempt at censorship. I have never, nor will I ever, nominate any article for deletion. I find the concept repugnant. Thank you. William (Bill) Bean 04:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Real77 Sockpuppetry again

I've reported a new sockpuppet case Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Real77 (2nd), but the IP in question

24.189.29.208 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

is continuing to make edits to Buddha Wild: Monk in the Hut, in violation of the ban that Real77 received. This is getting rather annoying. — Timotab 14:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks like Sarah took care of this. Thanks. — Timotab 14:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Jim potter

I'm concerned about this user's page: User: Jim potter. It looks like there may be a person of this name at the college mentioned , and this seems a bit defamatory. The account appears to be vandalism only, too. I'm not quite sure what to do about user pages like this, though. --Kateshortforbob 14:10, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Never mind - page deleted and user blocked. Thanks, TKD! --Kateshortforbob 14:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Repeated Vandalism from 66.99.49.14

Anon User, 66.99.49.14, registered to Ringwood Elementary School in Ringwood, Illinois, has repeatedly vandalized a number of pages over the past year. VirginiaProp 14:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Blocked. in the future, reports to WP:AIV will be answered faster. Mr.Z-man 14:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm rather new, so your pointers are most welcome. VirginiaProp 15:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Scentura

A single purpose account, continues to delete several dozen references in Scentura, attempting to whitewash this pyramid scheme.

The article recently went through a WP:AfD in which the same lame reasons this single purpose account uses was voiced, and the community overwhelming decided to keep this article.

My question is what is the fastest way to stop this editor from removing dozens of references?

This is not vandalism per se, and all of the WP:Dispute resolution solutions seem pretty tame and not adequate. Would page protection work?

Thank you in advance. Calendar 18:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The user in question (User:Evs215) has not yet violated the three-revert rule, so I won't block him/her, but I'll issue a formal warning to the user to stop edit-warring. I think page protection might be overkill at this stage; I suggest the two of you discuss this on the talk page and try to reach consensus. If that doesn't work, dispute resolution might be in order. Walton 18:53, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

thanks Walton. I started a discussion on the talk page, which two other users have joined. I appreciate your assistance in this matter. Calendar 19:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Jolenecassa : trying again with the same OR and POV edits

Jolenecassa has tried again to put the same personal, tendentious analysis into Pierre Trudeau, which material was rightly rejected back in February. That user did the same thing on a less prominent article, Janice Stein, back on July 5; it seemingly went unnoticed till just now. The user has been warned about, and blocked in the past for this sort of editing, and seems to do no other kind. Please review her(?) record, and take action as befits it. -- Lonewolf BC 20:42, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd suggest another block. This edit is quite a blatant infusion of personal opinion, and shares many elements with this edit in february, her last before being blocked for POV violations. Someguy1221 21:10, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I've left an admonitory note on the user's talkpage. I don't think we should go straight to blocking without warning, considering February was a long time ago. Bishonen | talk 21:24, 20 September 2007 (UTC).

User:Rogue Gremlin edit warring in Burt Reynolds article to prove a point

Following a dispute over Burt Reynolds's birthplace, User:Rogue Gremlin found over fifty (yes, 50!) sites which support his argument... and added them to the article. Since they all contain virtually identical biographies of Burt Reynolds (his bio is well documented, and most of these sites take their info from the same source anyway), I reduced the excessive directory of links (here) (they were placed in the references section). User:Rogue Gremlin keeps replacing them, which messes up the article and serves no purpose.

I have no interest in Burt Reynolds's birthplace, but any disputed fact could be referenced by citing one or two reliable sources. Citing nearly 60 sources is beyond a joke. I am not part of the previous discussions at Talk:Burt Reynolds, but this user appears to have been in disputes with other editors and is disprupting Reynolds' article to prove a point. I'm just a fan of Burt and I'd like his article to look similar to other film actors' articles. 172.203.172.174 21:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Anonymous IP reverting, calling names, etc.

217.43.78.244/86.134.241.52/ 81.156.68.208 is continuing to revert edits on list of light heavyweight boxing champions/Zsolt Erdei/Roy Jones Jr. and other pages. He is also calling me a "cunt" and posting things like this: "MKil hasn't a clue what he's talking about. Keep trying to edit these pages, because every time they'll be edited right back motherfucker." I figure it's time for you guys to deal with him.MKil 21:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)MKil

I've delivered the most recently active IP a final warning. Any further personal attacks, and you can report it to WP:AIV for fast resolution. Make sure to list the sock IPs if you do, but I'll keep an eye on it myself. Someguy1221 21:41, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but the person seems to keep changing IPs. He seems to like the page Talk:List of light heavyweight boxing champions. Perhaps that should be semi-protected.MKil 21:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)MKil

Yes, I just noticed. I'm making the reports to WP:RFPP now. Someguy1221 21:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• I'm not sure that a talk page should be semi-protected, as some IP addresses may have some good comments to make. I think maybe a rangeblock is needed on the IPs, if it will temporarily stop him (a bit like a Wiki version of the Stinger used by police forces across the United Kingdom. OK, so admins aren't Wiki-policemen, that's just a bit of humour!. But yes, semi-protecting, or failing that, fully-protecting the article until disputes have been resolved should stop him. Is it better to try and discuss first with the user/s involved in the dispute (if there is one). Sorry if I've been no help, just trying to be helpful here. Only trying to stop a revert war breaking out. --Solumeiras 22:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The IP pool seems to be 81.154.0.0 - 81.157.255.255. -- lucasbfr 23:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Inappropriate username trying to mimic an Admin

User blocked indef. M. 22:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Cholmes76 (talk · contribs) is a new user account whose name is remarkably close to noble Admin Cholmes75 (talk · contribs). 156.34.208.227 21:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Username reported to WP:UFA. Someguy1221 22:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Blocked indef by Anthony.bradbury. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 22:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Ixlikextoxdansex (talk · contribs)

User is repeatedly and willfully ignoring WP:ALBUM#Leak and engaging in a revert war with other users at Alive 2007. Just64helpin 23:12, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Note that WP:ALBUM is a WikiProject, not a policy page. That is essentially a style guide. Natalie 23:32, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Now the user has violated 3RR. Help? Just64helpin 23:41, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

wtf? Ixlikextoxdansex was blocked, but Just64helpin and Douglasr007 were not? This was a content dispute, not vandalism, and thus NO ONE's actions were exempt from 3RR. Instead of, oh, leaving a completely impersonal and irrelevant templated message, twice, someone could have, oh, I don't know, engaged Ixlikextoxdansex in discussion? This is retarded. --Iamunknown 00:06, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Technically, Ixlikextoxdansex wasn't doing anything wrong... HalfShadow 00:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

More info. This is ridiculous. The editor in question, a newbie who just started editing seven days ago, was blocked for inserting:

==Extra==
As of September 2007, the album has already been leaked to torrent sites.

I am quite astonished. I did not realise that 3RR blocks were handed out to one editor in an edit war over content, but not to others; that newbies were treated like horse shit; and that editors warred over such trivial nonsense. I would really like to see this editor unblocked, and counselled and engaged in discussion. Please? This is not how we should be treating newbies. Ya know, WP:BITE, and all that. --Iamunknown 00:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

He has posted an unblock request, but not formatted it quite right, so it may not have been seen. DuncanHill 00:34, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, my formatting suggestion didn't help much.  :-\ Well, I guess we will see what happens. --Iamunknown 00:38, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Sadly it doesn't surprise me at all to see newbies being bitten :( DuncanHill 00:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

(de-indent) I unblocked; I'll warn Ixwhatever on their talk, as well as Just64helpin and Douglasr007. —Crazytales talk/desk 01:06, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Crazytales. I saw your note on his talk page about civility ... I agree. Hopefully things will improve.  :-) --Iamunknown 01:28, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Me too. I don't like bitey behaviours, but it's important to familiarise the newbies with WIkipedia's policies. I personally was never bitten as a newbie, so I don't want anyone else to be. —Crazytales talk/desk 01:30, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Possible death threats?

Please see User:SilverBulls back's edits to Chaser's talk page. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 00:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

• Even without the threat, he's a block-evading sockpuppet. Indefinitely blocked. --Haemo 00:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
  • OKay, thanks! Have a great evening! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 00:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Unilateral overturn of an AfD by an involved admin

Regrettably, Jossi (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) has taken it upon himself to unilaterally overturn the outcome, to which he objects, of an AfD closed by Gnangarra (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). Quite apart from the impoliteness of this, it's extremely inadvisable for Jossi to take this action, given that he voted to keep the article and is currently involved in an arbitration concerning disruptive conduct on other Middle East-related articles (the "allegations of apartheid case"): he has no chance of being seen as neutral in these circumstances. Gnangarra and I had both previously recommended that Jossi take this up in DRV, which he has declined. I've therefore raised the matter myself at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2007 September 21. Input from uninvolved editors and admins would be appreciated. -- ChrisO 00:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I have made my arguments at Misplaced Pages:Deletion_review/Log/2007_September_21#Pallywood. By all means, I am willing to stand to the scrutinity of my fellow admins. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:19, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Note to admins: ChrisO' assertion that Gnangarra has requested DRV is incorrect. As far as I can see, he is the only one complaining. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:21, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Gnangarra recommended DRV in this edit summary, in which he told you that he was unwilling to overturn his decision. The principle isn't too difficult to understand - to quote WP:DRV, "Deletion Review is to be used where someone is unable to resolve the issue in discussion with the administrator (or other editor) in question. This should be attempted first - courteously invite the admin to take a second look." Which you did, and then you overturned his decision unilaterally anyway when he declined to overturn himself. -- ChrisO 00:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

No, he did not. He said this: Jossie I'm suprised by this, I expected more reaction from those that want the article deleted as the afd clearly shows that Pallywood currently fails to meet policy/guidelines. Even though deletion based on policy is justified I wouldnt be willing to overturn based on this discussion. You have totally misread what he said. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:37, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

He is arguing for deletion of the article, and he is unwilling to overturn the keep decision. That is what that says, ChrisO. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Read the edit summary: "response, recommend drv". Not much to misunderstand there. -- ChrisO 00:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

OK. I missed that edit summary of a post in his talk page but that changes nothing. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I was going to say this was not too much of a problem, but Jossi did delete the old page in order to make way for the new move, which is using an administrator function. That seems to be a misuse of one's tools, with all due respect. At least, to his credit, he didn't fiddle with the redirect, so anyone else could move it back. The Evil Spartan 00:25, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Also note that the AfD resulted in keep. Overturning an AfD that ended in keep, would mean that I deleted the article, which I certainly did not. The framing of the accusation by ChrisO, is based on his misunderstanding of the AfD process. The AfD concluded on keep, Gangarra renamed the article to a name about which there is no consensus and which was not discussed in the AfD, and it is up to editors to discuss the future of the kept article, i.e. name, merging, etc. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:29, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Gnangarra's decision was to keep and rename the article. You can't just chop off the half of the decision that you don't like. -- ChrisO 00:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I actually like the renaming, ChrisO. You simply cannot AGF, can you? The AfD was keep. If he had wanted he could have closed delete, which he did not. An AFD closer cannot trump consensus of editors if he decides to close with keep. Period. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I do AGF. I just think your action in this case was wildly inappropriate and a violation of the way that disputed AfD closures are supposed to be dealt with. -- ChrisO 00:50, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I would argue to the contrary: that my actions are consistent with established understanding. maintained consensus, and that your intervention to call a DRV when actually there is no need for one, and no one asked for one besides you, is as bogus as this notice. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:55, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

The title of this section, Unilateral overturn of an AfD by an involved admin, makes it sound like Jossi did something like restore a deleted article unilaterally. I believe that ChrisO is overstating the case here. Bigglove 01:28, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

It should be noted, that ChrisO is way more involved than I ever was in the Middle East articles and the resulting fracas, and his actions in that dispute have been challenged in the ArbCom case he mentioned, so his claims of "neutrality" by virtue of this notice, are quite disingenuous, to say the least. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 02:50, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

• Comments by xDanielx. The discussion on whether article talk or DRV was the more appropriate venue for naming discussion took place here. ChrisO was told repeatedly that his objection to discussing on article talk was unreasonable, especially since that was the venue which Gnangarra (closing admin) encouraged as a place for editors to discuss his editorial action and reverse it if appropriate. To the best of my knowledge, ChrisO was and still is the only person who has objected to discussing naming issues on Pallywood talk. My own response to his position is here (as well as on Pallywood talk, in lesser form). — xDanielx /_C 04:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

• The AfD has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2007 September 21, I commented there on the decision. Comment on editors actions, I've read all the discussions including the article page, the two AfDs, the DRV, my talk page and havent been overly impressed with a lot of whats been said. I think that people are too absorbed in the various POV's and recommend that they take a break reconsider whether they are working to build this encyclopedia or furthering political positions, but beyond that there is nothing in the actions of editors that warrants any recriminations. Gnangarra 05:09, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Long term vandalism by 201.9.xxx.xxx IP range (yet again)

A rather persistent someone has been vandalizing The Fairly OddParents and related articles for some time now. The vandal will make a few to several dozen edits every week or so under a different IP starting with 201.9. The edit is subtle, almost always changing a date to be one year earlier, such as this recent series of edits. This has been happening at least since March 2007, earliest edit I found was this one.

This is the third time I am reporting this. Most recent IP was 201.9.116.107, making 6 edits, previous one was 201.9.190.232, making 9 edits. Although I do not have the patience to count all the vandal's edits (some of which may still be present), I am fairly certain there may be hundreds.

The vandal has a dynamic IP, so a normal block via AIV is impractical. Semi-protection is unlikely to work, the vandal moved on to Pokemon-related articles after noticing I reverted the OddParents ones . As blocking the entire IP range or semi-protecting all cartoon-related articles containing dates would likely be disruptive to legitimate editors, I think the only solution is to contact the vandal's ISP and let them deal with it. Can someone do this? I'd do it myself, but the ISP's site is in Brazilian, not English. CoJaBo 01:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Edit warring on World War II

Heads up... I just full protected World War II for 24 hours due to multiparty edit warring. Georgewilliamherbert 02:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Ooh. The irony... HalfShadow 02:52, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

It's all a fight over whose images and how many to use, mostly, though there's an interesting talk pages flamefest between the various "Allies" over whose contributions were more important during the war itself and why. ICANHASCHEEZWARRIOR Georgewilliamherbert 03:00, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

User:68.147.110.12

This person keeps vandalizing Nexopia as seen here: I also think they are responsible for this: (scroll down to memberships). Thank you for your time. Lord Spase Peepole 03:03, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Best place for this is WP:AIV. Try there for faster responses. ThuranX 03:53, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

User:ElinorD: Abuse of Administrator Privileges

According to this administrator's edit history, she is apparently performing mass speedy deletes of images, citing issues with copyright tagging, and not first following instructions and notifying users, or the talk page of articles, of the image deletions prior to her actions. Most of these image copyright problems are actually minor, and are far more appropriately dealt with by notifying users to tag articles properly, rather than mass deleting. In my opinion, this administrator could be seriously losing the trust of the[REDACTED] community by these actions, and I think we have grounds for desysopping. Dr. Cash 04:59, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Why don't you ask her for the reasons of these deletions? Seems that these images were tagged for months. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 05:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

• Note - deletions are logged here. I'm having a look; will refrain from commenting for now since I don't really understand what's happening. — xDanielx /_C 05:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

• I checked a few of these and all are candidate for speedy WP:CSD#i4 as these have been tagged as lacking source/licensing. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 05:27, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

• Seems that ElinorD has just been "sweeping the categories" without inspecting the images. Something like 1,200 images deleted in the past 10 days. I don't think this is an unheard-of practice, but it does seem to go against the policy described here and here, which say that images tagged for 7+ days should be tagged for speedy deletion (and hopefully reviewed by an administrator, instead of being blindly deleted, though understandably that doesn't always happen). — xDanielx /_C 05:45, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Daniel, how do you know she isn't looking at them? One to four a minute is not a lot in tabbed browsing and is plenty of time to look at the image. Sarah 05:52, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, I noticed a 17-in-a-minute (1-per-3.5 seconds) at a first glance. Not sure if that's the exception or the norm. — xDanielx /_C 05:55, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

(after ec) Please explain where the abuse is. It looks to me like she is deleting images which have been tagged as unlicensed for more than seven days as per WP:CSD#i4. It would be nice if you asked her about it before coming here to dramatically accuse her of "Abuse of Administrator Privileges", or if you at least told her about this conversation. I'm sure she would have explained what she was doing if you'd bothered to ask her...she's not scary or anything. Heh, grounds for desysopping, hey? So if we work too hard at cleaning out the CSD cats, we ought to be desysopped on the spot? Sarah 05:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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