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Dustfreeworld claimed that sourced information cannot be verified . I provided verification using sources already in the article. They did not engage in the discussion but removed the information and placed a warning on my talk page, even though there is nothing wrong with most of my edits . This seems like a WP:CIR issue. Vacosea (talk) 04:22, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

This case is mostly a content dispute, but Dustfreeworld has failed to discuss as part of the BRD cycle. I am not an admin, but if Vacosea wants to reinsert the information they feel is not covered, I would be happy to support the inclusion temporarily until discussion is completed, acting as an informal third opinion. Be careful not to revert, thereby deleting the many changes that have been made since your edit, simply make a minimal edit which includes the information you wish to see included.

Dustfreeworld probably needs to show awareness that following a revert which the other user takes exception to, discussion is not optional. Boynamedsue (talk) 06:46, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

It's not like that at all, in my reading. Dustfreeworld has not removed anything put by Vacosea, except take out small details due to BLP issues (changing of "cheated three times" to "cheated", or changing "separated for more than two years" to "separated", as these are sourced to breaking news reports). Has Vacosea done anything wrong? No; these are editorial calls. Is Dustfreeworld required mandatorily to comment on the talk page of the article? Absolutely not. Is Dustfreeworld's warning to Vacosea uncalled for? Well, yeah... I think Dustfreeworld did not realise the impact that such a template may cause to an editor who is excitedly placing, whatever can be sourced, into the article. Like what is mentioned above, it is an editorial issue and need not be discussed here. Vacosea, request Dustfreeworld again to give his pov on the article's talk page. For future disputes, please follow the procedures listed out at dispute resolution. Thanks, Lourdes 07:56, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Dustfreeworld said there was speculation/wrong information, but they have offered nothing to question the reports. Allegations of Rockowitz cheating on Lee and their marriage problem were covered before , so they are not breaking news, only Lee's death was. If the problem was sourcing, the same or similar English and non-English sources are used to support their own edits about Lee . Their justifications are all contradictory, but I suppose I can try discussing with them one time. Vacosea (talk) 16:51, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

I meant "one more time", see context from previous comments. Vacosea (talk) 16:08, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

For the record, out of the 30+ edits made by User:Vacosea to the article Coco Lee, 16 of them involved removal of content, most of which was added by me. You can see that from the page’s history . And yes, I DO think that “Their justifications are all contradictory, but I suppose I can try discussing with them one time”, too. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 19:09, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

This does not explain their refusal to check with the sources and engage in discussion, and placing a warning template on my talk page about "stop adding unreferenced or poorly referenced" information. It just goes on to show the contradictory and ever changing nature of their complaint. Vacosea (talk) 19:51, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

I disagree DustFreeworld answered a reasonable request to discuss with a warning template, that is treading into personal attack territory. Boynamedsue (talk) 16:56, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Actually no, scrub that, the warning came first, it wasn't warranted, but it wasn't in response to the request to discuss. Boynamedsue (talk) 23:55, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the clarification Boynamedsue :) Perhaps you can strike that as well? In case people may misread. Thanks again. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 19:14, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Actually the warning came after the talk section . Vacosea (talk) 19:51, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

It would be much appreciated if you can stop confusing people. Thanks. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 22:25, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

I must say I’m really surprised to see this discussion about me.

• 18:58, 12 September 2023 User:Vacosea made this edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Coco_Lee&diff=prev&oldid=1175089915

They misinterpreted the source as “Lee and her husband moved out of their previous home” (in the source it said Lee moved out of their previous home).

So I added the “Cite check” template to call for source verification:

• 22:52, 12 September 2023

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Special:MobileDiff/1175121745

My edit summary: Added { {Cite check} } tag. The page now reads: “Lee and her husband had been separated for more than two years before she died . . . In early 2023, Lee and her husband moved out of their previous home”? And the source cited mentioned nothing about “early 2023”. I think there maybe more. . . WP:GROWNUPS

What I mean is, if they had separated in 2021, how can THEY moved out of their previous home together in 2023? It’s simply wrong, and the wrong information was added by User:Vacosea.

After that edit of mine, User:Vacosea posted the “verification” they mentioned above to the article talk page and also edited the article and added a parameter (talk=September 2023 verification) to the Cite check template

Cite check|date=September 2023|talk=September 2023 verification

And then, they edited the article again to removed the wrong information they added, per what I had pointed out:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Special:MobileDiff/1175233034
  • From: In early 2023, Lee and her husband moved out of their previous home.
  • To: In early 2023, Lee reportedly moved out of her previous home.

In short, they KNEW they were wrong on that, had corrected it and had posted a “verification” on talk (that post is somewhat redundant IMHO, but now I know how it can be used). I didn’t reply to that post because the article had been corrected already, and I wanted to save face for them (FYI the latter adjustment on times cheated and separation time is basically another issue). NOW I know I was wrong. I never anticipated that it will turn into an accusation of ME being incompetent. They knew they had put in wrong information to the article and they knew why the template was added but still make such false and misleading accusations (that I didn’t engage on talk and show “incompetence”). I suspect there maybe behavioural issues. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 18:37, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

The vast majority of my edits were accurate. After the cite check, I adjusted some details. Moving out and separating are not always the same thing anyway. On the other hand, Dustfreeworld didn't seem to have checked with any sources before reverting other information again, even though I showed the sources for correction, including early 2023/early this year. They placed a warning template, out of nowhere, about "stop adding unreferenced or poorly referenced" information on my talk page. Just because their talk page has received many notices from other editors in the past doesn't mean they should be doing that with mine. Vacosea (talk) 19:51, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Those who are interested in Coco Lee’s marriage and what problematic content User:Vacosea had added may visit the talk page. I have posted some old evidence that support those. If you want the latest BREAKING news, 20 September 2023 (no, not old news), here you are:

• https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/section/11/256329/Husband's-'affair'-triggered-Coco's-downward-spiral
  • “The couple started to live separately on October 15, 2022” - you said they had separated for 2 years?
  • “A month after Lee filed the divorce application Rockowitz issued a response through his lawyer admitting his affair in 2017, but not the continuation of the affair his wife mentioned.” - He only admitted having cheated on Lee once.”

I’m very doubtful about their saying that “The vast majority of my edits were accurate”, respectfully.

From my understanding, for BLP, wrong or doubtful content must be removed as soon as possible. I SHOULD HAVE removed them and posted warnings on their user’s talk page much earlier. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 20:45, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

And User:Vacosea is still adding the contentious and likely wrong information to the article today. Surely this is not the first time that this user is warned on sourcing and content additions:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Vacosea&diff=prev&oldid=1158777818
• https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Vacosea&diff=prev&oldid=1165129803

• Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive353#Suspicious_edits

• https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Vacosea&diff=prev&oldid=1176765896

I’m not familiar with the procedure, but a ban maybe needed. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 21:01, 27 September 2023 (UTC)--Dustfreeworld (talk) 06:38, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Vast majority does not mean one or two disputes. If Dustfreeworld wants to engage in good faith discussion , they should not have waited until ANI while reverting away in the mean time , or highlighted their source here without mentioning 6 other sources against them on the article's talk page all this time. Is it also good faith behavior for Dustfreeworld to omit information from my history in order to push for a ban? User talk:Wpscatter#Korean cuisine They have complained about verification, refused to look at verification, warned me about "references", even though the sources have been there all along, complained about me removing content, complained about my accuracy, when are they going to stop? Vacosea (talk) 21:54, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

I’ve posted on the BLP notice board as well: Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Coco Lee. I believe the issue is important as it may have real life consequences on the financial arrangements of the subjects’ family, and that the dubious information may also be defamatory. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 22:03, 27 September 2023 (UTC)--Dustfreeworld (talk) 23:11, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

@Dustfreeworld Please don't toss words like defamatory around on Misplaced Pages. That can have a chilling effect on other editors and may result in a WP:NLT block. I'd suggest striking through that statement, just for clarity. — The Hand That Feeds You: 17:02, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

"Misplaced Pages contains over a million articles about living persons. From both a legal and an ethical standpoint, it is essential that a determined effort be made to eliminate defamatory and other inappropriate material from these articles"... It's important for an editor to be able to point out stuff that is potentially defamatory. We might actually be effecting a chilling effect by telling editors to not point out such stuff. Thanks, Lourdes 17:20, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

No. We can do that without using legally-charged words. BLP covers it sufficiently, we do not need to use "defamation" / "libel". — The Hand That Feeds You: 17:11, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

“A discussion as to whether material is libelousis not a legal threat. Misplaced Pages's policy on defamation is to delete libelous material as soon as it is identified.” WP:NLT --Dustfreeworld (talk) 17:21, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Key words: a discussion about, not just lobbing the word into a comment and leaving it there like a ticking time bomb. — The Hand That Feeds You: 17:06, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

What they wrote about me on that board, "please stop your continual and deliberate false accusations", was baseless and itself potentially defamatory . Their edits there focus too much on linking back to this ANI to begin with. Vacosea (talk) 17:47, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

@Vacosea May I reiterate what another user said above: “Please don't toss words like defamatory around on Misplaced Pages. That can have a chilling effect on other editors and may result in a WP:NLT block. I'd suggest striking through that statement, just for clarity”. Thanks :) --Dustfreeworld (talk) 18:12, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

The one who is engaging in baseless personal attack is Dustfreeworld, however hard they try to change the subject or reframe around it. Vacosea (talk) 22:42, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

It seems that you are trying to make use of the “Goebbels effect” (or “big lie technique”), in the hope that “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. But experiments tell us that it won’t,

• ″For statements that were actually fact or fiction, known or unknown, repetition made them all seem more believable … the biggest influence on whether a statement was judged to be true was... whether it actually was true. The repetition effect couldn’t mask the truth. With or without repetition, people were still more likely to believe the actual facts as opposed to the lies″.
  • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161026-how-liars-create-the-illusion-of-truth

--Dustfreeworld (talk) 04:40, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

And IMHO, what’s more important is that, people who are able to make the right judgement (believe the actual facts) may also have very negative impressions on those who keep repeating the lies (no matter those are organisations, governments or individual). Besides thinking that those are liars, people may also think that they are not reasonable. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 09:45, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Some administrator should put an end to this trolling. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 11:25, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

I would suggest that, when you are being accused of making personal attacks, it is probably better not to respond by comparing the other party to a genocidal war criminal. Also, ixnay on the rolltay word, would have thought that was obvious, especially here. Boynamedsue (talk) 14:47, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation Boynamedsue. No, it’s not a comparison of any party to anyone, definitely not. The term . . . Effect just come up in a webpage and it sounds like a professional psychological term to me so I used it. I’m just describing a psychological phenomenon. No offence indeed. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 16:11, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Repost just to add highlight:

From my understanding, for BLP, wrong or doubtful content must be removed as soon as possible. I SHOULD HAVE removed them and posted warnings on their user’s talk page much earlier

(add: and I believe no consensus on talk is required before the deletion as it’s contentious topic) --Dustfreeworld (talk) 15:34, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Repost just to add highlight:

I didn’t reply to that post because the article had been corrected already, and I wanted to save face for them (FYI the latter adjustment on times cheated and separation time is basically another issue) --Dustfreeworld (talk) 15:26, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

I can't read your mind from edit summaries only or a warning template if you skip discussion on the talk page , even though you were active on Coco Lee and other articles and talk pages, including ones I was also editing . The times cheated and separation time were not "another issue" or "corrected". They had been there since early on, through all the time you placed your recent death template , was reverted , and your cite check template . "No consesus on talk is required before the deletion", while you could argue for it, is a very recent new point. Vacosea (talk) 19:41, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

I think this is a content dispute where both users became quite aerated at different times. It's been moved back to the talkpage, so perhaps this should be closed now? It is just a parallel venue for argument. Boynamedsue (talk) 05:33, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

I see some potential behavior issues that resemble forum shopping (not because they posted there per se but their focus on linking to this ANI) and canvassing (in the edit summary). They may have couched their aspersion of "lie"/"lies"/"liar" here, but repeat it so often that it feels gamey . Overconfident in their ability but quick to cast suspicion . Excessive text and highlighting dance around the fact of their baseless personal attack and what has been described as . Vacosea (talk) 10:19, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

What I see is you keep linking to the BLP board.

No it’s not canvassing. It’s an attempt to let the other user know that, it’s possible that what they had suspected two months ago maybe true. As for your translations, I still find them suspicious after a second look. And I hope you are happy with your excessive linking. If all those continual false accusations against me can make your day, you can keep on, I’m fine with that. :) --Dustfreeworld (talk) 06:09, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Making accusations against another editor, which you have done again, requires evidence. Your personal attack on the BLP board should be mentioned here at ANI, but you should not have brought this ANI to the BLP board . Your edit summary was also inaccurate . Those edits were unrelated to this, and when you attempted to raise suspicion about my translation, you did not comprehend the source material fully. Vacosea (talk) 16:02, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

This should be my first edit on August 23 . The number of citations Dustfreeworld kept could make short sentences. Multiple empty section templates had been added since August 2 . I'm not out to get anyone and can take their word for it. What motivated me to come here, beside their warning template and skipping discussion, was that overall, what they were doing defied any easy explanation, at least to me looking from the outside. Vacosea (talk) 19:50, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

If all those continual false accusations against me can make your day, you can keep on, I’m fine with that. :) --Dustfreeworld (talk) 19:59, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Which one was false? Vacosea (talk) 20:20, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Almost all are false. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 11:04, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

More than a week after saying similar things , you have not provided evidence. See Accusing others of bad faith. Vacosea (talk) 07:11, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

I did assume good faith, but then I know I was wrong and is am deeply disappointed. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 13:06, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Maybe you are not getting the point. I'm talking about your claim that I lied or falsely accused you deliberately . Vacosea (talk) 11:12, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Assume the good faith assumption that everyone has the assumption of everyone assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming the assumption of good faith --Dustfreeworld (talk) 12:40, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Even new discussion about edits are turned into "false allegations" and "misinformation" . This last sentence may be why and what's influencing their outlook. Vacosea (talk) 22:09, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

• This discussion reminds me of children fighting incessantly in the back seat of the station wagon during a family road trip. "Just cut it out ... Don't make me pull this car over!" Cbl62 (talk) 17:16, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

  Yeah, there are completely evidence free accusations being thrown around without care. This is not helpful. — The Hand That Feeds You: 15:00, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

  (Don't tell me s01 is going to get archived now... Lourdes 06:32, 12 October 2023 (UTC))

  Someone close this and let the highlighted paragraphs go back to the talk page.... And if anyone is willing, keep an eye there. Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 09:43, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

  Archived..... --Dustfreeworld (talk) 12:47, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

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COI editor Arbomhard

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

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

First, I’d just like to put my own potential COI in this as someone who nominated the article in question for a recent failed AfD and who has been trying to work with the wider Linguistics Wikiproject to make the status of this fringe theory clearer as a fringe theory, which did result in me removing most references to Bomhard's work from the Nostratic article (this was potentially heavy handed, but the sources given were clearly WP:PROFRINGE). As a result of that AfD, multiple editors worked on changing the long-static article to improve it so it didn't have the issues that got it AfD'd in the first place.

With regards to Nostratic, I’ve been trying to work with the larger wikiproject and building a consensus and I'm not the only editor working on this, and I don’t want to give the impression I was trying to Right Great Wrongs. To be clear, since this is an esoteric topic: Nostratic is a fringe theory and the subject of the article in question is one of the primary advocates of that fringe theory. That doesn't mean it hasn't seen real attention in academic press, just that it's viewed as a fringe theory regardless of that. If this is a difficult issue in particular to ascertain, I encourage any admin to go ahead and ask about its status on the Linguistics wikiproject.

I’ve been going back and forth with user Arbomhard for a while now who was attempting to unilaterally change an article which they readily self-identify as about themselves to remove anything negative. I’ve tried engaging with them but they’ve been blanking comments, engaging in personal attacks, accusing a few editors of having an agenda, and attempting to exert ownership of both the Allan R. Bomhard and Nostratic articles. I've tried maintaining civility throughout and asked for sources so I could help them work on the article.

I’ve also been trying to engage with them on both talk pages and a dispute noticeboard (where they reiterated their demand of “restore the article” and ignored multiple requests for citations until today, when they generally provided one in a reply that contained:

Sorry, Warren, I do not mean to be rude, but you do not appear to have the requisite academic or professional credentials to be making the edits to this and several other Misplaced Pages articles. If I am mistaken here, please provide proof to the contrary. Being an outsider, you do not have a clear understanding of the dynamics involved. Again, you are trying to throw up meaningless procedural roadblocks instead of approaching the matter objectively and cooperatively. The current version is both incomplete and contains errors. I am probably one of the few people in the world who is qualified to make this statement.

To be fair to Arbomhard, once their initial edits of a criticism-free un-cited article were reverted they engaged slightly more on the talk page and didn’t edit the articles further, and used the talk page to request their preferred version be restored, but the blanking of my own comments and a glance through their edit history reveals that almost all their edits on Misplaced Pages, ever, are to add their own research content to Misplaced Pages, typically from WP:PROFRINGE sources. I think this is a pretty cut and dry example of WP:NOTHERE and WP:ADVOCACY, and given their edit history I think there’s going to need to be fairly consistent vigilance from linguist Wikipedians to avoid WP:PROFRINGE material percolating back into the articles if they continue to edit. This is a particular concern given their leapfrog into a BLP dispute noticeboard post (yay!) which wholly ignored the good faith efforts of myself and another editor (and administrator, David Eppstein) to explain exactly what was going on (less yay) and reitterated demands for a criticism- and citation-free version of the article.

Apologies for the lack of brevity, this one felt like it took a bit of explaining. Warrenmck (talk) 19:52, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

A dispute was originally filed at DRN. I advised that it be moved to BLPN, and advised User:Warrenmck to wait to file a case here and see if the content dispute at BLPN would resolve the matter. One editor took my advice, and one didn't; that is typical. I agree that User:Arbomhard has insulted Warrenmck.

Are User:Warrenmck and User:Arbomhard willing to resolve the content dispute at BLPN first and hold off on this conduct matter? Our objective should be to improve the encyclopedia including the article on Allan R. Bomhard. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:46, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

I opted out of BLPN following the reply that got posted at Nostratic, and my issue isn’t specifically the content dispute, rather the behaviour underpinning it. I’ve not responded there, and my understanding was that this isn’t inappropriate, just perhaps not the best possible solution under normal circumstances (which clearly I don’t think these are). If I’m wrong about that, apologies, but I don’t see how a second dispute page repeating the exact same thing after editors have explained we need citations for weeks was anything other than an abuse of process at this point to attempt to exert ownership over the article, as highlighted by the abject refusal to engage but a perfect willingness to open a dispute (which would require that engagement). I genuinely believe the editor in question is not here to build an encyclopedia, and while I think it’s possible some good could come from the content dispute I’ve been just swallowing a lot of incivility in the name of trying to positively engage in good faith which I don’t see will ever be forthcoming from Arbomhard. Their literal entire edit history is adding their own content to fringe articles, and they’ve been asked for days to cite anything and have simply scattered “restore the original version” across, by my count, five pages now without substantively engaging anyone who has been trying to help.

if you genuinely believe it’s in the best interest of Misplaced Pages for this to be tabled until after, I’ll accept that. But this is why I responded to the first DRN post with “I’ve had an ANI ready to go about this situation” and only posted it when personal attacks were doubled down on after that DRN discussion and the reposted dispute to BLPN made it clear Arbomhard was not actually going to engage either civilly or in good faith. Warrenmck (talk) 21:05, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Since the locus of the behavioral issues involves Nostratic languages, its talk page, and related articles, and not just the BLP Allan R. Bomhard, I think discussion here is not redundant with the BLPN discussion and should continue. (My own position is that I am supportive of independent scholarship but not supportive of fringe-pushing nor of editors whose primary purpose is self-promotion, all of which are in evidence here.) —David Eppstein (talk) 23:42, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

I would just like to draw attention to the fact that @Arbomhard is responding to this ANI at the talk page for Nostratic Languages. Warrenmck (talk) 12:01, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

The comments don't appear to be a direct response to this ANI. That said, they also seem to be content-free complaints about Warrenmck, rather than actually explaining whatever problem they have with specific edits to the article. Arbomhard is leaning hard on claiming Warrenmck is not an "expert," which makes me wonder if Armobhard might be in a WP:EXPERT conflict. — The Hand That Feeds You: 17:33, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

The comments don't appear to be a direct response to this ANI.

I could have misread

You have also quoted out of context.

but the discussion that was under was only ever quoted by me here, other than that I never quoted it. Did I misread a post-ANI comment about a thread a week ago? Sincere question, I don't want to accidentally be creating drama out of the ether here if I misread something.

Arbomhard is leaning hard on claiming Warrenmck is not an "expert," which makes me wonder if Armobhard might be in a WP:EXPERT conflict.

I've genuinely tried avoiding this specific discussion with him, which is why I haven't responded to it at any point. I don't want to get into a discussion of credentials on Misplaced Pages. Let me just leave it at "I generally disagree with his statements on this" and that I've been working carefully to build consensus where possible and cite my claims carefully instead. I think it's perhaps a bit risky to consider a page about a fringe theory a WP:EXPERT conflict, however. At least when considering the full context. Warrenmck (talk) 20:46, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Unfortunately, discussion at Talk:Allan R. Bomhard seems to be going downhill. The fact that Arbomhard goes back and forth between using their account and (apparently) using various IPs makes things a bit confusing (here the IP wisely removes a poorly-thought-out attack posted by the account, but less egregious attacks and IDHT behavior are continuing). 57.140.16.56 (talk) 18:53, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I am close to giving up on getting a useful response from Arbomhard there. What I would like: published sources for additional biographical details and an acknowledgement that published criticism of his work is legitimate content for an article largely centered on his work. What I am getting instead: walls of text and unusable links, offers to send primary documents privately but not to make them public, pointers to self-authored potted biographies in his works that appear to be carefully phrased to imply more than is actually the case (that is, not credible as self-published sources), and demands that all of the material on his work be moved to our articles on Nostratic (where it is fringe content and overdetailed). —David Eppstein (talk) 01:42, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

David: i use a software package (VPN) called Private Internet access that randomizes my IP addresses. Allan Arbomhard (talk) 19:30, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Proposal 1: Three-Part Caution

I have read the discourse on the article talk page and the other discussions, and think that a caution to User:Arbomhard is in order for several interrelated reasons:

• 1. Arbomhard is being rude and overbearing in asserting his own expert status on the subject of Nostratic languages against User:Warrenmck.
• 2. While Arbomhard is an expert on Nostratic languages, mainstream historical linguistics considers the Nostratic hypothesis to be a fringe theory that should be described in detail in Misplaced Pages as a fringe theory.
• 3. Arbomhard, like any active academic, has a conflict of interest in promoting his own scholarship and hypotheses.

For these reasons, User:Arbomhard should be formally cautioned.

• Support as proposer. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:01, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

I think it's worth pointing out that the behaviour that caused this ANI has been ongoing since the ANI was opened, even with me intentionally not engaging with any of the talk page drama. At the slight risk of WP:BLUDGEON, I'm not sure how a formal caution helps when this is clearly a single purpose self promotion account that refuses to engage in good faith and opens multiple noticeboard posts over a specific issue while refusing to engage with anyone. Right now his presence in various talk pages has wholly derailed the good faith attempts to clean up those articles and he's so avoidant of engaging in good faith that we can't actually make any progress, even when we're trying to work with him. It's very clear that @Arbomhard is attempting to skip consensus to get his preferred version of the article, and his preferred version is very weasel-y, with his insistence on certain statements about his status as a linguist or academic while refusing to provide sources for the meaning of that status (i.e., "retired linguist" or listing where his degrees were obtained but not what qualifications were obtained, something he has explicitly stated he won't provide information for in a verifiable way while still wanting mentioned). I think he's attempting to use Misplaced Pages to sanitize his own academic reputation as well of that of his theory, rather than anything even resembling building an encyclopedia. Warrenmck (talk) 19:33, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the diffs, User:Warrenmck. User:Arbomhard - Editing your biography while logged out appears to be trying to conceal your conflict of interest. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:42, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

I'd say that escalates things into deserving a pageblock from his article, and potentially from Nostratic languages. — The Hand That Feeds You: 17:21, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

I agree with User:HandThatFeeds, but it is probably also necessary to semi-protect the pages in question against logged-out edits. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:03, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

I'd actually suggest against that. If Arbomhard is pageblocked, then edits while logged out, that's effectively socking around a block & can result in a siteblock. Then semi-protection can be added to prevent further abuse. — The Hand That Feeds You: 13:32, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

That seems reasonable. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:04, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

• Support P-block per THTFY. A caution might suffice if there was a single issue, but a cocktail of COI, LOUT and BLUDGEON demands something further. Basically, continuing the behaviour that takes one to ANI while one is at ANI demonstrates either incredibly poor judgment or a complete disregard for community behavioral expectations. Serial 18:10, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
• Support P-block per Serial and Warren - I agree that the only purpose of the account has been promotional, while their disruptive behaviour has been continious. Though Arbomhards apology is respected, I'm having a hard time seeing how a page block wouldn't be needed here. NotAGenious (talk) 13:29, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
• I am inclined to close this discussion as passing the proposed caution, but have first sought input from the editors at WP:FRINGEN who have dealt with this subject within the past few months. BD2412 T 17:58, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

  It doesn't look like the proposed caution has as much support following continued poor behaviour post-ANI? Again, I'm cautious of trying to avoid bludgeoning the process but given a single purpose account openly refusing to engage in good faith I'm not sure what the caution would achieve; Arbomhard's continued presence in those articles is providing very little of substance and is massively derailing efforts to improve them. While I understand the need to tread lightly when the subject of a BLP is involved, the behaviour in question seems systematic, egregious, and unchanging. They never even engaged with this ANI, though continued to engage in casting aspersions and personal attacks since it was posted. If it was a normal editor who had a stick in their craw about a very specific issue it'd seem sensible to me, but this account has one purpose and one purpose only as far as I and the other editor engaging him can tell at this point, which is to promote himself, his theory, and particularly himself as it pertains to that theory. (Also, you may have better luck seeking input from the Linguistics wikiproject, this one is a very niche topic and didn't get much traction at FTN when I brought it up there) Warrenmck (talk) 21:28, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Let me begin by offering sincerest apologies to Warren and David. I tend to call things as I see them -- not to be abrasive but to be as straightforward as possible. It was not my intention to be rude or disrespectful to either of you. However, it is and has been my on-going intention to express displeasure about the changes that had been made to my Misplaced Pages biographical entry and to press, as strongly as possible, for the restoration of an earlier version. That was the only Misplaced Pages entry I actually tried to edit, not the entry on Nostratic, though I did express my opinion on that entry. Trying to edit my own biographical entry was, indeed, a COI, but, in my own defense, I did not realize that I was violating Misplaced Pages policy at the time. I now know the rules a little better, and I should not have tried to edit the entry myself. And, yes, of course, I have a vested interest in seeing that both me and my work are portrayed fairly and accurately. That has been and remains my sole agenda. Thank you, at least, for allowing me to present my case. Allan R. Bomhard.— Preceding Arbomhard (talk) 04:43, 11 October 2023 (UTC)unsigned comment added by Arbomhard (talk • contribs) Arbomhard (talk) 16:02, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

• Considering the above response, I believe we can call the subject of this discussion appropriately admonished. As they appear to have recognized this, and the COI issues, this can now be closed. BD2412 T 19:09, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Indian IP User: 49.37.249.99 has been consistently vandalizing articles.

User: 49.37.249.99 (https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:49.37.249.99) has been consistently vandalizing articles without reading the cited sources and presenting a collection of nonsensical and unfounded statements as legitimate edits. They tampered with the Toxic Cough Syrup article (https://en.wikipedia.org/Toxic_cough_syrup), which I subsequently corrected with the help of another editor. They also vandalized the Controversies section of the Zydus Lifesciences article (https://en.wikipedia.org/Zydus_Lifesciences#Controversies).

I reverted their malicious edits (https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Zydus_Lifesciences&action=history) on September 30, 2023, and advised them not to engage in such behavior on Misplaced Pages. Unfortunately, they have now returned, interspersing their malicious edits between a bunch of minor and nonsensical edits that they have concocted to mask their true intentions.

I take care to ensure that my contributions are supported by the cited sources, and this kind of malicious behavior is disturbing. I no longer have the time to fix their malicious edits, as it's become evident that their intention is to vandalize the Controversies section of the article. I hereby request admin to undo his edits and block his IP range.

Not everyone recovered from the seemingly-tainted drug. In 69 reports of adverse events from Uttar Pradesh that Mint reviewed, doctors recorded the death of one patient. This number is likely an underestimate, because the doctors filing these reports didn't always note whether the patient recovered fully from the symptoms. Turk185 (talk) 16:53, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Turk185 You need to assume good faith with other editors. Saying such things as "interspersing their malicious edits between a bunch of minor and nonsensical edits that they have concocted to mask their true intentions," is not going to end well. Whatever this IP is doing, it's not vandalism. JML1148 04:11, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

@Turk185: Regarding your examples above from the Zydus Lifesciences article, I'm pretty sure the IP was justified in making some of the changes they did. The second example is definitely WP:SYNTH, you interpreted "This number is likely an underestimate," as "it may never be possible to determine the total death toll". The first example is more marginal. Maybe they were concerned that saying it was a false statement would be editorialing? It would be good to hear the other side of the story. Anyway, I don't see any evidence that the IP has been editing disruptively. JML1148 04:25, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

@JML1148: I am grateful for constructive edits to my articles, and I thank all such contributors. But malicious and disruptive edits are disturbing. The idea of spending time writing an article only to go through a reporting process that consumes much more time than the initial article writing doesn't make sense.

Turk185 (talk) 07:06, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

• Turk185, this is a content dispute. ANI is not for content disputes. Just for your benefit, I have gone through all the edits. It seems the IP has a better editorial understanding of how articles should be written than you (or I) have. Leave them alone, is the best advise I can give you, and let good editors like them do their work without editors like us getting in their way. Thanks, Lourdes 09:31, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

  Same. I didnt check every link, but from my cursory overview I dont see anything egregious enough to be sanctionable. @Turk185 in future, if you are filing an ANI report, instead of a long story style format, give a short summary of the other persons edits and why each one is a bad edit (remember, disagreeing on content is not sanctionable, but reckless disregard for policy is). Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 09:39, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

  Their edits look good superficially. I won't dispute content, as I've wasted enough time here. I explained why I did it. Peace. Turk185 (talk) 19:20, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Phallic Vandalism Network

I have noticed that several IP addresses and accounts that have been posting pornographic imagery mostly involving phalluses for the past few months appear to have characteristics that suggest that they are based in Sweden and are the same person (same nature of images and threats of police action to impose their edits). Is there a possible way to pinpoint the exact location and to determine how extensive is this possible sockpuppet network? Borgenland (talk) 12:25, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

This is an incredibly strange discussion I just stumbled upon. Besides the inherent weirdness of talking about AI dick analysis it sounds like a Village Pump proposal, and a bad one at that. There’s no magic bullet for vandalism, be it mandatory registration, whitelisting, blacklisting, deletion of offending images, restricting image use to extended confirmed users, or anything else. A combination of some of these options is useful but we can’t turn Misplaced Pages into a top-down authoritarian project over some 12-year-old putting penis.jpg on the first article he sees. Dronebogus (talk) 05:12, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, this is clearly off-topic for ANI. — The Hand That Feeds You: 16:41, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I’m not supposed to close any discussions, especially not involved ones, but since this looks to have run its course you could probably just mark it as “closed, off-topic/no relation to original subject” Dronebogus (talk) 18:59, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Irregardless I’ve taken the liberty of collapsing the irrelevant thread so it’s clear what this was actually about for archival purposes Dronebogus (talk) 19:02, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

TheAlienMan2002

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TheAlienMan2002 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is a clear net negative to this project. Their contributions in main-space are of a trivial and inconsequential nature; their contributions in other spaces include

• multiple ChatGPT-generated contributions in WP space (their deeply absurd responses when called out on this are recorded here) and
• giving very poor advice at the Teahouse, as recorded in the discussion here.

Their responses to helpful advice and guidance consist of defensive gibberish (see e.g. ). They've most recently moved on to incompetent harassment of User:Dialmayo: these two edits were followed by my warning to desist and then . It seems to me that the lack of competence / unwillingness to take on criticism and advice is sufficiently acute that an indefinite block is called for. --JBL (talk) 23:56, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

@JayBeeEll Hi, first of all, those responses are not "ChatGPT generated", which of course you have zero evidence of AI. AI in this present day is tricky to debunk especially if someone would be using it on Misplaced Pages. The first paragraph of the article "sun" which someone has tested on the website "CheckGPT", the paragraph is apparently AI generated. So, no evidence of the Ai Inanity.

Next, the very poor choice advice at the Teahouse, which has been already resolved, no reason for ANI for this if consensus has already been reached. And based on my edits, I haven't posted in Teahouse ever since. I have not harassed the user that you're pertaining to, other than just a little warning for the incivility of their comment when I've said "derogatory content".

TheAlienMan2002 (talk) 00:04, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Next, the very poor choice advice at the Teahouse, which has been already resolved, no reason for ANI for this if consensus has already been reached.

consensus was that you were using llms inappropriately.

oh, and we swear all the time here. ltbdl (talk) 00:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

My nuanced articulation on Misplaced Pages isn't a product of leveraging LLMS by the way. It's a manifestation of my personal writing style, devoiding of empirical substantiation.

Also, Wikipedians swear all the time? I've never seen that on this platform before. Perhaps WP:AGF would be presented here? TheAlienMan2002 (talk) 00:21, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Empirical substantiation besides (and rationalists would have something to say about that comment, I imagine), the other issues still stand. Edward-Woodrow • talk 00:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

There's little to no evidence to support the other issues. TheAlienMan2002 (talk) 01:08, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I really find it hard to believe that someone with such an expansive vocabulary as yourself would keep making grammatical mistakes while using that vocabulary; unless, of course, the use of said vocabulary was just an attempt to cram long words into your writing and make it seem like you weren’t just using a LLM before. AryKun (talk) 05:39, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

WP:IDHT Q.E.D. --JBL (talk) 00:14, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I've already heard your side of the table during my talk page discussion as well as others. But, you didn't even bother to respond to my messages but instead put out incivility instead of the LLM in the first place, which was your first message mention. It was most likely cause of no evidence to back up your statement.

I would like an explanation as to why you're not listening to any of my comments, and being demanding and grave about the discussion. You have neither assimilated nor perused my remarks. TheAlienMan2002 (talk) 00:27, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

if you keep talking like this i will lose my side of the table. ltbdl (talk) 00:44, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Pretty good accusing other editors of poor communication for someone who has archived his usertalk three times in the past two weeks, once within half an hour of the most recent comment by another editor. Please stop defending and begin listening. Folly Mox (talk) 03:37, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

• I was hovering over INDEFF but landed on a p-block from project space. TAM2002, comments such as You have neither assimilated nor perused my remarks. are not helping your cause. Please contribute to articles, or you risk a broader block. Star Mississippi 02:19, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
• I hold the belief that both parties possess valid arguments; nevertheless, the paramount issue herein lies in the necessity for the accused to provide a civil and respectful response. thanks chatgpt for writing this for me GeraldWL 05:45, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
• Since TheAlienMan is obviously unable to communicate intelligibly, someone please just block him. EEng 11:38, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  I responded to their TP inquiry but will be offline today. If needed, revise block at will. Star Mississippi 12:10, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I think a namespace ban is sufficient, and I'm still not entirely convinced this guy's using a LLM, rather just cramming big words into sentences; "My nuanced articulation on Misplaced Pages isn't a product of leveraging LLMS by the way. It's a manifestation of my personal writing style, devoiding of empirical substantiation." Dialmayo (talk) (Contribs) she/her 12:00, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I believe that's exactly what they want you to believe. Comparing their suspected LLM-generated contributions to what they post after being accused, the difference is night and day. Take the following last paragraph of this diff for an example.

Familiar yourself with other people using vocabulary words that you, do not understand, please. Please be wise on your messages because the more i read them the more I think you're being an egotistical presumptuous human being."

Basic vocabulary issues, excess punctuation, missing punctuation, capitalization failures, they even fail to use the correct direct object. The more you look for in that diff the more you find. We don't crucify people for these mistakes here but when their clean diffs like those given by JBL suddenly become bad writing with extra verbosity crammed in immediately after an accusation of using LLMs, it's hard not to hear quacking. GabberFlasted (talk) 12:16, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I've already heard your side of the table during my talk page discussion as well as others. But, you didn't even bother to respond to my messages but instead put out incivility instead of the LLM in the first place, which was your first message mention. It was most likely cause of no evidence to back up your statement. My eyeballs hurt. Narky Blert (talk) 14:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

To be clear, I think that they switched from what they were doing initially (unambiguously using an LLM) to something different but also stupid (probably doing word-by-word translation or a good old-fashioned thesaurus or something else along those lines). --JBL (talk) 23:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

• Star Mississippi - I'm uncomfortable about the concept of a Misplaced Pages-space block, for a couple of reasons. First off, if we're of the opinion that they're not capable of writing coherently, do we really want to leave them free to edit articles? Second, if someone who was subject to such a block were ever to be subjected to harassment or whatever while using this platform, they would be unable to ask for assistance in the appropriate venue, and would be forced to evade their block in order to post as an IP asking for help. I'd be a lot more comfortable with either a CIR sitewide block, or a final warning along the lines of 'if you post any more unintelligible gibberish to WP-space, I will block you from this website'. Just a thought. Girth Summit _(blether) 12:23, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  I'm about to hop offline @Girth Summit so please do revise/reduce the block with my blessing as I don't fully disagree with you. I personally think they're trolling us, although the screen name + unclear text made me wonder briefly if it was a Google Translate issue, although that doesn't usually spit out $5 words.

  I think @Dialmayo's point is their mainspace edits are fine, which leads me to trolling. I think we can tolerate it here, but do we want them giving advice at the Teahouse? I'd also be fine with just a block from there and Help Desk. Star Mississippi 12:45, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  @Star Mississippi I don't think I'd agree with their mainspace edits are fine, a lot of their edits seem to be terrible attempts at recent changes patrolling, at the minimum there seems to be WP:CIR issues at play there too.

  demanding a reliable source for the addition of wikilinks?

  How on earth was the IP's edit a test edit?

  Reverting a massive amount of copyediting because it didn't include sources?

  Adding a CN template to the lead of a featured article.

  Do we really need to cite that a civil parish is governed by its parish council? This is seriously WP:Skyblue type information.

  They really need to do some content work of their own to gain an understanding of how things work, rather than just reverting other peoples edits on the basis of policies that they clearly don't fully understand. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 14:50, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  I agree with a sitewide CIR block, because their communication style has issues beyond comprehension. Their response to FollyMox posting advice on their archive is rather combative. Also, while I was willing to grant them leniency due to having five people telling them they were going to be blocked without explaining why, their selective reading of my attempt to answer their question and subsequent trouting of Dialmayo suggests they're incapable of collaboration CiphriusKane (talk) 14:09, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  And in case there's doubt in anyone's mind that a CIR block is appropriate: When, in the discussion linked at the very top of this thread, he was told You are continuing to give bad advice in areas that you do not understand, his response was to ask that someone show him where it says that I am not allowed to give out bad advice to Wikipedians. Just how ridiculous do we allow people to be around here? EEng 14:36, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  1 EEng (75.342 idi), last time I checked. I like Astatine (Talk to me) 15:07, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  No disrespect to @Star Mississippi and their attempt to assume good faith but this guy is either messing with us or just doesn't get it. In either case the community's time is better spent on those who have something to contribute so I've upgraded the block to sitewide. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:14, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  Still team messing with us, but absolutely no objection to this upgrade. I knew I wouldn't be back online until now and it couldn't wait this long to be resolved. Thanks @HJ Mitchell et al for handling. Star Mississippi 23:31, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  I agree. Flush ‘em; nothing of value will be lost. Bgsu98 (Talk) 17:29, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

User has been blocked sitewide, somebody close the case please Dialmayo (talk) (Contribs) she/her 16:57, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Editor removing sourced material for possible political reasons

I noticed a editor on Tank Man by the name of Tennaris has repeatedly removed sourced material without explanation. The material they are censoring relates to violent nature of the events so it looks to me like trying to whitewash the government's actions. 2001:8003:3FB4:CF00:D41A:85FD:329D:1AB0 (talk) 21:31, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I didn't do any editing. I've reverted you vandalism that you did on IP 2001:8003:3FB4:CF00:1DD2:4AA7:4A55:D88C and many unidentified ones. And I wasn't the only one who reverted your edits. Tennaris (talk) 22:21, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

So you deny that you removed the paragraph sourced to The Times article cause your edit history says otherwise and given that paragraph was not added by an any IP that also falls flat2001:8003:3FB4:CF00:D41A:85FD:329D:1AB0 (talk) 22:30, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Here's a comprehensive list of all the times you've edited that same page, with the same changes

20 August 2023‎ 2001:8003:34a3:800:1d9e:424d:8631:aa2f

6 October 2023‎ 2001:8003:3fb4:cf00:a4fb:d3e3:c828:dd9d

10 October 2023‎ 2001:8003:3fb4:cf00:1dd2:4aa7:4a55:d88c

In fact you've vandalized several pages, repeatedly, all with anonymous IPs. Why are you hiding it? Tennaris (talk) 22:39, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

You are the one removing material in sources without a given reason like the words violent and even adding unsourced material here 2001:8003:3FB4:CF00:D41A:85FD:329D:1AB0 (talk) 22:52, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

My friend - you're vandalising different pages with different IP addresses - and when it's reverted you wanna discuss article by article?

Wouldn't it be easier if you were autoconfirmed instead of hiding your activities? Tennaris (talk) 22:59, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Comment the disputed paragraph begins It has been suggested that, so it is probably speculation that should be removed. The IP editor seems to be edit-warring to re-instate the material, which was removed by Special:Diff/1162529065 in June. The IP editor's edits don't appear to be vandalism, though their stated rationale in the edit summary is that the content cannot be removed because it is sourced -- which is obviously not an accurate representation of site policy. Walt Yoder (talk) 22:38, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Kindly refer to my message above - We've posted about the same time Tennaris (talk) 22:40, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

@Tennaris: People are allowed to remove bad and/or useless comments from article talk pages. Did you read those deleted comments at Talk:Lena Dunham before you restored them? Because you've got to be kidding me. CityOfSilver 22:50, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

While I agree, since he repeatedly edits several articles continuously with different IP addresses - and in many cases other users reverted them citing vandalism - I'd assume that's his goal Tennaris (talk) 22:55, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

@Tennaris: What do you agree with? If you agree that you shouldn't have restored those comments at Talk:Lena Dunham, please revert them. Walt Yoder (talk) 23:00, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

@Walt Yoder: The Dunham thing was just one of several apparently good (or at least harmless) edits User:Tennaris reverted today. Since they (seem to) agree that they were in the wrong, they really ought to go through their recent edits and restore all the anonymous editor's good work they undid for no reason. CityOfSilver 23:05, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

@CityOfSilver @Walt Yoder Idk. Guy anonymously vandalized several articles(it wasn't me to point out/revert, but other users) and I revert his edits. Maybe that's why this site is going downhill. I'll leave this mess for you nerds Tennaris (talk) 23:10, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

So Tennaris (talk · contribs) doesn't know what vandalism means and is blatantly trolling. Time for a block. Walt Yoder (talk) 23:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Support Walt Yoder's call for this user to be blocked. It would also help if a user with rollback rights restored all the anonymous user's edits from today because other than possibly Tank Man, Tennaris clearly didn't even look at anything they reverted. CityOfSilver 23:18, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

After reviewing their contribution history, I've indeffed per NOTHERE. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:20, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Yeah their June 2023 edits were def not OK. Reverting drmies to restore Pro-Putin propaganda, no idea why thy weren't blocked as nothere then. Lavalizard101 (talk) 23:50, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I cannot see those "other users" reverting on those ips you provided that cite vandalism, the only reverts are you that don't claim vandalism and one other for "be looking stranding"

Looking at the edits it is the opposite you restored 96.59.109.178 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) edits despite them reverted multiple times for vandal 2001:8003:3FB4:CF00:D41A:85FD:329D:1AB0 (talk) 23:51, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Indeffed by an admin, IG this can be closed now. Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 09:46, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Nitishbgp NOTHERE, WP:OWN, WP:NPA, Edit warring

I was recently working on cleaning up Naugachhia as there were duplicate articles for the town spelled differently. As part of the merge, I also removed a large amount of original research which User:Nitishbgp has been edit warring to reinsert. If you look through the page's history, you'll see many cases of this user reinserting the same OR after it was removed. When I tried to bring it up with him on his talk page at User_talk:Nitishbgp, he wasn't very happy about it and didn't seem interested in talking about it either. Seems like a WP:NOTHERE block is in order. BrigadierG (talk) 14:53, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

• I've indeffed the user for disruptive editing and personal attacks. I almost reverted the last edit made by the user to the article it was so bad, but I guess someone else should probably do it. BTW, what is the correct spelling of the place?--Bbb23 (talk) 15:06, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

  It is Naugachhia. There was also an article spelled Naugachia (with one h) and I discovered the error while checking the 2011 Indian Census as a result of the latter article being nominated for deletion. My version of the article includes a citation to the 2011 Indian Census. Thank you for the swift action. BrigadierG (talk) 15:15, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

  (non-admin uninvolved comment) "chh" is such an odd-looking combination in English that it frequently gets misspelled. Chhattisgarh may be the commonest example. Narky Blert (talk) 17:55, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

User:Colin.r.neary, Paulina Alexis

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The user is refusing to engage a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Paulina Alexis, excessive detail and has continued to repeatedly edit the article in question, Paulina Alexis. He just added "Note: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE HEADINGS" in an edit summary. I hate to escalate so quickly, but Communication is required. There have been several attempts to point the user to the BLPN to address the concerns. He just, while I was writing this, reverted User:VQuakr's attempts to trim the page and User:ScottishFinnishRadish's removal of copyvio. He needs to answer. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:18, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

I've blocked them indefinitely from that article. They obviously aren't willing to collaborate with other editors, and are accusing other people of "censorship". — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 21:34, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Very appreciated, @Ingenuity. Now editors can get to the task of cleaning up that trainwreck of an article. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:37, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

GENDERID issue

Democfest (talk · contribs) edited the Junlper article to use masculine pronouns (as Junlper is a transgender woman, this is against MOS:GENDERID) for and slur the subject of the article. CJ-Moki (talk) 23:01, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

And you reverted it. What is the administrator issue here? 331dot (talk) 23:04, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

@331dot: Democfest included a derogatory term for transgender people which I'd argue is a massive WP:BLP violation. If they didn't have more than 3 years of editing experience, this would normally be a solid report for WP:AIV. –MJL ‐Talk‐ 23:08, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

MOS:GENDERID is a manual of style; It doesn't dictate any policies or guidelines. _→AzaToth 23:18, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Not using slurs to refer to BLP subjects is pretty solid policy. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:21, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

That's beside the point. MOS:GENDERID shouldn't be used as a WP:BLP argument; It should only address manual of style. _→AzaToth 23:29, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Deliberate misgendering is BLPvio. That has very strong community consensus. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:32, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

@331dot and AzaToth: GENDERID isn't mandatory since, as part of the MOS, it's a guideline and not a policy. I know! That said, are we sure it's not mandatory? I could be wrong but I think that if someone makes an edit that isn't in compliance with GENDERID, the only way it won't also be a BLP violation is if it's about someone who's no longer living. User:CJ-Moki correctly reported that an edit about a living person was against GENDERID. Would you two have blocked had they cited BLP instead? CityOfSilver 19:22, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Do you not see the administrator issue involved in calling a BLP subject slurs in their article? Googleguy007 (talk) 18:30, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Looking at their timecard, and their recent editing times, this seems like an unusual time for them to edit. Any possibility of account compromise here? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:20, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

probably not so; user has received two previous blocks for WP:AE followed by one for personal attacks. I'd probably believe that this is them. —darling (talk) 23:24, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

slightly less recent editing times (September) also seem to include rather late editing times around that edit. —darling (talk) 23:25, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

also see this diff. —darling (talk) 23:32, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Looks like Patar knight has taken care of this for now. Izno (talk) 23:38, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

I blocked from the article history after I saw the post on the talk page by an IP on my watchlist (hence the manual block template on the user talk page). Inserting slurs into a BLP article is unacceptable, and paired with the less serious violations of MOS:GENDERID seemed to indicate deliberateness and malice, so I blocked at first instance. Any other admin should feel free to unblock if there's evidence that this was a compromised account that has been re-secured, upon a sufficient unblock request, or if there is consensus here against the block for whatever reason. -- Patar knight - /_{contributions} 23:42, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Can I just say that people dismissing adding attacks and misgendering to a BLP is kind of a problem, to the point of WP:Competence is required issues. Adam Cuerden _{Has about 8.5% of all FPs.} 23:45, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I was wondering that myself. Did they even look at the diff in question? Oh well, it's irrelevant now. Black Kite (talk) 18:00, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

To be fair, the edit was revdel'd. I saw it, but a lot of people commenting after me who aren't admins wouldn't know what it said specifically (though that isn't an excuse for ignoring my comment where I explicitly stated there was a slur there). –MJL ‐Talk‐ 06:27, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Not only did I revdel it because of the slur at 23:10 UTC, which is before everything but MJL's first comment here, I think the grammatical mistake in the initial post may have misled the first repliers. Taking out the parenthetical about JUNlPER being trans/MOS:GENDERID, the verb phase of the sentence is: "...edited the Junlper article to use masculine pronouns...for and slur the subject of the article. That could easily be interpreted as saying that the misgendering itself was meant to slur the subject and not that the editor had inserted a slur independent of the misgendering. -- Patar knight - /_{contributions} 12:11, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

That's a plausible explanation for 331dot, but not AzaToth, who was replying to a comment that said explicitly that Democfest included a derogatory term for transgender people. It even linked the specific term.

I also agree that this is pretty egregious and a WP:Competence is required issue. Loki (talk) 07:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Melbourne IP disruption followed by self-reverts for a year

• 1.152.104.0/21 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial))
• 1.136.104.0/21 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial))

Someone in Melbourne has been disrupting a great many articles and then self-reverting. Take a look at the editing history of Fleetwood Mac (disambiguation), or Leopold Stokowski, or Frederica von Stade. The disruption goes back for months, certainly active in April and February 2023, and going back further to October 2022.

Can we get two appropriately lengthy rangeblocks? Binksternet (talk) 06:01, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

1yr article space. Lourdes 06:19, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Excellent! Thank you.

Looking a bit further back I found the same kind of activity from User:Carrie Underwood Chris Cagle who was indeffed in early 2022. Binksternet (talk) 06:33, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

And before that it was other Melbourne IPs such as Special:Contributions/2001:8004:CC3:983A:710F:BB38:3F8B:B855, Special:Contributions/2001:8004:CC0:E607:1480:66C1:E5E0:B81D and Special:Contributions/2001:8004:1201:E4E5:9BB:BE61:2028:F44A going back to 2021. Binksternet (talk) 06:46, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Burlakov case and Oleg Burlakov multiple rules violation

Hello. Writing here as User:Elemimele recomended here. Previouse history you can see here.

In small words: Oleg Burlakov systematicaly converted by user:ssr into attack page against widow of Oleg Burlakov and his daughters. He rejected my attempts to discuss the massive violations of WP:BLP rule and undid all my articles edits. Burlakov case articles made by him is an original research with selective presentation of information whose content exclusively compromises the same widow and daughter. At the time of writing this article, in addition, the author could not cite a single source that would unite all the cases mentioned in it as the “Burlakov case”. The links he provided in the discussion of the proposal to delete the article Burlakov case to articles mentioning this term are frankly dishonest disinformation. None of these articles mentions the Burlakov case as a whole set of heterogeneous events listed by the author in the article.

The participant shows serious persistence in disseminating this information - after it was removed from the Oleg Burlakov article in the Russian section of Misplaced Pages, he created there a separate article, Burlakov Case (at russian), which was deleted as original research. Without ever entering into a discussion of the legality of deleting the information he disseminated in Russian, he began to replicate it in other language sections - in addition to English, he created versions of the same article Burlakov case in German, French, Spanish and Latvian, despite the fact that articles about Oleg Burlakov himself is not available in these languages. This suggests that he acts in a biased manner and is interested in a certain non-neutral presentation of the material, perhaps acting on a profitable basis.

I'm asking administrators to help with this situation. I suggest removing the Burlakov case article as an obvious and redundant fork of the Oleg Burlakov article (all info can be merged in main article and somehow forcing user:ssr to meaningfully discuss how the edits he makes violate the rules and how to avoid this by correcting the text. When I wrote about these violations earlier, I did not receive a single meaningful answer, yet these violations are obvious, I discussed them in detail here. Thank you in advance. Джонни Уокер (talk) 12:05, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

@Джонни Уокер You have failed to notify Ssr (talk · contribs) of this report, as the red notice on top of this page clearly requires. I have done so for you this time. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 13:10, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

I repeat for the 3rd or 5th time: the account "Джонни Уокер" is a "farmed sockpuppet" account. Any admin can conclude it from their contributions. Please ban this account ASAP so they not generate more useless requests and distract all of us from regular work. -- ssr (talk) 13:10, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Stats: as one can judge from their contributions, this is the 4th noticeboard this user uselessly try to exploit. Previously there were: "No original research/Noticeboard", "Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard", and "Articles for deletion". All the attempts were useless. This time we see another useless attempt, so the user is apparently repeatedly abusing the system whilst having 0 useful edits. -- ssr (talk) 13:29, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Джонни Уокер, in my opinion, the current fork of the case page does focus significantly negatively on living people who may (or may not) be notable only for a single series of events. It is an editorial call whether this qualifies under WP:BLP1E or not. You are right that if the fork were merged into the main article, it becomes easier to determine editorially what would be a good NPOV balance, especially as multiple living persons are involved here and the danger of seeing the case page as an attack page is significantly high right now. I see that the past BLPN and AfD efforts did not get significant response, but there were comments in your support. While I don't want this to sound as a forum-shopping expedition, you could start an RfC on the talk page of the Burlakov Case article to ask whether one should merge the details back into the main article; you could refer to the discussion here as a basis. As far as Ssr is concerned, they don't seem to have any ulterior motive - although the Burlakov Case was created by them, has the highest contributions from them, and of all articles to which they have contributed, this stands as the second highest -- which could explain why they might not wish this to be deleted. Again, ANI will not take an editorial call. You will have to try and reach consensus perhaps through an RfC. Lastly, if you find any significant legal concerns, rather than writing them on any talk page on Misplaced Pages, directly contact legal@wikimedia.org. Thank you, Lourdes 14:35, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

There is even a special Wikimedia Ukraine statement regarding this sockpuppet farm. -- ssr (talk) 05:42, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I have not been active on Misplaced Pages for some weeks (off-wiki life suddenly got in the way). When the Burlakov Case article was nominated for deletion, there were allegations of ownership and general bad behaviour. I suggested that the allegations be dealt with here (if anyone felt strongly enough), while the content issue be dealt with by any of the standard mechanisms of dispute resolution. My feeling was that mere deletion or merging (the job of AfD) would just move the underlying problem to the main Oleg Burlakov article. I still think this is true. The allegations should either stop, or be investigated, but they don't help in sorting out the general issue of what should be in the article(s).

I don't want to get into judging the behaviour, that's for anyone daft enough to want to be an admin. Nor do I really want to get into the content at this stage (I don't know if/when I'll return to Misplaced Pages). But ssr I would comment that regardless of the sheer quantity of legal stuff going on about Burlakov, it is very important that we don't call it "The Burlakov case" unless someone has lumped all the legal stuff together and called it either exactly this in English, or something that unequivocally translates to this from Russian. Otherwise we are synthesising. Perhaps an imperfect analogy, but Partygate can have an article of that name, because sources external to Misplaced Pages brought together a lot of parties and complaints and gave them exactly that name as one whole joined-up thing. We have to be extremely careful of creating an overall viewpoint when people involved in it are still alive. Elemimele (talk) 11:23, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your involvement! It is very valuable as I see almost no people wishing to help me with the article in positive way (yes it is complicated I know =))) Here is the particular English source that operates the exact term "Burlakov's case" (it is present in the article). But I don't mind renaming the article according to WP:consensus. There are many articles that have "generalized" title. For example — List of Linux distributions. Such articles don't need to have a reliable source that exactly introduce the term "List of Linux distributions". The article just needs some title. On 14 August 2023 user:Auric, while commenting here, proposed titles "Burlakov inheritance cases" or "Burlakov inheritance suits". I don't mind renaming in such way, the shorter version "Burakov case" is simply more convenient. -- ssr (talk) 12:00, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

As I say, I don't know the subject, and don't want to get involved, but (1) the alternative titles seem sensible if others also dislike the current title, and (2) at the moment Burlakov case has a statement "Burlakov's wife and daughters started to demonstrate aggressive behaviour towards him" with no source attached, which is extremely problematic. Elemimele (talk) 09:37, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

HORSEMAN843

Hi, HORSEMAN843 (talk · contribs) is probably a sock of Osamabinsaeed556 (talk · contribs). While Osamabinsaeed556 didn't edit here, he uploaded a personal image on Commons used on Draft:Osama Bin Saeed. HORSEMAN843 has only a history of vandalism. Yann (talk) 12:06, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

HORSEMAN843 is an account focused on creating an autobiography. It may be more accurate to label the editor as WP:NOTHERE than as a vandal, as the two mainspace edits were not necessarily vandalism but were conducted using ChatGPT. Uhai (talk) 12:15, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Sockdrawer cleaned, both accounts mentioned, plus Osamabinsaeed (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser). Courcelles (talk) 14:09, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Lambshift

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

Couldn't make a SPI as the only thing I have are IPs.

A brand new user named Lambshift randomly wrote this bizarre allegation to me Take care of your baby that isn't yours..

This is the same type of random and rude allegations about my personal life that a person who uses IPs from Indonesia also made (some deleted edit summaries here, dunno if you can see them ). This is no doubt the same person.

--HistoryofIran (talk) 12:56, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

WP:NOTHERE Special:MobileDiff/1179805913 HistoryofIran (talk) 15:54, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

The connection between the IPs and the named user is a bit of a stretch. Now if the IPs edited the same articles, or the same topics, that might have more traction.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:04, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

• Indeffed. Clearly neither new nor here to build an encyclopedia.

Star Mississippi 17:13, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Constantly being accused of vandalism despite using the edit summary and reaching out

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On Punggol MRT/LRT station, I'm being constantly reverted by users such as Wesoree (talk · contribs) and Filmssssssssssss (talk · contribs) for "vandalism" despite me replying TWICE on my own talk page for further information. There is clearly being reasons being put out on the edit summary but they are being blatantly ignored while I'm being reverted as if I do not exist. Based on the tags they are clearly automatic anti-vandalism tools and while they are useful against ACTUAL vandalism, accusing me of doing it and including slapping threats of me having me blocked from editing for "disruptive editing" is extremely frustrating. 221.147.40.123 (talk) 15:06, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Daily ArbPia disruptions by user Makeandtoss

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User:Makeandtoss keeps causing havoc across the ArbPia area, despite numerous warnings. In the past two days alone, Makeandtoss has repeatedly violated the strict 1RR at 2023 Israel-Hamas war 13:13 October 12, 13:02 October 12, 13:07 October 11, 12:16 October 11, 11:42 October 11, 01:26 October 11. To make matters worse, much of this happened after Makeandtoss had already been warned by BilledMammal about their breaches of 1RR . I recognize that Makeandtoss once did a self-revert, but that doesn't excuse the numerous violations. Another user, Merlinsorca has also tried to warn Makeandtoss about their problematic editing . Despite this, Makeandtoss just keeps making problematic and provocative edits across sensitive ArbPia articles. Just now, they deleted well-sourced facts about multiple killings in the Kfar Aza massacre without any attempt at consensus 18:45 12 October. In the same edits, they also replaced the well-referenced statements about the killings with an irrelevant strawman argument that "Despite contradictory statements by the Israeli military regarding the “decapitation of 40 babies,” no independent confirmation exists." The article never made that claim, so the addition (which Makeandtoss inserted several times in different parts of the articles) is just a strawman effort to deflect from the issue. As Makeandtoss keep edit-warring, despite several warnings, and keep ignoring talk pages discussions, a temporary topic-ban from ArbPia articles until the situation becomes a bit less heated would seem in place. Jeppiz (talk) 17:42, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

@Jeppiz This would be better evaluated at WP:AE. Having said that, there are so many edits to that article that it's very difficult to tell what is a revert, what has previously been reverted, etc. A certain amount of disruption is inevitable until the article stabilises. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:51, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Agreed, but every diff I posted is a revert. In their comments to Makeandtoss, BilledMammal helpfully detailed each one. The Kfar Aza massacre article is much more stable, and the edits by Makeandtoss clearly very close to outright vandalism as they replace sourced facts with pointless strawman arguments, and copy-paste the exact same line into different sections of the article (which would be poor editing even regardless of content). Jeppiz (talk) 17:55, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

I have been editing ArbPia articles for about a decade now and my adherence to Misplaced Pages guidelines has spared me any blocks, so I can certainly not be described as causing "havoc", especially after having spent countless hours on improving the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. That article is having a lot of editing traffic, and its impossible, as pointed out by @HJ Mitchell above, to keep an accurate track of everything .

I am obviously aware of 1RR and have largely avoided it. The edits linked above that were believed to be edit warring are in fact new formulations not reverts and are a result of new consensus forming from discussions on my talk page with @BilledMammal @Merlinsorca and on 7 discussions that I initiated on the article talk page; in all cases any misunderstandings were cleared. As soon as I realized in one single case that a revert was not in place, I self-reverted, as mentioned in the filing above.

As for the "beheading 40 babies" rumor that was portrayed in Misplaced Pages voice on Kfar Aza massacre, I have simply inserted (once only) what was established by reliable sources: "He had not in fact seen any images or had independent confirmation of child beheadings" Sky News and "CNN also visited the ransacked ruins of Kfar Aza on Tuesday and saw no evidence of beheaded youths." CNN. The lede is a summary of the body so naturally the change will affect both; that is good editing not "outright vandalism".

The lack of assumption of good faith and the incendiary accusations leveled against me are unpleasant to say the least. Makeandtoss (talk) 18:39, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Makeandtoss First, you did insert the same claim twice. It's evident from the edit history so no point in saying otherwise . Second, if a dubious claim is made, it's fine to question it. In this case, you introduced the claim about "beheading 40 babies" into the lede. As I (and others) have made clear on the page, the article should not say there were 40 beheaded babies. But introducing a weak claim just to argue against it is the very definition of a strawman argument. What purpose does that serve. The more serious question, though, is your tendency to just press ahead with own preferred versions at very sensitive articles rather than engage in the (ongoing and active) talk page discussions to try to achieve a consensus. If you feel that that is "unpleasant", well I'm sorry you feel that way, but I don't see anything in it what I wrote that is inaccurate. Jeppiz (talk) 18:50, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

@Jeppiz: Inserting the same claim twice in the lede and in the body isn't problematic, as the lede is a summary of the body.

I have always engaged in talk page discussions. In this instance I was not aware of a talk page discussion as I was not tagged in it and it was my first edit on that article.

Yes, "havoc", "outright vandalism" and "edit warring" are unpleasant and could have been avoided by a simple tag on the article talk page (Consider first discussing the issue on the user's talk page is mentioned above); instead of the unnecessarily charged atmosphere we now find ourselves in. Actually, I just checked the talk page and it is more about my editing and the noticeboard filing, which seems to be inappropriate Misplaced Pages:Canvassing. I will now self-revert until consensus is formed. Makeandtoss (talk) 19:07, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

You make a valid point. I do think your edit was problematic, and should have been discussed. It was against the background of previous complaint as well that I took it here. I might very well have overreacted, apologies for that. A long day and charged atmosphere, but you are right that a more low-key approach from me would have been better. I have struck my suggestion for a topic ban, and recommend that this thread be closed. Apologies again for the over-reaction. Jeppiz (talk) 19:20, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

IP rangeblock

Posting here as it's a bit complicated for AIV. This IP user has been making unconstructive edits to locomotive articles. They've been blocked on 221.153.58.187 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), 2001:2D8:E53B:73BF:0:0:182:C8EA (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), and 2001:2D8:E533:FC2E:0:0:2E6:C8EA (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Unfortunately, they seem to be on a dynamic IP and have continuing making these disruptive edits. I'm not sure which of the following ranges are best to minimize collateral damage. They've been active on both the /38 and /44 ranges today.

Courtesy ping @Daniel Case, Materialscientist, and ToBeFree: as previous blocking admins. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:22, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

I present exhibit A for the jury. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 21:06, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

IP threatening to dox editors after being ranged blocked

2604:3D09:1585:7300:643B:77:61A2:3605 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

This user created an attack page on the founder of Misplaced Pages, which was deleted as an attack page, then creates another page attacking editors (even though the IP is rangedblocked) for deleting the page and then threatens to dox editors. 24.211.70.219 (talk) 18:43, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

IP has been range blocked for 31 hours. It's your run of the mill vandalism to be honest, and better suited for WP:AIV. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:48, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

The IP range got blocked for 3 months after I reported it the individual IP to the AIV, and then the IP creates the page attacking editors for deleting the initial page. I am reporting it to the ANI due to said IP not having been blocked from editing their talk page yet. 24.211.70.219 (talk) 18:54, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Ignore it. It's some schoolkid. It's not someone who will "Dox you and hack this website". Canterbury Tail talk 20:47, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Category:Indian inventions

Someone has for several months been adding this category to hundreds of articles, mostly as an IP:

• July: Special:Contributions/111.88.219.166, Special:Contributions/111.88.208.184, Special:Contributions/111.88.214.99, Special:Contributions/111.88.212.149
• August: Special:Contributions/111.88.215.48
• September: Special:Contributions/Kazme1, Special:Contributions/111.88.221.239, Special:Contributions/111.88.220.8
• Yesterday: Special:Contributions/111.88.214.130

(Not at all guaranteed comprehensive.) Occasionally some of these have been blocked (e.g. Special:Contributions/111.88.215.27 by Materialscientist) but it doesn't seem to have discouraged the activity. Is there any hope of a more effective solution? --JBL (talk) 22:01, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Some more that I missed above: Special:Contributions/111.88.213.103 and Special:Contributions/111.88.216.26 in July/August. --JBL (talk) 22:15, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Does anybody else remember the comedy set, shown on TV, where a male standup comedian of Indian extraction talks about the way his dad is always insisting any invention, or anything useful at all from the last 5000 years, that comes up in conversation, is an Indian invention? It was pretty funny, but I don't remember who the comedian was. Maybe it's his dad adding the category all over the place. (Careful of outing, Bishonen!) Bishonen | tålk 11:07, 13 October 2023 (UTC).

Mr "Everything Comes From India" in Goodness Gracious Me, played by Sanjeev Bhaskar? Narky Blert (talk) 13:36, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Goodness Gracious Me was a great show. I still love the Going Out for an English sketch. Canterbury Tail talk 14:03, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it was. I thought what I saw was something newer, though. Perhaps it's a bit of a meme. Bishonen | tålk 16:33, 13 October 2023 (UTC).

PS: All the IPs mentioned fall in the range 111.88.208.0/20, a smallish range from which I don't see any useful contributions. Ingenuity blocked the range for a month on 4 August, and I have now reblocked it for three months. Bishonen | tålk 11:33, 13 October 2023 (UTC).

Thank you! --JBL (talk) 21:19, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Nick Numbers and BITING the newbies.

Amended to clarify that it was the OP, INeedOGVector (talk · contribs), that was blocked. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 22:42, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

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Sadly, Nick Number has been Biting the newbies, like at this diff. Please do something about this. INeedOGVector (talk) 22:30, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

@INeedOGVector Any reason why you've made no other talk page edits to Nick Number's talk page than the required ANI notice? ANI is a last resort; conversing with the user about what exactly has been problematic with his behaviour is always preferable to opening a filing here. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 22:35, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Darker Dreams and Witchcraft

For three months, Darker Dreams has been engaging in disruptive editing on articles related to Witchcraft. It seems they've set out to 'right great wrongs' by pushing an unhistorical neopagan-feminist view of Witchcraft. They've been edit warring, misrepresenting sources, ignoring consensus, making POV forks, wrongly accusing others of vandalism, and ignoring good-faith requests. All are listed examples of tendentious editing. DD was recently blocked for edit warring but has continued after being repeatedly warned to stop. In the report, CorbieVreccan said: "This is tendentious editing. The user edit-wars to the edge of 3RR, is reverted by multiple editors, then takes a break for a day or more, then resumes the disruption".

Edit warring on Witchcraft:

• 11 July - 1st revert - replaced the longstanding academically-sourced definition with a bare URL dictionary definition, and a claim not backed by the source
• 11 July - 2nd revert - said they were ignoring BRD because "it's optional" and accused editors of OWN
• 12 July - 3rd revert
• 13 July - 4th revert - put the off-topic Wiccan meaning at the top of the lead

The article was then protected for a while and went through a Dispute Resolution and a Request for Comment. While these were ongoing, DD filed an Arbitration Request, which meant the Dispute Resolution had to be failed. The mediator, Robert McClenon, said "the filing of the arbitration request was not only unnecessary, but vexatious", and called on ArbCom to admonish DD. The RfC ended in mid September, when DD's disruption resumed...

• 14 Sept - misrepresented the sources. I reverted and asked for quotes to back it up. Instead of doing that, they reverted me and immediately warned me for 'edit warring', just for reverting them once. When I tagged the claim, they just deleted the tag and falsely claimed the quotes were on the talkpage somewhere.
• 20 Sept - deleted the important and reliably-sourced detail that 'neopagan witchcraft' is mainly a Western anglophone phenomenon, calling it "extra words that distract".
• 20 Sept - deleted more important reliably-sourced detail that contradicted something they added.
• 20 Sept - again deleted the statement
• 23 Sept - misrepresented the source, to make it seem that it talked about witchcraft as positive.
• 23 Sept - misrepresented the source again
• 24 Sept - 1st revert of the above, implying in their summary that Misplaced Pages doesn't have to follow sources closely.
• 24 Sept - 2nd revert
• 25 Sept - 3rd revert, calling it "POV pushing"
• In a discussion about the above; three editors agree Darker Dreams is misrepresenting sources.
• 27 Sept - 4th revert (just outside the 24hr window), calling it "POV pushing", despite unanimous opposition.
• 3 Oct - deleted a whole section and references, without discussion, about how the pagan Romans had laws against witchcraft - 1st revert
• 3 Oct - deleted the whole section again, 2nd revert
• 4 Oct - deleted the whole section again, 3rd revert
• 12 Oct - deleted the whole section again, 1st revert
• 12 Oct - deleted the whole section again, 2nd revert
• 12 Oct - deleted the whole section again, 3rd revert
• They also deleted another section and its references, leaving only one unsourced sentence. When asked to replace it, they added different content and references that backed up their POV.

Edit warring on Witchcraft (disambiguation):

• 11 July - 1st revert
• 12 July - 2nd revert
• 19 July - 1st revert again, accused editors of "POV pushing"
• 19 July - 2nd revert
• 19 July - 3rd revert, saying "last stable version isn't a valid thing".

Edit warring on Witchcraft (sidebar):

• 5 Sept - 1st revert
• 5 Sept - 2nd revert
• 5 Sept - 3rd revert
• 5 Sept - 4th revert
• 27 Sept - another revert, bizarrely right after posting a RS quote on the talkpage that contradicted themselves.

They created three POV forks of Witchcraft:

• Witchcraft (traditional) was deleted as a POV fork, with several editors noting that it misrepresented sources.
• Witchcraft (diabolic) was deleted as a POV fork
• Witchcraft (feminist) was created with only one reference; requests for more have been ignored; article left as a stub.

Edit warring on Witchcraft (traditional) - this was deleted, but admins can see the diffs here.

In the last ANI discussion involving them, several editors proposed they be topic banned.

Netherzone:

"I immediately got the impression that they were trying to right great wrongs. I found ... some of the accusations and personal attacks on the talk page disruptive and incivil ... they were making rapid changes to the article without respecting other editors through civil discussion and consensus building".

Thebiguglyalien:

"Darker Dreams and a small number of other editors are frustrated that the article does not reflect the Western neopagan understanding of witchcraft, and they have spent well over a month trying new things to move it in that direction each time their changes are contested, which raises issues of religious POV pushing. ... There are also serious bludgeoning issues as these same editors are dominating the conversation".

CorbieVreccan summed it up at ArbCom:

"I've lost track of all of DD's policy violations and misrepresentations of policy. ... They've been chronically disruptive, incivil, and look to me to have engaged in tag-teaming".

This is clearly a behavioral issue. I thought things had calmed down, but they've started yet again after a few days, and they're now challenging the agreed wording after the RfC didn't go their way. This has been a huge time sink and unfortunately I don't think these articles will have stability unless DD is blocked from them. – Asarlaí 10:33, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Asarlaí has made several accusations with a lot of diffs. The problem is it all ignores several key points.

1. Asarlaí contends that I am “pushing an unhistorical neopagan-feminist view of Witchcraft.” This is the foundation of their presumption that I’m performing 'tendentious editing,' including seeking to 'right great wrongs,' and justification for a number of their own comments and actions throughout this dispute.

1a. This is based on the assertion that there are only two valid definitions of witchcraft to be covered; malevolent and Neopagan. (I assume Asarlaí will willingly acknowledge this.)

1b. This is despite the fact the article contains multiple quoted reliable sources that demonstrate additional definitions as valid, including from a source they have referenced. Addition of properly sourced information is not tendatious or disruptive. All of the other conflicts (and accusations) flow from this

2 I prefer to work based on edit based consensus. This is in accordance with policy (WP:EDITCON). I would rather put work towards making improvements, rather than talking about making improvements. I have demonstrated on several occasions with multiple people in the witchcraft-related area and elsewhere that I’m willing to start at or move to talk when it’s useful, and more than happy for back-and-forth edits to produce improvement. It’s clear that my preference in this has been profoundly off-putting for some people. I find it concerning that work done in accordance with policy has been treated as evidence of bad faith and a behavior problem.

3. Several statements have been made that the RfC “didn’t go my way.” I’m deeply unclear where that belief is coming from – my initial edit and major point of contention was de-centering the primacy of one singular definition in what claimed to be a broad-concept article. The removal of malevolence and harm from the first two sentences was in accordance with sources and policy; ie - it was my way. Further, I am concerned that Asarlaí (and, frankly, a number of other people) view this as something I “lost,” like any part of this ongoing dispute is fight to be won.

I encourage anyone interested to take a deeper look at both Asarlaí and my ongoing involvement with the constellation of witchcraft-related pages.

I will address individual actions or sets of actions if desired. However, every choice I have made has been to improve coverage based on citable, notable information. - Darker Dreams (talk) 16:34, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I am not alleging bad faith editing on the part of User:Darker Dreams, and I don't think that anyone is alleging that. POV-pushing is good-faith disruptive editing. It is done in order to improve the encyclopedia. It just doesn't improve the encyclopedia, because neutral point of view is the second pillar of Misplaced Pages. I may address the other points within 36 hours. Robert McClenon (talk) 07:18, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Statement by Robert McClenon

Not again! I haven't followed this controversy in the past month. I became involved in July 2023 when User:Darker Dreams filed a DRN request. Darker Dreams was and is unhappy about the content of the article on Witchcraft and related articles, and filed a DRN request listing 22 users. The only dispute resolution process that works well with that many users is an RFC. An RFC was begun to try to get consensus on the scope of the article by getting consensus on the lede paragraph of the article. Darker Dreams then filed a Request for Arbitration while we were still working on the DRN. It wasn't clear what Darker Dreams wanted ArbCom to do, but this was forum shopping and was vexatious litigation. I see that User:Asarlaí has filed a detailed account of conduct issues. I will review Asarlai's filing and will comment further. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:13, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I have read most of the material posted by Asarlai. I haven't read the diffs that were before my unsuccessful mediation. I am particularly concerned by the most recent edit-warring on witchcraft in pre-Christian ancient Rome, both because the clock-watching to game the 3RR rule is obvious, and because the POV-pushing is obvious. They are trying to hide the fact that there was a concept of malevolent witchcraft in a European pagan society. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:03, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

User:Darker Dreams writes: I prefer to work based on edit based consensus.. Yes. That statement is empty, because we all prefer to work based on consensus. The question is what does an editor do when they are in the minority. What Darker Dreams does is to continue to push their POV. I will keep my remaining remarks shorter than sometimes. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:03, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I continue to be surprised by @Robert McClenon's adamance about assuming my bad faith since the failed mediation, including their willingness to admittedly ignore and refuse to acknowledge information.

1. While stating that I am POV pushing @Robert McClenon has failed to address in any way the core of the issue; that my "POV" is fundimental Misplaced Pages policy; include sourced material and the "counterpoint" is to remove or suppress that material.

2. They acknowledge that they have not reviewed the situation prior to the unsuccessful mediation. As such, I assume that when he says "what does an editor do when they are in the minority." they are unaware of multiple editors who were ground down and run off from the Witchcraft article prior to my arrival in the conversation. Corbie Vreccan said bluntly at one point that they repeatedly had the same conversations.

3. They have repeatedly described my filing at ARBCOM as vexatious and litigatious forum shopping. This is particularly shocking to me because there was nothing about the RfC process I was unhappy with. My only frustration with the DRN process was how much Asarlai and others were uninterested and unwilling to engage with it at multiple points. They were the ones that argued against the process beginning, and regularly did not participate. I have explained previously that I opened the ARBCOM case because I assumed the DRN would be failed after Corbie Vreccan opened a separate noticeboard case against me on a related page. However, @Robert McClenon has never acknowledged that I voiced this concern.

4. No one prior to this moment has voiced that their concern about removing the Roman history section was that they felt it was hiding a concept of malevolent witchcraft in European pagan society. The summary currently present in the overall witchcraft article is the lead from the European witchcraft article. Those unhappy with the move of the Rome section have not sought to change that intro in accordance with this concern. I have transferred the changes that have been made from one to the other without issue.

5. The idea that my "clock-watching is obvious" and that I prefer to work on edit-based consensus are part of the same thing; "taking it to talk" has more than once become a place to ignore things until they are pushed with edits to the page. For example, I opened a section on the talk page regarding the move of the Roman material to the European Witchcraft page. @Asarlaí still has not replied on that talk section after more than a week, another editor has replied supporting the move, and choosing instead to open this case.

As I said when @Robert McClenon comment at the ARBCOM request; I do feel bad that the mediation ended. I deeply appreciate the work they put into it. I think that it was making positive progress, and would have preferred to remain with that process, except that I felt other editors who were vocally unhappy with participating were being litigious and forum shopping in a way that would have failed the mediation. - Darker Dreams (talk) 00:02, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Proposal 1: Topic-Ban

In my opinion, the only remedy should be an indefinite topic-ban from the subject matter of witchcraft, magic, and the supernatural, broadly defined.

• Support as proposer. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:03, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
• Support We do not need determined POV pushers operating in fringe topic areas. Cullen328 (talk) 00:06, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
• Support. This is a consistent pattern of singleminded, WP:SANCTIONGAMING, PoV-pushing disruption within this specific topic-area. But the T-ban should probably also include paganism, lest this behavior just side-shift to a closely-related sphere (an argument can be made that paganism isn't covered by "witchcraft, magic, and the supernatural", and it's not an argument we need to entertain).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  04:29, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
• Support - POVpushing and disruptive attempts to game the system. “Supernatural”, broadly defined, seems to cover religion in general, including Paganism. FOARP (talk) 06:41, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

  If we want to include religion and paganism in the ban, we should probably mention them explicitly, just so there aren't disputes on definition down the line...  — Amakuru (talk) 06:55, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Proposal 1A: Restated Topic-Ban

To respond to concerns about the possibility of gaming the sanctions, we should expand the topic-ban to witchcraft, magic, religion, and the supernatural, broadly defined. Paganism is a term used to characterize polytheistic religions. Robert McClenon (talk) 07:09, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

• support also this, for the reasons already discussed. FOARP (talk) 07:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Bmchedlishvili

Bmchedlishvili (talk · contribs) has repeatedly removed sourced, verified content from Irakli Garibashvili without explanation. They have also repeatedly changed the lead image (without explanation) multiple times, despite there there being a discussion in progress on that topic. I have attempted to discuss the matter with them on their talk page; I have warned them multiple times that if they continue this behaviour they will end up here. I have discussed the issue on the talk page (see discussion), along with NobodyUser and Emperor of Emperors. However, many of their responses were accusations of bad faith on my part: and i asking again, whats your interest when you change our image? you trying to hart us hard, lets talk with mods! yes you really "care" and trying to add wrong information and bad picture for us That discussion did not prove fruitful, and they have continued their unexplained changes, neither leaving edit summaries or responding to my messages on their talk page, two of which offered technical help if they are having difficulties leaving edit summaries.

I don't want to be here. I want to sort this out on a talk page. But when a user completely ignores discussion, and continues their same edits with no explanation, and accuses me of attacking the article, something needs to be done.

Diffs of unexplained content removal:

• Special:Diff/1179934648

• Special:Diff/1179550630

• Special:Diff/1178469304

• Special:Diff/1177988023

• Special:Diff/1177605106

• Special:Diff/1177579425

• Special:Diff/1177579586

• Special:Diff/1177493224

Edward-Woodrow • talk 12:22, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Note: It appears the user may have a COI with the article subject, as they say on the talk page that they are deputy head of strategic communications department at Prime-Minister office Georgia, Edward-Woodrow • talk 12:26, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I say yes that is a COI. This is work related editing. Secretlondon (talk) 12:29, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I was just about to post that I'd dropped a message on their talk page about WP:COI because of the same statement. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 12:34, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I was going to do that a while ago, but I thought there was a specific template one should use, searched for the template, couldn't find it, got fed up, and then forgot about it. Edward-Woodrow • talk 19:45, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Twinkle has one. Secretlondon (talk) 12:01, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

...and Bmchedlishvili continues their slow edit war over the lead image, even though a discussion on the talk page is in progress exactly about that. Edward-Woodrow • talk 13:03, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Incorrect and fake page

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Kfar Aza massacre This is created as fake and incorrect and it constitutes a terrorist zionist attack against Palestinians

please remove 92.99.12.212 (talk) 14:06, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

WP:ANI isn't for nonsense like this. --Yamla (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Deceased admin?

See . tgeorgescu (talk) 18:47, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:51, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Thankfully so. --ARoseWolf 18:57, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I don't think I could handle another one right now. BD2412 T 19:06, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I think we all know who has the mental health issues, and it is not RickinBaltimore. Cullen328 (talk) 20:07, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

My friends would argue that. Seriously, it's an IP troll that's does this sort of thing from time to time. Unless, I'm writing this as a zombie... RickinBaltimore (talk) 20:13, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Well I guess that's your Halloween costume sorted then!-- Ponyo 22:06, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

"This Wikipedian is undead." Narky Blert (talk) 00:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

@Narky Blert Have a quick and dirty userbox to celebrate. Feel free to create your own fork with much better programming than I am at these userboxen. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 01:04, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

@TheDragonFire300: If you would like to try your hand at another - possibly more practical, and certainly usable by RickinBaltimore - the obvious "Reports of this Wikipedian's death have been greatly exaggerated". Narky Blert (talk) 01:28, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

@Narky Blert Here you go. I'm not really sure what image would work here; the usual candle pic would probably be too easily confused with an actual "This Wikipedian is deceased" userbox, but it'll do as a placeholder for now. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 01:51, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Revdel request

Hello, can an admin please revdel File:Nitin Bajaj.jpg under criteria RD4? The previous revision is an unused and unrelated personal file and it would be easier to just revdel, instead of WP:HISTSPLITing it and then requesting a WP:PROD for the old file. (Sorry if this is the wrong place. {{Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard}} says that any "narrow issue needing an administrator" should be reported here. —Matr1x-101 _{(Ping me when replying)} {_{user page} - _talk} 18:50, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

@Matr1x-101: Speaking as a non-administrator, when it comes to revision deletion, I'd recommend contacting an admin of your choice privately via email. A list of those can be found on here under the name "Category:Misplaced Pages administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests" (it unfortunately won't let me link it). I'll also recapitulate the following portion of the "How to request Revision Deletion" section of the WP:Revision deletion policy page I linked above: "To avoid the Streisand effect, there is no dedicated on-wiki forum for requesting revision deletion under ." If you really do believe this to be oversightable information that falls under RD4, I'd highly recommend using email to bring it to the attention of any of the admins listed under those willing to handle revision deletion requests rather than posting publicly about it here. I know that this was posted in good faith, and I appreciate that, but if you really do believe that this is oversightable, I'd definitely recommend requesting its removal in a more private forum from here on out. JeffSpaceman (talk) 11:43, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

@JeffSpaceman As a protip, to wikilink a category (rather than add the page to a category), place a single colon (:) in front of the wikilink, so that the code looks like this: ]; and the result looks like this: Category:Misplaced Pages administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 11:55, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

@TheDragonFire300: Wow, I've been on here for over three years, and yet I never knew that before today. Huh. I appreciate you letting me know, I will definitely keep that in mind from here on out. Thanks! JeffSpaceman (talk) 11:58, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

This wasn't revdel as its an image. Secretlondon (talk) 11:58, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

I've deleted the image featuring a person - I presume that was the one you wanted deleting. Secretlondon (talk) 11:54, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Refusal to engage with MOS and Misplaced Pages Guidelines by User:Island92

Island92 refuses to follow the MOS until forced by multiple users, including enforcing the continued existence of unverified information despite repeated warnings through reverts on their part.

1. Talk:2023 Singapore Grand Prix: In response to being called out for adding unverified information, state that the source provided report generically 'required to start from the pit lane after car was modified whilst under Parc Ferme conditions' rather than more specifically. 5225C tries to explain the issue with this, and Island92 seems to WP:ICANTHEARYOU in response. I re-brought up the issue and Island92 was unwilling to change, and is continuing to enforce the presence of unverified statements.
2. Talk:2023_Qatar_Grand_Prix#The_Lead_(again): after reducing the lead to a single sentence, I link MOS:LEAD. Island92 ignores the MOS, states a lead summary is redundant, and responds Sometimes you should be more elastic and logical-thinking rather than following MOS at all costs. and I tend to follow these parameters, but not too much as your case, with respect. That's why I think being precise is not always the maximum required in everything we do on this encyclopedia.
3. Talk:2023_Qatar_Grand_Prix#Unverifiable_information refuses to allow obvious WP:SYNTH material they added to be removed.

Other problematic and WP:OWNership like behavior has included the following. Not all individually rise above a simple content dispute, but show a patter of behavior when paired with the above policy violations:

1. Talk:2023_Qatar_Grand_Prix#Brief_Descriptions: Not allowing a description of a special race format because Never made in previous Grands Prix consisting of this format. I sought a third opinion, which quickly sided with it's inclusion. The user often will not allow a change to be made if it hasn't been done that way before on a Grand Prix race report.
2. Talk:2023_Qatar_Grand_Prix#Race_vs_Sprint_race refusing to compromise on a confusing terminology issue.
3. Violating MOS:EGG by reverting my fix, without explanation. Island92 later self reverted after I asked for an explanation on the talk page.
4. Misusing "rvv" and accusing others of vandalism, even after being warned multiple times: User_talk:Island92#Incorrect_use_of_vandalism User_talk:Island92#Accusations_of_vandalism. The user apologized for this, but later repeated the problem.

I believe this behavior exceeds simple content disputes, and shows a genuine disregard for Misplaced Pages's norms. I have been told in multiple ways by Island92 that my desire to follow the policies of guidelines are not a good idea, including You seem to be too set in your ways, very much depended on policies. Be open sometimes in regards to allowing unverified information to remain. Cerebral726 (talk) 20:33, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

The procedures are more than source stated. The sporting regulations say start from the back of the grid. This is the first thing happening in any case because Zhou did exceed pu quota. That he started from the pit lane was an extra factor brought by work on car during parc ferme. Always used this sentence since I don't remember when as being linked with sporting regulations. Nothing is unverified information. Practice in use for a huge amount of GP. You noticing it just now. Island92 (talk) 21:17, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

• You've got two very seperate issues here, and I'd suggest sticking with the one that actually matters, which is adding improperly sourced information. The MOS is guidance, it is not rules and generally speaking nobody should be trying to force anyone else to follow it. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:50, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
• I see Beeblebrox's point but I disagree with their assessment of what the issue is. The issue that Island92 has is an extreme dedication to keeping things the same, even if there isn't really a good reason to. I could give examples of this going back much further than 2023. However, I would not like to see Island92 dissuaded from contributing to F1 coverage. Their work is often helpful and productive, it's just that they aren't great at adapting to suggested improvements in how we write articles. This is what has led to the present conflict and most conflict with this user. I do get the impression from a few conversations that English is not their first language, this may be contributing to the situation. In my opinion, Island92 needs a proper warning and explanation that for them to continue being a part of the project they need to be open to the idea that the way we do things can change. 5225_C (talk • contributions) 01:58, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Legal threats by Vicentemovil

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@Vicentemovil: made the following legal threat in this edit:

You cannot dismiss any historian who refutes the black legend by labeling it as extreme right-wing Spanish nationalist (fascist). Be careful because these libels may be the subject of a criminal complaint.

I had never used the words "extreme" or "fascist", btw, only "right-wing Spanish nationalist".

Boynamedsue (talk) 20:35, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

• Indeffed.

Star Mississippi 21:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Belteshazzar

• 138.219.250.5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is an obvious sockpuppet of WP:LTA/BTSZ. I did a SPI report at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Belteshazzar but it hasn't been picked up yet and he is popping back every few hours to try his luck again. Would anybody be so kind as to put an end to his reign of terror mild annoyance? Thanks. DanielRigal (talk) 00:28, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked, and the SPI closed. Thanks for reporting. You can ping me in future SPI reports, if you'd like. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 00:59, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Korean dinosaur IP back again

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As discussed here back in 2021 Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1075#Korean_dinosaur_IP there is a range-hopping IP user from South Korea who since 2019 persistently makes unsourced changes to the taxoboxes of animal articles, typically dinosaurs, without ever explaining themselves, and edit wars when people object and revert them. In the 2021 discussion, it was agreed to block their addresses for 6 months. The most recent address I can find, from June this year 2001:2D8:6905:8572:5B0C:4670:4ABD:9C84 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), was blocked for six months by JBW. I've reported the current IP 2001:2D8:F0AA:C3F:0:0:99B0:5060 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) at AIV, but I've not gotten a response. Hemiauchenia (talk) 01:47, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Notice given (for what that's worth) . Hemiauchenia (talk) 02:03, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Persistent vandalism at Leonard Hofstadter

For the last few weeks, from a single IP range in Dayton, Ohio. Preadolescent homophobia and antisemitism. Requesting either a range block or page protection. Thanks, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 02:20, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

I protected the article for six months and blocked the IP range mentioning BLP in the protection summary but later saw that the article concerns a fictional character. I'm not going to worry about that because such a persistent interest often needs a long absence to break the habit. Johnuniq (talk) 03:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Cheers, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 03:27, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

User:JAhf Reach Cabah – refspam-only account

JAhf Reach Cabah (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is a refspam-only account, interested only in promoting their music. Five career edits. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 09:25, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

@Mathglot: For what it's worth, I tagged their userpage for speedy deletion under WP:G11, and it appears that it was deleted by User:Deepfriedokra as I was leaving the message informing them of this. JeffSpaceman (talk) 11:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

UPDATE: User has been blocked by User:Deepfriedokra. JeffSpaceman (talk) 11:54, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Not just refspam. Self promotion only account and blocked as such. Such can be reported at WP:SPI-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 11:56, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Inexperienced(?) single-purpose redirect account User:Alpha200807

User has been creating or altering a large number of redirects; some have been useful, a large number have been pointless contrivances, and many have been actively harmful.

They've already been warned about this repeatedly on their talk page, but it hasn't stopped them.

I've reversed some, but with redirect-moving edits like this- which were made without discussion- it's not so simple for a non-admin like myself to do so.

Another example; I just noticed that in response to this reversion of pointless bloat, they converted that dab page to a redirect then opened an entry on Redirects for Discussion(?!)). (That change was subsequently reverted by another user).

Virtually everything this user has done since they started editing in August has been redirect-related. Either this is a single purpose alt account, or- as I suspect- they've jumped straight in without having any significant experience of editing WP or how it works.

I think it's clear at this point that they're causing more problems than they're solving.

Ubcule (talk) 12:04, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

• Indefinitely blocked. The number of warnings on their Talk page (without responses from the user) is staggering. The user is a time sink and detriment to the project.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:11, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Name disruption

Uzzwalkhanal (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) has been conducting mass name changes on several Nepalese articles (ex:), redirecting substantial articles (, and ) and has created duplications of these articles to match their spelling, all without any attempt at discussion. Their talk page is full of warnings from various users about this, yet they refuse to listen. I feel as though a block may be needed. 47.227.95.73 (talk) 12:30, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Drsmoo and WP:BATTLEGROUND behaviour

Drsmoo has previously had a ARBPIA logged warning about WP:BATTLEGROUND for fostering a battleground environment at Zionism, race and genetics and its talkpage.

Today they've decided they would carry on uncivil WP:BATTLEGROUND behaviour as demonstrated in this edit at Talk:List of Islamist terrorist attacks. I'm calling for a topic ban for Arab-Israeli conflict topic area broadly construed. TarnishedPath 13:01, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Please note more battleground behaviour. TarnishedPath 13:07, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Please WP:Boomerang this. I have not made a single personal attack or battleground post and I have no idea what Tarnished Path is talking about. Another editor made a post about “convincing” them, to which I replied that Misplaced Pages was not about opinions but reliable sources. Tarnished Path asked me to strike my post, so I changed personal pronouns “you” to general one’s “if one”. Tarnished Path continued insisting I was making a personal attack. When I asked, out of genuine confusion, what they were upset about soon could modify it, they took that as a personal attack and started this. I have been trying to edit collegially with Tarnished Path, if they are going to take a gentle question about why they’re upset as an attack then I don’t see how constructive editing is possible. Drsmoo (talk) 13:17, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Disruptive IP user

103.137.210.169 – clearly not here to build an encyclopedia, all edits are clear vandalism. User has been warned but has removed warning from user talk page. –GnocchiFan (talk) 13:20, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

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