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And most annoyingly, the crappy software didn't give me an edit conflict. When I saved my ANI remark, which somebody has now indiscreetly pasted above (I had promptly removed it), I had no way of knowing SlimVirgin had just archived the thread. Grrr. And for this I interrupted a perfectly good pout break! And I wasn't even nearly as rude as I felt like being! :-( I think I'll just go on another pout break, over that. Please don't post here, guys. I'm on break. Bishonen | talk 08:11, 12 May 2017 (UTC).
Oh very well, I'm not on break any more, it's shot full of holes anyway. Bringing back the summer meadow with horse. Thank you for your comments above, guys. Bishonen | talk 08:28, 12 May 2017 (UTC).
Thanks for the revdel. The same info was added earlier by an IP, User:66.87.148.226. Should that be revdel'd too? Cheers. --‖ Ebyabe talk - Health and Welfare ‖ 18:55, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I don't seem to understand the removal of the phrase that was used to indicate her as an Anambra descent. That's a regular word that is used to indicate people's origin in almost all varieties of English. Phrases like "European descent", "Scottish descent", etc are not uncommon on Wikipedia. Can you please explain why "Anambra descent" is bad quality?-- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 20:19, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
"Okaro, a descent of Anambra, in Southeast Nigeria, was born in London, United Kingdom."is correct English? The idiomatic English expression that you're trying to mimic would be "of European descent". Note: (1) the preposition "of"; and (2) the adjectival form of Europe - "European". The phrase is almost always used as a direct qualifier, i.e. it's adjectival. You're trying to use it in apposition to a name, i.e. as a noun phrase – which it isn't. There's no way in English of economically constructing the sentence you're looking for. Something like "Okaro, a woman of Anambran descent (Anambra is a state in Southeast Nigeria), was born in London." would be the nearest that I can muster, but it's awkward. Have a think about the point you're trying to make and ask for help if you can't construct it in English. -- RexxS ( talk) 20:47, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
"Okara was born in London but has Anambran ancestry."or
"Okara was born in London to Anambran parents."followed by
"The family returned to Nigeria where Okara attended the Santa Maria Primary school in Enugu State.". Thoughts, RexxS, Celestina007? EdChem ( talk) 05:25, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
(Guy Fawkes is a girl. Couldn't they tell?)Does no one remember the 5th of November?
MONGO still around...but stubborn fight with Dell computer to fix their junk has me sidelined sans desktop at present, just as I was starting to get back into editing....grrrrrr. Yes please do add images to the MONGO collection...which is going to be greatly expanded by August anyway after I return from wild woods excursion from my ancestral lair from whence I came.-- MONGO 15:22, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Greetings Bishonen. I'm enjoying not being a very active editor! I spotted at least one editor not behaving very well. Here's the page and issue in question. Be well and regards. Tapered ( talk) 07:21, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Bishonen. While I have your attention: User:MShabazz went through my contributions as a result of the Zionist Occupation Government debate and reverted most of my edits that mentioned the subject's religious background in biography articles. Is this not notable when properly cited? It seems to me that religion is one of the most important aspects of someone's upbringing, and most "Early life and education" sections include far less informative details. See User_talk:MShabazz for my message directly to him. Franzboas ( talk) 16:34, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
how one can have a not on an article talk page for nearly a month, asking for any thoughts for potential improvements prior to nomming for GAN... and not a single comment.... but immediately after dropping the template on the talk for GAN, templates magically appear on the article... -- Aunva6 talk - contribs 21:43, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
@ Bishonen: He opened by attacking me as a paid editor calling me a "shill". So i received a warning because he is your friend? Does an editor without COI make personal attacks and then refuses to apologize and instead claims he is more qualified then me? Did you give him a warning? Bishonen you've dealt with me before. I'd never get banned from a topic, look at my history. I am almost always right. Be neutral and dont post false warnings on my page. Did you see any attacks on other editors who disagree with me? Valoem talk contrib 13:40, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Civil Services of India and Central Civil Services need your urgent attention as the sock is back. He has already vandalised both the articles twice and using profanities in the edit summary. This time he's using anonymous IPs. I strongly ask for protection for indefinite time even from registered users of both the articles after restoration, and a CU on "Uncletomwood", "Ganeshpote", "Kiranmohadika" among others. Please add the pages to your watchlist along with Vehicle beacon lights in India, Indian order of precedence, Indian Police Service, Indian Administrative Service, Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Ministry of Defence (India), Indian Armed Forces, Indian Revenue Service. Thanks!
Bishonen, judging from the history of the Civil Services of India article, somewhere between most and all edits in May are by now-blocked socks and IPs, who are mostly reverting each other. Perhaps re-institute semi-protection (as was needed in 2013) on this page, set Bishzilla in the edit notice for the page, and Darwinbish could keep occupied any who edit problematically? EdChem ( talk) 05:43, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
I still don't understand why my username is being constantly dragged into this. I made false claims in 2013-2014 but have never made any such claims thereafter. I repeat that I am not associated with any of the socks of Vrghs Jacob. I welcome a checkuser if only to clear my name from this mess. I also ask the IP editor to kindly please stop this disparagement immediately. Thanks! The IP editor is warned not to do this again. Uncletomwood ( talk) 09:59, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
I seem to have yet more users logging out in order to troll me on ANI. [1] I can't just blank their comments since a logged-in user who just has a grudge against me but is not engaged in sockpuppetry has been humouring them. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 20:39, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
practically involved in every dispute ever filed on ANI; I have commented in less than half the threads currently open there, and less than half in the most recent archive, even though this is basically the most active I have ever been as an ANI contributor.
Sigh. Hijiri 88, why don't you just stop? Please self-ban yourself from ANI for a few days. You don't have to answer everything. Bishonen | talk 16:56, 19 May 2017 (UTC).
I think your comment about "the syntax problems presented by the two parallel clauses" nails it. I made the tiniest change to the opening sentence. I was hoping you could have a look, if time permits. I've opened a talk-page thread as well. Hope all is well with you. Joefromrandb ( talk) 05:52, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
"Both irreducible complexity and specified complexity present detailed negative assertions that certain features (biological and informational, respectively) are too complex to be the result of natural processes"in the second paragraph is pretty reader-unfriendly. It starts as if the reader's gonna know beforehand about irreducible complexity and specified complexity, and know that they're ID arguments — without having to first click on the links. Of course the previous sentence is meant to introduce them as ID arguments, but I don't think that works very well: a stronger connection between the sentences is needed. Do I dare to eat a peach? I've fiddled with the second paragraph. What's the worst that can happen? (Hides.) Bishonen | talk 14:52, 20 May 2017 (UTC).
Well, as predicted, the edits to Uebert Angel and talk page arguments have started again. Two new editors this time: one you've met on the talk page and another whose first edit to the article was to remove "formerly known as Uebert Mudzanire" from the opening. Have a look at the history and the talk page, and have a think about whether it's for PP again. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 19:04, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Someone has just miraculously recreated Laxmi Chand Tyagi, an article that was previously redirected to Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti, which was itself deleted following your nomination. It's the same SPS/PROMO stuff as previously, and it has appeared in a single edit by a newly registered account. - Sitush ( talk) 07:39, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey Bish :) Remember The Mad Lad From Saint Petersburg? He's back. In my attempt to save some time I've run into a bureaucratic snag at the SPI, though. The rangecontribs shows there is some cleanup to do -- possibly a large amount of it -- and having the checkuser would help. So in those great words spoken to Tim the Enchanter, anything you could do to help would be very helpful. Manul ~ talk 15:16, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Please, since you are so utterly brilliant at it, is there any chance you could merge the history of Draft:Main:Pamela Clemit to that of Pamela Clemit? They somehow got lost in the moving process. -- Hegvald ( talk) 19:05, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
I have also made the mistake of moving to or within the wrong pagespace, as Ipigott did in this case (and I have very nearly made the mistake a few times more). It is undoubtedly a part of the interface that could need an improvement of some sort. -- Hegvald ( talk) 21:40, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Would it be at all possible if you could delete the edits made by this particular IP? The IP in question is being used by a vandal who appears to be copying and pasting large amounts (300,000 to 600,000 characters) of what appears to be lurid written pornography, and, in addition to being graphic, and possibly copyright violations, it screws up the loading of each page when one looks at the history.-- Mr Fink ( talk) 00:06, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
I don't think X06 ( talk · contribs) is here to build an encyclopedia, as a glance at his contributions list would show. This comment from Talk:Richard B. Spencer is particularly choice (highlight: "When White nationalism wins power across the West, we shall see what the Wikipedia articles are saying..."). -- Calton | Talk 14:32, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
User:Bishonen, this is just the latest in a long series of disruptive stunts by EtienneDolet. Just a few days prior to the incident with the video they made this comment: "(Germans) know a thing or two about crematoriums" in reference to the Sednaya Prison Syrian crematorium and only struck it after it was pointed out to him that saying something like that could get him sanctioned.
Here EtienneDolet is dishonestly misrepresenting another user's comments. The user said that not EVERY negative thing needs to be put in the article (which is of course trivially true), EtienneDolet is disingenuously claiming that the user said that NO negative thing can be put in the article and then when confronted with this blatant misrepresentation he argues with the straight face that the words "every" and "any" mean the same thing. And of yeah, on the same article, he is also arguing with a straight face that the participation in a coldblooded execution in Syria is "non-controversial" (!!!) so he can add info to an article without having to provide reliable sources, just sketchy ones. You simply CANNOT have a reasoned discussion with someone so shameless and deceitful. Hence all the trouble in this topic area lately.
I can provide older examples as well, like when ED claimed that "scholarly sources" backed up one of his assertions, then when asked to provide them he stalled and finally provided links to anti-semitic conspiracy websites as his "scholarly sources".
Does he have a clean block log? Yeah, because he's great at WP:CPUSH and WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT and generally obstructing any meaningful conversation. Doesn't actually make his behavior any better. Like I said. This is an instance where a user simply needs to be removed from a topic area as they've done nothing but caused trouble and sown chaos. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 17:13, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
You simply CANNOT have a reasoned discussion with someone so shameless and deceitful
—How many NPA and civility warnings do you need, Volunteer Marek?
El_C 08:27, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
[P]rovided links to anti-semitic conspiracy websites as his "scholarly sources"
—That is a serious accusation. How come you don't have a
diff accompanying it?
El_C 08:31, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
Should the WP:RESTRICT entry be altered to mention that it applies to the sockmaster (as editing restrictions apply to people and not individual accounts)? Or just removed as almost certainly being redundant, as the master is indeffed and doesn't seem likely to return?
Courtesy-pinging User:MjolnirPants, who opened both the ban discussion and the subsequent SPI.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 00:19, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
'zilla + MONGO horses, thanks to RexxS!
I actually intended it to work as a template like this:
{{Overlaid images | frame_width = 350 | frame_height = 250 | back_filename = Horses and thunderstorm1.jpg | back_height = 360 | back_rightshift = -30 | back_downshift = -80 | back_alt = | front_filename = Bishzilla.png | front_height = 60 | front_rightshift = 20 | front_downshift = 10 | front_alt = | caption = 'zilla + MONGO horses }}
That should be much more readable, and would make it easier to put inside it something else that floats it off so that text can wrap around it. It also would allow a border, etc. as this demo shows. Do you think I should just move it all to template: space? -- RexxS ( talk) 15:41, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
{{Overlaid images/sandbox ... etc.
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RexxS (
talk) 15:27, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I received an e-mail message from wikipedia this morning saying Legacypac had proposed (what I thought was) the speedy deletion of the Lucifer (1970s Rock band) article, so I left a message on his/her talk page querying that. I now realise it was not actually about the article but my Luciferfan user name! Thanks for pointing that out. I chose that user name when I was putting my first article on wikipedia about the group 'Lucifer' a few years ago, obviously with no offence meant to anyone. Hopefully that's the end of it. Thanks for your help. Luciferfan ( talk) 20:19, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).
Since you participated in the discussion about Dennis Brown's block of Franzboas, I'm pointing you to this, which presents some proposals for additional action. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 03:59, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
I thank you and the other guys for the swift action regarding the Craig removal case. Although I suspected some of those accounts were fake, I'm actually surprised that all of them turned out to be so. Clausgroi ( talk) 02:55, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
That was odd. I was pinged, but your message didn't show up on my User Talk page at first.
Maybe I should have chosen a less colorful expression, but what I meant, generally, is that a lot of spammers/SEO types think that posting stuff on Wikipedia increases the importance/visibility of their stuff in Google search results. I don't know if that (or other similar tactics) actually work, but it seems a common enough belief that finding spam on User pages and user sandboxes could be a full-time job.
In this specific case, the drive-by editor seemed to be attempting to legitimize the so-called binary options -- you may remember the massive COI/spam battle over Banc de Binary -- so I figured that while it wasn't an advertisement, it WAS an attempt at juicing Google to spin results favorably. -- Calton | Talk 16:16, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bish. The edits by the disruptive IP seemed familiar, so I did a search on <removed> the name the IP signed with on their talk page, and found similar disruptive edits going all the way back to 2011 (see Special:Contributions/24.25.237.226, <removed>, and posting incoherent rants on talk pages, just like the IP ypu blocked), meaning that they've regularly wasted other editors' time for at least six years now, and still haven't learnt anything from all attempts that have been made to make them understand. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 19:26, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for dispatching that vandalism-only account! Alas, his talk page vitriol continues via IP. Very grateful in advance for any kibosh you are able to put on that nonsense! Take care - Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:29, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Not sure what the deal is, but I'm not going to comment unless some specific issues are presented. Not particularly keen on going on a wild goose chase. — Spaceman Spiff 03:12, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Re-inserted again [18]. Linguist talk| contribs 11:36, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I reported an IP to AIV. Not sure if this edit qualifies for rev-del. But would you please take a look into it? Thanks a lot. —usernamekiran (talk) 19:22, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
"If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list."
"People are likely to be notable if they meet any of the following standards. Failure to meet these criteria is not conclusive proof that a subject should not be included; conversely, meeting one or more does not guarantee that a subject should be included."
Thanks a lot RexxS. Your inputs are very useful. :-) —usernamekiran (talk) 22:47, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Linguist 1 1 1 09:17, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
(I've replied, there's one more thing to do) Linguist 1 1 1 11:19, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
I am so annoyed that you are complaining all the time. I have not done you. I only added Next Topmodel Contestans which are my favorites and that is just fun because I thought I can do this on MY page but I did not know anything about it. So I leave now alone and take care of you or others around me all the time. PantherLoop ( talk) 16:37, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Once again, I am in need of some assistance... this person really needs a topic ban. Battleground behavior, disruptive talk page posts bordering on harassment; see this, and the fact that their user page is lifted from Tyler Durden; original research and battleground behavior [24] (that content is not supported by the source; and their comment is total nonsense). If all this were not enough, plenty of name calling, most of it after being warned. I dropped an ARBIPA notification on their talk page yesterday, and they went ahead and reinstated their original research, so I'd say they were eligible for a ban pronto. I'm posting here to avoid a much longer trip to AE; if you don't feel up to dealing with this, and that would be perfectly understandable, let me know and I'll bite that bullet. Regards, Vanamonde ( talk) 04:32, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. Out of curiosity, how was CheckUser information able to verify that it was one person, not two, operating the Tyler Durden and Marla Durden accounts? As I understand it, CheckUser is only able to verify that two accounts used the same device and Internet connection. In this case, both Tyler and Marla were open about the fact that they were using the same connections and devices, so it shouldn't be a surprise to us that CheckUser would verify this. Mz7 ( talk) 21:20, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Well, I still have my doubts. Having extensively interacted with Tyler Durden over the last six months, I know him quite well, but Marla Durden was doing newbie edits like this. But, now that Mahant Yogi Adityanath also got tagged as a sock of his, I think I will need to wait to hear from him whenever he is able to come back and file an unblock request. But the funny thing is that TD has been doing quite well, earning barnstars and appreciation from several quarters. He has no reason to play games like this. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 22:44, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
@ Mz7: Tyler Durden's previous name was Vamsee614 and the last name is same as WikiBodhiVamsa. They could geolocate to the same region, as @ Bbb23: found WikiBodhiVamsa unrelated in different SPI. They both mention their name and caste in their userpage. Checkusers don't give private details, but if Bbb23 can confirm that they are from same city? Actually they have already given their location in their userpage. If they are unrelated, I don't want WikiBodhiVamsa to be blocked. Marvellous Spider-Man 01:46, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
I suspected some meatpuppetry here Talk:Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus#Explain_how_many_editors_constitute_.22We.22 (collapsed discussion) Marvellous Spider-Man 17:36, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
It's just gone right up to 11, triggered by the works of User:JurganHolst crapflooding Bosnian pyramid claims with this. I can't take any admin action on bullshit grounds as I'm involved, but as it's a clear copyright violation from here (including the bizarre parenthetical bit about autism) I feel justified in imposing a 24h copyvio block after he added it again after being warned. I'd be eternally (well, for at least a few days, maybe a week) grateful if you could cast your sharp admin eyes over it (and perhaps ask one of your friendly ankle-biters to guard the perimeter). Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 12:01, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
117.223.238.247 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Article: Khalsa and its talk page. An IP is busy wholesale reverting the article to unsourced / blog-sourced / non-RS content. Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 14:57, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, how are you? :) As you asked for, I changed the first sentence of the article Carrera y Carrera, I also added a source to El País news about Carrera y Carrera(probably the most important newspaper in Spanish in the world) and a source to Vogue_(magazine)´s news about it too. I think Carrera y Carrera is well-known in many countries so this article should stay in Wikipedia and not be deleted. What´s the next step? Thank you, Pravdaverita ( talk) 16:59, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen,
Is this language used by slbEdit permited in Wikipedia?
This user isn't WP:CIVIL, he does not assume WP:GOODFAITH and is constantly engagin in WP:WARs. with his WP:Disruptive editing attitude. He is known for WP:Harassment and does not respect the WP:No personal attacks rule. He does not WP:TALK before removing content or try to get WP:Consensus before you revert other wikipedians contributions.
May I remind you that he edited my own user page? And also this one.
Could you do something? P3DRO ( talk) 21:10, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, Bish. I wasn't quite sure what to do there, considering the (fairly) good (well-intentioned) edit. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:01, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
At this point, I'm trying to abandon it. - New account 2 ( talk) 23:08, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Can't you see that Ms Sarah Welch has changed the entire article/Page in last 15 days. This article was a standard for many years. and Now suddenly someone with a posh Christian name ropes in and changes it and you make this page protected. If you really have some morals and ethics, then make it protected from June 12, 2017 standard and not the ones that Ms Sarah Welch has changed single-handed. Though it can;t be ruled out that you are all same a gang of wiki thugs... Rascals of highest order, if you can't see who is vandalizing what. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.89.5.91 ( talk • contribs) 11:08, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
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in a sandbox would be an alternative.
Johnuniq (
talk) 23:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)I saw your close of Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Técnico (moved from WP:AN). I think you were far too merciful, but then in recent months it seems like everyone except ArbCom is moving away from permabans in favour of temporary bans in even the most extreme cases (see also: Drmies's dealing with a certain comics-focused editor in February).
But your close seemed to be effectively a one-year imposition of a DS-style restriction on the user (he can be given a more extensive topic ban on the discretion of any single admin
), which -- while less restrictive than what the majority !vote was -- seems a little beyond the purview of an ANI-closer. I ask because a few months back, in an unban discussion, an admin seemingly offered to support the unban if he were allowed place the user under similar probation indefinitely and unilaterally replace the ban if disruption resumed, which seemed like a gross misunderstanding of how the banning policy. Your action was not that bad (the discussion was grey enough, and participation low enough, that you probably could have closed it without action, and even a super-!vote like that would not have been the same as unilaterally overturning a clear consensus), but I'm always worried when I see anything like "admins can impose bans" being placed by anyone other than the Arbitration Committee in anything other than extreme circumstances.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 06:45, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen,
I restored an ANI thread after it was removed by an IP editor with the edit summary "rv troll." This was my first action in the area, I was unaware of the ongoing discussion / dispute before the ANI thread appeared. I was then approached on my talk page and I made this post. The IP suggested it demonstrated that I am WP:NOTHERE, and another user has described my post as violating WP:NPA. As an experienced admin who I respect, I ask for your view of my actions in this ANI thread, on my user talk page, and at the end of the article talk section (most of which preceded the ANI thread). Pleas be frank, if I've misjudged my actions or acted inappropriately, I would rather be told. Thank you. EdChem ( talk) 07:03, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).
?fuzzy=1
to the URL, as with
Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.Thank you for the kind words. Actually, I soft-blocked the long-name account, so it was okay for them to create the shorter one afterward. Best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk)
The user just created Dioldo (against your warning, I know). I'll keep an eye on things. (You are within your rights to block if you really want to.) Best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:26, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello...Today is my birthday, so I checked the calendar to see who else shares my special day! So happy First Edit Day! LA If you reply here, please {{ Ping}} me. @ 09:19, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
In regards to closing of the afD. Don't you think the discussion should remain open? Even though nominator withdrew there were multiple other people who voted delete, and a lot who voted merge. There really didn't seem to be clear consensus if any of the three ways yet, and regardless of the withdrawal there was still a debate on the issue. WikiVirus C (talk) 12:06, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
From Signpost, behold File:Longnose batfish.jpg (or full glory). Johnuniq ( talk) 04:05, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Since you have dealt with this editor's issues, [33] I believe it would be in the best interests of Wikipedia for you to check their latest editing spree.
It appears that Saladin1987 has decided to take their changing of referenced information(for which he was banned from India/Pakistan/Afghanistan articles) to Iran/Turkey areas. I have already had a brief conversation with Saladin1987 on my talk page, though I seriously doubt they will listen. [34] -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 01:30, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen. There is an IP user who I think needs an IP range block. They have been blocked on one IP address multiple times ( [35]) for disruptive editing about WWE events, and have also made similar unsourced edits on other IP address in the same range ( [36], [37]). I'm asking you as I recall you range blocked a similar editor in the past, who I think is the same person, although editing from a slightly different IP range. My last request seems to have been this one [38], although it looks like User: Berean Hunter blocked in that case. Anyway, thank you for your assistance. Silverfish ( talk) 20:26, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi ! . Thanks a lot, sir. Much appreciated.
As I stated earlier, No, I didn't accept your offer 'after' reading the message by another administrator, he may have posted that message while I was editing my post, and it was only after sending you an un-ban request that I read his message. I had deleted the earlier message and sent my request after going through that section where I was being accused of using multiple accounts. To be honest, I was, and still am, really shocked at all those accusations and allegations.
I have just one query. Am I not allowed to edit pages related to Pakistan also ? I mean even those pages or topics which are not disputed at all ?. And I don't know what your experience has been with other users, but rest assured I won't disappoint you. And I will request You to un-ban me from editing controversial topics only when I am able to convince you that I can contribute positively, and hopefully I will be able to do that in less than six months.
Regards Samm19 ( talk) 22:07, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
In the course of trying to clean up the single purpose editing on the Luke Messer page, the Indianapolis Star wrote an article about it that included one of your edits. Just thought you would like to know.-- rogerd ( talk) 11:51, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
When you get the chance, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Perfect Orange Sphere, which I filed and which contains behavioral evidence of socking, as well as Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MjolnirPants, a retaliatory filing. This person has been socking for years, all to push a particular POV at a specific article. I'd already asked the admin who dealt with it previously, but they're unable to take the time currently. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:16, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
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83.183.97.132 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Bish: The above IP is persistent, edit warring with Joshua Jonathan and I in Turiya article. An invitation on the article's talk page has yielded no response yet. I would request a RFPP for a few days, but I wonder if that will help given the IP has made many edits. Nothing urgent, please take a look when you have a moment. I eagerly await the zillion photos of MONGO, don't you! Even his cell phone shot above is so good, Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 22:14, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
You may remember t PerfectlyIrrational ( talk · contribs), who was blocked for sockpuppeting back on June 21.
Now comes Don1182 ( talk · contribs), created June 30, who's plowing exactly the same fields as PerfectlyIrrational ( talk · contribs). Am I right to be suspicious? -- Calton | Talk 19:18, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Burnout, eh? I've got just the thing. Vanamonde ( talk) 10:02, 5 August 2017 (UTC) |
Responding to the latest message you posted. Enjoy yourself. - Roxy the dog. bark 11:14, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
Something to sweeten your day. Hope to see you back soon and thus restore the balance of the wikiverse. Dr. K. 11:16, 5 August 2017 (UTC) |
This kitten will protect your talkpage for you.
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The Quixotic Potato))) (
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I don't think it is appropriate for you to close the 3RR and make accusations against me. I think it would be appropriate if you recused yourself and allowed another admin who has no history with me close the discussion. You blocked me for alleged retaliation, but now that there is real retaliation and an incident of BLP violation involved, you dismiss it with a reprimand to me which I find rather disturbing. Atsme 📞 📧 11:15, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) You have form in not understanding what is going on here Atsme. Do you not remember? Please remember the Griffin fiasco where we first met. There has been no violation of WP:BLP. Please think about it. - Roxy the dog. bark 11:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) @ Atsme: Bishonen is in no way WP:INVOLVED, your block in August 2015 was a purely administrative action taken after a long discussion on WP:ANI, plus this very obvious act of retaliation from you. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 11:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Atsme, when I tell you I'm considering t-banning you over your disruption at
Jared Taylor, you respond "I created one frigging article [presumably referring to
Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting] that could be considered "political" in its broadest sense ... and based on that one article you're threatening me with a TB on American politics".
That's quite a leap. I wasn't even aware of the new article, which is now apparently in train for being merged. (Added note 14:25, 15 August 2017 (UTC): I see you mentioned that article at AN3, so technically I have seen it mentioned, but I did not actually read it or its AfD, as your comment about it was even less appropriate in an AN3 report than the rest of your text.) If you think Jared Taylor has nothing to do with American politics, that's another problem. ArbCom discretionary sanctions have been authorized for "pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people", as you have been repeatedly informed. Jared Taylor is one of those closely related people, and crying BLP to prevent him being called what a massive array of reliable, including academic, sources call him is disruptive. I hope it's clear what article I'm referring to in saying that. In case you further misunderstand or ignore what I say, please don't expect me to explain it again. Perhaps one of the kind non-blunt talkpage stalkers would like to if it seems needed.
Note that you have now also received an alert about the discretionary sanctions for BLPs. Since your disruption is closely connected to the myopic use you make of such policies as WP:BLP and WP:LABEL, it may indeed be better to t-ban you from biographies, rather than from American Politics, in case of further disruption. I'll think about it. Bishonen | talk 09:50, 15 August 2017 (UTC).
I am not adding information saying there's an Icelandic Resistance Movement. I am adding information that the Nordic Resistance Movement has sent resistance men to Iceland to recruit new members. You can go ahead and stop removing it now.— Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiHeathen ( talk • contribs)
Hello,
Why you delete the Benlav Flight Systems, its an popular new startup in Iran, a fast growing technology in aviation. please help on improving NOT deletion, I ask you to create the article again. cheers Amir daryaei ( talk) 04:33, 16 August 2017 (UTC) |
Hello. This is what it looks like now:
Thanks and regards, Biwom ( talk) 05:04, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
The edit comment here https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Nordic_Resistance_Movement&type=revision&diff=795871962&oldid=795871373 might interest you. MarkBernstein ( talk) 02:34, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for your comments about my lack of proof reading. As producing long well-edited written reports is much of my livelihood, I'm mortified to see how poor a couple of those comments are, and I'll work hard to avoid such unclear communication!
I remain perplexed though, why telling someone to "fuck off" in a heated edit during an AFD discussion is not an insult. I've read WP:NPA several times during this discussion. NPA says "Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done". And this isn't some sly, intelligent, subtle insult - it's an offensive insult. Obviously I'm completely misinterpreting somehow, given the clear consensus; but I don't see where. I suppose I should just accept it, and enjoy the freedom to use the phrase itself.
BTW, speaking of insults, was the word "idiotically" necessary, given I wasn't keeping insisting on sanctions? I kept insisting that "FO" was a personal attack - and perhaps that does make me an idiot - but I don't see how "idiotically" helps. (though perhaps once I figure out why "fuck off" is not an insult - it will make more sense to me. Nfitz ( talk) 18:25, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
I was still hoping for a response to this; I remain perplexed how such a comment is okay with everyone, and doesn't violate WP:CIVIL. Nfitz ( talk) 19:45, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
I don't know what's the problem, if any with Nfitz, but I think @ James J. Lambden: ( James J. Lambden ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)) deserves at least as much scrutiny. It looks like they might be doing a bit of political advocacy on Wikipedia. Jehochman Talk 18:17, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
Can you take a look at Dona-Hue? I was earlier on thinking of topic banning the user from India related stuff but I seem to have gotten WP:INVOLVED now by reverting some of their nonsense in a couple of articles, as are Doug Weller, Vanamonde and RegentsPark. At this point, I don't thin a topic ban would be of much help as the user shows no sign of any competence to edit here. — Spaceman Spiff 02:41, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Nice sign seen at Wikimania. Even Canadians take notice mighty 'Zilla. T-RexxS ( rawr) 14:34, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
@ Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: I'm not sure if they have poutine, but I was there for pizza. The best places for poutine are generally cheaper greasy spoons, using home-style fries, often fried in beef fat (no frozen or spiced fries). The gravy must have a lot of pepper and the cheese must not be grated, and should be generous, and no yellow/orange or processed cheese! — Paleo Neonate – 03:26, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
For me the shibboleth of real poutine is the squeak of the cheese curds: I know of no cheese per se that can emulate it. Stupid indent function seems to use the greater of a left-obstruction size and the amount of indentation instead of adding them.— Odysseus 147 9 04:01, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Bish, just wanted to send you a wikilove item and apparently goats are now on the menu. (Since when??) Enjoy!
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Never seen such a pachidermous greetings on a talk page before. Made me laugh at the end of a long day, so, thanks! 87.1.125.215 ( talk) 21:21, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
I've linked at ANI to a thread on this talk page involving you. Sorry, because I know from your recent comments that you'd rather this farrago was over. - Sitush ( talk) 02:54, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you left a discretionary sanctions alert on Saladin1987's talk page a couple of months ago. Could you please take a look at his recent edits? He had made a series of edits to a large number of articles replacing Afghan with Pashtun, some of which I reverted. Now he's reverting them back stating that they are sourced edits when that's clearly not the case. I was going to leave him a caution, but I see that he's already received a ton of warnings on his talk page. FYI, besides your latest sanctions alert, he's also received two others, one by you a year ago and another by EdJohnston 3 years ago.— Cpt.a.haddock ( talk) (please ping when replying) 12:00, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
The Lodis were of pure Afghan origin and Bahlul Lodi pacified the proud Afghans by distributing rich iqtas among them. His court resembled more of an Afghan tribal assembly than the council of a great king.
IndianEditor is just here to push a point of view, not contribute to an encyclopaedia. Just see the editing history at India, Pakistan, Rally for Rivers (where advertising is a problem), Jaggi Vasudev etc. I've warned on ARBIPA and have reported to AN3,and if not for the edit warring at India (which I'm not involved in but am an editor of the article) I'd have taken action (I'm not sure of the right choice between a nothere block and an indef ARBIPA topic ban, though both are likely to have the same effect). cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 15:07, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen! Can you please change the block for Oxycontin How Purdue Pharma Helped Spark The Opioid Epidemic ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) to a hard block? This is a sock of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/David_Adam_Kess (see archive for DUCK per naming pattern). Ping me if you have any questions. EvergreenFir (talk) 21:39, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
these recent edits as they are about a warning you gave months ago. I've reverted his post to an article talk page. Doug Weller talk 12:50, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting that edit on my user talk page. I'm not sure how I managed to rollback my talk page twice like that... anyways, I appreciate you for taking care of it :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 10:55, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
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I wrote some scholary things with sources.I told Bamnamu that I think i can find some Chinese-English administrators easily but It is hard to find Korean-English administrators.So i ask him whether bamnamu is the administrator or not.I think this problem starts because i editted Goguryeo articles which can make some people feel so sensitive about that.But,i also feel so sad that I can not edit the history of my country easily.Thank you Richeaglenoble ( talk) 11:09, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
i editted Goguryeo articles which can make some people feel so sensitive about thatI'm not sensitive about it at all. I'm Irish, and the only dog I have in this fight is that I love history. I know there are a lot of Korean nationalist POV-pushers adding nonsense OR and material sourced to blogs and the like to those articles (hence the semi-protection). So when a new account shows up and starts doing the same (after making a string of nonsense edits to their own talk page to get around semi-protection), I am naturally skeptical. All good Wikipedia editors should be skeptical of edits that are not sourced, come from new accounts and are in topic areas like that one.
It is hard to find Korean-English administrators-- why do you care? Are you trying to find admins to help you push a Korean nationalist POV? Are you simply not comfortable communicating with people who don't read Korean? Or do you think ethnically Chinese admins like Alex are "biased" against your edits? No matter what the answer is, it doesn't look good, so stop it.
I think i can find some Chinese-English administrators easily but It is hard to find Korean-English administrators). "old user" may or may not have been meant to imply that I was impersonating an admin (the OP dodged the question), but that was really kind of peripheral. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 11:41, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
I saw you closed a recent edit-warring report against Darkness Shines. Would you mind examining a similar report I submitted here: User:Sangdeboeuf reported by User:James J. Lambden? No admin has reviewed it. James J. Lambden ( talk) 00:26, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. Thanks for closing that AN3 report. Goodness knows you don't need the headache, but I thought I would be remiss not to notify you... I didn't know this at the time of the report, but Darkness Shines was indefinitely blocked, and agreed to conditions for unblock in May of 2017. One of those conditions was a restriction to 1RR for the following 6 months (expiring November 28th 2017). Make of that what you will. AlexEng( TALK) 01:58, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Just curious, I mean, I saw a block coming a mile away for something, but apparently there's a cultural reference here I'm missing... uhblock? TJW talk 21:44, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
You recently blocked this one. I gave a ds warning on Sep 4th but he's continuing the problematic type of problematic edits. As I discussed something related to his edits at India, I can't take action here, but I think this needs some action. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 11:06, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you have been active recently on the administrators' noticeboard's edit-warring cases. So, may I ask you to follow this case? The user's behaviour is really enervating, and he is continuing on his line through reverts and exhausting WP:BLUDGEONING, instead of operating constructive syntheses, and therefore damaging Wikipedia's content.-- Wddan ( talk) 13:22, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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Orphaned "keep local" fileis not grounds for deletion. Not every editor wants the trouble of keeping track of images on Commons that they have uploaded to Wikipedia, so 'keep local' means that a local copy is required to be kept. Consensus does not favour the view that all PD images must be transferred to Commons, so I'm going to ask you to change your prod to an acceptable reason (like higher resolution version available), or I'll remove the prod as a matter of principle. I shouldn't have to remind you that prods are by definition "for uncontroversial deletion" and orphaned files with a keep local template are not uncontroversial deletions. Giano, for example, often creates images of floor plans of houses in preparation for writing an article somestimes years in advance – there is no deadline. I'm also going to ask you nicely to lay off your current spree of prods using
Orphaned "keep local" file, or at least make absolutely certain that each and every one isn't something that has been uploaded in preparation for future use. Thanks in advance. -- RexxS ( talk) 23:41, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
"Please upload only files that are used (or will be used) in encyclopedia articles or project pages; anything else will be deleted"It's there to stop fly-by-night editors from dumping their holiday snaps on the encyclopedia. It most definitely is not intended just to allow petty little bureaucrats who have never written an article in their life to get rid of the hard work of some of our best content contributors, simply because they choose to keep their work on Wikipedia, not Commons. Editors like Giano sometimes create floor plans years before they use them to write a new article. It's not your place or anybody else's to demand that he uses them immediately or to impose a time limit on his contributions. Have a good think about the real consequences of your deletion nominations and the impact they will have. Are you really serious about taking those files to FfD, despite the obvious intention to use them in encyclopedia articles? If so, bring it on, and we'll see which view is most compatible with creating an encyclopedia. -- RexxS ( talk) 16:37, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
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Can I appeal here for the wisdom of you and your watchers? I've raised some potential problems with an article - see Talk:Khonds#Problems_with_citations and the following section - but am not getting any input, despite mentioning the thread at the India Project talk page. If it continues to be devoid of responses, where else might be a suitable venue to raise the matter? It's a rather tricky situation. - Sitush ( talk) 14:00, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Ha! More wisdom required. Davidgoodheart has just created User:Davidgoodheart-Kelly_Wilson. Not sure what is going on and, yes, I know alternate accounts are not necessarily A Bad Thing. But at this early stage it looks like a "WP is not a webhost" thing. - Sitush ( talk) 23:40, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
I see you blocked Audeamus42. In the block log you wrote Taquia, but I think you meant to write Taqiya. Not sure if this is important, or if it can even be fixed as I think block logs are not editable. Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 15:44, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bish: A hopping IP 117.242.*.*, 117.246.*.*, etc has been personally attacking for several weeks now editors Arjayay, I and others with some choice terms such as holocaust escaped prostitute / slut / bastard / etc. I have ignored it, Arjayay and others have been patient too, but given the persistence requesting a watch. I don't know if a range block is appropriate in such circumstances or would be overly broad, but possibly protecting the Lingayatism article for 6 months may help reduce the disruption a bit (given their elections are due in early 2018, the disruption is political plugging/soap and removal of scholarly RS). Where is MONGO's new treasure box of pics? Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 11:17, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
Please reconsider this deletion. The copyvio page reported ( http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LSJqqBtrePsJ:rvlvy.co/main/index.php%3Fs%3DSr%25C3%25B2n%2520a) took content from this page, and not vice-versa. That page just contains excerpts from various Wikipedia pages (scroll through it to see) such as Sròn a' Choire Ghairbh , Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Strontian and many others. I wrote the original text of the Sròn page, including adding the images, and can assert it was not copyvio from somewhere else. The copyvio software sometimes works well, but not always. Thanks for reinstating the page! LHOON ( talk) 16:00, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
I would like to appeal to your warning, which I believe is a mistake. Who should I contact? Please get back to me ASAP. CobraSA ( talk) 15:03, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Reason for appeal :
You said "the link you keep inserting is promotional rather than a source".
First I am not in any way affiliated to the link. Secondly I have myself cleaned up the article from all promotional links. [ [50]] Third, I had to appeal to an admin for the removal of a spam link to an open wiki.
You said "As people have pointed out, no source for the statement is needed".
Please explain how giving a figure does not require a source. If that was the case I could say indifferently thousands, millions, billions, and everyone would have to accept it, that doesn't make any sense.
You said "a forum wouldn't cut it in any case".
The link is not showing a forum despite the misleading url, but a content repository. The article explains thousands content items exist, and the link points to a content repository that displays a counter that backs up this statement.
I think you might not have analyzed the situation accurately, so please either reconsider and protect the page after restoring the valid sources, or kindly point out who I should contact to appeal to your decision. Thank you. CobraSA ( talk) 15:22, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
I stopped at "it's an internet forum".Well, that was a mistake because I explained why your objection is meaninless right after I said that. In the future, you should read someone's answer in it's entirety before making assumptions about they're saying, because you clearly have not addressed what I told you. A repository's statistics are only as reliable as the people adding to and maintaining it. I would also like to remind you to watch your tone: I'm trying to help you here and you are assuming bad faith on my part and casting aspersions on me in response; all based on your own admitted ignorance of what I've actually said. This is an admin's talk page, and you can be blocked for engaging with a battleground mentality. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 18:29, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for your comments. Some people slap warnings without thinking. You put quite a bit of thought into your response on my talk page. That's good of you.
AGrandeFan ( talk) 21:37, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your level headed comments Neher AfD, even though you aren't involved in it. They are appreciated :) TonyBallioni ( talk) 22:33, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
Hadn't seen WikiSpeak before! I think it's got project space n. down to a T -- There'sNoTime ( to explain) 09:06, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Surely this is block evasion? I have reverted as such. - Sitush ( talk) 23:41, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Bishonen, I am writing because I want to address 2 statements you've made on ANI recently related to me.
You say Joe has made three edits to user talk pages in total since the previous block, Toddst1? That's very inexact; I make it seven, most of them to his own page. You are correct - I miscounted. Take a look at what I looked at. The edits on in the box were what I counted. The one month block from August 22 probably expired about Sept 22 depending on how the wiki calculates the month. I erroneously assumed that the Sept 24 edits were before release of previous block. It doesn't make that much of a difference in the context of Joefromradb's chronic incivility, but you were correct, I miscounted. It was an error and I would hope you would assume good faith. But...
The first sentence is a correct point of order. Your second sentence is nothing but a bald-faced attempt at character assassination where you've brought heresay from what I can only assume was confidential ARBCOM discussions. How would you know? I am not acting as an administrator, haven't done so in a long time and how I did as an administrator has no bearing on my report about Joefromrandb. I see that as highly inappropriate and an abject abuse of power to use information you may (or may not) have gained in from several ARBCOM members to make an ad-hominem attack, in an attempt to discredit my report.
Sure, I had some problems towards the end of my time as an admin and I took myself out of that role. Discussing any issues I had as an administrator in this context - as they were not related to the issue at hand - is highly inappropriate - by you, or anyone else. An admin using heresay to make an ad-homenem attack, is unacceptable. It shows without a doubt that you are holding a grudge against me and should recuse yourself from commenting on anything I do on the wiki.
If you're going to be lurking around waiting to discredit anything I do here by bringing up that kind of stuff, neither of us have any place editing here.
I look forward to your reply. Toddst1 ( talk) 21:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
FWIW, I assumed someone would see my revert and block probably more quickly than an AIV report would have gotten answered. GMG talk 17:23, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
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Editors who are willing to sink time and energy into sensitively managing COI issues, or following and carefully reviewing difficult sources, as you did at Jacob Truedson Demitz, are few and far between. Thanks for being one of the good ones! Fyddlestix ( talk) 20:36, 13 October 2017 (UTC) |
The techo discussion is at TonyBallioni's above no ping plague link (contratulations on the impending adminship btw!). Bishonen's comment at 18:05, 14 October 2017 above is very interesting because I received the ping and RexxS did not. That is weird! Bishonen's wikitext included the following and a standard signature:
{{Ping|Johnuniq|RexxS}}
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RexxS: → <span class="template-ping">@[[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] and [[User:RexxS|RexxS]]:</span>
@RexxS: Did you get a ping from me posting this message? If people haven't noticed, there are some new options in Preferences, see H:PN. I have the following ticked under Web: Mention + Failed mention + Successful mention (I will probably untick the last when it irritates me too much). When I recently sent a ping I received a notification saying "Your mention of Example was sent." Johnuniq ( talk) 23:08, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Hey Bishonen - I assume you're watching it but just in case: can you check out the latest post on the Demitz AFD? An ip has shown up and posted a wall of text claiming to be Demitz - don't they need to verify that somehow before we take their word for it? There's also dome vague reference to having emailed some people to ask them to intervene in the AFD. I didn't think this whole thing could get any messier but I guess I was wrong... Fyddlestix ( talk) 15:36, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Im sorry för the pseudo debate in the deletion discussion. That was not my purpose. I just wanted to be transparant and show here that I asked others on svwp agree Other sources. This because I know from experience that all I write on svwp is checked and often tried to be used against me on discussions here. That makes it hard sometimes when my Only purpose is to make a Good thing here. (It also makes me angry upp sometimes when He Always talks about me as haunting him. But I Will not step Into that trap again). Best regards Adville ( talk) 13:56, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for the atmospheric welcome, and coming over to talk, and "crying is okay here". -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:58, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, since you've had recent dealings with Biswajeet34, I thought it easier to just bring this to your attention on your talk page. Neurotm ( talk · contribs) is a newly created account whose first edit was to restore Biswajeet34's edits on Ho people. Thanks.-- William Thweatt Talk Contribs 09:53, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Bishonen, you gave me final warning of blocking without even trying to see what I edited. FYI: I just made letter 'a' of Ashram capital in my latest edit. Why this much aggressive behaviour? Suhani 10:51, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
I've blocked both TruthSupporter and ItsMonika for being sock puppets of one another. The similar edits made here and here (where the content is almost identical but not perfectly so) shows that this isn't an undo that restored anything; it's a clear case of one person using two accounts to try and add the same content to the article. I saw your final warning left on TruthSupporter's talk page, so I figured I'd message you and let you know. Cheers -- ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 11:01, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Thanks re this. Best wishes DBaK ( talk) 22:59, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Found this lying around, but not on wheels. Wikipedia:April_Fools/April_Fools'_Day_2005/Willy_on_Wheels_for_admin Dlohcierekim ( talk) 06:04, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
I was sitting here wondering what I should do with these, and then i saw our name and said,"aha"! I've deleted 4+ user pages with innocent sounding names and text in Portuguese referencing ext. links. Here they are:
RobtSteffey107 https://namoroagora.com.br
PabloOsgood5 http://formulanegocioonline
TrentStelzer0 http://queromeudinheiro.com
LasonyaHarbison https://namoroagora.com.br
I just deleted 'em. I feel unsettled, like I should do something more. Is there something more I should do? Thanks, Dlohcierekim ( talk) 06:11, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to know how to proceed. The New York Times premier article about Breitbart News, which is entitled "What Is Breitbart News?", characterizes Breitbart News as conservative-leaning [57]. Thus, the lede of the Wikipedia article about Breitbart News is in clear violation of WP:BALANCE. How should I proceed? Thank you in advance for your direction. Técnico ( talk) 07:42, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Bish / others: Today is Diwali / Tihar, a major festival there in India / Nepal / Mauritius / etc. The wikipedia article typically sees very high traffic (>200,000 views). There is a few weeks old new account too busy repeat mass deleting sources and sourced content. I have left them a note on their talk page, and invited them to the Talk:Diwali page. Their edit summary and edit hints this account may be someone blocked previously, but I have not done the digging. The article may benefit from a watch today and tomorrow for disruption. Thanks, Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 17:21, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
The weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
About missing editors (I didn't want to start a new thread for another memory), that I said: Go meet Bishonen, and your life on the project gets bearable! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:14, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
With apologies for usurping this place as a general noticeboard, can anyone help me out at User_talk:Sitush#Kumar_Vishwas. A relatively new contributor who isn't understanding what I am saying. - Sitush ( talk) 10:21, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
It looks like the file deletion police are attempting to do another end-run to subvert Template:Keep local. You may be interested in seeing how a file with the template on it has been nominated for deletion with the rationale "unused locally/already on Commons, Wikipedia is not a web-host, no reason to retain local copy" at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2017 October 23 #File:Lightnings sequence 2 animation-wcag.gif. Sounds familiar? -- RexxS ( talk) 00:41, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen ! Long time no see. I don't really understand what has happened with Demitz. Are you about to recreate the article once more ? Perhaps some people cannot differ between Serge and Demitz. 6-7 "voters" had less than 250 edits here. Unfair, doubtlessly. Now swWiki has opened up for further deletions here. The principles were not considered, in my opinion. Thanks for your efforts, and I hope some article can be restored. Thanks! Boeing720 ( talk) 04:24, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Why did you remove my addition to the For Britain entry? Your comment stated that Youtube is not an "acceptable or reliable" reference, but the Wikipedia guidance permits Youtube references subject to restrictions such as copyright and authenticity. Since Anne Marie Waters is a readily identifiable public figure, and the video shows her explaining the launch of her new party in front of its banner, it would seem spurious to suggest that the video could show anything other than what it purports to show.
Paul Paulddaellis ( talk) 23:55, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you RexxS for your response, and apologies to Bishonen for misrepresenting their action. I have now redirected my original query to Velella.
Since the length of my addition was not mentioned by Velella as their reason for undoing it, may I ask how you (RexxS) conclude that that was the true reason for its deletion rather than the stated reason, the nature of the source?
Since the subject of the article is a very new political party with virtually no history and predominently negative media comment it seems reasonable that the article should at some stage mention what the party itself states that its purpose is. How else might that be achieved but by quoting from the launch speech, the principal available source?
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion:Skottniss#Ingen_DANs_p.C3.A5_rosor.2C_men_tillsammans_.C3.A4r_vi_starka.21
You speak Swedish I presume ?
Look how Advile and an other admin "are strong together", also mocking Dan Kohel, and the fact that he was blocked - a whole year, I believe.
Now they are attempting to take over here as well. I really felt sick when I read it. This isn't a just question about Dan - or Serge/[redacted].
Adville has now gone to French Wiki (in English!!), in order to delete Demitz there as well. As an administrator. If possible, have a look here
/info/en/?search=Talk:Swedish_Wikipedia#Can_we_use_Wikimedia_.3F
This is kind of "my" fight. (I'm not asking for favors, but please have a look.)
But also see this
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Relationship_between_different_Wikipedias_and_the_foundation_.3F
JimmyW takes over the reply. I guess he has a little knowledge about s wiki. But how to get him to realise better ?
I know we have had our battles, a rather long time ago now. But that was different, and you were correct. Serge might give up... Any ideas ? - I have a wikiml.
Sometime somehow I feel something must be revealed somehow....
Thanks !
Boeing720 (
talk) 00:02, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
Bish/others: The Radha Soami article needs some attention. It was recently checked and cleaned up by Diannaa for copyvio issues. I thereafter added RS and RS-sourced summary. Now a hopping IP, 47.8.14.* and 47.8.15.* is edit warring it back to non-RS website, deleting RS and sourced content, leaving sweet edit summaries such as "are you an idiot or stupid" with the disruption!? I twinkled their talk page, invited a talk page discussion yesterday, but all that is going nowhere. Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 14:45, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
Is this an appropriate username? Thanks! Wasn't trying to be disruptive or anything. Sorry for the hassle.
Cheers, User:SailingOn
so as to start again from the left margin.— Odysseus 147 9 22:10, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
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List of analog television stations in the Philippines appears to have PD-1 on it, but the protection log shows nothing... that seems a little odd, does it not? -- Aunva6 talk - contribs 16:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
I'll act on this issue next week. Thanks for the reminders :) UnangKarlito 21:24, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bish! I've created an LTA page for a globally locked editor who returns virtually every day as a different IP. It's basically only Justlettersandnumbers and I who chase him. A lonely job . It would be helpful to have his modus operandi recorded for other editors to use and indeed other Wikipedias. His cross-wiki abuse with IPs, especially at Simple English Wikipedia, is appalling. Anyhow, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Alec Smithson, and if you think it's appropriate, change the status parameter from pending to active in the infobox at the top? Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 08:47, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, a while back you declined an unblock request from Special:Contributions/Dapi89 here: [59]. An IP has recently brought the matter up, stating that the block was at my "insistence" and alluding to my "agenda": [60]. I wonder if there may be a connection, as Dapi89 frequently brought up the topic of agendas; sample: [61].
The thread in question is here: Talk:Werner_Mölders#Deletions_of_details. Could you advise? K.e.coffman ( talk) 19:23, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Marvellous Spider-Man 06:35, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
"H*Tl^r" is not a group.
Are you sure? I woulda sworn they played downstairs at the Rat... Anmccaff ( talk) 18:19, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
I was editing a new section when a small power surge hit (I'm guessing, based on the wind gust). The surge protector of the UPS tripped, and took down the CPU. When I logged back on, Firefox reopened the editing window, but the edit went through not for a new section, but for the entire talk page. I suspect this is something that could cause other problems. Anmccaff ( talk) 18:26, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
I apologize for being childish, disruptive, and disrespectful. 141.213.172.73 ( talk) 02:36, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
I really don't understand why rollback still doesn't come with a confirmation button. GMG talk 11:11, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
importScript('User:Zvn/confirmwatchlistrollback.js');
on a new line. ~
Rob13
Talk 13:18, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
drake6789 paid? -- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 18:26, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, sorry to bother you. The editor called Zaffar.awan started his career with this edit. After many discussions and warnings and more, he opened a new account and ended with this. Is this enough rope? -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 14:56, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
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A little early, but still...
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Hi Bish! I was gonna wish you a happy Thanksgiving, but apparently someone beat me to it (I read the post above mine lol. It's all good).
Anyway, I was wondering if you would like to help me with an issue I first broached to you a couple of months ago. It concerns the move of James Mattis to Jim Mattis. You said I had a good case of getting it moved due to the strong impeccable sources I provided and suggested that I bring in to the talkpage, which was exactly what I did Talk:James_Mattis#Long_overdue_to_move_this_page_to_Jim_Mattis. Unfortunately, the talk page discussion quickly devolved into name-calling and a discussion about the "length" of my block log without any discussion about the merit of the move. An editor who disagreed with the move told me to "get off his lawn" in his edit summary and suggested that I "leave" Wikipedia altogether [62]. Only 2 other people weighed in and the discussion has died. I'm pretty disappointed by this outcome and I'm wondering if you could perhaps weigh in if appropriate.
As always, thank you SO SO much! You literally saved my wiki-life and I'll always be thankful for that (I know you said you don't celebrate Thanksgiving but still). It's like you're Dr. Dre to my Eminem, I Need a Doctor-style. Sorry I digress. But anyway, I would really appreciate it if you could take a look and perhaps make a determination on what should be done.-- Certified Gangsta ( talk) 04:25, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Is there a way that you can get my talk page protected? I'm getting sick an tired of an anonymous IP user making stupid posts on my talk page telling me to do this, that, and the other on another wiki site that I administrate. This has been going on for several months and I'm tired of it. King Shadeed 1:40, November 26, 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishy! I figure I should start a new section since this is a new issue I've come across and the previous section was getting too cluttered.
In the process of gathering evidence and re-familiarizing myself with Alex Shih/AQu01rius' past associations as part of my in-depth investigation into his arbcom candidacy (still waiting for him to answer my follow-up questions...), I noticed that User:PalaceGuard008 has re-introduced personal attack against you and User:Geogre on his talkpage in November 2012 [64] (the attack is directly copied from his previous account User:Sumple. I would have noticed this right away if I were active at the time). As far as I know, consensus has changed and such objectionable material is no longer permitted on userspace on the principle that Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_battleground (a good example is my old userpage getting MFDed despite numerous consensus to speedy keep Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Certified.Gangsta in the past in both AN/I and MFD).
Just to refresh your memory, this individual originally added the personal attack on his old Sumple account 10 years ago and there was quite a bit of a drama at the time on AN/I [65] that resulted in him getting blocked for disruption by Geogre and then he almost immediately abandoned his old account in favor of a new (in my opinion, a sockpuppet) account PalaceGuard008. He abandoned the Sumple account on 12:38 May 27th, 2007 and the PalaceGuard008 account was created less than 24 hours later on 8:11 May 28th 2007. Nobody knew he was secretly editing under a new identity until more half a year later on January 15th 2008 when he tried to pass himself off as a neutral observer and attacked my userpage on AN/I [66] in violations of multiple Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Inappropriate_uses_of_alternative_accounts. His cover got blown and his old account was indef. blocked for being a sockpuppet by User:Nlu, but was later unblocked on a technicality and on the condition that he publicized his old identity on both his old userpage User:Sumple and his new one User:PalaceGuard008.
Anyway, long story short, the point is the personal attack against you and Geogre had NEVER been on his new account until November 2012, more than FIVE years after the initial conflict, and it took another five years for me to notice. He also reneged his pledge to publicize his identity on his userpage somewhere along the way [67]. In fact, I didn't notice until 2 days ago. I removed the attack [68] and he restored it [69]. I just removed it again, but obviously this is an untenable solution. I'm wondering if you could perhaps get involved yourself (or get 'zilla involved :P) or bring this to AN/I to get a sense of where the community's consensus is on this issue (I would love to bring this to AN/I myself but I think people would just end up attacking my record instead of the merit of the issue). My understanding is that the community no longer tolerates such objectionable, low-brow contents on userspace in 2017 and it irks me a great deal when you get personally attacked like this. If he had attacked me, I would just make a persona non grata list on my own talkpage and put him on it. But you deserve so much better and NO ONE should personally attack you like this, especially some casual POV pusher with a political agenda and a net negative to the project. Let me know what the next step is and what I can do to help resolve this issue. Thanks as always :-)-- Certified Gangsta ( talk) 06:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, re this at Nuztas1986 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log): FYI see LA144 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Same content, same articles. I already have reverted the remaining edits. And created this Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nuztas1986. Cheers - DVdm ( talk) 07:24, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
...but could you take a look at this, this and this? I wouldn't admin-shop like this but honestly I think this is one of those situations where a stern warning from someone with teeth would save everyone a whole lot of the stress that would come from opening some kind of formal request for sanctions of some kind, and your name sprung to mind since you were the one who weighed in on that ANI thread back in May. (Actually you lost a coin-toss against Yunshui, who weighed in last time I was accused of "vandalism" for adding a maintenance tag to an article.) Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 22:29, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Bishy! Thanks for taking the time to raise this
[70] to
User:Alex Shih on his arbcom question page. I just saw that another editor has confronted him on his talkpage as well
[71]. By the way, I really don't appreciate the sarcastic, condescending, passive-aggressive tone he answered your question
[72], especially the way he highlighted the word symphasise
and assuming
. Very uncalled for and classless! Hopefully, the community will see such conduct (and the fact that he continues to dismiss valid concerns about his record as "polemic" and "trolling", lash out against my record when I'm not even running for arbcom, and past membership in the "Ideogram fanclub"
[73]) as disqualifying. Thanks again :-)
P.S. I dig the Little Chief Mountain image when I post on your page. I'm thinking about stealing it haha (with your permission, of course).-- Certified Gangsta ( talk) 08:34, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
some people feel so sensitiveis a specific reference to me and Alex, and how we supposedly share anti-Korean Chinese nationalism), I gotta wonder if Certified Gangsta ( talk · contribs) would be willing to name names regarding the "several unsavory characters", or if doing so would open them up to accusations of blatantly and baselessly attacking Wikipedians in good standing. I actually know very little about Alex Shih's history outside his interactions with me, so it might be fair to call him a Chinese nationalist POV-pusher who is cozy with other nationalist POV-pushers, and that might be a perfectly acceptable question to ask an ArbCom candidate (I know precisely nothing about ArbCom elections), but I'm curious. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 11:42, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
I harbor no animosity toward Chinese peopleThe quote on your user page, and the heading you placed it under, indicate otherwise. I have no idea how this diff makes anything "clear" -- did you cite the right one? Either way, it is from more than a decade ago. If you have any recent examples of disruptive behaviour or nationalist POV-pushing from the candidate, you should cite those.
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Could you take a look at this SPI that I have been mysteriously included in. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kurtan~enwiki. Based apparently on a !vote at a AfD for C. Johan Masreliez. I have no association to that account and I learned my lesson years ago. As I have no association any IP connection should be easily established. I find this very odd. BabbaQ ( talk) 16:15, 5 December 2017)
Hello, I have deprodded Lucidity (festival), because 1) it has been to AFD before, and 2) it had recently been updated to add a lot of promotional garbage, which I have reverted. If you still believe deletion is appropriate, please bring it back to AFD. Thanks, — KuyaBriBri Talk 06:38, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
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Bish, they did not merge - they deleted - I'm telling you the truth. They did not merge anything per AfD merge consensus, and held a local consensus instead that has yet to come to a fair conclusion of what to keep or delete - their local TP discussion is to delete all of it and not merge anything and that flies in the face of the resulting AfD merge consensus. There is no policy or guideline that I'm aware of that instructs us to ignore an AfD consensus to merge and simply delete everything instead by pretending to discuss what to merge at the TP and then suddenly informally deciding to do whatever they please which was to override consensus and delete all of it. They failed to request a review of the close if they opposed it, they failed to relist the article at AfD if delete was the result they were after, and they didn't even offer to call an RfC for wider community input from uninvolved editors which is what I did. Bish, they deleted the actual merge twice, so nothing was merged. You've warned me on my TP - I voluntarily relented after your warning and removed that article from my watchlist - it's simply not worth my getting into trouble over. Bish, I just wanted you to know what actually happened - I read the policy & guidelines carefully, please believe me - I followed the procedures. Don't be angry with me over this because I was not the one adding the redirects or causing disruption before a proper merge discussion had been held per the guidelines of AfD merge for controversial articles. I will heed your warning. Atsme 📞 📧 18:40, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
For the record - I went by the following "established practice on some aspect or aspects of Wikipedia's norms and customs": WP:Merging#Merger_as_a_result_of_a_deletion_discussion
Merger proposed after a deletion discussion
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Bish, consensus was to merge and based on PAGs, consensus is policy. Nothing was merged and after I read Wikipedia:Consensus#Levels of consensus which clearly states "Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. For instance, unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope. WikiProject advice pages, information pages and template documentation pages have not formally been approved by the community through the policy and guideline proposal process, thus have no more status than an essay." my conclusion was that the editors at the TP were attempting to "override consensus on a wider scale" per our policy. They chose "locally" to not merge despite the wider consensus at AfD. Say what you will, but I was not filibustering. I was following consensus policy. If you are telling me that local consensus on the TP overrides the wider consensus to merge at AfD, then simply tell me because that is exactly what happened, and it is not how I understood our policy. I just need to know so I don't repeat the same mistake at another article. That's all I'm asking of you. Atsme 📞 📧 01:16, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
If information you merged gets removed this should not generally be considered as going against the AFD consensus as it has now become part of the normal editing process.Galobtter ( pingó mió) 05:36, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. We are having some issues with a block evading disruptive editor who has used the following IPs.
When I ran this through a range calculator it gave me... 2600:1702:b20:3240:5caa:d417:1174:d644/30. However I am concerned that this may be too large and have temporarily removed the range block for fear of excessive collateral damage. Alas range blocks are not my forte, especially IPV6. Is this a workable range? I don't want to block entire continents. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 21:16, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
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16G /64 | 16G /64 | 3 | 2600:1700::/30 | contribs |
2 /64 | 1 /64 | 2 | 2600:1700:e5d0:a9a0::/64 | contribs |
1 /64 | 1 | 2600:1702:b20:3240::/64 | contribs |
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Alamatp2 ( talk) 10:42, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Bish, even though I did this in the past, how do I start an SPI investigation? Thanks. ( N0n3up ( talk) 03:27, 20 December 2017 (UTC))
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My dear Mrs Bishonen, once again it is that joyous time of year when those of us with very developed social consciences are compelled us to think of the less fortunate, so you immediately sprung to mind. As I sit here in the great hall of Scrotum Towers beneath my 7m Christmas Tree (with non-drop needles), listening to the village children's choir serenading me from the snow outside (I can't permit their cheap, little snowy shoes on my priceless Bokhara rugs) only the seasonal sounds of the 2nd footman wassailing the 3rd housemaid on the backstairs interrupts my flow of good thoughts and seasonal wishes to all the editors of Wikipedia, wherever they may be, scattered throughout the most far flung outposts of the Empire and Commonwealth.
As one reviews the past 12 months, it has been an interesting, but taxing year for me, as I am now forced to spend so much time in Washington, advising dear Donald on foreign policy. So many World leaders have said that they can now detect my perceptive influence, which I feel can only be a good thing. As a Christmas gift, I strongly advise all editors (looking for a long term gain) to buy real estate (which has not already been bought by De Burgh Holdings Inc.) in Jerusalem, which returns me neatly to my Christmas message; surely were the Christ child to be renaissanced it woudl surely be in Washington among all those dear little Amish, Mammarieonits and Armageddons and Whatnots, surely that is the new Holy City, the Lord is shining down upon it - unlike London (which I am ashamed to call home), it can only be minutes before Mr Corbyn and the Bolsheviks storm Buckingham Palace and I am erecting barricades before my own London home. However, I expect shall survive, I usually do. Now, it is time for me to dress for dinner, so I must leave you, but I wish you all a deeply holy Christmas. The Lady Catherine de Burgh ( talk) 18:51, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
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May you have very Happy Holidays, Bish ...
and a New Year filled with peace, joy, and ricciarelli!
Best wishes, Voceditenore ( talk) 07:26, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
Merry Christmas Bishonen!!
Hi Bishonen, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia!
,
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...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 18:21, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
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{{edit semi-protected|User:Bishonen|answered=yes}} Hi, Bishonen,
Is there a messaging platform on which I can contact you to ask a question? (E.g., email, Facebook, etc.?)
I made an adit to "Jews for Jesus" to indicate that it is a Christian Evangelical organization (that targets disaffected Jews); it is NOT a Jewish organization. Nor has it ever claimed to be. It was founded by an Evangelical Christian minister, and the organization's stated goal is to eradicate Judaism. The source for my change is THE ARTICLE ITSELF.
The article states: "On several occasions leaders of the four major Jewish movements have signed on to joint statements opposing Hebrew-Christian theology and tactics. In part they said: "Though Hebrew Christianity claims to be a form of Judaism, it is not ... It deceptively uses the sacred symbols of Jewish observance ... as a cover to convert Jews to Christianity, a belief system antithetical to Judaism ... Hebrew Christians are in radical conflict with the communal interests and the destiny of the Jewish people."
Why did you delete my edit? Was it because I entered it incorrectly? Or because you believe that JFJ is a Jewish organization?
If you agree with me that Jews for Jesus is NOT a Jewish organization (nor has it ever claimed to be one), could you please make the correction?
If you disagree, could you help me understand your reasoning? I don't understand how a Wikipedia article can be allowed to be logically contradictory with itself.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THERE IS AN EASIER WAY TO COMMUNICATE. Is there a messaging functionality in Wikipedia? I'm also Jonathan Rotenberg on Facebook & LinkedIn.
MANY THANKS for your care & interest.
Kind regards,
Jonathan JonathanInBoston ( talk) 14:18, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, — MRD2014 Merry Christmas! 01:43, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very much all, we enjoyed the fine images and greetings! Now please all dance around our Christmas tree!
A blessed feast to you and yours. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 15:23, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bish, I notice that you have been around today. Any chance of tying some festive ribbon round Tyagi? I'm not sure whether semi-protection or pending changes would be best but something needs to happen because the anons and newly-registereds are a damn nuisance there. Brahmins are supposed to be the educated elite, at least historically, but they show nothing but ill-informed self-promotion etc at that particular article. Peace and goodwill only extends so far with me. - Sitush ( talk) 15:45, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Vanamakan ( talk · contribs) is repeatedly attempting to usurp the S. Janaki article at the moment, seemingly to pursue their goal of spamming a book/author. I've left notes on their talk page, opened a thread at the author talk page and also spoken with Insertcleverphrasehere on their talk page. Not sure what to do next because they're clearly pissed off. - Sitush ( talk) 10:42, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, me again. I reported Jagat jit singh ( talk · contribs) to WP:AN3 on 23 December but it was archived before anyone commented. They're back doing exactly the same poor edit, both logged in and logged out, despite me yet again referring them to the article talk page discussion that I had opened. The issue of the article subject's Sikhism etc has been discussed on that talk page in the past (archives) and, as my latest thread indicates, the contributor is actually misrepresenting the source anyway. I can't keep reverting them and they're plainly not listening. - Sitush ( talk) 14:04, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
dear Sitush ( talk · contribs) sikhism has been mentioned in a source given along with it. you are just creating a false attitude that it has been not mentioned in a source. please don't create an edit war.-- Jagat jit singh ( talk) 14:12, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2018, — Paleo Neonate – 13:50, 29 December 2017 (UTC) |
hi Bishonen, i am literally sorry for creating disruptive activities. but to clear it, it has mentioned that "Bhagat singh a sandhu jat" although i agree that he later on become Atheist. the "Jat" is divided into three categories Sikh jat, Muslim Jat and Hindu Jat. where as Bhagat singh was a Sikh jat. Here are the sources which clears it, please see [1] [2] [3]-- Jagat jit singh ( talk) 17:00, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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Bishonen,
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Apologies for this dumbness. My only excuse is that IPs adding or removing countries (especially US) from lists in that article, without edit reason, is the most common form of PoV editing. Should have thought more about this one! Pincrete ( talk) 10:21, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
I'm just gonna drop this here. [116] [117] [118] If I would've known I might've tried to steer things in a different direction. ((( The Quixotic Potato))) ( talk) 11:40, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
Lengthy explanation follows, not because you can't figure it out, but to save you time We have here an editor whose primary purpose appears to be highlighting violence targeted against Hindus, and minimizing that against Muslims, in the Indian subcontinent. That in itself may not be sanctionable. But, despite being notified about ARBIPA, has taken quite inappropriate actions in the last 24 hours. They reverted a CSD#G5 tag on four articles (which I then replaced). Following that, they have claimed to be "taking responsibility" for each of those four. To me, this means they need to be held accountable for the content in those articles. Take the revision they claim to be taking responsibility for. It includes a claim that a Muslim mob murdered two policemen (when the source clearly says that the circumstances of the death were being investigated). It includes the claim that "two radical Muslims" were shot dead (when the source says nothing about "radicals", or indeed about any political leanings). It includes seven sources, all of which contradict each other significantly: thus the article itself contradicts its own sources on a number of points. This particular article is just an example: they have done the same thing here, the problems with which I outlined here. As always, if you can't be bothered, I understand, and I will take this to AE. Vanamonde ( talk) 13:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
FWIW, roughly half of the sentences in the 2006 Bhiwandi lynching article appear to have misrepresented the sources. I've opened a discussion re: development of the article and possible retitling at its talk page. - Sitush ( talk) 15:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, you fully protected this talk page even though the user is not in fact retired but has posted an appeal at WP:ARCA. User talk pages of active users should not be protected because otherwise one can't communicate with them. Also, because of the protection I can't (or rather, mustn't) post on the talk page lift their topic ban in response to their appeal. Could you lift the protection, please? Sandstein 07:07, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy | |
I appreciate your contributions regarding my topic ban as well as your thoughts on Arbitration Enforcement. Not sure I would still be around here if you weren't.-- MONGO 13:38, 10 January 2018 (UTC) |
Pardeeprorboy ( talk · contribs) is continuing to insert at the Ror article huge chunks of info copy/pasted from unreliable websites such as jatland.com (that one is actually blacklisted). They've had various warnings, including of caste sanctions and 3RR, and they've even tried putting the stuff in their sandbox. I cannot revert their most recent effort because I am at the revert limit. - Sitush ( talk) 13:15, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Apparently the Fun Police are on duty at WP:ANI. [129] [130] -- Calton | Talk 00:02, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Dear sir , I kindly request you to give me an opportunity to edit the page called as kulala .Sir I am from same community and I can provide more information about kulala. Regards
Thankin you Roshani kulal ( talk) 16:25, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Saladin1987 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Hi Bish, You recently gave this user his final piece of WP:ROPE. [131] Today on 12 January he;
- LouisAragon ( talk) 19:12, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Alanti.Muzamazi ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Bish, Others: Strange is this case, pestering and disrupting articles in ever new incarnations across many articles. Looks like a duck to me of SourceOnly / MrSharma1 / etc. They opened several accounts today (see Kalki history, blocked by Ian.thomson etc, article semi-protected today by Favonian). A talk page message on User talk:Alanti.Muzamazi has triggered the reply "I bet you were sexually abused as a child". Alanti.Muzamazi may be same as Mhosi.kusiloco because both are new, both disruptive and both have left misleading edit summaries in the same article. They seem to be deploying hopping IPs too. What are our options in such cases, other than patience? Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 15:06, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there no legal steps we can take to stop such disruptive behavior? this is after all private use for select few like us. "laws of the State of California and, to the extent applicable, the laws of the United States of America will govern these Terms of Use" so is there no way to sue these people? or can they sue us for not allowing to let them edit and for removing all their work? We don't get paid for our work fair enough, we have nothing better to do but spend our life here believing this is what we will be remembered for even though no one care who we are, other than few of us who know each other for wasting our life here. Very unusual case indeed. These people are not stupid like the most we get rid off here so now let's just ignore them or keep blocking ALL the IP's until no ip is left to add anything on Wiki. We have all these powers that we can abuse including locking kalki page or should we stay off kalki page and we may not need to do anything! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noramus.Detorytum ( talk • contribs) 10:16, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Ahem. I feel slightly soiled this is not a complaint. - Roxy, Zalophus californianus. barcus 20:21, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
I did, I did, I did see a waterfall. Hey, ah, this page could use an archiving a bit...maybe...if you want...up to you.-- MONGO 13:28, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Not that the princess looks a whole lot like me- yer, the crown looks a lot smaller than I remember. -- RexxS ( talk) 17:29, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Nah, MPants at work We're not querying anything. We're invoking a function in a Lua module whose purpose is to pick the next filename in a list every day. That's all. No searching; no filtering; just the next one in the list.
@ Serial Number 54129: As there may be more folks wanting to use the carousel, I've made a new version at Module:Carousel and allowed everybody to have their own list of filenames. Your list is at Module:Carousel/54129 and I've started you off by putting four filenames in there that I lifted from your page. There are instructions on how to change them and add more in the module.
You can edit your page notice (I think) to say something like:
[[File:{{#invoke:carousel | main | name=54129}} | upright=1.25 | center | thumb | Welcome to my page ... etc]]
which will result in
Change the size by fiddling with the upright parameter as usual. If there are any problems with that, 'Shonen is a fine coder and will fix it for you on request. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 15:19, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
We're not querying anything. We're invoking a function in a Lua module whose purpose is to pick the next filename in a list every day.Well, if there's a function in the module to pick the next image, then that makes sense. I hope your code is thoroughly commented and properly indented, else boring manager Rob will be along to tell you that while you may be very diligent, your output stink. ;P ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 15:26, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
even you can read that... ...non-leet coders and script kiddies...I apologize for assuming you could take a joke. I'll refrain from playful banter with you in the future. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 15:51, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like moulten lead.
I hope you saw my comments to you at AN/I and that they provided a little more understanding for where I was coming from, why I am willing to change my mind, etc. What you had to say to me caught my attention, but not as much as what Davey2010 had to say. Even so, it does bother me that you now think less of me, not because I will lose your support in the future, but because I think you have misunderstood my responses in regard to this issue, both at SJ's talk page and AN/I. Then again, I'm starting to wonder if, because of my deficiencies in grasping appropriate social communication, pragmatics, and nuance at times, I myself didn't misunderstand the whole situation from beginning to AN/I. I hope this makes sense and that we can still be "friends". -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 18:51, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
My explanation is above, Drmies. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 00:17, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I know I've been hanging around here a lot this morning, but I just had to add this. Your comment there gave me a chill and made me laugh at the same time. That deserves a gold-trimmed hammer britches seal of approval with oak leaf clusters. I think I might have to make a "Hammer of the gods" barnstar, just to give it to you. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 20:25, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
For your unrivaled ability and willingness to kick ass and chew bubblegum,
and your amazing ability to consistently forget the bubblegum,
I hereby award you the
Solid Gold Hammer of the Gods
barnstar, resplendent upon a golden field.
May your banhammer
be ever heavy
and ready to fly free.
ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 03:43, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
{{Subst:User:MjolnirPants/godhammer}}
The signature at the end comes with it.
ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants
Tell me all about it. 04:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
style=""
attribute. But I might be able to add in some deprecated CSS properties or something. @
Odysseus1479: could I trouble you for a screenshot and the details of your browser? (You can get the exact version number by finding the "help" menu and choosing "about".)
ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants
Tell me all about it. 13:23, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
First of all, I no longer expect my setup (Safari v5.1.10 on Mac OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard” —BTW on a Mac every program has a self-titled menu, first on the left after the Apple menu, and where the About is normally found), to be well supported, rather I’m impressed that most features of the WMF sites continue to work fairly well, the only problems I’ve noticed being more or less cosmetic. Anyway, I see the gold background now, and the main text is better positioned, fairly central, with the glow effect also showing. However, the box itself still the same size, protruding past the right margin, and the “May your …” text, which was previously superimposed on the image, is now near the right-hand edge of the box (such that I have to scroll my window rightward to read it), leaving a wide empty space between it and the main block. @ MjolnirPants: I’ve sent you a message, but without screenshots because the “Email this user” form doesn’t seem to allow for attachments.— Odysseus 147 9 21:47, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke talk page access.-- Cahk ( talk) 08:13, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen,
Can you double check and make sure I did everything properly in this merge? I think I did but I would appreciate a double check to make sure I didn't screw anything up. Thank you. -- Tarage ( talk) 22:17, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. I was editing my own sandbox and I noticed that the Architecture and Cuisine sections and the contents for Sports were missing [137]. When I click to publish the changes, there is a lot of missing contents. I think there is a bug or technical problem but I'm not entirely sure. ( N0n3up ( talk) 05:09, 18 January 2018 (UTC))
The result being that nothing was displayed until the next closing </ref> tag. Just addIn the 60s and 70s and onwards, numerous artists contributed and still contribute to modern Peruvian art including Teresa Burga, a non-objectualist artists, sculpture Cristina Gálvez<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wuffarden, [[Jorge Eduardo Eielson]], [[Jorge Piqueras]], [[Eduardo Tokeshi]] and [[Elena Tejada-Herrera]]. In the field of photography, [[Martín Chambi]] and [[Mario Testino]] made major contributions.
}}</ref>
somewhere near the end of that paragraph and your text will reappear. --
RexxS (
talk) 15:43, 18 January 2018 (UTC)I am struggling against what appears to be a member of the caste at Daivadnya Brahmin. Their talk page suggests a troubled past and I've just added a sanctions alert but I have also previously warned them and tried to explain why this is inappropriate. I am reluctant to revert yet that edit yet again because this is turning into a slow-burn edit war. - Sitush ( talk) 21:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
For whatever my input may be worth, I think you're right in calling for a clear close. I also think you are correct in the indefinite length. What concerns me is that I also think a prior pattern of gaming behavior is already playing out. Unscintillating has been called on their AfD disruption before. Each time it has previously happened, when the heat finally gets turned up to an uncomfortable level, they appear to flee the scene. Almost always this lasts no more than a month or two (with a longish 2015 absence that seems unrelated) and they then return to bothering and bewildering other editors in AfD-land. I am worried that their current three-day disappearing act after the sense of that thread quickly started to form is their way of again attempting to game the restriction. I would not be at all surprised for them to, in the very near term, strenuously claim that their restriction is unfair since they "were not able to respond". On the other hand, I don't know that there would be any benefit to expressing that suspicion in the thread so I have refrained from doing so. Do you think this is something that needs to be said or will the closing admin and whoever sees the inevitable appeals will be aware of this already? Thanks. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 21:28, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
It all got very messy with PAKHIGHWAY and I lost track of whether they were formally topic banned, merely warned or got away with it all. Can you remember or work it out? I am concerned because of this. - Sitush ( talk) 20:20, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
The last few days at the punk rock article an unregistered editor has been repeatedly making the same bad edit in the lead section from different IP addresses. Despite being blocked from some of them, the vandal persists. I was wondering if we could put semi-protection on the page, at least for a while, until the problem subsides. Thanks, Garagepunk66 ( talk) 03:44, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
I think Utkala Brahmin would benefit from your ministrations. Repeated big changes based on a caste-affiliated source. I'm guessing that the anon of a few hours ago has now registered an account. - Sitush ( talk) 17:19, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
There's a bit of a problem with Editingscientists ( talk · contribs) repeatedly adding unsourced claims re: languages at the Bellary article. They've had numerous warnings and it has been going on for days now. - Sitush ( talk) 12:20, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
A short semi-protection at Jogi, pretty please? Anons reinstating info that is either (a) copyvio or (b) unreliable - it doesn't really matter which but someone has (correctly) explained the issues on the talk page. - Sitush ( talk) 16:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
The log for the page Upasana RC states that you deleted it. I remember putting in references for articles onto the page. Was there anything else wrong with it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nishant.jeyanth ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for the ping. Any suggestions? -- Ronz ( talk) 23:28, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Bish, Editingscientists ( talk · contribs) whom you blocked has evaded their block on the same page here. — LeoFrank Talk 10:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Bish, would request your intervention here. Three users are involved with editing this article Sivaprasathsrc ( talk · contribs), Bharatvenkat ( talk · contribs) and Dr.d.prabu ( talk · contribs). These three seem to be promoting the subject and most likely meatpuppets. — LeoFrank Talk 10:28, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
... Coffee break, I guess. Can we have an unprotect at Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Trump_Street? E Eng 16:24, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).
Any chance of some admin intervention at Mangal Pandey? I am becoming fed up of repeatedly reverting unsourced claims about his caste origins. - Sitush ( talk) 21:42, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Semi, please, at Pareek. The thing isn't sourced anyway but repeatedly adding more unsourced info isn't helpful. - Sitush ( talk) 12:13, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I wonder if you could check the user 12Dagge and his contributions here on enwp. When I saw he got an article deleted and warned for the content, and he was warned in August I checked all his contributions. Almost all were reverted. I wrote a comment to him about that here, but thinks it would be good if an admin on enwp looked at it. Best regards, Adville ( talk) 19:15, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish. This user is constantly changing the title of Visakhapatnam Airport by introducing the word "International" when the airport itself hasn't been renamed. Can you keep an eye on them? — LeoFrank Talk 13:55, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
I think we now have evasion of your block of Kevin mitnik fake ( talk · contribs) going on at Sanjay Singh. - Sitush ( talk) 17:09, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments and assistance at [139]. Now that the page is protected I can't respond there, but your and Cullen's attentions are appreciated. Cheers, 73.159.24.89 ( talk) 21:26, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
You made me jump with the pic of the bison. Any change of a short semi-protection at Vaishya? A hopping anon keeps inserting a name that is not in the source and does so despite the inline note asking that people desist from adding to the list of examples. - Sitush ( talk) 15:38, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Are you sure you meant to apply full protection? It seems a little counter-intuitive. I would have expected semi-protection, or possibly extended-confirmed, but full protection stops all directed communication. Pinging @ Jytdog: in case he has anything to add. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 23:26, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Traditionally Wikipedia offers wide latitude to users to manage their user space as they see fit. However, pages in user space belong to the wider community. They are not a personal homepage, and do not belong to the user. They are part of Wikipedia, and exist to make collaboration among editors easier.
User talk pages are rarely protected, and are semi-protected for short durations only in the most severe cases of vandalism from IP users. My underline emphasis
A user's request to have his or her own talk page protected is not a sufficient rationale to protect the page.
User talk pages must serve their primary purpose, which is to make communication and collaboration among editors easier. Editors who refuse to use their talk page for these purposes are violating the spirit of the talk page guidelines, and are not acting collaboratively.
Oh, hi, Ched, nice to see you. The point here is that Jytdog has left, so he's beyond collaboration at this time. Bah, Carrite. The pages "exist to make collaboration among editors easier" — yes — I'm sorry it wasn't clear above that Jytdog has left. Or only indirectly. His final message is here. If he returns, I'll consider unprotecting so he can collaborate some more. Also, no, it's not the case that "administrators only" can talk to him. Please note my edit summary for the talkpage protection: "User request. Please don't post on this page." Of course any reasonable admin will respect that, as they normally do when any page is fullprotected. It's kind of difficult to post my reply when more people keep chiming in - but what are you talking about, Mkdw? He doesn't continue to edit Wikipedia. He has e-mailed me to say he's gone, and asking me to protect his pages. And now edit conflict with Jytdog, too — shit — please don't post, Jytdog. You're wrongfooting me. If you do it again, I probably should unprotect your talk. Bishonen | talk 16:16, 12 February 2018 (UTC).
Wow, just wow. Jytdog could still be reached via email I suppose...and its likely safe to assume the protection was temporary of course. What a cauldron. For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.-- MONGO 16:28, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
(Bish TP stalker) If Jytdog plans on a long break, I think full protection is actually a pretty good IAR way to lower the temperature. If he's sticking around, not so much. Let's call last night's edits to ANI - and today's edits to this page - false starts, and keep the full protection unless and until Jytdog edits any other page, and unprotect then? (also, while I'm here... Hi User:Ched! And nice picture, User:MONGO!) -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 16:45, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Not planning to jump into this further, but this action seems to be in line with the spirit of WP:NOBAN (which I haven’t seen linked yet). You can request that anyone not post on your user talk page, but you cannot a avoid notice of administrative actions. Admins can still technically post if need be, so there doesn’t appeared to be any problem with the protection (though unfortunate) as-is. Seems like a better to leave things be situation now that what’s done is done. Kingofaces43 ( talk) 18:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Think talk access should be revoked here - now they just re-added the content to the talk page. Home Lander ( talk) 20:48, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
I know I'm getting the order wrong - but did want to pop in and say hello to a trusted friend. This really should have preceded my jumping into a conversation. I do hope you and the entire Bish family are doing great. I'm guessing they are still around as well? Anyway - good to see you. :) — Ched : ? — 12:57, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Two arseholes, both alike in dignity,
In Wikipedia, where we lay our scene,
From recent grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil words unclean.
From forth the fatal keys of these two foes
A pair of cross editors take their leave;
Whole misreported comical overthrows
Do with their absence cause us all to grieve.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd posts,
And the continuance of the admins' rage,
Which, but the edits' end, nought could remove,
Is now the two weeks' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with flapping ears attend,
What here shall miss, we chimps shall strive to mend.
Block evasion? When? 85.164.238.62 ( talk) 14:38, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, and thanks for writing this word on ANI without providing a proper source. It made my day, L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 21:11, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Willy on Wheels~enwiki evidence=[ https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk%3ABishonen&type=revision&diff=826043938&oldid=826043472 absolute smoking gnu evidence
Hey Bish. @ Editingscientists: is back with a new sock. I've created an SPI page for this user. — LeoFrank Talk 04:33, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I think a touch of semi-protection might be useful at Kirar. Ta muchly. - Sitush ( talk) 13:46, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Priya Prakash Varrier. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. ☆ Bri ( talk) 19:03, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. You salted Priya Prakash Varrier after the AfD on it, which seems quite reasonable based on the AfD and promotional nonsense that was going on, but she seems to have become a lot more notable in the last day. In fact the deleted article is on the list of the most hit articles. I guess this could be some attempt to trick us but it seems more likely to be due to a court case which is getting a lot of news coverage in India right now. See Wikipedia talk:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Redlink in top 25 traffic report. It is probably too soon to make an article, as this may be a flash in the pan, but would you be amenable to redirecting to Oru Adaar Love which is the article about the film she is in, and which the court case is about, so that all the people hitting the URL at least get something relevant to what they are interested in? If nothing else, I'd hate for large numbers of people to Google her, see the Wikipedia link, click it, see that the article is gone and then think that there is something dodgy going on. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 23:07, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Well first of all, I liked the picture in the edit notice. @ Bishonen: I noticed you have closed a conversation today, I almost figured by his messages that he would be gone until Sunday, then I'd get a response. But that's not my main point. Considering you said that "FWIW it doesn't sound to me like there's anything you need to do.", that means I'm done with this whole thing. Now do you think I approached it correctly? Thanks Sincerely, User: Zanygenius( talk page) 15:19, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, with ref to your block at User talk:Sprkwiki some months ago, I think the problem is still going on. I've left a note here and at Draft talk:Sarie-Eldin & Partners Legal Advisors, which I think is likely to be equally problematic even though I cannot read the sources. - Sitush ( talk) 14:38, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Abhinav686 ( talk · contribs) is repeatedly reinstating unsourced content at various articles and, when reverted, going to the reverter's talk page to spout their qualifications to do so etc. The edits to Upper Caste are particularly poor.
They're new, they're misguided etc but even when things are explained - as in response to their post on my talk page - they seem to be continuing in the same vein. - Sitush ( talk) 10:36, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Upper caste general obc? "Upper caste" is a somewhat vague term, however a community can be of high ritual standing but still traditionally impoverished/lacking in opportunities and officially recognised as OBC. "General" confuses things even further because in the form "General Class" it is another term for Forward Caste. I've no idea what they meant and, tbh, only skimmed the rant they kept reinstating at that article and its talk page. Sometimes it is not necessary for me to digest every word in order to figure out that we do not want it. - Sitush ( talk) 13:48, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Well, Twinkle did it: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1914 Komagata Maru (2nd nomination). Not sure how to handle it. Would you please take a look at it? Thanks. PS: I have posted same message at User talk:KrakatoaKatie, in case one of you goes offline. —usernamekiran (talk) 12:59, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke talk page access.-- Cahk ( talk) 09:12, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I raised the issue on the BLP board because the discussion was about the issue of whether to quote Eliana Johnson/Nick Riccardi/Podhoretz. Should I have mentioned it on RS/N because that was where discussion about Salon & Wolff was opened? NPalgan2 ( talk) 22:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
If you find time for it could you take a look at the canvassing and votestacking situation at the AfD for Annika Connor. User Softlavender has pinged two editors [141] and also asked editor DGG on his talk page to come to the AfD to !vote. Especially the talk page message is basically begging for a Delete !vote [142]. I might be overreacting but I find it weird that three editors are basically told to vote at an AfD by one editor. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annika Connor. BabbaQ ( talk) 09:25, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, guys, sorry I was away. The putative canvassing is a borderline thing IMO. Softlavender seems surprisingly unaware of how it looks, to put it no more strongly, to ping people to an AfD. I don't know Cullen or Megalibrarygirl (or AfD) well enough to have an opinion as to whether they specialize in rescuing articles on women and/or artists (though I feel I know Cullen pretty well otherwise; hello, Cullen!), as Softlavender has repeatedly stated. It's not apparent on their userpages. (Adding PS: I guess it is sort of noticable on Cullen's page, If I had read more carefully.) But I really don't think you ought to ping anybody with the argument that they specialize in taking a particular stand on the kind of article that's in question. That's an argument for not pinging them. Obviously your intentions were of the best, since it looks like you pinged people you thought to be, if anything, unlikely to share your own opinion — but such an attempt to manage an AfD isn't appropriate either, and it remains an argument for not pinging them. I hope none of the three people pinged/otherwise alerted think I mean to criticise them with that opinion, not do I think their input at the AfD should be discounted — by no means. They are, after all, highly skilled, highly respected, and highly neutral administrators.
@ Softlavender:, I'm quite underwhelmed by your debating style at that AfD. To repeat the same argument verbatim five times, with apparently rising indignation — look at what you're making me do, I'm repeating myself! "I'll state a fifth time"! — looks like bludgeoning in my eyes.
@ BabbaQ:, nobody has asked me about this, but in my chatty way, I'll still register my bafflement at your own Keep !vote. How on earth does WP:NEXIST support the notability of the subject? If there are better sources out there, which is what NEXIST is about, why don't you go find them? Unless you support your opinion with references, I have to say I would discount it if I were the closing admin. (Which I'm obviously not going to be, after all this discussion my page.) Bishonen | talk 18:11, 2 March 2018 (UTC).
... with the person who keeps adding this stuff back to an article without providing a source? I am fed up of trying to deal with it. - Sitush ( talk) 13:04, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Something for the mantlepiece | |
Unworked jade, overworked Bish :( ...SerialNumber 54129 ...speculates 15:32, 3 March 2018 (UTC) |
Thanks for this; I was heading to their talk page to do the same, but Zilla's legs be longer than mine, methinks. On a more serious note: I think we really, really need to authorize pre-emptive EC protection on pages affected by ARBIPA. I've discussed this before (see here, and also elsewhere with RegentsPark and SpacemanSpiff) but haven't done much about it. Thoughts? (and apologies if I've asked you about this before...). Vanamonde ( talk) 18:34, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
I've deprodded Jesuit Institute South Africa. It faculty have published a number of scholary works and I suspect it might pass WP:NORG. BillHPike ( talk, contribs) 01:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish. I accidentally made edits logged out of my account and wanted to know if there is any way I can erase my IP from showing, even if it means deleting those edits. ( N0n3up ( talk) 03:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC))
...whom you may remember from the topic-ban discussion last November, is appealing his six-month topic ban. You might want to weigh in. -- Calton | Talk 17:25, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Bish. Would you mind taking a look at this request I just made at RfPP? There's a big free-for-all edit-war on Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II that needs to be stopped. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 23:06, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
I am sure there was a long-ish discussion in recent months concerning giving people account creator rights for outreach work. It involved a fair few long-term contributors but I am blowed if I can find it at ANI, AN or VPP. Do you or any of the watchers here recall it? - Sitush ( talk) 00:18, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
No worries - found it. Typical! - Sitush ( talk) 00:20, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone deal with the personal attacks going on at User talk:Kautilya3, please? - Sitush ( talk) 18:26, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for acknowledging Wikipedia:IPs are human too. Too often registered editors forget that IPs have a right to edit Wikipdeia, too. 32.218.152.220 ( talk) 15:45, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the protection, NeilN, I was just considering doing it myself, to save the fingers of the watchers who have helped with reverting. And thank you too, kind watchers. Bishonen | talk 15:32, 15 March 2018 (UTC).
You are invited to join a discussion at Talk:Cold-weather warfare#Choice of images. Sincerely, HopsonRoad ( talk) 21:16, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
I truly don't think the warnings with PME and myself were needed, particularly when there was an existing discussion about including that information. BR had not participated in it, there was no consensus to include it, so I'm not seeing why BRD doesn't apply here to him as well as those who felt it should be removed. The tone of your warning has made BR think he can run around, acting self-righteous and issuing threats as if he is now above question. I just looked. I've only made 1 edit to that article in over 2 weeks. Even if I did remove it, that would be the second in 2 weeks, with zero discussion from BR in that time frame. Not exactly a flaming edit war. Niteshift36 ( talk) 14:32, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
"BTW, you know what else the Arbcom would probably notice? You making a controversial edit, then posting the DS notice in a what appears to be an attempt to intimidate editors."What DS notice did BullRangifer post, and why would ArbCom care? (You're presumably not referring to the DS alert on PackMecEng's page, which I posted myself.) It's ArbCom's very own alert, part of the DS system, and they definitely don't mind it being posted. Furthermore, I see you've added more aggression on talk after my warning (which was actually only a warning that I would formally warn you if you attempted to remove the content without giving a good reason — a bit absurd, all those layers of warnings, but I don't mind giving people a laugh). You think it's collaborative to call people a giant wanker? More like that and I'll block you without benefit of discretionary sanctions. Bishonen | talk 17:27, 16 March 2018 (UTC).
Someone has just copied text from this site to Priya Prakash Varrier, over-riding the redirect. I've reverted and nominated the image uploads for deletion at Commons. Can you or one of your watchers please take care of the revdel? - Sitush ( talk) 18:31, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
The thousand-armed daemon continues to shoot :-( -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 17:00, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Bish! I don’t like to make admin decisions at articles I am involved in. Could you take a look at this edit by VM? As you can see from the history, they are immediately re-adding something that had been “challenged by reversion”. Thanks! -- MelanieN ( talk) 20:29, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, various Bishes and TPSes. Would anybody be willing to venture an opinion on this? I think the references are problematic (YouTube vid a probably copyright vio plus IMDb unreliable), but being a dangerously unstable troll, I'm never sure about these things. (Nice mountain, by the way, but I was hoping for something sentient—maybe even cuddly.) Rivertorch FIRE WATER 17:11, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Bishzilla has been trying to add a link to her pocket to her sig, for hospitality. It looks like this: bishzilla ROARR!! pocket. Lovely, in my opinion, and hospitable. But she had trouble pasting it into the Preferences signature field — it was cut off. :-( I have posted a question at the Village Pump. [146] Little talkpage stalkers are cordially invited to respond there. <subliminally>Support Bishzilla or perish!</subliminally> Bishonen | talk 17:51, 23 March 2018 (UTC).
[[User:Bishzilla|<b style="font-family:comic sans ms;color:#0FF"><big>''bishzilla''</big></b>]] [[User talk:Bishzilla|<i style="color:#E0E;"><sub>R</sub>OA<big>R<big>R!<big>!</big></big></big></i>]] [[User:Bishzilla/Srp|<b style="color:red">pocket</b>]]
→
bishzilla
ROARR!!
pocketBut surely you meant
Shock Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 14:48, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Changed bad mistake, can Boris live now? Shock Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 15:18, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Dear Bishonen,
Thank you for your help with Wikipedia!
As you suggested, I went to the talk page for Christian Science. There, I submitted a research-based request that 8 new words be added to an introductory sentence. However, I was given no opportunity to "develop consensus" as you said might be the case. Instead, my request was listed as answered, and denied under the basis that "we don't really have the space to unpack it." Adding eight words is a pretty simple. If an editor doesn't like my eight words, I would be happy to help her or him develop a different or shorter phrase. Or, editors could do some research on their own. Either way, the following is undeniable:
God is primary and central to Christian Science, based not on opinion, but pure research. To omit God from the introduction to Christian Science and to lead with a topic that is secondary is inaccurate.
Do you have any suggestions for how this inaccuracy can be resolved?
Blessings and thanks,
Sjostyn ( talk) 03:07, 25 March 2018 (UTC)Susie Jostyn
Warmly, Sjostyn ( talk) 03:16, 27 March 2018 (UTC)Susie
Hi Bish, I heard that you block users who no longer want to continue in Wikipedia and ask to voluntarily be infinitely blocked. If so, can the user return in the future or not, and in the same or new account? Just curious. ( N0n3up ( talk) 04:24, 26 March 2018 (UTC))
I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
tag from
Otara Gunewardene, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think this article should be deleted, please do not add {{proposed deletion}}
back to the file. Instead, feel free to list it at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks!
Dan arndt (
talk) 14:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
No, not me.
If you are still suspicious, then please subject me to whatever SPI/checkuser type procedure you wish, it will confirm that I'm not ThePierrasse thanks 124.106.139.19 ( talk) 18:04, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
For some reason I happened to be rereading something on my talk page, when I noticed something ... suspicious. You (or your Bishy companions) seem always around whenever I've had episodes of what I used to think were simply my semi-addled misadventures in misclickings. See: Reverting trolling, November 2014, and What? Fat finger?. So are you secretly in control of my fingers? Paul August ☎ 10:44, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Yes, Bishonen, Twitter is considered a "social media platform": [149]. I know you lost some respect for me when, for no good reason, you came to the assumption that I'm a flaming Conservative White Supremacist a couple of months ago, but please leave the LOLs out of your edit summaries when deleting content I've added to articles about Conservative subjects, okay? That's just rude. And, to be honest, lowers my opinion of the kind of person I thought you were. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 22:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
"And now you expect me to research the edit histories of conservative subjects to make sure who added something, in case it was you, before I formulate my edit summary? Do you think that's a reasonable request?", I made no such request. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 23:08, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I need help with this: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Violetriga
I'm afraid my civility on the issue has worn out, and in the interest in not getting myself blocked, I'm disengaging, but I strongly suggest some sort of action be taken here because this is not stopping. -- Tarage ( talk) 23:35, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
You may wish to chime in, with words or ______ over here, given the circumstances that proliferated at Ambarish Srivastava and now continuing around Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award.Best, ~ Winged Blades Godric 06:01, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Could you please answer my question at AE? I'm genuinely curious as to how that exchange could be interpreted other than the way I read it. Thanks. No More Mr Nice Guy ( talk) 18:55, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
...following through with some consequences re: this? [150]. Many thanks.- Mr X 🖋 21:31, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, can you have a word with this user. He seems to be losing it. The relevant talk page discussion is at Talk:Slavery in India#Interpretations of Dasa. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 22:51, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I appreciate the treats and apologize for my boring little friend finding their way to your talk. Tide rolls 12:28, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at this conversation? Was I wrong to move an essay to Wiki space without first gaining consensus? – dlthewave ☎ 21:07, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Is the factual statement that 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche is a reincarnation really acceptable on WP? The entire article is a mess but much of it seems to stem from this belief. - Sitush ( talk) 09:22, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
... they tend to be so confusing that if you are not an adherent, they are well nigh impossible ...you have probably stated an important and quite general fact ... best wishes DBaK ( talk) 10:20, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
Can you put an indefinite block on me? I do not use wikipedia and i am sure that i wont be coming back. Thanks I am. furhan. ( talk) 14:13, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
An editor pinged you from ANI. They want an admin to look at the thread. I made the suggestion they ping an administrator mentioned three to pick from. [157]. If this was improper please no not sanction the editor for my error. Jbh Talk 20:06, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
...this, [159] there's no shame in assuming good faith. The shame is on the user who violates that good faith. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Sir i beg you To Post Khaga History Article If you have any doubt i will give you screen shot pic proof or gazeteer proof
/info/en/?search=Special:MobileDiff/836854257
Sock, edit warring, illegitimate username, NOTHERE... I can't deal with this using my my phone. -- BullRangifer ( talk) PingMe 18:16, 17 April 2018 (UTC) BullRangifer ( talk) PingMe 18:16, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=User:Per_in_Sweden
This looks wrong to me. Thoughts? -- Tarage ( talk) 22:15, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Seeing that JamesBWatson is currently "Away for a while", I dump this on you, since I have seen you tpstalking his tp. Referring to this conversation, I can inform you that the Philippine IP is continuing their irritating subtle disruption from addresses close to, but outside the currently blocked ranges. Some of the last IPs used are 49.145.167.176 and 49.145.165.41, possibly also 49.150.36.65, but that one has only one edit that is difficult to crosscheck. I do not have time to go through all their edits now or look for other IP addresses, but will try to find time soon to revert their disruptions. It is a boring pain-in-the-ass job... Regards! -- T*U ( talk) 10:05, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I see you're online doing admin tasks and was wondering if you could block this IP 121.221.241.233 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) who is disruptively blanking music pages without any explanation [161] and introducing deliberately inaccurate content see here. No one seems to be watching the AIV page and they are getting disruptive. HickoryOughtShirt?4 ( talk) 09:27, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
I made a mistake in issuing this chap a very short term block instead of an indef NOTHERE, but for obvious reasons, I won't change that now, but can you keep a watch on this charmer? cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 07:31, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen. Please see User talk:EdJohnston#User:Md iet. You had previously posted to Md iet's talk page in 2016 and might have an opinion on what (if anything) admins should do to handle this dispute. The sanctions of ARBIPA are available if needed. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 17:45, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
I guess if I could figure out who the SPA's are who created these, the CU's are already spinning .-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 19:54, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Anythingyouwant and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks, Anythingyouwant ( talk) 23:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
You issued a final warning here. User has been warned about DS sanctions on BLP and DS sanctions on ARBPIA. There are also multiple warnings on his talk page on various issues.
Holohoax, a portmanteau of "Holocaust" and "Hoax", is a coinage used to describe alleged media manipulation, distortion or fraud by the Israelis and other Jews designed to win the public relations war against Palestine.) - per wiktionary this is "(offensive, used by Holocaust deniers) The Holocaust viewed as an event which is fabricated and did not happen."
:Isn't it a WP:COI for an editor who has served in the Israeli Defence Forces to vote on an issue like this which involves a controversy surrounding the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces in the West Bank? Genuine question.. I'll note the article itself (created by this user) is questionable (as might be evident in the AfD).
All this in April 2018. Icewhiz ( talk) 06:34, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Edits on this page Indo-Aryan migration have been reverted by many editors. I don't want to cross the 3RR limot nor I want to revert again. Notably, there is a set of usual editors have made baseless accusations and seem to be removing my content just because they don't like what I add. It's not just me, another editor Wiki841 too has reverted them and restored my edit.
In the interests of avoiding edit-warring, I request you protect the article. I don't simply want my preferred version to be protected, so whatever version you protect is up to you. I am open to discussion but they shouldn't falsely blame me of copyright violation and outdated translation when there is none. They also keep using Wikipedia policies like WP:SOAPBOX which have nothing do with my edits. I suggest you tell them to discuss and prove themselves first and not make bad-faith baseless accusations. MonsterHunter32 ( talk) 22:27, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I want the ban removed as I never added unsourced material to any of the articles. May I know how I can appeal? Sharkslayer87 ( talk) 11:03, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Bishonen, I apologize if I did disruptive editing. But I beg you to understand me. I never added poor sources. My sources are genuine. The below two sources really provide synonymity between Raju and Kshatriya. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Kanumuri-Bapiraju-faces-uphill-task-in-Narsapuram/articleshow/33795850.cms https://books.google.com/books?id=oQOF7tkWXjIC&pg=PA98&dq=kshatriyas+rajus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD-s67t4PaAhWGxFkKHcyxBUY4FBDoAQhUMAk#v=onepage&q=kshatriyas%20rajus&f=false.
The first source says "Rajus (Kshatriya)" and the second source clearly says "The rajus are a small, close-knit community of the Kshatriya caste"
These are the sources that I used. I also used Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard who is considered by many as one of the greatest social anthropologists ever. He has more than a hundered thousand results at google scholar and he has been cited by thousands and thousands of scholars. “The Raju caste, classified as the Kshatriya or warriors among the Twice-born castes, is the second highest in the village. The Raju are descendants of former rulers of the area and though their wealth and influence has declined they still bestow patronage in the form of land, money and political connections. Several Raju families have Shudra and Harijan field laborers attached to them by yearly agreements”.
He states in no uncertain terms that Rajus are classified as Kshatriyas.
Please kick me out if you want but please don't say that my sources are not good. I have never added bad sources. All my sources have been good. I might have been a little aggressive in my editing for which I apologize but I never used poor sources. Sharkslayer87 ( talk) 11:39, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.
Sharkslayer87 (
talk) 12:05, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at WP:AN regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Sharkslayer87 ( talk) 12:17, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Oh, dammit. I've been trying to fashion a bright red obnoxious box to post at the top of
Talk:Ghirth, with the text "This page is for civil discussion of improvements of the page
Ghirth. Caste glorification, attacks on living people, and other irrelevant material will be removed." It's supposed to be used as a last-ditch attempt to manage without semiprotection of that talkpage, which is currently at the mercy of clueless inexperienced caste warriors expressing their frustration at being unable to "improve" the semi-protected main page. Check it out, especially the stuff that
Utcursch has removed. So, I have some boxes, that I've been trying to adapt, but it's bloody impossible. I probably keep missing out some really important dot or curl. Would a clever talkpage stalker like to create one for me? How about you,
RexxS?
NeilN ?
Bishonen |
talk 20:36, 1 May 2018 (UTC).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).
equals_to_any
function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to
see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to
Logstash.I just wanted to personally thank you for your comments on the unblock request. 331dot ( talk) 17:33, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
who was? Sounds vaguely familiar.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 21:23, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Thank you all for your recent vigilance on my user and talk pages. Much appreciated. There are some very odd and bored people around. Giano (talk) 12:49, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
The caption contest is over, and young Martinevans123, who provided the image and the invitation to caption it, is invited to crown the victor. Bishonen | talk 19:49, 13 May 2018 (UTC).
Hello, I have seen your comment on Cassianto's talk page "Please feel free to alert me on my page if you should see new infobox discussions being started where there's already a recent consensus." On Talk:Stanley Kubrick an editor has just started a "Straw Poll" on whether or not an infobox should be included when the last of numerous such discussions was closed on 4 April. Smeat75 ( talk) 21:42, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Hey Bish, I did the paperwork for the restriction. [169], [170] The editnotice is especially important as Arbcom won't consider a restriction as valid unless one is present. -- NeilN talk to me 13:26, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Sill, glad to know that re-litigating an idiotbox discussion and edit warring is something that ArbCom will frown on. How about re-opening a discussion less than 24 hours after another discussion had been closed, then adding the box back after 11 days, while the RfC is still open? Excellent news that ArbCom managed to sort all that mess out then. Once again I suspect that if the re-litigating and edit warring had been to remove the box, rather than force it back in, all hell would have broken out and it would have been ANI, blocks or ArbCom to ensure punishment was meted out. - SchroCat ( talk) 12:59, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Talk:Brexit. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Bettering the Wiki ( talk) 03:07, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Richard 0612 13:19, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen, can you please take a look at Ashishdpune who appears to be a possible sock of Koltepatil2017 ( talk · contribs) you blocked in February ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kolte Patil). Thank you GSS ( talk| c| em) 07:11, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
You were recently listed as a party to or recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/German war effort. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/German war effort/Evidence. Please add your evidence by May 30, 2018, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/German war effort/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 23:01, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
+ a user page: [172] - (any) admin needed -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:32, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
was fixed, thanks all who did -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:56, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
Module:Carousel has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 23:18, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
You are not yet mentioned but your block may be raised following this at ANI. - Sitush ( talk) 17:51, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Care to do the honours with SitushTheBrahminbazturd ( talk · contribs) ? - Sitush ( talk) 23:38, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen.
You created Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/India Against Corruption sock-meatfarm. I have searched the Internet for a definition of "meatfarm" and all I get is thousands of references to places where livestock is raised; as an internet term, it appears to be uncommon and obscure, even when I use the search string "meatfarm internet slang." What do you mean by this term?
Thanks. — O'Dea ( talk) 15:59, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).
Just a heads up. Randfal2 popped up on my watchlist making 20+ single character edits at Misha Frid. I noticed TurnPike37 doing the same thing with a bit more subtlety elsewhere last night. I suppose they may simply be really obsessive about, yet not very good with, grammar but I bet they will be less concerned after they hit 500 edits. Jbh Talk 16:05, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I'd always thought it was a sensation one enjoyed. But this and the like have reminded me that it's instead merely things that demonstrate that income tax should be more progressive.
Er, where was I? Yes, conversion from "watch" to "timepiece" made me chuckle. Looking more closely at the article in question than I'd done in years, I found it was even worse than I'd vaguely imagined. For one thing, there are a lot of "Citation needed" flags that have been in place since 2012. Should one let the article stew in its obsequious juices, or apply editorial leeches to drain these out? -- Hoary ( talk) 23:13, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I'm afraid that I'm being stalked by an editor that has been blocked since November 10, 2016 by the name of JuanRiley. Even after being blocked this editor began creeping up on the talk page of his blocked account, then eventually mine twice one in May 15 and this one being recent as of today (yesterday). And if you look at these IP's they all begin with "75.161." and they all come from New Mexico [173] [174] [175]. This is really worrisome because apart that he was a troublesome editor, more than anyone I or anyone had dealt with, the fact that this editor has always been stalking my edits and talk page to a personal level even after being blocked is really frightening. ( N0n3up ( talk) 04:30, 3 June 2018 (UTC))
Can you please block me with the expiration of the block being on the 19th of June? I have a series of important tests I must take and I wish not to be distracted. Thanks, 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 19:05, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
If that account is banned and Kbb2 is allowed, isn't it also a conflict of interest for kbb2 to edit Mr Kebab? It's like he is hiding it's a banned account, should it not be completely locked down so kbb2 can't edit it? Govvy ( talk) 14:12, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
David A's six-month topic ban, which he appealed at the halfway mark, has expired. So, naturally, he's gone right back to the same ways, dumping piles of links onto talk pages and asking that they be shoe-horned in somewhere:
Or canvassing:
Do you think this is significant enough to raise at ANI or AN? -- Calton | Talk 17:45, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
I would greatly appreciate if we could please avoid that. I am under tremendous amounts of stress as it is, and do not want to be constantly severely attacked by lots of strangers on top of that.
All that I have done is to try to inform people about various relevant and reliable statistics that I have found, and recognised that I am not very competent when it comes to edit them into the pages, so I have avoided doing so, and asked for help instead. David A ( talk) 18:06, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
"60% of students born abroad are among those with the lowest academic test scores", and I understand that the statistic worries you. But what if someone suggested that most students born abroad have a poorer grasp of the Swedish language than native-born students? and that it would be expected that they performed less well in tests conducted in Swedish? Perhaps if Syrian refugees took the tests in Arabic, they would score much closer to their peers? Similarly, refugees from a war-torn state are far less likely to have a school to go to, so perhaps we should not be surprised to find that many of them have not finished 9 years of school? Anyway, I'm not suggesting we debate those points. I am suggesting, however, that in order to give meaning to statistics, we need expert analysis. We need to find someone with a reputation for that sort of analysis who has looked at the statistics and published their views and conclusions. That is what we call a "secondary source", and it is what Wikipedia is built upon.
Vanamonde ( talk) 11:55, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen! Could you please block me until 26th June (please also revoke talk page editing access)? I am having a important exam now and I wish to stop being distracted by Wikipedia. Thanks. ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus ( talk to me) 14:28, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke talk page access.-- Cahk ( talk) 07:59, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the support. I'm sorry to have bugged you, but you're one of the few editors on Wikipedia I trust unreservedly: I knew I could rely upon your opinion, whether I was right OR wrong. If I were right, you'd tell me, and if were wrong, you'd also tell me, and I'd take your word in EITHER case.
Support or sanity check: I'll take either. -- Calton | Talk 04:53, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
How can you say it would have been fair to block me for reverting clear-cut BLP violations? Would you like me to walk you through them? -- Dr. Fleischman ( talk) 05:25, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Stanley Kubrick and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks, ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ᐐT₳LKᐬ 00:21, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
I was glancing at my watchlist a few moments ago, when I noticed a change to an editor’s page (an editor whose pomposity always amuses me) so I took a quick look, as one does, and was startled to see, amongst his many little boxes, that he is a Grand Master of Wikipedia. I had no idea one could award oneself these things, it’s all explained here Wikipedia:Service awards. In order to preserve our well known modesty, rather than elevate ourselves, I thought we could award each other something. I would like to be Grand Warlock of Wikipedia, and I thought you might like to be Platinum Godess or something similar. Giano (talk) 20:42, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. The Civility in infobox discussions arbitration amendment request filed 16 June 2018 has been declined. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 03:01, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
I saw you left a message on my talk while I was away (I appreciate the thoughtfulness and I'm sorry I didn't see it before now). FWIW, I'm sort-of back, though I don't know for how long. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:39, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at User:Kudpung/What do admins do?. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:24, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, if you ever thought that the castes were just a Hindu thing, here is a counterexample. Despite my detailed advice, there is no change in behaviour. Some roaring from you would help :-) -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 10:33, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish. Could you rev del these two edits on my user page: [178], [179]. It's a personal attack by the user in Hindi. — LeoFrank Talk 03:19, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Ok you can block me now I'm quitting form editing 😑😩 Akshaym1234 ( talk) 13:07, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. I would really appreciate if you could take a moment to participate in this. Your comments would be particularly valuable. It's not an RfC or anything like that. It would only take 5 minutes of your time. Just a few days left.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
talk) 22:11, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
In light of the discussion(s) at Talk:Udayar (caste), me thinks that Aravindkrishna088 might benefit from your words.Also, pinging Sitush. ∯WBG converse 06:33, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
If you're looking for an image for your talk page, maybe File:Smokey Mountains overlooking Bryson City, NC.jpg? II know it's not the best photo (I took it with my phone a year ago, which was pretty old at the time), but I tried to fix it up a bit, and I think it turned out pretty nice (it's my desktop background). ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 23:33, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hey Bish, this IP is now trolling on their talk page. Needs revocation, and probably deserves a longer block. Home Lander ( talk) 18:04, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
I saw your post on my talk about the recent edit I made to Lauren Southern's page. I have no affiliation with Lauren Southern. My name is obviously a portmanteau of "southern justice" and "social justice warrior". My edits are to bring an even-sided information to the article which is written with hints of negative tone. It conveniently leaves out supporting information in many sections. SouthernJusticeWarrior ( talk) 17:05, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
You uploaded or restored ,
File:Salt.sill.jpeg, but for various reasons did not add an {{
information}} block, or indicate your (user) name on the file description page. Media uploaded to Wikipedia needs information on the SPECIFIC authorship and source of files, to ensure that it complies with
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If it's entirely your own work:
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and an |author=
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Please update the source and authorship fields, so that they accurately reflect the source and authors of the original work(s), as well as the derivative you created. You should also not use a "self" license unless the work is entirely you own. Media that is incorrectly claimed as self or {{
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It's okay to remove or strike messages like this once the concerns have been addressed. :).
ShakespeareFan00 (
talk) 20:58, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
And others..
ShakespeareFan00 (
talk) 21:04, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Thomas Betterton2.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 11:14, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
Missed my ES with my revert. Cheers Jim1138 ( talk) 08:31, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I've un-archived the post you referred to. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 09:05, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Have a look here, User_talk:Ccmarathe#Don't_forget_to_claim_your_credit!_(File:Dhakbahiri8.jpg)
Would you be more likely to respond to that or to the overly worded ones you got previosuly? ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 21:44, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
I'll keep the original Un-fileclaim around in my userspace though. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 08:49, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
The wording on this could be improved, I felt the initial stronger version was better than the current one, This was essentialy a Level1 warning, and it would be appreciated if stronger wordings for higher levels were drafted. The level1 verswion was essentially a friendly reminder not to wrongly claim self. The higher level wordings would be more like the No Permission wordings already used, but suitably customised. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 08:26, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
I need you to look at the Kulbhushan Jadhav page where a very important piece of information is under threat. Is it vandalism/edit warring, not sure. The report by the U.N needs to be told in the article. I'm new on Wikipedia so request you to please look into it asap. Thank you. Adding The Truth ( talk) 15:50, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
I don't have the "thanks" function turned on, so this is by way of thanking you for your comment on the German WWII arb case. I completely agree with both you and Mastcell that the committee has almost entirely missed the boat, and that Cinderella157 needs something more than na admonishment. I haven't said anything because, frankly, I thought it would be useless effort on my part, so I was glad to see that someone of your reputation spoke out. Thanks again. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 23:47, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
The best part is this is a Yale computer. Immediately reminded me of this. Home Lander ( talk) 15:25, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
NeilN is on vacation, so I was hoping you could weigh in on a dispute at AR-15 style rifle. Discussion is taking place in several locations: [180] [181] [182] [183]. – dlthewave ☎ 15:59, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Yesterday, a new user "Senator Begs-Ducks-For-Bread" was randomly adding a somewhat crass statement to several other new user pages. Examples:
"Yo, dawg, you don't wanna be messing with those teegers. I saw one bite my old man's leg right off. Now he just hobbles around on a stump. Senator Begs-Ducks-For-Bread (talk) 15:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)"
"Yo, dawg! Welcome to Wikipedia! I know you gonna edit it up real nice, so get to slinging, brother! Senator Begs-Ducks-For-Bread (talk) 15:31, 31 July 2018 (UTC)"
I thought that the new users might be perplexed by these mysterious messages, and so decided to tell them that SBDFB has already been blocked for vandalism. David notMD ( talk) 11:22, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
For some reason ( [184]) I can't move this page. Can you do it please. Most odd, I've always been ale to move pages before. Perhaps it about time I became an admin or something. Giano (talk) 15:42, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Request to lift topic ban. NeilN talk to me 00:40, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, can you block me until the end of August to cool down? I recently noticed that I am abusing Wikipedia as a way to procrastinate after blocking other venues such as facebook, reddit etc.
I cannot block access to Wikipedia similarly to all these other time-wasters because i also use it for useful stuff, you know.
I know that such blocks are typically declined, so to help you in your decision, I pinky-swear that I have created a bot that will start:
The bot is to start in two days and stop at the end of August 2018.
It is not in Wikipedia's interest for me to run such a bot, and blocks should be preventive, not punitive, thus you should block me as soon as possible, before the bot starts.
It is also not in my interest to actually run such a bot should you not block me, therefore I have to use the
magic power of
pinky swear to make you believe that I created and would run such a botmake me really run the bot against my future self's wishes.
Nowak Kowalski ( talk) 22:16, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
@Bishonen,
I'm a brand new user and got a bit confused. I'm not sure exactly what the sanctions mean. I did not know I even had a "talk" page until a few minutes ago. Whatever they are, could you please remove them?
I was attempting to edit an article and thought that consensus was achieved after publishing. Someone decided to delete my work. I wasn't sure why. So, I put it back up.
-- Intellectual Property Theft ( talk) 11:13, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I have no idea what the sanctions you placed on my page mean. I just noticed them. I'm a brand new user who tried editing the Alex Jones page. Someone took down all my work for not getting "consensus". Apparently, consensus is achieved after publication. I'm confused. Anyway, I put it back up and they took it back down again... and I put it up again.
Again, I'm a new user and confused about everything. I'm not even sure if this is the right way to communicate to you. Please respond.
Thanks -- Intellectual Property Theft ( talk) 11:21, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Okay, Thanks! -- Intellectual Property Theft ( talk) 11:31, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
There is an ARCA request in which you're involved. Please see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Amendment request: post-1932 American politics, broadly construed. Thank you. Atsme 📞 📧 18:38, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello Bish. What Atsme's claim about you being involved is based on can be seen in this thread on her talk page (showing what it looked like just before being archived on 30 June), and my comment about the "involved" claim in that thread can be seen here. Judging by what has been posted at WP:ARCA since you posted there I don't think there will be a need for me to comment there, but if there's a need for it I will. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 21:40, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Do you really find the I-have-no-idea-what-topic-ban-means-and-I-don't-want-to-find-out syndrome common? I only ask because the vio appears on the surface to be so blatant. A warning wouldn't hurt from my uneducated POV. A waste of time, maybe, but isn't time on our side?. Tide rolls 21:49, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding German war effort articles has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee,
Hello Bishonen. @ NeilN: FYI, there's an unfortunate sequence of events at Stephen Miller (political advisor) that began with a DS violation by User:Winkelvi on the article page and that has continued on the article talk page, most recently with needlessly uncivil and pointless comments and edit summaries by Winkelvi there. In my opinion, this user is unable to engage in constructive content-and policy-based collaboration and has demonstrated that inability over an extended period of incivility and disruption on numerous articles related to American Politics. However, I'm here just to point out the current incident, which I've documented, and I don't expect any reply from you here and am not making any accusations or aspersions about my opinion of his history. Thanks for your volunteer efforts on WP. SPECIFICO talk 17:17, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
"Do you have anything to say here that will support your contention that the content belongs in the article and will lend to further discussion and coming to consensus?"that I started there. [188] SPECIFICO chose to decline taking part in a discussion [189] re: their concerns
"My valid and sufficient endorsement of the consensus text is fully stated in my edit summary. I will have no further comment...". Even after another editor stated they didn't have an issue with either my preferred version or SPECIFICO's preferred version [190] and another editor commented that they were not in favor of SPECIFICO's preferred version [191], SPECIFICO chose to retort with
"BS"[192]. I do find all of these comments and actions at this particular article talk page ironic in light of their charge against me that I'm
"...unable to engage in constructive content-and policy-based collaboration and has demonstrated that inability over an extended period of incivility and disruption on numerous articles related to American Politics". I think I've exhibited nothing but a desire to engage in constructive content and policy based collaboration as well as civility at this article and article talk page with SPECIFICO. Because of that, I'm puzzled by them coming here and posting the above. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 17:34, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Do I need to file some kind of formal case to get Winkelvi to stop hounding me? Or can any of the multiple admins who are aware of what he's up to just act? In the last hour, the editor has gone to half-a-dozen articles that I created more than a year ago, and added tags to them. The articles are literally as far away as is possible from American politics, and it's obvious that Winkelvi is going through them as part of his daily harassment routine against me [193] [194] [195] [196] [197]. Snooganssnoogans ( talk) 21:28, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Bish, can you review the IPA discretionary sanction I instituted here, especially for the effectiveness and clarity of the scope of the topic-ban? Abecedare ( talk) 02:50, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Incidentally, while keeping up with the
Sarah Jeong reading last week (don't ask), I came across this
Jelani Cobb
quote, "They understand the current debate around free speech and social media not as an attempt to create parameters of decency around public dialogue but rather as part of a board game in which each side attempts to remove valuable pieces from the other’s team.
" The second emphasized part captures what is going on in the India-Pakistan area with the tit-for-tat complaints at SPI, ANEW, ANI etc. Anyway, enjoy the rest of Sunday!
Abecedare (
talk) 12:22, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Arbitration amendment request and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks,— Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidbena ( talk • contribs) 04:00, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, I am committed to a fully neutral Wikipedia and I am interested only in encyclopedic representation of politics. I do not intend to, nor have I ever, edited any content for purely political purposes. The vast majority of my edits are custodial fixes to apolitical pages, and any edits related to politics are treated in the same way I would treat any other edit. Please assume good intent - I am not a POV pusher and my edits to the Sarah Huckabee Sanders page were conducted under the advice of administrators at IRC.
Thanks - Dmezh ( talk) 17:03, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
Dmezh, I hope you realize that a "fully neutral" Wikipedia does not mean that all content and sources are neutral. Far from it. This is a common fallacy believed by many new, and even some experienced, editors. We aren't interested in only blah and boring content, because we're supposed to document the "sum total of human knowledge", and it's anything but neutral.
NPOV refers primarily to editorial conduct, IOW editors should treat (often very biased) sources and content "neutrally". They should not censor the bias in the sources, but faithfully document it. The result will be an article with content which documents bias, IOW the article may not seem "neutral". Wikipedia and its editors don't take sides, we just faithfully document the sides, and they are often far from neutral. I have written an essay on this subject you may wish to read: WP:NPOV means neutral editors, not neutral content. -- BullRangifer ( talk) PingMe 18:58, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
I can see that Cruise (film) has been recreated. Can you userfy the version that was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cruise (film).-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:09, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish, you recently blocked this account ( Lexghi Raa) per this ANI complaint. He's still abusing sock IPs however. [207] Perhaps a range block? - LouisAragon ( talk) 13:37, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Watching Cullen328's talkpage? Because this is a real beauty: User talk:Cullen328#I've removed your obnoxious comment from my talk page. -- Softlavender ( talk) 06:49, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Hey Bishonen, I have a question for you. I thought I had a clear understanding of blocking policy and how it relates to talk page usage while blocked, but I've had an admin tell me that I am incorrect. My understanding was that when blocked, a talk page should only be used to discuss the block and post potential block appeals. I've seen an indef blocked editor who is using their talk page repeatidly to post citations for other users to use, sometimes even with instructions/pings for said person to apply the edit. I went and looked at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Edits_by_and_on_behalf_of_banned_editors and the wording there seems ambiguous to me, seemingly placing the onus on the editor rather than the person who is blocked to not do the edits. Since I may have been misunderstanding this policy, I wanted to ask your opinion. Thanks. -- Tarage ( talk) 17:44, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Please can I request a range block to cover a user who is making unsourced edits after having been blocked twice for the same sort of edits. They are currently editing on 2600:8800:4480:5D10:E42F:DB9E:E33B:379A, and have been blocked on 2600:8800:4480:5D10:6D07:80A0:8A4C:3529 and 2600:8800:4480:5D10:7DCB:D8CA:764A:B15D. They have also edited as 2600:8800:4480:5D10:10B6:DDB8:3E13:DA98 and 2600:8800:4480:5D10:E42F:DB9E:E33B:379A. The consistent pattern is claiming that there will be new editions of Fall Brawl and Bash at the Beach, and/or that Extreme Rules (2018) and Hell in a Cell (2018) are the final events under those names, all without providing a source.
The edits are all within the 2600:8800:4480:5D10: range, so a range block would cover them. I believe this is the same user who edited on a different IP range ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Contributions/2600:8800:4480:3820:0:0:0:0/64&target=2600%3A8800%3A4480%3A3820%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%2F64]. See in particular their edits to Fall Brawl that made similar claims that there would be a new event. Silverfish ( talk) 16:57, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
They have continued making the same sort of edits after the block just expired. See [208]. Silverfish ( talk) 22:45, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Please can you impose an indefinite self requested block on my account please? Spartaz Humbug! 19:02, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
here was recently reverted by me for disruptions in ARBIPA. May I know if that topic ban was ever lifted by you or at another location ? asking because there is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Saladin1987 on this editor. Thanks. -- DBig Xrayᗙ 22:03, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
It's at User:MjolnirPants/nonazis. I've also mentioned it to Drmies and TonyBallioni, at Drmies' talk page. See my final comment and the usual trust I have in your judgement for why I'm asking you to weigh in. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 22:15, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Just so you know, I posted the following a WV's talk page:
WV chose to delete it, along with another edit he didn't like. -- MelanieN ( talk) 02:05, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).
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.Hi Bishonen. Since you were the last admin to warn Thomas Paine1776 ( talk · contribs) [209], I thought I'd see if you had comments or recommendations on his continued sanctionable editing [210]. I only quickly looked through his edits in BLPs since you warned him, and I think sanctions are long overdue. @ Thomas Paine1776: -- Ronz ( talk) 15:33, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
—AE ( talk • contributions) 09:14, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Lucky_Gregory_Smith Please lose this antisemitic troll. -- Tarage ( talk) 18:45, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. I understand your posts here and here. Your AN3 close, however, didn't restore the article back to the version without the infobox logo, so I've gone ahead a done that. If that was inappropriate, please advise. I'm willing to try and continue to explain to the IP as to why, at least currently, the image is not being used in the article, and encourage them to participate in the discussion on the article's talk page. At the same time though, I'm a little concerned that the IP isn't a completely new editor and might actually be connected to LivinRealGüd, but I'm willing to drop that if you think that's not likely the case with this IP. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:22, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
I just ran into this mess. I don't know if there's anything to be done, but this is getting worse than a Corsican clan vendetta, and it needs to stop... Vanamonde ( talk) 16:23, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish, Can you please explain your closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zahid Ali (politician) KEEP on the basis of 1 person's unfounded nationalistic "rant" Please note that The Election commision of Pakistan has already nullified the victory notification. see ECP withholds PB-41 victory notification .So This article clearly violates WP:NPOL, WP:GNG and WP:FUTURE. I am clearly dumbfounded here on what basis is this AfD been closed. Does this admin (edit:whom you quoted in your closure statement) has some kind of a super vote on AfDs where the policy can be trashed and AfDs can be closed on the basis of his rants ? -- DBig Xrayᗙ 17:56, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
"even if he is elected, he fails WP:POLITICIAN". This is just plain wrong, but was nonetheless repeated by several others. This is, to me, evidence of battleground editing, because I can see no other explanation for why several editors, many of whom have been censured for their behavior on articles related to the Indo-Pakistan conflict, would misrepresent a very straightforward guideline to support a "delete" argument on an individual elected to a Pakistani legislature. Vanamonde ( talk) 18:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Regards -- DBig Xrayᗙ 00:06, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
The re election will not happen "pretty soon". As of now Even the dates of re-election have not been declared.Are you saying the statement in the source is wrong? The first sentence states "Re-polling on Tuesday at two Balochistan’s PB-41 polling stations was ordered by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)". I know Indian English word order is sometimes different, but I find it quite hard to read that as saying anything other than that re-polling on Tuesday was ordered by the ECP. Did you see my previous post, where I also talked about "re-polling on Tuesday"? Anyway, please note that I'm going to bed now, it's very late. Bishonen | talk 00:28, 15 September 2018 (UTC).
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday ordered re-polling at two polling stations in Balochistan's PB-41 (Washuk). Regards-- DBig Xrayᗙ 00:49, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi – lovely to hear from you! How embarrassing – breaking a nine-year editing gap by not realising I'd logged in with this account. And I can't even edit my own talk page! I'm afraid I'm not really back. I'm curious about how you noticed a single revert to an article as obscure as Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States... Hope all's well with you. [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 14:17, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
FYI: [218] Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 15:45, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
I disagree with one of your admin actions, and instead of calmly explaining why, I'm here to haughtily link to WP:ADMINACCT and demand an explanation, all the while putting you on blast for daring to do something that I (and maybe one or two others) disagree with, but which the majority of interested editors think was rather non-controversial. Consider yourself warned. Also, this page is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the nature of my complaint. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:14, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
[S]he has barely contributed anything to the mainspace in at least a year, and seems much more interested in picking fights." [220] 'Zilla and I are both a little depressed, because it's true, you know. I am more interested in picking fights. Unlike Bishzilla, who these days mostly bumbles around the site making friends, like some gigantic Muminmamma. Sad! [Is struck by a new thought.] Hey, maybe the ARCA description was really hinting at the little Floquenbeam! Seems quite likely! Bishonen | talk 19:54, 17 September 2018 (UTC).
G'day Bishonen. Just a friendly reminder that the Milhist Coord election is for members of the project to participate in. We accepted a question from a non-member of the project about the ArbCom case with good grace, and I'm pleased that all nominees have chosen to answer it, but nominees are entitled to form their own opinions about the case and state their views on it without persistent follow-up questions/comments from someone who is not a member of the project. This might be seen as an attempt to influence voting. I believe Euryalus has clarified the issue now. The case is linked in the question, and members of the project will hopefully read it and make up their own minds on the merits and on who to vote for. Thanks,
Peacemaker67 (
click to talk to me) 09:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
"Both project members and interested outside parties are encouraged to ask questions of the nominees or make general comments."– dlthewave ☎ 11:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
^
Lol ^
Manikhat18 ( talk) 23:59, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
The IP 130.105.168.245 ( talk · contribs), who you blocked after this discussion as they were making disruptive edits to List of James Bond villains, has now made four edits in a row on the same page under the IP address of 130.105.168.63 ( talk · contribs) earlier today, which I reverted here. So what would your call be for now? Thank you Ted Edwards 11:24, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
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And most annoyingly, the crappy software didn't give me an edit conflict. When I saved my ANI remark, which somebody has now indiscreetly pasted above (I had promptly removed it), I had no way of knowing SlimVirgin had just archived the thread. Grrr. And for this I interrupted a perfectly good pout break! And I wasn't even nearly as rude as I felt like being! :-( I think I'll just go on another pout break, over that. Please don't post here, guys. I'm on break. Bishonen | talk 08:11, 12 May 2017 (UTC).
Oh very well, I'm not on break any more, it's shot full of holes anyway. Bringing back the summer meadow with horse. Thank you for your comments above, guys. Bishonen | talk 08:28, 12 May 2017 (UTC).
Thanks for the revdel. The same info was added earlier by an IP, User:66.87.148.226. Should that be revdel'd too? Cheers. --‖ Ebyabe talk - Health and Welfare ‖ 18:55, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I don't seem to understand the removal of the phrase that was used to indicate her as an Anambra descent. That's a regular word that is used to indicate people's origin in almost all varieties of English. Phrases like "European descent", "Scottish descent", etc are not uncommon on Wikipedia. Can you please explain why "Anambra descent" is bad quality?-- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 20:19, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
"Okaro, a descent of Anambra, in Southeast Nigeria, was born in London, United Kingdom."is correct English? The idiomatic English expression that you're trying to mimic would be "of European descent". Note: (1) the preposition "of"; and (2) the adjectival form of Europe - "European". The phrase is almost always used as a direct qualifier, i.e. it's adjectival. You're trying to use it in apposition to a name, i.e. as a noun phrase – which it isn't. There's no way in English of economically constructing the sentence you're looking for. Something like "Okaro, a woman of Anambran descent (Anambra is a state in Southeast Nigeria), was born in London." would be the nearest that I can muster, but it's awkward. Have a think about the point you're trying to make and ask for help if you can't construct it in English. -- RexxS ( talk) 20:47, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
"Okara was born in London but has Anambran ancestry."or
"Okara was born in London to Anambran parents."followed by
"The family returned to Nigeria where Okara attended the Santa Maria Primary school in Enugu State.". Thoughts, RexxS, Celestina007? EdChem ( talk) 05:25, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
(Guy Fawkes is a girl. Couldn't they tell?)Does no one remember the 5th of November?
MONGO still around...but stubborn fight with Dell computer to fix their junk has me sidelined sans desktop at present, just as I was starting to get back into editing....grrrrrr. Yes please do add images to the MONGO collection...which is going to be greatly expanded by August anyway after I return from wild woods excursion from my ancestral lair from whence I came.-- MONGO 15:22, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Greetings Bishonen. I'm enjoying not being a very active editor! I spotted at least one editor not behaving very well. Here's the page and issue in question. Be well and regards. Tapered ( talk) 07:21, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Bishonen. While I have your attention: User:MShabazz went through my contributions as a result of the Zionist Occupation Government debate and reverted most of my edits that mentioned the subject's religious background in biography articles. Is this not notable when properly cited? It seems to me that religion is one of the most important aspects of someone's upbringing, and most "Early life and education" sections include far less informative details. See User_talk:MShabazz for my message directly to him. Franzboas ( talk) 16:34, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
how one can have a not on an article talk page for nearly a month, asking for any thoughts for potential improvements prior to nomming for GAN... and not a single comment.... but immediately after dropping the template on the talk for GAN, templates magically appear on the article... -- Aunva6 talk - contribs 21:43, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
@ Bishonen: He opened by attacking me as a paid editor calling me a "shill". So i received a warning because he is your friend? Does an editor without COI make personal attacks and then refuses to apologize and instead claims he is more qualified then me? Did you give him a warning? Bishonen you've dealt with me before. I'd never get banned from a topic, look at my history. I am almost always right. Be neutral and dont post false warnings on my page. Did you see any attacks on other editors who disagree with me? Valoem talk contrib 13:40, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Civil Services of India and Central Civil Services need your urgent attention as the sock is back. He has already vandalised both the articles twice and using profanities in the edit summary. This time he's using anonymous IPs. I strongly ask for protection for indefinite time even from registered users of both the articles after restoration, and a CU on "Uncletomwood", "Ganeshpote", "Kiranmohadika" among others. Please add the pages to your watchlist along with Vehicle beacon lights in India, Indian order of precedence, Indian Police Service, Indian Administrative Service, Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Ministry of Defence (India), Indian Armed Forces, Indian Revenue Service. Thanks!
Bishonen, judging from the history of the Civil Services of India article, somewhere between most and all edits in May are by now-blocked socks and IPs, who are mostly reverting each other. Perhaps re-institute semi-protection (as was needed in 2013) on this page, set Bishzilla in the edit notice for the page, and Darwinbish could keep occupied any who edit problematically? EdChem ( talk) 05:43, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
I still don't understand why my username is being constantly dragged into this. I made false claims in 2013-2014 but have never made any such claims thereafter. I repeat that I am not associated with any of the socks of Vrghs Jacob. I welcome a checkuser if only to clear my name from this mess. I also ask the IP editor to kindly please stop this disparagement immediately. Thanks! The IP editor is warned not to do this again. Uncletomwood ( talk) 09:59, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
I seem to have yet more users logging out in order to troll me on ANI. [1] I can't just blank their comments since a logged-in user who just has a grudge against me but is not engaged in sockpuppetry has been humouring them. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 20:39, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
practically involved in every dispute ever filed on ANI; I have commented in less than half the threads currently open there, and less than half in the most recent archive, even though this is basically the most active I have ever been as an ANI contributor.
Sigh. Hijiri 88, why don't you just stop? Please self-ban yourself from ANI for a few days. You don't have to answer everything. Bishonen | talk 16:56, 19 May 2017 (UTC).
I think your comment about "the syntax problems presented by the two parallel clauses" nails it. I made the tiniest change to the opening sentence. I was hoping you could have a look, if time permits. I've opened a talk-page thread as well. Hope all is well with you. Joefromrandb ( talk) 05:52, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
"Both irreducible complexity and specified complexity present detailed negative assertions that certain features (biological and informational, respectively) are too complex to be the result of natural processes"in the second paragraph is pretty reader-unfriendly. It starts as if the reader's gonna know beforehand about irreducible complexity and specified complexity, and know that they're ID arguments — without having to first click on the links. Of course the previous sentence is meant to introduce them as ID arguments, but I don't think that works very well: a stronger connection between the sentences is needed. Do I dare to eat a peach? I've fiddled with the second paragraph. What's the worst that can happen? (Hides.) Bishonen | talk 14:52, 20 May 2017 (UTC).
Well, as predicted, the edits to Uebert Angel and talk page arguments have started again. Two new editors this time: one you've met on the talk page and another whose first edit to the article was to remove "formerly known as Uebert Mudzanire" from the opening. Have a look at the history and the talk page, and have a think about whether it's for PP again. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 19:04, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Someone has just miraculously recreated Laxmi Chand Tyagi, an article that was previously redirected to Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti, which was itself deleted following your nomination. It's the same SPS/PROMO stuff as previously, and it has appeared in a single edit by a newly registered account. - Sitush ( talk) 07:39, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey Bish :) Remember The Mad Lad From Saint Petersburg? He's back. In my attempt to save some time I've run into a bureaucratic snag at the SPI, though. The rangecontribs shows there is some cleanup to do -- possibly a large amount of it -- and having the checkuser would help. So in those great words spoken to Tim the Enchanter, anything you could do to help would be very helpful. Manul ~ talk 15:16, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Please, since you are so utterly brilliant at it, is there any chance you could merge the history of Draft:Main:Pamela Clemit to that of Pamela Clemit? They somehow got lost in the moving process. -- Hegvald ( talk) 19:05, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
I have also made the mistake of moving to or within the wrong pagespace, as Ipigott did in this case (and I have very nearly made the mistake a few times more). It is undoubtedly a part of the interface that could need an improvement of some sort. -- Hegvald ( talk) 21:40, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Would it be at all possible if you could delete the edits made by this particular IP? The IP in question is being used by a vandal who appears to be copying and pasting large amounts (300,000 to 600,000 characters) of what appears to be lurid written pornography, and, in addition to being graphic, and possibly copyright violations, it screws up the loading of each page when one looks at the history.-- Mr Fink ( talk) 00:06, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
I don't think X06 ( talk · contribs) is here to build an encyclopedia, as a glance at his contributions list would show. This comment from Talk:Richard B. Spencer is particularly choice (highlight: "When White nationalism wins power across the West, we shall see what the Wikipedia articles are saying..."). -- Calton | Talk 14:32, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
User:Bishonen, this is just the latest in a long series of disruptive stunts by EtienneDolet. Just a few days prior to the incident with the video they made this comment: "(Germans) know a thing or two about crematoriums" in reference to the Sednaya Prison Syrian crematorium and only struck it after it was pointed out to him that saying something like that could get him sanctioned.
Here EtienneDolet is dishonestly misrepresenting another user's comments. The user said that not EVERY negative thing needs to be put in the article (which is of course trivially true), EtienneDolet is disingenuously claiming that the user said that NO negative thing can be put in the article and then when confronted with this blatant misrepresentation he argues with the straight face that the words "every" and "any" mean the same thing. And of yeah, on the same article, he is also arguing with a straight face that the participation in a coldblooded execution in Syria is "non-controversial" (!!!) so he can add info to an article without having to provide reliable sources, just sketchy ones. You simply CANNOT have a reasoned discussion with someone so shameless and deceitful. Hence all the trouble in this topic area lately.
I can provide older examples as well, like when ED claimed that "scholarly sources" backed up one of his assertions, then when asked to provide them he stalled and finally provided links to anti-semitic conspiracy websites as his "scholarly sources".
Does he have a clean block log? Yeah, because he's great at WP:CPUSH and WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT and generally obstructing any meaningful conversation. Doesn't actually make his behavior any better. Like I said. This is an instance where a user simply needs to be removed from a topic area as they've done nothing but caused trouble and sown chaos. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 17:13, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
You simply CANNOT have a reasoned discussion with someone so shameless and deceitful
—How many NPA and civility warnings do you need, Volunteer Marek?
El_C 08:27, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
[P]rovided links to anti-semitic conspiracy websites as his "scholarly sources"
—That is a serious accusation. How come you don't have a
diff accompanying it?
El_C 08:31, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
Should the WP:RESTRICT entry be altered to mention that it applies to the sockmaster (as editing restrictions apply to people and not individual accounts)? Or just removed as almost certainly being redundant, as the master is indeffed and doesn't seem likely to return?
Courtesy-pinging User:MjolnirPants, who opened both the ban discussion and the subsequent SPI.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 00:19, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
'zilla + MONGO horses, thanks to RexxS!
I actually intended it to work as a template like this:
{{Overlaid images | frame_width = 350 | frame_height = 250 | back_filename = Horses and thunderstorm1.jpg | back_height = 360 | back_rightshift = -30 | back_downshift = -80 | back_alt = | front_filename = Bishzilla.png | front_height = 60 | front_rightshift = 20 | front_downshift = 10 | front_alt = | caption = 'zilla + MONGO horses }}
That should be much more readable, and would make it easier to put inside it something else that floats it off so that text can wrap around it. It also would allow a border, etc. as this demo shows. Do you think I should just move it all to template: space? -- RexxS ( talk) 15:41, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
{{Overlaid images/sandbox ... etc.
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RexxS (
talk) 15:27, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I received an e-mail message from wikipedia this morning saying Legacypac had proposed (what I thought was) the speedy deletion of the Lucifer (1970s Rock band) article, so I left a message on his/her talk page querying that. I now realise it was not actually about the article but my Luciferfan user name! Thanks for pointing that out. I chose that user name when I was putting my first article on wikipedia about the group 'Lucifer' a few years ago, obviously with no offence meant to anyone. Hopefully that's the end of it. Thanks for your help. Luciferfan ( talk) 20:19, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).
Since you participated in the discussion about Dennis Brown's block of Franzboas, I'm pointing you to this, which presents some proposals for additional action. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 03:59, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
I thank you and the other guys for the swift action regarding the Craig removal case. Although I suspected some of those accounts were fake, I'm actually surprised that all of them turned out to be so. Clausgroi ( talk) 02:55, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
That was odd. I was pinged, but your message didn't show up on my User Talk page at first.
Maybe I should have chosen a less colorful expression, but what I meant, generally, is that a lot of spammers/SEO types think that posting stuff on Wikipedia increases the importance/visibility of their stuff in Google search results. I don't know if that (or other similar tactics) actually work, but it seems a common enough belief that finding spam on User pages and user sandboxes could be a full-time job.
In this specific case, the drive-by editor seemed to be attempting to legitimize the so-called binary options -- you may remember the massive COI/spam battle over Banc de Binary -- so I figured that while it wasn't an advertisement, it WAS an attempt at juicing Google to spin results favorably. -- Calton | Talk 16:16, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bish. The edits by the disruptive IP seemed familiar, so I did a search on <removed> the name the IP signed with on their talk page, and found similar disruptive edits going all the way back to 2011 (see Special:Contributions/24.25.237.226, <removed>, and posting incoherent rants on talk pages, just like the IP ypu blocked), meaning that they've regularly wasted other editors' time for at least six years now, and still haven't learnt anything from all attempts that have been made to make them understand. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 19:26, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for dispatching that vandalism-only account! Alas, his talk page vitriol continues via IP. Very grateful in advance for any kibosh you are able to put on that nonsense! Take care - Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:29, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Not sure what the deal is, but I'm not going to comment unless some specific issues are presented. Not particularly keen on going on a wild goose chase. — Spaceman Spiff 03:12, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Re-inserted again [18]. Linguist talk| contribs 11:36, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I reported an IP to AIV. Not sure if this edit qualifies for rev-del. But would you please take a look into it? Thanks a lot. —usernamekiran (talk) 19:22, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
"If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list."
"People are likely to be notable if they meet any of the following standards. Failure to meet these criteria is not conclusive proof that a subject should not be included; conversely, meeting one or more does not guarantee that a subject should be included."
Thanks a lot RexxS. Your inputs are very useful. :-) —usernamekiran (talk) 22:47, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Linguist 1 1 1 09:17, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
(I've replied, there's one more thing to do) Linguist 1 1 1 11:19, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
I am so annoyed that you are complaining all the time. I have not done you. I only added Next Topmodel Contestans which are my favorites and that is just fun because I thought I can do this on MY page but I did not know anything about it. So I leave now alone and take care of you or others around me all the time. PantherLoop ( talk) 16:37, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Once again, I am in need of some assistance... this person really needs a topic ban. Battleground behavior, disruptive talk page posts bordering on harassment; see this, and the fact that their user page is lifted from Tyler Durden; original research and battleground behavior [24] (that content is not supported by the source; and their comment is total nonsense). If all this were not enough, plenty of name calling, most of it after being warned. I dropped an ARBIPA notification on their talk page yesterday, and they went ahead and reinstated their original research, so I'd say they were eligible for a ban pronto. I'm posting here to avoid a much longer trip to AE; if you don't feel up to dealing with this, and that would be perfectly understandable, let me know and I'll bite that bullet. Regards, Vanamonde ( talk) 04:32, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. Out of curiosity, how was CheckUser information able to verify that it was one person, not two, operating the Tyler Durden and Marla Durden accounts? As I understand it, CheckUser is only able to verify that two accounts used the same device and Internet connection. In this case, both Tyler and Marla were open about the fact that they were using the same connections and devices, so it shouldn't be a surprise to us that CheckUser would verify this. Mz7 ( talk) 21:20, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Well, I still have my doubts. Having extensively interacted with Tyler Durden over the last six months, I know him quite well, but Marla Durden was doing newbie edits like this. But, now that Mahant Yogi Adityanath also got tagged as a sock of his, I think I will need to wait to hear from him whenever he is able to come back and file an unblock request. But the funny thing is that TD has been doing quite well, earning barnstars and appreciation from several quarters. He has no reason to play games like this. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 22:44, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
@ Mz7: Tyler Durden's previous name was Vamsee614 and the last name is same as WikiBodhiVamsa. They could geolocate to the same region, as @ Bbb23: found WikiBodhiVamsa unrelated in different SPI. They both mention their name and caste in their userpage. Checkusers don't give private details, but if Bbb23 can confirm that they are from same city? Actually they have already given their location in their userpage. If they are unrelated, I don't want WikiBodhiVamsa to be blocked. Marvellous Spider-Man 01:46, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
I suspected some meatpuppetry here Talk:Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus#Explain_how_many_editors_constitute_.22We.22 (collapsed discussion) Marvellous Spider-Man 17:36, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
It's just gone right up to 11, triggered by the works of User:JurganHolst crapflooding Bosnian pyramid claims with this. I can't take any admin action on bullshit grounds as I'm involved, but as it's a clear copyright violation from here (including the bizarre parenthetical bit about autism) I feel justified in imposing a 24h copyvio block after he added it again after being warned. I'd be eternally (well, for at least a few days, maybe a week) grateful if you could cast your sharp admin eyes over it (and perhaps ask one of your friendly ankle-biters to guard the perimeter). Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 12:01, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
117.223.238.247 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Article: Khalsa and its talk page. An IP is busy wholesale reverting the article to unsourced / blog-sourced / non-RS content. Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 14:57, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, how are you? :) As you asked for, I changed the first sentence of the article Carrera y Carrera, I also added a source to El País news about Carrera y Carrera(probably the most important newspaper in Spanish in the world) and a source to Vogue_(magazine)´s news about it too. I think Carrera y Carrera is well-known in many countries so this article should stay in Wikipedia and not be deleted. What´s the next step? Thank you, Pravdaverita ( talk) 16:59, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen,
Is this language used by slbEdit permited in Wikipedia?
This user isn't WP:CIVIL, he does not assume WP:GOODFAITH and is constantly engagin in WP:WARs. with his WP:Disruptive editing attitude. He is known for WP:Harassment and does not respect the WP:No personal attacks rule. He does not WP:TALK before removing content or try to get WP:Consensus before you revert other wikipedians contributions.
May I remind you that he edited my own user page? And also this one.
Could you do something? P3DRO ( talk) 21:10, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, Bish. I wasn't quite sure what to do there, considering the (fairly) good (well-intentioned) edit. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:01, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
At this point, I'm trying to abandon it. - New account 2 ( talk) 23:08, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Can't you see that Ms Sarah Welch has changed the entire article/Page in last 15 days. This article was a standard for many years. and Now suddenly someone with a posh Christian name ropes in and changes it and you make this page protected. If you really have some morals and ethics, then make it protected from June 12, 2017 standard and not the ones that Ms Sarah Welch has changed single-handed. Though it can;t be ruled out that you are all same a gang of wiki thugs... Rascals of highest order, if you can't see who is vandalizing what. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.89.5.91 ( talk • contribs) 11:08, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
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in a sandbox would be an alternative.
Johnuniq (
talk) 23:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)I saw your close of Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Técnico (moved from WP:AN). I think you were far too merciful, but then in recent months it seems like everyone except ArbCom is moving away from permabans in favour of temporary bans in even the most extreme cases (see also: Drmies's dealing with a certain comics-focused editor in February).
But your close seemed to be effectively a one-year imposition of a DS-style restriction on the user (he can be given a more extensive topic ban on the discretion of any single admin
), which -- while less restrictive than what the majority !vote was -- seems a little beyond the purview of an ANI-closer. I ask because a few months back, in an unban discussion, an admin seemingly offered to support the unban if he were allowed place the user under similar probation indefinitely and unilaterally replace the ban if disruption resumed, which seemed like a gross misunderstanding of how the banning policy. Your action was not that bad (the discussion was grey enough, and participation low enough, that you probably could have closed it without action, and even a super-!vote like that would not have been the same as unilaterally overturning a clear consensus), but I'm always worried when I see anything like "admins can impose bans" being placed by anyone other than the Arbitration Committee in anything other than extreme circumstances.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 06:45, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen,
I restored an ANI thread after it was removed by an IP editor with the edit summary "rv troll." This was my first action in the area, I was unaware of the ongoing discussion / dispute before the ANI thread appeared. I was then approached on my talk page and I made this post. The IP suggested it demonstrated that I am WP:NOTHERE, and another user has described my post as violating WP:NPA. As an experienced admin who I respect, I ask for your view of my actions in this ANI thread, on my user talk page, and at the end of the article talk section (most of which preceded the ANI thread). Pleas be frank, if I've misjudged my actions or acted inappropriately, I would rather be told. Thank you. EdChem ( talk) 07:03, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).
?fuzzy=1
to the URL, as with
Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.Thank you for the kind words. Actually, I soft-blocked the long-name account, so it was okay for them to create the shorter one afterward. Best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk)
The user just created Dioldo (against your warning, I know). I'll keep an eye on things. (You are within your rights to block if you really want to.) Best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:26, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello...Today is my birthday, so I checked the calendar to see who else shares my special day! So happy First Edit Day! LA If you reply here, please {{ Ping}} me. @ 09:19, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
In regards to closing of the afD. Don't you think the discussion should remain open? Even though nominator withdrew there were multiple other people who voted delete, and a lot who voted merge. There really didn't seem to be clear consensus if any of the three ways yet, and regardless of the withdrawal there was still a debate on the issue. WikiVirus C (talk) 12:06, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
From Signpost, behold File:Longnose batfish.jpg (or full glory). Johnuniq ( talk) 04:05, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Since you have dealt with this editor's issues, [33] I believe it would be in the best interests of Wikipedia for you to check their latest editing spree.
It appears that Saladin1987 has decided to take their changing of referenced information(for which he was banned from India/Pakistan/Afghanistan articles) to Iran/Turkey areas. I have already had a brief conversation with Saladin1987 on my talk page, though I seriously doubt they will listen. [34] -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 01:30, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen. There is an IP user who I think needs an IP range block. They have been blocked on one IP address multiple times ( [35]) for disruptive editing about WWE events, and have also made similar unsourced edits on other IP address in the same range ( [36], [37]). I'm asking you as I recall you range blocked a similar editor in the past, who I think is the same person, although editing from a slightly different IP range. My last request seems to have been this one [38], although it looks like User: Berean Hunter blocked in that case. Anyway, thank you for your assistance. Silverfish ( talk) 20:26, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi ! . Thanks a lot, sir. Much appreciated.
As I stated earlier, No, I didn't accept your offer 'after' reading the message by another administrator, he may have posted that message while I was editing my post, and it was only after sending you an un-ban request that I read his message. I had deleted the earlier message and sent my request after going through that section where I was being accused of using multiple accounts. To be honest, I was, and still am, really shocked at all those accusations and allegations.
I have just one query. Am I not allowed to edit pages related to Pakistan also ? I mean even those pages or topics which are not disputed at all ?. And I don't know what your experience has been with other users, but rest assured I won't disappoint you. And I will request You to un-ban me from editing controversial topics only when I am able to convince you that I can contribute positively, and hopefully I will be able to do that in less than six months.
Regards Samm19 ( talk) 22:07, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
In the course of trying to clean up the single purpose editing on the Luke Messer page, the Indianapolis Star wrote an article about it that included one of your edits. Just thought you would like to know.-- rogerd ( talk) 11:51, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
When you get the chance, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Perfect Orange Sphere, which I filed and which contains behavioral evidence of socking, as well as Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MjolnirPants, a retaliatory filing. This person has been socking for years, all to push a particular POV at a specific article. I'd already asked the admin who dealt with it previously, but they're unable to take the time currently. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:16, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
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83.183.97.132 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Bish: The above IP is persistent, edit warring with Joshua Jonathan and I in Turiya article. An invitation on the article's talk page has yielded no response yet. I would request a RFPP for a few days, but I wonder if that will help given the IP has made many edits. Nothing urgent, please take a look when you have a moment. I eagerly await the zillion photos of MONGO, don't you! Even his cell phone shot above is so good, Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 22:14, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
You may remember t PerfectlyIrrational ( talk · contribs), who was blocked for sockpuppeting back on June 21.
Now comes Don1182 ( talk · contribs), created June 30, who's plowing exactly the same fields as PerfectlyIrrational ( talk · contribs). Am I right to be suspicious? -- Calton | Talk 19:18, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Burnout, eh? I've got just the thing. Vanamonde ( talk) 10:02, 5 August 2017 (UTC) |
Responding to the latest message you posted. Enjoy yourself. - Roxy the dog. bark 11:14, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
Something to sweeten your day. Hope to see you back soon and thus restore the balance of the wikiverse. Dr. K. 11:16, 5 August 2017 (UTC) |
This kitten will protect your talkpage for you.
(((
The Quixotic Potato))) (
talk) 20:44, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
I don't think it is appropriate for you to close the 3RR and make accusations against me. I think it would be appropriate if you recused yourself and allowed another admin who has no history with me close the discussion. You blocked me for alleged retaliation, but now that there is real retaliation and an incident of BLP violation involved, you dismiss it with a reprimand to me which I find rather disturbing. Atsme 📞 📧 11:15, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) You have form in not understanding what is going on here Atsme. Do you not remember? Please remember the Griffin fiasco where we first met. There has been no violation of WP:BLP. Please think about it. - Roxy the dog. bark 11:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) @ Atsme: Bishonen is in no way WP:INVOLVED, your block in August 2015 was a purely administrative action taken after a long discussion on WP:ANI, plus this very obvious act of retaliation from you. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 11:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Atsme, when I tell you I'm considering t-banning you over your disruption at
Jared Taylor, you respond "I created one frigging article [presumably referring to
Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting] that could be considered "political" in its broadest sense ... and based on that one article you're threatening me with a TB on American politics".
That's quite a leap. I wasn't even aware of the new article, which is now apparently in train for being merged. (Added note 14:25, 15 August 2017 (UTC): I see you mentioned that article at AN3, so technically I have seen it mentioned, but I did not actually read it or its AfD, as your comment about it was even less appropriate in an AN3 report than the rest of your text.) If you think Jared Taylor has nothing to do with American politics, that's another problem. ArbCom discretionary sanctions have been authorized for "pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people", as you have been repeatedly informed. Jared Taylor is one of those closely related people, and crying BLP to prevent him being called what a massive array of reliable, including academic, sources call him is disruptive. I hope it's clear what article I'm referring to in saying that. In case you further misunderstand or ignore what I say, please don't expect me to explain it again. Perhaps one of the kind non-blunt talkpage stalkers would like to if it seems needed.
Note that you have now also received an alert about the discretionary sanctions for BLPs. Since your disruption is closely connected to the myopic use you make of such policies as WP:BLP and WP:LABEL, it may indeed be better to t-ban you from biographies, rather than from American Politics, in case of further disruption. I'll think about it. Bishonen | talk 09:50, 15 August 2017 (UTC).
I am not adding information saying there's an Icelandic Resistance Movement. I am adding information that the Nordic Resistance Movement has sent resistance men to Iceland to recruit new members. You can go ahead and stop removing it now.— Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiHeathen ( talk • contribs)
Hello,
Why you delete the Benlav Flight Systems, its an popular new startup in Iran, a fast growing technology in aviation. please help on improving NOT deletion, I ask you to create the article again. cheers Amir daryaei ( talk) 04:33, 16 August 2017 (UTC) |
Hello. This is what it looks like now:
Thanks and regards, Biwom ( talk) 05:04, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
The edit comment here https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Nordic_Resistance_Movement&type=revision&diff=795871962&oldid=795871373 might interest you. MarkBernstein ( talk) 02:34, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for your comments about my lack of proof reading. As producing long well-edited written reports is much of my livelihood, I'm mortified to see how poor a couple of those comments are, and I'll work hard to avoid such unclear communication!
I remain perplexed though, why telling someone to "fuck off" in a heated edit during an AFD discussion is not an insult. I've read WP:NPA several times during this discussion. NPA says "Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done". And this isn't some sly, intelligent, subtle insult - it's an offensive insult. Obviously I'm completely misinterpreting somehow, given the clear consensus; but I don't see where. I suppose I should just accept it, and enjoy the freedom to use the phrase itself.
BTW, speaking of insults, was the word "idiotically" necessary, given I wasn't keeping insisting on sanctions? I kept insisting that "FO" was a personal attack - and perhaps that does make me an idiot - but I don't see how "idiotically" helps. (though perhaps once I figure out why "fuck off" is not an insult - it will make more sense to me. Nfitz ( talk) 18:25, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
I was still hoping for a response to this; I remain perplexed how such a comment is okay with everyone, and doesn't violate WP:CIVIL. Nfitz ( talk) 19:45, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
I don't know what's the problem, if any with Nfitz, but I think @ James J. Lambden: ( James J. Lambden ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)) deserves at least as much scrutiny. It looks like they might be doing a bit of political advocacy on Wikipedia. Jehochman Talk 18:17, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
Can you take a look at Dona-Hue? I was earlier on thinking of topic banning the user from India related stuff but I seem to have gotten WP:INVOLVED now by reverting some of their nonsense in a couple of articles, as are Doug Weller, Vanamonde and RegentsPark. At this point, I don't thin a topic ban would be of much help as the user shows no sign of any competence to edit here. — Spaceman Spiff 02:41, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Nice sign seen at Wikimania. Even Canadians take notice mighty 'Zilla. T-RexxS ( rawr) 14:34, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
@ Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: I'm not sure if they have poutine, but I was there for pizza. The best places for poutine are generally cheaper greasy spoons, using home-style fries, often fried in beef fat (no frozen or spiced fries). The gravy must have a lot of pepper and the cheese must not be grated, and should be generous, and no yellow/orange or processed cheese! — Paleo Neonate – 03:26, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
For me the shibboleth of real poutine is the squeak of the cheese curds: I know of no cheese per se that can emulate it. Stupid indent function seems to use the greater of a left-obstruction size and the amount of indentation instead of adding them.— Odysseus 147 9 04:01, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Bish, just wanted to send you a wikilove item and apparently goats are now on the menu. (Since when??) Enjoy!
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Never seen such a pachidermous greetings on a talk page before. Made me laugh at the end of a long day, so, thanks! 87.1.125.215 ( talk) 21:21, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
I've linked at ANI to a thread on this talk page involving you. Sorry, because I know from your recent comments that you'd rather this farrago was over. - Sitush ( talk) 02:54, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you left a discretionary sanctions alert on Saladin1987's talk page a couple of months ago. Could you please take a look at his recent edits? He had made a series of edits to a large number of articles replacing Afghan with Pashtun, some of which I reverted. Now he's reverting them back stating that they are sourced edits when that's clearly not the case. I was going to leave him a caution, but I see that he's already received a ton of warnings on his talk page. FYI, besides your latest sanctions alert, he's also received two others, one by you a year ago and another by EdJohnston 3 years ago.— Cpt.a.haddock ( talk) (please ping when replying) 12:00, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
The Lodis were of pure Afghan origin and Bahlul Lodi pacified the proud Afghans by distributing rich iqtas among them. His court resembled more of an Afghan tribal assembly than the council of a great king.
IndianEditor is just here to push a point of view, not contribute to an encyclopaedia. Just see the editing history at India, Pakistan, Rally for Rivers (where advertising is a problem), Jaggi Vasudev etc. I've warned on ARBIPA and have reported to AN3,and if not for the edit warring at India (which I'm not involved in but am an editor of the article) I'd have taken action (I'm not sure of the right choice between a nothere block and an indef ARBIPA topic ban, though both are likely to have the same effect). cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 15:07, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen! Can you please change the block for Oxycontin How Purdue Pharma Helped Spark The Opioid Epidemic ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) to a hard block? This is a sock of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/David_Adam_Kess (see archive for DUCK per naming pattern). Ping me if you have any questions. EvergreenFir (talk) 21:39, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
these recent edits as they are about a warning you gave months ago. I've reverted his post to an article talk page. Doug Weller talk 12:50, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting that edit on my user talk page. I'm not sure how I managed to rollback my talk page twice like that... anyways, I appreciate you for taking care of it :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 10:55, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
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I wrote some scholary things with sources.I told Bamnamu that I think i can find some Chinese-English administrators easily but It is hard to find Korean-English administrators.So i ask him whether bamnamu is the administrator or not.I think this problem starts because i editted Goguryeo articles which can make some people feel so sensitive about that.But,i also feel so sad that I can not edit the history of my country easily.Thank you Richeaglenoble ( talk) 11:09, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
i editted Goguryeo articles which can make some people feel so sensitive about thatI'm not sensitive about it at all. I'm Irish, and the only dog I have in this fight is that I love history. I know there are a lot of Korean nationalist POV-pushers adding nonsense OR and material sourced to blogs and the like to those articles (hence the semi-protection). So when a new account shows up and starts doing the same (after making a string of nonsense edits to their own talk page to get around semi-protection), I am naturally skeptical. All good Wikipedia editors should be skeptical of edits that are not sourced, come from new accounts and are in topic areas like that one.
It is hard to find Korean-English administrators-- why do you care? Are you trying to find admins to help you push a Korean nationalist POV? Are you simply not comfortable communicating with people who don't read Korean? Or do you think ethnically Chinese admins like Alex are "biased" against your edits? No matter what the answer is, it doesn't look good, so stop it.
I think i can find some Chinese-English administrators easily but It is hard to find Korean-English administrators). "old user" may or may not have been meant to imply that I was impersonating an admin (the OP dodged the question), but that was really kind of peripheral. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 11:41, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
I saw you closed a recent edit-warring report against Darkness Shines. Would you mind examining a similar report I submitted here: User:Sangdeboeuf reported by User:James J. Lambden? No admin has reviewed it. James J. Lambden ( talk) 00:26, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. Thanks for closing that AN3 report. Goodness knows you don't need the headache, but I thought I would be remiss not to notify you... I didn't know this at the time of the report, but Darkness Shines was indefinitely blocked, and agreed to conditions for unblock in May of 2017. One of those conditions was a restriction to 1RR for the following 6 months (expiring November 28th 2017). Make of that what you will. AlexEng( TALK) 01:58, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Just curious, I mean, I saw a block coming a mile away for something, but apparently there's a cultural reference here I'm missing... uhblock? TJW talk 21:44, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
You recently blocked this one. I gave a ds warning on Sep 4th but he's continuing the problematic type of problematic edits. As I discussed something related to his edits at India, I can't take action here, but I think this needs some action. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 11:06, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you have been active recently on the administrators' noticeboard's edit-warring cases. So, may I ask you to follow this case? The user's behaviour is really enervating, and he is continuing on his line through reverts and exhausting WP:BLUDGEONING, instead of operating constructive syntheses, and therefore damaging Wikipedia's content.-- Wddan ( talk) 13:22, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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Orphaned "keep local" fileis not grounds for deletion. Not every editor wants the trouble of keeping track of images on Commons that they have uploaded to Wikipedia, so 'keep local' means that a local copy is required to be kept. Consensus does not favour the view that all PD images must be transferred to Commons, so I'm going to ask you to change your prod to an acceptable reason (like higher resolution version available), or I'll remove the prod as a matter of principle. I shouldn't have to remind you that prods are by definition "for uncontroversial deletion" and orphaned files with a keep local template are not uncontroversial deletions. Giano, for example, often creates images of floor plans of houses in preparation for writing an article somestimes years in advance – there is no deadline. I'm also going to ask you nicely to lay off your current spree of prods using
Orphaned "keep local" file, or at least make absolutely certain that each and every one isn't something that has been uploaded in preparation for future use. Thanks in advance. -- RexxS ( talk) 23:41, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
"Please upload only files that are used (or will be used) in encyclopedia articles or project pages; anything else will be deleted"It's there to stop fly-by-night editors from dumping their holiday snaps on the encyclopedia. It most definitely is not intended just to allow petty little bureaucrats who have never written an article in their life to get rid of the hard work of some of our best content contributors, simply because they choose to keep their work on Wikipedia, not Commons. Editors like Giano sometimes create floor plans years before they use them to write a new article. It's not your place or anybody else's to demand that he uses them immediately or to impose a time limit on his contributions. Have a good think about the real consequences of your deletion nominations and the impact they will have. Are you really serious about taking those files to FfD, despite the obvious intention to use them in encyclopedia articles? If so, bring it on, and we'll see which view is most compatible with creating an encyclopedia. -- RexxS ( talk) 16:37, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
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Can I appeal here for the wisdom of you and your watchers? I've raised some potential problems with an article - see Talk:Khonds#Problems_with_citations and the following section - but am not getting any input, despite mentioning the thread at the India Project talk page. If it continues to be devoid of responses, where else might be a suitable venue to raise the matter? It's a rather tricky situation. - Sitush ( talk) 14:00, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Ha! More wisdom required. Davidgoodheart has just created User:Davidgoodheart-Kelly_Wilson. Not sure what is going on and, yes, I know alternate accounts are not necessarily A Bad Thing. But at this early stage it looks like a "WP is not a webhost" thing. - Sitush ( talk) 23:40, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
I see you blocked Audeamus42. In the block log you wrote Taquia, but I think you meant to write Taqiya. Not sure if this is important, or if it can even be fixed as I think block logs are not editable. Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 15:44, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bish: A hopping IP 117.242.*.*, 117.246.*.*, etc has been personally attacking for several weeks now editors Arjayay, I and others with some choice terms such as holocaust escaped prostitute / slut / bastard / etc. I have ignored it, Arjayay and others have been patient too, but given the persistence requesting a watch. I don't know if a range block is appropriate in such circumstances or would be overly broad, but possibly protecting the Lingayatism article for 6 months may help reduce the disruption a bit (given their elections are due in early 2018, the disruption is political plugging/soap and removal of scholarly RS). Where is MONGO's new treasure box of pics? Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 11:17, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
Please reconsider this deletion. The copyvio page reported ( http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LSJqqBtrePsJ:rvlvy.co/main/index.php%3Fs%3DSr%25C3%25B2n%2520a) took content from this page, and not vice-versa. That page just contains excerpts from various Wikipedia pages (scroll through it to see) such as Sròn a' Choire Ghairbh , Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Strontian and many others. I wrote the original text of the Sròn page, including adding the images, and can assert it was not copyvio from somewhere else. The copyvio software sometimes works well, but not always. Thanks for reinstating the page! LHOON ( talk) 16:00, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
I would like to appeal to your warning, which I believe is a mistake. Who should I contact? Please get back to me ASAP. CobraSA ( talk) 15:03, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Reason for appeal :
You said "the link you keep inserting is promotional rather than a source".
First I am not in any way affiliated to the link. Secondly I have myself cleaned up the article from all promotional links. [ [50]] Third, I had to appeal to an admin for the removal of a spam link to an open wiki.
You said "As people have pointed out, no source for the statement is needed".
Please explain how giving a figure does not require a source. If that was the case I could say indifferently thousands, millions, billions, and everyone would have to accept it, that doesn't make any sense.
You said "a forum wouldn't cut it in any case".
The link is not showing a forum despite the misleading url, but a content repository. The article explains thousands content items exist, and the link points to a content repository that displays a counter that backs up this statement.
I think you might not have analyzed the situation accurately, so please either reconsider and protect the page after restoring the valid sources, or kindly point out who I should contact to appeal to your decision. Thank you. CobraSA ( talk) 15:22, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
I stopped at "it's an internet forum".Well, that was a mistake because I explained why your objection is meaninless right after I said that. In the future, you should read someone's answer in it's entirety before making assumptions about they're saying, because you clearly have not addressed what I told you. A repository's statistics are only as reliable as the people adding to and maintaining it. I would also like to remind you to watch your tone: I'm trying to help you here and you are assuming bad faith on my part and casting aspersions on me in response; all based on your own admitted ignorance of what I've actually said. This is an admin's talk page, and you can be blocked for engaging with a battleground mentality. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 18:29, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for your comments. Some people slap warnings without thinking. You put quite a bit of thought into your response on my talk page. That's good of you.
AGrandeFan ( talk) 21:37, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your level headed comments Neher AfD, even though you aren't involved in it. They are appreciated :) TonyBallioni ( talk) 22:33, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
Hadn't seen WikiSpeak before! I think it's got project space n. down to a T -- There'sNoTime ( to explain) 09:06, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Surely this is block evasion? I have reverted as such. - Sitush ( talk) 23:41, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Bishonen, I am writing because I want to address 2 statements you've made on ANI recently related to me.
You say Joe has made three edits to user talk pages in total since the previous block, Toddst1? That's very inexact; I make it seven, most of them to his own page. You are correct - I miscounted. Take a look at what I looked at. The edits on in the box were what I counted. The one month block from August 22 probably expired about Sept 22 depending on how the wiki calculates the month. I erroneously assumed that the Sept 24 edits were before release of previous block. It doesn't make that much of a difference in the context of Joefromradb's chronic incivility, but you were correct, I miscounted. It was an error and I would hope you would assume good faith. But...
The first sentence is a correct point of order. Your second sentence is nothing but a bald-faced attempt at character assassination where you've brought heresay from what I can only assume was confidential ARBCOM discussions. How would you know? I am not acting as an administrator, haven't done so in a long time and how I did as an administrator has no bearing on my report about Joefromrandb. I see that as highly inappropriate and an abject abuse of power to use information you may (or may not) have gained in from several ARBCOM members to make an ad-hominem attack, in an attempt to discredit my report.
Sure, I had some problems towards the end of my time as an admin and I took myself out of that role. Discussing any issues I had as an administrator in this context - as they were not related to the issue at hand - is highly inappropriate - by you, or anyone else. An admin using heresay to make an ad-homenem attack, is unacceptable. It shows without a doubt that you are holding a grudge against me and should recuse yourself from commenting on anything I do on the wiki.
If you're going to be lurking around waiting to discredit anything I do here by bringing up that kind of stuff, neither of us have any place editing here.
I look forward to your reply. Toddst1 ( talk) 21:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
FWIW, I assumed someone would see my revert and block probably more quickly than an AIV report would have gotten answered. GMG talk 17:23, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
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Editors who are willing to sink time and energy into sensitively managing COI issues, or following and carefully reviewing difficult sources, as you did at Jacob Truedson Demitz, are few and far between. Thanks for being one of the good ones! Fyddlestix ( talk) 20:36, 13 October 2017 (UTC) |
The techo discussion is at TonyBallioni's above no ping plague link (contratulations on the impending adminship btw!). Bishonen's comment at 18:05, 14 October 2017 above is very interesting because I received the ping and RexxS did not. That is weird! Bishonen's wikitext included the following and a standard signature:
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@RexxS: Did you get a ping from me posting this message? If people haven't noticed, there are some new options in Preferences, see H:PN. I have the following ticked under Web: Mention + Failed mention + Successful mention (I will probably untick the last when it irritates me too much). When I recently sent a ping I received a notification saying "Your mention of Example was sent." Johnuniq ( talk) 23:08, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Hey Bishonen - I assume you're watching it but just in case: can you check out the latest post on the Demitz AFD? An ip has shown up and posted a wall of text claiming to be Demitz - don't they need to verify that somehow before we take their word for it? There's also dome vague reference to having emailed some people to ask them to intervene in the AFD. I didn't think this whole thing could get any messier but I guess I was wrong... Fyddlestix ( talk) 15:36, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Im sorry för the pseudo debate in the deletion discussion. That was not my purpose. I just wanted to be transparant and show here that I asked others on svwp agree Other sources. This because I know from experience that all I write on svwp is checked and often tried to be used against me on discussions here. That makes it hard sometimes when my Only purpose is to make a Good thing here. (It also makes me angry upp sometimes when He Always talks about me as haunting him. But I Will not step Into that trap again). Best regards Adville ( talk) 13:56, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for the atmospheric welcome, and coming over to talk, and "crying is okay here". -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:58, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, since you've had recent dealings with Biswajeet34, I thought it easier to just bring this to your attention on your talk page. Neurotm ( talk · contribs) is a newly created account whose first edit was to restore Biswajeet34's edits on Ho people. Thanks.-- William Thweatt Talk Contribs 09:53, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Bishonen, you gave me final warning of blocking without even trying to see what I edited. FYI: I just made letter 'a' of Ashram capital in my latest edit. Why this much aggressive behaviour? Suhani 10:51, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
I've blocked both TruthSupporter and ItsMonika for being sock puppets of one another. The similar edits made here and here (where the content is almost identical but not perfectly so) shows that this isn't an undo that restored anything; it's a clear case of one person using two accounts to try and add the same content to the article. I saw your final warning left on TruthSupporter's talk page, so I figured I'd message you and let you know. Cheers -- ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 11:01, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Thanks re this. Best wishes DBaK ( talk) 22:59, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Found this lying around, but not on wheels. Wikipedia:April_Fools/April_Fools'_Day_2005/Willy_on_Wheels_for_admin Dlohcierekim ( talk) 06:04, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
I was sitting here wondering what I should do with these, and then i saw our name and said,"aha"! I've deleted 4+ user pages with innocent sounding names and text in Portuguese referencing ext. links. Here they are:
RobtSteffey107 https://namoroagora.com.br
PabloOsgood5 http://formulanegocioonline
TrentStelzer0 http://queromeudinheiro.com
LasonyaHarbison https://namoroagora.com.br
I just deleted 'em. I feel unsettled, like I should do something more. Is there something more I should do? Thanks, Dlohcierekim ( talk) 06:11, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to know how to proceed. The New York Times premier article about Breitbart News, which is entitled "What Is Breitbart News?", characterizes Breitbart News as conservative-leaning [57]. Thus, the lede of the Wikipedia article about Breitbart News is in clear violation of WP:BALANCE. How should I proceed? Thank you in advance for your direction. Técnico ( talk) 07:42, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Bish / others: Today is Diwali / Tihar, a major festival there in India / Nepal / Mauritius / etc. The wikipedia article typically sees very high traffic (>200,000 views). There is a few weeks old new account too busy repeat mass deleting sources and sourced content. I have left them a note on their talk page, and invited them to the Talk:Diwali page. Their edit summary and edit hints this account may be someone blocked previously, but I have not done the digging. The article may benefit from a watch today and tomorrow for disruption. Thanks, Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 17:21, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
The weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
About missing editors (I didn't want to start a new thread for another memory), that I said: Go meet Bishonen, and your life on the project gets bearable! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:14, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
With apologies for usurping this place as a general noticeboard, can anyone help me out at User_talk:Sitush#Kumar_Vishwas. A relatively new contributor who isn't understanding what I am saying. - Sitush ( talk) 10:21, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
It looks like the file deletion police are attempting to do another end-run to subvert Template:Keep local. You may be interested in seeing how a file with the template on it has been nominated for deletion with the rationale "unused locally/already on Commons, Wikipedia is not a web-host, no reason to retain local copy" at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2017 October 23 #File:Lightnings sequence 2 animation-wcag.gif. Sounds familiar? -- RexxS ( talk) 00:41, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen ! Long time no see. I don't really understand what has happened with Demitz. Are you about to recreate the article once more ? Perhaps some people cannot differ between Serge and Demitz. 6-7 "voters" had less than 250 edits here. Unfair, doubtlessly. Now swWiki has opened up for further deletions here. The principles were not considered, in my opinion. Thanks for your efforts, and I hope some article can be restored. Thanks! Boeing720 ( talk) 04:24, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Why did you remove my addition to the For Britain entry? Your comment stated that Youtube is not an "acceptable or reliable" reference, but the Wikipedia guidance permits Youtube references subject to restrictions such as copyright and authenticity. Since Anne Marie Waters is a readily identifiable public figure, and the video shows her explaining the launch of her new party in front of its banner, it would seem spurious to suggest that the video could show anything other than what it purports to show.
Paul Paulddaellis ( talk) 23:55, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you RexxS for your response, and apologies to Bishonen for misrepresenting their action. I have now redirected my original query to Velella.
Since the length of my addition was not mentioned by Velella as their reason for undoing it, may I ask how you (RexxS) conclude that that was the true reason for its deletion rather than the stated reason, the nature of the source?
Since the subject of the article is a very new political party with virtually no history and predominently negative media comment it seems reasonable that the article should at some stage mention what the party itself states that its purpose is. How else might that be achieved but by quoting from the launch speech, the principal available source?
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion:Skottniss#Ingen_DANs_p.C3.A5_rosor.2C_men_tillsammans_.C3.A4r_vi_starka.21
You speak Swedish I presume ?
Look how Advile and an other admin "are strong together", also mocking Dan Kohel, and the fact that he was blocked - a whole year, I believe.
Now they are attempting to take over here as well. I really felt sick when I read it. This isn't a just question about Dan - or Serge/[redacted].
Adville has now gone to French Wiki (in English!!), in order to delete Demitz there as well. As an administrator. If possible, have a look here
/info/en/?search=Talk:Swedish_Wikipedia#Can_we_use_Wikimedia_.3F
This is kind of "my" fight. (I'm not asking for favors, but please have a look.)
But also see this
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Relationship_between_different_Wikipedias_and_the_foundation_.3F
JimmyW takes over the reply. I guess he has a little knowledge about s wiki. But how to get him to realise better ?
I know we have had our battles, a rather long time ago now. But that was different, and you were correct. Serge might give up... Any ideas ? - I have a wikiml.
Sometime somehow I feel something must be revealed somehow....
Thanks !
Boeing720 (
talk) 00:02, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
Bish/others: The Radha Soami article needs some attention. It was recently checked and cleaned up by Diannaa for copyvio issues. I thereafter added RS and RS-sourced summary. Now a hopping IP, 47.8.14.* and 47.8.15.* is edit warring it back to non-RS website, deleting RS and sourced content, leaving sweet edit summaries such as "are you an idiot or stupid" with the disruption!? I twinkled their talk page, invited a talk page discussion yesterday, but all that is going nowhere. Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 14:45, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
Is this an appropriate username? Thanks! Wasn't trying to be disruptive or anything. Sorry for the hassle.
Cheers, User:SailingOn
so as to start again from the left margin.— Odysseus 147 9 22:10, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable
Halloween!
– Linguist
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List of analog television stations in the Philippines appears to have PD-1 on it, but the protection log shows nothing... that seems a little odd, does it not? -- Aunva6 talk - contribs 16:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
I'll act on this issue next week. Thanks for the reminders :) UnangKarlito 21:24, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bish! I've created an LTA page for a globally locked editor who returns virtually every day as a different IP. It's basically only Justlettersandnumbers and I who chase him. A lonely job . It would be helpful to have his modus operandi recorded for other editors to use and indeed other Wikipedias. His cross-wiki abuse with IPs, especially at Simple English Wikipedia, is appalling. Anyhow, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Alec Smithson, and if you think it's appropriate, change the status parameter from pending to active in the infobox at the top? Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 08:47, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, a while back you declined an unblock request from Special:Contributions/Dapi89 here: [59]. An IP has recently brought the matter up, stating that the block was at my "insistence" and alluding to my "agenda": [60]. I wonder if there may be a connection, as Dapi89 frequently brought up the topic of agendas; sample: [61].
The thread in question is here: Talk:Werner_Mölders#Deletions_of_details. Could you advise? K.e.coffman ( talk) 19:23, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Marvellous Spider-Man 06:35, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
"H*Tl^r" is not a group.
Are you sure? I woulda sworn they played downstairs at the Rat... Anmccaff ( talk) 18:19, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
I was editing a new section when a small power surge hit (I'm guessing, based on the wind gust). The surge protector of the UPS tripped, and took down the CPU. When I logged back on, Firefox reopened the editing window, but the edit went through not for a new section, but for the entire talk page. I suspect this is something that could cause other problems. Anmccaff ( talk) 18:26, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
I apologize for being childish, disruptive, and disrespectful. 141.213.172.73 ( talk) 02:36, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
I really don't understand why rollback still doesn't come with a confirmation button. GMG talk 11:11, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
importScript('User:Zvn/confirmwatchlistrollback.js');
on a new line. ~
Rob13
Talk 13:18, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
drake6789 paid? -- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 18:26, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, sorry to bother you. The editor called Zaffar.awan started his career with this edit. After many discussions and warnings and more, he opened a new account and ended with this. Is this enough rope? -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 14:56, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving | |
A little early, but still...
Wishing you a day of celebration, relaxation, and happiness. If you don't celebrate, pass this on to someone who does! -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 01:11, 21 November 2017 (UTC) |
Hi Bish! I was gonna wish you a happy Thanksgiving, but apparently someone beat me to it (I read the post above mine lol. It's all good).
Anyway, I was wondering if you would like to help me with an issue I first broached to you a couple of months ago. It concerns the move of James Mattis to Jim Mattis. You said I had a good case of getting it moved due to the strong impeccable sources I provided and suggested that I bring in to the talkpage, which was exactly what I did Talk:James_Mattis#Long_overdue_to_move_this_page_to_Jim_Mattis. Unfortunately, the talk page discussion quickly devolved into name-calling and a discussion about the "length" of my block log without any discussion about the merit of the move. An editor who disagreed with the move told me to "get off his lawn" in his edit summary and suggested that I "leave" Wikipedia altogether [62]. Only 2 other people weighed in and the discussion has died. I'm pretty disappointed by this outcome and I'm wondering if you could perhaps weigh in if appropriate.
As always, thank you SO SO much! You literally saved my wiki-life and I'll always be thankful for that (I know you said you don't celebrate Thanksgiving but still). It's like you're Dr. Dre to my Eminem, I Need a Doctor-style. Sorry I digress. But anyway, I would really appreciate it if you could take a look and perhaps make a determination on what should be done.-- Certified Gangsta ( talk) 04:25, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Is there a way that you can get my talk page protected? I'm getting sick an tired of an anonymous IP user making stupid posts on my talk page telling me to do this, that, and the other on another wiki site that I administrate. This has been going on for several months and I'm tired of it. King Shadeed 1:40, November 26, 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishy! I figure I should start a new section since this is a new issue I've come across and the previous section was getting too cluttered.
In the process of gathering evidence and re-familiarizing myself with Alex Shih/AQu01rius' past associations as part of my in-depth investigation into his arbcom candidacy (still waiting for him to answer my follow-up questions...), I noticed that User:PalaceGuard008 has re-introduced personal attack against you and User:Geogre on his talkpage in November 2012 [64] (the attack is directly copied from his previous account User:Sumple. I would have noticed this right away if I were active at the time). As far as I know, consensus has changed and such objectionable material is no longer permitted on userspace on the principle that Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_battleground (a good example is my old userpage getting MFDed despite numerous consensus to speedy keep Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Certified.Gangsta in the past in both AN/I and MFD).
Just to refresh your memory, this individual originally added the personal attack on his old Sumple account 10 years ago and there was quite a bit of a drama at the time on AN/I [65] that resulted in him getting blocked for disruption by Geogre and then he almost immediately abandoned his old account in favor of a new (in my opinion, a sockpuppet) account PalaceGuard008. He abandoned the Sumple account on 12:38 May 27th, 2007 and the PalaceGuard008 account was created less than 24 hours later on 8:11 May 28th 2007. Nobody knew he was secretly editing under a new identity until more half a year later on January 15th 2008 when he tried to pass himself off as a neutral observer and attacked my userpage on AN/I [66] in violations of multiple Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Inappropriate_uses_of_alternative_accounts. His cover got blown and his old account was indef. blocked for being a sockpuppet by User:Nlu, but was later unblocked on a technicality and on the condition that he publicized his old identity on both his old userpage User:Sumple and his new one User:PalaceGuard008.
Anyway, long story short, the point is the personal attack against you and Geogre had NEVER been on his new account until November 2012, more than FIVE years after the initial conflict, and it took another five years for me to notice. He also reneged his pledge to publicize his identity on his userpage somewhere along the way [67]. In fact, I didn't notice until 2 days ago. I removed the attack [68] and he restored it [69]. I just removed it again, but obviously this is an untenable solution. I'm wondering if you could perhaps get involved yourself (or get 'zilla involved :P) or bring this to AN/I to get a sense of where the community's consensus is on this issue (I would love to bring this to AN/I myself but I think people would just end up attacking my record instead of the merit of the issue). My understanding is that the community no longer tolerates such objectionable, low-brow contents on userspace in 2017 and it irks me a great deal when you get personally attacked like this. If he had attacked me, I would just make a persona non grata list on my own talkpage and put him on it. But you deserve so much better and NO ONE should personally attack you like this, especially some casual POV pusher with a political agenda and a net negative to the project. Let me know what the next step is and what I can do to help resolve this issue. Thanks as always :-)-- Certified Gangsta ( talk) 06:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, re this at Nuztas1986 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log): FYI see LA144 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Same content, same articles. I already have reverted the remaining edits. And created this Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nuztas1986. Cheers - DVdm ( talk) 07:24, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
...but could you take a look at this, this and this? I wouldn't admin-shop like this but honestly I think this is one of those situations where a stern warning from someone with teeth would save everyone a whole lot of the stress that would come from opening some kind of formal request for sanctions of some kind, and your name sprung to mind since you were the one who weighed in on that ANI thread back in May. (Actually you lost a coin-toss against Yunshui, who weighed in last time I was accused of "vandalism" for adding a maintenance tag to an article.) Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 22:29, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Bishy! Thanks for taking the time to raise this
[70] to
User:Alex Shih on his arbcom question page. I just saw that another editor has confronted him on his talkpage as well
[71]. By the way, I really don't appreciate the sarcastic, condescending, passive-aggressive tone he answered your question
[72], especially the way he highlighted the word symphasise
and assuming
. Very uncalled for and classless! Hopefully, the community will see such conduct (and the fact that he continues to dismiss valid concerns about his record as "polemic" and "trolling", lash out against my record when I'm not even running for arbcom, and past membership in the "Ideogram fanclub"
[73]) as disqualifying. Thanks again :-)
P.S. I dig the Little Chief Mountain image when I post on your page. I'm thinking about stealing it haha (with your permission, of course).-- Certified Gangsta ( talk) 08:34, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
some people feel so sensitiveis a specific reference to me and Alex, and how we supposedly share anti-Korean Chinese nationalism), I gotta wonder if Certified Gangsta ( talk · contribs) would be willing to name names regarding the "several unsavory characters", or if doing so would open them up to accusations of blatantly and baselessly attacking Wikipedians in good standing. I actually know very little about Alex Shih's history outside his interactions with me, so it might be fair to call him a Chinese nationalist POV-pusher who is cozy with other nationalist POV-pushers, and that might be a perfectly acceptable question to ask an ArbCom candidate (I know precisely nothing about ArbCom elections), but I'm curious. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 11:42, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
I harbor no animosity toward Chinese peopleThe quote on your user page, and the heading you placed it under, indicate otherwise. I have no idea how this diff makes anything "clear" -- did you cite the right one? Either way, it is from more than a decade ago. If you have any recent examples of disruptive behaviour or nationalist POV-pushing from the candidate, you should cite those.
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Could you take a look at this SPI that I have been mysteriously included in. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kurtan~enwiki. Based apparently on a !vote at a AfD for C. Johan Masreliez. I have no association to that account and I learned my lesson years ago. As I have no association any IP connection should be easily established. I find this very odd. BabbaQ ( talk) 16:15, 5 December 2017)
Hello, I have deprodded Lucidity (festival), because 1) it has been to AFD before, and 2) it had recently been updated to add a lot of promotional garbage, which I have reverted. If you still believe deletion is appropriate, please bring it back to AFD. Thanks, — KuyaBriBri Talk 06:38, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
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Bish, they did not merge - they deleted - I'm telling you the truth. They did not merge anything per AfD merge consensus, and held a local consensus instead that has yet to come to a fair conclusion of what to keep or delete - their local TP discussion is to delete all of it and not merge anything and that flies in the face of the resulting AfD merge consensus. There is no policy or guideline that I'm aware of that instructs us to ignore an AfD consensus to merge and simply delete everything instead by pretending to discuss what to merge at the TP and then suddenly informally deciding to do whatever they please which was to override consensus and delete all of it. They failed to request a review of the close if they opposed it, they failed to relist the article at AfD if delete was the result they were after, and they didn't even offer to call an RfC for wider community input from uninvolved editors which is what I did. Bish, they deleted the actual merge twice, so nothing was merged. You've warned me on my TP - I voluntarily relented after your warning and removed that article from my watchlist - it's simply not worth my getting into trouble over. Bish, I just wanted you to know what actually happened - I read the policy & guidelines carefully, please believe me - I followed the procedures. Don't be angry with me over this because I was not the one adding the redirects or causing disruption before a proper merge discussion had been held per the guidelines of AfD merge for controversial articles. I will heed your warning. Atsme 📞 📧 18:40, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
For the record - I went by the following "established practice on some aspect or aspects of Wikipedia's norms and customs": WP:Merging#Merger_as_a_result_of_a_deletion_discussion
Merger proposed after a deletion discussion
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Bish, consensus was to merge and based on PAGs, consensus is policy. Nothing was merged and after I read Wikipedia:Consensus#Levels of consensus which clearly states "Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. For instance, unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope. WikiProject advice pages, information pages and template documentation pages have not formally been approved by the community through the policy and guideline proposal process, thus have no more status than an essay." my conclusion was that the editors at the TP were attempting to "override consensus on a wider scale" per our policy. They chose "locally" to not merge despite the wider consensus at AfD. Say what you will, but I was not filibustering. I was following consensus policy. If you are telling me that local consensus on the TP overrides the wider consensus to merge at AfD, then simply tell me because that is exactly what happened, and it is not how I understood our policy. I just need to know so I don't repeat the same mistake at another article. That's all I'm asking of you. Atsme 📞 📧 01:16, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
If information you merged gets removed this should not generally be considered as going against the AFD consensus as it has now become part of the normal editing process.Galobtter ( pingó mió) 05:36, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. We are having some issues with a block evading disruptive editor who has used the following IPs.
When I ran this through a range calculator it gave me... 2600:1702:b20:3240:5caa:d417:1174:d644/30. However I am concerned that this may be too large and have temporarily removed the range block for fear of excessive collateral damage. Alas range blocks are not my forte, especially IPV6. Is this a workable range? I don't want to block entire continents. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 21:16, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
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16G /64 | 16G /64 | 3 | 2600:1700::/30 | contribs |
2 /64 | 1 /64 | 2 | 2600:1700:e5d0:a9a0::/64 | contribs |
1 /64 | 1 | 2600:1702:b20:3240::/64 | contribs |
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Alamatp2 ( talk) 10:42, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Bish, even though I did this in the past, how do I start an SPI investigation? Thanks. ( N0n3up ( talk) 03:27, 20 December 2017 (UTC))
Hello Bishonen: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ― Buster7 ☎ 21:30, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 16:17, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
My dear Mrs Bishonen, once again it is that joyous time of year when those of us with very developed social consciences are compelled us to think of the less fortunate, so you immediately sprung to mind. As I sit here in the great hall of Scrotum Towers beneath my 7m Christmas Tree (with non-drop needles), listening to the village children's choir serenading me from the snow outside (I can't permit their cheap, little snowy shoes on my priceless Bokhara rugs) only the seasonal sounds of the 2nd footman wassailing the 3rd housemaid on the backstairs interrupts my flow of good thoughts and seasonal wishes to all the editors of Wikipedia, wherever they may be, scattered throughout the most far flung outposts of the Empire and Commonwealth.
As one reviews the past 12 months, it has been an interesting, but taxing year for me, as I am now forced to spend so much time in Washington, advising dear Donald on foreign policy. So many World leaders have said that they can now detect my perceptive influence, which I feel can only be a good thing. As a Christmas gift, I strongly advise all editors (looking for a long term gain) to buy real estate (which has not already been bought by De Burgh Holdings Inc.) in Jerusalem, which returns me neatly to my Christmas message; surely were the Christ child to be renaissanced it woudl surely be in Washington among all those dear little Amish, Mammarieonits and Armageddons and Whatnots, surely that is the new Holy City, the Lord is shining down upon it - unlike London (which I am ashamed to call home), it can only be minutes before Mr Corbyn and the Bolsheviks storm Buckingham Palace and I am erecting barricades before my own London home. However, I expect shall survive, I usually do. Now, it is time for me to dress for dinner, so I must leave you, but I wish you all a deeply holy Christmas. The Lady Catherine de Burgh ( talk) 18:51, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
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Wishing you a happy holiday season! Times flies and 2018 is around the corner. Thank you for your contributions. ~ K.e.coffman ( talk) 00:23, 22 December 2017 (UTC) |
May you have very Happy Holidays, Bish ...
and a New Year filled with peace, joy, and ricciarelli!
Best wishes, Voceditenore ( talk) 07:26, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
Merry Christmas Bishonen!!
Hi Bishonen, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia!
,
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Davey2010
Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:21, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 18:21, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
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From Stave one of Dickens
A Christmas Carol
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{{edit semi-protected|User:Bishonen|answered=yes}} Hi, Bishonen,
Is there a messaging platform on which I can contact you to ask a question? (E.g., email, Facebook, etc.?)
I made an adit to "Jews for Jesus" to indicate that it is a Christian Evangelical organization (that targets disaffected Jews); it is NOT a Jewish organization. Nor has it ever claimed to be. It was founded by an Evangelical Christian minister, and the organization's stated goal is to eradicate Judaism. The source for my change is THE ARTICLE ITSELF.
The article states: "On several occasions leaders of the four major Jewish movements have signed on to joint statements opposing Hebrew-Christian theology and tactics. In part they said: "Though Hebrew Christianity claims to be a form of Judaism, it is not ... It deceptively uses the sacred symbols of Jewish observance ... as a cover to convert Jews to Christianity, a belief system antithetical to Judaism ... Hebrew Christians are in radical conflict with the communal interests and the destiny of the Jewish people."
Why did you delete my edit? Was it because I entered it incorrectly? Or because you believe that JFJ is a Jewish organization?
If you agree with me that Jews for Jesus is NOT a Jewish organization (nor has it ever claimed to be one), could you please make the correction?
If you disagree, could you help me understand your reasoning? I don't understand how a Wikipedia article can be allowed to be logically contradictory with itself.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THERE IS AN EASIER WAY TO COMMUNICATE. Is there a messaging functionality in Wikipedia? I'm also Jonathan Rotenberg on Facebook & LinkedIn.
MANY THANKS for your care & interest.
Kind regards,
Jonathan JonathanInBoston ( talk) 14:18, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, — MRD2014 Merry Christmas! 01:43, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very much all, we enjoyed the fine images and greetings! Now please all dance around our Christmas tree!
A blessed feast to you and yours. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 15:23, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bish, I notice that you have been around today. Any chance of tying some festive ribbon round Tyagi? I'm not sure whether semi-protection or pending changes would be best but something needs to happen because the anons and newly-registereds are a damn nuisance there. Brahmins are supposed to be the educated elite, at least historically, but they show nothing but ill-informed self-promotion etc at that particular article. Peace and goodwill only extends so far with me. - Sitush ( talk) 15:45, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Vanamakan ( talk · contribs) is repeatedly attempting to usurp the S. Janaki article at the moment, seemingly to pursue their goal of spamming a book/author. I've left notes on their talk page, opened a thread at the author talk page and also spoken with Insertcleverphrasehere on their talk page. Not sure what to do next because they're clearly pissed off. - Sitush ( talk) 10:42, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, me again. I reported Jagat jit singh ( talk · contribs) to WP:AN3 on 23 December but it was archived before anyone commented. They're back doing exactly the same poor edit, both logged in and logged out, despite me yet again referring them to the article talk page discussion that I had opened. The issue of the article subject's Sikhism etc has been discussed on that talk page in the past (archives) and, as my latest thread indicates, the contributor is actually misrepresenting the source anyway. I can't keep reverting them and they're plainly not listening. - Sitush ( talk) 14:04, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
dear Sitush ( talk · contribs) sikhism has been mentioned in a source given along with it. you are just creating a false attitude that it has been not mentioned in a source. please don't create an edit war.-- Jagat jit singh ( talk) 14:12, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2018, — Paleo Neonate – 13:50, 29 December 2017 (UTC) |
hi Bishonen, i am literally sorry for creating disruptive activities. but to clear it, it has mentioned that "Bhagat singh a sandhu jat" although i agree that he later on become Atheist. the "Jat" is divided into three categories Sikh jat, Muslim Jat and Hindu Jat. where as Bhagat singh was a Sikh jat. Here are the sources which clears it, please see [1] [2] [3]-- Jagat jit singh ( talk) 17:00, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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Bishonen,
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Apologies for this dumbness. My only excuse is that IPs adding or removing countries (especially US) from lists in that article, without edit reason, is the most common form of PoV editing. Should have thought more about this one! Pincrete ( talk) 10:21, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
I'm just gonna drop this here. [116] [117] [118] If I would've known I might've tried to steer things in a different direction. ((( The Quixotic Potato))) ( talk) 11:40, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
Lengthy explanation follows, not because you can't figure it out, but to save you time We have here an editor whose primary purpose appears to be highlighting violence targeted against Hindus, and minimizing that against Muslims, in the Indian subcontinent. That in itself may not be sanctionable. But, despite being notified about ARBIPA, has taken quite inappropriate actions in the last 24 hours. They reverted a CSD#G5 tag on four articles (which I then replaced). Following that, they have claimed to be "taking responsibility" for each of those four. To me, this means they need to be held accountable for the content in those articles. Take the revision they claim to be taking responsibility for. It includes a claim that a Muslim mob murdered two policemen (when the source clearly says that the circumstances of the death were being investigated). It includes the claim that "two radical Muslims" were shot dead (when the source says nothing about "radicals", or indeed about any political leanings). It includes seven sources, all of which contradict each other significantly: thus the article itself contradicts its own sources on a number of points. This particular article is just an example: they have done the same thing here, the problems with which I outlined here. As always, if you can't be bothered, I understand, and I will take this to AE. Vanamonde ( talk) 13:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
FWIW, roughly half of the sentences in the 2006 Bhiwandi lynching article appear to have misrepresented the sources. I've opened a discussion re: development of the article and possible retitling at its talk page. - Sitush ( talk) 15:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, you fully protected this talk page even though the user is not in fact retired but has posted an appeal at WP:ARCA. User talk pages of active users should not be protected because otherwise one can't communicate with them. Also, because of the protection I can't (or rather, mustn't) post on the talk page lift their topic ban in response to their appeal. Could you lift the protection, please? Sandstein 07:07, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
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Pardeeprorboy ( talk · contribs) is continuing to insert at the Ror article huge chunks of info copy/pasted from unreliable websites such as jatland.com (that one is actually blacklisted). They've had various warnings, including of caste sanctions and 3RR, and they've even tried putting the stuff in their sandbox. I cannot revert their most recent effort because I am at the revert limit. - Sitush ( talk) 13:15, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Apparently the Fun Police are on duty at WP:ANI. [129] [130] -- Calton | Talk 00:02, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Dear sir , I kindly request you to give me an opportunity to edit the page called as kulala .Sir I am from same community and I can provide more information about kulala. Regards
Thankin you Roshani kulal ( talk) 16:25, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Saladin1987 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Hi Bish, You recently gave this user his final piece of WP:ROPE. [131] Today on 12 January he;
- LouisAragon ( talk) 19:12, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Alanti.Muzamazi ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Bish, Others: Strange is this case, pestering and disrupting articles in ever new incarnations across many articles. Looks like a duck to me of SourceOnly / MrSharma1 / etc. They opened several accounts today (see Kalki history, blocked by Ian.thomson etc, article semi-protected today by Favonian). A talk page message on User talk:Alanti.Muzamazi has triggered the reply "I bet you were sexually abused as a child". Alanti.Muzamazi may be same as Mhosi.kusiloco because both are new, both disruptive and both have left misleading edit summaries in the same article. They seem to be deploying hopping IPs too. What are our options in such cases, other than patience? Ms Sarah Welch ( talk) 15:06, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there no legal steps we can take to stop such disruptive behavior? this is after all private use for select few like us. "laws of the State of California and, to the extent applicable, the laws of the United States of America will govern these Terms of Use" so is there no way to sue these people? or can they sue us for not allowing to let them edit and for removing all their work? We don't get paid for our work fair enough, we have nothing better to do but spend our life here believing this is what we will be remembered for even though no one care who we are, other than few of us who know each other for wasting our life here. Very unusual case indeed. These people are not stupid like the most we get rid off here so now let's just ignore them or keep blocking ALL the IP's until no ip is left to add anything on Wiki. We have all these powers that we can abuse including locking kalki page or should we stay off kalki page and we may not need to do anything! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noramus.Detorytum ( talk • contribs) 10:16, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Ahem. I feel slightly soiled this is not a complaint. - Roxy, Zalophus californianus. barcus 20:21, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
I did, I did, I did see a waterfall. Hey, ah, this page could use an archiving a bit...maybe...if you want...up to you.-- MONGO 13:28, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Not that the princess looks a whole lot like me- yer, the crown looks a lot smaller than I remember. -- RexxS ( talk) 17:29, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Nah, MPants at work We're not querying anything. We're invoking a function in a Lua module whose purpose is to pick the next filename in a list every day. That's all. No searching; no filtering; just the next one in the list.
@ Serial Number 54129: As there may be more folks wanting to use the carousel, I've made a new version at Module:Carousel and allowed everybody to have their own list of filenames. Your list is at Module:Carousel/54129 and I've started you off by putting four filenames in there that I lifted from your page. There are instructions on how to change them and add more in the module.
You can edit your page notice (I think) to say something like:
[[File:{{#invoke:carousel | main | name=54129}} | upright=1.25 | center | thumb | Welcome to my page ... etc]]
which will result in
Change the size by fiddling with the upright parameter as usual. If there are any problems with that, 'Shonen is a fine coder and will fix it for you on request. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 15:19, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
We're not querying anything. We're invoking a function in a Lua module whose purpose is to pick the next filename in a list every day.Well, if there's a function in the module to pick the next image, then that makes sense. I hope your code is thoroughly commented and properly indented, else boring manager Rob will be along to tell you that while you may be very diligent, your output stink. ;P ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 15:26, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
even you can read that... ...non-leet coders and script kiddies...I apologize for assuming you could take a joke. I'll refrain from playful banter with you in the future. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 15:51, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like moulten lead.
I hope you saw my comments to you at AN/I and that they provided a little more understanding for where I was coming from, why I am willing to change my mind, etc. What you had to say to me caught my attention, but not as much as what Davey2010 had to say. Even so, it does bother me that you now think less of me, not because I will lose your support in the future, but because I think you have misunderstood my responses in regard to this issue, both at SJ's talk page and AN/I. Then again, I'm starting to wonder if, because of my deficiencies in grasping appropriate social communication, pragmatics, and nuance at times, I myself didn't misunderstand the whole situation from beginning to AN/I. I hope this makes sense and that we can still be "friends". -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 18:51, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
My explanation is above, Drmies. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 00:17, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I know I've been hanging around here a lot this morning, but I just had to add this. Your comment there gave me a chill and made me laugh at the same time. That deserves a gold-trimmed hammer britches seal of approval with oak leaf clusters. I think I might have to make a "Hammer of the gods" barnstar, just to give it to you. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 20:25, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
For your unrivaled ability and willingness to kick ass and chew bubblegum,
and your amazing ability to consistently forget the bubblegum,
I hereby award you the
Solid Gold Hammer of the Gods
barnstar, resplendent upon a golden field.
May your banhammer
be ever heavy
and ready to fly free.
ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 03:43, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
{{Subst:User:MjolnirPants/godhammer}}
The signature at the end comes with it.
ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants
Tell me all about it. 04:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
style=""
attribute. But I might be able to add in some deprecated CSS properties or something. @
Odysseus1479: could I trouble you for a screenshot and the details of your browser? (You can get the exact version number by finding the "help" menu and choosing "about".)
ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants
Tell me all about it. 13:23, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
First of all, I no longer expect my setup (Safari v5.1.10 on Mac OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard” —BTW on a Mac every program has a self-titled menu, first on the left after the Apple menu, and where the About is normally found), to be well supported, rather I’m impressed that most features of the WMF sites continue to work fairly well, the only problems I’ve noticed being more or less cosmetic. Anyway, I see the gold background now, and the main text is better positioned, fairly central, with the glow effect also showing. However, the box itself still the same size, protruding past the right margin, and the “May your …” text, which was previously superimposed on the image, is now near the right-hand edge of the box (such that I have to scroll my window rightward to read it), leaving a wide empty space between it and the main block. @ MjolnirPants: I’ve sent you a message, but without screenshots because the “Email this user” form doesn’t seem to allow for attachments.— Odysseus 147 9 21:47, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke talk page access.-- Cahk ( talk) 08:13, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen,
Can you double check and make sure I did everything properly in this merge? I think I did but I would appreciate a double check to make sure I didn't screw anything up. Thank you. -- Tarage ( talk) 22:17, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. I was editing my own sandbox and I noticed that the Architecture and Cuisine sections and the contents for Sports were missing [137]. When I click to publish the changes, there is a lot of missing contents. I think there is a bug or technical problem but I'm not entirely sure. ( N0n3up ( talk) 05:09, 18 January 2018 (UTC))
The result being that nothing was displayed until the next closing </ref> tag. Just addIn the 60s and 70s and onwards, numerous artists contributed and still contribute to modern Peruvian art including Teresa Burga, a non-objectualist artists, sculpture Cristina Gálvez<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wuffarden, [[Jorge Eduardo Eielson]], [[Jorge Piqueras]], [[Eduardo Tokeshi]] and [[Elena Tejada-Herrera]]. In the field of photography, [[Martín Chambi]] and [[Mario Testino]] made major contributions.
}}</ref>
somewhere near the end of that paragraph and your text will reappear. --
RexxS (
talk) 15:43, 18 January 2018 (UTC)I am struggling against what appears to be a member of the caste at Daivadnya Brahmin. Their talk page suggests a troubled past and I've just added a sanctions alert but I have also previously warned them and tried to explain why this is inappropriate. I am reluctant to revert yet that edit yet again because this is turning into a slow-burn edit war. - Sitush ( talk) 21:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
For whatever my input may be worth, I think you're right in calling for a clear close. I also think you are correct in the indefinite length. What concerns me is that I also think a prior pattern of gaming behavior is already playing out. Unscintillating has been called on their AfD disruption before. Each time it has previously happened, when the heat finally gets turned up to an uncomfortable level, they appear to flee the scene. Almost always this lasts no more than a month or two (with a longish 2015 absence that seems unrelated) and they then return to bothering and bewildering other editors in AfD-land. I am worried that their current three-day disappearing act after the sense of that thread quickly started to form is their way of again attempting to game the restriction. I would not be at all surprised for them to, in the very near term, strenuously claim that their restriction is unfair since they "were not able to respond". On the other hand, I don't know that there would be any benefit to expressing that suspicion in the thread so I have refrained from doing so. Do you think this is something that needs to be said or will the closing admin and whoever sees the inevitable appeals will be aware of this already? Thanks. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 21:28, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
It all got very messy with PAKHIGHWAY and I lost track of whether they were formally topic banned, merely warned or got away with it all. Can you remember or work it out? I am concerned because of this. - Sitush ( talk) 20:20, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
The last few days at the punk rock article an unregistered editor has been repeatedly making the same bad edit in the lead section from different IP addresses. Despite being blocked from some of them, the vandal persists. I was wondering if we could put semi-protection on the page, at least for a while, until the problem subsides. Thanks, Garagepunk66 ( talk) 03:44, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
I think Utkala Brahmin would benefit from your ministrations. Repeated big changes based on a caste-affiliated source. I'm guessing that the anon of a few hours ago has now registered an account. - Sitush ( talk) 17:19, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
There's a bit of a problem with Editingscientists ( talk · contribs) repeatedly adding unsourced claims re: languages at the Bellary article. They've had numerous warnings and it has been going on for days now. - Sitush ( talk) 12:20, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
A short semi-protection at Jogi, pretty please? Anons reinstating info that is either (a) copyvio or (b) unreliable - it doesn't really matter which but someone has (correctly) explained the issues on the talk page. - Sitush ( talk) 16:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
The log for the page Upasana RC states that you deleted it. I remember putting in references for articles onto the page. Was there anything else wrong with it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nishant.jeyanth ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for the ping. Any suggestions? -- Ronz ( talk) 23:28, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Bish, Editingscientists ( talk · contribs) whom you blocked has evaded their block on the same page here. — LeoFrank Talk 10:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Bish, would request your intervention here. Three users are involved with editing this article Sivaprasathsrc ( talk · contribs), Bharatvenkat ( talk · contribs) and Dr.d.prabu ( talk · contribs). These three seem to be promoting the subject and most likely meatpuppets. — LeoFrank Talk 10:28, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
... Coffee break, I guess. Can we have an unprotect at Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Trump_Street? E Eng 16:24, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).
Any chance of some admin intervention at Mangal Pandey? I am becoming fed up of repeatedly reverting unsourced claims about his caste origins. - Sitush ( talk) 21:42, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Semi, please, at Pareek. The thing isn't sourced anyway but repeatedly adding more unsourced info isn't helpful. - Sitush ( talk) 12:13, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I wonder if you could check the user 12Dagge and his contributions here on enwp. When I saw he got an article deleted and warned for the content, and he was warned in August I checked all his contributions. Almost all were reverted. I wrote a comment to him about that here, but thinks it would be good if an admin on enwp looked at it. Best regards, Adville ( talk) 19:15, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish. This user is constantly changing the title of Visakhapatnam Airport by introducing the word "International" when the airport itself hasn't been renamed. Can you keep an eye on them? — LeoFrank Talk 13:55, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
I think we now have evasion of your block of Kevin mitnik fake ( talk · contribs) going on at Sanjay Singh. - Sitush ( talk) 17:09, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments and assistance at [139]. Now that the page is protected I can't respond there, but your and Cullen's attentions are appreciated. Cheers, 73.159.24.89 ( talk) 21:26, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
You made me jump with the pic of the bison. Any change of a short semi-protection at Vaishya? A hopping anon keeps inserting a name that is not in the source and does so despite the inline note asking that people desist from adding to the list of examples. - Sitush ( talk) 15:38, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Are you sure you meant to apply full protection? It seems a little counter-intuitive. I would have expected semi-protection, or possibly extended-confirmed, but full protection stops all directed communication. Pinging @ Jytdog: in case he has anything to add. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 23:26, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Traditionally Wikipedia offers wide latitude to users to manage their user space as they see fit. However, pages in user space belong to the wider community. They are not a personal homepage, and do not belong to the user. They are part of Wikipedia, and exist to make collaboration among editors easier.
User talk pages are rarely protected, and are semi-protected for short durations only in the most severe cases of vandalism from IP users. My underline emphasis
A user's request to have his or her own talk page protected is not a sufficient rationale to protect the page.
User talk pages must serve their primary purpose, which is to make communication and collaboration among editors easier. Editors who refuse to use their talk page for these purposes are violating the spirit of the talk page guidelines, and are not acting collaboratively.
Oh, hi, Ched, nice to see you. The point here is that Jytdog has left, so he's beyond collaboration at this time. Bah, Carrite. The pages "exist to make collaboration among editors easier" — yes — I'm sorry it wasn't clear above that Jytdog has left. Or only indirectly. His final message is here. If he returns, I'll consider unprotecting so he can collaborate some more. Also, no, it's not the case that "administrators only" can talk to him. Please note my edit summary for the talkpage protection: "User request. Please don't post on this page." Of course any reasonable admin will respect that, as they normally do when any page is fullprotected. It's kind of difficult to post my reply when more people keep chiming in - but what are you talking about, Mkdw? He doesn't continue to edit Wikipedia. He has e-mailed me to say he's gone, and asking me to protect his pages. And now edit conflict with Jytdog, too — shit — please don't post, Jytdog. You're wrongfooting me. If you do it again, I probably should unprotect your talk. Bishonen | talk 16:16, 12 February 2018 (UTC).
Wow, just wow. Jytdog could still be reached via email I suppose...and its likely safe to assume the protection was temporary of course. What a cauldron. For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.-- MONGO 16:28, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
(Bish TP stalker) If Jytdog plans on a long break, I think full protection is actually a pretty good IAR way to lower the temperature. If he's sticking around, not so much. Let's call last night's edits to ANI - and today's edits to this page - false starts, and keep the full protection unless and until Jytdog edits any other page, and unprotect then? (also, while I'm here... Hi User:Ched! And nice picture, User:MONGO!) -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 16:45, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Not planning to jump into this further, but this action seems to be in line with the spirit of WP:NOBAN (which I haven’t seen linked yet). You can request that anyone not post on your user talk page, but you cannot a avoid notice of administrative actions. Admins can still technically post if need be, so there doesn’t appeared to be any problem with the protection (though unfortunate) as-is. Seems like a better to leave things be situation now that what’s done is done. Kingofaces43 ( talk) 18:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Think talk access should be revoked here - now they just re-added the content to the talk page. Home Lander ( talk) 20:48, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
I know I'm getting the order wrong - but did want to pop in and say hello to a trusted friend. This really should have preceded my jumping into a conversation. I do hope you and the entire Bish family are doing great. I'm guessing they are still around as well? Anyway - good to see you. :) — Ched : ? — 12:57, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Two arseholes, both alike in dignity,
In Wikipedia, where we lay our scene,
From recent grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil words unclean.
From forth the fatal keys of these two foes
A pair of cross editors take their leave;
Whole misreported comical overthrows
Do with their absence cause us all to grieve.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd posts,
And the continuance of the admins' rage,
Which, but the edits' end, nought could remove,
Is now the two weeks' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with flapping ears attend,
What here shall miss, we chimps shall strive to mend.
Block evasion? When? 85.164.238.62 ( talk) 14:38, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, and thanks for writing this word on ANI without providing a proper source. It made my day, L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 21:11, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Willy on Wheels~enwiki evidence=[ https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk%3ABishonen&type=revision&diff=826043938&oldid=826043472 absolute smoking gnu evidence
Hey Bish. @ Editingscientists: is back with a new sock. I've created an SPI page for this user. — LeoFrank Talk 04:33, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I think a touch of semi-protection might be useful at Kirar. Ta muchly. - Sitush ( talk) 13:46, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Priya Prakash Varrier. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. ☆ Bri ( talk) 19:03, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. You salted Priya Prakash Varrier after the AfD on it, which seems quite reasonable based on the AfD and promotional nonsense that was going on, but she seems to have become a lot more notable in the last day. In fact the deleted article is on the list of the most hit articles. I guess this could be some attempt to trick us but it seems more likely to be due to a court case which is getting a lot of news coverage in India right now. See Wikipedia talk:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Redlink in top 25 traffic report. It is probably too soon to make an article, as this may be a flash in the pan, but would you be amenable to redirecting to Oru Adaar Love which is the article about the film she is in, and which the court case is about, so that all the people hitting the URL at least get something relevant to what they are interested in? If nothing else, I'd hate for large numbers of people to Google her, see the Wikipedia link, click it, see that the article is gone and then think that there is something dodgy going on. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 23:07, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Well first of all, I liked the picture in the edit notice. @ Bishonen: I noticed you have closed a conversation today, I almost figured by his messages that he would be gone until Sunday, then I'd get a response. But that's not my main point. Considering you said that "FWIW it doesn't sound to me like there's anything you need to do.", that means I'm done with this whole thing. Now do you think I approached it correctly? Thanks Sincerely, User: Zanygenius( talk page) 15:19, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, with ref to your block at User talk:Sprkwiki some months ago, I think the problem is still going on. I've left a note here and at Draft talk:Sarie-Eldin & Partners Legal Advisors, which I think is likely to be equally problematic even though I cannot read the sources. - Sitush ( talk) 14:38, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Abhinav686 ( talk · contribs) is repeatedly reinstating unsourced content at various articles and, when reverted, going to the reverter's talk page to spout their qualifications to do so etc. The edits to Upper Caste are particularly poor.
They're new, they're misguided etc but even when things are explained - as in response to their post on my talk page - they seem to be continuing in the same vein. - Sitush ( talk) 10:36, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Upper caste general obc? "Upper caste" is a somewhat vague term, however a community can be of high ritual standing but still traditionally impoverished/lacking in opportunities and officially recognised as OBC. "General" confuses things even further because in the form "General Class" it is another term for Forward Caste. I've no idea what they meant and, tbh, only skimmed the rant they kept reinstating at that article and its talk page. Sometimes it is not necessary for me to digest every word in order to figure out that we do not want it. - Sitush ( talk) 13:48, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Well, Twinkle did it: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1914 Komagata Maru (2nd nomination). Not sure how to handle it. Would you please take a look at it? Thanks. PS: I have posted same message at User talk:KrakatoaKatie, in case one of you goes offline. —usernamekiran (talk) 12:59, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke talk page access.-- Cahk ( talk) 09:12, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I raised the issue on the BLP board because the discussion was about the issue of whether to quote Eliana Johnson/Nick Riccardi/Podhoretz. Should I have mentioned it on RS/N because that was where discussion about Salon & Wolff was opened? NPalgan2 ( talk) 22:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
If you find time for it could you take a look at the canvassing and votestacking situation at the AfD for Annika Connor. User Softlavender has pinged two editors [141] and also asked editor DGG on his talk page to come to the AfD to !vote. Especially the talk page message is basically begging for a Delete !vote [142]. I might be overreacting but I find it weird that three editors are basically told to vote at an AfD by one editor. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annika Connor. BabbaQ ( talk) 09:25, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, guys, sorry I was away. The putative canvassing is a borderline thing IMO. Softlavender seems surprisingly unaware of how it looks, to put it no more strongly, to ping people to an AfD. I don't know Cullen or Megalibrarygirl (or AfD) well enough to have an opinion as to whether they specialize in rescuing articles on women and/or artists (though I feel I know Cullen pretty well otherwise; hello, Cullen!), as Softlavender has repeatedly stated. It's not apparent on their userpages. (Adding PS: I guess it is sort of noticable on Cullen's page, If I had read more carefully.) But I really don't think you ought to ping anybody with the argument that they specialize in taking a particular stand on the kind of article that's in question. That's an argument for not pinging them. Obviously your intentions were of the best, since it looks like you pinged people you thought to be, if anything, unlikely to share your own opinion — but such an attempt to manage an AfD isn't appropriate either, and it remains an argument for not pinging them. I hope none of the three people pinged/otherwise alerted think I mean to criticise them with that opinion, not do I think their input at the AfD should be discounted — by no means. They are, after all, highly skilled, highly respected, and highly neutral administrators.
@ Softlavender:, I'm quite underwhelmed by your debating style at that AfD. To repeat the same argument verbatim five times, with apparently rising indignation — look at what you're making me do, I'm repeating myself! "I'll state a fifth time"! — looks like bludgeoning in my eyes.
@ BabbaQ:, nobody has asked me about this, but in my chatty way, I'll still register my bafflement at your own Keep !vote. How on earth does WP:NEXIST support the notability of the subject? If there are better sources out there, which is what NEXIST is about, why don't you go find them? Unless you support your opinion with references, I have to say I would discount it if I were the closing admin. (Which I'm obviously not going to be, after all this discussion my page.) Bishonen | talk 18:11, 2 March 2018 (UTC).
... with the person who keeps adding this stuff back to an article without providing a source? I am fed up of trying to deal with it. - Sitush ( talk) 13:04, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Something for the mantlepiece | |
Unworked jade, overworked Bish :( ...SerialNumber 54129 ...speculates 15:32, 3 March 2018 (UTC) |
Thanks for this; I was heading to their talk page to do the same, but Zilla's legs be longer than mine, methinks. On a more serious note: I think we really, really need to authorize pre-emptive EC protection on pages affected by ARBIPA. I've discussed this before (see here, and also elsewhere with RegentsPark and SpacemanSpiff) but haven't done much about it. Thoughts? (and apologies if I've asked you about this before...). Vanamonde ( talk) 18:34, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
I've deprodded Jesuit Institute South Africa. It faculty have published a number of scholary works and I suspect it might pass WP:NORG. BillHPike ( talk, contribs) 01:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish. I accidentally made edits logged out of my account and wanted to know if there is any way I can erase my IP from showing, even if it means deleting those edits. ( N0n3up ( talk) 03:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC))
...whom you may remember from the topic-ban discussion last November, is appealing his six-month topic ban. You might want to weigh in. -- Calton | Talk 17:25, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Bish. Would you mind taking a look at this request I just made at RfPP? There's a big free-for-all edit-war on Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II that needs to be stopped. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 23:06, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
I am sure there was a long-ish discussion in recent months concerning giving people account creator rights for outreach work. It involved a fair few long-term contributors but I am blowed if I can find it at ANI, AN or VPP. Do you or any of the watchers here recall it? - Sitush ( talk) 00:18, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
No worries - found it. Typical! - Sitush ( talk) 00:20, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone deal with the personal attacks going on at User talk:Kautilya3, please? - Sitush ( talk) 18:26, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for acknowledging Wikipedia:IPs are human too. Too often registered editors forget that IPs have a right to edit Wikipdeia, too. 32.218.152.220 ( talk) 15:45, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the protection, NeilN, I was just considering doing it myself, to save the fingers of the watchers who have helped with reverting. And thank you too, kind watchers. Bishonen | talk 15:32, 15 March 2018 (UTC).
You are invited to join a discussion at Talk:Cold-weather warfare#Choice of images. Sincerely, HopsonRoad ( talk) 21:16, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
I truly don't think the warnings with PME and myself were needed, particularly when there was an existing discussion about including that information. BR had not participated in it, there was no consensus to include it, so I'm not seeing why BRD doesn't apply here to him as well as those who felt it should be removed. The tone of your warning has made BR think he can run around, acting self-righteous and issuing threats as if he is now above question. I just looked. I've only made 1 edit to that article in over 2 weeks. Even if I did remove it, that would be the second in 2 weeks, with zero discussion from BR in that time frame. Not exactly a flaming edit war. Niteshift36 ( talk) 14:32, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
"BTW, you know what else the Arbcom would probably notice? You making a controversial edit, then posting the DS notice in a what appears to be an attempt to intimidate editors."What DS notice did BullRangifer post, and why would ArbCom care? (You're presumably not referring to the DS alert on PackMecEng's page, which I posted myself.) It's ArbCom's very own alert, part of the DS system, and they definitely don't mind it being posted. Furthermore, I see you've added more aggression on talk after my warning (which was actually only a warning that I would formally warn you if you attempted to remove the content without giving a good reason — a bit absurd, all those layers of warnings, but I don't mind giving people a laugh). You think it's collaborative to call people a giant wanker? More like that and I'll block you without benefit of discretionary sanctions. Bishonen | talk 17:27, 16 March 2018 (UTC).
Someone has just copied text from this site to Priya Prakash Varrier, over-riding the redirect. I've reverted and nominated the image uploads for deletion at Commons. Can you or one of your watchers please take care of the revdel? - Sitush ( talk) 18:31, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
The thousand-armed daemon continues to shoot :-( -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 17:00, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Bish! I don’t like to make admin decisions at articles I am involved in. Could you take a look at this edit by VM? As you can see from the history, they are immediately re-adding something that had been “challenged by reversion”. Thanks! -- MelanieN ( talk) 20:29, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, various Bishes and TPSes. Would anybody be willing to venture an opinion on this? I think the references are problematic (YouTube vid a probably copyright vio plus IMDb unreliable), but being a dangerously unstable troll, I'm never sure about these things. (Nice mountain, by the way, but I was hoping for something sentient—maybe even cuddly.) Rivertorch FIRE WATER 17:11, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Bishzilla has been trying to add a link to her pocket to her sig, for hospitality. It looks like this: bishzilla ROARR!! pocket. Lovely, in my opinion, and hospitable. But she had trouble pasting it into the Preferences signature field — it was cut off. :-( I have posted a question at the Village Pump. [146] Little talkpage stalkers are cordially invited to respond there. <subliminally>Support Bishzilla or perish!</subliminally> Bishonen | talk 17:51, 23 March 2018 (UTC).
[[User:Bishzilla|<b style="font-family:comic sans ms;color:#0FF"><big>''bishzilla''</big></b>]] [[User talk:Bishzilla|<i style="color:#E0E;"><sub>R</sub>OA<big>R<big>R!<big>!</big></big></big></i>]] [[User:Bishzilla/Srp|<b style="color:red">pocket</b>]]
→
bishzilla
ROARR!!
pocketBut surely you meant
Shock Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 14:48, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Changed bad mistake, can Boris live now? Shock Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 15:18, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Dear Bishonen,
Thank you for your help with Wikipedia!
As you suggested, I went to the talk page for Christian Science. There, I submitted a research-based request that 8 new words be added to an introductory sentence. However, I was given no opportunity to "develop consensus" as you said might be the case. Instead, my request was listed as answered, and denied under the basis that "we don't really have the space to unpack it." Adding eight words is a pretty simple. If an editor doesn't like my eight words, I would be happy to help her or him develop a different or shorter phrase. Or, editors could do some research on their own. Either way, the following is undeniable:
God is primary and central to Christian Science, based not on opinion, but pure research. To omit God from the introduction to Christian Science and to lead with a topic that is secondary is inaccurate.
Do you have any suggestions for how this inaccuracy can be resolved?
Blessings and thanks,
Sjostyn ( talk) 03:07, 25 March 2018 (UTC)Susie Jostyn
Warmly, Sjostyn ( talk) 03:16, 27 March 2018 (UTC)Susie
Hi Bish, I heard that you block users who no longer want to continue in Wikipedia and ask to voluntarily be infinitely blocked. If so, can the user return in the future or not, and in the same or new account? Just curious. ( N0n3up ( talk) 04:24, 26 March 2018 (UTC))
I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
tag from
Otara Gunewardene, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think this article should be deleted, please do not add {{proposed deletion}}
back to the file. Instead, feel free to list it at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks!
Dan arndt (
talk) 14:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
No, not me.
If you are still suspicious, then please subject me to whatever SPI/checkuser type procedure you wish, it will confirm that I'm not ThePierrasse thanks 124.106.139.19 ( talk) 18:04, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
For some reason I happened to be rereading something on my talk page, when I noticed something ... suspicious. You (or your Bishy companions) seem always around whenever I've had episodes of what I used to think were simply my semi-addled misadventures in misclickings. See: Reverting trolling, November 2014, and What? Fat finger?. So are you secretly in control of my fingers? Paul August ☎ 10:44, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Yes, Bishonen, Twitter is considered a "social media platform": [149]. I know you lost some respect for me when, for no good reason, you came to the assumption that I'm a flaming Conservative White Supremacist a couple of months ago, but please leave the LOLs out of your edit summaries when deleting content I've added to articles about Conservative subjects, okay? That's just rude. And, to be honest, lowers my opinion of the kind of person I thought you were. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 22:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
"And now you expect me to research the edit histories of conservative subjects to make sure who added something, in case it was you, before I formulate my edit summary? Do you think that's a reasonable request?", I made no such request. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 23:08, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I need help with this: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Violetriga
I'm afraid my civility on the issue has worn out, and in the interest in not getting myself blocked, I'm disengaging, but I strongly suggest some sort of action be taken here because this is not stopping. -- Tarage ( talk) 23:35, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
You may wish to chime in, with words or ______ over here, given the circumstances that proliferated at Ambarish Srivastava and now continuing around Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award.Best, ~ Winged Blades Godric 06:01, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Could you please answer my question at AE? I'm genuinely curious as to how that exchange could be interpreted other than the way I read it. Thanks. No More Mr Nice Guy ( talk) 18:55, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
...following through with some consequences re: this? [150]. Many thanks.- Mr X 🖋 21:31, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, can you have a word with this user. He seems to be losing it. The relevant talk page discussion is at Talk:Slavery in India#Interpretations of Dasa. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 22:51, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I appreciate the treats and apologize for my boring little friend finding their way to your talk. Tide rolls 12:28, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at this conversation? Was I wrong to move an essay to Wiki space without first gaining consensus? – dlthewave ☎ 21:07, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Is the factual statement that 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche is a reincarnation really acceptable on WP? The entire article is a mess but much of it seems to stem from this belief. - Sitush ( talk) 09:22, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
... they tend to be so confusing that if you are not an adherent, they are well nigh impossible ...you have probably stated an important and quite general fact ... best wishes DBaK ( talk) 10:20, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
Can you put an indefinite block on me? I do not use wikipedia and i am sure that i wont be coming back. Thanks I am. furhan. ( talk) 14:13, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
An editor pinged you from ANI. They want an admin to look at the thread. I made the suggestion they ping an administrator mentioned three to pick from. [157]. If this was improper please no not sanction the editor for my error. Jbh Talk 20:06, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
...this, [159] there's no shame in assuming good faith. The shame is on the user who violates that good faith. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Sir i beg you To Post Khaga History Article If you have any doubt i will give you screen shot pic proof or gazeteer proof
/info/en/?search=Special:MobileDiff/836854257
Sock, edit warring, illegitimate username, NOTHERE... I can't deal with this using my my phone. -- BullRangifer ( talk) PingMe 18:16, 17 April 2018 (UTC) BullRangifer ( talk) PingMe 18:16, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=User:Per_in_Sweden
This looks wrong to me. Thoughts? -- Tarage ( talk) 22:15, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Seeing that JamesBWatson is currently "Away for a while", I dump this on you, since I have seen you tpstalking his tp. Referring to this conversation, I can inform you that the Philippine IP is continuing their irritating subtle disruption from addresses close to, but outside the currently blocked ranges. Some of the last IPs used are 49.145.167.176 and 49.145.165.41, possibly also 49.150.36.65, but that one has only one edit that is difficult to crosscheck. I do not have time to go through all their edits now or look for other IP addresses, but will try to find time soon to revert their disruptions. It is a boring pain-in-the-ass job... Regards! -- T*U ( talk) 10:05, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I see you're online doing admin tasks and was wondering if you could block this IP 121.221.241.233 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) who is disruptively blanking music pages without any explanation [161] and introducing deliberately inaccurate content see here. No one seems to be watching the AIV page and they are getting disruptive. HickoryOughtShirt?4 ( talk) 09:27, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
I made a mistake in issuing this chap a very short term block instead of an indef NOTHERE, but for obvious reasons, I won't change that now, but can you keep a watch on this charmer? cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 07:31, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen. Please see User talk:EdJohnston#User:Md iet. You had previously posted to Md iet's talk page in 2016 and might have an opinion on what (if anything) admins should do to handle this dispute. The sanctions of ARBIPA are available if needed. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 17:45, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
I guess if I could figure out who the SPA's are who created these, the CU's are already spinning .-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 19:54, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Anythingyouwant and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks, Anythingyouwant ( talk) 23:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
You issued a final warning here. User has been warned about DS sanctions on BLP and DS sanctions on ARBPIA. There are also multiple warnings on his talk page on various issues.
Holohoax, a portmanteau of "Holocaust" and "Hoax", is a coinage used to describe alleged media manipulation, distortion or fraud by the Israelis and other Jews designed to win the public relations war against Palestine.) - per wiktionary this is "(offensive, used by Holocaust deniers) The Holocaust viewed as an event which is fabricated and did not happen."
:Isn't it a WP:COI for an editor who has served in the Israeli Defence Forces to vote on an issue like this which involves a controversy surrounding the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces in the West Bank? Genuine question.. I'll note the article itself (created by this user) is questionable (as might be evident in the AfD).
All this in April 2018. Icewhiz ( talk) 06:34, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Edits on this page Indo-Aryan migration have been reverted by many editors. I don't want to cross the 3RR limot nor I want to revert again. Notably, there is a set of usual editors have made baseless accusations and seem to be removing my content just because they don't like what I add. It's not just me, another editor Wiki841 too has reverted them and restored my edit.
In the interests of avoiding edit-warring, I request you protect the article. I don't simply want my preferred version to be protected, so whatever version you protect is up to you. I am open to discussion but they shouldn't falsely blame me of copyright violation and outdated translation when there is none. They also keep using Wikipedia policies like WP:SOAPBOX which have nothing do with my edits. I suggest you tell them to discuss and prove themselves first and not make bad-faith baseless accusations. MonsterHunter32 ( talk) 22:27, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I want the ban removed as I never added unsourced material to any of the articles. May I know how I can appeal? Sharkslayer87 ( talk) 11:03, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Bishonen, I apologize if I did disruptive editing. But I beg you to understand me. I never added poor sources. My sources are genuine. The below two sources really provide synonymity between Raju and Kshatriya. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Kanumuri-Bapiraju-faces-uphill-task-in-Narsapuram/articleshow/33795850.cms https://books.google.com/books?id=oQOF7tkWXjIC&pg=PA98&dq=kshatriyas+rajus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD-s67t4PaAhWGxFkKHcyxBUY4FBDoAQhUMAk#v=onepage&q=kshatriyas%20rajus&f=false.
The first source says "Rajus (Kshatriya)" and the second source clearly says "The rajus are a small, close-knit community of the Kshatriya caste"
These are the sources that I used. I also used Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard who is considered by many as one of the greatest social anthropologists ever. He has more than a hundered thousand results at google scholar and he has been cited by thousands and thousands of scholars. “The Raju caste, classified as the Kshatriya or warriors among the Twice-born castes, is the second highest in the village. The Raju are descendants of former rulers of the area and though their wealth and influence has declined they still bestow patronage in the form of land, money and political connections. Several Raju families have Shudra and Harijan field laborers attached to them by yearly agreements”.
He states in no uncertain terms that Rajus are classified as Kshatriyas.
Please kick me out if you want but please don't say that my sources are not good. I have never added bad sources. All my sources have been good. I might have been a little aggressive in my editing for which I apologize but I never used poor sources. Sharkslayer87 ( talk) 11:39, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.
Sharkslayer87 (
talk) 12:05, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at WP:AN regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Sharkslayer87 ( talk) 12:17, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Oh, dammit. I've been trying to fashion a bright red obnoxious box to post at the top of
Talk:Ghirth, with the text "This page is for civil discussion of improvements of the page
Ghirth. Caste glorification, attacks on living people, and other irrelevant material will be removed." It's supposed to be used as a last-ditch attempt to manage without semiprotection of that talkpage, which is currently at the mercy of clueless inexperienced caste warriors expressing their frustration at being unable to "improve" the semi-protected main page. Check it out, especially the stuff that
Utcursch has removed. So, I have some boxes, that I've been trying to adapt, but it's bloody impossible. I probably keep missing out some really important dot or curl. Would a clever talkpage stalker like to create one for me? How about you,
RexxS?
NeilN ?
Bishonen |
talk 20:36, 1 May 2018 (UTC).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).
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Logstash.I just wanted to personally thank you for your comments on the unblock request. 331dot ( talk) 17:33, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
who was? Sounds vaguely familiar.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 21:23, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Thank you all for your recent vigilance on my user and talk pages. Much appreciated. There are some very odd and bored people around. Giano (talk) 12:49, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
The caption contest is over, and young Martinevans123, who provided the image and the invitation to caption it, is invited to crown the victor. Bishonen | talk 19:49, 13 May 2018 (UTC).
Hello, I have seen your comment on Cassianto's talk page "Please feel free to alert me on my page if you should see new infobox discussions being started where there's already a recent consensus." On Talk:Stanley Kubrick an editor has just started a "Straw Poll" on whether or not an infobox should be included when the last of numerous such discussions was closed on 4 April. Smeat75 ( talk) 21:42, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Hey Bish, I did the paperwork for the restriction. [169], [170] The editnotice is especially important as Arbcom won't consider a restriction as valid unless one is present. -- NeilN talk to me 13:26, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Sill, glad to know that re-litigating an idiotbox discussion and edit warring is something that ArbCom will frown on. How about re-opening a discussion less than 24 hours after another discussion had been closed, then adding the box back after 11 days, while the RfC is still open? Excellent news that ArbCom managed to sort all that mess out then. Once again I suspect that if the re-litigating and edit warring had been to remove the box, rather than force it back in, all hell would have broken out and it would have been ANI, blocks or ArbCom to ensure punishment was meted out. - SchroCat ( talk) 12:59, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Talk:Brexit. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Bettering the Wiki ( talk) 03:07, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Richard 0612 13:19, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello Bishonen, can you please take a look at Ashishdpune who appears to be a possible sock of Koltepatil2017 ( talk · contribs) you blocked in February ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kolte Patil). Thank you GSS ( talk| c| em) 07:11, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
You were recently listed as a party to or recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/German war effort. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/German war effort/Evidence. Please add your evidence by May 30, 2018, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/German war effort/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 23:01, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
+ a user page: [172] - (any) admin needed -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:32, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
was fixed, thanks all who did -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:56, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
Module:Carousel has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 23:18, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
You are not yet mentioned but your block may be raised following this at ANI. - Sitush ( talk) 17:51, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Care to do the honours with SitushTheBrahminbazturd ( talk · contribs) ? - Sitush ( talk) 23:38, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen.
You created Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/India Against Corruption sock-meatfarm. I have searched the Internet for a definition of "meatfarm" and all I get is thousands of references to places where livestock is raised; as an internet term, it appears to be uncommon and obscure, even when I use the search string "meatfarm internet slang." What do you mean by this term?
Thanks. — O'Dea ( talk) 15:59, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).
Just a heads up. Randfal2 popped up on my watchlist making 20+ single character edits at Misha Frid. I noticed TurnPike37 doing the same thing with a bit more subtlety elsewhere last night. I suppose they may simply be really obsessive about, yet not very good with, grammar but I bet they will be less concerned after they hit 500 edits. Jbh Talk 16:05, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I'd always thought it was a sensation one enjoyed. But this and the like have reminded me that it's instead merely things that demonstrate that income tax should be more progressive.
Er, where was I? Yes, conversion from "watch" to "timepiece" made me chuckle. Looking more closely at the article in question than I'd done in years, I found it was even worse than I'd vaguely imagined. For one thing, there are a lot of "Citation needed" flags that have been in place since 2012. Should one let the article stew in its obsequious juices, or apply editorial leeches to drain these out? -- Hoary ( talk) 23:13, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I'm afraid that I'm being stalked by an editor that has been blocked since November 10, 2016 by the name of JuanRiley. Even after being blocked this editor began creeping up on the talk page of his blocked account, then eventually mine twice one in May 15 and this one being recent as of today (yesterday). And if you look at these IP's they all begin with "75.161." and they all come from New Mexico [173] [174] [175]. This is really worrisome because apart that he was a troublesome editor, more than anyone I or anyone had dealt with, the fact that this editor has always been stalking my edits and talk page to a personal level even after being blocked is really frightening. ( N0n3up ( talk) 04:30, 3 June 2018 (UTC))
Can you please block me with the expiration of the block being on the 19th of June? I have a series of important tests I must take and I wish not to be distracted. Thanks, 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 19:05, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
If that account is banned and Kbb2 is allowed, isn't it also a conflict of interest for kbb2 to edit Mr Kebab? It's like he is hiding it's a banned account, should it not be completely locked down so kbb2 can't edit it? Govvy ( talk) 14:12, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
David A's six-month topic ban, which he appealed at the halfway mark, has expired. So, naturally, he's gone right back to the same ways, dumping piles of links onto talk pages and asking that they be shoe-horned in somewhere:
Or canvassing:
Do you think this is significant enough to raise at ANI or AN? -- Calton | Talk 17:45, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
I would greatly appreciate if we could please avoid that. I am under tremendous amounts of stress as it is, and do not want to be constantly severely attacked by lots of strangers on top of that.
All that I have done is to try to inform people about various relevant and reliable statistics that I have found, and recognised that I am not very competent when it comes to edit them into the pages, so I have avoided doing so, and asked for help instead. David A ( talk) 18:06, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
"60% of students born abroad are among those with the lowest academic test scores", and I understand that the statistic worries you. But what if someone suggested that most students born abroad have a poorer grasp of the Swedish language than native-born students? and that it would be expected that they performed less well in tests conducted in Swedish? Perhaps if Syrian refugees took the tests in Arabic, they would score much closer to their peers? Similarly, refugees from a war-torn state are far less likely to have a school to go to, so perhaps we should not be surprised to find that many of them have not finished 9 years of school? Anyway, I'm not suggesting we debate those points. I am suggesting, however, that in order to give meaning to statistics, we need expert analysis. We need to find someone with a reputation for that sort of analysis who has looked at the statistics and published their views and conclusions. That is what we call a "secondary source", and it is what Wikipedia is built upon.
Vanamonde ( talk) 11:55, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen! Could you please block me until 26th June (please also revoke talk page editing access)? I am having a important exam now and I wish to stop being distracted by Wikipedia. Thanks. ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus ( talk to me) 14:28, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke talk page access.-- Cahk ( talk) 07:59, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the support. I'm sorry to have bugged you, but you're one of the few editors on Wikipedia I trust unreservedly: I knew I could rely upon your opinion, whether I was right OR wrong. If I were right, you'd tell me, and if were wrong, you'd also tell me, and I'd take your word in EITHER case.
Support or sanity check: I'll take either. -- Calton | Talk 04:53, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
How can you say it would have been fair to block me for reverting clear-cut BLP violations? Would you like me to walk you through them? -- Dr. Fleischman ( talk) 05:25, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Stanley Kubrick and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks, ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ᐐT₳LKᐬ 00:21, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
I was glancing at my watchlist a few moments ago, when I noticed a change to an editor’s page (an editor whose pomposity always amuses me) so I took a quick look, as one does, and was startled to see, amongst his many little boxes, that he is a Grand Master of Wikipedia. I had no idea one could award oneself these things, it’s all explained here Wikipedia:Service awards. In order to preserve our well known modesty, rather than elevate ourselves, I thought we could award each other something. I would like to be Grand Warlock of Wikipedia, and I thought you might like to be Platinum Godess or something similar. Giano (talk) 20:42, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. The Civility in infobox discussions arbitration amendment request filed 16 June 2018 has been declined. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 03:01, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
I saw you left a message on my talk while I was away (I appreciate the thoughtfulness and I'm sorry I didn't see it before now). FWIW, I'm sort-of back, though I don't know for how long. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:39, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at User:Kudpung/What do admins do?. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:24, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, if you ever thought that the castes were just a Hindu thing, here is a counterexample. Despite my detailed advice, there is no change in behaviour. Some roaring from you would help :-) -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 10:33, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish. Could you rev del these two edits on my user page: [178], [179]. It's a personal attack by the user in Hindi. — LeoFrank Talk 03:19, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Ok you can block me now I'm quitting form editing 😑😩 Akshaym1234 ( talk) 13:07, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. I would really appreciate if you could take a moment to participate in this. Your comments would be particularly valuable. It's not an RfC or anything like that. It would only take 5 minutes of your time. Just a few days left.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
talk) 22:11, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
In light of the discussion(s) at Talk:Udayar (caste), me thinks that Aravindkrishna088 might benefit from your words.Also, pinging Sitush. ∯WBG converse 06:33, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
If you're looking for an image for your talk page, maybe File:Smokey Mountains overlooking Bryson City, NC.jpg? II know it's not the best photo (I took it with my phone a year ago, which was pretty old at the time), but I tried to fix it up a bit, and I think it turned out pretty nice (it's my desktop background). ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 23:33, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
Off topic, boring, not needed here.
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Hey Bish, this IP is now trolling on their talk page. Needs revocation, and probably deserves a longer block. Home Lander ( talk) 18:04, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
I saw your post on my talk about the recent edit I made to Lauren Southern's page. I have no affiliation with Lauren Southern. My name is obviously a portmanteau of "southern justice" and "social justice warrior". My edits are to bring an even-sided information to the article which is written with hints of negative tone. It conveniently leaves out supporting information in many sections. SouthernJusticeWarrior ( talk) 17:05, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
You uploaded or restored ,
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It's okay to remove or strike messages like this once the concerns have been addressed. :).
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talk) 20:58, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
And others..
ShakespeareFan00 (
talk) 21:04, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Thomas Betterton2.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 11:14, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
Missed my ES with my revert. Cheers Jim1138 ( talk) 08:31, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I've un-archived the post you referred to. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 09:05, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Have a look here, User_talk:Ccmarathe#Don't_forget_to_claim_your_credit!_(File:Dhakbahiri8.jpg)
Would you be more likely to respond to that or to the overly worded ones you got previosuly? ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 21:44, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
I'll keep the original Un-fileclaim around in my userspace though. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 08:49, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
The wording on this could be improved, I felt the initial stronger version was better than the current one, This was essentialy a Level1 warning, and it would be appreciated if stronger wordings for higher levels were drafted. The level1 verswion was essentially a friendly reminder not to wrongly claim self. The higher level wordings would be more like the No Permission wordings already used, but suitably customised. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 08:26, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
I need you to look at the Kulbhushan Jadhav page where a very important piece of information is under threat. Is it vandalism/edit warring, not sure. The report by the U.N needs to be told in the article. I'm new on Wikipedia so request you to please look into it asap. Thank you. Adding The Truth ( talk) 15:50, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
I don't have the "thanks" function turned on, so this is by way of thanking you for your comment on the German WWII arb case. I completely agree with both you and Mastcell that the committee has almost entirely missed the boat, and that Cinderella157 needs something more than na admonishment. I haven't said anything because, frankly, I thought it would be useless effort on my part, so I was glad to see that someone of your reputation spoke out. Thanks again. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 23:47, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
The best part is this is a Yale computer. Immediately reminded me of this. Home Lander ( talk) 15:25, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
NeilN is on vacation, so I was hoping you could weigh in on a dispute at AR-15 style rifle. Discussion is taking place in several locations: [180] [181] [182] [183]. – dlthewave ☎ 15:59, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Yesterday, a new user "Senator Begs-Ducks-For-Bread" was randomly adding a somewhat crass statement to several other new user pages. Examples:
"Yo, dawg, you don't wanna be messing with those teegers. I saw one bite my old man's leg right off. Now he just hobbles around on a stump. Senator Begs-Ducks-For-Bread (talk) 15:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)"
"Yo, dawg! Welcome to Wikipedia! I know you gonna edit it up real nice, so get to slinging, brother! Senator Begs-Ducks-For-Bread (talk) 15:31, 31 July 2018 (UTC)"
I thought that the new users might be perplexed by these mysterious messages, and so decided to tell them that SBDFB has already been blocked for vandalism. David notMD ( talk) 11:22, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
For some reason ( [184]) I can't move this page. Can you do it please. Most odd, I've always been ale to move pages before. Perhaps it about time I became an admin or something. Giano (talk) 15:42, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Request to lift topic ban. NeilN talk to me 00:40, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, can you block me until the end of August to cool down? I recently noticed that I am abusing Wikipedia as a way to procrastinate after blocking other venues such as facebook, reddit etc.
I cannot block access to Wikipedia similarly to all these other time-wasters because i also use it for useful stuff, you know.
I know that such blocks are typically declined, so to help you in your decision, I pinky-swear that I have created a bot that will start:
The bot is to start in two days and stop at the end of August 2018.
It is not in Wikipedia's interest for me to run such a bot, and blocks should be preventive, not punitive, thus you should block me as soon as possible, before the bot starts.
It is also not in my interest to actually run such a bot should you not block me, therefore I have to use the
magic power of
pinky swear to make you believe that I created and would run such a botmake me really run the bot against my future self's wishes.
Nowak Kowalski ( talk) 22:16, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
@Bishonen,
I'm a brand new user and got a bit confused. I'm not sure exactly what the sanctions mean. I did not know I even had a "talk" page until a few minutes ago. Whatever they are, could you please remove them?
I was attempting to edit an article and thought that consensus was achieved after publishing. Someone decided to delete my work. I wasn't sure why. So, I put it back up.
-- Intellectual Property Theft ( talk) 11:13, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I have no idea what the sanctions you placed on my page mean. I just noticed them. I'm a brand new user who tried editing the Alex Jones page. Someone took down all my work for not getting "consensus". Apparently, consensus is achieved after publication. I'm confused. Anyway, I put it back up and they took it back down again... and I put it up again.
Again, I'm a new user and confused about everything. I'm not even sure if this is the right way to communicate to you. Please respond.
Thanks -- Intellectual Property Theft ( talk) 11:21, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Okay, Thanks! -- Intellectual Property Theft ( talk) 11:31, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
There is an ARCA request in which you're involved. Please see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Amendment request: post-1932 American politics, broadly construed. Thank you. Atsme 📞 📧 18:38, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello Bish. What Atsme's claim about you being involved is based on can be seen in this thread on her talk page (showing what it looked like just before being archived on 30 June), and my comment about the "involved" claim in that thread can be seen here. Judging by what has been posted at WP:ARCA since you posted there I don't think there will be a need for me to comment there, but if there's a need for it I will. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 21:40, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Do you really find the I-have-no-idea-what-topic-ban-means-and-I-don't-want-to-find-out syndrome common? I only ask because the vio appears on the surface to be so blatant. A warning wouldn't hurt from my uneducated POV. A waste of time, maybe, but isn't time on our side?. Tide rolls 21:49, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding German war effort articles has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee,
Hello Bishonen. @ NeilN: FYI, there's an unfortunate sequence of events at Stephen Miller (political advisor) that began with a DS violation by User:Winkelvi on the article page and that has continued on the article talk page, most recently with needlessly uncivil and pointless comments and edit summaries by Winkelvi there. In my opinion, this user is unable to engage in constructive content-and policy-based collaboration and has demonstrated that inability over an extended period of incivility and disruption on numerous articles related to American Politics. However, I'm here just to point out the current incident, which I've documented, and I don't expect any reply from you here and am not making any accusations or aspersions about my opinion of his history. Thanks for your volunteer efforts on WP. SPECIFICO talk 17:17, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
"Do you have anything to say here that will support your contention that the content belongs in the article and will lend to further discussion and coming to consensus?"that I started there. [188] SPECIFICO chose to decline taking part in a discussion [189] re: their concerns
"My valid and sufficient endorsement of the consensus text is fully stated in my edit summary. I will have no further comment...". Even after another editor stated they didn't have an issue with either my preferred version or SPECIFICO's preferred version [190] and another editor commented that they were not in favor of SPECIFICO's preferred version [191], SPECIFICO chose to retort with
"BS"[192]. I do find all of these comments and actions at this particular article talk page ironic in light of their charge against me that I'm
"...unable to engage in constructive content-and policy-based collaboration and has demonstrated that inability over an extended period of incivility and disruption on numerous articles related to American Politics". I think I've exhibited nothing but a desire to engage in constructive content and policy based collaboration as well as civility at this article and article talk page with SPECIFICO. Because of that, I'm puzzled by them coming here and posting the above. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 17:34, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Do I need to file some kind of formal case to get Winkelvi to stop hounding me? Or can any of the multiple admins who are aware of what he's up to just act? In the last hour, the editor has gone to half-a-dozen articles that I created more than a year ago, and added tags to them. The articles are literally as far away as is possible from American politics, and it's obvious that Winkelvi is going through them as part of his daily harassment routine against me [193] [194] [195] [196] [197]. Snooganssnoogans ( talk) 21:28, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Bish, can you review the IPA discretionary sanction I instituted here, especially for the effectiveness and clarity of the scope of the topic-ban? Abecedare ( talk) 02:50, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Incidentally, while keeping up with the
Sarah Jeong reading last week (don't ask), I came across this
Jelani Cobb
quote, "They understand the current debate around free speech and social media not as an attempt to create parameters of decency around public dialogue but rather as part of a board game in which each side attempts to remove valuable pieces from the other’s team.
" The second emphasized part captures what is going on in the India-Pakistan area with the tit-for-tat complaints at SPI, ANEW, ANI etc. Anyway, enjoy the rest of Sunday!
Abecedare (
talk) 12:22, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Arbitration amendment request and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks,— Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidbena ( talk • contribs) 04:00, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen, I am committed to a fully neutral Wikipedia and I am interested only in encyclopedic representation of politics. I do not intend to, nor have I ever, edited any content for purely political purposes. The vast majority of my edits are custodial fixes to apolitical pages, and any edits related to politics are treated in the same way I would treat any other edit. Please assume good intent - I am not a POV pusher and my edits to the Sarah Huckabee Sanders page were conducted under the advice of administrators at IRC.
Thanks - Dmezh ( talk) 17:03, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
Dmezh, I hope you realize that a "fully neutral" Wikipedia does not mean that all content and sources are neutral. Far from it. This is a common fallacy believed by many new, and even some experienced, editors. We aren't interested in only blah and boring content, because we're supposed to document the "sum total of human knowledge", and it's anything but neutral.
NPOV refers primarily to editorial conduct, IOW editors should treat (often very biased) sources and content "neutrally". They should not censor the bias in the sources, but faithfully document it. The result will be an article with content which documents bias, IOW the article may not seem "neutral". Wikipedia and its editors don't take sides, we just faithfully document the sides, and they are often far from neutral. I have written an essay on this subject you may wish to read: WP:NPOV means neutral editors, not neutral content. -- BullRangifer ( talk) PingMe 18:58, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
I can see that Cruise (film) has been recreated. Can you userfy the version that was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cruise (film).-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:09, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish, you recently blocked this account ( Lexghi Raa) per this ANI complaint. He's still abusing sock IPs however. [207] Perhaps a range block? - LouisAragon ( talk) 13:37, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Watching Cullen328's talkpage? Because this is a real beauty: User talk:Cullen328#I've removed your obnoxious comment from my talk page. -- Softlavender ( talk) 06:49, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Hey Bishonen, I have a question for you. I thought I had a clear understanding of blocking policy and how it relates to talk page usage while blocked, but I've had an admin tell me that I am incorrect. My understanding was that when blocked, a talk page should only be used to discuss the block and post potential block appeals. I've seen an indef blocked editor who is using their talk page repeatidly to post citations for other users to use, sometimes even with instructions/pings for said person to apply the edit. I went and looked at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Edits_by_and_on_behalf_of_banned_editors and the wording there seems ambiguous to me, seemingly placing the onus on the editor rather than the person who is blocked to not do the edits. Since I may have been misunderstanding this policy, I wanted to ask your opinion. Thanks. -- Tarage ( talk) 17:44, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Please can I request a range block to cover a user who is making unsourced edits after having been blocked twice for the same sort of edits. They are currently editing on 2600:8800:4480:5D10:E42F:DB9E:E33B:379A, and have been blocked on 2600:8800:4480:5D10:6D07:80A0:8A4C:3529 and 2600:8800:4480:5D10:7DCB:D8CA:764A:B15D. They have also edited as 2600:8800:4480:5D10:10B6:DDB8:3E13:DA98 and 2600:8800:4480:5D10:E42F:DB9E:E33B:379A. The consistent pattern is claiming that there will be new editions of Fall Brawl and Bash at the Beach, and/or that Extreme Rules (2018) and Hell in a Cell (2018) are the final events under those names, all without providing a source.
The edits are all within the 2600:8800:4480:5D10: range, so a range block would cover them. I believe this is the same user who edited on a different IP range ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Contributions/2600:8800:4480:3820:0:0:0:0/64&target=2600%3A8800%3A4480%3A3820%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%2F64]. See in particular their edits to Fall Brawl that made similar claims that there would be a new event. Silverfish ( talk) 16:57, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
They have continued making the same sort of edits after the block just expired. See [208]. Silverfish ( talk) 22:45, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Please can you impose an indefinite self requested block on my account please? Spartaz Humbug! 19:02, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
here was recently reverted by me for disruptions in ARBIPA. May I know if that topic ban was ever lifted by you or at another location ? asking because there is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Saladin1987 on this editor. Thanks. -- DBig Xrayᗙ 22:03, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
It's at User:MjolnirPants/nonazis. I've also mentioned it to Drmies and TonyBallioni, at Drmies' talk page. See my final comment and the usual trust I have in your judgement for why I'm asking you to weigh in. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 22:15, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Just so you know, I posted the following a WV's talk page:
WV chose to delete it, along with another edit he didn't like. -- MelanieN ( talk) 02:05, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
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.Hi Bishonen. Since you were the last admin to warn Thomas Paine1776 ( talk · contribs) [209], I thought I'd see if you had comments or recommendations on his continued sanctionable editing [210]. I only quickly looked through his edits in BLPs since you warned him, and I think sanctions are long overdue. @ Thomas Paine1776: -- Ronz ( talk) 15:33, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
—AE ( talk • contributions) 09:14, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Lucky_Gregory_Smith Please lose this antisemitic troll. -- Tarage ( talk) 18:45, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bishonen. I understand your posts here and here. Your AN3 close, however, didn't restore the article back to the version without the infobox logo, so I've gone ahead a done that. If that was inappropriate, please advise. I'm willing to try and continue to explain to the IP as to why, at least currently, the image is not being used in the article, and encourage them to participate in the discussion on the article's talk page. At the same time though, I'm a little concerned that the IP isn't a completely new editor and might actually be connected to LivinRealGüd, but I'm willing to drop that if you think that's not likely the case with this IP. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:22, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
I just ran into this mess. I don't know if there's anything to be done, but this is getting worse than a Corsican clan vendetta, and it needs to stop... Vanamonde ( talk) 16:23, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bish, Can you please explain your closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zahid Ali (politician) KEEP on the basis of 1 person's unfounded nationalistic "rant" Please note that The Election commision of Pakistan has already nullified the victory notification. see ECP withholds PB-41 victory notification .So This article clearly violates WP:NPOL, WP:GNG and WP:FUTURE. I am clearly dumbfounded here on what basis is this AfD been closed. Does this admin (edit:whom you quoted in your closure statement) has some kind of a super vote on AfDs where the policy can be trashed and AfDs can be closed on the basis of his rants ? -- DBig Xrayᗙ 17:56, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
"even if he is elected, he fails WP:POLITICIAN". This is just plain wrong, but was nonetheless repeated by several others. This is, to me, evidence of battleground editing, because I can see no other explanation for why several editors, many of whom have been censured for their behavior on articles related to the Indo-Pakistan conflict, would misrepresent a very straightforward guideline to support a "delete" argument on an individual elected to a Pakistani legislature. Vanamonde ( talk) 18:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Regards -- DBig Xrayᗙ 00:06, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
The re election will not happen "pretty soon". As of now Even the dates of re-election have not been declared.Are you saying the statement in the source is wrong? The first sentence states "Re-polling on Tuesday at two Balochistan’s PB-41 polling stations was ordered by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)". I know Indian English word order is sometimes different, but I find it quite hard to read that as saying anything other than that re-polling on Tuesday was ordered by the ECP. Did you see my previous post, where I also talked about "re-polling on Tuesday"? Anyway, please note that I'm going to bed now, it's very late. Bishonen | talk 00:28, 15 September 2018 (UTC).
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday ordered re-polling at two polling stations in Balochistan's PB-41 (Washuk). Regards-- DBig Xrayᗙ 00:49, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi – lovely to hear from you! How embarrassing – breaking a nine-year editing gap by not realising I'd logged in with this account. And I can't even edit my own talk page! I'm afraid I'm not really back. I'm curious about how you noticed a single revert to an article as obscure as Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States... Hope all's well with you. [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 14:17, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
FYI: [218] Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 15:45, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
I disagree with one of your admin actions, and instead of calmly explaining why, I'm here to haughtily link to WP:ADMINACCT and demand an explanation, all the while putting you on blast for daring to do something that I (and maybe one or two others) disagree with, but which the majority of interested editors think was rather non-controversial. Consider yourself warned. Also, this page is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the nature of my complaint. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:14, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
[S]he has barely contributed anything to the mainspace in at least a year, and seems much more interested in picking fights." [220] 'Zilla and I are both a little depressed, because it's true, you know. I am more interested in picking fights. Unlike Bishzilla, who these days mostly bumbles around the site making friends, like some gigantic Muminmamma. Sad! [Is struck by a new thought.] Hey, maybe the ARCA description was really hinting at the little Floquenbeam! Seems quite likely! Bishonen | talk 19:54, 17 September 2018 (UTC).
G'day Bishonen. Just a friendly reminder that the Milhist Coord election is for members of the project to participate in. We accepted a question from a non-member of the project about the ArbCom case with good grace, and I'm pleased that all nominees have chosen to answer it, but nominees are entitled to form their own opinions about the case and state their views on it without persistent follow-up questions/comments from someone who is not a member of the project. This might be seen as an attempt to influence voting. I believe Euryalus has clarified the issue now. The case is linked in the question, and members of the project will hopefully read it and make up their own minds on the merits and on who to vote for. Thanks,
Peacemaker67 (
click to talk to me) 09:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
"Both project members and interested outside parties are encouraged to ask questions of the nominees or make general comments."– dlthewave ☎ 11:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
^
Lol ^
Manikhat18 ( talk) 23:59, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
The IP 130.105.168.245 ( talk · contribs), who you blocked after this discussion as they were making disruptive edits to List of James Bond villains, has now made four edits in a row on the same page under the IP address of 130.105.168.63 ( talk · contribs) earlier today, which I reverted here. So what would your call be for now? Thank you Ted Edwards 11:24, 23 September 2018 (UTC)