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I see you've deleted this article yet again, per G11. Could I suggest that salting it might get the message across to its promoter that Wikipedia isn't here to provide him with free publicity? AndyTheGrump ( talk) 12:08, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
..cropped up a moment ago at
User talk:86.160.211.58 that you may want to see. Letting you know in case it is useful. Cheers,
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Hi Boing, you're a bit of a Thai expert aren't you? Is this correct? For Surapong Tovichakchaikul, would we say Mr. Tovichakchaikul or Mr. Surapong? And more importantly, will we see you at the forthcoming Manchester and Liverpool wikimeets? Cheers, Bazonka ( talk) 18:32, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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You want to look at this [1]? The IP just doesn't get it. I've tried telling them to use DRN and it has only resulted in a string of insults on my talk page and there. I'm on the border of just blocking, but since he has been busy insulting, it would look proper if that is what I thought was best. He is likely right on the merits of his argument but refusing to use DRN and just insulting and threatening other editors isn't an acceptable means to deal with the issue, and it appears I have failed to get that point across. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 14:29, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have provided information regarding edits in June 2012. All the references are already accepted references for the page. All the information are quoted from the references.
If this information can't be challenged or contested, then please edit the page yourself, or let me provide information regarding the necessary edit. Coz the current page is completely biased against yadavs and is a propaganda in action. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BaazBahadur ( talk • contribs) 14:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about that. So much for my "great" mind. Nobody Ent 19:41, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Can we zap User:173.189.34.32? Ongoing disruptive, rapid fire vandalism. - Sitush ( talk) 08:48, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
I saw your comments. It just doesn't stop, not to mention the abusive emails about having disingenuously nominated a candidate. This kind of participation on (and off) RfAs is the very thing that has brought the RfA process to it's knees, and defeated every attempt to put it right. If you want some light entertainment, check out the current discussions at WT:RfA. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:02, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
As I said on my talk page, you are still getting some things very, very wrong. You were neither 'taken to AN' nor hazed, please please try to understand that. A request for clarification on a point of order was taken to AN, and it's just unlucky for you that something you did was cited as an example, and you must accept the consensus that the action was inappropriate. Some people just can't discern between AN and AN/I. If sanctions were requested or required, the case would have been opened at the latter.
As for The process should be modified to prevent overkill when things suddenly turn sour, more appropriately the voters behaviour should be modified - and they can only do that themselves. They are wholly responsible for the drama they create. Change must either come from them, or they should accept that warnings and/or sanctions should be applied to show them that their participation at RfA is inappropriate and/or no longer wanted there, and it's high time some responsible editors took the initiative to police the process more rigorously. The voters who regularly disturb/disrupt RfA must surely be aware in their own minds that what they are doing is not only demoralising for the candidates and potential future candidates, but is causing far more serious collateral damage to Wikipedia as a whole. Is that what they really want? There's not much difference in that kind of behaviour from vandalising another website. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Boing, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you helping me with Hu12. I have no idea why he's doing these things, but my stomach is in knots right now over this. Thank you very much. :) -- 76.189.121.57 ( talk) 22:00, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
User:YatesSkatesI don't think userpages can be CSD'D. Could you take a look, and also at their sandbox. Ta. - Sitush ( talk) 09:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Boing, I saw your note on my talk page about the AN. I commented there, but User:Nobody_Ent removed everything I wrote. [2] He did not talk to me about it first. Please see my talk page for Nobody's explanation. I felt that since I was the user who triggered Hu12's actions, it would be ok to give detailed comments about the situation. I will leave it up to you whether Nobody's revert should be reverted, so that all my comments are put back in the AN. Thanks. :) -- 76.189.121.57 ( talk) 16:14, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
re: comments at ANI ... in all honesty, I also find trouting quite silly. To me, that's the point. If people acknowledge their missteps, it's a lighthearted way to alleviate the seriousness and tension, so that all parties can relax and get back to the important work of building an encyclopedia. Of course, if Hu12 doesn't acknowledge his error and continues to take a hard-line against both the broadly accepted guideline and against consensus, then that's a bigger issue to which trouting is neither beneficial nor appropriate.
As to your comment ... my concern is only partly with the "stop fucking around", and more with the overall sentence reading as a final ultimatum. I can't help but believe there were better ways to phrase it that didn't come across as a threat or like attempted intimidation. Granted, at the stage the conversation had reached, I think an escalation of some sort was required ... but there were both other DR avenues as well as less confrontational phasing that could have been used for what was, ultimately (in my mind) a minor issue from the perspective of all issues facing the project. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 16:58, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
This is a written account of a face to face interaction with the artist, between just like a biography. Disputed on the neutrality, you might want to be specific. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yingjie.huang ( talk • contribs) 17:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Please note that Bidasar, Sikar is another village in sikar district and Bidsar sikar is another village in sikar district. See the version history of the article. Chu86happychu 18:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, restore the original version of the Bidasar, Sikar as its not the same village. I am observing the User Nawalgarh quit some time. He or she is just creating every time a new user name or without username and editing wiki articles mainly Bidsar. Finally many thank you. Chu86happychu 18:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Please notice the following edit [3] why is there a conscious edit to hide the truth on this topic on wikipedia? I am trying to catch the attention of an admin with some integrity. I hope it is you. Every time Toddy1 does a controversial edit no one is watching, how is it that so many admins have supported so far his Zionist POV pushing? Surely any Admins with a Zionist POV have a vested interest in such matters and should be excluded from making decisions which stack the deck. For example decisions which include blocking users who have made tremendous efforts to build encyclopaedic quality articles and reverting their efforts. Have a look at what happened to the Crimean Karaites article just before you stepped in. Is the new version really better then the old? Did User:Kaz really deserve to be blocked without a review date after such constructive contributions? Notice how it is the same Admin who executed all this on behalf of User:Toddy1 whose edit history shows mainly non-constructive conflict and POV pushing. Something seriously twisted is going on here. It's as if there is money involved. 62.255.75.224 ( talk) 08:09, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
(this IP is Kaz ( talk · contribs) evading an indef-block Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ)
sorry about [4] it was completely unintentional - i think it was bit of lag in my browser refresh realigned the links. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 16:34, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
This is just a heads-up. I've started an AfD on Paradise World Tour and noticed in the creating user's talk page history that s/he created a Paradise Tour page last month that was speedy deleted because of overlap with a Coldplay tour article. You put it up for deletion, I believe. There's now also a New Beginnings: World Tour article that duplicates the Paradise World Tour article word-for-word. I can't find any mention of either of these tours in a Google search. -- Batard0 ( talk) 19:46, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing. :) Believe it or not, I am not writing about the Hu12 incident. Haha. I am actually writing because of new, repeated uncivil comments from User:Tribal44 again. She is the one that reported me a few days ago at ANI and accused me of being threatening and rude, etc. And then you blocked me. :P
Anyway, one thing I never mentioned in that ANI is that Tribal44 repeatedly was calling me a troll in her edit comments after she would revert edits I made. I refrained from ever making those types of comments; I simply told her that I would report her to an admin if she continued making inappropriate edits (poorly sourced, etc), which then resulted in me being called threatening. In her various edits, she said, “You have no proof so knock it the hell off, troll”, [5] “Knock it off and stop trolling", [6] and “Please stop trolling”. [7] These were all about my edits of inappropriate vocal range content.
That was then. But I never said anything about her uncivil name-calling in the ANI. Well, last night, I made an edit in Lea Michele, one of the singer articles I follow. A few minutes later, Tribal44 left a comment on my talk page and told me to stop stalking her. [8] I just removed her comment with the edit comment, “I follow articles, not users. "Stalking" is uncivil, therefore please do not post on my talk page again.” [9] I then posted the same comment on her talk page (since I wasn't sure if she would see it in on my edit history page). [10] She removed it and called me a jerk: "“Then don't post on my talk page or revert every edit I make then. Jerk.” [11]
Whenever I make edits in these singer articles, I put detailed edit comments to explain them and don't include anything uncivil or name-calling. I just comment about why I'm making the edit. But Tribal44 has repeatedly called me a troll, stalker, jerk and other names. Based on the WikiProject Musicians discussion going on, plus the years of reverts of her content by other editors, she must know or needs to know that this isn't just one or two editors objecting to content she is adding.
Also, if you look at Tribal44's edit history, you'll see these types of angry comments from her are not just towards me; she has made them to many other editors who have changed or removed her content. It goes back for years. You can see all the comments that include terms like "knock it off", "troll", "rude much?", "Stop deleting pictures!!!!!!", "good lord!", "ugh", "leave it alone!", "WTF" and even "Stop adding freakin' Miley Cyrus!". :p Her other big editing passion, besides adding vocal range/type to all singer articles, is to change photos in articles, which causes a lot of contention among other editors, thus triggering her angry edit comments and talk page comments towards them. She also will add content and actually admit in her edit comments that she doesn't know if it's appropriate to add, even if it's very poorly sourced.
So, can you please help do something about this ongoing incivility? And to get her to understand that when others make edits or reverts to content she's added, especially when it's done in good faith and for valid reasons, she can't get angry and lash out at other editors and call them names. Thanks, Boing! Sorry to bother you with this. :) -- 76.189.121.57 ( talk) 20:32, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Since this thread is about me, I have a right to intervene here. That IP is actually keeping tabs on all my edits and just basically harassing and bullying me. Each edit I make, he/she ALWAYS interferes and revert, even if its a small edit. And I am getting really sick and tired of his/her behavior towards me. I do not know what he/she has over me and why they are picking on me out of the blue, but this is a personal attack against me by all means. I wouldn't be surprised if he/she added my user and talk page on their "watchlist" or "favorites". If wikipedia has a block option, he/she will be the first to be on the list. And since the IP user was so butthurt over my comments about them, which there were true, I am going to tell you yet again, 76.189.121.57, please leave me alone. Tribal44 ( talk) 23:48, 10 October 2012 (UTC)Tribal44
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I ended up indeffing Andycjp. Placed my block up for review on WP:ANI#Block_review:_User:Andycjp_blocked_indefinitely_by_User:Tznkai.-- Tznkai ( talk) 04:31, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
By the way, I have seen the business of autoblocks being reactivated called "poor man's checkuser", as it can sometimes reveal connections normally visible only to checkusers to mere mortals such as you and me. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:34, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, you recently denied my request under CSD for Barnard Solix Syndrom. I think I may not have selected the right criteria, but after applying the tag, I found that there already is an article for Bernard–Soulier syndrome, which appears to be the correct spelling of the syndrome being described in the article I requested deletion for. That article also has sources, as opposed to Barnard Solix Syndrom, which does not. Would you mind taking a look at the other article and reconsidering deletion? I realize you're probably busy IRL, but I figured it'd be more appropriate to ask you rather than to renominate the article for deletion after a request was declined. Thanks, Jonathanfu ( talk) 11:38, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
At the administrator's noticeboard you reverted an edit of mine without explanation. Was this a mistake? Unscintillating ( talk) 23:11, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Re. [15], maybe {{ vaublock}} is what you were looking for? Just so you know that there is such a template. It Is Me Here t / c 10:41, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing!. Iamthemuffinman has (finally!) posted a sound-looking unblock request, which I'm inclined to grant. However, you and a number of other admins have been involved with his block in the past, so I'd like to get your take on it too; if you have a moment, please could you have a look at User talk:Iamthemuffinman and leave an opinion? Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 12:55, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Is a list such as List of Surnames of Gomantak Maratha and Naik Maratha really encyclopedic? It does have one source, sort of, but I dread to think how big such things could become. We can never ensure completeness, nor accuracy, nor exclusivity. What purpose do they serve? Are they not a form covered by the spirit of WP:NOTDIR? - Sitush ( talk) 17:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to participate in my RfA. I hope that I will be able to improve based on the feedback I received and become a better editor. Automatic Strikeout 03:29, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Whilst it may further cement the opinion that I'm an unblock-happy soft touch who's far too keen to give problem users a second chance, I'm provisionally willing to unblock this user based on their agreement to a tailored interaction ban. Since you're aware of the situation, I'd appreciate any opinion you might have at User talk:Adityasaxena.corp. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 10:52, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks very much for dealing with that -- you're fast! Apologies for posting this on your page; I only realised too late that you reviewed and declined the unblock request, not made the block. Thanks again! – Richard BB 14:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
nothing to contest, this is not politics. transistor is transfer resistor, and he did not tell you how he did it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.109.185 ( talk) 14:41, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
no one's saying anything on the talk page.....no one's replying... I have not done anything again, Boing, it is not vandalism, it is the principle of how a transistor works.
The transistor page does not have a Principle of Operation section, because
a)the physicists know about it but don't want to share it b)they just don't know how it works
I was thinking about it and came up with a fairly decent concept of how it works, I put it on WIKI, I think the guys got jealous, and here I am, discussing pretty much nothing.
PS: and my language is pathetic, you naughty naughty boy,..I'll eat you...:))) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.99.247 ( talk) 17:03, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Sent you a mail regarding a possible revdel. - Sitush ( talk) 15:03, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Re your comment to me at Talk:Transistor, you could do with a dose of agf yourself when assessing my reasoning. Two admins arguing over its edits - troll's heaven. Spinning Spark 16:07, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
"I don't think it can be fixed by the Community" - Boing
I think it can't be fixed by the community
Yep, I learnt that about three months ago....I know...tell me about it..it IS a funny language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.99.247 ( talk) 17:08, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Since you handled the earlier block of User:Farwah khan in reference to disruptive editing on Nadia Khan Show, could you take a look at User: Wahaj khan? He's continuously reintroducing BLP violating material on Nadia Khan. It's not negative info, but it is sourced to blogs, forums, and the like. I think that this edit summary well summarizes his opinion about how to contribute to Wikipedia and this subject, and implies that things aren't going to get better. I've left a number of explanatory comments on User Talk:Wahaj khan, but to no avail. Qwyrxian ( talk) 00:45, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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You deleted my article and cited that it lacked information that indicated the importance of the subject.
The article for Financiers Without Borders was brief, but it was just the first iteration, which explained the organization's mission and role. The small amount of information that was present fully explained the importance of the organization.
Financiers Without Borders is a non profit organization provides volunteership opportunities to students and young professionals abroad. I can't explain it any better than that!
I guess you're not all that busy, if you have time too delete my article.
Contact me first or add some comments to the article if you feel that it is inappropriate. Don't just go and delete it. That is extremely rude when the article was clearly not in violation of a policy! Revert the article back immediately!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Finborders ( talk • contribs) 08:46, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
If you believe you can build an article that satisfies these requirements, then I will be happy to restore a copy of the deleted article into your user space for you to work on - just let me know. (But I would also advise having a read of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest) -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 09:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing!
Oh dear. There was, I passing on my knowledge ato a keen new editor. Instead of a brief guide on "how to stop your soccer player articles", I should have just said, do not sock. I could see that the articles had been deleted, but as a non-admin I couldn't see who they had started them. (Of course, if I was a sysop, it would probably make life easier for me and would also be an asset to the community ... ah, but that's a discussion for another day.) It's a pity, as Ghukas Poghosyan was an good example in how to turn a one-line micro-stub about an obviously notable person into something acceptable.
Ah, you're busy. I'll continue this dicussion somewhere else, and let you know how it turns out.
-- Shirt58 ( talk) 08:25, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
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I've not been following this, but I'd tend to agree that blocking a high-profile editor who's under close arbcom scrutiny and at the heart of community controversy is highly unlikely to be helpful and that a swift unblock is probably a good move. The block was as someone put it on MF's talk page "adding fuel to the fire". However, given that, I'm not sure that unblocking with the edit summary "Malicious block" is likely to be dowsing that fire with water. I'd suggest that Hanlon's razor probably applies here "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (also known as "assuming good faith). It might have been more collegiate to have unblocked with "unwise block" or "ill-judged block". If you did have direct evidence of someone blocking maliciously, then you ought to take it to arbcom, because, if substantiated, it would be grounds for immediate desysopping. Anyway, good unblock, but I'd suggest using the least inflammatory unblock summaries in such stressful cases.-- Scott Mac 21:57, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Please see the following thread at AN/I. [16] A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 22:06, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
You fixed the immediate problem. Do you really think more hashing and bashing on ANI is going to improve things? ArbCom has a mess on it's hands, let's focus our efforts there. Also note your Status = Inactive notice and editnotice are incongruent with the fact that you just took an admin action. Nobody Ent 22:25, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing. :) Believe it or not, I am not writing about the Hu12 incident. Haha. I am actually writing because of new, repeated uncivil comments from User:Tribal44 again. She is the one that reported me a few days ago at ANI and accused me of being threatening and rude, etc. And then you blocked me. :P
Anyway, one thing I never mentioned in that ANI is that Tribal44 repeatedly was calling me a troll in her edit comments after she would revert edits I made. I refrained from ever making those types of comments; I simply told her that I would report her to an admin if she continued making inappropriate edits (poorly sourced, etc), which then resulted in me being called threatening. In her various edits, she said, “You have no proof so knock it the hell off, troll”, [17] “Knock it off and stop trolling", [18] and “Please stop trolling”. [19] These were all about my edits of inappropriate vocal range content.
That was then. But I never said anything about her uncivil name-calling in the ANI. Well, last night, I made an edit in Lea Michele, one of the singer articles I follow. A few minutes later, Tribal44 left a comment on my talk page and told me to stop stalking her. [20] I just removed her comment with the edit comment, “I follow articles, not users. "Stalking" is uncivil, therefore please do not post on my talk page again.” [21] I then posted the same comment on her talk page (since I wasn't sure if she would see it in on my edit history page). [22] She removed it and called me a jerk: "“Then don't post on my talk page or revert every edit I make then. Jerk.” [23]
Whenever I make edits in these singer articles, I put detailed edit comments to explain them and don't include anything uncivil or name-calling. I just comment about why I'm making the edit. But Tribal44 has repeatedly called me a troll, stalker, jerk and other names. Based on the WikiProject Musicians discussion going on, plus the years of reverts of her content by other editors, she must know or needs to know that this isn't just one or two editors objecting to content she is adding.
Also, if you look at Tribal44's edit history, you'll see these types of angry comments from her are not just towards me; she has made them to many other editors who have changed or removed her content. It goes back for years. You can see all the comments that include terms like "knock it off", "troll", "rude much?", "Stop deleting pictures!!!!!!", "good lord!", "ugh", "leave it alone!", "WTF" and even "Stop adding freakin' Miley Cyrus!". :p Her other big editing passion, besides adding vocal range/type to all singer articles, is to change photos in articles, which causes a lot of contention among other editors, thus triggering her angry edit comments and talk page comments towards them. She also will add content and actually admit in her edit comments that she doesn't know if it's appropriate to add, even if it's very poorly sourced.
So, can you please help do something about this ongoing incivility? And to get her to understand that when others make edits or reverts to content she's added, especially when it's done in good faith and for valid reasons, she can't get angry and lash out at other editors and call them names. Thanks, Boing! Sorry to bother you with this. :) -- 76.189.121.57 ( talk) 20:32, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Since this thread is about me, I have a right to intervene here. That IP is actually keeping tabs on all my edits and just basically harassing and bullying me. Each edit I make, he/she ALWAYS interferes and revert, even if its a small edit. And I am getting really sick and tired of his/her behavior towards me. I do not know what he/she has over me and why they are picking on me out of the blue, but this is a personal attack against me by all means. I wouldn't be surprised if he/she added my user and talk page on their "watchlist" or "favorites". If wikipedia has a block option, he/she will be the first to be on the list. And since the IP user was so butthurt over my comments about them, which there were true, I am going to tell you yet again, 76.189.121.57, please leave me alone. Tribal44 ( talk) 23:48, 10 October 2012 (UTC)Tribal44
Tribal44 ( talk) 04:28, 11 October 2012 (UTC)Tribal44
Tribal44 ( talk) 05:02, 11 October 2012 (UTC)Tribal44
Good move. I did basically the same thing, for most of the same reasons, a while ago. I make a remark now and then but have essentially stopped contributing content. Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 03:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Is a list such as List of Surnames of Gomantak Maratha and Naik Maratha really encyclopedic? It does have one source, sort of, but I dread to think how big such things could become. We can never ensure completeness, nor accuracy, nor exclusivity. What purpose do they serve? Are they not a form covered by the spirit of WP:NOTDIR? - Sitush ( talk) 17:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Since you handled the earlier block of User:Farwah khan in reference to disruptive editing on Nadia Khan Show, could you take a look at User: Wahaj khan? He's continuously reintroducing BLP violating material on Nadia Khan. It's not negative info, but it is sourced to blogs, forums, and the like. I think that this edit summary well summarizes his opinion about how to contribute to Wikipedia and this subject, and implies that things aren't going to get better. I've left a number of explanatory comments on User Talk:Wahaj khan, but to no avail. Qwyrxian ( talk) 00:45, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Boing! (or whatever I should call you)
First, sorry if this seems silly considering your declaration you are leaving, but I've written something on the Clarification request the calls you out by name, so it is only fair that I notify you. Second please reconsider. I've very left in frustration before, and it was never the same afterwards. These were people who I worked with and some who had even become good friends. Not to put too fine a point on it, I felt betrayed, which feels both ridiculous to me now, and as raw and hurtful as it did that night. I'm around to talk, if you want, and understand if you don't.-- Tznkai ( talk) 04:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
this it *not* the time for cowboy admins to be - clearly no need for civility there - and you didn't even have to say "fuck" William M. Connolley ( talk) 12:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your look at this with an open mind and voicing oppose to the main stream, see also, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:00, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Without commenting one way or the other on Malleusgate, I'd just like to express my sorrow at your decision to withdraw from contributing - I fully respect your choice, but losing an administrator of your calibre is a blow. You will be sorely missed. Yunshui 雲 水 10:12, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
While no sane person could blame you for wanting out of this asylum, we really need you. There will never be a shortage of admins willing to bait users and then make punative, policy-violating blocks. There will however be a paucity of admins with the integrity to reverse them. Joefromrandb ( talk) 17:22, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I don't blame you and support your decision. I'm trying to convince Jclemens to recuse himself from the current situation, but it appears I have little support. It looks like you, John, Drmies, Floquenbeam and others have stopped editing for now, and I know of several more who are about to do. I stopped working on articles, but still trying to talk some sense into some folks. I may yet be forced to consider the same tactic if my appeal falls on deaf ears. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 17:35, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Can you userfy this article for me please. I have no idea why a person who has authored so many books was deleted, he easily passes wp:author Darkness Shines ( talk) 01:02, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Sharing ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:32, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
You joined the Category:Wikipedians who are not a Wikipedian, which is being discussed at its entry at Categories nominated for deletion.
You may wish to join the category Category:Wikipedians working towards even enforcement of civility.
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In the above diff ....here's a quote below from Sitush vis a vis whom you are practicing uneven enforcement of civility against me
.Quoting Sitush:
None of these sources, including those that I actually inserted, are ones that I would normally choose to use but I was hoping that it might kickstart something, and so it seemed like an idea deliberately to leave a couple out that User:Intothefire could find.
The above is an example of the cynical collaboration you have been indulging in repeatedly with Sitush ...Sitush by his own admission is baiting me , you are complimenting him ....Its only one example I could provide more .
Your unflinching support to Sitush as a friend is noble , but your repeated practicing uneven enforcement of civility is gross . Several editors have been lost in such designing . As to your using the phrase Constant snide bitching in your remark after banning me .....the repeated snide is in your actions as exhibited above . Intothefire ( talk) 17:48, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Now lets look at these three diffs I repair (not add) a Punjabi spelling on 11th March ,Immediately thereafter in JanetteDoe deletes this without not knowing herself where or what exactly the rule is , she askss/report to you "At Talk:Khattar, borderline PA. I've added the caste warning template. Also, can you find the link to the specfic rfc or policy decision for removing Indic scripts? I've looked but haven't been able to locate a specific link, which would be useful to add to talk pages when the subject comes up" she quips . You go a step further and gladly offer to oblige to ban me . But wait you yourself dont know where the Indic script removal decision is yourself "I'm really not sure where the Indic script removal decision was made, but I'll look for it when I have the time and will let you know if I find it " . Is this civil or uncivil ? an editor deletes my edit ,without knowing the rule , reports to you , you dont know the specific rule yourself and support her . Now lets look at the way the ban on me is imposed on me my edits on this article Khani 100 asks for a protection lock on 22nd july 2011 because he says "Dear Editors, I am requesting semi-protection for this article as in my experience, at various times people (prob belonging to some of the prominent families of this tribe) keep on adding various 'vanity' items to it and changing it, by inserting either unverifiable data or long lists and family trees". I am not the editors he could be refering to because durying this period I have only made 1 edit and and that too only an indic script correction not pertaining to his complaint . I then make an edit in support of Khani on 11th March 2012 , which with Due shining light Janette Doe gets be banned by You . Which exact editor did I attack , you never clarified . As an admin you dident think it necessary to state which editor I attacked since you banned me for ? You support deletion of my edits without knowing the exact rule yourself , you ban me without stating which editor I dident exhibit good faith to...you use uncivil invective for me , wink , support baiting ....surely none of this is civil or good faith far from being even . Intothefire ( talk) 19:40, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
You wrote "the Asshole..." rather than "the latest asshole", because there are many such insults. The penultimate "asshole" insult was yesterday on his talk page. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 14:57, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
I am uninvolved in this, I only commented on the ANI thread to say that it was not a block worthy offense, I posted a user notice on Hero's page and justified my comments. I've seen Herostratus around but I have had minimal interaction with him. Maybe you can explain how I am considered involved with this content dispute? Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 15:31, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Mentioned you at User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Seriously.2C_deeply_concerned_.... Pesky's wording is a bit vague but I am pretty sure the civility issue that has affected both of us is a part of their concern. - Sitush ( talk) 14:52, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 09:26, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you please protect this template again because X02.163.91.xxx ( talk · contribs) who was blocked indefinitely for edit-warring came back and is making controversial edits without consensus. It was decided by a number of people that the girl's image is good and this blocked IP hopper wants to put an image of silly looking students sitting on the floor, like 7th century, this image only represents a village in Afghanistan but this is not how the 50 million Pashtuns live, especially the 29 million Pashtuns who live in Pakistan, where they go to normal schools like everyone else. Plus the area where the students are sitting ( Gardez) have many (possibly 50%) Tajik people.-- KunwaazTajik ( talk) 00:13, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
If things do continue in the same vein and you are unsure about RFPP then drop my a line on my talk page & I'll see if I can justify doing that report myself. I am not an admin but I've spent a lot of time dealing with situations such as this, usually as someone in exactly the position that you think you are in now! - Sitush ( talk) 02:01, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Boing! I understand that you say you're inactive, but I'll make this request anyways since I don't believe that something bad on Wikipedia (the whole Jclemens issue) is made better by anyother bad thing (you not editing). I noticed Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Doncram on Indic communities and my first experience with you ever was related to Nair so I assume you are familiar with the Indian Caste system and you might be able to offer very important thoughts as a sound-minded editor who has experience with caste articles. Thanks with your help, or if you cannot, I hope to see you back to full capacity whenever the votes are in. Ryan Vesey 05:03, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
You've been mentioned at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Doncram_on_Indic_communities. - Sitush ( talk) 09:20, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm on a Wikibreak for a while. I won't be logging in or reading my Talk page, so please contact someone else if you need any help with anything. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 10:57, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I am letting you know that I have proposed a merge of Chili burger to Chili con carne. Being that you participated in the AfD, I'd be interested in your thoughts. The discussion is at
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It was suggested that Hamburger might be a better target, and I was implored to allow that as a possibility. Therefore, I've moved the discussion to Talk:Chili burger#Merger proposal to allow for this. Please accept my apologies if it seemed that I was advocating for one solution over another. ˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 16:16, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
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The MMA project has over 20 articles recomended for deletion by a user that is now banned. Most of them shouldn't have even been nominated. Some of us are wondering if we are allowed to close these out and clean up the mess created by this editor. Willdawg111 ( talk) 19:43, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for naming my problems, I will take this into consideration, However, this is a democratic nation, and I am well within my rights to continue with my petition against ClueBot NG, standing up for what I (and many others) believe in. To block me solely for my Anti-ClueBot NG beliefs would be grossly violating my human rights, and I will be pursuing the campaign. Thanks again for being understanding towards my position. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boomage ( talk • contribs) 21:15, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing!
I appreciate your quickness in quickly striking possibly misleading statements at ANI, on your own initiative, very quickly after TParis found the right words. What is especially notable was your graciousness in avoiding the temptation to make a parting shots.
For my part, I regret not expressing myself more clearly, which led to your delayed recognition of my intentions. I also regret using the "l" word---and not the l word of "Scott Pilgrim"---and now, particularly in the edit summary. You stated something false, but it was unintentional and your strong spirit was motivated to protect another editor and ensure fairness, which is an admirable source of cognitive bias. ;)
Finally, I regret that I no longer have the ability to strike some comments from ANI, now that TParis has redacted the entire discussion.
If you wish to discuss something on my talk page, you will certainly be welcomed.
Sincerely, Kiefer .Wolfowitz 18:05, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Further to the events on the User:Iamthemuffinman page, he has just emailed me using the email user part of wikipedia. Anything I should do other than ignore it? MisterShiney ✉ 19:12, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Seems we are both thinking along the same lines Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Marstarbartion. Feel free to re-purpose/rename as you have a likely sockmaster. -- Biker Biker ( talk) 12:35, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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User:Deathlaser is on IRC, asking to be unblocked since it has been six months (well, you changed the block settings in September, atually). Since you blocked him and his talk page access is not editable by him, I was letting you know. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 18:01, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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I see you've deleted this article yet again, per G11. Could I suggest that salting it might get the message across to its promoter that Wikipedia isn't here to provide him with free publicity? AndyTheGrump ( talk) 12:08, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Boing, you're a bit of a Thai expert aren't you? Is this correct? For Surapong Tovichakchaikul, would we say Mr. Tovichakchaikul or Mr. Surapong? And more importantly, will we see you at the forthcoming Manchester and Liverpool wikimeets? Cheers, Bazonka ( talk) 18:32, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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You want to look at this [1]? The IP just doesn't get it. I've tried telling them to use DRN and it has only resulted in a string of insults on my talk page and there. I'm on the border of just blocking, but since he has been busy insulting, it would look proper if that is what I thought was best. He is likely right on the merits of his argument but refusing to use DRN and just insulting and threatening other editors isn't an acceptable means to deal with the issue, and it appears I have failed to get that point across. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 14:29, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have provided information regarding edits in June 2012. All the references are already accepted references for the page. All the information are quoted from the references.
If this information can't be challenged or contested, then please edit the page yourself, or let me provide information regarding the necessary edit. Coz the current page is completely biased against yadavs and is a propaganda in action. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BaazBahadur ( talk • contribs) 14:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about that. So much for my "great" mind. Nobody Ent 19:41, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Can we zap User:173.189.34.32? Ongoing disruptive, rapid fire vandalism. - Sitush ( talk) 08:48, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
I saw your comments. It just doesn't stop, not to mention the abusive emails about having disingenuously nominated a candidate. This kind of participation on (and off) RfAs is the very thing that has brought the RfA process to it's knees, and defeated every attempt to put it right. If you want some light entertainment, check out the current discussions at WT:RfA. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:02, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
As I said on my talk page, you are still getting some things very, very wrong. You were neither 'taken to AN' nor hazed, please please try to understand that. A request for clarification on a point of order was taken to AN, and it's just unlucky for you that something you did was cited as an example, and you must accept the consensus that the action was inappropriate. Some people just can't discern between AN and AN/I. If sanctions were requested or required, the case would have been opened at the latter.
As for The process should be modified to prevent overkill when things suddenly turn sour, more appropriately the voters behaviour should be modified - and they can only do that themselves. They are wholly responsible for the drama they create. Change must either come from them, or they should accept that warnings and/or sanctions should be applied to show them that their participation at RfA is inappropriate and/or no longer wanted there, and it's high time some responsible editors took the initiative to police the process more rigorously. The voters who regularly disturb/disrupt RfA must surely be aware in their own minds that what they are doing is not only demoralising for the candidates and potential future candidates, but is causing far more serious collateral damage to Wikipedia as a whole. Is that what they really want? There's not much difference in that kind of behaviour from vandalising another website. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Boing, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you helping me with Hu12. I have no idea why he's doing these things, but my stomach is in knots right now over this. Thank you very much. :) -- 76.189.121.57 ( talk) 22:00, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Boing, I saw your note on my talk page about the AN. I commented there, but User:Nobody_Ent removed everything I wrote. [2] He did not talk to me about it first. Please see my talk page for Nobody's explanation. I felt that since I was the user who triggered Hu12's actions, it would be ok to give detailed comments about the situation. I will leave it up to you whether Nobody's revert should be reverted, so that all my comments are put back in the AN. Thanks. :) -- 76.189.121.57 ( talk) 16:14, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
re: comments at ANI ... in all honesty, I also find trouting quite silly. To me, that's the point. If people acknowledge their missteps, it's a lighthearted way to alleviate the seriousness and tension, so that all parties can relax and get back to the important work of building an encyclopedia. Of course, if Hu12 doesn't acknowledge his error and continues to take a hard-line against both the broadly accepted guideline and against consensus, then that's a bigger issue to which trouting is neither beneficial nor appropriate.
As to your comment ... my concern is only partly with the "stop fucking around", and more with the overall sentence reading as a final ultimatum. I can't help but believe there were better ways to phrase it that didn't come across as a threat or like attempted intimidation. Granted, at the stage the conversation had reached, I think an escalation of some sort was required ... but there were both other DR avenues as well as less confrontational phasing that could have been used for what was, ultimately (in my mind) a minor issue from the perspective of all issues facing the project. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 16:58, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
This is a written account of a face to face interaction with the artist, between just like a biography. Disputed on the neutrality, you might want to be specific. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yingjie.huang ( talk • contribs) 17:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Please note that Bidasar, Sikar is another village in sikar district and Bidsar sikar is another village in sikar district. See the version history of the article. Chu86happychu 18:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, restore the original version of the Bidasar, Sikar as its not the same village. I am observing the User Nawalgarh quit some time. He or she is just creating every time a new user name or without username and editing wiki articles mainly Bidsar. Finally many thank you. Chu86happychu 18:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Please notice the following edit [3] why is there a conscious edit to hide the truth on this topic on wikipedia? I am trying to catch the attention of an admin with some integrity. I hope it is you. Every time Toddy1 does a controversial edit no one is watching, how is it that so many admins have supported so far his Zionist POV pushing? Surely any Admins with a Zionist POV have a vested interest in such matters and should be excluded from making decisions which stack the deck. For example decisions which include blocking users who have made tremendous efforts to build encyclopaedic quality articles and reverting their efforts. Have a look at what happened to the Crimean Karaites article just before you stepped in. Is the new version really better then the old? Did User:Kaz really deserve to be blocked without a review date after such constructive contributions? Notice how it is the same Admin who executed all this on behalf of User:Toddy1 whose edit history shows mainly non-constructive conflict and POV pushing. Something seriously twisted is going on here. It's as if there is money involved. 62.255.75.224 ( talk) 08:09, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
(this IP is Kaz ( talk · contribs) evading an indef-block Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ)
sorry about [4] it was completely unintentional - i think it was bit of lag in my browser refresh realigned the links. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 16:34, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
This is just a heads-up. I've started an AfD on Paradise World Tour and noticed in the creating user's talk page history that s/he created a Paradise Tour page last month that was speedy deleted because of overlap with a Coldplay tour article. You put it up for deletion, I believe. There's now also a New Beginnings: World Tour article that duplicates the Paradise World Tour article word-for-word. I can't find any mention of either of these tours in a Google search. -- Batard0 ( talk) 19:46, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing. :) Believe it or not, I am not writing about the Hu12 incident. Haha. I am actually writing because of new, repeated uncivil comments from User:Tribal44 again. She is the one that reported me a few days ago at ANI and accused me of being threatening and rude, etc. And then you blocked me. :P
Anyway, one thing I never mentioned in that ANI is that Tribal44 repeatedly was calling me a troll in her edit comments after she would revert edits I made. I refrained from ever making those types of comments; I simply told her that I would report her to an admin if she continued making inappropriate edits (poorly sourced, etc), which then resulted in me being called threatening. In her various edits, she said, “You have no proof so knock it the hell off, troll”, [5] “Knock it off and stop trolling", [6] and “Please stop trolling”. [7] These were all about my edits of inappropriate vocal range content.
That was then. But I never said anything about her uncivil name-calling in the ANI. Well, last night, I made an edit in Lea Michele, one of the singer articles I follow. A few minutes later, Tribal44 left a comment on my talk page and told me to stop stalking her. [8] I just removed her comment with the edit comment, “I follow articles, not users. "Stalking" is uncivil, therefore please do not post on my talk page again.” [9] I then posted the same comment on her talk page (since I wasn't sure if she would see it in on my edit history page). [10] She removed it and called me a jerk: "“Then don't post on my talk page or revert every edit I make then. Jerk.” [11]
Whenever I make edits in these singer articles, I put detailed edit comments to explain them and don't include anything uncivil or name-calling. I just comment about why I'm making the edit. But Tribal44 has repeatedly called me a troll, stalker, jerk and other names. Based on the WikiProject Musicians discussion going on, plus the years of reverts of her content by other editors, she must know or needs to know that this isn't just one or two editors objecting to content she is adding.
Also, if you look at Tribal44's edit history, you'll see these types of angry comments from her are not just towards me; she has made them to many other editors who have changed or removed her content. It goes back for years. You can see all the comments that include terms like "knock it off", "troll", "rude much?", "Stop deleting pictures!!!!!!", "good lord!", "ugh", "leave it alone!", "WTF" and even "Stop adding freakin' Miley Cyrus!". :p Her other big editing passion, besides adding vocal range/type to all singer articles, is to change photos in articles, which causes a lot of contention among other editors, thus triggering her angry edit comments and talk page comments towards them. She also will add content and actually admit in her edit comments that she doesn't know if it's appropriate to add, even if it's very poorly sourced.
So, can you please help do something about this ongoing incivility? And to get her to understand that when others make edits or reverts to content she's added, especially when it's done in good faith and for valid reasons, she can't get angry and lash out at other editors and call them names. Thanks, Boing! Sorry to bother you with this. :) -- 76.189.121.57 ( talk) 20:32, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Since this thread is about me, I have a right to intervene here. That IP is actually keeping tabs on all my edits and just basically harassing and bullying me. Each edit I make, he/she ALWAYS interferes and revert, even if its a small edit. And I am getting really sick and tired of his/her behavior towards me. I do not know what he/she has over me and why they are picking on me out of the blue, but this is a personal attack against me by all means. I wouldn't be surprised if he/she added my user and talk page on their "watchlist" or "favorites". If wikipedia has a block option, he/she will be the first to be on the list. And since the IP user was so butthurt over my comments about them, which there were true, I am going to tell you yet again, 76.189.121.57, please leave me alone. Tribal44 ( talk) 23:48, 10 October 2012 (UTC)Tribal44
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I ended up indeffing Andycjp. Placed my block up for review on WP:ANI#Block_review:_User:Andycjp_blocked_indefinitely_by_User:Tznkai.-- Tznkai ( talk) 04:31, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
By the way, I have seen the business of autoblocks being reactivated called "poor man's checkuser", as it can sometimes reveal connections normally visible only to checkusers to mere mortals such as you and me. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:34, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, you recently denied my request under CSD for Barnard Solix Syndrom. I think I may not have selected the right criteria, but after applying the tag, I found that there already is an article for Bernard–Soulier syndrome, which appears to be the correct spelling of the syndrome being described in the article I requested deletion for. That article also has sources, as opposed to Barnard Solix Syndrom, which does not. Would you mind taking a look at the other article and reconsidering deletion? I realize you're probably busy IRL, but I figured it'd be more appropriate to ask you rather than to renominate the article for deletion after a request was declined. Thanks, Jonathanfu ( talk) 11:38, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
At the administrator's noticeboard you reverted an edit of mine without explanation. Was this a mistake? Unscintillating ( talk) 23:11, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Re. [15], maybe {{ vaublock}} is what you were looking for? Just so you know that there is such a template. It Is Me Here t / c 10:41, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing!. Iamthemuffinman has (finally!) posted a sound-looking unblock request, which I'm inclined to grant. However, you and a number of other admins have been involved with his block in the past, so I'd like to get your take on it too; if you have a moment, please could you have a look at User talk:Iamthemuffinman and leave an opinion? Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 12:55, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Is a list such as List of Surnames of Gomantak Maratha and Naik Maratha really encyclopedic? It does have one source, sort of, but I dread to think how big such things could become. We can never ensure completeness, nor accuracy, nor exclusivity. What purpose do they serve? Are they not a form covered by the spirit of WP:NOTDIR? - Sitush ( talk) 17:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to participate in my RfA. I hope that I will be able to improve based on the feedback I received and become a better editor. Automatic Strikeout 03:29, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Whilst it may further cement the opinion that I'm an unblock-happy soft touch who's far too keen to give problem users a second chance, I'm provisionally willing to unblock this user based on their agreement to a tailored interaction ban. Since you're aware of the situation, I'd appreciate any opinion you might have at User talk:Adityasaxena.corp. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 10:52, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks very much for dealing with that -- you're fast! Apologies for posting this on your page; I only realised too late that you reviewed and declined the unblock request, not made the block. Thanks again! – Richard BB 14:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
nothing to contest, this is not politics. transistor is transfer resistor, and he did not tell you how he did it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.109.185 ( talk) 14:41, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
no one's saying anything on the talk page.....no one's replying... I have not done anything again, Boing, it is not vandalism, it is the principle of how a transistor works.
The transistor page does not have a Principle of Operation section, because
a)the physicists know about it but don't want to share it b)they just don't know how it works
I was thinking about it and came up with a fairly decent concept of how it works, I put it on WIKI, I think the guys got jealous, and here I am, discussing pretty much nothing.
PS: and my language is pathetic, you naughty naughty boy,..I'll eat you...:))) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.99.247 ( talk) 17:03, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Sent you a mail regarding a possible revdel. - Sitush ( talk) 15:03, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Re your comment to me at Talk:Transistor, you could do with a dose of agf yourself when assessing my reasoning. Two admins arguing over its edits - troll's heaven. Spinning Spark 16:07, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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I think it can't be fixed by the community
Yep, I learnt that about three months ago....I know...tell me about it..it IS a funny language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.99.247 ( talk) 17:08, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Since you handled the earlier block of User:Farwah khan in reference to disruptive editing on Nadia Khan Show, could you take a look at User: Wahaj khan? He's continuously reintroducing BLP violating material on Nadia Khan. It's not negative info, but it is sourced to blogs, forums, and the like. I think that this edit summary well summarizes his opinion about how to contribute to Wikipedia and this subject, and implies that things aren't going to get better. I've left a number of explanatory comments on User Talk:Wahaj khan, but to no avail. Qwyrxian ( talk) 00:45, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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You deleted my article and cited that it lacked information that indicated the importance of the subject.
The article for Financiers Without Borders was brief, but it was just the first iteration, which explained the organization's mission and role. The small amount of information that was present fully explained the importance of the organization.
Financiers Without Borders is a non profit organization provides volunteership opportunities to students and young professionals abroad. I can't explain it any better than that!
I guess you're not all that busy, if you have time too delete my article.
Contact me first or add some comments to the article if you feel that it is inappropriate. Don't just go and delete it. That is extremely rude when the article was clearly not in violation of a policy! Revert the article back immediately!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Finborders ( talk • contribs) 08:46, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
If you believe you can build an article that satisfies these requirements, then I will be happy to restore a copy of the deleted article into your user space for you to work on - just let me know. (But I would also advise having a read of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest) -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 09:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing!
Oh dear. There was, I passing on my knowledge ato a keen new editor. Instead of a brief guide on "how to stop your soccer player articles", I should have just said, do not sock. I could see that the articles had been deleted, but as a non-admin I couldn't see who they had started them. (Of course, if I was a sysop, it would probably make life easier for me and would also be an asset to the community ... ah, but that's a discussion for another day.) It's a pity, as Ghukas Poghosyan was an good example in how to turn a one-line micro-stub about an obviously notable person into something acceptable.
Ah, you're busy. I'll continue this dicussion somewhere else, and let you know how it turns out.
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I've not been following this, but I'd tend to agree that blocking a high-profile editor who's under close arbcom scrutiny and at the heart of community controversy is highly unlikely to be helpful and that a swift unblock is probably a good move. The block was as someone put it on MF's talk page "adding fuel to the fire". However, given that, I'm not sure that unblocking with the edit summary "Malicious block" is likely to be dowsing that fire with water. I'd suggest that Hanlon's razor probably applies here "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (also known as "assuming good faith). It might have been more collegiate to have unblocked with "unwise block" or "ill-judged block". If you did have direct evidence of someone blocking maliciously, then you ought to take it to arbcom, because, if substantiated, it would be grounds for immediate desysopping. Anyway, good unblock, but I'd suggest using the least inflammatory unblock summaries in such stressful cases.-- Scott Mac 21:57, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Please see the following thread at AN/I. [16] A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 22:06, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
You fixed the immediate problem. Do you really think more hashing and bashing on ANI is going to improve things? ArbCom has a mess on it's hands, let's focus our efforts there. Also note your Status = Inactive notice and editnotice are incongruent with the fact that you just took an admin action. Nobody Ent 22:25, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing. :) Believe it or not, I am not writing about the Hu12 incident. Haha. I am actually writing because of new, repeated uncivil comments from User:Tribal44 again. She is the one that reported me a few days ago at ANI and accused me of being threatening and rude, etc. And then you blocked me. :P
Anyway, one thing I never mentioned in that ANI is that Tribal44 repeatedly was calling me a troll in her edit comments after she would revert edits I made. I refrained from ever making those types of comments; I simply told her that I would report her to an admin if she continued making inappropriate edits (poorly sourced, etc), which then resulted in me being called threatening. In her various edits, she said, “You have no proof so knock it the hell off, troll”, [17] “Knock it off and stop trolling", [18] and “Please stop trolling”. [19] These were all about my edits of inappropriate vocal range content.
That was then. But I never said anything about her uncivil name-calling in the ANI. Well, last night, I made an edit in Lea Michele, one of the singer articles I follow. A few minutes later, Tribal44 left a comment on my talk page and told me to stop stalking her. [20] I just removed her comment with the edit comment, “I follow articles, not users. "Stalking" is uncivil, therefore please do not post on my talk page again.” [21] I then posted the same comment on her talk page (since I wasn't sure if she would see it in on my edit history page). [22] She removed it and called me a jerk: "“Then don't post on my talk page or revert every edit I make then. Jerk.” [23]
Whenever I make edits in these singer articles, I put detailed edit comments to explain them and don't include anything uncivil or name-calling. I just comment about why I'm making the edit. But Tribal44 has repeatedly called me a troll, stalker, jerk and other names. Based on the WikiProject Musicians discussion going on, plus the years of reverts of her content by other editors, she must know or needs to know that this isn't just one or two editors objecting to content she is adding.
Also, if you look at Tribal44's edit history, you'll see these types of angry comments from her are not just towards me; she has made them to many other editors who have changed or removed her content. It goes back for years. You can see all the comments that include terms like "knock it off", "troll", "rude much?", "Stop deleting pictures!!!!!!", "good lord!", "ugh", "leave it alone!", "WTF" and even "Stop adding freakin' Miley Cyrus!". :p Her other big editing passion, besides adding vocal range/type to all singer articles, is to change photos in articles, which causes a lot of contention among other editors, thus triggering her angry edit comments and talk page comments towards them. She also will add content and actually admit in her edit comments that she doesn't know if it's appropriate to add, even if it's very poorly sourced.
So, can you please help do something about this ongoing incivility? And to get her to understand that when others make edits or reverts to content she's added, especially when it's done in good faith and for valid reasons, she can't get angry and lash out at other editors and call them names. Thanks, Boing! Sorry to bother you with this. :) -- 76.189.121.57 ( talk) 20:32, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Since this thread is about me, I have a right to intervene here. That IP is actually keeping tabs on all my edits and just basically harassing and bullying me. Each edit I make, he/she ALWAYS interferes and revert, even if its a small edit. And I am getting really sick and tired of his/her behavior towards me. I do not know what he/she has over me and why they are picking on me out of the blue, but this is a personal attack against me by all means. I wouldn't be surprised if he/she added my user and talk page on their "watchlist" or "favorites". If wikipedia has a block option, he/she will be the first to be on the list. And since the IP user was so butthurt over my comments about them, which there were true, I am going to tell you yet again, 76.189.121.57, please leave me alone. Tribal44 ( talk) 23:48, 10 October 2012 (UTC)Tribal44
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Good move. I did basically the same thing, for most of the same reasons, a while ago. I make a remark now and then but have essentially stopped contributing content. Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 03:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Is a list such as List of Surnames of Gomantak Maratha and Naik Maratha really encyclopedic? It does have one source, sort of, but I dread to think how big such things could become. We can never ensure completeness, nor accuracy, nor exclusivity. What purpose do they serve? Are they not a form covered by the spirit of WP:NOTDIR? - Sitush ( talk) 17:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Since you handled the earlier block of User:Farwah khan in reference to disruptive editing on Nadia Khan Show, could you take a look at User: Wahaj khan? He's continuously reintroducing BLP violating material on Nadia Khan. It's not negative info, but it is sourced to blogs, forums, and the like. I think that this edit summary well summarizes his opinion about how to contribute to Wikipedia and this subject, and implies that things aren't going to get better. I've left a number of explanatory comments on User Talk:Wahaj khan, but to no avail. Qwyrxian ( talk) 00:45, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Boing! (or whatever I should call you)
First, sorry if this seems silly considering your declaration you are leaving, but I've written something on the Clarification request the calls you out by name, so it is only fair that I notify you. Second please reconsider. I've very left in frustration before, and it was never the same afterwards. These were people who I worked with and some who had even become good friends. Not to put too fine a point on it, I felt betrayed, which feels both ridiculous to me now, and as raw and hurtful as it did that night. I'm around to talk, if you want, and understand if you don't.-- Tznkai ( talk) 04:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
this it *not* the time for cowboy admins to be - clearly no need for civility there - and you didn't even have to say "fuck" William M. Connolley ( talk) 12:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your look at this with an open mind and voicing oppose to the main stream, see also, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:00, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Without commenting one way or the other on Malleusgate, I'd just like to express my sorrow at your decision to withdraw from contributing - I fully respect your choice, but losing an administrator of your calibre is a blow. You will be sorely missed. Yunshui 雲 水 10:12, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
While no sane person could blame you for wanting out of this asylum, we really need you. There will never be a shortage of admins willing to bait users and then make punative, policy-violating blocks. There will however be a paucity of admins with the integrity to reverse them. Joefromrandb ( talk) 17:22, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I don't blame you and support your decision. I'm trying to convince Jclemens to recuse himself from the current situation, but it appears I have little support. It looks like you, John, Drmies, Floquenbeam and others have stopped editing for now, and I know of several more who are about to do. I stopped working on articles, but still trying to talk some sense into some folks. I may yet be forced to consider the same tactic if my appeal falls on deaf ears. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 17:35, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Can you userfy this article for me please. I have no idea why a person who has authored so many books was deleted, he easily passes wp:author Darkness Shines ( talk) 01:02, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Sharing ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:32, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
You joined the Category:Wikipedians who are not a Wikipedian, which is being discussed at its entry at Categories nominated for deletion.
You may wish to join the category Category:Wikipedians working towards even enforcement of civility.
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In the above diff ....here's a quote below from Sitush vis a vis whom you are practicing uneven enforcement of civility against me
.Quoting Sitush:
None of these sources, including those that I actually inserted, are ones that I would normally choose to use but I was hoping that it might kickstart something, and so it seemed like an idea deliberately to leave a couple out that User:Intothefire could find.
The above is an example of the cynical collaboration you have been indulging in repeatedly with Sitush ...Sitush by his own admission is baiting me , you are complimenting him ....Its only one example I could provide more .
Your unflinching support to Sitush as a friend is noble , but your repeated practicing uneven enforcement of civility is gross . Several editors have been lost in such designing . As to your using the phrase Constant snide bitching in your remark after banning me .....the repeated snide is in your actions as exhibited above . Intothefire ( talk) 17:48, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Now lets look at these three diffs I repair (not add) a Punjabi spelling on 11th March ,Immediately thereafter in JanetteDoe deletes this without not knowing herself where or what exactly the rule is , she askss/report to you "At Talk:Khattar, borderline PA. I've added the caste warning template. Also, can you find the link to the specfic rfc or policy decision for removing Indic scripts? I've looked but haven't been able to locate a specific link, which would be useful to add to talk pages when the subject comes up" she quips . You go a step further and gladly offer to oblige to ban me . But wait you yourself dont know where the Indic script removal decision is yourself "I'm really not sure where the Indic script removal decision was made, but I'll look for it when I have the time and will let you know if I find it " . Is this civil or uncivil ? an editor deletes my edit ,without knowing the rule , reports to you , you dont know the specific rule yourself and support her . Now lets look at the way the ban on me is imposed on me my edits on this article Khani 100 asks for a protection lock on 22nd july 2011 because he says "Dear Editors, I am requesting semi-protection for this article as in my experience, at various times people (prob belonging to some of the prominent families of this tribe) keep on adding various 'vanity' items to it and changing it, by inserting either unverifiable data or long lists and family trees". I am not the editors he could be refering to because durying this period I have only made 1 edit and and that too only an indic script correction not pertaining to his complaint . I then make an edit in support of Khani on 11th March 2012 , which with Due shining light Janette Doe gets be banned by You . Which exact editor did I attack , you never clarified . As an admin you dident think it necessary to state which editor I attacked since you banned me for ? You support deletion of my edits without knowing the exact rule yourself , you ban me without stating which editor I dident exhibit good faith to...you use uncivil invective for me , wink , support baiting ....surely none of this is civil or good faith far from being even . Intothefire ( talk) 19:40, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
You wrote "the Asshole..." rather than "the latest asshole", because there are many such insults. The penultimate "asshole" insult was yesterday on his talk page. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 14:57, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
I am uninvolved in this, I only commented on the ANI thread to say that it was not a block worthy offense, I posted a user notice on Hero's page and justified my comments. I've seen Herostratus around but I have had minimal interaction with him. Maybe you can explain how I am considered involved with this content dispute? Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 15:31, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Mentioned you at User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Seriously.2C_deeply_concerned_.... Pesky's wording is a bit vague but I am pretty sure the civility issue that has affected both of us is a part of their concern. - Sitush ( talk) 14:52, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 09:26, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you please protect this template again because X02.163.91.xxx ( talk · contribs) who was blocked indefinitely for edit-warring came back and is making controversial edits without consensus. It was decided by a number of people that the girl's image is good and this blocked IP hopper wants to put an image of silly looking students sitting on the floor, like 7th century, this image only represents a village in Afghanistan but this is not how the 50 million Pashtuns live, especially the 29 million Pashtuns who live in Pakistan, where they go to normal schools like everyone else. Plus the area where the students are sitting ( Gardez) have many (possibly 50%) Tajik people.-- KunwaazTajik ( talk) 00:13, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
If things do continue in the same vein and you are unsure about RFPP then drop my a line on my talk page & I'll see if I can justify doing that report myself. I am not an admin but I've spent a lot of time dealing with situations such as this, usually as someone in exactly the position that you think you are in now! - Sitush ( talk) 02:01, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Boing! I understand that you say you're inactive, but I'll make this request anyways since I don't believe that something bad on Wikipedia (the whole Jclemens issue) is made better by anyother bad thing (you not editing). I noticed Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Doncram on Indic communities and my first experience with you ever was related to Nair so I assume you are familiar with the Indian Caste system and you might be able to offer very important thoughts as a sound-minded editor who has experience with caste articles. Thanks with your help, or if you cannot, I hope to see you back to full capacity whenever the votes are in. Ryan Vesey 05:03, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
You've been mentioned at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Doncram_on_Indic_communities. - Sitush ( talk) 09:20, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm on a Wikibreak for a while. I won't be logging in or reading my Talk page, so please contact someone else if you need any help with anything. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 10:57, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I am letting you know that I have proposed a merge of Chili burger to Chili con carne. Being that you participated in the AfD, I'd be interested in your thoughts. The discussion is at
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It was suggested that Hamburger might be a better target, and I was implored to allow that as a possibility. Therefore, I've moved the discussion to Talk:Chili burger#Merger proposal to allow for this. Please accept my apologies if it seemed that I was advocating for one solution over another. ˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 16:16, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
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Santas Grotto wishes you and yours
"Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda"
May the true spirit of Christmas bless you with warmth and peace ....
To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 15:29, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks, and to you too. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 21:41, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
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for the holidays and 2013 from a warm place ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 22:17, 23 December 2012 (UTC) |
Seasons greetings to you and yours
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Mt king (edits) 20:45, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
– BuickCentury Driver 14:44, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
My concerns are based on a freedom of speech rationale, rather than being "okay" or "not okay" with the heated points KW was trying to make. Carrite ( talk) 16:37, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
The MMA project has over 20 articles recomended for deletion by a user that is now banned. Most of them shouldn't have even been nominated. Some of us are wondering if we are allowed to close these out and clean up the mess created by this editor. Willdawg111 ( talk) 19:43, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for naming my problems, I will take this into consideration, However, this is a democratic nation, and I am well within my rights to continue with my petition against ClueBot NG, standing up for what I (and many others) believe in. To block me solely for my Anti-ClueBot NG beliefs would be grossly violating my human rights, and I will be pursuing the campaign. Thanks again for being understanding towards my position. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boomage ( talk • contribs) 21:15, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Boing!
I appreciate your quickness in quickly striking possibly misleading statements at ANI, on your own initiative, very quickly after TParis found the right words. What is especially notable was your graciousness in avoiding the temptation to make a parting shots.
For my part, I regret not expressing myself more clearly, which led to your delayed recognition of my intentions. I also regret using the "l" word---and not the l word of "Scott Pilgrim"---and now, particularly in the edit summary. You stated something false, but it was unintentional and your strong spirit was motivated to protect another editor and ensure fairness, which is an admirable source of cognitive bias. ;)
Finally, I regret that I no longer have the ability to strike some comments from ANI, now that TParis has redacted the entire discussion.
If you wish to discuss something on my talk page, you will certainly be welcomed.
Sincerely, Kiefer .Wolfowitz 18:05, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Further to the events on the User:Iamthemuffinman page, he has just emailed me using the email user part of wikipedia. Anything I should do other than ignore it? MisterShiney ✉ 19:12, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Seems we are both thinking along the same lines Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Marstarbartion. Feel free to re-purpose/rename as you have a likely sockmaster. -- Biker Biker ( talk) 12:35, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
-- Anthony Bradbury "talk" 12:40, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
User:Deathlaser is on IRC, asking to be unblocked since it has been six months (well, you changed the block settings in September, atually). Since you blocked him and his talk page access is not editable by him, I was letting you know. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 18:01, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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