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Onel5969 ( talk) 19:58, 29 March 2015 (UTC)Thanks for uploading File:Barry Kerzin wearing electrodes on his cranium.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.
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Hi there, Eekster. Eek! I have been scrabbling to get to the source/copyright holder of this portrait and the subject informs me it would probably be the Waisman Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at Wisconsin Uni. He has therefore sent his contact there a note asking them to kindly email you the requisite permission to publish it. I sent all the necessary details and there is no reason why they should say no (I suppose). I hope you receive this permission before your deadline runs out (on Easter Monday!!!) - but if not, considering it is a long holiday weekend I hope you will extend the deadline by another week perhaps? Many thanks, Sean M Jones ( talk) 15:46, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Um so because you expressed an interest in moving on in our discussion on Talk:Dalai Lama, I created a new section. I intend no disrespect, so if you object, please feel free to remove the new section head. However, I created it in order to make the comments easier to read: in fact, I'd like to change the indent structure as well. Feel free to do it yourself; I'll wait to make sure you're okay with the new section though. It was already kind of "comments everywhere" and it'd be better to keep things easy to read chronologically.
I also appreciate your apology; if I seemed cross it was because there is endless disrespect on this encyclopedia from editors who are here only to troll or to push some frustrating goal of making everything accord to their personal vision of the universe. I found your anger unexpected in what was, I thought, simply two people discussing a topic in order to figure out how to edit a page, but I gather you saw my long-winded discussions as somehow dismissive of you. I really was just chewing the fat; you'll note I often corrected myself when you observed I was wrong. I'm not an angry mastodon, I assure you. If I was abrupt, it was because I was just stating facts as I understood them - it is easier to just say what I am thinking in response directly. So when I say "no but X", if you have information challenging that, I figure you'll just say, "yeah but no, y", which is in fact mostly what you were already doing. Ogress smash! 20:32, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
I hope we can improve this article Ogress, which is all I want to do. I’d like to see a fair portrait of the Dalai Lama(s) here, both individually and collectively. I have no problem with valid criticism to get a well rounded picture and appreciate the Wikipedia habit of giving space to include controversy and negative criticism of the subject. #14 has certain detractors who aim to disparage and malign, the shugdenites and the CCP for two. I have no problem to apologise if I happen to annoy people. My interest in Buddhism goes back 50 years when I started reading Buddhist books and it’s 40 years since I took refuge. So here I try to maintain a healthy scepticism. I’m glad we’ve reached an understanding, on the basis of which I hope we can collaborate to improve this article and who knows, maybe others. I don’t mind your opening a new section at all, I appreciate it and if you want to improve the indent system on the comments that is great, go ahead. I am here to learn, to improve and to help and I think this DL History section is important and the talk discussion about it should be accessible on the record. MacPraughan ( talk) 20:33, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi MacPraughan. I am a member of WP:MED and also work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your account is what we call a WP:SPA - pretty much all your edits to date are about Barry Kerzin and are somewhat promotional. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and questions for you below.
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Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by out WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Kerzin or any of the institutes with which he is associated? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Thanks!
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Thanks for your notice, I am glad to see you are on the case of hunting down inappropriate conflicts of interest in Wikipedia contributors. My relationship with Barry Kerzin is in a way professional, he is a kind of distant colleague in that he is currently one of the medical doctors of the 14th Dalai Lama and I have known the same Dalai Lama for many years since I was his personal chauffeur in the UK from 1982 to 1993. Therefore I am an acquaintance of the subject, I got to know him attending and organising events around the Dalai Lama and his activities and I have seen what he has done and felt inspired to write about him on Wikipedia since it seems notable to me and I feel people who are interested in him and there are many should have the chance to learn more about his background if they wished (he has some 25,000 "followers" on Facebook).
Is this a conflict of interest? I have no financial or other interest in promoting his work, I am simply a retired professional who is working on Wikipedia which has become my new hobby this year. My interests cover Buddhism and Tibet and the history of Tibet; I have not only worked on Barry Kerzin's BLP (as you appear to be suggesting!) but I've also done a lot of work (a lot for me - hundreds of edits) on the pages of the Dalai Lama, especially the 'History' section, and the 14th Dalai Lama along with associated subjects such ar the Ganden Tripa, Mind and Life Institute amongst others and so forth. I am also preparing a BLP for the main founder of Mind and Life Institute, Adam Engle, and I am preparing to revise the entire article on Mind and Life Institute since I consider it way out of date, uninformative and badly designed as it stands.
Another connection with Kerzin and Engle is that we are all of us to some extent in principle friends and students of the 14th Dalai Lama (of which there must be millions around the world) as regards his Buddhist and philosophical teachings. So I hope this does not represent conflict of interest either. It is one of the few things I know anything about to the extent of being able to research or write about these subjects in Wikipedia - I have a scores if not hundreds of text and history books on Buddhism, Tibet, the History of Tibet, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan - a region where I have lived, travelled and worked in various occupations for many years of my career. My profession is accountant and administrator, my main business has been that of specialist travel agent in London from the 1970s to the 1990s and my regional speciality is in the history and culture of central and south Asia. I speak Pashto (the language of the Taliban and eastern/southern Afghanistan), Urdu (Pakistani), Hindustani (Indian), a little Tibetan and Nepali, plus French and Italian, I am married to a Swiss and I live retired in the south France since 2001; my mother Irish, my father Welsh, myself English by birth.
I am certainly not being paid for any of these efforts in Wikipedia! Neither do I have any position whatsoever in any of the institutes and foundations I have mentioned. I am, however, still on the Board of Advisors of the Tibet Foundation, London, an unpaid position, and I wonder whether that would preclude me from writing an article eventually on that foundation, which I am considering doing in future? As a supporter of the Foundation as well as longterm personal friend of the founder and director there, a Tibetan, would that also preclude me from writing a BLP about his extraordinary life? Please let me know and feel free to throw any further questions at me as I fully believe in transparency and accountability and am more than willing to be examined over my motivation for anything I have ever written on Wikipedia or elsewhere. Looking forward to hearing from you and learning more. As this is all quite new to me I feel very much a newcomer and sadly ignorant as regards expertise, just learning how to do things bit by bit from scratch since I'm not very tech-savvy and don't even have a mobile phone. Any advice you can give me to improve my work and gain approval would be very much appreciated. How about you? Feel free to tell me about yourself and your work. Do you come up against a lot of tricky people? MacPraughan ( talk) 15:55, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
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The article describes 14th Dalai Lama as merely an important Gelug lama. But then it says he had full political control of Tibet. This is contradictory. VictoriaGrayson Talk 16:34, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
The point is that for the average reader, it doesn't make sense why the lead says 14th Dalai Lama had control over Tibet. VictoriaGrayson Talk 22:35, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
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Shorten the rambling lead/intro of the 14th Dalai Lama article. VictoriaGrayson Talk 20:11, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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I find it incredulous that you think he is a notable religious figure (your !Keep vote at his AfD) when you have edited his article in a manner that casts doubt on everything and anything he has ever done, portrayed him in a negative light, and going so far as to add a photograph of him taken in handcuffs after an arrest in 2012. Evidence in the form of diffs as to your pattern of editing this article: diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5, diff 6, diff 7, diff 8, diff 9, diff 10, diff 11, diff 12, diff 13, diff 14.
In one of your edit summaries (diff 8), you wrote - There is no evidence to be found in independent 3rd party sources that anyone has ever requested him to teach anything
- so wouldn't the same be true for this statement you wrote at the AfD - Chatellier is the only known example of the recognition of the incarnation of a Tibetan lama who was a 'Rinpoche', 'tulku' or 'Living Buddha' in his previous life - where's your third party source that verifies that statement? In diff 11 you added this to his article - Chatellier also provides his completely different background as a medical assistant and security guard, in an advertisement on a security personnel employment site. Dated 2012, his detailed CV, apparently posted by himself in search of employment, makes no reference to any kind of training or interest in Buddhism, nor to his role as Lama Shenphen Rinpoche as described above and elsewhere. On the contrary, according to his CV the only kind of traceable and formal training he has received since 1990 appears to be as a doorman ("Door Supervisor") and security guard at S.I.A. in London, in April 2011
- implying that he received training to be a
Bouncer (doorman). So I have to ask, do you know this guy, do you have a grudge against him, have you ever interacted with him? I'm trying to figure out why you would !vote Keep at his AfD, when your pattern of editing at his article seems to indicate that you really don't think he's a notable religious leader, if one at all.
In addition, there is an editor who has the same username as you, MacPraughan, who has edited the following wikis in the same pattern in the same timeframe (is this you?). - French Wiki, Slovenian Wiki, Hungarian Wiki, German Wiki Isaidnoway (talk) 19:35, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
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Earlier today Skywalker976 filed an accusation of Conflict of Interest againt me on WP:COIN. Seeing it was spurious I wrote a rebuttal and posted it there, see 1. Thirty minutes later, my rebuttal was deleted en bloc by Oshwah who gave no reason for this action in his edit summary, just that he was reverting it. I immediately tried to query this, but found I was now blocked. Now I cannot defend myself against this accusation, and what I did post has been deleted. I can only wonder, is there some kind of conspiracy going on? Is it true, or am I just getting paranoid? Help! Can someone please explain what is going on here. Thanks. JimRenge, MarioGom, Yerpo, Simonm223, Bbb23 - MacPraughan ( talk) 21:07, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
@ Bbb23: I have now read up on sockpuppetry and can understand your concerns, and why you sanctioned me with a 7-day block. However, my wife still aspires to edit WP on her own account. How can she do that, and register, in good faith, without you accusing me of sockpuppetry? Should she declare a CoI, or what? Thanks for your advice. MacPraughan ( talk) 09:16, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to let you know that I have added the connected contributor template to the talk pages of the following articles: Barry Kerzin, 14th Dalai Lama and Alexander Berzin (scholar). This is to let other editor's know that there is an external relationship (personal, religious, professional) between you and the subject of the article, and is merely a description of the situation, not a judgement about your opinions, integrity, or good faith.
You should also make a public declaration ( WP has small user boxes) on your user page indicating that you are personally/professionally connected to the subjects of those articles, so there is no ambiguity about your relationship and to provide transparency, especially if you continue to edit those affected articles and/or talk pages of those articles. You stated above, when asked, that you are not connected to Shenphen Rinpoche, and I will take you at your word that you are not connected to the subject of that article. Please feel free to ping me if you have any questions or comments. Thanks. Isaidnoway (talk) 13:30, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
I am sorry that your challenge to me as to why I don’t meet you face to face seems to have disappeared and must have been suppressed as WP:Harassment. Just as your attack lawyer Skywalker976’s publication of my FB a/c link was suppressed as WP:Harassment, recently. That’s two serious infringements of my WP privacy rights from your side, and two warnings not to do it again. See Warning Balazs38 and Outing.
You will also note that after some double-checking by admin, my own WP blocking for alleged sockpuppetry has now been reversed and lifted, as has the WP blocking of my good wife Freewasp. So please, no more gloating over this from your side.
As regards your ill-couched invitation, or should I say challenge, for us to meet face-to-face, if you would kindly issue an appropriate invitation, cordially-worded, without cynical asides and through a proper channel I would be more than happy to give it every consideration. I have no problem to meet you on neutral ground. I have no grudge against you and try to practice equanimity to all sentient beings, no matter how they might behave. I recognise that persons of ill-repute are suffering beings and deserve compassion, and that any irritation caused should be directed at the act rather than at the person. I am sure that if you have really absorbed any of the teachings you will have to agree. MacPraughan ( talk) 16:03, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
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I understand that I have been blocked for Sock puppetry/abusing multiple accounts. This is absolutely untrue. I have had this single account to edit since I registered in March 2015. Please unblock me as soon as possible, thank you. MacPraughan ( talk) 17:06, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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Procedural accept; already unblocked. Yamla ( talk) 20:59, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
My wife now tells me that she has been blocked as well, as an alleged sock-puppet of mine. The editing name she chose is 'Freewasp'. We had been discussing the Shenphen Rinpoche article, and I have kept her informed of what is going on with him. Last week when the proposal to delete it came up, she was expressing her considered opinion that the article should not be deleted. I told her to register herself as an editor and say so herself, and she did so - I assisted her in the logging in and editing process as she was not familiar with it. Please check, if you can, that her email account and her computer ID are different to mine. I have been encouraging her to become an editor for some time as she is capable and experienced in various fields and we are both retired. Please unblock both of us since there was no intention on our part to open multiple accounts - we have one each. I will suggest to her that she also requests to be unblocked as she is a complete beginner and understands even less than me about WP. If any further details are required please email us. I can send you a photo of us both sitting at our computers, if you like! Many thanks - MacPraughan ( talk)
Very interesting to see this on
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I refer to simonm223's analysis on 1 which in my view is an accurate analysis of the situation. It has, however, apparently been decided by Bbb23 to block me and not sanction Balazs38 or Skywalker976 (if my understanding is correct). At the same time, Balazs38's sockpuppet Skywalker976 has filed a spurious accusation of CoI against me on WP:COIN, and I am now unable to give my response there because of the block. I feel really stitched up. How can this be allowed? My faith in WP built up over 3+ years is evaporating rapidly and unless the situation is righted PDQ I will be quitting WP editing altogether, not that anyone will miss it. - MacPraughan ( talk) 20:40, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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As advised above by Administrator Bbb23 I am pleased to declare that I have a shared IP address with Freewasp, who is a family member. I shall post this userbox and information on my User page, as required by WP:FAMILY, as soon as my block for " sockpuppetry" (for allegedly using Freewasp as a " sockpuppet" since neither of us were aware of the necessity of this notification procedure) is lifted; and as in the meantime I am unable to add anything anywhere on WP except on this page. Apologies to all concerned for my culpable lack of knowledge, now corrected.
I have passed details of the same WP:FAMILY requirements to apprise Freewasp who will hopefully do the necessary likewise soon. MacPraughan ( talk) 10:12, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hi there, Eekster. Eek! I have been scrabbling to get to the source/copyright holder of this portrait and the subject informs me it would probably be the Waisman Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at Wisconsin Uni. He has therefore sent his contact there a note asking them to kindly email you the requisite permission to publish it. I sent all the necessary details and there is no reason why they should say no (I suppose). I hope you receive this permission before your deadline runs out (on Easter Monday!!!) - but if not, considering it is a long holiday weekend I hope you will extend the deadline by another week perhaps? Many thanks, Sean M Jones ( talk) 15:46, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Um so because you expressed an interest in moving on in our discussion on Talk:Dalai Lama, I created a new section. I intend no disrespect, so if you object, please feel free to remove the new section head. However, I created it in order to make the comments easier to read: in fact, I'd like to change the indent structure as well. Feel free to do it yourself; I'll wait to make sure you're okay with the new section though. It was already kind of "comments everywhere" and it'd be better to keep things easy to read chronologically.
I also appreciate your apology; if I seemed cross it was because there is endless disrespect on this encyclopedia from editors who are here only to troll or to push some frustrating goal of making everything accord to their personal vision of the universe. I found your anger unexpected in what was, I thought, simply two people discussing a topic in order to figure out how to edit a page, but I gather you saw my long-winded discussions as somehow dismissive of you. I really was just chewing the fat; you'll note I often corrected myself when you observed I was wrong. I'm not an angry mastodon, I assure you. If I was abrupt, it was because I was just stating facts as I understood them - it is easier to just say what I am thinking in response directly. So when I say "no but X", if you have information challenging that, I figure you'll just say, "yeah but no, y", which is in fact mostly what you were already doing. Ogress smash! 20:32, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
I hope we can improve this article Ogress, which is all I want to do. I’d like to see a fair portrait of the Dalai Lama(s) here, both individually and collectively. I have no problem with valid criticism to get a well rounded picture and appreciate the Wikipedia habit of giving space to include controversy and negative criticism of the subject. #14 has certain detractors who aim to disparage and malign, the shugdenites and the CCP for two. I have no problem to apologise if I happen to annoy people. My interest in Buddhism goes back 50 years when I started reading Buddhist books and it’s 40 years since I took refuge. So here I try to maintain a healthy scepticism. I’m glad we’ve reached an understanding, on the basis of which I hope we can collaborate to improve this article and who knows, maybe others. I don’t mind your opening a new section at all, I appreciate it and if you want to improve the indent system on the comments that is great, go ahead. I am here to learn, to improve and to help and I think this DL History section is important and the talk discussion about it should be accessible on the record. MacPraughan ( talk) 20:33, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for your notice, I am glad to see you are on the case of hunting down inappropriate conflicts of interest in Wikipedia contributors. My relationship with Barry Kerzin is in a way professional, he is a kind of distant colleague in that he is currently one of the medical doctors of the 14th Dalai Lama and I have known the same Dalai Lama for many years since I was his personal chauffeur in the UK from 1982 to 1993. Therefore I am an acquaintance of the subject, I got to know him attending and organising events around the Dalai Lama and his activities and I have seen what he has done and felt inspired to write about him on Wikipedia since it seems notable to me and I feel people who are interested in him and there are many should have the chance to learn more about his background if they wished (he has some 25,000 "followers" on Facebook).
Is this a conflict of interest? I have no financial or other interest in promoting his work, I am simply a retired professional who is working on Wikipedia which has become my new hobby this year. My interests cover Buddhism and Tibet and the history of Tibet; I have not only worked on Barry Kerzin's BLP (as you appear to be suggesting!) but I've also done a lot of work (a lot for me - hundreds of edits) on the pages of the Dalai Lama, especially the 'History' section, and the 14th Dalai Lama along with associated subjects such ar the Ganden Tripa, Mind and Life Institute amongst others and so forth. I am also preparing a BLP for the main founder of Mind and Life Institute, Adam Engle, and I am preparing to revise the entire article on Mind and Life Institute since I consider it way out of date, uninformative and badly designed as it stands.
Another connection with Kerzin and Engle is that we are all of us to some extent in principle friends and students of the 14th Dalai Lama (of which there must be millions around the world) as regards his Buddhist and philosophical teachings. So I hope this does not represent conflict of interest either. It is one of the few things I know anything about to the extent of being able to research or write about these subjects in Wikipedia - I have a scores if not hundreds of text and history books on Buddhism, Tibet, the History of Tibet, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan - a region where I have lived, travelled and worked in various occupations for many years of my career. My profession is accountant and administrator, my main business has been that of specialist travel agent in London from the 1970s to the 1990s and my regional speciality is in the history and culture of central and south Asia. I speak Pashto (the language of the Taliban and eastern/southern Afghanistan), Urdu (Pakistani), Hindustani (Indian), a little Tibetan and Nepali, plus French and Italian, I am married to a Swiss and I live retired in the south France since 2001; my mother Irish, my father Welsh, myself English by birth.
I am certainly not being paid for any of these efforts in Wikipedia! Neither do I have any position whatsoever in any of the institutes and foundations I have mentioned. I am, however, still on the Board of Advisors of the Tibet Foundation, London, an unpaid position, and I wonder whether that would preclude me from writing an article eventually on that foundation, which I am considering doing in future? As a supporter of the Foundation as well as longterm personal friend of the founder and director there, a Tibetan, would that also preclude me from writing a BLP about his extraordinary life? Please let me know and feel free to throw any further questions at me as I fully believe in transparency and accountability and am more than willing to be examined over my motivation for anything I have ever written on Wikipedia or elsewhere. Looking forward to hearing from you and learning more. As this is all quite new to me I feel very much a newcomer and sadly ignorant as regards expertise, just learning how to do things bit by bit from scratch since I'm not very tech-savvy and don't even have a mobile phone. Any advice you can give me to improve my work and gain approval would be very much appreciated. How about you? Feel free to tell me about yourself and your work. Do you come up against a lot of tricky people? MacPraughan ( talk) 15:55, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
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The article describes 14th Dalai Lama as merely an important Gelug lama. But then it says he had full political control of Tibet. This is contradictory. VictoriaGrayson Talk 16:34, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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Your imput in this discussion will be very much welcome. -- TV Guy ( talk) 00:40, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Regarding your recent edit. Please be aware that users can remove notices from their own user talk, with very few exceptions. If you think they aren't being responsive to your concerns you can post about the issue elsewhere and leave them a ping. Thank you, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:31, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
You are welcome, MacPraughan. These levels can be found at WP:WARN.
With regard to reporting the user concerned to a noticeboard, this is possible, but since there have been aggressive responses by several people, the problems will most likely be forwarded to an arbitrator. If you want to start a formal discussion regarding content which is managed by an uninvolved moderator, you can do so through the WP:RFC format. But if you want my opinion, there is clarity on all sides on what the policies are, but whether they are observed is another matter.-- Farang Rak Tham ( talk) 15:04, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
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For this; absolutely outstanding! Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 15:46, 14 October 2017 (UTC) |
I've taken the liberty to add the archive-bot; it will archive old threads automatically. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 20:15, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
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Just letting you know that I nominated File:Masa Gedrih (cr) standing with President Borut Pahor of Slovenia (c) and others, 16.3.2015.png that you uploaded for deletion. Being published on Facebook does not mean that a work has been placed in public domain, so republishing it here would constitute copyright violation. Feel free to ping me if you have additional questions about copyright. — Yerpo Eh? 10:03, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi MacPraughan. User pages should be created only by the corresponding user or an admin in case of a block ( [1]). They should not be used as talk pages. Thanks. -- MarioGom ( talk) 07:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
Understood. Thanks. MacPraughan ( talk) 07:26, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
I find it incredulous that you think he is a notable religious figure (your !Keep vote at his AfD) when you have edited his article in a manner that casts doubt on everything and anything he has ever done, portrayed him in a negative light, and going so far as to add a photograph of him taken in handcuffs after an arrest in 2012. Evidence in the form of diffs as to your pattern of editing this article: diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5, diff 6, diff 7, diff 8, diff 9, diff 10, diff 11, diff 12, diff 13, diff 14.
In one of your edit summaries (diff 8), you wrote - There is no evidence to be found in independent 3rd party sources that anyone has ever requested him to teach anything
- so wouldn't the same be true for this statement you wrote at the AfD - Chatellier is the only known example of the recognition of the incarnation of a Tibetan lama who was a 'Rinpoche', 'tulku' or 'Living Buddha' in his previous life - where's your third party source that verifies that statement? In diff 11 you added this to his article - Chatellier also provides his completely different background as a medical assistant and security guard, in an advertisement on a security personnel employment site. Dated 2012, his detailed CV, apparently posted by himself in search of employment, makes no reference to any kind of training or interest in Buddhism, nor to his role as Lama Shenphen Rinpoche as described above and elsewhere. On the contrary, according to his CV the only kind of traceable and formal training he has received since 1990 appears to be as a doorman ("Door Supervisor") and security guard at S.I.A. in London, in April 2011
- implying that he received training to be a
Bouncer (doorman). So I have to ask, do you know this guy, do you have a grudge against him, have you ever interacted with him? I'm trying to figure out why you would !vote Keep at his AfD, when your pattern of editing at his article seems to indicate that you really don't think he's a notable religious leader, if one at all.
In addition, there is an editor who has the same username as you, MacPraughan, who has edited the following wikis in the same pattern in the same timeframe (is this you?). - French Wiki, Slovenian Wiki, Hungarian Wiki, German Wiki Isaidnoway (talk) 19:35, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible
conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.
Skywalker976 (
talk)
22:55, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.
You have recently shown interest in living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect: any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or any page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.
For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.
JimRenge ( talk) 23:53, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Please do not add unreferenced or
poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about
living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to
Shenphen Rinpoche. Allegations of a criminal conviction require
reliable sources. Wikipedia's sourcing policy,
Verifiability, says that any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation; material not meeting this standard may be removed. This allegation is
poorly sourced and has been challenged and has been removed. Please do not add this material back without
reliable sourcing. Thanks.
Isaidnoway
(talk)
05:18, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
JimRenge. I noticed that you made a comment on the page
Shenphen Rinpoche that didn't seem very
civil. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. Allegations of vandalism (
[2] edit summary) without evidence are regarded as personal attacks. Please see
WP:VANDALISM for more info.
JimRenge (
talk) 15:20, 9 September 2018 (UTC) corr.
JimRenge (
talk)
17:03, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Earlier today Skywalker976 filed an accusation of Conflict of Interest againt me on WP:COIN. Seeing it was spurious I wrote a rebuttal and posted it there, see 1. Thirty minutes later, my rebuttal was deleted en bloc by Oshwah who gave no reason for this action in his edit summary, just that he was reverting it. I immediately tried to query this, but found I was now blocked. Now I cannot defend myself against this accusation, and what I did post has been deleted. I can only wonder, is there some kind of conspiracy going on? Is it true, or am I just getting paranoid? Help! Can someone please explain what is going on here. Thanks. JimRenge, MarioGom, Yerpo, Simonm223, Bbb23 - MacPraughan ( talk) 21:07, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
@ Bbb23: I have now read up on sockpuppetry and can understand your concerns, and why you sanctioned me with a 7-day block. However, my wife still aspires to edit WP on her own account. How can she do that, and register, in good faith, without you accusing me of sockpuppetry? Should she declare a CoI, or what? Thanks for your advice. MacPraughan ( talk) 09:16, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to let you know that I have added the connected contributor template to the talk pages of the following articles: Barry Kerzin, 14th Dalai Lama and Alexander Berzin (scholar). This is to let other editor's know that there is an external relationship (personal, religious, professional) between you and the subject of the article, and is merely a description of the situation, not a judgement about your opinions, integrity, or good faith.
You should also make a public declaration ( WP has small user boxes) on your user page indicating that you are personally/professionally connected to the subjects of those articles, so there is no ambiguity about your relationship and to provide transparency, especially if you continue to edit those affected articles and/or talk pages of those articles. You stated above, when asked, that you are not connected to Shenphen Rinpoche, and I will take you at your word that you are not connected to the subject of that article. Please feel free to ping me if you have any questions or comments. Thanks. Isaidnoway (talk) 13:30, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
I am sorry that your challenge to me as to why I don’t meet you face to face seems to have disappeared and must have been suppressed as WP:Harassment. Just as your attack lawyer Skywalker976’s publication of my FB a/c link was suppressed as WP:Harassment, recently. That’s two serious infringements of my WP privacy rights from your side, and two warnings not to do it again. See Warning Balazs38 and Outing.
You will also note that after some double-checking by admin, my own WP blocking for alleged sockpuppetry has now been reversed and lifted, as has the WP blocking of my good wife Freewasp. So please, no more gloating over this from your side.
As regards your ill-couched invitation, or should I say challenge, for us to meet face-to-face, if you would kindly issue an appropriate invitation, cordially-worded, without cynical asides and through a proper channel I would be more than happy to give it every consideration. I have no problem to meet you on neutral ground. I have no grudge against you and try to practice equanimity to all sentient beings, no matter how they might behave. I recognise that persons of ill-repute are suffering beings and deserve compassion, and that any irritation caused should be directed at the act rather than at the person. I am sure that if you have really absorbed any of the teachings you will have to agree. MacPraughan ( talk) 16:03, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
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Bbb23 (
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13:40, 10 September 2018 (UTC)MacPraughan ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I understand that I have been blocked for Sock puppetry/abusing multiple accounts. This is absolutely untrue. I have had this single account to edit since I registered in March 2015. Please unblock me as soon as possible, thank you. MacPraughan ( talk) 17:06, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Accept reason:
Procedural accept; already unblocked. Yamla ( talk) 20:59, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
My wife now tells me that she has been blocked as well, as an alleged sock-puppet of mine. The editing name she chose is 'Freewasp'. We had been discussing the Shenphen Rinpoche article, and I have kept her informed of what is going on with him. Last week when the proposal to delete it came up, she was expressing her considered opinion that the article should not be deleted. I told her to register herself as an editor and say so herself, and she did so - I assisted her in the logging in and editing process as she was not familiar with it. Please check, if you can, that her email account and her computer ID are different to mine. I have been encouraging her to become an editor for some time as she is capable and experienced in various fields and we are both retired. Please unblock both of us since there was no intention on our part to open multiple accounts - we have one each. I will suggest to her that she also requests to be unblocked as she is a complete beginner and understands even less than me about WP. If any further details are required please email us. I can send you a photo of us both sitting at our computers, if you like! Many thanks - MacPraughan ( talk)
Very interesting to see this on
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Balazs38:
I refer to simonm223's analysis on 1 which in my view is an accurate analysis of the situation. It has, however, apparently been decided by Bbb23 to block me and not sanction Balazs38 or Skywalker976 (if my understanding is correct). At the same time, Balazs38's sockpuppet Skywalker976 has filed a spurious accusation of CoI against me on WP:COIN, and I am now unable to give my response there because of the block. I feel really stitched up. How can this be allowed? My faith in WP built up over 3+ years is evaporating rapidly and unless the situation is righted PDQ I will be quitting WP editing altogether, not that anyone will miss it. - MacPraughan ( talk) 20:40, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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As advised above by Administrator Bbb23 I am pleased to declare that I have a shared IP address with Freewasp, who is a family member. I shall post this userbox and information on my User page, as required by WP:FAMILY, as soon as my block for " sockpuppetry" (for allegedly using Freewasp as a " sockpuppet" since neither of us were aware of the necessity of this notification procedure) is lifted; and as in the meantime I am unable to add anything anywhere on WP except on this page. Apologies to all concerned for my culpable lack of knowledge, now corrected.
I have passed details of the same WP:FAMILY requirements to apprise Freewasp who will hopefully do the necessary likewise soon. MacPraughan ( talk) 10:12, 15 September 2018 (UTC)