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Cerebellum ( talk) 09:27, 22 May 2022 (UTC)Hi Ostalgia, I see you created Draft:Ochakovo and Draft:Ochakovo (Russian beverage company). I suspect you did this because of the note about disambiguation. Actually there was no action you needed to take. If accepted, the reviewer will move it to the appropriate title. In order to maintain a complete history for attribution and other purposes there should be only one draft about a subject. I did add a note to Draft:Ochakovo (Russian beverage company) referring to the original draft to make things clear. Just be sure going forward you stick to one draft, which I am assuming will be Draft:Ochakovo (Russian beverage company).
No worries. There was no way for you know this and it appears you are the only major contributor to both so likely no need for a history merge or the like (creates a headache). S0091 ( talk) 18:30, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
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It would be truly wonderful to know what exactly you're referring to. Ostalgia ( talk) 17:32, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
I'm guessing I should ping you Hey man im josh. Ostalgia ( talk) 17:41, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Ah, yes. I mentioned on an ANI post on the subject that it wasn't really the best reaction on my part. However, the fact that NPP seems to be dealing with the most recent posts and not working from the back of the queue, while I had spent several hours trying to rescue an orphan, unsourced article that even had an inaccurate title was... annoying, let's put it that way. Needless to say, it doesn't justify calling the other guy a nincompoop, but it would be great if they dealt with the backlog and gave users a couple hours, even a day, to deal with new articles that are evidently not spam, self promotion or abuse. Cheers, Hey man im josh. Ostalgia ( talk) 17:59, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
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So an admin arrives to ANI a day after a discussion was started, doesn't read or at least doesn't provide any indication that he has read what's being discussed, does not express himself on the topic of the argument at all, which has been treated as a content dispute (something that was, at best, a completely secondary issue), and merely blocks both users for edit warring without seeing if there was something else going on (and without even returning to the status quo ante [edit] bellum, as would be logical in that case). In spite of what the block reason states, I literally did not introduce any changes, controversial or otherwise, to the consensus pages, with the exception of removing an old and obvious piece of vandalism. On top of this, the block comes only after talk page discussions have started, and presumably without even having read them. If this were indeed a content dispute, as it seems to have been treated, can any rational person seriously expect it to simply subside after a 24 hour block, especially when both people have been blocked after they started talking? If you assume the other user who was blocked to be acting in good faith (which I no longer do, I freely admit it), where is the sense in not even letting him reply? Furthermore, the broader issue that was brought up at ANI will probably just languish there and be archived with no decision being made. Can someone explain to me how this has improved the situation, or will improve it in the future? If someone seriously believes this is a logical, efficient and sensible to resolve problems then I truly don't know what to say and you might as well indef me. Ostalgia ( talk) 17:42, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
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You seem to be trying to justify your edit warring, not tell us why it was wrong. 331dot ( talk) 19:09, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
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I think I'm entitled to assume you, as an administrator, already know why edit warring is wrong. It's frustrating, it's annoying, it serves no purpose, and I've personally had to deal with that even from users with tens of thousands of edits. I don't get a kick out of edit warring, gatekeeping, or stonewalling other good faith users. I mentioned at ANI that I didn't want to break 3RR and therefore wouldn't revert Principality of Halych, which I didn't, but the admin who blocked me and my "opponent", so to speak, accused me of doing so "10 minutes later, breaking 3RR", which is quite simply not true - I reverted another page, Latin exonyms, at the time he points out, but it was my third edit for the day (and it was to restore an entire section that was repeatedly blanked, which I believe constitutes vandalism under 3RR, and which I did explicitly say I was going to revert if he did again). I did not touch Halych in the 5 hours from my last edit to the block, and in fact I didn't touch exonyms between my third edit and the block. Ironically, what both of us did do was start discussing the topics on talk pages 3 hours before being blocked (I dumped over 3k bytes on Halych, with a bunch of references). Have I edit warred in the past? Yes, but only to restore consensus content that was being vandalised or removed for goals foreign to the encyclopedia (a week ago, for instance, on the article on Bulgakov, where two or three IPs were trying to replace content and, as I admitted on another ANI, I "went ham", i.e. overreacted, when trying to preserve the article). I have never added content against consensus, never restored reverted content unless I could justify it (or it was agreed on a talk page), and have never edit warred to preserve a contentious edit that another user has justified qualms about. I have tried to reach consensus (sucessfully or not) on many articles, and even sought to mediate in content disputes on topics I don't even edit, but find interesting. You can check my edits, the good and the bad, I have nothing to hide. I could alternatively write some fake contrition message here and ask you, or any other admin, to unblock me "pretty please" and then go about my business, as many do, but I don't really care about the block itself, as I very explicitly mentioned ("you might as well indef me"). What I do want is to solve the underlying issue brought up at ANI, because otherwise, if I'm correct and the user has an axe to grind, he will start RGW again as soon as 24 hours have passed, and if I'm wrong and the other user is indeed a good faith user, then the block has only made things worse, because it does not allow him to present his response on the talk pages that were started. Ostalgia ( talk) 19:58, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
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Allow me to begin by saying –once again– that the ANI was not about a content dispute, and it would be great if you at least acknowledged that, even if you decide not to do anything about it. I opened a topic on ANI because I found a systematic disruptive behaviour on the part of a user, one that goes well beyond any articles where we may clash (and that I spotted by chance, because our interests do not overlap in general). Neither you nor anyone else seems to have checked that, even though the person in question has two warnings and a DSA posted in 2 days because of his disruptive editting patterns. As for your accusation, I very clearly stated that I would refrain from reverting Halych because I didn't want to break 3RR on Halych, and I did not revert, and I equally clearly stated that I considered the blanking of the Russia subsection on Latin exonyms as mere vandalism and I would revert it as necessary, and did exactly that. If I broke 3RR it was an accident (for which I apologise) because I don't really look at the exact time when I edit stuff, and I merely knew I had performed two reverts today. Now you may think I am wrong, and I can accept being wrong, but what you're doing is implying that I lied and act in bad faith, which is false, and I will kindly ask you to retract that statement, because I did exactly as I said I would. Ostalgia ( talk) 22:51, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
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The block is only for 24 hours and is almost over. You went over 3RR, and you do not appear to be contesting that. If it was a longer block, an early unblock would be possible if you agreed to stay away from the articles you were reverting, but for such a short block, my advice is to just wait until the block is over. PhilKnight ( talk) 14:59, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
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As I can see from your talk page, a lot of your edits are ludicrous and non-sensical, and there is evidence of you engaging in edit warring, so I recommend you stay away from pages regarding Eastern Europe as you are not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to that type of subject. For instance, on the KMBD page, you said that the sentence explaining how Koshkin's variant was inferior to Morozov's variant was "racist". Also, a lot of the sources you use for your edits come from the government of the Russian Federation, which is infamous for being deceptive and untrue. Only weak minded people believe what the Russian Federation says. You are not weak-minded, are you? WikipolicePolizei ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:08, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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Please stop editing this page with unsourced information and proceeding to revert the original, accurate information. I notice you have a poor reputation for trying to force your beliefs on to this encyclopedia and that I am not the only one bothered by your reckless behavior. If you continue violating this law, you may be blocked. Thanks. 199.119.233.226 ( talk) 11:59, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
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Just because I have SLB on my username, it doesn't mean I'm biased. You better retract what you wrote because it doesn't reflect 99% of the edits I've made to Wikipedia. I have fought POV and vandalism and stupidity on Wikipedia for a long time now, including at the Eusébio article. SLBedit ( talk) 00:57, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi @ Ostalgia,
I just wanted to drop you a quick note explaining my description of S.'s edit at AE. (The admins there will reach their own conclusions, I am sure, without additional input from me.)
An analogy:
Kant scholar Allen W. Wood writes a book chapter defending Kant from Hegel's allegation that Kant's moral theory collapses due to its abstract universality. In that chapter, Wood includes the sentence "Hegel argues that Kant's moral philosophy is too abstract to accomplish its intended aim".
If I were to cite just that sentence with attribution to Wood, that would be a misrepresentation of the source because it would imply that Wood endorses the claim (with all the weight of his scholarly reputation). To be sure, it would not be a fabrication: the chapter contains the sentence, which furthermore happens to be true. But it would be extremely misleading without the additional context that Wood is arguing directly against Hegel's claim about Kant's moral philosophy. Hence, it would be a misrepresentation.
Anyhow, this is just so that you do not think anyone is sanctioned due to misrepresentations on my part.
Cheers, Patrick J. Welsh ( talk) 02:16, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Are we done with the thing where you want to see diffs or is that still on my list of things to get to?
Just checking as I will be at a stopping place with the sourcing in not too long. We can go there if you really want to, but seems like there must be a more productive use of wikitime out there.
I appreciate you seeing the point of this proposal either way though, seriously. I liked what you said about it. Elinruby ( talk) 03:42, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
If you are actually asking for an apology for assuming it was possible to have a reasoned discussion with you, you can have it and welcome to it. I deeply regret thinking that you would be able to see that a solution could serve both sides of a question. But just to make sure I am not "confused" again, are you saying that you no longer care about this? If so, there are definitely more productive ways to spend my wikitime. I kept my promise to get back to you and got insulted some more. Oh well. I am done with this unless you have some thing more constructive to say. Elinruby ( talk) 23:15, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
there are definitely more productive ways to spend [your] wikitime, then by all means go do something else - nobody is stopping you, and you definitely do not have to keep me informed about it, I could not possibly care any less. Cheers. Ostalgia ( talk) 06:08, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I checked your posting here. As our page Nation correctly says: "Some nations are constructed around ethnicity ... while others are bound by political constitutions". A nation does not necessarily has its own state, see Stateless nation. The nations, such as Russian nation, Ukrainian nation, Jewish nation, etc. did exist in 19th century. Paul Siebert was wrong about it. And it does not really matter if the Russian nation was replaced by "..." in the quote; the entire statement by Paul was wrong anyway. Now, would it be offensive to say, for example, that "Russian nation did not exist" in 19th century? Well, I do not care, but some other people could be offended. This is definitely not something I would say to Russian users during a heated discussion on the article talk page, and especially because this is not true. Hence, I understand why Mzajac felt offended. This is something subjective. If someone openly complains that he was offended [1], then he probably was. My very best wishes ( talk) 03:08, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello Ostalgia. The word count for evidence submissions is 500 (you can see this around the top of the evidence), and your submission is over 1000. Could you please edit it down? Thank you. Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 21:47, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Arbitrators have proposed a motion to suspend the Mzajac case for three months at the proposed decision page. During this period, Mzajac will be temporarily desysopped, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Mzajac/Proposed decision#Motion to suspend for further information. Comments are welcome at the proposed decision talk page. Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 19:27, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
I already responded here [3]. Examining and debating the sources is normal on article talk pages. Having claims in sources that are arguably false, highly biased or even disinformation is common, especially when it comes to history and politics. And once again, as a very general comment, if you really believe that something on article talk page was a BLP violation, you are welcome to fix it by redacting the text. End of story. Would you like me to hat or remove the entire conversation from talk? I can do that because the discussion was of no significance. I already fixed everything on main page that needed to be fixed. If you want to fix more, you are welcome. OK, I just hatted the discussion because of your concerns. My very best wishes ( talk) 14:27, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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Cerebellum ( talk) 09:27, 22 May 2022 (UTC)Hi Ostalgia, I see you created Draft:Ochakovo and Draft:Ochakovo (Russian beverage company). I suspect you did this because of the note about disambiguation. Actually there was no action you needed to take. If accepted, the reviewer will move it to the appropriate title. In order to maintain a complete history for attribution and other purposes there should be only one draft about a subject. I did add a note to Draft:Ochakovo (Russian beverage company) referring to the original draft to make things clear. Just be sure going forward you stick to one draft, which I am assuming will be Draft:Ochakovo (Russian beverage company).
No worries. There was no way for you know this and it appears you are the only major contributor to both so likely no need for a history merge or the like (creates a headache). S0091 ( talk) 18:30, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
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It would be truly wonderful to know what exactly you're referring to. Ostalgia ( talk) 17:32, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
I'm guessing I should ping you Hey man im josh. Ostalgia ( talk) 17:41, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Ah, yes. I mentioned on an ANI post on the subject that it wasn't really the best reaction on my part. However, the fact that NPP seems to be dealing with the most recent posts and not working from the back of the queue, while I had spent several hours trying to rescue an orphan, unsourced article that even had an inaccurate title was... annoying, let's put it that way. Needless to say, it doesn't justify calling the other guy a nincompoop, but it would be great if they dealt with the backlog and gave users a couple hours, even a day, to deal with new articles that are evidently not spam, self promotion or abuse. Cheers, Hey man im josh. Ostalgia ( talk) 17:59, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
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So an admin arrives to ANI a day after a discussion was started, doesn't read or at least doesn't provide any indication that he has read what's being discussed, does not express himself on the topic of the argument at all, which has been treated as a content dispute (something that was, at best, a completely secondary issue), and merely blocks both users for edit warring without seeing if there was something else going on (and without even returning to the status quo ante [edit] bellum, as would be logical in that case). In spite of what the block reason states, I literally did not introduce any changes, controversial or otherwise, to the consensus pages, with the exception of removing an old and obvious piece of vandalism. On top of this, the block comes only after talk page discussions have started, and presumably without even having read them. If this were indeed a content dispute, as it seems to have been treated, can any rational person seriously expect it to simply subside after a 24 hour block, especially when both people have been blocked after they started talking? If you assume the other user who was blocked to be acting in good faith (which I no longer do, I freely admit it), where is the sense in not even letting him reply? Furthermore, the broader issue that was brought up at ANI will probably just languish there and be archived with no decision being made. Can someone explain to me how this has improved the situation, or will improve it in the future? If someone seriously believes this is a logical, efficient and sensible to resolve problems then I truly don't know what to say and you might as well indef me. Ostalgia ( talk) 17:42, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
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You seem to be trying to justify your edit warring, not tell us why it was wrong. 331dot ( talk) 19:09, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
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Ostalgia ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
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I think I'm entitled to assume you, as an administrator, already know why edit warring is wrong. It's frustrating, it's annoying, it serves no purpose, and I've personally had to deal with that even from users with tens of thousands of edits. I don't get a kick out of edit warring, gatekeeping, or stonewalling other good faith users. I mentioned at ANI that I didn't want to break 3RR and therefore wouldn't revert Principality of Halych, which I didn't, but the admin who blocked me and my "opponent", so to speak, accused me of doing so "10 minutes later, breaking 3RR", which is quite simply not true - I reverted another page, Latin exonyms, at the time he points out, but it was my third edit for the day (and it was to restore an entire section that was repeatedly blanked, which I believe constitutes vandalism under 3RR, and which I did explicitly say I was going to revert if he did again). I did not touch Halych in the 5 hours from my last edit to the block, and in fact I didn't touch exonyms between my third edit and the block. Ironically, what both of us did do was start discussing the topics on talk pages 3 hours before being blocked (I dumped over 3k bytes on Halych, with a bunch of references). Have I edit warred in the past? Yes, but only to restore consensus content that was being vandalised or removed for goals foreign to the encyclopedia (a week ago, for instance, on the article on Bulgakov, where two or three IPs were trying to replace content and, as I admitted on another ANI, I "went ham", i.e. overreacted, when trying to preserve the article). I have never added content against consensus, never restored reverted content unless I could justify it (or it was agreed on a talk page), and have never edit warred to preserve a contentious edit that another user has justified qualms about. I have tried to reach consensus (sucessfully or not) on many articles, and even sought to mediate in content disputes on topics I don't even edit, but find interesting. You can check my edits, the good and the bad, I have nothing to hide. I could alternatively write some fake contrition message here and ask you, or any other admin, to unblock me "pretty please" and then go about my business, as many do, but I don't really care about the block itself, as I very explicitly mentioned ("you might as well indef me"). What I do want is to solve the underlying issue brought up at ANI, because otherwise, if I'm correct and the user has an axe to grind, he will start RGW again as soon as 24 hours have passed, and if I'm wrong and the other user is indeed a good faith user, then the block has only made things worse, because it does not allow him to present his response on the talk pages that were started. Ostalgia ( talk) 19:58, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
Decline reason:
One open unblock request at a time, please. — Daniel Case ( talk) 06:23, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
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Ostalgia ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
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Allow me to begin by saying –once again– that the ANI was not about a content dispute, and it would be great if you at least acknowledged that, even if you decide not to do anything about it. I opened a topic on ANI because I found a systematic disruptive behaviour on the part of a user, one that goes well beyond any articles where we may clash (and that I spotted by chance, because our interests do not overlap in general). Neither you nor anyone else seems to have checked that, even though the person in question has two warnings and a DSA posted in 2 days because of his disruptive editting patterns. As for your accusation, I very clearly stated that I would refrain from reverting Halych because I didn't want to break 3RR on Halych, and I did not revert, and I equally clearly stated that I considered the blanking of the Russia subsection on Latin exonyms as mere vandalism and I would revert it as necessary, and did exactly that. If I broke 3RR it was an accident (for which I apologise) because I don't really look at the exact time when I edit stuff, and I merely knew I had performed two reverts today. Now you may think I am wrong, and I can accept being wrong, but what you're doing is implying that I lied and act in bad faith, which is false, and I will kindly ask you to retract that statement, because I did exactly as I said I would. Ostalgia ( talk) 22:51, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
Decline reason:
The block is only for 24 hours and is almost over. You went over 3RR, and you do not appear to be contesting that. If it was a longer block, an early unblock would be possible if you agreed to stay away from the articles you were reverting, but for such a short block, my advice is to just wait until the block is over. PhilKnight ( talk) 14:59, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
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As I can see from your talk page, a lot of your edits are ludicrous and non-sensical, and there is evidence of you engaging in edit warring, so I recommend you stay away from pages regarding Eastern Europe as you are not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to that type of subject. For instance, on the KMBD page, you said that the sentence explaining how Koshkin's variant was inferior to Morozov's variant was "racist". Also, a lot of the sources you use for your edits come from the government of the Russian Federation, which is infamous for being deceptive and untrue. Only weak minded people believe what the Russian Federation says. You are not weak-minded, are you? WikipolicePolizei ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:08, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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Please stop editing this page with unsourced information and proceeding to revert the original, accurate information. I notice you have a poor reputation for trying to force your beliefs on to this encyclopedia and that I am not the only one bothered by your reckless behavior. If you continue violating this law, you may be blocked. Thanks. 199.119.233.226 ( talk) 11:59, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
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blocked from editing without further warning the next time you
disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at
Ivan Mazepa. Continuing to edit war with a deceptive summary is just about the definition of disruptive editing.
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Just because I have SLB on my username, it doesn't mean I'm biased. You better retract what you wrote because it doesn't reflect 99% of the edits I've made to Wikipedia. I have fought POV and vandalism and stupidity on Wikipedia for a long time now, including at the Eusébio article. SLBedit ( talk) 00:57, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi @ Ostalgia,
I just wanted to drop you a quick note explaining my description of S.'s edit at AE. (The admins there will reach their own conclusions, I am sure, without additional input from me.)
An analogy:
Kant scholar Allen W. Wood writes a book chapter defending Kant from Hegel's allegation that Kant's moral theory collapses due to its abstract universality. In that chapter, Wood includes the sentence "Hegel argues that Kant's moral philosophy is too abstract to accomplish its intended aim".
If I were to cite just that sentence with attribution to Wood, that would be a misrepresentation of the source because it would imply that Wood endorses the claim (with all the weight of his scholarly reputation). To be sure, it would not be a fabrication: the chapter contains the sentence, which furthermore happens to be true. But it would be extremely misleading without the additional context that Wood is arguing directly against Hegel's claim about Kant's moral philosophy. Hence, it would be a misrepresentation.
Anyhow, this is just so that you do not think anyone is sanctioned due to misrepresentations on my part.
Cheers, Patrick J. Welsh ( talk) 02:16, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Are we done with the thing where you want to see diffs or is that still on my list of things to get to?
Just checking as I will be at a stopping place with the sourcing in not too long. We can go there if you really want to, but seems like there must be a more productive use of wikitime out there.
I appreciate you seeing the point of this proposal either way though, seriously. I liked what you said about it. Elinruby ( talk) 03:42, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
If you are actually asking for an apology for assuming it was possible to have a reasoned discussion with you, you can have it and welcome to it. I deeply regret thinking that you would be able to see that a solution could serve both sides of a question. But just to make sure I am not "confused" again, are you saying that you no longer care about this? If so, there are definitely more productive ways to spend my wikitime. I kept my promise to get back to you and got insulted some more. Oh well. I am done with this unless you have some thing more constructive to say. Elinruby ( talk) 23:15, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
there are definitely more productive ways to spend [your] wikitime, then by all means go do something else - nobody is stopping you, and you definitely do not have to keep me informed about it, I could not possibly care any less. Cheers. Ostalgia ( talk) 06:08, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac/Evidence. Please add your evidence by January 30, 2024, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 17:55, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I checked your posting here. As our page Nation correctly says: "Some nations are constructed around ethnicity ... while others are bound by political constitutions". A nation does not necessarily has its own state, see Stateless nation. The nations, such as Russian nation, Ukrainian nation, Jewish nation, etc. did exist in 19th century. Paul Siebert was wrong about it. And it does not really matter if the Russian nation was replaced by "..." in the quote; the entire statement by Paul was wrong anyway. Now, would it be offensive to say, for example, that "Russian nation did not exist" in 19th century? Well, I do not care, but some other people could be offended. This is definitely not something I would say to Russian users during a heated discussion on the article talk page, and especially because this is not true. Hence, I understand why Mzajac felt offended. This is something subjective. If someone openly complains that he was offended [1], then he probably was. My very best wishes ( talk) 03:08, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello Ostalgia. The word count for evidence submissions is 500 (you can see this around the top of the evidence), and your submission is over 1000. Could you please edit it down? Thank you. Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 21:47, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Arbitrators have proposed a motion to suspend the Mzajac case for three months at the proposed decision page. During this period, Mzajac will be temporarily desysopped, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Mzajac/Proposed decision#Motion to suspend for further information. Comments are welcome at the proposed decision talk page. Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 19:27, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
I already responded here [3]. Examining and debating the sources is normal on article talk pages. Having claims in sources that are arguably false, highly biased or even disinformation is common, especially when it comes to history and politics. And once again, as a very general comment, if you really believe that something on article talk page was a BLP violation, you are welcome to fix it by redacting the text. End of story. Would you like me to hat or remove the entire conversation from talk? I can do that because the discussion was of no significance. I already fixed everything on main page that needed to be fixed. If you want to fix more, you are welcome. OK, I just hatted the discussion because of your concerns. My very best wishes ( talk) 14:27, 26 April 2024 (UTC)