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These can be confirmed by reviewing IZAK's contribution history. In each instance, an identical message (with perhaps only very minor differences) was posted on numberous Talk pages. Targets of these messages seem to have come from the members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism, users who regulary edit articles relating to Judaism, Israel, or the Palestinian Conflict. -- Netoholic @ 23:46, 2004 Nov 6 (UTC)
After this arbitration was opened, IZAK continued his spamming activity. On 6 Nov 2004 (from 06:52 to 07:49), IZAK posted a link to this Arbitration (" Opinion for IZAK") on the Talk pages of twenty-eight users. This arbitration only has evidence about IZAK's mass-posting activity, which has no relationship to his religious or political views. Presumably, the users he contacted would not have much insight to offer as to IZAK's spamming, and this action again only seems designed to inflame passions among his associates. -- Netoholic @ 07:54, 2004 Nov 7 (UTC)
From 03:13 to 03:57, IZAK left a message regarding the formation Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards on thirteen pages. While not specifically intended to promote a POV, this excessive cross-posting was done by copying User:172's signed message to those pages, and including the same reply IZAK made to it on his own talk page. Here is the original item from IZAK's talk page, and the diffs showing the copied message ( [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]). -- Netoholic @ 23:21, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)
IZAK listed Category:Bible stories for deletion. He then proceeded to leaving notices ( first version, second version) on approximately fifty article Talk pages, from 06:31 to 11:27. -- Netoholic @ 19:16, 2004 Nov 18
(more examples can be found on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/IZAK#Evidence of disputed behavior)
In his still pending Request for comments, IZAK was brought to carpet, and criticized by many, for his repeated baseless accusations of Anti-Semitism against 3 other editors (in addition to the above). See:
However, criticism by the community has apparently made no effect on IZAK whatsoever. IZAK has just repeated the same unwarranted smear of Anti-Semitism against HistoryBuffEr in another Arbitration case. See [16].
These are serious charges and IZAK has carelessly used them time and again. His history suggests some impediment to change even after numerous warnings, so if he is given another chance the decision should recommend immediate and permanent ban of IZAK if he repeats baseless accusations of Anti-Semitism.
(By HistoryBuffEr 01:56, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC); Quotations removed for space: HistoryBuffEr 19:33, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC))
In fairness to IZAK, it is my belief that on the whole, his article edits are appropriate. He also provides exceptional information about Judaism and Jewish tradition. Unfortunately, I don't think he can neutrally edit articles which describe or refer to the specific topic of Jewish or Israeli persecution (Palestine conflict, Nazism, etc.) - an unfortunate correlation to the accusations he has made against other editors. -- Netoholic @ 20:14, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)
(Note: Some diffs reflect multiple, sequential edits made my IZAK in the same session.)
Thank you for the good words Netoholic. Have you read the ENTIRE article on Jew? Do you know how many revisions and spin-offs it has spawned? How are you now qualified to "judge" that an article on "Jew" is "not a major discussion of issues related to Israel or Judaism itself"???!!! What a ridiculous assertion! Are you aware that no-one can get away with any POV editing on it for more than a day or two as there are many editors contributing to it or editing it constantly, and it is NOT "my" personal POV at work that you imply. I must strongly disagree with you as the Jew article covers the ENTIRE GAMUT of issues relating to Jews and one of the most important topics in that regard is the Holocaust which is central to Jewish identity in the world today (if you are not aware of this, then you are out of touch with this subject entirely). Your obejections to my edits in the Jew article are of little consequence as that particular article happens to be monitered very closely by many critical contributors (such as User:Jmabel, User:Yoshiah ap, User:Mustafaa who often have strong views and they are very quick to ammend any violations of POV rules), so your "concerns" here are not to the point. Whatever BRIEF material I inserted about the Holocaust into the Jew article was in response to the disgraceful Holocaust denial and junk edits by vandals see Talk:Jew/Archive 9#Dispute about the nature of the whole wikipedia Jew article: neo-Nazi's, White nationalist and Jewish agenda, So which would you rather have the neo-Nazi trolls or NPOV edits that ALL the editors (and not just "lil ol' me") look at ALL the time? IZAK 23:32, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
This is a false and untrue accusation, I did NOT remove any articles from this category! see my response below. Many other users, including sysops complained about User:CheeseDreams tactics in placing hast tabs on these 50 pages, see fuul report below. Thank you. IZAK 04:19, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have requested IZAK, or anyone else, to place evidence under this heading which shows IZAK has made edits to Jewish, Zionist and Palestinian related topics which demonstrate NPOV editing. Fred Bauder 11:40, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, this is IZAK, I will try to give examples of my NPOV approach at Wikipedia, citing some of my most significant NPOV edits that continue to benefit the TOTALITY of Wikipedia and its users in many ways and areas. IZAK 12:24, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC) :
When this began I informed the original complainant
User:HistoryBuffEr that he did not have standing to certify the action
unless he made some attempt to come to terms with
User:IZAK, and
I even suggested approaches,
but he indicated he could not, or would not, deal with him, So he is not in a position to certify
and
User:Ed Poor has not given evidence of his own attempts to reach IZAK.
The only users in a position to certify right now are
User:pir,
User:JFW and
User:Jayjg.
The 48-hour clock has started again. If complainants really want to put this forward, surely you can find two people
Furthermore, by reading HistoryBuffer's own words you will see that he has repeatedly violated the three things he accuses others of doing, namely:
See:
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/User talk:HistoryBuffEr/Archived-Sermons:
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Violence against Israelis:
Thanks. HistoryBuffEr 06:01, 2004 Sep 29 (UTC)
User talk:HistoryBuffEr/Archived-Sermons:
It seems that HistoryBuffEr is unaware of the scope of his own very serious Anti-Semitism even though it has been laid out for him above. It is outrageous that HistoryBuffEr can:
See the accusations Netoholic faces in his own Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic/Evidence. Makes one wonder, doesn't it? IZAK 05:12, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Netoholic, you know, your tactics puzzle me: On the one hand you object when I insert my responses when you pose "evidence" in your self-declared "IZAK-free" sections on this page, yet on the other hand, you seem quite comfortable interjecting with YOUR comments in areas "reserved" for ME to make my case. Well at least I will not do what you often do to me and ask that my comments (related to the topic being discussed) be deleted or place them (without my approval) on the talk pages or scream bloody hell as you often do when you don't like the line of reasoning that appears to go against you. My sole point in bringing up the fact that there is a another RfA against you at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic/Evidence by other users on Wikipedia is that there are others on Wikipedia who do not look kindly upon your tactics and manners at all times, and I am not and do not want to drag them into this case, as they have their own serious gripes against you. So cool it man. IZAK 21:11, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Please note that after I had posted the citations below, Netoholic has moved his archived pages to his "history" page via deleting his comments, how odd, at any rate see [ [67]] as an example now. What does he have to hide?
It happened because the situation upon cursory examination seems extreme. This may simply be due to a well-written complaint or may actually be the case. If you wish to mediate the matter make a request for mediation at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation and contact Netoholic and other concerned users. If you can get mediation going and agree to quit "spamming" for the duration of mediation we could perhaps wait until the completion of mediation before proceeding. Fred Bauder 13:57, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I am User:IZAK, in the case of "SamSpade" the evidence he has provided himself is that he (i.e. "SamSpade") is an Anti-Semite especially as exhibited by his views about the Holocaust of Europe's Jews under the Nazis, and he is certainly not worthy of any admin role on Wikipedia as it would be an outrageous disgrace! Please see User:Spleeman/Sam Spade especially:
User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#Racism/Anti-Semitism:
User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#Behavioral notes:
User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#More on interactions with other users:
Finally from the above multitudinous examples it should be amply clear that "SamSpade" himself is fully guilty of:
Policies violated by "SamSpade"s activities:
Hi, HistoryBuffer continues to falsely label my attempts at communicating with other users as "spamming".
Since I am ranked as the 72nd (out of 1000) most active Wikipidians see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits I have come across many users.
It is true that in the case of SamSpade's quest for adminship I contacted about thirty to forty other fellow-Wikipedians. 30 to 40 out of thousands of Wikipedia users is NOT spamming (by the way, has Wikipedia ever expressed a clear definition of how and what constitutes spamming and how many "messages" equals a "Spam session"?)
If you live in an apartment with about 50 other tenants and you wanted to discuss something of importance to all of them, and you sent most of them a note or knocked on their door about a problem of importance, would that also be "spamming"? Obviously not!
I firmly believe that any user has the right to contact a reasonable amount of users over issues important to the Wikipedia community (after all I am not selling ink cartridges etc) and not "sit in solitude" and has the right to contact other users who share his interests and concerns within reason.
Anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and Neo-Nazi activities are a scourge that is surely of concern to all users (except those who are "proud" of those abominations).
In my definition, spamming is when you try to reach hundreds, perhaps thousands, (millions?), of Wikipedidians. (I am certain we ALL know what real spamming is, and can differentiate between a false charge and a concerned citizen). In any case, leaving messages on another eight fellow users or a handful of interlinked pages is not "spamming".
But now HistoryyBuffer looks at my activities and sees me trying to contact about eight other users he deems this "spamming". Please consider that as a very active user with over 8000 (eight thousand edits at least) "official" edits (again see my ranking as 79th top editor with an official count of edits on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits) its actually more as when my comp. sometimes does not get logged in and when many of my early edits were not even attributed to me. Let's get some perspective and sense of proportion here and NOT fall victim to HistoryBuffer's own war against this Jew. IZAK 09:13, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
For some odd idiosyncratic reason best known to himself User:HistoryBuffer keeps on changing the times and dates of old posts in this discussion (if you could even call it that) making it seem that what was discussed and lapsed weeks ago is still "on the front burner", a very sneaky "tactic", and he adds out of context quotations concerning me to make it appear that I am an unreasonable person or that I have "relapsed" recently (which in itself is a loaded and disgusting word for one who aspires to such "civility" and he should apologize and avoid using degrading personal terms)...Be that as it may, Wikipedins sould carefully look at 'Buffer's edits here via the "history" page. His latest "proposed verdict" is a thinly-disguised attempt to cover-up his own agenda of insulting Israelis, Jews, and Zionists and then keeping them "on trial" for defending themselves, a notorious and nefarious tactic. I really feel sorry that 'Buffer does not have the nerve to address me directly and instead relies on edited second-hand quotes from third parties through which he covers his own tracks in the hope that people forget that he thinks he can imply that Israel should be bombed, its own suffering forgotten, or that Hamas is somehow legit, or be a defender of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion or back Holocaust denial and expect that no-one will call him an Anti-Semite at some point for disparaging Israel, Zionism, and Jews (see above), a tall order indeed. So the question is, when will he wake up and smell the Wikipedia coffee and make CONSTRUCTIVE contributions instead of harassing the Jewish and Judaism-related editors who work hard at NPOV articles in spite of pressures they are put under by dubious users and editors on Wikipedia. IZAK 08:55, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi all, I am curious if "SamSpade" is also "HistoryBuffEr" because their Anti-Semitism is identical. Is this a case of Wikipedia:Sock puppet/s? Is there any way to certify that they are two different Wikipedia users, and not just the same Internet troll hiding behind different user names? IZAK 22:09, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I did NOT remove the "category" from any of the articles in question, so please be accurate, as this is a false accusation. User:CheeseDreams seems to be confusing articles with categories. The articles are NOT in dispute, it's the category that is being disputed. And neither were deleted by me at any time! What I did do, was go to each article (listed in the categeory), using the Category:Bible stories (as proof that I did not touch the category or the category links to it from articles on it) and remove the three signs, or "tabs" ("tags"?) or "templates" for one or all of {{cleanup}}{{NPOV}}{{expansion}} about which many other users have complained that User:CheeseDreams inserted these tabs in too many articles and without saying anything on the talk pages of the articles at all. Many users complained about User:CheeseDreams's insertion of the tabs without discussing it in the talk pages. I went ahead and placed messages for the NEED for TALK on the Talk pages for each article in the disputed Category:Bible stories which was hard work, what is wrong with that, as User:CheeseDreams did it his way without any talk, so which is better, placing tabs without any comments or asking for discussions before three tags were placed on the pages within Category:Bible stories first?
I did two things: Bring the category for review at the Wikipedia:Categories for deletion page and reported as follows: "November 18: Category:Bible stories: New Category:Bible stories (started November 17) is very confusing and not needed. Into it have been added anything that is randomly a Bible "story". Here are some problems with it:
Delete very soon! IZAK 05:36, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC) [81]"
I subsequently added my responses to the comments and votes by others as they came in. Again, I repeat, I did NOT "delete" any pages (editing only my own comments in trying to make sure they were registered on the page), so the charge is both false and baseless. User:CheeseDreams owes me an apology for making a false accusation.
Here are the complaints of other users to User:CheeseDream's "editing" (actually just placing tags in them without comment) of articles all within the disputed Category:Bible stories:
As for a charge of "vandalism" that CheeseDreams made at one point, it is totally ludicrous as it was Wikipedia admins who listed User:CheeseDreams himself on the "Reporting vandalism page", and to which I responded, see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#CheeseDreams: "It's not really vandalism, but I don't know where else to post it. User:CheeseDreams has been adding NPOV, clean-up and expansion templates over a lot (and I mean a LOT) of religious articles, without offering any explanation as to why (s)he thinks those articles are non-neutral, need clean-up or expansion. I think these should be reverted until CheeseDreams explains his/her position. Could some sysops with more time on their hands than me help? jguk 23:18, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)" (To which I responded:) "Hi, I am not a sysop, but I went ahead and reverted about 50 Bible articles in Category:Bible stories created by User:CheeseDreams. I also placed on each talk page a brief message: "One or more of the sign/s: {{NPOV}}{{expansion}}{{Cleanup}} placed on this page without any discussion, explanation or reasoning have been removed pending further discussion. (The category Category:Bible stories is now up for a vote for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Bible stories) Thank you." IZAK 10:12, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC) [113]. And on top of this you were told: "Someone ought to take this new Abuser aside and explain Wikietiqutte. -- Wetman 20:21, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC) [114], and [[User:Mirv} removed all talk of vandalism from this subject, see [115], so a "vandal" I am NOT ! IZAK 04:11, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)"
See the Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/IZAK/Evidence for further discussions related to this.
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It is extremely important in order that your submitted evidence be considered by the Arbitrators that when you cite evidence to provide a link to the exact edit which displays the transaction, links to the page itself are not sufficient. For example, to cite the edit by Mennonot to the article Anomalous phenomenon adding a link to Hundredth Monkey use this form: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Anomalous_phenomenon&diff=0&oldid=5584644] [1].
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If you disagree with some evidence you see here, please provide counter-evidence, or an explanation of why the evidence is misleading. Please do this under a seperate header, to seperate your response from the original evidence.
Be aware that the Arbitrators may at times rework this page to try to make it more coherent. If you are a participant in the case or a third party, please don't try to refactor the page, let the Arbitrators do it. If you object to evidence which is inserted by other participants or third parties please voice your objections on the talk page. It is especially important to not remove evidence presented by others.
These can be confirmed by reviewing IZAK's contribution history. In each instance, an identical message (with perhaps only very minor differences) was posted on numberous Talk pages. Targets of these messages seem to have come from the members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism, users who regulary edit articles relating to Judaism, Israel, or the Palestinian Conflict. -- Netoholic @ 23:46, 2004 Nov 6 (UTC)
After this arbitration was opened, IZAK continued his spamming activity. On 6 Nov 2004 (from 06:52 to 07:49), IZAK posted a link to this Arbitration (" Opinion for IZAK") on the Talk pages of twenty-eight users. This arbitration only has evidence about IZAK's mass-posting activity, which has no relationship to his religious or political views. Presumably, the users he contacted would not have much insight to offer as to IZAK's spamming, and this action again only seems designed to inflame passions among his associates. -- Netoholic @ 07:54, 2004 Nov 7 (UTC)
From 03:13 to 03:57, IZAK left a message regarding the formation Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards on thirteen pages. While not specifically intended to promote a POV, this excessive cross-posting was done by copying User:172's signed message to those pages, and including the same reply IZAK made to it on his own talk page. Here is the original item from IZAK's talk page, and the diffs showing the copied message ( [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]). -- Netoholic @ 23:21, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)
IZAK listed Category:Bible stories for deletion. He then proceeded to leaving notices ( first version, second version) on approximately fifty article Talk pages, from 06:31 to 11:27. -- Netoholic @ 19:16, 2004 Nov 18
(more examples can be found on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/IZAK#Evidence of disputed behavior)
In his still pending Request for comments, IZAK was brought to carpet, and criticized by many, for his repeated baseless accusations of Anti-Semitism against 3 other editors (in addition to the above). See:
However, criticism by the community has apparently made no effect on IZAK whatsoever. IZAK has just repeated the same unwarranted smear of Anti-Semitism against HistoryBuffEr in another Arbitration case. See [16].
These are serious charges and IZAK has carelessly used them time and again. His history suggests some impediment to change even after numerous warnings, so if he is given another chance the decision should recommend immediate and permanent ban of IZAK if he repeats baseless accusations of Anti-Semitism.
(By HistoryBuffEr 01:56, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC); Quotations removed for space: HistoryBuffEr 19:33, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC))
In fairness to IZAK, it is my belief that on the whole, his article edits are appropriate. He also provides exceptional information about Judaism and Jewish tradition. Unfortunately, I don't think he can neutrally edit articles which describe or refer to the specific topic of Jewish or Israeli persecution (Palestine conflict, Nazism, etc.) - an unfortunate correlation to the accusations he has made against other editors. -- Netoholic @ 20:14, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)
(Note: Some diffs reflect multiple, sequential edits made my IZAK in the same session.)
Thank you for the good words Netoholic. Have you read the ENTIRE article on Jew? Do you know how many revisions and spin-offs it has spawned? How are you now qualified to "judge" that an article on "Jew" is "not a major discussion of issues related to Israel or Judaism itself"???!!! What a ridiculous assertion! Are you aware that no-one can get away with any POV editing on it for more than a day or two as there are many editors contributing to it or editing it constantly, and it is NOT "my" personal POV at work that you imply. I must strongly disagree with you as the Jew article covers the ENTIRE GAMUT of issues relating to Jews and one of the most important topics in that regard is the Holocaust which is central to Jewish identity in the world today (if you are not aware of this, then you are out of touch with this subject entirely). Your obejections to my edits in the Jew article are of little consequence as that particular article happens to be monitered very closely by many critical contributors (such as User:Jmabel, User:Yoshiah ap, User:Mustafaa who often have strong views and they are very quick to ammend any violations of POV rules), so your "concerns" here are not to the point. Whatever BRIEF material I inserted about the Holocaust into the Jew article was in response to the disgraceful Holocaust denial and junk edits by vandals see Talk:Jew/Archive 9#Dispute about the nature of the whole wikipedia Jew article: neo-Nazi's, White nationalist and Jewish agenda, So which would you rather have the neo-Nazi trolls or NPOV edits that ALL the editors (and not just "lil ol' me") look at ALL the time? IZAK 23:32, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
This is a false and untrue accusation, I did NOT remove any articles from this category! see my response below. Many other users, including sysops complained about User:CheeseDreams tactics in placing hast tabs on these 50 pages, see fuul report below. Thank you. IZAK 04:19, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have requested IZAK, or anyone else, to place evidence under this heading which shows IZAK has made edits to Jewish, Zionist and Palestinian related topics which demonstrate NPOV editing. Fred Bauder 11:40, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, this is IZAK, I will try to give examples of my NPOV approach at Wikipedia, citing some of my most significant NPOV edits that continue to benefit the TOTALITY of Wikipedia and its users in many ways and areas. IZAK 12:24, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC) :
When this began I informed the original complainant
User:HistoryBuffEr that he did not have standing to certify the action
unless he made some attempt to come to terms with
User:IZAK, and
I even suggested approaches,
but he indicated he could not, or would not, deal with him, So he is not in a position to certify
and
User:Ed Poor has not given evidence of his own attempts to reach IZAK.
The only users in a position to certify right now are
User:pir,
User:JFW and
User:Jayjg.
The 48-hour clock has started again. If complainants really want to put this forward, surely you can find two people
Furthermore, by reading HistoryBuffer's own words you will see that he has repeatedly violated the three things he accuses others of doing, namely:
See:
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/User talk:HistoryBuffEr/Archived-Sermons:
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Violence against Israelis:
Thanks. HistoryBuffEr 06:01, 2004 Sep 29 (UTC)
User talk:HistoryBuffEr/Archived-Sermons:
It seems that HistoryBuffEr is unaware of the scope of his own very serious Anti-Semitism even though it has been laid out for him above. It is outrageous that HistoryBuffEr can:
See the accusations Netoholic faces in his own Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic/Evidence. Makes one wonder, doesn't it? IZAK 05:12, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Netoholic, you know, your tactics puzzle me: On the one hand you object when I insert my responses when you pose "evidence" in your self-declared "IZAK-free" sections on this page, yet on the other hand, you seem quite comfortable interjecting with YOUR comments in areas "reserved" for ME to make my case. Well at least I will not do what you often do to me and ask that my comments (related to the topic being discussed) be deleted or place them (without my approval) on the talk pages or scream bloody hell as you often do when you don't like the line of reasoning that appears to go against you. My sole point in bringing up the fact that there is a another RfA against you at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic/Evidence by other users on Wikipedia is that there are others on Wikipedia who do not look kindly upon your tactics and manners at all times, and I am not and do not want to drag them into this case, as they have their own serious gripes against you. So cool it man. IZAK 21:11, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Please note that after I had posted the citations below, Netoholic has moved his archived pages to his "history" page via deleting his comments, how odd, at any rate see [ [67]] as an example now. What does he have to hide?
It happened because the situation upon cursory examination seems extreme. This may simply be due to a well-written complaint or may actually be the case. If you wish to mediate the matter make a request for mediation at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation and contact Netoholic and other concerned users. If you can get mediation going and agree to quit "spamming" for the duration of mediation we could perhaps wait until the completion of mediation before proceeding. Fred Bauder 13:57, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I am User:IZAK, in the case of "SamSpade" the evidence he has provided himself is that he (i.e. "SamSpade") is an Anti-Semite especially as exhibited by his views about the Holocaust of Europe's Jews under the Nazis, and he is certainly not worthy of any admin role on Wikipedia as it would be an outrageous disgrace! Please see User:Spleeman/Sam Spade especially:
User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#Racism/Anti-Semitism:
User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#Behavioral notes:
User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#More on interactions with other users:
Finally from the above multitudinous examples it should be amply clear that "SamSpade" himself is fully guilty of:
Policies violated by "SamSpade"s activities:
Hi, HistoryBuffer continues to falsely label my attempts at communicating with other users as "spamming".
Since I am ranked as the 72nd (out of 1000) most active Wikipidians see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits I have come across many users.
It is true that in the case of SamSpade's quest for adminship I contacted about thirty to forty other fellow-Wikipedians. 30 to 40 out of thousands of Wikipedia users is NOT spamming (by the way, has Wikipedia ever expressed a clear definition of how and what constitutes spamming and how many "messages" equals a "Spam session"?)
If you live in an apartment with about 50 other tenants and you wanted to discuss something of importance to all of them, and you sent most of them a note or knocked on their door about a problem of importance, would that also be "spamming"? Obviously not!
I firmly believe that any user has the right to contact a reasonable amount of users over issues important to the Wikipedia community (after all I am not selling ink cartridges etc) and not "sit in solitude" and has the right to contact other users who share his interests and concerns within reason.
Anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and Neo-Nazi activities are a scourge that is surely of concern to all users (except those who are "proud" of those abominations).
In my definition, spamming is when you try to reach hundreds, perhaps thousands, (millions?), of Wikipedidians. (I am certain we ALL know what real spamming is, and can differentiate between a false charge and a concerned citizen). In any case, leaving messages on another eight fellow users or a handful of interlinked pages is not "spamming".
But now HistoryyBuffer looks at my activities and sees me trying to contact about eight other users he deems this "spamming". Please consider that as a very active user with over 8000 (eight thousand edits at least) "official" edits (again see my ranking as 79th top editor with an official count of edits on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits) its actually more as when my comp. sometimes does not get logged in and when many of my early edits were not even attributed to me. Let's get some perspective and sense of proportion here and NOT fall victim to HistoryBuffer's own war against this Jew. IZAK 09:13, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
For some odd idiosyncratic reason best known to himself User:HistoryBuffer keeps on changing the times and dates of old posts in this discussion (if you could even call it that) making it seem that what was discussed and lapsed weeks ago is still "on the front burner", a very sneaky "tactic", and he adds out of context quotations concerning me to make it appear that I am an unreasonable person or that I have "relapsed" recently (which in itself is a loaded and disgusting word for one who aspires to such "civility" and he should apologize and avoid using degrading personal terms)...Be that as it may, Wikipedins sould carefully look at 'Buffer's edits here via the "history" page. His latest "proposed verdict" is a thinly-disguised attempt to cover-up his own agenda of insulting Israelis, Jews, and Zionists and then keeping them "on trial" for defending themselves, a notorious and nefarious tactic. I really feel sorry that 'Buffer does not have the nerve to address me directly and instead relies on edited second-hand quotes from third parties through which he covers his own tracks in the hope that people forget that he thinks he can imply that Israel should be bombed, its own suffering forgotten, or that Hamas is somehow legit, or be a defender of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion or back Holocaust denial and expect that no-one will call him an Anti-Semite at some point for disparaging Israel, Zionism, and Jews (see above), a tall order indeed. So the question is, when will he wake up and smell the Wikipedia coffee and make CONSTRUCTIVE contributions instead of harassing the Jewish and Judaism-related editors who work hard at NPOV articles in spite of pressures they are put under by dubious users and editors on Wikipedia. IZAK 08:55, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi all, I am curious if "SamSpade" is also "HistoryBuffEr" because their Anti-Semitism is identical. Is this a case of Wikipedia:Sock puppet/s? Is there any way to certify that they are two different Wikipedia users, and not just the same Internet troll hiding behind different user names? IZAK 22:09, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I did NOT remove the "category" from any of the articles in question, so please be accurate, as this is a false accusation. User:CheeseDreams seems to be confusing articles with categories. The articles are NOT in dispute, it's the category that is being disputed. And neither were deleted by me at any time! What I did do, was go to each article (listed in the categeory), using the Category:Bible stories (as proof that I did not touch the category or the category links to it from articles on it) and remove the three signs, or "tabs" ("tags"?) or "templates" for one or all of {{cleanup}}{{NPOV}}{{expansion}} about which many other users have complained that User:CheeseDreams inserted these tabs in too many articles and without saying anything on the talk pages of the articles at all. Many users complained about User:CheeseDreams's insertion of the tabs without discussing it in the talk pages. I went ahead and placed messages for the NEED for TALK on the Talk pages for each article in the disputed Category:Bible stories which was hard work, what is wrong with that, as User:CheeseDreams did it his way without any talk, so which is better, placing tabs without any comments or asking for discussions before three tags were placed on the pages within Category:Bible stories first?
I did two things: Bring the category for review at the Wikipedia:Categories for deletion page and reported as follows: "November 18: Category:Bible stories: New Category:Bible stories (started November 17) is very confusing and not needed. Into it have been added anything that is randomly a Bible "story". Here are some problems with it:
Delete very soon! IZAK 05:36, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC) [81]"
I subsequently added my responses to the comments and votes by others as they came in. Again, I repeat, I did NOT "delete" any pages (editing only my own comments in trying to make sure they were registered on the page), so the charge is both false and baseless. User:CheeseDreams owes me an apology for making a false accusation.
Here are the complaints of other users to User:CheeseDream's "editing" (actually just placing tags in them without comment) of articles all within the disputed Category:Bible stories:
As for a charge of "vandalism" that CheeseDreams made at one point, it is totally ludicrous as it was Wikipedia admins who listed User:CheeseDreams himself on the "Reporting vandalism page", and to which I responded, see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#CheeseDreams: "It's not really vandalism, but I don't know where else to post it. User:CheeseDreams has been adding NPOV, clean-up and expansion templates over a lot (and I mean a LOT) of religious articles, without offering any explanation as to why (s)he thinks those articles are non-neutral, need clean-up or expansion. I think these should be reverted until CheeseDreams explains his/her position. Could some sysops with more time on their hands than me help? jguk 23:18, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)" (To which I responded:) "Hi, I am not a sysop, but I went ahead and reverted about 50 Bible articles in Category:Bible stories created by User:CheeseDreams. I also placed on each talk page a brief message: "One or more of the sign/s: {{NPOV}}{{expansion}}{{Cleanup}} placed on this page without any discussion, explanation or reasoning have been removed pending further discussion. (The category Category:Bible stories is now up for a vote for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Bible stories) Thank you." IZAK 10:12, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC) [113]. And on top of this you were told: "Someone ought to take this new Abuser aside and explain Wikietiqutte. -- Wetman 20:21, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC) [114], and [[User:Mirv} removed all talk of vandalism from this subject, see [115], so a "vandal" I am NOT ! IZAK 04:11, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)"
See the Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/IZAK/Evidence for further discussions related to this.