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2.2) For a period of one year, Everyking is prohibited from reverting articles relating to Ashlee Simpson except in cases of clear and obvious vandalism (as per definition at Wikipedia:Vandalism), with penalties as per the Wikipedia:Three revert rule. What constitutes a revert shall be left up to adminstrators' discretion.
See Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Everyking/Proposed_decision#Revert_limitation_2 for the alternative proposals which were considered and votes on them.
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(CC to Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Iasson)
There is currently an injunction in place against User:Iasson forbidding him from editing any deletion-related article.
Does this injunction also apply to User:Faethon and his sockpuppets? Faethon is still claiming to be a separate entity from Iasson. User:Aeropus II of Macedon (A Faethon sockpuppet) made an anonymous vote on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/The Tetragrammaton in the Bible [1], and is apparently using, as his defense, the fact that he is not User:Iasson to get around the injunction. history
For the purpose of dispute resolution when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sockpuppets or several users with similar behavior they may be treated as one user with sockpuppets. Although I contend that Faethon et al display similar behaviour to Iasson, I would like to ask for arbitrator clarification to see if the injunction also applies to the Faethon accounts, and to the Acestorides & the List of Greeks accounts. -- Death phoenix 20:19, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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The ArbCom recently decided upon the case of Robert Blair.
Since that time, there has been a significant number of edits by anonymous users on pages that Blair regularly edited. Many of these edits resemble Blair's editing style, though I have not yet amassed firm evidence for ban evasion.
Please would the AC a) advise on what actions should be taken if ban evasion is suspected, and b) make any changes or additions to the final decision, as they see fit? Jakew 14:13, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)
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Based on my previous interactions with banned users User:Reithy and User:Libertas/ User:Ollieplatt (same person), I have a strong suspicion that one of them is behind the current attempts to insert POV on Oliver North. For background see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Reithy/Evidence and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Libertas/Evidence. See this edit by Libertas/Ollieplatt for instance [2], and this example of Reithy's typical POV editing [3]. Compare with the current version of Oliver North which is being inserted by Ger6, Nulla, and many other sockpuppets: [4]. I'm requesting arbitrator/developer assistance in determining whether these users are sockpuppets of either Reithy or Libertas/Ollieplatt (some have already been banned for obvious violations of the username policy):
Thanks. Rhobite 23:18, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
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Since GRider is banned from deletion-related pages, does it follow that he is "revert on sight" on deletion pages, and that his votes should be removed? Snowspinner 19:33, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
I ask the Arbitrators to consider wisely. The ruling did not specify that his edits are "revert on sight", as other decision have specified. Even if it had, or even if there is some unwritten rule, then votes should specifically not be removed (unless they are disruptive in other ways). If he wants to vote, incurring a one week block and resetting his timer, let him. Removing votes just feels very wrong. -- Netoholic @ 05:24, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
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What is the status of this RfA? It was apparently shelved in the mistaken belief that Rex had left Wikipedia, but he has not. Are there any outstanding paroles or decisions? Rick K 05:42, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
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Is the decision against me intended to prohibit me from reverting simple vandalism? Furthermore, may I make minor edits such as typo fixes that do not affect the actual nature of the content? Everyking 12:27, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I guess the arbitrators are leaning towards letting me rollback vandalism, but it's awfully ambiguous; I don't know if I'd want to try it with Snowspinner watching my every move and eagerly waiting for an excuse to shoot me down. Something more clear might be helpful. Also, I had an idea just now. What if I was allowed to edit Ashlee articles, but I have to comment out everything I add? And then, if someone agrees with the addition, they can make it appear in the text. Everyking 21:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Irate says that Irate is blocked from making personal attacks. Does this parole apply to the mailing list? He has been known to continue his attacks there. Rick K 23:17, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
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For the purposes of the injunction against GRider ( Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/GRider), is User:GRider/Schoolwatch a "deletion related page"?
Thryduulf 08:58, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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In Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic 2#Meta-templates issue referred to developers, it was decided that the page would be referred to the developer committee, who woould presumably decide if we need a guideline to this effect. Please tell me what steps have been taken by the ArbCom to satisfy this ruling. A link to a Meta page or mailing list post would be appreciated. -- Netoholic @ 03:19, 2005 May 10 (UTC)
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It has been suggested [6], [7] that User:The Rev of Bru is yet another sockpuppet of User:CheeseDreams which seems to have reactivated (they both have the same POV and act in similar ways). Would it be possible for this to be confirmed please? -- G Rutter 14:40, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Whilst they share some points of view, there are some subtle differences. I do not think they are the same person. See also the comments CheeseDreams left on User talk:The Rev of Bru. There are also areas where there have been differences, which I would not expect of sockpuppets (such as The Rev of Bru's insistence on the CE/BCE notation system compared with CheeseDreams having to explain it - even to the extent of putting at the top of a page what CE/BCE notation was for those unfamiliar with it). I'm afraid Mr Rubenstein edits in a controversial area, and sorry that he has to put up with a rump of editors who are not prepared to discuss points in a proper academic way - The Rev of Bru and CheeseDreams are two such editors. Kind regards, jguk 19:09, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
For what it's worth, here is a page I started, explaining why I felt they were the same people: User:Jayjg/Rev of Bru - CheeseDreams My enthusiasm for the project waned when I realized Rev of Bru was gone, and I found it very time consuming trying to comb through links of the various sockpuppets, especially when the User contributions button was rarely willing to go back more than 500 edits. In any event, the fact that one talked to the other on a Talk: page means little in my opinion; any reasonably intelligent person trying to maintain two sockpuppets would do the same. Jayjg (talk) 04:12, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
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I missed that. What?. TIA. El_C 10:29, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Right, but we knew he wasn't coming back at the time of issuing the request. I suppose I expected some sort of statement to go along with the unexpected closure which followed the evidence submission (i.e it serving some purpose). Any thoughts? El_C 00:34, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The case, then, wasn't "closed following Wareware's departure from Wikipedia," that happned the month before (following the RFC), the case was closed due to the "onslaught of new cases." *** Now, I realize that legalism is cold & techncial, still, a sentence qualifying this, taking 20 seconds to formulate, might have been prudent; and perhaps a brief statement as a precedence. Am I just too sensitive to persecution (my pov) ? Certainly, I still feel very uneasy that it could happen right under my nose. Thanks for reading. 70.28.160.144 20:37, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Dear ArbCom,
I am sorry for appealing to you once again, but, apparently, you are the only authority, which can effectively stop this sockpuppet farce.
As you perhaps remember, massive attacks against me by various sockpuppets took place before. Thus, for example in March 2005 only in one talkpage ( Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh), there emerged at least seven "mock users" (Osmanoglou; Baku Ibne; LIGerasimova; Twinkletoes; StuffedTurkey; Kiramtu Kunettabib; Wikirili – which eventually turned out to be one person) all of which advanced various spurious comments and attacks against me.
Now, same old story is indeed repeating itself: various banned vandals create sockpuppets and wage malicious and spurious attacks against me.
These sockpuppets are: Twinckletoes ( talk · contribs) (definitely same as Twinkletoes/LIGerasimova/Baku Ibne etc); LastExitToBrooklin ( talk · contribs) (definitely sock, but not sure if Rovoam's or LIGerasimova's; see spurious post and personal attack against me [8]) ;
Popgoestheweasle ( talk · contribs), Dudummesstückscheisse ( talk · contribs) (scheisse – curse in German; recall previous sock, Dubistdas LetzteArschloch [9]?.. aka Baku Ibne/LIGerasimova) and Benito Juares ( talk · contribs). From behavior pattern, I'm almost certain, all of them are same as LIGerasimova/Baku Ibne etc.; see fox ex. "Benito Juares'" spurious and implicitly abusive post [10], identical spurious attacks in Talk:Moses Kalankaytuk ( [11]) and in Talk:Caucasus ( [12]).
Now, the most important and most spurious sockpuppet is Rovoam's new sock WikiAdm ( talk · contribs). When I see such behavior, I really become convinced that this person is full of hatred and lies and indeed has absolutely no morale and ethical boundaries…
This "user", which was created in Feb 28 but stayed inactive till June 24, until suddenly re-emerged in Talk:Moses Kalankaytuk and claimed that he was "the original author" of the article and "If Tabib requests that I cannot participate in this discussion, I will claim my copyrights for this material". ( [13]). Then, following User:Francs2000's unconsidered question (see same link), he quickly saw a window of opportunity for himself, and claimed that allegedly User: 64.136.2.254 (Rovoam) who created the entry is different from him and he just happened to coincidentally share his IP.
Pls, read Talk:Moses_Kalankaytuk#Copyright_Warning, where Rovoam literally fools other users, and Talk:Moses_Kalankaytuk#.22Copyright_Warning.22_-_Farce_by_Rovoam where I tried to expose his lies and cheatings (followed by spurious posts by Rovoam/WikiAdm and another sock Twinckletoes…)
Btw, pls, see following diff links for additional details: Rovoam (anon 72.25.94.43, future "WikiAdm") posted this message then I deleted this spurious post (explaining the reasons [14]) and placed notification on RFC [15], then Rovoam restored this spurious post again, this time signed as "WikiAdm" [16].
You all know that Rovoam's real name is Andrey Kirsanov (btw, he also signed his address to ArbCom by this name [17]). I also informed you before that Rovoam owns a Russian web-site http://www.vehi.net (btw, this was earlier than this "WikiAdm" appeared and claimed ownership to this web-site, so, I couldn't predict this). By claiming ownership to this web-site and moreover putting spurious "copyright violation" notice in his web-site ( [18]) Rovoam exposed himself once again. Btw, if you pay attention to this "user's" contrib. log, you would see, that he actively contributed to other entries such as Icon, thus trying to create an impression that he is in fact just an 'ordinary innocent and good-faith user'… Another spurious trick of this unprecedented vandal…
And here is another solid evidence which proves my argument that Rovoam, aka Andrey Kirsanov, is also the owner of www.vehi.net, hence WikiAdm is his sockpuppet. Pls, see, Rovoam's post on Feb 5 in Russian Wikipedia.
Rovoam wrote (Russian)
Translation:
Considering the fact that this person is banned from Wikipedia by the WP community ( [19]) for his systematic and unprecedented vandalisms and dishonest and spurious actions, I ask you to immediately block this person, as well as other sockpuppets of LIGerasimova/Baku Ibne, I have pointed out above. Alternatively, if you think that not ArbCom but admins should block this sock (since Rovoam is banned not by ArbCom but by the WP community [20]), then I ask you to affirm the real identity of this sockpuppet, so that he wouldn't so easily deceive other users, and so that I would turn to admins to proceed my request regarding blocking of this person.
Furthermore, considering the fact that Rovoam himself by his own will placed the content of Moses Kalankaytuk to Wikipedia, I also ask you to recognize that there indeed was no "copyright violation" contrary to spurious claims by Rovoam. Rovoam when submitting this material, should have known (and knew) that by submitting the material he agrees to release it under GNU Free Documentation License. Therefore, I believe, the content should be restored, and after some important editions and corrections, which would neutralize the propaganda contained in the text, Wikipedia can acquire a good entry about Moses Kalankaytuk.
Please, treat this unprecedented sockpuppets' abuse with utmost seriousness and urgency. I hope for your support.
p.s. I also ask you to watch over disclaimer on Rovoam in his userpage. This sockpuppet "Deli Eshek" is vandalizing the disclaimer and advancing spurious attacks against me there.-- Tabib June 28, 2005 05:22 (UTC)
I thank ArbCom members and especially Fred for considering my request and blocking the spurious sockpuppets, including the most spurious ones, i.e. "WikiAdm" (Rovoam) [25] and "Deli-Eshek" (LIGerasimova/Baku ibne etc) [26]. There are some new socks, but I will turn now to individual ArbCom members and/or admins to proceed with my request to block them, it's not a big deal now. Thank you once again.-- Tabib June 30, 2005 05:04 (UTC)
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Dear ArbCom,
Following my brief communication with Fred ( [27]), I ask you to immediately block and ban two sockpuppet accounts of previously banned anon 84.154.xx.xx. aka Baku Ibne/LIGreasimova/Osmanoglou etc. ( Baku Ibne et al. Case). These sockpuppets are Twinkletoes ( talk · contribs) and, as I just found out to my surprise, Deli-Eshek ( talk · contribs).
I was aware about Twinkletoes being a sockpuppet long ago (e.g. see, my post in [[Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh, or RFA/Baku Ibne talkpage). The anon 84.154.xx.xx (Baku Ibne et al anon IP) when vandalizing Safavids page constantly added nonsense to the entry and one of the words that he often referred to was "Twinkletoes". (see, e.g. [28], [29].) Moreover, the similar behavior and edit pattern of this vandal, leaves no question that this "user" is indeed a sock. Pls, review his contrib log for details: everything, from edited pages, to time of edits, and lengths and volume of activity points to the fact that this is indeed a vandal sock, which was overlooked.
The most surprising discovery I just made concerns User:Deli-Eshek's real identity. I was rather surprised that this guy is also actually a sockpuppet of Baku Ibne (I was similarly surprised in the past to learn out from Tony that LIGerasimova, whom I thought to be different person, was actually the same person as 84.154.xx/Baku Ibne/Osmanoglou [30]).
Here is the proof of Deli-Eshek being a sockpuppet: [31]. You can see that this person is actually the same as 84.154.xx.xx (see, [32]) aka Baku Ibne/LIGerasimova/Osmanoglou etc etc. Actually, similarly User:Tony Sidaway has found in the past that LIGerasimova was in fact same person as Baku/Ibne/Osmanoglou ( [33], fixed in evidences presented by Tony [34])).
This "user" has in the past actually "supported" me in Talk:Safavids. He pretended to be an "ethnic Turk" who "agrees" with me on my argument that Safavids were a Turkic-speaking dynasty of Iran, but he was kind of dark horse whose actions did not correspond to his deeds. Thus for example, I couldn't understand his actions, when he attacked various Azeri users (e.g. [35] (in which he allegedly "supports" me) (or this post, which provoked me to carefully approach him and ask him not to wage personal discussions. Then I thought that this guy is realy an ordinary good-faith editor, and all I cared is to advise him not to play into hands of my opponents in Talk:Safavids by waging unnecessary personal discussions).
Besides these two sockpuppets, there are some more e.g. Luba-Gerasimova ( talk · contribs) (which as seen from the name, is same as LIGerasimova (pretending to be a Russian female Luba Ivanovna Gerasimova). The other socks are Kiramtu_Kunettabib ( talk · contribs) and StuffedTurkey ( talk · contribs). I dont have solid evidences against the last two, but I am sure you can easily clarify the issue with those "mock users" as well.-- Tabib 14:23, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
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The Njyoder personal attack parole specifies blocking for Njyoder, not banning. The parole listed in precedents is a ban parole. Is this discrepency deliberate? Should we, for all practical purposes, treat the two as equivalent for the purposes of Njyoder? Remembering in particular that, if it is a block, Njyoder would be justified in editing under another account while blocked so long as he was not flagrant about it? Snowspinner July 1, 2005 16:56 (UTC)
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Kim Bruning has resigned from mentoring Netoholic (he explained his reasoning on RFAr talk). Since that possibility wasn't covered under Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic 2, what should be done in this case? R adiant _>|< July 2, 2005 08:30 (UTC)
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Could you please clarify how one should read the sanction imposed here?
There are three parts each of which seem to have garnered the requisite 5 votes to pass but seem to be mutually exclusive. 2.1 & 2.3 are identical except for the length of the block and the length of time before being allowed to apply for lifting the sanction. 2.2 seems to be more an official warning than a sanction at all, and it recieved 6 votes rather than 5, so is it the standard to be applied?
Is WMC actually subject to a revert parole or not, and what are it's conditions?
Thanks. Dragons flight 02:07, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
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What is the current date of expiration on the ban for Irate? It should have expired today, nominally, but [36] and [37] should have reset it in May to expire in August, if I count right. Am I right on this? Snowspinner 16:45, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
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Iasson is currently subject to a ban of 1 year or 1 year and 3 months following an arbitration case, see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Iasson. At WP:AN/I it has apparently been confirmed that User:Bank of Wikipedia and associated reincarnations are Iasson, if this is true then it is clearly in violation of the ban.
There is no mention in the arbitration pages of whether the ban should be reset (as it does in other arbcom judgments) if it is violated. It is also unclear whether the two bans imposed were to run consecutively or concurrently. Please could you therefore answer the following questions:
Thanks, Thryduulf 19:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
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I need to know about when my most recent Arb sentence expires, the one that regulates my expression of views. Everyking 04:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Another EK-related request for clarification: Are the remedies from Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Everyking still applicable? One of the remedies in that case prevented EK from reverting Ashlee Simpson related articles. Everyking claims that this remedy no longer applies, because "old cases are supplanted by new cases". To his credit, he hasn't actually reverted the article yet, and is participating in discussion. But he did say that he was going to revert Ashlee Simpson in the future. Rhobite 20:48, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
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I noticed that the ArbCom just closed the case against Ed Poor. I had barely created my "evidence" section, and I was just in the process of adding to it when I discovered the case had been closed. It now seems like something of a wasted effort. In the motion to close section, it says that "24 hours from the first motion is normally the fastest a case will close", but while the first motion to close occurred at 18:30 today (september 13th as I write this), the fourth support occurred at 22:59, and the case was closed one minute later. This all seems a bit rushed to me. Did anyone even had time to read and consider my evidence? What kind of time frame is usually allowed, for the gathering and the presentation of evidence? And for the consideration of that evidence? Did other users specifically UninvitedCompany who brought the case or Fvw who had expressed an interest in taking over the case, had ample time to add evidence of their own? Have all the arbitrators had a chance to weight in? Was there a need to proceed so quickly? In my view this can only add to certain negative perceptions already exacerbated by these events. Paul August ☎ 00:06, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Ed Poor has offered to resign as a Wikipedia Bureaucrat. He remains a Wikipedia Administrator in good standing and a valued member of the Wikipedia community. The case is closed without further comment. To actually rule on whether Ed broke policy would be too controversial, I suppose. That he could have broken policy and still be considered a "valued member" is apparently not possible. The impression given seems to be that admins and others given power at wikipedia must maintain a facade of perfection, rather than be human, admit mistakes were made, deal with it, and move on. The mentality would seem to boil down to "you're in, or you're out" and there is no inbetween, which would reflect similar attitudes in a "club" that evolved from thirteen year olds more than a cabal that has been designed. "Lord of the Flies" rather than "1984". Well, at least now we know. FuelWagon 17:44, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
What we have communicated to Ed Poor is that he is not an exception who will be permitted, based on bureaucrat status, to break rules with impunity. Fred Bauder 19:45, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
You are correct on one point: Ed Poor ( talk · contribs) is IN. We are not in the habit of running off people who have contributed substantially to Wikipedia over a period of years. Fred Bauder 14:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
This dead horse is being beaten so severely that it is in danger of turning into a horse smoothie. android 79 17:03, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
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Formally requesting repeal of my mentor arrangement after four months. Everyking 22:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
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The ArbCom has [ [40]] previously ruled on date notation:
When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change. For example, with respect to English spelling as opposed to American spelling it would be acceptable to change from American spelling to English spelling if the article concerned an English subject. Revert warring over optional styles is unacceptable; if the article is colour rather than color, it would be wrong to switch simply to change styles as both are acceptable.
There is a dispute as to whether this, for an article that is stable and which consistently uses BC/AD or consistently uses BCE/CE noation, means that the style should not be changed under any circumstances, or whether there could be a "substantial reason" permitting a change - together with, if the latter is the case, what such a substantial reason could be. (Community-wide discussions on Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate and Wikipedia:Eras/Compromise proposal/Voting may be in point if the ArbCom did mean that there could be reasons for a change.)
A clear statement from ArbCom as to whether they really did mean for articles that are stable and consistent on date notation to never change their date notation, or alternatively a statement as to when, in the light of the existing community-wide discussions, they believe changes are appropriate, would be welcome.
Thanks, jguk 07:20, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
This is ridiculous. Our wording was perfectly clear. Changing BC/AD to CE/BCE, or CE/BCE to BC/AD, should essentially be never done unless there is a very good reason to do so (personally, I have yet to be convinced that such a reason could ever exist, but nomatter). The various numbers of proponents of each "side" that one manages to bring to any particular article to continue this pointless discussion are absolutely irrelevent. Wikipedia is not an exercise in democracy. I would also prefer if people would stop trying to change this from a stylistic point into one of religion; "it can be taken as a profession of Christian faith" my foot. About as much as "bloody timewasting fools" (to pick an example at random) can be considered so ('bloody' being a contraction of "By our Lady").
James F. (talk) 10:54, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Changing from AD-BC to Common Era notation is justified in situations which predate or are unrelated to Christian matters or Western civilization. Such considerations are a substantial reason. Jguk was warned to comply with Wikipedia policy and has continued to violate it. Fred Bauder 14:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change. For example, with respect to English spelling as opposed to American spelling it would be acceptable to change from American spelling to English spelling if the article concerned an English subject. Revert warring over optional styles is unacceptable; if the article is colour rather than color, it would be wrong to switch simply to change styles as both are acceptable (my emphasis).
The suggestion that this should be decided on an article by article basis was rejected on Wikipedia:Eras/Compromise proposal/Voting, and I think with good reason - no-one really wants this dispute to widen to encompass every article with some form of date notation. I also have no doubt that a community-wide consensus on something would change the current approach - but like James F., I really can't see it happening on this issue any time soon - absolutely every proposal on this issue (including those that are suggested again here) has failed to gain even a majority, let alone consensus, jguk 21:06, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
The article that has brought this to a head is
Hebrew calendar. This is primarily a matter of Jewish interest, though not of course exclusively so (I am a Methodist but have made several edits of it). I am bewildered by the argument that Jewish attitudes to the meaning of BC/AD are not relevant. To me, and surely to many other people, these attitudes are an extremely good and valid reason for a change to BCE/CE. Equally, I would hope that there would be no controvers over changing from BCE/CE to BC/AD on an article specifically about a matter of Christian interest.
RachelBrown 21:49, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
If I may make an observation; I was involved in the Hebrew calendar, and looking at its history, it first had AD dating only. Then User:Joe Kress performed a substantial rewrite, and his input had CE dating. Later, User:Kaisershatner did quite a bit of copyediting, unwittingly re-entering some AD dates. Some anonymous user noticed this (assuming good faith) and changed some other dates, but leaving some inconsistency [41]. User:RachelBrown and myself then cleaned up after this, leaving the AD dates for the sake of consistency. All editors on this article preferred going back to CE dating, and that's what happened.
The problem is that an article may not have a clear preference for either style at some point (this is unavoidable), and saying "no change to dating style" and "be consistent within an article" are conflicting and ambiguous in such situations. I thought it in the spirit of WP that in cases like these the editors reach consensus and do what must be done, and WP policy is only to prevent individuals from single handedly going into edit wars over it. squell 19:21, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
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Is Jarlaxle Artemis blocked indefinitely by an admin, or banned by the ArbCom (the ArbCom doesn't usually ban indefinitely)? I ask because he is strongly suspected of still creating articles: if he is banned, they are speedies, if he is merely blocked, they are not. The text of the final decision signed by Raul654 uses the word banned, but the case was closed. - Splash talk 01:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
If someone makes so much trouble that they are blocked indefinitely by an administrator and no other administrator sees fit to unblock them (including all the Arbitration Committee who generally are administrators) the arbitration committee may chose to not unblock them merely to render a decision regarding their behavior. Obviously if they return as a sockpuppet the case may be either reopened or the sockpuppets also blocked depending on how much general uproar ensues. Fred Bauder 22:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Allow me, the administrator who more or less saw to it that Jarlaxle was booted from Wikipedia for good, clarify once and for all...
JarlaxleArtemis is BANNED from Wikipedia. He is listed at Wikipedia:List_of_banned_users, and after he swore his head off at a steward, he was banned from all MediaWiki projects. Jarlaxle is not by any means welcome on Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wikiquote, Commons, Wikitionary, etc. etc. etc. To this day he is STILL harrassing users by impersonation and defamation. Need any more be said? JarlaxleArtemis is permenantly banned from Wikipedia and all Wikimedia projects. </rant> Linuxbeak | Talk 20:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
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On 5 October, after the expiration of his one-month ban, Gabrielsimon ( arb case) returned as Gimmiet ( talk · contribs · block log). Gimmiet was barely an improvement on the old Gabrielsimon, violating his 1RR three times in as many days (on Otherkin and Clinical lycanthropy).
On the 9th, 69.195.126.149 ( talk · contribs · block log) reverted Otherkin twice. This IP was verified to be GS from email headers sent to SlimVirgin and myself. As per the "repeated violations" clause of the case, GS was blocked for a week. The same day, Sg'te'gmuj ( talk · contribs · block log) reverted Otherkin once, and left an edit on Talk:Otherkin in classic GS style. There was no sock check, but the circumstancial evidence was so strong that the new account was blocked indefinitely, and GS was banned for another month (plus six days remaining on his 3RR block), per the judgment of SlimVirgin, myself, android79, and Bryan Derksen.
After this, he attempted to remove the block from his talk page (leading to its protection), and sent an email to SlimVirgin (under the Sg'te'gmuj name) claiming not to be GS (while using the same IP that had reverted). GS sent SlimVirgin an email as well, suggesting that the IP was DreamGuy. Again - same IP in the headers.
On 20 October, the same IP made one reversion on Otherkin, which unfortunately was not noticed. On 22 October, the IP made 11 reversions on Otherkin and 2 on Clinical lycanthropy. The ban was extended to 2 months from that date (expiring 22 December).
Gimmiet sent me the following email that day:
I have not post4d at all since i was blocked. Today, i was reading along about dot hack and sudeenly i get mail on wiki, which is suprising, becaseu i have a protected tlak page. aparently slimvirgin hates me, because she thinks someone new is me. could SOMEONE make that bitch leave me alone? Im already reblocked once becasue of her, i dont need more horseshit.... pardon my language, but im really getting sick of this.
I forwarded this to SlimVirgin, and she said:
It's definitely him, yet he's sent me several e-mails denying it; one e-mail saying it's DreamGuy and that we should ask the developers to confirm it; and then an e-mail yesterday saying the only reason he realized he'd been blocked was that he got an e-mail about it through Wikipedia. But I didn't e-mail him, yet he knew immediately, because he e-mailed me about it within minutes of the block being applied.
This repeated pattern of behavior indicates that Gabriel/Gimmiet has poor self-control, is immature and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future, and is an overall detriment to Wikipedia. SlimVirgin and I have agreed that we would like to petition the ArbCom for tighter restrictions on Gabriel. The main problem is clearly his inability to not revert other users' contributions that he disagrees with. We therefore think that, when he returns in two months, he should not be allowed to revert other users at all, or delete content. We also suggest that longer bans (up to a week) be enabled for even non-repeated violations of his restrictions.
Sorry for the long-winded exposition, and this is just a suggestion. However, I strongly believe that to reduce disruption and unpleasantness, tighter restrictions on this editor's actions are justified. ~~ N ( t/ c) 17:10, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
If you will look at the votes for acceptance of Gabrielsimon you will see there was some reluctance to even accept the case as he was viewed a newbie, perhaps a younger user, who should be cut some slack. This orientation is reflected in the decision which presumes he is capable of improvement. As a practical matter since he seemingly cannot resist sockpuppeting, provided his ban is periodically extended as provided for in Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Gabrielsimon#Enforcement, he will be indefinitely banned. Fred Bauder 13:03, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Agree with Fred. His ban has been extended once, I'd like to see it extended a number of times before being willing to ban indefinately, but if it comes to it then that's what will happen. I don't believe tightening the restrictions will cure the problem. if he's willing to break a 1RR why would he be unwilling to break a 0RR? Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 15:58, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
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Gavin the Chosen was blocked for a month as part of a recent arbitration decision, but I'm concerned that this hasn't stopped him from continuing his harassment against me. One of the findings in that case was that he followed me around, posting insulting comments, and doing things to try to interfere with my normal editing here (such as jumping onto articles he had never touched before specifically to undo whatever I had done or to egg fights on).
Even though he is blocked I am still getting harassing emails from him through the WIikipedia email link, which I hesitate to disable as it is a way for people to contact me directly about issues related to the encyclopedia. Furthermore I have run across a number of editors recently who after a single disagreement have escalated into very mean-spirited attacks, claiming that they had been privately emailed and "warned" about my behavior by an editor who wished to give them all the details of my supposed campaigns to destroy articles, etc. which is all the same nonsense Gabriel/Gavin would try to tell people. These editors then pick up the campaign of insults on various talk pages.
The month block was intended to be a way for Gabriel to take a break and think about his actions here, but instead his harassment still continues. He apparently still watches all the articles he was involved in emotional disputes with earlier, as he mentions what has happened recently on them in his emails.
I would request that his account be disabled outright so he cannopt access emails (and since the RfA finding said he should come back under a different name after his block expired, there's no reason for his current one to be active) or that his month long block be reset so that his activities here are completely stopped for the agreed upon month. DreamGuy 21:16, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
He has sent me the following three messages. ~~ N ( t/ c) 22:22, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Unfortunatly, it would seem to me that dreamGuy's accusation revenge for the arbitration process that he is undergoing. I have kept my word , as for the end of the baqrgain that is my arbitration. I have sent him nothing, larghely becaseu i wish him to have no contact with me ( frankly hes aggravating) It is my beleif that this unfounded accusaton prooves the accusation i have placed against him in the matter of his methods and bad faitrh in his operating style here on wikipedia. I ame accross this message to s end ytou a message becase u my watchlist contains the RFAr page, (along with many others)
and as for the detaqils about mean spirited attacks, it se ems that the attacks were perpatrated by dfreamGuy, just look at the edit history of his talk page...
Also it would stand to reason if I have been gone for a month and others, some of whoim ive had zero contact with are saying what i was saying about how dreamguy opwerates on wikipedia, then it cant be a coincidance. perhaps this is farther proof of his defamitory adgenda on some articles such as Otherklin and Therianthropy, and his general, totally incurable lack of civillity towards other users in general.
This is the reason why i grew tired of him, and his wayhs of acusations and atte mpting to play the system and fiegn victim status.
in the light that i have done nothing that he accuses me of, i would ask you to disregard his lies, and possibly add attampting to file a false RFAr against me as a revenbge tactic to the eviance page of his RFAr IN that mnatter, my hands are tied, but i w ould appreciate it greatly if you and the other arbitreators would be so kind as to disregard his accusations against me, because they are fabrications.
(i find it intersting how hes trying to have my account destoryed... interesting way of going about it, making false accusations and suich, isnt it?) sorry if i got a little long woinded or a little repetative, but this is being written as the first trhing after i got here from work.
thanks, and feel free to send this message to other arbitrators, or to contact me for conversation at gagb@gabrielsimon.com on MSN or filmbuff42 on YIM.
thanks for listening.
hew also said that the find9ing of the case was that i followed him around. this is blatently false. its the complete op[posite in fact. but im not trying to be vindictive, only accurate.
thanks for listening again
i do not see the harm in looking at pages and ar ticles while im gone... i already he some changes i plan to make when im back...
i cant see the harm...
(after I had posted the above)
i still maintain the truith of the matter. i have not and shall not email iuser dreamguym simply because hes not worth my time. his antics have gone on a long, long time, and ecasue he hides behind police, and then goes and beats other people with them, as would a cave dweller bludgeon prey.
it does puzzell me w hy you posted my response though.
DreamGuy you need not even bring up my name about this for one I do not send people email on Wikipedia. I may have had multiple disputes with you, but like I said before I am not going to debate you anymore because it's not even worth my time, I am rarely even here anymore because I found Wikinfo. Furthermore if your going to even try to accuse me of being involved, you better have some evidence..........So put your evidence were your mouth is........that is all Khaosinfire 01:10, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
=+==Again===+
Now Gabriel has started up the harassing emails yet again from the same email address as before (even though he has a new user name ( User:Gimmiet), and magically there is also other problem editors yet again trying to justify their policy-violating edits because they were "warned" that I was a problem editor (see Anti-Mason editor User:Lightbringer's comments here.
Gabriel's actions repeatedly egg other editors on into doing bad behavior, and his claims above that he wouldn't email me to harass me or email other people to cause more mischief are false, specifically because I have more mail sitting right here. I was willig to drop it above if he stopped, but he's escalating his mischief. This editor has never contributed anything of any value to thisproject that I can see, and quite to the opposite has caused an exceedingl large number of problems. DreamGuy 23:13, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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This user has emailed me and requested that his block be lifted, claiming that there are no legal proceedings between himself and either Meelar or Firebug. The AC decision appears to conclude that there is at least the appearance of a legal threat. Therefore, I have asked Mlorrey to affirm on his talk page that no legal action is underway, and to clarify the meaning of the purported "injunction" on the RFC page, as preconditions for removing the block. I invite AC members and the Wikipedia community in general to review this action and comment or amend as they see fit. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 19:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
As the legal dispute has been resolved, by the terms of Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Mlorrey#Editing_ban the ban ought to be lifted. In retrospect perhaps it was just a misunderstanding caused by an unhappy choice of language. In response to Jtkiefer, problems may remain, but the hope is that the experience has been productive in terms of encouraging Mlorrey to do better. Fred Bauder 14:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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Taking on board the comments from the community. I propose we remove his RFA and deal with the matter ourselves. Do any of my fellow arbitrators agree? Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 14:56, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
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To me it would seem like opposing an RFA for Cool Cat within ten minutes of its creation and notice on Cool Cat's page, is ... well, somewhat hounding behavior. I think it would be obvious to most that Cool Cat would turn down the RFA, and that if he didn't he wouldn't come near passing at this time. The impression Davenbelle's action gave me is that he was just looking for a chance to give Cool Cat another kick. Regardless of his intentions I think he should avoid giving such an impression. Is this acceptable behavior in light of the Arbcom decision? -- Gmaxwell 17:48, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
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Please refer to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DreamGuy for details.
It is unacceptable that this request has been closed. I am told that no action has been taken; indeed, with the exception of Fred Bauder, the Arbitration Committee appears to have taken no action at all with regard to the request. It is inconsiderate to move to close without participating to any degree; it is unreasonable that the votes of Committee members who made no effort should have weight against the member who did. I ask that the Arbitration Committee do the work expected of them. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ ᑐ 23:59, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I think the issue was a little too subtle Fred Bauder 18:30, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm amazed this has been removed already. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since it was Raul654, who moved to close in the first place, but this indicates the Arbitration Committee is not interested in fairness. Below is an email that I'm relaying from Gavin the Chosen, since he has not been given an opportunity to comment. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ ᑐ 14:52, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Further:
Communication in secret really undermines the validity and usefulness of arbitration. There is no record that any discussion took place, which is vital to a fair and complete decision. The committee appears unscrupulous. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ ᑐ 20:11, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
ArbCom is interested in fairness. They fairly looked at your ridiculous claims and dismissed them. And Gabriel of course is not an objective judge on what proper Wikipedia behavior is, considering that he has been banned for several months now and is still blocked for another month. The ruling clarified the point that you and Gabriel have nothing to stand on in your accusations. You lost. Accusing ArbCom of improper or biased conduct only goes to further prove my point that you two were just acting out of personal malice and that your POV-pushing was something that needed to be stopped, even if you were upset about it and tried to paint NPOV language as "bad faith". Please learn from this incident and stop making false accusations. DreamGuy 19:31, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
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Am I correct to assume that, when an ArbCom member voices an opinion on an issue not currently under arbitration and not related to arbitration procedure, that ArbCom member is speaking for him- or herself, that his or her opinion does not necessarily match that of the rest of the ArbCom, and that his or her opinion should be given the same weight as that of any other editor in good standing?
I believe this to be obvious, since the alternative seems be to disallow ArbCom members from voicing their opinion on anything before consulting their peers, which is kind of silly. To be absolutely clear, I am not accusing anybody of anything. I just noticed that some people mistook the opinion of some arbitrator to be more official than the opinion of anybody else, when it was not intended as such. So I thought some clarification might be in order. In particular, I would like to see a short statement along these lines added somewhere on our Arbitration Policy pages. R adiant _>|< 13:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
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What is the policy regarding parties that are subject to an RFAr but do not answer or even acknowledge the existance of the RFAr? I am refering to User:Pigsonthewing. What happens if he just blatantly ignores the calls on his talk page to answer the RFAr filed? I mean, you can't just let the case grow old and moldy. Linuxbeak | Talk 18:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
We look at the evidence and accept it if appropriate; notify him that it was accepted and go ahead and hear the case. Fred Bauder 19:01, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
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I think in analogies, so I have one for this situation. Right now, POTW is much like a speeder on the highway, going 90 miles per hour when there are no police around or when he feels like it, going down to the speed limit when police are around or when he feels like it, and then once he feels like it or the police presence is gone, he goes back up to 90 miles per hour.
However, unlike traffic cops, you don't need a radar gun to see evidence, you can see it in his behavior in the past from his contribs and the RfC. Whether he's speeding right now or not is irrelevant, he deserves a ticket. Karmafist 16:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
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Per this page, [42], and it's advice to bring issue's pertaining to enforcement of a previous arbitration ruling to the RfAr, this information has been posted here.
Recently, Rex has been causing a lot of trouble at John Kerry. He has consistently edit-warred and has forced the page into protection Twice [43] [44] while at the same time violating 3RR Twice [45] [46]. The issue is the same exact one that has been brought up in previous ArbComm hearing's: John Kerry's 1st Purple Heart. In fact Rex talks about that in his opening statement in his first ArbComm hearing. [47]. Numerous people have attempted to dialog with Rex regarding this, so much so, that the discussion now occupies 6 archive spaces and approximately 700 kb worth of talk not including the current talkpage. [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] A vote was recently attempted to try and close the discussion. [54] Even after that, Rex continued to push his POV, which resulted in the page being protected for the second time. [55]
My question is this, do the Remedies, Enforcements and Judgements from previous Arbitrations still apply to this case? [56] Or have they all expired as Rex claims they have? [57] Do the three previous arbitration cases and two previous RfCs [58] [59] which involved this same exact issue; John Kerry's 1st Purple Heart; constitute an attempt at other methods of dispute resolution? Does the community need to go through a 4th Arbitration Case against Rex over the same issue? Or is there a "Requesting Enforcement of Previous Arbitration Ruling" template that I am missing? -- Mr. Tibbs 20:55, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
May I back up Mr Tibbs's intervention here. Rex has reduced the John Kerry page to chaos with endless nitpicking rows (Does a wounded man have a 'wound'? Is a bandage necessarily made of cloth? Medical definitions ad nausuam, a list of 50 'issues' he wants discussed, which actually boil down to five repeated in different ways over and over again, etc.) Rex's antics have alienated people who tried to be fair to him and listened to his endless raising of the same issues over and over and over and over, or rather his agreeing something, moving on, then returning back to square one 48 hours later and starting the argument all over again. The article and talk pages are right now unusable and will remain so until until Rex's antics are dealt with and ended. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 21:40, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I'll throw in my own voice here. Though Rex is technically more polite than he was before the previous RfArs, he is doing exactly the same thing: obsessively focusing on doing whatever he can to make sure that John Kerry is not elected President in 2004. -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 22:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
The key question is, whose job is it to enforce the rulings that he is continuing, with more cunning and subtlety this time, to break? All that seems to happen is that an edit war breaks out, the page is protected and some well meaning admin (who hasn't time to read the 'War and Peace'-size archives) suggests that the issues be discussed first rather than edit warring. Everyone tells them that we have listened and talked and discussed and voted repeatedly and that the problem is that Rex ignores it all and goes back to the start and begins the whole charade again, and again, and again ad infinitum. Nobody seems able to actually know the ruling and enforce it, so the page and talk page ends up stuck in a timewarp of Rex's let start again for the nth time edits, with rows, edit war, protection, unprotection, 'please all communicate', Rex's epistles, rows, edit war, protection . . . etc. People need help (or free Wikipedia Valium!) FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 05:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
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I'd appreciate some clarification of the ruling on User:Yuber. He has been revert warring at Syria ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Syrian occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and History of Syria ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), deleting properly sourced and relevant information. I protected three of the above recently and 40 minutes after I unprotected, he reverted one of them again. [62]
He has also created Israeli occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) as an apparent WP:POINT, because he failed in his efforts to have Syrian occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) moved (or moved back) to "Syrian presence in Lebanon".
I want to warn him that he may be in violation of the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Yuber decision, but I'm not clear whether he is. Under "remedies," the ruling is limited to Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Yuber is placed on Wikipedia:Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban him from any article which relates to Islam or to the Israeli-Paletinian conflict which he disrupts by inappropriate editing ... [63]
But under "enforcement," it seems to apply to any article:
Should a Wikipedia administrator feel it necessary that Yuber be banned from an article where he is engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article or any other activity which the user considers disruptive they shall place a template {{Yuber banned}} at the top of the talk page of the article and notify Yuber on his talk page ... [64]
So my question is: are Syria, History of Syria, Lebanon, Syrian occupation of Lebanon and Israeli occupation of Lebanon covered by the ruling? SlimVirgin (talk) 08:18, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
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There are a few outstanding issues which I would be most grateful if the Committee would please clarify for me regarding the status of the accounts which were banned under the former temporary injunction. Since I was requested by Fred to make the various blocks on the temporary injunction, it means I have been receiving the e-mail dialogue from the parties wishing to be unbanned, and as a consequence of the recent closing of the case a few have written to me asking to be unbanned. My queries are as follows:
I am most grateful for the Committee's work on this matter, and would appreciate an expeditious response since I have been receiving some consternation from various blocked users via e-mail. Best regards, -- NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 02:52, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Unblock anyone who is blocked but who has not been trying to edit the article. Those who you are sure have been trying to edit the article during the injunction, need not be unblocked. Please don't unblock XAL. I'll try to help you with this tomorrow. Fred Bauder 04:47, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't think you are responsible for this mess. You only need to unblock folks when you have time. Fred Bauder 05:06, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd appreciate some clarification of the ruling on User:Yuber. He has been revert warring at Syria ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Syrian occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and History of Syria ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), deleting properly sourced and relevant information. I protected three of the above recently and 40 minutes after I unprotected, he reverted one of them again. [65]
He has also created Israeli occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) as an apparent WP:POINT, because he failed in his efforts to have Syrian occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) moved (or moved back) to "Syrian presence in Lebanon".
I want to warn him that he may be in violation of the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Yuber decision, but I'm not clear whether he is. Under "remedies," the ruling is limited to Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Yuber is placed on Wikipedia:Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban him from any article which relates to Islam or to the Israeli-Paletinian conflict which he disrupts by inappropriate editing ... [66]
But under "enforcement," it seems to apply to any article:
Should a Wikipedia administrator feel it necessary that Yuber be banned from an article where he is engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article or any other activity which the user considers disruptive they shall place a template {{Yuber banned}} at the top of the talk page of the article and notify Yuber on his talk page ... [67]
So my question is: are Syria, History of Syria, Lebanon, Syrian occupation of Lebanon and Israeli occupation of Lebanon covered by the ruling? SlimVirgin (talk) 08:18, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
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2.2) For a period of one year, Everyking is prohibited from reverting articles relating to Ashlee Simpson except in cases of clear and obvious vandalism (as per definition at Wikipedia:Vandalism), with penalties as per the Wikipedia:Three revert rule. What constitutes a revert shall be left up to adminstrators' discretion.
See Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Everyking/Proposed_decision#Revert_limitation_2 for the alternative proposals which were considered and votes on them.
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There is currently an injunction in place against User:Iasson forbidding him from editing any deletion-related article.
Does this injunction also apply to User:Faethon and his sockpuppets? Faethon is still claiming to be a separate entity from Iasson. User:Aeropus II of Macedon (A Faethon sockpuppet) made an anonymous vote on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/The Tetragrammaton in the Bible [1], and is apparently using, as his defense, the fact that he is not User:Iasson to get around the injunction. history
For the purpose of dispute resolution when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sockpuppets or several users with similar behavior they may be treated as one user with sockpuppets. Although I contend that Faethon et al display similar behaviour to Iasson, I would like to ask for arbitrator clarification to see if the injunction also applies to the Faethon accounts, and to the Acestorides & the List of Greeks accounts. -- Death phoenix 20:19, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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The ArbCom recently decided upon the case of Robert Blair.
Since that time, there has been a significant number of edits by anonymous users on pages that Blair regularly edited. Many of these edits resemble Blair's editing style, though I have not yet amassed firm evidence for ban evasion.
Please would the AC a) advise on what actions should be taken if ban evasion is suspected, and b) make any changes or additions to the final decision, as they see fit? Jakew 14:13, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)
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Based on my previous interactions with banned users User:Reithy and User:Libertas/ User:Ollieplatt (same person), I have a strong suspicion that one of them is behind the current attempts to insert POV on Oliver North. For background see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Reithy/Evidence and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Libertas/Evidence. See this edit by Libertas/Ollieplatt for instance [2], and this example of Reithy's typical POV editing [3]. Compare with the current version of Oliver North which is being inserted by Ger6, Nulla, and many other sockpuppets: [4]. I'm requesting arbitrator/developer assistance in determining whether these users are sockpuppets of either Reithy or Libertas/Ollieplatt (some have already been banned for obvious violations of the username policy):
Thanks. Rhobite 23:18, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
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Since GRider is banned from deletion-related pages, does it follow that he is "revert on sight" on deletion pages, and that his votes should be removed? Snowspinner 19:33, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
I ask the Arbitrators to consider wisely. The ruling did not specify that his edits are "revert on sight", as other decision have specified. Even if it had, or even if there is some unwritten rule, then votes should specifically not be removed (unless they are disruptive in other ways). If he wants to vote, incurring a one week block and resetting his timer, let him. Removing votes just feels very wrong. -- Netoholic @ 05:24, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
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What is the status of this RfA? It was apparently shelved in the mistaken belief that Rex had left Wikipedia, but he has not. Are there any outstanding paroles or decisions? Rick K 05:42, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
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Is the decision against me intended to prohibit me from reverting simple vandalism? Furthermore, may I make minor edits such as typo fixes that do not affect the actual nature of the content? Everyking 12:27, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I guess the arbitrators are leaning towards letting me rollback vandalism, but it's awfully ambiguous; I don't know if I'd want to try it with Snowspinner watching my every move and eagerly waiting for an excuse to shoot me down. Something more clear might be helpful. Also, I had an idea just now. What if I was allowed to edit Ashlee articles, but I have to comment out everything I add? And then, if someone agrees with the addition, they can make it appear in the text. Everyking 21:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Irate says that Irate is blocked from making personal attacks. Does this parole apply to the mailing list? He has been known to continue his attacks there. Rick K 23:17, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
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For the purposes of the injunction against GRider ( Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/GRider), is User:GRider/Schoolwatch a "deletion related page"?
Thryduulf 08:58, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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In Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic 2#Meta-templates issue referred to developers, it was decided that the page would be referred to the developer committee, who woould presumably decide if we need a guideline to this effect. Please tell me what steps have been taken by the ArbCom to satisfy this ruling. A link to a Meta page or mailing list post would be appreciated. -- Netoholic @ 03:19, 2005 May 10 (UTC)
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It has been suggested [6], [7] that User:The Rev of Bru is yet another sockpuppet of User:CheeseDreams which seems to have reactivated (they both have the same POV and act in similar ways). Would it be possible for this to be confirmed please? -- G Rutter 14:40, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Whilst they share some points of view, there are some subtle differences. I do not think they are the same person. See also the comments CheeseDreams left on User talk:The Rev of Bru. There are also areas where there have been differences, which I would not expect of sockpuppets (such as The Rev of Bru's insistence on the CE/BCE notation system compared with CheeseDreams having to explain it - even to the extent of putting at the top of a page what CE/BCE notation was for those unfamiliar with it). I'm afraid Mr Rubenstein edits in a controversial area, and sorry that he has to put up with a rump of editors who are not prepared to discuss points in a proper academic way - The Rev of Bru and CheeseDreams are two such editors. Kind regards, jguk 19:09, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
For what it's worth, here is a page I started, explaining why I felt they were the same people: User:Jayjg/Rev of Bru - CheeseDreams My enthusiasm for the project waned when I realized Rev of Bru was gone, and I found it very time consuming trying to comb through links of the various sockpuppets, especially when the User contributions button was rarely willing to go back more than 500 edits. In any event, the fact that one talked to the other on a Talk: page means little in my opinion; any reasonably intelligent person trying to maintain two sockpuppets would do the same. Jayjg (talk) 04:12, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
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I missed that. What?. TIA. El_C 10:29, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Right, but we knew he wasn't coming back at the time of issuing the request. I suppose I expected some sort of statement to go along with the unexpected closure which followed the evidence submission (i.e it serving some purpose). Any thoughts? El_C 00:34, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The case, then, wasn't "closed following Wareware's departure from Wikipedia," that happned the month before (following the RFC), the case was closed due to the "onslaught of new cases." *** Now, I realize that legalism is cold & techncial, still, a sentence qualifying this, taking 20 seconds to formulate, might have been prudent; and perhaps a brief statement as a precedence. Am I just too sensitive to persecution (my pov) ? Certainly, I still feel very uneasy that it could happen right under my nose. Thanks for reading. 70.28.160.144 20:37, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Dear ArbCom,
I am sorry for appealing to you once again, but, apparently, you are the only authority, which can effectively stop this sockpuppet farce.
As you perhaps remember, massive attacks against me by various sockpuppets took place before. Thus, for example in March 2005 only in one talkpage ( Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh), there emerged at least seven "mock users" (Osmanoglou; Baku Ibne; LIGerasimova; Twinkletoes; StuffedTurkey; Kiramtu Kunettabib; Wikirili – which eventually turned out to be one person) all of which advanced various spurious comments and attacks against me.
Now, same old story is indeed repeating itself: various banned vandals create sockpuppets and wage malicious and spurious attacks against me.
These sockpuppets are: Twinckletoes ( talk · contribs) (definitely same as Twinkletoes/LIGerasimova/Baku Ibne etc); LastExitToBrooklin ( talk · contribs) (definitely sock, but not sure if Rovoam's or LIGerasimova's; see spurious post and personal attack against me [8]) ;
Popgoestheweasle ( talk · contribs), Dudummesstückscheisse ( talk · contribs) (scheisse – curse in German; recall previous sock, Dubistdas LetzteArschloch [9]?.. aka Baku Ibne/LIGerasimova) and Benito Juares ( talk · contribs). From behavior pattern, I'm almost certain, all of them are same as LIGerasimova/Baku Ibne etc.; see fox ex. "Benito Juares'" spurious and implicitly abusive post [10], identical spurious attacks in Talk:Moses Kalankaytuk ( [11]) and in Talk:Caucasus ( [12]).
Now, the most important and most spurious sockpuppet is Rovoam's new sock WikiAdm ( talk · contribs). When I see such behavior, I really become convinced that this person is full of hatred and lies and indeed has absolutely no morale and ethical boundaries…
This "user", which was created in Feb 28 but stayed inactive till June 24, until suddenly re-emerged in Talk:Moses Kalankaytuk and claimed that he was "the original author" of the article and "If Tabib requests that I cannot participate in this discussion, I will claim my copyrights for this material". ( [13]). Then, following User:Francs2000's unconsidered question (see same link), he quickly saw a window of opportunity for himself, and claimed that allegedly User: 64.136.2.254 (Rovoam) who created the entry is different from him and he just happened to coincidentally share his IP.
Pls, read Talk:Moses_Kalankaytuk#Copyright_Warning, where Rovoam literally fools other users, and Talk:Moses_Kalankaytuk#.22Copyright_Warning.22_-_Farce_by_Rovoam where I tried to expose his lies and cheatings (followed by spurious posts by Rovoam/WikiAdm and another sock Twinckletoes…)
Btw, pls, see following diff links for additional details: Rovoam (anon 72.25.94.43, future "WikiAdm") posted this message then I deleted this spurious post (explaining the reasons [14]) and placed notification on RFC [15], then Rovoam restored this spurious post again, this time signed as "WikiAdm" [16].
You all know that Rovoam's real name is Andrey Kirsanov (btw, he also signed his address to ArbCom by this name [17]). I also informed you before that Rovoam owns a Russian web-site http://www.vehi.net (btw, this was earlier than this "WikiAdm" appeared and claimed ownership to this web-site, so, I couldn't predict this). By claiming ownership to this web-site and moreover putting spurious "copyright violation" notice in his web-site ( [18]) Rovoam exposed himself once again. Btw, if you pay attention to this "user's" contrib. log, you would see, that he actively contributed to other entries such as Icon, thus trying to create an impression that he is in fact just an 'ordinary innocent and good-faith user'… Another spurious trick of this unprecedented vandal…
And here is another solid evidence which proves my argument that Rovoam, aka Andrey Kirsanov, is also the owner of www.vehi.net, hence WikiAdm is his sockpuppet. Pls, see, Rovoam's post on Feb 5 in Russian Wikipedia.
Rovoam wrote (Russian)
Translation:
Considering the fact that this person is banned from Wikipedia by the WP community ( [19]) for his systematic and unprecedented vandalisms and dishonest and spurious actions, I ask you to immediately block this person, as well as other sockpuppets of LIGerasimova/Baku Ibne, I have pointed out above. Alternatively, if you think that not ArbCom but admins should block this sock (since Rovoam is banned not by ArbCom but by the WP community [20]), then I ask you to affirm the real identity of this sockpuppet, so that he wouldn't so easily deceive other users, and so that I would turn to admins to proceed my request regarding blocking of this person.
Furthermore, considering the fact that Rovoam himself by his own will placed the content of Moses Kalankaytuk to Wikipedia, I also ask you to recognize that there indeed was no "copyright violation" contrary to spurious claims by Rovoam. Rovoam when submitting this material, should have known (and knew) that by submitting the material he agrees to release it under GNU Free Documentation License. Therefore, I believe, the content should be restored, and after some important editions and corrections, which would neutralize the propaganda contained in the text, Wikipedia can acquire a good entry about Moses Kalankaytuk.
Please, treat this unprecedented sockpuppets' abuse with utmost seriousness and urgency. I hope for your support.
p.s. I also ask you to watch over disclaimer on Rovoam in his userpage. This sockpuppet "Deli Eshek" is vandalizing the disclaimer and advancing spurious attacks against me there.-- Tabib June 28, 2005 05:22 (UTC)
I thank ArbCom members and especially Fred for considering my request and blocking the spurious sockpuppets, including the most spurious ones, i.e. "WikiAdm" (Rovoam) [25] and "Deli-Eshek" (LIGerasimova/Baku ibne etc) [26]. There are some new socks, but I will turn now to individual ArbCom members and/or admins to proceed with my request to block them, it's not a big deal now. Thank you once again.-- Tabib June 30, 2005 05:04 (UTC)
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Dear ArbCom,
Following my brief communication with Fred ( [27]), I ask you to immediately block and ban two sockpuppet accounts of previously banned anon 84.154.xx.xx. aka Baku Ibne/LIGreasimova/Osmanoglou etc. ( Baku Ibne et al. Case). These sockpuppets are Twinkletoes ( talk · contribs) and, as I just found out to my surprise, Deli-Eshek ( talk · contribs).
I was aware about Twinkletoes being a sockpuppet long ago (e.g. see, my post in [[Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh, or RFA/Baku Ibne talkpage). The anon 84.154.xx.xx (Baku Ibne et al anon IP) when vandalizing Safavids page constantly added nonsense to the entry and one of the words that he often referred to was "Twinkletoes". (see, e.g. [28], [29].) Moreover, the similar behavior and edit pattern of this vandal, leaves no question that this "user" is indeed a sock. Pls, review his contrib log for details: everything, from edited pages, to time of edits, and lengths and volume of activity points to the fact that this is indeed a vandal sock, which was overlooked.
The most surprising discovery I just made concerns User:Deli-Eshek's real identity. I was rather surprised that this guy is also actually a sockpuppet of Baku Ibne (I was similarly surprised in the past to learn out from Tony that LIGerasimova, whom I thought to be different person, was actually the same person as 84.154.xx/Baku Ibne/Osmanoglou [30]).
Here is the proof of Deli-Eshek being a sockpuppet: [31]. You can see that this person is actually the same as 84.154.xx.xx (see, [32]) aka Baku Ibne/LIGerasimova/Osmanoglou etc etc. Actually, similarly User:Tony Sidaway has found in the past that LIGerasimova was in fact same person as Baku/Ibne/Osmanoglou ( [33], fixed in evidences presented by Tony [34])).
This "user" has in the past actually "supported" me in Talk:Safavids. He pretended to be an "ethnic Turk" who "agrees" with me on my argument that Safavids were a Turkic-speaking dynasty of Iran, but he was kind of dark horse whose actions did not correspond to his deeds. Thus for example, I couldn't understand his actions, when he attacked various Azeri users (e.g. [35] (in which he allegedly "supports" me) (or this post, which provoked me to carefully approach him and ask him not to wage personal discussions. Then I thought that this guy is realy an ordinary good-faith editor, and all I cared is to advise him not to play into hands of my opponents in Talk:Safavids by waging unnecessary personal discussions).
Besides these two sockpuppets, there are some more e.g. Luba-Gerasimova ( talk · contribs) (which as seen from the name, is same as LIGerasimova (pretending to be a Russian female Luba Ivanovna Gerasimova). The other socks are Kiramtu_Kunettabib ( talk · contribs) and StuffedTurkey ( talk · contribs). I dont have solid evidences against the last two, but I am sure you can easily clarify the issue with those "mock users" as well.-- Tabib 14:23, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
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The Njyoder personal attack parole specifies blocking for Njyoder, not banning. The parole listed in precedents is a ban parole. Is this discrepency deliberate? Should we, for all practical purposes, treat the two as equivalent for the purposes of Njyoder? Remembering in particular that, if it is a block, Njyoder would be justified in editing under another account while blocked so long as he was not flagrant about it? Snowspinner July 1, 2005 16:56 (UTC)
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Kim Bruning has resigned from mentoring Netoholic (he explained his reasoning on RFAr talk). Since that possibility wasn't covered under Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic 2, what should be done in this case? R adiant _>|< July 2, 2005 08:30 (UTC)
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Could you please clarify how one should read the sanction imposed here?
There are three parts each of which seem to have garnered the requisite 5 votes to pass but seem to be mutually exclusive. 2.1 & 2.3 are identical except for the length of the block and the length of time before being allowed to apply for lifting the sanction. 2.2 seems to be more an official warning than a sanction at all, and it recieved 6 votes rather than 5, so is it the standard to be applied?
Is WMC actually subject to a revert parole or not, and what are it's conditions?
Thanks. Dragons flight 02:07, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
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What is the current date of expiration on the ban for Irate? It should have expired today, nominally, but [36] and [37] should have reset it in May to expire in August, if I count right. Am I right on this? Snowspinner 16:45, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
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Iasson is currently subject to a ban of 1 year or 1 year and 3 months following an arbitration case, see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Iasson. At WP:AN/I it has apparently been confirmed that User:Bank of Wikipedia and associated reincarnations are Iasson, if this is true then it is clearly in violation of the ban.
There is no mention in the arbitration pages of whether the ban should be reset (as it does in other arbcom judgments) if it is violated. It is also unclear whether the two bans imposed were to run consecutively or concurrently. Please could you therefore answer the following questions:
Thanks, Thryduulf 19:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
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I need to know about when my most recent Arb sentence expires, the one that regulates my expression of views. Everyking 04:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Another EK-related request for clarification: Are the remedies from Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Everyking still applicable? One of the remedies in that case prevented EK from reverting Ashlee Simpson related articles. Everyking claims that this remedy no longer applies, because "old cases are supplanted by new cases". To his credit, he hasn't actually reverted the article yet, and is participating in discussion. But he did say that he was going to revert Ashlee Simpson in the future. Rhobite 20:48, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
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I noticed that the ArbCom just closed the case against Ed Poor. I had barely created my "evidence" section, and I was just in the process of adding to it when I discovered the case had been closed. It now seems like something of a wasted effort. In the motion to close section, it says that "24 hours from the first motion is normally the fastest a case will close", but while the first motion to close occurred at 18:30 today (september 13th as I write this), the fourth support occurred at 22:59, and the case was closed one minute later. This all seems a bit rushed to me. Did anyone even had time to read and consider my evidence? What kind of time frame is usually allowed, for the gathering and the presentation of evidence? And for the consideration of that evidence? Did other users specifically UninvitedCompany who brought the case or Fvw who had expressed an interest in taking over the case, had ample time to add evidence of their own? Have all the arbitrators had a chance to weight in? Was there a need to proceed so quickly? In my view this can only add to certain negative perceptions already exacerbated by these events. Paul August ☎ 00:06, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Ed Poor has offered to resign as a Wikipedia Bureaucrat. He remains a Wikipedia Administrator in good standing and a valued member of the Wikipedia community. The case is closed without further comment. To actually rule on whether Ed broke policy would be too controversial, I suppose. That he could have broken policy and still be considered a "valued member" is apparently not possible. The impression given seems to be that admins and others given power at wikipedia must maintain a facade of perfection, rather than be human, admit mistakes were made, deal with it, and move on. The mentality would seem to boil down to "you're in, or you're out" and there is no inbetween, which would reflect similar attitudes in a "club" that evolved from thirteen year olds more than a cabal that has been designed. "Lord of the Flies" rather than "1984". Well, at least now we know. FuelWagon 17:44, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
What we have communicated to Ed Poor is that he is not an exception who will be permitted, based on bureaucrat status, to break rules with impunity. Fred Bauder 19:45, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
You are correct on one point: Ed Poor ( talk · contribs) is IN. We are not in the habit of running off people who have contributed substantially to Wikipedia over a period of years. Fred Bauder 14:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
This dead horse is being beaten so severely that it is in danger of turning into a horse smoothie. android 79 17:03, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
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Formally requesting repeal of my mentor arrangement after four months. Everyking 22:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
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The ArbCom has [ [40]] previously ruled on date notation:
When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change. For example, with respect to English spelling as opposed to American spelling it would be acceptable to change from American spelling to English spelling if the article concerned an English subject. Revert warring over optional styles is unacceptable; if the article is colour rather than color, it would be wrong to switch simply to change styles as both are acceptable.
There is a dispute as to whether this, for an article that is stable and which consistently uses BC/AD or consistently uses BCE/CE noation, means that the style should not be changed under any circumstances, or whether there could be a "substantial reason" permitting a change - together with, if the latter is the case, what such a substantial reason could be. (Community-wide discussions on Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate and Wikipedia:Eras/Compromise proposal/Voting may be in point if the ArbCom did mean that there could be reasons for a change.)
A clear statement from ArbCom as to whether they really did mean for articles that are stable and consistent on date notation to never change their date notation, or alternatively a statement as to when, in the light of the existing community-wide discussions, they believe changes are appropriate, would be welcome.
Thanks, jguk 07:20, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
This is ridiculous. Our wording was perfectly clear. Changing BC/AD to CE/BCE, or CE/BCE to BC/AD, should essentially be never done unless there is a very good reason to do so (personally, I have yet to be convinced that such a reason could ever exist, but nomatter). The various numbers of proponents of each "side" that one manages to bring to any particular article to continue this pointless discussion are absolutely irrelevent. Wikipedia is not an exercise in democracy. I would also prefer if people would stop trying to change this from a stylistic point into one of religion; "it can be taken as a profession of Christian faith" my foot. About as much as "bloody timewasting fools" (to pick an example at random) can be considered so ('bloody' being a contraction of "By our Lady").
James F. (talk) 10:54, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Changing from AD-BC to Common Era notation is justified in situations which predate or are unrelated to Christian matters or Western civilization. Such considerations are a substantial reason. Jguk was warned to comply with Wikipedia policy and has continued to violate it. Fred Bauder 14:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change. For example, with respect to English spelling as opposed to American spelling it would be acceptable to change from American spelling to English spelling if the article concerned an English subject. Revert warring over optional styles is unacceptable; if the article is colour rather than color, it would be wrong to switch simply to change styles as both are acceptable (my emphasis).
The suggestion that this should be decided on an article by article basis was rejected on Wikipedia:Eras/Compromise proposal/Voting, and I think with good reason - no-one really wants this dispute to widen to encompass every article with some form of date notation. I also have no doubt that a community-wide consensus on something would change the current approach - but like James F., I really can't see it happening on this issue any time soon - absolutely every proposal on this issue (including those that are suggested again here) has failed to gain even a majority, let alone consensus, jguk 21:06, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
The article that has brought this to a head is
Hebrew calendar. This is primarily a matter of Jewish interest, though not of course exclusively so (I am a Methodist but have made several edits of it). I am bewildered by the argument that Jewish attitudes to the meaning of BC/AD are not relevant. To me, and surely to many other people, these attitudes are an extremely good and valid reason for a change to BCE/CE. Equally, I would hope that there would be no controvers over changing from BCE/CE to BC/AD on an article specifically about a matter of Christian interest.
RachelBrown 21:49, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
If I may make an observation; I was involved in the Hebrew calendar, and looking at its history, it first had AD dating only. Then User:Joe Kress performed a substantial rewrite, and his input had CE dating. Later, User:Kaisershatner did quite a bit of copyediting, unwittingly re-entering some AD dates. Some anonymous user noticed this (assuming good faith) and changed some other dates, but leaving some inconsistency [41]. User:RachelBrown and myself then cleaned up after this, leaving the AD dates for the sake of consistency. All editors on this article preferred going back to CE dating, and that's what happened.
The problem is that an article may not have a clear preference for either style at some point (this is unavoidable), and saying "no change to dating style" and "be consistent within an article" are conflicting and ambiguous in such situations. I thought it in the spirit of WP that in cases like these the editors reach consensus and do what must be done, and WP policy is only to prevent individuals from single handedly going into edit wars over it. squell 19:21, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
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Is Jarlaxle Artemis blocked indefinitely by an admin, or banned by the ArbCom (the ArbCom doesn't usually ban indefinitely)? I ask because he is strongly suspected of still creating articles: if he is banned, they are speedies, if he is merely blocked, they are not. The text of the final decision signed by Raul654 uses the word banned, but the case was closed. - Splash talk 01:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
If someone makes so much trouble that they are blocked indefinitely by an administrator and no other administrator sees fit to unblock them (including all the Arbitration Committee who generally are administrators) the arbitration committee may chose to not unblock them merely to render a decision regarding their behavior. Obviously if they return as a sockpuppet the case may be either reopened or the sockpuppets also blocked depending on how much general uproar ensues. Fred Bauder 22:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Allow me, the administrator who more or less saw to it that Jarlaxle was booted from Wikipedia for good, clarify once and for all...
JarlaxleArtemis is BANNED from Wikipedia. He is listed at Wikipedia:List_of_banned_users, and after he swore his head off at a steward, he was banned from all MediaWiki projects. Jarlaxle is not by any means welcome on Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wikiquote, Commons, Wikitionary, etc. etc. etc. To this day he is STILL harrassing users by impersonation and defamation. Need any more be said? JarlaxleArtemis is permenantly banned from Wikipedia and all Wikimedia projects. </rant> Linuxbeak | Talk 20:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
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On 5 October, after the expiration of his one-month ban, Gabrielsimon ( arb case) returned as Gimmiet ( talk · contribs · block log). Gimmiet was barely an improvement on the old Gabrielsimon, violating his 1RR three times in as many days (on Otherkin and Clinical lycanthropy).
On the 9th, 69.195.126.149 ( talk · contribs · block log) reverted Otherkin twice. This IP was verified to be GS from email headers sent to SlimVirgin and myself. As per the "repeated violations" clause of the case, GS was blocked for a week. The same day, Sg'te'gmuj ( talk · contribs · block log) reverted Otherkin once, and left an edit on Talk:Otherkin in classic GS style. There was no sock check, but the circumstancial evidence was so strong that the new account was blocked indefinitely, and GS was banned for another month (plus six days remaining on his 3RR block), per the judgment of SlimVirgin, myself, android79, and Bryan Derksen.
After this, he attempted to remove the block from his talk page (leading to its protection), and sent an email to SlimVirgin (under the Sg'te'gmuj name) claiming not to be GS (while using the same IP that had reverted). GS sent SlimVirgin an email as well, suggesting that the IP was DreamGuy. Again - same IP in the headers.
On 20 October, the same IP made one reversion on Otherkin, which unfortunately was not noticed. On 22 October, the IP made 11 reversions on Otherkin and 2 on Clinical lycanthropy. The ban was extended to 2 months from that date (expiring 22 December).
Gimmiet sent me the following email that day:
I have not post4d at all since i was blocked. Today, i was reading along about dot hack and sudeenly i get mail on wiki, which is suprising, becaseu i have a protected tlak page. aparently slimvirgin hates me, because she thinks someone new is me. could SOMEONE make that bitch leave me alone? Im already reblocked once becasue of her, i dont need more horseshit.... pardon my language, but im really getting sick of this.
I forwarded this to SlimVirgin, and she said:
It's definitely him, yet he's sent me several e-mails denying it; one e-mail saying it's DreamGuy and that we should ask the developers to confirm it; and then an e-mail yesterday saying the only reason he realized he'd been blocked was that he got an e-mail about it through Wikipedia. But I didn't e-mail him, yet he knew immediately, because he e-mailed me about it within minutes of the block being applied.
This repeated pattern of behavior indicates that Gabriel/Gimmiet has poor self-control, is immature and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future, and is an overall detriment to Wikipedia. SlimVirgin and I have agreed that we would like to petition the ArbCom for tighter restrictions on Gabriel. The main problem is clearly his inability to not revert other users' contributions that he disagrees with. We therefore think that, when he returns in two months, he should not be allowed to revert other users at all, or delete content. We also suggest that longer bans (up to a week) be enabled for even non-repeated violations of his restrictions.
Sorry for the long-winded exposition, and this is just a suggestion. However, I strongly believe that to reduce disruption and unpleasantness, tighter restrictions on this editor's actions are justified. ~~ N ( t/ c) 17:10, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
If you will look at the votes for acceptance of Gabrielsimon you will see there was some reluctance to even accept the case as he was viewed a newbie, perhaps a younger user, who should be cut some slack. This orientation is reflected in the decision which presumes he is capable of improvement. As a practical matter since he seemingly cannot resist sockpuppeting, provided his ban is periodically extended as provided for in Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Gabrielsimon#Enforcement, he will be indefinitely banned. Fred Bauder 13:03, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Agree with Fred. His ban has been extended once, I'd like to see it extended a number of times before being willing to ban indefinately, but if it comes to it then that's what will happen. I don't believe tightening the restrictions will cure the problem. if he's willing to break a 1RR why would he be unwilling to break a 0RR? Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 15:58, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
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Gavin the Chosen was blocked for a month as part of a recent arbitration decision, but I'm concerned that this hasn't stopped him from continuing his harassment against me. One of the findings in that case was that he followed me around, posting insulting comments, and doing things to try to interfere with my normal editing here (such as jumping onto articles he had never touched before specifically to undo whatever I had done or to egg fights on).
Even though he is blocked I am still getting harassing emails from him through the WIikipedia email link, which I hesitate to disable as it is a way for people to contact me directly about issues related to the encyclopedia. Furthermore I have run across a number of editors recently who after a single disagreement have escalated into very mean-spirited attacks, claiming that they had been privately emailed and "warned" about my behavior by an editor who wished to give them all the details of my supposed campaigns to destroy articles, etc. which is all the same nonsense Gabriel/Gavin would try to tell people. These editors then pick up the campaign of insults on various talk pages.
The month block was intended to be a way for Gabriel to take a break and think about his actions here, but instead his harassment still continues. He apparently still watches all the articles he was involved in emotional disputes with earlier, as he mentions what has happened recently on them in his emails.
I would request that his account be disabled outright so he cannopt access emails (and since the RfA finding said he should come back under a different name after his block expired, there's no reason for his current one to be active) or that his month long block be reset so that his activities here are completely stopped for the agreed upon month. DreamGuy 21:16, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
He has sent me the following three messages. ~~ N ( t/ c) 22:22, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Unfortunatly, it would seem to me that dreamGuy's accusation revenge for the arbitration process that he is undergoing. I have kept my word , as for the end of the baqrgain that is my arbitration. I have sent him nothing, larghely becaseu i wish him to have no contact with me ( frankly hes aggravating) It is my beleif that this unfounded accusaton prooves the accusation i have placed against him in the matter of his methods and bad faitrh in his operating style here on wikipedia. I ame accross this message to s end ytou a message becase u my watchlist contains the RFAr page, (along with many others)
and as for the detaqils about mean spirited attacks, it se ems that the attacks were perpatrated by dfreamGuy, just look at the edit history of his talk page...
Also it would stand to reason if I have been gone for a month and others, some of whoim ive had zero contact with are saying what i was saying about how dreamguy opwerates on wikipedia, then it cant be a coincidance. perhaps this is farther proof of his defamitory adgenda on some articles such as Otherklin and Therianthropy, and his general, totally incurable lack of civillity towards other users in general.
This is the reason why i grew tired of him, and his wayhs of acusations and atte mpting to play the system and fiegn victim status.
in the light that i have done nothing that he accuses me of, i would ask you to disregard his lies, and possibly add attampting to file a false RFAr against me as a revenbge tactic to the eviance page of his RFAr IN that mnatter, my hands are tied, but i w ould appreciate it greatly if you and the other arbitreators would be so kind as to disregard his accusations against me, because they are fabrications.
(i find it intersting how hes trying to have my account destoryed... interesting way of going about it, making false accusations and suich, isnt it?) sorry if i got a little long woinded or a little repetative, but this is being written as the first trhing after i got here from work.
thanks, and feel free to send this message to other arbitrators, or to contact me for conversation at gagb@gabrielsimon.com on MSN or filmbuff42 on YIM.
thanks for listening.
hew also said that the find9ing of the case was that i followed him around. this is blatently false. its the complete op[posite in fact. but im not trying to be vindictive, only accurate.
thanks for listening again
i do not see the harm in looking at pages and ar ticles while im gone... i already he some changes i plan to make when im back...
i cant see the harm...
(after I had posted the above)
i still maintain the truith of the matter. i have not and shall not email iuser dreamguym simply because hes not worth my time. his antics have gone on a long, long time, and ecasue he hides behind police, and then goes and beats other people with them, as would a cave dweller bludgeon prey.
it does puzzell me w hy you posted my response though.
DreamGuy you need not even bring up my name about this for one I do not send people email on Wikipedia. I may have had multiple disputes with you, but like I said before I am not going to debate you anymore because it's not even worth my time, I am rarely even here anymore because I found Wikinfo. Furthermore if your going to even try to accuse me of being involved, you better have some evidence..........So put your evidence were your mouth is........that is all Khaosinfire 01:10, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
=+==Again===+
Now Gabriel has started up the harassing emails yet again from the same email address as before (even though he has a new user name ( User:Gimmiet), and magically there is also other problem editors yet again trying to justify their policy-violating edits because they were "warned" that I was a problem editor (see Anti-Mason editor User:Lightbringer's comments here.
Gabriel's actions repeatedly egg other editors on into doing bad behavior, and his claims above that he wouldn't email me to harass me or email other people to cause more mischief are false, specifically because I have more mail sitting right here. I was willig to drop it above if he stopped, but he's escalating his mischief. This editor has never contributed anything of any value to thisproject that I can see, and quite to the opposite has caused an exceedingl large number of problems. DreamGuy 23:13, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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This user has emailed me and requested that his block be lifted, claiming that there are no legal proceedings between himself and either Meelar or Firebug. The AC decision appears to conclude that there is at least the appearance of a legal threat. Therefore, I have asked Mlorrey to affirm on his talk page that no legal action is underway, and to clarify the meaning of the purported "injunction" on the RFC page, as preconditions for removing the block. I invite AC members and the Wikipedia community in general to review this action and comment or amend as they see fit. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 19:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
As the legal dispute has been resolved, by the terms of Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Mlorrey#Editing_ban the ban ought to be lifted. In retrospect perhaps it was just a misunderstanding caused by an unhappy choice of language. In response to Jtkiefer, problems may remain, but the hope is that the experience has been productive in terms of encouraging Mlorrey to do better. Fred Bauder 14:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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Taking on board the comments from the community. I propose we remove his RFA and deal with the matter ourselves. Do any of my fellow arbitrators agree? Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 14:56, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
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(Older material removed)
To me it would seem like opposing an RFA for Cool Cat within ten minutes of its creation and notice on Cool Cat's page, is ... well, somewhat hounding behavior. I think it would be obvious to most that Cool Cat would turn down the RFA, and that if he didn't he wouldn't come near passing at this time. The impression Davenbelle's action gave me is that he was just looking for a chance to give Cool Cat another kick. Regardless of his intentions I think he should avoid giving such an impression. Is this acceptable behavior in light of the Arbcom decision? -- Gmaxwell 17:48, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
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Please refer to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DreamGuy for details.
It is unacceptable that this request has been closed. I am told that no action has been taken; indeed, with the exception of Fred Bauder, the Arbitration Committee appears to have taken no action at all with regard to the request. It is inconsiderate to move to close without participating to any degree; it is unreasonable that the votes of Committee members who made no effort should have weight against the member who did. I ask that the Arbitration Committee do the work expected of them. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ ᑐ 23:59, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I think the issue was a little too subtle Fred Bauder 18:30, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm amazed this has been removed already. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since it was Raul654, who moved to close in the first place, but this indicates the Arbitration Committee is not interested in fairness. Below is an email that I'm relaying from Gavin the Chosen, since he has not been given an opportunity to comment. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ ᑐ 14:52, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Further:
Communication in secret really undermines the validity and usefulness of arbitration. There is no record that any discussion took place, which is vital to a fair and complete decision. The committee appears unscrupulous. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ ᑐ 20:11, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
ArbCom is interested in fairness. They fairly looked at your ridiculous claims and dismissed them. And Gabriel of course is not an objective judge on what proper Wikipedia behavior is, considering that he has been banned for several months now and is still blocked for another month. The ruling clarified the point that you and Gabriel have nothing to stand on in your accusations. You lost. Accusing ArbCom of improper or biased conduct only goes to further prove my point that you two were just acting out of personal malice and that your POV-pushing was something that needed to be stopped, even if you were upset about it and tried to paint NPOV language as "bad faith". Please learn from this incident and stop making false accusations. DreamGuy 19:31, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
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Am I correct to assume that, when an ArbCom member voices an opinion on an issue not currently under arbitration and not related to arbitration procedure, that ArbCom member is speaking for him- or herself, that his or her opinion does not necessarily match that of the rest of the ArbCom, and that his or her opinion should be given the same weight as that of any other editor in good standing?
I believe this to be obvious, since the alternative seems be to disallow ArbCom members from voicing their opinion on anything before consulting their peers, which is kind of silly. To be absolutely clear, I am not accusing anybody of anything. I just noticed that some people mistook the opinion of some arbitrator to be more official than the opinion of anybody else, when it was not intended as such. So I thought some clarification might be in order. In particular, I would like to see a short statement along these lines added somewhere on our Arbitration Policy pages. R adiant _>|< 13:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
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What is the policy regarding parties that are subject to an RFAr but do not answer or even acknowledge the existance of the RFAr? I am refering to User:Pigsonthewing. What happens if he just blatantly ignores the calls on his talk page to answer the RFAr filed? I mean, you can't just let the case grow old and moldy. Linuxbeak | Talk 18:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
We look at the evidence and accept it if appropriate; notify him that it was accepted and go ahead and hear the case. Fred Bauder 19:01, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
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I think in analogies, so I have one for this situation. Right now, POTW is much like a speeder on the highway, going 90 miles per hour when there are no police around or when he feels like it, going down to the speed limit when police are around or when he feels like it, and then once he feels like it or the police presence is gone, he goes back up to 90 miles per hour.
However, unlike traffic cops, you don't need a radar gun to see evidence, you can see it in his behavior in the past from his contribs and the RfC. Whether he's speeding right now or not is irrelevant, he deserves a ticket. Karmafist 16:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
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Per this page, [42], and it's advice to bring issue's pertaining to enforcement of a previous arbitration ruling to the RfAr, this information has been posted here.
Recently, Rex has been causing a lot of trouble at John Kerry. He has consistently edit-warred and has forced the page into protection Twice [43] [44] while at the same time violating 3RR Twice [45] [46]. The issue is the same exact one that has been brought up in previous ArbComm hearing's: John Kerry's 1st Purple Heart. In fact Rex talks about that in his opening statement in his first ArbComm hearing. [47]. Numerous people have attempted to dialog with Rex regarding this, so much so, that the discussion now occupies 6 archive spaces and approximately 700 kb worth of talk not including the current talkpage. [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] A vote was recently attempted to try and close the discussion. [54] Even after that, Rex continued to push his POV, which resulted in the page being protected for the second time. [55]
My question is this, do the Remedies, Enforcements and Judgements from previous Arbitrations still apply to this case? [56] Or have they all expired as Rex claims they have? [57] Do the three previous arbitration cases and two previous RfCs [58] [59] which involved this same exact issue; John Kerry's 1st Purple Heart; constitute an attempt at other methods of dispute resolution? Does the community need to go through a 4th Arbitration Case against Rex over the same issue? Or is there a "Requesting Enforcement of Previous Arbitration Ruling" template that I am missing? -- Mr. Tibbs 20:55, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
May I back up Mr Tibbs's intervention here. Rex has reduced the John Kerry page to chaos with endless nitpicking rows (Does a wounded man have a 'wound'? Is a bandage necessarily made of cloth? Medical definitions ad nausuam, a list of 50 'issues' he wants discussed, which actually boil down to five repeated in different ways over and over again, etc.) Rex's antics have alienated people who tried to be fair to him and listened to his endless raising of the same issues over and over and over and over, or rather his agreeing something, moving on, then returning back to square one 48 hours later and starting the argument all over again. The article and talk pages are right now unusable and will remain so until until Rex's antics are dealt with and ended. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 21:40, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I'll throw in my own voice here. Though Rex is technically more polite than he was before the previous RfArs, he is doing exactly the same thing: obsessively focusing on doing whatever he can to make sure that John Kerry is not elected President in 2004. -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 22:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
The key question is, whose job is it to enforce the rulings that he is continuing, with more cunning and subtlety this time, to break? All that seems to happen is that an edit war breaks out, the page is protected and some well meaning admin (who hasn't time to read the 'War and Peace'-size archives) suggests that the issues be discussed first rather than edit warring. Everyone tells them that we have listened and talked and discussed and voted repeatedly and that the problem is that Rex ignores it all and goes back to the start and begins the whole charade again, and again, and again ad infinitum. Nobody seems able to actually know the ruling and enforce it, so the page and talk page ends up stuck in a timewarp of Rex's let start again for the nth time edits, with rows, edit war, protection, unprotection, 'please all communicate', Rex's epistles, rows, edit war, protection . . . etc. People need help (or free Wikipedia Valium!) FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 05:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
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I'd appreciate some clarification of the ruling on User:Yuber. He has been revert warring at Syria ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Syrian occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and History of Syria ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), deleting properly sourced and relevant information. I protected three of the above recently and 40 minutes after I unprotected, he reverted one of them again. [62]
He has also created Israeli occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) as an apparent WP:POINT, because he failed in his efforts to have Syrian occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) moved (or moved back) to "Syrian presence in Lebanon".
I want to warn him that he may be in violation of the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Yuber decision, but I'm not clear whether he is. Under "remedies," the ruling is limited to Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Yuber is placed on Wikipedia:Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban him from any article which relates to Islam or to the Israeli-Paletinian conflict which he disrupts by inappropriate editing ... [63]
But under "enforcement," it seems to apply to any article:
Should a Wikipedia administrator feel it necessary that Yuber be banned from an article where he is engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article or any other activity which the user considers disruptive they shall place a template {{Yuber banned}} at the top of the talk page of the article and notify Yuber on his talk page ... [64]
So my question is: are Syria, History of Syria, Lebanon, Syrian occupation of Lebanon and Israeli occupation of Lebanon covered by the ruling? SlimVirgin (talk) 08:18, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
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There are a few outstanding issues which I would be most grateful if the Committee would please clarify for me regarding the status of the accounts which were banned under the former temporary injunction. Since I was requested by Fred to make the various blocks on the temporary injunction, it means I have been receiving the e-mail dialogue from the parties wishing to be unbanned, and as a consequence of the recent closing of the case a few have written to me asking to be unbanned. My queries are as follows:
I am most grateful for the Committee's work on this matter, and would appreciate an expeditious response since I have been receiving some consternation from various blocked users via e-mail. Best regards, -- NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 02:52, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Unblock anyone who is blocked but who has not been trying to edit the article. Those who you are sure have been trying to edit the article during the injunction, need not be unblocked. Please don't unblock XAL. I'll try to help you with this tomorrow. Fred Bauder 04:47, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't think you are responsible for this mess. You only need to unblock folks when you have time. Fred Bauder 05:06, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd appreciate some clarification of the ruling on User:Yuber. He has been revert warring at Syria ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Syrian occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and History of Syria ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), deleting properly sourced and relevant information. I protected three of the above recently and 40 minutes after I unprotected, he reverted one of them again. [65]
He has also created Israeli occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) as an apparent WP:POINT, because he failed in his efforts to have Syrian occupation of Lebanon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) moved (or moved back) to "Syrian presence in Lebanon".
I want to warn him that he may be in violation of the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Yuber decision, but I'm not clear whether he is. Under "remedies," the ruling is limited to Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Yuber is placed on Wikipedia:Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban him from any article which relates to Islam or to the Israeli-Paletinian conflict which he disrupts by inappropriate editing ... [66]
But under "enforcement," it seems to apply to any article:
Should a Wikipedia administrator feel it necessary that Yuber be banned from an article where he is engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article or any other activity which the user considers disruptive they shall place a template {{Yuber banned}} at the top of the talk page of the article and notify Yuber on his talk page ... [67]
So my question is: are Syria, History of Syria, Lebanon, Syrian occupation of Lebanon and Israeli occupation of Lebanon covered by the ruling? SlimVirgin (talk) 08:18, 19 November 2005 (UTC)