This IP user seems to be edit warring. [1] Could they be a blocked or banned user returning to cause trouble? Jehochman Talk 19:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC) reply
The unblock appears to be a mistake. Here are the diffs for edit warring: [2] [3] [4] [5] When a user makes the same edit over and over and over again, that's edit warring. I like the way the user wikilawyers with ChrisO. It reminds me of Neutral Good ( talk · contribs) and BryanFromPalatine ( talk · contribs). Jehochman Talk 21:55, 5 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Sorry about all the drama here. I was not trying to be disruptive and didn't know this was a "problem" article until I was told so on my talk page. I will try not to revert more than once on this article. The differences above are from 2 days ago before I was warned. Also, I was blocked awhile back when I first came here, not twice in one week. Thank you.-- 70.109.223.188 ( talk) 14:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC) Bold text reply
Due to growing risk of an edit war (three reverts by each of the two parties yesterday, and claims by one of which that such a risk is high), I have taken the preventative step of restricting Dpotop ( talk · contribs) and Xasha ( talk · contribs) to one revert per two days for two weeks on all related articles and zero-tolerance for incivility on the talk pages. I bring this measure to discussion before other uninvolved admins, whom I am asking to help enforce this. Note that I am forgoing the warning this time and thus am not logging it in the arbitration page — let this measure serve as a warning, and let's hope it resonates (if enough uninvolved admins feel that position is in error, the restrictions will be revoked). Thx. El_C 11:43, 7 March 2008 (UTC) reply
BereTuborg ( talk · contribs) added to the restrictions. El_C 18:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Please block 91.121.88.13 ( talk · contribs) for reverting the removal of a link to ED per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MONGO. Will ( talk) 15:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC) reply
The ruling says "Links to Encyclopædia Dramatica may be removed wherever found on Wikipedia as may material imported from it." A debate on the DRV is ongoing here. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I've requested clarification on the ruling itself: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Request for clarification: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MONGO. Mackensen (talk) 16:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This may or may not violate the Arbcom rulings at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist; I'll let the readers decide. The links:
Additionally, he's edited tendentiously, as well as against consensus. The above article ( electronic voice phenomenon) was locked due to editwarring. The edit war occurred between SA and User:LionelStarkweather. See this diff for the last edit before it was locked, showing the content dispute. It was was locked with the Lionel version intact; while locked, there was a discussion on the talk which initially include SA; however, he stopped discussing after a while. Following the article's unlocking, he reverted without any further mention, starting a revert war that led to the article being locked again. He also removed the infobox and a sound file without any talk discussion and vague edit summaries ( here and here). He calims WP:V on the second; it is not being used as a source, ergo, WP:V doesn't apply.
Per the arbcom ruling, he's restricted from making disruptive edits. I would argue that these edits are extremely disruptive, especially seeing the (for a while) constructive discussion that was occurring (see Talk:Electronic voice phenomenon sections "Moving on" and "edit request". 130.101.152.155 ( talk) 19:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I can vouch for this user. I am in contact by email, and the IP is a sock of a Wikipedia user who is in good standing. The IP has, for exceptionally obvious reasons, decided to use only an IP on this article. The EVP article is once again locked, as with so many other articles, because of ScienceApologist's actions. Also, I do not believe that this user knows of the previous claims here against SA on this page, and I did not know of this claim till I saw it now on my talk page, nor did I urge this claim. —— Martinphi ☎ Ψ Φ—— 21:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I find that there is no incivility, and that the IP editor is using multiple IP accounts in a way that prevents scrutiny of their contributions. Such an account should not be used to level accusations at another editor. At this point, I am not going to block the IP, but I suggest that they register a pseudonym account and use it consistently. This will avoid revealing their real life identity and provide a measure of transparency to other editors who have a legitimate interest in tracking the IP editor's contributions. Jehochman Talk 21:31, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Fresh off a block and right back at it... I'm not going to list specific diffs since pretty much every other edit summary is a case in itself. Check out Special:Contributions/ForeverFreeSpeech.
Cheers, pedro gonnet - talk - 07.03.2008 16:46
What arbcom case is this from? — Rlevse • Talk • 12:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Banned user appears to have reapeared once again this time as User:weighted Companion Cube. User makes first post on Wikipedia just two days after User:RodentofDeath is referred to ArbCom.
Rodent has already been caught out twice breaching his ban.
User:weighted Companion Cube has posted on same disputed article and seems to follow the same wording and tactics of RodentofDeath.
Then this user posts in deletion request a posting that is an obvious defence of RodentofDeath and seems to taunt User:Edgarde, who had been one of the complainents in the arbitration case.
Edgarde had just previously posted this on my talk page.
Rodent has previously stated in his ArbCom case that he travels and uses multiple IP addresses. A look on this user's talk page also shows the same sort of problems he had as RodentofDeath with other Editors. Susanbryce ( talk) 22:43, 7 March 2008 (UTC)slight copyediting and link piping by • VigilancePrime • • • 23:01 (UTC) 7 Mar '08 for ease of readability. reply
Please restore
Son of Stimpy per the injunction in
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters 2. This article was deleted on March 5. Related discussion at
User talk:Seicer.
Catchpole (
talk) 16:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
reply
For the duration of this case, no editor shall redirect or delete any currently existing article regarding a television series episode or character; nor un-redirect or un-delete any currently redirected or deleted article on such a topic, nor apply or remove a tag related to notability to such an article. Administrators are authorized to revert such changes on sight, and to block any editors that persist in making them after being warned of this injunction.
Gee, thanks for notifying me of this. seicer | talk | contribs 00:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Giano's not getting blocked today - any block would be without consensus, for one thing, and inappropriate anyway, for another. Whether he was baited or not is, for now, not relevant. The most depressing thing about this is the way all the old hatreds and jealousies have sprung out from under the bed, yet again, when potential Giano drama enters the room. Moreschi ( talk) 20:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/IRC#Civility:_Giano placed Giano under the following restriction: "Should Giano make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, Giano may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling below.".
Is this compatible with arbcom's ruling? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This seems to a bit of a stretch. I am particularly unimpressed by this comment by BrownHairedGirl to Giano: " Does anyone know what strange quirk of the weather has brought Giano back around here to troll on behalf of Vintagekits?" which is most certainly uncivil, an assumption of bad faith and frankly unbecoming of an administrator. To then file a request for enforcement against Giano is pretty ridiculous. WjB scribe 13:55, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
All users that work in the area of arbitration enforcement are expected to work collaboratively as they enforce the Committee's rulings. I expect that both BrownhairedGirl and Giano will discussion various approaches to enforcing our ruling in thoughtful and civil manner. Two wrongs do not make a right. Brownhairedgirl, if you have concerns about Giano's approach to dealing with Vintagekits, then state them in a manner that describes the problem without using inflammatory words. Giano, if you have concerns about the approach that administrators are using when dealing with Vintagekits, then state them in a manner that describes the problem without using inflammatory words. This is a caution to both of you. Both of you, please take this advise on board so no further warning or sanctions are needed. FloNight ♥♥♥ 14:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Calling any editor in good standing a troll is inflammatory, unrequired, and unbecoming. We should simply issue an official warning to Brownhairded girl for violating NPA and being disruptive, and be done with it. Lawrence § t/ e 15:27, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Folks, if no action is going to be taken on this enforcement request (and it looks like that is the case) then it should be archived. Spreading disputes to multiple forums is part of both underlying issues here, so lets not support prolonging the problem. Avruch T 16:22, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
ZOMG, an admin acted stupid, and Giano called them stupid. Oh, horrors. Zocky | picture popups 20:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Subject to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist#Martinphi restricted Martin is banned from making disruptive edits. I believe that this edit is disruptive because he
ScienceApologist ( talk) 02:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
On 19 October 2007, SevenOfDiamonds ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) was banned as a sockpuppet of the banned NuclearUmpf ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). [31] It is my belief that WheezyF ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is a sockpuppet of these banned users.
My suspicions intially arose from this checkuser case:
Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Stone put to sky
In that case, there were two accounts named after playing cards TenOfSpades ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and ElevenOfHearts ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) that were used to make Ultramarine ( talk · contribs) look bad by faking sockpuppetry on his part. Both of those "playing card" accounts were found to be sockpuppets of WheezyF. Note that the two WheezyF sockpuppets and SevenOfDiamonds have very similar usernames.
When comparing the WheezyF and the SevenOfDiamonds accounts, I saw that the WheezyF account was created on and began editing on 19 October 2007. [32] [33]
This is the day after SevenOfDiamonds' last edit [34] and the day that account was banned as a result of the arbcom decision.
The two accounts (WheezyF and SevenOfDiamonds/NuclearUmpf) share common interests such as rap music [35] [36] and the State terrorism and the United States article. On the aforementioned article, Wheezy F has pushed the same "anti-U.S. foreign policy" POV that was often pushed by SevenOfDiamonds. [37] [38] [39] [40] These last four diffs were chosen at random. There are many, many more.
It would be much appreciated if a checkuser would confirm that WheezyF edits from the New York area, which was where the NuclearUmpf/SevenOfDiamonds accounts edited from. [41] Ice Cold Beer ( talk) 18:37, 10 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Giovanni33 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) has a very long block log. He has previously been blocked for breaking his parole. He has again broken his 1 revert a week parole on the State terrorism and the United States article.
Reverts:
In both cases cases reverted material include adding the Arno Mayer quote back to the introduction. The quote was previously in the article in the same place as seen here: [47] He himself admits that he is reverting material in the edit commentaries of both edits. Ultramarine ( talk) 17:04, 12 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Arbcom case:
Editor
Liftarn (
talk ·
contribs) has been making:
Liftarn ( talk · contribs) has been violating Purpose of Wikipedia spirit removing sources and claiming OR on each and every word that might be critical of the article's subject. He also routinely uses the " per talk" reasoning for edits not discussed or at least clearly not agreed upon on talk.
His latest edit [50], explained with "We have been over this already." removed well cited material who's removal was not discussed anywhere, and also the removal of two valid external links which he previously removed under the " promotional clutter" claim.
I've tried resolving issues with him and opened a WP:3O request, but frankly, discussions were going nowhere and I've personally had it with the editor's refusal to get the points raised, follow WP:NPOV and editorial process.
Respectfully. Jaakobou Chalk Talk 23:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC) reply
It is suspected that User:BryanFromPalatine, aka User:Neutral Good, aka User:Shibumi2, is back again as Wakedream ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki). His various comments began to draw concern, especially after threads at User_talk:Wakedream#Prior_account and User_talk:Jehochman#NPOV_and_Waterboarding. Wakedream edited random articles on December 17 2007, but since March 8 2008 has waded into waterboarding with language and arguments similar to the advocacy of BFP and NG. His extremely negative reaction to Jehochman's simple question here also set off warning alarms. Lawrence § t/ e 13:06, 13 March 2008 (UTC) reply
(clerks please feel free to move this as needed) I was contacted offline to look into this (I think maybe that might not be a good approach as it can lead to duplicate efforts). I concur with Thatcher here, there's no provable connection to NeutralGood/BryanFromPalantine et al, but something is up... I've shared some of my other findings with Thatcher as well. ++ Lar: t/ c 15:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC) reply
RFCU filed: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Wakedream. Thanks guys. Lawrence § t/ e 15:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This editor is a self-admitted member of the Ulster Unionist Party and Young Unionists, and his recent editing to the latter article is giving me cause for concern. In particular edits like this where he claims everything is referenced by these two sources:
This is complete nonsense. As can be seen, the former was published in 1973, and the latter in May 2004. After checking the latter on Amazon Online Reader (only available on the UK site, not the US one) there are only three mentions of "Young Unionists" in the entire book.
As the first source cannot source anything post-1973, this leaves the following information unsourced, despite TU claiming it was sourced by the book.
Some sources were added in an additional edit, but they seem to be sourcing events at the 2004 AGM, when the first source is from January 2004 and states the AGM will take place in March, and the second source was published a few days later and still pre-dates the AGM.
Given the COI and what seems to be a clear misrepresentation of what a source says (in this case - not much!) I welcome further discussion about whether his editing to that article is compatible with an acceptable standard. One Night In Hackney 303 01:07, 10 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Firstly, Young Unionists is a more modern form of the orginisations name. The more formal Ulster Young Unionist Council was more common in these publications. Harbinson's book covers the formation of the orginisation fully. I have to say I didn't realise that Brian Faulkner's memoirs and David Hume's Phd thesis (as published) wern't listed as sources, I though they were. Please read [ [52]] and [ [53]] for some context to my reluctance to take the users edits constructively. Traditional unionist ( talk) 10:21, 10 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Note that I am a breath away from censuring Jaakobou for his mockery; of User:Tiamut's notice. This intentional bad blood will not be tolerated. El_C 19:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Unfortunately, Durova (Jaakobou's mentor) seems to mistake her role for a defense attorney (I'd appreciate informed comments, instead [54]) . El_C 02:18, 15 March 2008 (UTC) reply
(outdent) El C is mistaken when he supposes how much I understood when I intervened. In fact the first thing I did was advise Jaakobou to withdraw the offending reference and post an apology; it was imperative that he do so promptly. On the heels of those corrective steps El C's block warning was counterproductive. A direct result of that warning was several hours' delay in the follow-up apology that Tiamut deserved. It is by no means easy to show an editor the seriousness of a thoughtless gaffe when he thinks he is being singled out for punitive reasons. The consistently sharp edged tone of El C's subsequent posts both here and at my user talk fed Jaakobou's worries, and it does little good for the overall dispute to make barbs about my credibility (especially undeserved ones). I repeat my request that he refactor.
If there are further steps that I can take to set things back on track I will gladly do so. Bear in mind, please, that I've had very lengthy chats with Jaakobou during the last 24 hours and have put off other commitments to give this immediate attention. Durova Charge! 17:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Case
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Liancourt Rocks.
The user banned (Wikimachine) has continued to edit with very obvious and sarcastic comments, attempting in my opinion to continue disrupting the same pages as he did before.
He has edited from various anonymous IP's making essentially the same arguments as he did before on the same pages, some which are edited by very few other editors. Some example IP's he has used are 69.245.41.113, 69.180.210.99, 69.180.193.52, etc.
Aside from these comments being essential copy and pastes of his old arguments, and him signing with "A former Wikipedian," and referring to how he will "continue the fight when is allowed back in a few months" they are from the same geographic area as the original user (see [ [55]]). If you would like further information please let me know. If this should be put somewhere else and not here also please let me know and I will follow up. Thank you very much.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.205.165.177 ( talk) 2008-03-15T23:46:29 (UTC)
Both findings (Wikimachine and LactoseTI/Komdori) are certainly correct. Wikimachine's block extended to another year from today. Appletrees, can you give us a link to the corresponding posting on 2ch please? These days, I'm certainly inclined to take no crap from people who use anon IPs and post to 2ch. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC) reply
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Why is nothing being done to stop this editor continuing to edit war and POV pushing, he was named in the arbcom but instead of answering his case there he decided to disappear until the arbcom was ended, he was also involved in mediation on the same issue, and dispite being unable to provide WP:RS to support his edits he continued to edit war throughout the mediation which resulted in the mediation process being abandoned.
He has recently started to edit war again on the issue in breach of principles#2 and principles#3 of the arbcom ruling. I have reported him in the past couple of days to two admins, to date neither have done anything about it. Some of the articles and templates he has been disruptive on include:
Astrotrain has a been blocked numerous times for both edit warring on this issue and making personal attacks on other editors and myself, he also came back as a possible for using anon IPs to continue evade 3RR in edit wars.-- Padraig ( talk) 21:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Personally, I'd be delighted to see 99% of the flags removed from wikipedia, but however tedious the little national emblems are in list entries, Astrotrain has been busy adding huge flags to articles where they are barely relevant and — as he well knows — highly provocative. As well as the addition of the Union Flag to 1801 in Ireland, he also added the Ulster Banner to 1953 in Ireland (in this edit), which seems to me to be nothing gratuitous mischief-making. There is a separate 1953 in Northern Ireland article where it might have some relevance (though it seems pretty marginal to me), but I can't see any useful purpose its addition to 1953 in Ireland. The whole Ulster flag debate is a minefield, and it took a lot of effort by many folks to achieve some stability there, and trying to reopen it like this is disruptive (his comment here of "how can a flag be POV?" is thorougly unpersuasive faux-naivety). I'd support a crackdown on this, and I am glad that Astrotrain has been warned of possible probation. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs)
As normal, you bring nationality of editors into it. Is that the be all and end all of your arguement? Your looking to edit war, simple as and if things quiten down too much you can be counted on to start thing up again. -- Domer48 ( talk) 10:06, 10 March 2008 (UTC) reply
And if they persist?-- Domer48 ( talk) 00:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Can a decision be made on this issue.-- Padraig ( talk) 14:44, 15 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia sets high standards for Decorum and Editorial process for all Balkan related articles. I believe that Grandy Grandy is breaking these by repeatedly making controversial and WP:POV edits on a number of Balkan related articles without any discussion on the relevant Talk pages and, sometimes, despite notices by administrators to respect the editorial process. A number of examples:
Regards Osli73 ( talk) 13:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
- Comment
- First of all, I don't agree with @OSLI73. He is the one who started to vandalize articles, I am the one among the others (Dragon, HarisM, Dchall1, Live Forever etc) who repaired the damage. And here is the proof:
- @OSLI73's log of vandalism:
- 12:23, 5 December 2007, Stifle blocked Osli73 (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 24 hours (Three-revert rule violation: Bosnian Mujahideen)
- 07:45, 24 July 2007 WikiLeon blocked Osli73 (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 1 month.
- 07:37, 24 July 2007 WikiLeon blocked Osli73 (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 3 months.
- 02:26, 23 March 2007 Thatcher131 blocked Osli73 (anon. only, account creation blocked, autoblock disabled) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (violating revert limit on Srebrenica massacre see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo)
- 01:48, 1 March 2007 Jayjg blocked Osli73 (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (violation of arbcom revert parole on Srebrenica massacre again)
- 09:48, 18 December 2006 Srikeit blocked Osli73 with an expiry time of 1 week (Sockpuppeteering and directly violating his arbcom probation and revert parole)
- 00:49, 5 September 2006 Blnguyen blocked Osli73 with an expiry time of 96 hours (did about 10 reverts on Srebrenica massacre in about 2 hours)
- Second of all, @OSLI73 is blanking articles (removing sourced parts he doesn't like).
- For example @OSLI73 deleted a part from Bosnian War which is clear example of vandalism - blanking WP:Vandalism: "Removing all or significant parts of pages' content without any reason."
- He deleted this part:
- According to numerous ICTY judgments the conflict involved Bosnia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) as well as Croatia.
- Soureces:
- I asked him why, for a few times, got no answer. He just repeats the same old story he wrote above which is not related to his deletions in order to get Arbitration enforcement cause he doesn't like Radio Free Europe source, doens't like ICTY source, doesn't like this and that...I am not willing to support his idea about arbitration cause there are a lof of other users who worked hard to write smth, and now @OSLI73 is trying to undo that cause he doesn't like some sources. Grandy Grandy ( talk) 13:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
In reply to Grandy Grandy comments above:
- It would be good if he answered the issues that I raised above, instead of bringing other issues
- I don't see what old transgressions of WP:3RR have to do with the issue at hand
- Grandy Grandy has not made any attempt to discuss the edits/reverts he has made (at least not prior to me making this complaint) despite encouragement to do so. Please see the relevant talk pages.
- Grandy Grandy has made major edits to the Bosnian mujahideen article despite being specifically asked by the admin involved not to do so.
- Grandy Grandy seems to be arguing that as long as information is sourced it is not POV or inappropriate and should never be removed. My belief is that appropriate sources is only one condition for inclusion in an article. Sourced information can still be POV.
In conclusion, I would encourage Grandy Grandy to reply to the specific issues I raised above. Regards Osli73 ( talk) 15:20, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
In reply to Osli73 comments above:
Per the decision at
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Franco-Mongol alliance, PHG is permitted to make suggestions on talk pages of articles relating to medieval or ancient history, provided that he interacts with other editors in a civil fashion. He has been unable to remain civil and refrain from attacking other editors:
[82],
[83],
[84],
[85],
Since PHG seems unwilling to take to heart the various reminders about civility and collaborative editing, and since his recent actions on article talkpages are continuing to be disruptive and keep other editors away from more productive work, I recommend that PHG be blocked for a short time, perhaps 48 hours, to allow other editors to get back to work. Hopefully this block will be a wake-up call, and avoid further restrictions on his ability to contribute to talk pages. Shell babelfish 19:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Ok, done. Not that hard, surely? Moreschi ( talk) 21:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC) reply
- related comment by Jaakobou: "I apologize for aggressive behavior"..."If there is any comment that catches your attention, I am interested in retracting it and apologizing."
Despite my retraction of harder language a mere one and a half hours after it was made (in response to other editor's soapboxing[i]) and my suggestion that I'd be willing to retract any other possibly offensive statement;[ii] Tiamut tries to have me blocked to impose her POV, Sm8900 disrupts discussions by ignoring RfC concerns[iii] and Nickhh[iv] and Nishidani[i] are both being down right abusive. I'd gladly take this 1 week topic ban; however if Tiamut ignores RfC, commits repeated advocacy soapboxing and uses AE as a weapon (despite my quick attempts to scale things down); Nickhh soapboxes and commits 2 separate NPA violations, Sm8900 blatantly ignores Dispute resolutions and is being disruptive to the RfC process, and Nishidani also soapboxes heavily about "indiscriminate notorious deeds". Personally, being that I've admitted to my one time mishap (I don't make a habit of soapboxing and have contributed to 3 featured materials) and retracted a mere hour and a half after it was made, I believe the proper protocol as suggested by the Arbcom Final Decisions, suggests I deserve a warning but not a full week ban. However, sick and tired of relentless soapboxing on talk pages, I'm more than willing to take on a weekly topic ban if only my fellow editors are sanctioned properly according to their conduct as well. Jaakobou Chalk Talk 20:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Longer recap of events (a bit boring and cluttered) |
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Michael made a 7:2 slightly pro-Palestinian POV suggestion and the following occurred:
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Is there a section here for comments by uninvolved editors? shouldn't there be one? thanks.
Also, do the Arbcom editors come in to say which items they wish to look at or comment on? thanks. -- Steve, Sm8900 ( talk) 21:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
As for Jaakobou's complaint that he is being singled out here, I think it is without merit, for the following reasons:
STOP!
Jaakobou continues to make poor editing choices that have more to do with soapboxing and assumptions of bad faith than with editing to improve articles per WP:NPOV and WP:RS. The latest example is this edit which comes on the heels of this section opened by El C just three days ago. Attempts to get Jaakobou to reflect upon the inappropriateness of such comments on his talk page are going nowhere and it was only two days ago that I asked him to please "reflect upon how your behaviour might be interpreted negatively by others or be coming from a place unrelated to or incompatible with the building of a healthy, collaborative working environment." [98] He seems unable to understand what this means or how to do so.
Considering that Jaakobou is a repeat-offender whose editing at Palestinian fedayeen led to the original WP:ANI complaint which led to the opening of the Arbcomm case on I-P articles, and considering that he is repeatedly before WP:AE for his edits in this domain, I am proposing that he be topic-banned for a period of three months. His repeated ability to escape sanction for multiple, repeat offenses has led him to think such behaviour is okay. It's not. It's corrosive to the general working environment and is often disruptive. Durova ( talk · contribs) has indicated that he is doing great work on featured pictures outside of the I-P subject area. He would do well to continue that and other work until he learns how to bring the same spirit of collaboration to I-P related articles. Tiamut talk 16:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I don't really see what the big deal is. I just read the comments on Talk:Second Intifada after following the discussion on Jaakobou's talk page. There basically seem to be two options: 1) Jaakobou is completely alone in his opinions, and alone prevents the article from progressing. If this is true, then he can just be ignored when editing the actual article, and if he edit wars, he will be wrong and there will be justification to ban him. Or 2) Jaakobou is not alone in his views, which means that Tiamut's accusations of bad faith are unfounded, and maybe there is merit to what Jaakobou says. If this is true, then it's clear that Tiamut is pushing to get Jaakobou banned in order to advance her own POV in the article by taking out her prime opposition on the talk page.
It's not immediately clear which of the two is correct, so in either case, as I said before, I don't really see the big deal, and suggest to wait until there's visible disruption to the actual article before instituting any bans, because if #2 is true, then the ban will hurt the balance of the article.
-- Ynhockey ( Talk) 18:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
The discussion on the Second Intifada article has really heated up lately, mostly over a contention between me and Tiamut. The dispute has led to high tensions and the involvement of many editors, and no editor -- myself included -- is free from blame. While Jaakobou's comments may be in poor taste, I think that banning Jaakobou given the conduct of all editors involved on Second Intifada and given that these comments arose directly in connection with a particular article and should not prevent Jaakobou from editing other articles, I recommend that the article be placed under severe anti- soapbox supervision. ← Michael Safyan ( talk) 18:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Hi, I was offline for about a day. Thanks very much for the note at my user talk. Jaakobou got me on chat as soon as I fired up the computer. I'm getting up to speed right now and will post a follow-up soon. If anyone else wants to do a gmail chat with me, drop me a line via Wikipedia e-mail and I'll send you an invite. Durova Charge! 19:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This is typical Jaakobou - he regards expression of mainstream, internationally-accepted, majority point-of-view on Israel-Palestine articles as contemptible "soapboxing" and "advocacy" for a Palestinian-terrorist point of view, and he constantly tries to stamp it out with accusations of disruptive editing and counter-rants of his own. One constantly sees conversations in this vein:
Somebody: Well, in fairness, the wall does cut off Palestinian farmers from their land, and it's been condemned by the international community. We can't just call it a "security fence against suicide bombers" as if that's the last word on the subject.
(I apologize for the paraphrasing, I'll go digging for some actual diffs, but this is my general impression of trying to work with Jaakobou on the subject.) < eleland/ talk edits> 22:07, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I think Jaakobou's little bit of soapboxing was poorly timed given his recent AE appearance, but in fairness it's not as though this guy soapboxes a lot. Not that I've seen anyhow. And I'm not sure it's such a good idea to totally discourage this sort of thing. It does give one an insight into how one's opponent experiences the issues, and in that sense enables us to understand better where they are coming from and perhaps to tailor our own messages and proposals accordingly.
I mean, it's one thing to constantly harangue and denounce and effectively, troll the other side as we've seen some users do in the past. But it's quite another to passionately state one's POV in relation to a particular issue, as Jaakobou seems to be doing here.
I suppose one could raise the issue of whether someone who is so evidently blind to the POV of the other side, as this diatribe suggests, is ever likely to be a constructive editor. But I think we may be venturing into murky waters if we start disqualifying editors on the basis of allegedly "unacceptable" views. Maybe we should do, but where does one draw the line, and who makes the decision? Gatoclass ( talk) 08:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
(Reset) No sane or reasonable human being disputes the horrifying effects of suicide bombings or any other kind of violent attack using bullets, missiles or explosives. And "offended" probably understates it, which you I imagine know better than I do, even though my city has suffered from its share of bombs and violence, both recently and in the past. The issue here is not about the actual violence on the ground or the effects of it, which affects both Palestinians and Israelis in any event, but the comments made by editors - in this case you specifically - in this encyclopedia. To rant and generalise about other groups of people in the way that you did is plain wrong. Nor did you do this - as if this would mitigate the offence - in response to even vaguely similar comments by anyone else. I am not going to repeat here, for the 4th time, the debates about the use of the words "struggle" or "uprising" as value-neutral words to describe the Intifada AS A WHOLE, even though you seem to be claiming that your misunderstanding of this point provides some kind of justification for what you wrote. I first came across your editing when you were trying to re-insert the alleged outcome "Palestinian Propaganda Victory" into the info box on the Battle of Jenin page, to describe events that killed more than 50 Palestinians, many of them civilians. I don't see much change in your attitude since then, ArbCom decisions or not. In fact, looking at events of the past few days your behaviour seems to have deteriorated. It's time, as I've said, that administrators took as firm a stand against this sort of behaviour as they do - 100% correctly - against anti-Semitic rantings on talk pages. -- Nickhh ( talk) 12:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This discussion is being pushed off course - the intent wasn't to hold a general discussion of all involved users' conduct. Jaakobou's conduct has been disruptive, and so he is banned from all Israel and Palestine related pages for a week. Addhoc ( talk) 14:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
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This IP user seems to be edit warring. [1] Could they be a blocked or banned user returning to cause trouble? Jehochman Talk 19:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC) reply
The unblock appears to be a mistake. Here are the diffs for edit warring: [2] [3] [4] [5] When a user makes the same edit over and over and over again, that's edit warring. I like the way the user wikilawyers with ChrisO. It reminds me of Neutral Good ( talk · contribs) and BryanFromPalatine ( talk · contribs). Jehochman Talk 21:55, 5 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Sorry about all the drama here. I was not trying to be disruptive and didn't know this was a "problem" article until I was told so on my talk page. I will try not to revert more than once on this article. The differences above are from 2 days ago before I was warned. Also, I was blocked awhile back when I first came here, not twice in one week. Thank you.-- 70.109.223.188 ( talk) 14:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC) Bold text reply
Due to growing risk of an edit war (three reverts by each of the two parties yesterday, and claims by one of which that such a risk is high), I have taken the preventative step of restricting Dpotop ( talk · contribs) and Xasha ( talk · contribs) to one revert per two days for two weeks on all related articles and zero-tolerance for incivility on the talk pages. I bring this measure to discussion before other uninvolved admins, whom I am asking to help enforce this. Note that I am forgoing the warning this time and thus am not logging it in the arbitration page — let this measure serve as a warning, and let's hope it resonates (if enough uninvolved admins feel that position is in error, the restrictions will be revoked). Thx. El_C 11:43, 7 March 2008 (UTC) reply
BereTuborg ( talk · contribs) added to the restrictions. El_C 18:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Please block 91.121.88.13 ( talk · contribs) for reverting the removal of a link to ED per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MONGO. Will ( talk) 15:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC) reply
The ruling says "Links to Encyclopædia Dramatica may be removed wherever found on Wikipedia as may material imported from it." A debate on the DRV is ongoing here. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I've requested clarification on the ruling itself: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Request for clarification: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MONGO. Mackensen (talk) 16:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This may or may not violate the Arbcom rulings at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist; I'll let the readers decide. The links:
Additionally, he's edited tendentiously, as well as against consensus. The above article ( electronic voice phenomenon) was locked due to editwarring. The edit war occurred between SA and User:LionelStarkweather. See this diff for the last edit before it was locked, showing the content dispute. It was was locked with the Lionel version intact; while locked, there was a discussion on the talk which initially include SA; however, he stopped discussing after a while. Following the article's unlocking, he reverted without any further mention, starting a revert war that led to the article being locked again. He also removed the infobox and a sound file without any talk discussion and vague edit summaries ( here and here). He calims WP:V on the second; it is not being used as a source, ergo, WP:V doesn't apply.
Per the arbcom ruling, he's restricted from making disruptive edits. I would argue that these edits are extremely disruptive, especially seeing the (for a while) constructive discussion that was occurring (see Talk:Electronic voice phenomenon sections "Moving on" and "edit request". 130.101.152.155 ( talk) 19:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I can vouch for this user. I am in contact by email, and the IP is a sock of a Wikipedia user who is in good standing. The IP has, for exceptionally obvious reasons, decided to use only an IP on this article. The EVP article is once again locked, as with so many other articles, because of ScienceApologist's actions. Also, I do not believe that this user knows of the previous claims here against SA on this page, and I did not know of this claim till I saw it now on my talk page, nor did I urge this claim. —— Martinphi ☎ Ψ Φ—— 21:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I find that there is no incivility, and that the IP editor is using multiple IP accounts in a way that prevents scrutiny of their contributions. Such an account should not be used to level accusations at another editor. At this point, I am not going to block the IP, but I suggest that they register a pseudonym account and use it consistently. This will avoid revealing their real life identity and provide a measure of transparency to other editors who have a legitimate interest in tracking the IP editor's contributions. Jehochman Talk 21:31, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Fresh off a block and right back at it... I'm not going to list specific diffs since pretty much every other edit summary is a case in itself. Check out Special:Contributions/ForeverFreeSpeech.
Cheers, pedro gonnet - talk - 07.03.2008 16:46
What arbcom case is this from? — Rlevse • Talk • 12:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Banned user appears to have reapeared once again this time as User:weighted Companion Cube. User makes first post on Wikipedia just two days after User:RodentofDeath is referred to ArbCom.
Rodent has already been caught out twice breaching his ban.
User:weighted Companion Cube has posted on same disputed article and seems to follow the same wording and tactics of RodentofDeath.
Then this user posts in deletion request a posting that is an obvious defence of RodentofDeath and seems to taunt User:Edgarde, who had been one of the complainents in the arbitration case.
Edgarde had just previously posted this on my talk page.
Rodent has previously stated in his ArbCom case that he travels and uses multiple IP addresses. A look on this user's talk page also shows the same sort of problems he had as RodentofDeath with other Editors. Susanbryce ( talk) 22:43, 7 March 2008 (UTC)slight copyediting and link piping by • VigilancePrime • • • 23:01 (UTC) 7 Mar '08 for ease of readability. reply
Please restore
Son of Stimpy per the injunction in
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters 2. This article was deleted on March 5. Related discussion at
User talk:Seicer.
Catchpole (
talk) 16:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
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For the duration of this case, no editor shall redirect or delete any currently existing article regarding a television series episode or character; nor un-redirect or un-delete any currently redirected or deleted article on such a topic, nor apply or remove a tag related to notability to such an article. Administrators are authorized to revert such changes on sight, and to block any editors that persist in making them after being warned of this injunction.
Gee, thanks for notifying me of this. seicer | talk | contribs 00:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Giano's not getting blocked today - any block would be without consensus, for one thing, and inappropriate anyway, for another. Whether he was baited or not is, for now, not relevant. The most depressing thing about this is the way all the old hatreds and jealousies have sprung out from under the bed, yet again, when potential Giano drama enters the room. Moreschi ( talk) 20:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/IRC#Civility:_Giano placed Giano under the following restriction: "Should Giano make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, Giano may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling below.".
Is this compatible with arbcom's ruling? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This seems to a bit of a stretch. I am particularly unimpressed by this comment by BrownHairedGirl to Giano: " Does anyone know what strange quirk of the weather has brought Giano back around here to troll on behalf of Vintagekits?" which is most certainly uncivil, an assumption of bad faith and frankly unbecoming of an administrator. To then file a request for enforcement against Giano is pretty ridiculous. WjB scribe 13:55, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
All users that work in the area of arbitration enforcement are expected to work collaboratively as they enforce the Committee's rulings. I expect that both BrownhairedGirl and Giano will discussion various approaches to enforcing our ruling in thoughtful and civil manner. Two wrongs do not make a right. Brownhairedgirl, if you have concerns about Giano's approach to dealing with Vintagekits, then state them in a manner that describes the problem without using inflammatory words. Giano, if you have concerns about the approach that administrators are using when dealing with Vintagekits, then state them in a manner that describes the problem without using inflammatory words. This is a caution to both of you. Both of you, please take this advise on board so no further warning or sanctions are needed. FloNight ♥♥♥ 14:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Calling any editor in good standing a troll is inflammatory, unrequired, and unbecoming. We should simply issue an official warning to Brownhairded girl for violating NPA and being disruptive, and be done with it. Lawrence § t/ e 15:27, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Folks, if no action is going to be taken on this enforcement request (and it looks like that is the case) then it should be archived. Spreading disputes to multiple forums is part of both underlying issues here, so lets not support prolonging the problem. Avruch T 16:22, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
ZOMG, an admin acted stupid, and Giano called them stupid. Oh, horrors. Zocky | picture popups 20:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Subject to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist#Martinphi restricted Martin is banned from making disruptive edits. I believe that this edit is disruptive because he
ScienceApologist ( talk) 02:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
On 19 October 2007, SevenOfDiamonds ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) was banned as a sockpuppet of the banned NuclearUmpf ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). [31] It is my belief that WheezyF ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is a sockpuppet of these banned users.
My suspicions intially arose from this checkuser case:
Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Stone put to sky
In that case, there were two accounts named after playing cards TenOfSpades ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and ElevenOfHearts ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) that were used to make Ultramarine ( talk · contribs) look bad by faking sockpuppetry on his part. Both of those "playing card" accounts were found to be sockpuppets of WheezyF. Note that the two WheezyF sockpuppets and SevenOfDiamonds have very similar usernames.
When comparing the WheezyF and the SevenOfDiamonds accounts, I saw that the WheezyF account was created on and began editing on 19 October 2007. [32] [33]
This is the day after SevenOfDiamonds' last edit [34] and the day that account was banned as a result of the arbcom decision.
The two accounts (WheezyF and SevenOfDiamonds/NuclearUmpf) share common interests such as rap music [35] [36] and the State terrorism and the United States article. On the aforementioned article, Wheezy F has pushed the same "anti-U.S. foreign policy" POV that was often pushed by SevenOfDiamonds. [37] [38] [39] [40] These last four diffs were chosen at random. There are many, many more.
It would be much appreciated if a checkuser would confirm that WheezyF edits from the New York area, which was where the NuclearUmpf/SevenOfDiamonds accounts edited from. [41] Ice Cold Beer ( talk) 18:37, 10 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Giovanni33 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) has a very long block log. He has previously been blocked for breaking his parole. He has again broken his 1 revert a week parole on the State terrorism and the United States article.
Reverts:
In both cases cases reverted material include adding the Arno Mayer quote back to the introduction. The quote was previously in the article in the same place as seen here: [47] He himself admits that he is reverting material in the edit commentaries of both edits. Ultramarine ( talk) 17:04, 12 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Arbcom case:
Editor
Liftarn (
talk ·
contribs) has been making:
Liftarn ( talk · contribs) has been violating Purpose of Wikipedia spirit removing sources and claiming OR on each and every word that might be critical of the article's subject. He also routinely uses the " per talk" reasoning for edits not discussed or at least clearly not agreed upon on talk.
His latest edit [50], explained with "We have been over this already." removed well cited material who's removal was not discussed anywhere, and also the removal of two valid external links which he previously removed under the " promotional clutter" claim.
I've tried resolving issues with him and opened a WP:3O request, but frankly, discussions were going nowhere and I've personally had it with the editor's refusal to get the points raised, follow WP:NPOV and editorial process.
Respectfully. Jaakobou Chalk Talk 23:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC) reply
It is suspected that User:BryanFromPalatine, aka User:Neutral Good, aka User:Shibumi2, is back again as Wakedream ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki). His various comments began to draw concern, especially after threads at User_talk:Wakedream#Prior_account and User_talk:Jehochman#NPOV_and_Waterboarding. Wakedream edited random articles on December 17 2007, but since March 8 2008 has waded into waterboarding with language and arguments similar to the advocacy of BFP and NG. His extremely negative reaction to Jehochman's simple question here also set off warning alarms. Lawrence § t/ e 13:06, 13 March 2008 (UTC) reply
(clerks please feel free to move this as needed) I was contacted offline to look into this (I think maybe that might not be a good approach as it can lead to duplicate efforts). I concur with Thatcher here, there's no provable connection to NeutralGood/BryanFromPalantine et al, but something is up... I've shared some of my other findings with Thatcher as well. ++ Lar: t/ c 15:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC) reply
RFCU filed: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Wakedream. Thanks guys. Lawrence § t/ e 15:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This editor is a self-admitted member of the Ulster Unionist Party and Young Unionists, and his recent editing to the latter article is giving me cause for concern. In particular edits like this where he claims everything is referenced by these two sources:
This is complete nonsense. As can be seen, the former was published in 1973, and the latter in May 2004. After checking the latter on Amazon Online Reader (only available on the UK site, not the US one) there are only three mentions of "Young Unionists" in the entire book.
As the first source cannot source anything post-1973, this leaves the following information unsourced, despite TU claiming it was sourced by the book.
Some sources were added in an additional edit, but they seem to be sourcing events at the 2004 AGM, when the first source is from January 2004 and states the AGM will take place in March, and the second source was published a few days later and still pre-dates the AGM.
Given the COI and what seems to be a clear misrepresentation of what a source says (in this case - not much!) I welcome further discussion about whether his editing to that article is compatible with an acceptable standard. One Night In Hackney 303 01:07, 10 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Firstly, Young Unionists is a more modern form of the orginisations name. The more formal Ulster Young Unionist Council was more common in these publications. Harbinson's book covers the formation of the orginisation fully. I have to say I didn't realise that Brian Faulkner's memoirs and David Hume's Phd thesis (as published) wern't listed as sources, I though they were. Please read [ [52]] and [ [53]] for some context to my reluctance to take the users edits constructively. Traditional unionist ( talk) 10:21, 10 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Note that I am a breath away from censuring Jaakobou for his mockery; of User:Tiamut's notice. This intentional bad blood will not be tolerated. El_C 19:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Unfortunately, Durova (Jaakobou's mentor) seems to mistake her role for a defense attorney (I'd appreciate informed comments, instead [54]) . El_C 02:18, 15 March 2008 (UTC) reply
(outdent) El C is mistaken when he supposes how much I understood when I intervened. In fact the first thing I did was advise Jaakobou to withdraw the offending reference and post an apology; it was imperative that he do so promptly. On the heels of those corrective steps El C's block warning was counterproductive. A direct result of that warning was several hours' delay in the follow-up apology that Tiamut deserved. It is by no means easy to show an editor the seriousness of a thoughtless gaffe when he thinks he is being singled out for punitive reasons. The consistently sharp edged tone of El C's subsequent posts both here and at my user talk fed Jaakobou's worries, and it does little good for the overall dispute to make barbs about my credibility (especially undeserved ones). I repeat my request that he refactor.
If there are further steps that I can take to set things back on track I will gladly do so. Bear in mind, please, that I've had very lengthy chats with Jaakobou during the last 24 hours and have put off other commitments to give this immediate attention. Durova Charge! 17:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Case
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Liancourt Rocks.
The user banned (Wikimachine) has continued to edit with very obvious and sarcastic comments, attempting in my opinion to continue disrupting the same pages as he did before.
He has edited from various anonymous IP's making essentially the same arguments as he did before on the same pages, some which are edited by very few other editors. Some example IP's he has used are 69.245.41.113, 69.180.210.99, 69.180.193.52, etc.
Aside from these comments being essential copy and pastes of his old arguments, and him signing with "A former Wikipedian," and referring to how he will "continue the fight when is allowed back in a few months" they are from the same geographic area as the original user (see [ [55]]). If you would like further information please let me know. If this should be put somewhere else and not here also please let me know and I will follow up. Thank you very much.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.205.165.177 ( talk) 2008-03-15T23:46:29 (UTC)
Both findings (Wikimachine and LactoseTI/Komdori) are certainly correct. Wikimachine's block extended to another year from today. Appletrees, can you give us a link to the corresponding posting on 2ch please? These days, I'm certainly inclined to take no crap from people who use anon IPs and post to 2ch. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC) reply
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Why is nothing being done to stop this editor continuing to edit war and POV pushing, he was named in the arbcom but instead of answering his case there he decided to disappear until the arbcom was ended, he was also involved in mediation on the same issue, and dispite being unable to provide WP:RS to support his edits he continued to edit war throughout the mediation which resulted in the mediation process being abandoned.
He has recently started to edit war again on the issue in breach of principles#2 and principles#3 of the arbcom ruling. I have reported him in the past couple of days to two admins, to date neither have done anything about it. Some of the articles and templates he has been disruptive on include:
Astrotrain has a been blocked numerous times for both edit warring on this issue and making personal attacks on other editors and myself, he also came back as a possible for using anon IPs to continue evade 3RR in edit wars.-- Padraig ( talk) 21:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Personally, I'd be delighted to see 99% of the flags removed from wikipedia, but however tedious the little national emblems are in list entries, Astrotrain has been busy adding huge flags to articles where they are barely relevant and — as he well knows — highly provocative. As well as the addition of the Union Flag to 1801 in Ireland, he also added the Ulster Banner to 1953 in Ireland (in this edit), which seems to me to be nothing gratuitous mischief-making. There is a separate 1953 in Northern Ireland article where it might have some relevance (though it seems pretty marginal to me), but I can't see any useful purpose its addition to 1953 in Ireland. The whole Ulster flag debate is a minefield, and it took a lot of effort by many folks to achieve some stability there, and trying to reopen it like this is disruptive (his comment here of "how can a flag be POV?" is thorougly unpersuasive faux-naivety). I'd support a crackdown on this, and I am glad that Astrotrain has been warned of possible probation. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs)
As normal, you bring nationality of editors into it. Is that the be all and end all of your arguement? Your looking to edit war, simple as and if things quiten down too much you can be counted on to start thing up again. -- Domer48 ( talk) 10:06, 10 March 2008 (UTC) reply
And if they persist?-- Domer48 ( talk) 00:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Can a decision be made on this issue.-- Padraig ( talk) 14:44, 15 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia sets high standards for Decorum and Editorial process for all Balkan related articles. I believe that Grandy Grandy is breaking these by repeatedly making controversial and WP:POV edits on a number of Balkan related articles without any discussion on the relevant Talk pages and, sometimes, despite notices by administrators to respect the editorial process. A number of examples:
Regards Osli73 ( talk) 13:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
- Comment
- First of all, I don't agree with @OSLI73. He is the one who started to vandalize articles, I am the one among the others (Dragon, HarisM, Dchall1, Live Forever etc) who repaired the damage. And here is the proof:
- @OSLI73's log of vandalism:
- 12:23, 5 December 2007, Stifle blocked Osli73 (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 24 hours (Three-revert rule violation: Bosnian Mujahideen)
- 07:45, 24 July 2007 WikiLeon blocked Osli73 (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 1 month.
- 07:37, 24 July 2007 WikiLeon blocked Osli73 (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 3 months.
- 02:26, 23 March 2007 Thatcher131 blocked Osli73 (anon. only, account creation blocked, autoblock disabled) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (violating revert limit on Srebrenica massacre see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo)
- 01:48, 1 March 2007 Jayjg blocked Osli73 (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (violation of arbcom revert parole on Srebrenica massacre again)
- 09:48, 18 December 2006 Srikeit blocked Osli73 with an expiry time of 1 week (Sockpuppeteering and directly violating his arbcom probation and revert parole)
- 00:49, 5 September 2006 Blnguyen blocked Osli73 with an expiry time of 96 hours (did about 10 reverts on Srebrenica massacre in about 2 hours)
- Second of all, @OSLI73 is blanking articles (removing sourced parts he doesn't like).
- For example @OSLI73 deleted a part from Bosnian War which is clear example of vandalism - blanking WP:Vandalism: "Removing all or significant parts of pages' content without any reason."
- He deleted this part:
- According to numerous ICTY judgments the conflict involved Bosnia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) as well as Croatia.
- Soureces:
- I asked him why, for a few times, got no answer. He just repeats the same old story he wrote above which is not related to his deletions in order to get Arbitration enforcement cause he doesn't like Radio Free Europe source, doens't like ICTY source, doesn't like this and that...I am not willing to support his idea about arbitration cause there are a lof of other users who worked hard to write smth, and now @OSLI73 is trying to undo that cause he doesn't like some sources. Grandy Grandy ( talk) 13:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
In reply to Grandy Grandy comments above:
- It would be good if he answered the issues that I raised above, instead of bringing other issues
- I don't see what old transgressions of WP:3RR have to do with the issue at hand
- Grandy Grandy has not made any attempt to discuss the edits/reverts he has made (at least not prior to me making this complaint) despite encouragement to do so. Please see the relevant talk pages.
- Grandy Grandy has made major edits to the Bosnian mujahideen article despite being specifically asked by the admin involved not to do so.
- Grandy Grandy seems to be arguing that as long as information is sourced it is not POV or inappropriate and should never be removed. My belief is that appropriate sources is only one condition for inclusion in an article. Sourced information can still be POV.
In conclusion, I would encourage Grandy Grandy to reply to the specific issues I raised above. Regards Osli73 ( talk) 15:20, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
In reply to Osli73 comments above:
Per the decision at
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Franco-Mongol alliance, PHG is permitted to make suggestions on talk pages of articles relating to medieval or ancient history, provided that he interacts with other editors in a civil fashion. He has been unable to remain civil and refrain from attacking other editors:
[82],
[83],
[84],
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Since PHG seems unwilling to take to heart the various reminders about civility and collaborative editing, and since his recent actions on article talkpages are continuing to be disruptive and keep other editors away from more productive work, I recommend that PHG be blocked for a short time, perhaps 48 hours, to allow other editors to get back to work. Hopefully this block will be a wake-up call, and avoid further restrictions on his ability to contribute to talk pages. Shell babelfish 19:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Ok, done. Not that hard, surely? Moreschi ( talk) 21:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC) reply
- related comment by Jaakobou: "I apologize for aggressive behavior"..."If there is any comment that catches your attention, I am interested in retracting it and apologizing."
Despite my retraction of harder language a mere one and a half hours after it was made (in response to other editor's soapboxing[i]) and my suggestion that I'd be willing to retract any other possibly offensive statement;[ii] Tiamut tries to have me blocked to impose her POV, Sm8900 disrupts discussions by ignoring RfC concerns[iii] and Nickhh[iv] and Nishidani[i] are both being down right abusive. I'd gladly take this 1 week topic ban; however if Tiamut ignores RfC, commits repeated advocacy soapboxing and uses AE as a weapon (despite my quick attempts to scale things down); Nickhh soapboxes and commits 2 separate NPA violations, Sm8900 blatantly ignores Dispute resolutions and is being disruptive to the RfC process, and Nishidani also soapboxes heavily about "indiscriminate notorious deeds". Personally, being that I've admitted to my one time mishap (I don't make a habit of soapboxing and have contributed to 3 featured materials) and retracted a mere hour and a half after it was made, I believe the proper protocol as suggested by the Arbcom Final Decisions, suggests I deserve a warning but not a full week ban. However, sick and tired of relentless soapboxing on talk pages, I'm more than willing to take on a weekly topic ban if only my fellow editors are sanctioned properly according to their conduct as well. Jaakobou Chalk Talk 20:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Longer recap of events (a bit boring and cluttered) |
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Michael made a 7:2 slightly pro-Palestinian POV suggestion and the following occurred:
-- Jaakobou Chalk Talk 20:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply |
Is there a section here for comments by uninvolved editors? shouldn't there be one? thanks.
Also, do the Arbcom editors come in to say which items they wish to look at or comment on? thanks. -- Steve, Sm8900 ( talk) 21:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
As for Jaakobou's complaint that he is being singled out here, I think it is without merit, for the following reasons:
STOP!
Jaakobou continues to make poor editing choices that have more to do with soapboxing and assumptions of bad faith than with editing to improve articles per WP:NPOV and WP:RS. The latest example is this edit which comes on the heels of this section opened by El C just three days ago. Attempts to get Jaakobou to reflect upon the inappropriateness of such comments on his talk page are going nowhere and it was only two days ago that I asked him to please "reflect upon how your behaviour might be interpreted negatively by others or be coming from a place unrelated to or incompatible with the building of a healthy, collaborative working environment." [98] He seems unable to understand what this means or how to do so.
Considering that Jaakobou is a repeat-offender whose editing at Palestinian fedayeen led to the original WP:ANI complaint which led to the opening of the Arbcomm case on I-P articles, and considering that he is repeatedly before WP:AE for his edits in this domain, I am proposing that he be topic-banned for a period of three months. His repeated ability to escape sanction for multiple, repeat offenses has led him to think such behaviour is okay. It's not. It's corrosive to the general working environment and is often disruptive. Durova ( talk · contribs) has indicated that he is doing great work on featured pictures outside of the I-P subject area. He would do well to continue that and other work until he learns how to bring the same spirit of collaboration to I-P related articles. Tiamut talk 16:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I don't really see what the big deal is. I just read the comments on Talk:Second Intifada after following the discussion on Jaakobou's talk page. There basically seem to be two options: 1) Jaakobou is completely alone in his opinions, and alone prevents the article from progressing. If this is true, then he can just be ignored when editing the actual article, and if he edit wars, he will be wrong and there will be justification to ban him. Or 2) Jaakobou is not alone in his views, which means that Tiamut's accusations of bad faith are unfounded, and maybe there is merit to what Jaakobou says. If this is true, then it's clear that Tiamut is pushing to get Jaakobou banned in order to advance her own POV in the article by taking out her prime opposition on the talk page.
It's not immediately clear which of the two is correct, so in either case, as I said before, I don't really see the big deal, and suggest to wait until there's visible disruption to the actual article before instituting any bans, because if #2 is true, then the ban will hurt the balance of the article.
-- Ynhockey ( Talk) 18:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
The discussion on the Second Intifada article has really heated up lately, mostly over a contention between me and Tiamut. The dispute has led to high tensions and the involvement of many editors, and no editor -- myself included -- is free from blame. While Jaakobou's comments may be in poor taste, I think that banning Jaakobou given the conduct of all editors involved on Second Intifada and given that these comments arose directly in connection with a particular article and should not prevent Jaakobou from editing other articles, I recommend that the article be placed under severe anti- soapbox supervision. ← Michael Safyan ( talk) 18:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
Hi, I was offline for about a day. Thanks very much for the note at my user talk. Jaakobou got me on chat as soon as I fired up the computer. I'm getting up to speed right now and will post a follow-up soon. If anyone else wants to do a gmail chat with me, drop me a line via Wikipedia e-mail and I'll send you an invite. Durova Charge! 19:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This is typical Jaakobou - he regards expression of mainstream, internationally-accepted, majority point-of-view on Israel-Palestine articles as contemptible "soapboxing" and "advocacy" for a Palestinian-terrorist point of view, and he constantly tries to stamp it out with accusations of disruptive editing and counter-rants of his own. One constantly sees conversations in this vein:
Somebody: Well, in fairness, the wall does cut off Palestinian farmers from their land, and it's been condemned by the international community. We can't just call it a "security fence against suicide bombers" as if that's the last word on the subject.
(I apologize for the paraphrasing, I'll go digging for some actual diffs, but this is my general impression of trying to work with Jaakobou on the subject.) < eleland/ talk edits> 22:07, 17 March 2008 (UTC) reply
I think Jaakobou's little bit of soapboxing was poorly timed given his recent AE appearance, but in fairness it's not as though this guy soapboxes a lot. Not that I've seen anyhow. And I'm not sure it's such a good idea to totally discourage this sort of thing. It does give one an insight into how one's opponent experiences the issues, and in that sense enables us to understand better where they are coming from and perhaps to tailor our own messages and proposals accordingly.
I mean, it's one thing to constantly harangue and denounce and effectively, troll the other side as we've seen some users do in the past. But it's quite another to passionately state one's POV in relation to a particular issue, as Jaakobou seems to be doing here.
I suppose one could raise the issue of whether someone who is so evidently blind to the POV of the other side, as this diatribe suggests, is ever likely to be a constructive editor. But I think we may be venturing into murky waters if we start disqualifying editors on the basis of allegedly "unacceptable" views. Maybe we should do, but where does one draw the line, and who makes the decision? Gatoclass ( talk) 08:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
(Reset) No sane or reasonable human being disputes the horrifying effects of suicide bombings or any other kind of violent attack using bullets, missiles or explosives. And "offended" probably understates it, which you I imagine know better than I do, even though my city has suffered from its share of bombs and violence, both recently and in the past. The issue here is not about the actual violence on the ground or the effects of it, which affects both Palestinians and Israelis in any event, but the comments made by editors - in this case you specifically - in this encyclopedia. To rant and generalise about other groups of people in the way that you did is plain wrong. Nor did you do this - as if this would mitigate the offence - in response to even vaguely similar comments by anyone else. I am not going to repeat here, for the 4th time, the debates about the use of the words "struggle" or "uprising" as value-neutral words to describe the Intifada AS A WHOLE, even though you seem to be claiming that your misunderstanding of this point provides some kind of justification for what you wrote. I first came across your editing when you were trying to re-insert the alleged outcome "Palestinian Propaganda Victory" into the info box on the Battle of Jenin page, to describe events that killed more than 50 Palestinians, many of them civilians. I don't see much change in your attitude since then, ArbCom decisions or not. In fact, looking at events of the past few days your behaviour seems to have deteriorated. It's time, as I've said, that administrators took as firm a stand against this sort of behaviour as they do - 100% correctly - against anti-Semitic rantings on talk pages. -- Nickhh ( talk) 12:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
This discussion is being pushed off course - the intent wasn't to hold a general discussion of all involved users' conduct. Jaakobou's conduct has been disruptive, and so he is banned from all Israel and Palestine related pages for a week. Addhoc ( talk) 14:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC) reply
'I find those suggestions insulting advocacy. The Jewish world, Judaism-inspired cultural structure, is the main cause of the Jewish/Israeli 91 year racist terror campaign against the Palestinians.'