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    Wikihounding report[edit]

    I'm probably too involved, hence I won't take administrative action but will leave it to others to decide. The users Panamitsu and Alexeyevitch don't get on with one another, which is a shame as they both live in New Zealand and their Wiki interests are similar. In December 2023, I told Alexeyevitch off for following Panamitsu around. My observation is that the warning was heeded, and Alexeyevitch stopped following Panamitsu's contributions. That hasn't stopped the bickering between those two editors. I do have the impression that Panamitsu is following Alexeyevitch's contributions in turn. To put a stop to that, I asked both users to stay away from one another earlier this month. Panamitsu is not listening, and openly admits that he goes through Alexeyevitch's contributions. That's WP:WIKIHOUNDING.

    Panamitsu is a productive editor, but this hounding has to stop and he's not listening to me. I invite other admins to weigh in. Schwede66 00:42, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    That is correct, I have been following his contributions in the past day. This is because I noticed that he was intentionally replacing New Zealand spellings with American ones, for example here, here, here and here. To undo any further damage, I had to look through his contributions to find any more spelling errors he had introduced. Because I was following the user's contributions for a reason, I personally did not consider that wikihounding, but I could be wrong.
    I realise that in the past I had taken it a bit too far, such as my comment on Talk:Christchurch yesterday. I later realised that this was an inappropriate place to talk to the user and which is why I left a message on the user's talk page this morning instead. Because I had spent dozens of hours fixing spelling errors on New Zealand articles, and Australian ones, I became frustrated that my work was being undone. This, and offwiki events have made me increasingly frustrated recently and I have become agitated. This has been a problem with me in the past and I decided that I would take a wikibreak, but this has proved impossible for me and I am starting to believe my Wikipedia use is entering the territory of an addiction.
    In the conversation that Schwede mentioned from December 2023, I showed that Alexeyevitch added the location of an image I took. It was of a nondescript petrol station in Paraparaumu, a smallish town in the country, and I had not written anywhere where it was located. Each time I would copyedit his contributions to Christchurch suburbs, I would notice that he would edit articles relating to the area, notably Paraparaumu College, presumably with the belief that I live there and a way to scare me off. At first I thought this was a coincidence, but I made several tests and he continued to do it. ―Panamitsu (talk) 01:08, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Schwede66 - I said last month that I do not want to get invovled in disucusions with this user and genreally not to engage with him - but I feel like this is important.
    A copule weeks ago I mentioned to Mr. Roger that "we later shifted to Papanui", a few hours later Panamitsu editied the Papanui High School article (I don't think this is a coincidence). This is no longer true that I live in Papanui - a part of my family lives there.
    Panamitsu gets too invloved in the pages I edit (this started since the start) - this is not making editing enjoyable and I think he needs to realize that the main goal is to build an online encyclopedia not NCEA teachers feedback or criticism.
    I regereted my actions prior to December 2023 - In fact I didn't even know about hounding, I do now and I think he needs to realize that this is hapening to me now.
    Ultimately, I think this user should relax about following me on the Christchurch-related pages and I would do likewise and avoid editing pages the he edits.
    I think the best resolution to this conflict is to stop all contact between us immediately and entirely. Alexeyevitch(talk) 02:02, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    That is not a correct interpretation of events regarding Papanui High School. Look on its edit history. 26 minutes before I made my edit, an IP had edited a paragraph and I then removed it. It was on my watchlist, added through AutoWikiBrowser, as proven by my edit on 14 April. ―Panamitsu (talk) 02:15, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Uhh so you're suggesting an interaction ban? ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:33, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Hi, I just read Wikipedia:Banning policy#Interaction ban and I support putting one in place. Do other individuals also support this? Alexeyevitch(talk) 02:43, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The diffs bear out Panamitsu's explanation:
    As this means Panamitsu has been watching Papanui High School since well before Alexeyevitch's comment to Mr. Roger, while the claimed alarm is something I can understand and would've felt were I in those shoes, I think it's reasonable to think what happened here was not actually untoward and was just coincidental.
    What's harder to square as simply coincidence is Alexeyevitch's behavior regarding Paraparaumu topics, brought up by Panamitsu. Here's a timeline of a handful of events:
    Looking at these diffs, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that Alexeyevitch's apparent interest in articles related to Paraparaumu emerged upon discovering Panamitsu's interest in Paraparaumu and then—more unsettlingly—possibly leaping to a conclusion that Panamitsu is tied to Paraparaumu. It's hard for me to escape thinking of the possibility Panamitsu raised: that Each time [Panamitsu] would copyedit his [Alexeyevitch's] contributions to Christchurch suburbs [...] he would edit articles relating to the area, notably Paraparaumu College, presumably with the belief that [Panamitsu] live[d] there and [as] a way to scare [Panamitsu]. If this is what's happening, I can't help but find such behavior disturbing.
    Banning Alexeyevitch from interacting with Panamitsu seems like a minimal sanction for such harassment. I would ask administrators reading this thread to remember that "following another user around", if done to cause distress, or if accompanied by tendentiousness, personal attacks, or other disruptive behavior, may become a very serious matter and could result in blocks and other editing restrictions. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 02:58, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I regret those actions and apologized twice - I had to removed my second apology because he started to rapidly edit Christchurch suburb articles at the time and felt like every NZ article I edited it would be fixed in a matter of minutes, I suggest him doing this stops since this is obviously making editing unenjoyable - Schwede66 gave somewhat of a 'stop' message to him because I raised concern about this.
    I recognized the Pak'N Save was in Paraparaumu because I was there in 2022. Alexeyevitch(talk) 04:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Aranui, Southshore and Opawa are examples - I feel like there still might be a negative motive to their edits here. I suggest they slow down on this topic because it is upseting me. Alexeyevitch(talk) 04:30, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't think Panamitsu's recent activity is wikihounding. Panamitsu's central complaint that got this brought to ANI is correct: Alexeyevitch changing the spelling in articles about New Zealand to American English en-masse is disruptive, and they should stop. MOS:TIES/MOS:ENGVAR is well established. (I note on their talk page they say they do not like New Zealand English, but that is not an excuse to make en-masse disruptive edits). Panamitsu reverting that wide-scale disruption from Alexeyevitch is not problematic; the wikihounding policy states Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles, which is what happened here. Endwise (talk) 03:27, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I (or schwede66) inteded intended to fix them a day or two later -- we wanted to see if there was some-form of monitoring which there kind of. And most (but not all) articles were stubs or starts which he didn't edit prior. Otago Central Railway was fixed by him - not edited by him prior to my edit. Alexeyevitch(talk) 03:52, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I (or schwede66) [...] intended to fix them a day or two later -- we wanted to see if there was some-form of monitoring: What do these statements mean? Do you mean you (or even you and Schwede66?) privately collaborated to contribute edits contrary to MOS:TIES and MOS:ENGVAR as—what? Some deliberate 'experiment' to 'entrap' Panamitsu? Wikipedia is not a laboratory, and experiments that negatively affect articles—even temporarily—are not allowed. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 04:03, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I emailed Shwede66, I think 2-3 times this week and all emails were addressing my concern for his behavior towards my editing, Schwede66 said that they had a large watchlist after AWB edits, so there was a suggestion to do that - Schwede66 selected a few pages and after editing 44 Parachute Regiment (South Africa), we confirmed I was stalked. I edited a few (4 NZ pages also). I don't want to pressurize Shwede66, but the point was somewhat proven. My edits prior to these emails were using NZ english when appropriate. Alexeyevitch(talk) 04:15, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I noticed the other day that you also emailed Marshelec. I have his userpage (and Schwede66's) on my watchlist because we have collaborated a small bit in the past, such as on Kapiti Island. Given that Schwede66 was contacted about my editing behaviour, Marshelec, could please indicate whether or not Alexeyevitch contacted you for a similar reason? I hope I'm not forum shopping here, and if I am, I apologise. ―Panamitsu (talk) 04:39, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't think this is forum shopping on your part, Panamitsu; it seems more as if Alexeveyitch may have been 'admin shopping'. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 05:03, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    My email correspondence with Alexeyevitch is solely associated with content suggestions and possible sources related to the Southshore, New Zealand article. The context is that I have some knowledge of the area from the time of my youth in Christchurch. Nothing about other users or other articles is included in those email exchanges._ Marshelec (talk) 05:40, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    confirmed I was stalked: Alexeyevitch, to be frank, all that seems confirmed to me is that you have been stalking Panamitsu and that along with that you've been deliberately introducing MOS:TIES/MOS:VAR-contrary content into articles. As Endwise explained above, cases where using an editor's history is not considering hounding includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles. In the 44 Parachute Regiment (South Africa), you changed "minimise" (British English spelling) to "minimize" (American English spelling) for an article about a South African military unit and in your edit summary you called it fix[ing] a spelling error. Some twelve hours later, Panamitsu restored the spelling of the word per MOS:TIES. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 05:02, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Fair point. Alexeyevitch(talk) 05:11, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes, I do recall finding the Otago Central Railway spelling mistake by looking through your contributions. This is because I noticed another spelling change and had a look to see if you had made more of those types of changes. ―Panamitsu (talk) 04:10, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Not an admin, but jumping in to comment that from my observations working with them on NZ articles, that both editors contribute productively to Wikipedia. However they are maybe too productive. It strikes me that both take their role here as editors very seriously, to the point that it has stopped being fun for them. A major part of the conflict is that they are both heavily active in similar areas of Wikipedia, so there is naturally some treading on toes.
    Some things I have learned lately that might be of benefit to both editors:
    1. You do not need to watchlist every article you edit.
    2. You certainly do not need to review every edit to every article on your watchlist.
    3. You do not “own” any article or area on Wikipedia.
    4. None of us are as important as we might think in the grand scheme of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is huge, and it will never be finished. You are not a legendary knight defending Wikipedia from barbarous hordes. You are an unpaid internet janitor.
    5. We are all volunteers, and we are all doing our best. Always assume good faith.
    6. Do not attribute to malice what you can attribute to misunderstanding.
    7. If you can’t assume good faith, and you think someone else is the problem, then you are the problem.
    8. You can - at any time - walk away from Wikipedia for 24 hours if you are finding the experience less than fun.
    9. You do not need to reply immediately to every message or edit you see.
    10. Think carefully about what you say to others and how they might interpret your words.
    11. Be humble. Always blow on the pie.
    Please do whatever it takes to resolve this conflict. I would prefer to see both of you continue to contribute productively to Wikipedia, rather than either of you fall victim to a block. I look forward to continuing to collaborate with both of you. David Palmer//cloventt (talk) 11:52, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes, there isn't much to say from me from now on since I have already made my point here (and an apologization) along with a few other places. Both of us commit to stop following each others edits entirely. "This way would avoid any bans and stop any further reasons for conflict." And also stop contact (which I have already commited to). I understood what Shwede66 said aswell. Alexeyevitch(talk) 12:18, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Alexeyevitch, if you're not prepared to use NZ English per [1] then perhaps your time would be better spent not editing NZ articles.
    Panamitsu This edit [2] is not a good look. It takes two to edit war. Daveosaurus (talk) 05:53, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I will keep this in mind Daveosaurus, and I regret some of the odd choices I made earlier. In the Opawa article I prioritized using NZ English (e.g "The suburb's main retail area is centred on Opawa Road" not "The suburb's main retail area is centered on Opawa Road") I spelled "traveling" once in this article but this was not deliberate. Although I did this: "further development in Woolston, which soon began to [[urbanization|urbanise]] the suburb" it is rendered as "urbanise" for NZ readers I just did this to avoid a redirect. Alexeyevitch(talk) 06:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Do I read this right? Has an admin (Schwede66) deliberately tried to bait an editor by conspiring with another editor to deliberately make disruptive edits, and then brought the baited editor here for sanctions when they actually improved the articles by reverting the disruptive edits? If this is a correct summary, then please block and desysop Schwede66, as that is truly terrible behaviour. Fram (talk) 08:35, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I mainly hold responsibility for the actions -- Schwede66's suggestion was for me to edit 44 Parachute Regiment (South Africa) and see if Panamitsu edits this page after me. All my edits prior to Panamitsu added a message to my talk page were using NZ English and now I use NZ English in the sutible articles (e.g Opawa). I think they've all been reverted since it's appropriate. I also suggest putting an interaction ban between me and Panamitsu to prevent this from happening. Alexeyevitch(talk) 08:48, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I've had the impression for a while that Panamitsu is following Alexeyevitch around. That's impossible to prove with New Zealand articles, as they may both have them on their watchlists. Hence, after the latest complaint to me via email, I gave Alexeyevitch some random (four, to be precise) articles to edit, asking to introduce little mistakes. Alexeyevitch edited two of those and Panamitsu tidied up one of those mistakes soon after (the South African article). But that did not have to be used as proof because Panamitsu then complained on Alexeyevitch's talk page, stating that they are following their contributions. For the record, I've had the impression that their contributions have been followed for quite some time; not just "in the past day". Hence me filing this report. Also for the record, the situation was the other way around last December, but after issuing a warning to Alexeyevitch, that behaviour appeared to have stopped.
    Alexeyevitch, you absolutely cannot introduce American English to New Zealand articles. I had not seen that happening before, but Panamitsu's four examples in his first post above are clear. That cannot continue as it's disruptive. Schwede66 09:46, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you for clarifying and confirming, but that's really a terrible approach to take. You know that editor X is correcting the spelling errors / MOS issues introduced by editor Y, so you agree with editor Y that they should introduce spelling errors in other articles, helpfully labeling them "spelling correction", so that if X corrects these as well, you can ask for X to be sanctioned? That's really way, way below the conduct which I would consider acceptable for an admin (or any editor for that matter). Fram (talk) 10:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Understood, your message and the MOS:TIES policy. I have a prefernce to use American English in talk pages/discussions and I understood that NZ articles use NZ English. This is behavior that I have exhibited these past two days is ridiculous and I should of known better. I am shameful and sorry for these actions and I assure you all that I won't do this again. Alexeyevitch(talk) 10:45, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I note they did edit 44 Parachute Regiment (South Africa) after you, again they reverted your incorrect spelling. Checking an editors edits for mistakes they repeatedly make us not harassment. Banning them from correcting you mistakes wouldn't be helpful. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 09:46, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Fair point ActivelyDisinterested, I understand what your saying here. Alexeyevitch(talk) 10:20, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Maybe a solution would be for Alexeyevitch to commit to stop making spelling corrections in articles until they have a better understanding of English spelling variations, and both editors commit to stop following each others edits. This way would avoid any bans and stop any further reasons for conflict. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 10:37, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Okay, I amicably agree to these terms. Alexeyevitch(talk) 10:58, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't believe it is as simple as that. Schwede66 warned Alexeyvitch in December 2023 and while he has stopped following me on non-New Zealand articles, he has continued with this Paraparaumu thing. After telling him about a month ago that I may report him to this noticeboard due to his thing with Paraparaumu, Schwede66 suggested that we avoid contacting each other. Following this, I did make some copy edits, such as on Foveaux Strait (I had edited/watchlisted this article last year) and it did not go too well after I made copyedits and added a maintenance templates and Alexeyevitch told me to "fix it myself" when I didn't know how, the conversation diff is here. I now wish that I had left it as that and not gone to the talk page. I also copyedited some of his edits on Southshore (I found this from the good article nominees on the article alerts). After "Mr. Roger" (Roger 8 Roger) had made complaints about his edits needing copyeding on suburbs, I added the suburbs to my watchlist so I could copyedit them, and followed with copyedits; this is something I now regret. Due to this Paraparaumu thing, I continued making copyedit tests to check if they were coincidences or not -- they were not coincidences.
    I don't believe it is just an incompetence with spellings, but rather some dislike of New Zealand spellings, illustrated the message on his talk page, his previous use of New Zealand spellings rather than American ones on articles, him creating a word salad of American spellings and then indirectly writing that he may ignore comments that are in New Zealand English after I informed him about comma splices. ―Panamitsu (talk) 11:12, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Alexeyevitch themself doesn't use New Zealand English, please consider using American English or the Oxford Spelling on their talk page. They might not to respond to comments deliberately avoiding this suggestion. (from the last diff in Panamitsu's comment: Good heavens, literally expressing an intention to ignore comments written in a variation of English not Alexeyevitch's own? Is there such a thing as linguistic chauvinism? This seems contrary to the Universal Code of Conduct's injunction to be collegial and empathetic with Wikimedians of different backgrounds. And the word salad seems like an attempt by Alexeyevitch at mockery, sarcasm, or aggression against Panamitsu, mocking Panamitsu's use of New Zealand English spelling. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 13:42, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Alexeyevitch's behavior has clearly been inexcusably childish, and they cannot be allowed to continue acting like this. Remsense诉 14:19, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I was frustrated at the time. Mr. Wilke told me to step of Wikipedia for a bit if I was frustrated. I regret this. Alexeyevitch(talk) 21:15, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I just want to clarify this previous reply of mine as I was replying to multiple comments at once. In the first paragraph I was attempting at explaining where I believe Schwede66's belief of I've had the impression that their [Alexeyevitch's] contributions have been followed for quite some time; not just "in the past day" came from. As no diffs or examples had been provided, I'm not exactly sure where Schwede66 got this idea from so I don't know if I've addressed everything.
    As conversation appears to have dried up, is there anything else I have to do? I'm not familiar with this noticeboard so I'm not sure if it just gets archived after 72 hours or an admin will close the discussion. ―Panamitsu (talk) 22:38, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    both editors commit to stop following each others edits. This way would avoid any bans and stop any further reasons for conflict.: This is premised on a false balance. What Schwede66 and Alexeyevitch call "following" and hounding has been Panamitsu noticing a widespread pattern of violating—in a few cases apparently deliberately, according to Alexeyevitch and Schwede66—MOS:TIES and MOS:ENGVAR and making fixes in accordance with an overtly permitted use of contribution histories: Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles.
    Meanwhile, Alexeyevitch has mocked non-U. S. spelling, has expressed intent to ignore talk page comments not written in American English, and has harassed Panamitsu (more precise diff not possible because of an unrelated thread getting oversighted, but see the timeline of events I created) by following them to Paraparaumu topics seemingly after potentially coming to the belief that Panamitsu had an off-wiki connection to Paraparaumu.
    With this level of hostility toward non-U. S. English and this depth of attempted harassment against Panamitsu in play, I'm not convinced that asking for a mutual commitment will prevent future guideline and policy violations by Alexeyevitch. Getting Panamitsu off their back seems to be precisely what Alexeyevitch has wanted, so as to be able to eliminate New Zealand spellings from articles without scrutiny from an editor like Panamitsu. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 14:02, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    has been Panamitsu noticing a widespread pattern of violating ... MOS:TIES and MOS:ENGVAR this is exactly the content of my original response, I'm not disagreeing. I was just hoping to find an informal way to settle the dispute. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 14:51, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    be able to eliminate New Zealand spellings – to be honest, I've never seen that myself. And if I were to see that, I'd put a stop to that straight away. There are plenty enough editors in New Zealand who would have zero tolerance to such antics. Schwede66 05:12, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I totally agree with you, Hydrangeans. There is nothing abusive about an editor systematically going through another’s consistently non-constructive edits in order to clean up the mess they’ve been making. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 09:00, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Alexeyevitch, I'd just like to add that there are plenty of US articles you can edit with your preferred spelling. Kiwiz1338 (talk) 23:40, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Using American English in talk pages and discussions is OK... not in the NZ-related articles. Alexeyevitch(talk) 23:43, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Makes sense. Kiwiz1338 (talk) 23:47, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I am not part of this extensive ongoing spat and I don't want to be. I will say though that I am trying not to be affected by Alexeyevitch's numerous changes to Christchurch suburbs and other articles. See today at Opawa and Heathcote Valley. I raised to topic on the Christchurch talk page, to no avail, and I'll raise it here again. His edits are of such a poor quality, in numerous different ways, that they all require a lot of work to put right. He's been an editor long enough to understand the basics of what to do, such as no original research. Look at his Opawa church section and see what the source says (I added a link). I think he should slow down and concentrate on some basic skills, if that is even possible. Unless something changes IMO his editing could be seen as disruptive. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 10:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I don't think this is the sutiable place to post this... what would you like see changed? I hope there is no negative motive behind this - this is causing me distress. I am trying my best on these pages and I want a resolution to this conflict - I regret my actions, apologized and stated my commitments. Please let's focus on building an encyclopedia - I will add more sources/improve content to that area of interest.
    See this diff compared to most recent - I think this is an improvment IMO. Alexeyevitch(talk) 10:33, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Plz. I have learned my lesson and this behavior cannot continue... a block is totally appropriate if I fail and continue to make irresponsible edits.
    I will do better, I promise. Alexeyevitch(talk) 11:36, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't know anything about you except that are presumably American. I think you should have a mentor to show you what to do and why. And it isn't just the mechanics of how to operate the WP site. As before, a good place to start is to slow down and focus on one task at a time, such as why some references are good and others are bad or unsuitable. You have an idea in your mind about what should be/you want to written and then go out looking for sources to use. Turn that around - read the sources first and use what they say about a topic. However, it does look as though that won't change anything because you keep repeating the same patterns of behaviour even when others point them out or make corrections. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 19:38, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Okay, I understood. Alexeyevitch(talk) 21:08, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    This has been an interesting thread to read through. The conclusion I'm drawing at this point is:

    • Panamitsu hasn't done much wrong at all, certainly nothing requiring any further admin action
    • Alexeyevitch has done quite a bit wrong but seems apologetic, willing to learn, and has promised (multiple times) to try harder
    • Schwede66 did the right thing in bringing this here. He is an administrator and has been trying to resolve the problems between the above two editors. In doing so, at one point he encouraged Alexeyevitch to deliberately vandalise multiple articles (" I gave Alexeyevitch some random (four, to be precise) articles to edit, asking to introduce little mistakes."). I have to agree with Fram, that's actually the most concerning thing in this whole affair. WaggersTALK 15:08, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I just want to point out that this report has been discussed on a forum. ―Panamitsu (talk) 07:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Let them discuss, the only discussion that matters is on-wiki. FWIW I don't think this is worthy of desysopping, an admonishment would suffice. Would be good to see some !votes from the community on that. WaggersTALK 13:26, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I think that there is a bit of bad faith assumption here regarding Schwede66. Reading through this carefully, Schwede66 was (initially) with the suspicion that Panamitsu was 'stalking' Alexeyevitch's edits, and so suggested Alex to make several more of the kind of edits that would grab Panamitsu's attention to see if the counter-edits continue. Well as it turns out, even I could see this from the beginning, but Alex was in the wrong here by "correcting" spelling on NZ-related articles to US spelling. Those "Use New Zealand English" and "Use dmy dates" templates are there for a good reason! They are on the very top of the articles, so easy to spot straight away when editing too.
    Anyways, this didn't escalate into anything major, Schwede66 definitely did the right thing bringing this to AN/I for opinions from outsider admins and users (one probable reason being maybe he thought he was wrong here, which in the end, ended up being the case), so I don't see an "abuse of power" or anything dramatic like that here. Looks like later on, Schwede definitely did get what actually was going on here, dropping the 'stalking' concerns. — AP 499D25 (talk) 14:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes. See Cloventt's statement above. Alexeyevitch(talk) 23:43, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Schwede66 regarding you saying after the latest complaint to me via email, I gave Alexeyevitch some random (four, to be precise) articles to edit, asking to introduce little mistakes, can I ask if you would have given this advice on-wiki, such as on a talk page? Or would this advice not have occurred if it was in a public environment? BugGhost🪲👻 11:43, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    If you can work out for me a talk page where you can be sure that the editor who is not supposed to see the message would not see it, the answer is yes. Schwede66 18:17, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Schwede66 Do you agree that it was wrong to encourage an editor to deliberately "introduce little mistakes" (i.e. vandalise) articles? Or would you do the same thing again in the same situation? WaggersTALK 07:33, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    This is the response that I gave to Alexeyevitch:
    Hence, we have two situations:
    • an editor worried that he is being stalked and a way of finding out whether that's true, and
    • a spelling mistake in one article, and an unbalanced bracket in another article, for a rather limited period of time
    The former, I would suggest, is a problem. The latter is not. However, some editors above make out that the latter is the real problem. I fail to see that. I really do. If we want to build an encyclopaedia, shouldn't we be more worried about editors getting on with one another, and if they really can't, keep them apart from one another, as opposed to fretting about a couple of minor mistakes being introduced temporarily? What am I not getting? Where is the perspective in all of this?
    And to answer your question directly, unless I can be persuaded that I've got this completely the wrong way around, I would do the exact same thing the next time a situation like this arose. And if Bugghost comes up with the method of communicating such a strategy via a talk page, I'd be most happy of doing just that. Schwede66 10:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    WP:HOUND says (my bolding):
    Many users track other users' edits, although usually for collegial or administrative purposes. This should always be done with care, and with good cause, to avoid raising the suspicion that an editor's contributions are being followed to cause them distress, or out of revenge for a perceived slight. Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles. In fact, such practices are recommended both for Recent changes patrol and WikiProject Spam. The contribution logs can be used in the dispute resolution process to gather evidence to be presented in incidents and arbitration cases. Using dispute resolution can itself constitute hounding if it involves persistently making frivolous or meritless complaints about another editor.
    In other words, there are sometimes valid reasons for "stalking" another user's contributions, and that does not constitute hounding. We know from @Panamitsu's response above that that's exactly what was happening in this case.
    My view is there are never valid reasons for deliberately making detrimental edits to Wikipedia, no matter how small or temporary those edits are. However, WP:V says (original bolding):
    Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism.
    Yes Wikihounding is a serious accusation, but there was a straightforward, innocent explanation and all we needed to do to obtain that explanation was ask Panamitsu. I suggest that instead of laying traps for each other that can lower the quality of readers' experience, we just talk to each other in future. And perhaps this matter should have been brought here earlier. WaggersTALK 10:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Seconding Waggers here (and here rather than at ARC or on Schwede66's user talk). Waggers has done the policy quoting regarding what is and isn't hounding for me. I had considered asking Schwede66 about this on their talk page but saw them and Panamitsu amicably discussing article improvement there, so thought there must have been a private discussion in which Schwede66 apologised. While counselling other editors is part of the admin job, we are here to collaborate on building an encyclopaedia, and part of that collaboration is checking and improving others' work. Avoiding all conflict between editors is not only impossible, trying to do so is way down on the list of objectives, while protecting what everyone has collectively built is at the top. WP:IAR does not say "If you can make someone feel better by ignoring any of these rules, do so." Also, laying a trap for someone is a betrayal of their trust that they will be treated as a colleague; it violates WP:CIV in the name of upholding it. The other way to resolve a conflict is to not assume someone is in the wrong but see whether there's a misunderstanding or lack of knowledge (as there apparently was here with regards to ENGVAR). Schwede66, you jumped to a hostile conclusion and thus not only promoted vandalism, you tried to resolve the conflict by having someone restricted in where they could work, which would have diminished the editing community. Yes, I think that was exactly the wrong way around. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:54, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I am shocked and saddened at Schwede66's tone deaf response above and have felt it necessary to escalate this to WP:ARC as an admin conduct case. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 19:51, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    WP:HOUNDING and WP:TENDENTIOUS by User:ThoughtIdRetired on Austronesian-related topics[edit]

    Closing, since OP has ostensibly quit editing Wikipedia entirely. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 16:51, 29 June 2024 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    Examples of his edits (more numerous than talk page discussions). I don't have the time to hunt for all of them. I have never looked at his contribs before, so I'm probably missing a lot. Basically every edit he does on Austronesian-related topics since our first interaction.

    We first interacted in Square rig, where we fought over his insistence that the scope only applied to European ships during the Age of Sail (because apparently other sails don't have English names). I let that go since I was in the minority. Afterwards, he started specifically going after Austronesian articles and my contributions. The most egregious of which are multiple topics he opened in Talk:Austronesian peoples, which is still ongoing. Apparently something about the fact that Austronesians crossed oceans thousands of years before Europeans (which I mentioned in our first dispute) ticked him off, and he's been attacking that fact ever since. He has been challenging literally everything he can challenge, by any means. Examples of his behavior:

    • Changing the wording (prefering to keep it vague and noncommittal if possible, like claiming something was "over-long" as an excuse to remove things)
    • Removing references he doesn't like (certain peer-reviewed papers/books he claims subjectively is "poor" or "old"). He recently attempted to enshrine this practice in our guidelines unilaterally while hiding his conflict of interest in using the method for content disputes.
    • Attacking authors he doesn't like (he thinks if an author's hypothesis gets disproven from new data, that it means that everything the author has written, even unrelated, is now unreliable, this applies most notably to George Hourani)
    • Attributing Austronesian technologies to everyone else but Austronesians (Europeans, Negritos, Papuans, Chinese), depending on what paper he happens to misread. He particularly likes one source, which he has repeatedly pushed, that claims Polynesians copied European ships (doesn't matter if it's fringe)
    • Removing images and maps, pointedly changing captions like here, and here
    • Tagging (necessitating me to reread sources I've forgotten for years, only to find out he just doesn't like the paraphrasing)
    • Moving goalposts, he challenges a claim, when that doesn't work, he challenges the wording, challenges the references, challenges the author, and the most frustrating: just claims it's not really known because there's no direct evidence and the experts are just imagining things, etc.

    Some misleadingly follow a procedure. Tagging something, then removing the entire thing after no one notices it. Or removing a reference for unrelated reasons, then removing the then unreferenced sentence. Or opening a topic in the talk, then removing it when no one replies. Impossible to prevent and challenge in time, given the number of articles he does this on. Unless I dedicate my entire time here just following him around. Which is probably the point.

    I initially replied to his challenges, which often involved rereading lengthy sources, only to find out he's just misinterpreting, synthesizing, or making up nonsense. This discussion on his changes in the pottery section is typical of his challanges and his tendency to move the goalposts. He first inserted a sentence that misrepresented a source by omitting certain details from the authors' conclusions. When I corrected it and gave another source for rebuttal, he then claims it's now "too long."

    This isn't a mere content dispute, given the scale of what he's disputing. He's disputing everything that I've written or is relevant to what I've written. He's throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. Once one does, or if he doesn't get replies, he then changes it everywhere else. It's not like he's validly tracking down the same errors on multiple articles. It ranges from sails, to boatbuilding techniques, the settlement of Guam, the Polynesian migrations, the settlement of Madagascar, pottery, dogs, pigs, and most recently, the domestication and dispersal of the banana. Some are valid that could have been fixed with a simple sourced edit, most are nonsense based on misreading sources or a general ignorance of the scholarship on the topic, some are outright based on nothing (often hyperfocusing on interpreting a single phrase from a single source). All are, comparatively, minor challenges that chip away one thing at a time (the caption dispute on the lakana for example), often with implied insulting assertions at my editing.

    But they're all WP:TENDENTIOUS, with a very clear unifying theme: downplay Austronesian seafaring as much as possible. He has never contributed a single positive thing to the topic. Prior to our first interaction, he had no interest in articles on Austronesian seafaring, his main area of interest was and still is, unsurprisingly, European ships. I'm here to write articles. I have never once interfered with his editing. Until I checked his contribs prior to this report, I did not even know what he does usually on Wikipedia. I still don't.

    I've read hundreds if not thousands of papers on this topic, writing much of our coverage on it over the years. Including the vast majority of articles like Austronesian peoples, Lashed-lug boat, Austronesian vessels, Outrigger boat, ‎Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia, and recently, the Maritime Silk Road. With extensive contributions to others like individual ship, plant, animal, and ancient seafaring articles. And that's only for these related topics (in case you get the mistaken impression that that's all I write about). I've done my best with keeping with the policies on RS on all of them, as I've done with all my contributions over the last nearly 15 years.

    All of that to be challenged repeatedly by the same person on every single thing, every month, who has at most read 10 papers touching on this topic.

    I hate all of this. I don't even know what's the solution for situations like this is. Leave me alone. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 04:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Serious TL:DR. Most of this is stale grievance collecting and Sea lioning. 182.228.179.154 (talk) 05:27, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Speak English. I don't hang out in ANI wallowing in drama. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 07:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    No, you seek attention. 182.228.179.154 (talk) 10:12, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    ANI is so far living up to its reputation. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 10:51, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Can an admin consider reblocking the above IP for WP:PA? This seems a continuation of the WP:NOTHERE behavior that got them blocked a week ago, and antagonizing Obsidian Soul is not helping to build the encyclopedia. EducatedRedneck (talk) 15:37, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Blocked for two weeks. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 15:43, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Without pronouncing on the content disputes (I don't have a week to spare to read all that material), what I see on Talk:Austronesian peoples is mostly ThoughtIdRetired making informed and constructive criticisms, and you proceeding to flip out on them in relatively short order. Now it is of course entirely possible that they are playing a pernicious long game of misrepresentation and agendas - that is impossible to tell for anyone not conversant with the topic, such as me - but that would have to be shown in detail. "I don't like being contradicted by someone who I believe has read fewer sources than I", which is the overwhelming vibe I am getting here, is not a good look, as the kids say. How about getting more of your subject matter peers involved rather than trying to flatten the other on behavioral grounds? I see lots of the two of you slugging it out on that talk page, and preciously few others weighing in. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You think I have a week too? There are no subject matter peers. Do you see anyone else contributing significantly to those articles? You yourself have said there are "precious few" weighing in. I've endured this for three years. I've tried multiple times acquiescing to his bullshit. With the Paleolithic crossings, and the pottery section, only for him to move the goalposts further.
    "I don't like being contradicted by someone who I believe has read fewer sources than I": LOL, no. The simple fact is that he has NEVER touched a single article about Austronesians prior to our interaction. It isn't his lack of expertise that's the problem. It's the POV he's pushing with the handful of papers he's read.
    "that is impossible to tell for anyone not conversant with the topic, such as me - but that would have to be shown in detail". This "TL;DR" isn't detailed enough for you?! -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 07:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    He opened TWELVE topics, one after another. In one page. All with a theme. And you still somehow believe it's "constructive criticism". Which should I reply to first and spend at least a month discussing with him? Should I just stop writing articles and focus on that? What about his edits? Do I follow his every contribution?-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 08:10, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Opening twelve well-reasoned (at least it looks like this to me) discussions primarily seems to show commendable dedication to getting the article improved, and willingness to talk about it. Look, I'm pretty sure that the way to get rid of the perception that this is single combat between you two is to get other people involved in the content discussions. I can't believe there's only the two of you who care about this topic. Ask for input at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthropology, or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups, or one of the specific geographic wikiprojects? Start an RfC if there is a sufficiently specific contentious issue? You have clearly lost your cool and/or patience, based on the tone of the last few discussions on the talk page. You need to hand off some of that. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:36, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    This is not a content dispute. How many times must I say that? Ignore my anger. That's what WP:HOUNDING aims to do in the first place. And it obviously worked.
    ALL of his edits have a specific POV that attempts to completely discredit Austronesian voyaging. Pick an edit. Any from above. See what he's doing. Then pick another. Even someone who's not familiar with the subject will clearly see what he's trying to do. That's the reason I included the diffs and topics in the first place. Which you all refuse to read.
    Some of the issues he raises are valid. Like the Talk:Austronesian_peoples#Lateen section. Others are complete absolutely vague nonsense that I don't even know how to respond to. It's frustrating how I can't explain that here, because you also don't know anything about the topic, and will absolutely complain when I attempt to. But let me try, at least just to demonstrate how laughable your assessment of "commendable dedication" is. They seem reasonable at first glance, if you don't know anything about the subject.
    Take for instance Talk:Austronesian_peoples#Origin of first settlement of Marianas. This dispute is about a simple difference in different authors on WHERE the voyage that settled Guam might have originated. The paper he cites actually states that it may be the Southern Philippines or Eastern Indonesia, instead of the Northern Philippines as was originally in the article. Instead of simply adding those additional two possible origins as a normal editor would have done. He completely removes the mention of the voyage. While adding his own commentary that isn't part of the original paper he uses.
    Talk:Austronesian_peoples#Nature of Austronesian farming, here's another. He uses ONE source that vaguely questions the relative importance of rice cultivation in the Austronesian migrations. Again, something that could have been added to the article with a single sentence and proper attribution. I would have happily done that. He instead uses that paper to question everything about Austronesian agriculture. I have no idea what he actually means to say, that Austronesians had no crops? And he thinks this is enough to overturn the established scholarship and all the other sources used in the article. He includes other topics that were not in the scope of the original paper based on his personal misunderstanding of other sources. Dogs, pigs, chickens, etc. How do you think should I engage with that? Humor him and list the dozens of Austronesian domesticates with the hundreds of sources (which the article already does) one by one? The articles already explain their individual histories. Drop all of those sources in favor of the particular one he likes? I and another editor have already tried explaining WP:DUE to him, with no obvious results. What do you think I should do?
    He repeats this tactic when challenging the banana (Talk:Austronesian_peoples#Over-confident assertions), by misquoting a single phrase from the paper to make it seem like all Austronesian crops are suspect. Even after I provided a paper that clarifies the fact that Austronesians carried bananas as a crop in their migrations from Southeast Asia far more clearly, he refuses to accept that, and instead proposes that Africans may have cultivated bananas and transferred it to Southeast Asia. Something NOT in the paper, nor proposed by anyone I know in all the papers I've read. Again, what do I do with that?
    Or how about Talk:Austronesian_peoples#Substitute paragraph this section, where you can clearly see that I actually tried to humor him by expanding the section and clarifying how Papuans and Indigenous Australians must have crossed the Wallace Line. Does he accept it? No. He instead tries to argue that it was the Papuans all along who were the expert seafarers and invented all the ship technologies that Austronesians later use. Which is again, NOT in the paper he used to start the argument.
    Should I go on? Or have your eyes glazed over. Make the effort to understand what he's doing. I've gone through this circus before that got me my first block for trying to call out a racist editor. And it's the exact same situation apparently. You all just don't want to read long explanations and assume angry guy is bad guy.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 10:40, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yeah, well, it can admittedly be really frustrating if other people are just Not Getting what the problem is, because it's too embedded in pages and pages of history. There's a certain species article that I shall never open again because of the perfect storm of bad actors and clueless enablers that happened there - I'd probably blow my top if I had to re-read that. So if that is the case here, sorry. But that makes it even more essential to go find other people who understand the material and the issues, and who have the wherewithal to judge the quality of the arguments. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:22, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    This isn't a balcony in Rome. Haranguing the readers won't help you. Your attitude alone is enough to engender sympathy for the person you're reporting and we haven't even heard from them yet. 182.228.179.154 (talk) 11:57, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't have time to peruse this entire wall of text, but Atholl Anderson is absolutely not "fringe" and I doubt that whatever he has written behind that paywall says what you are claiming it says. Daveosaurus (talk) 06:34, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Ah yes. Of course. What did I expect from Wikipedia. Actually read?
    And since you all insist on focusing on the content dispute aspect: Anderson's HYPOTHESIS that Polynesians borrowed the European lateen sail is not widely accepted. HE is a respected author, whom I've used multiple times. Different things. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 07:23, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    "I've tried multiple times acquiescing to his bullshit.", "Ah yes. Of course. What did I expect from Wikipedia. Actually read?", "I hate all of this. I don't even know what's the solution for situations like this is. Leave me alone."
    It looks like we've entered WP:NotHere territory. OS's reaction is way out of line and not justified by the matter at hand. He's basically claimed ownership and attacks anyone who doesn't conform to his line of thinking. 182.228.179.154 (talk) 10:18, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    This is a high volume noticeboard where readers lack relevant context. It's your responsibility to be mindful of that and to make your comments concise. Also, generally speaking, if a complaint requires an essay to establish there's probably no legitimate complaint. Local Variable (talk) 10:58, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you for the opinion. Anyone else who hasn't read a single thing I wrote?-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 11:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    No valid complaint can be made angrily and long-windedly? What is the point of responding to something without engaging with its substance? ꧁Zanahary꧂ 15:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    No. If someone has a valid complaint, they can make it succinctly. There's a reason ArbCom requires complaints & responses to be limited in length, to avoid people dragging things out needlessly. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:18, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Just as a general rule of life the more agrily and long-windedly a complaint is presented the less seriously it should be taken. Hyperbole destorys credibility. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:23, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I agree in terms of ArbCom and ANI disputes, somewhat, but definitely disagree in regards to content discussions. Wikipedia is probably the most influential source of information in human history, and that means that editing Wikipedia is serious business. It's not a place to goof around and flit from thing to thing in a dilettantish way. I take the opposite view of Horse Eye's Black, respectfully - the more terse, snide, and devoid of complex thought a comment is, the less seriously it should be taken. Careful thought takes more than 160 characters, and volunteering to help craft the most influential source of information in human history requires more than a TikTok attention span. That is my view, @Zanahary. Philomathes2357 (talk) 07:16, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I agree. And besides, is not as if a short complaint would make this a short problem to handle—admins would have to look through sources and content discussions to understand the nature of the dispute, anyways. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 07:19, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Agreed. ‹hamster717🐉› (discuss anything!🐹✈️ • my contribs🌌🌠) 12:00, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Disagree. Needless loquaciousness is not a positive trait. Further, throwing insults that people who disagree are "goof[ing] around", "devoid of complex thought," and possess "a TikTok attention span" do more damage to your argument than good. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:49, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Ok, I have actually read most of what was posted and looked at the diffs provided to boot; I am completely uninvolved and I do not know anything beyond basics about the subject. Set the sentiments boiling over aside, and this feels like a rather slow edit war, essentially an extended content dispute. My guess is the topic eludes most people, and I do not think ANI is the place to find people who are actually able to judge about content. So I would want to get more eyes on this, my first port of call being WP:3O. If there is an adequate project who covers this, ask there. Disputants should keep in mind to AGF, and even to AAGF. Lectonar (talk) 11:16, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Thank you for at least reading it. I think I've emphasized enough how numerous and how vague his challenges are, and how it involves dozens of articles. This is not a content dispute. There's no single point of contention I can ask a third opinion on. Nor even a single article. Which is why it's so hard to explain it in the first place without writing that wall of text.
    If that's the only solution, I might as well just stop. Close this discussion. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 12:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I only said that's how it looks for one uninvolved and uninformed (me); my guess is that it might look like that for other uninvolved and uninformed people too (whereas for you it obviously looks clear as rain). As for showing a possible way forward: you listed some articles with disruptions above, let's take Polynesian navigation. An adequate WikiProject to ask might be WP:SAIL: make your point over there, but article by article, and concentrate on content, not on the behaviour of (one) other user. When consensus is on your side, it's much more difficult to refute your edits. Lectonar (talk) 12:51, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Going over his every challenge, point by point, defeats the purpose of trying to avoid his WP:HOUNDING and focus my attention on constructive things. There's so much more than the diffs I included. I wasn't joking when I said it's his every edit on Austronesian-related articles. It's not an edit war either, at least that would have been easier to explain.
    Engaging with him doesn't lead anywhere, he just moves the goalposts so far we end up debating the credentials of authors. If there really were enough people who could recognize what he's doing, there should have been someone else already responding to his edits.
    It's clearly pretty much just me. Since a lot of the articles affected are those I've worked on, and we clearly don't have a lot of representation of editors interested in it. (As an aside, Polynesian navigation is not one of them, I've never touched that article aside from adding a template 6 years ago. But his caption change and his reason is a typical example of how he undermines the topic with seemingly innocuous changes.)
    So it's done the job. I can not think of a way to ignore his minor but constant chipping away at the core of Austronesian seafaring, from someone who clearly wants to bury it. And I can't reasonably spend the rest of my time here on Wikipedia responding to him. I'm taking a break. Bet all my barnstars there'll be a dozen new topics if I come back, and the articles will all be saying we all swam to our islands. I appreciate you trying to understand the issue.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 13:53, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Obsidian Soul, you've written an enormous amount of text about this incident. If you want action on this, it's incumbent on you to try succinctly summarize every bit as much a possible to turn this into a digestible form. Nobody is being paid to read what you're writing. We're all volunteers here. You're asking us to set aside time from our lives to read what is now north of 3500 words of text in this section, 2400+ of which was added by you (nearly 70%)...nine printed pages...at averaging reading speed nearly 15 minutes of time...just to catch up enough to respond to the thread. When people take you to task about this enormous amount of text, you respond with "Ah yes. Of course. What did I expect from Wikipedia. Actually read?", criticizing the very people who actually made some attempt to respond to this. Wow. Just wow.
    You are best qualified to summarize what is going on. Remove unnecessary passages, drop sentences that don't elaborate, remove old diffs that do little to qualify what is happening, and keep cutting and cutting and cutting. Paraphrasing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a good writer at WP:AN/I knows they have achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Take that to heart, and retry this and make it clear what you think should happen. Otherwise, you will not get what you want out of this. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:48, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't get what's so bad about having to take fifteen minutes to read a complaint fully. After all, isn't fifteen minutes a relatively short period of time? WADroughtOfVowelsP 16:28, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm a fast reader and it took me about fifteen minutes to skim it, you must be an exceptionally fast reader if you read the diffs fully rather than skimmed them in fifteen minutes. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:27, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I didn't include the content of the diffs in my 15 minutes estimation. That, of course, would make it even worse. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:19, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Clearly I need to make some comment. This is a content issue. See the changes that I have tried to make to     Austronesian peoples where sources do not support the article content – either a complete absence of support or a different level of emphasis.

    Not all the complete "failed verifications" were the result of edits by OS. Nevertheless, they seem ideologically opposed to any criticism of any reference that they support, whilst labelling any that oppose their views as "fringe" (an example is identified by a commenter above i.r.o. Atholl Anderson).

    Perhaps the most concise (but still lengthy) example of OS's support for a poor quality source is that following this edit[3] (and others similar edits made to a number of articles). The relevant edit summaries have a link to a review that is totally scathing. I received thanks from at least one other editor for drawing this to their attention. OS's reaction includes this[4] with Shaffer being reinstated as a source with the edit summary ...one review doesn't invalidate an RS.... If you read the review at [5] you will see that this is not some bad write-up on trip advisor.

    The edit that reinstated the Shaffer reference also reinstated Hourani's Arab Seafaring. In another testing interaction with OS[6], we discover that they ...do not have access to that book. Reading further on that talk page post, you will see that I finally realised that not only was Hourani a dated source, but the book makes no mention whatsoever of junk rig. This suggests to me that OS has never even read Hourani.

    I don't know if I need to give more examples to make the point (you can find some on the talk page of Austronesian peoples), but it seems one has to check every reference they use (which, given the volume of their output, is well nigh impossible).

    This is all coupled with an unhelpfully argumentative style, as can be found on any of the talk pages linked above. One in particular I find memorable:[7]. OS wanted an example of the sailing rig labelled "A" in [8]. The photo found on Commons is actually of the one labelled "B". To be fair, we were all at the mercy of Commons taking any picture that you can upload without breaching copyright, with any unverified caption you wish to use. But I think Commons's failing on verification allows us to do some WP:OR on the matter. There are ample videos(e.g.[9] which I have not watched to the end, but shows rig "B" being rigged) and pictures from Madagascar (a holiday destination for many at various times) that tell us exactly how the "old photo" rig works. There was never a word of thanks for finding the appropriate picture that is now in the article[10], which is very different from its predecessor[11]. Without the abrasive attitude, this would have been an engaging exercise in working out the correct content to put in Wikipedia. (OK, I appreciate that for those who do not have an interest in sailing rigs, this is a bit like reading the telephone directory!)

    Clearly OS puts in many hours in editing Wikipedia. If only this would be done with a little more emphasis on both quality and co-operation. ThoughtIdRetired TIR 19:26, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I didn't have to read much of the initial presentation to gather this, but this is definitely a series of content disputes, where you have one who thought they had articles settled being challenged by someone with other sources and interpretations of sources. Frustrating this more is a lack of editors overall and especially ones who understand these subjects to be able to weigh in. I think you both should slow down, pick one article, try to iron it out - and if you can't, use Wikipedia approaches like Third Opinion, Request for Comment, or involving associated WikiProjects, until your issues are resolved. Then move on to the next article. See also WP:DEADLINE. I don't think this matter is actionable by an admin at this point. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 23:12, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    To comment on some of the above remarks and to add to those already made by this editor:
    • It is exactly the point that there is a severe shortage of editors with interest/expertise in the early pre-history of seafaring. As an academic subject, it is full of uncertainty over what happened in ISEA which seems to cause some of the difficulties with OS.
    • There is only a small body of editors who cover the translocation of plants and animals by humans (and almost invariably as a by-product of an interest of the biology of that species). I have directly contacted such an editor (a highly experienced one) regarding the arrival of the banana in Africa (the apparent trigger subject to all this) who encouraged me to make edits with the more guarded language that I feel is needed (based on a review paper on the subject), as well as saying that they had "noticed some likely Austronesian POV'pushing". I am reluctant to drag others into the sort of dispute that you get when involved with OS – so picking the right course of action is not easy. The Austronesian POV pushing is something that I would agree with (though it had not occurred to me to use that term). I note that OS has never used the paper titled Pre-Austronesian dispersal of banana cultivars West from New Guinea: linguistic relics from Eastern Indonesia[12]. It is a mainstream paper by leading researchers in the field. It is relevant not only to Banana but also to early seafaring as it demonstrates maritime mobility in ISEA before the Austronesians – a concept that is likely to be a trigger for an OS rant.
    • OS's behaviour is another matter. I think it is clearly demonstrable that they are careless with whether or not a citation actually supports article text (a small number of examples already given above). They take the view that a research paper (so, a primary source) is perfectly permissible to use as a source – not understanding that a review paper is better, nor understanding that their interpretation (WP:OR) of a research paper might differ from that of a review paper in a peer reviewed journal or a book by an academic publisher. (See one of their later points on Talk:Austronesian peoples, the paragraph starting "No. You're still not a peer reviewer...." This short para goes through many edits to reach the final version, so giving a diff would be meaningless.)
    • Removal of a maintenance tag without addressing the issue[13]. (More detail on this issue is at [14]) This demonstrates OS's obstinacy over problem references that they like. The reference is all about the sequencing of chicken DNA. The historical content of the articlepaper is already shown to have a problem (recycling a Wikipedia error) so OS uses the paper to support a slightly different fact (trade links to India) in this edit. So what is arguably a reference-in-passing takes a different fact from the same sentence as the one with the recycled Wikipedia error. There are plenty of other potential sources for the trade links to India, but the obstinacy of RS has apparently led them to stick with a problem reference.
    • A look at [15] gives some insight to the problem (search for the word "despise"). That is why we have a rather intractable problem here. ThoughtIdRetired TIR 23:16, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Pre-Austronesian dispersal of banana cultivars West from New Guinea: linguistic relics from Eastern Indonesia[16] <- This paper talks about the possible early Holocene pre-Austronesian (i.e.~pre-2500 BCE) spread of domesticated bananas from New Guinea to Eastern Indonesia based on linguistics, a distance of only a few short island hops. I HAVE read that paper before. The fact that you think that paper proves your point that Papuans were expert seafarers who sailed all the way to Africa and Austronesians didn't carry bananas in their migrations is infuriating beyond words for me. They also wrote this paper which you clearly haven't read. Providing more context on banana movements from BOTH pre- and post-Austronesian contact. In both cases, they make it clear they only have possible (linguistic) evidence for the movement of bananas from New Guinea to eastern Indonesia. The rest are just their own hypothesis. It doesn't contradict anything we have in our articles or anything that I have written. There is no claim anywhere in the Austronesian or the Banana articles that Austronesians domesticated the banana. Papuans did. But Austronesians carried it further onwards, both eastwards to Polynesia, and westward to mainland Asia and Africa, proven to various levels by linguistic, chronological, genetic, and archaeological evidence of all the other papers you didn't read.
    Like each and every instance of this happening, I have to EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO YOU. And somehow the other editors here think that's just me bragging that "I'm the expert." It's not. It's me saying you're a lazy biased reader who will only read what you want to read from the handful of papers that don't even really support your views, while knowing barely anything else about the topic. Because you're not doing it to actually improve the coverage on Austronesian-related articles. You're doing all of these to try and prove your earlier disbelief that Austronesians could actually sail across oceans thousands of years before Europeans.You're not interested in the topic. You're interested in tearing it down. And since I'm the only one here who recognizes that, that means tearing me down too by literally accusing me of misusing references, even when they weren't even my references in the first place.
    Like the date of the Austronesian colonization of Madagascar, the old reference literally verifies what it was attached to. And now you're claiming it's my fault the AUTHORS of the paper made a mistake. Even more than that, you're claiming the authors made that mistake by referencing that sentence. That I somehow did all that for nefarious reasons. Except I didn't write that sentence. Nor did I reference it. The sentence "the Austronesian peoples reached Madagascar by 0-500 AD" existed since 2012 BEFORE I even made my first edit on the article. Hourani and Schaffer, were AFAIK also not mine. I just objected to your misunderstanding of what constitutes a reliable source to the point that you've become obsessive over Schaffer from a single book review.
    Because you can't seem to understand that peer-reviewed papers are WP:RS. It literally says so in our actual policy page in WP:SOURCE. For most purposes they're literally the best sources you can use, with considerations to WP:DUE and a proscription against predatory journals. There's no single hard fast rule that dismisses them all as "primary sources" like you're doing. But you've never read any of that, because you've written a grand total of 3 articles. While twisting that limited knowledge you have on article writing and referencing to make the hilarious conclusions that reviews (as in literal book/paper reviews) are the only things that are reliable.
    Oh and that argument about the lakana picture? You're trying to make it sound like it would have been such a great time if we worked together? LOL. Your motivation for questioning that picture comes from our original argument on the V-shaped square sail, and you trying to find some way to attack me. Don't fucking pretend like you were doing it because it was an "engaging exercise". You were accusing me of WP:OR. You found a clearer picture, disproving your claim that it was a European spritsail. Exactly like I said since my first response. Did you admit you were wrong? No. You just started a new topic to attack me from another angle.

    But enough of that. If you actually listened to reason, we wouldn't be here. It would have been a mere content dispute. Meanwhile, everyone else here thinks I'm the awful one. While knowing even less than you about the topic. So they hilariously think that what you're saying and doing is actually reasonable. They refuse to understand even if I've actually tried to explain it, for the mindnumbingly stupid reason that "it's too long". And they actually act shocked that I'm angry at them too for responding without bothering to actually read anything.

    If you didn't read it, can't read it, or don't want to deal with it, why do you then assume that I'm the one at fault based solely on the length of the complaint? To the point that you actually comment about it? Several of you did exactly that. You didn't read it. If I had known that putting more detail into the report would be a bad thing, I wouldn't have bothered posting this here and just quit. Since it's too complicated to explain briefly anyway. I respect the opinions of people who chimed in who actually read it. Or tried to read it. Even if they disagree with me. Why should I do the same for people who didn't?

    ThoughtIdRetired has actually fully admitted now that he's pushing a certain viewpoint and NOT acting in good faith. Exactly like how I described it. And still you all think that's perfectly normal behavior. And my getting angry at his behavior is me being the problem.

    This is the SECOND TIME my concerns have been treated as if I was some idiot newbie editor. As if my experience is still not enough to at least take me seriously. By people who insist on AGF-ing even the most egregious behaviors (oh, he opened twelve unrelated talk page sections one after another on a topic he never touched before he met me? Perfectly normal!), while fainting at the slightest sign of a fucking curse word. I'm not even asking you to agree with me, just asking if there's anything you can do to fix it. That's the same response I got a year ago when y'all permabanned me for calling out a racist editor. Yes. I've grown to despise Wikipedia because of this.

    I've had enough of this.

    You're completely correct, Hammersoft. None of us are paid to do this. You can dismiss this as WP:RAGE. A good chunk of my life went into Wikipedia, but I'm not delusional enough to think I'm irreplaceable. I just don't see the point in continuing. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 00:15, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    P.S. Don't think this is the only reason though. So it's not really WP:RAGE, I guess. :P I've been wanting to leave for a while now. This just gives me a little more emotional push for ensuring I stay away and dedicate that time to something more meaningful than the joke that this project has become. Imagine I actually once believed in Wikipedia's vision. I'm surprisingly feeling much better now that I've decided. So much fucking stress. Just because one Brit thinks my ancestors were too primitive to sail. Who really fucking cares, right? It's just Wikipedia. It's always been just Wikipedia. The thing only Google and lazy students really benefit from, and we all dedicate so much of what we are to this collective delusion that what we do matter. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 00:43, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Obsidian Soul as a Malagasy editor who edits on Malagasy topics, I just want to say I hope you’ll someday return and continue focusing on bringing this incredible, sadly understudied part of the world to international light. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 01:08, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Zanahary, I hope I don't. If there's one thing I learned in my years here, it's that Wikipedia:Systemic bias is unfixable. Our topics are too niche. No one will listen because no one understands what we are talking about. We're too few to support each other. They only care about what matters to the English-speaking world, which is why almost all our high-level maritime articles are all unashamedly focused only on European shipping. That's how I got saddled with a parasite like ThoughtIdRetired in the first place. Trying to globalize the higher level article on square sail (prominently the one that survives in the Malagasy lakana out of all things). It only takes one guy like him with a mission to shit on all of it. I'm actually surprised he's kept his hands off Madagascar all this time, considering how much he's tried to discredit it in the Austronesian peoples article. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 01:38, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I would advise ObsidianSoul to refrain from personal attacks like those in his last comment. Walsh90210 (talk) 01:43, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Or what? Ban me? LOL You always go for the easy bans. Easiest way to "solve" a dispute. But a long-winded explanation of a pointed series of attacks at me and the topics I edit? Nah, TL;DR. EDIT: Good lord, you're less than a month old. I take back what I said. But yes, it obviously doesn't matter anymore, does it? -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 01:56, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes, I've been reading this, trying to figure out what content disputes there are here. And if there is any conclusion to be had other than "Obsidian Soul is temperamentally unable to participate in a collaborative project", you have to stop the personal attacks. Walsh90210 (talk) 02:10, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    It really is the Age of WP:Knights.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 02:32, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I’m going to work on an Austronesian Expansion article, and I hope you can, at some point, contribute to it. For now, unsolicitedly, I say breathe and turn the laptop off! If this feels like some kangaroo bullshit that has no respect for your time, then you may as well just stop arguing with people. At best you’re being needlessly unpleasant to at least some editors. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 02:16, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you. Logging off.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 02:32, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Briefly, OS has a habit of misinterpreting what I have said and then getting angry about that misinterpretation. The     Lakana incident (above) demonstrates that they are not able to interpret pictures of different sailing rigs – something which I think is a required competence for using a picture from Commons that is not verifiably captioned. (I find it amazing that they still do not get it on that point.) My username on any article that is of interest to OS seems to be a problem for them. I am not going to argue this all word by word as no-one wants more verbiage here. (Given time, I can, but not today or tomorrow.) ThoughtIdRetired TIR 08:36, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Hmm, I haven't read anywhere near the whole thread, but it looks as if this may have run its course?. If not, isn't the best path forward for both editors to mutually agree to step away from the articles themselves for a while? It might be useful to spend time at WP:RSN to get some wider input on the reliability of the sources in use. For example, the Shaffer book mentioned above is the subject of not one but two scathing reviews (1, 2) and Lynda Norene Shaffer has an h-index of 3. In any case, the personal attacks need to stop now; any more, by any party, is likely to result in a block. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:28, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The thread has run its course, as Obsidian quite literally retired because of it. The WP:RSN idea does sound like a good idea, though. WADroughtOfVowelsP 10:56, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    User:Murmayo and Gravedancing[edit]

    Murmayo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    Diff 1
    Diff 2

    I hate adding sections to closed AN/I threads but I would also feel silly starting a new one that seems very much intertwined with the above before it's been archived. I felt this rose above typical vandalism as an account made in 2021 sitting unused until today when it GAMEd 10 edits in 3 minutes all to make a foul custom message box on OS's userpage (which they restored when removed) absolutely screams 'bad-hand sock' to me. I wasn't involved in this thread but OS seems to know what's going on with this, so I presume someone more involved with this thread knows whats going on here? GabberFlasted (talk) 13:46, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Riposte97: time sink[edit]

    Riposte97 indefinitely topic banned from indigenous peoples of North America, broadly construed. I think we're done here. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:57, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


    Riposte97 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Please see Riposte97 at Talk:Kamloops Indian Residential School. Both sections are relevant but are relatively short. They should be read in order.

    Also relevant:

    Current RSN sections
    1. Dorchester Review, again,
    2. Western Standard as a source for Canadian residential schools
    3. Online publication in India as source for archaeological findings in British Columbia
    Recent archived RSN post
    • Archive 437: Using Spiked Online regarding genocide of First Nations [17]

    Editor recently insisted on rewriting Canadian Indian residential school gravesites and Canadian Indian residential school gravesites based on the very flawed notions of verifiability, notability, and DUE demonstrated above. I estimate that if he stops now about two weeks of full-time work will be required to clean up after this episode.

    I am unsure whether I am supposed to notify RSN particpants but I will notify Riposte97 now. Elinruby (talk) 05:36, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    You've pointed us to discussions (instead of providing specific diffs) but you haven't outlined what your exact complaints are about edits that you believe are not in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Be direct, you can't assume that editors will read entire discussions and come to the same conclusions that brought you to ANI. Present an argument, don't lay out breadcrumbs. Liz Read! Talk! 06:45, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I had tried not to bring @Elinruby's behaviour to ANI, but I guess we're doing this.

    Unfortunately, this post seems to merely be a continuation of the WP:BATTLEGROUND mentality for which the editor has found themselves at ANI numerous times, most recently being blocked in April May.

    On 18 June UTC, they popped up on this thread about me at ANE, where they made a long post in an apparent attempt to have me sanctioned with more than a warning. Despite being informed that their edits were not relevant to the noticeboard, they doubled down, and continued to argue for a sanction. This included apparently attempting to canvas other users here.

    In support of their characterisation of my alleged ‘modus operandi’, they also provided in their ANE post a list of eleven diffs at Talk:Canadian Indian residential school gravesites. Amusingly, this ‘proof’ consisted of dishonestly cherrypicking a selection of comments disagreeing with my position in a talk page discussion. Other editors agreed with me. I am not going to go into those diffs one by one, as it’s a waste of time, however I will point out that I invested a considerable amount of effort patiently building a compromise consensus here and here for my edits on that page. The suggestion that I was just blazing away is deliberately misleading.

    The actions at ANE are depressingly consistent with a pattern of misrepresenting others’ edits. For example, they falsely accused me of misrepresenting their edits, and also of demanding they restore unencyclopaedic content. When I pointed out that I had not demanded the content be reinstated, and asked them to strike, they instead doubled-down and accused me of ‘bullying’, again without any evidence.

    In this edit, they inappropriately insinuated I had been casting aspersions against them. They then accused me (again without evidence) of making a “heinous accusation” against them. Now, to give the editor the benefit of the doubt, this accusation may be explained by the fact that they may not know that several consecutive sentences may be attributed to the same citation. Still, their response is unnecessarily hostile.

    They here claimed that I do not believe that the Walrus is a proper source. I don’t believe I’ve said that, certainly not recently enough to remember.

    Here, they popped up, admitted they knew nothing about the subject under discussion, but nevertheless took the opportunity to make a personal attack on me.

    There are more diffs I could provide, and I am not the only editor they have had it in for, but I will let others speak for themselves if they wish. Again, I did not want to bring this here, hoping Elinruby would just calm down on their own. That evidently has not occurred. They has taken nothing from their most recent block, heavily implying here (“I have my own thoughts on that block”) that they view it as somehow illegitimate.

    I have not yet read their latest comment above, which was added as I was writing this, but will add to this comment as appropriate. Riposte97 (talk) 11:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    If my post was added as you were writing yours, as far as I know it should go below mine. Especially if you plan to add to it. That is not how these things are usually done at ANI, and otherwise you will keep pushing the requested rewrite of the OP down the page. I am going to give you a chance to fix that before I attempt to address your assorted misrepresentations. I'll note in passing though that you need to check the date on that block and also acquaint yourself with the {{they}} template. Meanwhile I am going to implement TarnishedPath's suggestion down the page in the correct chronological order. Elinruby (talk) 12:03, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Ta, I have corrected the block to May, and moved my next comment below yours. Riposte97 (talk) 12:12, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Not your next comment. The one above. Unless an admin says I am wrong about this. Also what about that they template, hmm? Elinruby (talk) 12:21, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Regarding comment placement, I think it’s best to leave as is, as the comment substantially deals with your first comment, and this is going to get very confusing if I move it. If I have misgendered you, I apologise. Please tell me if I have, so I can fix my comments. Is Lucy a reference to me, or another editor? Riposte97 (talk) 12:36, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    "Lucy" confusion comes from the comment removed in this edit. - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=next&oldid=1230388896 Riposte97 (talk) 13:01, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I am going to let admins explain noticeboard etiquette to you. I just hope they do so soon though. Meanwhile, although I said I would not respond further to you, I will explain the cultural reference to "Lucy you have some splaining to do': it's a joke. I realized after I wrote it that you probably wouldn't recognize it, and removed it. It was intended to take the sting out of repeatedly asking you to look up the "they" template and oh by the way correct your misgenderings of me. Is there some reason you aren't doing that? It's Template: They if you need a link Elinruby (talk) 13:13, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Even though it's the least of the issues here, I would like to point out that the misgendering has still not been corrected Elinruby (talk) 09:38, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Requested rewrite of narrative starts here[edit]

    @Liz: Ok. It is all very complicated and rather inexplicable though, but here is my best attempt to summarize. Please bear in mind that I got instablocked the first time I tried to explain this, which may explain a certain reticence and tendency to be oblique. Please ask me a question if I am not explaining this well. I am nervous because I am being brave and stupid and trying to explain this again even though this editor is trying to intimidate me. (talk page of the Kamploops article)[18][19][20][21][22][23]typo fix included for completeness

    Someone quoted Canadian Indian residential school gravesites to me.[24] It had not said that when I was working on it at the time the gravesites were found.[25] On investigation I discovered, among other things, that this editor was reverting to support the insertion into the lead of a statement sourced to spiked.com [26][27][28](similiar previous edit) that insinuates[29] that this recent national tragedy in Canada is a hoax, a la Sandy Hook, ie that those are not really graves, or they are empty.[30] Or something. [31][32][33] This is wrong on so many levels[34] that it is hard to know where to begin,[35] but another editor started the now-archived thread at RSN, where multiple editors participated, which started with parsing whether or not the source was better than the Daily Mail.[36]

    I need to say that literally hundreds of RS are available,([37][38]]) and at least 30 pages of results at Google Scholar.[39] I reviewed the first three pages and posted the urls in the current RSN thread titled #Tne Pope and the Canadian House of Commons with a convenient subheader for easy finding. There appears to be a profound unfamiliarity with these events outside of Canada,(waves hand) and that post was an attempt to begin a discussion to change the apparently hard-wired resistance to using the word "genocide" on Wikipedia.(waves hand) So there are many more sources than that to support the history of residential schools; [40][41] those are just the ones that call it a genocide. Anyway multiple editors tried to talk to the editor and Ivanvector in particular began to edit the article.[42] or perhaps already was.

    I realized that despite the changes to the lede nobody had been updating the article and I began doing that for the various schools where underground radar was being used, or had been used, or where its use is being discussed. I also found some egregious misrepresentations of fact, which are mentioned toward the end of the archived RSN thread.[43][44]. I do not know who was responsible for that; I just now found this tho of Riposte97 removing material with gold star sources while claiming it was unsourced. I have not yet run Wikiblame. Riposte97 objected to something I had done in the article and Pbritti pinged me at 20:16. By 22:37 I was abusing relevance tags and separately refusing to engage in a talk page discussion Another user appeared on my page to demand that I explain myself. I was busy researching one of the schools where much was being made of a first excavation not finding bodies.[45] I want to avoid relitigating what followed because I think that it may be better suited to another venue, but I went to bed a few minutes little later after doing some other routine updates and woke up blocked. There was an ANI thread. I was blocked and could not speak.

    That is not the point however; the point is that while [46] I was blocked for a week that article was completely re-written[47][48] to heavily insinuate wrongdoing by the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc, on whose land the graves are. Much cited material removed here.A huge table disappears here. @David Eppstein: called a source used at the Kamloops article a dishonest hit piece, attempting to cast the fact that a project of this size typically takes some time to get going as if it were a scam merely because they were allocated money, haven't produced immediate results, and won't talk to the hit-piece-writers. (see Western Standard thread)

    Other editors protested the rewrite.[49][50][51][52][This thread removes material cited to the TRC with an edit summary of "added citation" Diffs in the AE thread about this editor document three different editors protesting [53],[54] (note date), [55], [56], [57], [58] (see p.39 for example), [59], [60], [61], [62][63][64],[65], [66], [67][68], [69], [70], [71] {{refn|[72],[73] (note date), [74], [75], [76], [77] (see p.39 for example), [78], [79], [80], [81], [82], [83],[84], [85], [86], [87], [88], [89], [90] [1] as the editor claimed to have policy and consensus on his side. If anyone is wondering, I posted them there in an effort to support a complaint by another editor about this editor's behaviour at Hunter Biden laptop controversy, but apparently Things Do Not Work That Way. But since we are discussing that AE thread, it also documents Ivanvector giving this editor a warning,[after being reverted by Ivanvector [2][3] informal of course since Ivanvector had been editing the article and was therefore involved.

    That is a roadmap, maybe? The three current RSN threads are each for a source used at the Kamloops article, which was recently edit-protected, so that may help. @Fluorescent Jellyfish:, one of the recently-involved editors, says that they are a subject matter expert and and posted an explanation to the talk page of the Kamloops article why they think these sources are disinformation.[91]and was argued with and politely reminded Riposte97 of WP:ONUS] and was argued with some more. Having removed these sources from associated articles way too many times, I believe they are correct. And that is why I am trying to bring eyes to this even though, let's face it, this post is not recommended behaviour for an editor who was recently blocked for stating what is conventional wisdom in Canadian discourse and in the academic field, and warned not to do that again lest they be indeffed. But that there is not what this post is about.[92]]

    This post is about some dubious something or other being perpetuated[93] using Wikipedia despite the best efforts of bog standard editors to prevent that.

    I do not know why this has been happening for two years. I do not know why this user was one of the people making it happening. He is strangely stubborn about the reliability of really bad sources; from a quick skim there is a lot of POV now in the gravesites article that I have not addressed at all either here or there. This editor is very overbearing with other editors. The editors who were protesting his changes were told that they were being disruptive, this while I was blocked for "disruption", as removing the misleading material was described. At one point I would have evaporated also, so I don't blame them. But I beg you to keep in mind that the topic matter than is being manipulated here is the death of thousands of indigenous children. Please ask me or somebody a question if anything at all that I have said here is confusing. Elinruby (talk) 10:16, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    PS: It seems important to point out [94] that the allied denialist Fraser Institute is currently the number one hit for the string "kamloops Indian residential school graves"

    References

    1. ^ These were screened only for mentions of "genocide" in the text. Discredited author Ward Churchill was also omitted and I also skipped a publisher I did not recognize (SSRN?), a couple of links that didn't like my oddball browser, everything before 2000, and a couple of sources that seemed to solely discuss "cultural genocide" because they might not be on-topic.
    2. ^ In the table of suspected graves it describes the finding of the partial remains of a child in a grave at the Qu'Appelle residential school, sourced to [12]. The Spiked source that you provided, which is the successor of a magazine that was run out of business for denying the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, really shouldn't be used as a source for any information about anything described as a genocide. Ignoring that, it does not say that no bodies were found: it says that none were found in the five specific searches it names, which does not include Qu'Appelle. It also gives its unqualified opinion that "no evidence has been found to support the claims of a ‘genocide’", which is highly suspect given their known history of genocide denial. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
    3. ^ it has become quite clear that you are repeatedly trying to remove neutral information and add inappropriately sourced opinions downplaying the significance of these events, as evidenced quite clearly by your repeated attempts to force in an inappropriately-sourced and provably false narrative that there are no bodies (e.g. [13],[14], [15], [16]) and removing sources that don't conform with that false statement. If you do not stop this, I will seek to have you banned from the topic. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:49, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

    Request for admin help here: someone please refactor this section[edit]

    I'd be willing but I am obviously highly involved as the OP. But here is why I think it should happen:

    1. Out of sheer exhaustion, I posted here with links to talk-page sections. Liz said the narrative was insufficient, which it was. I wrote about eight paragraphs around the links. Riposte97 complained that my post came in as he was typing his, as he put his above mine because reasons.
    2. I objected, and various side arguments were had about my gender and what month I got blocked for "disrupting" the activity that is the topic of this post. I have said and will say again here that we can scrutinize that block here if people want, btw, but the thread is already complicated, and I promise you that whoever reviews these things is going to review that block. Are we distracted now? of course we are!
    3. After a discussion about noticeboard etiquette we are even more so
    4. THEN comes the narrative
    5. Everything from Riposte's post to the top of of the actual complaint, which is all related to it, should be under the actual complaint. But Riposte97 wants it above because reasons. It is less confusing that way, he says.
    6. TarnishedPath said you really need diffs if you are going to write all that. I considered that they were probably right and this was higher priority than explaining something to Riposte97 for the third time.
    7. Now people are complaining in the Discussion section about walls of text. I realize that I am part of the problem there and apologize for that, but the story has at least two articles in it, their associated talk pages, six noticeboard postings (besides this one) and an RfC. So far. But maybe if we at least get the walls of text in the right order it will be a little easier to understand.
    8. I am going to go ahead and differentiate out the long but badly needed post by the subject matter expert. I find them credible as such and not just because they agree with me. Nobody has disputed the expertise and Riposte97 has stipulated it. Whether their remarks go above or below his should be by date stamp according to me but I leave that to whoever, if anyone, does this.

    That is my request. Elinruby (talk) 04:04, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Discussion reprise[edit]

    @Elinruby, you need to provide specific diffs for each claim that you make. Otherwise there is no point you writing a novel. TarnishedPathtalk 11:45, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    SME COMMENT[edit]

    Hi,
    I'll re-post this in a new topic, if it would be more appropriate, however I didn't want to clutter up the page with multiple topics relating to Riposte97.
    I would ask that Riposte97 be prevented from doing further editing on at least the Kamloops Indian Residential School wikipedia article, and preferably the article Canadian Indian Residential School Gravesites, as well.
    In real life I'm a researcher, and I've done extensive academic research on topics around disinformation, far-right conspiracies, the international and Canadian far-right, and the vast realm of Canadian far-right disinformation publications that spread conspiracy theories, etc.. I'd rather not directly doxx myself, and I understand if you don't take my word for it, but yeah - I'm very, very familiar with the topics at hand. Specifically for our discussion, I'm very, very familiar with anti-Indigenous racism and Residential School denialism as a far-right conspiracy theory, and how those conspiracy theories are featured and spread in far-right disinformation publications. And I'm very, very familiar with far-right disinformation publications in Canada, because I've spent years researching them (which is not fun, let me tell you!).
    The integrity and accuracy of articles about Residential Schools, especially the Kamloops Residential School, is very important, because Canadian residential schools are the subject of a major far-right conspiracy theory which involves anti-Indigenous racism along with what is often considered to be genocide denial. I don't want to write a whole thesis here, so I'll desperately attempt to be brief, but basically this conspiracy theory focuses around the idea of residential schools being 'not that bad' and hinting (or outright stating) that the possible graves discovered on the grounds of many residential schools are a hoax. Any sources used in these articles should be of extremely high quality, high reliability, and shown to not be written in a biased manner, because it is deeply dangerous to promulgate or lend credence to this racist, far-right conspiracy theory, or to lend credence (by citing them) to sources that are known sources of conspiracy, hatred, and disinformation.
    This brief excerpt discusses residential school denialism as a far-right conspiracy, and far-right publications that promote it. As well, it reflects narratives that appear in the content Riposte97 keeps trying to insert. From the article Saying what we mean, meaning what we say: Managing miscommunication in archaeological prospection, by Wadsworth, Halmhofer, & Supernant (2023):
    "...those who used the misconceptions to support and spread denialist misinformation and disinformation about the IRS system. Heath Justice and Carleton (2021, n.p.) define residential school denialism as ‘not the outright denial of the Indian Residential School (IRS) system's existence, but rather the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schooling to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts’. Quoting French anthropologist Didier Fassin, Jones (2021, p. 104) also noted that denialism is ‘an ideological position whereby one systematically reacts by refusing reality and truth’....
    Responding to the GPR results from Kamloops, denialist narratives used various rhetorical strategies designed to distort facts, cast doubt and present alternative narratives. Denialist narratives focused on the terms used by the media such as mass versus individual graves, despite the quick correction of that language in most news outlets (Table 1). Targeting the GPR results, rhetorical strategies also repeatedly emphasized that ‘not one body has been found’, to try to undermine the thousands of archival documents that record the deaths of children. Demands for excavations and exhumations were also used to convince denialist audiences that without physical bodies, the GPR results should be considered a hoax. Additional rhetorical strategies focused on emphasizing that unmarked graves located in school cemeteries should not be surprising, as one would expect to find graves within a cemetery. These comments, however, served to distract their audience from the fact that no school should have a cemetery." (Wadsworth, Halmhofer & Suprnant, 2023).
    So. Now to Riposte97. Riposte97 has shown a continued pattern of removing well-sourced statements without adequate justification, inserting inaccurate and inflammatorily-phrased claims, and using unreliable, highly-biased, far-right sources to 'support' these deeply questionable changes. Upon discussion, Riposte97 refuses to acknowledge these issues, refuses to ameliorate their actions, and misrepresents Wikipedia guidelines. They appear to be inserting claims that are congruent with far-right conspiratorial narratives/claims into the wiki article for Kamloops Indian Residential School, and reverting - without adequate justification - non-conspiratorial edits, to preserve their chosen statements. This behaviour is highly questionable, and risks tarnishing Wikipedia's reputation.
    I'm at an event at the moment, so I can't dedicate a bunch of time to this, but when I added well-sourced info and removed information which comes from a known far-right publication, the Western Standard, he reverted my edit and insisted I prove that the Western Standard was unreliable, and when I did so, with many, many sources, he refused to replace my edit.
    For instance, he reverted my edit, saying:
    --> @Fluorescent Jellyfish: I have reverted some (not all) of your removal of content sourced to the Western Standard. What is your basis for claiming it is not a reliable source? Riposte97 (talk) 03:17, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
    I replied:
    --> as it states in the page you linked about Wikipedia's guidelines for determining reliable sources, sources such as newspapers (which Western Standard would be counted as) have certain caveats relating to reliability. The page states that news reporting from "well established outlets" can often be considered reliable for statements of fact - Western Standard is not well-established; it was 're-established' in 2019 (see it's own About page: [95]) by disgraced right-wing politician Derek Hildebrandt, having originally been established in 2004 by extreme-far-right figure Ezra Levant.[96]
    But far, far more than not being well-established - it is a far-right[97] misinformation outlet.[98] It frequently publishes racist, transphobic, and homophobic stories (and has repeatedly had to retract stories, along with failing various fact checks by media-observers). It has also been a key player in spreading Covid-denial and anti-vaxx disinformation.[99] It is a promulgator of far-right conspiracy theories.
    From the (peer-reviewed) article The public, the pandemic, and the public service: The case of Alberta (Wesley and Ribeiro, 2024):
    "Organizations that exhibited high levels of bias, frequently skewed or misrepresented facts, did not use reputable sources, and engaged in promoting conspiracies or misinformation were categorized as fringe. Here we included Fox News, Western Standard, Rebel News, Sun News, and talk radio as fringe news outlets."[100]
    Additionally, just for a quick example:
    "The Western Standard, a conservative publication based in Calgary, amplified in early July a conspiracy theory that claimed fires were being deliberately set at farms around the world to make populations more dependent on governments."[101]
    "[E]xtremists from the far-right of the political spectrum, including the Canadian Yellow Vest movement and the Canadian chapter of the Islamophobic and anti-immigrant Soldiers of Odin. Their narratives are laundered and amplified by a well-established alternative media ecosystem, including outlets such as Rebel News, Western Standard, True North, and the Postmillennial."[102]
    In fact, in its previous iteration, the Western Standard was charged with two counts of hate speech![103]
    And, lol, just two days ago, "[Derek] Fildebrandt, 38, who is now the publisher of the Western Standard news website, faces four charges of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, according to court documents."[104]
    It has a long history of anti-Indigenous racism. It promulgates a current far-right, anti-Indigenous conspiracy theory revolving around Residential Schools, elements of which were featured in this article until I had removed them. It is unfortunately not a reliable source, and I would appreciate my changes being accepted.
    Hope you have a good rest of your day! Fluorescent Jellyfish (talk) 05:14, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
    Discussion continued, but he refused to accept my changes.
    Riposte97 inserted statements from unreliable source the Dorchester Review, another known far-right Canadian conspiratorial publication, which I then reverted. As I discussed on my talk page:
    So, one of the authors of the article he used as a source (the one from C2C) is Tom Flanagan. Tom Flanagan is a well-known Residential School apologist.
    For instance this article describes him as:
    "Tom Flanagan, a former adviser to Stephen Harper and a long-time critic of Indigenous rights who has described residential schools as a “visionary program.”"
    Here's another article discussing Tom Flanagan as part of the general far-right conspiracy to deny Residential School atrocities.
    And here is an article from the CBC discussing Tom Flanagan's book (which is a massive piece of residential school denialism and allegedly *genocide denialism*). The article focused on the reasons and circumstances around the book being denounced by Quesnel city council. (that's also a good article for or info re: the situation, particularly the UN's funding recommendations)
    I have to go, but yeah, I'd like to see him banned from editing this article as I believe he repeatedly inserts far-right conspiracy narratives - and sources - into the article, and is not editing in good faith with reliable sources. Fluorescent Jellyfish (talk) 23:10, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

    More discussion[edit]

    @Fluorescent Jellyfish I take you at your word that you are a subject matter expert in the areas claimed. However, that does not excuse you from providing policy justifications for the kinds of accusations you have made above. Requesting another editor be banned is not something I'd recommend doing without diffs of a policy violation, for example. General and unsupported accusations of 'inserting far-right conspiracy narratives', without diffs, is just casting aspersions. Riposte97 (talk) 06:28, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I take huge exception to the fact that in @Elinruby's comment below above thy accuse me of trying to intimidate them, again without any basis in reality.

    Insofar as we have content disagreements in this topic area, this is really really far from the appropriate way to ventilate them. I get that they feel strongly about this. I really do. However, trying to somehow insinuate (again with no diffs) that I've somehow acted inappropriately is unbecoming of an editor of their experience. (NB: This comment originally made at 11:40, 22 June 2024 (UTC), reposted now after it was accidentally removed by another editor).
    Riposte97 (talk) 12:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You are again putting your comments above mine, indented to make it look like I am replying to you. Admins, please talk to this editor. Riposte97 this is not a content dispute. I don't understand why you are doing what you are doing or why you are doing it, but this is definitely a behaviour issue. Not sure which one, but there is definitely a behaviour issue here.Elinruby (talk) 12:49, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    My feelings are beside the point, Riposte. Your behaviour is. And mine too if they want to go there. It is not ok to distort the facts on Wikipedia, especially after multiple editors have already spent days explaining things to you. I an going back to diffs now and will not respond any further to you until done. Admins can ask me questions if they like and I will answer them as soon as I see that. Elinruby (talk) 13:00, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You replied to my comments above, and so I replied to you there to prevent this thread becoming confusing. I will reply to you here going forward. I note you are adding diffs by editing your above comment. Could I suggest, since that comment has already been responded to, that it might cut down on confusion for you to post the diffs in a new comment? Riposte97 (talk) 13:05, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Elinruby's pointed to "current RSN" threads. I looked at the first: Dorchester Review, Again. It was started by ElinRuby, Riposte97 did not participate. It's about the sentence in the Kamloops Indian Residential School article: "A tooth and rib were found in the area in the 1990s and early 2000s, both of which were of animal origin." In that article, the first addition of "tooth" that I can find was on 30 January 2022, the editor who added was not Riposte97. The addition of "both of which were of animal origin" was on on 14 June 2024, the editor who added was not Riposte97. Nor did Riposte97 mention the tooth and rib on the talk page. By the way ElinRuby didn't mention that the animal-origin sourcing was of a reader comment not a Dorchester Review author, but whether Elinruby was thus wasting WP:RSN time is not relevant. What's important is that Elinrhby is pointing to something that doesn't involve Riposte97. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 14:24, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I am saying there is a problem with Canadian residential school articles and Riposte97 is part of it. I explicitly identify several things I myself do not understand in this story and one reason the section is so long is that I have tried to be very careful about what I do and do not know. And it's Elinruby or El is ok if you don't want to type All That. I think the diffs speak for themselves. One way or the other it needs to be discussed. The two articles I mention are extremely important recent events in Canadian culture and for whatever reason wingnuts are digging up burial sites because some fringe yackadoodle told them stuff. As for wasting RSN time, when has that ever been a consideration, and isn't that the place where I am supposed to bring source problems, mmm? Elinruby (talk) 15:01, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I think looking at the Western Review thread would be more informative. Someone with a far-right agenda is trying to push the narrative that the sad history of mistreatment of and deaths of First Nations children at Canadian residential schools was a hoax, and it isn't Elinruby. It might be Riposte97. But regardless of their motives, the sources Riposte97 is pushing hard to include border on genocide denial. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:11, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'd say they go beyond "bordering" and straight into genocide denial. The Western Review article is absolutely written to insinuate that the First Nation council misappropriated the funds, and the repeated scare quotes are intended to downplay the deaths from those schools. They're very careful to not say it outright, but the framing is very clear. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 18:20, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I need a break. Please let me know if anything else needs a diff and I will do it when my back has stopped screaming. There are other issues with the article that were not included because Riposte 97 was not in them and they were not needed for context. I will be back to check for questions and diff requests if any. Elinruby (talk) 20:46, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Sticking my head in the door.
    If nobody needs to talk to me I think I should go back to sleep then recheck the diffs if there are still no questions. I do not have a proposed remedy here because I am uncertain what flavor of behavior problem this might be exactly, but I would ask that the vastness of the grief that is being messed with here be taken into account and that the behavior be stopped somehow. I don't want to do a fisking answer to Riposte97 here but can rebut it in detail if that is necessary.
    I am also very willing to be scrutinized of course. TL;DR: if nobody needs me I plan to finish the GA prep for Regency of Algiers and History of the Regency of Algiers. I have been preoccupied with this for months but apparently I don't edit constructively. I find that confusing. I am a primary author of Operation Car Wash (for which I got Editor of the Week), Liberation of France, Black market in wartime France, Jublains archeological site and a plethora of more minor articles about corruption in Brazil, the Ukraine war, and and the French Foreign Legion. These are all since I first encountered admin sanctions for feloniously thinking that I was allowed to point out on a talk page that RSN says that that's not a good source. From the same admin. I will spare everyone further sarcasm, mention Panama Papers and Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and just mention I also plan to ask for a review of the block. All of this can be documented if needed.
    I have no idea what behavior I will be blocked for if I repeat it, and the admin has refused to elaborate. I think that at a minimum I should be privy to that information. That is not a matter for this board though as far as I know however, but we can talk about it if people want to. There already a glut of in-scope information however. I will check back shortly then go away for a longer period if my presence here is still not needed. Elinruby (talk) 02:01, 23 June 2024 (UTC) to[]
    @Elinruby I would be grateful if you would provide a little more depth. So far, you have written a wall of text, throwing out vague insinuations of wrongdoing, but never actually getting to the nub of any policy. Despite the numerous revisions you have made to your comments, it is still not clear what you are actually accusing me of. That's unfair. Riposte97 (talk) 06:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @David Eppstein@HandThatFeeds, insofar as this is a content or source issue, I'd say that the Elinruby ought to have brought it to the article talk page first. Nevertheless, I feel it's necessary to explain why I have defended citing the impugned sources for the bare factual claim that exhumations have not taken place. Both the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops Indian Band) and the anthropologist who conducted the first GPR surveys of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, Sarah Beaulieu, have been at pains to point out that the graves cannot be confirmed without conducting forensic exhumations. It is therefore pretty important that it be pointed out that these exhumations have not taken place.

    There are dozens of sources online which repeat this fact, and so when one has been challenged, I haven't died on the hill, and instead sought to insert another in its place. Rather than discuss the content on the talk page, Elinruby has taken four or so separate, relatively obscure, sources to RSN. No one seemingly contests the factuality of the claim (and indeed, the reliability of none of these sources for factual claims has been properly contested per the RS policy). The Kamloops Indian Residential School article now seems relatively stable, with the fact no exhumations have taken place in the lead. However, the situation at Canadian Indian residential school gravesites is more confused. As far as I can tell, the accusations of 'far-right narratives' and 'denialism' are coming from the tone of the articles to which this fact is attributed. I've never said (and irrelevantly, don't believe) that there are no graves, or that the issue is a 'hoax'. That's, as far as I understand, the core reason I've been dragged here, not because I'm trying to somehow turn Wikipedia into Der Stürmer. Riposte97 (talk) 06:46, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The statement that the narrative you are pushing is genocide denial can be found in reliable sources. Here is one. You may disavow a belief that this narrative implies no graves, but it is that belief that the sources you are pushing are trying to instill in their readers. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:15, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @David Eppstein Respectfully, I need you to explain to me where I have pushed a 'narrative'. For what it's worth, I think most of the issues in this topic area come from the perception that there are duelling grand narratives that need to be vindicated. It may well be true that many sources are implying no graves. I do not believe that to be determinative in assessing their reliability for factual claims. In any case, our energies here are probably directed to RSN. I note there is currently an RfC on topic. Riposte97 (talk) 07:33, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I am now getting the point of the discussion title. I have explained on RSN but you have been politely insisting and politely insisting until somebody blows their top and loses that argument despite your polite genocide denial pushing. You are insisting on including a dishonest news source, the Western Review. That source is, as THTFY states about, careful not to make an outright error of fact. Instead, they cherry-pick which facts they include, and which ones they put in unnecessary scare quotes, and the order in which they state these facts, in order to twist a straightforward story (evidence suggests there are bodies, an investigation has been commissioned, but because this is a sensitive issue involving children's dead bodies they have been taking their time, so they have not yet gotten to the stage of exhuming bodies) into a genocide denial story (no bodies have been found strongly implying but not outright saying that there are no bodies to be found and millions of dollars have been allocated with no bodies found strongly implying but not outright saying that the money has already been fraudulently taken). It is not the facts that they state but the order and the framing of those facts that makes the source dishonest. This has been explained to you. But you're just asking questions. And just asking questions. Until people take a false step themselves, or get tired of wasting time on a time sink and let you get your way. —David Eppstein (talk) 08:11, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    That is a total mischaracterisation of what I asked you. Let me be absolutely explicit, then: how on earth is citing the Western Standard (or the Dorchester Review, or SPIKED, or C2C) for the bare factual claim that exhumations have not taken place 'pushing a narrative'? That fact needs to be attributed to something - no one else is offering up an alternative! Have you bothered to read my contributions? I have not imported any of the 'implications' you object to in the Western Standard article. I have NOT pushed genocide denial, and I demand that you strike that. Or is your contention that the point exhumations have not yet been conducted should simply be ignored entirely, though the provenance and number of graves has not yet been ascertained? If that's the case, I don't think it's me pushing a narrative. Riposte97 (talk) 08:29, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    how on earth is citing the Western Standard (or the Dorchester Review, or SPIKED, or C2C) for the bare factual claim that exhumations have not taken place 'pushing a narrative'? Literally this exact question could be answered by rereading the post you're responding to. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 16:21, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You haven't JUST edited the article to include that exhumations had not taken place, you've reverted to re-include your preferred material at Special:Diff/1227501210 which included the denialist phrasing "As of May 2024, investigations into the reported mass graves at the site have ended with no conclusive evidence of such graves". Notably when that information was removed, prior to your revert to re-insert it, by @Fluorescent Jellyfish at Special:Diff/1227472046 they left the edit summary "Removed questionable claims from a far-right, non-reputable 'source' (the Western Standard is not a reputable source - it is a Canadian far-right publication which is known for publishing disinformation". After your revert to re-include the denialist material supported by the unreliable source, you then proceeded to push the source at Talk:Kamloops_Indian_Residential_School#Western_Standard. TarnishedPathtalk 02:39, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    And, to add to what many (including @TarnishedPath above) have mentioned:
    It is noteworthy, as well, that when I edited the article - prior to my changes being reverted by Riposte97 - the article still made it clear that no exhumations have occurred. Because that's a fact, which no reasonable person has an issue including! It remained in the article, supported by reputable, well-established sources.
    Which suggests that including "the bare factual claim that exhumations have not taken place" is not what Riposte97 actually cares about. Fluorescent Jellyfish (talk) 03:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Topic Ban proposal[edit]

    There is clear consensus that Riposte97 be indefinitely topic banned from indigenous peoples of North America, broadly construed. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:49, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


    This thread is already quite lengthy and in the interests of coming to some sort of conclusion I'm going to propose a topic ban for Riposte97 from the indigenous peoples of North America, broadly construed.     TarnishedPathtalk 07:50, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    support (involved) for the obvious reasons. I personally think the editor is NOTTHERE, but I understand that the idea is usually escalating blocks and giving people a chance to improve, but the fact that the editor wants us to believe that he truly can't see the difference between spiked.com and a history journal says it all and if actually true this would suggest CIR issues or perhaps SEO. I really don't know what the cause is of this behaviour by Riposte97 and others, but I really really think Wikipedia needs to stop giving a platform to people who think it's cool to dig up a burial site in an effort to further a conspiracy theory. And a topic ban would at least help with that. Elinruby (talk) 08:21, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I think a mutual I-ban between us may actually be more productive for the project. I refrained from suggesting any kind of sanction in outlining your repeated attacks on me above, because I really don't think wikidrama helps the project at all. You have not specified any policy breaches that would warrant a T-ban. Riposte97 (talk) 08:33, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Just noting that the policy breaches are pretty clear but that I have listed off several a little further down the section where you said pretty much the samething all over again. Out of an abundance of caution given your proclivity for claiming that silence equals agreement Elinruby (talk) 00:49, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    And I think the above response pretty much proves my point. But just so you know, an i-ban would not allow you to again run amok again in these articles. Since my involvement with them predates yours you would have to stop editing them anyway. I have no personal animus against you, and am capable of putting it aside if I did. But what you have been doing in these articles for some reason is profoundly wrong.Elinruby (talk) 09:08, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Riposte97, pushing weak sources which engage in denialism can be considered WP:TENDENTIOUS editing. That's all the reason that's required to support a TBAN from the area in which the disruption is occurring. TarnishedPathtalk 09:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Support. The sources are all trying to insert doubt by weaseling around the issue (a common type of denialism regardless of the subject), but in good faith I'm unsure if that's being understood. Either way a than from the area seems an appropriate solution. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 09:38, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you Riposte for illustrating how your statements cannot be relied upon. At the time you made this statement the ANI complaint had dozens of diffs. The claim you keep trying to insert over and over again is contradicted by other material in the article, which you have been removing. Somewhere above you claim that there have been no policy breaches that would justify a t-ban; misrepresentation in edit summaries is a policy breach. Bullying other editors off the talk page is a policy breach. Ignoring consensus is a policy breach. PoV pushing is a policy breach. Misgendering is a rather minor policy breach but refusing to correct it escalates the breach. Removing cited material over the objections of others is a policy breach. And that is without getting into that one editor who keeps showing up to agree with you. And your surprising familiarity with PAG given that this account started editing in December, as pointed out in the earlier ANI thread about you. Elinruby (talk) 22:38, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I am uninvolved here, but I do support the topic ban. ‹hamster717🐉› (discuss anything!🐹✈️ • my contribs🌌🌠) 16:28, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Support, for the reasons outlined in my comment above, as well as in the talk page of the article. Fluorescent Jellyfish (talk) 20:09, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Oppposed I see no reason why the TBAN should be so broad. If it were specific to this topic (and/or those immediately related) I would support it. Lostsandwich (talk) 09:58, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    support for Elinruby oppose for Piposte97. P97 was just warned and it doesn't appear that they have done anything wrong since that warning. Conversely, Elinruby was recently blocked for BATTLEGROUND behavior and it seems they are continuing. Time sink? Look at how much of this that is Elinruby's own comments/commentary! Clearly they feel strongly about this topic but that isn't an excuse to attack editors who are acting in good faith. Additionally, when an editor brings a source that makes what on the surface it's a compelling argument it's more helpful to civilly explain why they are wrong (and saying they are borderline genocide denialist isn't the way to do it). If P97 continues the actions that resulted in a warning so be it. However no evidence has been presented that they haven't heard the warning. So no block is needed at this time. Springee (talk • contribs) 10:31, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

    @Springee, Riposte97 was warned for something entirely different. The admin at WP:AE did not consider any material in regards to their editing of the articles related to the school graves precisely because it did not fall within the WP:AP2 area. TarnishedPathtalk 10:39, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    If the issue continues after the ANI closing then I can see a leg to stand on. Conversely, Elinruby not only showed no they didn't understand why they were blocked (see the failed requests to lift the block early) but was even warned the block may be extended if the behavior didn't change. Disagreeing with other editors in a civil fashion is not something that deserves a tban. That is what is going on here. Springee (talk) 11:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Civilly pushing dodgy source that have very strong biases after multiple editors have told you that they are dodgy is still WP:TENDITIOUS. TarnishedPathtalk 11:40, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    But they did restore the material against consensus many times then argue with the editors and the administrator who removed it, making the same arguments every time. I know the complaint is long --I tried to be succinct but there are at least two articles in this story and six noticeboard postings -- but the restoring against consensus is in the diffs after the spiked.com is mentioned. He also removed 11k bytes and 10k bytes of cited material that contradicted his source and statement, and flat-out misrepresented what he was doing in a number of edit summaries, for which you will also find diffs above. Elinruby (talk) 21:54, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Did they do it after the warning? Springee (talk) 22:34, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    As was explained to you already above, the warning was specific to the article on Hunter Biden's laptop. I submitted evidence in that case, but apparently AE does not take into consideration what happens outside of contentious topics, and this is not a contentious topic, although imho it should be. Elinruby (talk) 22:45, 23 June 2024 (UTC)s[]
    And look, if it helps you understand this, the answer to your question is yes. This was after they received the warning. So even though the warning is irrelevant, if it matters, after they received it they removed a cited sentence saying it was unsupported by the source. Which by the way it is, of course, but the sentence is about the government policy of forced assimilation that Riposte does not want discussed. Elinruby (talk) 23:24, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    It didn't take much adjustment of the wording of the sentence from myself to make it accurately reflect the source. That Riposte97 removed it in the first place was disruptive. TarnishedPathtalk 23:45, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    yeah there is a (imho rather specious) claim that could be argued that it wasn't the school's policy it was the government's policy, but the government ran the school, so... and thank you for dealing with that btw. My hands have been kinda full. Elinruby (talk) 00:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't believe this. I don't think anyone should believe this. Elinruby (talk) 04:28, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    My child, when people on this board preemptively agree to indefinitely refrain from editing in a given area or page or what not it’s not interpreted by the community as “I messed up, I get that, and I will now own my mistake”, it’s interpreted as “As came here to get the other guy(s)/girl(s) blocked from editing and the community unexpectedly turned on me, so to avoid being shot down and the accompanying crash landing I need to offer some sort of bargaining chip to get them off by back long enough for me out some distance between this so I can resume adding or subtracting information in my article(s) against the wishes of the community”. Accordingly, do not look to be let off so easily simply because you’re offering to refrain from editing; unto our experience, if there are no teeth in the deal you won’t abide by it. 2600:1011:B188:718D:88A3:E526:F857:7E70 (talk) 05:02, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    My child
    Cool it. You have no right to talk down.
    came here to get the other guy(s)/girl(s) blocked from editing and the community unexpectedly turned on me
    R97 did not start this discussion. ꧁    Zanahary꧂ 15:05, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Not this one, no. It does however look like they did because they insisted that their response go above the complaint that it was responding to, saying that the the thread was less confusing that way. Because reasons. See subsection on request to refactor. Elinruby (talk) 04:25, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    (Personal attack removed) LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 05:06, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm sorry, Springee, but this is the Canadian equivalent of denying the Holocaust happened, so understand my (perhaps NPA skirting) comment. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 20:41, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    He has already been told that and made a complaint to an administrator that he was told that. Elinruby (talk) 04:28, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Link? Springee (talk) 11:17, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Are you seriously saying you don't remember that? I am right in the middle of some rl stuff but fine, diffs it is. Jordan Peterson talk page and SFR's user page, does that ring any bells now?
    Do you remember saying a few days ago at RSN that genocide was just a matter of perspective? I'll get you a diff for that too, just in case. Elinruby (talk) 01:31, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    [105][106]
    Elinruby, what are you doing? Is “Do you remember [totally unrelated unflattering thing]” supposed to be a whack? ꧁Zanahary꧂ 01:56, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @    Zanahary: He was just told that this topic is the Canadian equivalent of the Holocaust, I said he had already been told that and made a report to an administrator that he was told that. Note: this topic. He later posted at RSN saying that genocide at residential schools, ie this topic, was "just a matter of perspective". Note, this topic. And now, after defending someone who is denying the presence of bodies in the graves in Kamloops, he is demanding diffs that show he said what he said. He has them now. Over and out. Elinruby (talk) 02:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Riposte97, please take note of what the actual TBAN proposal is. It is a proposal to topic ban you from indigenous peoples of North America, broadly construed. TarnishedPathtalk 06:00, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    I believe at least one of those items was found by a tourist and turned over to the band. I have not researched this specific claim, but as of the last time I edited the article a few days ago this statement was in the article. There is indeed some vagueness about what is mean by the "the area", as you say. I remember struggling with that. I read it as the grounds of the school, which apparently are extensive, vs the apple orchard where survivors report seeing children buried. I edited the article to add that Beaulieu ran underground radar in the apple orchard -- thus the comments about tree roots. I would say that the thing about the tooth and the rib should probably be further discussed. I didn't add that and am an agnostic about it. There were just much bigger problems on my last pass through. I probably should double-check the "and noted" though. That was me and was intended to remove the subtext the article previously had that the Wikipedia article is arguing with her by using "but". That is my best honest answer about what appears to be an honest question.Elinruby (talk) 02:51, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yeah, does "in the area" mean within 50 feet from where an anomaly was detected by radar or 2 miles down the road? Whatever the case, it's clearly true that no human remains have been found at the Kamloops site since Beaulieu began her investigation in 2021. Jweiss11 (talk) 04:56, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Don't really know what whoever wrote was thinking, as to area. Research the matter and report back with your findings ;) It is also true that no zambonis or leprechauns have been found, though, so I am not understanding why so many people are fixated on what they didn't find in Kamloops. At the moment the tooth and rib are not in the article, but I am not against it coming back if properly sourced and discussed in a DUE-compliant manner.
    noting here that I did double-check the "noted" point and the source does support that all, day long. The source is probably unfamiliar, btw, but it is reliable for local news in Kamloops for sure. Maybe even authoritative. Elinruby (talk) 05:15, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Neither CNN nor the NY Times nor Justin Trudeau nor the Pope have ever claimed that dead zambonis or dead leprechauns were found at Kamloops. Only dead kids from the residential school. That's why people are "fixated" on that because that is the subject of the unsubstantiated claims. This should be obvious. Jweiss11 (talk) 05:23, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    what I am hearing here is that you dismiss the professional findings of an archaeologist for unexplained reasons, since you are saying they are unsubstantiated, and you are mad that CNN and the NYT are not. I am unsure whether Trudeau and the Pope specifically address Kamloops btw. I think their remarks followed a whole lot of other findings and encompassed them as a group. But I'm not positive and that's a quibble anyway.
    In any event, that is enough for me.I apologize to other readers of the thread for thinking that was an honest question up there. No objection to hatting if anyone is so moved. Elinruby (talk) 06:01, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    ? Really odd for you to say the statement was in the article last time you edited it, when you removed it. Riposte97 (talk) 03:00, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    That's right, I did go back and do that. RSN was saying it didn't matter if the source was reliable, because the actual statement came from a reader comment. I hesitated because I had not had a change to check that, then noticed that the tooth and the rib were not discussed in the article body anyway and might be undue for the lead anyway since nobody seems to know if any forensics were ever done, and removed in on that basis. I need to go right now but when I come back I will double check whether the indirect quote after "noted" is in fact something Beaulieu said. I think I did that already, but right this second I can't swear to it. Elinruby (talk) 03:16, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    noting here that I did double-check this point and the source does support that all day long. The source is probably unfamiliar, btw, but it is reliable for local news in Kamloops for sure. Maybe even authoritative. Elinruby (talk) 05:07, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Ok, but can you acknowledge that many of the things you are strongly attacking others for in this thread are errors that can be made just as easily as the one you made here? Riposte97 (talk) 03:53, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Acknowledge? there you go again with the assumed close, like you've had sales training or something. I' have not been reverting people to keep that tooth in the article. I didn't put it there, I took it out based on consensus, and brought it up here myself. If I took it out, I think that was the right thing to do. I don't have an opinion whether the statement itself is true. I initially hesitated to remove it, but did after the discussion at RSN. Unsure if true, but definitely unsourced, is my current position. None of that looks much like what you have been doing with spiked.com, imho, but whatever. I have put this in the hands of the community and am content for it to scrutinize and research and look into the matter. I urge them to do so. Something really really needs to be done no matter what. Let's let them decide what.
    When it comes to you, my thought is that it is one thing to be informed and another to refuse information. And that the issue extends well beyond you, but that you personally have definitely refused the attempts of quite a few editors to inform you.
    I said way back on the Kamloops talk page that maybe possibly with some AGF on top you were mistaken,but you weren't interested in that at the time because you were sure, immovably sure, that you were right.Elinruby (talk) 04:41, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The surface findings have been contentious. I note that only to give context that the claim did appear in the page, but was subsequently removed. Riposte97 (talk) 01:19, 26 June 2024
    PS all this is documented in the Dorchester Review RfC Elinruby (talk) 05:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    അദ്വൈതൻ now edit warring to insert sources which multiple editors have previously advised is unreliable[edit]

    Please refer to Special:Diff/1231095889 for the editor editing to insert material which multiple editors have advised is unreliable. Refer to Special:Diff/1231097054 for the editor reverting to re-insert it after being reverted. This behaviour is egregious and requires action. TarnishedPathtalk 13:04, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    what multiple editors have advised is issue on the reliability of Western Standard as a whole.See RSN Western Standard as a source. The recent edit I done on the article doesn't use WS as a source for citation, instead constructed it as a reported speech style as the WS's claim made headlines in other reliable sources around the Globe.
    Also the later part of the edit I made, the response of the Spokesperson of Indigenous department and first nation community's statement isn't sourced from WS but from another source I got from RSN discussion where its reliability isn't a question at the moment. അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 13:20, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    There's nothing in Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Online_publication_in_India_as_source_for_archaeological_findings_in_British_Columbia which gives an indication of the source being reliable. In fact its reliability is questioned. Please explain why you have re-inserted material for which the source is questioned? TarnishedPathtalk 13:31, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    it is unclear specifically what source they are talking about? If you comprehend it, please provide the link to the source which is in question in their discussion അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 14:07, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yeas, exactly, because your new source cites the old source. (Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.) With vast respect, I would like to say to you that disputes about reliability need to be worked out on the reliable sources board not here. I am against CIR sanctions on principle but you are in danger of one, because you have already been told that removing material over sourcing issues is not improper. I am telling you this in an effort to help you remain in good standing. It would be a very good idea to re-ask this question at RSN if there is something you still do not understand, and stop arguing here. hth Elinruby (talk) 23:24, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Elinruby as I stated earlier in this discussion "the reliability of Western Standard as a whole is ongoing at RSN. The question here, what about using the reports by other news medias that made headlines on the WS's claims in a reported speech style" which I believe isn't solely a reliability issue that needs to be worked in RSN, I believe article's talk page is the place to discuss.
    And for your reply to my comment "See as I said earlier, the new source having information related to issue is also been reverted citing unreliability."
    My new source wasn't citing the old source, ie., Western Standard as you said. My new source was citing The Catholic Register which is quoting the Blacklock's Reporter.
    The edit I did with my new source after which I commented this "See as I said earlier, the new source having information related to issue is also been reverted citing unreliability.15:47, 26 June 2024 (UTC)" is this
    Which you in turn undid see this saying "take it to RSN. Reliability of that source is unclear in this context" at 14:50, 26 June 2024 അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 10:44, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    that was friendly advice. You are free to ignore it but I do not recommend that course of action. That said, I find you very hard to understand, but I suggest you should tell me about it at RSN. Elinruby (talk) 10:53, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Reversion/undoing others contributions by frequently citing unreliability[edit]

    Frequently reverting and undoing the contributions saying any citation is unreliable. By @Elinruby @TarnishedPath . Even a contributor has been banned on the topic.

    Already reliability of Western Standard is going at RSN under the section Western Standard as a source for Canadian residential schools when Western Standard was quoted as citation [112]

    When the WS' claim is added as a reported speech style, they reverted saying the secondary sources is unreliable too under the sub section Online publication in India as source for archaeological findings in British Columbia


    Recently I contributed with another new source(The Catholic Register, which I got from RSN discussion under the sub section Western Standard as a source for Canadian residential schools) , now that too is reverted saying this new citation is also unreliable without talking at the the article's talk page.

    See the Diffs to reverting [113] [114]


    The recently reverted contributions with citations. According to a May 9 report by Blacklock's Reporter, the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has not publicly disclosed how millions of dollars were spent on field work, records searches and securing the Residential School grounds for the Kamloops First Nation.[4] The $7.9 million provided to the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation for their field work at the suspected site, represents a small portion of the $110 million allocated to Indigenous communities for searching and documenting burial grounds at former residential schools. The department has not released an audit of the contribution under the Access to Information Act. Carolane Gratton, spokesperson for the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations confirmed the allocation of $7.9 million for these endeavors. In a statement, the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation reiterated their focus on the scientific work required but declined to discuss the $7.9 million allocation.[4]

    At this point even if we ditch all the above sources citing unreliability and got information from other new sources unrelated to WS or any another aforementioned news sites(not even as secondary source quoting Western Standard.) about the issue another discussion will start on the reliability about that new citation.

    See my latest contribution citing Catholic Register whose reliability hasn't been in question until now, has been reverted citing unreliability.

    അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 15:42, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    TarnishedPath, undue and fringe according to who? What you arguing here is that disagreeing with you is some sort of behavioral violation. Jweiss11 (talk) 05:22, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    POV pushing, to reinsert material, against WP:ONUS when an editor has been advised that a source is questionable is certainly what I would classify as behavioural. It smacks heavily of TENDITIOUS and IDHT. TarnishedPathtalk 06:59, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Let me make my stand clear to everyone reading this.
    When the reliability of Western Standard was going on at RSN I did edit at Kamloops Indian Residential School by quoting their work as a ‘’’reported speech style’’’ with citation that reported on Western Standard’s work. Also in my edit's latter part, following the discussions at RSN and this article's talk page(as of the then current status) another source(The Catholic Register) is given as citation for the Spokesperson Carolane Gratton and Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation's statement which I got from discussions at RSN, whose reliability wasn't a question back then.
    Link to its diff [115]


    The sentence I structured as reported speech style:- In May 2024, Western Standard, a Canadian conservative social commentary media[1] claimed that investigations into the reported mass graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia have end with no conclusive evidence of such graves, despite significant resources invested in various investigative efforts, including fieldwork, archival searches, and securing the school site, no human remains have been found.[5] Carolane Gratton, spokesperson for the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations confirmed the allocation of $7.9 million for these endeavors. In a statement, the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation reiterated their focus on the scientific work required but declined to discuss the $7.9 million allocation.[6]
    Which user TarnishedPath entirely(both the former and latter part) undid my revision accusing me by saying "Unreliable source which pushes misinformation and denialism". Link to it [116]
    Which I in turn undid saying "Denialism or not, if it reported and made headlines, it is included here. How come latter part a Denialism. The spokesperson s and community s statement?" Link to it [117] See the citation (The Catholic Register) I gave to the latter part wasn't in question at RSN or at the article's talk page even at that period of time.
    Again user TarnishedPath undid my contribution entirely(including the former and latter parts) saying “Consensus has not been obtained for this edit. Obtain consensus in talk.” at the time 13:38, 26 June 2024. Link to its diff [118]
    Before user TarnishedPath going with this undoing of my contribution entirely at 13:38, 26 June 2024, he brought the issue here in Administrative Notice Board at 13:04, 26 June 2024 (UTC) under the section heading- അദ്വൈതൻ now edit warring to insert sources which multiple editors have previously advised is unreliable. You all can go through it for my response. Here my response was that I see the reliability of Western Standard as one issue and using the Western Standard’s claim as a reported speech style using another citation(not Western Standard and even if reliability of Times Now as a whole is in question there are other news agencies who made headlines on the Western Standard’s claim) as a separate issue that is to be discussed.


    As user TarnishedPath said above in his revert of my edit, I have gone through the discussions at the article's Talk Page
    And went on to my next edit removing all the lines related to Western Standard, ie., the former part and edited in the latter part adding some more details from its citation as its reliability wasn't in question in the article's talk page back then. Link to my edit. [119]
    The latter part was like this in my edit
    According to a May 9 report by Blacklock's Reporter, the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has not publicly disclosed how millions of dollars were spent on field work, records searches and securing the Residential School grounds for the Kamloops First Nation.[4] The $7.9 million provided to the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation for their field work at the suspected site, represents a small portion of the $110 million allocated to Indigenous communities for searching and documenting burial grounds at former residential schools. The department has not released an audit of the contribution under the Access to Information Act. Carolane Gratton, spokesperson for the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations confirmed the allocation of $7.9 million for these endeavors. In a statement, the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation reiterated their focus on the scientific work required but declined to discuss the $7.9 million allocation.[4]


    This edit of mine was at the time Revision as of 14:21, 26 June 2024
    Version of article's talk page before that time. Link [120]
    See, issue of quoting Western Standard as reported speech style(the former part of my edit) is made a separate section by me in the article's talk page and I ceased editing it into the article. And also give attention that the latter part of my edit citing The Catholic Register or Blacklock's Reporter which the The Catholic Register is quoting isn't an issue at the article's talk page or at RSN back then.


    This contribution of mine was also reverted this time by user Elinruby saying “take it to RSN. Reliability of that source is unclear in this context”. The time stamp:- Revision as of 14:50, 26 June 2024 . Its link [121]
    At RSN user Elinruby started a new section to discuss the reliability of The Catholic Register in the section Catholic Register RS for Canadian budget? Its time 15:13, 26 June 2024 (UTC).


    In short, any sources that discusses about no human remains have been found since three years of the outbreak of GPR findings(the former part) and the response from the spokesperson for the Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada on allocation of $7.9 million, and statement of the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation(the latter part) are flagged as unreliable thereby keeping these informations/sentences out of the article. First Western Standard, second Times Now, third The Catholic Register, Fourth Blacklock's reporter, I have a fifth source completely unrelated to the aforementioned sources that too would be flagged as unreliable if I brought it in the article, to keep those informations/sentences out of the article. Aren't all these reverting of my contributions and flagging its sources as unreliable, tendentious?
    അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 14:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    As you've already been advised in article talk in my edit at Special:Diff/1231031616 and Special:Diff/1231094044 it was already covered in the article that no bodies have been excavated as yet. Why are you seeking to introduce sources which POV push using weasel words? Even now you're talking about sources which seek to frame material from a particular point of view. TarnishedPathtalk 22:59, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @TarnishedPath No bodies have been excavated as yet which is already covered in the article with the word unresolved is entirely different from the claim Western Standard made In May 2024, Western Standard, a Canadian conservative social commentary media claimed that investigations into the reported mass graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia have end with no conclusive evidence
    Don't you see the difference?
    WS claims the investigation ended
    The rest you said are allegations against me as if I am a denialist(which I understands as someone who is denying the fact that probable unmarked graves were found using GPR and someone who is denying there are Children missing from Residential School whose graves were unaccounted for), which I don't need to refute as my actions speaks for me by refuting your allegations. അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 11:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Is Engish your native language? --JBL (talk) 17:33, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @JayBeeEll: it clearly isn't, but that is not dispositive, as plenty of ESL editors are valued contributors. @അദ്വൈതൻ: I am going to try one more time here. Yes, those are different statements, and that is the point. The reliable source contradicts the denialist source, yet you keep trying to insert the denialist source for some reason. Your definition of the word is not exactly right. A denialist in this context says there are no bodies and/or graves. I don't believe that anyone has applied the word to you, just the narrative you are repeated trying to add, out of confusion, I believe. Nobody is saying anything about the Catholic Church that the Pope didn't already say, ok? I am absolutely positive that this thread is annoying some people and again, if you want to argue about this please, for your own sake, take it to RSN. I am not willing to continue annoying people to try to explain this to you. You are nicely illustrating how insidious the problem is, but I am certain this is not your intent. It is possible that I have misunderstood some of your edits as you seem to be saying, but it is not in your interest to belabor that point here, as I constantly work with ESL editors and if I can't understand I may not be alone in this. The point you need to process is that bodies have been found at several schools but not in excavations, and there has not been and may not be an excavation in Kamloops, because the community is divided about whether to dig up its aunties who never grew up. Elinruby (talk) 00:07, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Elinruby it's not only denialist insofar as it pushes the idea that there are no bodies and no graves, it also straight out pushes misinformation in that it explicitly states that investigations have ended (i.e. concluded or finalised) with no conclusive evidence. TarnishedPathtalk 03:03, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    True, and afaict, the point of all that is that it has all just been a huge waste of money over nothing, supposedly. Why exactly this point is being made so persistently I fail to understand, but that's a different question.Elinruby (talk) 04:41, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Elinruby
    1. Your definition of the word is not exactly right. A denialist in this context says there are no bodies and/or graves
    How can you say there are definitely bodies or graves with just GPR findings and oral records? The CBC which you have already deemed reliable puts it this way Ground penetrating radar does not find human remains — rather, it detects soil disturbances that are inconsistent with the surrounding area, which, combined with community knowledge, can help identify where there may potentially be unmarked graves source.
    See "potential, probable" unmarked graves.
    Unless and until the excavation is done and human remains are found, we can't say for sure they are not "potential, probable" unmarked graves.
    1. The point you need to process is that bodies have been found at several schools but not in excavations
    It's also important to remember that even after GPR surveys indicate possible graves, excavations sometimes don't uncover any human remains like in Pine Creek, Manitoba last year.
    because the community is divided about whether to dig up its aunties who never grew up So your point here is futile. And if first nation communities decides so, they are also at wrong here. As they are only probable unmarked graves and not definite and confirmed unmarked graves. അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 10:12, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I withdraw my attempt to prevent a CIR. Look, your username doesn't display properly over here so I can't ping you, Indic script editor. This is my problem and the problem of my browser, not yours, mind you. I realize that. I just want to make sure you see this and realize this post is to you. I would no more write And if first nation communities decides so, they are also at wrong here. about their cultural practices than I would about yours.
    1. An archaeologist gave her best professional report. I am fairly certain that the entire university department she is affiliated with would have helped, reviewed and double-checked all of her work, in fact I suspect she would have asked for that, knowing what it was. Here is an interview with her[122] The archaeologist said what she said. I am just trying to write it down.
    2. The band made an announcement. They said what they said. It was notable. Therefore there is an article. I am just trying to make sure we have written down what they said. I am still doing reconstructive surgery on the lede at Canadian Indian residential school gravesites so I doubt we have. I have found more source misrepresentation and PoV pushing, if anyone cares, but that has nothing to do with this editor.[123][124]
    3. I do not know why the editor is defending these articles or why the editor thinks they should, in fact I don't know much except that there are a lot of sourcing and PoV problems in the gravesites article...Can I please be excused? I would like to get through the lede of the gravesites article today, and somebody is talking to me about the constitutional legalities.[125]
    Please ping me if there are questions about reliability of local sources in British Columbia or anything else. I am not well-versed in Catholic sources, but some of the ones in this article seem seem very boutique. See RSN. Elinruby (talk) 13:22, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    For clarity, most of the material being contested here was previously contested at Canadian Indian residential school gravesites. This editor was not part of that until, I guess, they saw the ANI just above, but this whole theme of churches under attack is part of what I meant when I said the topic had other problems, of which Riposte97 was not part. To clear, there are good police-blotter sources that individual fires took place, but the framing of this in Catholic sources as some sort of attack on the faithful is IMHO highly questionable. Elinruby (talk) 07:33, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Also to be clear to other readers of this, that no bodies have been found as yet is already in the article prior to pushing of sources which seek to frame it in a particular manner which implies that the bodies have actually been searched for and not found. The article already states As of March 2024, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc said that a decision to excavate the unmarked graves is "unresolved". TarnishedPathtalk 08:39, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    WacoBell, Chronic Disruptive Edits (WP:CIR)[edit]

    Reported user indefinitely blocked. (non-admin closure) --JBL (talk) 17:34, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    User is a previously banned long term disruptive editor who will make a wide variety of alterations to articles without presenting sources to support edits [126],[127],[128]. Also clearly engaging in similar disruptive behaviour while logged out [129][130].

    Their disruptive behaviour has been going on for some months under multiple account names (see previous report in January for context).

    Despite repeated warnings this behaviour continues over and over again. Effectively this user demonstrates a clear competency problem that they simply refuse to improve. Request ban as a result. Rambling Rambler (talk) 19:43, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    You are required to notify any editors you start a discussion about. I have notified WacoBell for you, but please keep this in mind for the future. GrayStorm(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.) 19:52, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I hadn't forgotten to do so, my attention was momentarily required IRL and when I came back to attach it I saw that you had done so. Rambling Rambler (talk) 19:55, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Combine the cited behavior -- the Vice edit shows a complete disregard for any basics of how Wikipedia works -- the unmentioned constant abuse of the minor edit tag (basically every edit for the last month), the willful vandalism of the ANI thread discussing their actions, and their history, I don't know how a mere warning would be sufficient at this point. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 23:05, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Almost every mainspace edit they've made since April 2023 has been reverted. That's really concerning. I think WacoBell's intentions are good but competence is required. Schazjmd (talk) 20:04, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    sir, not to be rude, but that’s the whole point of all my edits. WacoBell (talk) 22:39, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm trying hard to parse (understand) that statement from WacoBell. It seems to me that WacoBell is saying they are being deliberately disruptive. I cannot find any other viable interpretation. --Yamla (talk) 23:17, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Yamla I think they're trying to say their edits are done with good intentions (which I'd strenuously argue given how they've reacted to this ANI) but the fact it's so hard to parse what they're saying just adds to the main problem which is that they simply don't have the competence to make positive contributions to Wikipedia. Rambling Rambler (talk) 23:53, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    kindly remove my name from this. i had sources, new articles have been added to the vice media website, if i was wrong, people were free to revert the article, good night. WacoBell (talk) 20:00, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    You didn't provide any sources, as is blatantly demonstrated in the diffs I've evidenced, and you just deleted this thread in a fit to hide your actions, further demonstrating your wilful disregard for this site's policies. Rambling Rambler (talk) 20:06, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The “sockpuppetry” business is completely out of context, number one, if you look at previous explanations and submissions of appeals, it was unintentional, and I acknowledged my mistake, which is why I’m able to write here right now. On another note, sure I can’t remove this. But anything involving MY ACCOUNT is inactive and should be deleted, I’m removing anything from the Sirhewlett account, I don’t use it anymore, I don’t need this. I won’t remove this, these things become inactive after some time and later deleted, but if it’s from my old account, I’m deleting it. It’s my account, and nobody else’s. WacoBell (talk) 22:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    There's no excuse for blanking this ANI post twice, or for trying to delete the contents of a sockpuppet investigation simply because you don't like it. You've been caught repeatedly editing while logged out with no good reason which is also highly frowned upon.
    I have no doubt, just like the last time you "retired" you're only saying so to avoid a ban and will no doubt continue your past behaviour of refusing to follow policy. Rambling Rambler (talk) 22:38, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    actually sir, I can’t remember the password to this account when I need to edit certain things. WacoBell (talk) 22:41, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    and on the contrary, i guarantee you will never hear anything from me again. i deeply apologize for the inconvenience . WacoBell (talk) 22:42, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Convenience links:

    DMacks (talk) 21:28, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    @Yamla thanks for undoing their blanking of this report, they've done it twice now[131][132], and just blanked their sockpuppet history too[133]. Think this alone demonstrates the need for a total ban. Rambling Rambler (talk) 19:43, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    User:Drbogdan, persistent low-quality editing, and WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK issues[edit]

    User:Drbogdan is a prolific and good faith editor who on the whole seems to be sincerely attempting to be a positive force here. That aside, he seems to have an issue with low quality edits that have gotten to the point of becoming a problem (or they have been for a long time) and there's a general issue of WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK and WP:NOTBLOG as well. I spoke to him somewhat recently about editing in disruptive quantities of new New York Times articles on astronomy/space content and his primary response was to edit my comment on his talk page to get rid of the word “disruptive” citing WP:IAR for editing my own comment. I’m going to repeat some of the content here from that post, since the pattern of editing has continued past that discussion:

    Extended content

    I understand you've been trying to engage with these topics in good faith, but it's gotten to a point where you're editing in New York Times articles on related articles which is creating a workload for editors who need to undo those changes. Recent edits to:

    Which were all reverted near identical edits made within a small window of time, and all reverted. Again, a similar situation played out at:

    And again at

    These are all massive strings of edits of identical content (editing in of very recent New York Times stories), all of which were reverted by me or other users. Recently this has continued with edits to Fast Radio Burst and Timeline of Mars 2020, where he's been adding in every observation by date as they arise and the latter article in particular, where he’s the primary editor, is a complete mess as a result of the daily additions. There's also, more troublingly, undoing reverts to add back in puffery to CDK Company and linking apparently WP:COPYVIO youtube links to Twyla Tharp. There’s also an updated database of every comment he has made on the New York Times, hosting his entire dissertation on wikipedia, and hosting literally dozens of personal photos and videos on commons, with an overwhelming majority of his recent contributions being exclusively to his userspace, and creating redirects to terms that don't actually appear to exist.

    I don’t know what the right recourse is here, this is clearly someone active and engaged with Wikipedia in good faith, but at the same time it’s also someone editing in a way that’s creating a huge mess of edits to undo due to the frequent addition of New York Times/pop-science articles (sometimes with WP:PROFRINGE issues when it comes to dark matter in particular) to space-related topics. This all seems to be from a position of good faith and for certain he has created a lot of good content, but it’s creating a workload for those of us who edit in astronomy/planetary science topics, which is made more challenging by a larger percentage of his edits just being labelled “add/adj” as edit summaries.

    An IP editor, user:35.139.154.158, seems to be involved here as well, mass-undoing Drbogdan's edits. I’ve since gone out of my way to avoid touching Drbogdan’s edits (minus removing the copyvio) after our interaction because I want to avoid coming across as harassing or hounding. That said, the low quality edits have persisted to a point that I think warrants bringing up here, especially after the puffery and copyvio issues in short succession. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 07:51, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    References

    1. ^ a b Anand, Bharat; Di Tella, Rafael; King, Gary; Legg, Heidi (12 February 2022). "The Future of Media Project: Canadian Media Ownership Index". harvard.edu. Harvard University. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
    2. ^ "Kamloops Indian Residential School Mass Graves: No Bodies Found Despite $8 Million Probe". Times Now. 2024-05-12. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
    3. ^ "No accounting for burial sites funding". The Catholic Register. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
    4. ^ a b c d "No accounting for burial sites funding". The Catholic Register. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
    5. ^ "Kamloops Indian Residential School Mass Graves: No Bodies Found Despite $8 Million Probe". Times Now. 2024-05-12. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
    6. ^ "No accounting for burial sites funding". The Catholic Register. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
    7. ^ Lucassen, Teun; Dijkstra, Roald; Schraagen, Jan Maarten (3 September 2012). "Readability of Wikipedia". First Monday (journal). 17 (9). Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
    You mentioned my very short personal video (only one) on Wikipedia for testing purposes - yes - my video on Wikipedia (at User talk:Drbogdan#"Test - My Webm Video") is convenient and, by being my own video and on Wikipedia, WP:PD - an appropriate use afaik atm - and, mostly, less likely to be a copyvio of somebody - hope this helps - Drbogdan (talk) 18:25, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Drbogdan (talk) 02:35, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    (Response to OP/Warren) Again, this is exaggerated. You complained about his Commons uploads, yet you can’t identify a single problem. If anyone asks me, this is what harassment looks like. Viriditas (talk) 02:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Sorry, but you seem very invested in this, and in one of the MfDs you mention editing with and defending Drbogdan for years:
    I have worked well with Drbogdan for years, and I have repeatedly defended him in the face of multiple attacks by many other editors making baseless accusations about his motivations.
    You’re accusing me, the IP editor, and XOR’Easter and blamed a NASA COI conspiracy while insisting this ANI was about a series of edits that weren’t even mentioned here. You need to stop casting aspersions, and if you want more information ask for it. I can point to Drbogdan’s recent upload of a movie of him playing a song, or multiple angles of photos from the same hike, or an abundance of self portraits. I assumed these were self-evident webhosting issues if someone clicked through the link. Please lay off the accusations and straw-manning. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 07:33, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Are you finished? I don’t see a single thing wrong with Drbogdan’s Commons upload like you just claimed for a second time. He took photos of a hike? Are you serious? But I see you did try to do the same thing again in your reply and turn this around to make it seem like I’m the problem. Good grief! And what is Drbogdan’s greatest "crime" shown so far up above? Citing a press release from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. String him up! Who needs justice when we’ve got the Keystone Kops of physics. Viriditas (talk) 14:53, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Comment: this feels somewhat relevant to the personal content uploaded to his user page: in one of the linked MfDs above it was pointed out by @DeCausa the Drbogdan has made sure his user page is indexed in search engines. In the MfD Drbogdan says this was accidental from a copy/paste and I see no reason not to believe him. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 08:18, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Comment: While Drbogdan can be told what not to do in the future and receive a formal warning, this isn't reason for blocking/indeffing. tgeorgescu (talk) 11:14, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    While obviously I'm not an admin and biased as the submitter of this, I do want to say I agree. It's very clear he's capable of making constructive edits and being a positive contributor to Wikipedia and an indef feels like it'd be heavy-handed in context. I'd frankly like to see a restriction on directly editing science articles rather than posting new information to the talk page as a COI editor would for a while, since that appears to be where things are most disruptive, and here he's seemed very unwilling to acknowledge that his edits are routinely removed for being poor quality, including just straight-up not addressing the addition of clear copyvio material.
    The physics, astronomy, and geology content (I do really want to clean up the Timeline of Mars 2020 and List of rocks on Mars articles, since I have a background there, but don't want to come across as just going after his work) being added is rough to say the least, and typically seems to be removed. But I also understand if even that feels heavy handed. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 11:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes - seems I've made about 35.6% of the edits on the Timeline of Mars 2020 WikiPage (20240624 version) - and nearly 90% of the edits on the List of rocks on Mars WikiPage (20240624 version) - Greatly Welcome any contributions from others to improve these Pages of course - especially from someone more knowledgeable about some of this material than I am at the moment - re: the possible copyvio you noted at the Twyla Tharp article - unclear at the time of posting if the brief video clip (1976) was PD or not - clip was made 48 years ago - and may now be PD? - but I am still not entirely clear about this - Drbogdan (talk) 11:59, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The answer to your question is found at public domain film: In the United States, motion pictures published before 1978 are copyrighted for 95 years. You're not the first nor the last person to be confused about this, because the laws around copyright make no sense. Viriditas (talk) 21:08, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Where Are We?[edit]

    I would like to ask whether someone can summarize what if any administrative action is being requested. As we know, in Wikipedia there are content disputes and conduct disputes. This is a conduct forum. The content issues of whether to keep the dissertation and the New York Times comments are being dealt with at MFD. So is any other action being requested? One IP editor called for an indef, but I think that we can ignore it. Other than that, it seems that there are complaints that his writing about physics is problematic. He may, in good faith, think that he knows more about physics than the average reader, because -- a biochemist really knows more about physics than the average reader. However, he doesn't know as much about physics as the average physicist, and he may be trying too hard to explain dumbed-down physics to average readers in a way that real physicists know is wrong. Is that the problem? If so, is he willing to listen to the opinions of physicists? Is it necessary to topic-ban him from scientific areas outside biochemistry? If not, was this just a complaint session? Robert McClenon (talk) 04:43, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    The one thing the IP had right here was it does feel like Drbogdan reads a news story and thinks “where does this go in Wikipedia”, which per XOR’easter’s link is a disruptive pattern going back since at least 2019. I feel it’s hasty to think of this primarily as a content dispute. XOR’easter has pointed out that this exact pattern of editing in news bylines to Wikipedia has been exasperating for those of us who actively edit in those fields. My request, as the submitter here, is a TBAN from astronomy and physics related topics, or a restriction on editing them directly without requesting edits at the talk page. I especially feel this way with how WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT Drbogdan has come across at both this ANI and in previous interactions when asked to tone these edits down, and I'm surprised that the admins are less concerned about blatant copyvios from a long-term editor, because I think we're looking at someone incredibly prolific on Wikipedia who simply doesn't understand it well (see: asking for WP:CONSENSUS on Wikipedia policies). I'd probably like to ask the admins to take a look at Viriditas here, as well, since that got pretty uncivil pretty quickly (really, a NASA conspiracy? The Keystone Kops of physics?), but I digress.
    a biochemist really knows more about physics than the average reader... he may be trying too hard to explain dumbed-down physics to average readers in a way that real physicists know is wrong.
    I don't think this is true. My background is geoscience and astrophysics, and I definitely don't know more about biochemistry than an average reader with an interest in the topic who has kept on top of it. I think it cannot be overstated how different those fields can be, even if they're both sciences. Our domain knowledge isn't all-expansive. Most editors who engage with these articles probably don't have the strongest background in them, but they take care with their edits to improve the article. Drbogdan's edits almost universally are a single type: news updates posted to articles about which they're tangentially related. There's no "dumbed down physics" here, it's simply cut and dry WP:PROSELINE, to the point of conforming perfectly to the example of what a proseline is ("On Date X, Event Y happened"). If it were a case of trying to simplify complex content for a lay audience than editors would be able to help him work to improve the language in these, but instead the only option what appears to be a vast majority of the time is simply to remove the content. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 07:29, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    User:Warrenmck - I didn't mean that a scientist in any given field knows more about other sciences than non-scientists. I meant that a biochemist knows more about physics than the average person who hasn't taken the required college course in physics, including electromagnetics and introductory quantum mechanics. That college-level knowledge of physics is needed to understand chemical bonding, including an approximation of understanding the highly delocalized electrons of the benzo(a)pyrene that his thesis was about. However, that detail is not important to the concern that the physicists here have raised that his edits in the area of physics are problematic. But I did mean that a biochemist has studied introductory college-level physics, which is more than most non-scientists have studied. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:00, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    To be clear - Yes - I've had a great deal of physics coursework and experience over the years - particularly at GWU/DC (where well-known physicist George Gamow was on the faculty - an early inspiration) - including engineer/calculus-level Relativity theory and much more - as well as Physical chemistry of course - I also worked at ATF/DC in the Forensic Laboratory doing Neutron activation analysis (if interested, my picture at ATF is at => "File:NeutronActivationAnalysis-ATF-WashingtonDC-1966-DrDennisBogdan.jpg") - so yes - had my share of physics work (academic and employment) over the years - hope this helps - Drbogdan (talk) 00:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Interesting re WP:PROSELINE - yes - seems that merging the edit more into the article prose may be better in a few of my edits - however - this hasn't always been possible for me for one reason or another (mostly real-world concerns) - seems that those more knowledgeable than I at the time could do a better job with merging the material (as noted in the edit summary of some of such edits => "*entirely* ok with me to rv/rm/del/ce the edit") - seems better to do this at the time than not to do anything at all - but perhaps not doing anything at all - being less bold - would be better after all - thanks for making me aware of this - Drbogdan (talk) 10:52, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    But the problem is the content that you’re editing in frequently fundamentally doesn’t belong, it’s not just a case of making it fit better. I appreciate you’re open to users reverting your edits, but the problem is those edits being made in the first place. You’re incredibly prolific, it’s unreasonable to expect editors to keep tabs on your edits to remove them when necessary, rather the focus should be on not making low quality edits in the first place, which is why I feel a TBAN would be appropriate here, because a lot of what you’re saying here is that you know that you’re making low quality edits but doing it anyways due to real life time constraint, unless I’m misreading it. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 11:54, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    As noted above, "all my edits over the years were intended to be *good qualiy edits* - some editors may agree that my edits were *good quality edits* over the years - and some otherwise - my edits seem to be better than most in my own editing experiences compared with most other edits by Wikipedia editors afaik" - hope this helps in some way - Drbogdan (talk) 12:23, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I think the ban should be tweaked: Drbogdan should be banned from citing NYT and other popular press in science articles. At least six months. tgeorgescu (talk) 13:47, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Note: Please note that The New York Times (NYT) is popular press of course - but perhaps much more than that in quality - and as a possible reliable bridge so-to-speak between the responsible scientific literature - and the reader of popular literature in the public square - after all - the NYT has won numerous awards for journalism ( see => List of awards won by The New York Times ) - more than any other news source in the world afaik - other worthy news sources include The Washington Post (WaPo), Associated Press (AP), Los Angeles Times (LAT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) - ( please see awards and related => https://www.statista.com/statistics/945236/most-awarded-media-usa/ ) - nonetheless - the responsible scientific literature in the form of Science, Nature and the like are preferred for science articles of course - I personally prefer those WP:RS as well - in any case - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The journal Science is almost entirely primary research, science articles shouldn't be based on that, either. Geogene (talk) 15:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Huntster and Viriditas: (and others) - QUESTION: Best WP:RS (at least in general) for Science Articles on Wikipedia in your opinion at the moment - knowing the current WikiThinking about this might be helpful in some way to many I would think - not clear about this at the moment - Drbogdan (talk) 15:47, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Drbogdan this isn't an issue of the sources used, it's an issue of your editing. You're self-evaluating as someone whose edits seem to be better than most while sort of outright refusing to recognize that multiple editors in science topics have chimed in here calling your edits disruptive and low quality to the point of warranting an ANI, regardless of the outcome of this ANI. There's a disconnect in what some of us here are saying and what you seem to understand the concern as. The NYT is a perfect fine and generally reliable source, that's not the issue. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 16:24, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    As noted earlier above - "This all seems to be your opinion - I don't share your opinion - others may not as well - is there room for improvement - yes - in the sense that there is room for improvement for everybody of course - some more than others I would think - hope this helps - Drbogdan (talk) 16:40, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Robert McClenon This closing argument is what defines this as a conduct dispute. The non-argument of: "You're wrong, I disagree," that Drbogdan fields here and on their talk-page prior. There is a refusal to argue the central point here, which reads as WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. Since this all seems to have been going on a while, I suppose they could have had the argument in detail sometime in the past and refuse to reiterate all of it; that could be linked to however. JackTheSecond (talk) 16:34, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Robert McClenon: (and others) - Unclear about a specific problem here - I'm aware of a complaint of course - my usual edit approach over the years has been to contribute an edit - with the idea that it's *entirely* ok with me to rv/rm/del/ce the edit - a notion that has been presented many times in my edit summaries - this approach would apply to *any* of my numrous edits over the years - if the edit is acceptable by other editors, then it's *completely* ok with me - if not acceptable for whatever reason, then that's *completely* ok with me as well - I do not usually pursue unacceptable edits further - this approach seemed to have been acceptable by others over the years - nonetheless - I expect to be *less bold* about my future edits as noted above - perhaps that would help? - please let me know if there's something else that I may be missing that could be better - I would welcome the feedback - Thanks - Drbogdan (talk) 20:30, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yeah, I think the flat-out refusal to acknowledge four editors pointing out specific conduct issues and a blanket denial of any possible issue, coupled with statements that he sometimes actively makes what he knows to be low quality edits and hopes other editors catch it
    yes - seems that merging the edit more into the article prose may be better in a few of my edits - however - this hasn't always been possible for me for one reason or another (mostly real-world concerns)
    changes my thinking from a temporary TBAN to viewing this as a more serious WP:CIR issue. This is at least a half-decade long pattern of disruptive editing in science articles resulting in AfDs and mass-reverts needed. There's no indicator that it's going to improve or that he intends to step back from this editing behaviour, rather he views it as better than the average editor's content. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 21:42, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes, I had thought we were making progress, but now I suspect I was overly optimistic. XOR'easter (talk) 22:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Please explain what you mean by "progress"? How does one make "progress" when the filing editor, Warrenmck, a user with 994 edits stretching back to their first edit a year ago, on 8 March 2023, has made a series of bizarre claims against Drbogdan, a user with 90,324 edits stretching back to 2008 (although he didn't start editing until 2010?) and who has maintained a good record for 14 years?[137] Perhaps Warren's inexperience explains why he thinks Drbogdan isn't allowed to post photos of his hikes on Commons, or why Warren strangely keeps citing the WP:PROSELINE essay, which has zero rationale for any kind of proposed sanctions here. Notice, I am not calling for WP:CIR against Warren here, unlike his calls against DrBogdan for "violating" proseline; no such violation exists, my dude. Drbogdan has spent 14 years building Wikipedia. Your newest false claims about "AfDs" above (you keep making these absurd allegations, without end) is belied by 81.4% of Drbogdan’s main space articles, currently live. Of his 90k lifetime edits, 67.4% are to mainspace. He has contributed content to more than two dozen articles which either became featured articles after his edits or were already featured. If his edits were as problematic as you say, we would know. It is safe to say, his edits are sound based on the total lack of complaints. Furthermore, I continue to find it odd and unprecedented that Warren, a user with little experience and few edits, made his way to ANI, happens to cite the IP in his complaint, who just so happens to be calling for an "indef" for Drbogdan based on almost no actual demonstrable problem. This has all the hallmarks of a content dispute, not a conduct dispute. As I've shown above, Drbogdan has edited harmoniously for 14 years. Yes, Drbogdan made a controversial decision to use Wikipedia as a webhost for his dissertation and to link to comments he made on the NYT, but that is being rectified by the community at the MfD. Other than that, there is nothing else that needs to be done. Therefore, I move to close this discussion. Viriditas (talk) 01:59, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    If you believe I'm socking file a report. I'm not, so that doesn't bother me at all, but this is wildly beyond WP:CIVIL and deep into WP:ASPERSIONS and WP:NPA territory, especially seeing as you're trying to strangely psychoanalyze me in a parallel conversation here rather than entertain the possibility I may just actually have an issue with the quality of editing being discussed with no ulterior motive. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 06:03, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    One again, you have tried to change the subject to me instead of focusing on the topic. And once again, you have misinterpreted what was said, as nothing I discussed implied "socking". I do want to point out, that in addition to the multiple misinterpretations of yours I've highlighted in this discussion (and I'm still not calling for WP:CIR), you also made similar misinterpretations on Drbogdan's talk page. This is a pattern. For example, in this edit, you accused Drbogdan of changing your words on his talk page and you threatened him with this very ANI. You wrote, "stop editing my words, that's inappropriate and I've been trying to engage with you on this productively. If you insist on changing my own words to suit you I'm going to WP:ANI this situation." So it appears you started this very ANI based on your own misinterpretation of WP:RTP, which Drbogdan has famously been doing to his talk page from the very beginning. Your misinterpretation extended to your edit summary, where you wrote "Inappropriate editing of a talk page comment per both WP:SUPERHAT and WP:TPO"[138], which I will remind you yet again, is 100% false. This is a pattern from you. Viriditas (talk) 22:38, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    WP:TPO says, Never edit or move someone's comment to change its meaning, even on your own talk page. Drbogdan edited the section heading that Warrenmck used on Drbogdan's User talk page. That sure looks like a WP:TPO violation to me. That said, the content of Warrenmck's comment was to raise the same concerns that this ANI thread has been about: low-quality edits in science articles. XOR'easter (talk) 22:48, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Drbogdan didn't change any comments, he changed the heading, as he always does on his talk page. Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages explains how and when to do this and it is best practice. Viriditas (talk) 22:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The heading is part of the comment. Refactoring always preserves the original editor's meaning and intent. Changing the heading is the opposite of preserving meaning. Under "Concerns", that guideline writes, Be aware that not every editor will agree with your refactoring or even of the refactoring concept in general. Provide links to the original, uncut version, so others can check your changes, and if necessary go back to the original to clarify what an author actually said. This combination of refactoring and archiving will often prevent complaints that information was lost. Make it explicit that you have refactored something so no one is misled into thinking this was the original talk page. Changing another editor's words and collapsing the meat of their comment [139] does none of that. XOR'easter (talk) 22:56, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Sorry, we strongly disagree on this point. Drbogdan is allowed to change the heading on his own talk page (he has been doing it for 14 years, and many, many other editors refactor as they see fit), and he is allowed to collapse whatever he wants. I admit that you and Warrenmck are confused by WP:TPO, but the fact remains, Drbogdan did not change any comments, and never has at any time. Viriditas (talk) 23:03, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    My mention of "making progress" was in reference to my earlier comment [140], which I think is clear enough. I do not believe that any of the claims made against Drbogdan are "bizarre". Nor does pointing to Drbogdan's long history of editing make much of a point when the persistence of bad editing habits over multiple years affecting many articles is exactly the problem under discussion. XOR'easter (talk) 21:29, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Forgive me, but I went back to your earlier comment, and I still can't make heads or tails of what you mean by "progress". What is the intended outcome you wish to see here? In reply to your other point, in fact, pointing to Drbogdan's long history of editing shows that the vast majority of his edits and article creations are fine. Viriditas (talk) 22:39, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    A majority, even a vast majority, of edits can be fine. That doesn't make the bad edits good. XOR'easter (talk) 22:49, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    What percentage of his edits are bad? Viriditas (talk) 22:52, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Drbogdan combines a commendable enthusiasm with what I can only call a persistent carelessness. Take Peekaboo Galaxy, for example. Arguably, he shouldn't have created it in the first place: one paper plus a smattering of flash-in-the-pan pop-science websites that all copy the press release don't add up to an article. But, that aside, he made a mess that others have to clean up. This edit added a duplicate of the reference just above it. This edit mangled a quotation, blending the original paper and a "news" story about it. XOR'easter (talk) 22:39, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm confused by your comments. If Drbogdan shouldn't have created Peekaboo Galaxy, what is stopping you from taking it to AfD? And speaking of AfD, the stats tool shows Drbogdan agreeing with the community 92% of the time, even when it comes to articles he created, the most notable being Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jan Bogdan. Let's put all the cards on the table. Drbogdan is one of the most harmonious, non-combative, peaceful editors on Wikipedia. He has made 90,000 edits, and has never actually been involved in any major dispute. If I wasn't a card-carrying atheist of the Christopher Hitchens variety, I would think he was a Bodhisattva or the second coming. I cannot think of any other editor on Wikipedia who has led this much of a conflict-free history on Wikipedia in its entire history. Does Drbogdan have issues? Of course, just like every other editor. I think you and others have shown a problem with his use of press releases, and I think he needs to understand that he can no longer use them. I am agreed with everyone on that point. Viriditas (talk) 22:48, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    If Drbogdan shouldn't have created Peekaboo Galaxy, what is stopping you from taking it to AfD? The fact that AfD is a time sink, and AfD's of pages with a superficial veneer of notability because they happen to be full of little blue clickly linky numbers are exceptionally tiresome. XOR'easter (talk) 22:52, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I will take the article to AfD right now if you can give me a good reason to delete it. I'll wait. Viriditas (talk) 22:53, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Have you considered that you acting like a massive asshole is not actually helpful to Drbogdan, about whom at a minimum one can say is consistently polite? Like, you don't have to agree with the criticisms of him, but you're making him the locus of a larger set of behavior problems (your nonstop abrasiveness and apparently willful inability to understand straightforward comments), and that can't really be helpful. --JBL (talk) 00:17, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Nobody’s perfect. Viriditas (talk) 03:21, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    This has gone beyond "not perfect" and straight into WP:TEND. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:49, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I will make a comment that if a story appears in newspapers or popular press then readers are going to come to Wikipedia to find out more about it. So I think ti is fair enough if our articles mention the latest thing from the NYT. But we may need a deeper reference to where that info comes from. I am not opposing Drbogdan in the additions to articles. But in the long term, some of this content should be summarised and given a historic perspective. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:57, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    There’s a difference between breaking news in science, like the imaging of a black hole for the first time, and the kind of edit that results in a press release from a single source on scientific minutiae being added at lightning speed. This is why I raised List of rocks on Mars and Timeline of Mars 2020; two articles heavily edited by Drbogdan in his news-byline style that functionally need complete rewrites because of it. It’s possible that many of the stories Drbogdan adds could find a place here with a little more time and wider press, but the way he’s editing them in is disruptive and poorly handled, and very consistently so. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 07:25, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    And the news-ticker style actually introduces factual errors, like confusing the date a galaxy was originally discovered with the date that a later observation about it was published [141]. This kind of carelessness is easy to overlook and laborious to correct. XOR'easter (talk) 15:48, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Or the WP:PROFRINGE-adjacent lack of understanding of WP:ECREE on topics like panspermia and Dark Matter (which, with credit to Drbogdan, I asked him to bring up with a wikiproject and he did). I was actually trying to find the recent dark matter discussion Drbogdan had and found that this has been going on since 2015
    So apparently Drbogdan is the great image-adder. He added yet another image in Pluto. Drbogdan, would you mind... taking it slow?
    That's nine years of people addressing quality issues in his edits and is an exact parallel to some of the issues with List of rocks on Mars and Timeline of Mars 2020. I think Drbogdan is open to feedback in the sense that he'll politely ignore it. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 07:17, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Warren, may I offer a bit of friendly advice, in the spirit of getting back to my civil self and sharing some wisdom? If you go to Preferences > Gadgets > Strike out usernames that have been blocked, you can control the look of the name of users on your screen, such that when they are indefinitely blocked, a line appears through their name. I assume you have this preference off, because it shows you are citing a sock puppet who complained about Drbogdan. I’m making this comment in good faith in the hope of saving you some trouble. Viriditas (talk) 09:03, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Sockpuppet or not, they appear to be correct in this case. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 16:59, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Comment: It appears some formatting in the ANI above this one is causing the closed template to extend below to this ANI. I'm not 100% sure what's catching it but don't want to mess around with the ANI closing tags directly, either. Thanks to whoever got it. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 10:34, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Since a lot of discussion has taken place, which has resulted in me (and I think some others) changing their stances on this, I'm actually asking for a WP:CIR indef at this point. There's evidence of Drbogdan being asked to be more careful with disruptive edits going back an entire decade, and his entire response here and at his talk page has been pure WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. The articles he's been the primary editor of are complete messes that need rewrites, and articles he's taken an acute interest in for a short period require mass-reverts to undo everything he added to get the quality back up to where it should be, while only occasionally resulting in content that can be reworked to be appropriate in the article as a whole. He's openly admitting to making low quality edits with the expectation that others will revert it if they aren't of sufficient quality and while it's commendable how open he is to having his edits reverted, it doesn't change the fact that he's making consistent low quality additions to articles which require a lot of time and effort to undo.
    With four editors here and more going back that time period providing a detailed explanation of exactly the behaviours that are an issue here his only real addressing of them has been a nebulous "*thank you*", statements that he's okay with reverts (but not a single indication that he understand why the reverts are happening), and Unclear about a specific problem here despite diffs aplenty. While minor things in isolation, the puffery reverts in CDK Company and copyvio edits in Twyla Tharp are egregious:
    re: the possible copyvio you noted at the Twyla Tharp article - unclear at the time of posting if the brief video clip (1976) was PD or not - clip was made 48 years ago - and may now be PD?
    After 17 years of editing and 90,000 edits we should expect more of an editor than this. I respect the effort and the amount of good faith that Drbogdan has been engaging with, but I don't think that he's adding much other than a workload for other editors. It feels like we have a choice of basically hoping others monitor the topics he's editing enough to prevent him from persistently adding in content that doesn't belong, or simply engaging in WP:WIKIHOUNDING, which I don't think any of us want to do (and I'm certainly trying to avoid). Even in the MfD for his dissertation, regardless of the outcome, there's users expressing shock that someone who has been here as long as he has is so fundamentally unfamiliar with basic policies. The sheer volume of low quality edits coupled with the fundamental inability to understand why multiple editors going back a decade have taken issue with this kind of editing just strikes me as a much larger problem than just the quality of any individual set of edits. Even Drbogdan's most ardent defender just went back and removed a dozen citations to Drbogdan's New York Times comments which were edited into articles. While they were willing to presume it was wholly unintentional, I can't easily look past cite news |last=Bogdan |first=Dennis |authorlink=User:Drbogdan when linking to one of his own comments in that cite. You don't get that authorlink by accident from the autofill options linking NYT comments unless I'm mistaken. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 08:28, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Plugging that link to Drbogdan's comment into the Visual Editor's automatic citation generator gives a reference to the opinion column itself: <ref>{{Cite news |last=Foer |first=Jonathan Safran |date=2020-05-21 |title=Opinion {{!}} The End of Meat Is Here |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/opinion/coronavirus-meat-vegetarianism.html |access-date=2024-06-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>. I don't think there's any way to get |authorlink=User:Drbogdan and all that without deliberately typing it. XOR'easter (talk) 16:14, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    So Drbogdan is calling his NYT comments publications, listing them all on Wikipedia, pointing people in NYT comments to his Wikipedia profile, which hosts his biography and dissertation, and editing in his own comments as sources into articles as sources. This is all on top of a decade-long pattern of low quality edits and simply disregarding feedback on that. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 17:33, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Oppose. All I see is an, admittedly wilful, misinterpretation of the rules that has not been dealt with previous (and got a little further than is usual.) I'm not even sure if a ban would be warranted as such. Warning; delete what is due for deletion; and deal with things further the next time someone feels obliged to raise issues to this level. The lack of admin attention here so far also speaks for itself. JackTheSecond (talk) 18:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't like to recommend indeffing. But I'm doubtful that this is a workable course of action. Instead, it seems like a suggestion to put up with nonsense and waste more time dealing with carelessness, obtuseness, and what looks more and more like self-aggrandizement, until such time as somebody is finally irritated enough to bring the problem to ANI again.
    I am also doubtful that the lack of admin attention here so far also speaks for itself. The message I'm getting from it is that this thread is less time-critical and involves subtler problems than most everything else on the board currently.     XOR'easter (talk) 19:24, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I want to apologize to XOR'easter and Warren for aggressively attacking them like a hungry pitbull on a forced intermittent fast. There are many reasons why I'm overprotective of Drbogdan, and I spent some thinking about them over the last several days, but none of that excuses my behavior. It feels like I temporarily lost my mind in some kind of blind rage, and that is very unfortunate, and I feel bad about it now. Viriditas (talk) 23:29, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    No cooperation, no good faith[edit]

    User:Michalis1994 refuses to cooperate to improve the article. He does not discuss with me, but reverts without explanation. The sources he cites do not correspond to what he writes, and his additions make the article look more like a libellus than a calm record of the facts. Here are some diffs https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Afroditi_Latinopoulou&diff=prev&oldid=1230703015

    also remove my appeal for discussion

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Afroditi_Latinopoulou&diff=prev&oldid=1230638536 D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:43, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Improve the article? You're removing fully cited material. You want to dispute it? Add to talk page - this isn't Greek Wiki. Michalis1994 (talk) 17:49, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You have not replied to the talk page. D.S. Lioness (talk) 18:23, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    He is a user of bad faith. You can see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/D.S._Lioness is fraudulently trying to delegitimize my contribution. D.S. Lioness (talk) 18:29, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    This is a bit of a mess, but it does look at first glance as if D.S. Lioness is attempting to whitewash the article to remove cited criticisms of specific politicians and political parties. For the record, Lioness, do not accuse other editors of "libel", as that can be construed as a legal threat resulting in you being blocked. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite— Preceding undated comment added 19:14, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I am the creator of the article in question. The best solution is that both editors just refrain from contacting each other. This is a disagreement that started over at Greek Wikipedia apparently.BabbaQ (talk) 22:22, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    no, dear! it didn't start on the Greek Wikipedia, at least not with me. The user on the Greek Wikipedia via i.p. tried to pass the same text to the article of the party, where an administrator blocked him by locking the page. So, it was moved here. And he even put the exact same text in both the article about the party and the article about the person. I don't know if this is acceptable but does no do a good impression to the reader.
    I also don't see not talking to each other as a solution, as it is imperative that differences are discussed. If you want to help perhaps you can take participate on the discussion page of the article. D.S. Lioness (talk) 01:55, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Although the only relevant quote I found regarding your comment on the word libelous is this A discussion as to whether material is libelous is not a legal threat" let me explain that by libelous I mean putting content that does not match to what the sources say. It's hard for someone who doesn't know Greek to be able to judge if the sources are being misused, I understand that, but if you're interested you can use a translation app to understand. Also, it is a bit hasty to conclude that i want to whitewash somewhat insulting I think to my person. I'm just trying to make the text NPOV, something the user is completely indifferent to. D.S. Lioness (talk) 02:06, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Insults / Bullying[edit]

    request for blocking to User:Michalis1994 per Wikipedia:NOTHERE and Wikipedia:Civilty see here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Afroditi_Latinopoulou&diff=prev&oldid=1230879788 D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:40, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    You are in a politically motivated edit war with them? Secretlondon (talk) 18:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Did you read what he wrote ? what does politics have to do with it? D.S. Lioness (talk) 19:13, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Well I can see that you are blocked on Greek wikipedia for socking. Secretlondon (talk) 23:25, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    And this is clearly discussed above. Stick to there, please. Secretlondon (talk) 18:50, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    What does the fact that I am blocked in the Greek wp have to do with my problem? What do you mean by sticking there? What i have to do? D.S. Lioness (talk) 00:46, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You posted this further down the noticeboard. Someone has clearly moved it to here, with the other thread. Secretlondon (talk) 21:44, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Is this a WP:boomerang issue maybe? Insanityclown1 (talk) 19:10, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yeah, this absolutely seems to be a boomerang case. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:53, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Wikipedia:Third opinion#Active disagreementsD.S. Lioness (talk) 18:31, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I recently replied to a request for third opinion on this case, but I failed to realize it was (in multiple subthreads!) at ANI already. The dispute is much worse than I recognized in my 3O response and it does seem like administrative action is warranted. At a minimum the article should be protected and the participants referred to WP:DRN, in my opinion. VQuakr (talk) 21:05, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Topic bans for both would be appropriate at least. For how long is up to consensus.BabbaQ (talk) 16:16, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Whitewashing and continuous removal of sources[edit]

    Quick report on D.S. Lioness: she's been relentlessly axing articles and deleting cited content to push her own POV. Entire sections in Afroditi Latinopoulou, including academic articles, have been wiped out and replaced with dubious, unreliable sources. The same pattern is evident here (no reason given), here (no reason given, despite the MEP's history), and here (removed information about the town, without giving any reason at all). Michalis1994 (talk) 08:02, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    heads up: per the big red warnings that show up when you start a new thread, you need to notify users of this. i did it this time cogsan (nag me) (stalk me) 11:24, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Personal attack (whitewashing), again. D.S. Lioness (talk) 18:48, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Explain how this is a personal attack and not simply you being thin skinned? Insanityclown1 (talk) 05:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Proposal to temp block D.S. Lioness[edit]

    This seems strongly like a boomerang issue. User here seems only interested in censoring opinions that disagree with her.--Insanityclown1 (talk) 05:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Not sure a block is necesssary, but topic bans for either or both users may be necessary. I'm not sure that either editor has shown that they can edit in the area of Greek politics effectively. From what I've seen, DS Lioness has edited other users' talk comments to remove personal attacks (against themselves, making them not the best person to remove them), and from what I can see, Michalis1994 is trying to ensure the article is "NPOV" - which to them means that any negative information they think is relevant is included. Neither editor seems to be discussing based on policies/guidelines, but based on their own opinion of the other editor and their own opinion of what's relevant. Pinging User:VQuakr (and will notify on their talkpage) as they responded to the WP:3O request, but to quote VQuakr During a content dispute, it is more important than ever to focus on content, not editors - neither user here seems to be able to focus on the content rather than taking digs at the other. I don't think an interaction ban would be fair here unless it is accompanied by them both being unable to edit topics related to Afroditi Latinopoulou (including any politics related to that person) - so I think either a time limited topic ban or an indefinite topic ban (with ability to appeal after contributions elsewhere, as standard) would be better. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 06:04, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I will not remove the term 'whitewashing' as the deletion of cited content in the article raises significant questions about the author's intentions. Additionally, this concern now extends to the political party founded by Afroditi Latinopoulou, Voice of Reason. It is evident that D.S. Lioness has prepared a similar version in her sandbox, aiming to completely replace and distort the cited content regarding the party. Hope you can all see the pattern here. If this isn't whitewashing, then how should it be described? Moreover, there is nothing inherently negative about accurately describing the political party as a far-right organisation - something that has been confirmed by the third opinion, to which D.S. Lioness responded with further personal attacks. The so-called 'negative' tone identified by the other author is, in fact, the result of ideological analysis from reputable sources, which they seem eager to conceal. The replacement of reliable sources with questionable material, coupled with the aforementioned actions, raises concerns about whether D.S. Lioness is going to stop those actions and seek consensus. I have expressed my willingness to discuss this further, but it currently seems impossible to find common ground. Additionally, I must point out once again that they have been previously banned from Greek Wikipedia for exhibiting the same behavioural pattern. Michalis1994 (talk) 07:35, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Temporary topic bans for both seems appropriate.BabbaQ (talk) 15:01, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Why for both? That seems a little weird. Michalis1994 (talk) 16:54, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I demand a single piece of evidence of alleged whitewashing: which cited content I removed?
    Your edits deceive readers and vandalizing w.p by adding lies such this June 2024, she called for Pride Parade to be dissolved, saying, "It is a celebration of vulgarity, emphasising the sexuality of sadomasochists and other various abnormalities in public view." Where the source mention something like that? Here the source in Greek and tranlated by google translate in english

    See for yourselves. Enough is enough with your lies. D.S. Lioness (talk) 00:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Support indefinite topic ban for D. S. Lioness, as their clear POV pushing is not beneficial to the encyclopedia.
    As for Michaelis, I'd suggest a voluntary topic ban for 3 months to just take a break and come back when they're feeling less hot-under-the-collar from this mess. The article can wait, and there's already more eyes on it from this ANI. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:11, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    where is my pov pushing? You accuse me and you want to ban but without a single evidence!!! You just believed the other user lies. Did you read my edition? Did you read my sources? In what ground you accusing of POV pushing?? D.S. Lioness (talk) 01:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Now he's looking for my sandbox and he wants me to be blocked for what I WILL WRITE D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Αs far as I am concerned I will abstain from the Latinopoulou article until the user check is completed. Τhen everything will become clear D.S. Lioness For a comprehensive update I leave this one here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/D.S._Lioness D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:49, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

     Comment: The assumption that D.S. Lioness will cease her vandalism is fundamentally flawed. Her disruptive editing and vandalism have now extended to other pages, such as the Alexis Papahelas article, where she removed cited content just a few hours after discussions began to address concerns about her contributions. This mirrors her previous behaviour on the Afroditi Latinopoulou page and is unlikely to stop there. This serves as a warning to anyone who believes the situation might improve or that her actions are confined to the Afroditi Latinopoulou page. Michalis1994 (talk) 20:25, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    what are you saying; what exactly are you trying to achieve? what is the vandalism in Papachelas' article? I even explained in the editing summary the minor changes I made. I remove only unverified material according to WP:BLP.
    Υou are trying to take advantage of users who don't know Greek, who don't know Greek political parties, who can't confirm what is written in order to achieve my complete exclusion. This is totally immoral!!!
    you accused me of whitewashing the far right without providing a single piece of evidence for your claim. Not a single one!!! You manipulate users who are perhaps sensitive to political issues and especially the far right to achieve your devious ends!!! D.S. Lioness (talk) 00:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You are now the one being uncivil. I’d be more careful with what I said at this juncture. Insanityclown1 (talk) 06:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Proposal for a temp block for Wikipedia:Civility violations. Don’t call a user “devious.” Insanityclown1 (talk) 07:02, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    And what should I call a user who is trying to mislead the community into kicking me out of the project? Have you checked to see if what he claims is correct? D.S. Lioness (talk) 16:39, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You should answer in a way that doesn’t resort to making personal attacks against another editor. Insanityclown1 (talk) 20:13, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Continuous whitewashing and removal of labels/information related to other neo-Nazi parties: [142] [143] - there is a clear pattern here. Michalis1994 (talk) 06:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    I think an interaction ban between the two would also possibly be appropriate. This sequence of threads is indicating to me that neither of the parties in conflict can simply leave well enough alone.--Insanityclown1 (talk) 09:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Ηis contribution has now become a pure stalking at me. You can check this here D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:12, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    proposal[edit]

    Because we are waiting check user results, i think the calmest solution is to "freeze" the issue )unless it is possible to accelerate the procedure) because it may turn out that this conversation is meaningless, just like the one below. D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Concerns about Monopoly in contentious topics page(Caste page)[edit]

    RobertJudeson blocked as a sockpuppet. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:13, 29 June 2024 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    Hi admins/Experienced Editors. I don’t have complaints against anyone as I believe in collaborative work.Recent developments are pushing few questions in my mind.The user LukeEmily and Ekdalian are reverting my edits back to back inspite the information is well referenced.Please refer the page Karhade,Mohyal,saraswat etc.When I opposed this action, they launched Sock puppetry against me.May or May not be caste warriors but I request admins to instruct them not to interfere in well cited articles.I have carefully referred articles published in JSTOR for caste articles but was reverted please refer the edit history of all the above articles.I am not even involving in edit war instead giving page number explanation but sadly they are reverting like I am not a member in Wikipedia.I request admins to interfere in this issue and instruct them not to interfere in well cited articles. Thanks and Regards, RobertJudeson (talk) 07:18, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Caste promotion and POV-pushing are not accepted here in Wikipedia! The edit summaries (revision history) of the articles edited by you clearly mention the reasons for the reverts. You have also engaged in edit warring (Karhade Brahmin) in spite of all possible warnings. Even, an experienced admin has advised you to use the article talk pages instead, which I have been mentioning repeatedly (achieving consensus in the article talk page)! SPI has nothing to do with these issues. If your edit patterns match those of User:Joshi punekar's sockfarm, someone or the other will file an SPI! You may defend yourself as well, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Joshi punekar! Thanks. Ekdalian (talk) 08:58, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I may be new to Wikipedia but consistently you have mentioned POV Edit and caste promotion.In karhade page I have given the truth of how Deshastha treated them and Chitpavan with valid reference.Varna difference is a part of caste.I wonder it was considered as promotion of caste.I didn’t even edited single page of deshastha and Chitpavan.Is it me or someone who is promoting caste.In mohyal I had rearranged the existing info which was reverted.Atlast Sock puppetry by a Member of 8 edit(18 days account) was supported by you,which seems highly unusual.Atleast in future,I hope you will talk if any discrepancies exists before reverting.
    Regards, RobertJudeson (talk) 10:26, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @RobertJudeson You have failed to notify either LukeEmily (talk · contribs) or Ekdalian (talk · contribs) of this ANI report, as the notice at the top of the page clearly requires. Notifying Ekdalian is unnecessary at this point (but doesn't change the fact you should've done so) as he has already commented here, but I have notified LukeEmily on your behalf. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 13:45, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    • @RobertJudeson: I don' understand this complaint when you have so far refused to actually discuss the issues on article talk pages, as multiple editors have asked you to (eg here). I don't know whether you didn't understand the advice, are ignoring it or just trolling but in either case you are skating close to a block. Please reconsider. Abecedare (talk) 18:19, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
      Hi @Abecedare.
      I believe in collaborative work,so as I mentioned even those two editors have started reverting multiple edits at once even without initiating talk.They would have told reason to me in the talk page.This anonymous decisions as per their wish eats up a lot of time.
      I am just expecting admin to drop a message to both of them not to revert my edits having valid references,Incase if they find them not suitable let them message me in talk page(My or page) .I assure them I will definitely reply If I fail to justify I myself revert the edit which proved to be not suitable for the page.
      I am posting this to ensure my hardwork of reading research papers/books to update the page should not be reverted without reason as they did within fraction of seconds.I drop this issue here as of now. RobertJudeson (talk) 15:53, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
      RobertJudeson, read WP:BURDEN! I believe you have been informed already about the same! Not sure whether you are intentionally trying to ignore our basic policies! Ekdalian (talk) 18:24, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
      Ekdalian,Kindly refer Wikipedia:BRD!.This cannot be untrue in that case.”Revert only when it’s necessary “ as mentioned in the link!.Moreover I messaged you when you reverted my multiple edits at once,the message sent by me was deleted by you two times even without replying.I gave very good citation and explained with the page number in the summary while adding back.Not sure why you are ignoring this as both of us are bound by Wikipedia policy!. RobertJudeson (talk) 06:44, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    Single-edit IPs vandalizing Ashley Gjøvik page[edit]

    Either someone must have put out the bat signal on one of the Apple fanboy sites, or someone is using a ton of proxies to edit, because this page is getting an enormous amount of attention from people trying to cast this person in the worst possible light and Apple in the best, mostly by selectively removing information and revert-warring any attempts to clarify the situation.

    All of these IP addresses make 1 or 2 edits, then move on, and it isn't just CGNAT or some such because they are all over different carriers. In most cases there are very few/none at all recent edits from a considerable IP block around that IP (I'm using /20 for IPv4 and /48 for IPv6):

    208.114.45.83 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This edit in which they claim what "the sources say" without actually having read them, as later edits elucidate. No edits in 3 months from the entire /20 either.

    2600:8801:2994:4900:2152:83C8:74DE:959D (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This blanking edit, just pure vandalism with a false edit summary (the sources aren't in the lede, and none of the sources relevant to that particular edit were from AppleInsider, which suggests maybe I hit the nail on the head on the talk page in indicating some of the spam traffic is coming from a fanboy site like that). No edits in 2 YEARS from the parent /48.

    2600:8801:1201:7200:F591:D785:87AF:8613 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This "warning" added to my talk page by an IP that has never, ever made an edit before. Only 5 edits from the entire /48 in the past 2 YEARS.

    66.146.183.70 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This reply on the article's talk page as if they were already involved in this article, yet the entire /20 shows no edits at all in the past 6 MONTHS.

    I could go on but I think what's going on is obvious: either a mob being told to edit (and not by friends of Ms. Gjøvik, either), or someone very aggressively editing using proxies and throwaway IP addresses to evade WP:3RR. 76.6.213.65 (talk) 09:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    (Yes, I know the obvious solution here is to semi-protect the page, and I'm okay with that. I'll create an account... eventually, lol. Just please revert any further of these low-effort edits from single-edit IPs before you do this, as the page is actually in a pretty good state right now after some back-and-forth.) 76.6.213.65 (talk) 09:12, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Okay, I'm now more convinced this is intentional abuse (or else in the very unlikely event it's not, it has to be someone with some kind of mental illness; dissociative identity?). They posted on another editor's talk page, here acting like that editor was "casting aspersions" for making claims of this IP-hopper "to be one person or not".
    They seem to specifically be claiming the beyond-implausible possibility that each of these new IPs could be a different person making an all-new edit to this one specific article, despite none of the IPs involved in this hopping pattern having ever made a single edit to WP before. This is obviously either one person intentionally hopping proxies, or a mob of editors coordinating offsite, but now I can discount the possibility that they somehow do not know that their connection is being routed to multiple IPs across different ISPs. 76.6.213.65 (talk) 10:16, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I was kind of between the devil and the deep blue sea here, as you valiantly undid all the edits...but in the end I have semi-protected after all. The page sees spurts of dsiruption, and had been proteted for a year already. Time to create an account, 76.6. :) Lectonar (talk) 10:22, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you. 76.6.213.65 (talk) 11:08, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    As one of the editors involved yesterday with editing this article, there was no vandalism occurring. And while I did come from a link to the article in a particular forum, no one was encouraged to edit it at all or in any particular way. I disagree with the characterization of the edits as none of them look like vandalism, but minor content disputes.
    They reported the person who requested page protections and reported them for "vandalism with a false edit summary"—but the sources about "Aria" and her RICO lawsuit are primary sources and the two AppleInsider articles (https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/24/whistleblower-claims-to-have-nearly-died-because-of-illegal-chemical-exposure-from-apple)(https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/09/09/ex-apple-employee-files-rico-lawsuit-over-whistleblower-retaliation). BasketOfDucklings (talk) 13:56, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm quite curious @BasketOfDucklings: were you or do you think other editors of Ashley's article were aware of our policies on neutral point of view and edit warring and how your edits might have violated them, and if yes, do you think you or the other editors intentionally made those edits anyway? Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 22:12, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I did not override any edits so I don't think I was edit warring. Someone else said my edits made the article overly congratulatory using her resume, but it was already in the article. I don't even know which rules I violated or how adding biography information made it not neutral. BasketOfDucklings (talk) 04:49, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    How cute, this Basket Of Ducklings account appears to be brand new. Hmmmm. 76.6.210.82 (talk) 06:58, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    And the IP-hopper is back, this time editing pages where disputes relating to the Gjøvik article are being mediated, here. Again no edits in over 6 months from the entire /20.
    I would suggest this might be a previous abuser evading a ban, maybe this one? 76.6.210.82 (talk) 07:10, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    In that case, {{Checkuser needed}} on BasketOfDucklings. Might be a different person, but better to be safe. MiasmaEternal☎ 07:51, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
     Check declined by a checkuser per WP:NOTFISHING, and because no evidence whatsoever has been presented to demonstrate a connection to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SquareInARoundHole, as 76.6.x.x suggested. BasketOfDucklings is by their own admission one of the IP editors, and checkusers will not connect accounts to IP addresses. IP users are permitted (and encouraged; see above) to create accounts to edit, as long as they don't do so to evade a block of their IP address, and as none of these addresses are blocked, there is no violation here. However I'll also note here that if many accounts are exhibiting the same disruptive behaviour and there's uncertainty as to whether it is one user with sockpuppets or many users working together, we treat them as one user for administrative purposes.
    @76.6.210.82: please strike your personal attack speculating on another user's mental condition. Further comments of this sort will result in you being blocked from editing.
    @BasketOfDucklings: I think you've been editing Wikipedia for a while despite your account's age, so you should already be familiar with our policy on biographies of living persons and the more stringent standards applicable to editing information about living persons. Policy directs us to present all relevant information about a subject, both positive and negative, balanced according to the weight that reliable sources give to any particular information. This is what we mean by neutral point of view or "neutrality" on Wikipedia: we aim to present the point of view of published sources, rather than presenting our own point of view. A common pitfall for new editors is to interpret "neutral point of view" as meaning that we assign equal weight to all information, or don't publish relevant information if it casts the subject in a negative light, but that creates what we call false balance. We achieve neutrality through discussion and consensus, and if discussions on the article's talk page don't reach consensus you can post at the NPOV noticeboard to attract more participation. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:24, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    User:鸡景行 and suspected hoax article[edit]

    User:鸡景行 created No.3 Middle School Of Lingshan, which is being discussed as a suspected hoax at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/No.3 Middle School Of Lingshan.

    The user was blocked on the Chinese Wikipedia for "純粹破壞：屢次增加沒有來源的不實資料：見用戶提報。製造不實資訊：靈山縣靈城第三中學。並非在此建設百科全書。"

    This is translated to "Pure destruction: repeatedly adding false information without sources: see user reports. Producing false information: Lingcheng No. 3 Middle School in Lingshan County. This is not the place to build an encyclopedia."

    In these edits, User:鸡景行 gave a barnstar to User:折毛, who was blocked on the Chinese Wikipedia for the hoaxes described in Zhemao hoaxes. User:折毛 was the subject of this declined arbitration case request in 2022 and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1102#An urgent report about a user:折毛's hoaxes.

    Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/No.3 Middle School Of Lingshan has more background including a Google Translate of the Chinese Wikipedia discussion. User:鸡景行 is not currently blocked. I am bringing this to the community to review whether they should be blocked. Cunard (talk) 11:13, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Actually the reason is "Vandalism-only account, Not here to build an encyclopedia". Allervous (talk) 12:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I have indefinitely blocked 鸡景行 for their misconduct on the English Wikipedia. Cullen328 (talk) 17:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    (non-admin closure) User:鸡景行 has been globally locked. Allervous (talk) 09:35, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Rameshmedias COI[edit]

    BLOCKED
    (non-admin closure) Rameshmedias' block for advertising/promotion amended to indefinite. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:50, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    Rameshmedias has exclusively edited Ramesh Srinivasan, doing so on four occasions: May 18, June 6 (revdelled for copyvio), June 24, and June 26. On June 7, they were warned by 1AmNobody24 about conflicts of interest, and on June 24, they were blocked by David Gerard for exclusively-promotional editing. (The talkpage notice says "indefinitely", but the block log shows a duration of only 24 hours.) Since then, they have not responded to anything on their talk page, or disclosed a conflict of interest. Instead, within a day of the block expiring, they continued to edit Ramesh Srinivasan in a promotional manner. For instance, in this edit, they replaced the lead:

    Ramesh Srinivasan (born 1976) is a professor of Information Studies.

    with the lead:

    Ramesh Srinivasan (born 1976) is a scholar, author, and thought leader who explores the wide-ranging impacts of technology on society and our planet.

    Clearly, a 24-hour block was ineffective. I think they should be indefinitely blocked, or at least partially blocked from editing Ramesh Srinivasan. jlwoodwa (talk) 01:29, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Since they've not responded to the talk page messages I recommend blocking (or p-blocking) them until they communicate. Nobody (talk) 05:57, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    yeah, that was meant to be an indefinite block, not 24 hour. But they were able to respond and have chosen not to. I've now made it indefinite - David Gerard (talk) 08:06, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    Potential legal threat and TPA revoking required on Martinnewbold[edit]

    Talk page access removed by User:Daniel and spam was removed. Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 19:28, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    User User:Martinnewbold was indeffed for promotion, being a single-use account to promote his book. Since then the user has written several incomprehensible AI-generated unblock appeals and deletion review requests.

    The latest message to their user talk page states that they have sent a letter to Wikipedia UK offices, it includes vague legalise (AI generated) which I interpret as a legal threat against Wikipedia.

    In any case, TPA needs revoking. Qcne (talk) 09:17, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    TPA removed, rubbish blanked and replaced with {{uw-blockindefnotalk}}. Daniel (talk) 09:24, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Vulcan[edit]

    User indeff blocked addition of unsourced content by ScottishFinnishRadish Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 19:37, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    To avoid me edit warring (I'm already at 2 reverts), can others please look at Vulcan, which is being hijacked by this new editor even after two ignored warnings? The hijacked version, which is completely unsourced, voices opinion and may be AI/LLM generated, is currently the "live" version of this disambiguation page. 92.6.27.15 (talk) 20:40, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    SFR has reverted and blocked. All resolved. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:50, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    How to request a rollback of JojoeditsWiki[edit]

    Mass rollback done by User:Ponyo and User:Drmies. Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 19:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    The edits by JojoeditsWiki are just a flood of do-nothing edits. I'm not sure how to request a mass revert of their edits. signed, Willondon (talk) 21:05, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

     Done by Ponyo and Drmies. -- Euryalus (talk) 21:20, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I guess that answers my question. Thank you all. signed, Willondon (talk) 21:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I wonder if this is a (transparent) attempt at extendedconfirmed busting? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 19:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Turkish IP address[edit]

    IP blocked for 2 years by Daniel Case Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 19:34, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    Resolved
     – 78.163.128.0/18 blocked by     Daniel Case for two years

    A Turkish IP editor has been making significant edits to the TDI (engine) page, Toyota WW engine page as well as many others, without leaving edit summaries or citations. I have been trying to revert them, but it’s usually ended in an edit war, so the IP saw a 24-hour ban. However, after their ban, they went straight back to vandalising, so the TDI (engine) got protected for three days. They haven’t edited that page since, but have vandalised other pages, leading me to bring this here. I’d appreciate all their edits reverted, and them seeing an extended ban. 750h+ 23:19, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    There needs to be an explanation on article talk and an attempt to engage the IP. See my comments at Talk:TDI (engine)#Mass changes on 19-20 June 2024. Johnuniq (talk) 01:22, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Johnuniq I can't find the previous discussions now, but this is a long running issue (presumably a single editor) using multiple Turkish IPs to add large amounts of unsourced information to car-related articles. They currently seem to be running off 78.163.128.0/17 (contribs). We might need a rangeblock. Black Kite (talk) 07:29, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I have blocked 78.163.128.0/18 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)) for two years due to their history of ever-longer blocks in the last two years. Daniel Case (talk) 19:31, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Continuous disruptive editing[edit]

    Benstark2024 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Persistent disruptive editing of unsourced content and addition of unreliable source since June 11, 2024, continued after final warning and hasn't responded to warnings. Examples of addition of unsourced content: 1, 2, 3,4,5. Examples of adding or replacing figures with unreliable source: 6,7

    Loibird90 (talk) 9:01, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

    @Loibird90: Where's the final warning you mentioned? City of Silver 03:28, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I did leave a message on their user page about adding a reliable source first before making any changes on the page, which the user admitted they could not find any but still continued replacing the figure on the page since June 11, 2024. Since the activity kept going, I added a message again refraining from making any more changes and for them to stop replacing the source with a link of a facebook post. Loibird90 (talk) 04:32, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I know. I read those messages before I asked you where the final warning was. I'm also wondering about your claim that User:Benstark2024 "hasn't responded to warnings" because from the looks of it, they've replied to you on their talk page four different times. (They also asked you about a source getting rejected by a filter but you ignored that question.)
    This isn't to say they're right. I don't think they are. But I'm not sure you're right, either. Going on that conversation, it looks like you're both adding/changing box office figures based on your own calculations and currency conversions, which is not a good approach per the original research policy. City of Silver 06:05, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I wouldn't really say I'm right either, I know I could've responded or acted better but I simply just want it to be resolve. Box office figures of Philippine films usually uses PHP instead of the USD. I have provided this source as basis for the currency conversion. Maybe using the figure in USD would resolve it, instead of conversions. Loibird90 (talk) 14:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I saw that source. Please see WP:SYNTH, a subsection of the original research policy. It's tricky stuff but it basically says that we can't combine what one source says and what another source says to reach a conclusion that neither source says. In this instance, one reliable source, Box Office Mojo, says that You to Me Are Everything made $2,203,119 in US dollars. Another reliable source, your currency conversion page, says that amount of money converted to what the Philippine peso was worth in May 2020 is about ₱98.5 million. The problem happens when we state that the movie's box office take was ₱98.5 million because, while that's based on what two reliable sources say, it's not something either of them actually says. We need something that says, explicitly, that the movie made ₱98.5 million or we can't use that figure here. (If you're confused, it's likely because I'm not doing a great job explaining this. For what it's worth, I had to read the SYNTH policy at least a dozen times before I felt like I understood it.)
    But really, this is a content discussion and this noticeboard isn't for matters like that. This should be continued in that discussion at Benstark2024's talk page or, better yet, the movie article's talk page. If you're seeking an actual sanction, like a block or a topic ban, this is the place to do it. But I really hope that doesn't happen because I think that discussion at Ben's talk could still get to a good resolution. I'm not an administrator but if I were, I wouldn't block or ban anybody just yet. Instead, I'd ask you both to ensure your edits to articles and messages to each other are made with a little more awareness of the original research policy. Otherwise, you're on the right track. City of Silver 17:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Kaalakaa on Islam-related topics[edit]

    There is consensus to indefinitely topic ban User:Kaalakaa from content related to Islam, broadly constructed. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 20:49, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    Kaalakaa recently asserted that Muslims can't be reliable sources on Islam because they all supposedly have a conflict of interest. And this is not the first time they've categorically rejected Muslims as RS.[144][145] Such a position has been roundly rejected by other contributors in that discussion. Even worse is that they seem to attack the perceived religious beliefs of wikipedia editors. For example, when Hemiauchenia says: "I think Kaalakaa has been established to be in the minority in pretty much every discussion of this issue." Kaalakaa responds with "This article is about the Islamic prophet, so it is only natural that the talk page is crowded with Muslims." They have also been accused of POV-pushing on the Muhammad article.[146][147]

    Kaalakaa's userpage states "I live in a country where "blasphemy" against a certain religion is a crime. If I suddenly revert many or all of my edits or request that my account be deleted, then there is a high chance that by then I have already been arrested or that my account has been confiscated." I feel bad for them, but unfortunately it seems they are on a mission to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS. There was a previous report about Kaalakaa on this board as well. It may be time to consider a WP:TBAN on Islam-related topics.VR (Please ping on reply) 05:24, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Jonathan AC Brown and Tariq Ramadan are Muslims, and therefore they have a conflict of interest in writing their books, so I am not sure they meet our WP:SOURCE policy that tells us to "Base articles on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy."

    Regarding my comment that I am not sure if sources with a conflict of interest meet our WP:SOURCE policy, this is because the WP:SOURCE text itself states, "Base articles on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy," and the word "independent" there is linked to WP:IS, which says:
    An independent source is a source that has no vested interest in a given Wikipedia topic and therefore is commonly expected to cover the topic from a disinterested perspective. Independent sources have editorial independence (advertisers do not dictate content) and no conflicts of interest (there is no potential for personal, financial, or political gain to be made from the existence of the publication)."

    If my understanding of WP:SOURCE and WP:IS above is indeed too extreme and incorrect, I deeply apologize and I will retract it. — Kaalakaa (talk) 06:17, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Let's say your interpretation, that Muslim authors might not have the requisite independence to be considered fully reliable sources on Islam, is correct. Would that extend to Christian authors writing about Christianity, Hindu authors writing about Hinduism, Jewish authors writing about Judaism, etc.? City of Silver 06:44, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes, I had always believed that to be the case, whether it was for articles about Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, or other religions. I thought it was best if we used sources from secular authors published by university presses and other reputable academic publishers like Brill and De Gruyter, because I believed them to have no stake in the topics and be more likely to cover them from a disinterested perspective. I'm really sorry if this understanding was too extreme and wrong. — Kaalakaa (talk) 06:57, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Kaalakaa: Thanks for your responses so far. To clarify the diff at the very start of this thread: JAC Brown's work "Muhammad, A very short introduction" is an academic history of Mohammed published by Oxford University Press (an academic publisher). Would it be correct to say that your objection to this work is based not so much on its contents as on the religion of its author? -- Euryalus (talk) 07:08, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The issue, if I am not mistaken, began when the new editor, @QctheCat, wanted to state as a fact in wikivoice that "Banu Qurayza violated the treaty with Muhammad" using those sources. However, several other secondary sources doubt that Banu Qurayza violated the treaty or even participated in a treaty with Muhammad. A primary source also reports that Banu Qurayza denied having a treaty with Muhammad (Tabari, vol.8 pg.15). That was why, I believed that because the authors of the books are Muslims, it had led them to present the claim from Muhammad and Islamic sources that "Banu Qurayza violated the treaty" as a fact. Nevertheless, I did not outright reject the inclusion of the statement, but said that it needed to be attributed to Muhammad or Islamic sources if included [150]. — Kaalakaa (talk) 07:30, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    So in your view the other sources were inherently more reliable because their authors were not Muslim? -- Euryalus (talk) 07:45, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Were more independent, to be exact, because I thought they likely had less stake in the topics. But again, sorry if that was wrong. — Kaalakaa (talk) 07:53, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thanks again for the replies. Tbh that is indeed both extreme (and objectionable) as a point of view. You've been here long enough to know that that personal opinions about other people's religions are not a valid input to the reliability of sources. At the least, support a topic ban from topics related to Islam unless/until there's a better understanding of how WP:RS is applied. -- Euryalus (talk) 08:11, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    • Support (uninvolved): The phrase "conflict of interest" is just about the most misunderstood on Wikipedia. As anyone who's actually read the guideline understands, a conflict doesn't come from being an alleged partisan of one side or another. (For instance, I'm a lifelong fan of the Boston Bruins ice hockey team, and I've had over twice as many edits to the article as any other editor, but I don't run afoul of COI there.) It comes from "contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships." An employee of a mosque should avoid editing the mosque's article. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem should avoid editing his own article. A lack of ability to understand the distinction -- as well as not bothering to look up the damn rule in advance of filing an ANI complaint -- is a poor look. Ravenswing 08:13, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Support even though I am uninvolved. ‹hamster717🐉› (discuss anything!🐹✈️ • my contribs🌌🌠) 12:24, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Support the ban. It is needed for various reasons. Their other account also should be banned. Neutralhappy (talk) 12:49, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    This is my only account. If you believe I have another account and you have evidence, feel free to file a report at WP:SPI. — Kaalakaa (talk) 12:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Neutralhappy: what account are you referring to (and what evidence do you have)? -- Euryalus (talk) 13:35, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Euryalus, Well, Kaalakaa has raised eyebrows in suspiciously demonstrating advanced knowledge of Wikipedia, notably in detecting sock puppetry soon after joining. See their talk. StarkReport (talk) 11:45, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You yourself have admitted to have another account: user:kaalaka, on User:kaalakaa's user page. You gave the reason for the creation of the new one that you forgot the password of the earlier one. Neutralhappy (talk) 14:33, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Here you admit that. Neutralhappy (talk) 14:10, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    licking their lips like snakes is incredibly offensive even if Utba said it and is merely being quoted. It also isn't really a quote, since the event was so long ago and obviously grew in its telling to partisan audiences. The Song of Roland has numerous concordances and I don't doubt the tale of this battle does also. The point is, we don't know if any of that anecdote actually happened and it serves no purpose except, as you say, showing Muhammad's attitude towards one of his enemies. Because why exactly? Especially since there is ample reason to doubt the literal historicity of this rendering? If you want to show generalship, show generalship. This is not that. Elinruby (talk) 02:14, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    If I end up not convincing anybody, that's fine. Kaalakaa's extremely negative stance towards Islam would have been obvious even without their incredibly weird belief that scholars who adhere to a given faith aren't reliable sources regarding that faith. City of Silver 16:34, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    In my entire Wikipedia life, I have not seen the worst editor as Kaalaka. Kalaakaa has disregard for truth. Not only has Kalaaka made bad faith in one article but in another article—Muhammad also and obviously more, which resulted in losing the good article status for the article—Muhammad. So this disregard towards truth is inherent in Kaalakaa. Reverting the bads edits would not be successful unless there are several editors because of Kaalakaa's aggressive reverting behavior. So tell me what is the solution. First option will be to go after him a group of editors to revert that bad faith edit. Second option will be to ban Kaalakaa. The third option will be to block Kaalakaa from Wikipedia. Forth option will be anything else. Which one of them do you choose?
    Kaalakaa is of the opion that any book written by Muslims about Islam are to rejected. No one has misunderstood Kaalakaa's this statement.
    While COI can be suspected because of one's affiliation, here history on Muhammad are just quoting of the history. There is nothing to be suspected about because it can be verified with the primary source regardless of one's affiliation. So the Kaalakaa's stand is unwanted and inappropriate. And Kaalakaa's is not what you are trying to say—one meaning of his stand.
    If Muslims have COI, non-Muslims also have COI for the same reason. Again he is not looking for evidence instead he look for affiliation or the other.
    Not premature. There have been instances of disagreements with Kaalakaa by numerous editors, including on ANI before. Neutralhappy (talk) 18:59, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Neutralhappy: As I said, Kaalakaa has explicitly stated, more than once, that they know they were wrong to think Muslim scholars have an inherent COI regarding Islam. Pretty much every editor here simply does not believe this, which is fine. The thing is, I don't know if they'll change, you don't know, nobody knows because there's no way for them to prove it other than fixing what they've broken. Battle of Badr is an obvious opportunity for them. It would be a very difficult task because, well, it'll be a lot of hard work but also because they'll have to demonstrate a clear lack of anti-Muslim bias. Look: if Kaalakaa tries to fix that article, I think they'll fail. I'm just wondering, what if I'm wrong? City of Silver 19:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Kaalakaa's trend is to reject Islamic scholars even if it is said to Kaalakaa that they are more knowledgeable and having the proof or more proofs.
    When presented an Islamic : source by a user, Kaalakaa replied  : this . This shows Kaalakaa does not consider what knowledge or proof is based on. Instead Kaalakaa only consider bias against Islam as the criteria to be based on. Moreover it is normal for followers to really convey the leader's message without changing them. Here is the : link to source that user pointed to. Neutralhappy (talk) 05:12, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Neutralhappy: You've messaged me twice. Both messages indicate you haven't read any of what I said. Instead of repeating grievances that have nothing to do with what I'm saying, read my words and respond directly to them. If you can't be bothered to do that, please stop replying to me. City of Silver 01:31, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Support (involved): Editors have been having ongoing discussions with this user about problematic patterns of editing and sourcing for months now. Despite dozens of editors weighing in with guidance, explanation of sourcing policy, best practice, etc., the user has continued to make statements that suggest they have absorbed little. Given everything mentioned above, the user would almost certainly benefit from some time away from the topic space in order to better acquaint themselves with policy and sourcing guidelines and to practice collegiate editing in a space where their strong opinions don't simply lead them down the path of bad habits. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:21, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Strong Support (involved): A full NOTHERE block; otherwise, a indefinite TBAN. From cherry-picking of sources and disruptive editing to misusing Wikipedia's policies and exhibiting battleground behavior, it's clear that if only an indefinite TBAN is applied, the editor will continue making these problematic edits on other articles solely for WP:POINTY purposes, given their history of intransigent actions and behavior. Note: Kaalakaa's current faux politness is unconvincing, considering previous sardonic personal attacks made by Kaalakaa on much senior editors such as @Louis P. Boog: "It is very concerning that someone who has done over 42,000 edits since 23 December 2006 still doesn't quite grasp basic Wikipedia guidelines." See talk. StarkReport (talk) 11:26, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Persistent spammer[edit]

    A person using multiple IPs been adding citations to works by the same person, Nuria Recuero-Virto. They have been warned several times about COI and WP:CITESPAM and have ignored it. The problem is that they use one IP to spam a few articles then switch to another one the next day. The only option I've come up with is to periodically search for "Recuero-Virto" and revert any additions (note that there is one citation to a different Recuero-Virto which is not spam). Can anything be done about this?

    Un assiolo (talk) 14:42, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I took a look at the 2a02:9130:9000::/37 range and am guessing that over the last roughly 1 year upwards of a quarter of the edits have been reverted, including all but a handful over the last month. That's enough for me. I'm blocking the range for 1 month. -Ad Orientem (talk) Ad Orientem (talk) 18:49, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Removing talk page access[edit]

    Hey, can someone please remove talk page access from Unusual Ipswich Sightings (talk · contribs)? They keep adding insults on their talk page even after being blocked. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 23:19, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

     Done -- Euryalus (talk) 23:24, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Latest sock to remove TPA from: Green and Gold Anime (talk · contribs). Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 23:59, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
     Done by Philknight. -- Euryalus (talk) 04:50, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    IP editor mass changing TV show infoboxes[edit]

    Blocked by Geni, mass rollbacked by me, and the /64 blocked by Drmies. (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts talk 04:06, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    This IP user appears to be going through the pages for TV shows and doing a mass change to remove members from the Starring parameter, and has been going at this for a couple of days now. I'm not exactly sure if this is something that is actionable, as they seem to have stopped now and been blocked, but mass rollback of these edits should be in order, as there's somewhere close to 120 pages they've done this to. SmittenGalaxy (talk) 23:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Disregard about rolling back the edits, that's been taken care of. SmittenGalaxy (talk) 00:07, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    (edit conflict) I've mass rbed its edits, although there's some more on the /64 that I'll get around to. Queen of Hearts talk 00:08, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    and all  Done, although the /64 should probably be blocked. Queen of Hearts talk 00:11, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Persistent addition of unsourced content by 174.115.203.105, again[edit]

    174.115.203.105 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Keeps adding unsourced content to articles, continued after final warning, and hasn't responded to warnings or the previous ANI thread from the 12th that was archived with no action taken. In the case of The Elephant Show, they are removing sourced content while adding unsourced content (1, 2), examples of other unsourced edits: 1, 2, 3. Waxworker (talk) 23:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    (drive-by note) IP seems to have been blocked by Drmies. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:06, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    User:Daiji Igarashi[edit]

    Not only is user now blocked with TPA revoked for sockpuppetry (puppet), but their account is globally locked. —C.Fred (talk) 20:03, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    It's very clear they are not here to build an encyclopedia. I just deleted their upload and indeffed them on Commons for crosswiki vandalism. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:11, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I've already reported them to the WP:AIV. Waiting on any admin to come resolve this now. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 05:15, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I would also like to point out that this IP address below has been constantly arguing with this user on their talk page. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 05:32, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Im User:Kamen rider saber 💀 Daiji Igarashi (talk) 05:16, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Get banned for sockpuppetry 24.115.255.37 (talk) 05:17, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Proposed community ban of User:Debresser[edit]

    Debresser hasn't edited outside of a to do list on their talk page in close to three months. Their past issues have been looked at and addressed. This comes too close to double jeopardy and an ex post facto sanction. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:19, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    Debresser (talk · contribs) has been repeatedly blocked for violating various topic bans, some involving the WP:GAME approach. As someone who is uninvolved with this user, I look at their block record and suspect the blocks are doing nothing to deter their behavior. To save the commuinity additional trouble with this user, I recommend them banned from Wikipedia by the community. --wL<speak·check> 05:11, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    1 month into a 3 month block, so previous discussion already decided on this. Not sure how you found the user. JackTheSecond (talk) 05:45, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    If you're uninvolved ... are you really just randomly trolling the pages of blocked editors to see if there's something that can be escalated into more ANI drama? Ravenswing 14:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    One user is targeting me and provoking everyone to think that I am sock.[edit]

    shockedpikachu.gif — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:36, 29 June 2024 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[]

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    Hi Admins. The user Ekdalian is spreading wrong information of my account being sock which is not fair.He is using the sentence “I am quite sure that he is a sock!”.I am sharing his chat history which is still available in his talk page in the title “A kitten for you!”.

    Proof of chat by the user for your kind reference,

    Isn't that guy a sock? - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:36, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yeah Fylindfotberserk, I am quite sure that he is a sock! Please check Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Joshi punekar! Ekdalian (talk) 18:06, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Most likely. Though I've a hunch that he might be this guy if not the other. Anyway, CU'll get them. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 18:09, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    End of their chat.

    Further information is that the User Ekdalian in retaliation for our disagreement in editing/reverting has supported the person who raised the sock puppetry investigation.The Person who raised investigation himself has proved as sock of User:Antimtripathi.I request admins to warn the user:Ekdalian to stop this speculation work as Wikipedia grows with collaborations and not by groupism or rivalry. RobertJudeson (talk) 08:17, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    you need to notify them. I have already done this for you. Insanityclown1 (talk) 08:58, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Last time they took Ekdalian to ANI, they also failed to notify as required and I had to do it. Now they've once again failed to follow simple and highly visible instructions. @RobertJudeson, is there any reason why you have now twice failed to notify Ekdalian in your two ANI reports at all? Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 13:58, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Persistent addition of unsourced content by 106.70.52.165[edit]

    106.70.52.165 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Keeps adding unsourced content to articles/making unsourced date changes, continued after final warning and after a 31 hour block on the 22nd. Examples of unsourced edits: 1, 2, 3. Waxworker (talk) 14:08, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    This could be handled by WP:AIV. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:38, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @HandThatFeeds: - I would, but while disruptive I wouldn't describe their edits as vandalism and I've been asked to not report non-vandalism disruptive editing at AIV and to report to ANI instead. Waxworker (talk) 17:55, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Administrator adding copyright-violating text[edit]

    OP/LTA blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:49, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    An administrator who adds copyright violating text to an article, when they are absolutely fully aware that it is a copyright violation, should not be an administrator. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nevada_Gaming_Commission&diff=prev&oldid=1228849678. It is far, far from the first time that I've seen this administrator behaving in this way. 193.117.188.78 (talk) 20:35, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    also note that the administrator concerned has protected their talk page and thus cannot be notified. 193.117.188.78 (talk) 20:37, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I can't find where this text is being lifted from. Can you supply the source of this copyrighted text so we can confirm it's a copyvio? Or are you just assuming because an author has some copyvios? Canterbury Tail talk 20:42, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Canterbury Tail: OP is currently blocked for 1 week. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 20:46, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Note:This IP editor has just continued on this article with different IP accounts so this disruption on this article hasn't stopped. They also never informed "an administrator" of this complaint. Liz Read! Talk! 08:07, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    User:DTParker1000's tendentious editing of Rio Grande 223[edit]

    ArbCom may be the only dispute resolution forum in Wikipedia in which the boomerang principle does not apply, in which the editor who files a bad complaint will not have their own conduct scrutinized. This is about an editor who is disruptively filing Requests for Arbitration concerning a historic train.

    The problem seems to have started on 27 February 2024 when DTParker1000 expanded the article on Rio Grande 223, and included material about the historical importance of railroads in the American West in the nineteenth century. Other editors, including User:Xboxtravis7992, removed much of this material as being off-topic. In my opinion, it was information that should be in the encyclopedia, and probably is in the encyclopedia (but I did not research whether it was), but was off-topic for the article. Xboxtravis7992 then filed a DRN request on 11 March 2024: Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard/Archive_242#Rio_Grande_223. . I declined it, but said that another request could be filed in 48 hours. Then there was edit-warring, and DTParker1000 was partially blocked from the article in question, indefinitely. They requested unblock, which was declined. JTParker1000 then filed a Request for Arbitration on 19 March 2024, [[163]], and the request was declined by ArbCom on 20 March 2024. JTParker1000 then filed a DRN request on 7 April 2024: Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard/Archive_244#Rio_Grande_223. I closed that request as vexatious litigation. JTParker1000 has now filed a second Request for Arbitration, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Rio_Grande_223, with no mention of the first request, and an otherwise fragmentary record of previous dispute resolution.

    ArbCom traditionally does not sanction editors for filing stupid, frivolous, or vexatious cases, so I am asking the community to take action against a disruptive editor and vexatious litigant. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:50, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    This guy is an absolute menace. He can't be reasoned with - I would know, because I'm among the many who tried. He continues to labor under the mindset that if he appeals high enough, surely someone will intervene in his favor, which is nonsense since the matter is a content dispute, and every other editor who has weighed in disagrees with him. That he continues to waste everyone's time in this manner rather than doing literally anything else shows he is not compatible with Wikipedia, because he cannot work with other people. Take a look at the giant wall of WP:IDHT he wrote at Talk:Rio Grande 223/Archive 1. He needs an indef. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 13:27, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Other than in regards to this incident, DTParker1000 has never been blocked. Their one block is a partial block for the article in question. While their edit count is low, they've been on the project for 14 years. Longevity does not confer special treatment, but I think it's a bit of a leap to go from a partial block to a sitewide block without a final warning. I've given them the final warning, but they've not edited since. I think it's sufficient to leave it at that. If they persist in their behavior, myself or another administrator will likely indef them until they agree to drop the stick and move on. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:49, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    We can wait and see for the moment, but I'm very skeptical we will see any change in behavior. If this continues any further, I think an indef will become the only option. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 20:15, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm not convinced that an indef is the only option. It might or might not be the best option, but a topic ban from discussing Rio Grande 223 anywhere on Wikipedia (excluding replies to explicit questions about it in discussions about their conduct) with enforcement by the usual method of escalating blocks is at the very least an option and one I think worthy of consideration. Thryduulf (talk) 20:30, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I've asked them on their talk page if they would agree to voluntary tban, but upon looking further it seems clear that they often make a few edits and then go inactive for a few months. That being the case, I think an involuntary topic ban is the appropriate sanction. If they break it, blocks will follow. It looks like their edits outside of this one area are fine, they just need to drop the stick on this issue. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 20:33, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The RfAr is on its way to being declined, but I agree with JSS that stopping editing for a few weeks isn't enough to assume the editor has moved on, given they frequently come back to the topic. I support a topic ban on this basis. Daniel (talk) 22:32, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Proposed topic ban for DTParker1000[edit]

    Based on the discussion above, at the arbcom case request and previous times this has been brought up, I think a formal topic ban is in order:

    DTParker1000 is indefinitely topic banned from Rio Grande 223. This applies everywhere on Wikipedia and explicitly includes all dispute resolution venues but excludes minimal mentions when required for context in discussions of their (DTParker1000's) conduct and appeals of this topic ban.
    This ban may be enforced by escalating blocks. It may be appealed after six months of active editing since enactment or the most recent unsuccessful appeal.

    The intent of "six months of active editing" is so that extended absences don't count towards the six months, it is not a requirement for six consecutive months of active editing. Thryduulf (talk) 14:39, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    824 Montmarte[edit]

    BLOCKED
    (non-admin closure) 824 Montmarte blocked as sock. GrayStorm(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.) 00:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

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    824 Montmarte, a clear sock of User:Raymarcbadz is on a revert rampage right now. Assistance is requested as I cannot continue to rever them. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 04:12, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    You are responsible for banning me and reverting my edits, Sportsfan 1234. What will happen to the articles? Will anyone else update the qualification articles? Why can't you discuss your problem on Wikiproject:Olympics talk page? You have reached your complaint to the adminstrators. How dare you? 824 Montmarte (talk) 04:14, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    And now they're moving pages too, which cannot be undone through rollback... Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 05:27, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Do you know who created the Olympic qualification articles? None other than the sockmaster. 824 Montmarte (talk) 05:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Why flaunt breaking of the rules? IDGI Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 05:31, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Flaunt breaking? IDGI either. 824 Montmarte (talk) 05:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Because you can't stop reverting the accurate and research-based content. 824 Montmarte (talk) 05:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Blocked as sock. -- Euryalus (talk) 06:09, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Someone should probably revert their moves and revert their edits again. – 2804:F1...99:532B (talk) 06:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I have reverted moves. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    User:Annh07[edit]

    I would like to report Annh07 for constantly reverting/rollbacking my edits despite my explanations as to the rationale of my edits. In one instance Annh07 reverted my edits in the article "Religion in Belarus" when I have explained that it was necessary to use a pipe link to direct the "Roman Catholic" link to the page of the Latin Church. The reason is that using the link "Roman Catholic" alone would redirect to the main article of the Catholic Church. The "Roman Catholic" link in the pie chart refers to the Latin Church and not the Catholic Church as a whole considering that "Belarusian Greek Catholic" is mentioned in the same breath. In another incident in the article "Mission Society of the Philippines" I made a correction in the lede of the article that states that "The Mission Society of the Philippines (MSP) is a Society of Apostolic Life of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church." and changed it to "The Mission Society of the Philippines (MSP) is a Society of Apostolic Life of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church." considering that the Latin Church was already mentioned in the sentence which would make the term "Roman" redundant here. In another instance, Annh07 reverted my corrective edits to the article "Religion in Honduras" in which he reinstated the "Roman" terminology without being aware that Honduras many Arab Christians,of which there were Eastern (not Roman) Catholics, migrated to Honduras. The mention of things related to the Catholic Church should remain in that a simple and clear form unless that the topic explicitly pertains to any one of the particular churches of the Catholic Church. Thus, "Catholic" is preferred unless being specific is needed.

    His/her actions exhibit a clear disregard for following conventions which has been settled a long time ago and is reflected in the talk pages regarding the name of the main article of the Catholic Church as well as the talk pages concerning moving of pages with the name "Roman Catholicism in Country X" to "Catholic Church in Country X." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.189.116.70 (talk) 05:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    203.189.116.70, have you notified the editor of this discussion as required? It's mandatory. There is information on this at the top of this page and on the edit page. It would also help if you supplied diffs of the edits that you think were out-of-order so that editors could actually look at them. It's more valuable than your narrative statement. Liz Read! Talk! 06:07, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes, I did, at the bottom of his/her talk page 203.189.116.70 (talk) 06:09, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The following are the diffs of the reverts that Annh07 has made.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mission_Society_of_the_Philippines&diff=prev&oldid=1231770048
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Honduras&diff=prev&oldid=1231769887
    Other edits made by Annh07 that clearly disregard precedent regarding the terminology regarding the Catholic Church in Wikipedia:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oecusse&diff=prev&oldid=1231770047
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vestibule_(architecture)&diff=prev&oldid=1231770244
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frances_Manners,_Duchess_of_Rutland&diff=prev&oldid=1231769958
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sudeten_Germans&diff=prev&oldid=1231769952
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Mass&diff=prev&oldid=1231769942 203.189.116.70 (talk) 06:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    As notice I left on your talk page: I reverted your edits because they did not have an edit summary. Articles are independent and unrelated, so you cannot provide a reason for editing in one article and ignore it when editing other articles.
    Also I did not revert any of your edits in the article Religion in Belarus, another editor did it and they also informed you on your talk page, I think you need to discuss this issue with that editor. Annh07 (talk) 06:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I reverted your edit in the Mission Society of the Philippines article because I agree with AgisdeSparte that it is just your own opinion. When there is no consensus, you should discuss instead of continuing to edit based on your point of view. See WP:CON. Annh07 (talk) 06:57, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes, which is why I placed a strikethrough on the text concerned. I did not want to erase that text as I wanted to be transparent with my mistakes. 203.189.116.70 (talk) 203.189.116.70 (talk) 07:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The consensus is that the Catholic Church should be referred to as the "Catholic Church" in here and not the "Roman Catholic Church" that which was agreed upon ever since the main page was moved to "Catholic Church". This is not a matter of personal opinion but a matter of prior consensus and precedent throughout Wikipedia.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Catholic_Church_in_Armenia#Requested_move_2_October_2016
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Catholic%E2%80%93Lutheran_dialogue#Requested_move_22_October_2017
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Catholic_Church
    203.189.116.70 (talk) 07:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Here, the consensus concerns your edits and not the Catholic Church, that is, when someone else disagrees with your edits, you need to discuss (on your talk page or the article's talk page) to resolve that issue. You can provide sources that support your argument (as you did above), which will help you gain consensus and avoid misunderstandings from other editors. Annh07 (talk) 08:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    User:Altenmann[edit]

    This user has, over the course of many years, repeatedly added an image of a Jewish person to "illustrate" an antisemitic Russian "joke". See the history of Russian jokes. Please take action. 89.207.175.7 (talk) 08:13, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Have you talked to the editor themselves about this? Have they given any reason in their edit summaries for re-adding the image? Also, do please refrain from personal attacks. Professor Penguino (talk) 08:17, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I already explained to that person that there jokes are neither russian nor antisemitic. These are jokes of jews- Soviet dissidents themselves. The person refuses to discuss. - Altenmann >talk 08:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Where have you explained why you are adding an image of a real Jew to illustrate a racist Russian stereotype? 89.207.175.7 (talk) 08:21, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'll wait for an administrator to come and review this case, but is the image really necessary? Professor Penguino (talk) 08:22, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Perhaps you are not understanding how racist it is to illustrate a racist "joke" with an image of a person of the ethnicity being targeted. If someone was repeatedly adding a racist slur to an article, would you ask if the text was "really necessary"? 89.207.175.7 (talk) 08:26, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm trying to hear out their reasoning. They said, "These are jokes of jews- Soviet dissidents themselves." I'm hoping they can elaborate. Professor Penguino (talk) 08:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I explained several times, these jokes are neither racist nor russian.
    There is nothing wrong with the image; Sholem Aleichem is indeed the best known Rabinovich also well known of Jewish humor. Here is his epitaph:

    - Altenmann >talk 08:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Please don't comment on other users. And where is the source in Russian jokes to support your claim in that article (in the image caption) that "Sholem Aleichem [is] a famous Rabinovich"? Like Professor Penguino, I 'm wondering why we need an image of a real person here. Meters (talk) 08:35, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes I will comment on other users, because this page is recisely for this. - Altenmann >talk 08:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Perhaps you cannot read is a personal attack. Meters (talk) 08:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Since @Altenmann has reverted my reversion of their violation of WP:TALK#REPLIED, I will leave it noted here: Special:Diff/1231795204.
    I guess that counts as retracting the personal attack, but it is also not how things should be done (at least acknowledge it). – 2804:F1...9:532B (talk) 09:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Because these jokes are not just random comedy based, they are reflectging real life. - Altenmann >talk 08:40, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Respectfully, I don't think that's a good reason. The bit about so-called "Rabinoviches" being "crafty" and "cynical" comes off as a bit strange, especially next to an image of a real life person. Professor Penguino (talk) 08:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    "Crafty and cynical" - this was not my text. (heck, I even dont know such words :-) When thinking about this, - this sentence is an orifinal research and must be deleted. Doint it right now. - Altenmann >talk 09:33, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    If they aren't Russian, why are they in the "Russian jokes" article? Professor Penguino (talk) 08:31, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Because there was plenty of Jews in the Soviet Union, and there was plenty of Jewish humor aboutr their life under communism. Did you happen to read this section of Russian jokes while you were editing a minute ago? - Altenmann >talk 08:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yes, I did read the section. Professor Penguino (talk) 08:40, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    What you are missing is that Sholem Aleichem is a pseudonym and his actual name is Rabinovich (per his article). It's not essential that his photo is in the article and given that antisemitism is a hot topic at the moment it's perhaps best to leave it out, but what's going on here is irony. NOT antisemitism. Daveosaurus (talk) 08:45, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    It is not that it is hot topic, it is aggressive behavior of a suspicious user. I know who is this, from long history of behavior, but I cannot give you the proof. - Altenmann >talk 08:51, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    But Rabinovich is an archetype, putting a photo of him in the article is unnecessary, is it not? Professor Penguino (talk) 08:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    {ec} I'm not saying this is antisemitism either, but I understand the IP's objection to using a picture of a real person here. I also understand that Sholem Aleichem is actually a pseudonym for a famous person named "Rabinovich", but the claim in the image caption appears to be that Sholem Aleichem is a famous example of the type of person joked about. Irony does not translate well to Wikipedia pages. Meters (talk) 08:53, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm sure you could find an image of a real black person called Sambo to illustrate Sambo, Daveosaurus. You think that would be "irony"? 89.207.175.7 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 08:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Are you saysing that "Rabinovich" is a racial slur?- Altenmann >talk 09:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Rabinovich is a Jewish archetype/stereotype, which currently has the descriptors are "crafty", "cynical", and "too smart" in the article. I don't think it needs a real person's image next to it. Professor Penguino (talk) 09:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    In the context of the Soviet Union these epithets are praise. Rabinovich sees a pompous burial of a Politburo member "Oy vey, with all this money spent I could have buried the whole Politburo!" Sholem Aleichem would be glad to undersign this.- Altenmann >talk 09:11, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    "I explained several tiome" - where? when? You would be able to post links if you had ever "explained" your racist actions. 89.207.175.7 (talk) 08:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I have to say I'm agreeing with you more and more. I don't think there's any need for an image to illustrate that part of the article. It's kind of odd and unsourced. Professor Penguino (talk) 08:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Do you really need a source that Sholem Aleichem is famous or he is Rabinovich? I will give them you you, tonnes. - Altenmann >talk 08:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I find it insulting to continue this discussion started by an abuser, see section below, without addressing serious behavioral complaints file by me in the section below. Good bye.- Altenmann >talk 08:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I notice neither of of you have bothered to raise this on the article talkpage, which last meaningfully discussed this issue in 2007. That would have been a better place to resolve this issue.
    Not sure that it derails the conversation? What evidence do you have that the "Rabinovich" jokes in that article are directly linked to Aleichem, sufficient that a picture of him is of any particular value in understanding the context of the jokes? If you do have this evidence, please post it at the article talkpage where it can be reviewed. -- Euryalus (talk) 09:41, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Repeating: This section is an accusation that I am an "long term antisemite", not about Aleichem. If you have issues with Aleichem, then you post it in the corresponding "article talkpage, where it can be reviewed". - Altenmann >talk 09:49, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Add: Just to complicate things, a further review of the IP's edits indicates they are evading a block. Reblocked at this new address. -- Euryalus (talk) 09:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    BKFIP detected. The IP address 89.207.175.7 is showing a lot of behavioural similarities to previous WP:LTA/BKFIP socks, including engaging in edit-warring even when informed about it, throwing insults and attacks towards other editors, and removing warnings from their talk page using the 'undo' function, also throwing attacks in the edit summaries there as well. Just to be clear, removing messages and warnings from one's talk page is allowed, but the way this person removes those warnings reminds me strongly of several previous interactions I've had and seen with this 'BKFIP' person.
    Additionally, the IP addresses geolocates to the UK (they are usually based in the UK).
    [Edit] Just to be clear: if anyone agrees with this IP editor's edits, then that's fine. Their comments in consensus-based discussions should however be disregarded. — AP 499D25 (talk) 09:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yep, have reblocked them at this new address. Agree with you on the likely identity. -- Euryalus (talk) 10:03, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    So the upshot is that the image was removed. I think it's worth noting that for more than a decade this has been Altenmann's personal playground for unverified jokes. Drmies (talk) 12:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    And I think it is worth retorting that my play was removing jokes from this jokebook, not adding, e.g., like here or here or here or here.... And it looks like that only me who was adding refecences to it like today. I also added a huge Russian jokes#Further reading section with scholarly sources about Russian jokes. And you somehow missed my playground in Russian political jokes. And of course, being a pronounced anti-Semite I could not help but to do the same to Jewish jokes and I simply love German humour. So please keep your personal bias against me at bay. - Altenmann >talk 16:47, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Hmm that is not what your "play" was back a decade ago. At the time there were 14 sources for 77k of material; ten years later there are 29 sources for 81k of material, with an astonishing amount of unverified material still. 63.5% of the material is yours, by way of 694 edits, so the suggestion that it already was a big fat but bad article that you are improving steadily is a bit weak. Drmies (talk) 20:39, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    • several ethnic stereotypes have developed, often in common with those views by other ethnicities
    • are depicted as primitive, uncivilized, and simple-minded, but clever in their own way
    • are depicted as rustic, stingy
    • usually depicted as stupid, greedy, hot-blooded, or addicted to sex
    • depicted as humorless, stubborn, taciturn, and slow
    • are depicted as humorless, stubborn, taciturn, and slow
    It seems Altenmann's been copying down unverified ethnic stereotypes and claiming these stereotypes are commonly held. And for the subsection on Jewish stereotypes, the article even claims the stereotypes are a highly developed subset of Russian humor, largely based on the self-image of Russian Jews and are not the same as anti-Semitic jokes? Is it too much of a stretch to say that this years-long introduction of uncited contentious material pertains to the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour, broadly construed and violates the general Arbitration sanction requiring reliable sourcing and the avoidance of undue weight?
    Even without applying that sanction, indiscriminately collecting unverified and probably undue examples of ethnic stereotypes, with minimal sourcing to verify the relevance and minimal effort to summarize academic analysis and contextualization that might make this educational instead of just insulting is still not what Wikipedia's purpose is. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 21:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    "rustic, stingy, taciturn ....", First, I dont even know such words. clearly this was written by a native English speaker. Second, there cannot be political correctness in jokes. Jokes were and are offensive, and you cannot "prettify" their descriptions. Good luck smearing me further. Since the discussion is thoroughly derailed from the initial accusation, good bye. - Altenmann >talk 23:08, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    OK. As a native English speaker, I can assure you that adding a photograph of someone actually named Rabinovich to a paragraph describing a Jewish stereotype named Rabinovich would be considered an attempt at humour. It is in rather poor taste, but I wouldn't call it antisemitic. (If someone else hadn't deleted that word from this section header I'd have been inclined to do it myself.) I suggest you just accept that the photograph does not belong in that article and go back to improving Wikipedia. Daveosaurus (talk) 05:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    The ridiculosity of this discussion grows. why don't y'all haste to the Russian jokes page, if you dislike its state so. For example, recently user:Hippo43 deleted 75% of German humour and I didnt say a word, although they deleted some referenced pieces.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Altenmann (talk • contribs)

    User:89.207.175.7[edit]

    IP blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    89.207.175.7 (talk · contribs) removes referenced information engaging in revert war [164] without discussion and makes insulting edit summaries [ [165] [166]. [167] - Altenmann >talk 08:17, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Judging from this edit, and this one this is the same person as 167.98.155.178 (talk · contribs) and must be blocked for block evasion. - Altenmann >talk 08:21, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    The retaliatory intent of your post is obvious. 89.207.175.7 (talk) 08:22, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Nonsense. You just beat me to the second. Meaning you are a sockpuppet well-versed in Wikipedia rules. - Altenmann >talk 08:31, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I think it's pretty obvious our IP friend here is a sockpuppet, but I don't want to make that kind of determination by myself. Professor Penguino (talk) 08:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Tgis is not the same dispute as above. This person is a long-tem revert warrior. - Altenmann >talk 09:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    @Altenmann: yes you're correct, apologies for not spotting this sooner. Reblocked the IP for block evasion. -- Euryalus (talk) 09:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Users attacking me on my talk page and getting my account blocked indefinitely and globally locked[edit]

    OP disposed of.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:47, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    User:Magnolia677 attacking me because I made "is part of the region" edits to Florida counties that she didnt like. User:NoobThreePointOh reporting me for attacking Magnolia after SHE attacked ME as if SHE'S the victim. User:Aoidh and User:Donald Albury reverting all of my edits on the Florida counties a month later with no probable cause and saying my edits are "disruptive". User:Drmies attacking me and reverting all of the other edits I made on other unrelated pages that dont amount to obvious vandalism and calling them "useless" and then blocking me because he has a personal problem with my edits AND THEN getting my account globally locked. User:Theinstantmatrix Reporting me on Meta and getting all of my accounts locked for threatening Drmies on his Commons talk page. User:Oshwah and User:Acroterion CONTINUING to block all of my accounts and joining in attacking me over me reporting a false positive on the abuse filter.

    "I'm not sure if you're using a source that has a different definition for these regions and not including that source" Because I DON'T have to include a source? The fuck? That's like saying I need to include a source that the sky is blue or that the earth revolves around the sun. I DON'T have to include a fucking source for every single edit I make. YbabCitnaltaDim II (talk) 10:26, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Definite sock of User:MidAtlanticBaby. User:Drmies, I heavily recommend you block this account. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 10:47, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Well, if you are creating new accounts to bypass the block and global lock on your previous account(s), then that's not a good start. Blocks / global locks actually apply to you as a person, not just to the account itself. You will need to appeal the block on your first account if you wish to get back to editing legitimately again. If you choose to evade blocks instead of doing that, you'll find every new account you make and every new IP address eventually but inevitably becoming blocked from editing too. — AP 499D25 (talk) 10:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I mean, this is textbook the stuff that we should be ignoring - this is not an attempt at appealing, it's an attempt at showing off, seeing all this account and user has done.
    – 2804:F14:809B:301:5C8F:B2FC:8099:532B (talk) 10:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Got to give them maybe half a point for chutzpah. Registering a very obvious sockpuppet, marching into ANI and screaming a list of demands is more than a bit rich from somebody who was blocked, in part, for making death threats. Anyway, it might make sense to run a Checkuser as we don't need any more of this nonsense. --DanielRigal (talk) 10:57, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm not exactly sure what you were thinking when you made this filing that includes the amazing phrase User:Theinstantmatrix Reporting me on Meta and getting all of my accounts locked for threatening Drmies on his Commons talk page. (bolding mine.) WADroughtOfVowelsP 11:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I have blocked the OP independently of this report because of their personal attacks visible in the filter log and obvious block evasion. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:15, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Great fun to see first thing in the morning. Now, back to our regular programing. Donald Albury 12:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Primefac, this one. To all the onlookers, you may be surprised at the filth that this sock posts (on other projects as well), and the audacity to think that they can be part of the game when they make attacks like that. I can't explain it, but it likely goes back six years, to User talk:DarwinandBrianEdits. Amazing. Drmies (talk) 12:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I'm not going to lie, I am genuinely grateful to all of the administrators that are there to protect us from these types of socks that use personal attacks and death threats to try and trigger us. I thank all of the administrators that form these types of teams. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 12:21, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    Problematic RFC at Talk:Shakshouka[edit]

    There is an RFC at Talk:Shakshouka#RFC on etymology that is problematic in at least three ways. First, the RFC concerns the reliability of sources, but has not been first discussed at the Reliable Source Noticeboard, which is the proper forum. By the way, the Oxford English Dictionary is almost always the most reliable source on the etymology of English words, including English words of non-Englis origin.

    Second, the originator has started this RFC because they have a misguided mission for which there is no consensus, and have misinterpreted my non-encouraging advice. The originator is User:LEvalyn, who says that they want to rewrite Shakshouka in order to bring it to Good Article, but all of their edits were reverted by other editors including User:M.Bitton] with negative comments on the talk page. User:LEvalyn then filed a DRN request. User:M.Bitton deleted the notice of the DRN filing. This action is a de facto declining to participate in moderated discussion, and moderated discussion is voluntary. I closed the DRN request, saying that it appeared that there was a lack of consensus for the full rewrite that the originator wanted, but that if they still wanted to do a full rewrite, one or more RFCs would be in order. I did not recommend the use of an RFC to bypass the Reliable Source Noticeboard, and this RFC is not about article content anyway.

    Third, there has then been edit-warring over the RFC between User:M.Bitton and User:Pathawi:

    I haven't tried to analyze the details of what they are edit-warring about, but this is clearly a 6RR by both of them.

    This RFC never should have been started in this form, and these editors were clearly edit-warring.

    Robert McClenon (talk) 14:52, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    I'm one of the two editors involved in the edit war. Robert McClenon (talk · contribs) is right that we were both in clear violation of 3RR. I'll add that we both have enough editing experience to have known better, and probably got under one another's skin. It appears that the cycle of reversions is resolved, but I think it was symptomatic of more serious problems in this specific process. Pathawi (talk) 15:31, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I've been watching this whole slow-motion car crash for some time. (Disclosure: LEvalyn has at times come to me with questions like "Is it normal for someone to do [whatever thing is going on at Shakshouka at this moment]?" and I have typically responded in astonished horror.) The whole thing is ridiculous, but this ANI is genuinely the most ridiculous and surprising part. Robert McClenon said If the filing editor still wants to rewrite the article, the least disruptive way to try to do this would be one or more RFCs. LEvalyn then started an RFC. LEvalyn commented on the RFC saying, Oh -- this is my first RfC, so please let me know if I have made any mistakes! I plan to send an RfC notice to the reliable source noticeboard and all of the wikiprojects to which this article belongs. Robert McClenon did not let LEvalyn that anything was done wrong. He started this ANI instead.
    Furthermore, this ANI lists LEvalyn as the sole named party, but also brings up a dispute between M.Bitton and Pathawi. That seems unfair to both of those editors, but also I must note here that the editor in common between these two disputes is M.Bitton, who is the main editor responsible for stonewalling essentially all changes on the article for months. Anyone who is unsure of this is welcome to look at the article's Talk page, which really does speak for itself. The current RFC is the result of M.Bitton insisting that the OED and Collins dictionary are making "baseless" claims about etymology. Other editors have now been involved in the RFC, and have observed these problems. For example, Super Goku V: In fact, this article seems to have an issue since at least 2021 with each year since having over 100 mentions of "revert" or longer. It is clear that there is currently a problem here over something.. LEvalyn's first involvement in this article is this year. Not 2021. -- asilvering (talk) 17:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I could say much more, but I should add first that I think a misguided mission for which there is no consensus is a truly astonishing way to categorize the work of an editor who is doing their best to improve the abysmal sourcing on a wikipedia article. If ensuring that articles meet WP:V according to WP:RS is a misguided mission, what mission do we even have at wikipedia? -- asilvering (talk) 17:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Well, to start here, Robert McClenon, I know of absolutely no firm requirement, codified anywhere in policy or community consensus, which requires that issues with the reliability of sources be resolved at RSN. And indeed, in my experience, the vast, vast majority of such issues are resolved on the talk page of the article for which the reliability of particular sources is being considered. RSN is merely one resource of which parties can avail themselves, but let's be honest: RSN is plagued by many of the same problems that are common to our larger fora and there are any number of scenarios where RfC would resolve issues as (or more) reliably, quicker, less acrimoniously, and with as much third party, previously un-involved community input. Unless I've missed some significant new piece of community consensus in the last few years, there's nothing remotely inappropriate in using an RfC in this context, and even if there were, there's certainly there's no reason to assume bad faith in a newer user's decision to seek outside perspectives in this manner. Especially considering you advised them to approach the issues you declined to mediate in this fashion? If you thought that RSN was the superior vehicle for addressing these problems, then you definitely should have urged as such.
    I have to say, this is a very strange report to me. DRN already has a low hit-rate for resolving the issues of editors who attempt to try to avail themselves of its volunteers' assistance, in my experience. Which is unsurprising and not necessarily a knock on your efforts given the nature of the issues that land there. But people are going to start thinking twice about even trying to use the space if users, including new users, get hauled to ANI by the mediators on this kind of very weak tea. I don't know, maybe the overall issues on the talk page and reversions history for this article are more pronounced than this filing is letting on, but they don't seem to be from a quick overview--and in any event, you had the option to formulate this complaint with the most relevant information on behavioural issues, and I must tell you, what I am seeing here is a big nothing burger for the most part. The biggest issue by far is the edit warring to move comments, in violation of TPG, but that issue both a) did not involve the main party you listed as the main issue at the head of this thread, and b) that issue is now apparently resolved.
    I'm going to be honest Rob: I greatly admire your commitment to ADR on this project, but the main thing that seems called for here is a boomerang trout on you for a hasty and poorly justified escalation to ANI. And I seem to recall it's not the first time I've had that feeling about an issue you brought here in recent time. I honestly don't think that hauling parties before ANI is something a person who got involved in an issue nominally through mediation should be doing, outside concerns about very, very serious violations of our behavioural norms. And this is not that. SnowRise let's rap 20:02, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Let me hasten to add that the way the RfC is structured definitely is an issue. Asking "which of these sources are the best quality for the article" is too non-specific to generate any truly useful feedback, let alone consensus, and largely misses the point of the normal process for determining both reliability of individual sources and the weight that their individual or combined usage creates for support of non-attributed claims. But all of this could have easily been explained to the OP, rather than opening a complaint here. Again, I'm just not seeing any compelling evidence of tenentiousness or disruption in what is being presented here. It may very well be there, but if so, it hasn't been well presented (either in summaries or diffs) here. SnowRise let's rap 20:15, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Since I was pinged, I figured I should follow-up on this regarding the revert issue. Having gone over the last 200 edits, two names popped up more than the others by a good margin: M.Bitton and Skitash. Out of the last 200 edits, they have combined to have removed at least 63 of them in 41 edits for a combined 52% of the edit history. Given that Skitash's first edit to the article was May 22nd of last year and they have only made 17 total edits to the article, this isn't going to focus on them.
    Regarding M.Bitton, they have made over 78 reverts to at least 118 edits in their 92 edits to the article since their first edit on October 5th of 2020. Adding the times they restored a revision would bring the number to between 82 and 84, depending on how an edit that changed the infobox and lede and an edit that changed the entire article are counted. Based just off the times they clearly reverted by using "Reverted X edit" in the edit summary, it is still 84% of the edits they have made to the article and an average of one revert every 17.5 days. This isn't to say that all or most of the reverts are problematic. As far as I have seen it is the opposite in fact, with reverts for a user trying to prioritize Tunisia over Libya, another user adding Palestine and removing Israel, and a third user trying to change The Times of Israel to The Times of Palestine as simple examples of what seems to be reoccurring vandalism. Honestly, the article feels like it should be in one of the Contentious topics given how many troublesome edits it attracts. (M.Bitton claimed that there is an Extended confirmed restriction on the article, but I don't see any proof of that.)
    Where the reverts becomes a problem to me lies with the reverts to edits that are made in good faith. Just take LEvalyn's edits for example. LEvalyn made over a half-dozen changes only to get reverted by M.Bitton with the following explaination: You removed the word Maghrebi without a valid reason. M.Bitton specifically objected to just one of the changes, but reverted all of them. In the following 26 hours from the first revert, M.Bitton makes two additional reverts to LEvalyn's edits with the following edit summaries: restored and added two RS to prevent further disruption & Please refrain from deleting the wording maghrebi and imposing your POV. There is even this line from the talk page discussion justifying the full reverts: "2) You are fully aware that the removal of the word Maghrebi will entail a revert." This specific situation feels like Stonewalling. And now we currently have a poorly formatted RfC attempting to determine if two dictionaries are a better source for the etymology of shakshouka as an attempt to discuss it failed. For at least some relief, I would prefer it if M.Bitton set a personal goal to only revert the article once a month and to seek out another user to revert further or to only use reverts on bad faith edits. It isn't the only issue, but it seems to be one of them. --Super Goku V (talk) 13:50, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    They misrepresented the sources (see the article's talk page and the diffs provided that show what they did). First LEvalyn challenged a word as unsourced, when the sources were added, they misrepresented thems and made factually incorrect claims about them not supporting the word Maghrebi, and when faced with the diffs and the relevant quotes on the TP, they removed the sources and the wikilink from the very word that they first challenged (this was done after the BS ANI report). That's without mentioning the fact that they started casting aspersions and forum shopping. If that's not tendentious editing, I don't know what is. M.Bitton (talk) 13:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I would prefer links to the aspersions and forum shopping you are referencing, but you are somewhat proving my point. As far as I can tell, your reply to me here only addresses the removal of the word Maghrebi. Was there some reason you couldn't partly revert LEvalyn and restore Maghrebi to the article without undoing all of his other changes? If you can do a partial revert to resolve an issue, then do so. --Super Goku V (talk) 14:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Everything I said is in the article's talk page. M.Bitton (talk) 14:46, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    M.Bitton claimed that there is an Extended confirmed restriction on the article, but I don't see any proof of that I have never claimed such a thing. M.Bitton (talk) 14:20, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I can scratch that, but the reason I said that was because you referenced WP:ARBECR in this edit summary of a revert. ARBECR is the Extended confirmed restriction motion that was adopted. Did you mean something else by that link? --Super Goku V (talk) 14:32, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I referenced WP:ARBECR as one of the reasons because it also applied in that case. It doesn't mean that there is an "Extended confirmed restriction on the article" (as you seem to think). M.Bitton (talk) 14:46, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Partial Explanation by Original Poster[edit]

    I probably should have also listed User:M.Bitton and User:Pathawi at the beginning of this thread. I will clarify my reference to a misguided mission. What is misguided is a mission to bring an article to Good Article status by rewriting it against local consensus. Improving the sourcing of an article is never misguided, but a major effort to rewrite an article when there isn't yet local consensus to improve it is not likely to work.

    My real reason for bringing this report to WP:ANI was the edit-warring, which is a conduct issue, and I now see that I should have listed the edit-warriors as subjects of the report.

    What is the preferred option for dealing with a poorly formed RFC?

    Now that the edit-warring has stopped, I am willing to have this report closed, and to let other people worry somewhere else about what to do with the RFC. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:53, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Yeah, let me walk back my comments above a little, Rob: I actually don't think that the report here was necessarily a bad thing in the final analysis, insofar as it brings attention to a dispute that might well have been getting out of hand at the point you decided to report. Having looked at the revision history for the TP, I can see where the impetus for action may have come from here. I just think the framing might have been more neutral. For my money, and without intending to get into the weeds of the content issue, I think M. Bitton's take on the issue leans heavily into OR territory, attempting to supplement the content issues with their personal knowledge and their idiosyncratic take on the value of dictionaries as sources, which has no support in WP:RS/WP:V policy that I am aware of. The vast majority of the modern English lexicon is constituted by loan words, and the suggestion that dictionaries are verboten for this purpose for such words is clearly at odds with policy and common practice across the project.
    That said, there may be some more nuanced arguments to be made with regard to their applicability here, but M. Bitton is not presently making any that I think are likely to gain support in the terms they are proposing. Indeed, consensus seems to be solidly against them on this issue at present, and their terse, borderline battleground attitude on the matter is not helping their case. Under the circumstances, I think it was reasonable for LEvalyn to have opened the RfC. It just could have been structured a bit better.     SnowRise let's rap 00:24, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Snow Rise: what' so unusual about discussing a dubious claim that is allegedly made by a source? Of course there are more arguments to be made (per WP:CONTEXTMATTERS), but for them to be presented one has to read something other than "you're not a reliable source" (you'll notice that I stopped replying once I realized that it was a lost cause). As for the RfC, there really was no need for it as nobody has edit warred over the claim (the usual BRD process was followed) and, as was said previously, the presented source about the etymology is unrelated to those about the definition (I did mention in the discussion that the section could be renamed "definition and etymology"). M.Bitton (talk) 01:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Regarding your first sentence, the problem is that the OED is a reliable source, not a dubious one, and you've supplied no basis for doubting it on this point besides your personal disagreement with it and an artificial distinction you've made regarding when it is and isn't reliable. Your response here reinforces everything SnowRise said, which largely echoes what I had said to you at the talk page, before the RFC, about OR and about the dictionary's areas of competence. Largoplazo (talk) 07:16, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I said the claim (not the source) is dubious and I explained why I think it is. Your response here reinforces everything I said in my previous comment. M.Bitton (talk) 11:37, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    The claim is dubious—to you. Because you say so. You aren't even saying it's false, you're saying it's dubious, which amounts to, "Well, I never heard that, so nobody is allowed to rely on it." And you have gone deep into WP:IDHT mode when I point out repeatedly that the dubiousness of this claim to you is irrelevant as to whether other editors can include it in an article in reliance on that source.
    That the OED is a reliable source is what's relevant. Your WP:OR, your personal opinion, your lack of sufficient personal knowledge to validate the claim, etc. are irrelevant to whether you have any justification for holding up other editors' contributions to an article that are supported by a reliable source. You don't. Largoplazo (talk) 21:51, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Comment from LEvalyn[edit]

    First, I apologise for the flaws in my RfC. As I said, I have never made one before, and I guess I didn't do a good job of framing the question at hand. Should I withdraw the RfC? Can they be amended? I would be particularly grateful if someone else felt they could start an RfC (or an RSN discussion?) about this topic, or suggest a more appropriate wording for me to use. For the record, I wouldn't say I am a "newer editor," just new to RfC/ANI/DR/RSN/etc, since in the seven years I have been editing I have never experienced stonewalling like this.

    To respond to the comments about my behaviour, I am honestly a little perplexed to be accused of POV-pushing. Is the POV supposed to be edits trying to remove "Maghreb" from the article? I don't think that's a fair characterization of edits like this and this, especially since I explicitly suggested that M.Bitton should add the word Maghreb back in if it's important to them. Indeed, in my later edits, I have included the word. I also think it's unfair to say that my edits are reverted by other editors including User:M.Bitton; no "other editors" have reverted me, only M.Bitton. The negative comments on the talk page are also 99% M.Bitton, and just this one from Skitash. I have been really mystified by the uniquely uncollaborative and unconstructive atmosphere at this article, which is why I have sought outside perspectives at ANI, DR, and now RfC. If the broader consensus is that this article should remain unchanged, I would be disappointed, since I don't think it's in very good shape and I have now spent more time trying to achieve consensus here than it took me to write my most recent GA, but I can respect it. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 05:00, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    There is what you think about me and then there are the facts: a) you started casting aspersions (see my comment on the TP beginning with "I ignored the aspersion casting once, this is the second.."), b) you misrepresented the sources that I looked for and shared with others (the explanation and diffs proving this are on the TP) and c) you initiated an ANI report in which you accused me of all kind of nonsense. Anyway, I'm only bringing up this because you mentioned me in order to divert the attention from yourself, I have no interest in joining you on a trip down memory lane. M.Bitton (talk) 11:37, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Country area edit wars[edit]

    I will face the music (talk · contribs) has spent the past few months since making their first edit making various changes to infoboxes regarding the area of country/other polity articles. Many have been reverted ([168][169],[170][171],PR:[172][173]). Their responses to this have been aggressive ([174][175]), and they were blocked for personal attacks following this edit. Upon the block expiring, they immediately went back to edit warring in one of the already mentioned article (see PR edits above). Blocking admin Bbb23 suggested this should come to AN/I if disruption continues, and it has. The edit warring and WP:CIVIL issues here compound each other. CMD (talk) 15:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Oh this reminds me of someone who was doing this about a year ago before being indeffed. Let me see if I can figure out what account it was. Canterbury Tail talk 17:03, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    This has got to be another sock of RussianFanboy2010 (talk · contribs) Canterbury Tail talk 17:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
     Courtesy link: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RussianFanboy2010/Archive jlwoodwa (talk) 17:12, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    And since the account in question decided to delete this section in order to try and hide their edits, I've taken it as confirmation and blocked them as a suspected sockpuppet of RussianFanboy2010. So I guess their username was completely on point. Canterbury Tail talk 22:05, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Edits at "Isla Bryson case"[edit]

    I'm not sure if this is the right place to write this, but an IP user has been making some edits at the article "Isla Bryson case" that are less than productive. That person is disrupting the article, seemingly to illustrate a point and spread their opinion on trans people. Under the manual of style on gender identity, we should refer to people by their gender identity, not sex assigned at birth, but the IP user is removing and changing wording to portray a trans woman as being male.

    As you can see in the MOS, this matter has been litigated ad nauseam, and consensus is that we should not misgender people, which also has been extensively discussed at the article's talk page. When I discovered two edits the IP user had made a few days prior, I reverted them and said in the edit summaries that I was doing so per the talk page. Then I went to bed. A few hours later, while I was sleeping, the IP user reverted without explanation, reinstating the edits portraying Isla Bryson as the wrong gender. When I came back and saw those edits, I reverted again, linking to the MOS in the edit summaries, and as I was writing this they have once again reverted without explanation. Please send help. 188.176.174.30 (talk) 16:09, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Full disclosure: I have again reverted the IP user's edits to the article. This places me at, but not above, the three-revert rule. 188.176.174.30 (talk) 16:15, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I've partially blocked the IP from editing that article. 6 months. I know it seems long but they're never going to edit it productively and the odds of another person getting that IP and trying to edit that article is massively low. Canterbury Tail talk 17:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you. That is probably the best course of action. By the way, was this the right venue for my complaint? If they show up again on a new IP, should I just take it here again? 188.176.174.30 (talk) 17:11, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    I've added the article to my watchlist. Looking at the history it's possible the article should be semi-protected, however the disruption isn't consistent and is very spread out. Canterbury Tail talk 18:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Okay. I've been goaltending the article for a while now, and there has definitely been some disruption. It hasn't been too much of a time sink for me, but your help would be appreciated. This article is right in the grey area of whether bad edits are frequent enough that semi-protecting is necessary. After today I'm leaning a little more towards it being necessary, but there still isn't an obvious answer. Again, thank you for your help. 188.176.174.30 (talk) 18:57, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    Well I'll keep an eye on it as well and if I think it needs protecting I'll do so. Right now I don't think so, but you don't know what the future brings. Canterbury Tail talk 19:28, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    The article really should be semi-protected under WP:CT/GG. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 00:41, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Good day all. I am the IP user in question. I see that I have been blocked without being given any opportunity to defend myself or give my side of the story. I would like to that now if I may. With respect, 188.176.174.30 has completely misrepresented the situation.

    The page in question concerns a transwoman who raped women while identifying as a man. Notwithstanding that history, I completely agree that she should be referenced by her chosen gender - ie as a woman with female pronouns, etc. No argument at all between myself and 188.176.174.30 about that. And I completely agree if that if I had sought to portray this individual 'as the wrong gender' then that would be wrong. However, I have done no such thing.

    Following extensive discussion on the talk page in August 2023, consensus was reached that this individual's former (male) name and her male sex should be referenced in the article, given what she did while presenting as a man. Accordingly, in line with that consensus the page (before I started editing) it already referenced this individual's sex: ie, her male sex. I did not do that. It was already in the page as a result of the August 2023 consensus.

    At this point, I pause to note that 188.176.174.30's assertion that "consensus is that we should not misgender people" is completely misleading and ignores what was agreed in August 2023: which was that in this particular case, this individual's sex should be referenced in the article.

    Returning to me, all I did was to make clarifying improvements to the page to make clear the distinction in this case between sex and gender. For example, I changed the phrase 'sex at birth' to simply 'sex' (reflecting the biological reality that sex itself does not change (although gender of course can). I made clear in the edit summary exactly what I was doing and why.

    Accordingly, I did not in any way portray this individual in the wrong gender, as 188.176.174.30 alleges. Her gender is female. The page reflects that. The page should reflect that. It also purports to clarify that her sex is male, and I simply wanted it to do so more clearly. The fundamental mistake 188.176.174.30 is making here is to fail to understand the distinction between sex and gender.

    I therefore suggest that my ban is completely unjustified, and I would request that it be lifted.151.124.107.115 (talk) 21:49, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Sorry about the wall of text. I have tried to be as concise as possible, but it is not my strong suit. This took forever to formulate, and I don't know what to cut out without cutting out what I am trying to say.
    While I stand by much what I have said above, it appears that we have talked past each other. If I understand your position correctly, then we still have a disagreement, but your position is more nuanced and in my opinion much less objectionable than I had initially understood it to be. I am glad that we are in agreement about recognizing Bryson's current gender identity, name, and pronouns. There is a difference between sex and gender, and when you changed "assigned male at birth" to "born male", I was wrong in saying that this was "misgendering", though I still believe those changes were wrong, for reasons I am getting to later.
    I have no objection to the article including Bryson's former name(s), and the fact that she committed her crimes before transitioning. As you say, that has been discussed on the talk page, and I recognize and agree with the August 2023 local consensus that we, in this specific case, should deviate from the general rule against using pre-transition names. Deadnames should only be included when a person was well-known under their previous name (for example, Elliot Page or Caitlyn Jenner), but the site-wide consensus doesn't account for the fact that criminals or criminal suspects, and facets of their lives before the day of the crime, are dragged through the media circus and so might become notable. Bryson's pre-transition name has been widely publicized, and it is reasonable to include it despite the fact that she (at least AFAIK) stopped using that name before becoming notable.
    However, your edits are in my view still less than ideal, because the wording is ambiguous or more prone to confuse readers than the previous wording. Your wording might, unintentionally, play into the hands of bigots who want to push trans people back into the closet, though I should be clear that I do not believe you are such a person and I don't mean this as some insincere personal attack. Although I believe your edits are suboptimal, I am not saying that you are acting in bad faith or deliberately causing harm. We have a disagreement, but you have remained civil, if a little unwilling to discuss things earlier when you reverted without explanation.
    While sex and gender are different things, there is significant interplay between the two, to the point that some people are unable or unwilling to differentiate the two. Some of these people are bigots, but many (probably most) are not. Though sex-gender distinction deniers are generally considered to be wrong, and their arguments are overwhelmingly seen as unconvincing in academia, people with these views form a large part of the population, and of Wikipedia's readership. This does not mean we should go along with what they say, but it means that when they see a term like "sex", there is a chance that they will assume we are using it interchangeably with "gender" like they do, and so will be needlessly confused.
    This problem is solved, or at least mitigated, when we use a stock phrase like "sex at birth" or "assigned [male/female] at birth" to clarify that we are talking about their sex and not their gender. A person who is ignorant of the differences between them, or worse yet, one why is openly bigoted and is denying the difference to justify their beliefs, might read the article and see wording like "sex" without "at birth", and take it as confirmation of sex and gender being the same. They might see people calling sex "immutable", and think that gender is too, because to them it's the same thing. In other words, while the wording might be redundant or unclear to some people, not being redundant risks misleading a portion of our readers and, in the worst-case scenario, setting them on a course towards bigotry. My issue here is not the wording per se, but how some people might misread the wording.
    When choosing which terminology to use, our intentions matter (and I believe your intentions are good), but so do the real-world outcomes, regardless of whether we intended them. Human sexuality, including sex and gender, is a complicated subject where even well-intentioned people are more prone than usual to assume that they are always right, and that the way they see things is the way everyone else sees it. I believe this is both a cause of me having misunderstood you, and the root of our disagreement (even assuming I now understand your position).
    When I was talking about the talk page, I was not clear enough in saying what I meant. Earlier, before I understood what you were trying to do, I thought the heart of our disagreement was over retroactivity, i.e. whether Bryson should be treated as if she were of the male gender (not sex) before her transition, rather than retroactively applying her current gender identity throughout. This November and December 2023 discussion on the talk page touched on similar issues, which is a large part of the reason I spoke of avoiding "misgendering [as] extensively discussed at the article's talk page". This was a mistake on my part, stemming from my misunderstanding of your intentions.
    Setting aside this argument about the article "Isla Bryson case", I still believe that, although I am not without sin, you have acted in an unproductive manner in the handling of the argument. When I first reverted your edits, citing the talk page (again, my mistake, I'm sorry), you made no effort to move to the talk page and resolve this disagreement, and you didn't even leave an edit summary when you reverted. When I reverted again, citing the talk page and MOS:GIDINFO, you once again reverted without explanation. While I certainly played a large part in the misunderstanding, you did little to clear it up, and continued to reinstate your edits, even when I voiced my reasons why I believed they were bad. This was a failure of communication on both our parts, but I believe you were less cooperative and more disruptive than what the situation called for. While your block from editing the article for the next 6 months might be disproportionate, I still think some kind of sanctions for you, and possibly for me as well, would be in order.
    At this point, I should say that I don't feel nearly as strongly about the disagreement we actually have, as I felt about the disagreement I thought we had when I misunderstood your position. I would like if people agree with me, but I realize my argument might be pedantic. This is a minor disagreement (despite all the ink I have just spilt on it), and I would not object if you suggested we agreed to disagree. Everyone is free to keep arguing, but at least for a little while I won't be responding. I am invoking my right to remain silent, as my head is starting to hurt a little. 188.176.174.30 (talk) 01:50, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    151 you were only blocked from the article. If you have a legitimate content issue to discuss, you remain free to use the article talk page Talk:Isla Bryson case to discuss it provided you don't use any open proxy IPs to do so. Note however trying to push through these changes [176] does not seem to be a legitimate content issue so is unlikely to be something worth discussing on the article talk page. Nil Einne (talk) 04:32, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    From POV-pushing to outright vandalism by Coddlebean[edit]

    Coddlebean (talk · contribs) has engaged in POV-pushing (a few examples: Taiwan, Nazi Germany, Hitler, Tiananmen Square) that has been quickly reverted, but it's now escalating into blatant and juvenile vandalism here. Looking very much like WP:NOTHERE. - Amigao (talk) 17:17, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    It's quite perplexing, given how little they've attempted to explain their edits upon being questioned so far. I almost worry that this is the result of a compromised account, given that their edits were least plausibly good faith until now. Remsense诉 17:22, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    This discussion may be helpful here. QwertyForest (talk) 06:43, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Is it helpful? I couldn't tell whether or not it's a compromised account from that. "sowwy" doesn't leap out at me as an account that shouldn't be blocked for whatever reason. DeCausa (talk) 07:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    It at least made clearer to me that the two scenarios are likely  Technically indistinguishable. Remsense诉 13:46, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    @Jpatokal vs Michael Ezra[edit]

    Looks like we're done here.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:55, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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    @Jpatokal has been edit warrioring for the last 11 years, pushing blogs and tabloids as sources, which breaks the rules of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons. See diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Ezra&diff=next&oldid=563931413

    Attempts to reason with him[/her/them] on the article's talk page have proven futile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Michael_Ezra

    A complaint raised on the BLP noticeboard was shutdown (in 20 minutes) by @Zaereth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard

    I have been tossed to this notice board but am frankly disappointed by this community's protectionism/shielding of a rogue admin/contributor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.230.201.134 (talk) 18:19, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]

    Regardless the complaint, I see IP sockpuppetry], which must be addressed by admin. - Altenmann >talk 18:30, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
    You are required to notify editors you create an ANI discussion about. I have do so for you this time, but please keep this is mind for the future. GrayStorm(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.) 18:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[]
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    More IP Shenanigans/Possible Legal Threat From Jacobchoi20/AirbusA350500 at 220.255.188.227[edit]

    It's hard to read because, frankly, it's quite incoherent, but it appears that User talk:220.255.188.227 is making a legal threat or a regular threat of some type "I see you were all talking about a project, but I do not know what you are referring to. No wonder, User:Picard's Facepalm threatened me on their talk page, which made me extremely upset. I wonder if they would not like Wikipedia to have a list of administrators caught abusing, with their photo on the list." [177]

    This is an acknowledged IP of Jacobchoi20/AirbusA350500 that consists of the editor and their sockpuppets or the editor and their co-workers which were also tasked to edit-warring on airplane pages. That part is hard to guess as their story changes every time they interact with an administrator. In any case, their accounts have already had talk page access revoked. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 06:04, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    I will gladly second this report. There were other accounts and numerous AnonIPs that this user has been using to circumvent blocks with, and now he/she is at it again. All I have done is provide information and advice - albeit at an increasingly more direct level with each passing interaction - on how to improve their edits so they don't keep getting reverted, getting their acocunt(s) unblocked, links to the policies and guidelines surrounding the reversions, and reminding them of COI issues. Numerous other users including CoffeeCrumbs have gone through exhaustive lengths across so many of their IPs and accounts spanning many months to try and point the user in the right direction - but they flatly refuse to even try to make an effort and instead just repeatedly lash out with threatening language, catastrophizing the consequences of not having their edits published due to reversion, and otherwise absolutely incoherent and inane ramblings that really lead me to believe they are taking WP as a far more serious point in their life than it should be. --Picard's Facepalm • Made It So Engage! • 14:28, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I'm not even sure why the editor got angry at you again for something from more than a month ago. I suspect we're going to get long-term sniping from this source from a variety of similar IP addresses. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 15:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Agreed. The pattern is quite clear at this point. --Picard's Facepalm • Made It So Engage! • 21:16, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Disruptive IP editing[edit]

    For the last couple of months, an editor based in Fort Collins, Colorado has been editing as an IP. The IP addresses keep changing, but it is clearly the same person. This editor claims to be a 16-year-old whose parents will not allow him/her to set up an account, see here: [178]. This editor does not actually contribute anything, and their edits consist entirely of placing tags on articles or seeking to get other editors to improve articles. This is very much a negative editing style, which consist entirely of complaining about and disparaging the work of others. Here are some examples: [179], [180], [181], [182], and [183], and [184]. Putting a notability tag on an article classed as good, see here [185], is a case of disruptive editing, and this is just one example out of many. This editor was already blocked once in March for disruptive editing, see here: [186]. Other editors have tried to reason with this editor to no avail, see here: [187], [188], [189], [190], [191], [192] and [193].

    Most recently, this same editor twice placed a highly insulting message on my talk page, disparaging all of my hard work in a very smug, judgmental tone, which is quite rich from an editor who has never done any of the hard work needed to create and improve an article, see here: [194] and [195]. This editor does have a point that some of the articles that he is complaining about do need more sources, but there is no need to be so obnoxious and rude about it. I have been trying in my modest way to address that issue (and this issue will be addressed as I dig deeper), but this IP has been going around deleting all of my work, apparently just because he wants to keep the notability tags he has placed on the articles. See here: [196], [197], [198], and [199]. First, this editor comes to me complaining that there he wants more sources to the articles, but then the same editor deletes properly sourced material when added, just so he can put back on the notability tags! This is clearly a textbook case of WP:NOTHERE. There are couple of IP accounts based in Fort Collins, which are clearly the same person: 2605:B40:13E7:F600:B183:EBCE:3B35:B6B7 (talk · contribs), 2605:B40:13E7:F600:A532:2DFB:1C7B:74E7 (talk · contribs), 2605:B40:13E7:F600:81AF:FB54:24F5:260E (talk · contribs), 50.113.53.158 (talk · contribs), 2605:B40:13E7:F600:5C3E:C3DA:FDE9:A738 (talk · contribs) and 2605:B40:13E7:F600:40FE:7B6D:17E8:D289 (talk · contribs). The last account was blocked in March of this year for disruptive editing, and as far I can tell, the block was not lifted. In that case, is this editor not also a sock puppet as well? --A.S. Brown (talk) 06:15, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Looks like the IP range 2605:B40:13E7:F600:0:0:0:0/64 needs another block here. — AP 499D25 (talk) 10:06, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Reverting your work was my fault; I hit undo by accident instead of manually. Also, I'm trying to edit less, but that's harder than you might think (it's like I keep getting sucked back). 2605:B40:13E7:F600:B183:EBCE:3B35:B6B7 (talk) 13:24, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Okay, I'm going to try to take a break. How successful this will be remains to be seen. 2605:B40:13E7:F600:B183:EBCE:3B35:B6B7 (talk) 13:43, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I've been dealing with this editor for months; they edit in an area where I'm active. A.S. Brown's analysis is absolutely correct: all this editor wants to do is try to get pages deleted or over-tagged. They never contribute anything to articles, and have refused to do so. In addition to the aforementioned problems, the editor has tried multiple times to bring articles to AfD that have recently closed as Keep, because "I want to give it another shot": [200]. They also try to redirect articles that have closed as Merge: on the article Demona, they've done this seven times despite the protests of several editors: [201].
    Their response above is typical for this user: when they're challenged, they deflect with lines like: "Okay, I'm going to try to take a break." Then they come back and put the same tags on the same articles. Toughpigs (talk) 15:22, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Seriously though, I talked about this with my mom again, and I really am taking a break. 2605:B40:13E7:F600:B183:EBCE:3B35:B6B7 (talk) 15:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    (I understand if you don't believe me, but I really am) 2605:B40:13E7:F600:B183:EBCE:3B35:B6B7 (talk) 15:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Whether you're taking a break is not the issue. Do you have anything to say about your disruptive behavior? Toughpigs (talk) 15:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Indeed I do. I am actually on the spectrum, and I can get fixated on things (like people reverting my edits). I am sincerely sorry; it's just the way I am. 2605:B40:13E7:F600:B183:EBCE:3B35:B6B7 (talk) 15:59, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    While we're sensitive to the different things that people wrestle with, it's also not an excuse for this kind of behavior. Whether or not it's "just the way you are," that doesn't eliminate the need to respect others, many of whom will disagree with you, and to collaborate productively. These types of actions must not be repeated; when it comes down to a situation in which we have to choose, we will protect the right of others to be treated respectfully over your ability to participate in this project. Please keep this in mind during your break and I wish you the best. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 19:50, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    With all due respect, this editor is clearly unable and unwilling to change their behavior. When confronted about their bad behavior, this IP always makes the same excuse that they planning to leave and will take a break, so that there is no need to take any action because they are leaving Wikipedia anyhow. This editor has made variations of this statement numerous times over the last couple of months, and this IP always comes back to engage in the precise same behavior. Given their prior history, this IP will no doubt return and will start the same disruptive editing again. I would like to assume good faith, but given their prior behavior, I am having a lot of trouble doing so. Finally, this editor has made no promises to change their behavior. Indeed, this editor seeks to justify their bad conduct because "I can get fixated on things" and "it's just the way I am". This editor keeps engaging in the same behavior. I really don't think this editor understands Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about winning. This IP has not done one single, constructive edit and instead keeps wasting the time of other editors. If this editor can't get an article deleted, they just nominate it again for deletion. If another editor addresses a problem on an article, this editor simply deletes properly sourced material so he can put back on a notability tag. It goes on and on, and nothing ever changes. If this editor was willing to admit that they were wrong and gave a firm promise to reform, I would say give this IP another chance. But instead all we getting are the same standard excuse that their behavior was justified because "it's just the way I am" and that he is leaving Wikipedia anyhow, so no action is needed. Given that this editor was already blocked back in March and as far I can see the block was never lifted, surely this editor should be blocked for socking alone? --A.S. Brown (talk) 21:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Persistent addition of unsourced content by 67.83.125.225[edit]

    67.83.125.225 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Keeps adding unsourced content to articles, continued after final warning and hasn't responded to warnings. Examples of unsourced edits: 1, 2, 3, 4. Waxworker (talk) 09:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    have blocked for 31 hours. – robertsky (talk) 11:00, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    New to wikpedia but trying to remove false information but page editors rolling back changes without giving evidence or reason[edit]

    OP blocked at WP:AN3.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:18, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

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    I'm trying to edit this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanni_(singer) and removing a false misleading piece about this person being a dual national/citzenship when the previous authors didn't provide correct reference/evidence stating that she is. She has not lived in Vietnam, and she was born in Australia. Like other vietnamese australians as myself, we do not have dual nationalities are stated by these authors who do not know.

    But they undo and just report me for not knowing the rules? When I know that the truth is that she is not dual national and they authors do not have sufficient evidence proving she is. I have also contacted the opinion entertainment article author that was used and asked them to correct that article. But at least i know wikipedia is a place where the truth can be corrected.

    What can the administrators do? Since I'm new to this platform and I just want to make sure that the information is accurate. I have started a talk topic for that page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hanni_(singer)

    But I don't think they care. Lightningwhitefox (talk) 12:37, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Content disputes should be discussed on the article's TALK. You can leave a neutrally worded notice at WP:BLPN encouraging editors to leave feedback at the discussion. Nemov (talk) 12:51, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
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    SPI/Vamlos TPA[edit]

    You heard the man. Remsense诉 18:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

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    User:HabichuelasBeans‎ has been INDEF'd as a sock, but it seems they probably need their talk page access revoked. Remsense诉 13:51, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    I think it's okay for now. DanCherek (talk) 18:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
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    User:Kaane99[edit]

    User has been making nonsensical undiscussed article moves that violate naming conventions. Talk page messages have gone unanswered. See Special:Contributions/Kaane99. 162 etc. (talk) 15:47, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    I've indefinitely blocked Kaane99; the pattern of repeated disruptive page moves that require cleanup, with zero engagement on their user talk page, is unsustainable. DanCherek (talk) 17:56, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    User:Clement Hills[edit]

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    User blocked indefinitely by Spicy as sockpuppet of User:Hamish Ross. Further incidents of this editor should be brought to the sockpuppet case. (non-admin closure) GabberFlasted (talk) 17:54, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    User:Clement Hills continuously makes reverts of good-faith edits or warning users/IPs without an actual revert.

    Examples:

    I have requested block at AIV but then admin noted that I should come here. Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 17:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Something else, they also reverted a constructive edit adding a citation to a draft, which can be found here. Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 17:21, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Seems like every single template they leave is uw-vandalism4im no matter what. This is far from acceptable. @Clement Hills do you care to explain yourself? GabberFlasted (talk) 17:25, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I've been trying to reply to all of the template messages with a "ignore above" as to avoid discouraging newcomers, but every 3-7 seconds he sends another message. Maybe a bot? Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 17:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    @GabberFlasted They've never responded to anything I've asked on their talk page. Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 17:29, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    @Sir MemeGod That is a nice thing to do . Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 17:30, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I should have gotten everyone (which was at least 20 IP users). This is very serious, but luckily he stopped as of last time I checked. Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 17:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    This is familiar behavior; I've opened Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hamish Ross. Schazjmd (talk) 17:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you @Schazjmd for the SPI. Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 17:41, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    And thank you, @Sir MemeGod, for countering those warnings on the editors' talk pages. Schazjmd (talk) 17:39, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Ditto. I removed a few outright but I got needlessly caught up in vetting each warn-ee to make sure it wasn't warranted. Appreciate your counter-bite efforts, SMG. GabberFlasted (talk) 17:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    No problem, I've got nothing better to do with my time. Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 17:49, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I would call this whole thing an LTA. Seen this many, many times before. Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 17:39, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    Adityagoyal6363[edit]

    Adityagoyal6363 (talk · contribs) predominately edits in Indian reality television articles. On Bigg Boss OTT (Hindi Digital series) season 3 I've been having an small issue with their edits as some of their are contrary to MOS:CAPS with this being the most recent edit on their part changing the section headings back to mixed-case. I'm not thrilled about that, but the larger issue I have is the lack of communication or response from them about the issues after leaving https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Adityagoyal6363&diff=prev&oldid=1231958415 warning] messages on their tak page. They have responded to earlier messages on their talk page, so I know they are aware of the messages, but ignoring the WP:MOS from an editor with 2000+ edits of a year is not a minor thing. Given the lack of response around this, perhaps a page block from this page until they acknowledge they will follow the MOS is needed here. Thank you. Ravensfire (talk) 17:50, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Yakub (Nation of Islam)[edit]

    A message for @Daniel Case: with apologies – your talk page is protected.

    You kindly protected Yakub (Nation of Islam) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) at my request at RfPP, but seconds before you did, an IP editor slipped in with this terrible edit. Please can that also be reverted? 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:36, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

     Done Daniel Case (talk) 18:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you, Daniel – much appreciated! 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:39, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Mushy Yank[edit]

    So, this guy named Mushy Yank is trying to spoil the plot of Despicable Me 4 a month before it releases. His justification is that the film released in his country but the film is an AMERICAN movie. Despite warnings from both me and another user, he has persisted in trying to spoil the movie. Please ban him. HiGuys69420 (talk) 19:00, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Here is a link to his user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mushy_Yank[]

    No. See WP:SPOILER. --Yamla (talk) 19:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Well, I just wanted to report HiGuys69420 for this edit summary: "Shut the f*ck up. Do you think it is fun to spoil the plot FOR MILLIONS OF UNSUSPECTING VIEWERS. Wait until 1-2 weeks before the release you jerk." But I confess that user was faster than me :D. I believe there are quite a few guidelines and core policies that this user deliberately ignored and would like them to stop harassing me on my TP and edit warring with no reason on the page they themselves mentioned. Thank you. -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 19:33, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    (Prior to this message) I have warned HiGuys69420 to knock off the (blatant, inappropriate) personal attacks. --Yamla (talk) 19:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    OK. If you think it's enough for asking me to "shut the fuck up" and calling me a "jerk", sure, thanks. -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 19:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    And I hadn't seen that edit (again a call for a ban of the "jerk" that I am), which you kindly reverted. I must admit that I am surprised at this tolerance towards incivility and personal attacks, especially when they are repeated. But maybe that's the standard now. -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 20:04, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    not that i'm experienced enough in this ani thing to whip out the wp:boomerang card, but this doesn't seem to be the first time higuys has gone on a streak of uncivil reverts and edit summaries over one or two reverted edits, or called someone a jerk over it, for that matter. while i do think the initial attempt to stop spoilers was in good faith (if a little misguided), i can't say the same for the subsequent actions. i won't make any decisive votes myself here, besides supporting yamla's warning cogsan (nag me) (stalk me) 20:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Yeah, seems higuys have blanked the talk page as well. Not like it's not allowed, but there's an discussion happening here and hiding out warning prevents people from examining the user's past conducts. Anyways, higuys seems to have shot themselves in the foot with the ANI, but I feel like giving them time to change would be a better response, personally. I wouldn't object to a block if they keep making personal attacks, though. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 23:21, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Why is anyone who doesn't want to know what happens reading the section titled "Plot" in an encyclopedia article about the film? Phil Bridger (talk) 19:32, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    you could make an argument about the grammar or the questionable conciseness, but spoilers are not an issue here. additionally, you failed to notify mushy per the big red warnings provided at the top of the page and when starting a new topic, so i've done that this time cogsan (nag me) (stalk me) 19:32, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I am sorry for the use of harsh language but just to clarify I did not say the actual f word i censored it HiGuys69420 (talk) 21:07, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Are you trying to say that shut the f*ck up is less hostile than shut the fuck up? Really? I’m gobsmacked. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    it's still kinda hostile so im sorry. Btw mushy i did not revert your edit again BUT i did add a sign stating that it needs to be improved heavily HiGuys69420 (talk) 21:56, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Musical hoaxing from Florida IPs[edit]

    Someone in Florida has been adding hoax albums to various musical biographies.[202][203] This disruption has been going on since last year.[204] Can we put a stop to this nonsense? Binksternet (talk) 19:54, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Blocked for 6 months. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Much obliged. Binksternet (talk) 22:49, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    Single purpose user nominated Joshua N. Haldeman[edit]

    A single purpose user nominated Joshua N. Haldeman. Not one person supports delete (one admin did start arguing there with keep-sayers) and everyone is looking for sources. Not a beginning of a case for delete and a huge waste of time. The single purpose user must have a ball. It could be a sock but I would not know of whom. Can we please speedy or snow close this AfD before more community time gets wasted? gidonb (talk) 21:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]

    I closed the discussion as a snow keep. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 22:10, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    Thank you for snow keeping, User:LilianaUwU! If someone happens to have a clue of who this could be a sock, I would submit. Just do not want to make wild guesses. gidonb (talk) 22:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
    I don't know if it's a sock, but considering most people won't immediately know how the AFD process works, it sure seems like a sock. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 22:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[]
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