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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.
In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was
Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.
The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.
The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.
Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!
Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
For my own benefit . . .
Hey, Guerillero. I just saw your brief comment at the SPI/Alakzi discussion. That discussion has run its course, and the case is now closed, so I really don't want to pursue any further discussion specific to it. That said, I have participated in 8 or 9 SPI discussions in my time on Wikipedia, and have successfully initiated 5 or 6 cases (to the best my recollection), with one that languished and died for lack of any CU/admin attention. With that experience, I believed I had a pretty decent grasp of SPI standards, but now I'm not so sure. I have always operated under the assumption that in order to be subject to the use of checkuser, and blocks and other SPI remedies, that the alleged "sock" had to not only have edited using two or more accounts, but that the sock's edits had to involve some form or actual misconduct, e.g., gaming an XfD, RfA, or RfC !vote, or attempting to otherwise demonstrate a false show of support of multiple editors for an action or process when in fact only one person supported it. Is the element of specific misconduct not required to initiate a checkuser investigation? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:49, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
- I see this Dirtlawyer1, but I am currently on vacation. Maybe I will have time to answer your question at the end of the week --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 02:01, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, Guerillero, no problem. It really is just for my own wiki education, so it can wait. Enjoy your downtime! Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:06, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hey, Guerillero, could you make a little time to discuss my question above sometime this week? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:14, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, I have some time now. Here are some thoughts that might answer your question, Dirtlawyer1.
- In the eyes of WP:SOCK, misconduct is a fairly wide net. It includes most everything that isn't included in WP:SOCK#LEGIT and, for the most part, those are disclosed except for §Privacy. Privacy accounts, both disclosed to arbcom and not, are given a fair amount of latitude if they stay in the mainspace. When someone has more than one account that operates in project spaces many community members, including some CUs, see that as misconduct even if the two accounts don't "cross".
- If there is evidence that an account connected to a blocked user (WP:Block Evasion) no specific misconduct beyond that is needed for a check. The same is true for banned users.
- Checks can be run if a second account isn't known if there is evidence that this isn't their first rodeo.
- I hope this helps --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:22, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, that is helpful, but I was under the impression the WP:SOCK required something akin to intentional misconduct, say, block evasion, gaming an XfD or RfC, or otherwise manipulating a situation through the false impression that they are someone other than another identified registered account. For instance, I have a wiki-friend who has had a registered account for eight or more years, but routinely edits from IP addresses during the work day, and the IPs are all readily identifiable by (a) the addresses and (b) the subjects of the articles he edits. He has never participated in any type of discussion as an IP, nor edit-warred as an IP. Is that a problematic scenario? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:36, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, I have some time now. Here are some thoughts that might answer your question, Dirtlawyer1.
- Hey, Guerillero, could you make a little time to discuss my question above sometime this week? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:14, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, Guerillero, no problem. It really is just for my own wiki education, so it can wait. Enjoy your downtime! Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:06, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
IMO no. I use an IP from time to time the problem in this case was the similarity of accounts and viewpoints it isn't uncommon to create a sock to accomplish an ends. If you look at the Shraddha Kapoor page it was attempted not once but twice to get that article to featured article sts. People thought that webdrone was the puppet and this would have been reinforced by the sock usage of the secondary account to evade the block.Hell in a Bucket (talk) 11:38, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
- I also think that this isn't an issue. It falls squarely in WP:SOCK#LEGIT. --In actu (Guerillero) | My Talk 17:33, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
No longer interesting or useful. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 23:57, 1 September 2015 (UTC) |
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Hello Guerillero,
You wrote this:
- I am reading evidence as it comes it and trying to make it more of a discussion of what is going on than a one way evidence dump that the arbs read and act on. While questions are directed to a particular editor anyone can answer them. Note, please do not use this as a place to argue, debate or rehash conflicts. If you disagree with someone's response, post your answer. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 02:50, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Could you please tell where we can answer to you ? Is this just "below" your question or is it somewhere else ? Pluto2012 (talk) 17:33, 9 September 2015 (UTC) @Pluto2012: below, please --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 17:40, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
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NRMs
First, I am grateful for the clarification of the NRM motion. Second, and I very much hope that this doesn't strike you the wrong way, but the list of what qualifies as an NRM, by at least some standards, is more than a little scary. User:John Carter/Alphabetical list of new religious movements is the beginnings of a list which I will probably, eventually, turn into something a bit more closely resembling Wikipedia:WikiProject Jainism/Prospectus. But, yeah, as indicated there, somewhere, in the Lewis encyclopedia, the whole freaking New Age movement itself is counted as an NRM. That could mean, at least theoretically, that most of the themes at Template:New Age Movement, particularly those which have developed since 1929, probably qualify as part of the New Age, and thus, possibly, as part of the broader NRM field. At least theoretically. Whether that is intended or even desirable is another thing entirely.
I say this not because I necessarily want what some might think is pretty much every original philosophical idea of the past 50 years or so to somehow qualify under the sanctions. I'm not sure I would dislike that, but that isn't the reasoning behind it. But the definition of terms here, and the wide variety of things which have been included under this particular term of NRM, make determining the boundaries a bit of a priority. John Carter (talk) 21:40, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
- @John Carter: I think you are casting a fairly wide net. Pseudoscience and Alternative Medicine are already under DS. Many of the topics that you have brought up so far fall under one of those two topic areas. As for the list of redlinked NRMs, those are the type of articles that attract POV pushers of all stripes. It would be useful to be able to control the topic area so that we don't have to piecemeal our way through it. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 23:48, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
- FWIW, I do not myself think that necessarily everything I mentioned should qualify for discretionary sanctions. But the Lewis encyclopedia I mentioned is probably at least one of the best for that topic area, even if it is somewhat older. And I have no objections of any kind to having DS help "control" a topic area. And, I suppose, someone arguing for belief in Atlantis could potentially be arguing for either pseudoscience or NRMs, but, if they're both covered under DS, who cares which is cited as cause for sanctions.
- Alternately, I suppose, if the NRM DS pass, maybe the alt med and pseudoscience and NRM sanctions could be "lumped together" into one sanction area. Considering the sometimes remarkable degree of overlap between them, maybe that would be best. And, fWIW, the user space page is still primarily not linked because I realized it would be problematic, considering the really short length of some of the entries. But, at the same time, for say Jainism, being able to find reference sources which can provide some idea of the current academic view is probably at least useful for a lot of the more contentious topics. Anyway, sorry for taking up so much of your time. John Carter (talk) 00:11, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
- It isn't a problem at all. (Unless there is a logical union between topics, we normally don't merge them) --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 01:20, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
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Input please
Hi User:Guerillero. Hope all is well! You've been involved in music related WikiProject's and I'd love some insight. I'm talking to someone on my talk page right now in an effort to keep the article for an indie band, Five Year Mission, non-promotional. This editor created the original, rather promotional version of the article, which I have since rewritten. They are interested in listing every track on all five of the bands albums. While the band itself is notable, I am not so sure that their albums are individually, and I'm not really sure how far it should go with listing the tracks. People can go to Amazon to see those. Any thoughts? If so, I'd love it if you can comment here. Thank you for your HELP! :) Missvain (talk) 17:58, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Missvain: I am going to look at this today. Wrock for Star Trek sounds exciting. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 18:06, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you :) Missvain (talk) 18:42, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
IP user
To be fair, it is possible the IP user was not an established editor, but was instead popping over from the Sea Lions of Wikipedia (SLOWP) blog. A lot of times the comment sections for top blog pieces serve as a hub of discussion for anti-GamerGate editors and observers. Currently, the comment section for the top blog piece is discussing Tarc's ban and comparing it to the Lightbreather and GG cases. My clarification request is also included in the comments. Some of the people commenting have names suggesting they are anonymous editors. Not that this is definitely someone from there, but it could be and that may mean the IP user is not an active Wikipedian.--The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 01:39, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
If I'm not allowed to stop those obvious sockpuppets then why don't you?
... and the moon landing was faked, the admins are reptilians, and arbitrators are all members of a secret society. Let's be realistic here. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 05:08, 22 September 2015 (UTC) |
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Could it be because you agree with them? Ah! The REAL wikipedia policy! 70.56.26.237 (talk) 04:50, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Just as a hint, Ryulong's data has been purged from the system. A CU won't do a thing. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 05:59, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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65.78.150.19 (talk) 20:22, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Sorry for that IP dude being rude.
Please believe me when I say Not everyone who follows Gamergate is like that guy. I was just browsing WP for anything interesting and happened to notice that little kerfuffle, so I guess I'll apologize on his/her behalf. Illegitimi non carborundum; have a pleasant day. 65.78.150.19 (talk) 20:22, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hey, just curious - why was he globally locked? Is it because of some of the stuff here? There was some talk on Reddit that he'd been around under a few different accounts like User:MoonMetropolis, which made sense after reading the post since their edit styles were pretty much identical. (I remember MM because I'd had to go through and clean up after them and I still haven't finished with all of their stub articles. *sigh*) Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 04:01, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Tokyogirl79: I can't tell you much due to the private data/information involved, but I suggest you read this week's signpost (below) --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 20:30, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
- (THUD) That was the sound of my jaw hitting the floor. Wow. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 03:06, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Drop the stick, use some common sense, and take your crusade somewhere else where it could be useful. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 20:22, 27 September 2015 (UTC) |
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Can you please explain your reason for blanking the Madotsuki talk page? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 12:56, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
I realise you're busy but when you have a moment I'd appreciate an answer. -Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 08:40, 26 September 2015 (UTC) |
ArbCom "Template" Issue
Is this better? In all fairness, the template was there due to the excessive template breaks that were occurring on the page earlier (see page history for more details). --JustBerry (talk) 00:49, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- Inserted by JustBerry: Please post statements at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case and do not transclude them. Transcluded statements will be removed. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 00:49, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your work here. I had noticed something fishy going on with the Burton Goldfield page, but I had no idea the issues were so expansive. Thank you for your good work! Safehaven86 (talk) 02:11, 29 September 2015 (UTC) |
- @Safehaven86: thank you. I am only part way through my checks. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 02:18, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Question.
I was hoping you could expound on why you said this Edit Warring report was "convoluted". Isn't this edit warring?
Diffs (Sep. 10 - Sep. 21): [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]
I suspect you reacted to EllenCT's admittedly convoluted reply, but the evidence above is clear cut. 11 diffs all from one editor reverting the same material over and over again during the previous week and a half. If that's not edit warring perhaps you could explain why so I don't make the mistake of reporting activity like this again. VictorD7 (talk) 19:14, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- @VictorD7: because this wasn't straight edit warring. There are also allegations of POV pushing and ignoring consensus. --In actu (Guerillero) | My Talk 15:49, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- @In actu:, while I can understand not wanting to rule on content here, could you please explain what "straight edit warring" is, and why the above example supposedly doesn't qualify? VictorD7 (talk) 19:16, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- @VictorD7: Look on ANEW for textbook violations of the 3RR. In this case, the reverting might be happening to enforce a consensus. If that is true then there is disruptive editing going on which is more pressing than the reverting. There also might not be a consensus at all and discussions might have been creatively interpreted. My look at this case wasn't a straightforward place where I could block, lock or topic ban. AE is the place to untangle the strands and to find out what is actually going on here. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 20:08, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for replying, @In actu:. Technical 3RR violation wasn't the charge, and ANEW's description seems to reinforce the policy explanation that editors can be sanctioned for edit warring even without violating 3RR. It says exceptions are allowed if one is reverting vandalism or banned users, but neither is the case here. It even goes out of its way to say that "at the same time, content disputes, even egregious point of view edits and other good-faith changes do not constitute vandalism." The list of exceptions for 3RR violations don't include content disputes either. My interpretation of policy and certainly Arbcom precedent (as explained by former members when different editors were harshly sanctioned for far less than what EllenCT is guilty of here) is that even defending consensus isn't a defense against serial edit warring. Are you saying it is? If so, does that mean that all a reported person has to do to nullify a report here and get it sent elsewhere is to assert in a reply that she's defending consensus? Or was there something specific about this case that made you think that maybe EllenCT was telling the truth? Everything she said was false, btw. She certainly didn't deny that she was unilaterally reverting all those times against several editors (which in my understanding is what the EW board should focus on). I'll add that both her and your reply came while I was away, and I returned to find that she had seized on your comment as an excuse to move the complaint to AE herself, except twisting it so that now I was somehow the defendant. However, her report was malformed and she was unable to provide any evidence supporting her claims even after prodded to do so. It's currently in the process of being shot down for that reason, though early indications are that the two admins to respond aren't even commenting on the edit warring evidence, somewhat buried as it is by the shroud of confusion she's raised, and say they're too confused by the badly warped report she filed to fully review the links. Fortunately several editors, some involved and others uninvolved, have taken the time to read the case and have all come to the conclusion that she has indeed been edit warring, that her accusation against me is false, and that it would be a travesty if she was allowed to game the system like this. VictorD7 (talk) 20:46, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- No I am not saying that. What I am saying is that I'm not going to allow you to "win" a content dispute in an area under DS via a noticeboard. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 20:24, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
- If we're "win(ning)" the content dispute it's because I and other editors have convinced other people we're right, and because our arguments are right on the merits. The only two ways to deal with someone determined to edit war no matter what is to report them or repeatedly revert them. I figured reporting was worth a shot. If there was nothing special about this case, then in the future should all edit warring reports from articles impacted by DS go to AE instead of this board? VictorD7 (talk) 02:29, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
- No I am not saying that. What I am saying is that I'm not going to allow you to "win" a content dispute in an area under DS via a noticeboard. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 20:24, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for replying, @In actu:. Technical 3RR violation wasn't the charge, and ANEW's description seems to reinforce the policy explanation that editors can be sanctioned for edit warring even without violating 3RR. It says exceptions are allowed if one is reverting vandalism or banned users, but neither is the case here. It even goes out of its way to say that "at the same time, content disputes, even egregious point of view edits and other good-faith changes do not constitute vandalism." The list of exceptions for 3RR violations don't include content disputes either. My interpretation of policy and certainly Arbcom precedent (as explained by former members when different editors were harshly sanctioned for far less than what EllenCT is guilty of here) is that even defending consensus isn't a defense against serial edit warring. Are you saying it is? If so, does that mean that all a reported person has to do to nullify a report here and get it sent elsewhere is to assert in a reply that she's defending consensus? Or was there something specific about this case that made you think that maybe EllenCT was telling the truth? Everything she said was false, btw. She certainly didn't deny that she was unilaterally reverting all those times against several editors (which in my understanding is what the EW board should focus on). I'll add that both her and your reply came while I was away, and I returned to find that she had seized on your comment as an excuse to move the complaint to AE herself, except twisting it so that now I was somehow the defendant. However, her report was malformed and she was unable to provide any evidence supporting her claims even after prodded to do so. It's currently in the process of being shot down for that reason, though early indications are that the two admins to respond aren't even commenting on the edit warring evidence, somewhat buried as it is by the shroud of confusion she's raised, and say they're too confused by the badly warped report she filed to fully review the links. Fortunately several editors, some involved and others uninvolved, have taken the time to read the case and have all come to the conclusion that she has indeed been edit warring, that her accusation against me is false, and that it would be a travesty if she was allowed to game the system like this. VictorD7 (talk) 20:46, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- @VictorD7: Look on ANEW for textbook violations of the 3RR. In this case, the reverting might be happening to enforce a consensus. If that is true then there is disruptive editing going on which is more pressing than the reverting. There also might not be a consensus at all and discussions might have been creatively interpreted. My look at this case wasn't a straightforward place where I could block, lock or topic ban. AE is the place to untangle the strands and to find out what is actually going on here. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 20:08, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- @In actu:, while I can understand not wanting to rule on content here, could you please explain what "straight edit warring" is, and why the above example supposedly doesn't qualify? VictorD7 (talk) 19:16, 24 September 2015 (UTC)