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Dispute about block warnings and AN/I block request

This is essentially a self-report:

There has been an ongoing discussion on several Wikipedia pages about the way fact that I quickly went to WP:ANI after issuing a final warning on Henia Perlman's talk page, following a pattern of adding content to The Holocaust or a few related articles that were reverted because they were not in a form ready to be posted to the article or it was not cited at all or not properly. The user has mentioned that she is challenged by some of the technical formatting in Wikipedia -- and this has been an ongoing theme, so I am posting this so that this can be sorted out.

As I understand it, the user is concerned that I issued the block report on this incident page very soon after she posted content… and just before she took me up upon my offer to format the citations. As I understand, her issue is that 1) it went very fast and 2) she would have preferred that it went to WP:Mediation, per one of her latest postings on this - item #1. She has said that she feels I should be investigated about:

1. Whether I did anything wrong in the manner in which I notified her about the block and then very quickly posted the ANI after the final edit?
2. Should I have taken this to another venue instead of issuing the request to block at ANI?

User talk:Henia Perlman#The block is a summary (with diffs) of the warnings and activity that resulted in me posting a request to block on June 19th, which is now archived at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive957#Request block of User:Henia Perlman. The ongoing editing issues are discussed throughout Talk:The Holocaust, but the specific edit in question is discussed here and here, regarding the final edits: this edit (08:43, June 19, 2017 ct‎), which I reverted (09:34, June 19, 2017 ct), and this edit (10:51, June 19, 2017‎ ct), which I reverted a few minutes after it was made here (10:53, June 19, 2017 ct).

As a side note, she has not been performing edits since the 31-hour block, and is instead posting proposals for edits on the article talk page.

Thank you!–CaroleHenson (talk) 00:47, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

• I have no idea even what's being requested here, but please, please can we not have this end again with a block of an intelligent, good-faith editor who's having trouble learning her way around? (Later: After looking around a bit more, it does seem like Henia Perlman is preoccupied with vindication in the matter of her prior block, or something, and that never ends well. Our focus here should be on getting her to realize that that it's nothing anyone will care about a month from now, and she should just forget about it.) EEng 01:17, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

EEng#s, I am absolutely not asking for a block, nor any sanction against Henia. I am doing a self-report to see if there's something I did wrong. Is self-report the wrong term? Again, it is to determine:

1. Whether I did anything wrong in the manner in which I notified her about the block and then very quickly posted the ANI after the final edit?
2. Should I have taken this to another venue instead of issuing the request to block at ANI?

It seems that she needs to have that done to move on. Any suggestions to help resolve this are greatly appreciated! I haven't been successful in my attempts to try to move this on - like this. I am stumped. I am lost. I feel bad and I don't know what to do to move this on.–CaroleHenson (talk) 01:35, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Pinging a few people from the earlier thread who might be able to give Henia some helpful words: Rivertorch, Seraphim System, Mathglot. EEng 03:44, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

I am sympathetic to an editor who is having trouble learning their way around, but that isn't why this block was imposed. There was a very clear proposal under discussion at AN/I regarding a voluntary Article Ban. There has been a lot of good faith extended and assumed, but the discussion at AN/I wasn't ambiguous — the editing at the Holocaust article has been disruptive, and it is not a good article to learn on. I don't think CaroleHenson acted wrongly here. To help Henia, I will say that any discussion at AN/I is serious, and the community worked out a voluntary article ban proposal as an alternative to indefinitely blocking a new editor. We want Henia to have an opportunity to get used to how things work here, but that doesn't mean the discussion isn't serious. If an admin issues you a final warning, and there is an open discussion at AN/I about a voluntary article ban, and you agree to it, and then edit the article you will get blocked. That's how you learn. Asking for justice against our admins (who are much beloved) at AN/I usually doesn't end well, so the sooner we move on from this, the better for Henia. Seraphim System ^(talk) 04:38, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, EEng.

If someone doesn't mind taking a look at the questions, that would be great. I think the issue was that she didn't feel she should be blocked for making edits that were not meant to be unhelpful and that there should be another official remedy other than moving to blocking if the edits were not meant to be disruptive.

Regarding Mediation, my understanding is that is for content disputes - to resolve disputes regarding specific language in an article... which is not the issue here.

This issue seems to fall into the category of conduct disputes - and the page discusses the use of templates (which I did) and WP:ANI. Perhaps, I could have posted a message on the ANI requesting assistance, rather than requesting a block in cases like this. It would truly be helpful to get input about whether there was another approach I could have taken. That was my intention for the posting, because I think answering the questions will help both Henia and me.–CaroleHenson (talk) 04:38, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

I didn't get an edit conflict and my posting was made on top of Seraphim System's comment... which appears to answer the questions.–CaroleHenson (talk) 04:42, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

I pretty much bowed out of it after Henia posted a rambling message on my talk page saying that other editors at The Holocaust "see [her] as a threat". I replied to her, offering what I hoped were helpful words. I was pretty frank, though. My advice hadn't seemed to be having a positive effect, and she had appeared to be grasping at straws since her block, distrustful of people (such as CaroleHenson) who had gone out of their way to help her and shopping around in some sort of futile quest for...I don't know what. Vindication? It didn't make sense to me, and I had begun to dread logging in for fear of finding that more drama awaited me. I really don't have anything else to offer, helpful or otherwise. Henia will either move on from her block and make a concerted effort to become a competent Wikipedia editor or she won't. Calling for investigations isn't productive. Does anyone really have time for this?

I'd like to offer a word or two to CaroleHenson, who feels bad but shouldn't. Rarely have I seen such forbearance directed toward a new user whose edits are having a disruptive effect, and CaroleHenson, you were a big part of that. You made a concerted effort to help a newbie, and when that appeared to be failing, you acted with the best interests of the project in mind. You did nothing wrong, and there's no need to second-guess yourself. Rivertorch^FIRE_WATER 04:45, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Heartfelt agreement with that word or two. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:36, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Yes, but how do you feel about all those other words? EEng 20:55, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

I was the admin who gave the 31 hour block originally to Henia regarding their editing on The Holocaust, after multiple editors, admins and non-admins, advised her to stop. I feel like a lot of editors have gone out of their way to try to help Henia, some offering mentoring which they seems to take up, but have fault with at the same time. Henia's last rather lengthy post on my talk page here: [1] brings up a number of these same concerns that CaroleHenson mentioned. Henia is an editor that I also feel will be a great help in the future with their knowledge and information, and hopefully the people they have working with them helps out. Carole, you've had the patience of a saint in helping her, and I don't see that you've done anything remotely wrong. RickinBaltimore (talk) 11:57, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks everyone that contributed to this issue. As I understand it, I followed the processes correctly, which means that in addition to discussion on talk pages, I properly used templates to warn about the issue on her talk page, and followed the block policy correctly. As I summarized (and no one disagreed), Mediation is for content disputes and this was a conduct dispute, so mediation is not the proper venue for these kinds of issues. To this point, I have not heard of alternative strategies.

As an FYI, I am not an administrator, but I am a seasoned editor and NewPages reviewer.

I totally agree with EEng that it's nothing anyone will care about a month from now and RickinBaltimore that Henia is an editor that I also feel will be a great help in the future with their knowledge and information, and hopefully the people they have working with them helps out. (Her latest mentor added a post several days ago to Henia on their talk page.) There are many other nice and encouraging comments that have been made and I am happy to summarize them on Henia's talk page.

EEng#s, Is this sufficient input? Is there anything else that is needed to resolve this issue?–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:27, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm not an admin either, but because of my nobly gracious bearing I'm often mistaken for one. You showed great patience in an extremely frustrating situation. While it's always possible to say, "Well, you could have done this or that as well, before going to ANI", you did nothing wrong. EEng 20:55, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Henia Perlman posted the following at RickinBaltimore's page:

"Prior to imposing a block, administrators are expected to be fully familiar with the circumstances of the situation." You wrote: "My reason for the block was that Henia was continuing to make the same edits that they were repeatedly told by multiple editors (including an admin) not to make."

Please, specify

1) "the same edits",

2) the name of the admin who repeatedly told me not to do the same edit,

3)why was I guilty of socking.

Thank You.

Cordially. Henia Perlman (talk) 14:38, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

So, I posted it here for continuity of discussion - and hopefully to resolve this once and for all.–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:01, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Henia Perlman:

1) "The same edits" means that you continued to add content that was not ready for the article and was not properly cited. See the warnings on your talk page, for instance.

2) Ealdgyth is an admin

3) Socking refers to WP:Sockpuppetry, which was discussed at User_talk:RickinBaltimore#Rachelle/Henia..... You used two different accounts, the Rachelle Perlman account and the Henia Perlman account after you were blocked. We've been all through that - you explained it had something to do with a computer issue - and now that you're using just one account, we're good on that count as long as you just use one account.–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:13, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

I am asking RickinBaltimore to answer my questions.

Because of my physical disabilities, I cannot interact with everybody.

Thank you.

Cordially. Henia Perlman (talk) 19:11, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

• Henia, I want to apologize for a delay in getting back to you. Weekends are a very slow time for me on Wikipedia, as I'm busy with family stuff, and it's hard for me to jump on frequently. Carole did however summarize exactly what I was going to respond with. The block was originally for your conduct with disregarding editors asking you to use sourcing, and this was after multiple warnings and requests to not do so. As Carole stated, Ealdgyth is an admin, and they explicitly told you that you needed to work with the community on this issue. As for the multiple accounts, I was perfectly OK with your explanation on what happened, and I know you're just using this account now. I'm not going to be monitoring this or my talk page much today or tomorrow, since I'll be busy, but anyone here can assist you. RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:57, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Good morning Ricki and all,

It is very hard for me to keep up with daily/hourly comments in this site, or any other.

I understand the solidarity behind Carole, a very experienced editor.

I would like to focus only on the 2 incidents that directly caused the block.

It seems to me that I was specifically and immediately blocked, because

1. I didn't provide sources for Shanghai's statement, and continue to post this statement;

2. Carole mentioned Ealdgyth, an admin, in her request to block me, because Ealdgyth objected to posting, after Shangah.

RickinBaltimore, is it correct?

Thank you,

Cordially.

Henia Perlman (talk) 15:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

The reason for the block was due to the repeated posting of information that was not properly sourced, and despite a number of editors asking you to please refrain from posting it until you had the discussion on the information you were posting. This was not immediate, as the issue appears to have been on going for a few weeks prior to my issuing the block on June 22nd. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:24, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Henia Perlman,

1) You are not listening or understanding - and I don't know why you need for Rick to restate, once again, what the issue is. (See his initial comment here.) The reason why you have been blocked has been stated over and over again - endlessly - including in this incident and User talk:Henia Perlman#The block. I don't know how many times you need to be told this before it's understood. See WP:NOTGETTINGIT.

The incident that directly caused your block was when you went ahead and made changes to The Holocaust rather than finishing the discussions about the two ways to prevent the block on this AN/I forum.

2) It is insulting to the people that work this page and the process to say, I understand the solidarity behind Carole, a very experienced editor. You can make yourself a victim, or you can be someone who learns from your experiences.

Your inability to get that you might have done something wrong... and that it was a part of a pattern, not just the Shanghai edits raises concerns about your ability to capture key concepts here at Wikipedia.–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:03, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Carole, thank you for your thoughtful answer.

Can you please take out of from your archive the discussions we had about the Shanghai posts, and repost them in your talk page, as I would like to better understand what happened there?

"The incident that directly caused your block was when you went ahead and made changes to The Holocaust rather than finishing the discussions about the two ways to prevent the block on this AN/I forum."

Well Carole, I thought I would have a reasonable time to think about the 2 proposal and the block. I was not informed of a deadline, and I was waiting for one.

I see no harm in me being a slow reader, because of my physical disabilities.

I can go forward after I read again the posting about the Shanghai postings, now in your archive, and going over every disruptive post, that you took the time to mention.

Thank you for your thoughtful comments, and your cooperation to help me better understand.

Cordially.

Henia Perlman (talk) 22:10, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Henia Perlman, All the posts that you made to my talk page are at User talk:CaroleHenson/Archive 12 and User talk:CaroleHenson/Archive 13, but I don't see that the Shanghai edits were specifically discussed there.

All the information specific to the block is at User talk:Henia Perlman#The block, including the two sections of Talk:The Holocaust that discussed your final edits. There were also the final and "only" warnings posted to your talk page.

There was never an issue about you taking more time to review the proposals - and you never asked for time to consider the proposals. This had nothing to do with timing. You were blocked for additional improper edits. See [2].

I am done with this issue, Henia. If you continue to talk about how I improperly blocked you, I will refer to the summary on your talk page and this ANI discussion. Other than that, I am done and see no use in my continuing to repeat myself with ZERO impact.–CaroleHenson (talk) 23:04, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Folks, I hate to be ants at a picnic – especially since when issues with this user first popped up, everyone agreed that, aside from some problems, she was a good faith editor with a lot to offer Wikipedia – but when I looked through Henia Perlman's talk page commentary at that time, I got the distinct impression that this could be pretty sophisticated trolling, as opposed to a newbie user lost in the maze of Wikipedia. I would ask that someone who hasn't looked into this before take a closer look with that in mind, because I'm far from convinced that the editor is what she claims to be. But then, I may just be overly suspicious. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:34, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps, I can see how you might think that. Or, a case of WP:NOTGETTINGIT / WP:CIR.–CaroleHenson (talk) 00:14, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Carole, to your two questions at the outset above: (I am responding as an involved non-admin)

1. No, nothing wrong in the manner which you notified HP of the block.
2. No. What other venue has juridiction and actionability to block someone, if not ANI? Bringing an issue here is not equivalent to issuing a block; you merely raised the question. You could have been unanimously shouted down by a tsunami of admins, had that been appropriate, but instead a block was issued. This was the right venue. (As a postscript, Henia's edit pattern was such that a 31-hour block wasn't even sure to get noticed, and as I recall, she later said it had expired before she realized it had been in effect.)

Just a few observations in order to try to bring anyone encountering this for the first time up to speed quickly. I have offered suggestions to Henia in the past which I hope were helpful, as numerous other editors have. At the same time I tried to offer some some non-sugar coated reality-checks that I realized might sound harsh to her but which I thought would be beneficial in helping her avoid an impending block which I saw coming clear as day, by contrasting her expertise in one area (Holocaust studies) with her neophyte status in another (Wikipedia). I tried to explain how others might see her activities at WP as being disruptive in a way that she might not understand and could easily interpret as ganging up on her or bullying, although that was certainly not the case. Far from being the latter, Henia is in my experience the editor who has received the most forbearance and largest number of offers of help of any editor that I have seen. Imho her responses have been sporadic and unpredictable, ranging from obsequious gratitude to dark innuendo of conspiracy (both of which I've been on the receiving end of), with a dash of mentor-[s]hopping without a clear rudder being established anywhere, nor even an anchor, so she ends up blown about by the winds or whatever the last breeze some editor or admin blew her way. My working theory up till now has been that she is what she appears to be, a Holocaust expert, with some issues of being frazzled by technology and computers, not to mention Wikipedia's set of policies and guidelines which takes a while to negotiate, and perhaps also her age (by her own say-so) and perhaps also by other personal issues that generally make things even harder for her. I have to admit not having considered Beyond My Ken's theory up till now, and reading it gave me a jolt, and now I can't "unthink" it, and don't know what to think now. I still believe it's probably CIR and a steep learning curve, but in the end as one frustrated editor remarked after giving up trying to help, (paraphrasing from memory): "In the end, it doesn't matter what the reason for the problem is."

I think Carole raised the issue here at ANI pointing at herself out of an abundance of caution in an attempt to be more than fair to an editor who had discussed raising "investigations" (here and here) into Carole's activities and those of other editors interacting with her (how I escaped that list I'll never know) and who may be too new here and thus unfamiliar with the rules and conventions at ANI to raise an issue herself. Having said that, if Henia is serious about having various editors investigated, it is for her to say whether Carole's formulation of the issue represents her concerns, whether she (Henia) wishes to continue on with this statement of it or take it up some other way. As far as I'm concerned, given Carole's statement of the issue at top of section, there's nothing remotely to be reproached here.

(Note: Pinging Ealdgyth who has been mentioned in this thread, but not notified I believe.) Mathglot (talk) 01:40, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the additional background and weighing-in on the topic. The thing is: the nature of her edits were abundantly clear. 1) She continued to be warned about adding content that was not properly cited (on French and English Wikipedia) and was given offers to help format the citations, and 2) posted content that was not ready or appropriate for the article: a) too much detail for an overview article, b) fringe theories, c) continuing to add content that was discussed as problematic on the article talk page - or continuing to question why it was problematic, and d) adding content that was not ready because it was poorly constructed / edited (and received offers to work on this by others, which she ignored). Based upon previous comments, she seems to think that other editors should be cleaning up her edits. The fact that she cannot see that these are issues means to me that if she hadn't been blocked, she'd still be trying to make problematic edits. In addition, she is not understanding very clear points that have been made to her repeatedly at Talk:The Holocaust. If she doesn't like an answer, she has a habit of asking the question over and over again... on the article talk page or by posting messages on multiple user's talk pages to the point that users that once helped her are now ignoring her.

I have also seen that she does shop for someone to adopt or mentor her... but once someone agrees to help, it seems that their advice or suggestions are completely ignored. She has not responded to comments and suggestions from her most recent mentor, ONUnicorn, on their talk page.

I have been the eternal optimist, thinking that it just needed to be explained differently and she'd get it... but she's not getting it, and doesn't want to get it... whether it's due to trolling or CIR. If it's CIR, I feel really bad for her. If she's trolling, she has been highly effective at being disruptive and must be laughing at us quite a bit. Whatever the cause, though, this has been disruptive, time-consuming, and exhausting and, based upon her endless questioning why she was blocked, even now, I don't see an inkling that she's open to self-reflection.

I don't know how we prove trolling, but since she has stated herself that she has competence issues regarding Wikipedia (most recently here and here) + isn't working with her mentor, can we come up with a solution to resolve this (e.g., topic ban for The Holocaust, warning about needing to actively work with a mentor, warning about WP:LISTENING, other)?–CaroleHenson (talk) 11:13, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi all

I don't want anymore to investigate Carole's actions.

Carole, you made a great impact.

I have been reading all your links, and those by Simon, Mathglot, Ealdgyth and others.

Carole, I am getting it.

And you noticed: I am not editing.

My only goal: I do want to help improving content, like all of us.

Carole, sorry:

I posted all the citations for you to format about Shanghai, in Talk page of Holocaust, and not at your talk user page.

I wanted to provide Ealdgyth the citations.

Mathglot:

I have read very carefully all your thoughtful postings.

I admit: I should have waited before posting about Shanghai, without citations.

"b) fringe theories"

I gave what I believed to be reliable sources to my proposal for new lead:

ushmm, Elie Wiesel, Berenbaus and others.

Holocaust history is very complex, and has been the subject of many controversies.

Historiography of Holocaust has been evolving very fast in the USA, especially in the last five years.

I have been keeping up with that.

It has been very interesting.

"She has not responded to comments and suggestions from her most recent mentor, ONUnicorn, on their talk page."

I have responded.

I don't laugh at anybody.

Mathglot and others: I cannot respond to all your thoughtful postings.

I can read and type only during a certain amount of time.

I am still traveling.

I do understand the frustrations that I have caused.

I apologize for that.

Thank you all.

Cordially.

Henia Perlman (talk) 22:36, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I continued reading articles in wiki, and those relevant to editors who are experts.

Mathglot, I found out that the lead in 2004 was: The word Holocaust (Greek, "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering") was introduced in the late 20th century to refer to the attempt of Nazi-ruled Germany to exterminate those groups of people it found "undesirable".

I printed the 51 pages of the current Holocaust article, and read them.

I don't have the time and physical endurance to be involved.

Be well.

Cordially.

Henia Perlman (talk) 04:45, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

I struck out the request for a warning / other.–CaroleHenson (talk) 11:25, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Esszet's repeated accusations of article ownership toward me

Esszet has made repeated accusations against me regarding Too Much Too Soon (album):

• On one occasion at ANI by filing a complaint against me in April
• Here in the aforementioned article talk page in April
• In an ensuing RfC at said talk page shortly after
• Back again at ANI filing a complaint against me in July, which was found to be "over the top" by the closer Basalisk.
• And again today here at the article talk page.

There's no assumption of good faith, NEVER HAS BEEN, all over some of the pettiest textual and stylistic minor changes to article space, considering the effort they've exuded. And I request admin intervention in case the user should revert again; there's a competency issue here when the user fails to understand the BRD process involves redirecting their efforts toward a discussion at the talk page and giving the other party a chance to respond, rather than using it as an excuse to restore their preferred revision again. Because I find it difficult to communicate further when every thing from this guy is accompanied by offensive ownership accusations. Dan56 (talk) 17:28, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

1. It looks a lot like you have reverted basically anything the editor has attempted to do on the article, down to very highly subjective and pretty much meaningless word choice, often without so much as leaving an edit summary.
2. The most conspicuous thing missing from this conversation is you.
3. Which is pretty much the issue from the last ANI you link to... lack of communication and a closer giving you advice about ownership.
4. So... basically stop acting like you own the article and people will stop accusing you of owning the article. TimothyJosephWood 17:49, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Wow! Literally everything you just said can be also be said of Esszet. But thanks! (for nothing:-) Dan56 (talk) 18:28, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

You should probably consider yourself lucky if nothing is what you get instead of a WP:BOOMERANG, considering you've reverted dozens of times and barely acknowledged that the talk page exists. When you did it seems to have gone something like this:

• You really wanna overcomplicate an image caption just to appease someone who started an edit war? I'll say this for the last time: THIS ARTICLE IS NOT ABOUT ANY BAND; THE SUBJECT OF THE ARTICLE IS TOO MUCH TOO SOON; THE SUBJECT OF THE IMAGE IS THE NEW YORK DOLLS. I repeat THE ARTICLE IS NOT ABOUT THE NEW YORK DOLLS
• why are you here? Go away.
• He's also accusing me of article ownership. He's also being a hound, and a dick
• How's the view from your high horse, Esszet?

Besides that, I count... I dunno, a half dozen warnings on your talk page just in the last 50 edits ([3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]) and that's not counting the close from the prior ANI.

So I suppose I can try to spell it out more clearly: Welcome to Wikipedia. This is a collaborative project to build a free encyclopedia. Discussion is not an option, the talk page is not a suggestion, and ANI is not an alternative. TimothyJosephWood 18:59, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Well, I'll certainly give your attempt at researching me an "A" for an effort, guy. Dan56 (talk) 19:07, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

You're a prolific content creator, and I don't think anyone would detract from the valuable contributions you've made. I'll be the first to admit that it's easy to be lulled into an isolated comfort when you find yourself churning away in a corner of the project that no one else is on, but I would suggest that you immediately watchlist something like The Teahouse, and force yourself to respond as helpfully as you can to a few honest questions a week from clueless good faith editors, to give yourself some perspective on how interconnected this whole thing is, and how we're expected to be cordial to one another, even when the edit seems silly, or the answer seems obvious. You pretty obviously need to get out of that isolated comfort zone, because when someone touches one of your babies, it seems pretty glaringly obvious that you've been in it for far too long. TimothyJosephWood 21:34, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

NOPE! Totally not lulled into an "isolated comfort" @Timothyjosephwood:, but rather entirely unresponsive or civil to those who have never to begin with assumed good faith and won't drop it in any messages my way since. Dan56 (talk) 04:03, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Then you're going to have to do better than a comment in April, because it looks an awful lot like this has been mostly dead for months, until the user dared to post a comment on the talk page of your article yesterday, and a (totally exasperating I'm sure) discussion that lasted exactly three edits (during which you also managed to cut their comment in half with your reply) taxed your patience to the point that you needed an ANI thread. TimothyJosephWood 12:27, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

And round two! I suggest a ban of you two reverting each other. Second, I suggest that this article be fully protected for three days so we can sort this out. Third, I suggest that this ANI be closed as this will not help anything. And fourth, I think that it would be best if you two were not allowed to edit that article for a period of 6 months. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 17:54, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

I concur with RileyBugz completely.  К Ф Ƽ Ħ Speak 19:29, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Basalisk See what I mean? Esszet (talk) 19:53, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

And I hope his lack of civility here is also taken into account. Esszet (talk) 20:42, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Well, really the reason for it is so that you will stop, honestly, wasting everybody's time, including your own. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 20:45, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

^?? Are you trying to get yourself in trouble? Esszet (talk) 20:55, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Trouble only for anyone who slights Esszet in any way, I guess (*roll eyes till stuck in back of skull*) Dan56 (talk) 22:02, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

I meant both you and Dan56, if that wasn't clear. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 22:08, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

• Christ almighty. So... Someone jog my memory, what is the civility restriction thing? It's been a few months since I've seen it, but whatever that is I propose that on Dan for at least six months as a boomerang. TimothyJosephWood 22:14, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

• Civility restrictions were once used frequently, but seem to have fallen out of fashion in recent years, probably because of the inherent difficulty in defining what is and isn't "civil". It's much easier, in my opinion, to make a judgment about what is or isn't a personal attack than it is to determine civility, mainly because what's "civil" is rather in the eye of the beholder and has a significant social and cultural aspect to it. Some editors also object to the "school ma'rm-ish" nature of civility blocks and restrictions, seeing the policing of language and attitude as not being the rightful business of admins. Whichever way you slice it, the entire civility issue is a can of worms, and I suspect that contributed to the fall off (to the point of practical disappearance) in the use of civility restrictions. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:12, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

• They fell out of use because when any admin tried to enforce them against persistently uncivil editors, the editor in question would just get one of their pet admins to reverse it. There is also the problem that due to the Super Mario effect, persistently uncivil Admins could not be prevented in any reasonable way except by an arbcom case. So with the two pronged response of a)seeing favoured editors get away with it, b)seeing fellow admins get away with it, its not surprising no one much bothers with it. And why longterm uncivil editors end up wasting so much time - as the only way these days any action is taken is by raising enough noticeboard complaints that people end up tired of it. Only in death does duty end (talk) 07:42, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

• OID: That's one interpretation of a possible cause, but I don't believe I subscribe to it, since my experience is that the number of admins who are frequently uncivil is extremely low, and therefore is unlikely to have been a factor. No, I'll stick by my own evaluation that the difficulty of enforcing them with any consistency, and general pushback against incivility policing are the primary factors. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:10, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

A lot of this seems to be unequivocal sneering (I'd be shocked if you could find a group of people, in any time and place, who don't think "Thanks for nothing" is rude and offensive), so I don't think there'd be much of an issue in this case, but it probably wouldn't be all that difficult to get him sanctioned for personal attacks instead. Esszet (talk) 23:23, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Well, you'll forgive me if I don't want to block someone with more GAs than I have article creations. You know, because encyclopedia. Maybe an indefinite 1RR that can be appealed in six months? TimothyJosephWood 23:53, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Maybe not six months, but how about two weeks to start, and then we'll take it from there? Esszet (talk) 00:32, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

And keep in mind that people unaware of the 1RR wouldn't know to report him for effectively violating it by undoing their edits without using the undo feature (as he almost certainly would). Esszet (talk) 01:25, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Your only interactions with me have been regarding minor caption changes and your uncompromising stance favoring sentence fragments rather than complete sentences at Too Much Too Soon (album), which you have been so stubborn as to make a series of edit wars, an RfC, and ANI complaints resulting in no action in your favor. Please at least don't insult us with insincere concerns about my snarky remarks toward other editors or anything else. Your WP:OWN accusations have been desensitizing enough, seriously. Dan56 (talk) 04:10, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

• I have watchlisted the page. Any edit warring on that article from now on will result in immediate blocks for editors involved. @Dan56: you might get fewer accusations of ownership if you didn't act like you own articles. I tried to explain this nicely when I closed the last ANI and now I'm telling you straight - you don't own any of the articles on Wikipedia. Constantly reverting other editors' contributions without explanation or discussion is disruptive and doesn't help anyone. You've received lots of very helpful advice on your talk page; it's time to adhere to it. If you can't do that then I suggest you take Too Much Too Soon off your watchlist and find another image caption to work on. Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 11:51, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

What a crock. An image caption to work on? "Constantly reverting other editors' contributions without explanation"?? What do you call this? And this attempt to reach out to the guy and this before it? As opposed to this unexplained revision to begin with? Don't be insincere. Yes, your "advice" sounds very persuasive and intimidating, but it's inaccurate too. Just telling you straight. Dan56 (talk) 16:31, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Is it just me, or are any other admins seeing WP:IDHT behaviour from Dan56? Mjroots (talk) 20:03, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Isn't mouthing off to an admin enough to get you blocked? Esszet (talk) 19:05, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Well admins shouldn't be held on a pedestal and Dan56 hasn't said anything worse than what I see on a weekly basis here. Continuing to WP:OWN articles would be more concerning than a few snarky comments. Honestly, the fact that this is all over a few petty edits is just absolutely ridiculous to me.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 19:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

1) Admins do deserve more respect than ordinary users 2) It isn't just me (if he's here on a weekly basis, you know what I mean) 3) If he keeps saying and saying stuff like this, shouldn't he be blocked anyway? Esszet (talk) 19:59, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Well, admins shouldn't get more respect than everybody else. Second, as mentioned, Dan56 is a prolific content creator, so he shouldn't be blocked, he should just be banned from editing that article (and you probably should too, as you are also occasionally reverting him). Otherwise, we would have a lot less good articles about music. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 20:38, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Excuse me, but I don't think I'm being unreasonable in what I'm trying to do to that article, and in any event, something has to be done, and it has to be pretty severe. If it turns out that he has to be blocked for a while, I guess we'll just have to do without him. Esszet (talk) 21:17, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Why does it have to be "pretty severe"? I don't think that this has extended to any other articles, so a ban on both of you editing the article (and interacting, to prevent any more future problems) should work. And remember, according to WP:NOPUNISH, we shouldn't be using blocks as punishment. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 23:08, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

If TimothyJosephWood is right, there were 6 warnings on his talk page in 50 edits, and if his conduct here is anything to go by, more moderate sanctions simply won't work. I didn't know that blocks weren't supposed to be used as punishments, but as I said, it doesn't have to be a block, just something. Esszet (talk) 23:25, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Then would my solution be adequate? RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 23:46, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I doubt it, let's ask BMK and MShabazz what they think. Esszet (talk) 23:53, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Well, maybe getting blocked for those comments alone would be excessive, but he should still be blocked anyway. Esszet (talk) 20:31, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Esszet who are you to be giving orders on what should be done? The way you are calling for a block of a severe nature is incredibly punitive and that is not how things are handled around here. Dan56 is a prolific content creator; I see no legitimate reason to get rid of his expertise just to appease you.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 22:54, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Did I say it was just about me? Esszet (talk) 23:25, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

All editors should be treated with respect, admins and non-admins alike. Paul August ☎ 20:35, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

"mouthing off to an admin enough to get you blocked"? God, I hope not. It gives me chills just to think of being part of a community where questioning or speaking disrespectfully to the upper class gets you punished. Wikipedia doesn't have an upper class, by the way. Administrators are just a subset of editors who are trusted enough to have certain powers to use in enforcing consensus that others don't have. Sarcastically saying, "thanks for nothing" to an administrator should have exactly the same effect as saying it to a non-administrator. Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 00:25, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

As I said, that probably is too harsh, but you can be sanctioned for saying that to anyone, right? Esszet (talk) 00:45, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

And by the way, TimothyJosephWood isn't an admin, and Dan's done a lot more than just that here. Esszet (talk) 00:49, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

One more thing: there are lots of communities like that in today's world: they're called businesses. Esszet (talk) 00:51, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, and we all hate them. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 00:58, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, but they've managed to stick around for a while… Esszet (talk) 01:01, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Mouthing off at admins will not get you blocked. Mouthing off in such a way to be personally attacking any editor or admin will get you blocked. One or two mild attacks will get you a warning, repeatedly attacking someone is when the blocking starts. Unless, of course, the attack is so severe as to warrant an immediate block (threats of death/violence, racism, etc). Nothing Dan56 said above is remotely sanctionable. Blackmane (talk) 01:18, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

It isn't uncivil enough? Esszet (talk) 01:55, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

And by the way, isn't saying "trouble only for anyone who slights Esszet in any way" pretty much the same thing as saying "you're an arrogant, hypersensitive [insert expletive here]"? Esszet (talk) 02:02, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Not really. It is only a snarky remark. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 02:12, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Really? That's the implication and that's why it's nasty. Esszet (talk) 02:21, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

(non-admin comment} From what I can tell, Dan56 worked on the article to bring it to Featured Article status... and I understand watching out to ensure that the articles keep that status. However, no one owns an article at Wikipedia... and there has been uncivil, ownership type behavior that is not called for. Although the behavior does not seem to be as extreme, there are some snippy comments by Esszet that are not helpful. Even so, I think this is a potential Boomerang issue and WP:IDHT].–CaroleHenson (talk) 03:02, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

There's a thin line between article stewardship and ownership, and I think Dan56 needs to learn the difference. I also think the administrator squad need to grow some spines and stop making excuses for editors who are prolific creators of good content and are major-league assholes. At a certain point, you (collective you) will either need to rein in Dan56 or you will start to drive away editors who have the potential to become equally prolific creators of good content without being assholes. Dan56 isn't the first such editor, and I'm sure he won't be the last, but the complete inability of Wikipedia to deal with such personalities is a serious problem. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 19:33, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Yes it is. TimothyJosephWood 19:39, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

When Dan56 didn't like what I wrote about his ownership of an article, as evidenced by edit-warring over a caption to an image, he went to a pair of articles I had recently edited and vandalized captions to their images.[9][10] After he had done the same thing to another editor who incurred his wrath.[11] He should have been indeffed at the time, but—as I wrote—the admins are spineless. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 20:13, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

And you replied in both instances with edit summaries that needed to be redacted. TimothyJosephWood 20:21, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

My edit summary in both instances was "rv asshole". You'd have to ask the admin involved why that warranted RevDel when racist and antisemitic edit summaries and content typically don't get RevDeled, and why calling out an asshole's behavior was worse than Dan56 acting like an asshole in the first place. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 20:40, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

You know how things work around here: let he who is without incivility cast the first ANI thread. And while I highly doubt that anyone is going to sanction either user for a dispute that for all intents and purposes died down months ago, they may likely take a good hard look at you for continued personal attacks. So I'd probably recommend just cooling off a bit, and let this thread die quietly like it should probably have done a week ago, for everyone's sake. TimothyJosephWood 21:58, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Timothyjosephwood, you seem to be more than a little confused. I didn't start this thread, Dan56 did, and it was less than a week ago. I was summoned here -- yesterday. I don't need to "cool off" because I don't interact with Dan56. I have better things to do than edit war with assholes over periods at the end of captions, such as banging my head against a cement wall. If anybody needs to cool off, it's the inveterate edit warrior who started this thread. — MShabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:52, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

You don't think he deserves to be sanctioned anymore? Esszet (talk) 22:24, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't think they're going to get it now, given that this thread is almost a week old and there's been no pronounced continuing disruption, but I have a strong suspicion that they're going to get them sooner or later if they continue, which I suspect they will. If you take anything away from this, it should probably be that you should conduct yourself immaculately, even and especially in heated debates, because when things end up here, and everyone involved has a bit of blood on their hands, things usually end up in a stalemate. TimothyJosephWood 22:34, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I could start pinging other people he's has issues with – all I'd have to do is go through the history of his talk page. Esszet (talk) 22:38, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I know. I've gone through it thoroughly, twice now, as well as their editing history and yours. This thread could be used in a future report to establish a clear pattern of disruptive behavior, and Dan56 should be aware that they're treading on thin ice, but while there was a clear overreaction, there is not a clear current imminent disruption that would be prevented by sanctions, and that's what sanctions are designed to do. Such is the burden of balancing building an encyclopedia with all the nasty bits involved in doing so. TimothyJosephWood 01:35, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I suppose I'll clarify my intent here since it could obviously seem to conflict with my comment below. What I mean is that current imminent disruption sanctions are easy peasy, and we hand them out all the time. The alternative is a long-term-pattern type community sanction, which is often difficult to impossible to get a clear consensus on, and often just not worth trying until the immediate disruption starts up again. But if folks wanna go for it, then go for it. TimothyJosephWood 14:09, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I realise that this has become a bit of a mess. But given the long-running consistent nature of his conduct, I would be concerned if nothing was remedied at least partly due to admin exhaustion, as has happened several times before with Dan56: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive874#Conduct_of_Dan56 Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RRArchive326#User:Dan56_reported_by_User:Binksternet_.28Result:_.29. As a further, separate example of Dan56's recent behaviour: he has been repeatedly making this edit: [12] to The Life of Pablo, which has been reverted by five editors: [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] before I tried to discuss the edit with him in the talk page, which went nowhere, with Dan56 claiming that there had not been ongoing reversions of his edit from multiple editors and that I was lying: [18]. Realising the futility of trying to discuss an edit with Dan56, I opened a Request for Comment, and when the first person who responded disagreed with Dan56's edit: [19], Dan56 began badgering them, aggressively calling them "buddy" and "pal": [20] [21] before accusing them of being "in cahoots" with me before signing off with: "thanks for your opinion, as wrongheaded as it may beeee!1!1!1": [22]. While I understand that Dan56 has contributed to GAs, there must be a limit to how much that can let you get away with. When Dan56 is right, it's great, but when he's wrong, there's very little individual editors can do to remedy it and it makes working on articles he works on an unpleasant, frustrating experience. Dan56 has been criticised for not using the talk pages, but it's arguably worse when he does. This is a social WP:COMPETENCE issue. Cjhard (talk) 05:00, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

And as soon as someone says "let the issue rest", there's Cjhard to stir the pot. Cj trolls my edits, and that lead to him now trolling Dan56's edits because Dan and I agreed on a subject against Cjhard. In fact, Cj currently has another open report against me. How many experienced editors can one inexperienced editor take issue with at the same time before they realize that they are the one at fault. Kellymoat (talk) 12:23, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Possible solution: 1RR

• Based on the concerns expressed by the editors above, I suggest this: Dan56 is limited to 1RR indefinitely; this includes rewriting a newly revised body of text or any other forms of editing that could be construed as gaming the 1RR. Unfortunately, this does not address Dan's behavior at talk pages but it may compel him to compromise more often with those he is suppose to collaborate with. After six months, Dan can appeal his 1RR restriction at the appropriate forum.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 06:25, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• Support - As proposer.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 06:25, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
• Support - Limiting Dan56 to 1RR is a generously fair way of remedying some of his negative behaviour while retaining his positive contributions. Cjhard (talk) 06:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
• Support - Agree that this is a fair solution.–CaroleHenson (talk) 10:22, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose - If you block/limit users like Dan56 and myself, the vandals win. Wikipedia loses.Kellymoat (talk) 12:23, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I am confused Kellymoat. Are you saying that Esszet is a vandal? I may not agree with all of their comments and actions, but I don't see how they rise to the level of vandalism.–CaroleHenson (talk) 12:45, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

No, I am not saying anyone was specifically vandalizing anything. I am saying that limiting Dan to one revert (yes, I know that there are exceptions to the 1rr limit) is going to be to the detriment of Wikipedia overall. Face it, there are more criminals than crime fighters. Limiting what the crime fighters can do simply allows the criminals to get away with more stuff.Kellymoat (talk) 12:54, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Gotcha. I don't agree, but I understand your point. Thanks for the clarification.–CaroleHenson (talk) 13:00, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I understand your point. Yeah... I actually don't at all. A sanction that I understand won't prevent the user from reverting vandalism is going to help the vandals win, is basically a non-argument, other than the fact that KM seems to think what we really need are wiki-vigilantes empowered to ignore things like CIVIL and 3RR because they interpret IAR to mean "I'll damn well do what I please." TimothyJosephWood 13:59, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

What WP needs is fewer people willing to do damage to articles. When that happens, there will be no reason for anyone to ever revert anything, and we can all sit around the campfire singing Kumbaya. But until then, someone needs to be willing to review each and every edit that comes through their very large watchlist to prevent vandalism.

It may be off track and long winded, but here's a little tidbit of information - I went from being an "editor" to a "reverter" when I was involved with an incident that involved someone adding their name to the personnel section of music articles. This guy gave himself credit to over 500 band/album articles, with some of the entries being there for 9 years. NINE YEARS. And then, over that amount of time, you know what happens - his name gets credited on other sites because they use WP as their source. So, today, even though his name has been scrubbed from WP, it is still out there on the web and searchable via google because no one bothered to revert the errors. This means that, today, people can legitimately add his name back into WP because they have web sources saying it is true. There's even people selling his memorabilia online.

Since that incident, my watchlist has grown. And every edit that comes through gets reviewed by me - EVERY EDIT. I try my best to catch things as they come in so that nothing ever gets by for 9 years again. I watch my watchlist, and revert things that need reverted. I don't keep track of "well, today this article has already been reverted 3 times so I better let it go for 24 hours" No, I revert it when it comes in. Nine years, some nobody had his name posted to 500 articles. No one caught it. We need people willing to patrol. Obviously admins and other "trusted" editors can't be trusted. Kellymoat (talk) 14:46, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

And that's probably why you've been blocked three times for edit warring. TimothyJosephWood 14:50, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Which is exactly my point.Kellymoat (talk) 14:56, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for moving the discussion. This isn't the place for it.Kellymoat (talk) 15:42, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Kellymoat, for suggesting that editors who dare to disagree with Dan56 are as bad as editors who add themselves to the personnel sections of music articles. I don't believe I've ever interacted with you before, and frankly, with an attitude like that, I'm glad to see that you're semi-retired. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:30, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I cannot help but suspect Kellymoat is in disagreement with the terms outlined because of their block history and Cjhard, one of the editors who has reported them, has expressed his support for the proposal.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 18:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

While I may have been made aware of this report through the troller, my thoughts on the matter have not been swayed. I don't play that game. And I have told the little troller as much on numerous occassions, but he is unwilling to accept it.

In fact, I voiced my opinion before adding my "oppose". I clearly did not hide how or why I arrived here. Kellymoat (talk) 21:08, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• I'm fine with it. I don't expect that it's going to get overwhelming support, but no objections here, and it's at least some resolution, and if violated will be fairly clear cut and won't require an ANI or ANEW thread so long that our admins start to contemplate self harm. TimothyJosephWood 13:47, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
• Support So long as Dan56 is given appropriate leeway to revert obvious vandalism (because I know what the edit-warring policy says, how it is often applied in practice, and that many of Dan56's reverts are genuine vandalism-fighting), I support limiting him to a 1RR. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:30, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• Support: for the reasons I (and several other people) have explained previously. Esszet (talk) 17:40, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
• Support: Fine, do it, I don't care. I waste too much time on here as it is concerning myself with self-righteous bores and misguided pests at articles no one reads, and this would encourage me in the right direction: away. So, just in case I wasn't emphatic enough before: SUPPOOOOORRRRRTTTTTTT :) Tbh, I probably won't even appeal it, if I'm even still around by that time. Dan56 (talk) 20:51, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Isn't he great, folks? Let's give him a hand. Esszet (talk) 21:15, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

You should consider being civil, even when responding to someone who isn't. Kellymoat (talk) 21:30, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• Support - This should help Dan56 become the best editor he can. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 22:29, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
• Note - Dan has apparently retired but I think it is still in the best interest of the project to continue this discussion and implement a 1RR if there is consensus for it. I have seen many editors claim they have retired, only to return when the heat is off them.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 01:44, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose - I think getting Dan56 blocked from Wikipedia for six months is unfair, because he been editing for years and add a lot of articles in to good article standards. Now It look like he has quit from editing. What a shame. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 20:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• @TheAmazingPeanuts: please re-read (or read it for the first time) my proposal and tell me where I stated that we should block Dan for six months.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 02:01, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

@TheGracefulSlick: Sorry about that, I didn't read it that good in the first time. If this have nothing to do about him getting blocked, then why he retired? TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 21:18, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

@TheAmazingPeanuts: I cannot speak for Dan but my best guess is he did not want a restriction that requires him to actually compromise with other editors at an article talk page. His support vote above probably was the first indication of him retiring. Although I admire his content creation, he tends to be uncooperative with anyone who disagrees with him. I think this proposal is very lenient and addresseses his tendency to WP:OWN articles without getting rid of an excellent writer.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 02:33, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Could I borrow those eyeballs again?

Oath Keepers and my talk page; what looks from my viewpoint a good deal like substituting warning templates for substantive discussions, but perhaps I'm reading too much into it. Anmccaff (talk) 03:55, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm not going into the irony of you opening this at ANI. You seem to have at least 3 reverts on that article. Your statements here suggest that you would like to discuss the article and the talk page of the article suggests that other involved parties also would like to discuss the article and they asked simply for you to get a consensus before making any further reverts. So why go to the articles talk page and get into that substantive discussion?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 04:13, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

There's no irony here, except in the Alanisian sense. If I thought this was a clear violation of some sort, I would have filed a report, backed off myself, &cet. This is a straightforward request for people not involved in the discussion to take a look. Your response seems to be "boomerang!?"; I'd suggest that means you didn't look at the chronology of the edits.

Anmccaff - I'm not following you here. Can you elaborate a bit more? What exactly are your concerns regarding these two pages? ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 08:11, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

A little more BRI than BRD. You know, "Bold, Revert, Ignore": template tagging as a substitute for joining an already-opened talk page discussion. If you have the time to tag a writitor's talk page, you have time to write on the article's talk page, too....or better yet, instead. Anmccaff (talk) 20:12, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Real History Man, Conflict of Interest editing and Personal Attacks

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Real History Man, a new editor whose sole interest seems to be editing to insert references to a self-published book [23] in 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands, which makes a number of extraordinary claims about the invasion. Acknowledges a link to the author [24], where they attack other editors as trolls but be aware that you are wrong and that you are biased, prejudiced, bordering upon 'troll' if not already way past that mark. The editing seems to be more about book promotion and it seems clear there is a WP:COI, a suspicion shared by Hohum [25]. Bringing it here for further scrutiny. WCM_email 07:10, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I can see obvious signs of a conflict of interest, in addition to blatant personal attacks. Quick question: do the statistics presented in the self-published book contradict the other sources? DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 10:17, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't think that matters. The user is probably at least capable of accessing the other sources, and if he wanted to cite them he would. This means he is essentially using Wikipedia to advertise his friend's book, rather than using his friend's book to help build an encyclopedia. The username also sets off NOTHERE alarms. promoting and representing the historical truth (in the diff above) is dead giveaway, and the scare-quotes around "claims" (showing a disconcerting lack of intellectual skepticism and dismissiveness toward those who do) are also concerning. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:49, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

In answer to DarthBotto, the book claims to completely rewrite the official history common to both sides increasing 1 killed and 3 wounded to >100 killed and many more wounded. It claims there was a cover up of the real number of Argentine casualties. The work is clearly an WP:SPS and can't be used as a source anyway. WCM_email 11:55, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

@Wee Curry Monster: It's not really relevant to this case, but your last sentence is not technically in line with WP:RS. SPSes can be used for non-extraordinary claims (again, nothing to do with this) if their authors are reputable authorities (no idea if the author in question is a reputable authority on anything). Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:02, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

No worries I'm aware of that, the other problem is we can't verify the author is a historian or reputable as this appears to be their only published work. The work was also crowd funded by an appeal on social media. WCM_email 12:12, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Since he frequently writes in sentence fragments I have a feeling he's not a historian. EEng 12:41, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

"Wee Curry Monster" I myself am a historian of WW2 and especially D-Day and I do happen to be a friend of the author through his work. It is a work which you have not read. Having met his publisher I know the book is not self-published, however when that business was sold, he did take the opportunity to buy the rights to it, hence your constant changing to 'self-published' from 'published' is erroneous.

The book is written effectively by all of the participants of that day and I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them myself and seeing so much of the evidence. Something you have not. The history on this page is riddled with inaccuracies and, as you will see, I have contributed to almost every single talk discussion to correct people or answer their questions...this all comes from one place: "The First Casualty" - The book in question.

The author is absolutely a Military Historian and accepted as such by the entire Military History community. Indeed he is one of the best I have known. Qualifications mean zip in our industry. We write the books which the boffins study and then get their degrees and doctorates with. If your history is good, the rest is so much paper. Ricky D Phillips' history is outstanding.

I truly fail to see how a faceless person who spends their days on Wiki can claim to know more than the men who were there, whose words are all in this book. I particularly like how Mark Gibbs was 'encouraged to think' he had blown up an Amtrac. Have you met him? How encouraged was he exactly, do you know? You don't. I know he hit it because I have held a big piece of it with a rocket hole through it, which the author brought to the book launch. I know he - and others - destroyed it because I have seen the photos, read the quotes from the British and Argentines who saw it during and after. I know the Argentinian forces lost an LCVP Landing Craft blown up that night with about 40 guys on it. I know the guys who blew it up and the guys who dragged it onto the beach later. It is still sat on its back as they found it in the narrows with a big rocket hole in its side.

So please tell me, do, how being 'better at Wiki' makes you more qualified to pronounce upon a history you have no knowledge of? I have googled you and the words 'troll' appear everywhere next to your name so I feel that the tag was justified. You are more concerned with being 'right according to you' than in the truth. The truth is that if the other 'qualified historians' you espouse were as good as this guy, we wouldn't have waited 35 years for the truth. So please go ahead, be 'better at Wiki' and safeguard a tired old lie if that makes you feel better. Myself and the military history community shall keep on doing what we do until this sad old tale is consigned to the bin.

You may now rest easy, I shan't change it back because doubtless you'll have a line of code for that. It doesn't make you clever or educated, indeed it makes you a block to what history is all about. A subject which, from a good look at your own work, you know a lot less about than you pretend to. I will now consider this at an end, having told you and your peers what a true know-nothing you are. If you wish to troll and malign someone whom I and so many others in our field hold in esteem, then that is on you. There's your resolution and you're entitled to it. I hope Wiki keeps you happy. In my industry it is our lowest denominator. You may consider yourself schooled by an old man who knows a few things. Real History Man (talk) 18:40, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

The central problem is your statement that this all comes from one place: "The First Casualty". If The First Casualty is the only source, then it's not accepted historical scholarship. It would be different if the author were an established expert in the field, or the book was published by a reputable university press, but that's not the case, despite your protestations. And we're not interested in your personal experiences – see WP:OR. The more you write, the more clear it is that you don't know how actual history is done. (For one thing, it's not an "industry.") EEng 20:17, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Actually, he gives the game away in his account name. He's the "Real History" Man, all the rest are obviously peddling fake history. This is on a par with all those account names with "True" and "Truth" in them, here to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS or push WP:FRINGE theories. If Real History Man is only here to push the book he owns the rights to, that is to violate WP:PROMOTION and WP:COI, then he's WP:NOTHERE to improve the encyclopedia. He should get an official warning to knock it off, and if he ignores it, he should be indeffed toot sweet. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:00, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

BMK, for the second time in as many days I find myself thanking you for putting what I said above (The username also sets off NOTHERE alarms) in much clearer words. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:11, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Fake history! FAKE! SICK! Ribbet32 (talk) 00:04, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Your personal experience contributes about as much historical credence as the talking mice at the beginning of The Legend of the Titanic. Even in this diatribe you left, you lay down a number of personal attacks and fallacies, as well as a professed conflict of interest that bars you from the page. I recommend that Real History Man receives an indefinite topic ban. DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 21:49, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

@DarthBotto: Is there any point in topic-banning an SPA? NOTHERE editors are generally blocked. It saves space in WP:RESTRICT logs. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:11, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

@Hijiri88: I suppose I may be clinging to some faith that the account has an interest in history beyond promoting their buddy? DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 10:00, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Any user name equating to "truth" in some way is typically here for only a short stay. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:44, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

• This user is continuing to edit war in the article, and has now started to make not so veiled outing threats "(You should know that, WCM you'r not as faceless as you think)" diff. (Hohum ^@) 18:36, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk about BATTLEGROUND behavior! EEng 19:15, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

First of all, have studied in a History Department, Real History Man is wrong that credentials are meaningless there. Second, looking through his history, I see he's been here since May and still hasn't gotten the hint to WP:DROPTHESTICK. A clueless newbie is one thing, but eventually, time to WP:RBI. Ribbet32 (talk) 00:04, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Interestingly, absolutely nothing in a Google search on "Ricky D Phillips" shows any professional credentials for that person, except for sites started by or connected with Ricky D Phillips. There he calls himself a "Military Historian", but there's nothing to back it up, simply his assertion: no CV, no listing of his professional qualifications, nothing at all. The book, of course, despite what Real History Man writes above, is self-published, since the publisher listed, BEIC Books Ltd., is, according to their website [26], "brand new", and they list only one book as being published, The First Casualty. That presumably means that reputable firms which publish military history passed on it.

So, "Real History Man", fringe position, self-published: obviously not a reliable source, and should not be used in any way on Wikipedia. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:21, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

The prima facie evidence being clear that Ricky D Phillips and his book The First Casualty are not reliable sources, I have removed from the article the material based on it. If Real History Man wants to make the case that it is a reliable source, I suggest he go to the Reliable Sources Noticeboard and make his argument there. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:27, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Not to mention that ol' Ricky is BEIC's Managing Director [27]. Honestly, these people must think we're fools. EEng 05:58, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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User:Webmaster cc&pa username violation

UAA Filter 149 found User:St. Joe's Toronto in violation. He blatantly updated their own company's page (St. Joseph's Health Centre). When visiting the user's page I see it was renamed to User:Webmaster cc&pa which clearly violates WP:ISU as it denotes a position, not a person. Looked at Changing username/Simple but could not find a trace for the rename or who did it so I come here. The user still made the same edits to their company's page under the new name. Gave a warning to the user awaiting a reply but would like some input or a second opinion on this before blocking. -- Alexf^(talk) 15:44, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Since you gave the user a warning, Alexf, I think you should wait for the user to change to an acceptable name. Only if the user continues to edit without changing would a block be warranted, in my view, unless the promotional edits were enough to block for regardless of the username. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 18:14, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

The user was renamed by Litlok who is a global renamer. I've notified them at the French Wikipedia. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 18:20, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

That explains why I could not see who renamed it and ask the question there. I am waiting for an answer before proceeding, due to the notice I left. Just baffled as to how that new name was allowed (not to mention they continue with a COI issue). We'll take it one at a time. Thanks. -- Alexf^(talk) 18:42, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

They didn't continue with the COI. The edits, which are valid were made almost 2 hours before the name change. The fact that they made valid edits is why I didn't block right away. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 19:10, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I see now. -- Alexf^(talk) 19:32, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the renaming, it was clearly a mistake. I've performed a few hundreds of renaming, and have already rejected renamings for this reason. I did it inadvertently :( (for my defense, the temperature was about 35°C in my office and I was melting away ;-) ). Should the renaming be reverted, and another username asked for? Litlok (talk) 16:41, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

@Litlok I think this should be done. The name has issues. They should pick a new one and be admonished for COI editing. -- Alexf^(talk) 12:58, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

@Alexf OK, I have reverted the renaming. I let you post a message on their talk page. Litlok (talk) 15:03, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Merci. Message left. Will wait a day for their response, or actions. After inactivity, no response, or COI edits the account will be blocked. -- Alexf^(talk) 19:00, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

User:MJ500: Vandalism-like contributions

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Hello

I am here to report MJ500 (talk · contribs). Cursory examination of his contribution log does not suggest that this person is a vandal. Yet, he has performed edits that no sane editor with his level veterancy does. I propose his account might have been compromised.

It attracted my attention today when I discovered he had rolled back the Microsoft Windows article to an arbitrary past revision without an edit summary: It reverses recovery of many links, reverts both corrections, and returns an old faulty revision of the infobox. The editor is not a vandal, but this is definitely vandalism.

When I posted a notice in his talk page, he reverted the notice with a denial, then committed an act vengeance: He reverted one of my recent contributions to OneDrive article with a fake edit summary.

I have discovered other questionable actions in his contribution log:

• This edit has a fake edit summary and seems very much like the run-of-the-mill vandalism: [28]
• This edit is very suspicious and unbecoming of him: [29] It looks like something total Wikipedia virgins do.

I propose a temporary ban or block, until he changes his password and promises not to do any of these again.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 12:41, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

MJ500 has promised to stop edit warring on OneDrive. I'm not convinced this is a compromised account. Could just be a bad day. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:02, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate: I didn't even mention OneDrive edit warring here. (Just mention the first revenge action.) These edits are done on 1, 4 and 8 July; that'd be three bad days. Also, the Microsoft Windows revision I introduced the first? Experience tells me that it is no accident and no deliberate reversion due to a dispute. You can't let a cat on your keyboard and get a result like that. And then say I did nothing?

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 13:11, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

There's some suspicious activity on the account, but it could just be a new editor who's trying to learn how to edit Wikipedia. I'd like to hear from MJ500, but it seems like we may have to wait. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:49, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Don't know why you call the Farewall Baghdad edit run of the mill vandalism or having a fake edit summary. It looks to me much more like the editor noticed something which was only changing dates and reverted them asking for a source something which is often quite resonable except in this case they didn't actually look enough to notice these date changes were simply in the template and formatting of dates in the template. Completely stupid sure, and if this continues WP:Competence could come into play but not run of the mill vandalism. Nil Einne (talk) 17:20, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

@Nil Einne: What you say could have been true if it has been an edit, not a revert. You see, sometimes, vandals revert something and pick a canned edit summary too. In doing none of these, active thinking has a role. In this case, simply the style of two access dates had been changed. The dates are the same. This isn't something for which someone asks for the source, unless he or she is just clicking pseudo-randomly. Now, if I had seen this change alone in one's contribution log, I'd have assumed good faith. One lone error like this could have easily been a result of multi-tabbed editing. But as James Bond would say "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time is the enemy action." —Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:58, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

As I said, the date in a template had changed, as had the date style in the templates. Let me be clear, there were 3 changes and one did change an actual date from June 2015 to June 2017, not just a date style. The fact you apparently didn't notice this would seem to be a good sign that people do make mistakes when looking at stuff. Of course by the same token, someone could fail to notice that the dates in the later 2 cases weren't being changed per se, but simply had the style adjusted anyway so it's actually moot to my point. As I already said, if such mistakes happen too often, WP:Competence may come into play but I'm not seeing that yet. After all you've only presented 4 or 5 edits, and they aren't even that similar in style but rather seem to indicate a fairly careless and inexperienced (they have only been here a little over 2 weeks with fewer than 500 edits although they did immediately blue link their user and talk page suggesting some experience and yes a classic sign of a problem editor) editor.

I don't understand what you mean about an edit not a revert. The fact that it was a revert is precisely the point. As I already said, they saw someone messing around with dates and blindly reverted without properly looking what exactly was happening namely that a date in a template had changed, and also the date style in 2 other templates something which does not need a source. Clearly active thinking was involved, no one ever denied that, but they didn't look or think enough before reverting which as I've already said, is a problem, but doesn't seem to be an indicate of vandalism nor am I seeing any signs of a fake edit summary.

The edit summary makes sense when you consider what they apparently thought they were reverting, i.e. an unsourced changed of dates even if they weren't. It's something I've done myself I'm pretty sure except if there is no source, I add a source tag or sometimes just remove the dates altogether, or when I can be bothered, looked for a source. If the dates do have a source, I do of course check the souce before reverting. But yes, reverting unsourced date changes is something that happens all the time, so again I don't understand why you think it's vandalism.

And actually there's a bad good reason why reverting unsourced date changes is so common, unfortunately changing dates is a common form of silly vandalism. Actually I'm pretty sure there's a edit filter which tags such edits. (Or maybe one of the vandalism bots automatically reverted them at some stage.) And it's such a common problem that I'm pretty sure some people aren't as careful as me, if they see an IP or inexperienced editor (not Lugnuts) changing a date, they simply revert, even for example if there's a source, they don't check it. I say this because I'm pretty sure I've come across cases when an IP or inexperienced editor is trying to fix a mistake or historic vandalism by adjusting a date sometimes even to what the source says only to be unfortunately reverted. I WP:AGF that MJ500 has encounter this before and so is trying to put it into practice but failing badly at it.

Clearly it was inappropriate here but that's possibly only because they didn't look at what the date changes actually were namely not something that required a source and only one of them was even a change of a date but that doesn't make it vandalism.

Nil Einne (talk) 20:30, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

So, you are saying that what MJ500 did was to ask a source for the change {{Use dmy dates}}? Let's compare: I said that no thought went into the revert. You are saying MJ500 did think, only he is such a ... (I apologize in advance for using these two words) ... retarded imbecile that does not know a maintenance template does not require a source? It seems I assumed a significantly better faith in this colleague of ours than you did. The have such low opinion of others is uncivil.

But I say no. His collective contributions to Wikipedia shows his neither a retarded imbecile nor misinformed and misguided. He clearly knows what a maintenance template is. The sabotage he did to Microsoft Windows and OneDrive articles is itself the evidence of my claim.

Like I said, third time is the enemy action. —Codename Lisa (talk) 21:06, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Codename Lisa, it's a personal attack to refer to another editor as a retarded imbecile. You should say developmentally challenged imbecile. EEng 01:14, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Um, MJ500's user account was created on 21 June 2017 - they haven't even been on Wikipedia for three weeks. This looks a lot like someone who's made some mistakes trying to improve Wikipedia and has been met with a very WP:BITE response. I don't know why you believe this user is a veteran - maybe you've got them confused with someone else? Marianna251TALK 00:37, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Are you playing the devil's advocate or something? Severe damage was inflicted upon Microsoft Windows article and retaliatory action was taken in OneDrive article. I did neither of those when I was a newcomer. (When I was newcomer, I promoted an article into WP:FA status!) You need more than just WP:BITE. He has enough knowledge and experience to trace my contribution log and take retaliatory action. —Codename Lisa (talk) 08:36, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

No, I'm assuming good faith towards both of you, but it seems you are not assuming good faith yourself towards MJ500. If you upgraded an article to FA as a newbie, you are the exception, not the rule!

What you do seem to be assuming is that MJ500 followed your contributions from the Microsoft Windows article to the OneDrive article. OneDrive is a Microsoft product, so it's reasonable to think that someone who edited a page on one Microsoft product might also be interested in editing other Microsoft- and Windows-related articles. Even if they did follow you, though, familiarity with Wiki-type sites does not necessarily equal familiarity with Wikipedia and Wikipedia policy/procedure and does not preclude them having a genuine concern about your edit. (I had edited Wikia fansites and used Tiddlywiki before I joined Wikipedia, so I had good experience of Wiki-type sites, but I couldn't have told you the difference between a BLP and a hole in the ground.)

To quote WP:VAND, vandalism has to be deliberate. MJ500's edit to Microsoft Windows was odd and unhelpful, but its being an odd type of edit makes me lean more towards it being a mistake or accident rather than deliberate vandalism. I'd have reverted, but also left a note on MJ500's talk page querying the reason for the edit rather than give a warning. I definitely wouldn't have started with a level 3 warning and no other explanation of why it was issued - no wonder they reverted the warning. Moving on to the OneDrive page, MJ500's edit summaries were obviously referring to you changing the section heading "Client applications" to "Client apps", which hardly counts as being "fake". Yes, they reverted instead of making an edit, which deleted your paragraph and was not the right thing to do, but you never explained that to them. I have come across new users who think that they're not allowed to change part of an edit someone else has made, but that they are allowed to undo the edit if they think there's a problem, leaving it to the original editor to make the change. I'm not saying that is what's happened here, but it's about as likely as vengeful vandalism.

Overall, I feel WP:BITE (or maybe WP:PLEASEBITE) is more than sufficient to summarise this situation. I've skimmed through MJ500's edit history, which shows a few other mistakes that have been politely pointed out to them, and as soon as that happened, they changed their behaviour. More than anything else, that says to me that MJ500 is an inexperienced new editor who's trying to help but occasionally needs some guidance. Better to assume no clue before assuming bad faith/vandalism. Marianna251TALK 11:07, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

@Marianna251: I have come across new users who think [...] the original editor to make the change. Mind-blowing! This level of stupidity deserves proper celebration in some sort of hall of fame. (Well, on the second thought, no. That would be a personal attack.) But if you say you've seen this, I'll waive this case, in the spirit of WP:ROPE. After all, one must never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 13:20, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

The edit war on OneDrive has apparently been resolved, and I see nothing else actionable here. I also note WP:BITE regarding newbies. Power~enwiki (talk) 23:20, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Content deletion without explanation (as occurred in OneDrive) is vandalism; not to mention how it has the appearance of a retaliatory action. I assumed good faith and downgraded it to the possibility of compromised account. But this fellow Wikipedian needs a talking-to. —Codename Lisa (talk) 08:36, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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harassment and threatening

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Wikipedia policy says "Harassment can include actions calculated to be noticed by the target and clearly suggestive of targeting them, where no direct communication takes place."

We had no direct communication that time but the last part of this edit ( https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Talk:Annexation_of_Junagadh&diff=789557396&oldid=789555727 ) is clearly directed to me since I was the one who did the wp:banrevert

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Annexation_of_Junagadh&diff=789532029&oldid=789456750

wikipedia allows everyone to make edits and this user Kautilya3 is threatening a block over a content issue. these words show wp:ownership of article and are a form of bullying and the last bit is very threatening Anybody that wants to take responsibility for the sock edits better address this issue first. or risk getting blocked themselves — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.76.131.160 (talk) 21:47, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

• Two questions: are you one of the IP hoppers Kautilya3 has been reverting for vandalism and did you plan to notice the editor in question about this ANI, as required?TheGracefulSlick (talk) 21:56, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

i am not hopping, i am just using a different internet connection from home and workplace. my ip is only the ones beginning with 81 and 46 ones. check the edit reasons of kautilya3, no where does it say anything about vandalism. and i am notifying him , i am trying to work out how to do the ANI template — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.76.131.160 (talk) 22:03, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

First things first. You did not do WP:BANREVERT. I did BANREVERT. The editor who wrote this content, Towns Hill, was indefinitely topic-banned from India and Pakistan topics for repeated POV pushing across a range of articles. The user created this content using a sock, for which he and all his socks are now permanently blocked. By reinstating this POV content, you risk being blocked yourself. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 23:19, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

This is not a situation that needs admin attention, except possibly a boomerang for the OP. There is no harassment going on: Kautilya appears to have reverted unsourced content on one occasion and edits by a blocked sock on another. Nothing problematic there. Vanamonde (talk) 17:33, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

i did a search and saw you also yourself take responsibility for blocked sock POV pushers edits ( https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk%3AIndo-Pakistani_War_of_1947#Kautilya3_and_meat_puppetry ) so others can also do it. as i am new to wiki and am not too familiar with everything here i by mistake wrote banrevert in place of revertban but still you understood what i was trying to do because just after i did that(https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Annexation_of_Junagadh&diff=789532029&oldid=789456750 you posted this threatening message on talkpage (https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Talk:Annexation_of_Junagadh&diff=789557396&oldid=789555727 ). you understood i was trying to take responsibility for re adding the content hence this threat you gave

and he is also repeating his blocking threat here again publicly

Kautilya3 is now mailing other people to find out my identity ( https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kautilya3&diff=789786755&oldid=789732681 ) . He is doing more harassment. Wikipedia says "Do not disclose any personal information disallowed on Wikipedia Posting real names or email addresses not previously and voluntarily disclosed on Wikipedia can be considered outing. Such information may be communicated privately to the Arbitration Committee." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.255.69.142 (talk) 05:32, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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Possible block evasion, and vandalism/WP:OWN after release from block

Hi, this report seemed a little complex for AIV which is why I brought it here. AlexWikiIDK (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was blocked for one week on 20 June. The cited reason for the block was repeated uploading of copyrighted images, and for at least one of those images the user was rather unapologetic about it, going so far as to insist that he had the right to release an image to public domain when it was clearly copied from the website of a reputable source ([30]). If I recall correctly there were more similar comments on the talk pages of deleted files, but I don't have access to those. Since his block expired he has vandalized two different user pages ([31] [32]) and exhibited WP:OWN by making frivolous block requests for JustDoItFettyg (talk · contribs), who reverted his edits ([33] [34]). Alex also made a baseless accusation of sockpuppetry to the same user ([35]), though an SPI was never filed. I suspect that this anon edit was Alex evading his block due to a similar editing pattern. I'm requesting an indef block for abuse of editing privileges. Thank you. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 23:25, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

I've looked at KuyaBriBri's diffs, and they have presented what appears to be an accurate case against AlexWikiIDK. Normally, a second block after a one week block would call for a two week block, but I think that because AlexWikiIDK began misbehaving almost immediately their block was up, a stronger sanction is called for. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:06, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure the IP editor is him. I don't want to say anything too harsh, but, frankly, the IP editor seems a bit more competent. The other stuff is frustrating by itself, though. I'm not really sure what to do about this. Does AlexWikiIDK make useful contributions? This edit makes me think that we wouldn't really be missing much if Alex were indefinitely blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 09:12, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Doing a random spot-check, it looks like most of their edits are reverted by a variety of other editors almost immediately. I'm not sure their editing has actually added anything much to the encyclopedia at all. Either WP:CIR is an issue, or its trolling -- either way. an indef block wouldn't be inappropriate: they can always try to explain why they should be unblocked. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:11, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

(edited) Rather than come here and respond to this report Alex has once again contacted Oshwah (talk · contribs) claiming that this report is "gossip" and "messed up", and still wants to claim that a blatant copyvio was self-created/public domain ([36]). FWIW the file in question is the 2017 iteration of File:NickiMinaj.jpg. The user has also stated that he is 9 years old ([37]). If that's the case a pointer to WP:GFYE might be in order but regardless the disruption should be dealt with. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 22:49, 9 July 2017 (UTC) edited 22:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I made a response to his messages on my user talk page here. I'm hoping that this helps him to understand and participate here so that we can help him. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 18:40, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Promotional editing at Nelson De La Nuez

User:Artworldpro is a single-purpose account devoted to editing Nelson De La Nuez, a BLP. Artworldpro created the article five years ago, and has been its only substantive contributor. All versions of the article have included gross policy violations, including extensive unsourced content in a BLP (including some unreferenced quotations), unreliable and promotional sourcing, including PR Newswire pieces and sites hawking the artist's goods for sale, and an unremitting stream of promotional prose, such as "As one of the world's most collected, significant pop artists today, Nelson De La Nuez has a great American story, having come from Cuba at age 7 with nothing but talent" (cited to a not-very-authoritative magazine piece that doesn't particularly support the superlatives); and "As of 2017, the artist's galleries that sell his work are located in the most prestigious, wealthy locations in the world and his documented art sales have soared up to $105,000" (wholly unreferenced). Artworldspro's most recent text can be seen here. Hardly a single sentence is both properly phrased and properly sourced.

I stubbed the article last week, and Artworldpro is edit warring to restore the obviously inappropriate material with edi summaries like "I have the copyright as proof on this-WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?" and "Replacing article-was deleted by a vandal-IT'S PROPERLY CITED-this is a well known, prominent respected artist-ALL INFO CAN BE PROVEN-NOT TO BE REMOVED-VANDAL TO BE REPORTED-WARNED-2ND TIME)", but not even a pretense of substantive discussion. When I posted a warning on their talk page, they responded with another rant about the wonders of the artist's work and career, but no attempt to comply with applicable policies (see User talk:Artworldpro#Edit warring, proscribed content). Their comments make clear Artworldpro has a COI problem, and may even be the article subject).

Artworldpro is clearly not here to write encyclopedic content, and their principal interest is promotional. I ask that, at the very least, they be topic banned from the subject of Nelson De La Nuez and his businesses, regardless of the article involved. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 02:54, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

While Artworldpro is probably an SPA with a COI, you stubbed the article much, much too deeply, and your identification of there being "BLP violations" in the article is incorrect. I've restored some of what you removed and cleaned, un-promoed and copy-edited everything. Since you are involved enough to have edit-warred with Artworldpro over this, I suggest you leave the article for other editors to work on, especially since in my estimation you do not have a BLP exemption from edit-warring. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:30, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I have dropped a note on Artworldpro's talk page, advising them not to edit war, that they don't own the article, they we don;t allow Wikipedia to be used for promotion, and that they appear to have a serious COI about the subject matter. I have suggested to Artworldpro that same thing I suggested to HW above, that they step away from the article and refrain from editing it. Both parties should allow neutral editors to work on it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:48, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Further update: while I still think HW went too deep in stripping the article, I can understand where he's coming from. De La Nuez calls himself "The King of Pop Art"; I don't know if that's true or not, but he's almost certainly "The King of Self-Promotion". Many sources in Google about him carry the exact same wording, and they all seem to trace back to De La Nuez himself. It's damn hard to find citations that come from hard core reliable sources. This is so much the case, that some intrepid soul might like to try the article out at AfD and see what happens: maybe the attention given it there could pry loose something. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:16, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Indeed, you should dig in even further, there's still a pile of self-promotion left in the current text. The "Museum of Humor Art", for example, is just a website where de la Nuez sells crappy consumer goods, and is not a reliable source for anything; the Park West Gallery, which provides the primary biographical source cited in the article, has an unsavory reputation (see [38]); and references like 1stdibs.com don't actually support the claims they're cited for. There's brazen misconduct involved in this bio, and I think the stubbing I performed was, if anything, overly lenient. Fraudulent self-promotion is a violation of BLP policy, too. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 11:01, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I've done what I think is appropriate for the moment. Other editors are working on the page now, and I don't plan to dispute their changes. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:55, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Looking at this from a COI perspective, there are few available WP:RS sources. The closest thing I can find to actual news coverage is something in the Ventura County Star because the artist was apparently one of the last people to make a delivery to Michael Jackson. All else is PR Newswire or similar. ("Private Air Luxury Magazine?" "Global License Magazine?" Please.) May fail WP:ARTIST for notability. Even the current stub has fluff; one "reference" is to "Nelson De La Nuez Boxed Note cards (box of 20)", which has been dropped by Amazon. Tempted to send the article to AfD. John Nagle (talk) 20:53, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Sent to AfD, after someone else agreed on talk page that notability was lacking. John Nagle (talk) 22:25, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Remove talk page access

Can an admin please remove this user's talk page access? Callmemirela 🍁 ^talk 14:41, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Because he's annoying you by pinging you? Or what? Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 15:06, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

It's a pattern of theirs to ping users involved with their block for no good reason and it's not the first time they've done it. Callmemirela 🍁 ^talk 15:13, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Definitely harassment from one of Orchomen's countless socks. I have revoked his talk page privileges. Favonian (talk) 15:15, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

• Comment Is it possible to remove the ability to send a ping without removing talk page access? If not, should it be?--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:25, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
  • I've never heard of that before. Callmemirela 🍁 ^talk 23:40, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

There's a fair amount of quacking going on here, replicating the behavior descibed above above. The account is a confirmed sock of Orchomen. My bet is that this behavior will repeat itself with other blocked sock-account, so I would suggest denying TP-access to all accounts. Kleuske (talk) 10:04, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

There's no way to just remove access to pings, but pings are triggered by edits, and we can prevent editing. Any user abusing their talk page to disruptively notify other users can have their talk page access revoked, as they're not using it to address their block (the only thing a blocked user is allowed to use their talk page for). It appears BU Rob13 has already revoked talk page access for all of the user's confirmed socks, and I'll add a note to the SPI to do the same for future cases. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:11, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Slovakia

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Edits by User:Joobo (talk) are unconstructive, this user changed almost all photos in this article to worst, to look Slovakia worst. I asking to delete all his edits in this article and if he wants to change so many things, he can use Talk page. The User:Joobo (talk) does not discuss anything and keep deleting my comments from his Talk page. Requesting that action be taken. Thank you. Peter1170(talk) 20:04, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@Peter1170: If you wish for any administrator to look at your topic of discussion you must first notify the editor (that you have a problem with) on their talk page, or your complaint will be disregarded. It's simple all you have to do is paste this subst:ANI-notice on their talk page. Thanks Chilicheese22 (talk) 20:14, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

It looks like Peter1170 left notices on Joobo's talk page [39] which Joobo then deleted.[40] Similarly, Joobo left notices on Peter1170's talk page [41] which Peter1170 then deleted.[42]. The parties seem to be fighting over how many pictures of churches to include.[43]. It's not entirely clear what the parties are arguing over or why they are so wound up about this. Neither party has written anything useful on the article talk page. It would be helpful if the parties would summarize their dispute there. Not seeing a COI issue. John Nagle (talk) 22:14, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@Nagle:That maybe so, but he has not left a notice on Joobo's talk page about this discussion that we are currently having, leaving this discussion null. Anyway's from what you have shown this seems more of a content dispute and since no party has committed a violation that pertains to this page I would just recommend that they take this over to the content dispute area. Also since both users have committed WP:3RR violations on the Slovakia article, any punishment placed on one user would have to result in a reciprocating punishment to the other user.Chilicheese22 (talk) 00:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Agreed. So I entered this on the edit warring board at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:Joobo.2C_User:_Peter1170:_reported_by_User:Nagle_.28Result:_.29. (I have zero edits on Slovakia; I was thinking this might be some COI issue that needed WP:COIN attention, but no. Let the edit war board sort out this tempest in a teapot.) John Nagle (talk) 20:32, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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Liberty7777

I noticed this on Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#James White (theologian).

User:Liberty7777 has been inserting material into the BLP at James White (theologian) with citations to youtube, facebook, jihadwatch.org, conservativereview.com, etc. Using the Jihad Watch source appears to be a BLP violation, and the conservative review page does not appear to mention James White. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:27, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

user 71.86.114.4 is harassing datagod by attempting to reveal name

The user behind 71.86.114.4 has attempted to reveal personally identifying information about user datagod (me), while accusing me of vandalizing articles. I add factual information and photographs of notable people, making sure I first added the photos to wiki commons (I am a professional photographer who knows most of these people personally).

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Datagod

From my talk page:

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This user is undergoing effort to alter Wikipedia in favor of himself and his friends while vandalizing other articles and accusing others falsely of doing so. Datagod - real name Billy McEvoy - is a close personal friend of Billy Mitchell, Walter Day and Ruby J Ferretti yet is enterting information about them into Wikipedia, most of it false. For example, another gamer owns the Splatterhouse record and it has been proven false that Mitchell did not reach the first Pacman split screen. Furthermore, McEvoy has posted a photo of himself on the US National Team page, despite never being part of the team. All of this is clearly in violation of the self promotional rules of Wikipedia as he is too close to the subjects to objectively edit information on them. Furthermore, Mr. McEvoy and his friends are using Wikipedia as a tool for their petty personal grudges with Mr. Patterson, including removal of mentions of him in other Wiki articles. He and his friends are intentionally leaving out a portion of Mr. Patterson's name in the US National Team article in the effort of getting under his skin, while claiming my edits to the correct name are somehow vandalism. No, I am not Mr. Patterson, but I have spoken with him and his colleagues and can confirm my edits are based in fact. I do not personally know any of the associated people on either side of this petty arguement. However, it is clear to me that Datagod is abusing his edits on here to benefit his freinds and attempt to cause strife toward his chosen enemies, all while pretending to be the good guy. He has no clear interest in objective edits, only making those which benefit himself and his freinds and ones that he feels may bother his enemies. Moderators may wish to take careful note of his edit history.-------------------------

Datagod (talk) 22:03, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Uhhh, dude, you outed yourself on your userpage, making this a content issue. 74.70.146.1 (talk) 22:27, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

No I did not. My userpage was modified by the user at ip address 71.86.114.4 to include my alleged real name. I left it there so people could see the attempt at harassment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Datagod (talk • contribs) 22:41, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

For reference, this is the edit by the IP alleging the identity of Datagod. This is blatant harassment. Also, @Datagod:, please learn to sign your comments. Blackmane (talk) 22:58, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Edit has been removed from page history.[44] Please do not call attention to WP:OUTING attempts. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:25, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Datagod has a link on his user page that goes to [redacted]. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 03:41, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Outing attempt BY User:Datagod

• There seems to be something not right about all of this. User:Datagod has a link on his user page which goes to a web profile for someone named William McEvoy. So the IP editor wasn't outing Datagod at all. A little Googling shows that there is someone named William McEvoy associated with the video game world record scene. I assume they are the same person. So it is quite possible that the IP editor's assertion of conflict of interest is something that should be looked into. More importantly, Datagod himself has attempted to "out" the IP by naming a person who Datagod believes is using the IP. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 04:16, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

This is precisely the kind of situation for which the word clusterfuck was invented. EEng 04:19, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

EEng, you just made my day. I love that word! Callmemirela 🍁 ^talk 04:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I take it I can count on your vote in the next election for Wikipedia Poet Laureate. EEng 04:55, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Hell yeah ;P Callmemirela 🍁 ^talk 05:20, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

There was an old link, was so small I didn't notice it even though I looked twice. Finally found it and removed it. There is no conflict of interest, as the IP person was alleging. I travel across the USA attending video game events as a photographer. I have placed several images into commons wikimedia and included these photos in several articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Datagod (talk • contribs) 04:33, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I made mention of who I thought the user was because I believed it was a user who was avoiding a ban. When I realized what I did was against the rules, I removed the information. I am still learning the ropes here obviously, and would like to apologize for any inappropriate conduct. I am happy with my own talk page being locked temporarily, and would like to consider this matter resolved. And I will try to remember to sign this time. Datagod (talk) 05:27, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

• This probably needs a ping to the videogame project for an experienced editor in the area to take a look. There is a long and contentious history with videogame records (I recognize almost all the names listed in the IP's complaint) which has devolved at times into accusations of falsifying etc etc. There have been proven instances of people attempting to claim records for which they are not entitled. Only in death does duty end (talk) 07:19, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
  • OID asked me to look, and going through, the one thing that I see is that the edits Datagod adds and/or reverts to are ones that include sourced material to acceptable RSes for video game high scores (eg like Twin Galaxies). The IP or others remove the information or change it without providing sources. Now, what they are saying may be true but without sources to check the validity, it's hard to argue. There certainly can be disputes among arcade game high scores (it depends on when, where, how it was recorded, etc.) so there could be valid issues here, but we have one side with sources the other without, and it's hard to treat those equally. But I don't know enough on this apparent spat between the various named individuals to know how this is playing out on WP either. --MASEM (t) 13:38, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
  • The editor that Datagod is referring to as a "banned user" is User:SuperPacMan. As far as I can tell, they aren't blocked or banned. This appears to be a fight between members of the video game records community, all of whom probably have a vested interest in their version of events. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 16:47, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
  • As far as I can tell, User:SuperPacMan has been indefinitely blocked for making legal threats. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:SuperPacMan I might be mis-interpreting that warning of course, and if so I apologize. Datagod (talk) 17:58, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

    They were blocked (hence the message), but were unblocked after the threat was retracted. See the user's block log; notice how they are were blocked but was subsequently unblocked. SkyWarrior 18:09, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Edit war

In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, user Neptune's Trident continues to delete what's confirmed by a reliable source (insteat of go talk page and discuss it as I have offered). No reliable sources from mr. Neptune's Trident, and there is edit war going on.--82.208.100.79 (talk) 22:42, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

If you are proposing to change an article and another user has objected to the changes, it's your responsibility to discuss your proposed changes on the article talk page and gain consensus for the changes. It takes two to edit-war, so I suggest that you open a thread on the talk page and wait for a discussion to begin. Unless the information relates to unsourced or poorly-sourced claims about a living person, there's no urgent need to force the change to happen. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 22:50, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

In fact, I started a thread on talk page before I came to administrators' noticeboard, but the response was clearly negative.--82.208.100.79 (talk) 22:59, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

• This unregistered user keeps insisting that this film is a horror film and this is the supposed reliable source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2012/07/film_club_-_twin_peaks_fire_wa.html

A blog on the BBC website. Yet nowhere in the link is this film listed of classified as a horror film, simply point that out area out where it says it is classified as horror on that blog listing of the BBC website. Neptune's Trident (talk) 22:54, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

• David Lynch's magnificent 1992 horror movie. is what this link says. IMDb says the same, for example.--82.208.100.79 (talk) 22:57, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Much of IMDb is user-generated content, which makes it even less suitable for Wikipedia than a BBC opinion column. Regardless, the place to have this discussion is the article talk page. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 22:59, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

At least I have BBC on my side. Neptune's Trident has nothing but his own words. And I don't want to discuss it anymore, it's obvious that if one deletes a sourced opinion he must provide his own sources. I haven't seen any sources. So the violation is not on my side anyway.--82.208.100.79 (talk) 23:03, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

You don't actually have BBC on your side. The source uses doesn't mention or label that the movie is a horror movie. Go to the talk page and get a consensus or drop the stick and move on.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 03:38, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

The source provided says "The second Kermode Uncut Film Club choice is David Lynch's magnificent 1992 horror movie. Watch this introduction and let me know what you think of the film." Mark Kermode is the BBC's top film critic, and arguably one of, if not the, top film critics in the UK. If he labels something a horror film and the BBC is happy to print it as such, that would generally suffice as a reliable source that its a horror film, absent anything contradictory. (Being Lynch of course, sources from the time of release didn't really know what to make of it, subsequent analysis/reviews generally come down to noir thriller/horror, leaning one way or other depending on who is doing the reviewing.) Only in death does duty end (talk) 07:09, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

User Rebismusic now insulting people and defaming people online.

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The constant edit wars from Rebismusic, who is not even a Wikipedian herself, has gotten to the point where now if you edit an article (in this case, Marsha P. Johnson's), they'll leave you with insults and defamation. This is one of the latest from this morning: https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Marsha_P._Johnson&oldid=prev&diff=789875712 This user also has a habit of changing the article to fit their narrative rather than go by sources already cited. I suggest some moderators come and assess the situation before it gets totally out of hand. Thanks. BrothaTimothy (talk · contribs) 05:40, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Comment:--Applied for 30/500 page protection.Winged Blades ^Godric 07:18, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Comment:--Though the comments from RM's side was toxic, both of you need to step off the gas and participate in some constructive mediated dispute-resolution(I see WP:DRN has been approached) rather than continual revert-warring each other.Winged Blades ^Godric 07:18, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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User:Yashodip Bhadane Self Biography

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User:Yashodip Bhadane (talk) has continued to create biographical articles about himself despite multiple warnings not to do so. To my knowlage, his page article Yashodip bhadane has in some form or another been nominated for deletion 8 times, and deleted 7 times. Requesting that action be taken, with my personal recommendation being an indef ban. SamHolt6 (talk) 06:27, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Wouldn't a topic ban solve the problem? Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:36, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

A global block is what's required, his user page spam is being pulled over from meta. I've blocked locally, a topic ban will work if the user has interests other than self-promotion. He's been doing the same thing at many wikis including wikinews, mr.wiki, wikiversity etc, there's nothing other than self-promotion across the many many wikis he's been to. —SpacemanSpiff 06:45, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps some salt needs to be sprinkled, liberally Blackmane (talk) 07:01, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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For the love of God, someone please semi-protect my talk page - for a long time

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My talk page is coming under sustained attack from 120.61.5.145, as visible here, for example, but you can just check the revision history. For the love of God, would someone please semi-protect my talk page for a LONG time and block this obnoxious vandal. The same vandal was previously editing as 120.61.9.88, and there is every reason to think they are just going to shift to a different IP. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 09:25, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

You will get a much faster response if you ask this question at WP:RFPP. Regards, Jonathan A Jones (talk) 09:29, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I wasn't even aware it handled requests for talk page protection, as well as requests for article protection - thanks for the information. The request stands, of course. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 09:31, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I just looked at it, and it looks like the vandalism has stopped for now.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:32, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Sure, except that you've got someone who can evidently edit from multiple IP addresses, and being a persistent vandal, will probably just switch to another one. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 09:34, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Note also from Protection Policy: "User talk pages are rarely protected, and are semi-protected for short durations only in the most severe cases of vandalism from IP users. Users whose talk pages are semi-protected should have an unprotected user talk subpage linked conspicuously from their main talk page to allow good faith comments from non-autoconfirmed users. A user's request to have his or her own talk page protected is not a sufficient rationale to protect the page." Jonathan A Jones (talk) 09:35, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I'll set up an unprotected user talk subpage linked conspicuously from my main talk page promptly should someone feel like acting on my request. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 09:37, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Are you asking for indefinite talk page protection or just for a limited period? Vandals tend to get bored and go away.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:38, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

There is no reason the talk page protection should be indefinite. I'll drop the request and forget the issue if the vandalism does indeed stop. If it doesn't, I will go on complaining about it here. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 09:40, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

That's actually what I was going to suggest. Repeated (as in separated by time) vandalism will get more response than a single spate. We're quite sympathetic to you, but we're trying to follow what passes for standard operating procedure around here.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:45, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Fine, I understand that. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 09:57, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I recommend you go ahead and set up that unprotected talk page. Then if you get attacked again, it will be ready to use. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:48, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I'll hold off from doing that for now. But I will do it promptly if vandalism resumes. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 23:47, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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201.93.25.35 making personal attacks

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201.93.25.35 has been making racist homophobic misogynistic personal attacks in both the contents of their edits and in their edit messages. The user was blocked before in March of this year (perhaps for similar behaviour? There are no visible edits).

They haven't edited since the most recent warning against them, but their attacks are pretty extreme. Can they be blocked, and have some or all of their edits revdeleted? Thank you. --ChiveFungi (talk) 12:02, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Their edit summary from a few hours ago actually makes me kind of proud of being Swedish (which is a weird sensation, since national pride is not a Swedish characteristic!) With my bias thus clearly revealed, I agree that this is not somebody who is interested in building an encyclopedia, only in POV pushing. --bonadea contributions talk 12:16, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I've blocked the IP, who is very bravely using a proxy, for six months. Acroterion (talk) 12:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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Disruptive editing

User:2600:8800:FF0E:1200:38CB:9114:760:E5F1 has engaged in disruptive editing over at Portal:Current events/2017 July 3 (Revision history: [45]). Warnings were given but each time the user blanked their talkpage. [46], [47], [48] while accusing multiple editors of "socking". [49], [50], [51].

I don't know if this user is linked in anyway to a sock but between the disruptive editing and the baseless sock accusations it looks suspicious. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 16:33, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Note: This IP has already been blocked by Widr for 31 hours for this behavior, though the block has now expired. Home Lander (talk) 16:47, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Blocked again. Widr (talk) 16:51, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Widr, appreciated, but they actually haven't edited since the last block. I believe Knowledgekid87 is just a little suspicious (as am I) that there's a little more behind this that meets the eye. Home Lander (talk) 16:54, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

possible edit warring sock/vandal at Beaconsfield and Amersham

Multiple IPs are persistently making the same unconstructive edits at Beaconsfield and Amersham, at least 1 of them has continued despite 2 edit warring notices and a level 4 vandalisim warning. All the IPs are similar and geolocate to London or elsewhere in southern Britain. Tornado chaser (talk) 19:18, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

If you're talking about the addition of "affluent", if anything I'm inclined to block the editors reverting the IP's good-faith additions for edit-warring. Just a Google search on beaconsfield richest town or amersham richest town will bring up a huge stack of sources that these are two of the most affluent places in the world (and generally Beaconsfield ranks top as the richest town in Britain). ‑ Iridescent 20:29, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I will stop reverting the addition of affluent, this looked like vandalism when after repeated requests to discuss on the talk, the IPs kept reverting. There were also repeated deletions of the pronunciation guide. Tornado chaser (talk)

It appears there is no longer any issue, "affluent" has been added with a source, and deletions of the pronunciation guide have stopped. Tornado chaser (talk) 13:06, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Looks to me like an anon switching IPs to break the 3rr rule, which isn't a non-issue at all, IMO. I have reverted. They should create an account and not evade 3RR if they want to not be reverted, besides which this is opinion pushing. If they ahvent been informed of this thread they should be. ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 13:40, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Iridescent, how is evading 3RR through multiple IPs good faith and since when do editors get blocked for reverting opinion pushing? ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 13:42, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

We could equally say Britain or the US or Switzerland are wealthy countries as the opening statement but we don't and we shouldnt here either. http://www.independent.co.uk/money/worlds-wealthiest-countries-switzerland-financial-assets-allianz-richest-world-country-usa-uk-a7327741.html. ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 13:48, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I am also baffled how an admin could claim edits which remove the pronunication guide to a town whose name is often mispronounced could by any stretch of the imagination be considered good faith and then threaten to block users who revert this. Something is very wrong here. ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 13:53, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Ahem. Iridescent was referring to If you're talking about the addition of "affluent", not to all IP edits in general. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:42, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I thought it was a little odd to have an adjective like this is the lead. I have informed them of this thread, but there were so many I can't be sure I got them all, but I alerted as many as I saw. Tornado chaser (talk) 15:52, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Jo-Jo Eumerus, in that case it would be a content dispute, we do not require admins wading into simple content disputes blocking whoever they disagree with. the placing was inappropriate and such a factor (wealth) should be discussed in the article and not made as a simple assertion right at the beginning. In Great Missenden the issue was already discussed in the 2nd paragraph but that didnt stop the IP making his assertion in the opening. Simply an inappropriate comment by Iridescent. ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 17:04, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't agree. People on Beaconsfield were way too trigger happy with these revert and undo buttons. The IPs flipped out with deceptive edit summaries and IP-hopping then but the logged in editors behaved sloppily. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:57, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I think wealthy/affluent should go in the economy section, not the lead. Also this same edit war is also occurring at Great Missenden, Penn, Buckinghamshire, and Gerrards Cross. Tornado chaser (talk) 23:19, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

user abusing wikipedia system

Troll back under the bridge. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 22:41, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
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user flyer22 reborn going out of way to harass my attempts to construct a better wikipedia article on a subject in need of help. admits themself they are not much into the subject at hand (Yaoi) but insists on repeatedly reverting the tiny changes I make to the yaoi page. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Flyer22_Reborn submit that this user be banned from wikipedia as you can see at the bottom of their talk page I am not the only one they harass the efforts of. here I am thinking Wikipedia was an open source venue for knowledge, not a place for some pompous ass to remove the knowledge put forth by another. progress is impossible with this type of pretentious backward self-indulgence and such individuals should be cut from the fold as they contribute nothing but rather prevent others' contributions. thank you for your time in looking into this matter. I have used the notification on their talk page as requested.. but honestly your system needs help, the coding makes things needlessly complicated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.178.245.58 (talk) 20:38, 10 July 2017 (UTC) Uninvolved editor here: I know nothing about the topic, but this edit summary was uncalled for. I was about to leave a warning on no personal attacks when I saw you started this thread. –FlyingAce✈hello 20:45, 10 July 2017 (UTC) You want them banned for saying you were disruptive?! And, one time at that? Also, if you read Flyer22 Reborn's talk page, his queries from I.P. addresses are predominantly resolved on the spot. DARTHBOTTO talk•cont 21:07, 10 July 2017 (UTC) Anyways, boomerang time. DARTHBOTTO talk•cont 21:08, 10 July 2017 (UTC) Uninvolved user comment: Can an admin please revdel the edit summary linked above by FlyingAce (talk · contribs) per CFRD #2? —KuyaBriBriTalk 21:18, 10 July 2017 (UTC) No. I'd already blocked the IP before all of the above, but there's no possible way revdel would be justifiable here. ‑ Iridescent 21:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC) I went ahead and reverted their pointy edits. I am by no means a fan of Flyer, but they are correct here. The IP editor has major biases. --Tarage (talk) 21:26, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Charlo Greene

I've brought this up here in the past, per this discussion and no action was taken. The question of sockpuppetry was also brought up, but I think this may just be a case of a few people coming to Wikipedia with an agenda.

Long story short, the user AlaskanCannabis has repeatedly tried to add negative information to the article for Charlo Greene, sourcing it to things like a Reddit AMA and an occasional news story. The claims are of things like her stalking and harassing someone (including making rape threats), of her being a scam artist, and the like. It's all extremely weak sourcing and the main thing they've tried to use is a Reddit AMA that has someone posting news articles and making their own claims from said articles. I've tried explaining to them several times that we can't include negative content without a heck of a lot of coverage due to BLP guidelines and it needs to be extremely carefully written at that. It's not that I have any love for Greene, it's just that I don't think that claims of this nature have any place on Wikipedia without a huge amount of coverage to justify inclusion purely because it's the type of stuff that people love to sue over.

Recently they tried adding information about the Reddit AMA to the page with this edit and they posted a comment to my talk page saying that not including this information makes it promotional. I'll be very honest, their sole purpose for being here seems to be to include this information and I've outright warned them now that they are running the risk of getting blocked. Personally, I'd highly endorse a block right here and now - the only reason they don't have one right now is that I'm involved with this and want any block to be on the up and up. I don't think that they have anything to contribute to Wikipedia that won't be negative coverage of Greene. I really don't think that this should close without them being blocked, as they've been warned in the past about this here and a post at BLP/N ended with people agreeing that the content had no reason being on Wikipedia. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 22:00, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

While bearing in mind WP:BITE, their attitude doesn't show that they are willing to take on board the advice of others. Not to mention their singlemindedness with regards to Charlo Green more or less sums up WP:SPA. Anything less than a commitment to mentorship and a 6 month topic ban from Charlo Green should be met with a block. If they're here with an agenda then this would effectively be the same as an indefinite block. If they do intend to be a contributing member of the community, then this should show that intention. Blackmane (talk) 23:04, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

So Rampart is allowed to have a special section to discuss their AMA, but Charlo Greene can't? Everything I have posted has been well documented by the Alaska media, not sure why Tokyogirl79 keeps making up falsehoods in order to help protect Charlo's image. Tokyogirl79 seems to have no interest in making a page for Rocky Burns, or any of the other individuals involved. And now she wants to have me banned because I don't agree with her? How ridiculous. It's obvious your motives are politically motivated based upon the subjects race and/or gender. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlaskanCannabis (talk • contribs) 03:24, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• I've answered this at my talk page, but frankly Wikipedia is not a place to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS and in order to include even small bits of controversy (freaking out at an AMA and changing things to swear words can be seen as controversial) we need to have a lot of coverage that goes into depth and shows that it's notable in the long run. Most times when someone acts erratically like this, that activity isn't considered noteworthy until some time later, when people write about someone's overall life and actions. Sometimes actions in the short run can be notable, but it has to have almost global coverage or it otherwise runs the risk of smacking of WP:TABLOID. I just don't think that you're really here for the right reasons, honestly. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 17:03, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

User:DePiep

I have a complaint against User:DePiep of uncivility, and particularly of edit-warring and personal attacks. My apologies for the length, but as DePiep has been a persistent problem I believe full documentation is necessary.

On 1 June DePiep – self-declared as "recently entered the earthquake domain, coming from the physics department (actually: as a formatting fanatic)" (diff) — began opining at Talk:Seismic scale (diff) that the symbol "M", as used in identifying earthquake magnitude scales, should be italicized. (Related comments subsequently made at Template_talk:Infobox_earthquake#Magnitude_notation.)

He has subsequently argued at Talk:Seismic scale#It would be better to use "Richter" instead of "Richter scale" (6 July diff) that "scale" should be removed from various section headers in that article, and even article titles (e.g.: Moment magnitude scale -> Moment magnitude).

I have expressed reservations about some of his ideas, and as I am the only other commentator I would expect that he understands that he does not have consensus. (Especially as "pushing change without consensus" was the very point he complained of regarding someone else on the 4th [diff].)

Nonetheless, on 22 June he "boldly" – which is to say, without discussion or consultation specific to that page – added a formatted "M_L" symbol to Richter magnitude scale (diff). When Dawnseeker2000 reverted (diff), with the edit summary "Please wait until an agreement on formatting is made, DePiep restored his edit (diff) just fifteen minutes later, with the edit summary "??? This is how we write M_L. What is your point?".

Recently (6 July) he began editing the documentation for Template:M (a template I have been preparing for readily formatting and tracking the use of earthquake magnitude scales) by relabeling links to "Richter magnitude scale" to "Richter magnitude" (diff. When I reverted (diff), asking him to discuss if he has an issue, he restored his edit (diff), saying: "I already *did* discuss & source (ISO, SI) this." He certainly did not discuss that change at Template talk:M, where his only contribution to that point (see history) was to assert that using a magnitude symbol without an equal sign (i.e.: "M_w") is a "Major error". (It appears that he considers his remarks at Talk:Seismic scale enough discussion for proceeding.)

He made some additional edits, and when I reverted one, asking him to "Discuss before resuming", he again restored (diff), with the edit summary: "Undid revision 789694974 by J. Johnson (talk) per WP:BOLD and WP:BRD: improvements. Don't just blindly say 'undiscussed so bad' Why do you revert this table cleanup?"

Since the 8th he has been heavily editing Template:M itself (see history), which has caused some breakage. When I reverted his initial edit (diff), with the comment "Please do not break the template simply because you don't like theformat.", he reverted (six minutes later, diff), with the comment: "Undid revision 789694079 by J. Johnson (talk) 1. I did not break anything. 2. the testcases page now is double again. 3. another personal jab in your es (why?)". At which point I felt it was useless to chase after all his edits. I reverted several edits this morning, but he immediately undoes them (see history).

On 9 July DePiep revised the use of Template:M in some 50 earthquake articles, and around 30 lists of earthquakes. While these edits may have indeed been improvements, again it was without discussion. When Dawnseeker2000 (who has been maintaining many of those articles and lists) objected (at Template_talk:M#Major error, (diff)), DePiep's response (diff)was to evade responsibility and blame it on me: "I used the style as provided & documented by this template (created by J. Johnson)." (To forestall DePiep's anticipatable retort: Dawnseeker2000 is not complaining of the formatting produced by the template, but of how you used template.)

All of the above demonstrates demonstrates a lack of respect for other editors, and for established norms of conduct, all constituting an in-grained lack of WP:CIVILITY. Additionally, DePiep has repeatedly insinuated that I have attacked him. E.g.:

• At Talk:Seismic scale#Lede, when I suggested that attempting to "define, measure, and describe" magnitude in the lede was "rather pedantic", he construed it as "A jab that could be perceived as a personal attack even." (diff),

• At Talk:Moment_magnitude_scale#Distracting_editsummary_vs._clear_statements he stated (diff) that an edit summary of mine (diff) "introduces a distraction of the topic even introducing Accusation about personal behavior that lack evidence."

• At Template_talk:M#Major error: "your responses are touching WP:PA, WP:BF, WP:CIVIL trespassing without being helpful or improving." (diff)

I believe a close examination of each of these cases shows that his imputation of a personal attack is baseless.

For all of his incivility and failure to respect other editors, and for his particular disruptions, I ask that user DePiep be banned from making any edits to Template:M, or its documentation, or to any article or list regarding earthquake magnitudes or magnitude scales. Because of his long history of incivility and personal attacks (see block log), I ask that this ban be made permanent. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:41, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Due to commitments in RL, I cannot comment earlier than later today (UTC). -DePiep (talk) 04:57, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I want to hear from DePiep but this does not look good — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:13, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

ANI can be harsh, and I'm not here to throw anyone under the bus (I've been the subject here a few times). I usually don't have much to say, but let me start by saying that up until this post, I considered DePiep's stance and tone a little unusual. This was the case in an edit summary after I'd reverted a change of his on Richter magnitude scale with the explanation to wait until we have an agreement on formatting. This was soon reverted with the tail end of his summary saying "what is your point?". That's fine I suppose, but I did not challenge or even attempt to communicate about it because it was clear to me from what he chose to say that we were nowhere near on the same page and that it would have been fruitless to press.

I can also say that the work that I've seen J. Johnson do with earthquake prediction and the new template places him in a very small club. Only a few editors that I know of can dive as deep as he has into these topics. Most of what he works on is beyond the scope of my understanding, so I casually observe and rarely comment.

So for my final few words, I'd like to say a few things not about this dispute, but about this project and the people that make it happen. Now keep in mind that I've been the topic here at ANI. Not necessarily for these reasons, but I've been impolite and rude during some clashes with editors during 10 years of editing. I have a mark on my block log. I did not know of DePiep's block history until now, but I think there's something to be said about it. I see it as an indication of something going on under the hood and/or a possible lack of ability to learn from one's mistakes. To be fair, my editing style is one that usually keeps me by myself in some dark corner of WP, because that is something that helps to avoid conflict. Not always of course, but that is a strategy that usually that works for me.

Looking at the most recent item for the 3-month block last summer is the log entry "Trolling other account during ANI discussion about his trolling". We really don't see super egregious block reasons like that all that often. At least I don't. To me, that is over the top, but what bothers me the most about that incident is that DePiep probably offended another user by attempting to pipe their username in a bad light ([[User:keep your trolling to yourself if you don't want to go the same way|Andy Dingley]]). When asked about it, he lied about how it came to be, by saying it was a copy and paste issue. That's nonsense. We've all seen editors get into disputes here and have heated conversations, but lying is a problem that probably shouldn't be overlooked. Looking at the current issue alongside last year's, I'm seeing an editor that should be watched and contemplated. Dawnseeker2000 02:58, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

re the edits in Richter magnitude scale, a nice example of uncontroversial (BRD) editing. 1, me, 2. your rv 3, my rv. I clearly added (not changed) the Richter symbol (M_L ) to the lede, as other magnitude scales have (Surface wave magnitude, Moment magnitude scale). I claim this is simple article improvement, outside of the formatting discussion, and so not to be pre-discussed but can simply be done by WP:BRD. (The actual format I choose to use is the same JJ had coded before in {{M}} for Richter). OTOH, your es Please wait until an agreement on formatting is made is referring to the open formatting discussion. Sure that issue is to be decided, but that does not mean we can not add or use a symbol (aka label, denotion) meanwhile. Had you edited the symbol into some other format, say "RL" (which very well could be sourced & motivated too), that would have been fine there even while touching the open controversy. Just don't remove the symbol.

re the work that I've seen J. Johnson do with ... the new template places him ...: Yes, I can agree. I actually edited articles to use the template as J. Johnson defined it!

re your restarting of a closed discussion: Please reconsider and remove. -DePiep (talk) 17:58, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Takes more time to reply than expected, sorry. I am working on it. -DePiep (talk) 07:28, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• Reply by DePiep.

Allow me to describe this issue from my perspective. I know this reply is very long, but allow me a 'better safe than sorry' in this.

Core topic was and is is the writing of earthquake strengths, think Richter and MMS, in wording, formula and sequence: using symbols, formatting with/without uppercase, italics & subscripting and in wording. Apart from this, broader area is WP:EARTHQUAKE.

Initially, I added talkpage items re the topic on {{infobox earthquake}}, seismic scale and template:M. This way, posts did overlap & cross-reference. My approach was: treat as physical quantity, as described in the authoritative SI-brochure. Later on I added ISO 80000 [52], nicely advised by J. Johnson (JJ), into this recap. My core topic proposals were and are "under discussion", that is: no consensus for change. I did not implement any such proposal.

Innocent edits: I also did edits in the earthquake domain not concerning the "under discussion" topic: [53] use ENGVAR in infobox (not challenged), lede (was rv'ed with a talk), sp, [54], [55] rm page from maintenance category.

Me editing Template:M: I did not change the template's function, intention, or aim. What I did edit were template-technical improvements (like: refine error message, simplify code, remove unused and double code, expand abrreviations, remove code unfit for mainspace, fix code errors, add errorhandling) [56]. In its documentation, again I did not change the essence. I did do clean up, added examples, fix spellings, add user-helpfuls, etc. [57]. None of these edits changes the template's basic documentation or regular output.

Using {{Template:M}}: Before I joined, on June 16, JJ already had announced its roll out, and later published its usage in mainspace. (Note that JJ's formatting per the template and my formatting proposal are in agreement!). Strange is that JJ here says a template I have been preparing (sic): it was live in mainspace in ca. 150 articles. The template did not claim any restriction for its usage. So I recently edited ~50 articles already using that template, following all its intents and purposes (and, not coincidentally, the ordering as done by USGS) e.g., [58], [59].

So far. Edits outside of the under-discussion topic can't reasonably be called controversial, or editwarring. There is no blanket rule to say: you should discuss each and every edit first. WP:BOLD and BRD will do.

Now about the controversial topics & edits. Sure there are edits I better had made differently or not at all, for various reasons: like [60], [61]. In other words: these are incidents.

Edits by JJ making an issue personal: Your personal conception of "truth" is irrelevant in es. First ignoring SI and ISO sources, then turning this as if it is something "personal". I already noted this here.

Here JJ writes: Before you over-extrapolate your physics in an area new to you. Above, in this ANI, in paragraph 2: DePiep, self-declared as "recently entered the earthquake domain, coming from the physics department" is used as a argument somehow in ANI? While actually, here is the literal example from WP:NPA#WHATIS: "you're a train spotter so what would you know about fashion?". (I also note: The diff is possibly off-topic, or even can be read supporting my layman's point in there).

In one reply [62], JJ says both is just your personal opinion and you have not cited or provided any basis or authority for your opinion other than to chant "SI! SI! ISO!".. So while ignoring the sources I mention, blaming me for not mentioning sources and then attacking the strawman. Note the dismissive wording "to chant".

Before JJ and I met, an other editor is addressed And you are being a jerk [63]. Not that I went to search for this, but it's hard to not-read it.

Blaming me for starting talks. In this very ANI post ([64]), paragraph 2, 3 and 4, JJ blames me for starting a talk and arguing. [DePiep] began opining at Talk:Seismic scale that ..., He has subsequently argued ..., I have expressed reservations about .... Why is this an argument in ANI at all I wonder, other than to compliment me for going to Talk in the first place??? Some talks I started: [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70]. AFAIK, I have not made any edit based on any inconclusive talk I opened.

Touch of WP:OWN: JJ seems to think that by saying "Do not edit this", no edit may be done. However, that is not how WP work. For example, this reply says For now, leave it alone as a command (while the better, harmless and non-controversial edit is to switch it off for being untested and unfit for mainspace). Also commanding is Absolutely do not ... (it should be by argument of course) [71].

Reverted with the wrong reason: Six edits by me were reverted in a pattern. In the es, JJ mentioned a reason to revert, but that reason was incorrect. These are the edits: rv1-2-3: no, the template was not broken, no it was not an "I don't like the format" (turning this personal btw), and yes there was an an improvement. rv-4, rv-5 (the example was sourced in the es), rv-6 - it was and is. It looks as if they were reverted without having any consideration wrt the actual change.

Blanket complaint. JJ's approach is throwing all my edits into one basket. Edits should be differentiated. In the 2nd sentence opening line: DePiep has been a persistent problem is personal (in itself not that noteworthy, but it relates to the whole approach).

Round up. All in all: Bad edits, as exceptions, I already admitted. Controversial edits hardly occurred, but instead were extensively addressed on talkpages. Edits of non-controversial nature (e.g., improve existing documentation, template-technical edits, use template) were done using existing templates, talks and practices, for example as created and promoted by JJ. Usually these are fit for BOLD and BRD. Claiming that each and every BOLD/BRD resolvable edit is under this ANI-complaint is not fair, and so is the editwarring and not-talked accusation that follows that misconception. I did point to some unhelpful edits by JJ, both by making things personal and by making less correct edits (like rv's). That are ngog presented as cut-and-dried trespassing judgements, but they do paint the atmosphere.

Re Dawnseeker2000: to speed up this posting, I will reply to their post later on.

I conclude: I fully accept that some of my 100+ edits in this area were bad up for improvement (afterwards or even beforehand). Also I tried to describe here that the other edits were either out of controversial area (BOLD and BRD acceptable), were within accepted writing (e.g., by current template usage), and other edits were about improvements of the topic in dispute (Talkpages).

I protest the approach by JJ of blanketing all my edits into one ANI complaint, for example even mentioning Talks I started as objectable. I also pointed to some unhelpful edits by JJ, both in say BRD-handling and personalising an issue (earlier; yes, pot & kettle).

How to proceed?: I think in this situation it's hard to get this WP:EARTHQUAKE area back on track in communications and article improvements between us. To allow such improvement though, I therefore propose that I voluntarily shall not edit in this area for a year. The area includes: WP:EARTHQUAKE esp wrt seismic scales, templates etc. and their talks. Unless, that is, I am explicitly invited by an active WP:QUAKE member. -DePiep (talk) 14:59, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

User:Glaxp

The user registered a week ago, and there is smth wrong going on. They made 440 edits, on one instance, I blocked them for vandalism, they also had some nonsense edits like saying they are a steward on their user page, but some other edits seem legit. I am still thinking this is likely a sock, but do not know of which master. Can someone may be recognize some familiar behavior? Thanks. --Ymblanter (talk) 06:44, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

This was vandalism I blocked them for, as far as I can remember.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:48, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

The steward one was meant to be a userbox saying they are not a steward, in a humorous way.--Gla_xp 07:12, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

The infobox implied that you were once a steward, which you were never one, and therefore you could not have it on your page (I was the one who initially removed it from Glaxp's userpage). It's fine now, though. SkyWarrior 14:38, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

The entire use page isn't particularly reassuring. — fortunavelut luna 14:48, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• +/- 20 productive mainspace edits, +/- 20 unproductive mainspace edits, and +/- 400 edits to his userspace is not a sustainable ratio. If the ratio of productive mainspace edits to userspace edits doesn't increase dramatically, and the number of unproductive mainspace edits doesn't drop to zero, I'll be blocking indef as a timesink. Assuming for the moment he isn't a sock of someone. For starters I've reverted his signature page (that he made to get around the 255 character limit) to the standard signature and protected the page. I've also deleted a page he made, and reverted the remaining unproductive edits I could find. If I were in just a slightly crankier mood I'd just go ahead and indef block now. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:03, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

First, SkyWarrior said I could overcome the signature limit some way, which you will probably say "thats no excuse to not be blocked" and go ahead and do it before this discussion closes. He said:

Yours is over that, so I would recommend you shorten it (and if you decide to go around this limit and put it in a template, then you must substitute the template by using {{subst:template name}}

Entirely misleading. I also made my signature raw assuming I didn't pass the sig limit. --Gla_xp 22:24, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Yes, and I was wrong, as I had admitted on your talk. That's all my fault, sorry.

With that said, while the part in the parenthesis was incorrect, the rest of the message was not. Your signature is fine now, just follow WP:SIG. SkyWarrior 22:35, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

And with the steward userbox, I changed that to display a bit of a different message.--Gla_xp 22:43, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Also, this discussion might just WP:BOOMERANG just as I'm about to get promoted to a higher level of permissions. Not any time this month though.--Gla_xp 22:46, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

No, this discussion is not going to BOOMERANG. Lepricavark (talk) 00:06, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

I am getting more convinced that an indefblock is needed--Ymblanter (talk) 05:51, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Query re block of Apollo the Logician

Hi. User:Apollo The Logician was blocked for edit warring earlier today following a report here. The block remains in place but repirt has disappeared from this page and doesn't appear in the most recent archive.

Just to note also, the user's unblock request accuses me of edit warring but I'm being prevented from exercising a right of reply on that page. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 11:12, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

@Bastun: Per WP:OWNTALK, what right of reply, exactly? In any case, they were not blocked per a report here; it was at WP:ANEW. I also note, Bastun, that you have note informed the user that you had started a discussion here regarding them. Even ythough they were blocked, you should have done so, in order to allow them, with permission, to reply by proxy. It is however now wholly academic. — fortunavelut luna 11:18, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

My bad, thanks. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 11:32, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

@Bastun: I was expecting a gabh mo leathscéil at least  ;) — fortunavelut luna 11:35, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Apollo the Logician was blocked[72] with the following comment at WP:ANEW:

"Blocked for one month, standard escalation from previous block. Proposal of a topic ban should be taken to WP:AN."[73]

He has made two unblock requests,[74][75] both of which were denied by uninvolved administrators.[76][77] (He tried to delete the first decline[78] but was informed that doing that is not allowed.[79]) And now his talk page access has been removed.[80]

My advice to Bastun is to drop this without attempting to reply. It is basic human nature to defend yourself when you believe that you have been unfairly accused, but in this case I think it is best to walk away. And yes, it is unfair that he can accuse you of edit warring on his talk page and then delete your response[81]. If you feel that you must respond, may I suggest responding on your own talk page? That's the first place anyone would look in the unlikely event that they took the accusation seriously. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:01, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Go raibh maith agaibh, a chairde. Good advice, both - I'll leave the issue alone. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 16:05, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Concern regarding proposed deletion for Isidro A. T. Savillo page

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This was cleaned up as well as organized by registered wikipedian editors and an editor gave a go signal to elevate this as a start page. Then how come these wikipedian editors are not helping out and this is left to the mercy of wikipedian editors from the UK. Is it not that Wikipedia originated from the USA and Savillo is highly educated and has academic and research experiences in US Universities. Prof and Scientists that he worked with know him well and they have good camaraderie and understanding. His research papers are also published in Thomson Reuters Indexed Journals now Clarivate analytics. I have no idea that they could not understand what is in the content of the article for I believe each is supported by references. Here is the web url for the proposed deletion discussion: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Isidro_A._T._Savillo Hoping Wikipedia administrators of the higher caliber to look into this. Thank you. 110.54.150.27 (talk) 11:23, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

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Bagdadi reported dead for the 15th time

Editors are rushing in to list Al-Bagdadi dead yet again. The evidence is pretty weak. [82]. I'm requesting full page protection at Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi until there is widely reported detailed proof he is dead and we reach concensus for listing him dead. Watch other ISIL pages too for editors rushing to be the first to declare him dead. Wikipedia should not lead the workd in declaring the #1 wanted terrorist killed. Legacypac (talk) 15:42, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Promotional Editing on Juliet Simms

Sure Templeton is more or less a single purpose account devoted to editing Juliet Simms, a BLP (the only other edit not having to do with Juliet Simms somehow is on Aspen trees). This user is continually removing sourced content from Simms' article and replacing it with promotional prose, unsourced content, and provoking other editors while insinuating that editors are attempting to degrade or attack Juliet Simms directly.

Some edits this user has made include:

"Simms was asked on to the nationally viewed singing competition The Voice on NBC where her blind audition was aired immediately following the Super Bowl. She broke 2 download records -one for her first live show performance for her recordings of "Roxanne" and the second for the second to last live show performance of "It's a Man's World" which landed her on the front cover of USA Today the next morning. She finished as the runner up of that show, which created much controversy and media disappointment and an eventual change in the following year's accounting system to include downloads in the voting totals"

"Automatic Loveletter was the brain child of Juliet Simms having wrote or co-wrote every song that the band ever recorded...with Simms' solo career and marriage to rocker Andy Black there has been no new Automatic Loveletter music since 2011"

And "While recording she began promoting her songs through Myspace and with her band, Automatic Loveletter, quickly became the top Emo band on that platform, attracting attention from several major record labels. After showcasing for music industry icons from L.A. Reid and Jimmy Iovine to Wyclef Jean and Don Ienner she finally signed with Epic Records in 2005 where she and her band recorded a full length album with Matt Squire"

In her edit reasons, this user frequently disparages other editors, stating comments such as, "the earlier editor seems to have a problem with the religion Scientology per her edit summary statement after mentioning this she came back w/ much more on it. Also using tabloid gossip to degrade Juliet. Removed positive content." "Again the last edited removed truthful statistics and positive content with reference to her download records from the show, changes in accounting for the show - shows intent to belittle her rather than allowing the facts." "again reverting to unvandalized version to include interesting and true facts and add that Juliet was the creator of A.LL instead of saying she was the "acting front woman" written as the earlier edit by Juliet haters suggested" "Users Keepingitcool & thejulietflame are Juliet "haters" vandalizing this article by repeatedly removing interesting true content & replacing w/ tabloid sensationalism. This section calls for more info not less." "The user Keepingitcool keeps placing Scientology into this article. Because she also earlier removed other positive content I suspect an intent to belittle or besmirch Juliet. She also called the religion a cult. I suspect sensationalism" "There were several historical errors concerning record labels and who she was signed with as well an clear intent to diminish her accomplishments which I suspect was written by on of her husbands female fans who wish Juliet ill."

All of the edits in question this user had been discussing in their edit reasons were well-sourced, factual, and were not written in a way to be derogatory (for example, the BLP in question involves someone who was raised in the Church of Scientology). They do not seem to realize that the removal of their "interesting and true facts" has everything to do with the fact that they are removing sourced information that is in line with Wikipedia guidelines to replace it with lengthy, unsourced promotional prose. I reverted the edit to the more well-sourced and nonpartisan edits that had existed prior. Were these edits made by this user more nonpartisan, succinct, well-sourced and non-promotional, they would do perfectly in the article -- however, I do not believe Sure Templeton is here for encyclopedic purposes. I believe they are here to promote Juliet Simms, as their edits read less like fact and more like a fanpage. I propose that Sure Templeton be banned from the Juliet Simms article, if not the subject of Juliet Simms completely. Syd Highwind (talk) 17:18, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• I left a fairly blunt message on her talk page. I think that should serve as a strong warning and should suffice for now. Let's see where it goes from here. They aren't going to like what I had to say, but I felt that I shouldn't mince words and just lay it out there. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 01:26, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• • I saw that, and I definitely agree that she may be associated with Juliet Simms -- the thought that she herself might be Juliet also crossed my mind very briefly. I've also read the talk page history due to the fact that it's a very problematic article and I suggested revisiting its AfD nomination on those grounds. But in the talk page she left some belligerent commentary, leveraging personal attacks toward people such as adult film actress Mary Carey, in regards to an incident that had occurred between Simms and her husband last year that Carey had witnessed. She alleged Carey was a washed up drunk attempting to cash in on Simms's fame, white knighting for Simms, and attempting to provoke people on the talk page. I think what you wrote is a good warning, but with her track record and attitude she's probably just going to retaliate somehow. If she does, I vote to ban her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syd Highwind (talk • contribs) 02:00, 12 July 2017 (UTC) Syd Highwind (talk) 02:01, 12 July 2017 (UTC) (I forgot to sign this, lol. Oh the joys of editing on mobile.)
    • We can cross that bridge if we come to it. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 18:40, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

IP socks at Achilles using PAs and attempting to out me

126.46.178.97 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and 41.226.117.36 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), probable socks of Flr9003 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), are restoring Flr9003's edit, at Achilles (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and at the same time they are calling me a real name "Angelos Koulouris", while in one of their edit-summaries they are linking to the linkedin page of an actual person by that name. In the other summaries, in Greek, the IPs are warning me that "they are coming for me". Please block and revdel the edit-summaries as you see fit. Thanks. Dr. K. 18:24, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I have blocked Flr9003 indefinitely and revoked talk access, and also blocked the IP that was not already blocked. They can explain to UTRS why logging out to anon proxies to post threats directed at a specific, identified individual is an appropriate use of this website. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:41, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I also apparently stepped on Amortias protecting the page at the same time. Sorry about that. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:45, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

No problem protection is protection. I've dealt with the edit summaries. Amortias (T)(C) 18:46, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Thank you both for your fast action. Take care. Dr. K. 18:49, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Now they are attacking my other edits and call themselves "legion" while also outing Koulouris as before. Dr. K. 18:53, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Blocked and I'll revdel the summary. (edit) Or Amoritas will beat me to it. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:56, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much Rick. :) Dr. K. 18:58, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Am gonna leave this section open a bit longer as I have a feeling well be back for more sooner rather than later. Amortias (T)(C) 18:59, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm keeping an eye on RFPP in case we need more protection. I'm also starting to set the PP at 1 month given the persistence of this troll. -Ad Orientem (talk) 19:02, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Thank you very much Ad Orientem. You helped a lot today. It was the day of the socks and trolls. Very unusual and busy traffic. Dr. K. 19:12, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• Another one telling me in broken Greek that "they will be here when I wake up". Dr. K. 19:28, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

What they said was all Greek to me, but IP blocked, edit revdel'd RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:31, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Lol. Very nice of you. Thank you Rick. :) Dr. K. 19:33, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

• Now they are trying to hack my en.wiki account. I just got an email that 126.46.178.97 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) requested a password reset for my account. Dr. K. 19:49, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

The only real work around for that is to ensure you have a strong password both here and on whatever your e-mail account is. Amortias (T)(C) 19:56, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Amortias. I agree. Dr. K. 20:15, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Action at WASPI

Requesting that someone take a look at the WASPI article. Currently User:Spwalshe (talk) has created the article multiple times in the face of speedy deletions and rejected drafts. Now a new editor called User:WASPI Campaign (talk) has entered the fray. I do not really know what the article in question is about, but I believe it has political overtures. Requesting that appropriate action be taken. SamHolt6 (talk) 20:18, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Username softblocked as it reads as a shared account. Page was deleted again as G11. Amortias (T)(C) 20:27, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

 Salted -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:29, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

The article was one I wanted to look at and see I could write a proper version on it before I deleted, but I never got round to it. It's now at Women Against State Pension Inequality so all is well. I don't think salting is a good idea as it seems to be a valid redirect. I've created WASPI as that; obviously this is technically abuse of admin rights to edit through a protected title, so feel free to shout or serve seafood if there is a problem. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 18:48, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Works for me. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:59, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Cool, though I've got to say that User talk:Spwalshe is a walking advert for WP:WIHSD :-( Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:17, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Loganfisc - questionable edits

Loganfisc (talk · contribs) has been creating articles about nonexistent animated TV series and today has been adding invalid TV network categories to articles about TV series. They has been warned numerous times today alone and they have neither responded nor changed their behavior. Trivialist (talk) 22:30, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Blocked 31 hours for disruptive editing. I have some doubts as to whether this person is here to contribute constructively, but I started with a short block. Let me know if it continues. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:21, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Steve Dunn (1990s first baseman) semi protection needed?

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many different IPs are vandalizing Steve Dunn (1990s first baseman), I suspect socking. Tornado chaser (talk)

• @Tornado chaser: next time go to WP:RFPP. It is the appropriate forum for this situation and admins will help you sooner.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 00:15, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

•  Done one week. And yes, WP:RFPP is the preferred venue, but I won't be a slave to bureaucracy so I just did it. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 01:15, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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User:Daniel C. Boyer

Daniel C. Boyer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

I believe it's well past time for a sanction on this editor, a non-notable artist who, in blatant violations of WP:PROMOTION, inserted his name into a variety of articles, all instances of which were removed by numerous editors, and who then proceeded to attempt to reinsert his name using IPs. From 2007-2011, he also used the socketpuppet account User:Samuel O'Malley (blocked on 6 May 2011), and also apparently occasionally used the sockpuppet account User:Nothing Nobo (discarded about a month after Samuel O'Malley was blocked). The single-edit account User:Brian Mackelove may be connected as well.

This editor has been problematic for a while:

• In 2003, a discussion was opened about him on "Problem users". [83]

• An article about him, Daniel C. Boyer, was deleted in 2004 or 2005 [84]
  • The AfD seems to say 2004, but at the article link it says 2005; there appears to have been an earlier discussion in 2003, but it's unclear from the AfD page what the result of that was.

• There's an RfC/U on him from 2005 [85].

• Boyer was blocked in 2007 for this same behavior. [86],

• He was reported for it again in 2011. [87]

• I reported his user page at MfD earlier this year for its similarity to an article, but the result was "Keep". [88]
  • However, one editor in that discussion exclaimed: "This has been going on for 13 years?" (emphasis added)

Articles Boyer inserted himself into include:

• Body fluids in art – initial insertion (28 May 2016): [89]; re-insertion: [90], [91], [92], [93], [94] (last: 4 June 2017)

• Surrealist techniques – initial insertion (20 September 2007): [95]; re-insertion: [96], [97], [98], [99], [100], [101], [102], [103], [104], [105] (last: 3 July 2017, article semi-protected)

• Soho Square (Manhattan) – initial insertion (18 September 2016): [106]; re-insertions: [107]; [108] (last: 2 January 2017)

• Perspiration – initial insertion (22 May 2016): [109]; re-insertion: [110]; [111]; [112]; [113]; [114]; [115]; [116] (last: 11 July 2017)

• Mat (picture framing) – initial insertion (29 November 2009): [117]; second insertion (new material; 1 December 2009): [118]; third insertion (new material, 19 October 2010): [119]; fourth insertion (new material, 31 October 2010): [120]; fifth insertion (new material, 12 October 2011): [121]; sixth insertion (new material, 24 October 2011): [122]; re-insertions: [123]; [124]; [125] (last: 18 June 2016)

• Counter pen – initial insertion (17 June 2011): [126]; re-insertion: [127] (last: 22 March 2017)

• List of Harvard University non-graduate alumni – insertion (23 May 2007): [128]; re-insertions: [129]; [130]; [131]; [132]; [133]; [134]; [135]; [136]; [137]; [138]; [139]; [140]; [141] (last: 7 January 2017)

The IPs Boyer has used include:

• 24.247.43.72
• 64.94.31.206
• 72.52.198.58
• 74.66.21.209

• 107.77.70.114
• 107.77.76.60
• 107.77.106.32

• 141.219.44.104
• 141.219.46.59
• 141.219.46.62
• 141.219.46.65
• 141.219.46.68
• 141.219.46.74
• 141.219.46.79
• 141.219.253.152

• 166.216.128.11
• 166.216.128.13
• 166.216.128.15
• 166.216.128.16

• 172.56.10.50
• 172.56.27.245
• 172.56.28.171
• 172.56.35.210
• 172.56.36.122
• 172.56.37.28
• 172.56.37.237

• 172.58.169.115
• 172.58.169.196
• 172.58.171.64
• 172.58.185.35
• 172.58.217.103
• 172.58.224.105
• 172.58.232.23
• 172.58.232.72
• 172.58.233.31
• 172.58.233.81
• 172.58.233.193
• 172.58.233.248

• 208.54.37.211
• 208.54.87.171
• 208.54.90.173
• 208.68.27.63

User:Daniel C. Boyer appears to be a productive editor when self-promotion is not concerned, so I don't believe a long or indef block is warranted. I would suggest a topic ban on editing anything to do with himself, his life, his work or his activities, as well as a restriction to edit only while signed-in to his account, and not with IPs (which he does regularly, above and beyond his use of them to re-insert his name into articles). Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:57, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

The editor in question has been notified. [142]. I have not notified any of his IP socks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:46, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

What a persistent wikilawyer! But not a very good one, I'm afraid. No wonder he didn't finish Harvard. EEng 03:09, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Oh wait, it's sadder than I thought: "Attended Harvard Summer School 1997, 1998, 2001". EEng 03:11, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Although he hasn't responded here. on his talk page, Daniel C. Boyer accuses me of having a "vendetta" against him that has reached "bizarre proportions", and questions how "practically every IP that has ever existed" could all be his sockpuppets. [143] However, all one has to do is look at the contributions of the IPs listed and compare them to Daniel C. Boyer's own contributions to see the overlap between them.

I don't make the claim that Boyer has exclusive use of these IPs, rather I would speculate that his Internet service doesn't assign static IPs, but a new one he time uses it, so that all he has to do is not sign in to Wikipedia, and he's on any of a variety of IPs, which, in the times between, could have been used by other people. However, it's quite clear that the pattern of editing indicates that the IPs which are reinserting Boeyr's name into articles are not random people, but he, himself, avoiding scrutiny of his edits by not signing in. Many of the editors who reverted those edits have done so numerous times and will recognize the pattern. I could ping all those editors, but I don't want to WP:CANVASS, I'd prefer that neutral editors look over the evidence to see if I've presented a compelling case against Boyer. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:33, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• If there was ever an editor we don't need, it's Boyer. Check this out [144]. EEng 04:38, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Long term problematic editing in a specific topic - check.

Multiple previous sanctions for the same behavior - check.

Absolutely no indication this is going to change without intervention - Bingbingbingbing. Support topic ban from anything remotely related to themselves, either directly or indirectly. Only in death does duty end (talk) 06:44, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• Support topic ban from all autobiographical content, broadly construed. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 08:11, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
• Support topic ban per OID and Cullen. I would also support a deletion of the self-promotional user page if it were taken back to MfD. I think it violates WP:UPNO, and the previous discussion had only two participants, including the nominator. --bonadea contributions talk 08:22, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
• Support - Only two 24 hour blocks in 13 years -- with this kind of socking? This topic ban is extremely lenient, all things considered, and I hope it is as broadly construed as possible to stop this behavior. I also support if his userpage is taken back to MfD.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 09:32, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
• Comment - Difficult to meaningfully block the IPs, since they're often dynamically allocated. 95.248.201.196 (talk) 09:41, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
• support and thanks to the OP for this extensive and thorough legwork. Agreed that this TBAN is very lenient. Shame on you, Daniel. We all have better ways to spend our volunteer time than dealing with your abuse of Wikipedia to promote yourself. Really. Jytdog (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
• Support only because no one seems to want to just ban him outright, which is where this is going anyway, sooner or later. But the moment he steps out of line again, that should be the E-N-D. It's ridiculous. Oh, and before I forget, Mr. Boyer: Harvard Summer School students are not matriculated degree candidates, and are not alumni [145]. EEng 21:13, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Tendentious editing by NadirAli across Multiple Articles

Despite the fact that User:NadirAli was warned not to edit war by User:GoldenRing just four days ago at Arbcom [146], this man has continued to do so, ignoring consensus established by at least three to four users. The issue started when NadirAli blanked a large chunk of material from the Kalash people article [147]. He was reverted by other users, including myself, but then proceeded to continue edit warring and tagging the article [148], [149], [150], [151], [152]. On the talk page of the article, he justified his inclusions by using story books and alt-right sources such as "raceandhistory.com". It seems that this individual suffers a major WP:COMPETENCE issue, which has been noted by other users before, like User:FlightTime [153]. Other users disagreed with the troublesome behavior, including User:Capitals00 and User:Anupam noted that two different held by scholars should be represented in the article and this was agreed upon. Nonetheless, NadirAli defied consensus in the talk page and gave more weight to his preferred view [154]. Countless users regularly waste their time telling this man not to edit tentenditiously on India-Pakistan articles, such as User:Joshua Jonathan [155] or User:Kautilya3 [156]. This man was banned for several years from India-Pakistan topics and doesn't follow consensus on other topics either, including articles about Star Wars, as noted by User:EEMIV [157]. Is it time for us to consider whether the project is wasting their time having to constantly block and coach this stubborn man? I'm mostly a WikiGnome but I can spot trouble when I see it. Two options - site ban or topic ban? Knox490 (talk) 04:11, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

This is not an "edit war" across multiple pages. I have opened discussions on those two pages. The Kalash article is disputed, and as user:Mar4d pointed out, the vast majority of sources support for Animism. So mentioning most in the article, a basic fact you seem to ignore and openly reject in the article is going to be a problem for many users. The dispute is still on and I will point administrators to talk:Kalash and talk:Hindu at discussions I myself started for verification before simply believing Knox490's attack accusations. I have been on Pakistan topics for a year and a half.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 04:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• Thought I'd ping User:El C, User:Ohnoitsjamie, and User:Future Perfect at Sunrise - 3 sysops who've blocked this man in the last year. If I listed all the sysops who've blocked this man, I'd get carpal tunnel - 17 sysops in total. Knox490 (talk) 04:24, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

I did not start any edit war with you. Check the article history. I pointed you to user:Mar4d's comments on the talk page and you left this comment in your edit summary. As such I placed the disputed tag. After that you suddenly opened an ANI. I request administrators to review the talk pages first and article history.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 04:37, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• Comment In my opinion, this is a content dispute and should be treated as such. The talk page is the best venue to solve any inconsistencies, and I have already left my input there. I would not say the current article is perfect, but it is nevertheless somewhere on a middle road. Having studied the various WP:RS produced on the subject, the majority of the scholarly view suggests the Kalash religion is animistic. There are some sources which construct a link to pre-Vedic Hindu beliefs, but the connection remains vague and not as extensively discussed by sources. They are still incorporated in the text though, as they are theories. I have already indicated that the most reasonable rewrite would be one which primarily focuses on their animistic practices, and combines input from those sources which suggest a Hindu origin. The majority of the sources favour the former, so in terms of WP:WEIGHT, we should write it according to what the sources imply. I suggest that all involved users use the talk page to discuss this further. Thanks, Mar4d (talk) 05:17, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

I have been discussing the disputes, which you have ignored [158][159][160]--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 07:22, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• I tend to agree that this is a content dispute at this stage. I don't think the description "blanked a large chunk of material" is entirely fair - that diff contains a lot of changes and the movement of a large slab of material to another place in the article. I would advise NadirAli to edit carefully; I'm rather concerned when an editor claims that the "vast majority of sources" supports their view, but what they've actually done is replaced text sourced to Ethnic Groups of North, East, and Central Asia: An Encyclopedia with their own text sourced to [161]. If the vast majority of sources support your view, then back your text up with your best sources, not this. If this is actually the best source you have for your position, then I think it's time to back down a bit. GoldenRing (talk) 08:26, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

To editor GoldenRing:, thank you for your comment, but that is not what I was referring to. Please see the links on the talk page which I posted as well as Mar4d posts. (talk:Kalash people). Those were the ones I was referring to. The other issue I had was the disputed tag removal in the article as in the case of Zia Ul-Haq's Islamitisation (that dispute was been now long resolved). Other issues were edits like these. I have been wanting to have this article to be receive arbitrary sanctions because it has been targeted by various nationalists from Greek to Macedonian to Indian. Your help in nominating it would be useful.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 18:57, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

User:Jimmio78

Jimmio78 (talk · contribs) I here to complain about the editing from this editor, because he don't seem to be followed the guidelines (WP:MOSALBUM). There has been several editors who keep telling him about the edits he made are problematic, editors like Dan56 and Jennica. But doesn't get a response from him in his talk page, which is a violation to WP:DISCFAIL. Many consider the failure to communicate disruptive, because it prevents cooperation (essential to build consensus) and can encourage edit warring. And it doesn't help that most of the edits are tag in visual edit, which makes the edits appear sloppy. Here for example, [162] [163] [164] [165]. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 05:32, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Disruptive Editor - Administrator Help Requested

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Dear Administrator,

I would like to ask for help with a disruptive editor on the article On Becoming Baby Wise. Michael Knowles, known as Binksternet, has been zealously guarding the page and undoing all meaningful revisions or contributions since August 21st, 2012. He is a prolific editor on Wikipedia, but his work on the On Becoming Baby Wise article leaves me wondering if he is too personally invested against the book and its authors to meaningfully contribute to and improve the page.

While there are disagreements among pediatricians about Baby Wise, Binksternets statements that represent a consensus in the medical community such as “has been criticized by mainstream health care professionals” or “The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) warned against the book” are blatantly inaccurate. He has included multiple references to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ negative warnings about the book, but they have not issued anything as an institution and there is no consensus among its own pediatricians (with many M.D.s supporting and some critiquing the Baby Wise method). Binksternet is mainly referring to opinions in Dr. Aney’s 1998 article in American Academy of Pediatrics, which is not the result of a scientific, peer-reviewed study and not the opinion of the institution as a whole.

In addition, Binksternet will only allow negative comments about the book to be posted. He has contributed much of the text to the article himself and seems to have a vested interest in tearing down the authors of the book, despite a talkpage consensus that this is unwarranted and biased. Several users have suggested that he should be banned from editing the page, including Blakenathanweber, SCgrits, Mominmichigan, and now myself. Please see the Baby Wise talkpage on Question Regarding Legitimacy of Rejections here: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:On_Becoming_Baby_Wise#Question_Regarding_Legitimacy_of_Rejections

Binksternet evidently thinks the main point of the article is to prove that early editions of the book were based in Evangelical religion and were not accepted by the Ezzo’s church community or some pediatricians. While the background of the book and its updates are relevant to some degree, it has undergone drastic updates since 1990 and continues to be recommended by medical professionals around the country, even taught in nursing courses. The impact of Baby Wise is much broader than its initial development, but this Wikipedia article looks very dated and it misses the entire point of the current #1 best-selling infant rearing book on Amazon. The book contains thorough research on the latest studies and has many pediatricians who recommend it. When I attempted to include part of Baby Wise’s recommendations in the Summary section, that was deleted by Binksternet.

Binksternet himself said on August 14th, 2014 in the talkpage that “The book is a travesty of bad advice, written by a Christian husband/wife team who had worn out the patience of their church. The book was rubber-stamped by a young pediatrician with no reputation. So I don't think you and I can come to an agreement about the topic.” That isn’t an attitude of objectivity. He superficially stands behind Wikipedia guidelines while refusing to engage with users or accept new sources/facts.

Thank you for your help and consideration! I have included some diffs below:

Diffs: https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=On_Becoming_Baby_Wise&type=revision&diff=790197092&oldid=790152973

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=On_Becoming_Baby_Wise&type=revision&diff=783796661&oldid=783794866

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=On_Becoming_Baby_Wise&type=revision&diff=761976353&oldid=761974410

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=On_Becoming_Baby_Wise&type=revision&diff=621256670&oldid=621251671

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=On_Becoming_Baby_Wise&type=revision&diff=508505973&oldid=508483359

Talk Page:

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:On_Becoming_Baby_Wise#Question_Regarding_Legitimacy_of_Rejections

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:On_Becoming_Baby_Wise#NPOV_dispute_.22Criticism.22_.22Religious.22_.22Summary.22

Melodiya52 (talk) 15:53, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't have any axe to grind. I have never read the book nor used it to raise a child. On the other hand, I am not an advocate of attachment parenting, the other extreme. The only thing I have done at the article is read about people's reactions to the book, and translate those reactions to the article.

Several times in the article's history there have been people who wanted to whitewash it of the negative factors, and people who wanted to amplify the role of Dr Robert Bucknam who was only one year old as a pediatrican when the Ezzos approached him to be a co-author of the secular version of the book. I have pushed back against each of these efforts in order to keep the article more factual and neutral, per Wikipedia policy Neutral Point of View. Binksternet (talk) 16:27, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Back in 2011 I was attracted to the article about On Becoming Baby Wise because of an unreferenced and non-neutral addition to the Failure to thrive article, which I removed. I looked at other Wikipedia articles about baby advice books and tweaked a few of them.[166][167][168] Then I began to expand the Baby Wise article from 3 kb to 19 kb, based on my reading of many sources talking about the book. I gave the article its sections about the religious beginnings and the secular current version, and I put in the summary and criticism sections. Most of the article became my work at this point. This attracted the attention of Blakenathanweber in 2014 who changed the text to be more promotional, then in 2015 announced his his close connection to the publisher of the book. In 2017, Aschetter24 who was obviously a paid editor (look at all the deletion notices on the user talk page, the articles being about non-notable businesses) came along and removed lots of well-cited negative text while inflating the accomplishments of Dr. Bucknam. This same change was made by an IP address from Philadelphia, most likely Aschetter24 editing while logged out. Aschetter24 then complained on the article talk page,[169] followed by a bunch of single-purpose accounts who praised the book and criticized me: MTmomof3, WikiMonica_Brown, Dkkkn4, SCgrits and Mominmichigan.

Seeing the editors who have a conflict of interest come along and whitewash the article, or use it to promote Bucknam, has made me extra wary about anybody else who shows up. Binksternet (talk) 17:11, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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Huldra's "ce"

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This is the second time now that I noticed that Huldra (talk · contribs) hides POV edits under the edit summary "ce". The first time was in this edit, after which I pointed the issue out to her on the talkpage,[170] which she acknowledged here. Then she did it again today in this edit, when she removed the header "Second Temple Era" and replaced it by moving the "Roman Era" header up, although historically that is incorrect by several hundred years as she knows very well. The problem is all the more serious since the Israeli-Palestinian articles are a known stumbling block, and editors should be extra careful on articles in this area. Her radical POV is proven from a commentary like this one. Please some admin impress upon Huldra that she must stop hiding her POV edits under edit summaries like "ce", or else face administrative intervention. Debresser (talk) 15:45, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

I take it that by "CE" they mean "copy edit." Technically that's correct as it is a copy edit. But it is a POV edit and is excessively vague per WP:SUMMARYNO, to the point that it is "functionally the equivalent to not providing a summary at all." Coretheapple (talk) 15:56, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

I've not read any policies on it, but if I were writing a policy on what is a copyedit, it would be removing commas, changing "a" to "an", etc. It should not have any changes that could reasonably be construed as "real editing" or changing words around. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 16:54, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

But now that he's been caught, he will no longer be able to avoid scrutiny. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:05, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

If we talk about 200 BCE, it seems that Hellenic period would be the most appropriated (History of Palestine). Roman period would just be a mistake. Pluto2012 (talk) 17:10, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

The "ce" in the edit summary means "copy edit". Nothing to do with BC/AD/BCE/CE stuff. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:15, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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user:HXEG

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A new HXEG (talk · contribs) edits ijn broken English, revert-wars, ignores edit summaries and warnings in talk page. Please interfere. Pages in question: Fuck, Li Keqiang, Concept, etc. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:10, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

@Staszek Lem: Please notify the user per instructions at the top of this page. Thanks. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:17, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Done. Thx. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:24, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

The user, oblivious to wikipedia rules, removes formatting and tags and continues fast-paced revert war with everybody. Please stop this ASAP , ontherwise the cleanup job amount grows quickly. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:26, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

@Staszek Lem: The war is not that fast-paced. Standard warning system is working fine. —C.Fred (talk) 20:28, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Fine? YOu must be kidding. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:30, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

@Staszek Lem: Has the user reverted since being warned about 3RR? —C.Fred (talk) 20:35, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Answer, yes, right as I was leaving this message. —C.Fred (talk) 20:36, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

I left a final warning time-stamped 20:39 UTC and will block if he makes more reverts after he's had opportunity to read that warning. —C.Fred (talk) 20:40, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Standard warning is having zero effect. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:40, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• RickinBaltimore blocked him for 31h just as I was about to. —C.Fred (talk) 20:42, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
  • (ec)Beat you to it C.Fred, they kept right on going after you gave them that warning. RickinBaltimore (talk) 20:43, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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24.180.168.42 unverified birth-date edits

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The anon IP 24.180.168.42 has been adding scads of completely unverified birth-date and in some cases death-date claims. [171] Some of these, though not today, have involved WP:BLP vios. I gave a gently worded warning here, being careful not to bite the newbie, and received no response. Today, this anon IP has continued making such edits, which I have reverted here and here, though not yet at the various WIkipedia year articles where he adds uncited biographical claims. The editor does not seem interested in discussion or in stopping his serial WP:VERIFY vios. --Tenebrae (talk) 20:13, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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