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user vnhrishikesh

User:VNHRISHIKESH already has a rather problematic editing history, with in a month one so far successful article creation, and 10 or so failed ones (mostly deleted, some draftified). This includes things like moving Paracelsus to Philips Paracelsus, a name not used anywhere else. They received warnings for the use of their user page for promotion, copyright violations, and general disruption.

On 13 July, they asked for protection of their user page and talk page[1] to preserve it from vandalism. Neither page had ever been vandalized, and the request was swiftly rejected[2].

Today, an IP appears[3], makes two vandal edits to All, and then makes the most gentle of vandal edits ever to VNHRISHIKESH's user talk page[4][5]. The IP then stops editing, and 3 minutes later our editor reappears and again asks for protection[6] (the last edited three minutes before the very short-lived vandal IP appeared). To put the icing on the cake, both the editor and the IP turn out to be from south Kerala.

Vandalizing Wikipedia to get your user page and talk page protected must be among the more stupid things I have seen here, but coupled with the waste of time this editor has turned out to be otherwise for most of their edits, I don't think they should stay around for much longer. (Oh, as an aside, with IP masking in place this would have been a lot harder to check of course). Fram (talk) 07:59, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Though I generally agree that this user may not be ready yet to constructively contribute to Wikipedia, from their personal website they link to at their user page it appears that they are a young editor, and I don't feel that the tone of the report above reflects that very well. Thanks for taking this into consideration, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 14:22, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Okay, can we please block VNHRISHIKESH until they have some more competence and maturity? Since the above, they have given a rather confusing reply[7] with some clarification afterwards[8]: so apparently they claim that they got logged out, vandalized All[9] and again after being reverted[10], then immediately vandalized and undid this at their own talk page[11]: and then not only did they again log in 3 minutes later, but they saw those last two edits and didn't realise they had made those edits and called for protection[12].

And then they started moving their poor articles, which were draftified by a range of editors (including me), back to the mainspace, creating stuff like Factors affecting Temperature distribution (again draftified by me now). You can look at this article at the time of redrafticiation[13] for yourself, note how this article on temperature distribution on Earth starts with a graph of the average body temperature of humans throughout the day, as if that graph has anything to do with the subject.

An editor who one the one hand vandalizes articles to get their user page protected, and on the other hand produces such rubbish articles, is an editor we can do without. If age is a factor, then they can come back once they have matured a lot. Fram (talk) 08:53, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Once more, I agree that VNHRISHIKESH has a serious competence issue (they're already extended confirmed and I'm not sure if they even made one edit that is genuinely helpful), but from all that I can see it is in extremely good faith, and it should be dealt with accordingly. I'm not sure if mentorship really is a thing here (I know that I don't have the time for that), but if no mentor is willing to step up we may indeed need an indefinite block. I just wish we had some kind of procedure to kindly tell off young users who if they would come back in five or ten years time would very likely make great editors. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 17:12, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello, everyone Here is VNHRISHIKESH. I understood that you're going to block me from editing. I think you did't notice my whole edits in this encyclopaedia. I think that my edits were perfect and I can say that I have a competitive mind and maturity. So please don't block me from editing.— Preceding unsigned comment added by VNHRISHIKESH (talk • contribs) 03:21, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

• Indef. The combination of "I think that my edits were perfect" with a clear state of imperfection does not show any possible scope for improvement.--Eostrix  (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 09:28, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
• Block Indefinitely - Whilst it appears highly likely that this user is fairly young, and we have all suffered from the foolishness of youth at some point in our lives, that does not alter the fact that an increasing amount of time and effort has been spent in tidying up after them; especially so when they are (almost certainly) deliberately wasting people's time by vandalising their own talkpage in order to get it protected for some reason. To be frank, competence is required; block until they can return and contribute positively (which is likely to be in several years time...). --Jack Frost (talk) 13:51, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
• Comment This user created a stub called "Pigments in Leaves", which was quickly draftified. They expanded it (with homework-assignment-like prose), and it was declined, twice. They then unilaterally moved it into mainspace without modifications. Oh, and Factors affecting Temperature distribution is somehow live in mainspace again. I lack the inclination to sort out the edit history there. XOR'easter (talk) 21:10, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

• And then today, they created this, which was soon after draftified of course. It now looks like this. Fram (talk) 07:58, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

• Just in case it wasn't clear from my comments above, we need an indefinite block for this editor (though not a community ban!); we just need someone or somehow to do it gently. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 00:55, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
• Support Block, regretfully. This seems like a textbook case of Competence is required. They're obviously trying to edit in good faith, but the complete lack of understanding of core policies like notability and verifiability, combined with issues relating to content forking, unencyclopaedic writing and being unwilling to listen to advice from much more experienced editors means that their contributions are simply becoming a massive time sink. 192.76.8.91 (talk) 15:57, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
• Support block per WP:CIR; too much ongoing work in cleaning up their messes and handling frivolous requests. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 16:06, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
• Support indefinite block Obviously lacks the competence and maturity to constructively contribute long-term. I mean look at Draft:Famous scientists, just created today.--🌀Locomotive207-talk🌀 23:25, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
• Block Their article creations are poorly sourced and often have spelling, grammar, or tone issues. For example, their latest creation Draft:Encounter Marine Park has lots of puffery and mis-conjugated verbs, and no secondary sources. Not to mention that their very first talk page message concerned Atom:some basic facts, a duplicate of the super-basic Atom article. It is apparent from their article creations and lack of response that they have poor command of English. It reminds me of Risean 12345 (talk · contribs), another user I encountered recently who was indeffed for similar reasons. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:58, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• Comment I have filed a WP:CR request for this thread. They are now editing rapid-fire at Draft:List of famous scientists, a draft they created that is redundant to the various Lists of scientists. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:36, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Users adding images to articles at a high rate of speed

Yesterday, I noticed Siwema_Nikini (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was adding images to the very top of articles (i.e, the first line of the articles) with the nonsensical edit summary "#WPWP #WPWPARK". Someone asked the user what they were doing but did not receive a response. The most recent edit under that account was roughly three hours ago.

I just noticed the account Mary calist mlay (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) making the exact same types of edits on my watchlist at a particularly high rate of speed. In the last seven hours, they've added images to more than 250 articles, all with the same nonsensical edit summary (except now they've added "#WPWPTZ" to the list of hash tags). I did a spot check of the edits and while most of the recent image additions have been to the top of articles, many have been to the bodies of articles too. I left a message on the user's talk page[14] but they have so far ignored it and continued adding images to articles. I also noticed that the editing of both accounts have overlapped -- the switching of accounts was apparently not account abandonment.

The images being added aren't wrong, at least from what I can tell (I'm not familiar with most of the features being referenced). In fact, some of the edits probably improved some of the articles. However, a lot of the edits seem unnecessary and they're being done at such a high rate of speed (with a misleading edit summary too under at least two accounts). Given their unresponsiveness to talk page messages, the use of multiple accounts, etc., and because I'm getting tired, I think this might merit another set of eyes. Thank you. Aoi (青い) (talk) 11:21, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

There's a prize at stake. WPWP = m:Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021. WPWPARK and WPWPTZ are community identifiers listed on those pages. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 11:29, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Ah, that explains it, please disregard. (It would be nice if the edit summaries were a bit more descriptive so others who weren't familiar with this knew what was going on.) Aoi (青い) (talk) 11:36, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

(non-admin comment) m:Guide on how to use WPWP Campaign Hashtags#How to use the #WPWP Campaign hashtag - 'The hashtag is not a substitute for a "a descriptive edit summary". The hashtag, #WPWP or the community-specific hashtag must be added to the edit summary box of pages edited alongside a descriptive edit summary.' A friendly word of advice might be in order. Narky Blert (talk) 12:09, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

I noticed Hormorkunmy doing the same thing. They have re-introduced an incorrect image to the Matthew Cream article, which was removed earlier this year. I have a COI so I am not interested in editing the article, and had actually forgotten that I saw it happen, until this thread popped up. (Will notify Hormorkunmy of this thread.) Daniel (talk) 12:52, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Note I removed the Matthew Cream image, and also put in a rename request at Commons, to hopefully prevent this from happening again. I notice that multiple editors have raised the issue in the past that the image does not depict the subject. (And my own research suggests the same.) Levivich 17:34, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Levivich! Daniel (talk) 18:47, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Purely for info - we have edit filter 1073 (recent hits) tracking all edits using the WPWP tags. firefly ( t · c ) 13:31, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Which includes some of my undos, as I've added the tags and "photobombing" in the edit summaries. —C.Fred (talk) 20:42, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

More editors are joining in. Many of their contributions are helpful; some are not. At the risk of promoting a leaderboard, this list summarises the edits. It would have been nice to have some input into or at least notice of this initiative. Certes (talk) 21:07, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Quite frankly, I think we need to start giving out blocks if editors are noncommunicative and add images in a disruptive manner. A contest taking place is not a free pass for behavior that we would not tolerate otherwise. --Rschen7754 17:36, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

I have removed the same redundant image from Mogadishu University no less than four times - each time it had been added by a different user. Apart from that, I have reverted a number of other image additions, and warned several users about disruption.

Some weeks ago, I started a thread at m:Talk:Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021#Cryptic edit summaries, and the replies there by T Cells (talk · contribs) are not entirely to my satisfaction - for example, there is no assurance that the contest organisers will check the participating edits, let alone revert the bad ones. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:37, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

T Cells did ask all part taking organizers of the different languages and communities to do so, but they might not check this on a daily basis. One global organizer (= T Cells) cannot be held responsible for all edits done in the total campaign, and individual users are always responsible for their own edits. If a user cannot or will not converse (even on a basic level) with the rest of the language community even though they keep on doing disruptive edits, I think a block is indeed appropriate. It is against the competition rules to add images to Wikipedia's without a decent description in the language of that Wikipedia, or for instance to add pictures in bulk, like adding complete galleries. The goal of the competition is to add unused images to articles without any images, and on a secondary level to maybe create a more cultural diversity in images used in an article if appropriate - but always keeping in mind proportionality of the amount of images in relation to the article text. Ciell (talk) 20:47, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Some of these edits just don't seem right. Like look at this. Article is about HMS Havock (H43), but the picture is of HMS Hasty (H24) with the caption of "sister ship HMS Hunter"? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:48, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

More edits by same user that I'm unsure about (ie, they could be fine, but just unsure of appropriateness myself): [15], [16] (adding a picture of apparently a U.S. Navy ship to an article about an Imperial Japanese one), [17], etc. Most seem fine though. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:55, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Similar issues at HMS Exmoor (L61) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), where two of the editors involved in this stupidity have added a completely incorrect image in the last 24 hours, despite the image including a very specific note about which ship it refers to. I don't see why the time of other editors should be wasted cleaning up the mess this is creating. FDW777 (talk) 22:01, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

The issue with this contest is it values quantity over quality. TBH I don't think it's reasonable to expect the contest organisers to check 51,000 edits, but our volunteer corps can't either, so this is a conundrum. I think overall more edits are helpful than not, but the bad edits can be quite a problem. Apparently the comment by the organisers suggests local blocks for issues disqualify from the contest, so that should be an incentive to ensure accuracy. If the community wants, we could also do a local edit filter throttle reminding users of local policy requirements if they're adding images too quickly. Or we can just tough it out and deal with individual users if there are problems. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:10, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Should we be allowing someone who is banned from English Wikipedia to organise a contest that includes edits to English Wikipedia articles? Doesn't that violate the spirit of WP:PROXYING? Phil Bridger (talk) 07:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• I think next year the English Wikipedia must opt-out of the contest, and we must make it very clear. Yesterday the #WPWP edits which were on my watchlist showed an error rate of about 50% (bad quality, bad captions, sometimes the image did not show the subject of the article). I understand that some people need money and hope to earn some in this way, but for me 50% error rate is close to the point when I would just blank-revert everything without looking at individual edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:10, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
  • Indeed, couldn't we just set that filter mentioned above to disallow? --Rschen7754 18:06, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

    Rschen7754, we could, and to be honest given the amount of disruption this event seems to cause I wouldn’t be against it. We could alternatively start by throttling such edits via filter and displaying a warning to users that images have to be relevant/useful, and to use edit summaries. firefly ( t · c ) 21:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Agreed this is a mess—blindlynx (talk) 20:35, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• I came here to post about this, It seems like a huge chunk of the things flagged 'likely to have problems' at recent changes are these edits. The sheer volume makes it difficult to go through and check for quality and correct formatting without having a dedicated proj doing this and that seems like a waste of time—blindlynx (talk) 20:34, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
• See also Aminwa_21 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Mohamed mfuu (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)—blindlynx (talk) 20:42, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• And Emmanuel Obiajulu (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who has made just shy of 2000 edits according to that quarry link above. I've already had to harp on him twice for adding captions to stuff that's popped up on my watchlist. The rest is far too much for me to check. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:06, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• In checking his last 15-20 edits I've already had to revert 3 additions as being completely the wrong species. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

I would add to the above list of problems that some images are being added with text captions that just repeat the filename of the image, which may be unintelligible. BD2412 T 21:49, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• Yup, that's one of the things I had to ask Emmanuel to stop doing. Some of the captions he was jamming in were German. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
• Or sometimes without a caption or a caption identical to the name of the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:02, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

This has been an issue for a good 2-3 years now. I said it before and I'll say it again IMHO this "competition" should be banned entirely here. I'm sure a minority of those who participate in this probably do so constructively however the vast majority don't. All's this stupid competition does is incite disruption for the sake of a prize and it also creates mess for others to clear up. Ban it. –Davey2010^Talk 22:01, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

User:Davey2010, problems "for ...2-3 [elsewhere, "many"] years" can't be attributed to the WPWP campaign earlier than its first run: July 2020 (last year). -- Deborahjay (talk) 07:23, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Deborahjay, That's really really weird - I swear this has been going on for longer than 2020 I swear by it .... but both the meta page and edit filter were created in 2020 so it would seem I'm wrong here, Certainly seems a lot longer than a year, Thanks,

When I was skimming over the edit filter logs, the vast majority of edits being made were constructive, correct and helpful. I would guesstimate that the good rate is over 90%, based on the samples I quickly checked. So really, I'm worried whether banning it might be a bit knee-jerky. Not a single user has been locally blocked for this yet. What's the rate of error? Is the rate of error limited to certain users only? Can we throttle contributions to X per day? Questions like these should probably be asked before considering banning the contest. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Fair enough, Unfortunately every edit I've seen with the WP hashtag I've had to revert (as it's not been an improvement) and unfortunately this issue has been a reoccurring problem here for many years so it's easy to assume all have been bad. If it's true that the majority (say 70-90%) of edits have actually been good then I would certainly support some sort of limit over banning. –Davey2010^Talk 22:28, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• Well, I know there were issues with this competition last year as well - Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive322#Image_competition? - so it does seem to be an ongoing problem. For some anecdata on my part, I scanned about 15-20 edits by Emmanuel Obiajulu and found no less than 3 that were incorrect species for the article they were placed on (Placing an image of Genera thisspecies on Genera thatspecies mostly). These were images that were clearly labelled with Genera thisspecies on the Commons page, so it's not an issue with Commons data, it's carelessness. I also noticed Adorvisa adding images today; they have now been blocked as a sock of RogerNiceEyes, who was blocked in March for high-speed inaccurate image additions to articles. Not sure if it's a coincidence, as Adorvisa wasn't using the WPWP hashtags, but if it isn't, it's indicative of the kind of editing behavior this sort of competition attracts. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

  Yeah, I tried to leave a note at AN at the start of the month (link) so we could get ahead of it this time around, but it didn't grab much attention heh. It may well attract unconstructive behaviour, but so does Wikipedia in general. It also attracts a lot of positive behaviour. I just don't think we should judge whether to ban the contest entirely without good evidence it's untenable and no other solution to reasonably accommodate it is possible. Given that we haven't even tried warn or throttle filters, and are mostly relying on anecdotes, I'm not convinced either has been done yet. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:27, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

@ProcrastinatingReader: I did block a user related to this, see 2 threads below. --Rschen7754 00:04, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

I see. Well, then personally I think we should do this:

1. Passive warnings. When users are participating in this contest, use an edit filter to show them messages to welcome them to English Wikipedia, remind them of the applicable policies, remind them to take it slow and focus on quality, and the consequences of disruption.
2. If that fails, throttle contributions. If we limit users without extra userrights to 25/day or something, I strongly suspect any disruption will be eliminated while we'll still be keeping the productiveness of this campaign. The users cited above are adding literally 500 images per day each, so some errors are unsurprising. I prefer #1 because even at the higher rate most peoples' contribs are usually good, we just need occasional reminders to make the mistakes less.
3. If both fail, then consider banning the contest.

Personally I think any of the first two ideas will have desirable effects in better articles and less disruption, but we didn't try to actually do anything last year or this - discussion just faded out - so I dunno why we'd expect the situation to change this time around. Whatever we do, there is still over one month of this contest left (it ends 31 Aug), so we should probably figure something out rather than shelving it for yet another year. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 09:26, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

• Wait a minute, the person leading this campaign is banned on here?! That already splits the communication here. – The Grid (talk) 22:54, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• The Grid Yes, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Wikicology. In addition to a site ban they were given a specific topic-ban from images. 192.76.8.91 (talk) 23:05, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Could there be automation involved with image selection here? I've found multiple accounts adding the same erroneous images to the same articles. Siwema Nikini just turned up to add some of the same bad images that Unofficiallummy had done only hours earlier (albeit with thumbnails in infoboxes and sometimes duplicating the ones that are already there, thereby being especially disruptive). Siwema Nikini is continuing despite a level-4 warning - should these be reported to AIV, reported here, or let be for the time being? --Sable232 (talk) 02:28, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

• The fact that this competition has been a problem for many years and that the main organizer is banned from English Wikipedia makes it pretty clear that the English Wikipedia should opt-out of this campaign starting next year. InfiniteNexus (talk) 04:07, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
• I have noticed that Emmanuel Obiajulu is also doing this. Hemiauchenia (talk) 07:59, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
• If the competition (with the "#WPWP"* tags) leads to such sloppy low quality work, why don't we community ban the competition and its participants (self declared via tags) from the English Wikipedia?--Eostrix  (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 09:47, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

  I don't know why people keep repeating this. It's factually untrue. Has anybody actually looked at the filter log, 1073 (hist · log)?

  I've reviewed over half the last 50 contribs, again, and found zero cases of mistaken identity and two technical errors (ie duplicate image). There are a couple more that aren't perfect but are far from disruptive and unlikely to be higher than non-contest newbie error rates. The impression of the contest participants in this section is not representative of most participants or most contributions. That's a simple fact anyone can verify by browsing the public filter log themselves. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 10:04, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

  I did prefix my sentence with an if, however you do make a strong point that the users discussed here suffer from a selection bias for disruption and are therefore not representative of the contestant cohort overall.--Eostrix  (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 10:50, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

  I jinxed it maybe. Avg error rates shot up the past 2 days. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 04:01, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• Note: This topic was also briefly raised on 11 July at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive334#Added image #WPWP #WPWPKWR. CMD (talk) 09:19, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I sincerely and rationally think that we should ban the contest. IMO rapid addition of images is just a horrible thing waiting to happen. Adding an image should involve an accuracy check, a rationale check, a licensing check, and a layout check. We're just going to get a bunch of images with bad licensing added to articles from this. With the whole focus being rate of speed, contestant's aren't going to check the image licensing. And we can't assume everything on Commons is okay (I nominate stuff for deletion on commons that I run into in articles here several times a month, because there's tons of bad licensing there). And we shouldn't be encouraging people to cram as many images into articles as possible - it causes layout and sometimes accessibility issues (see MOS:SANDWICH, among other things). We're just going to wind up with a bunch of articles crammed to the gills with images with often-shitty licensing because of this, and that's frankly disruptive. At a minimum, we need to make it clear that this contest should not be adding images to FAs - the FA criteria include image layout, licensing, and relevance checks, and a contest about speed editing images to articles is going to cause issues with the FA criteria. Hog Farm _Talk 19:40, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Oppose any unnecessarily harsh knee-jerk reactions. I get that some on enwp are automatically skeptical (or even cynical) of events/contests that lead to lots of new users editing, especially if organized outside of enwp. But apart from warning/blocking specifically problematic users (as we would in any other context), we should not be talking about banning the event or similarly harsh actions without (a) decent data on the quality of these edits beyond a handful of anecdotes and assumptions, and (b) more information about what will happen afterwards. T Cells/Wikicology is one of dozens of people involved here; it's not "his" contest. Let's ping a few of them at least somewhat active on enwp: @Deborahjay, Anthere, Jamie Tubers, and Astinson (WMF): are you aware of any plans to check the quality of contributions on the English Wikipedia? Are there any plans for evaluating the quality of contest contributions afterwards? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 20:34, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Since I was pinged above by @Rhododendrites:, I thought I might make a couple observations. First some context: I am part of a team working on improving the quality of support for campaign activities in the Wikimedia movement (see meta:Campaigns). We work on designing systems of support so that we can advance movement-wide work to fill topic/content/quality gaps on wikis in general. In that role I have been serving as a advisor on this campaign.

I want to make several observations in my capacity as a strategist:

• From all of the documented problems that I am reading so far in this discussion, and some spotchecking I did on the edit filter, campaign participants are not making any more bad edits than if they were normal enthusiastic newcomers in other contexts (and I suspect if we did analysis of the edits, the revert rate would be much lower than average, especially from newish contributors). The reason we are discussing this is that the community can see all of these edits together in one simple way (the hashtags) which makes it really transparent where the problems are coming from. Transparency should help us have better discussions to find constructive solutions, not punish participants.
• Many of the errors that I am finding in my own spotcheck of content and pointed to above appear to be originating from Commons or other Wikipedias. Even as a very experienced Wikipedia/Wikidata/Commons contributor in my volunteer capacity (User:Sadads): when I work on media files, I too end up accidently trusting other editors work in ways that creates the occasional error. Rooting out these problems on other wikis is complex, and hard for experienced editors in general; helping a newcomer figure out that kind of workflow would be even harder and would be an unusually high standard for participation on our wikis.
• As several folks have said already: if we are serious about the "anyone can edit" ethos of the project, enthusiasm for our mission and the potential for helping Wikipedia by adding images should be honed by improving the strategies for reception (see proposals below by one of the coordinators below @Deborahjay:). Remember that by introducing a minor quality error in good faith, by, for example, adding a less than helpful caption on a page it creates another low-hanging opportunity for new editors to fix content. Almost everyone in this discussion probably started fixing these kinds of errors on the Wiki in their first 500 edits or so -- its important to remember that we were all newcomers at one point, and learning from mistakes and fixing small errors is core to how people start in our community.
• There are a lot of signals that participants from last year's campaign were retained or reactivated well in both English and other language communities. Again, in spot checking other events and campaigns, a number of participate in other campaigns had #WPWP edits in their contributions (in both events with and without prizes). We see similar patterns with simple-edit oriented campaigns like #1lib1ref. Unfortunately we don't yet have a transparent, easy to leverage system for exploring these kinds of patterns in campaigns at a analytical/statistical level without a lot of very skilled technical work (part of what we hope to begin working on this year at WMF). I can advise the organizers or interested editors on how to do this kind of analysis after we get past the heat of the moment -- but I think it would be a shame to shut down a campaign that is successful at helping new editors feel like they can contribute to the community.
• This year the organizers significantly reduced prizes and restructured the instructions for the campaign to emphasize edit summaries and quality image checking (see the main campaign page on Meta). If contributors are not following the instructions, its on them and the community should feel confident warning and blocking folks who don't respond.

I hope the observations are helpful -- and I, personally, as a long-time Wikipedian, hope that English Wikipedia doesn't lose this pipeline of potentially fruitful newcomers and productive edits. Astinson (WMF) (talk) 13:33, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Alex for those comments. I second.

I am mostly involved in the Wiki Loves Africa specific prize (using WLA images to illustrate articles). I will note that I do intend to do some review of the insertions mid-August. I am currently not much online so it is complicated for me to do it right now. This being said, I must clarify that, similar to last year, I put some requirements with regards to the Wiki Loves Africa specific prize, so as to limit the risks of disruption and motivate editors to improve smaller languages. The rules for the prize this year may be read here m:Wiki Loves Africa 2021/WPWP. Specifically

• 1st prize - US $100 gift card
• 1st to 3rd prizes – WLA souvenirs (if the post office is more efficient than it has been in the recent 18 months...)

All WLA years are eligible ... BUT the first prize will consider edits made to ANY language EXCEPT English and French. Which suggests there should be limited disruption HERE on the English Wikipedia. Besides, to be eligible, the participant must have registered an account before January 2021 and must have made at least 300 mainspace edits to any language Wikipedia before 1st June 2021, so there is no incentive to complete newbies to participate. Last, they must abide with the general rules of the contest (descriptions and such).

Side note, per hashtag tool, 92 pages concerned on en.wp so far [18]. Last... any abuse --> block is perfectly fine by me... Anthere (talk) 14:20, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• In addition to what has already been stated by other pinged users, I believe the appropriate step to take here is to sanction individual users accordingly (including a ban if necessary), not to cancel the entire contest altogether. I have reached out to the lead organizer of the contest and the plans being set in place to mitigate future occurrences seem solid enough. So I'd advise to sanction the vandals to put a stop to the disruptive edits.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

100% agree with everything Astinson noted here... the burden/expectation put onto new editors of immediate perfection in particular is such antithetical to what Wikipedia should be about... —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:18, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Luckily this is not the first time that the contest has been run, so the organisers should be able to link to the evaluation of last year's event against the targets that were set before it took place. Or is this just another case of "every experiment has to be adjudged a success because of sunken costs"? Phil Bridger (talk) 21:08, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

• ANI is for addressing specific users' conduct; may I suggest moving the broader discussion of the contest and enwiki to the pump, where it will get more attention from our community (and not turn this ANI report into a megathread). Levivich 20:59, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
  • See discussion of proposed remedies at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Remedies_(poll). -- Deborahjay (talk) 14:06, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

From a Commons perspective, we have seen an uptick in copyvios uploaded for the purpose of adding them to articles for WPWP. Not sure what the best solution for the problem is, though. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:38, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• I agree we need to scrap it. Me and other editors have had to repeatedly remove an incorrect image added to the Lewis O'Brien (footballer) article by multiple editors as part of this nonsense. GiantSnowman 07:43, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
• I stumbled across a parallel problem -- the additions not of images, but of the words "image of" in captions, so that "Joe Shmoe" now reads "Image of Joe Shmoe" (or "Portrait of Joe Shmoe"), which is not an improvement. --Nat Gertler (talk) 10:42, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Comment from WPWP communities liaison organizer

Hello everyone, I am User:Deborahjay, the communities liaison lead for the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign and a longtime contributor to the English Wikipedia. The WPWP international organizing team has been following this discussion closely and noting the concerns raised here. We agree that the level of disruption (mostly by new editors) is enormous and that we must moderate their participation or contributions, especially in high-traffic Wikipedias such as the EN WP.

We are genuinely sorry for these disruptions and we take responsibility for the problem. We are immediately asking organizers at the participating community level to patrol the edit-filter log and help with cleanup. They do not need to wait till the end of the campaign; we are now at its midpoint.

In other to stop or significantly reduce the disruption, we are proposing the following remedies:

Proposal 1

1. Passive warnings. When users are participating in this campaign, use an edit filter to show them messages to welcome them to English Wikipedia, repeat the applicable WPWP policies, remind them to take it slow and focus on quality, and the consequences of disruption.
2. Throttle contributions of new users. Limit users without extra userrights to 25 edits/day or less.

Proposal 2

Limit participation on the English WP to only users with 1 year old account and at least 500 edits to mainspace on the English Wikipedia.

We strongly believe that if any of the proposed steps are accepted and implemented, this would take care of the disruption and any erring editors should be blocked per the community blocking policy. Thank you. -- Deborahjay (talk) 07:43, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

I think it would be nice if the contest organisers required participants (who are not already experienced editors) to go through a 'training course' before being able to edit. This would include them talking 1–1 with an experienced volunteer or the organisers to learn more about selecting relevant and high quality images, adding appropriate captions, technical details like how to actually add the image properly and where in the article to put it, etc.

Anyway, it's clear a consensus is forming and actions need to be taken, and a push towards a consensus is needed here so we can do something, so I have proposed remedies at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Remedies_(poll). Both of your proposals (or well, technically the first was mine ;)) would be part of "option 2" there. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 09:54, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Close and consolidate

Unless there are outstanding concerns with specific users that need deliberation here, can I propose closing this section? There are lots of useful comments here, and thanks to the organizers/advisors who have shared their observations and intentions, but since this thread has become more about the event than specific users, we're having parallel conversations. The thread at AN has progressed to the point of a more concrete proposal and it would be useful to have further discussion of this event in a single place. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:59, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

82.16.147.172 repeatedly removing image (again)

82.16.147.172 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) has resumed removing an image of Priti Patel from British Indians, following the expiry of the block that resulted from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1072#82.16.147.172 repeatedly removing image. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:54, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

TBF, is she really the most representative image to have on there? If you want a current senior British politician, arguably Rishi Sunak is a better choice. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:48, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Looking closer... Since it's for a section titled "Social issues - Political" it seems even more off. I'm sure a lot of reliable sources would agree that Priti Patel is a political/social issue, but not sure her face is a good image for the section. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:51, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

I partial-blocked the IP for edit-warring, but I don't have any objections if there's a consensus to change it to a photo of Rishi Sunak. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 22:24, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Nobody is discussing the matter on the article talk page. That's sad. Since both are very senior officials in the current UK government, so why not include photos of both? Just a suggestion. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 02:05, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

In British terms, the Great Offices of State are: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. Sunak and Patel occupy two of them. Why indeed not include pictures of both? Narky Blert (talk) 08:09, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

This is a case where behavioral issues need to be separated from content issues. As far as the behaviour goes, this should be something that is discussed on the article talk page, if there is a disagreement, rather than edit-warred over, so a block may be appropriate. For the content, I entirely agree with Narky Blert. Why can't we have two images when two people of Indian origin occupy such major positions? Are we more restricitive of what people from ethnic minorities can achieve than even the Conservative Party? In this case Sunak occupies what is usually regarded as the senior position but Patel attracts more controversy, but that's all by-the-by. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:41, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

In case there is some confusion, AFAICT, there is no content issue or dispute over to whether to include Rishi Sunak or Priti Patel. The IP first removed Priti Patel's picture with the reasoning being "Everybody is sick of seeing her face" then edit warred over it [19]. They messaged User:Cordless Larry to say " removing unnecessary pictures of Priti Patel's face is an entirely constructive public service. Please find a different example of a British person of Indian descent to use". They then changed tact and said "Reverting addition of photo for which no valid reason has been given". As this also didn't work, next they changed tact and started to argue that Priti Patel "British Indian Ugandan, not British Indian. As such, her being used as a representative of British Indians is inappropriate." with similar arguments about the definition of British Indian to follow. For these last two edits, they tried replacing her photo with File:Dadabhai Naoroji, 1892.jpg. It was User:ProcrastinatingReader above who first suggested using Rishi Sunak instead with comments following above. The IP has never suggested it, and it seems clear their opposition is solely because they dislike seeing Priti Patel for some reason. If people want to talk content issues here I'm not British but personally, given both are extremely senior politicians in the UK government, even if Rishi Sunak arguably has a slightly more important position, I'm not sure if there is reason to choose one over the other. As for both, I'm not convinced it makes sense to choose 2 current members of government as the sole representation of British Indian involvement in politics, as if they've never done anything before. Frankly, the IP's idea of Dadabhai Naoroji as an addition would probably be a better solution. If people do want to keep the IP happy, the solution would likely have to be Rishi Sunak (whether with or without Dadabhai Naoroji) or something, but would definitely require the removal of Priti Patel's photo. And solution should also consider WP:NOTGALLERY etc. Nil Einne (talk) 11:38, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes. My point is just that I don't see how the picture makes sense in that location, or why it's the best image to have. I think the IP has a reasonable content concern, if not for the most policy compliant reasons (it seems the IP's concern is that Priti Patel, perhaps because she attracts more controversies as Phil says, isn't representative of "British Indians"). But I don't entirely understand why they were blocked over it. Wouldn't the users restoring Priti Patel's image equally be edit warring? It's largely editor discretion on which image to use, there's not really a policy making either position any more valid than the other. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:04, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

I'd be fine with someone suggesting an alternative or additional photo on the article talk page, but the IP editor was edit warring without any policy rationale or consensus for changing the image, and their edit summaries suggested their objection to the image was personal dislike for Patel. I think a block was appropriate on behavioural grounds. Cordless Larry (talk) 12:52, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

(non-admin comment) My opinion of Patel is unprintable, but I leave it at the door. She is beyond doubt one of the most prominent British Indians today. Narky Blert (talk) 22:10, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

@ProcrastinatingReader: that seems a very generous reading of what the IP has said. I find it very hard to see anything from the IP other than a hate of Priti Patel's face and attempt to come up with reasons to remove. They may be entitled to that hate, but they aren't entitled to try to remove the image for that reason. So while I'm normally very wary of someone complaining about edit warring and a lack of discussion when the talk page is empty (as it means the person complaining also hasn't tried), this is one case when I see an exception as the IP was just making crap up to remove something because of a personal dislike. Of course we cannot ignore policy backed reasons for the removal if they could find one even if it isn't their personal motivation, but in this case I think it's fair to expect they should be the one to start the talk page discussion. As for the content issue, I stand by my view that there is zero reason why Rishi Sunak is more representative than Priti Patel. Still as Cordless Larry said, the talk page is the place for that discussion. I'm not going to start one since I DGAF. Nil Einne (talk) 14:28, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Patel is not British Indian according to your own definitions, it's irrelevant what my motivation for pointing that out is. CordlessLarry's motivation for keeping her picture there is no more or less motivated reasoning than mine. As you can see by his contributions here, he's not thinking about the facts, he's thinking about how best to punish someone for disagreeing with him. However, he's wrong. Unless you'd all like to change the name of the page from "British Indians" to "citizens of the UK whose ancestral roots are from India" as per his statement. Please note that, as I pointed out already, according to Early_human_migrations this includes the entire planet (minus peoples who stayed in Africa or moved from Africa to the middle East, then back). I'll remind you that it takes two to "edit war" and Larry is as culpable for it as I am. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.147.172 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

"Citizens of the UK whose ancestral roots are from India" comes from the opening line of the article. On Patel being British Indian, see Talk:British Indians#Priti Patel. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:16, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Bhaskarbhagawati - Bhauma dynasty and Varman dynasty

• Bhaskarbhagawati (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Bhauma dynasty (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Varman dynasty (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Bhaskarbhagawati (talk · contribs) has recently started some POV edits on Bhauma dynasty and Varman dynasty, e.g [20] and [21], [22] where he is removing reliable sources and replacing them by older sources that are contradicted by the newer sources. He has been reverted a number of times, but Bhaskarbhagawati would edit war ([23], [24], [25]) and stop just short of violating 3RR. Nevertheless, Bhaskarbhagawati would make minimal effort to engage in any discussion or to come to a consensus. I left a notice on this talk page to engage his opposing editors in discussion[26], but to no avail[27],[28] etc.

Bhaskarbhagawati is topic banned from the languages of Assam ([29]) and recently he was recently temporarily blocked for violating the ban ([30]). I request the administrators to take some action because he is displaying the same behavior that he did when he was banned and blocked.

Pinging El_C and EdJohnston.

Chaipau (talk) 19:31, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Two back-to-back ANI threads, two pings in a row! Do I win a prize? I want a prize! El_C 19:39, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Chaipau for your effort, i will reply point wise.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 19:49, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Addendum: Here is another instance of Bhaskarbhagawati removing cited texts: [31]. This is a persistent problem with this editor who has not relented on his point of view despite many attempts to come to a consensus. Pinging Richard Keatinge who facilitated a discussion on this topic. Chaipau (talk) 23:06, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Pinging unrelated editors to current dispute (WP:CANVASSING ?).भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 08:24, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Please see WP:APPNOTE. Chaipau (talk) 10:07, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

User:Bhaskarbhagawati, can you explain why you removed references here from the Bhauma dynasty article? At first sight, these appear to be reliable sources. If you think you received consensus for this removal of sources, can you link to wherever that occurred? EdJohnston (talk) 14:50, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes, will reply soon.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 16:18, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

All right, i am responding to points raised by Chaipau. In backdrop, Chaipau is a known editor with political overtones. His nationalistic zeal overtakes academics. His recent conduct, such as diff is not sustainable in real world diffdiffdiff.

(i) Bhaskarbhagawati (talk · contribs) has recently started some POV edits on Bhauma dynasty and Varman dynasty These are uniform with multiple well grounded sources (1) (2), all removed by them with brute force (see point vi).

(ii) e.g [32] and [33], [34] This should atleast not brought up, it was long resolved diff and he is well informed about it diff (bluntly rejected by him).

(iii) [35] This carrying on from last point, plus infobox, capital and reliable sources are reinstated.

(iv) [[36]] The kingdom has long standing capital diff but they removed capital along-with citations without discourse (see point vi).

(v) where he is removing reliable sources and replacing them by older sources that are contradicted by the newer sources. As continuing from point ii, so called reliable sources are isolated (WP:WEIGHT), replaced by several better known authors and books.

(vi) He has been reverted a number of times Yes, they are in reverting spree diffdiff diff diff diff diffdiffdiffdiff[diffdiffdiffdiffdiff,diffdiffdiffdiffdiff diffdiffdiffdiff, by "one of the many" suspected sock-puppets of Qwertywander (their homogeneous comments about Chutia kingdom, Varman dynasty etc.) diff(Requesting a checkuser test).

(vii) but Bhaskarbhagawati would edit war Unfounded accusation.

(viii) ([37], [38], [39]) All content are as routine, WP:WEIGHT issues are addressed. They are not able to provide at minimum two sources for unacademic claims.

(ix) and stop just short of violating 3RR Never engaged in reverting like this.

(x) Nevertheless, Bhaskarbhagawati would make minimal effort to engage in any discussion or to come to a consensus. They are informed several times about it beforehand.

(xi) I left a notice on this talk page to engage his opposing editors in discussion[40] Chaipau post such custom threatening messages on talkpages of other editors diff diff who don't bow to his wishes, its not unprecedented, he threaten to report me here if i don't follow his commands, it is his way of achieving consensus real quick.

(xii) but to no avail[41],[42] As mentioned above his restated his commitment to use isolated sources over academic consensus.

(xiii) They are removing sections, contents, reliable citations forcefully ad infinitum (see point vi), without consensus.

(xiv) In past, he has relentlessly taken content disputes here, explicitly for those editors he distaste, for which he was commanded against diff.

(xv) Chaipau is a old edit warriror diffdiffdiffdiffdiff, who either war vigorously or encourage others to force unilateral consensus. He was blocked for fierce edit-warring in recent past diff, though he promised to behave, it seems that is not happening anytime soon diff.

Thanks ! भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 18:30, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

References used for Bhaskarbhagawati's post
References

Hello Bhaskarbhagawati. The fact that you disagree with User:Chaipau is noted. Can you please answer my earlier question, whether you received consensus anywhere for your removal of references from the Bhauma dynasty article? EdJohnston (talk) 18:59, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Link is above (point ii), thanks.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 21:17, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Bhaskarbhagawati. I was requesting a link to a talk page discussion where other editors agreed with you that certain references you disapprove of ought to be removed from the Bhauma dynasty article. You did provide two links to discussions. In the first of these, the only two other participants are now blocked. The only other link to a discussion was a thread at Talk:Bhauma dynasty where you and Chaipau discuss the matter and don't come to any agreement. This doesn't amount to a consensus in your favor. Both you and Chaipau have been blocked in the past; you are the only one still under a topic ban. My conclusion is that your removal of sources from the Bhauma dynasty article was not justified by any talk page consensus. We don't usually like to see people removing references from articles without a good reason. (Makes it appear that you are cherry-picking sources to keep only the ones that agree with you). If this thread is closed without action, you should at a minimum promise not to continue warring at Bhauma dynasty until consensus is found. EdJohnston (talk) 22:41, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

I am OK with any action/inaction on this report as long as the edits the conditions set down are met. Nevertheless, I would like to point out the following for the records:

• I was not involved in the recent edit warring of Bhauma dynasty.
• The [43] is an example of WP:OTHERPARENT. The language is not at all neutral and it contained lies. For example: "Paromita Das (2005) andis faculty in Gauhati University, India; has hardly written any academic works before." is not at all supported, since Paromita Das is published ([44], forgive the terrible formatting)
• The WP:RS response was for Das (2005) alone, but Bhaskarbhagawati had removed Shin (2018) and Sen (1984) as well [45].
• And the edit summary is also not truthful. It is not only Das and Shin who see the Naraka story as a myth, but Sircar as well [46].

Chaipau (talk) 23:18, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

The discourse was concerning reliability of sources, same was meticulously talk over in talk page diff. The agreement was reached to pull to WP:RSN diff, resolved, they pronounced it as matter of policy not consensus "Wikipedia should not present a dispute as if a view held by a small minority is as significant as the majority view. Views that are held by a tiny minority should not be represented except in articles devoted to those views (such as flat Earth). To give undue weight to the view of a significant minority, or to include that of a tiny minority, might be misleading as to the shape of the dispute.". He was effectively informed.

The consensus (WP:RSN) retract to 12 October 2017 while they are blocked not long ago (June 23, 2020). Yes, i agree talk-page dialogues are not binding, hence taken to pertinent noticeboard for binding consensus. The unrelated minuscule block decision was taken in my absence (i haven't violate the ban), based on misapprehension topic ban (you). I will appeal in Arbitration Enforcement. As divulged it is matter of policy, we don't use isolated sources (i have no concern if aided by secondary).

Chaipau raised some new points. He do facilitated warring. Policy matters are not WP:OTHERPARENT. They are faculty of Gauhati University but her ideas are not supported in academic circles. Different views of Sen and Shin isolated as well, not buttressed by academicians. The legendary status is not in question diff. She is pointing towards origins, ethnicity etc, and calling him as historical figure. Chaippau pinged you not without reason, he is aware of lengthy tussle between us (you and me) over topic ban. Before i make any promises, I insist redressal of conduct issues (prelude) brought in fifteen points above. Thanks.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 07:29, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Without adding to the walls of text, I find that Ed Johnston's comments above are valid as are Chaipau's. I don't find significant merit in Bhaskarbhagawati's remarks. Richard Keatinge (talk) 09:02, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I am anticipating Richard Keatinge sooner than later, will reply soon, thanks.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 10:58, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

This is amusing. Bhaskarbhagawati is citing some meta comments from 2017 from a user who has since been banned to remove references published in 2018—after the remarks were made in WP:RS! This is a rather perverted use of WP:RS, I think. Chaipau (talk) 21:48, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

"Without adding to the walls of text, I find that Ed Johnston's comments above are valid as are Chaipau's. I don't find significant merit in Bhaskarbhagawati's remarks", Richard Keatinge wrote. Videlicet, they imply they don't understand current state of affair, notwithstanding X (Chaipau) is right anyway. Not unprecedented diff diff diff diff diff diff diff diff diff, the ideal illustration of deep-rooted WP:TAGTEAM, thanks.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 16:01, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Bhaskarbhagawati removed referenced texts not only in Bhauma dynasty, but also in Indo-Aryan migration to Assam [47]. Here too, he removed Taher (2001), actually without any edit summary. This is the same pattern of edit he has made in Bhauma dynasty. I added this incident in addendum. So, could you, Bhaskarbhagawati, please explain why you removed the reference to Taher (2001)? This kind of disruptive behavior is not a one-off for you, but a sustained pattern that has been going on for a decade now, for which you were topic banned. I tagged Richard Keatinge because he has seen your behavior and edit patterns up close in Indo-Aryan migration to Assam page. Tag team? No! Chaipau (talk) 17:13, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Iteration, replying soon, thanks.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 07:49, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Reiteration, Mohd. Taher has WP:WEIGHT (minority viewpoint) concern diff, edit summary removed isolated source, as discussed in WP:RSN, Chaipau is utterly cognizant of it, being participant, thanks.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 17:52, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Again, another misrepresentation. The [RSN discussion] was about the presence of Dravidian in Assam. What Bhaskarbhagawati removed here] was the claim that the Indo-Aryans were the third linguistic group to arrive. Chaipau (talk) 11:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Chaipau is at odds with consensus, in addition to policy (notwithstanding of multi-fold apprisal) (WP:DISRUPTIVE EDITING) for extensive stretch (decade), furthermore, engage in long term WP:CANVASSING diffdiffdiffdiffdiffdiff diffdiffdiffdiffdiff. He is facilitating WP:EDITWARRING, through suspected long blocked editor (taking out enduring infobox, citations, sections) diffdiff diff diff diff diffdiffdiffdiff[diffdiffdiffdiffdiff,diffdiffdiffdiffdiff diffdiffdiffdiff, take over set of articles, manifesting WP:OWN.भास्कर् Bhagawati संवाद 17:09, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Sennagod and WP:BLP policy with regard to the Layla Love biography.

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

Layla Love (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Sennagod first appeared on Wikipedia a couple of weeks ago, with a query at WP:BLPN over the Wikipedia biography of Layla Love - an American photographer. Sennagod seemed to have doubts over whether Love met Wikipedia notability criteria. I looked at the article, which certainly appeared somewhat promotional, removed obvious puffery from the lede, and replied to Sennagod's query, stating that in my opinion, despite the puffery, Love probably met Wikipedia's notability criteria. [48]

This clearly didn't satisfy Sennagod, who then went to Talk:Layla love, starting a section suggesting that Love was using a 'fake name' - apparently there is an actress in the adult film industry who shares the name. Furthermore, it seems that Google has confused the two, using text from the Wikipedia photographer biography in their 'Knowledge Graph' alongside a photograph of the actress. I explained to Sennagod that Wikipedia had no control over Google, and that nothing could be done about that here.

From then on it went steadily downhill. Sennagod is apparently set on getting the Love biography deleted - a not entirely unreasonable position to take, as whether Love meets notability standards is a reasonable enough question, given the sources cited. What hasn't however been reasonable, in my opinion, is the way Sennagod has gone about this. I have repeatedly tried to explain that notability depends not on whet Wikipedia has to say about a person, but what coverage in external sources does. Sennagod had tried Proposed Deletion (twice), and started an AfD discussion - again reasonable enough, allowing for a misunderstanding about how PROD works. What isn't reasonable though - or permissible per WP:BLP policy in my opinion - is the way Sennagod has been using Talk:Layla Love as a platform to make all sorts of accusations and insinuations about the subject of the biography, basically accusing her of misrepresentation, while presenting nothing in the way of evidence beyond pure supposition (it should be noted that we have no evidence that Love was responsible for the article at all). Beyond the 'fake name' claim, Sennagod has accused Love of lying with regard to photographs of Pink and Bjork, [49], of fabricating a nonprofit organisation [50], and of lying about the involvement of Gloria Steinem with the nonprofit. [51] Likewise, Sennagod's AfD nomination [52] contains numerous allegations about the subject of the biography - allegations that simply shouldn't appear there, since they are unsourced speculation, based, like most of what else Sennagod has to say with regard to Love on a clearly hostile interpretation of 'original research' through Google - evidently Sennagod thinks that something not being findable through a Google search is proof enough that it didn't happen.

I have repeatedly tried to explain to Sennagod how Wikipedia determines notability, and asked that the denigration of the biography subject be stopped, as not only off-topic but contrary to WP:BLP policy, to no avail. The denigration continues, along with numerous personal attacks on other contributors. The latest posts to Talk:Layla love include accusations of "deception" with regard to "selling clothing" [53] and of a contributor "trying to put in false information to associate the subject with a celebrity". This has clearly gone too far, in my opinion, and I would suggest at the very minimum Sennagod needs to be blocked from the Love article, its talk page, and the AfD, and topic-banned from the entire subject. The AfD is ongoing, it could go either way, and I think Wikipedia is quite capable of deciding the notability issue without the efforts of a contributor who clearly has some sort of personal grudge or other improper motivation, and who has been using Wikipedia as a soapbox to pursue it. Regardless of whether Love's work merits an article, she doesn't deserve this sort of abuse, as WP:BLP policy makes entirely clear. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:36, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

• Comment - About four days ago, Sennagod filed a request at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, saying that the article about Layla Love should not exist. I advised them that they could nominate the article for deletion, and closed the request as not including any other users. (It was also otherwise not the type of dispute handled by DRN.) I have not yet reviewed the Layla Love article well enough to !vote in the AFD. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:03, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
• Comment - A nomination to delete a biography of a living person is itself subject to the policy on biographies of living persons and should not contain unverified statements about the subject. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:03, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

The statements aren't just 'unverified' - some imply dishonesty approaching criminal behaviour, while presenting no meaningful evidence whatsoever. If they weren't so patiently ridiculous, I'd have asked for them to be RevDel'd. Comments like that don't belong anywhere on this website, regardless of who they relate to. I'd appreciate it if someone would actually comment on the substantive issue here, which is what is going to be done about this. AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:25, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

I have given Sennagod a BLP discretionary sanctions alert. The editor is now aware of the consequences of any BLP violations occur going forward. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 17:04, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

And on it goes: see Sennagod's latest edit. [54] A clear and unambiguous violation of WP:BLP policy. Sennagod cannot possibly know what took place in private conversations between Love and Steinem. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:29, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I have blocked the editor for 31 hours. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 17:19, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

And yet again, Sennagod is engaging in battleground behaviour etc over the Layla Love article. Restoring the AfD notice to the article, after the AfD closed as 'keep' [55], editing the AfD discussion after closure. [56]. Clearly the short block achieved nothing. AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:01, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

AndyTheGrump Given Sennagod's behavior after the AfD decision to Keep, Cullen328 imposed a permanent block on this editor's ability to edit Layla Love or the Talk page of the article. David notMD (talk) 10:25, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Fodbold-fan

Fodbold-fan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

A very good user (at times), but with a sizeable block log and a history of adding unsourced content to BLPs, which based on this discussion from June is seemingly due to laziness/forgetfulness. And yet, he persists. I therefore propose a topic ban, broadly construed, from any edits related to BLPs. GiantSnowman 18:58, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

• Topic ban: Regretfully, likely necessary. A quick review turned up another such edit [57] which I reverted for lack of sourcing. I attempted to verify the claims in the diff, but despite looking at the websites of the respective clubs I could not find any information which confirmed what Fodbold-fan was saying. There are a lot...and I do mean a lot...of editors who routinely change information on football and football-bio articles without any care in the world for accuracy. Sadly, Fodbold-fan seems to be one of them. User talk response such as [58] and [59] do not inspire confidence. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:39, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
• Support BLP topic ban This editor's dismissive attitude toward Verifiability and BLP policy is simply not acceptable. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 21:33, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
  • @Hammersoft and Cullen328: given my comment below, and the way in which the rest of the discussion has gone (which you might not have noticed since originally commenting), I don't think we can say this editor has no desire for accuracy or that edits are unverifiable as such. Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
• Switching to oppose for now. Although I haven't waited for Fodbold-fan to respond to Valereee's direct question, I will go out on a limb here. Support for an indefinite duration. The blocks were of an escalating duration a couple of years ago, and now we are back with the same issue. In the absence of demonstrating consistent compliance with core policies when editing Wikipedia articles, this topic ban is unfortunately necessary. Ncmvocalist (talk) 23:18, 28 July 2021 (UTC) There are a number of reasons (which have been brought to my attention since my original comment) as to why I think we can provide Fodbold-fan with another chance. Firstly, Fodbold-fan has promised below on 29 and 30 July 2021 to include a citation for every edit and I think we should offer that user a chance to fulfil that promise. Secondly, I think we should formally review each of the blocks shown in the block log, as a matter of fairness. Thirdly, the edit which led to this proposal was correct, even though it was unsourced, as Fram has outlined below on 30 July 2021. Lastly, Fodbold-fan seems to be make valuable contributions and has in my view demonstrated he is capable of improving his style of editing. Although we know that that not all edits need to be sourced per se, and reversion is a great remedy, I think it is fair to expect Fodbold-fan to fulfil the promise made in any case. Since 2015, multiple users provided Fodbold-fan with feedback on their content not being reliably sourced, content being incorrect, content being improperly sourced, (lack of) use of edit summaries and use of the preview functions. I anticipate concerns will persist unless Fodbold-fan makes more of a consistent effort (which I believe the user is capable of, but as a result of habit, chooses not to). Rather than evaluating every single previous concern, it would be more productive if he proactively takes more care with his edits. This will resolve the risk of contentions arising. I would also reinforce Otr500's comment below dated 30 July 2021, as well as Robby.is.on's comment of the same date. Ncmvocalist (talk) 21:51, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• Okay please last chance, from now on I will add source to every little edit I do. I promise. You will see. Please Fodbold-fan (talk) 16:19, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

How many last chances have you had? GiantSnowman 17:57, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I promise this time will be the last. You will see. Fodbold-fan (talk) 12:39, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose. The two edits given as justification for the topic ban were unsourced but correct. The edit that Hammersoft couldn't verify was easily verified from e.g. here or here. We should thank them for their edits, not topic ban them. Football project editors mostly do a wonderful job, but have had similar issues in the past with a very heavy-handed approach towards editors who add correct information but don't source it to their liking. While it of course is better if editors add good sources while dding information, it still is better that they improve articles and add correct but unsourced information, than that they don't improve these articles at all. Fram (talk) 07:32, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• Comment Fodbold-fan is a very productive editor and has been for a long time. I would find it sad for them to be topic-banned. That said, they need to adhere to Wikipedia's sourcing requirements and their dismissive statements towards sourcing were very disappointing. I'd be willing to give them one "last chance". Robby.is.on (talk) 09:54, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

If people want to block people for adding unsourced but correct information to BLPs, then perhaps they first need to change the policy? There is no requirement to only add sourced material to BLPs, unsourced additions or changes are welcome if they are uncontroversial (and correct of course). If they are regularly incorrect in what they add, then we should have a discussion about that: but topic banning an editor (and worse, blocking them 3 times already) over what is perfectly acceptable policy-wise is the wrong approach. Instead, GiantSnowman (and others) should stop blocking people for making correct and policy-acceptable edits. Fram (talk) 10:20, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

There is no excuse to ever add unsourced material to any article, and certainly no such thing as policy-acceptable unsourced edits so long as Verifiability remains a policy. Unsourced edits are worse than vandalism. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:39, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

I think you are confusing policy-encouraged and policy-acceptable. Unsourced edits are perfectly acceptable. That's why it is verifiability, not verified. Obviously it is much better to add the source directly, instead of waiting for it to be challenged and only then to add one, but that's just best practice, not some absolute requirement which is blockable or which is somewhere policy. And your addition "unsourced edits are worse than vandalism" is just silly. Fram (talk) 10:47, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Unsourced edits are unacceptable. We tolerate vandalism, but it is easily corrected. Unsourced edits often require expert attention. Usually, unless we can identify the original source, they have to be removed, because without the source we cannot verify that they are not a copyvio. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:15, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose Support per "Comments on change of !vote below": Per Fram and GiantSnowman's "A very good user (at times)". Words of wisdom or consideration: This editor is apparently a subject SPA (certainly not a bad thing), with what seems to be 255 articles created (only a few deleted) and also what seems to be working on 64,000 edits. While I am 100% for sourcing BLP content, if the content was in fact (not seemingly argued against) sourced, then this should count as a warning that getting too close to the last chance line could be dangerous. @Fodbold-fan: You seem to indicate you are through playing with fire. I notice you revert but apparently, add content on some edits ( here). I haven't looked at how it is customarily done but I consider a reversion to be just that. I would think adding content and reference(s) should be noted as such in the edit summary for clarity. In the scheme of Wikipedia creating articles is normally considered a great thing and in that regard, you seem to be doing "great things", however, and especially concerning BLP's, it is dangerous to add content without sourcing when you have been warned. At present, you stand a chance of being topic-banned. Unless you have some alternative area I would think you would want to protect this. I cannot give a good defending argument concerning your block log. I can just add that this "slip up" was the first in over two years and maybe that will be considered. Maybe because there was a source in this instance there could be some saving grace but I hope you do realize the gravity of the situation. Being a prolific editor does not give a pass for disregarding policies and guidelines. Good luck, -- Otr500 (talk) 10:49, 30 July 2021 (UTC) — Preceding change of !vote made by Otr500 (talk · contribs)) 13:42, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose because there is no rule requiring edits to be sourced. I would support such a rule, but it very pointedly doesn't exist. That's why there's a BLP rule requiring it for controversial edits; because other kinds of edits don't have to be sourced. No sanctions without evidence of actually violating policy. Also, the one diff in the OP was not unsourced; almost all of that edit was sourced by Soccerway, which was already in the article; the only part that wasn't was the "the deal was never made official" language. I actually agree with requiring edits to be sourced but the remedy is reversion not sanctions. If we want to sanction editors for persistently adding unsourced material we first need to add the requirement to policy. Levivich 12:39, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
  • @Levivich and Fram: WP:BLP requires All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. It does not matter if the edits are "controversial". If the material Fodbold-fan is adding is regularly being challenged then it is unacceptable for them to simply supply sources once it is challenged. They need to be adding the sources when they are adding the material since clearly whatever they are adding is "likely to be challenged". BLP further requires that "contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately and without discussion" but that doesn't seem to be the issue here since the problem is Fodbold-fan violating BLP by failing to add sources for material likely to be challenged rather than contentious material. Nil Einne (talk) 14:08, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
    • I don't think "likely to be challenged" means "we have a project where a few of the most active editors will challenge any BLP material if unsourced", but "if the unsourced material you add is unlikely, or negative, or otherwise likely to be challenged for any reason apart from simply being unsourced, then you should source it. Otherwise it is circular reasoning / self-fulfilling prophecy. For me, the issue is not (or less) with someone adding correct but unsourced material (and the editors wanting the topic ban have not indicated that this is about incorrect material at all), but with editors routinely challenging this (and blocking editors!) to uphold their standards which are higher than what enwiki policy requires. Policy should not be misused in this way, the lines you quote are not intended to be a catch-all which can be used to wikilawyer. Otherwise we could better replace them with "all BLP material must be sourced and will be removed if not, and editors failing to do this will be blocked". Fram (talk) 14:18, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
    • These edits are not likely to be challenged and I'm not sure why you think otherwise. No one has challenged the accuracy of the two edits diffed here. I am hard pressed to think of an edit that is less likely to be contentious or challenged than what team a pro athlete or coach plays for. This is very easy to verify, "vanilla" stuff. It'd be a whole different story if these were controversial or inaccurate edits. ("Controversial" is shorthand for "contentious or challenged or likely to be challenged.") Levivich 14:21, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• • • Our rule is that all material is likely to be challenged. Sports web sites have short half lives. After a short time material becomes unverifiable. Adding a reference may help preserve it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:43, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

      • "Rules" made up by a local project (or by one member of the project?) are not a reason to sanction or block editors, and the above "infractions" to that ignorable rule are not from such typical sports websites but can be found in news sites as well. Fram (talk) 09:01, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose per Fram and Levivich. Unsourced material is only bad if 1) it is unsourceable and not merely for being unsourced. Which is to say, if it can be easily shown that a source exists and could be added, that is not a violation of BLP or any other policy. And 2) it is contentious or likely to be challenged. The lack of a source itself is not sufficient grounds for challenging. It must also, in some other way, have a problem, such as being unlikely to be true, harmful or negative in someway, etc. etc. Wikipedia policies are not couched in mandatory "if this, then that" statements, they require nuance and prudence when applying them, and to ban and/or block the OP for this seems heavy handed. I would encourage them to source their edits better (as they should have learned, it makes some people get unnecessarily confrontational when they don't), but unless such information is legitimately contentious, we shouldn't sanction them for not doing so. --Jayron32 15:56, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

  You're forgetting copyvio. Without the source, we can't verify that it was not copied. I've had to remove or rewrite whole articles because they were unsourced. And I'm not forgetting how Fram challenged material that was both properly sourced and that they knew to be true. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:43, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

  • Copyvio is a complete red herring here. And if you for some reason would like to use this discussion to attack me, then at least have the decency to include some diffs of what you mean. Otherwise please remove the statement per WP:NPA. Fram (talk) 09:05, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• @Fram: @Levivich: Rather than just focusing on whether policy permits unsourced edits per se, we probably should also consider the background of issues raised with this editor in particular. My understanding of the history here is that part of the reason this editor was blocked was due to the content being inaccurate and/or (as Jayron32 puts it) unsourceable. While it is clear to me that Fram is saying the diff example at the top of the thread is not one of those occasions (that the content was merely unsourced), and therefore all of you are saying it was permitted under policy, it is unclear to me whether you are all saying this of the previous edits and blocks which you are calling heavy-handed. I mean, there is little point in us saying we shouldn't have sanctioned an editor like this for unsourced content unless we have examined the background of those previous sanctions and the extent of the feedback that the user was provided, as we are not ones for discouraging best practice either. If it turns out that the block log is prejudicial, we can then at least reach a consensus on that and why. If it isn't, then perhaps something else needs to be said for completeness, along the lines of what Otr500 has said. Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:41, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
  • Ncmvocalist GS's blocks of Fodbold-fan were among the blocks discussed at GS's arbcom case, in which both Fram and I participated. Levivich 19:54, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
• Fodbold-fan, can you explain why after nearly 64K edits, you're still adding unsourced info to Wikipedia? I find that a bit astonishing. Why in the world don't you just source your edits? You clearly must know how. —valereee (talk) 20:33, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Procedural close of some kind See comments on on change of !vote. I do not see a blockable offense here. I did not look into the past block record just that it exists. An arbcom case was mentioned but no links were provided. I do not know if any blocks were appealed which is an editor's right. I opposed this because sources were found which means in this case there was NOT "unsourcable" content involved. What I do know is there were three blocks for adding "Persistent addition of unsourced content" (by the same Admin) and now this one. I hope this does not evolve into the questioning of these blocks. If ONE was because of adding content that could not be sourced this is potential harm. Future edits can be considered "contentious or challenged" as they have been. Wikipedia:Verifiability is a policy. Part of that policy is WP:CHALLENGE: All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution. and Attribute all quotations, and any material whose verifiability is challenged or likely to be challenged, to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.

In this case, with this editor, it does not seem to be a stretch for any to acknowledge that any unsourced contributions are "likely to be challenged" and need to be sourced especially on a BLP. I believe the editor is aware of this. This means that failure to do so could be inching towards possible claims of tendentious editing. This is evidenced by the This page in a nutshell and the lead of Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. This policy applies to any living person mentioned in a BLP, whether or not that person is the subject of the article, and to material about living persons in other articles and on other pages, including talk pages.

Considering these things it is not unreasonable to require that sources be provided by this editor without trying to knit-pick if this may be applicable to all editors. This editor has agreed to this. If this editor", Fodbold-fan (pinging for notification), wishes to contest any of this (is there any undue duress?) I will support such contesting. However, none of us are "court-appointed" so I would like to suggest this be closed as resolved with the editor agreeing to provide sourcing for material, specifically in this topic area. I would like to add a note of caution moving forward with regards to concerns of "heavy-handed" (editor versus editor/Admin involvement) in this area. If "anyone" has deeper concerns that can be addressed separately -- Otr500 (talk) 09:05, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

@Otr500: Just on your comment about the block log, the relevant arbcom case finding is here, where the administrator was found to have wrongly blocked other editors for "persistent addition of unsourced content" (in the same period as his last couple of blocks of Fodbod-fan). The evidence in the case included reference to the blocks of Fodbod-fan but the finding did not explicitly name this editor, instead naming two other editors.

To the extent that I have referred to reviewing blocks, they wouldn't be about administrator, as the case already finalised remedies which were relevant to incorrectly blocking editors; rather, the block review would be for the limited purpose of deciding how it would affect our views on editing restrictions for Fodbod-fan specifically (because unlike other discussions, I think it would be wrong for us to take the block log at face value in light of that case).

In the meantime, I agree that this thread can be closed on the basis of the agreement provided by Fodbod-fan. Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:25, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• Unsure why editors are justifying the repeated addition of unsourced content to BLPs and the (and being generous here) frankly blasé attitude to sourcing requirements, just because I am involved and have blocked the editor in the past (the last time being 3 years ago), despite other editors also raising concerns about edits and other editors having blocked the editor as well over a period of the last 6 years (although admittedly clean for 2). Do you really think so little of me? Cool. GiantSnowman 09:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
• GiantSnowman, I certainly do not "think so little of you". In fact, I think it commendable that you "aggressively enforce the policy on biographies of living people". Two years is a long time. The benefit of the doubt suggests that a warning should be sufficient and this was acknowledged. I believe there is a long-standing consensus that BLP content needs to be sourced. Some may choose to argue, but unless since somehow nullified, a 2010 Arbitration Committee motion passed that included: That unsourced biographies of living people may contain seemingly innocuous statements which are actually damaging, but there is no way to determine whether they do without providing sources. WP:BLPREMOVE (#1) includes "unsourced or poorly sourced" and gives latitude for an involved Admin to block: Administrators may enforce the removal of clear BLP violations with page protection or by blocking the violator(s), even if they have been editing the article themselves or are in some other way involved. This is for "clear cases" and includes provisions for "less clear cases". I think the evidence suggests that if the subject does violate the BLP content sourcing policy requirement again that more than a topic ban be considered. What can be considered tendentious editing? "Expecting others to find sources for your own statements" and "This applies most especially to biographies of living individuals". -- Otr500 (talk) 07:32, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
  • I would add that it appears that Fodbod-fan is complying with the promise made in this thread, but if issues persist, any proposal for editing restrictions can promptly be revisited at that point. Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:25, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Otr500 and Ncmvocalist: except of course edits like this yesterday - no source provided for the changes, no edit summary to explain the changes, no indication as to why the changes are correct etc. GiantSnowman 10:40, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Comments on change of !vote: I reverted the content as unsupported and left talk page comments. I am flabbergasted, to say the least. Part of my defense of this editor, as well as some others commenting above, is the two-year lapse and the promises. That was rendered null and void with the addition of unsupported content while this ANI was ongoing. My assumption of good faith has been tainted. The editor in question may have set fire to the "rope" offered. This seems to cross flagrant disregard in leaps and bounds. The editor has commented "Dude, please stop your harassment. I don't have time to put sources in every single article, but if you look it up, you see that my edits is legit. You know me by now too. Otherwise, I will quit editing." This is clearly a stance of "I will not add sources" (even though I promised) because it is other people's job to verify my added content.

There may be two camps on a necessity to add sources because some feel it is alright if the source is out there somewhere. I do believe there is evidence that expecting sourcing, backed by policy, can be required. The above assumption of good faith would be that the content was verifiable. This goes deeper towards tendentious editing by disruption: "Examples of disruptive editing" #1, #2 (fails to cite sources), #4, and #5, along with "Point-illustrating" and Failure or refusal to "get the point".

I now Support (rationale per above !vote) a "topic ban" but also suggest this be considered Wikipedia:Disruptive editing. If the editor does not quit as indicated that editor can simply bring these editing habits elsewhere. -- Otr500 (talk) 13:42, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I reverted your revert. I don't know why you (and GS) think this edit was unsourced. It's sourced to Soccerway, which is already cited in the article. Levivich 13:57, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Why did FF not simply add an edit summary saying 'as per Soccerway' in that case? wP:CIR. GiantSnowman 14:29, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Or look at this edit, which uses this website as a source (in the edit summary only, not the article, but whatever). The changes to the article are to update the Waitakere United stats, add playing for Forrest Hill Milford United (no stats), and add playing for Northern Rovers (with stats added). The only thing the 'reference' supports is this player playing one game in May 2021 for Northern Rovers, and that's it - nothing about Waitakere United stats, nothing about Forrest Hill Milford United, and nothing about Northern Rovers stats. Is that acceptable? GiantSnowman 14:33, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

As to your first question, I could have sworn we had this conversation two years ago and it went like this: yes, edit summaries are useful; no, we don't revert or sanction editors for lack of edit summaries; plus it's bloody obvious that the edit was updating stats that were already referenced to Soccerway, plus plus you in particular of all people know this. Your view that lack of edit summaries = CIR does not have consensus. Or to put it another way, while ideally all edits would have descriptive edit summaries, if I have to choose between the two, I'd rather have an editor update articles (accurately, per sources already cited) without an edit summary than not have the editor update the article at all. You really have to accept that this is the consensus, even if you disagree with it. I would support a rule requiring edit summaries, but first we get consensus for that requirement, before we sanction anyone for violating it.

As to your second question/edit, everything in this edit was sourced to a source already cited in the article, National Football Teams. The only thing that wasn't sourced by NFT (Northern Rovers) is sourced to the Northern Rovers website source. So it's all sourced as far as I can tell (and accurate). Levivich 14:44, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• GiantSnowman, this is indeed the root cause of the Arbcom case of two years ago revisited: you (and a few others) owning football articles way too aggressively, and imposing your rules on other editors (but, apparently, both then and now, a lot less strictly on yourself). Would it have been better if Fotbold-fan had used the edit summary "quick clean" to make their edits? Or is this fundamentally the same as what you are trying to get then topic banned for, now that you are no longer allowed to block them over it (but still use those bad blocks as justification of the topic ban now)? Or this? Fram (talk) 15:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Again - a huge difference between content sourced to an in-line reference and an editor using one of many external links and asking us to try and work out which one. GiantSnowman 17:11, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

@GiantSnowman: Firstly, you might want to consider how the use of the word "us" in your sentence sounds in the context of Wikipedia's policy on ownership of content, which Fram referenced immediately before your comment. Secondly, higher doses of assuming good faith can be helpful in understanding that the content change is more constructive than not. If the content was actually inaccurate or actually unverifiable, then that is when you have something to be concerned about. Just my 2 cents. Ncmvocalist (talk) 18:26, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Man, GS, Fram's comment prompted me to take a look at your recent contribs. Look at these reverts, each of which you wrote in the edit summary "no source," but each of which was sourced by a source already in the article, Soccerway: [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] (all of these have since been reinstated). The worst part is, these are all the winners of major championships. You know this is sourced to Soccerway! You're just being WP:POINTy by reverting this as "unsourced" when you damn well know that they are in fact sourced. You know because this is one of the things that was brought up at the arbcom case. You've got to stop doing this.

  Here are some edits you made with the edit summary "stats per Soccerway": [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73]. These are exactly the same as the edit you complain about, except that you use an edit summary "stats per Soccerway." Well, the omission of that edit summary doesn't make it "unsourced" and isn't grounds for reverting an edit. That why I say you know that these stats-updates are sourced by Soccerway and that Soccerway is already in these articles, because you do the same type of work, updating statistics.

  Here are some edits you made with the edit summary "clean up": [74] [75] [76]. These, again, are the same types of edits as what you're complaining about: they are sourced to a source already in the article, but you don't say that in your edit summary. There is no functional difference between an edit summary "clean up" and a blank edit summary. You have zero grounds for complaint here.

  What really drives me nuts about this, from one content editor to another, is that you're totally losing sight of the point of what we're doing here: building an encyclopedia. I mean I'm a bit besides myself that you took out correct, relevant, up-to-date, sourced information (that an athlete won a championship) because you've had this years-long fued with some editors over edit summaries. Talk about putting your own needs above the needs of our readers! Come on, man. See the light here. Don't corrupt our articles because you're mad an editor for not using edit summaries. Levivich 15:46, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Funny that you use one Jonathan Lewis diff, but not the one where I managed to find a source for the content. Funny that you say "these edits have been reinstated", but not "they have been reinstated after sources were found and added".

For the avoidance of doubt, I would have no issue if the edit summary made it clear exactly where the information was coming from. Contrary to what you say there is a huge difference between that and not using any edit summary and it's a pity you can't see that.

You clearly haven't been reviewing my contribs properly, because in this one I clearlyy add a reference, and in the other clean up ones I am merely updating/cleaning the article that has already been sourced in-line - not using an EL and making other editors guess where the info is from.

Oh there's no feud or anything like this, please don't ABF. Just a desire from me to improve Wikipedia - including sourcing content about BLPs!!! It's s shame that yours and Fram's hatred views towards me colour your vision. Would you be as defensive if any other editor had raised concerns about unsourced content being added to to BLPs? Absolutely not. GiantSnowman 17:11, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

It was never unsourced. It was always sourced to Soccerway or National Football Teams, two of the standard sourced used in footy articles for stats. You keep saying "unsourced" but that's just not true. You say "I would have no issue if the edit summary made it clear exactly where the information was coming from," but above I linked to several diffs where you, yourself, updated stats with the edit summary "clean up," which does not indicate exactly where the information was coming from. I don't hate you but I am concerned about how you've been treating some editors, like Fobold Fan, for years. I'm also concerned that you refuse to grapple with certain truths, like: the sources for the edits were in the article when the edits were made; you were previously sanctioned by arbcom in part for this; you made articles worse (removing that an athlete won a championship) over this. To me, these are serious issues and I'd like you to pay attention to them. Like, agree to WP:Drop the stick. Levivich 17:22, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Last thing on this because I have better things to do with my time (like, I don't know, improve and add references to BLPs!!!) than argue with Fram and Levivich. But - it is possible, and it wouldn't kill you - to say both "hey, GS, why not AGF a bit more" and "hey, FF, why not use edit summaries or try to make it clearer why you are making changes and where your information has come from". The two are not mutually exclusive. See ya. GiantSnowman 17:20, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• I said edit summaries are useful and ideally all edits would have descriptive edit summaries and I would support a rule requiring edit summaries. Of course I think FF and everyone else should use edit summaries. But that wasn't what this thread was about when you opened it: you only mentioned unsourced info in BLPs. Would it kill you to admit the info was in fact sourced? Would it kill you to admit you do the same thing (update stats without saying what the source is in an edit summary)? It doesn't matter to me if you admit it or not, but it does matter to me that you stop reverting people for adding information without a source when the source is already in the article. Levivich 18:19, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Thinking about it, where is the evidence that the transfer was present in the external link (Soccerway etc.) at the time FF's edit was made? i.e. where is the evidence that the external link had already updated to reflect the transfer and that therefore is the source used? Sometimes they take a day or two. Interesting. That is all. GiantSnowman 18:28, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Concur with GiantSnowman. It's clear there's no consensus here, and there's reason not to enact a topic ban. But, neither should we simply declare there is no problem and move on. A clear message needs to be given to FF that their behavior is not what we expect. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
• @GiantSnowman: Ok, let's put your differences aside and consider this in a different light. We now know this is an instance of content arising from an existing source; the bizarre fact that it was cited under "external links" prior to Fodbold-fan editing the article doesn't mean the article was better prior to Fodbold-fan's edit. Sometimes articles will have a handful (or more) of sources cited in the entire article - with all of those sources seemingly attributed to one particular line in an article, when in fact they form the basis of other information in an article. That doesn't mean an update should be reverted automatically or is somehow less beneficial.
• From experience, we all know for a fact that many unregistered accounts (fans of football or otherwise) will take the liberty of updating information without providing an in-line citation, whether within the text or in an edit summary. However, if the information is accurate, verifiable, compliant with NPOV etc, it is implicitly accepted that update is undoubtedly an improvement to the project even if policy might allow a revert. While we might like the content to be further updated so that external links are specifically listed under references, or for each update to be attributed to a separate in-line text citation, that is not always necessary at that point by the editor who made an update (noting the article was originally sitting like that for who knows how long). Given that it is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, the standard you are expecting seems to be higher than what the project requires sometimes. That higher standard you would like in articles can be a good thing if it is used constructively, but forcing it on others can be offensive, disruptive or harmful.
• Another way to think about it is that not all editors are good at (or enjoy) copyediting, referencing and so forth. Fodbold-fan is an editor who clearly enjoys updating the accuracy of Wikipedia articles on football(ers) based on verifiable information; that is the earlier step of improvement specifically. The next level of improvement might be increasing in-line citations to the source or moving the sources to a references section or copyediting or building more content just as Fodbold-fan did. That next level of improvement can be boldly completed by you or any other editor too.
• If you are saying Fodbold-fan is not abiding by an agreement and the content is inaccurate and/or unverifiable (or something along those lines), restrictions might need to be considered. But the idea of sanctioning an editor for not completing the next level of improvement doesn't sit right with me; does it really sit right with you? Ncmvocalist (talk) 18:16, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Coming back just because I have been pinged - FF has admitted they messed up, asked for a final chance, and made a concerted effort to improve (even if it is still, in my eyes, not good enough). However, based on everything, a topic ban is probably not suitable at this time. But, as Hammersoft says, other editors pretending there is nothing at all amiss with FF's edits is extremely damaging. GiantSnowman 18:20, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Consistent creation of unsourced articles by Russel641

Russel641 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

• Russel641 seems to be a user with very good intentions, however they have a problem with continued addition of unsourced articles about television programming which do not seem to meet the inclusion criteria. Every one of his articles has either moved to draft space, deleted or redirected to a list article. He has several warnings and requests to stop creating unsourced articles but has not engaged in any sort of discussion about the concerns. I'm not sure if it is possible if they don't engage in some sort of corrective action that they have their page creation permission removed until they can demonstrate proper citations and inclusion criteria through the WP:AFC process. There edits to existing articles seem to be helpful and I would hate to see them blocked outright as I believe they could be a valuable contributor to the project. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 05:02, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

The issue here seems to be communication, or rather, a lack thereof. He has 427 edits, yet has only made 4 edits to any sort of talk page, all of which were page moves.Jackattack1597 (talk) 12:15, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I agree that is the reason I thought I had to bring it here for some sort of administrative enforcement to either force them to engage in some sort of communication or go through the AFC process until they understand the requirements for inclusion. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 17:56, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I see a lot of mobile edits; a lot of mobile users don't even realize that talk pages exist, ime. I don't think it's possible to specifically restrict article creation rights once a user is autoconfirmed. Maybe a block from mainspace would get their attention? -- Scott Burley (talk) 20:41, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I prefer using the desktop version when on my mobile or tablet for this reason the WMF really need to sort it out for those editors who don't do this. Lavalizard101 (talk) 12:42, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Disruptive IP range still at it

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1072#Possible range block? for my previous report here.

IP range is still at it, once again adding unsourced speculation about a 2022 KCA ceremony, despite nothing being announced yet. Would a block be possible here at all? At this point, it seems like the /32 range would be the one to block. Thanks again in advance. Magitroopa (talk) 20:52, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

They used an edit summary in regards to this (for once!): "Back off! Wait for the next year's awards, you understand?"- seems like they don't understand what original research is and don't understand WP:CRYSTALBALL either.

For those who don't follow Nickelodeon/KCAs closely, there has been no announcement whatsoever regarding a 2022 ceremony. Some of the first results on Google include this and this, which are simply fan hopes/wishes. Magitroopa (talk) 21:39, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I blocked each of the following for a month (the /43 had previously been blocked for 2 weeks). 2001:8003:b10b:3700::/64 + 2600:1003:b440::/43 + 2601:14f:c000:7b0::/64. Johnuniq (talk) 00:39, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: Back on Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards at 2600:1003:B464:8672:E074:1DCC:A90:4FB3. Magitroopa (talk) 16:33, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

I blocked 2600:1003:B464:8672:0:0:0:0/64. Johnuniq (talk) 22:54, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Found sock, so take action

Hi admin and @Nick: i have found a sock editor who is editing an article which was created by him/her. And the username is Run n Fly. He/she is editing from an ip address after his/her block. And the ip account link is user:2402:3A80:1123:234D:7940:BDB1:A88:59B8. This ip has commented on the afd discussion of Rajanya Mitra. And Rajanya Mitra is his/her first edit from this ip and also the editing pattern is same with Run n Fly. So Do check and take action against it.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bapinghosh (talk • contribs) 21:52, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@Bapinghosh: the user of this IP has been identified as a sock based on their editing pattern here. However, according to the patrolling admin, the IP range they are on is too wide to be blockable. If the IP is used again for similar edits, you can revert them for block evasion. Apart from that, there is nothing left to be done. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 00:33, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

(Not an admin, just a clerk) @Bapinghosh and Apaugasma: I see Ohnoitsjamie blocked the /42 (thanks) which has defensible collateral; my comment was primarily because if I recall correctly, the assignment on that range is a bit... suboptimal. There are assigned subnets, and they are noted in the WHOIS, but they are lies not very stable; these two IPv6 edits from a bit over a week ago are also them (the first one certainly is, the second one is likely); neither are caught in the current rangeblock and both are on different subnets. Short-ish rangeblocks will probably do the trick some of the time, but the only long-term solutions I can currently make out are page protection or blocking the entirety of 2402:3a80::/32 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)), which would mean that we'd be blocking all of Vodafone India's IPv6 customers. For what it's worth, a good chunk of the projectspace edits from that range are Amkgp, and they have a rather distinctive writing style if you know what to look for. They also tend to return to the same articles, especially when they are put up for deletion (plus they seem to be interested in COVID-19 related topics). --Blablubbs (talk) 14:55, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

You could try a page protection request if they are hitting only one or two targets. 2600:1011:B10A:BF57:E464:5DF7:31A9:8A79 (talk) 03:36, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Apaugasma: thank you for the suggestion Bapinghosh

Mass revert by User:Ekuftle

Not sure why User:Ekuftle reverted all of my edits. I double-checked before doing any updates to make sure they were as per policy. Please check for example this edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cleartrip&action=history which Ekuftle reverted. Here I just removed a duplicate ref which was with the original ref not sure how this is vandalism. This was just an improvement to the article. Acveo (talk) 13:21, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Acveo, if you don't inform Ekuftle about this complaint, as is required, how would they know about it so as to be able to respond? Anyway, I've done this for you. El_C 14:00, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Acveo is a newly-created WP:SPA that has only been making puffery edits disguised as "improvements" on companies exclusively within the hospitality and tourism industry. Agoda is one such obvious example, this isn't the first time that this has happened as you can see in the revision history. Does WP:COI get any more obvious? Do I also have to talk about the fact how suspicious it is that an account that's barely more than 24 hours old has the means to use ANI almost immediately after? Ekuftle (talk) 14:24, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

I also have to point out about this user named Okadiputera, another SPA only created earlier this month, making identical edits of companies within the hospitality and tourism industry. Ekuftle (talk) 14:29, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Ekuftle, Your own account seems pretty new and you are accusing other users for WP:SPA. I have to agree with Acveo here your revert edits like these are actually vandalism in itself. Sanketio31 (talk) 15:37, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Sanketio31: Please re-read WP:NOTVAND. Vandalism has a specific meaning on Wikipedia and misusing the term can result in unpleasant consequences. Tiderolls 17:22, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I am Okadiputera. I am very disappointed that you have accused me of being a SPA. I have already explained on section on your talk page that I am not a new editor. My previous account was User:Raymondeuro, which I retired last month due to privacy concerns, to be replaced with this one. Again, I am an editor primarily interested in Hospitality and design and my primary motivation on Wikipedia is to improve on articles on those topics as those are topics I find interesting. You will not see my writing on topics like Astrophysics because frankly I do not have any interests or knowledge in that field. I don't find it hard to believe that a person can have a specific set of topics they are interested in, and as such I am disappointed about your false accusations. I have decided to retire my account and leave Wikipedia due to frequent context-ignorant reversions for the edits I have made; I have been burnt-out and found it a waste of my time to keep defending my works via AfD or XfD, with them are often being labeled out of context as Spam, considered having a COI or assumed to be a SPA when I have followed protocol and cited all my claims with secondary sources and explained change summaries in the article talk page. I had assumed good faith when I made those edits, but frankly my recent experiences have not reflected that. Okadiputera (talk) 18:04, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• Ekuftle and Acveo, on a related note here: you both need to start consistently using edit summaries that clearly explain your reasoning for your edit. The edit summary is often at least as important as the edit. Please go to Preferences>Editing>Editor and check the box for a reminder. "Improvements" is not sufficient. Many experienced editors often leave edit summaries that are longer than the actual edit. If you were both leaving detailed edit summaries to explain your reasoning, we probably wouldn't be here. —valereee (talk) 17:50, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
• This is probably better taken to WP:COIN, but I agree that at a glance Acveo's edit history looks unusual - especially this, which is almost certainly promotional. It seems too unusual that a new editor would focus their attention so laser-tight on a few (mostly fairly obscure) brands. --Aquillion (talk) 23:03, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Longterm WP:BLP violations at Tyler James (English musician)

Going on for months, it seems. Please block vandal(s) and protect the article, a 172 IP range. Thanks, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 00:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Can you please provide any specific diffs? ZaniGiovanni (talk) 06:43, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. In lieu of range blocking, which I'm not technically proficient enough to configure confidently. BTW, nice to see you, IP, it's been a minute. Got some pier laughs for you here, which I thought you, especially, would appreciate. El_C 12:16, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Pier reviewed. Wow. Thank you, El_C. Now I've got to do some serious reading and research. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:30, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Scienk rules, IP! BTW, speaking of the highly under-rated Steve Cropper, here's a good one of him with Albert King and Pops Staples. Story: I got to see Albert King open for the The Allman Brothers Band mere days before he died. RIP Albert King, an American treasure. Gotta add both of em to the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar songspam series... El_C 15:43, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• I don't have the time, now, but I will listen later, El_C. Thank you! 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:58, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
• That's a fine version of Tupelo, El_C. Different from John Lee Hooker's understated approach, which I've always liked. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:45, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• Same. Can't recommend The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker enough. And on that note, here's a gem for you to listen and watch. But I better stop before I get both of us banned from ANI! El_C 05:38, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Nine years of Ray Carney POV fandom from Israel

• 77.124.110.240 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 77.126.68.137 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
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• Ray Carney
• John Cassavetes
• List of directors associated with art film
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1070#Constant MoS breaking edits

Film professor Ray Carney is a polarizing character in the world of film criticism. He is abrasive and combative, dismissed by many of his peers, but a bunch of his students are ardent supporters. One such supporter who is "inspired by his writings" has been using IPs from Israel to push Carney's viewpoint on Wikipedia, to make his career appear more prominent. The person was blocked many times in 2013. After being blocked they immediately switched to a new IP to evade the block.[77][78] They straightened up for the next few years, working with Double sharp and WhisperToMe to get a bunch of film articles built, and more recently with IvanScrooge98. But the old pro-Carney POV has returned in force, spamming a long list of Carney's writings into many articles, and citing Carney's personal blog more than 100 times in a list article.

History of Israel IP disruption and blocks

The person from Israel began editing in late 2012, as far as I can tell. The person went through a great many articles to remove the label "art film" because Carney did not think highly of the film or the director. They defended criticism of Carney by using Carney's own blog. After being frustrated with many reversions about the art film label, they attempted to get the category of Art films deleted, which in fact happened six years later through the efforts of others. The Israel IP person went throught multiple articles arguing about the label "postmodern writer" based on Carney's assessment. Five IPs were blocked seven times. In 2014 they were reported at ANI: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive849#Anon on a category and simple fact deletion_rampage. Nothing useful was accomplished there. 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block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Mar–Apr 2016 – 79.181.250.53 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Feb–Mar 2016 – 79.176.43.206 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jan–Feb 2016 – 79.176.208.216 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Dec 2015 – Jan 2016 – 109.67.195.14 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Aug–Sep 2015 – 46.116.230.76 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Aug 2015 – 46.116.224.135 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jun–Jul 2015 – 85.250.185.30 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) May 2015 – 89.139.164.154 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Feb–Mar 2015 – 85.250.154.5 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jan–Feb 2015 – 46.116.252.70 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Dec 2014 – Jan 2015 – 89.139.164.40 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Nov–Dec 2014 – 85.250.146.10 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Nov 2014 – 89.139.184.183 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Nov 2014 – 85.250.135.134 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Nov 2014 – 85.250.155.74 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Oct–Nov 2014 – 85.250.144.239 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Oct 2014 – 85.250.131.248 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Oct 2014 – 85.250.140.173 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Oct 2014 – 85.250.184.198 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Sep 2014 – 46.116.250.57 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Sep 2014 – 46.116.247.178 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Aug–Sep 2014 – 89.139.184.202 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Aug 2014 – 46.116.239.142 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jul–Aug 2014 – 89.139.184.192 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jun 2014 – 46.116.224.227 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Feb–Mar 2014 – 46.116.221.185 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jan–Feb 2014 – 46.116.250.15 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Dec 2013 – 46.116.244.176 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Nov–Dec 2013 – 89.139.177.244 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jul–Aug 2013 – 109.186.234.86 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jun–Jul 2013 – 85.250.172.193 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) May–Jun 2013 – 89.139.168.33 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Apr–Aug 2013 – 85.250.173.131 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Mar–Apr 2013 – 89.139.163.176 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Mar 2013 – 89.139.163.96 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Mar 2013 – 132.66.73.14 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Feb–Mar 2013 – 89.139.190.17 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Feb 2013 – 85.250.172.192 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Feb 2013 – 46.116.221.155 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Jan–Feb 2013 – 85.250.174.137 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Dec 2012 – 46.116.195.223 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) Nov–Dec 2012 – 85.250.184.93 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) List of blocks JBW blocked Special:Contributions/89.139.168.33 for a month Bbb23 blocked Special:Contributions/89.139.163.96 for 72 hours Sergecross73 blocked Special:Contributions/109.186.234.86 three times. Sergecross73 blocked Special:Contributions/89.139.177.244 for three months, referring to the previous IPs. Ad Orientem blocked Special:Contributions/87.71.84.208 for 60 hours. List of Carney promotional statements "Is someone paying Wikipedia editors to exclude Carney from the public?" "Can anyone please tell me why Wikipedia is so hostile to even mentioning Carney?" "Do you seriously belive that Lynch, Hitchcock, Coppola, Scorsese, etc. made art films? Carney is not just some professor, he is the world's foremost authority on art films. Read his website (people.bu.edu/rcarney), especially about those I've removed" "Removed the comparison to Scorsese - any comparison between Cassavetes to Hollywood hacks is grossly inappropriate (for reference, read anything by Prof. Ray Carney" "Speilberg, De Palma, Coen, Kubrick, Welles, Tarantino, etc. are by no means 'artists' but, as Prof. Carney rightly says, mere tricksters..." "Carney is essentially the world's preeminent academic film critic." "Lynch is considered a seventh-rate hack by serious scholars of art film, e.g., Prof. Ray Carney (see people.bu.edu/rcarney)" "Again, Lynch is considered a seventh-rate hack by serious scholars of art film, e.g., Prof. Ray Carney " "Never head of this film or its director being included in the pantheon of art films by experts such as Prof. Ray Carney." "Someone removed Prof. Carney's important critical comments without providing an explanation." "Who 'reviles' Carney for his attacks on Hollywood schlock?" "Doesn't matter what these sources say. Prof. Ray Carney, the world's foremost authority on Cassavetes, has repeatedly distanced this film from Hollywood genres such as 'crime films.' Visit people.bu.edu/rcarney or read his books" "Added Prof. Carney's new blog to the list of external links" "Trying to get Carney's definition of Pynchon into the article. Let's see how it'll work out..." "Carney's a very important art critic" "...you'll see the Prof. Carney refers to both of these seventh-rate Hollywood hacks"

The recent June 2021 contributions of Special:Contributions/77.125.203.207 show edit warring over multiple articles, all of which is a violation of WP:REFSPAM. The Israel person is adding Ray Carney books as "Further reading" to a great many articles. For example, this refspam at the film article Here Comes the Groom was reverted by Danbloch and Drmargi four times, resulting in a lengthy discussion on the talk page: Talk:Here Comes the Groom. This kind of stuff has been going on at least since 2014.[79]

Much less important are this person's MOS violations in book titles, discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1070#Constant MoS breaking edits. Unfortunately, the reported MOS violation of curly quotes ignored the larger problem of using both quotes and italics on a book title. For what it's worth, the Israel person said "Done what you have asked, hope that it is fine now." But with the next dynamic IP change, they ignored their earlier curly quotes and failed to correct the problem.[80][[81]

The person has also been adding unreferenced dates of birth to lots of BLPs.[82][83][84][85][86][87][88] They said on my talk page that they found the DOBs through googling and from other language Wikipedias[89]—not from reliable sources. The same sentiment was expressed here in this edit summary. When reverted, they have edit-warred the DOB back in.[90]

This person has done some good work on Wikipedia but they have also been disruptive with pro-Carney POV, edit-warring on multiple articles, and violating BLPs with unreferenced date of birth. They showed their disdain for Wikipedia policies by evading blocks and ignoring their MOS violations after promising to fix them. They continue to stick to dynamic IPs rather than creating a username. What, if anything, should we do about this person? Binksternet (talk) 02:22, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

From the above, the four IPs active in 2021 were 77.124.110.240 + 77.126.68.137 + 77.125.203.207 + 87.70.17.10. Only the first of those has been active recently. It might be difficult to get much input on this but it looks like a long-term problem and I propose treating this accordingly and will block the first IP for a month and do the same for any other IP that becomes active and appears to be the same user. I'll wait before doing that in case an optimist wants to tutor the person and raise an objection here. Please ping me in 24 hours if I haven't done anything by then. Johnuniq (talk) 04:00, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, Johnuniq. I think it's important to keep this person's past performance in mind when dealing with their future work, which is why I went to the trouble to trace many (not all) of the involved IPs. Binksternet (talk) 05:42, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I blocked that IP. Let me know when they next appear (I know they said they have quit Wikipedia). Johnuniq (talk) 07:21, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Debresser

I changed the short description in COVID-19 pandemic in Israel (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) so that it does not repeat the title of the article. User Debresser (talk · contribs · block user) started reverting me over and over again, demanding that I first establish a consensus, which is ridiculous because the change I made is minor and non-controversial. Also, with his latest edits there, he reverted not only me but another editor as well, without explanation: link. I asked for help at WT:SHORTDESC and the feedback there basically confirmed my point. It is unacceptable to allow this user to waste so much of other peoples' time and effort to make edits as obvious as mine was. He is banned in the Palestine–Israel topic-area, and is constantly being blocked for his edit-warring. Debresser is polluting other users' editing with his lack of judgement and WP:OWN, and should be blocked for good. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 02:27, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

If your edit is reverted, the WP:ONUS is on you to gain consensus for inclusion. Did you start a talk page discussion?I don’t see any relevance in this complaint to the IP topic. You’ve reverted it at least 4 times now. You should start a discussion before you get blocked for edit warring. Mr Ernie (talk) 03:01, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

It's an abuse of guidelines to require discussion before every edit. There were no good reason to revert it or demand consensus, and that's why his history of sanctions is relevant – he shouldn't be the one to dictate whether a consensus exists or not. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 03:51, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

The reason to revert it, it would seem to me, was that the version was stable before you arrived. If your edit is so obviously superior, then gaining consensus should be a breeze. Cheers. Dumuzid (talk) 04:03, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

he shouldn't be the one to dictate whether a consensus exists or not If only two editors have weighed in, and they disagree...then there is no consensus for the change, and the existing text is understood to represent consensus. Why haven't you followed WP:ONUS and WP:BRD by initiating a talkpage discussion to gain consensus for your disputed edit? It is not an abuse of guidelines to follow guidelines. Bringing this to ANI when you are the one edit warring in your preferred change, primarily complaining about unrelated events in the other editor's past, is a bad idea. Grandpallama (talk) 05:34, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Triggerhippie4, this page falls under WP:COVIDDS. Please exercise greater caution and do not edit war. Further, I take a dim view of you trying to browbeat Debresser with their sanctions history to win over a content dispute — and, as it happens, I'm actually the admin who sanctioned Debresser, for whatever that's worth (something, I'd reckon). El_C 05:30, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

  And he even blocked me once, for whatever that's worth. :P EEng 06:23, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

In fairness, blocking EEng is a right of passage for admins... El_C 06:46, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Gah, Right of passage →Rite of passage, I can't spell. Though EEng probably self-identifies as a ship now (no Poop deck jokes, please!). El_C 14:34, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, but I gotta say something else. Triggerhippie4, I'm a bit shocked that an editor of your experience would revert a contending version over a longstanding one with an edit summary that reads: There is no consensus for your revision. It's your version that's new, Debresser's version already enjoyed consensus, at the very least loosely, via WP:SILENCE. You can't tell him that his version has no consensus when yours has even less! El_C 05:41, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

And I gotta say something else too. This is an ANI thread over a short desc? REALY??? EEng 06:23, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

While it would've been better for Triggerhippie4 to open a talk discussion, I agree that such minor non controversial changes don't always require for editors to talk. Moreover, they already asked about the change in the shortdesc, and the responders pretty much agreed with them. With that being said Triggerhippie4, if you get reverted multiple times, at that point it's probably better to open a discussion as clearly the user disagrees with you and they'll be right to point out WP:ONUS (even if you think it wastes everyones time and the change is minor). Regards, ZaniGiovanni (talk) 07:10, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Triggerhippie4, browbeating Debresser over their sanctions history to win a content dispute is WP:BLACKSHEEP. We have seen this kind of thing before. Please don’t. Tinybubi (talk) 08:46, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Sorry, not interesting. El_C 11:35, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Is my reply at all necessary here? I agree with everything that has been said, but will happily repeat those points, and would like to add a few things:

1. Triggerhippie4 does not understand or refuses to accept that he is the one who has to gain consensus for his edits (as I pointed out to him multiple times), and this has been so for as long as I have known him here;
2. it takes two to edit war, and since Triggerhippie4's first reaction to a revert is, and has always been, to simply repeat his edit, he will regularly be in conflict with other editors;
3. trying to make another editor look bad is not nice (but please rest assured that I hold a very dim view of Triggerhippie4 as well, based on precisely the things that are being held against him here);
4. this is not really the kind of subject to take to WP:ANI;
5. there is a discussion on the talkpage, which seems to be going his way, and I have not reverted since, so opening this thread at that stage was being vindictive and I do not appreciate it at all;

Debresser (talk) 17:23, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Debresser, that is not an ideal reply – it seems to focus entirely on the actions of another editor without any recognition of your own distinctly sub-optimal behaviour. What exactly do we have to do at this point to stop you edit-warring, once and for all? You've been warned, you've been blocked, but you just . won't . stop. Do you not understand that edit-warring is a waste of everybody's time, and actively harms the encyclopaedia by eroding editor goodwill? Edit-warring over such trivial detail as this is particularly pointless and toxic.

Here's a proposal: you agree to a one-revert-per-month restriction on any page anywhere in the project (with the usual exceptions for pure vandalism, serious WP:BLP violations, blatant copyright violation etc); if after – say – a year you have not broken that restriction it can be lightened to, say, one revert per week. Could you do that, do you think? The only alternative I can think of is to seek consensus here for a community-imposed 0RR restriction. El_C, other editors: could this work, if Debresser agrees?

Triggerhippie4, you've taken a good deal of flak above, and I'm not going to add to that. But please read my comments about edit-warring, they apply to you too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:31, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

@Justlettersandnumbers Not going to happen. I am allowed to revert to a consensus version. I am allowed to behave sub-optimal. I broke no rules. I hold the higher moral ground here, as the one protecting the page from aggressive non-consensus edits, and I don't believe you are seriously proposing to punish me for that. Debresser (talk) 22:35, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Boomerang indeff Triggerhippie4

Since Triggerhippie4 suggested a permanent block for Debresser for purposes of browbeating, he should face his own proposed sanctions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.246.151.38 (talk) 03:51, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I also agree that he needs a stern warning that automatically undoing reverts of his edits is not going to be tolerated any longer. This was by far not the first time. Debresser (talk) 22:35, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I think this should be compared to calling the police with a fraudulent report. There are serious consequences for trying to falsely accuse someone of a crime, besides for wasting the police's time. I believe this is a similar situation in which Triggerhippie4 fraudulently reported Debresser on ANI, as noted by many users above, therefore this should have serious consequences besides letting him go with just a warning which is effectively a slap on the wrist.155.246.151.38 (talk) 17:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Behaviour of Adamdaniel864

Really hate to be a tattletale, but I've crossed paths with Adamdaniel864 on a few occasions, and I feel there's something not quite right there, and possibly getting more worrisome. Would appreciate if someone could take a look at their behaviour, even if it's only to conclude that all's actually well and I should go back to minding my own business. Thanks, --DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:29, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

DoubleGrazing, if I'm reading this correctly, it looks like Bish got it covered. El_C 13:11, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Well, my main purpose with this editor is to stop them sharing their personal details, including age and real name, all over the place, and redacting the posts where they have already done so. Secondarily, I hope they'll stop going on at the unfortunate Bonadea — I don't even understand what that's all about. [Through gritted teeth:] I believe they mean no harm. Bishonen | tålk 14:52, 31 July 2021 (UTC).

@El C and Bishonen: thanks, both. Yes, those were probably the most pressing concerns, although not all by any means. But AGF and all that, I won't push any further. Best, --DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

No problem — I helped! Everyone loves Bonadea, and those who don't, are haters. Anyway, I guess we'll see which way on the WP:AGF–WP:PACT continuum the wind blows. El_C 15:28, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

I notice the user is blocked on the Croatian Wikipedia.[91] That could be the reason they're editing here, I suppose. Bishonen | tålk 06:17, 1 August 2021 (UTC).

IP apparently on copyvio spree

• 178.150.150.214 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Last several edits are copy/pastes from sources, and could so with admin attention/cleanup. (Is this the best place to report this, BTW?). Alexbrn (talk) 10:43, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm not an admin but this seems like the right place to me. I have given them a warning and have started reverting some of the copyrighted content. ProofRobust ProofRobust 12:24, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

I have to go now so I would appreciate if either you or someone else investigates/reverts the rest of their edits. ProofRobust 12:28, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• This is a bit off topic, but I've always wondered: are there tools to help with this kind of thing? So if (as sometimes happens) a user visits 100 article and adds the word "poo" to the lede, is there a way to unwind that ... even if it's for admins only. Otherwise, it seems to me malicious users can waste a disproportionate amount of time. Alexbrn (talk) 12:34, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

  @Alexbrn: There are various mass rollback scripts (e.g. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js) and there's also Special:Nuke for mass deleting pages. 192.76.8.91 (talk) 15:54, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

  • There are a variety of tools. One of these tools is User:CluebotNG which is a bot that automatically reverts vandalism and reports users who have repeatedly vandalised and ignored warnings to WP:AIV where an Admin can review the report/block the vandal. ProofRobust 16:00, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Reverted and revdel'd (←Alexbrn) a bunch. The {{uw-copyright}} warning that's been given probably suffices, for now. Please update/relist if the violations continue. El_C 13:04, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
• @Alexbrn: Writ Keeper's mass rollback script, mentioned above, is a powerful tool for rolling back all the edits of a user. It's not admin-only! But you have to use it "with caution". The edits will only be rolled back if they are the last in the history, but then in the kind of situation you describe, they usually are. Note also that you have to see the edits in order to roll them back: if you only have the last 50 edits displayed when you deploy the script, then only those 50 will be rolled back. That caught me out at first. Bishonen | tålk 16:07, 31 July 2021 (UTC).

I have blocked the IP for 48 hours and deleted the copied texts. -Graham Beards (talk) 18:09, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks everybody! That script sounds useful, if scary. Alexbrn (talk) 07:46, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• It's also likely COI-refspam (compare what they added in this spate vs last December). I dropped a {{uw-refspam}} for when they return. DMacks (talk) 08:31, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Homophobic abuse on talk page following indefinite block

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Hi all, as you can see from User talk:Moody2019, there has been some quite unpleasant abuse following a sockpuppetry block. Please could an admin look into this? I don't feel comfortable addressing this myself. User has been blocked as they have been found to be using multiple accounts to manipulate AfD consensus. Of course, they are not too happy with the resulting block. Thanks in advance. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:40, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• DeTPA'd by Black Kite --Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:42, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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Kenydevburman - Disruptive editing, Spamming and probable sockpuppetry

• Kenydevburman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Lovemyindia (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Mrinalbarma (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Kenydevburman is a SPA who over the last 3 weeks has been attempting to create a page on Mrinal Dev Burman, from the user names this appears to either be an autobiography or there is some significant COI involved. By my count they've created this page 5 time now, all being extremely promotional and completely unsourced. In addition to being extremely promotional their editing has numerous technical faults that are creating a huge amount of mess that other editors are having to clean up, such as cut and paste moves, creating duplicate pages with the same content and moving pages to inappropriate namespaces and titles (they've moved their article to MediaWiki talk:Kenydevburman/sandbox twice now). They also appear to be socking as Lovemyindia, another SPA that is exclusivley focused on making promotional biographies of Mrinal Dev Burman, this account has made 3 of them at this point. Since this editor seems to be narrowly focused on promoting Mrinal Dev Burman with little interest in actually building the encyclopaedia can I suggest a block would be appropriate at this point? 192.76.8.91 (talk) 16:47, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Addendum - I've just spotted Mrinalbarma, another SPA that seems to be exclusively promoting Mrinal Dev Burman (5 more biographies from this account), would it be worth getting a checkuser involved here? 192.76.8.91 (talk) 16:59, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Agreed. Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kenydevburman and add any further evidence. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

IvyBeautyQueen chronic behavioral problems

A quick perusal of Special:Contributions/IvyBeautyQueen shows nearly every one of their edits in the past month has been reverted. They've been warned for five specific problems by two different editors on their talkpage [92][93][94][95][96]. They haven't responded to any attempts to communicate and educate. Their edits happen to fall under WP:GS/PAGEANTS.

Can something be done to stop the constant disruption by this user? ☆ Bri (talk) 16:55, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

• P-block from article space to try to get this user's attention, though I'm not sure it'll be productive. —valereee (talk) 17:15, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Disruption at List of people banned from entering the United States

List of people banned from entering the United States (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

On 17 July this edit was made to this article. This is effectively a revert to the 31 December 2018 version of the article, in order to add a paragraph to an entry that was no longer in the article. When I noticed what had happened I reverted to the current version of the article (since it's clear a revert to the 31 December 2018 version isn't acceptable) yet 65.48.156.218 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and Mefoto (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) keep restoring the super-old version despite the discussion at Talk:List of people banned from entering the United States#Denzil Douglas and reverts. FDW777 (talk) 19:28, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

I semi-protected the article for a week. Let me know if it resumes. Johnuniq (talk) 23:30, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Can i start an article with " Hindu Religion ?"

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Can i add following sources:

https://www.history.com/topics/religion/hinduism (Kalki Bhagavan (talk) 01:18, 1 August 2021 (UTC))

@Kalki Bhagavan: There is already a page on this subject at Hinduism. I would recommend familiarizing yourself with Wikipedia's policies before editing; WP:INTRODUCTION is a good place to start. If you have other questions, please use the WP:TEAHOUSE rather than this noticeboard, which is not for general editing questions such as this one. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 01:22, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

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User:Liz is trying to intimidate and discourage me from doing admin work

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Please see the message on my talk page. This is the second time Liz has tried to discourage me from doing admin work because she is claiming certain areas are "hers" and others are "mine". She had emailed me the first time in late June with the same type of discouraging and hurtful message, but I did not reply to the email because thought it ridiculous. When I started working in AFD or RFD a few months ago, not once was I ever been discouraged from regulars at those venues from working there, nor was I told to keep to my regular areas because those areas are "theirs". Conversely, I did not take such an approach to others who have started working at AFD as of late, which has left me few discussions for me to close as of late. That's how the project works. I can go do other admin work. However, the more admin work I do, the more she's trying to back me into a corner of venues she deems are "mine". Is the aim to bully me off the project so she can claim all these areas as "hers"? This approach has been WP:UNCIVIL, uncongenial, and hostile. Administrators should not be acting in this manner and it is incredibly unbecoming of someone in her position. ✗plicit 05:55, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) @Explicit: Have you seen Liz act territorially toward other admins? If this is not an isolated incident, that may warrant an Arbcom case, which is the only thread that can desysop for misconduct. I don't see any prior ANI threads about you nor Liz, aside from honest mistakes and WP:BOOMERANG threads. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:43, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03: I have no knowledge of her prior conduct with other admins. However, looking through my emails, I realized I have another one sent by Liz in December 2019. I will not reveal its contents due to the private nature of the correspondence, but I imagine that such inimical communication with other admins have also occurred off-wiki. ✗plicit 06:56, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Bumping into another admin while doing work is very normal. For AfD's you can use the afd closing template to put the afd on hold while working on it. The message certainly seems unreasonable.

It certainly seems odd as I am sure any admin who has done any significant work has encounters conflicts regularly. Not sure why you are being scolded for doing work. I don't think I have seen this from an admin in 15+ years working here.

I don't see this being actionable at this point, but should it turn into a documented pattern then at the very least a trouting may be in order. Admins don't own areas of Wikipedia. HighInBC ^{Need help? Just ask.} 07:28, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

As an aside, while I certainly see how the message could be seen as discouraging, I think the term intimidating is a bit of a stretch. HighInBC ^{Need help? Just ask.} 07:29, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

If another admin left me a message like that, I'd have a chat with them about how we could avoid treading on each other"s toes. I don't see it as discouraging at all, certainly not intimidating. Girth Summit _(blether) 07:36, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@HighInBC and Girth Summit: I disagree. In response to overlapping in admin tasks, her response is, "I don't ever touch the daily image deletions because that's an area you regularly do but maybe the situation has changed." Aside from being blatantly untrue—she has done so several times at CAT:ORFU one minute ahead of schedule to "beat" me if one of the daily categories contained over 100 files—this essentially translates to, "If you don't stop encroaching on my areas, I'll encroach on yours." This is a retaliatory approach intended to escalate the situation. As I said in my response on my talk page, I did not see anyone working in those areas at the time I loaded the pages (Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk pages and empty categories from Category:Monthly clean-up category (Clean-up categories) counter)—it was a sea of blue links that needed to be deleted. ✗plicit 08:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Explicit, I don't read it like that at all. I don't know the history between you, or what was in emails you've exchanged, but I really struggle to read it in the way you describe above. Again, why don't you just talk to her and find out what the problem is? Girth Summit _(blether) 08:40, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03: Please don't suggest such a weird escalation. If you have no knowledge of Liz and don't want to take the time to see if mentioning Arbcom is appropriate at this stage, don't comment at all.

@Explicit: The thought of Liz sending someone a hurtful message is very hard to swallow. The message at User talk:Explicit#Deleting pages is totally innocent and in no way is a claim regarding what is "hers". Why not accept that what Liz said is how she saw it, namely that the conflicts were "very frustrating". I don't know how you might "see an admin working on an area" in order to temporarily avoid interrupting their work but I do know that the best response would be to say what you did ("no work had begun") and ask how you could avoid interruption. Johnuniq (talk) 07:39, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: I don't wish to quote the private email, but the "your area is yours and mine is mine" sentiment was much more apparent there. I'll say this very vaguely (because it's from the email), but she told me to stop tagging (not delete, tag) certain pages for deletion because she does it, even though I tagged these pages for deletion once during a timespan where she is not usually online. It was impossible to run into each other. In my experience, I bump into admins all the time at CAT:SD, WP:PRODSUM, AFD, MFD, RFD, etc, regardless of the time of day. Even so, I have never been discouraged by another administrator from doing admin tasks regardless of how many times we bump into each other. Don't delete this, don't tag that. How many restrictions that she imposes do I need to follow? ✗plicit 08:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Liz's talkpage note in Explicit's diff looks perfectly fine to me. We have Template:Doing for the precise purpose of alerting other users to not trip over work that you have in progress, though I don't know whether it would apply to Liz's working on that category or whatever it was. That part of the complaint is bogus. The remaining part says Liz sent Explicit some email, that ANI of course can't act upon without seeing it.

Explicit, have you discussed this with Liz before posting here? That appears to no longer be formally required, but it's still a good idea if you can do it, and I don't see anything stopping you. I don't see anything recent on Liz's talk page from you besides the notification of this ANI. Earlier (29 June), there was an exchange where Liz accidentally reverted a closure of yours, and acknowledged and apologized for the error when you asked what had happened. My tentative impression is that this ANI is an overreaction to another mixup, that can be handled with a bit more coordination, combined with AGF and tolerance of mistakes.

Conclusion: I think this ANI is premature and you should first discuss the issue with Liz on her talkpage. If that doesn't resolve things, then as long as the matter still turns on this undisclosed email, you have to ask her permission to post it and then do so so that ANI can look into it. If permission is not forthcoming, then maybe the two of you could agree to some kind of mediation in private. If that isn't acceptable to both of you, then I think you have to ask arbcom or an arbcom member to look into it, since they are allowed to see private info of this type. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:2B99 (talk) 09:29, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• The talk page note does not look perfectly fine to me. It wasn't very nice. But taking it to ANI is an overreaction. "Bullying" and "intimidation" are a stretch. Explicit: someone was rude to you. Once. (Twice in two months/three times in two years, if we count the email.) Oh no. Move on. This isn't something you need to be taking up other editors' time over. Levivich 10:48, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Since we don’t know the content of private emails, I think it’s impossible to say that Explicit is or isn’t overreacting / does or doesn’t have valid cause to feel intimidated. Can’t really scold someone for bringing a complaint to ANI rather than letting a dispute between admins build up. ProcSock (talk) 10:59, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
    • There are other options aside from "bring a complaint to ANI" and "let a dispute build up," such as "talk to Liz," as has been suggested above. Levivich 11:02, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
      • Even if so, I think it's quite a *weird* message to send anyone, tbh. Things happen and there is no right of way when it comes to editing. Yes, it was escalated to ANI (way too hasty) and yes, there are some bad suggestions here but still doesn't take away the cause of the problem itself, best would be to wait for Liz to clarify on the OP's talk page, I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation. --qedk (t 愛 c) 17:25, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• Am I the only one that thinks "I did not reply to the email because [I] thought it ridiculous." is never an acceptable course of action in the context of admin-to-admin communication? 78.28.44.31 (talk) 19:21, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

  BTW, Special:Contributions/Liz shows that the editor's been happily editing, completely uninterested in responding to this thread. Bad vibes all around. 78.28.44.31 (talk) 19:32, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I wouldn't say I was happily editing but I was unaware of this discussion. I SHOULD have been aware as there was a notification on my talk page but I hadn't looked at my talk page today until now when I saw Cullen left a message for me and I read it. Some days I only look at my talk page once a day and respond at that time to any messages left there. Not the best habit, I'll admit. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:45, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• Liz's message was a little bit terse, but it's a quite a stretch for the OP to theorize that Liz is trying to intimidate them off the site. Seems to me that Liz is just upset because she was working on a category and someone (from her point of view) got in the way. You don't have to agree with her message, but it was pretty easy to understand. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 19:56, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• (Non-administrator comment) The talk page message is certainly strange, but I wouldn't consider it "harassing" unless there's a pattern of behavior. It's unclear to me how anyone is supposed to "see an admin working on an area". From the logs, it looks like this is referring to things like clearing the WP:G7 queue, and there is absolutely no reason to object to more admins doing that. Hopefully Liz will provide a statement. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 20:09, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• When I read that message, I sense frustration and annoyance, not intimidation and discouragement.—S Marshall T/C 21:40, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• Not a great message or conducive to a cooperative editing environment. Liz could you expand on what you were trying to say there? I'm not seeing need for action yet, but maybe just a don't do that again. PackMecEng (talk) 22:23, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• From what I observe the message wasn’t in any form intimidating, rather it comes off as Liz just being a tad bit frustrated at that point in time. Celestina007 (talk) 22:33, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• Sorry to be replying to this discussion so late but I didn't notice the ANI message on my talk page until Cullen brought it to my attention. I am pretty bad at noticing pings, it's the one area where I think I need to improve.

I'm finding it difficult to accept the view that I was trying to intimidate Explicit who has been on Wikipedia probably twice as long as I have and been an admin much longer than me. But you often don't know how things will be perceived.

I was very frustrated when I left that message. If you are seeking an explanation, well, there are often different tasks people often undertake on Wikipedia on a regular basis. If you look over a person's contributions and logs, you might see a regular repetition of edits and admin tasks in certain areas. For example, I usually tag empty categories and delete many of them. Explicit usually deletes most of the CSD-tagged files at exactly 00:00 UTC every day. Other admins regularly close TFD discussions or AFD discussions. Because it's usually Explicit & I who work with expiring stale drafts, I know his schedule and when he'll start working on them and he probably knows mine as well. That's not creepy, it's just that people have habits but no one "owns" an activity. My personal approach is unless it's an area that I've done work in, I usually give other admins and editors a lot of space around activities I can see that they normally look after. That's not written down in policy, I just think that it just helps thing work harmoniously here so we aren't all working at cross-purposes or stepping on each other's toes.

My problem yesterday was not that I owned an activity but that twice I was in the middle doing of an admin task, deleting end-of-July empty maintenance categories and later reviewing orphaned talk pages and Explicit appeared while I was working and did a batch delete of the remainder of the pages while I was reviewing them. It was a little jarring because I was in the middle of handling these tasks. It would be like if an AFC reviewer was reviewing a draft and while they were posting their comments, another reviewer posted their rejection or acceptance, or an admin was writing up a closing comment for a contentious AFD and found that another admin had closed it while they were writing it up. Not a colossal mistake, everyone is doing what they are supposed to, just a little collision. Unfortunately, I reacted to this collision in an emotional way probably because it was twice in a couple of hours with the same person. This has happened to me before with Explicit because we can work reviewing the same pages but for me it's never happened before with another administrator.

My message was not meant to be a threat but I was a little exasperated and I certainly didn't expect it to result in an ANI discussion. My intent was simply to say, if you are an admin who works a lot with deletion, as Explicit does, and you see that half a page of titles is being reviewed or processed, just let the working admin finish what they are doing. Seeing that another admin is at work on a list is admittedly harder to see when you utilize Twinkle's batch delete. But that is all I intended to say with my message and I'm sorry if it came across as less than diplomatic, as I try to be. I think the solution is for Explicit and I to give each other some extra space which I was planning to do when he comes back to work on Wikipedia soon. I'm sorry, Explicit. If other editors have issues with me, please bring them to my talk page. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:38, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• I usually view admin action conflicts as a cause for celebration and laughs, though I'm getting the sense that the scope of the admin action conflicts here is of a more extensive nature than normally, involving many pages. Of course, it's generally good to optimize parallel workings to avoid it. I know that on among us regulars at RfPP, there's an unspoken rule: if someone is working the list from the bottom, you go from the top (and vice versa). Then, when you meet in the middle: celebration! El_C 22:55, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Question from a non-admin: How does one know something is being reviewed or processed by another admin? I get what El C is saying above from an RfPP perspective. Is it same with deletion categories? S0091 (talk) 23:33, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• There are templates that can be used to mark a page as under review. If you don't use them then you should not be surprised if someone else handles it while you are still working on it. HighInBC ^{Need help? Just ask.} 00:15, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) This honestly sounds like a communication issue. Perhaps in the future users who are working on an entire page (?) of stuff should put up a template (like {{in use}}) so that no toes are stepped on? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 06:07, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• Since Explicit & I have returned to our regular activities over the past day, maybe we can give each other more room in admin areas and this situation is no longer an emergency. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:51, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

  @Liz: Does this mean you're ready to accept that all admin tasks are available strictly on a first-come-first-served basis and that nobody is entitled to claim exclusive access to any of these tasks? In particular, are you ready to acknowledge that 1) Explicit is under no obligation to track what editing you're currently engaging in and plan his own editing around it, and that 2) it was unreasonable of you to expect him to do so? 78.28.44.31 (talk) 14:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• I believe this should be closed already as I view this as a communication problem, interpreting tone over text is subjective and can be a quite daunting task (if you intend to internalize what is being said to you and analyze it meticulously to correctly “interpret it” in the manner it was intended by the editor). The manner or tone in which Liz made the comment is open to diverse interpretations in which we see now that it was wrongly misinterpreted by the OP Explicit (whom I’ve worked with) alongside Liz and Fastily in G13 eligibles if they had opted to discuss with Liz extensively other than this ANI, I believe it would have been less controversial and more productive. Celestina007 (talk) 21:51, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• According to the past 3 months of adminstats, Liz and Explicit lead the admin corps in terms of actions. At this level, it's very difficult to avoid competitive feelings (believe me, I would know). My advice to both parties: this statistic is ultimately meaningless, we're all on the same team here. -FASTILY 23:25, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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User:CemasoV

User:CemasoV is WP:ASPERSIONS, WP:HTBAE, and possibly WP:SOCK. Please see following edits:

[97] Personal attack and uncited information in one post.

[98] This was the exact same Aspersion from IP as above previously, so likely same user. Thanks,

Albertaont (talk) 06:11, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

(added by ip not me) Personal attack by ip not me

uncited information? : what is this: (source: https://heightzone.com/hou-zhihui-gender-explained-is-the-weightlifter-a-transgender-man/ )

this personal attack is not belong me :

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hou_Zhihui&type=revision&diff=1036520241&oldid=1036506272

this added by ip:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/72.191.37.108 CemasoV (talk) 06:32, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

i add source :

Gender

Before the start of the 2020 Olympics, there were rumors that he was a transgender man. The veracity of this claim has not yet been proven.[99]

The issue of the athlete being transgender has been widely reported in the media. But this Chinese user started threatening me with a very bad tone. While he could check the sources. CemasoV (talk) 06:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

CemasoV, you are trying to add unsubstantiated rumors in violation of the policy Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, which says quite clearly Avoid repeating gossip. Ask yourself whether the source is reliable; whether the material is being presented as true; and whether, even if true, it is relevant to a disinterested article about the subject. Please follow this policy and never add rumors or gossip to Wikipedia. This is an encyclopedia, not a scandal sheet. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 17:43, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Cullen328, yes . i agree with you. I was in a hurry about that athlete. I had to wait for full approval. I agree with you. I will not enter the articles of athletes from now on. Because it was not my preference either. I saw this in the news. It was bold on social media. I thought I would mention it on Wikipedia. But then I realized and deleted my text myself. --CemasoV (talk) 18:12, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Albertaont and User:AlbertOfWords

User:Albertaont is WP:ASPERSIONS, WP:HTBAE, and possibly WP:SOCK. Please see following edits:

User:Albertaont and User:AlbertOfWords

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=China_at_the_Olympics&diff=prev&oldid=1035397680

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/AlbertOfWords

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Albertaont

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Veritaes_Unam

also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ekuftle

In all articles, he deletes information about doping or cheating Chinese athletes.

This user has used ugly words in the edit summary using her other account and is now a creditor. CemasoV (talk) 10:03, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Albertaont

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Albertaont

He has also threatened several other users in his recent contributions. Instead of interacting and behaving friendly and without checking resources. I did not see the IP edit at all. I just undo my edit. After that, because the content had not been approved yet, I deleted the content myself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hou_Zhihui&type=revision&diff=1036535529&oldid=1036535513

He also tried to eliminate evidence of fraud and doping in his country (China). CemasoV (talk) 06:51, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

IP's concerns about Billinghurst

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Can an admin please kindly review @Billinghurst:'s actions. I am pinging them because I can't tag them with an ANI-notice on their talkpage since he's blocked his own talkpage from being edited. I find that odd in of itself since admins are typically always open for communication and usually very receptive and helpful. And this is exactly the type of problem I'm having with Billinghurst as he refuses to communicate after multiple attempts by me to engage with him! And now I believe he is abusing his powers by blocking my ability to edit my OWN talkpage at 197.46.126.67. If you look at the edit history at that talkpage, when I had the IP 197.46.126.67, I had blanked a portion of my own talkpage yet this admin is hell bent on forcing his way or the highway. It appears that because my IP has since changed, he's taken the oppurtunity to use that as an excuse to force his way (despite that I already made the revert on my own talkpage when I still had the IP in question). Simply put, since when are we not allowed to blank our own talkpages? Would appreciate some feedback and for his admin peers to review his conduct. 156.204.57.243 (talk) 09:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

In this diff, 156.204.57.243 reverted a message left by someone at User talk:197.46.126.67. A random IP (156.x.x.x) is not permitted to claim ownership of another IP's (197.x.x.x) talk. If you want to impress people with your wikiknowledge, you will have to make an account and use it to remove messages from your own talk. Johnuniq (talk) 09:47, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

What Johnuniq said. You can't claim ownership of an IP talk page when editing from another IP. Register an account and get your own page. Girth Summit _(blether) 09:52, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: I don't understand what you mean by "impress people with my wikiknowledge"? Which part of my complaint gave you the impression that I have special wikiknowledge that I aim to "impress" others with? What kind of an accusation is that? Please stay on topic. With regards to claiming the IP talkpage, I understand your point, but a sockpuppet investigator I presume could determine that I am in fact the owner. Regardless, Billinghurst also doesn't have a monopoly over the talkpage either. Why did he revert the IP's own edit of his own talkpage and then block access to it? And if I'm not the owner, what if the owner suddenly wants to edit their own talkpage now? They can't! Because of Billinghurt's overzealousness to get his way or the highway. 156.204.57.243 (talk) 09:58, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• As 156.204.57.243 declared they were 197.46.126.67, they are also guilty of edit warring exceeding 3rr with 4 reverts in the past 24 hours at Religion in Canada: [100][101][102][103].--Eostrix  (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 09:54, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

  Furthermore, they were warned of edit warring and 3RR before the last revert.--Eostrix  (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 10:00, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Eostrix: I was thinking of not addressing you since I don't want to shift the topic of discussion, but I felt it pertinent to mention that I was reverting clear vandalism as sourced material was literally being unjustifiably removed from the page. 156.204.57.243 (talk) 10:05, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't see clear vandalism, but a content dispute over the percentage of Muslims in various parts of Canada. Your reverts do not fall under WP:NOT3RR(4) of reverts of obvious vandalism. The edit warring is manifest.--Eostrix  (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 10:12, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

When I attempted to contact the editor on his talkpage (with the old IP) to notify him, they simply reverted their talkpage refusing to discuss the matter and insisted on continuing to vandalize the page by removing the sourced content. I added two sources that updated the statistics from the 2001 census to the 2011 census, and they simply revert without any justification. The vandalism is manifest. 156.204.57.243 (talk) 10:16, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

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User:RogueShanghai

Hello,

This editor has a history of disruptive and clearly bias edits pertaining to the Nicki Minaj article, available for all to see from the user's talk page. This editor somehow is convinced that copying an article word for word from a different online encyclopedia (Britannica) is a reliable source. Persistently disputing and edit warring with several users on various subjects of the article, and refusing to accept the fact (in this instance) that actress is not notable to the career fame of the article subject enough to lead.

1. [104]
2. [105]
3. [106]

ChicagoWikiEditor (talk) 11:33, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

How did I copy the article word for word? I said that the Britannica encyclopedia stated that she was an actress, and we as another online encyclopedia should do the same. You seem to make no coherent sense of anything whatsoever. Blessings and peace. "Pop pills now we Shanghai!"^{(talk to me!~)} 11:40, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Also at AN3, I guess: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:RogueShanghai_reported_by_User:ChicagoWikiEditor_(Result:_). ^{!ɘM γɿɘυϘ}⅃ϘƧ 11:50, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@RogueShanghai: If what I wrote does not make coherent sense to you, then there is clearly a problem with your reading comprehension because it is there in plain grammatically correct English to be understood. You are proposing a 1:1 of another encyclopedias lead and called that a "source", even attempting to include "television personality" (before you were shut down) because "thats what it says on Britannica". This is all clearly viewable in the edit summaries above. Maybe you should get some sleep? It appears you've been up several hours, maybe even a full day edit warring this page. Quite a way to spend your Saturday. If Nicki Minaj the rapper is an actor then so is Shaquille o'neal, Eminem, and Dr Dre, right? They've had far more significant careers in film yet there is a consensus among editors that these are not article leading titles. Same applies for Nicki Minaj ChicagoWikiEditor (talk) 12:16, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

WP:NPA. And actually, also, yes. If they've had careers in film I see no issue with Eminem and Shaq being labeled with careers in acting. Minaj went to a straight up acting high school and said that she originally intended to be an actress instead of a rapper, so for you to completely discredit that on the basis of what you think, that is not encyclopedic. Your edit summaries prove this:

> "Not an actress" [107]

> "There isn’t a source in the world that will justify labeling Nicky Minaj the rapper as an actress" [108]

> "She is not notable for being an actress" [109]

And also, the way I spend my damn weekends is none of your business. I don't see why you needed to bring that up. Minaj is notable for acting, she was straight up in a supporting role in The Other Woman, she went to acting school in high school, etc. You're completely misrepresenting her on the basis of YOUR opinion. "Pop pills now we Shanghai!"^{(talk to me!~)} 19:20, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@RogueShanghai: You ought to take the time to learn how and use the reply feature. And I didn't ask you about your weekends, I just noticed they sucked, and that's related to your activity on here, not a genuine concern for your weekend. Moreover the question about Shaq, Em, and Dr Dre was rhetorical. Did you read the whole thing? Her acting in high school and prior ambitions are irrelevant to her career fame, so that is pointless to mention. If I opened an Rfc on talk page it would likely be almost unanimous. ChicagoWikiEditor (talk) 20:29, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Just a note for any reviewing admins: I don't know anything about this particular case. However, very recently, ChicagoWikiEditor told FMSky in this talk page section that "Clearly being a child is your problem" and "Relax, little boy... Gold star for trying though. Now run along unless you're going to be constructive." He went to tell me in this edit summary: "You clearly have no idea what you are talking about" directed at me. In this talk page section, he said "For benefit of simpletons like yourself", also directed at me, and then threatened with this: "If you or anyone else feels like you can continue to revert the article then that's on you. I'll see you at the admins board afterwards." I was the one trying to discuss, and being civil, but in the face of those attacks I simply started an RfC because I didn't feel like trying to talk to him anymore would be productive. I think all of that is relevant when reading this current issue. JimKaatFan (talk) 21:09, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

This is exactly what I'm talking about. I would've been fine discussing this on the talk page if it weren't for his openly hostile and rude nature, and continuing to assert that Minaj is not an actress seemingly only because he thinks so despite two linked sources saying she is an actress. "Pop pills now we Shanghai!"^{(talk to me!~)} 03:23, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Comment the user RogueShanghai has a clear problem of ownership with the mentioned article. Cornerstonepicker (talk) 21:43, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• Comment RogueShanghai is clearly a big fan of Minaj and is very clearly trying to peacock the article whilst displaying severe WP:OWN issues; especially given the response above I would suggest a partial block from the article. Black Kite (talk) 23:30, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
• Comment RogueShanghai seems to enjoy calling out personal attacks as much as they do making them. Examples include:
  • What does my personal life and the fanbases that I am in have to do with any of my editing work? WP:NPA.[110]
  • He's also seemed to personally attack me [...] when there's no place for personal attacks here, going as far as to misgender me, whether intentionally or unintentionally.[111]
  • Hopefully you'll stop [...] acting quite immature and petty for someone who's supposed to be in their 20s.[112]
  • I don't think someone who is a fan of someone who seems to use multiple cowriters for her bars can speak on Doja Cat.[113]
  • You're being so weird, there is literally no reason to [...] keep reverting the image. Maybe a spambot?[114] KyleJoan^talk 09:44, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
• Both ChicagoWikiEditor and RogueShanghai are clearly way over the line in their day-to-day communication styles. Sanctions or restrictions are needed because it seems both of them are well aware of NPA/ANI/3RR but see behavioural policies and guidelines only as a way to threaten others rather than as a series of steps we all need to take to make sure that everybody who volunteers their time and effort here feels comfortable. Unless our behavioural PAGs are actually enforced, then these editors are correct that they exist only as weapons to be rude to others with. — Bilorv (talk) 20:38, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

2a00:23c7:5884:5a01:358c:3157:3bcc:b83b/44

2a00:23c7:5884:5a01:358c:3157:3bcc:b83b/44 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

I was wondering if someone can block for a while this Glasgow-based IP-range (calculated by me by combining five different IPV6 by using this tool). The user is persistently targeting several articles relating mostly to ancient Egypt, with edits ranging from inserting/changing dates, adding purely speculative family relationships, or other personal deductions, all devoid of reliable sources and/or in clear disagreement with already existing ones. You may find that reaching the warning limit is pretty useless with such a plethora of IPs. Lone-078 (talk) 12:21, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Comment A link to their contribs list was added to the top of this report. Looks like trouble is afoot; AGF violation against Apokryltaros (talk · contribs) after they had reverted their edits. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:07, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Comment I refrained from re-reverting partly to avoid edit-warring, and partly because I've dealt with this persistent, sanctimonious editor before, and decided to wait until it gets a rangeblock.--Mr Fink (talk) 15:29, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I care not. I'm reverting as many edits as I can. It's at least since April that this individual has been polluting this encyclopedia with lies on a daily basis. People like that make me sick. Lone-078 (talk) 16:24, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

72.174.71.134 hoax edits

72.174.71.134 has spent about a year alternating between actually helpful edits and completely unreferenced WP:OR edits. Recently they upgraded to blatant hoax edits. They created an entire non-existent television series at The Detective (novel) and slipped it into The Die Hard franchise article[115] as well as filmographies of Danny Glover[116] and Kathleen Quinlan[117] They will even make a helpful edit at the same time as a hoax edit like here with an edit summary that casually ignores the hoax edit. They wait days between edits so it is not possible to make an AIV report. Notfrompedro (talk) 14:55, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I agree. This IP user has been somewhat disruptive with these hoax edits, particularly in the Die Hard (film series), as you can see in that user's contributions. BattleshipMan (talk) 16:17, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Now they jumped IPs to 72.174.131.123 and restored the same hoax edit about the non-existent "Easter" soap opera.[118] Notfrompedro (talk) 13:22, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Ethnic-based aspersions and labelling

• I would still ask all respectful editors (especially those of Armenian origin) to keep yourselves objective and not pour out your anger to the pages of Wikipedia.
• I just wanted to express my protest on the fact that some of the heavy editors to this article (many of which turn out to be Armenians - just claiming obvious fact!) may be biased towards the subject of this article

As well as labelling a self-identified Kurdish editor as Armenian and blind-reverting their edits on numerous articles with summaries such as:

• restoring original preview to the article before destructive edits of an Armenian sockpuppet user
• restoring native Turkic name to the article (previously was removed by an Armenian sockpuppet)

User seems not here to build an encyclopedia. - Kevo³²⁷ (talk) 17:32, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

forgot to link them, Mastersun25 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Did not mean to offend anyone. I reverted some of the edits of the reported used that seemed to be very disruptive to me. Ironically, the banned user accused me of sockpuppetting, turned out to be sockpuppet himself. Now this user accuses me of ethnic bias, having edit history of a typical xenophobe. [119] [120] [121]. Please respectful editors pay attention to this fact as well. --Mastersun25 (talk) 18:01, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Also the above mentioned blocked user pretended to be Kurdish, which is also obvious if you visit his edit history page as well as his other accounts. I want to say one more time that my recent edits were not at all disruptive and had no other aim than to restore a NPOV versions of some articles that were previously edited by a banned user who disruptively pushed his POVs. I also did not violate any of Wikipedia's rules. --Mastersun25 (talk) 18:09, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Mastersun25, it doesn't matter what a user's ethnicity is. It only matters what the edits are. Please stop referring to editors' ethnicity, ever. You are new here, so you may not realize that this is considered very unhelpful. We talk about the edits. We don't talk about the editors. —valereee (talk) 18:10, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I agree. The ethnicity of the user should not be mentioned at all. Unfortunately at the moment there is an ongoing conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and this fact creates bias for users of certain backgrounds, as you can see in this very discussion. If I really did offended someone with that, I really apologize. --Mastersun25 (talk) 18:14, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I also want to mention that the above user tried numerously to get me banned, unreasonably casting aspertions on me [122]. I think that the one who should be reported is him, not me. --Mastersun25 (talk) 18:14, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Mastersun25, there are conflicts all over the world right now, and we still do not allow editors to call one another xenophobes or to point out that they are a certain ethnicity or have a certain political stance in order to call into suspicion their edits. If the edits are bad, they're bad. It doesn't matter whether a bad edit is made by an Azerbaijani or an Armenian. Both are capable of making good and bad edits. Talk about the edits, not the editor. —valereee (talk) 18:25, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I agree that I should not have mentioned editors' backgrounds and already apologized for that. I won't be doing this from now on as I learned that there were certain WP rules on that. But my edits weren't disruptive if you check my edit history. Also I wasn't engaged into edit wars regardless of what these two users are saying since I never violated a three-revert rule. Also I want to pay attention to the fact that this is not the first time when these two users work in tandem against me. I AM NOT SURE, but there might be canvassing involved. --Mastersun25 (talk) 18:40, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

It's actually WP:CANVASSING, and you're free to file an SPI if you want to. Keep in mind, it isn't going to look good on you when the SPI fails (and it will). But I don't think that should be your primary concern. Just a thought, maybe take a closer look at your edit history, just a bit more attention you might notice some more important issues at hand. Maybe you'll even notice you breaking several policies and playing "I was on the verge of breaking 3rr but actually I didn't" game (mind you, not a good mentality for an editor if they're here to build an encyclopedia). ZaniGiovanni (talk) 18:47, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

You're still doubling down that your edits "weren't disruptive", and generally speaking, "if you check my history" isn't an argument (in fact in this specific case, it works against you. ZaniGiovanni (talk) 18:54, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

This ANI is about ethnic-based aspertions. As I said, I realized that it was bad to mention people's ethnic backgrounds even if it would explain certain behaviors on Wikipedia. I can assure you that I won't be doing it from now on. What else do you want to hear from me? If you have problems with my edits, we can always discuss on the talk page or feel free to fill another ANI report. But also please remember that sometimes I won't be able to reply fast since I might be busy irl and use Wikipedia only once a week or so. --Mastersun25 (talk) 19:09, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

You already doubled down multiple times that your edits "were not disruptive", and you didn't reply or read any of my message(s) on your talk page from the looks of it. Also there aren't "one subject" only ANI cases. If your recent disruptive conduct is also relevant to the case and for ANI, then it should be presented. Btw, your disruptive reverts also were mentioned and cited by the OP, so I don't know what you're talking about (even by your logic). ZaniGiovanni (talk) 19:19, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I love how hard you try to accuse me of something that in your opinion is a disruptive edit completely omitting the fact that the edits I reverted back were made by a troll account who literally spent days and nights here removing every single mention of Azerbaijanis in the history of region [123] [124] [125], claiming that "Azerbaijanis do not have history" [126], created second account EXCLUSIVELY to remove Azerbaijani names from Iranian Khanate articles [127], denying genocide of Azerbaijanis during Karabakh War [128] [129] and finally getting banned for both disruptive behavior and sockpuppetry [130]. Yet the behavior of this person never bothered you nor you have ever voiced your objection to his extremely destructive and non-objective edits, you really believe you are the one to teach me how to behave on Wikipedia? I am not going to make excuses to you personally since you are not the authority here, if the respectful administrators say that my behavior and edits are inappropriate, I will take their opinion into consideration but you can leave as many comments as you want so can your friend Kevork who seems to be editing same articles you do. Cheers --Mastersun25 (talk) 21:04, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I love how hard you try to accuse me of something that in your opinion is a disruptive edit completely omitting the fact that the edits I reverted back were made by a troll account who literally spent days and nights here removing every single mention of Azerbaijanis in the history of region [1] [2] [3]:

I am not trying much at all, in fact, I already presented your problematic edits both in here and in your edit page (it's quite easy actually, just a glance at your edit history for today is enough), which you omitted to discuss and replied with unrelated to your edits pages. Regarding to your presented diffs in general, it would be nice that you show diffs that live up to your overly hyperbolic descriptions of them here.

The user was banned for battleground behaviour, and sockpuppetry 4, how your diffs (except the last one) relate to their ban you have yet to explain (just like your descriptions of them). Also for the 10th time, being banned doesn't mean that you should go around and revert their every edit you find left and right, often times with your revert only reason/description being "banned Armenian sockpuppet" 5. I already notified you of WP:GRAVEDANCING but judging from your response, you are very battle focused, and probably didn't even read any of my messages.

I am not going to make excuses to you personally since you are not the authority here, if the respectful administrators say that my behavior and edits are inappropriate, I will take their opinion into consideration but you can leave as many comments as you want so can your friend Kevork who seems to be editing same articles you do:

You're are not making excuses to me. I'm fairy certain your battle like mentality doesn't allow you to understand that. This is ANI, the community will look at your conduct and they along with the admins will decide if you're able to reasonably contribute to wikipedia or not.

As I already mentioned 2nd time now, you should really stop with the aspersions as you already made nonsense claims of "canvassing". Bear in mind, that unfounded misconduct allegations qualify as personal attacks. You're now doubling down yet again, with weasel words such as "seems" on top of it. Kindly consider this as a last warning because my patience also has its limits, and you will be reported.

All in all, judging by the user's replies, I'm even more inclined to think that they are not here to build an encyclopedia. ZaniGiovanni (talk) 22:48, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Comment: I saw @Mastersun25 reverts today on quite a few pages I previously edited. I already gave the appropriate notices in their talk page, and left a friendly message notifying of their disruptive conduct. Here are some of the more problematic examples of their edits:

WP:GRAVEDANCING 1, 2,, 3 – Keep in mind, the now banned user BaxçeyêReş wasn't banned for sockpuppetry at that time, and @Mastersun25 after not engaging in the talk pages for a long time [4], [5], [6] suddenly chimes in today with a mass revert spree.

WP:EDITWARRING with two different users Ilham Aliyev: Revision history.

And as apparent by their replies here, doubling down on their disruptive conduct and casting aspersions of "xenophobia" with completely unsupported diffs. I didn't want to engage in the mess they've created, but I feel like I have to seeing their continual denial of wrong doing and baseless accusations. ZaniGiovanni (talk) 18:27, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

The user keeps edit warring even after this ANI Verin Shorzha: Revision history. Despite me notifying them of AA sanctions in their talk page, they disrupt the page by adding unsourced name that fits their POV, and putting cn tags without even looking at the source (everything is supported by the source itself) diff. I don't think they learned anything from here. ZaniGiovanni (talk) 18:13, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I agree with ZaniGiovanni and Kevo³²⁷. Based on a review of their edit history, it seems the user is here to push a very clear agenda and not to genuinely build this encyclopedia. Not to mention, most of their edits are unsourced. Even after being reverted, the user continues to restore unsourced content, as in the case of Gardabani. Regards, Archives908 (talk) 18:41, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

2401:4900:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 range and possible intervention

I left a message at NinjaRobotPirate (talk · contribs)'s talk yesterday as I was unaware of this 'partial block' feature. ANI seems to be the correct place to report this.
IPs in the above range are very active in topics surrounding India, especially reality TV programs. Although, the edits do not seem to be made in bad faith they are nonconstructive and to a certain extent disruptive. Of the top of Special:Contributions/2401:4900:0:0:0:0:0:0/32:

1. 1 : Clearly promo
2. 2 : Name replaced with that of a rival political party under the guise of "Corrected the mistakes in names".
3. 3 : Years and names changed without offering explanation
4. 4 5 6 & more on Bassi, India : Either pure vandalism or test editing in mainspace. The article requires a rollback by the way.
5. 7 : Adds Malayalam text to an English article

There are many more contributions in that list that need to be at least looked at, if not completely undone. They have made few useful contributions but the mess left in the wake far outweighs any of them. Some intervention is required. 2405:201:4013:8B6A:F4AB:FF1E:65FE:10C2 (talk) 20:32, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Disruptive editing/personal attacks/refusal to communicate by IP

Middelburg, Zeeland (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

• 89.205.141.146 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 2001:1c00:703:cb00:8d4b:d15f:2c89:bae5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (plus a few more in this range)

An IP editor continues to change "city" to "town" in this article based on the evidently false claim that there is some kind minimum population requirement for a place to be called a city (in the Netherlands? in general? not sure). There is no such requirement and Middelburg is widely known as a city. The editor, however, refuses to discuss the issue and communicates only in uncivil edit summaries, some of them outright personal attacks: "annoying uneducated individual" and "you're such a brat". I've warned them about disruptive editing and personal attacks here; again about personal attacks here; and here I tried one last time to just get them to discuss the matter. Unfortunately, this edit just now shows that is not going to happen. I think there's nothing more I can do and some kind of administrative action is required. Lennart97 (talk) 20:42, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Article protected and IP range-blocked. Acroterion (talk) 21:26, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Lennart97 (talk) 21:33, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Cold Season - topic ban proposal

Since last year's ANI thread concerning User:Cold Season's behaviour, Cold Season has continued to display strong ownership behaviour, casting aspersions, and POV pushing through deliberate misrepresentation of sources. When confronted, Cold Season dismissed other editors' concerns with an WP:IDHT attitude and continued reverting. The problematic behaviour has been discussed at Talk:Death of Chow Tsz-lok and Talk:Death of Luo Changqing and I don't think I need to repeat the discussion here. I believe this behaviour has become intractable and I propose an indefinite topic ban on Cold Season from editing articles about Hong Kong politics since 1997. @Ohconfucius, Citobun, OceanHok, Horse Eye Jack, Zanhe, and Underbar dk: Pinging editors involved with related disputes. Deryck C. 21:55, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Note: Horse Eye Jack is now editing as User:Horse Eye's Back. Citobun (talk) 07:37, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Support – On Hong Kong topics, Cold Season is narrowly focused on pushing a pro-government POV. As mentioned by Deryck Chan, the two above-mentioned pages are the main evidence of this. At Talk:Death of Luo Changqing (created by Cold Season), I detailed my concerns with that article, which simply regurgitated the news frenzy manufactured by Chinese state media. I echo the sentiments regarding Cold Season's editing behaviour. I have generally avoided this user and "their" articles for the past year due to the ownership attitude and reverting behaviour, which I find completely toxic. Citobun (talk) 02:58, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• I haven't really interacted with Cold Season this year since I haven't edited Hong Kong stuff for some time already, so my opinion may not be completely valid. However, this discussion from June last year is the one that came to my mind when I was pinged. He/she certainly has ownership issues, does not show a tendency to engage in discussions, and is rather uncooperative. OceanHok (talk) 13:14, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks for the ping Citobun! I wish they had stopped with the problematic behavior but it doesn’t look like they have, kind of impressive that they’re now up to 588 edits on Death of Chow Tsz-lok (second most prolific editor has 138, third has 17) and 222 edits at Death of Luo Changqing (second most prolific editor has 17, third has 6). I would expand the proposed ban to China related broadly construed, I don’t think that politics in HK post 97 really addresses the scope of disruption, for instance Ming treasure voyages seems to have the same ownership issues. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 15:41, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

IP changing birth years

Hi, I've never posted here before so please forgive me if it's the wrong place to do so. I have noticed some strange editing patterns from anonymous User:60.48.33.53, who has been falsifying birth years (without comment) on a number of articles, including Michel Aupetit (diff), Pete Simpson (diff), Josef Tošovský (diff), and Miloš Zeman (diff). A glance down IP's contributions shows several other birth year changes, some of which have been reverted, some not. According to the user talk page, the IP address has previously been temp-blocked as part of a sockpuppet investigation. Just thought someone should be aware of this as there are senior political figures included in the unreverted changes. Jdcooper (talk) 22:35, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Jdcooper. This appears to be Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Date-changing vandal from Malaysia. Thanks for pointing out that they are active again. I will revert their latest edits. Best regards, Citobun (talk) 03:06, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I blocked Special:Contributions/60.48.33.53 for a month. A little strange because some of the edits looked good but some that I checked contradicted the reference. Johnuniq (talk) 03:09, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Johnuniq. This is Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Date-changing vandal from Malaysia. They have been active many years and for the most part their date changes are random/incorrect. Citobun (talk) 03:21, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) They do indeed geolocate to Kota Kinabalu, same as another IP blocked on July 15. Logging at LTA sock list with reference to this ANI.D'oh! –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Disruptive editing by User:Guarapiranga

This user has since July 22 taken to editing multiple longevity-related articles including Oldest people, List of the oldest people by country, Supercentenarians by continent and Supercentenarians in the United States. During this time they have:

1. Attempted to introduce flags to an article and when reverted on the basis of WP:MOSFLAG failed to interpret the MOS correctly.
2. Moved multiple articles without discussion renaming them without "List of" even though they are all, specifically, lists. A request to revert these moves is [Talk:Supercentenarians_in_the_United_States#Requested_move_1_August_2021 here] which contains the editor's reasoning.
3. Introduced numerous pointless redlinks and despite these being reverted and User_talk:Guarapiranga#Redlinks explained has gone on to in repeat this in other articles without sufficient justification.
4. Adjusted the rankings on multiple articles so that they are incorrect and when reverted given an inadequate explanation (for want of a better word) at Talk:Supercentenarians_in_the_United_States#Why_are_ties_suddenly_resolved_with_dead_people_ranking_above_living_ones?.

This editor seems to determined to change the format of these articles according to MOS:DTAB, which would not be an issue except that in doing so they have introduced changes to the articles which are by no means constructive and against the wishes of those editors with ongoing interest in the subject (see the last 5 threads at Talk:Supercentenarians in the United States), and with no apparent desire to edit co-operatively. The editor seems to have no interest in the Longevity themselves otherwise this notice would have been more appropriate at ARBCOM, a notice of which has been posted on the user's talk page to no effect (apologies if this is where this should in fact have been taken). DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 22:51, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

• Comment As a long time editor with an interest in this topic area, I have been bewildered by Guarapiranga's edits and conduct. The names of over a dozen articles (ex. Supercentenarians in the United States) have undergone three mass renaming's in recent days, all by the editor in question (and all undiscussed). The obvious nature of the articles, that they are lists, is now obfuscated. Far more troubling is the editor's dramatic unilateral changes to the content and coding of these same and other longevity articles. As DerbyCountyinNZ stated, the editor in question has made list ranking's incorrect, added flags, and much more.

At List of the oldest people by country, they: added a sea of perma-redlinks; bloated the article with an almost 100% redundant birthplace tab instead of just having the longstanding streamlined "place of death or residence" tab with a footnote if borders changed etc; removed information about the oldest of both genders per country while outing themselves of having no idea how the article had worked before they transformed it with no prior discussion. They added the same (1 2) bloated and pointless birthplace tab at List of the oldest living people.

The easy to understand and longstanding coding systems of many of the longevity articles, such as at List of the oldest people by country and many of the country lists, has been dramatically changed with no prior discussion, disrupting the work of the topic's most prolific editor, and mystifying myself. As the discussion in which the above comment took place shows, their is a firm community consensus that the editor in question has dramatically disrupted the aforementioned articles in the topic of longevity, nor do they have any actual understanding of or interest in these articles. In conversations linked above, it is also clear the editor in question has no desire to discus momentous changes with the community to reach consensus before sudden implementation, nor any interest in such discussion going forward. Newshunter12 (talk) 00:09, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• Comment - If the editor-in-question is being so disruptive? He/she should be topic banned from said articles. GoodDay (talk) 01:21, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• Agreed WordwizardW (talk) 02:03, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• This editor has a habit of making huge unilateral changes to fit their preferred pattern. That is fine and bold by itself, but they do not seem interested in consensus where disagreement emerges. In Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#RfC: Dependent territories and subnational areas they opened an RfC and then closed it themseves claiming a particular consensus suiting their view despite receiving no support for this view in the RfC. They then went on to cite this supposed result to justify their edits elsewhere ([131][132][133]). More recently, they have edit-warred in significant changes to List of countries and dependencies, despite not receiving much support in an RfC that they opened. Note also in those RfCs the tendency to bludgeon the discussions with replies to everything. In another instance, I was recently perplexed by this post, where they opened a discussion by asking if we should start an edit war, which is quite the WP:battleground opening. CMD (talk) 02:43, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
  • The participation in Talk:Supercentenarians in the United States#Requested move 1 August 2021 (mentioned in the opening) is typical. Guarapiranga berates others for not AGFing, while saying in another comment "I haven't yet seen here listed any drawbacks...just that some editors are upset by change". Meanwhile, while this is move request is going on with so far unanimous input against their rationale, they move List of countries by number of Internet users to Internet users by country with the exact same rationale. CMD (talk) 10:01, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
    • I moved that page back to its original title, but made a mistake & named it List of countries of Internet users. PS - Got an administrator to fix up my mistake ;) GoodDay (talk) 14:24, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
• Block until the user seriously engages in discussion—that means reading and listening rather than skipping straight to the writing stage. Page moves and mass changes are incredibly disruptive when misused and this move after this ANI discussion was opened, without so much as a comment here, warrants an immediate block. A topic ban from longevity-related articles, broadly construed, would also be acceptable. — Bilorv (talk) 21:44, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• Block until the user seriously engages in discussion
  I have, at:
  • Talk:Supercentenarians from the United Kingdom
  • Talk:Supercentenarians in the United States
  • Talk:Supercentenarians from Japan
  • Talk:List of the oldest people by country
• this move after this ANI discussion was opened, without so much as a comment here, warrants an immediate block.
  Unrelated topic. This here is explicitly about longevity-related articles.^[1]

— Guarapiranga ☎ 02:36, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• On top of the Internet list move mentioned above, Guarapiranga has also decided that this is a good time to reinsert a previous 19 July edit at Continent, which they know does not have consensus and had previously been discussed at both that talkpage and at Talk:Asia. A topic ban as suggested is not a useful remedy; this is a core behavioural issue throughout their editing, and their reply to Bilorv above shows that this is not understood. Agree with block as suggested by Bilorv, especially in light of continued tendentious editing during this AN/I. CMD (talk) 08:59, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Agree with points noted by Newshunter12. I'm on the fence about a Block as I believe everyone has a right to "BE BOLD", but not at the expense of mangling an article. Had a thorough discussion been held prior to the article move, the non-encyclopedic argument could have been made and discussed, as well as the proposed need to make the changes (which I do disagree with). I agree with DerbyCountyinNZ that "this move after this ANI discussion was opened, without so much as a comment here, warrants an immediate block." But as Chipmunkdavis correctly notes, a topic ban is not a useful remedy. If this continues to be a productive discussion, with Guarapiranga agreeing to follow the consensus, style guidelines, and amend their editing behaviors, then I will step off the fence about a block. Spacini (talk) 16:29, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

  You already have evidence of that, Spacini; not only I cite wp:policies and guidelines when explaining my edits, (as you can see at Talk:Supercentenarians from the United Kingdom, at Talk:Supercentenarians in the United States, at Talk:Supercentenarians from Japan and at Talk:List of the oldest people by country), but in his very first complaint, DerbyCountyinNZ says that I attempted to introduce flags to an article. Did he say I re-introduced them? Did he say I edit warred on this? No, he said I failed to interpret the MOS correctly. Really? Is that the accusation?? Did I not follow the consensus? I did. — Guarapiranga ☎ 22:18, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

  But even though I advised you that longevity is subject to ARBCOM on 23 July and listed the issues with your problematic editing on 27 July and with the extensive threads on Talk:Supercentenarians in the United States starting on 28 July indicating that numerous editors had/have issues with these changes, you continued with the same editing bahaviour (i.e. editing without reaching consensus). This is a pretty clear indication of an editor who is unwilling to edit co-operatively. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 00:18, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  (ec)Linking to those talk page discussions do you no favor; in fact they reiterate your tenditious editing and shine a light on WP:CIR. You seem to be emotionally invested in these articles which may make it hard to swallow other editors' constructive criticisms. Maybe consider taking a breather for a week or so and digest the advice others have provided -- if things do not go your way, accept the consensus and edit in other areas of interest. Rgrds. --Bison X (talk) 00:26, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Potentially illegitimate logged-out editing

I grew suspicious of 109.79.167.172 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) when they cited a humorous essay as the rationale behind their refusal to register as a user after saying they were editing Wikipedia anonymously as I am entitled to do and not making any claim to being different people. While irritating, I understood it did not violate WP:ILLEGIT. Now I'm seeing that Nyxaros (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has accused them of being a banned user. Is there a way to prove (or disprove) this? KyleJoan^talk 02:20, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Presumably 109.79.161.25 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is also the same editor. At some point, after many months and many IPs, the complaints "you don't seem like a new editor" are just silly. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 02:28, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

But does that prove they were not a banned user prior to editing under the different IPs? KyleJoan^talk 02:44, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I edit anonymously. KyleJoan doesn't like me, and although I don't appreciate the accusations I can politely agree to disagree with KyleJoan. I am under no obligation to use fakenames and collect barnstars, I choose not to login, I wouldn't characterize is at "refuse to" I'm simply not required to.

Nyxaros (talk · contribs) aka Sebastian James (talk · contribs) is rude and hostile and has long been so (which is why it was so easy to recognise the same user despite a name change), and continues to be unpleasant. His user page claims he is "no longer here" which is plainly not true. Nyxaros is lashing out.

You can't disprove a negative. I can apologize in advance to the admins for wasting their time because there's nothing to see here. I had an account long ago and I abandoned it. I disagree with people and discuss, but these accusations of sock puppetry are baseless. -- 109.79.167.172 (talk) 03:03, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

And how do we know that account of yours from long ago is not banned? KyleJoan^talk 03:12, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

You don't.

Even if I found the old account and showed it to you or the admins you would probably think I had some other account. You can't disprove a negative.

I am surprised that someone would think my edit pattern is indicative of some grand scheme or devious intent that would cause anyone to bother with a sock puppet. I should probably be doing something else more productive with my time but we could probably all say that. -- 109.79.167.172 (talk) 03:29, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) @KyleJoan: if you don't have any evidence the IP is banned, and you don't suspect them of being a sock of any specific user, please stop making accusations now. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 03:31, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I have not accused the IP of anything. The fact that they're not able to outright say their editing does not violate WP:CLEANSTART seems like an issue, so I believe it's natural to wonder why they've never exercised the option to privately disclose their previous account to an admin with the CheckUser tool and shut down any suspicions. KyleJoan^talk 03:50, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

KyleJoan, you say that you didn't accuse the IP of anything, though effectively you did, then you proceed to continue with the accusation ("natural to wonder") in the same comment where you say you didn't accuse them. I have no idea about the veracity or lack thereof of this IP, but a little self-awareness, please. There's a limit to what one can do with semantic plays. This would be quite different if you were to pose a general query about what if anything should be done with an IP editor who has knowledge of CLEANSTART —indeed, hardly the most intuitive policy to find— without naming said IP immediately (or, naming them, but with actual evidence). El_C 12:57, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Unconstructive edits by IP editor

150.101.157.18 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) has done extensive editing of the article Latin Empire over the last few days. The massive amount of small edits have clogged up the article history and are mostly based either in misunderstanding the information in the article or misunderstanding Wikipedia policy. The article is far from as good as it could be, but 150.101.157.18's first round of edits involved changing "The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state" to "The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, is a modern concoction, referring to a poorly articulated construct, which even at the height of its power, was of questionable legitimacy and even more questionable specificity", adding numerous comments directly into the article text as if they were correcting an essay, and adding cleanup tags in the actually well-cited etymology section because of "inadequate attribution". Given that this was clearly a POV edit, that violated common practice, I reverted this version.

They've persisted in editing the article. They're now edit-warring to keep their second version of the article, which begins with the POV first sentence "The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a briefly held feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of that magnanimous failure" (note that the bold terms are also linked, which is against policy), adds an "overview of events" section which goes against the standard format and adds even more obnoxious comments directly into the article text (some comments relating to content they themselves added) as if they were a school teacher correcting a student's paper. They persist in wanting to keep this version even after I've explained the issues and I don't think bringing it up on their talk page will do anything given that they've never responded to anything there before. I don't think the term trolling would be inappropriate here - see for instance this edit, adding new content alongside their own comments to that content and calling the article "a piece of ****". Ichthyovenator (talk) 08:20, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Well, they do like the term "troll": [134][135]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:35, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Just reporting that they are continuing to add unsourced POV edits to the article. I don't know what action can be taken but it is bordering on disruptive since they've been informed and warned several times. They've also been doing the same thing at Baldwin I, Latin Emperor. Ichthyovenator (talk) 12:55, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Joplin201017

Joplin201017 (talk · contribs) added unsourced stats on Statistics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia on 09:07 UTC, while the first numbers reported here on 09:42 UTC. Its predecessor, Javito1993 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) constantly did this as well. Reverted as always, but no response, nor improvement. Not even an edit summary. I reported to WP:SPI days ago but no response at all. Maybe because I do not request CU, just as Bbb23 told me to, otherwise I will get blocked. Flix11 (talk) 10:03, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Flix11: the source I used came from CNBC Indonesia, with data matching The Ministry of Health today. Apologies as I forgot to include an edit summary on my edit today (talk) 10:01, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Cullen328

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Hi I went to the Teahouse for help and I received a response from Cullen328 on August 1, 2021. My questions were about the 2017 Biography for Barry C. Sherman. On August 2, 2021 Cullen328 told me not connect with him or Wikipedia. He used large letters in his salutation, Longel AGAIN, ........ and he said the subject with reference in Contents 5.2 of possible suspects there needs to be a Published source. I do not know exactly what he means by Published source but he's closed the door said I'm not suitable to Wikipedia. Plus, I was not happy with Cullen328 reference why did he think of Tim Minchin? Can you make sense out of this situation or do you think I should stop using your website?--Longel (talk) 11:35, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I am afraid I have to agree with Cullen328.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:38, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

So you're a "psychic" who wants to add their personal views on homicide cases to the respective Wikipedia articles? ValarianB (talk) 11:42, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• Cullen328 is right. Reyk _YO! 12:03, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• (Non-admin explanation, as this should really have been dealt with at the Teahouse stage and not made itself all the way here): Roughly-speaking, Wikipedia doesn't report what happened. It reports what the newspapers say happened. In a homicide, a detective might know who's guilty, but WP won't report what the detective knows. It will only report what the New York Times says the detective knows. It's the same with you, @Longel; you may know who did it, but unless the New York Times (or similar) reports your knowledge second-hand, it's not going to get into WP. You may find this illogical, but the reason is this: Wikipedia is a tertiary source, and it doesn't assess the reliability of all the primary information that's out there. We don't know if you're a good psychic, or if the detective is a good detective. As a tertiary source, we decide that the New York Times is a good secondary source (whom we trust) and we rely on the New York Times to screen its primary sources of information and only report things that are probably true (assessing primary sources is not a trivial task). So yes, if you want to report what you know personally, Wikipedia isn't the right place to do it. Elemimele (talk) 12:09, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
• @Longel: others have already given you good advice but to emphasise one particular point you especially need to stop making claiming about living persons without a reliable secondary source. While Barry Sherman died more than 2 years ago so BLP does not apply to them, you are making claims about "suspects". The people you mentioned are already in our article as they've been sufficiently covered in reliable secondary sources. However it's still completely inappropriate for you to make any claims about them or other living persons based on your own supposed knowledge rather than what reliable secondary sources say. The fact that you keep claiming it's psychic knowledge lessons the concerns, however you still need to stop for BLP and other reasons. Note that this doesn't mean talking about Barry Sherman or other things that don't involve living persons coming from your 'psychic knowledge' is okay. Nil Einne (talk) 13:14, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
• (Non-administrator comment) Relevant links are:

• WP:TEA#Barry Sherman
• User talk:Cullen328#Barry C Sherman Biography 2017 Ontario Canada

@Longel: Wikipedia can't just take people's word for things; claims like that have to be cited, because it has to satisfy Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Unless you're able to provide sources which can verify and are considered notable reliable, your experience on here is going to be a frustrating one. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for all the comments here. Anyone who reads my interactions with Longel will see that I discussed things with them politely and tried to be informative, but they came back over and over with the same nonsense until I asked then to stop posting on my talk page. And then they posted again. I don't know what else to say. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 15:13, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Honestly Cullen, I don't think you needed to say even that much in order to forestall any concern about your conduct here, the source of the disruption (by way of a WP:CIR shortfall) is so obvious. Mind you, I really respect how Elemimele, Nil Einne, and Tenryuu have approached their responses to the OP, turning this situation into a teachable moment by explaining how our policies would apply here even if we lived in a reality where psychic visions were considered a credible source of knowledge in a more general sense. That is to say, they have dodged the question of the type of WP:OR being employed by the OP, so that they can emphasize the more central fact that it is indeed OR, thus anchoring the explanation in the important policy distinction rather than getting bogged down by the particularly...dubious provenance of the information. I wholly support what they did there.

That said, given those three veteran contributors took the time to frame the discussion in terms theoretically helpful to the OP, I will instead make my observations more blunt and oriented to you and the community at large: putting aside the deficits with the OP with regard to WP:V/OR (which is an issue we can and do teach new editors to understand constantly, as a community) there's a pretty big question as to whether this editor is (and is ever likely to be) WP:HERE to work on the encyclopedia in the conventional sense and willing to tackle the work with an approach and skillset that we would regard as basically competent. If their idea of contributing to our project is to add their "psychic" observations to the article, I have considerable doubts that simply explaining original research to them will suffice to transform them into a someone who understands what Wikipedia is and is not. Wrap in the pretty obvious and substantial WP:IDONTHEARTHAT and I think you arguably would have been in the clear to block this editor at early points in your interaction, likely without pushback from most experienced editors.

I suppose at this point it would not be very appropriate to block the editor if they take every last bit of the feedback here seriously and stop trying to add this unsourced, BLP-violating, original research nonsense to any article or even talk space -and- back off on their aggressive posturing with regard to you. But if there is the slightest bit of further disruption (and given the facts here, I'm suspecting there will be), a CIR block should come swifttly and in the indefinite variety. SnowRise ^{let's rap} 17:57, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• To answer your question, @Longel: yes, I think you should stop using this website. Your worldview is fundamentally in opposition to a fact-based encyclopedia. But I imagine you already knew I was going to say that? --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:05, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

  Some years ago, a British tabloid newspaper sacked its astrology correspondent. The editor's letter of dismissal began, "As you doubtless already know..." Narky Blert (talk) 17:14, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• @Longel: BTW, since no one pointed it out yet, it was User:Valjean not Cullen328 who mentioned Tim Minchin. Nil Einne (talk) 17:03, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I haven't seen the comment in question, but to answer the OPs question as to why Tim Minchin was mentioned in this context, I would suspect it has something to do with this, or one of Minchin's other songs/spoken word works that take aim at non-empirical/faith phenomena. It's not exactly the most on-the-point way to address the shortcomings for on-project purposes, but given the circumstances, I'm not surprised someone said something along these lines. SnowRise ^{let's rap} 18:09, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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Socking and disruption

• Dravidianstock2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

I've opened a Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sweetindian for a 6 day old account Dravidianstock2 who is an obvious sock. Currently the SPI is heavily backlogged and the user is on a disruption spree, so I am forced to report it here.

• Adds content without sources or edit summaries[136]. When another user changed it, the user reverts it with a summary Please use minumum common sense. You will be blocked for making disruptive edits without providing a source.[137]
• Continues the edit war of a sock[138][139] with a circular source with an edit summary,..This is basic sense. Ask any random person in Dept of South Asian studies, Harvard university[140]
• Calls other users "deceptive"[141], An biggest enemy of wiki[142]
• Removed comments of other users from other talk pages.[143]
• Changes content in many articles without sources or explanation.[144][145][146][147][148]
• Makes misleading edit summary.[149][150].

The disruption is still going on. Requesting admins to look at the SPI. ThanksSUN EYE 1 12:16, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• This is their reply to the ANI notice, calls me a party cadre who works for its IT-wing.[151]
• They had altered this ANI report[152][153][154] and made personal attacks against me on my talk page.[155]SUN EYE 1 12:34, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely with everything disabled. El_C 12:38, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

N0MINAY

N0MINAY (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Can an admin please escort this user to the door? The userpage and recent edit summaries tell it all - clearly WP:NOTHERE. Thanks. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 12:54, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Got it. El_C 13:01, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

41.242.138.2 being outrageously offensive

Could someone sort out this [156]? No one should have to put up with that sort of abuse, and no one should be writing stuff like that (elided) I'll go and think of something polite to put on 41.242.138.2's talk to warn them I'm bringing their statement here. Elemimele (talk) 13:20, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done That's WP:LTA/NS. They often return, but ignore them apart from a) instantly throwing them at WP:AIV, and b) requesting protection at WP:RFPP if appropriate. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 13:31, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

@Zzuzz:, thanks, it's the first time I'd had the pleasure of making their acquaintance. Elemimele (talk) 13:36, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Rangeblocked 41.218.192.0/20 for a spell. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 14:22, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Just noting that they seem to have hopped around several IPs in the past day: 41.210.18.9, 41.57.217.124, 154.160.11.26, 195.29.55.190, and 197.220.169.154. CodeTalker (talk) 19:46, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

They are active again at 41.203.232.171 and 103.155.118.24. Never mind, looks like these have already been handled. CodeTalker (talk) 23:40, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Disruption on Alexei Navalny by brand new accounts

The article is currently subject to 1RR and is facing disruption by a wave of new accounts since yesterday as seen in the history. After a particular edit is reverted, another new account is created and shows up to restore it, and repeat. A brand new account made this edit on the article, which I reverted and explained in the edit summary. This discussion about the subject's nationalism also has been well discussed on the talk page not long ago. That account has not made any more edits (in fact all of these accounts disappear after a new one is made), and another brand new account restored that edit and made another edit that can be viewed as a BLP violation. This was reverted by RenatUK. Another brand new account appeared to restore it and try to include more sources, which I reverted and again explained why, and now another newly created account has shown up to restore it and make more changes in the article. I can only assume this is one person (a message was left on my talk page by the most recent account to say that I was "wrong"). Mellk (talk) 13:48, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I blocked the three users as obvious socks, someone needs to semi-protect the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:10, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Huh. I was sure I did, but I guess not. Anyway, now Done. El_C 14:15, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks everyone. Mellk (talk) 14:18, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Editor behaviour over Twinkle response

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• Juanpumpchump (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Back on 18 July Juanpumpchump edited Dave Courtney to change "celebrity gangster" to "Alledged ex gangster" - with the edit summary of "Fixed typo, Fixed grammar". I reverted it here with the summary of "RVT personal opinion" and as the edit summary also seemed deceptive, left a level two Twinkle response on his page - "Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Dave Courtney. Thank you."

Juanpumpchump reverted this warning with the edit summary of "Autistic morons self opinionated message removed", as well as a response on my talk page, which he then embellished here

I responded with another Twinkle reply - NPA - for the "Autistic morons" comment.

Another response from Juanpumpchump today on my talk page accusing me of the one doing the attacking, ("clearly personally attack another Wikipedian") and that "if any one else on here would like to step in an administer in a neutral position then I am quite happy for that"

There is nothing in Juanpumpchump's editing history to suggest that they're a vandal editor, presumably they don't like Dave Courtney (or me - understandable,) but nevertheless, behaviour around that specific edit seems to warrant comment, especially as Juanpumpchump has welcomed it.

Prepared to be trouted for pettiness, but is it now acceptable to accuse editors of picking up on faux-edit summaries of being autistic morons? Chaheel Riens (talk) 14:52, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

On the behaviour issue it is unacceptable to call another editor a moron, and even more unacceptable to use "autistic" as a term of abuse. I know several people with autism and their intelligence and good sense ranges in a similiar way to my non-autistic friends. On the content issue I have difficulty undertanding how either "celebrity gangster" or "alleged ex-gangster" can be called an occupation. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:39, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Phil Bridger, I think it's a lot like "instagram influencer." The world makes fools of us all. On the PA, clearly Juanpumpchump's behavior is unacceptable. I would recommend reviewing admin's consider a very short-term block.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 16:47, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Blocked – for a period of 31 hours. I've placed a 31-hour block for the egregious personal attack, which they apparently are unable to see any issue with. Juanpumpchump, Chaheel Riens acted perfectly reasonably here in asking you to provide references when making changes to articles, and did not attack you; you were the one who acted inappropriately with the "autistic morons" comment and the follow-up on their talk page. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 16:52, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

It is absolutely unacceptable to refer to other editors as "autistic morons", or to use that anywhere as a term of abuse or disparagement, and such usage on Wikipedia should be treated as seriously as racism or misogyny and lead to an immediate block. RolandR (talk) 18:11, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

(non-admin comment) I endorse RolandR's post. I am not quite on the autistic scale, but I know online two people who identify as such. Neither is a moron; one is a PhD. This sort of insult is utterly unacceptable, anywhere. Narky Blert (talk) 19:42, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

31 hours is VERY generous. That comment has no place here, period. Juanpumpchump if I see a comment like that from you again, you'll be indef'd. RickinBaltimore (talk) 20:10, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Floquenbeam gave the same warning on their talk page, and I will add my name to the list of admins who will place an indefinite block if the behavior recurs. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 20:15, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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MjolnirPants incivility

Would an uninvolved admin please let MjolnirPants/MPants at work that CIVIL is not optional. Per WP:UNCIVIL, "Incivility consists of personal attacks, rudeness and disrespectful comments. Especially when done in an aggressive manner, these often alienate editors and disrupt the project through unproductive stressors and conflict. " I have had very little interaction with MPants but I regret to say what little I've had has been almost universally hostile and looking at their interactions with others I'm not the only one to experience their BATTLEGROUND behavior. I'm not sure we had any significant interactions prior to a few recent and very acrid interactions. MPants returned from an OversightBlock Indef in April. This appears to be related to disruptions in Feb 2019 including "severe personal attacks". In the past they have shown battleground behavior but it appears this was typically to new editors in contentious topic areas. MPants has shown clear UNCIVIL issues directed at myself and other editors on various topics.

Talk:Andy_Ngo#provoking_violence_revert: This discussion was opened with accusations directed at (presumably) myself and Korny O'Near

• [[157]]: I'd submit that anyone who can't see [MPant's view] doesn't belong on this project. This starts the discussion with a needles, rude accusation directed at anyone who didn't agree with MPant's view.
• [[158]]: ...your denial of that fact is (assuming good faith, here) sheer incompetence. Because if it isn't incompetence, it's POV pushing and a deliberately dishonest edit summary.
• [[159]]: So you're just lying through your teeth at this point. Got it. POV pushing it is.
• [[160]]: Jesus christ, there should be a rule requiring people to read the thread before commenting in it. In reply to Korny O'Near [161]
• [[162]]: You absolutely are lying, and doing so to WP:GAME the 1rr restriction here. That's not a lack of an argument: I've already proven my case. Your blatant dishonesty doesn't change that fact.

On an admin talk page

• [[163]]: DON'T LIE THROUGH YOUR FUCKING TEETH TO ENGAGE IN POV PUSHING. On an admit talk page responding to my concern regarding MPant's civility.

A BLPN discussion:

• [[164]]: I don't much care what you think about it in any case, as you've already shot way past the point of WP:PACT as far as I'm concerned. This is in reply to comments of mine that echoed Masem's.
• [[165]]: So you don't know how to count to two? That's just... Wow.

MPant's battlegound behavior was noted by Snow Rise here [[166]], in reply to, "What the fuck is this shit? You made two TP comments, tried to edit war and are now jumping to an RfC" directed at Volteer1.

Other examples

• [[167]]: Also, if you don't care to be directed to conservapedia, then perhaps you should stop arguing as if you better belong there.
• [[168]]: Also, your statement is false. Like, breathtakingly false. I agree with the sentiment but the snark does not make for a better editing environment.
• [[169]]: Stop what? Pointing out that your own behavior has been substantially subpar throughout this? Sorry, that's a feature of ANI. If you don't like it, maybe you should stay away from this page.

Granting that MPants may be correct in some/all of these cases (including the content disputes I'm involved with), UNCIVIL makes no exception for editors who are otherwise "correct". Such behavior needlessly inflames what should be content based disagreements. Springee (talk) 20:32, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• I'm just going to respond by pointing out that I stand behind everything I said in those diffs, because Springee started by falsely claiming that a source doesn't support some content because it phrased it slightly differently (see WP:PARAPHRASE), then argued that two sources which explicitly use the same wording as was used in the article don't actually support the exact claims those sources made.

Springee told bald-faced lies for the purpose of gaming the 1RR restriction at that article. Maybe I should have been more circumspect in how I phrased things, but I absolutely do not appreciate being lied to by someone who damn well knows I can see right through those lies, and no editor on this project has any business whatsoever engaging in dishonesty on that level. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

P.S. Springee has been forum shopping this for a few days now. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 20:48, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

The way to address the content dispute is to provide the quotes. You did. I showed they don't support your claim. You could have easily brought this up to WP:V rather than accuse other editors of lying etc. Do you think accusing editors of lying is OK per CIVIL? Springee (talk) 22:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, but: MPants, CIVIL is not optional. OK? Now, I've gone through every one of the diffs here, and the only one that goes significantly over the line of CIVIL is the one in bold font. (The "count to two" comment comes in second, but in context is pointing out a 2-point list immediately above it.) And a lot of them are not civility violations at all, in any real sense, but rather just "telling it like it is". Is it really incivil to say: "Stop what? Pointing out that your own behavior has been substantially subpar throughout this? Sorry, that's a feature of ANI. If you don't like it, maybe you should stay away from this page."?

Let's be clear what really led to this filing: [170]. The post by MPants on his own talk page of a link to Springee reverting some comments, piped to "Who says Civil POV Pushers can't be a source of comedy?" Followed immediately below by the notice to see here. MPants, you didn't really need to poke that particular beehive, and you should make a little more effort to avoid sounding pissed-off during discussions. Remember what led into the block you had before, and make an extra effort not to get into that place again. Beyond that, there's not much else to see here. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Tryp: I didn't post that link. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 21:02, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm so sorry, that was my mistake. It was an IP, and it was unsigned. But, unsigned, it was easy to mistake it for something you posted, yourself. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:06, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

You mean you saw something which purported to be funny but was just generic shit-stirring, and still assumed it was me? I'm hurt, man. I'm real hurt.

I'm gonna go cry in the shower, now.

In all seriousness, I had forgotten about the IP's comment and hadn't followed the link until you mentioned it, but I've reverted it since because there's nothing funny or useful about that. I might have linked the discussion that was removed in that diff if I'd been filing an ANI or AE about Springee, but as far as I'm concerned, the complete loss of my ability to AGF with Springee is where the issue ended. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 21:28, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

MjolnirPants, do you really still stand by the [comment] about me belonging at Conservapedia, as well as the edit before that, in which you said that This arguing about what the sources say is 100% pure pedantry [...] No-one here is stupid or confused enough to actually believe that, and none of us were born yesterday. If it offends you that Wikipedia should state such a simple, verifiable fact in plain, direct tones, then you should go edit conservapedia, instead. ? I'm still waiting for that apology I asked for, especially given that you still haven't come up with the source I was asking for there, but primarily as a matter of principle. Needless to say, I also object to Tryptofish's glossing over this as if it were not a civility violation at all, or "telling it like it is" (though of course I can forgive them for not reading through that whole acrid talk page discussion in the context of which MjolnirPant's remarks were made). ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 21:21, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, I do. And you can wait for an apology all you like. I wouldn't recommend holding your breath, though.

As to the source you claim I haven't provided: Sources were provided that met any reasonable criteria long before I got involved in the discussion. Not my fault that you didn't read the discussion before joining it, yourself. And for the record: I object to your refusal to accept that the null hypothesis is part and parcel of how we report on science and pseudoscience. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 21:30, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Apaugasma, you raise valid points. I will say in my own defense that I said "a lot of them" were not incivil, as opposed to all. At the same time, you described MPants as having a "tantrum" in your apology-request diff, so it goes in both directions. Bottom line: there's a general need in these linked discussions for editors to take it down a notch. That doesn't apply exclusively to MPants, but it does apply to MPants. Please, seriously, take it down a notch or two. This isn't sanction-worthy territory, but it does require some introspection. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:39, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tryptofish: you're right that I shouldn't have used the word "tantrum" in my reaction to MjolnirPants comments. However, that doesn't mean there's any parity here between mine and his behavior, as this may seem to suggest. @MjolnirPants: Neither you nor I have brought up the null hypothesis in that discussion, and I'm not really sure if it's relevant. But that doesn't matter at all here. It's perfectly OK for you to believe I'm missing something or to point out why I'm taking the wrong approach, but it's not OK for you to suggest that I belong at Conservapedia just because I don't agree with you on something. There definitely is a pattern with you in that type of reaction. A few months ago in another disagreement between us, you wrote the following: "anti-religionist bias" Why am I not surprised to see this brought up? I swear to the god I stopped believing in decades ago; you people are all reading from the same script. There is no "anti-religionist bias," and even if you found enough religion-hostile atheists to argue the case for it, you'd lose dramatically because Wikipedia has an incredibly pronounced pro-Christian bias [...] that the majority of atheists on this site (including myself) are completely accepting of because, contrary to what you folks seem to believe, we're Atheists, not Antitheists. [...] You've undermined your own position by descending to these pre-packaged, easily-debunked, canned arguments that one can find on any creationist website, complete with detailed instructions on their use. Neither of you were able to make your case with sources and sound logic, your continued attempts to make it through emotional rhetoric is bordering on disruption, at this point. [171] Given the fact that I'm both an atheist and a skeptic (wrt pseudoscience), these kinds of insinuations are particularly bruising. I wish for that to stop. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 22:09, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Previous complaints about this user's incivility: [172] [173] [174]

Note that these are all recent (last few months) and are all filed by different users, so we can't really argue that it's just a group of people working together to get an editor sanctioned (as was asserted the last time this issue was raised).

TOA The owner of all ☑️ 22:13, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

What this appears to be to me is a veteran editor (MPants) getting exasperated dealing with other editors who appear to not be acting in good faith. For example, the diffs provided show several instances of Springee WP:SEALIONing quotations and not addressing them [175] [176] [177], or ignoring the way that WP:V means that something must be verif-iable, not verif-ied to remain on wikipedia. Springee says The sentence in the article must be supported by the sources that it obviously references (hence WP:V) whereas WP:V actually says: "Also check to see whether the material is sourced to a citation elsewhere on the page. For all these reasons, it is advisable to communicate clearly that you have a considered reason to believe the material in question cannot be verified." There is also the issue of WP:SYNTHNOT, particularly NOTSUMMARY and NOTPRESUMED.

What is clear is that MPants has made one or two mistakes in these diffs, as described by other editors above. civillity mistakes. No one can deny that sometimes MPants plays fast and loose with sarcasm, but he rarely actually crosses the line. For instance, in your first diff, he is theorizing about conduct, he does not directly address any editor. I don't see any other comments here that are explicit enough to be WP:NPA, though I would agree some are just on the wrong side of uncivil. Generally I am willing to forgive one or two civillity mistakes when the editor being so frustrating is so clearly WP:CPUSHing a POV, and exemplifying WP:IDHT. It's very difficult to keep your cool when not everyone is playing by the same rules and actually using PAGs correctly. What MPants needs here is a warning. What Springee needs is a WP:BOOMERANG block for POV-pushing and WP:FORUM shopping.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 22:36, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

The editor was Indef'ed. The editor has a long history of blocks due to incivility. Additionally, the claims regarding the original content dispute at Andy Ngo is flat out wrong. It's telling that no editors have supported MPants claims. There has been no POV pushing, no forum shopping. Since you are claiming both please provide the evidence. Springee (talk) 22:43, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

MPants appealed the indef – successfully. It's telling that Shibbolethink did in fact provide diffs, and yet Springee responded by asking for diffs. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:54, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I agree with Shibbolethink. MPants is a seasoned editor, and while their attitude and style may not exemplify a "welcome wagon" for the less experienced they still understand not only the rules, but the spirit of the rules, better than most. This knowledge and understanding tends to get in the way of agendas that have little to do with creating better articles or a better community.DN (talk) 22:57, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

@Darknipples: not all of those whom MjolnirPants opposes have such agendas. Please consider what I've asked of Shibbolethink below. Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 23:10, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

MPants was indef'ed to being with. Shibbolethink provided a diffs but failed to note that I did address the quotes in question. Here [[178]], where I make it clear the VOX quote is something VOX is attributing to activists and the LA times is saying the right wing groups Ngo was with provoked the violence. That is not sufficient sourcing to say that Ngo himself deliberately provoked violence. Shibbolethink claimed CPUSH but if that were the case why did MPants start with a comment that failed CIVIL? Shouldn't that have only occurred after a failed, good faith attempt to address the issue? Why is any of that an excuse for uncivil behavior? Note that Volteer1 also addressed MPant's quotes here [[179]]. Finally, look at how I was able to easily work with FormalDude to find common ground and propose new text to address the problem (look towards the end of the section [[180]]). Disagreement is fine, incivility is not. Springee (talk) 23:24, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Would this have still been a problem though if you had simply ignored MPants tone and focused on his arguments? Likewise, if MPants hadn't assumed bad faith and raised his tone, would this even be a problem? (And please don't respond with he started it, all editors have a responsibility to exemplify WP:CIVIL at all times.) I think everyone just needs to work on keeping their cool a little more. It's fair to say we can all let disagreements get the better of us from time to time. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲^(talk) 00:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

@Shibbolethink: you speak of what I pointed out above as a civility mistake (fair enough), but then go on to to say that you're willing to forgive one or two civility mistakes when the editors involved are engaging in civil POV pushing and being disruptive by refusing to 'get the point'. That seems to imply that you are accusing me of said conduct, which does not seem appropriate if you are not going to prove your point about that. Again, I get that looking into the relevant discussions is a highly unpleasant and time-consuming task, but it would be nice if you made less presumptions about the behavior of other editors. Please understand that if you do not, you are reinforcing the original insults, which I'm sure is not at all your intention. Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 23:10, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Apaugasma, actually I haven't looked closely enough at your angle of the dispute to know for sure. Hence why I never used your name in any way in my comment. Please don't assume I'm talking about you when I haven't actually referenced anything about you in any way. I currently have no opinion on your conduct. And don't assume everyone who is supporting MPants in one angle of this discussion automatically disagrees with you, to my eyes it's an example of WP:USTHEM which is a very destructive attitude to have.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 23:18, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

@Shibbolethink: I did not and do not assume that you would automatically disagree with me, quite the opposite. I'm just trying to make you aware of the implications it might have to say that MPant's civility mistakes are forgivable because directed at disruptive editors or editors who appear not be acting in good faith. I appreciate that this is your general experience. But there are specific diffs here, and your reaction implies either that you're willing to pass over the insult against me in silence or that I'm a disruptive editor. I'm sure that if you would try to put yourself in my position, you'd see why that feels sour. I do not at all doubt your good intentions in this. Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 23:44, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Apaugasma, Why don't you give me some time to review your end of this dispute? The implications you've described are not ones I intended, and I believe that is all I should have to say.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 23:51, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Agreed! :-) ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 00:01, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• I don't know, MPants has always had kind of a whiney and shit attitude. The sealion claims are a little weak as well, I am fairly certain he is an adult that is or should be in control of his own actions. That kind of defense always reminds me of the "if she didn't want to get hit she shouldn't of made me angry" defense. Anyhow all you have to do it look through the archives on any drama board to see his name brought up over and over. This is a long term problem, not an isolated incident. How many warnings and final warns are required exactly? PackMecEng (talk) 23:06, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

  The irony in the above post is almost deafening. Valeince (talk) 23:13, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• The defense of the comments bother me more than the comments themselves. No, the quoted diffs are not all right. It's not how we should be talking to one another. Levivich 23:18, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Levivich, I think you may be reading into things when you use the word "defending." I, for one, never said MP's comments were "all right." --Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 23:23, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
    • This statement is defending (and excusing, and accusing other editors of not acting in good faith... like PME said, suggesting that this is a veteran editor exasperated by bad-faith editors is akin to "he wouldn't hit her if she didn't make him so angry"). Levivich 23:31, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

      Levivich, uhhhhh, it's actually a lot closer to "Person 1 wouldn't get angry and yell if person 2 didn't completely ignore everything person 1 said repeatedly."

      A) making it into a gender thing is unnecessary and wrong on a few different levels.

      B) Both of these people were using their words.

      C) "making MPants angry" is not the same as "repeatedly ignoring policy."

      As I said, MPants' conduct is also plainly problematic in one or two instances, for which he should apologize. I'm not really sure how warning-block escalation works in these circumstances, especially given that the prior block was successfully appealed. But as I said, MPants conduct is problematic, I just don't think it raises to the level of problematic that Springee is displaying here.

      Perhaps most importantly, Springee is breaking the rules in a way that disrupts the process of building a verifiable wikipedia, whereas MPants is hurting some people's feelings in a way that hasn't deterred anyone's participation on the wiki as far as I can tell. Ultimately, that is the community's job, to make sure the project benefits from our actions here at ANI. Not to be "fair." Usually these things coincide, but not always.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 23:47, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I will say that it has slightly (but only slightly!) contributed to my decision to stay away from pseudo-science-related topics in the future. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 00:01, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I have broken no rules here. Which rules do you claim I've broken? Forum shopping? No, I did ask an admin and was told to take it here. CPUSH? On what grounds? WP:V is not something we ignore. If you feel I've violated something please make a case. Springee (talk) 23:53, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Springee, Dlthewave is not an admin [181] [182]. That's WP:CANVAS. As I described above (with diffs and PAG quotes), you directly misapplied WP:V to fit your POV, after continually doubting direct quotes which contradicted your position. That's WP:CPUSH.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 00:07, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

You are correct, they aren't an admin and they have no ability to directly address the issue which means that wasn't forum shopping. The other person I asked for help is an admin. If you want to dispute the content claims then we can do it on the article talk page. It's notable that I wasn't the only editor who disagreed with MPants. The quotes in the linked articles (note the original edit didn't have those citations) don't support the article level claims. WP:V does apply. If you really want to discuss the content question again, article talk page or WP:NORN where we can decide if the sources support the claim in wiki voice. This was handled civilly by other editors even after MPants made it about editors "lying" Springee (talk) 00:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

@Shibbolethink: MPants is hurting some people's feelings in a way that hasn't deterred anyone's participation on the wiki as far as I can tell – MPants's extreme rudeness towards me in another instance this year, along with the community's disinterest in addressing it, has been the single most deterring thing I've experienced in my three-quarters of a decade here, narrowly beating out one other extremely unpleasant incident that nearly caused me to retire. Whether you intend to or not, the outcome of your comments is that attention is deflected away from a situation that needs addressing and that does cause editor retention problems. I feel Springee is being extremely restrained in their comments about MPants in this thread, whether or not they have acted wrong procedurally/content-wise (not really relevant). (No-one should ping me to this discussion as I am aware of it.) — Bilorv (talk) 00:46, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I'd note that my "extreme rudeness" in that situation consisted of... [checks notes] me pointing out Bilorv's dishonesty and WP:GAMING. Hmmm, there seems to be a pattern here... ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 12:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• It's always going to stir the pot when you accuse another editor of Wikipedia:Lying, but, as far as I'm aware, there's no policy against doing so. Obviously WP:UNCIVIL exists, and there were certainly comments that could have been worded nicer, but there was nothing flagrant (I don't see any WP:PA). I completely agree with Shibbolethink. Sometimes MPants plays fast and loose with sarcasm, but he rarely (if ever, in my opinion) actually crosses the line. I'm curious what remedy Springee would find ideal, as I certainly don't think anyone deserves a block in this situation. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲^(talk) 23:59, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

A clear warning that such behavior is not acceptable. FOC, not the editors would be fine. So long as the problem stops nothing more is needed. Springee (talk) 00:03, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I second this: if the problem would stop, nothing more would need to be done. I do think though that this would necessitate some kind of recognition that there is in fact a problem. I was more irked by the I stand behind everything I said in those diffs above than anything else. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 00:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

This user has been given many warnings and even several blocks and their behaviour, so far as I can tell, has never changed. Maybe no clear warnings, though, as there is always significant whataboutism. (No-one should ping me to this discussion as I am aware of it.) — Bilorv (talk) 00:46, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

If we warn Mpants about WP:CIVIL we should probably also warn you about WP:GAMING the WP:1RR. Personally I wouldn't bring any issues to AN/i where my own behavior in the matter was not overtly superb. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲^(talk) 00:23, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Where did I game 1RR? Springee (talk) 00:31, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

FWIW, since I was pinged, in regards to the BLPN debate, prior to Springee's involvement, I would say that between MPants and myself, this has been mostly a civil, if not heated, debate, and felt no hostility from Mpants myself. I expect from above there may be a history between MPants and Springee that may be affecting how both interact with each other. Arguably, both may be poking at each other, unintentionally or not, but I know the hesitation against an interaction ban. --Masem (t) 00:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't recall any direct interactions with MPants prior to either the BLPN discussion you are involved with or the specific Andy Ngo discussion topic. Prior to a few days back I only recognized their distinctive signature. I think that was part of why I was so taken aback by their accusations of lying and the like. Most editors are good about trying to understand the other side first and, even in disagreement, not assuming bad faith so quickly. Springee (talk) 00:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Staff incompetence strikes again. Springee's blatantly dishonest behaviour is one of the most disruptive I've ever seen on Wikipedia. This was yet another effort on Springee's part to weaponise ANI to censor critics, YET ANOTHER in which several people note Springee's pattern of bad faith, only for another editor to be sanctioned for pointing out a user's disruptive actions. El_C should be ashamed. Mjolnirpant's "incivility" is owing completely to the bad faith actions of Springee, whose actions are blatantly more toxic than telling the SEALION to shove off. 69.156.107.94 (talk) 01:40, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I am duly shamed, seemingly random IP. El_C 01:44, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

MPants warned, CR re-added to Andy Ngo

Holy smokes, MPants, you gotta tone it down, pronto. Because you are fast heading for another indef, which would be a sad conclusion to this. Beyond this, I'm re-adding Consensus required to Andy Ngo (will log), added by ST47 along with 1RR in July 7 2019, but supplanted removed by them in Jan 2021 July 9 2019 with EBRD due to "advise" —Awilley, I'm looking at thee!— because I doubt it's helping matters much (also, not reflected on the talk page notice). ST47, please do feel free to undo this AE revert on my part if you feel it to be in error. El_C 01:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Argh, naked 1RR, not EBRD. Apologies, Awilley, for my bad faith hallucinations. El_C 01:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Also fucked up the timeline. Looks like ST47 removed CR two days after having added it, so it was never actually on for this page. I can't read. El_C 01:29, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Seems a bit strange just to warn someone who has already been blocked for this exact reason, no? Is having already been blocked not enough of a warning to not do it again? And his comments in this thread suggest that he sees nothing wrong with his behavior and will probably continue to do it. Mlb96 (talk) 05:05, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I am duly shamed, now from all possible angles! El_C 05:11, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

:^/ Mlb96 (talk) 06:36, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm failing to see in what way MPants has been warned, unless you just mean "this message is a warning...", and I don't understand what effect you expect a warning to have when MPants has been warned about the same behaviour many times before, including recently, and has made no change. (No-one should ping me to this discussion as I am aware of it.) — Bilorv (talk) 08:40, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

As long as we are on warnings, Springee should probably have a warning for sealioning, and PackMecEng definitely one for personal attacks on this board ("MPants has always had kind of a whiney and shit attitude"). I see warning PME as especially needful since she was page blocked from our sister board AN for a week a couple of months back (discussion here). I have warned her. Bishonen | tålk 09:10, 3 August 2021 (UTC).

Bish, ah, I missed that PackMecEng usual in the walls of textsts. That's an approve from me. It almost seems as if she will only defend those on the right while attacking those on the left — can you believe such a thing?! On the project, me feigning shock? As for Springee sealioning, I'll leave that in your capable hands and wish you safe travels with that uncharted journey... As for me [cue spam] ♫ I'm sailing away from my heartache, on a Riverboat fantasy... ♫ El_C 11:35, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Wait was the personal attack calling him whiney or the shitty attitude? PackMecEng (talk) 11:49, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

[NPA mode transform!] Mirror, mirror on the wall... El_C 12:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Hey, just looking for your view on it. If you think its a problem El_C I can strike and re-word. PackMecEng (talk) 12:23, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• This is another example of a small group of right-wing editors weaponising process in order to reduce opposition to their political advocacy and attempts to whitewash wikipedia. In much the same way when we talk about palestinian response to Israeli aggression, the western world focuses on the *response* not the cause. Here you focus on MPants response to blatant and calculated provocation and not the cause. And the cause is editors sealioning, POV-pushing, misrepresenting sources, and yes, outright falsehoods. And again you focus on the response. Not the editors who when called out for lying, misrepresentation and general badgering, start running to ANI to get the obstacle to their whitewashing removed. We have had to deal with this over a range of topics with Trump supporters, gun nuts, anti-vaxxers, anti-abortionists, pseudoscience loons etc, and its amazing how similar the editors are over the years. And yet we still focus on the response to the relentless wave after wave of POV-editing and deliberate provocation rather than addressing the actual issue. Only in death does duty end (talk) 12:06, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• In much the same way when we talk about palestinian response to Israeli aggression, the western world focuses on the *response* not the cause. Was gonna say something dumb about how we need Capt. Pronin to fight against the West again, but my spam quota has probably been filled for today (and for the next few decades). Anyway, not sure there's an actual solution to the perennial problem of civil pov pushing, save for using WP:DR, with a wing and a prayer. El_C 12:17, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• If this thread doesn't end with some sanction preventing Springee from further gaming and POV pushing, then I'll consider it complete failure of all involved to support WP's goals over the feel-good practice of scolding regular editors for not following proper etiquette.

This situation started with Springee pissing on my leg and telling me it was raining. The lies they told were blatant and obvious, and my response could have been phrased better, but was categorically accurate.

Of those who supported Springee here: we have Bilorv, who had earlier complained that I was uncivil due to my response to their own WP:GAMING and dishonesty. For anyone who needs a refresher on that: Bilorv made two comments on the talk page of an article about a type of joke, ignored the responses to them (except to complain that the joking tone which anyone could reasonably expect on that page was some sort of personal affront and arrogantly boast about their own credentials) then immediately started an RfC whose question was one all involved had already agreed on the answer to. When Bilorv got the same exact answer they'd already gotten before starting the RfC, Bilorv then used that answer to attempt to justify edit warring over a different (if related) issue. That issue itself only got as far as it did due to Bilorv's wild and unjustified (either by evidence or a rational argument) bare assertion that a notable entertainer's blog was actually run by an imposter. Note that this was in contrast to several lines of evidence I'd provided pertaining to the ownership of the blog.

PackMecEng recently had a run in with me at Talk:Fascism#AFD contents, where she got incredibly upset over her failure to understand what I meant by "the content is not verifiable in the source", and made repeated personal attacks and juvenile retorts over it as I tried to explain. The icing on that particular cake was her crowing about how "most people have no idea what [I am] ranting about", which was made as I was having a discussion with someone who very clearly knew damn well what I was saying (considering they said the same thing to Pack, in the form of accusing her of POV pushing, a very reasonable and well-evidenced accusation), about the actual contents of the sources.

Apuagasma's argument above is the funniest so far. Apua is upset because I said "if stating simple verifiable facts plainly offends anyone, they should be editing Conservapedia instead," and they took that as a personal affront and demanded an apology. That really serves more to illustrate Apua's POV than as a condemnation of me, because I doubt many editors disagree with the sentiment I expressed there. Their second comment accuses me of incivility because I responded by explaining clearly that (and why) me and tgeorgescu were not engaged in anti-theistic POV pushing, after Apua accused us of doing so. There's some incivility there, but it ain't mine.

As for The Owner of All: well, see my statement at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Statement_by_MjolnirPants.

There's a common thread here. FUD. Users making wildly untrue claims without evidence or logic behind them, then using those claims as a bludgeon to argue that WP should not report easily verifiable facts. In Bilorv's case, I have no doubt this had nothing to do with POV pushing, and was more of a knee-jerk hostile reaction to two editors not taking them as seriously as they hoped, but for Pack, Springee and TOA; their POV (which is at odds with reality and WP's documentation on countless subjects) is very clear, and their efforts very clearly made to advance that POV.

So if you want to warn me about toning it down: Gotcha. I understand, I don't even disagree. I could have handled it better. But if you think that's the end of the matter: You're dead wrong. We have a serious problem here in the form of editors who are deliberately attempting to undermine WP's mission to provide an accurate and verifiable encyclopedia, and turn it into a right-wing propaganda tool. If nobody's willing to look into that and do something about that, then I'm not sure what business you have being admins, as you're clearly not looking out for the best interests of this project.

And El C; Now you've been shamed from all possible angles. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 12:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

No boobs, no credits! El_C 12:46, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

So basically WP:NOTTHEM? PackMecEng (talk) 13:00, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Oof, PME, the point that seems to be lost on you is that you do much the same thing (albeit much more tersely). [Self-awareness mode engage!] El_C 13:03, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Go go gadget introspection!

Honestly, though, this is just par for the course for Pack and Springee and other right-wing POV pushers: they literally ignore the things that don't fit their narrative (I spoke about myself in my first and last paragraphs, and provided evidence of their malfeasant editing, here at ANI where they damn well know their own behavior is fair game) and focus on twisting what's left to suit their narrative even better.

This is a much worse problem than incivility, and even if it weren't, there's plenty of incivility to go around. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 13:11, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

MPants incivility this started with you opening a talk page discussion that attacked any editors (not specifically me) who disagreed with you ([183], "...anyone who can't see [this] doesn't belong on this project"). You didn't start by asking why editors might disagree, and only getting frustrated after a failed good faith discussion. No, you assigned a cynical motive and reason and which allowed you to justify your admittedly uncivil behavior. You poisoned the discussion and are now complaining that it wasn't "good faith". You did the same to me in the BLPN Wakefield discussion where my arguments largely echo Masem's. Again, you decided uncivil, dismissive comments were appropriate. And here you are continuing the incivility with comments like, "The lies they told..." Where does CIVIL make these exceptions? Springee (talk) 13:06, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

You know what? I don't really think I need to justify myself to someone who lies repeatedly to facilitate POV pushing. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 13:41, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

MPants, negative. If you can't help cutting off your nose to spite your face, best to say nothing. Final warning. El_C 13:53, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) MPants, I was an editor at the center of the Gamergate situation, one fighting there for a more neutral approach on a nuanced subject, and was routinely being lumped into the numerous body of IP, new accounts, or recently revived accounts that were clearly meatpuppeting "gamergate supporters"; this lumping-in was simply because I did not want to take an absolute "gamergate is bad" approach but try to find a way to write per NPOV (hence why I debate strongly on such points at the current BLPN thread), and thus completely trying to treat my input in bad faith, which it was not. GG predicted the situation round many many right-wing-leaning figures today, in terms of meatpuppetry and constant IP/new editors demanding a neutrality that can never be achieved, but that doesn't mean those articles are in an untouchable state to be questioned for neutrality ourselves.

I know in the case of Springee they have been far more bold with how they edit than I have, but based on my experience from the GG situation, the fact that these comments place them and others mentioned into this class of "editors who are deliberately attempting to undermine WP's mission to provide an accurate and verifiable encyclopedia" is assuming bad faith on their part, compared to the typical body of IP and new editors that come to bitch about certain topics with no understanding of how our policies work. All these discussions are related to nuances of our core content policies, covering situations that, in my opinion, were not anticipated by the current state of social conflict in the world and the media. To that end, we are going to have disagreements, but this is expected, normal, and part of consensus building, so it should be expected editors are working in good faith here. Once you presume bad faith, that's where things break down, and only looking at the diffs given and convos around it, that's part of the issue is that you presume these editors are working bad faith.

That is not to say that Springee is not at fault here, I think they're operating a bit too bolding and fighting certain battles that have been settled already, that's towards a more WP:TE problem, and can contribute towards the appearance of working in bad faith, and they need work at steps to stop beating dead horse among other factors. But I see their general concern is the same issues related to neutrality (broadly) in how we cover contemporary people/groups on that side of the middle, which is a fair concern to be raising, and thus assuming they are purposely working against the purpose of the encyclopedia is not a helpful stance to start with. This is all meant as advice and nothing actionable yet from any admin standpoint. --Masem (t) 14:00, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Masem, paragraph breaks = friend. El_C 14:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

added a few --Masem (t) 14:13, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Masem, follow the diffs I provided at the top of this thread.

Springee claimed that two sources don't support content that had the same meaning and even used the same words as the sources themselves, for the purpose of avoiding an obviously-appropriate self-revert. I was assuming good faith right up until that point, past which, WP:PACT became the applicable essay. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:24, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Without getting too much into the content issue there, I think there's some validity to Springee's concern there as the sources use those words but not in that order nor in the same sentence, but I also think there's a middle ground for what that sentence should say given the sources. This is a similar concern at our discussion at BLPN, related to calling out people "conspiracy theorist" when the sourcing is not as readily there. But this is well beyond the ANI issue. Simply that automatically defaulting to bad faith may be blinding you to actual valid points that are raised - not that Springee's solutions are the correct ones either. --Masem (t) 16:17, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

To that end, several editors, myself included, have been working to find that middle ground [184] <- Single brackets to avoid El_C's bracket block Springee (talk) 16:34, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Masem, if you have some commentary on how one could reasonably assume that the Vox piece was (or the BFN, or the LA Times pieces were) asserting that Ngo provokes anything other than violence from Antifa (curious what that might be... Sick dance moves? Strongly-worded emails?), feel free to chime in at my talk page.

Who knows, maybe you can convince me that I was right from the get go, and this is less a case of Springee being deliberately dishonest (even though I'm very clearly not the only one who thinks so), and more a case of them being just completely clueless as I first suspected.

P.S. How different is that "middle ground" from what was originally in the article? The original claim was that "It has been contended that Ngo seeks to provoke left-wing violence." Compare that to the last substantive comment by Springee where he supports a wording because "It also makes it clear that he is directly provoking the left-wing activists to violence".

When there's one editor disagreeing, whether or not Ngo is provoking violence is "not supported" by the sources claiming that he's provoking violence. But now that Springee knows that there are eyes on their editing, it's important to "make clear that [Ngo] is directly provoking ... violence."

That doesn't evince an inability to understand the sources, or even a legitimate disagreement about the implications of what the sources say. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 20:00, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Look, everyone, I hate to beat a dead ass, but disputes involving the major AE food groups (AP2, EE/BALKANS, ARBPIA, ARBIPA) have a much greater chance of resolving something (anything) at WP:AE. I used to sort of except AP2 from the mix, since there's tons of American editors so at least the subject matter will tend to be somewhat digestible to the average ANI reviewer. But probably not, either. The free-flowing, word-limitless threaded discussion at ANI just becomes too difficult to follow at some point. I suppose there's a not statistically-insignificant chance that someone may be driven by the heated nature of the conversation to do or say something truly egregious, but I wouldn't count on it. BTW, Springee, your OPs both at ANI and AE seem to always be way too lengthy. Please work on condensing, in general. El_C 13:53, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

El C If you're suggesting that expressing my well-evidenced view that Springee has engaged in blatant dishonesty for the sake of POV pushing is a personal attack, then we're going to be at odds here. As far as I'm concerned, that's a verifiable fact, and not one person has done so much as denied it, let alone made any case that it's not true. It's also not a view that's exclusive to me, as Bishonen, Only in death and Shibolethink have made clear.

If you're suggesting I change something about how I express that view, then I'm listening, but you'll need to be more specific. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

MPants, I am telling you (not suggesting) to stop referring to "lying" and "dishonesty" on the part of editors in good standing. If you're trying to push me to sanction you so that you could fall on your sword, I'm un-happy to oblige, I guess. Otherwise, it's fine to express (and substantiate) that their reasoning is faulty. An article talk page is not the place to make a case for WP:TE. Hope that clears things up. El_C 14:32, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

El C, message received, but as best I can tell, we're not at article talk. Note that Springee's behavior in this very thread is more of the same: Shibolethink made a comment supporting my claims and accusing them of sealioning with plenty of diffs for evidence ([185]), to which Springee responded by (drum roll...) claiming no-one has supported my claims and demanding diffs ([186]). To be clear: I am explicitly asking for a boomerang here for POV pushing and blatant dishonesty. Also you can apparently add Dlthewave to the list of editors who agree with my claims here. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:41, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Not the sword, you say, MPants, while unsheathing your sword. That is special, I'll grant you that. But I do take your point that Springee's "It's telling that no editors have supported MPants claims" is also quite high on the bizarro scale... El_C 15:03, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Am I to interpret the limits of your response to mean you don't take issue with Springee demanding diffs in response to being shown diffs? Or their backfiring attempt to WP:CANVASS another editor? Or their demonstrably and obviously false statements about the sources to which I provided diffs earlier? Or the WP:STONEWALLing that Dlthewave brought up on another issue?

I mean, I'm still waiting for someone to even disagree with any of my claims about Springee, here, or elsewhere. Some editors here have very clearly agreed with them, but nobody's disputing them.

You've got multiple editors, including a fellow admin telling you that Springee's behavior is a serious problem, and you've got diffs to evince that. How is acting on that of lesser import than continuing to repeat a warning I've already acknowledged multiple times while threatening me with worse?

I'll tell you plainly: you're not accomplishing anything worthwhile by repeating yourself to me. I've already acknowledged that I should have been more circumspect, and said I would endeavor to do so in the future. All you're accomplishing by continuing to harp on this while ignoring what 5-6 other editors have said about Springee here is convincing me that you care more about my tone that this project's core principles. I'd rather not believe that about an admin, but when my beliefs are based on what I'm seeing from you, it's hard to deny them. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 15:19, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I'll tell you plainly, too, MPants: I'm trying to reason with both of you. If it's not working, it's not working. If you wish to disparage me, I suppose that is an approach, as well. But I do contend that my record speaks for itself. And with that, I'll leave all of you to your own devices, for now. El_C 15:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm not disparaging you, I'm describing my own reaction to what you're saying here. As for trying to reason with "both of [us]", would you care to point me to where you've tried to reason with Springee? I seem to have missed it. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:03, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

No. El_C 16:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Why am I not surprised? ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:29, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) This is literally the exact same behaviour you were reprimanded for by Girth Summit in the ANI discussion I opened in June, for instance in this diff: I thought I'd made my opinion clear that MPants' accusations of lying were unfair, unnecessary, and needed to stop. I gather Barkeep49 also thought such comments were uncivil. While I apologised in that discussion for the actions I took which were wrong, you never did so, instead continuing to accuse me of lying, and being inhumanly stupid or manipulative up until your last comment (which you've repeated above), and making thinly-veiled snipes about me even after I had fully disengaged. So I really don't understand what El_C thinks a warning does, or how someone can be "fast heading for an indef" when they've evidently done the same thing for months and had no consequences for it. (No-one should ping me to this discussion as I am aware of it.) — Bilorv (talk) 14:37, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Bilorv, I made multiple efforts to smooth things over with you there, despite your own incredibly poor behavior. I'm really not interested in continuing to argue about it with you, here. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:41, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

It's entirely possible if I had the time to read through this thread I would be sanctioning MPants. I see El C has given a clear warning about behavior not to do, which echoes the concerns I had and warning I gave at the thread Bilorv mentions. That said I agree with MPants that they did try to smooth things over in the end and that effort was not accepted. I am glad to see that there is no desire to continue arguing about it here. Barkeep49 (talk) 15:10, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

*Arb mic drop!* El_C 15:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I don't know how I can be any clearer, Barkeep49, that I don't want to be pinged to this thread. I am watching and replying. You don't need to read through the thread. Reading the OP's initial set of diffs, such as [187], would suffice. — Bilorv (talk) 15:19, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I apologize as I missed the small parenthetical remark prior to composing my original reply. Barkeep49 (talk) 15:30, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Making accusations isn't uncivil, in fact lying is the uncivil behavior we should be looking into here. That said, MPants really needs to tone it down a notch and consider using more informative language (It's inaccurate to say X because ...) if they want to have a productive discussion.

We need to look at the entirety of the issue though. There's a long-running pattern of whitewashing at the Andy Ngo article, with several editors (including Springee) challenging any negative or critical content no matter how reliably sourced it may be. For example, here we have an extremely long discussion over whether we should use "widely accused" or "frequently accused", with the objecting editors making no apparent effort to suggest an alternative. This really reads like a filibuster to keep WP:DUE content out by preventing the discussion from reaching consensus. I'm worried that the current discussion may be headed the same direction. If we're going to have a Consensus Required restriction on this article, we need to have an admin who is willing to keep an eye on it and make sure Springee isn't abusing that restriction by filibustering. –dlthewave ☎ 14:35, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Ooh, nuanced incivility, touché. Though probably undermined by the bold-is-hurting-my-eyes, the-goggles-do-nothing at the end. Guess whose patience has been strained? I am, of course, referring to Mlb96! El_C 14:42, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Oh dear, you must've gotten a bad pair of anti-bold goggles. Is this easier on the eyes?

If we're going to have a Consensus Required restriction on this article, we need to have an admin who is willing to keep an eye on it and make sure Springee isn't abusing that restriction by filibustering.

If we're going to have a Consensus Required restriction on this article, we need to have an admin who is willing to keep an eye on it and make sure Springee isn't abusing that restriction by filibustering.

If we're going to have a Consensus Required restriction on this article, we need to have an admin who is willing to keep an eye on it and make sure Springee isn't abusing that restriction by filibustering.

If we're going to have a Consensus Required restriction on this article, we need to have an admin who is willing to keep an eye on it and make sure Springee isn't abusing that restriction by filibustering.

If we're going to have a Consensus Required restriction on this article, we need to have an admin who is willing to keep an eye on it and make sure Springee isn't abusing that restriction by filibustering.

If we're going to have a Consensus Required restriction on this article, we need to have an admin who is willing to keep an eye on it and make sure Springee isn't abusing that restriction by filibustering.

–dlthewave ☎ 15:46, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Man, woke up with a killer headache this morning. It is not abating. El_C 16:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Huh? Why am I being referenced here? Did I do something wrong? Mlb96 (talk) 18:50, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• I guess the joke didn't land. El_C 23:19, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Regarding the statement that my POV "is at odds with reality", please stop the false statements. The Non-Aggression Principle is definitely not at odds with reality. TOA The owner of all ☑️ 15:00, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• A short time back I commented at an RfC at Talk:Andy Ngo and it ended up on my watchlist. I checked back when I saw this discussion. I was absolutely shocked to see MPants' conduct there. And I am shocked again to see a few editors defending it here. Above an editor states, MPants is a seasoned editor,...they still understand not only the rules, but the spirit of the rules, better than most. That's all the more damning. I agree that they know enough to know WP:NPA#WHATIS: Using someone's affiliations as an ad hominem means of dismissing or discrediting their views...Using someone's political affiliations as an ad hominem means of dismissing or discrediting their views, such as accusing them of being left-wing or right-wing, is also forbidden....Accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. Serious accusations require serious evidence, usually in the form of diffs and links. Above they admit no wrongdoing and no intention of changing edit: I do not see commitment to avoiding this specific behavior, saying things like, Yeah, I do. And you can wait for an apology all you like. Are people claiming MPants hasn't engaged in personal attacks? Or that they have but the other person deserved it? What policy permits that? Why should they be let off the hook yet again for this behavior? Quoting the NPA policy again: A pattern of hostility...can be considered disruptive editing. Users who insist on a confrontational style marked by personal attacks...may face serious consequences through arbitration, and of course non-arbitration consequences exist. There is absolutely a "pattern of hostility" from this editor against those they perceive as right wing. (Presumably they and their defenders perceive themselves as unaffected by political bias.) Such toxic behavior keeps people from engaging in the topic area, including ones on their own side. A useful thought experiment would be to imagine a random newish editor or one perceived as right-leaning acting this way. Would we each feel the same way? If all they get is a warning, I want to see a commitment from MPants not to make any reference to the supposed political views of other editors and not to disparage any other editors as lacking in intelligence or in any other way. This is frankly the bare minimum behavioral standard on Wikipedia and does not restrict meaningful debate, and there needs to be some progress on this issue so we don't keep ending up back here over and over. Crossroads ^-talk- 16:49, 3 August 2021 (UTC) Edit: Regarding changes above, see below. I have more accurately conveyed my feelings while correcting an overstatement. Fair is fair. Crossroads ^-talk- 18:16, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
  • The problem in this situation, and situations like these, is that--a few vocal defenders aside--everybody else is basically thinking the same thing: this won't stop unless we totally ban MPants from the site. Everyone (almost) will agree it's bad, but bad enough to boot him from the site altogether? Most admins will be understandably reluctant to take such a step unilaterally against a veteran editor absent something truly egregious (and let's all recall that the last time, a comment along the lines of go f yourself with an object covered in hot sauce and sandpaper, was not universally considered egregious enough for a site ban, so there's our frame of reference for "egregious"). Most editors will understandably be reluctant to vote for a site ban for the same reasons (myself included). It's the pickle we're always in. Springee knows this, it comes across in the defeatist tone of his posts. MPants knows this too and is openly gambling on it (despite that the last time he gambled, he lost). What's to be done? I don't know, outsource it to the WMF via UCOC seems to be the best idea anyone has come up with so far, and that's kinda sad but true. Levivich 17:04, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
    • Levivich, I really think you're drawing a consensus where one does not exist...taking tea leaves and making Monet's Water Lilies. a few vocal defenders aside--everybody else is basically thinking the same thing: this won't stop unless we totally ban MPants from the site. It certainly appears that you think that. But it does not appear that the patrolling admins or many other commenting editors here think that.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 00:30, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

    Hey crossroads, you were saying something about editors who are universally hostile to those with opposing political views? ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

    No idea what this means. Is this an attack on Levivich, accusing me of hypocrisy, or what? Crossroads ^-talk- 17:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

    I'd like to think that the OG and largest Wikipedia is in fact not such a dumpster fire that we need the WMF to handle our internal affairs. Ultimately the bad behavior has to stop, that's my baseline. Crossroads ^-talk- 17:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

  Above they admit no wrongdoing and no intention of changing,

  There is absolutely a "pattern of hostility" from this editor against those they perceive as right wing.

  Both of those are demonstrably, trivially false claims.

  and there needs to be some progress on this issue so we don't keep ending up back here over and over. I love how some people love to point out that I've been frequently reported here, but they always decline to look into the results of those reports, or ask themselves any difficult questions about the editors who've reported me here.

  There's a whole lot of "indefinitely blocked per..." notes on the talk pages of editors who've reported me. And there's a whole lot of "nothing sanctionable here" in the results of the threads bearing my name, but god forbid you acknowledge that basic fact. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:09, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

  If that "Above [you] admit no wrongdoing and no intention of changing" is a "demonstrably, trivially false claim", then it is trivial for you to show me where you did so. I'll strike it if you find it. And as for your past reports? The results of past reports do not absolve subsequent behavior. And they haven't all been dismissed, as your block log testifies. Whether getting off the hook over and over again is an endorsement of your behavior or an indictment of Wikipedia's accountability systems is also debatable.

  Above I said, "I want to see a commitment from MPants not to make any reference to the supposed political views of other editors and not to disparage any other editors as lacking in intelligence or in any other way." You ignored this. Are you willing to commit to this? If not, why not? And if you can't, how is this not a claim that WP:NPA does not apply to you? Crossroads ^-talk- 17:29, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

  If that "Above [you] admit no wrongdoing and no intention of changing" is a "demonstrably, trivially false claim", Here's four times in this thread I did what you falsely claimed I've "refused" to do ([188], [189], [190], [191]).

  Also, Atsme and Masem are two right-wing editors whom I'm extremely fond of, and there are countless others with whom I take no issue at all, including Mr. Ernie and Power~enwiki. Politics doesn't bother me and never really has: I have quite a few conservative and libertarian beliefs myself. But you know what bothers me? POV pushing. Dishonesty. Gaming the system. Undermining this project's core principles.

  As for a further "commitment": No. I've already said what I had to say in that regards. I'm not kowtowing to demands that I beg forgiveness in a situation in which an editor who made an obvious attempt to undermine this project's goals is walking away without so much as a warning. That's complete bullshit.

  I responded poorly to some obvious POV pushing, and the result is a bunch of editors whining about my tone and pretending that there's nothing more to worry about here, meanwhile me and several others keep pointing to the giant elephant in the room, screaming "pachyderm!" while you and the rest of that ilk plug your ears.

  Fuck that nonsense. I care more about this project than I do about my block log, and I've already proven that I'll happily take a block if it means I can do something to remove a bad faith actor from our roster of editors. If me continuing to argue for sanctions against Springee here bothers you, then I'd suggest you reflect on what's really more important; our ability to accurately document the subjects of our articles, or your personal feelings about etiquette? ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:51, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

  Add me to the list of users who agree that at least a "warning" boomerang would justified here. After finding this discussion, I have just spent hours catching up on the last six months of the Andy Ngo Talk page, and the POV pushing pattern is obvious. It's "assume good faith", AGF, and not "assume good faith and keep the assumption up even long after it has been refuted", AGDAKTAUELAIHBR. --Hob Gadling (talk) 18:18, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Moved by me from section below. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Just edit conflicted with Tryptofish Gosh - this is a long thread. Don't have time to read it all in detail, responding to the ping above. I will say this though: MPants at work, if you come to the conclusion that someone is filibustering, stonewalling, being intentionally obtuse, flat-out lying, generally editing tendentious, there are things that you can do about that, whether that's getting more opinions on the content matter, or reporting the other editor at an appropriate noticeboard. What you shouldn't do is accuse them of lying on an article talk page - we tell newbs that all the time, they are for discussing content, not contributors or their behaviour.

I can't think of a situation where calling someone a liar is going to be productive in any way. They're very unlikely to say 'ah, shit, you got me, have it your way'. If you're wrong, and they are not lying, they will justly be upset and get angry, and productive discussion will become impossible. If you are right, and they are lying, they will be only too delighted that you have handed them a stick to beat you with. I think it would be helpful if you were to accept that calling someone a liar on an article talk page isn't appropriate even if you know for a fact that they are lying, and commit not to doing that again. Girth Summit _(blether) 17:37, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Girth Summit, you have once again managed to phrase something in the most reasonable way I've seen, in a thoroughly unreasonable situation. If you look at my response to Crossroads above, you'll see where I highlighted four instances in which I've already acknowledged that I went too far, and I'm not distancing myself from that now.

But what I'm continuing to do here is to argue for a boomerang. I've provided diffs that show very clearly that Springee was engaged in bad-faith behavior, and so far, Bishonen is the only admin to acknowledge that, despite several other users agreeing with me. If it'll help, I'll re-post the diffs (and provide others that evince a long-term problem with POV pushing). I just want an admin to do something that improves this project because frankly, I knew before this thread had started that I needed to tone down my response to Springee. If all that comes of this is a focus entirely upon my behavior, then this thread has been a giant waste of time. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:57, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Not warranted. Making talk page arguments that some disagree with isn't sanctionable, even if it is thought that these align with a certain POV. I've seen this stuff before. POV pushing as an offense requires actual misbehavior, and I haven't seen that above or in the past. Crossroads ^-talk- 18:22, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

You've seen editors claim that a source that says X doesn't support the claim X in order to whitewash a disreputable figure, and you don't take any issue with that, or consider it POV pushing? Wow. That's a shockingly naïve position to take, but you're entitled to your views. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 18:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Even single words can be very important, per MOS:WTW. There can also be good faith disagreements over what a source is actually saying. Perhaps a source attributes a claim rather than saying it in their own voice. So must we, then. The claim that is allegedly supported could be too strongly worded. Or the sources used for it can be less reliable for the subject (like, why are people trying to cite music and pop culture magazines on political topics). I see no reason to impute bad faith and I'm not letting myself get sidetracked here further. Crossroads ^-talk- 19:24, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• If you think that someone is intentionally misrepresenting the sources or otherwise arguing tendentiously, and you can prove that, take it to WP:AE and lay out a careful, measured case there - as El_C pointed out above, the entire AP2 topic area is under DS. I don't think anything further constructive is going to come out of this mess of an ANI discussion at this point (and FWIW at least one of the other editors involved has been warned, so it's already boomeranged.) Nobody is going to read or be able to follow this massive discussion at this point unless they're already involved. --Aquillion (talk) 22:01, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Amid this wall of text, I'd like to quote some portions of MPants' comments in this section:

• "I've already acknowledged that I should have been more circumspect, and said I would endeavor to do so in the future."
• "Bilorv, I made multiple efforts to smooth things over with you there..."
• "I responded poorly to some obvious POV pushing..."
• "...frankly, I knew before this thread had started that I needed to tone down my response to Springee."

I fully acknowledge that I am WP:Cherrypicking those quotes, and they each appear within their own contexts. No question. But, whether or not MPants has it in him to point it out, I think these are things that should not be ignored. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:13, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Enough

At this point, this has become one of those ANI walls of text that are visible from outer space. I thank El C for attempting to wrap this up, and regret that it didn't work.

It's time for both MPants and his accusers to stop trying to get the WP:LASTWORD.

There's an awful lot of if an ANI thread stays open long enough, every editor with a grudge will show up going on here. What we have, in brief, are a lot of people (note: not everyone) who have acted suboptimally. So there are too many accusations here (note: not all of them) that are made with unclean hands.

But, that said, MPants, you really need to dial it down. El C "warned" you in plain English, and was right to do so. If you don't want to listen to him, then please listen to me. You are not helping your case by trying to refute every single thing directed at you. You are responsible for some of this, even if some others are even more so. WP:2WRONGS applies here. I know you have personal reasons that can make it harder for you to judge the emotional content of comments, but please hear me when I say that you are accumulating a history that has the potential to lead to another indef – even though we are not there now. If you find yourself editing in topics where the conflicts make you angry, or stressed, or fed up with other editors, then it's time to edit in more peaceful areas – that's something I've been learning about myself from my own personal experience.

MPants, please just acknowledge that you can, and should, and will, do better going forward. You don't have to claim that you have always been right. Acknowledge that there are concerns, and let us all move on. --Tryptofish (talk) 17:18, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I agree with Tryptofish's sentiment about the overlong subsection above, but I feel that we're not yet done here. Here's why: MPants has said to me things like that you should go edit conservapedia [192] and (after a quite reasonable reply to this [193]) that if you don't care to be directed to conservapedia, then perhaps you should stop arguing as if you better belong there [...] I've seen more than one long-term, experienced editors indeffed over their inability to neutrally interpret sources. [194] On an earlier occasion, he also said things like that You've undermined your own position by descending to these pre-packaged, easily-debunked, canned arguments that one can find on any creationist website, complete with detailed instructions on their use and that your continued attempts to make it through emotional rhetoric is bordering on disruption [195].

This is not "playing fast and loose with sarcasm" (as some have suggested above), but plain personal attacks, and I have expressed my wish for this to stop at this ANI thread.

MPants response [196]: Apuagasma's argument above is the funniest so far and There's some incivility there, but it ain't mine. His rationale for this response is that my indignation serves more to illustrate Apua's POV than as a condemnation of me, because I doubt many editors disagree with the sentiment I expressed there.

Indeed, many in the long thread above have claimed that MPants only lashes out against POV-pushers, Trump supporters, pseudoscience loons, etc. I cannot help but feel that letting him claim that he can say to me what he said because I am pushing pseudoscience or creationist nonsense, amounts to a confirmation by the community that this is indeed likely to be the case. I mean, of course those who are familiar with my edits will know better (and I invite everyone to examine the context in which MPants said those things, and/or ask me about it at my talk), but it still feels like a personal smear that should not be allowed to pass.

If he just thinks it's funny and that it's all just due to my POV then there is no guarantee at all that this will stop, rather the opposite. I think that if his attitude about this does not change right here on this ANI thread, some kind of more forceful action must be taken. Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 23:13, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I agree with you that he should not have called what you said "funny", and I don't think that he should have personalized it at all. But at the same time, I did note just above the section break that he has been acknowledging more than what some of his critics are saying he has. Like you, I wish he would acknowledge this more definitively, but I also think that you may be too determined to get him to specifically acknowledge you. I think that if everyone keeps trying to get the WP:LASTWORD, all that will happen is that uninvolved editors will stop paying any attention to this thread. But yes, I'd like to see MPants make it clearer that he hears what people are telling him here. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:40, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I've been reluctant to say anything for exactly that WP:LASTWORD reason (it's a temptation that I know I'm weak to), but I think MPants' last response to Apuagasma in one of the threads linked above was fairly mature and conciliatory: In fact, I would even go so far as to suggest that the battleground mentality that has resulted in literally every single imposition of discretionary sanctions on a topic originated with two editors calling each other biased. [...] Now that that's said, I'd like to apologize for the tone I took the first time I addressed this. I should have been more decorous in responding, explaining myself more fully and explaining that I'm still willing to discuss any other topic. I most likely gave off a much more heated impression than was true, owing to my brevity and emphatic delivery, and that's not the case. [197]. That seems about as good a conclusion to a heated spat as I've seen in these parts. Other than that, I think Tryptofish's latest comment expresses my thoughts as well as I could. XOR'easter (talk) 23:53, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I also spent some time looking at the Shiatsu talk page discussion, and while I don't want to get bogged down in the content aspects here, it does look to me like there were multiple editors on both "sides" speaking heatedly at one another. I think Apuagasma was consistently polite, but there were multiple editors strongly criticizing some of Apuagasma's points, so it's really not like MPants was the only one doing that. It's just that MPants is the only one named as the target of this ANI. I do think the quote found by XOR'easter is very significant here. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:03, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tryptofish: thanks for looking into that. Yes, it was a difficult discussion, and actually I have said some things there (to other editors) that I now regret, but no one there posted anything even approaching MPants' tone. There's a difference between somewhat heated and outright personal attack, and only MPants crossed that line (or rather, made a run and took a big leap over it).

@XOR'easter: true, but there was also another editor in that discussion to whom MPants had said that undermining the widely accepted dating- absolutely reeks of fundamentalist bias, and is a textbook example of the wedge strategy, popularized in a different topic that fundamentalists also get up in arms about [198], who responded to the conciliatory post you just quoted with I didn't appreciate the references to fundamentalist bias, but apology accepted. [199] Guess what MPants' response to this editor was? I wasn't apologizing to, or even speaking to you. [200]. Crossroads already quoted the relevant portions from what constitutes a WP:PA: using someone's affiliations as an ad hominem means of dismissing or discrediting their views, accusing them of being left-wing or right-wing and accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. These clearly apply to all the diffs I've given. Since he apologized at least to me, I've been at (very) good terms with him during the past months. But just here in this thread he said that for his latest lash-out I can wait for an apology all I want. I appreciate that this refusal is largely because of the context here, but I'm really quite sure that you as well as Tryptofish would not be saying what you are if you were in my position, or in the position of those to whom MPants is likely to lash out again in the future if something is not done. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 00:36, 4 August 2021 (UTC) Please note that my user name is spelled Apaugasma (though Apau is fine too).

If it will be of any benefit (I am not sure), I want to endorse Tryptofish's advice to MjolnirPants at the beginning of this subsectuon. MPants, if you are actually correct about what is best for this encyclopedia, then you will be most effective by advocating your points calmly, clearly and referring back constantly to policies, guidelines and what high quality reliable sources say about these issues. Sarcasm, hostility, bitterness and a confrontational tone are counterproductive. That tone hurts your case. It does not help it at all. How can you advocate for your view of what is best for the encyclopedia if you are again indefinitely blocked? Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 00:43, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Apaugasma, you have made your points. Repeating them over and over does not make them more persuasive. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 00:45, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

I didn't feel Apaugasma's points were repetitive. The points, quotes, and diffs in this section were new and directly in response to others' comments above. Levivich 02:09, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

You know what, I think you're both right! Cullen's point is well-taken, and Levivich's support much appreciated :-) ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 02:16, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for the letter-transposition; I think I was looking at a misspelled instance, and my fingers just copied it. Cheers, XOR'easter (talk) 01:11, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

User Beyoglou harassment

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This user is harassing Wikipedians.[201][202][203]--V. E. (talk) 00:30, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Got it. El_C 00:40, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Good block El_C. I reverted their removal of sourced material without explanation. Of their other two edits, one appears to be a correct fix of a mis-capitalization, and the other is this addition of info. This last one will require review from people more closely involved in the topic, to see if it should stand. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 00:48, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

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User:Rctgamer3

Some administrator (other than Xezbeth) could review the contributions of the user:Rctgamer3, whose histories of disruptive and highly disturbed editions on articles related to Japanese voice actors1, while correcting the date that the veteran actress debuted in the 30s when she was born, he insists on reversing Masako Nozawa's debut, which according to the summaries of the page's editions that I was eliminating the content, merging occupations and above all 234567, reversed numerous times on Yuki Kaji's article for which someone added his facet as an actor whose career is not notable to have such appearances in series and live-action movies, so take it away, but what happens? Rctgamer3 reverted it several times 8910 without an IP having committed another type of vandalism.

In short, it is not the first time that an editor like this has a disruptive behavior towards IPs violating the WP:3RR and WP:POINT but I am reflecting now that it is not the same that another IP has removed an occupational term (eg actor and voice actor) something that was out of context and the truth is that I realized that these two occupations do not go in the introduction of the paragraph, infoboxes and above all, short descriptions and at the end of this, I do not see the rule that says something about the separate initial sentences, nor was the idea of ​how the hell I enter the data in the same short description outside of Wikipedia so as not to lengthen so many occupations. 148.101.34.204 (talk) 06:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

The date change referenced was completely unsourced. I'm not sure if you're the same IP user as the previous person who wrote it on Yuki Kaji but given the fact that all of their credits start in the 60's makes a year's active date from her third birth year feel /very/ out of place. I've reverted a handful of edits on Yuki Kaji and Masako Nozawa on date changes solely because no sources/refs for this date were provided, which i have warned the individual IP-users about on their talk pages. As for those voice actor pages; there's WP:BOLD, but changing crucial points about several persons is a no-go. (Example: A person whose profession almost solely entails voice acting, was re-labeled as primarily being another minor profession). Given the amount of edits done (50-100) by various IP's, I expected at least some consensus beforehand. Even during the ongoing revisions by various IP-users, I've asked those users to discuss this, yet nothing of the sort ensued, nor did most of those edit utilize edit summaries. I feel like I've done nothing wrong. By the way, I have no/zero intention of having a large number of biography pages in my watchlist. It's just that one person under various IP addresses has a narrow view of how the pages should be formatted which both me and Xezbeth seem to think that the edits by these anonymous users entail edit warring/vandalism. Highly relevant incident here: 1. I'm all for reaching a good resolution/consensus on the subject Rctgamer3 (talk) 12:50, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

It doesn't matter if you have news sources on Masako Nozawa's career, just leave an edit summary by passing you the necessary link through Japanese Wikipedia1 before Xezbeth reversed two or three times23, as for Yuki Kaji, as I said. Before, someone added his role as an actor in the introduction of the paragraph, having a minimum of 6 series appearances and 1 live-action film below his filmography, so I do not agree with your position if my edition was not from your liking.

And let me tell you something about those five or eight articles that you reversed earlier, I am going to the following:

• First, the Kotono Mitsuishi thing had been thought that he was going to leave a little bit the summary of editions on the term actor covers his work as a dubbing actress, but I already saw where I was wrong.1

• Second, Karen Miyama, when separating the same occupations has the largest number of drama series and movies in real life, but also do not leave the summary of editions of it.2

• Third, Iori Nomizu of course, after you and Xezbeth reverted it several times without me leaving a summary and there is one thing for which I also edited in Wikidata which I abide by the rules on short descriptions, but sometimes I make mistakes like that. 34.4

• Fourth, Nene Hieda, repeatedly removed the term singer because it is not remarkable, nor was it added news references about her debut.4

• Fifth, and speaking of Riho Iida I would have already improved the infobox, opening sentences, adding short descriptions and ordering the categories in the section below, but in your case you reversed it several times, if I have not done anything.5

• Sixth, Shun Oguri as he had left a summary before, his filmography has more than 15 notable anime films so his profession as an actor and voice actor are different.6

• Seventh, the idea of ​​removing Momoyo Koyama's second occupation came to my mind when I realized that she has more than 5 appearances in series and live-action movies, in addition to anime and video games, so I also consider that in my opinion, the intention was to separate their profession are different from what it says in summaries of previous editions.7

• Eighth, and to finish, about Takahiro Itō (may he rest in peace) as I left in the edition summary before Xezbeth and you reversed it before blocking me, his filmography has a minimum of 3 series and live action movies, dubbing of four foreign series and films and an anime series, so it was already necessary for them to be translated through the aforementioned Japanese Wikipedia. 8

So, how can you tell me in an edition summary that my editions are non-constructive and apparently a librarian like [[User:Xezbeth|that] does not comply with the uses of WP:BLPs, MOS:FIRST or also WP:SDDATES if it were not applicable inside and outside of Wikipedia for, as I mentioned before, the occupations that I am trying to remove in Wikidata should not be lengthened so much. 148.101.34.204 (talk) 23:17, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

User:WAYLON JENNINGS FAN

WAYLON JENNINGS FAN (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was warned more than enough about adding unsourced genres but simply ignores warnings. I don't think this falls strictly under WP:VD but it is certainly disruptive. Some administrative intervention will be appreciated, even if only by issuing a firm warning. --Muhandes (talk) 10:52, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Huh. I keep forgetting that WP:VD is the top WP shorthand for the Vandalism policy (had to click). That's unfortunate, yet also quite appropriate... [I'm helping!] Anyway, indef p-block from the mainspace applied. El_C 11:59, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

After all VD is for everybody... Also good block, beat me to it for the indef. RickinBaltimore (talk) 13:18, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Rick, I seriously half-expected it to link to some semi-humor PG-13 essay.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ El_C 13:59, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I always thought that shorthand was intentional. Thanks for the quick response. --Muhandes (talk) 15:19, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Likely was, Muhandes. I'm probably just a bit slow (many would rightly agree!). Anyway, glad I was able to help. El_C 15:49, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

IP range 2604:3D08:5A82:5500

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At least three IPs beginning with 2604:3D08:5A82:5500 (and potentially more) have been adding incorrect information to the Iain Glen article. The most recent is 2604:3D08:5A82:5500:A88B:C690:BFD7:9082.

Glen appears on the television series Titans as the character Bruce Wayne. He does not appear as Bruce's superhero alter-ego, Batman. Therefore, the editors of Titans-related articles have agreed that Glen should not be attributed to playing Batman and such information is inaccurate. However, the IP range has been ignoring my edit summaries regarding this and continues to restore mention of Batman on Glen's article.

I'm inquiring if there's a way to prevent this IP range from adding the incorrect information. Bluerules (talk) 14:06, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

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Bouvet Island needs vandalism protection

The small paragraph about the annexation of the west coast was vandalized and wrongly reverted. Despite good sources, including a RAND Corporation’s (RANDnext) paper. Could some please protect that article? Thanks. 2A01:598:A803:E5ED:D0CB:B4A4:B17C:16DF (talk) 16:46, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Protection requests should go to WP:RFPP, but I can tell you now it's not going to happen for a single instance of vandalism. -- Scott Burley (talk) 18:04, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't think the revert in question was vandalism. And you should discuss such things with the other editor first before making accusations of vandalism here. Also when making such accusation here, you need to inform the other editor on their talk page. Paul August ☎ 19:06, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

144.171.219.9 Block Evasion

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Sock of 144.171.220.142 (talk · contribs) and needs to be blocked. ProofRobust 17:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

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IP 212.85.174.201

• 212.85.174.201 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Hi. Please can someone assist with this IP's edits? They keep removing sourced content regarding dates of death across three articles relating to Yugoslav sportspeople (one, two, three). Per their talkpage, they state they are correct and are using the Slovenian versions of the pages as a source. Although, checking those pages, only one of them has a date of death, which is also unsourced. Now they are stating that if they are blocked, that "I will demand Arbcom". Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 17:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello. It is great that the issue has been brough up here. I deal with yugoslav sports history in my professional life and I was surprised too see that the three local well known pre-war cyclists had wrong basic information about them in the English Wikipedia. I tried to correct it but then this user came with his uncooperative and rude remarks and removed all the correct content and added back the wrong info from some unexisting "sports reference" webpage. I would like to have a normal peacful discussion to correct the information as I believe it is in the best interest of everyone that Wikiepdia has the correct information available to the public. 212.85.174.201 (talk) 17:32, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

IP editor: you do appear to be edit warring to force unsourced information onto the page. Where are you getting your information from? Slovenian Wikipedia is not a reliable source (neither is English Wikipedia - they're both user-generated, and I'm afraid that your personal knowledge and expertise is also not sufficient - we need a reliable, published source. It's OK for it to be in Slovenian (English-language sources are preferred, but not mandatory). Please provide sources for the information, or remove it until you can do so. Thanks Girth Summit _(blether) 17:48, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I've blocked 212.85.174.201 from article space until they provide some sources and not another Wiki. If they come up with some please unblock. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:23, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you both. I don't speak Slovenian, but I'm happy to help incorporate any WP:RS to any of these articles, if they surface. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 19:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I have no sources in English, but there are sources in Slovenian. I am putting them here because I was blocked and cannot edit the articles. Please put them into the articles:

• Josip Šolar:

Obituary and an article: http://dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-ANI7Q5EW/ Tombstone: https://grobovi.zale.si/sl/Home/GetGravePicture?uId=8cff2826-c246-4b31-ae1a-88f8d5b43efd

• Franc Gartner:

article: http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-G7D8KRG4 more articles when he died: dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-L9QWYMRK/ dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-HSPTRI7L/

• Ivan Valant:

article and picture in Jesenice museum: http://www.gmj.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/kviz-2019-iii-srednja-ola-konna-verzija.pdf obituary: http://dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-AW59IIJ3/ also mentioned: dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-6QJ7I2OW/ (his bike company still exists, now run by his grandson, you can contact him if you do not believe me info@valy-ing.si) All information is 100% correct. 212.85.174.201 (talk) 20:30, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Ymblanter's blocks of Volunteer Marek and GCB

Please see here and here. Ymblanter has blocked Marek and GCB for edit warring, despite the editor in question not being eligible to edit on the topic in question as they are way below the 500/30 threshold. Which is *specifically* exempt from edit warring. If they arnt unblocked with either an apology (I dont care who apologises, I doubt Ymblanter will proffer one themself) the next step will be ARBCOM to request Ymblanter's tools are removed. Only in death does duty end (talk) 20:04, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Well, I got enough baid faith towards myself today, and, in addition, OID was very clear for many years that they want my tools removed does not matter what, but I do not see why some users should be exempt from blocks for four reverts.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:09, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes I want your tools removed. You lack sufficient knowledge to use them properly and it results in abuse. The restrictions (and where edit warring doesnt apply) around 500/30 editing requirements are very very clear and an admin should be well aware of when they do and do not apply. You clearly do not. I am willing to let it go once again if you apologise to both Marek and GCB and lift the blocks. Or another admin does, but this blatant incompetence when it comes to basic knowledge of how a topic restriction works should not continue. 'Bad faith' in this context by the way would be assuming that you made a bad block, realised it when someone pointed out the 500/30 requirement, and decided to cover it up by blocking the editor who complained. That would be assuming bad faith. I am granting you the more likely explanation that you acted out of ignorance rather than maliciousness. Only in death does duty end (talk) 20:17, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I support an unblock. PhilKnight (talk) 20:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Unblock sooner than later please. but I do not see why some users should be exempt from blocks for four reverts. Any admin who can't be bothered to read WP:3RRNO has got problems. MarnetteD|Talk 20:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

The 500/30 requirement is not listed at WP:3RRNO. PackMecEng (talk) 20:53, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

@PackMecEng: True, although BANEX is which would seem to cover this as well - but you're right the part should be copied over from WP:GS [204]. As I stated on my talk page, I intend to file a request for clarification with ArbCom on the wording of the restriction. Volunteer Marek 21:13, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Yeah looks like it could use an update. I would probably support that! PackMecEng (talk) 22:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

This should go straight to ARBCOM for a de-sysop, period.--WaltCip-(talk) 20:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

The exemption is for the articles, this is not an article. The arbcom was very clear by writing "articles" rather than "pages", and had a good reason for this, since otherwise revert of discussions from talk pages, for example, would be exempt from 3RR.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:29, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I am too old for this. I completely disagree with the unblock, but I do not want to get to a hospital again. I will unblock. Next time, anybody starts talking about lack of admin, lack of gut, inability to look into difficult cases, remember this case, please. If I am still alive, I will be around to remind you.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:32, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

@Only in death does duty end, Did you discuss extensively with Ymblanter before bringing this here? ANI's are literally the last option if the plethora of trying to use other venues to settle differences and queries amicably. Furthermore I see the mention of ARBCOM?? Come on! Now that’s rather uncalled for and don’t you think that’s rather harsh and comes off as “threatening” ? Celestina007 (talk) 20:52, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

No, as Ymblanter is never open to reasoned discussion when they make an obviously wrong action, and their histrionics directly above should give you a decent idea of what their concept of appropriate behaviour is. They already had sufficient discussion on the talkpages of both Marek and GCD and had declined to unblock on the request of another admin. So yes, the appropriate place is ANI for an ongoing incident that needs a quick resolution. And yes, the consequences of their actions being unresolved would be Arbcom, because said earlier discussion had already failed to get them to see reason. There are almost zero actions an ordinary editor can take. Laying out the consequences of your actions may come across as threatening, but then when you treat people like shit, do not expect to get the kid gloves in return. Only in death does duty end (talk) 21:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

@Only in death does duty end, so in summary do you believe you both can’t resolve this amicably? I’m pained when genuine and hardworking very productive editors like yourself and Ymblanter have disputes, honestly it is very much saddening. Celestina007 (talk) 00:24, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

I do not want to get to a hospital again and If I am still alive are extremely alarming. I encourage a break - participating in Wikipedia should never provoke such fearful comments. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 20:49, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

• Well, we got most of the way there, but the unblock rationale was really unacceptable ("I want to stay alive"). Does anyone mind if I block each of them for 1 second, making clear they were unblocked because the block was against policy, not because Ymblanter wanted to "stay alive"? Especially, @Volunteer Marek: and @GizzyCatBella:, would you prefer such a notice in your block log? It's trading off clarifying you shouldn't have been blocked for an incrementally longer block log. I won't put such a note in your block logs if you don't want it. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:43, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

@Floquenbeam: I'm fine with it. Volunteer Marek 20:55, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

@Floquenbeam: - I’m also fine with it. Thank you. - GizzyCatBella🍁 00:28, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

@Volunteer Marek: Since you're unblocked, there's no need to immediately provide this note, so I'll wait until tomorrow if that's OK. That will give Ymblanter a chance to do it themselves, or if not, will provide a more complete ANI discussion for me to link to, or will provide a chance for someone to point out I've completely misunderstood the situation and it wouldn't be appropriate. And it gives me time to grill some steaks (and then eat them), which I've been looking forward to all day. Not trying to weasel out of anything; I'm just postponing until tomorrow. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:38, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

That's fine too. Bon apetit. Volunteer Marek 22:25, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, can we have a diff for the edit(s) that resulted in the block(s) please? GiantSnowman 20:53, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Apparently it is here. CGB was blocked after their only revert, VM was blocked after 4 reverts of a sock. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:58, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Wow. No warnings to either party at all before 3RR was breached? Martinevans123 (talk) 21:01, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Has the account been blocked as a sock? Ncmvocalist (talk) 21:05, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I cant see the point tbh. Its clearly either one of the banned users in relation to Poland/WW2/Jews (which isnt a long list), or a clueless IP who just doesnt know they cant edit on the topic. Marek made it clear in the edit summaries that the editor was prohibited, and given the content, its almost certainly one of the Jewish anti-Polish editors. They will be back somewhere else soon enough. Regardless, the editor fails 500/30 for editing in a restricted area and so can be reverted on sight exempt from edit-warring. Only in death does duty end (talk) 21:09, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Ah, I see, so warnings are not even appropriate. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:13, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Well, I think a warning was required to at least signal that an administrator felt that the 500/30 exemption didn't apply because it is Wikipedia-space rather than article-space in which the reverts were being made. That would provide an opportunity for one of the editors to cease reverting, seek clarification if required and/or justify the basis of the block. The clear absence of that was what made this review open and shut. Ncmvocalist (talk) 21:23, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Here is the relevant language from Wikipedia:General sanctions that Volunteer Marek was relying on Under the 30/500 rule, all IP editors, and accounts with fewer than 500 edits and with less than 30 days' tenure are prohibited from editing content within a given area of conflict. It can be enforced through the use of extended confirmed protection (ECP) or other methods, including page protection, reverts, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters. Reverts made solely to enforce the 30/500 rule are not considered edit warring. Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may use the Talk: namespace to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. Talk pages where disruption occurs may be managed by any of the methods noted above. This exception does not apply to other internal project discussions such as AfDs, WikiProjects, RfCs, noticeboard discussions, etc. If this information page is accurate, then Ymblanter is incorrect when they wrote The exemption is for the articles, this is not an article. As I read the language, the only place where an editor who does not meet the 30/500 threshold can edit about topics such as this is on article talk pages, and nowhere else on the project. Accordingly, Volunteer Marek was correct to revert these edits which were adding Warsaw concentration camp to Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia since that editor is not permitted to do so according to the information page about General sanctions. If the information page is in error, it should be corrected promptly. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 21:28, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

A summary of this language should probably be added to WP:3RRNO, which currently makes no mention of an exception for the 30/500 rule. Pawnkingthree (talk) 00:29, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

• The 500/30 restriction stems from an arbitration case, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism_in_Poland#500/30_restriction, added as a result of this motion. The context behind the ARCA was sockpuppetry, and the reverted account is said to be a sock (above), apparently. The commenting arbs also said "articles" specifically. I think this should be kicked to the Committee at WP:ARCA, to ask whether the remedy only apply to articles or if it applies to all namespaces. ArbCom rulings are one place where language and precision matters, and this one genuinely seems unclear. (Of course, this point is separate from whether the editors should've been blocked for it, and due to the very small distinction, and given that the editors gave their rationale in the edit summary, I think the admin should've realised there was an ambiguity here and ideally decided to get it cleared up, or at worst went the warning route rather than the block route.) ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:35, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
  • More: I took a peek to check what the precedent from other arb cases is. The only other arbitration case to authorise 500/30 is Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 4, which used an entirely different structure to its general sanctions remedies than the usual case. That one indeed applies in all namespaces, but it explicitly says so (edits relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict, to pages and discussions in all namespaces with the exception of userspace). ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:45, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
    • Yes, I think a clarification from ArbCom would be useful here. Volunteer Marek 22:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
      • I have asked for clarification at ARCA. — Wug·a·po·des​ 02:27, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Some may be wondering what Ymblanter was talking about when he mentioned tag-teaming by GCB and VM. Running Editor Interaction Analyser (Volunteer Marek, GizzyCatBella) lists the following pages that both VM and GCB edited on the same day (collapsed due to length):

I make no comment about whether or not 30/500 applies to that page/that content, but I will say generally that while I think Ymblanter's concerns are well-founded (per the above), a warning first would have been better than straight to a block. (And I hope he feels better soon.) Levivich 02:38, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Sidebar: APL missing from DS/Alert documentation?

I was going to help clean up the mess left behind by this dispute, reverting a further 500/30 violation ( although per ProcrastinatingReader's response which I only just saw, perhaps it shouldn't be considered 500/30 resricted?) and leaving DS notices when I noticed that there is no mention of the Antisemitism in Poland case in the list of codes authorized for use. I'm guessing this is just oversight and should be corrected, but given how complicated the template code relating to it is I figured this was better raised for discussion before I go about adding the code. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 21:44, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

As a further sidebar to the sidebar, I'm impressed that we resisted the temptation of naming the case ARBAIP, to finish the trifecta of ARBIPA and ARBPIA _signed, Rosguill ^talk 21:46, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

APL does not authorise a separate DS. Since I believe APL falls entirely within the WP:ARBEE topic area, so I think the DS for that is used. The only special GS (that's still active) authorised by WP:APL is the 500/30. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Ah I see, thank you. I guess since it's a GS we don't need to notify people (although it seems like a surefire recipe for flummoxing any new editors that want to edit the topic). _signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:06, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

It's primarily an issue when only part of an article falls under the scope of extended-confirmed restrictions. You can always write a personal note if you come across an editor for whom such an alert seems useful. (The limitation doesn't authorize blocking without warning, so the note would serve to save the editor's time.) isaacl (talk) 00:34, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

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Can we get someone to revoke TPA of this user: User talk:A Bird 112. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lavalizard101 (talk • contribs) 22:39, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

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User:SinglePorpoiseAccount

Accusations of misconduct made without evidence

• "I can assure you that I will not let myself get bullied into going along with whatever sources you pick"

No bullying occurred, only heated debate, if that.

• "Do you seriously think you can get away with lies like that?"

This is gaslighting. My statements were clearly evidenced, and have been backed up at WP:RS/N.

• "This is not how you're supposed to handle feedback you asked for."

My using of evidence to make a point is in fact a good way to handle feedback, and there's nothing wrong with calling out perceived WP:DNTL.

• "You've made it clear that you do not agree with me, but stay civil (WP:IUC) and objective"

I have been abundantly civil and objective, certainly more than SinglePorpoiseAccount has.

Evidence of sock puppetry

• This user has very few edits, the majority if not all of them to 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit, hence their name.
• Account is not even two weeks old, but knew right off the bat how to use talk pages, indent comments, and use templates like an old pro.
• They have listed policies and guidelines that take a significant amount of time to master, and have gone off on in-depth discussions regarding them.
• Policies they've mentioned: WP:NPOV, WP:UNDUE, WP:FRINGE, WP:RS, WP:IMPARTIAL, WP:THISORTHAT, WP:EW, WP:DISCUSSCONSENSUS, WP:IUC, WP:DRR/3, WP:RSP and more.

Other problematic behavior

• "There is no way I'm going to let that article stay as a source if you try to use it anyway without unanimous consensus from Wikipedians, me included"

This is blatant misunderstanding of consensus and WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior.

• Falsely claiming AP News has a "conflict of interest in reporting errors in election results".

Fringe, conspiracy-theorist thinking.

• Framing a fringe point of view from an article as substantial evidence. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲^(talk) 00:03, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

IMHO, you're dealing with an SPA and a Sock-master. GoodDay (talk) 00:05, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

If I had to guess, SinglePorpoiseAccount is probably one of the IPs who was labeled with the SPA template on the talk page, as he created the account in the middle of that conversation and seems to have picked up the conversation where the IPs left off. If I'm correct, this wouldn't qualify as socking. As for the "accusations of misconduct" and the other problematic behavior, I don't see anything actionable there, at least not yet. The "There is no way I'm going to let that article stay as a source" statement sounds a lot like stonewalling, but I wouldn't say sanctions are justified quite yet. Mlb96 (talk) 01:58, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

You're right that does not qualify as socking, but this user seems far too experienced to have just been an IP editor, and I still suspect they are a sockpuppet. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲^(talk) 02:11, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Darknipples

Just going to drop this here for other comment: Special:Diff/1037004023 —valereee (talk) 00:11, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Really lovely stuff. —valereee (talk) 00:19, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Better and better. —valereee (talk) 00:23, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

And another accusation at my user talk. —valereee (talk) 00:27, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

• Not a good look from Darknipples. Unless you're into that kinda thing I guess . (Sorry had to make the joke.) ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲^(talk) 00:32, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Hey, I get it. Dark nipples are something 14-yo boys fantasize about. Not a thing wrong with that. :D But maybe here on WP, we leave that at home. —valereee (talk) 00:35, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Yeah, this whole working from home thing has gone too far. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 00:59, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

That's inexcusable. I've given them a couple weeks to grow up. If anyone feels I'm too harsh or not harsh enough, feel free to modify. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 01:05, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

This is sad. Way back in 2014, this editor was willing to discuss what they described as "my silly user name. What can I say? I have a relatively sophomoric sense of humor" and I expressed some concerns at that time and so did other people, but I felt at the time (and still feel) that it is not an overt violation of the username policy. This editor has been productive on and off ever since, and was a major contributor to a Good article about an important topic. This editor is not a troll. 78.26 wrote on their talk page, "Valereee was acting in an administrative capacity with concerns regarding your user name." I have problems with this claim. Valereee (who I usually respect) was quite confrontational about their seven year old username, did not say that it is a username violation, and did not offer advice about changing it. I find Valereee's tone quite troubling in this interaction, and not the tone expected of an administrator. This is a real mess, and nobody involved looks good. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:22, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

@Cullen328, I didn't say I was acting in an administrative capacity. I was acting in the capacity of another editor who was offended by this username because it sexualizes women. It's offensive, and I brought it up to that user because I thought maybe, after 7 years, they might be ready to say, "Oh. I guess what looked like snicker-snicker was hilarious when I was 14 now looks -- at 22 or whatever -- like I'm a jerk." —valereee (talk) 01:32, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

I attributed the "administrative capacity" to 78.26, who has apologized below. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 02:01, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

@Cullen328, I did not say I was acting in an administrative capacity. I was acting in the capacity of any other editor. I did not approach that user as an administrator in any way. How is I see you've been queried about your user name before. What I can say is that it tells me I am dealing with a user who doesn't care what I think or feel or how that user name affects me, and doesn't care whether I know they don't care. I'm sure it just probably seemed like a hoot 8 years ago, maybe when you were less mature. Now it's just kind of ugly. problematic? It's completely oriented on how the user name makes me, a female editor on Wikipedia, feel. It approaches women sexually. I am not easily offended, and I'm quite comfortable with sex and sexuality. The user name Darknipples is uncool, and I said that. As a colleague. —valereee (talk) 01:40, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

(Those two responses were somehow reverted/restored somewhere in the process and ended up duplicating each other.)

Oh, and by the way? They refactored that into: "I'm ugly. —valereee (talk) 23:37, 2 August 2021 (UTC)"

—valereee (talk) 01:43, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

(ec)Ugh, why was a user name with "nipples" in it ever allowed? Overt or not, it a fricking encyclopedia where women actually edit. </soapbox> Rgrds. --Bison X (talk) 01:42, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Men have nipples as well. It could well be completely self-referential in which case who are we to argue? Nipple is a perfectly legitimate word. However I have no idea if it's intended that way, or if there is indeed another intent behind it. Canterbury Tail talk 01:59, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

The user-in-question's name is (IMHO) an intentional provocation. GoodDay (talk) 01:44, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

((ec x 3) Welp, If I've judged the situation incorrectly, it won't be the first time I've been wrong. The user name is... certainly questionable. The personal attack is troubling. What gets me is that Darknipples made the personal attack, and then made turned it around that accusation against Valereee, making it seem that their own personal attack was the other party's [205]. I was flat-out wrong about the "administrative capacity" comment, for which I apologize to all. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 01:45, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

• (edit conflict)I find the diffs provided by Valeree very concerning. As a non-admin, I would expect a short term block against DN. If this behavior had been levied against me, I would be demanding it. BTW, was this revert appropriate? @Acroterion:, I feel that Valeree should be able to express her opinion of her role in this scenario, even if she is incorrect and she has a duty to comport herself with utmost civility even in non-admin interactions. (I believe Jimbo has said something like this in the past) I still think her right to defend her intended tone is more important.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 01:47, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Yeah I was a bit confused by that rollback. PackMecEng (talk) 01:49, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  I bet an hour of fixing typos it was a misclick. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 01:52, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Darn, missed my chance. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 01:53, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Yeah looks like, I've done it myself many times. PackMecEng (talk) 01:53, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  That was a misclick. Feel free to restore. Acroterion (talk) 01:50, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  I'll hold you to that promise. Acroterion (talk) 01:54, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  No worries, I figured it was a misclick, just recreated. Now we've got two of them lol. —valereee (talk) 01:55, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  This is getting out of hand. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 01:57, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Let's just leave it be before we edit-conflict ourselves to more confusion. Acroterion (talk) 02:04, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Acroterion, lol, I honestly figured it was, but seized on the chance to be self-righteous. My apologies. Feeling right just feels so good.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 02:02, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

• Valereee, by saying that it tells me I am dealing with a user who doesn't care what I think or feel or how that user name affects me you're imputing intentions, and by saying that it's just kind of ugly you are being disparaging. Is there any kind of previous context here? If not, is there something about "dark nipples" that I'm missing? Is it specifically used for women in some cultural context that I'm unaware of (and that could well be, since I'm not a native speaker)? Otherwise, it seems to me that they could just as well refer to a man's nipples? I mean, if the term is indeed used in contexts that sexualize women, it is indeed offensive, and I would entirely understand your reaction in that case. Of course, that the way Darknipples reacted crosses the line in at least two ways (PA, and then turning it around, per 78.26 above) does not need any discussion. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 02:07, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  There's a fetishization of dark nipples among certain cultures. Darknipples has been told multiple times that this is an issue. The fact they continue to use that name, even recognizing it's "sophomoric"...well, it's really hard not to think they simply don't care that it's a problem. —valereee (talk) 02:18, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Just a note, "sophomoric" seems to be their reason for keeping the username, as they implied they enjoy that type of humor. Seems like a good point of debate might be whether or not that type of humor is allowed for usernames. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲^(talk) 02:27, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

  Yes, as well as sexualizing user names. Sexualization of women is an extremely serious real-world problem, and so sexualizing user names are bound to make some people uncomfortable, regardless of the intentions of the user who chose it. Still, I think that less focus on those intentions would have been helpful here. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 02:36, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

• I support the block issued here by 78.26–I don't think it's excessive. This type of blatant refactoring of others' comments (from an editor who's been around as long as DN has) is unacceptable. Talk pages are not Tumblr circa 2012. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲^(talk) 02:32, 4 August 2021 (UTC)