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I'm fairly busy in the Real World at the moment. Expect delays here... or not. But it's my excuse anyway...



You are welcome to leave messages here. I will reply here (rather than on, say, your user page). Conversely, if I've left a message on your talk page, I'm watching it, so please reply there.

If your messages are rude, wandering or repetitive I will likely edit them. If you want to leave such a message, put it on your talk page and leave me a note here & I'll go take a look. In general, I prefer to conduct my discussions in public. If you have a question for me, put it here (or on the article talk, or...) rather than via email. If I've blocked you for 3RR this applies particularly strongly: your arguments for unblock, unless for some odd reason particularly sensitive, should be made in public, on your talk page. See-also WMC:3RR.

In the dim and distant past were... /The archives. As of about 2006/06, I don't archive, just remove. Thats cos I realised I never looked in the archives.




Atmospheric circulation pic

Thanks for the pic you added to this article. It's very interesting, and I am intrigued by some of the anomalies it shows. Denni 01:00, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Denni. Thanks! All part of my very very slow atmospheric dynamics project... more to come... slowly... William M. Connolley 22:09, 24 October 2005 (UTC).

RRS John Biscoe

I've justed created a stub for this article and found you'd already done the same for her successor, the James Clark Ross. Great!  Do you have (access to) a Commons/Wikipedia-compliant photo of the Biscoe that could be used? Apologies in advance if my search failed to turn one up.
Best wishes, David Kernow 15:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't; I'll ask around a bit William M. Connolley 17:23, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. If no joy, or too much hassle, I'm hopeful one or other of the Antarctica websites with photos might give permission or adopt a Commons/Wikipedia-friendly licence. David Kernow 22:20, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Trend Estimation with Auto-Correlated Data

William: This article you started is a great topic! I am just wondering if you have detailed information to add to the section about auto-correlated data. I am facing this problem now, and am trying to get information from papers and textbooks. --Roland 21:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Ah well, IMHO what to do with auto-correlated data is an ongoing research topic. Top tip: divide the ndof by something like (1+ac1) (or is it ac1^2...) if the autocorr isn't too extreme. There is some formula like (1+ac1^2+ac2^2+...) if its strongly auto-correlated... but... its a bit of a mess, I think. Err, thats why I never expanded that bit. The von Zstorch and Zwiers book covers it, somewhat. William M. Connolley 22:54, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I added a link to autoregressive moving average models JQ 23:17, 7 March 2006 (UTC)


Linda Hall editor

User:204.56.7.1 has been blocked four times in the last month for 3RR (once by you). He is now performing wholsale reversions without comment (see at Radio ) This user as you probably know, has a long history of refusing to collaborate. He ignored my talk page request. Any suggestions? --Blainster 20:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

My feeling is that 204. is Reddi. Reddi is limited to 1R per week. Establishing the connection past doubt is difficult; but the edit patterns are very similar. You could post a WP:RFCU. Or you could just list 204. on the 3RR page together with the note of Reddis arbcomm parole and see if that does any good. Or maybe I'll just block it... shall I? Oh go on, yes I will... William M. Connolley 21:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
My Reddimeter displays 8.5 on a scale from 0 to 10: Selection of topics. likes patents, likes templates. Only the tireless lamenting on article talk pages is missing. --Pjacobi 21:43, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Reddi apparently back

... with another sockpuppet KarlBunker 19:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Is there no stopping him? I've blocked that one; if he persists, will semi it William M. Connolley 19:28, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

And to think

..I knew you when. Why didn't you mention this?

Oh dear. I did my best with them :-( William M. Connolley 17:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)



WP:AN3

To William M. Connolley for the thankless job of maintaining WP:AN3. It is appreciated -- Samir धर्म 14:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
  • The few times that I've dabbled in WP:ANI/3RR, I've tried to be fair, but I universally get hit with a barrage of malcontents on my talk page and others that send me threatening e-mails. I don't know why you continue to take care of this for us, but thank you for doing so, as I know that I wouldn't be able to last more than a day at it. Many thanks -- Samir धर्म 14:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Thank you :-) William M. Connolley 16:36, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

The Templeton Foundation

The Templeton Foundation used to provide grants for ID conferences and courses. According to The New York Times, Charles L. Harper Jr., senior vice president at the Templeton Foundation, later asked ID proponents to submit proposals for actual research. "They never came in," said Harper, and that while he was skeptical from the beginning, other foundation officials were initially intrigued and later grew disillusioned. "From the point of view of rigor and intellectual seriousness, the intelligent design people don't come out very well in our world of scientific review," he said. The Templeton Foundation has since rejected the Discovery Institute's entreaties for more funding, Harper states. "They're political - that for us is problematic," and that while Discovery has "always claimed to be focused on the science," "what I see is much more focused on public policy, on public persuasion, on educational advocacy and so forth."

I'd think that while individual members/beneficiaries of the Foundation's largess may embrace ID, the the Foundation itself is trying to distance itself from the ID movement, but keeping in mind that the Discovery Institute, the hub of the ID movement, actively tries to cultivate ambiguity around its own motives, actions and members with the aim of portraying ID as more substantial and more widely accepted than it actually is, as the Dover Trial ruling shows (it's worth reading). FeloniousMonk 21:24, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Thats interesting and useful William M. Connolley 21:26, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


Improving the models

I find this to be a fascinating example of the improvement of weather models over time. Do you happen to know of any comparable quantitative metrics by which climate models can be seen to have improved over time? Dragons flight 07:06, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice pic. The one I'm more used to seeing is the length-of-useful-forecast graph, which shows similar improvement. However... no I don't know comparable pics from climate models. The obvious problem would be that you can't do it year-on-year, climate models being far less frequent: the hadley center has arguably only had 3 model incarnations. They do have a "model index" which finds that hadgem1 is better than hadcm3, but I don't know if that was ever applied back to hadcm2, much less to other centres William M. Connolley 13:28, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
when you say 3 models, does that include or exclude improvements in spatial resolution as computing power has improved? Dragons flight 16:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
I meant hadcm2, hadcm3 and hadgem1. There are others, but it could get complex. Do you want to include atmos-only models? Those are the "official" releases, sort of. There are various experiments with different spatial res, but its not clear if those were meant to be improvements... William M. Connolley 17:27, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Well at the moment I am just sort of curious about what is being labeled a "model". I could see the term being used to refer to either a set of coupled differential equations (which might then be implemented on a variety of different grid sizes), or to a specific implementation on a specific grid size. Do you ever take your differential systems, and leaving them as is, try to increase the number of grid elements through the use of more powerful computers? Dragons flight 17:40, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes and no. "GCM" means the full set of code, on the whole. Ie, big set of PDEs and params on top. But also, in general, it means a specific config and setup. "hadcm3" means a given code version, plus given ancils (e.g. land sea mask), plus a given resolution. You *can* run it at, say, higher rez; but there is no guarantee that its better. But yes, I know there were various projects with higher rez versions... the problem is that because of the about grid^3-4 dependency, you can't run much higher rez, if the model is anywhere close to state-of-the-art William M. Connolley 22:52, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Would you consider the edit below to be vandalism, exempt from 3RR?

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Landmark_Education&curid=113183&diff=91946832&oldid=91916187 Sm1969 07:57, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Only marginally so, better dealt with by consensus of editors. Definitely not encyclopeadic, of course William M. Connolley 13:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

SPM

Can we give Summary for policymakers a decent burial? Or even an indecent one? Is there a protocol to follow, or can I just move the (very small amount of) useful information in the article somewhere else? It's been tagged for merger several months now. Raymond Arritt 04:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't forget what links to it...
Gack. Is there no automagic way of taking care of such things? Raymond Arritt 22:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Well if you replaced it with a redirect to IPCC it would be transparent. I quite like the existence of a separate SPM page, myself William M. Connolley 22:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I made a comment on Mel Etitis' block

Doo dee doo

Hope that helps, William. Syrthiss 22:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks - yes that helps. I should probably have put the comment up earlier, its good ot have 2nd and 3rd opinions in difficult cases William M. Connolley 22:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I know I've given you one before, but...

The Working Man's Barnstar
For doing a task that makes me grind my teeth just thinking about it, this star is for you! Syrthiss 22:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Ah well, thanks even more :-) William M. Connolley 09:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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Regarding my block due to violation of 3RR

Hey there. While I understand that I may have been in violation of 3RR, when there is a dispute over a page and socks are coming into play, doesn't 3RR become moot if sock edits are occurring?

No William M. Connolley 14:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I simply ask this because it just concerns me because it may vindicate this particular person. I can see that the individual did receive a block, but at the same time, I had no warnings against myself to discontinue and was reverting in more or less for motives that were not ill regard.

People get warnings if they might not know about 3RR. Clearly you did William M. Connolley 14:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

The three hour block was minor and had no bearing on my editing (as I was asleep during the whole time), but I still cannot help but feel that it might have been unwarranted. Any comment? Thanks. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 13:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes: don't break 3RR and consider WP:1RR where possible William M. Connolley 14:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
And removing blocks/warnings so quickly from your talk page is Bad Form William M. Connolley 14:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, the block notice is on archive and the page was moved, so there is a record of somebody giving me the 3RR notice. I also thought that it was determined that if someone acknowledges the warning and message that it is deemed acceptable? Look, I am not here to argue per se, but I just wanted some clarification, as I spend more time removing vandal edits than anything else. I consider myself to be highly benign, so that is why I am feeling a bit sore over this. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 14:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
There is a trail to your block; but its not one anyone will find unless looking for it. You should leave block messages, or reasonable warnings, up for a fair length of time - a few weeks at least. I appreciate that you don't think you merited a block, but you have one anyway William M. Connolley 15:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
WMC, I agree with this (leaving warnings) but is it in a guideline anywhere? Someone asked me recently and I couldn't find it written. Thanks --BozMo talk 16:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I suspect it is, but I dont know where. *Everyone* knows it... William M. Connolley 16:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
If there is a clear guideline on this somewhere, I'll gladly return the notice to the page. I can assure you that it would be a very long time before another block would come my way if ever. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 16:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Baibars Revert war

Could you take a look at this, or give me some guidance on 3RR? It appears to be a pretty nasty and unfruitful revert war regarding "Christian massacre of Muslims" & vice versa, with several editors on both sides possibly violating 3RR just today. I'm not involved in the argument; I'm just not sure how to write this one up. Thanks for your assistance.-Robotam 19:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Since at least one anon had shifting IP it seemed best to semi it. Using the new expiry feature, wow William M. Connolley 19:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Great. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail. Thnx-Robotam 20:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Block of User:Vlad_fedorov (discussion *closed*)

Hi, William.

I was monitoring the edit war between User:Biophys and User:Vlad fedorov on Boris Stomakhin. I agree that both editors are quite tendentious and do not want to compromise, but honestly I do not see [[WP:BLP}} violations there. Boris Stomakhin was sentenced to 5 years of prison sentence for "hate speech" and "inciting violence". It is outrageous that such a sentence was given for Internet blogging and printing free leaflets but to be fair we need to mention that he did said crazy things.

All the Stomakin's citations are sourced both to the official court proceedings (WP:RS) and to Stomakhin's own website (WP:RS then they are about the author himself). Some citations are also sourced to the opinion piece by Maxim Sokolov in Izvestia: a respectful, reasonably neutral large Russian newspaper. Thus, the citations are referenced to 2 and some to 3 independent reliable sources. I cannot see WP:BLP violations there.

Unless I miss something I would recommend to unblock Vlad or block both him and biophys for the editwarring Alex Bakharev 12:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I have explained several times at the Stomakhin talk page that I do not challenge Izvestia but only a contradictory and unreferenced citation by Maksim Sokolov. He did not even tell what he is citing, and this citation contradicts to the text of the alleged source, which is even more unreliable. Biophys 18:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC) We agreed to cite anything from the court proceedings. The disagreement is only about one citation from unreliable sources that was never mentioned by the court. Biophys 18:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
You indeed challenge Izvestia credibility which is evident from what is written by you below on controversity of Stomakhin citations. Then why do you delete statements taken from the court sentence and add your own commentary to citations of Stomakhin take form the court decision? By your edit there cur you have deleted the whole sentence sourced by the court decision. And namely "Stomakhin was accused of the extremist activities, calls to violent change of Constitutional regime, calls to violate territorial integrity of Russian Federation, hate speech, inciting ethnic and religious hatred in his articles, which covered among other things, the Chechen conflict, the Russian Orthodox Church, and Russian nation.".Vlad fedorov 07:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I was relying on JKelly's determination and I think you need to take the issue up with him. Vf has been saying, in effect, how can you tell if I'm right given that my sources are in Russian and you don't speak Russian. This seems rather problematic. Perhaps we need an approved translation of the appropriate refs. For example, the "death to all russians" quote is sourced to this . Is it reliable? Who is it run by? What, even, does it say, and who is sayin it? Maybe this should be clarified at BLP William M. Connolley 12:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons#Wot_about_foreign_language_subjects_and_sources.3F William M. Connolley 12:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
For what it is worth, I think that this was a good block. Let's take a look at some of the things being inserted into the article:
  • "He also criticized Russian government in defamatory and obscene statements" -- entirely unsourced; is this Misplaced Pages's opinion?
    "No one human rights organization or non-governmental organization had supported Stomakhin at the trial, and no one organization sued the Russian Federation government for alleged by them abuses of Stomakhin, trial abuses or Stomakhin contention abuses." -- unsourced, almost certainly OR
    " also described statements by Boris Stomakhin as 'non-violent'. No one Jewish NGO in Russian Federation supported 's view though. Some of the facts in Statement of Union of Councils for Soviet Jews turned out to be false." -- unsourced, probably OR, who exactly are we calling liars here; I don't know, but we shouldn't be doing it.
That's without getting into the question of interpreting original court documents as the basis for an article, which would be dodgy anywhere.

  • "He also criticized Russian government in defamatory and obscene statements"

It is taken form the official conviction and court sentence. I just left it unsourced. But here is the original texts on Russian.SentenceConviction

  • " also described statements by Boris Stomakhin as 'non-violent'. No one Jewish NGO in Russian Federation supported 's view though. Some of the facts in Statement of Union of Councils for Soviet Jews turned out to be false."

Pobbably, you have to study the history of the article with more zeal? Look below According to the statement of Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, Stomakhin 'was probably pushed from the window', however this accusation contradicts to numerous mass media and NGO reports and statements by Stomakhin's lawyer Alexei Golubev according to which Stomakhin jumped out of the window voluntarily.

  • "No one human rights organization or non-governmental organization had supported Stomakhin at the trial, and no one organization sued the Russian Federation government for alleged by them abuses of Stomakhin, trial abuses or Stomakhin contention abuses." -- unsourced, almost certainly OR

OR you should read the official court sentence which always lists the participants of the case heard.??? Moreover there are reports in the press which tell that Stomakhin himself was appealing for the court decision and there is no any mentioning of any NGO there, although if they believe they are right, why they won't at least support Stomakhin?Vlad fedorov 05:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


I suggest that the best way forward, given the length of this edit war and the fact of block evasion, would be to radically stub the article and rebuild it using reliable secondary sources only. Jkelly 18:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks for that. I only came onto this via 3RR; I think someone who knows at least something about this would be more useful William M. Connolley 18:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with Alex Bakharev who never disputed my arguments before, and can repeat my arguments here (they can be also found in the LP noticeboard):
Alex Bakharev himself was reinserting these citations you dispute into the text of the article. Also Administrator Mikka was also reinserting these phrases into the article. Both of them are russian-speaking users and both of them considered silently these citations to be reliable.Vlad fedorov 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
They did this before I provided these arguments. In his last edit, Alex Bakharev tried to find a compromise. Biophys 17:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

The text cited by Maksim Sokolov includes the following continuous text

The text cited by Maksim Sokolov are citations of Stomakhin and Maksim Sokolov's article doesn't imply that these citations are taken from comtinous text.Vlad fedorov 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

(Russian): "Чеченские шахиды взрывают это тупое и бессмысленное российское население не зря... Все равно только зря землю бременят... Убивать, убивать, убивать! Залить кровью всю Россию...". Two first sentences cited by Maksim Sokolov can not be found in article "Death to Russia"

These sentences could be found in another article of Stomakhin "Tushino, Budennovsk, Nord Ost and so on.." here at http://rko.marsho.net/articl/tushino.htm. And citations from Sokolov article and original article of Stomakhin match again. Again, I repeat Izvestia article by Maksim Sokolov in no way implies continous citation from one text. By researching Izvestia article, you do original research and convict this respectable Media of libel.Vlad fedorov 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

allegedly written by Stomakhin. This also looks suspicious for the following reasons. First, RKO web site obviously has no any editorial oversight; they can post absolutely anything.

What is the evidence?Vlad fedorov 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Second, the "articles" in RKO site are not dated. This is serious. Any written production must be dated, even personal letter. Otherwise, it is not admissible.

Citation from Misplaced Pages policy, please.Vlad fedorov 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Third, Maksim Sokolov did not say what he had actually cited. He did not tell this is "Death to Russia" or anything else.

Journalists have the priviledge not to disclose their sources. Forcing them to disclose their sources is against freedom of speech and freedom of media.Vlad fedorov 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
This is simply ridiculous. To the contrary, Maksim Sokolov discloses his "source": Boris Stomakhin. Biophys 17:03, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

We compare two dubious texts and can see that, yes, they are different!

You never have explained why we should found all citations of Stomakhin from Maksim Sokolov article in Izvestia in one article by Stomakhin. You have never explained why article by Maksim Sokolov implies continous citation. Three dots in Russian (...) do not only imply continuos citation, they could also imly break down of the thought. Moreover it just could be grammar mistake by journalist or editor.Vlad fedorov 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
This was cited as follows: "text...text". Such citation assumes that the cited text comes from the same source (article). But the article was not named.Biophys 17:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

The citation by Sokolov without any reference to the source is also not admissible.

Why we couldn't refer to Izvestia article on Stomakhin? Perhaps you should tell the truth, you don't want to cite Izvestia article because it compromises your campaign to make political prisoner of Stomakhin! See the original versions of the article on Stomakhin made by Biphys where he claims him to be innocent victim.Vlad fedorov 07:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Fourth, journalist Vladimir Abarinov claimed that some texts allegedly written by Stomakhin and used for his conviction actually were not written by him.

And the court sentence specifically mentions all the texts that were claimed as 'not written' by Stomakhin. All these texts concerned inciting religious hatred. These disputed articles do not include texts by Maksim Sokolov and the article 'Death to Russsia' by Stomakhin.Vlad fedorov 07:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Fifth, article "Death to Russia" was not cited in the court sentence, although they tried to find the most incriminating "evidence". I am not doing any original research here.

Of course it wasn't cited, because he was written latter, when investigation was closed and case transmitted to the court.Vlad fedorov 07:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
So, Sokolov justifies conviction of Stomakhin based on something he did after the conviction? But we do not know for sure since this "article" was not dated.Biophys 17:03, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

This is simply an examination of sources.

Why you consider my examination to be invalid?Vlad fedorov 11:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

My position is very simple and clear: Controversial material of any kind that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous. (and these are are not simply "controversial" materials; these are mutually contradictory and controversial materials).

What controversial material? All citations in Maksim Sokolov article are found in different articles of Stomakhin at http://rko.marsho.net. Your controversiality is a matter of your imagination and original research. Two russian-speaking Misplaced Pages administrators (Alex Bakharev and Mikka) have found no controversity and reinserted these citations back to the article. Three russian individuals (two admins and me) have found no controversity. Publish your request om BLP board for additional research. One vote against three is not democratic here in Misplaced Pages.Vlad fedorov 07:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
No one voted about anything. No one, except Vlad Fedorov, ever disputed my arguments. Biophys 17:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

This is not POV issue. If you think the article is POV, one can cite the Stomakhin's court sentence as many times as necessary (but not out of the context).

As I indicated above, and as could be seen from the article history, you systematically delete citations from the court sentence. You also add your personal commentaries to the citations of Stomakhin from the court sentence. Like that about Elsa Kungaeva.Vlad fedorov 07:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

It is also O'K to represent Sokolov opinion (but without his contradictory citation).

There is no contradiction, as I have indicated above, the RCA site contains all ciattions of Maksim Sokolov in different articles of Stoomakhin.Vlad fedorov 07:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

It is O'K to provide a link to RKO site, because we are not responsible for content of other sites. Biophys 18:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

  • One compromise solution would be to exclude all Russian language sources from this article. Then everyone would be able to see what the source actually says. If this is decided, I would simply remove from the article everything not supported by English language sources, so that Jkelly and William M. Connolley could check.

Biophys 18:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of sources on foreign language is a discrimination and violation of Misplaced Pages policies. There is a special place where requests for translation could be placed.Vlad fedorov 05:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Biophys 18:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

The references at the end of each citation clearly show source from which they were taken. They are contained in the article of Stomakhin (all two citations) and Sokolov's article (the first citation). Citation in Sokolov's article and Stomakhin's article completely corresopond to each other. Moreover, citation in Sokolov's article evidences that the article of Stomakhin 'Death to Russia' published at http://rko.marsho.net/articl/mashadov.htm is an authentic text. Therefore, in addition to citation of Maksim Sokolv we could also cite the passages from Stomakhin's article 'Death to Russia' published at http://rko.marsho.net/articl/mashadov.htm. The user Biophys maliciously lies when tells that the article by Maksim Sokolov implies continuos citation from the same article. Here is the whole relevant passage from Sokolov's article: Стомахин же избрал ясную манеру - "Чеченские шахиды взрывают это тупое и бессмысленное российское население не зря... Все равно только зря землю бременят... Убивать, убивать, убивать! Залить кровью всю Россию, не давать ни малейшей пощады никому, постараться непременно устроить хотя бы один ядерный взрыв на территории РФ... Эта страшная и зловонная Россия должна быть уничтожена навеки". На этом фоне "Майн кампф" - учебник гуманизма. Если сажать по ст. 282 и 280 ("Публичные призывы к осуществлению экстремистской деятельности"), то начинать посадки, очевидно, следует с абсолютного чемпиона. В противном случае статью следовало бы совсем отменить. http://www.izvestia.ru/sokolov/article3098675/ I invite anyone who could read in Russian to the followoing address to judge whether Biophys is falsifying the link and the source. http://www.izvestia.ru/sokolov/article3098675/ http://rko.marsho.net/articl/mashadov.htm I would like to pay attention that the user Biophys is systematically falsyfying the information in the articles Boris Stomakhin and Human Rights in Russia - which are the articles written by him personally. He constantly rewrites, changes, delets the reliable information he doesn't like personally and abuses other contributors of Misplaced Pages. Please read the whole discussion page for the detailed explanation of cases where Biophys maliciosly falsified the information.

The second passage (citation), about which Biophys is talking was taken not from Maksim Sokolov's article, but from Stomakhin's article which was shown by proper references. The word 'article' in the opening sentence referred not to Maksim Sokolov's article, but referred to the Stomakhin's article "Death to Russia".I have changed the opening sentence for appropriate wording to show that not the article by Maksim Sokolov, but the article 'Death to Russia' by Boris Stomakhin contained all these citations. Moreover the sources of citations were made a lot earlier which pointed to specific sources from which specific Stomakhin's citations were taken. Every citation could be found in Stomakhin's article "Death to Russia" published at http://rko.marsho.net/articl/mashadov.htm. I cite the whole article from the link relevant passages are in bold:

СМЕРТЬ РОССИИ! ... народам!Vlad fedorov 05:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Um Yes. But thats all in Russian. I suggest a way forward: for all Russian sources you want to reference, starting with the first, you get agreement on the tlak page that the source is (a) reliable and (b) that the translation (of the relevant passages, not the whole thing) is agreed. Do this one at at time, starting perhaps with the most reliable and least controversial William M. Connolley 12:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

A thing is there were four people who edited this article. Alex Bakharev, Mikkalai, me and Biophys. The only one person who disputes the article "Death to Russia" is Biophys. All other editors were leaving these citations or reinserted these citations after Biophys deletions. Considering that there is only one man against three, I suggest posting this situation to the BLP noticeboard or Russian community board for review. Misplaced Pages is not a place for bargain. It is not bazaar. If we couldn't yield to muslims who want to call Bush in his biography terrorist, why we (three men) should yield to Biophys ungrounded demand? If he wants to dispute judgement of three men, there is a special procedure for this.Vlad fedorov 17:21, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
William, sorry for bothering you with this dispute. Thank you for the mediation. Everything above has been discussed at the Boris Stomakhin talk page. That was my first experiment with creating a biography of a "controversial" living person. Sure, I will never do this again. But it would be very unfortunate to have a defamatory article (based on poor sources) about this man who is sitting in the prison solely for his words. This is the only reason I am so persistent. I agree to follow your advice and included the appropriate comment at the end of Boris Stomakhin talk page. Biophys 17:03, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

This discussion is now *closed*. Do not add more on pain of being blocked for needing the last word. Please see Boris Stomakhin and talk for a way to take this forwards not wallowing in the past William M. Connolley 17:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

3RR Ruling

Hi, I was blocked for 8 hours for violating 3rr. While I was unaware of the rule regarding 3rr, I did in fact violate it. While I was reading the helpful links (thanks for providing those, btw) about 3rr, I read that in the instances of a first violation, a warning is sent before an actual block takes place, Is there a reason why my block occurred without warning? Again, i am not saying that I am blameless in this matter; I am in fact not, and have learned more than a bit about it, I cannot respond to unreasonable users by cowboying up. Perhaps using the structures in place for essentailly the same effect is a better and more lasting method of fixing a prolem (editing or otherwise). Again, thanks for making the block fairly painless.Arcayne 14:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

A warning is usual but not obligatory. I can't remember your exact circumstances William M. Connolley 15:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Might I impose upon you to take a moment and recall the circumstances? It seemed to me to be a bit on the harsh side, considering it was the first time the rule had been broken by someone who had contributed quite a bit.Arcayne 01:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes. It was because I looked back into your talk history and found that you had been warned William M. Connolley 09:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Just for amusement

AfDing articles on people can be quite interesting. This one for example: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jules Siegel has written far more in the AfD debate than he ever did in the article he wrote about himself... He may well be notable but... --BozMo talk 20:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm well. I don't think I'll vote William M. Connolley 20:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
No. But smile perhaps. He probably deserves to stay but the indignation is disproportionate to the point of entertaining--BozMo talk 21:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
I learnt my lesson at William Connolley a long time ago and now stay away William M. Connolley 21:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Hmm, yes. BTW I have some nice (low res) pics of the family of baby stoats which live in my garden which I might send you for your blog. They are very playful. --BozMo talk 21:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Delightful! I'm very jealous. Do send the pic. In return, I could start a stub about an ex-oilman turned charity exec. Err, or I could *not* start it in exchange... William M. Connolley 21:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Not. Okay, I will find some pics/small vid clips) on the other PC and email them, probably tomorrow. As for the threat... I have enough scientific publications to pass WP:BIO and not enough appetite for it to knit a baby gnat's sock "like I want a wart in the middle of my forehead" I think is the expression. We also boast some baby owls, bats in our attic, three varieties of deer, hares, rabbit and badgers in the garden but no pics yet. Glorious Suffolk. --BozMo talk 22:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


okay try http://catesfamily.org.uk/stoats.jpg and then in a couple of minutes stoatsclip.mov from the same place. First is 2M second is 6M. --BozMo talk 23:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Cute or what! I'm now insanely jealous. When I blog them, do you want (or unwant) attribution and/or copyright? William M. Connolley 23:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Any copyleft with attribution to my homepage would be kind (but I wouldn't insist). I notice Stoat has no picture and will put a cut jpg up there. I think the way that they bounce around in the movie is quite informative and if you can find a way to get that into Misplaced Pages format you are welcome to aswell. I don't have the tools. --BozMo talk 09:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I find it suspicious ...

... that you would have protected Middle East Media Research Institute just five minutes after Isarig made a reversion following almost 3 and a half hours of no change. Can you explain how events came to transpire in this way, without collusion between yourself and Isarig? Thanks. Beelzebarn 22:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

If I hadn't protected it you'd now find yourself with a 24h block, so be grateful William M. Connolley 22:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, now I'm going to look for what I can do to report you for abuse. Beelzebarn 23:59, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi - I don't find your actions suspicious but I do think that it would be helpful if you would offer some comment on the talk page that you protected, some guidance that might help lead the page to eventual unprotection. It would also be helpful to remind everyone, esp. newbies, that protection does not equate to endorsement of a particular version of the page (unless perhaps you feel it does?) Thanks.csloat 23:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
OK William M. Connolley 09:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm preparing to file a complaint against you

Under Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. I'd prefer that you just explain to me how you came to lock the article so suddenly after Isarig's revert. Beelzebarn 00:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Please don't waste your time; I was looking at the 3RR report William M. Connolley 09:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Protect needed

Please protect temporarily two articles, Vylkove and Ukrainian postal codes from editing as some users will get themselves blocked over not-so-important issues. I started discussion to solve this conflict on my talk page. Thank you.--Bryndza 16:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

There is an admin page for requesting protection William M. Connolley 17:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I had impression you are admin and this is a way to request protections. I was trying to find the page but... found--Bryndza 17:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Unblock Requested

On their behalf, I am requesting that User:DashiKun and User:Miss Away be unblocked, because they cannot currently comment to you because of their blocked status. I think their indefinite blocks are unfair because since the users are new, they are immediately assumed to be sock puppets. Only accusations have been made and the users are being accused unfairly merely because they have taken an opposing side of a discussion. Because the users are new does not mean their voices should not be heard.

Ask them to send me an email William M. Connolley 19:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Response to Protected on MEMRI talk

In case you haven't seen it, I've left a comment for you on the MEMRI talk page. Thanks, Jgui 22:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

AFD List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts

Someone has put this list on AFD without discussing it first. Count Iblis 01:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I didn't bother vote, as its clearly keep. Let me know if by some odd chance it gets close William M. Connolley 09:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Old 3RR case

I know it's quite some time ago, but I'm a bit smarter now about our policies, so I'd like to ask you to revisit this old 3RR case and confirm, if you agree with me, that at least three of the reverts fell under the WP:BLP exception to WP:3RR under Reverting unsourced or poorly sourced controversial material about living persons. Thank you. ~ trialsanderrors 09:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not going to review old cases William M. Connolley 09:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Not a particularly collegial attiude. ~ trialsanderrors 09:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

The problem with mistaken accusations ...

... is that they can take on a life of their own:

Beelzebarn 19:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello again, need more help

BenBurch continues to make false accusations against me on the Talk:Free Republic page along with taunting and baiting. I am trying very, very hard to remain civil and be productive, having successfully convinced FAAFA to (at long last) remove the libelous material I've been so concerned about. You've been helpful in the past; please consider a longer block for the individual this time. Thanks Dino 19:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

More problems from an editor your blocked

Back on Jan 8, you blocked User:Signaleer for 3RR violations. This editor has continued his disruptive editing, and is getting progressively more vandalism-oriented. He's also using to IP address as sockpuppets. I'm building a long list of diffs as evidence. Since you blocked him, I thought I'd bring this to your attention, first. He has now been warned with {{Uw-delete4}}, so I realize nothing can be done till he violates again, but I wanted to run this by you first. Would you prefer to handle this directly, or would you prefer that I take it to WP:AIV? I'm also considering opening an RfC on him, and would invite your input into the wisdom of doing this. Thanks. Akradecki 03:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Best taken to vandalism or sock check pages William M. Connolley 10:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Back to Stomakhin article and my contraversial block

The bottom line is ... Vlad fedorov 07:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. The bottom line is that you are writing more than I am prepared to read. You need to be severely self-disciplined to make this stuff comprehensible to outsiders. I tried to provide a framework on the talk page but it rapidly got overwhelmed by a torrent of words. *Please* realise that you need to keep this *brief* to be comprehensible William M. Connolley 10:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Help with user that has violated 3RR

I already reported user User:Corticopia about his continueous violations of 3RR. He was blocked last week. He violated 3RR yesterday and today, he did it again. It seems that no administrator has look this issue and I wonder why. Can you please come and help? The report is here

Thanks in advance for your help. Stellar Void 21:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Please see the report. Corticopia 21:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
2007-02-02T22:43:53 Cbrown1023 (Talk | contribs | block) m (Protected Mexico: edit warring (RFPP request) )

I might not be aware of all the rules concerning administrators' actions after protecting a page: does the protection automatically cancel the 3RR report? In other words, is protecting a page the valid resolution for a 3RR violation? Several users repeatedly violated 3RR in Mexico over the last few days, in spite of being warned not to do so, and in spite of having been blocked for doing so in the same article, in the exact same section, over the exact same issues, a week ago (recurrent misbehavior). I am afraid that once the page is unprotected the article might continue to be continously reverted even after reaching a consensus (we had reached a rough consensus before). --the Dúnadan 19:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Almost always. 3RR is preventitive not punitive so once the page is prot there is little point William M. Connolley 20:09, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

3rr Template?

What is that 3rr Template that you use when you block people for violations?--Jersey Devil 06:56, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I think it comes from some javascript from User:Voice of All William M. Connolley 15:20, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

3RR question

I answered at your question at 3RR reports page.--MariusM 19:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I think he should be warned this time; it doesn't appear to be a very clear violation. Khoikhoi 20:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
OK - Marius given your history, reports from you will be treated with caution William M. Connolley 20:26, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Block request

The problematic IP editor that I believe I asked you about before (204.122.16.13) admitted on RFCU (later moved to talk) that he was the indef blocked Frater Xyzzy here. Could the (seemingly static) IP be blocked for evasion? MSJapan 08:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I have blocked that IP William M. Connolley 10:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
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