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Your thread has been archived

Hi Alalch Emis! The thread you created at the Misplaced Pages:Teahouse, How to reply to suspicions of sockpuppeting and COI, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:03, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

1RR

Hi friend. I can see you have been busy. It may be a good idea to take a break from the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol article for a couple of weeks. There are a lot of other articles which need the attention of a passionate and bold editor like yourself. The article regarding the the Capitol attacks is under a 1RR restriction and you have been reverting more than this limit with some of your edits. Also, it's a good idea to stay away from the WP:AN noticeboard. The only reason you should post anything to the AN/I is to stop bad faith editors from doing damage to the project, it's not the place to discuss or debate content disputes. You have the potential to become an excellent and valuable editor and a real asset to the Misplaced Pages project. Consider taking a break from 1RR articles for the time being. I would not like to see you blocked again or topic banned.  :-) Octoberwoodland (talk) 23:26, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

The article is not under 1RR at present. Only pages with Template:Ds/editnotice attached are subject to 1RR (or similar) enforcement. El_C 23:47, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

My understanding is that all articles related to US politics are subject to this restriction. Perhaps you should add that template to this article. I have been treating it as 1RR in any event and as per WP:BRD all editors should avoid 1RR when possible. Thanks for the clarification. Octoberwoodland (talk) 23:52, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Since this is getting a bit off-topic for this user talk page, I started User talk:El_C#Request to put 2021 storming of the United States Capitol under WP:1RR. — Chrisahn (talk) 00:03, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I see why pinged him now, Chrisahn. Holy split discussion. Let's leave Alalch Emis' talk page in peace, though. El_C 00:20, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Partial AE block from 2021 storming of the United States Capitol and Talk:2021 storming of the United States Capitol

If you believe this block is unjustified, please read the guide to appealing blocks (specifically this section) before appealing. Place the following on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Please copy my appeal to the ] or ]. Your reason here OR place the reason below this template. ~~~~}}. If you intend to appeal on the arbitration enforcement noticeboard I suggest you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template on your talk page so it can be copied over easily. You may also appeal directly to me (by email), before or instead of appealing on your talk page. 

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Sorry, Alalch Emis, but it doesn't look you've lived up to your assurances. Note that this partial block is a bit of a boon. My first instinct was to go with a straight WP:AP2 topic ban, but possibly you can still edit (hopefully, much, much less controversial!) American politics pages without further incident. But please note that further transgressions on that front are likely to be met with severity. Please do not remove this block notice, if you don't mind, so that if further problems occur, there's a visible reference point for other editors to note your quasi-probationary status. G'luck. El_C 23:34, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

@El C: Just to avoid any future misunderstandings: Does this partial block also apply to the daugther pages of 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, i.e. Timeline of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Aftermath of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, International reactions to the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Domestic reactions to the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol (and their talk pages)? What about the closely related page 2021 United States inauguration week protests, on which Alalch Emis has also been very active? If I understand you correctly, you'd strongly advise Alalch Emis against editing these pages, but I think it would be useful for everyone involved to know the exact scope of the partial block. Thanks! — Chrisahn (talk) 23:47, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Oh, right, I wasn't mindful of those pages. Yes, will add. El_C 23:50, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Okay, I don't contend. Bombing was there for a month, and was being openly discussed and revised (in the body as well) on finer points: wording, not inclusion/exclusion, implying that multiple people, over time, agreed it should be listed in some form. Because of that, and since it involves a the question of "what is an integral part of the event" (with regard to the subject of the article as being defined by it's chosen name as well, so implications of renaming discussions exist too) and seeing how it's something closely related to the earlier RfC on terrorism, I thought an efficient way to finally get clarity on this point of content is an RfC. I started it after a sequence of reverts by a user who would not discuss it. Looking at it now, despite the snowclose, I don't see anything negative coming from that RfC. A related discussion was started, consensus is being formed on multiple important points of content. The infobox is attracting renewed scrutiny (as it should). It's just normal. The only thing that isn't normal is the hatted subdiscussion. I didn't think starting an RfC can create bad optics regarding my contributions. — Alalch Emis (talk) 05:55, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Starting the RfC wasn't the problem. (Maybe it wasn't strictly necessary to start an RfC, but that's no big deal.) I think you should read again what many editors have been trying to tell you in the last five or ten days, here on your talk page, in the ANI discussions your started, and elsewhere. Many of your contributions have been useful, but some elements of your behavior have been disruptive, and so far you have shown no indication that you've understood what the problem is. — Chrisahn (talk) 06:14, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

After being continuously hounded by you, in an apparent reaction to my opposition (former, this is in the past) to your subtle disruptive maneuver in the riot RM, I won't be showing any indication of positive receptiveness to your words, i.e. those words aimed at personally. For example you state now that the RfC is pretty run-of-the-mill, but at the same time that I'm at risk of owning the article by starting the RfC. I can't bow down do illogicalities. Let's change the subject. We can redirect this energy onto working on an article, for example. Nothing forces you to write on my talk page, but I am compelled to respond to posts that target me. — Alalch Emis (talk) 10:15, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

You seem to have a strongly negative reaction to multiple Misplaced Pages editors -- far more than most other people have. You might want to think about why this is. I have not examined your interactions with Chrisahn and thus will not take sides, but in your interactions with me you reacted very negatively to my good-faith advice. I have been watching various editors get into various conflicts over the last fifteen years, and I wrote an essay that many experienced editors agree is helpful for editors in the middle of such conflicts. I urge you to reconsider your decision to reject my essay out of hand. Seriously, I really think it will help you. The essay is at WP:1AM. Could you please just look at it? --Guy Macon (talk) 15:34, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. After having read a part earlier, I've now read the whole of it. The obstacle for me is the seriousness and solemnity by which the "many" is addressed. It is homogeneized and normativised as a more powerful subject that is to be reckoned with. By reading your essay, the most likely immediate effect on the reader is: "hmmm I'm gonna make sure I'm a part of the many so I don't have to go through all this trouble (next time)".
But the "the many" is a twisted meme. The first who calls upon the many is the vanguard that is followed by others who want a piece of the cake. They want to be the majority from the argument from majority. They want it not to be a mere fallacy but an argument of power. Power seduces; when it draws people in, they conform, submit, and stop generating original output, and start thinking how to promote the meme.
"The many" is therefore typically the first to undermine conventions, it's a dark desire to reaffirm and constitute oneself as the "law". It's only when one challenges the many openly, the law (the conventions and the virtue in them) becomes visible and explicit. What should treated as solemn is process, not raw power. A majoritarian tendency is a natural side-effect of open-ended collaboration, but it should be undermined, ridiculed, and not canonized in essays.
That's why I have a deep philosophical objection to the essay. What I see as fundamentally misplaced reverence in addressing the many (throughout the essay, implicitly and explicitly) is why I had called it what I called it, but there was no negative emotion behind it. I've read a few other texts in your userspace and I liked them a lot.
I'm going to take a while to process everything and adjust. I really appreciate the good will in your approach. — Alalch Emis (talk) 17:50, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

@El C: Just notifying you that there's a talk subpage that I might need to be blocked from too: Talk:2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol/Ongoing_analysis_of_naming_trends — Alalch Emis (talk) 12:56, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Alalch Emis, hmm, looks like I can't add anymore — apparently, WP:PB is capped at 6 (which is news to me, so I learned something new). Anyway, as mentioned above, I wasn't originally mindful of all the aforementioned sister pages. Otherwise, I'd have just gone with a WP:TBAN from the outset. Can you please just spare me the bother of amending the sanction again by just staying away from any and all of the sister pages, whatsoever, for the 3-month duration? That would be greatly appreciated. Regards, El_C 15:31, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Yes, absolutely. Thank you — Alalch Emis (talk) 15:39, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. BTW, upon attempting to do that (via your contribis) I just noticed DeepFuckingValue — damn, that's a great handle! Though Roaring Kitty is pretty sweet, too! El_C 15:41, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

@El C: editor has returned to this page, . Was the intent for this block to be temporary? If yes, maybe this section should be archived. VQuakr (talk) 17:37, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

VQuakr, the block was for 3 months (it's in bold). This is Alalch Emis' talk page, so any decision regarding archiving (or lack thereof) is totally up to them. El_C 17:48, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

@VQuakr: I'm agnostic on the issue, i.e. maybe there's some good in not archiving the section. On your advice (if you believe that it would be of some service to other people coming to this talk page), I'll archive it; equally – you can. — Alalch Emis (talk) 21:12, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Do as you like; it's your talk page and the note was rooted in my reading comprehension failure. VQuakr (talk) 21:58, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

List of Historic Landmarks in Healdsburg, California

Is it Misplaced Pages policy that historic landmark buildings and districts in Healdsburg cannot be included on Misplaced Pages? There seem to be many international, federal, state, county and city designations and the listings for most do appear on a Misplaced Pages article. What makes Healdsburg worthy of being cut? Please explain.MikeVdP (talk) 05:42, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

@MikeVdP: Any subject has better coverage when it is done according to Misplaced Pages's established norms and best practices. According to these, pretty much all things Healdsburg should be covered in a single article. I really like the text of the decision, I could sign every word, so I have nothing better to add in particular. All people want is for Healdsburg to have the best coverage here that it can have. Rather than addressing me, you can nominate one of those superfluous articles on other locales, that you've noticed, for deletion. Spread the love :) — Alalch Emis (talk) 06:26, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

so called "Zangezur Corridor"

Hi. Your edits in Zangezur Corridor are highly controversial, they artificially create connection between a clearly propaganda concept (even the Azeri editors in the deletion discussion agree it is propaganda concept) and the ceasefire agreement, which said nothing about that "corridor". I kindly suggest you revert yourself to prevent sparking an edit war and a noticeboard case of Misplaced Pages:Advocacy violation. https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Zangezur_corridor&action=history --Armatura (talk) 19:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

@Armatura: Hi! The nationalistic/expansionist element that's involved in this subject matter is when the corridor is made up to be a strip of sovereign Azerbaijani territory (which could be deduced from Aliyev's words), but when seen strictly in the words of Article 9, it's a corridor, a member of the genus of transport corridors. My edits haven't made the article more controversial than it's already been. I hope you're open to discussing this a little more. — Alalch Emis (talk) 19:44, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Don't deduce / WP:OR, it does not say corridor or its location or even the type or number. Please abide WP rules or the community will oblige you to abide those rules. --Armatura (talk) 19:50, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Don't tell me what to do. Your words ring hollow. — Alalch Emis (talk) 19:52, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:No original research . --Armatura (talk) 19:57, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

You're boring. — Alalch Emis (talk) 20:00, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

WP:AVOIDYOU --Armatura (talk) 20:06, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

@Armatura: original research again? – diff

When a reflection on "You're boring" and "Your words ring hollow" phrases violating WP:CIVILITY is shown, you may find people whom you address by such phrases could be open to discussing things a little more. However, you chose to undo the revert of another editor straight after being reverted, thus engaging in WP:EDITWAR instead of discussing on talk page, causing even more disruption. --Armatura (talk) 20:42, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Massive disruption yes, sections, templates, grammar etc. — Alalch Emis (talk) 20:46, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Now, @Armatura: tell me – comparing the current state of the article (ver) with the one that was reverted (ver), which portions of the reverted version specifically present elements of original research and advocacy that go beyond the current version? — Alalch Emis (talk) 21:26, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

POV-pushing

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Special:MobileDiff/1039445631

This user keeps re-writing Vietnamese history to fit their preferences but I don't want to engage in an edit war, what should I do? --Donald Trung (talk) 22:17, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Donald Trung:Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Post-AfD intransigence -- I already drew attentiont to Laska666's conduct and they were given a final warning. Now I would ask them to stop on their talk page (by saying literally "please stop") and if they don't in a day or two, and make multiple disruptive/PoV-pushing edits, I'd ping the administrator who issued the warning and tell them that the problem has continued, that the actions feel retaliatory, and I'd provide diffs of offending edits. Sorry I haven't been doing more in the Nguyen article, I'm mostly outside this week and can't make larger edits. — Alalch Emis (talk) 05:45, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

I understand, Misplaced Pages is volunteer work so one shouldn't invest more time in it then they would want. I prefer to avoid administrators whenever possible, as the conditions of my unblock (for using an emoji in my signature which is acceptable for literally any other user) was that if any admin even finds me mildly irritating that I would be "community banned" so I avoid them whenever possible. My problem with the user is that they add so much good content at the same time while they are pushing for some weird POV, I wouldn't even know how to describe it other than Vietnam being made into "a typical South-East Asian country" (whatever that means) as other South-East Asian countries are usually called "Kingdoms" while Vietnam was called an "Empire", East Asian countries are typically organised by "Dynasty" so this user attempts to remove as much references to dynasties as possible. I wanted to avoid calling what they were doing as "hoaxes" but in the case like them tampering with "List of Vietnamese dynasties" they literally re-wrote a section to mislead readers which should be against the rules. By preference I would not like to see anyone blocked (well, except for people like Unserefahne who actually do deserve it) because I know what it's like and it's like living hell, but I would just want the user to stop spreading false information in order to spread "their preferred version of Vietnamese history". I really hope that they will realise the errors of their ways and know that Misplaced Pages is an educational platform and not ấn advocacy platform. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:25, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Confused by your comment

Hello. In this edit on Talk:Killing of David Amess you said "Support comments are entirely discountable", which implies "all support comments". In turn, you would say a CNN source saying "Assassinated" is entirely discountable. While I have mixed opinions about CNN, Misplaced Pages deems CNN as a fully reliable source. By that comment, I feel like I should start a discussion on the reliable source list about CNN maybe not being reliable for UK news...especially if the discussion is officially closed (I have asked for the SNOW close to be reopened.) I am not saying you are wrong or anything about you. I am more of wanting to clarify your comment and get maybe an affirm (100% what you mean) or a different wording to say what you mean, before I would start that CNN discussion. So would you be ok to clarify that comment more for me? Thanks! Elijahandskip (talk) 05:42, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@Elijahandskip: Hi! I'd like to preface my answer with a note that I respect your opinion, and I don't think your contribution to the discussion was unwanted. Labelling your and other "support" advocates' comments as "discountable" sounds a little self-important. I don't make such comments routinely (and I hope I wouldn't be making them in the future, unless perhaps in a closing capacity, when a call of this sort must be made), and I don't like seeing them in discussions when other editors make them. I was compelled to write that regardless because I was absolutely convinced the discussion was not going to be closed in any other way, and that, were it not closed, it would only have led to a general distraction from improving this very publicly visible article that is linked on the front page. The reason I was so convinced that a different outcome is impossible is because of the clear guidance contained in Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (violence and deaths). It says that in an absence of a common name, a descriptive is to be be used, and this descriptive name must not be murder (or it's analogue in this case, assassination) unless it's officially judged to be a murder. Assassination is patently not a common name for this event despite one or several sources using it. It should really be a preponderance of sources that call it assassination, and it it not so. Moreover, even if it had appeared that a rough or relative majority of sources have been calling it assassination it would have been too soon to speak of a common name – even then we would still not be basing our naming choice on a consideration of a common name, and it would have taken something like several days for the coverage to settle around a term, and not even multiple days had passed. Despite CNN being absolutely a reliable source for our purposes here (no need to question that in this context), we can't establish a common name based on what you're saying. Since we don't have a common name, we must use a descriptive name according to our conventions which in this case can't be murder/assassination because the perpetrator wasn't convicted. Kind regards. — Alalch Emis (talk) 14:29, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@Elijahandskip: We can jointly WP:REDACT our conversation on the article talk page by deleting both of our comments below the RM. This means that you can delete both if you agree. That's the best thing I can come up with ATM, aside from not doing anything about it (better than writing more things on this matter). If you have some other idea, please let me know. — Alalch Emis (talk) 21:02, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

I agree. Do we fully delete the comments or do we strike through them? Elijahandskip (talk) 14:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

@Elijahandskip: I deleted (diff), as I think it's justified and I wouldn't like striking. Regards! — Alalch Emis (talk) 21:50, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

New Misplaced Pages Guideline Proposed which you might be interested in

Hello. I am letting editors know who participated in the recent discussions that decided whether the Killing of David Amess should be called "killing, murder, or assassination", about a new Misplaced Pages essay being proposed for a new guideline. The essay, Misplaced Pages:Assassination, explains how the common definition of "assassination" does not determine an article's title. Only reliable sources can determine whether it is murder/killing or assassination. Since you participated in those recent discussions, I wanted to drop a message to you about this new proposal. If you want to leave your opinion about it, you can do so in this discussion. Have a good day and keep up the good editing! Elijahandskip (talk) 03:09, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Could you help me with some pageview/ghit research?

I'm interested in the trends on Kevin McCarthy (California politician) and Kevin McCarthy (actor) as there's a RM ongoing. I don't know as much as you clearly do about how to setup the search. I know you'd make it look straightforward. I'd like to see a pageview comparison chart of both pages from page creation until the present, say 1 or 2 year increments and then the ghit comparison chart from page creation until the present day. I am specifically NOT asking you to participate in the RM. If however you were to produce the graphic comparison, it might help me illustrate the long-term notability issue. Might not. It would be relevant data anyway. No big deal if you choose not to help. Thanks for what you do. I have learned a bunch about functionality watching your excerpt solutions. BusterD (talk) 02:02, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

@BusterD: I thought about some type of chart or charts, but this is probably fine too, and it's much simpler: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=kevin%20mccarthy%20house,kevin%20mccarthy%20actor -- the actor trend is pretty motionless with a massive spike in 2010; the politician trend is more lively with multiple spikes (I chose 'kevin mccarthy house' as it seems to best captures the object of the search). When we compare these trends to kevin mccarthy en général, we see that the general trend in the past ten years roughly corresponds to the trend for the politician, and not for the actor (which is a given, as the actor is deceased). So the politician has been trending more for a while, but I don't think that this is of much use in the RM because it doesn't capture the amount of coverage and recognition the actor received during his lifetime. I wouldn't make distinctions based on country, but it's safe to say that outside of US the politician has not been trending in any significant way. Sorry for not replying sooner, I've been a bit under the weather and avoided screen time for the past week. Thanks for the words of encouragement! — Alalch Emis (talk) 18:05, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

I hope you are feeling better. I have had to step back a bit this year myself for family reasons. Thank you for spending ANY time on this for me. I very much enjoy that we sometimes disagree but still trust each other as true wikipedians do. Your energy and initiative solutions have vastly improved the Capitol Attack page. Please feel invited to call on me if I can be helpful. BusterD (talk) 18:18, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. — Alalch Emis (talk) 18:34, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Just a quick reminder/suggestion

Hey Alalch Emis. I am not sure how often you look or edit things on the Portal:Current events, but I think it would be helpful to check it out when/before you create a new "current event" article. About an hour before you created 2021 Lagos high-rise collapse, an article Ikoyi building collapse had began and was listed on the portal. An editor later on deleted all the info from the earlier article and left a redirect to the article you started. Nothing wrong per say with all of this, just more of a weird situation since we now editing history plus a stray talk page that have content but no links to it. There is nothing wrong with what you did as I believe the article you started has a better name and the redirect solved the article issues, but maybe in the future, check the Portal out to see if a stub article already exists for that new current event. Have a good day! Elijahandskip (talk) 21:54, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

@Elijahandskip: Thanks a lot! I was wondering about the same thing and was unsure about creating the article, under a feeling that it must have already been started -- and it had been! (I just didn't find it.) I will definitely check the portal out more in the future when starting such articles. — Alalch Emis (talk) 21:58, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

No problem. Sometimes though, articles might not be deemed notable enough for the Portal. I also use (Misplaced Pages New Pages) to check the last few hours in case it was created there and not put on the portal. Elijahandskip (talk) 22:03, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2021 Lagos high-rise collapse

On 3 November 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2021 Lagos high-rise collapse, which you created. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Kacamata! 17:07, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Astana

Hi there, regarding the move discussion closure.

What Argument than the Google Scholar and Google Trends based evidence, that Astana still is the more common Name used in English sources can be more relevant?

What if a consensus is not met, because there is a subject like this, are the arguments regarding the usage nothing Wirth, because some people just think differently.

Sorry, but I just dont get it! there almost never can be a consensus, arguments are the things, that count, aren't they?

--Tecumseh*1301 (talk) 19:30, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

--Tecumseh*1301 (talk) 19:30, 4 November 2021 (UTC)