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Important informationShortcuts WP:AE WP:ARE Please use this page only to: request administrative action against editors violating a remedy (not merely a principle) or an injunction in an Arbitration Committee decision, or a contentious topic restriction imposed by an administrator, request contentious topic restrictions against previously alerted editors who engage in misconduct in a topic area designated as a contentious topic, request page restrictions (e.g. revert restrictions) on pages that are being disrupted in topic areas designated as contentious topics, or appeal arbitration enforcement actions (including contentious topic restrictions) to uninvolved administrators. For all other problems, including content disagreements or the enforcement of community-imposed sanctions, please use the other fora described in the dispute resolution process. To appeal Arbitration Committee decisions, please use the clarification and amendment noticeboard. Only autoconfirmed users may file enforcement requests here; requests filed by IPs or accounts less than four days old or with less than 10 edits will be removed. All users are welcome to comment on requests except where doing so would violate an active restriction (such as an extended-confirmed restriction). If you make an enforcement request or comment on a request, your own conduct may be examined as well, and you may be sanctioned for it. Enforcement requests and statements in response to them may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. (Word Count Tool) Statements must be made in separate sections. Non-compliant contributions may be removed or shortened by administrators. Disruptive contributions such as personal attacks, or groundless or vexatious complaints, may result in blocks or other sanctions. To make an enforcement request, click on the link above this box and supply all required information. 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Parishan

Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

Request concerning Parishan

User requesting enforcement

76.93.86.242 (talk) 19:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

User against whom enforcement is requested

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

Arbitration case whose sanctions are to be enforced

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2

Sanction or remedy that has been violated

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2#Edit warring considered harmful

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy

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Explanation how these edits violate the sanction or remedy at issue

A single-purpose account, currently edit warring on number of pages.

Enforcement action requested (block, topic ban or other sanction)

Block or any other sanction at admin's discretion

Additional comments

Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

The requesting user is asked to notify the user against whom this request is directed of it, and then to replace this text with a diff of that notification. The request will normally not be processed otherwise.

Discussion concerning Parishan

• Comment. I'm currently evaluating Parishan's contributions to the Armenia (etc.) subject area for concerning edits. If any are found, the discretionary sanctions remedy of Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 would require Parishan to be placed on notice before sanctions could be dispensed; presently, s/he has not been issued a caution (complete with link to the case page), and so the possible outcomes of this complaint are somewhat limited. On a related note, I hold concerns that 76.93.86.242 is vexatiously filing this complaint—Parishan is in disagreement with the IP in a number of articles in this subject area—or, no less worryingly, is baiting Parishan into revert warring. (All aspects of this comment are tentatively made: I have made but a preliminary review of the situation at the time of making it.) AGK 14:35, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

• This is a very bad faith request. Parishan is a long established user, with thousands of contribs since 2006. How could he be described as a single purpose account? Grandmaster 16:27, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

  It follows the pattern of my request (probably because the IP is unfamiliar with them). Anyway, the IP turned very odd with his two insults (, ). brandспойт 16:56, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Agree with AGK's comments. I'm inclined towards a notification of the existence of the discretionary sanctions, and editing advice about requesting protection or dispute resolution earlier instead of edit warring. PhilKnight (talk) 18:54, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I think this edit by the IP is clearly a vandalism, WP:POINT violation and a nationalistic attack: , and is actionable per AA2 case. Also, 96.247.54.18 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) appears to be the same person, judging by this edit: I think Parishan in this case was simply reverting vandalism, which he is allowed to do. Grandmaster 19:50, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree the last 4 diffs should be ignored, because the edit being reverted was essentially vandalism. PhilKnight (talk) 19:59, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I actually think it is about time Parishan be placed under restrictions. Admins have always repeated that he's not under restrictions but that he was indeed edit warring. See the comments made by the administrators following links: , , , , ,

Just because the report was filed by an IP should not change the fact that all other members with this long a history of incivility and edit warring have had restrictions imposed on them ages ago. And Brand's justification does not make sense, most of the reverts of Parishan were directed toward edits supported also by established editors, particularly those about the Iranian monument in the Eurovision concert. And it does not seem that the IP's intentions was to report him, as seen from here. The IP asked what was done against the others, and was suggested to report, and then drafted his report.--Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 20:17, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

The talkpage of the Eurovision contest article explains why those reverts were made. It is not my fault that those "established editors" did not bother to read it or comment on it before getting involved with those edits. Parishan (talk) 05:40, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Result concerning Parishan

This section is to be edited only by the administrator closing this request for arbitration enforcement. Use {{discussion top}} / {{discussion bottom}} to mark it as closed.

Rehoboth Carpenter Family & related Carpenter pages

Iwanafish, alias 125.199.58.121 and 160.244.140.202 refuses to communicate despite many entreaties to do so by several editors. See discusion page of Rehoboth Carpenter Family. Apparently this stems from some disagreement which he refuses to discuss. Iwanafish has repeatedly rolled back this and related articles to a previous version of his without discussion. He has used his Washington State IP and his Japan IP as an alias. He has been given many warnings regarding his behavior. I will admit I and another used the wrong warning format at first regarding his reversion from surveyed articles using wiki format and inline references back to his own format. We are now using the proper warning format. Any help in getting him to communicate or to stop his negative behavior would be appreciated. Jrcrin001 (talk) 07:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

This report does not belong on this page, which is dedicated to arbitration enforcement (see the advice at the top of the page). Such reports should be made to WP:ANI, preferably with helpful WP:DIFFs.  Sandstein  07:22, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Davelong7

The following discussion is archived. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The account hasn't edited for 2 days (and is probably a throwaway). I'll consider taking action iff it becomes active again. AGK 14:43, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

Request concerning Davelong7

User requesting enforcement

Jehochman 21:35, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

User against whom enforcement is requested

Davelong7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Arbitration case whose sanctions are to be enforced

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/September 11 conspiracy theories

Sanction or remedy that has been violated

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/September 11 conspiracy theories#Discretionary sanctions

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy

Explanation how these edits violate the sanction or remedy at issue

Single purpose, COI account. Probably a sock puppet.

Enforcement action requested (block, topic ban or other sanction)

Ban from 9/11 pages, including talk pages.

Additional comments

Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

The requesting user is asked to notify the user against whom this request is directed of it, and then to replace this text with a diff of that notification. The request will normally not be processed otherwise.

Discussion concerning Davelong7

Result concerning Davelong7

This section is to be edited only by the administrator closing this request for arbitration enforcement. Use {{discussion top}} / {{discussion bottom}} to mark it as closed.

The account hasn't edited for 2 days, so I'm taking no action for now. If it becomes active again, then I'd be strongly inclined to install a block for inappropriate editing.

AGK 14:42, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Meowy

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Request concerning Meowy

User requesting enforcement

brandспойт 17:25, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

User against whom enforcement is requested

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

Arbitration case whose sanctions are to be enforced

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2

Sanction or remedy that has been violated

Courtesy, Provocation

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy

, ,

Explanation how these edits violate the sanction or remedy at issue

1rv parole violation, misuse of the word 'vandalism'

Enforcement action requested (block, topic ban or other sanction)

At admin's discretion as per AA2 decision

Additional comments

After some calmness Meowy sticked to his pattern again. Filled to avoid delay since Meowy once made one conspiratorial concern on it.

Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

Discussion concerning Meowy

I'm inclined towards a notification of the existence of the discretionary sanctions, and editing advice about taking care in the use of the word 'vandalism'. PhilKnight (talk) 18:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Meowy has already been notified, and placed on editing restriction back in 2007, which limited him to 1rv per week on any page. Meowy has repeatedly violated this restriction, the last time on 30 March 2009. Please check the log of blocks here: Grandmaster 19:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Grandmaster, thanks for explaining. For his last block for exceeding 1RR he was blocked for a week, so 2 weeks this time? PhilKnight (talk) 19:55, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

That's up to you to decide, I cannot say anything as an involved party. Grandmaster 19:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

It might be wise to reconsider the notion of making blocks. Meowy has been already punished from bad blocks and has often been the target of provocations. Seehere and read the entire section and more recently here. Besides, involved parties are required to discuss their changes and Meowy was actively involved in the discussion, Baku87 came and left this comment, which clearly shows that he had little knowledge of what was being discussed. It's time that the enforcement be fully applied by the initial requirement of leaving a relevant comment for each revert, as it was initially required. Had this happened Elsanturk's gimmicks and his failure to provide any comments would not have ended in Meowy's block, a user who is makes many fruitful contributions. Reverts should only be permitted to users who are actually involved in the talkpage and, speaking from experience, it is very frustrating that a user suddenly pops from out of the blue (like Baku87), makes controversial edits without even the slightest thought of consensus and fails to give any input on the talk page. --Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 22:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Wise, certainly. But some consider it to be wiser to blindly apply a policy. That's easy, no reliability. An ashamed admin of wk:fr, Sardur (talk) 23:25, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Result concerning Meowy

Blocked for 2 weeks for the violation of the 1RR restriction.  Sandstein  06:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)