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Fraudulent referencing

User:Ash has repeatedly inserted "references" to a retailer site where the only relevant content is expressly acknowledged as being "from Misplaced Pages," and the relevant text is essentially a word-for-word match to the pertinent Misplaced Pages article. Since Misplaced Pages mirrors cannot, of course, be used as references, I removed such references earlier today. Ash is now reinserting the references, linking to the same retailer site, but providing a misleading description of the referenced source. The articles involved include Alec Campbell, Chuck Barron, Cliff Parker, Bo Summers, and Chance Caldwell. This should be a very simple matter; when a page describes itself as a Misplaced Pages mirror, it can't be used to reference a Misplaced Pages article, and it's grossly inappropriate, bordering at best on deliberate deception, to present such a page as a reference with a description that misrepresents its nature, claiming it comes from an independent source. (The site used as a "reference" is (NSFW, adult content) http://www.rainbowcollexion.com/store/DaveAwards1992.html , a site hawking porn videos, with text matching Dave Awards.) Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 22:42, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

I raised this matter on Hullaballoo Wolfowitz's talk page but s/he seems to prefer raising an unnecessary aggressive ANI rather than discuss the matter in the normal way on article talk pages or user talk pages.

The source HW has repeatedly removed was discussed at length at Talk:List of male performers in gay porn films/Archive 3#RfC Use of the Adam Gay Video Directory as a reliable source when HW previously went through a campaign to discredit the Adam Gay Video Directory as a source. It is actually well supported by academic use as the information supplied by other editors in that RFC shows. Rainbowcollection is a handy additional URL which clearly sources the published information to the printed AGVD. Assuming good faith, I changed the reference style after HW's initial multiple deletions to make this explicitly clear. The format of the references most recently removed without appropriate discussion was:

The URL is a handy on-line representation of the information for the layman reader rather than only quoting the OCLC for the printed material.

When Hullaballoo Wolfowitz first reverted my citation, I amended it to include the OCLC. S/he has blanket deleted across several articles without further discussion and appears to be failing to assume good faith on my part by calling the citation "fraudulent". I request that these deletions are reverted and discussed in a civil manner rather than waste everyone's time with this sort of bullying and unnecessary escalation. Ash (talk) 23:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

This appears to be the third ANI regarding this user. SGGH 23:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

It looks like a blatant sales and advertising link to me. Off2riorob (talk) 23:08, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

(ec) So? If you mean me rather than HW, then both previous ANI's resulted in no action due to a lack of substance and were raised by Delicious carbuncle; a user with a topic ban in place history of unnecessary dispute. See Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive206#Proposal_to_Ban_Delicious_carbuncle. I suggest you judge this matter by the facts presented. Raking through any and all past disputes involving third parties, myself and Hullabaloo Wolfowitz in different combinations would appear more than a little off-topic. Ash (talk) 23:22, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, did you look at the adult directory to confirm that the awards are listed there or did you rely on the vendor page (which mirrored wikipedia) to assume that's in there? If it's the latter, that is reckless and will cause other editors to review all of your citations with suspicion. Morbidthoughts (talk) 23:39, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

The source was verified when the information contained in the article Dave Awards was sourced from it. The reference is identical, only the handy URL has been added for convenience. Its use in this manner falls within WP:RS (and WP:SPS for that matter) as the URL is not the key source document but presents the identical information, namely that these credited actors won these awards. Potentially the URL could be removed leaving the reference to the printed document only, however, we commonly point to commercial sites or catalogues (such as IMDB or AFDB) which are used as supplementary sources. I see no particular reason why gay pornography should be a special case and have to comply with higher criteria for supplementary sources than any other sort of BLP related article. You will note that this ANI is about "fraudulent" referencing.

I believe that it has already been made abundantly clear that there is no "fraud" at work here, particularly with a history of a prior RFC that addressed this matter and the use of the word is unwarranted and uncivil. If we are discussing the refinement of referencing then this is not the correct forum as no administrator action is required and this is not a forum to reach a general consensus on referencing. Ash (talk) 00:03, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

This is reckless, Ash. The cited text in wikipedia states that the winners of the last year of the awards, 1994, was listed in the 1996 directory. No mention is made of the other years. Yet you reference the 1996 directory for the 1993 awards. I also had to giggle about the directory being used for a "2003" award.. Yeah I know that one was a typo. You should not cite to anything that you can't verify yourself. See WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT Morbidthoughts (talk) 01:55, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

No, I have been the only editor to supply multiple OCLC's for the AGVD - that was verification that the source document existed in its different editions. If you believe the information about the Dave Awards might be false, and the AGVD (which was published in several editions as information was updated) was not verified, then the identical information in the Dave Awards article supplied by other editors cannot be trusted either. As you have chosen to go ahead and delete these references rather than discuss any further, I suggest you do the same thing, for the same data on the Dave Awards article. Presumably this means that all references to Dave Awards should be deleted from all articles as the AGVD is the original document as published by Dave Kinnick who created the award and it made a point of formally listing the Dave award winners based on his original column. The obvious consequence will be the eventual deletion of several more BLPs about gay pornographic actors, an area already remarkably under represented on Misplaced Pages compared to almost any other genre of film.

Note that with your recent deletions you are ignoring the prior consensus of the RFC mentioned above for the use of the AGVD as a source. Ash (talk) 08:39, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

You are blatantly mischaracterising that RFC. First, the RFC does not establish that the Dave Awards prior 1994 were published in that 1996 directory! Second, that local consensus does not trump the consensus established by wikipedia policy and guidelines! It is clear to me that you have not directly verified the material per SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT. You can't cite to something that you don't even know/prove that's in there. That's why other people are characterising this as fraud. The burden of proof is on the person who adds the material. See WP:V. Morbidthoughts (talk) 15:38, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

The list of award winners at Dave Awards used the same original source (AGVD) to state the same porn stars as the articles I have edited won the exact same awards. Either it was verified at the time or it was not. I have used the same citation with the addition of a relevant OCLC to prove it exists in a library. I do not have to read paper copies of every citation myself in order to give each citation credibility, that is not part of wikipedia policy as we can rely on verification by other editors. If you believe the source was not verified correctly, the route you should take is ask for verification, not deletion. By claiming the source is "fraudulent" then it should be removed everywhere it is used, not just on the article I have edited.

By the way, a RFC is a wide consensus process, not a local consensus. Ash (talk) 15:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

It seems like you did not read Dave Awards article correctly when you copy its citation. "Kinnick had a monthly "Video Review" column in Advocate Men Magazine; the results were posted in his column each May from 1989 through 1993. The last awards were published for the first time in the Adam Gay Video 1996 Directory since the column ceased in December 1994." That assertion was cited to the 1996 directory. Not the list of yearly awards. To me that is an assertion that the 1994 awards were listed in the 1996 directory, while the others were listed yearly in the Advocate. A good editor has to verify things when adding it to wikipedia. You can not shirk this responsibility simply because it is inconvenient for you if it's not online. BTW, I don't call any consensus arising out of 3 editors participating which includes the one who called the RFC as being wide. Morbidthoughts (talk) 16:29, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, could you provide a link to the policy that states that Misplaced Pages contributors must personally verify all source material for citations with their own eyes rather than relying on verification by others? I am only familiar with the basic RS and V and these make no such constraint. I am not sure you understood my point. All the information in Dave Awards was verified at the time to the sources quoted. I could add a blanket reference to Kinnick's original column in the Advocate if that makes you more comfortable but I would still be reliant on verification by other contributors. As for the RFC, it was publicized on RSN as well as using the normal WP-wide RFC process, that in the 2 months it was open, only 3 people took part did not stop an unknown number of people reading it and anyone was free to contribute if they felt strongly. If you feel a second RFC is needed, you are free to create another, the fact I created an RFC in the first place demonstrates my good faith attempt to satisfy Hullaballoo Wolfowitz's original objections. Ash (talk) 16:48, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I say it's a reasonable interpretation of "It is improper to take material from one source and attribute it to a different one" of WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT along with WP:BURDEN's "The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material." A good editor would check his sources and not rely on heresay. I don't consider your editing fraudulent, just reckless. Further, commenting on the RFC even though it's moot since I don't think it applies, a wide consensus is not formed simply because the opportunity to do so was widely disseminated. Like you said, silence does not always mean agreement, it means people didn't give enough of a shit to contribute. Morbidthoughts (talk) 19:59, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

It may be useful to look at this BLP noticeboard discussion of Ash's sourcing on a specific article. I have also commented here on the use of the website noted by Hullabaloo Wolfowitz, but nothing came of it. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 23:22, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

The RFC above started on 3 January 2010, was publicized on RSN and stayed open for two months, you were active on that talk page and never bothered to express an opinion or provide any relevant facts. Pointing to other discussions about different articles and different sources (in the case of the BLP discussion, I was not notified of the discussion existing) can only serve to take this ANI off-topic. If you previously had discussions and nothing came of it, perhaps there was a reason that nothing came of it. Ash (talk) 23:31, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I'm going to stay out of this one. My earlier ANI comment about rainbowcollexion.com is here. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 23:38, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

• Comment. The use of the Adam Gay Video Guide itself is fine, the website linked which does state it's pulled from Misplaced Pages is not. Looking at the content history and cross-referencing the link above shows that the content was added to Misplaced Pages's article in August 2006 and the website page was created in 2007. This amounts to Misplaced Pages citing itself as a source which is not usually allowed, certainly not in this case. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz IMHO is quick to assume bad faith and throw the baby out with the bathwater however, this issue could have been approached more collegially and the dispute isn't with the content but the cited sourcing so deleting content because the sourcing is subpar is a step backwards and likely serves only to inflame editing. Fix the sourcing or tag it for needing a source, in this case if you are unwilling or unable to simply add the source. This is similar to citing a YouTube video of a news report when the source is the news organization and not YouTube. A link to the YouTube copy can be provided for verification, context and content, etc. but in this case a mirror site link is not acceptable. The content doesn't need to be removed just fix the sourcing. If rainbowcollexion.com also seems to be mostly or entirely mirroring content then the site itself may have to be blacklisted. -- Banjeboi 19:14, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
• Also note Per WP:SOURCEACCESS:"The principle of verifiability implies nothing about ease of access to sources: some online sources may require payment, while some print sources may be available only in university libraries." So not having access to a newspaper or magazine of repute does not mean it shouldn't be included. 38.109.88.196 (talk) 17:49, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

The main issue I have that I have stated above is that there is no evidence that the 1996 Adams Gay Video Directory listed Dave Award winners before 1994. When you reinstated that citation, Banjeboi, did you check the directory to confirm that it is there? Has anybody here actually seen a copy whether it be electronic or print? Speaking of inflammatory and bad faith, why point fingers at HW when he did not remove content in this dispute. He replaced a unverified citation with the citation needed tag. Morbidthoughts (talk) 20:16, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I have no reason to doubt the source and zero evidence has been brought forth that suggests the information is untrue or misrepresented. The issue was with a mirror site and that has been addressed, with a lot of WP:Drama which I am not interested in prolonging. -- Banjeboi 20:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Zero evidence? Did you read what I had written above about the Dave Awards article? "Kinnick had a monthly "Video Review" column in Advocate Men Magazine; the results were posted in his column each May from 1989 through 1993. The last awards were published for the first time in the Adam Gay Video 1996 Directory since the column ceased in December 1994." That assertion was cited to the 1996 directory. Not the list of yearly awards. To me that is an assertion that the 1994 awards were listed in the 1996 directory, while the others were listed yearly in the Advocate. There's your evidence. You have not met WP:PROVEIT nor WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT when you reinstated that citation. Morbidthoughts (talk) 20:58, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

• Comment. Morbidthoughts has posted on my talk they are looking to see if they can access the online version of the underlying magazine to put the issue to rest, if not we can work out some other way to accurately represent the underlying sourcing. I consider the matter resolved for now and am happy to work with them to collegially find the best way forward. -- Banjeboi 21:48, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

After some digging, the Advocate is not available in my academic database subscriptions. Maybe somebody in the WikiProject LBGT works or studies in another academic setting can easily find access to a print or online copy. Morbidthoughts (talk) 06:30, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Ughh... and Advocate issues are on Google Books that go back only to January 1994. It also seems like there are two issues per month. Can somebody contact Kinnick through facebook so he could confirm whether his 1989-1993 awards were listed in his 1996 directory? Morbidthoughts (talk) 06:43, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

If only Hullaballoo Wolfowitz is calling me a fraud here, I suggest this ANI is closed as no admin action is required. Ash (talk) 22:44, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't expect people will pay any more attention to this here than they did on BLPN, but see the already linked BLPN discussion. In that case you used as references sources which did not contain the stated information. I chose to refer to your use of sources as "bullshit" rather than "fraudulent", but I suspect they mean the same thing. This suggests a pattern of undue care on sensitive BLPs and may require admin attention, if not action. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 13:35, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

If this thread has become an excuse for Delicious carbuncle to throw insults at me for a third time on ANI, could an admin please hide this discussion? It has become an obvious attempt to defame me without bothering to supply evidence or follow any reasonable dispute resolution process. I would hide it myself but I expect this would be taken as an opportunity for yet more thin claims of malfeasance. Ash (talk) 17:59, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

That comment is really inappropriate. You asked (implicitly) if anyone besides me doubted the good faith or your sourcing practices; DC responded that he did. And you've teed off on him, once again, without addressing the substantive matters involved. It is flat out untrue for you to say DC was defaming you "without bothering to supply evidence" when he provided a link to a discussion where he supplied such evidence; there is no need to cross-post or repetitively post the same details over and over. And no one who has posted comments with edit summaries like "HW is making me feel ill" is in any position to complain about civility. A primary reason that so much Misplaced Pages content, especially BLP content, in the erotica subject area is in indeplorable is the tendency of a small group of users to focus on personal criticisms of those they disagree with while avoiding the substantive editorial issues, in an effort to make the editin experience unpleasant for those they disagree with, and your pattern of behavior, quite frankly, falls aquarely into that category. How else can one explain your post on my talk page blasting me for not using dispute resolution processes, followed by your post here, only 22 minutes later, insulting me for "bullying" you and other misconduct for invoking those same dispute resolution processes? Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 20:29, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Nonsense, how could saying "I object to your recent edit comments. You appear to be maligning my edits. Are you calling me some sort of fraud? Please raise your complaint on the correct dispute resolution process rather than maligning me in edit comments. This source had a perfectly adequate discussion on Talk:List of male performers in gay porn films/Archive 3#RfC Use of the Adam Gay Video Directory as a reliable source. If you wish to challenge it, again then do so but desist from removing properly sourced material from the articles in the meantime." possibly be interpreted as "Blasting" you? You have failed to prove I am a fraud or my edits were fraudulent. You have escalated what should have been a collaborative discussion about reliable sourcing into unnecessary threats of admin action. Claiming other editors are frauds is transparently uncivil. Go away and do something productive instead of stirring up drama and taking random pot-shots at me.

As for my edit comment on my own talk page, yes you are making me feel ill with this nonsense, so the comment is perfectly accurate and not an attempt to attack you as, frankly, who would ever notice it unless you pasted it in ANI?

This ANI is titled "Fraudulent referencing", not "Let's rake through every edit Ash has made in the last 3½ years and find something else to grief about". Unless you are prepared to prove that I am a perpetrating fraud, there is nothing here apart from satisfaction for anyone else who wishes to enjoy insulting me by calling me a fraud. Ash (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, in the BLPN discussion that I've already linked to twice in this thread, I pointed out exactly what was wrong with some of the references used. It is difficult to assume good faith when multiple sources you inserted into one article did not contain the referenced material. It is impossible to maintain good faith when after this is pointed out to you, you do not fix the problem. It would be nice if you could respond to the specific charges, rather than puffing up your feathers even more. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 03:58, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

• Comment. I'm certainly not considered uninvolved in these disputes so my comments need to be seen as such. The underlying stated problem was that a source was misrepresented. Instead of taking any civil and traditional approach an alarmist ANI thread seemingly designed to malign a content editor in gay porn is again started. Meanwhile a solution has already been presented, and no one disputes the content is accurate (just not sourced in the best way possible), but I digress. The thread goes to great pains to paint Ash in the worst possible light and also takes sweeping jabs at others who suffer this nonsenses routinely. Such gems as A primary reason that so much Misplaced Pages content, especially BLP content, in the erotica subject area is in indeplorable is the tendency of a small group of users to focus on personal criticisms of those they disagree with while avoiding the substantive editorial issues, in an effort to make the editin experience unpleasant for those they disagree with... and past jabs alluding to a mythical gay porn cabal complete with outing attempts and accusations. And here these two have the gall to pretend that Ash, myself, or anyone else has gone out of their way to interact with them in any way when the exact opposite is true. And assert that we have any interest in causing them grief when the reverse situation seems to be quite evident. Delicious carbuncle has been doing this, in this one subject area, for several months now and peppering alarmist and dramatic threads to keep them from being archived; and forum shopping in the words of others editors on these boards, because they don't get their way in a given discussion. Their sole contributions in this area has been to game and harass editors in this area with pointless and escalated regular editing issues while doing whatever they can to delete content they apparently don't approve. This is coupled with bad faith accusations and hot-button arm-flailing - BLP sky-is-falling nonsense that is quickly dismissed for what it is. Now they play the victim card to flip the script that mean ol gay porn article editors are picking on them. On the surface that might look plausible but I've only seen Ash trying to use consensus and policy to find resolution and generally Delicious carbuncle simply works to delete as much as they can regardless of consensus. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, in my limited experience is quick to assume bad faith against editors but I'm not familiar enough with their editing to note if they are tendentious about it. This certainly feels like tag-teaming and frankly if there is a dispute on sourcing go to RSN, and those editors know it. So dear fellow editors I apologize for a lengthy comment here as I feel this board actually can be used to solve problems that really do need fire and brimstone cleansing but this seems like the nth thread in the one topic area with Delicious carbuncle and unfortunately it looks like Hullaballoo Wolfowitz is somehow getting themselves in deeper as well. This all takes time away from their vandalism patrolling and other deletion work, which can be helpful, with keeping both Ash and I from actually building articles. It also serves to suck up the community energy with yet another dramafest where the actual problem may be yet another case of Delicious carbuncle wikibullying another editor who they disagree. This seems to be an ongoing pattern with them. My assessment is certainly bias and open to off-site campaigning on Misplaced Pages Review and elsewhere, especially by banned editors. This is my opinion and gives fuel for User:Ash/analysis which Delicious carbuncle made threats over, escalated to multiple forums and was upheld at MfD as being a logical step in dispute resolution. Delicious carbuncle doesn't seem to WP:Hear that their pattern of disruption remains a net loss for the community. Unfortunately I think that remains an ongoing regretable situation which may have to be dealt with if they can't amend their interactions with all editors, not just ones they apparently do approve. Also I second Ash's request that an uninvolved party hide, and likely close this thread. The sourcing issue supposedly requiring this thread was already being solved at my talkpage so this thread seems to be yet another attempt to defame them. -- Banjeboi 05:18, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Benjiboi, all of this bluster is unnecessary - is there some reason why Ash can't simply respond to the examples of, to use the word in the title, fraudulent referencing I raised in December and put the matter to rest? Delicious carbuncle (talk) 15:46, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

If the best random pot-shot you can fire at me is to refer to a BLPN discussion from over three months ago where you were rude enough to call the sources "bullshit", and concluded with no issues being raised or changes being agreed for the article in question, then you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel in an obvious attempt to take this ANI thread off-topic. There is no evidence for me to respond to here. Put up some hard evidence that I am perpetrating a fraud which needs urgent Admin attention (as per the topic of this ANI) or take your transparent persistent disruptive uncivil and repugnant misuse of the ANI forum for griefing somewhere else. Ash (talk) 18:00, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, I identified five specific sources in that discussion, although I don't know if all of them were added to that particular BLP by you. How much more evidence do you require? I'm sure I can find it if I start looking. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 18:17, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Vladimir Correa won no Dave Awards. This can have no bearing on the request for Administrator intervention by Hullaballoo Wolfowitz for fraudulent referencing in relation to Dave Awards on the five articles listed at the top of this ANI. A BLPN was raised for Vladimir Correa to discuss sourcing, no changes resulted despite your accusations of "bullshit" and ANI is not a forum to rehash discussion from months ago in an attempt to overturn consensus or a place to discuss possible improvement to sources on Vladimir Correa, as you well know the place for such a discussion would be Talk:Vladimir Correa.

If you want to have an Admin take action against me then supply some evidence relevant to this ANI. Your continued attempts to create unnecessary drama and to defame me with no firm facts to support your claims are a misuse of this forum. This forum is not a discussion group for when you feel bored, lonely or want to pick a fight. Ash (talk) 18:37, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

In an ANI discussion entitled "fraudlent referencing", I can't help but think that the example I cite of your fraudulent referencing may be relevant. Again, I have stated exactly what is wrong with the references, so the facts seem to be quite firm. It would be nice if you could simply respond to the charge here. Although it is great to see Benjboi practising his typing here, it isn't doing anything to put the matter to rest. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:17, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Anyone who cares to examine the Vladimir Correa article will discover that you have raised no current concerns on it, there is nothing to "put to rest". The last time you edited the article was on 29 November 2009 when you raised the article for deletion, this was also the last time you made any comment on the article talk page. The result of that AfD was to keep. I say again, you are off-topic by raising long dead discussion as fake evidence for griefing. You are misusing ANI for harassment. Ash (talk) 20:50, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, if any admin feels that I am using this thread to harass you, I hope they will speak up, because that is not my intention and I apologise if you feel that that is what I am doing. I'm simply asking you to address the unresolved sourcing issues that came out of the AfD of that article. If my allegations that the sources do not contain the cited information are wrong, it should be very easy for you to show that and would probably take about the same amount of time as avoiding the question has taken thus far. Since this thread was raised about concerns with your sourcing, it seems wholly appropriate to have that discussion here, not on the article's talk page, since the concern is with a pattern of misuse of sources, not with any specific article. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 21:26, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Benjiboi, your extended fantasia may have some nice rhetorical flourishes, but it's belied by the fact that you've been hounding me, on and off, for months, to the point of jumping at the opportunity to file a bad faith sockpuppetry claim over an edit made after a system-glitch logout, in a dispute where you'd intervened to claim that blogs were generally acceptable sources for BLPs, despite clear policy language to the contrary. You also went out of your way, for example, to encourage an abusive sockfarmer and a gaggle of obsessive fans to keep pressing transparently phony charges of bias and multiple accounts against me. It's more than telling that you keep ignoring the substantial policy issues and outright violations in the disputed content generally, while freely flinging innuendo and groundless, evidence-free accusations around at editors you're in conflict with. It's past time to stop pretending and own up, Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 05:01, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

No need to characterize my statements as false or "fantasia", they are my opinions are I believe them to be true and accurate. As for the accusation that I am in any way Wikistalking you, that seems contrary to reality and I can assure you is utterly false. I have no interest or inclination to Wikistalk anyone. Of the many editors whose edits I either felt needed to be and were asked to review yours didn't strike me as anything but rather uncivil and quick to assume bad faith. As you seemed to be doing a lot of vandalism patrol I think that goes with that territory. If you are open to advice I encourage you to be much more welcoming to newby and IPs editors, even promotional-ish ones. If we can encourage them to add good sourcing and amend their less than positive interactions and contributions that the project wins. Promotional-ish editors often are experts on the subjects they are trying to edit. If they can instead work to rise to our level of notability, MOS and standards then, again, the project benefits. Time and again on your editing I've encouraged civility and coached much of what I wrote above about better sourcing. Misplaced Pages is not a battleground so i have little interest in engaging as such. I'm sorry you feel I'm in any way stalking you, the likelihood is I question and restore the deletion of content on articles that our paths cross. I have apparently edited thousands of articles so that we intersect from time to time is not that peculiar. As for the sock claim it looks like it was accurate although simply a technical glitch, meanwhile you're faulting me for supporting a sock of some sort, I didn't know they were then and still don't. If they are they still had a valid point that they felt you may have been using socks and this seems to suggest they had a point. If you follow my entire history I continued to push for civility, dispute resolution and even did an overhaul of one of the articles myself so that editor could see you weren't the only one who felt that article needed clean-up. I strike to limit the drama and simply work to improve the articles. Years from now what will count is the quality of the articles not the drama that goes into their creation and maintenance. Now as for blogs as reliable sources, this is an ongoing misperception that more experienced editors have been handling on a regular basis. First off this medium is growing exponentially and replacing in part traditional news media much like the advent of radio and television, and cable channels. Some are perfectly acceptable on BLPs and elsewhere, some are not. A blog written by the subject of a BLP is certainly acceptable for statements about themselves. If in doubt a civil talkpage discussion and possible a visit to the RSN would usually clear up any issues. As for this thread, which presumably you still seem to care about, the content was never disputed by anyone, and still isn't. it was all a matter of sourcing it correctly and that's being resolved. So it would seem this has been another escalation to ANI that was unneeded but has shed some light on the background of those involved. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors regardless if our paths ever cross again. -- Banjeboi 09:55, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Now that's a fairly skanky response. You pretend to justify you groundless accusations by citing a long-discredited socking charge, one that had already been proved false when your sock buddy tried resurrected it. As was evident at the time, the charge was disproved by CU, and no less than Jimmy Wales had intervened on my behalf, suggesting that I be "thanked for right action . While you pretend you "push for civility," in fact you encouraged conspicuously dubious users, virtually all of whom proved to be SPAs/sockpuppets, to maintain campaigns of personal attacks after extensive talk page discussions and AN/I disputes had consistently rejected their positions. Your comments on the substantive dispute involved are equally shabby: despite what you say here, the policy regarding blog-sourcing of content is quite clear - "Never use self-published books, zines, websites, forums, blogs or tweets as sources for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject" - and the stated exception was not involved in the dispute. You can strike this Uriah Heep-ish pose all you want, but it won't suffice to disguise your lack of good faith, your double standards, and our refusal to abide by WP content/reference policies. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 12:47, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Referring to my response as "skanky" and calling another editor who I really don't know nor work with as "my sock buddy", etc seems a really bad way to maturely discuss who you handled the situation.It's utterly false to suggest I encouraged them to "maintain campaigns of personal attacks". If there was ANI threads, etc were they three-ring circuses such as this? Really, I pushed for them to use better sources and improve content as that was the best response to someone who seemed to be acting tendentiously against this one set of articles. I really didn't know the subject but I did feel your editing was a bit heavy-handed when it didn't need to be. Similar to your hard line stance following the letter and avoiding the spirit our policies you strike me as seeing too much as either black/white extremist positions when human beings aren't quite as easy to push labels onto. I stand by my comments but if you never used socks then my apologies. As for the rest of your baseless accusations I respect that you actually believe them to be true for whatever reasons. They aren't but you can believe whatever you wish. -- Banjeboi 14:51, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure why I'm getting involved with this, and I may already be regretting it, but a quick look at the most recent arguments leads to the obvious call to COOL IT on all sides. DC's use of expletives, and HW's use of the word "skanky" and the general accusative bickering nature of all this is unacceptable to me. - Stillwaterising (talk) 15:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm cool, but I agree - let's deal with the issue below and get this thread wrapped up. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 15:39, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Detailed analysis of Vladimir Correa questions as raised by user:Delicious carbuncle on BLPN on 11 December 2009

Source BLPN: (diff)
As Delicious carbuncle is intent of raking through this old BLP/N on ANI here is a detailed response to the five citations mentioned in that BLP/N that resulted in no action, edit or correction at the time:

1. wikiporno.org - fails WP:RS, I have no idea why User:Keraunos added this reference to an open wiki (diff), it puzzles me as to why Delicious carbuncle felt they could not remove it or blames me for it existing in the article. I would delete it myself if I did not expect to be immediately accused by Delicious carbuncle of yet more malfeasance or fraud.
2. The "More Dirty Looks" book demonstrates that Correa was in "Inside Vladimir Correa" (and that video exists). As for the placement of the reference, I don't have strong opinions on the matter. The discussion about his role as a top or bottom could be deleted without damaging the article, I do not believe that text was added by me. Obviously this improvement could be discussed on the article talk page, or just made without having to create drama on ANI.
3. The reference to http://images.quebarato.com.br/photos/big/9/A/683F9A_1.jpg is just a reference to a DVD cover showing Correa. The article does not depend on this supplementary information. I could not care less if it is deleted or not.
4. The reference to Dyer's book seems appropriate as Dyer lists him with other examples of how his film portrays Correa as a superstar. In the current version of the article, the reference is being used to support him existing as a well known porn star. Rather than Delicious carbuncle's description of "the book sources do not appear to have any correspondence with the facts" this source seems quite appropriate.
5. The Advocate interview appears entirely appropriate as there are no other porn videos produced before 1993 that would be anything close to "Inside Vladimir". It is entirely reasonable to conclude this had to be "Inside Vladimir Correa".

• It should be noted that I believe my response here is pointless as this is the wrong forum for Delicious carbuncle to be banging on about a dead discussion in BLP/N when, as an experienced editor, s/he could not be bothered to raise these points on the article talk page, or to raise flags for improvement on the article itself, or continue to pursue the original question on BLP/N last year. Delicious carbuncle appears to be on a fishing expedition in an attempt to find something against me. As this out of date BLP/N discussion has been used to make repeated claims that this somehow demonstrates I am acting fraudulently, I have felt obliged to take time to respond in detail.
• Delicious carbuncle has made no attempt to discuss, delete or improve the references that s/he complained about over 3 months ago.
• I strongly object to these repeated accusations from Delicious carbuncle, and would hope that the fact that s/he has raised two recent ANI requests about me on this forum that amounted to nothing but hot air as additional evidence of repeated misuse of this forum in an attempt to harass or defame a number of other editors in the form of griefing. I hope that this sustained uncivil and passive aggressive behaviour is not tolerated in future. Ash (talk) 00:33, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, thanks for finally responding directly, and thank you for toning down your earlier remarks. This all came about because I nominated what was a very poorly sourced BLP article for deletion. Although the AfD was closed as "KEEP" and Cirt's closure was upheld at DRV, the article subject clearly fails WP:PORNBIO. It is unlikely once the current sources are properly vetted it would pass WP:GNG (which is not to say better sources could not be found). Ash, you appear to have deliberately inserted fraudulent references in order to improve the chances of this article being kept at AfD.

In order to minimize friction, I stated during the subsequent BLPN discussion that I did not think it would be productive for me to edit the article myself and asked that someone else make the necessary changes (which would presumably include looking over the rest of the sources). I do not know why no one acted on what I pointed out, but outside of the topic starter Cirt, you were the only other participant and you had introduced most of those sources. The question is not why did I not fix the references, it is why did you not fix what you now knew to be incorrect?

Taking your points individually, but not in order:

1 - as I've said here and in the original discussion, I do not know if you were responsible for inserting each of those references, so I'm glad we agree that wikiporno.org is not an appropriate source. Don't let me stop you from removing it.

2 - you added this reference to source a specific fact which is not contained in the reference. It is not a question of demonstrating notability. This is "fraudulent referencing", to use the phrase in the title.

3 - You added an image of a DVD cover is simply not a suitable reference and should not have been added. It appears to be "padding" the references to avoid deletion at AfD.

4 - The Dyer article is the same article as in #2, but contained in a different book. It has only passing references to Correa. I read it months ago, but as I recall, it does not establish any of the information for which it is being used as a reference.

5 - Neither the Advocate interview with Amy Poehler (in which Poehler refers to a gay porn movie in passing) nor the Gay Porn Times blog post summary which you also used as a reference -- more reference padding -- identify the movie as "Inside Vladimir Correa". In fact, the Gay Porn Times editor states "Ms. Poehler might be referring to 1991’s ... INSIDE VLADIMIR CORREA" (emphasis mine). Deciding that this is close enough isn't quite what WP:VERIFY says. Your comment here is indicative of the larger problem.

Comments? Delicious carbuncle (talk) 03:37, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Supply some PROOF that I deliberately inserted fraudulent references as you are repeatedly stating or stop defaming me. Point #2 above makes my opinion on the placement of "More Dirty Looks" clear, nothing you have provided as evidence demonstrates deliberate fraud on my part. You are assuming the worst possible bad faith.

All the evidence above shows is potential improvement to sources or potential better placement of sources. Nothing here requires administrator action and it seems plainly obvious it never did. This is the wrong forum for a detailed discussion of article improvement and your absolute insistence on holding this detailed discussion here rather than in any other more suitable forum is blatant forum shopping. You are misusing this forum to unnecessarily grief other editors.

ANI should not and does not operate on a principle of assuming guilty until proved innocent. Ash (talk) 07:01, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, unless you accidentally inserted those references, you did it "deliberately". I speculated that you did it in order to influence the AfD discussion that had been started immediately before you began adding these references. I could be wrong about that, but there is no question that you inserted "fraudulent references" as I have shown above, with diffs. Your nonsensical sputtering about "placement" and your misplaced charges of "forum shopping" are yet more misdirection. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 14:36, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

• If you believed that the AFD (from 3 months ago) was manipulated, why did you not go to DRV at the time? Raising this on the wrong forum such a long time later is an obvious fishing expedition taking advantage of an ANI in order to create drama and make hurtful inflammatory accusations.
• ANI is a forum for requests for Administrator intervention. So far you have not identified anything that requires admin intervention and instead appear to be using this forum to endlessly repeat defamatory accusations against me based on your speculations as to my motivation. I have explained my contributions to the Correa article last year above, and you have failed to identify evidence that I have been deliberately perpetrating fraud as opposed to adding relevant citations that could have been better placed.
• Article improvement does not require admin intervention. Hopefully you are satisfied with provoking a reaction from me and creating lots of drama, why don't you now go and do something constructive, like, say, improve an article rather than banging on about edits from 3 months ago that you could have fixed last year had you chosen to get your finger out.
• Just to be clear - stop misusing ANI and stop defaming me.
• Do not expect replies responding to your accusations, I have explained my edits were in good faith and I would be delighted for any experienced admin to investigate. Hopefully you will shortly fall into that big hole you have been digging for yourself and then be unable to grief other editors. Ash (talk) 15:17, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

This does seem to me to be a matter for ANI. We don't check every reference (we should, but we can't), so we end up taking a lot on trust, particularly when supplied by regular editors. Therefore the charge of "false sourcing", whether deliberate or accidental, is a very serious charge indeed, particularly on a BLP. If such a charge were to be sustained (and I've no investigated closely here - so I'm not saying it is), then the only appropriate response would be to ban the offender, and certainly ban them from BLPs. To that degree, this isn't a simple content dispute for a talk page, or a simple deletion dispute for DRV, this is very, very, serious indeed. (Indeed a spurious change of false sourcing should also result in serious repercussion for the one asserting it.) Perhaps a user conduct RFC would be more appropriate than ANI, but in either case the evidence needs examined, and if it holds up, I'd have no hesitation to indefinitely block any offender (if I didn't, I'd be confident arbcom would). I suggest further investigation by neutral parties into Ash's actions, and form here is appropriate - it is essential that we find out where truth lies, or whether indeed we can clear his name.--Scott Mac (Doc) 17:52, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. However Delicious carbuncle's problems with sources were raised on BLP/N in December 2009 (see Misplaced Pages:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive76#Vladimir_Correa). Anyone was free to comment, nobody took any action, nobody else supported Delicious carbuncle's claims of "bullshit" and I see little benefit in raising the same concerns in another forum over 3 months on. I would suggest a ban against me would have to be for a unambiguous pattern of repeatedly adding misleading sources to articles. If anyone cares to supply evidence I would be interested to see it. I'm sure that in my 22,000+ edits on Misplaced Pages, there are many examples of poorly judged edits to be found but I doubt that this would constitute a pattern of false sourcing. Any reviewer would find my contributions to be constructive and with genuine intent. You will note that back in February I opened an Editor review welcoming critical feedback, not normally an action associated with an editor acting in bad faith.

You make a good point about the repercussions on those who may bring false charges. Apart from it being a bit of a waste of time and effort, I would have no particular objections to an independent investigation by an administrator into my edit history if it were in conjunction with equally detailed examination of the nature of the accusations against various other editors made by Delicious carbuncle (talk · contribs · logs · block log) over the last 12 months. It may be more straightforward to raise an RFC/U on Delicious carbuncle as per my earlier MfD rationale in preparing User:Ash/analysis - the start of a summary of Delicious carbuncle's disruptive behaviour. As this predates Delicious carbuncle's accusations against me here, this could hardly be seen as a tit-for-tat exercise on my part.

Note that Delicious carbuncle previously rejected an offer of mediation in the last no-action ANI s/he raised against me, as far as I am concerned, that offer is still on the table as it was made in good faith. Ash (talk) 18:41, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Did anyone investigate the allegations 3 months ago, or did it suffer from tl;dr? I wouldn't say a pattern would be required here - evidence of deliberate misrepresentation of sources would be serious even if not a pattern. Careless sourcing might be overlooked if it were just once or twice over hundreds of good sources. We need to take sourcing extremely seriously, and since we need to trust a lot of the time, any breach of trust is not to be passed over. I'd strongly suggest that you and Carbuncle both need to get this resolved. It is serious either way. I may have time to look closely myself later, but I've doubts as to whether you'd see me as sufficiently neutral. The issue does now need resolved by a serious, BLP experienced editor.--Scott Mac (Doc) 19:03, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Scott Mac (Doc), it is unfortunate that your involvement was based on a personal invitation to comment by Delicious carbuncle. Given that you portrayed yourself as an administrator who may choose to investigate these claims against me by Delicious carbuncle (talk · contribs · logs · block log) and chose not to declare an interest, could you please now confirm the nature of your pre-existing relationship or collaboration history on and off wikipedia with Delicious carbuncle? Ash (talk) 07:25, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

What nonsense is this? I indicated that you might not view me as neutral here. What exactly are you alleging now?--Scott Mac (Doc) 15:20, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

I do not believe I have "alleged" anything, I apologise if you were able to infer anything to that effect or if it appears to be nonsense to you. I asked for clarification as you said, "I may have time to look closely myself later...". You also stated that I may not see you as sufficiently neutral, this was a statement about me, not a statement about whether you have a pre-existing interest. When I later realized that you had been invited to comment here by Delicious carbuncle, I was taken aback as I had the impression that you were referring to our previous discussions about your use of language that has offended other editors. Ash (talk) 15:32, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

So what's the problem. My only "pre-existing interest" is a hatred of people playing fast and loose with BLP sourcing - which is probably why DCarb approached me. Is that a problem?--Scott Mac (Doc) 15:45, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

As noted at Talk:Vladimir Correa, all the above contested sources have been removed. The article did not rely on these sources though any editor is free to re-add them, and if they wish to be super-civil about it, they can add some appropriate rationale on the article talk page. I see little benefit in continuing this thread or explaining why Scott Mac's "hatred" of certain people may be a problem. Ash (talk) 13:52, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Additional evidence

Since some editors seem to be reluctant to view the references associated with gay porn performers -- some of which maybe "not safe for work" -- I picked two articles on UK bathhouses, Pleasuredrome and Chariots Shoreditch. These articles were created and expanded almost solely by Ash, which avoids the issue of Ash sourcing the text of other contributors.

In Chariots Shoreditch:

• The statement "The bathhouse is on three floors decorated in the style of a Roman baths" is sourced to a short item in a travel guide (page 122) which mentions the facility in passing but does not refer to the number of floors or the decor of that location.
• The section "Etiquette" is sourced to two books, neither of which contains a reference to "Chariots" or "Shoreditch" according to Google books. Although it may be argued that this section refers to bathhouse etiquette in general, the similar section in Pleasuredrome clearly refers to the specific facility.
• The description of the facilities available is sourced to QX Magazine, but is actually a full page back-cover paid advert for the bathhouse in the magazine.

In Pleasuredrome:

• A listing of the facilities available is sourced to a travel guide which does not contain "Pleasuredrome" according to Google books (although there is a two line item for "Pleasuredome" which does not mention the facilities at all).
• The statement "The sauna opened as a gay sex on premises venue or gay bathhouse in 1998" is sourced to an archived copy of the bathhouse's website, which does not contain any information about the history of the bathhouse.
• The statement "The sauna is markets itself as "We never close" and is open 24 hours all year including Bank Holidays" (later changed to "The sauna is notable among London gay saunas for being open 24 hours a day all year, including Bank Holidays") is sourced to QX Magazine, but, just as with Chariots Shoreditch, this is a paid advert not a review or editorial.

While not as concerning as the misuse of references for BLPs, this clearly demonstrates a pattern which needs to be dealt with. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 22:22, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Looking through the Pleasurdrome one the first cite should have included the next page which does have a description listed; the second ref listed above may have been used simply to note it was a gay focussed bathhouse which arguably is the one fact that would need to be sourced, also there may have been other items on the website that confirmed when opened but I found and added a council hearing note which covered the dating of the establishment, also not an terribly exceptional statement. I wasn't able to view the QX material but even a paid advert that states "open 24 hours", etc would seem acceptable even if not ideal. QX has included blurbs and even a few articles which confirmed pretty much the same thing. So here again it's a case of it would be nice if the refs were blindingly obvious so there is no question why they are used but that is a different case from inserting false information or indeed fraud. -- Banjeboi 00:24, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

A search on Google books (for "pleasuredome" not "pleasuredrome") only shows it appearing on page 507 and page 508 is not available for display. If you have a copy of the book handy, would you mind scanning that page and uploading somewhere, Benjiboi? Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 02:37, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Looking through Chariots Shoreditch this seems pretty much also making a mountain out of a molehill. The first site may simply be confirming that it's even notable enough to be referenced in a traveler's guide and does confirm a Roman style; the second ones confirm general bathhouse etiquette and do seem rather uncontroversial. And again a paid advert describing a club's own features is akin to a BLP subject blogging their own biography - we consider them to be experts on themselves. We would be concerned if these were exceptional claims. That doesn't seem to be the case here. -- Banjeboi 00:35, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

This comment does not accurately present the standards for the use of self-published claims, which are found here . Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I have included diffs of the edits and links to the sources themselves. Please take the time to look for yourself and do not rely on Benjiboi's misleading interpretation. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 02:48, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

<yawn> More of the same I'm afraid. You start a whole new subsection much like you've done on so many other ANI threads and allege misconduct et al. You may note that Pleasuredome is a massive gay nightclub also in London, and no I have no interest in scanning anything for you ever. This entire exercise has been yet another WP:Drama fest and I invite anyone uninvolved to close it as still not needing any admin attention unless Delicious carbuncle is to be topic-banned off LGBT subject areas broadly construed and possibly a civility topic ban and just maybe a admin board ban. You likely do have much to offer the project as a whole but my interactions with you have proven otherwise. Civil vandalism patrol has its place but colossal leaps of bad faith time and time again show bad judgement in the least. -- Banjeboi 03:04, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Looks to me like DC picked apart these two articles, finding lots of poor sourcing and your response is to pooh-pooh it. Not helpful. I suggest that some interested party go stub out everything cited to the problematic sources. ++Lar: t/c 22:29, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm with Lar on this one - if sources have been forged that is rather large issue for the project and needsto be dealt with as productively as possible, soon. - Schrandit (talk) 06:13, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

My take is that this entire thread is designed to disparage an editor not because any content they edit is untrue but that it is focussed on gay sexual activities. Why Delicious carbuncle is so focussed on wikihounding editors who work in these subject areas is for others to judge for themselves, a visit to Misplaced Pages Review may help. That they feel it is their right and duty to publicly flog and enact their pound of flesh seems to be the actual underlying issue. The oft-bandied BLP flag of concern rings hollow when the fact remains that person X is the same person X who indeed does gay porn. This all digresses from the fact that we, of course, want high quality sources but this "evidence" suggesting that a company's <ZOMG!> paid advertisement used to support information about their services is somehow fraudulent remains ridiculous. Obviously it would be better to use an independent source however statements by the subject of an article are considered reliable as they are considered experts on themselves. -- Banjeboi

Incidentally, does anyone have a copy of the fifth edition of "The Rough Guide to London" by Rob Humphreys & Judith Bamber handy? I've asked Benjiboi to scan page 508 for me, but he has refused. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 02:48, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Have you placed a request at WP:REX? 38.109.88.196 (talk) 05:09, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

With regard to the Misplaced Pages review forum, it appears that Delicious carbuncle, Scott MacDonald and Lar are members. This may not be an complete list and yet seems to be most of the contributors keeping this discussion going. As this may represent a direct or indirect form of canvassing or lobbying against gay-sexuality related articles, could someone please confirm what is going on and if this mets the guidelines for ANI discussion? Ash (talk) 08:57, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, please stop trying to slander my good name here by trying to associate me with controversial websites (although if Lar and Scott MacDonald -- both of whom are trusted admins -- frequent the site, I suppose I would be in good company). This appears to be yet another attempt to direct attention away from your misuse of sources. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 12:31, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I do not believe you are the right person to answer my question. I did not realize that Misplaced Pages Review was considered controversial here. As for interpreting my question as an attempt to slander your good name, I shall resist pointing out the obvious. Ash (talk) 13:46, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Detailed responses to the trivial questions raised about sources have been answered on Talk:Pleasuredrome#ANI_comments and Talk:Chariots_Shoreditch#ANI_comments rather than extending this dubious thread. Ash (talk) 13:46, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Multiple examples of an editor found to be misrepresenting sources and no action taken? This is not a routine editing matter. It's one of the most basic violations of the minimum trust and responsibility Misplaced Pages needs to maintain credibility and accuracy and to protect living people from harm. This is not a matter for routine editing (i used to try to fix these problems; after getting caught up in "edit wars" with others that oppose basic minimum standards of sourcing and verifiability and being bludgeoned with brainless "AGF" mantras, I gave up.) The mind boggles. (Oh yeah: I am not now nor have ever been a member of Misplaced Pages Review, not that it's remotely relevant.)Bali ultimate (talk) 17:12, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

It has not been demonstrated that I have been misrepresenting sources. Questions were put forward about some of the sources contained in 3 of the articles I created up to 4 months ago. These questions have been answered and could have easily been addressed by friendly discussion on the article talk pages at any time in the months after they were created rather than escalating directly to ANI. I have made 22,000+ edits in total and 8,000+ of these in the last 3 months. What you see is a fishing expedition, primarily kept going by one editor who has raised 2 previous failed ANIs against me and is aware of pre-existing preparations to start an RFC/U against them and has a current WQA raised against them due to civility problems (see User:Ash/analysis). I suggest you check my edit history for yourself if you remain concerned, I would be happy to discuss any suggestions for improvement you might have on my talk page. Ash (talk) 17:37, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

And i've made about 7,500 edits to wikipedia. Not a single one of those edits has used a false citation for anything. Your defense seems to be that of your edits reviewed by carbuncle (i rather doubt he's reviewed them all) only three have involved misattribution. That's no defense at all.Bali ultimate (talk) 17:53, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

No, my "defense" is that none involves misattribution. Please check the facts. It is quite normal for an article to improve and citations to also be improved. This should not lead to hysterical allegations of perpetrating fraud and is not the way to use ANI. Ash (talk) 17:59, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

This "defense" is surpassingly ridiculous. It's well-established that you misrepresented sources (presenting claims in a advertisement as though they were standard editorial content of the magazine in which the advertising appeared; making unfounded claims as to the source of information found on a retail site you added as a reference). The bottom line is that you regularly add content to articles with referencing and sources that fail WP:RS and WP:BLP, then attack the motivations of editors who challenge your practices rather than addressing the substantive issues. Your insinuations above that two respected editors like Lar and Scott MacDonald are part of some homophobic cabal based at Misplaced Pages Review, without a shred of evidence, are fairly compelling demonstrations of your lack of good faith and of the vacuousness of your "defense." Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 18:17, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, please finish preparing your RFC/U and file it. I withdrew my MfD of User:Ash/analysis only because you claimed that you were about to file something. That was a week ago. WP:USER specifies that such pages are only permitted provided they "will be used in a timely manner". Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:50, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps you could first be civil enough to co-operate with the open WQA raised by another editor. I note that you only withdrew your MfD after unanimous feedback that you were in the wrong. In that MfD you were advised by one of the contributors that MfD "is not a cudgel for personal abuse"; the same applies to the Misplaced Pages dispute resolution processes. I do not see why you should be the one setting a timetable here. Ash (talk) 21:09, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm not setting a timetable. If you are not ready to file the RFC/U, you can ask for the page to be deleted until such time as you are. Personally, I would prefer that you go ahead and file it, so we can get it over and done with. Please see the new MfD here. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 21:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

This is not the appropriate venue for this subject. you've raised the issue with another MfD and once again, with this edit YOU have been the one to move a discussion off topic. 38.109.88.196 (talk) 22:14, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Core policy violations being ignored?

Back in December, sourcing issues were noted in an article under discussion at AfD. On the BLPN thread raised by User:Cirt, the admin who closed the AfD, I took the time to go through some of the citations used in the article and point out exactly what was wrong with them. No one, including Cirt or Ash, who added most of those citations, bothered to fix them or deal with the underlying issue of using references to source facts not contained in those references.

I brought that discussion up again here because it seemed relevant. I took the time to find further evidence of Ash's fraudulent use of citations, which I laid out as clearly and concisely as possible with diffs and links to the sources. At least two admins have commented here that this needs to be dealt with, yet this thread is languishing here while Ash continues to create and expand BLPs. What needs to be done to get some action here? Delicious carbuncle (talk) 17:48, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

The thread is only "languishing" because you and Hullaballoo Wolfowitz are keeping it from being automatically archived.

Creating sub-threads is an obvious tactic to making this ANI look more substantial than it really is.

There has been no evidence that I have deliberately perpetrated fraud.

Hullaballoo Wolfowitz's original issues with the Dave Awards citations are being addressed by dialogue with the original publisher, so that thread is closed.

All the other "examples" you put forward have been addressed on their respective article talk pages (which should have been the first port of call rather than ANI) and so their threads are closed.

Should any administrator care to look at your and HW's user talk pages it is evident that neither of you are impartial when is comes to the topic of gay pornography related articles, with various complaints about inappropriate PRODs and AFDs being raised. My work over the last 2 months to create a series of reasonable start-level articles for gay pornographic actors appears to be the real issue that you have with my existence on Misplaced Pages, a task that I started after you purged all "non-bluelink" names from the list of actors in gay porn films. It is notable that you have not raised any questions about any edit I have made more recently than November/December 2009. Considering my 8,000 edits since then, and my lengthy track record of collaboration, it seems highly unlikely that any independent admin would find anything of interest in the claims of fraud based on the thin evidence you provided so far. I suggest you let this ANI die to a lack of anything for an admin to do, just as with the previous poorly judged and inflammatory two ANIs you have raised against me since I started contributing to the genre of gay pornography related BLPs in January this year. Ash (talk) 18:21, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Garbage. Your response to criticism of your sourcing and editing practices is, consistently, to smear those who don't share your views with groundless accusations of bias and bad faith, rather than addressing the substantive problems. One needs look no further than this thread; when "independent admins" (whose input you claim to ask for) like Lar and Scott MacDonald weighed in against your position, you posted baseless insinuations of their being part of a homophobic cabal based at the Misplaced Pages Review. And this thread would have been closed and archived if you and your partners in promotional editing hadn't prolonged it yourselves, more than once, by posting phony attacks on other editors.Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 18:16, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Please stick to the facts. I have made no mention of a "homophobic cabal". It is a fact that Lar and Scott MacDonald are active on Misplaced Pages Review and that the ANI that Delicious carbuncle raised against me recently about gay pornography related articles was discussed on http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28677 which would have raised it for the attention of Misplaced Pages Review members. These are facts, not hypothesis or attacks. Ash (talk) 23:29, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Ash, you seem to be intent on raising references to Misplaced Pages Review today. How is this relevant to the issue of your misuse of sources? Or the lack of admin attention here? Delicious carbuncle (talk) 02:20, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• Comment: Just would like to point out that I was the one who actually brought this to WP:BLPN, in the first place. Please see Misplaced Pages:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive76#Vladimir_Correa. The purpose of which was for me to try to gather additional eyes and input on the article, and hopefully have others address concerns. It is a shame that individuals above are unable to deal with each other in discussion in a polite, kind and courteous manner. However, I am glad that at the very least my WP:BLPN posting had the intended affect of drawing additional input to the article itself. -- Cirt (talk) 20:38, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Cirt, I noted above that you were the editor who started the BLPN thread. If you look at the history of the article you will note that nothing of substance changed between the end of that thread and the start of this one, so I don't think your posting had the desired effect. I, too, regret the state of polite discourse here, but do you have anything to say about the actual issue, which is the misuse of sources? Delicious carbuncle (talk) 22:27, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Was there a thread at WP:RSN about sources? -- Cirt (talk) 22:30, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

No, there wasn't. Please read at least the opening statement of this section if you don't understand what the issue is here. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 22:38, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Please be more polite and kind and less brusque. Thanks. -- Cirt (talk) 23:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Cirt, as stated in the Correa sub-thread above, you will find stated on Talk:Vladimir Correa that all the contested sources were removed some six days ago. Nobody involved in raising comments on ANI was interested in discussing the details with me at the time on the article talk page. Cheers Ash (talk) 23:59, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Cirt, I apologise if you found my comments to be impolite, but I think you have mistaken my tersenesses for something else. I'm puzzled by both your reaction to my comment and your lack of substantive reply. Am I missing something here? Delicious carbuncle (talk) 02:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Due to the tone of this thread I think it best to defer to others to comment, as I had previously and appropriately done when I started a thread at WP:BLPN specifically to grab extra eyes on the situation. Thanks. -- Cirt (talk) 03:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

DC, baiting Cirt on their user talk page (see diff) for their comments here was highly inappropriate. Ash (talk) 06:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

You left Cirt a rather misleading summary of their mention in this discussion. I asked them to comment on your misuse of citations (the title of this sub-thread is "Core policy violations being ignored?" for good reason). For reasons which remain unclear, Cirt has chosen not to comment, but "baiting" them was not my intention and would hardly have been productive in encouraging them to comment here. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 14:59, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Please stop discussing me. Both of you. I have chosen to disengage from this issue, for this very reason. This is patently ridiculous. -- Cirt (talk) 15:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Users: TimLambert & John Quiggin

Entire section has been moved to Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/TimLambert and John Quiggin to centralize discussion and to save space here. Please to not add timestamp until this section reaches the top of the section. –MuZemike

Return of blocked sockfarmer

Editor in question blocked. Beyond My Ken (talk) 11:11, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Entire section has been moved to WP:AN as a general behavioral/status question without a specific "incident" to support being here.
Please to not add timestamp until this section reaches the top of the page. Beyond My Ken

user:Zlykinskyja's conduct at AFD page

Misusing AFD page for personal attacks and unrelated personal "disputes" after several explanations and warnings. I think she has reached a limit that warrants a strong warning or even a short block if that is what it takes to stop the disruption. User is currently also discussed at Misplaced Pages:Wikiquette alerts# user:Zlykinskyja. Repeated violations of civility in edit summaries and talk pages (conserning Murder of Meredith Kercher but stale right now. The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 20:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I kindly tried to ask her to refrain from assuming bad faith, here, but she first shifted the topic here and, then, one minute later, she erased all, as can be seen here. Salvio giuliano (talk) 20:50, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree that Zlykinskyja seems to be assuming bad faith in Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Delayed grief and is making a lot of accusations against Magnificent Clean-keeper for things like alleged "wikihounding". I raised concerns about Zlykinskyja's previous personal attacks on me in the Wikiquette discussion mentioned above. I am concerned that, in response, she seemed extremely reluctant to take responsibility for her actions and instead suggested that the remedy for the problem would be some sort of mediation. She received some good advice from independent editors, there, but does not seem to be taking note of it. However, I'm not an independent editor: I have disagreed with a lot of her edits in the Murder of Meredith Kercher article and, as mentioned, have been on the receiving end of a lot her personal attacks. Bluewave (talk) 22:13, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

This latest attack against me by The Magnificent Clean-Keeper comes after a few days ago when he and Salvio Giuliano agreed that they would start using "vinegar" against me after I failed to respond to their "honey". What this "honey" has actually been involves a long pattern of harassment and hostility against me by The Magnificent Clean-Keeper. He has recently engaged in trying to instigate incidents by WikiHounding me --following me to other articles. This is against Misplaced Pages policy. He has also made the threat to "get rough" with me. He used profanity against me, although he would know that most women would be offended by the "F" word. He refers to my comments as "B.S." or rants. Most annoyingly, he has engaged in a pattern of repeatedly deleting my work, over and over in a most unreasonable manner, trying to instigate an edit war. I feel that he should be sanctioned for harassing me and WikiHounding me. Under WikiHounding policies, it is considered harassment to follow someone to another article to interfere with another editor's enjoyment of editing. That he has certainly done to me on the Linda Carty article, and now in another manner on the new Delayed Grief article. I feel that he is trying to instigate and provoke disputes, intimidate me and bully me from participating in writing on this website. He has the support of some biased allies, including Bluewave and Salvio Giuliano, who support him in his efforts to cause difficulty for me in having my edits included on the Murder of Meredith Kercher article. I did report this on ANI several days ago, but the report was ignored. I hope that ANI will provide me with some assistance so that I can participate in Misplaced Pages without feeling intimidated by him and the allies who support such wrongful conduct. I have said that this started as a content dispute on the Murder of Meredith Kercher article, but he is now trying to make it personal and extending things beyond that one article. He has made it clear for a while now that his intention is to get me banned or blocked as a form of intimidation in connection with the editing disputes on the Murder of Meredith Kercher article. Zlykinskyja (talk) 22:36, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

And again, like she did at Wikiquette, she keeps on accusing me and other editors w/o any diff's to proof. What she is basically doing is making accusations to try to turn the sword against me (while doing quite the opposite at the Murder of Meredith Kercher's article). Although the latter seems somehow funny, It is not to me. I was hoping for some minor difference to her usual response but I guess I expected to much as she just replied with the same old unfounded accusations like she has it still saved in her mouse. I would like to remind everybody, that this thread that I started is about Zlykinskyja's behavior problems, not mine, and I told her on several occasions that if she has a complain against me she can file one at several available boards, including here at ANI but instead, her preference still lays in engaging in unfounded complains and incivility on her talk page (where she constantly deletes and changes headings although only the ones that doesn't suit her well) and elsewhere.The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 23:16, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I did raise this issue at ANI a few days ago, as a comment in a complaint someone else filed against The Magnificent Clean-Keeper, but my issues apparently were overlooked. I am not someone who goes around filing complaints about people and trying to intimidate people, as he does. I have never filed an official complaint against anyone. But looking at the official ANI records, his name comes up as someone who seems to go after people a lot. Well, that isn't my style. I tried to raise the issue as a comment on ANI, but the information was overlooked, and then things with him only got worse. But I do think his conduct which is provoking my distress should be considered. If you look at the article deletion page he refers to, I was trying to raise the same issues I tried to raise previously on the ANI in the complaint that was promptly closed. His behavior is a problem, a BIG problem for me. Zlykinskyja (talk) 23:25, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Let me help you out. This was the "incident" that was closed rather quickly and for good reasons. If you have a complain, file it or leave it.

This was the ONLY incident I ever filed at here (and it was about you under your old user name).

I'm not aware of ANI other report I filed regarding you or any one else. Any diff's to proof me wrong? Guess not as always. So proof it or loose it.

And stop trying to make this thread about me and respond to your conduct which is in question here.The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 23:47, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

• BTW. About the ANI thread you mentoned and commented on: If you jump on a wagon make sure it goes in your direction.The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 23:55, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Then why does your name come up 28 times in the ANI records when I put your name in? You seem to have been in a lot of these types of disputes, even if someone else filed the complaint. Your name must be popping up a big number of times in the official records for a reason. Zlykinskyja (talk) 00:06, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Put an admin's name in the search box and you'll get plenty of hits too. Can you please start making sense and respond to the thread or just stop commenting like this and waste editors time as their time is at least as valuable as yours (and they don't have a SPA-account like you) but don't complain about it as you constantly do?The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 00:24, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

So that is what you meant when you said you were going back to the "old type of editor that no one would want to see", and that you intend to "get rough" with me? You intend to very agressively go after me, swear at me, WikiHound me, post on my Talk page over and over even though I pleaded with you to leave me alone, over and over I asked you to please leave me alone. But you just won't do that. It is not acceptable conduct. As I told you, I am taking care of an extremely ill family member. I just can't put up with your horrible conduct towards me while I am under a lot of stress and have to put the care of a terminally ill person first and foremost. But you just continue on and on stalking me. I have asked you over and over and over and over to please leave me alone. Zlykinskyja (talk) 00:21, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• I'll not respond further to your accusations. Talk to my hand.The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 00:28, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I am confused. Are you now saying that you are an administrator on Misplaced Pages? Zlykinskyja (talk) 00:30, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Here is a link to a Talk page discussion in which he tried to provoke a distressed response from me by: 1) following me to a new article in which he had never been involved; 2) deleting a large number of my edits without justification; 3) then deleting more of my work without justification; 4) posting helpful hints on my Talk page without acknowledging that he had just deleted most of my work; 5) thereby prompting my distressed response to his continuing pattern of deleting my work, while he deceptively looks like he is just trying to post helpful suggestions on my Talk page; 6) then linking the incident that he intentionally schemed and provoked to a discussion page (about my supposed lack of civilty towards him) on the Wikette page, and falsely using the incident to claim continuing uncivility by me. This is just one example of the nonsense I have to put up with, and why it is unreasonable to demand that I continue to assume "good faith" when dealing with him. Zlykinskyja (talk) 01:02, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Further comment (having had time to think carefully about why I'm contributing to this). My perception (just one person's point of view, of course) is as follows. Zlykinskyja's main interest in Misplaced Pages has been the Murder of Meredith Kercher and it is clear that she has passionate views about the subject. I think other editors actually respect this and have shown Z quite a lot of tolerance, though she probably wouldn't believe me. The article itself is quite controversial and Z herself has a history of making controversial and tendentious edits. A good example would be a recent case where there was some discussion, and an apparent consensus on the talk page, about a rewrite of a section of the article. Although, Z did not contribute to the debate, she set about making some 20 edits to the text as soon as it was in place in the article. When her edits were reverted, she immediately started making personal attacks on the editors concerned, including labelling me as an "anti-Knox" editor. So this is a good example of unwillingness to participate in creating a consensus, making controversial edits and then making personal attacks on people who disagree with Z. When I suggested that she raise her concerns on the talk page, so that they can be discussed, she responded by saying "take the material that I tried to include as my comment": in other words she tends to push the debate out of the talk page and into article space, where it turns into an edit war. Magnificent Clean-keeper raised the issue of Z's conduct at the Wikiquette noticeboard. I thought that this might lead to some advice from an uninvolved editor and I raised my concerns there too. It did indeed lead to some good advice but there was a great reluctance by Z to accept that she is responsible for incivility that others find quite unpleasant. From Z's contributions to the AFD and recent edits to the Kercher article, I don't think she has taken on board the guidance that has been given. Hence, I think there is the need for someone who has the power of sanctions to examine the case. Bluewave (talk) 12:50, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Bluewave's comment discusses an incident which reflects the ongoing problems over the content of the Murder of Meredith Kercher article. There has indeed been a big problem on the article in terms of having both sides of the story included, BLP respected, and NPOV achieved. This is why I had suggested mediation, but it seems that there has recently been an attempt to make things "personal" so that the conflict now looks like interpersonal disputes, when the underlying dispute has been over the content of the article. (I do not think that is the case with The Magnificent Clean-Keeper any longer though. I think he has an anger towards me that has become personal and that his intention now is to give me a very hard time and ultimately to get me banned or blocked.) In terms of the content dispute, the problem is that most of the editors edit in a consistent pattern that can be described as the "pro-prosecution/anti-Knox/pro-guilt" side of the story. In terms of the "other" side of the story, which can be described as "pro-Knox/anti-prosecution/pro-innocence" side, it is primarily just me. Another poster named Wikid77 sometimes edits on that side as well, but sometimes edits on the other side too. He does not seem to contribute on a regular basis any longer due to the disputes. Because it is often just me up against Bluewave, Salvio Giuliano, The Magnificent Clean-Keeper and a few others on the other side of the case, I have been given a very difficult time and my work is often deleted or challenged and then deleted. But BOTH sides of the story need to be included in order for NPOV to be achieved and BLP to be respected. The defendants in the murder case are still "presumed innocent" until the judicial process is completed and their guilt or innocence finally determined, which will take a few years. In the meantime, both BLP and NPOV require that BOTH sides of the story be included--which means that information both as to their possible guilt and as to their possible innocence should be included. But most of the editors will allow only information tending to show their guilt to be included. So we have a struggle as to including both sides of the story, achieving NPOV and complying with BLP. But for Bluewave or any other editor to say that this dispute is all my fault is not truthful or sincere, since my struggles are to try to include the information which they do not want in the article--which shows the "other" side of the story. Without my lonely struggles to include the "other' side of the story, this article would read like Amanda Knox was a terrible person who sexually assaulted, stabbed, strangled, beat, stabbed and killed her roomate, when none of this has been finally determined. Knox stands innocent until proven guilty and she faces another trial in the Fall in which she could be acquitted. Large numbers of people in the U.S., including public officials and public figures, believe that she has been unjustly accused and never harmed her roommate. Until her guilt or innocence is finally determined, BOTH sides of the story, including the possibility of her innocence should be allowed in the article. It would be helpful if an administrator could help emphasize that NPOV and BLP require that these editors allow BOTH sides of the story in the article, and that they cannot reach a "consensus" to do otherwise. Thank you. Zlykinskyja (talk) 16:50, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

No, this is not about the content of the article; it's about the way you behave towards all those who don't agree with you; that can be seen on the AFD page, but I can provide tons of diffs if needed. Please, try not to shift the topic, here. Salvio giuliano (talk) 20:42, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• Comment from User:Wikid77 - I have been very busy on other articles (and fixing complex calculations in Template:Convert), but I noticed that User:Zlykinskyja has been warning people of WikiHounding activities. I did not realize, until today, that WP:Wikihounding (formerly called "wikistalking" until 27-Oct-2008) is part of WP:Harrassment and is a formal behavior problem that can quickly result in users being blocked. User:Zlykinskyja has been a part-time user, someone working on relatively few articles, and now working to improve articles on legal topics, such as the convicted Linda Carty. I think the claims of wikihounding are correct, and User:Zlykinskyja is in need of protection, at this point, at least in warning other users to not follow along, not hound, and not revert corrections to the next article being edited. Some users seem to have crossed the line, such as User:The Magnificent Clean-keeper, by twice reverting major improvements/corrections to another hounded article ("Linda Carty"), perhaps at the suggestion of another user to target that article, as a form of collusion in hounding. I'm not sure that any of them knew about policy WP:Wikihounding, but User:Zlykinskyja certainly asked them to stop, multiple times, both on article talk-pages and on their user-talk pages. They can't pretend they haven't been warned. I realize evidence is needed to support my views, so I suggest the history of article "Linda Carty" (the British/American woman on death row in Texas). I finally took time to review the many improved edits made by User:Zlykinskyja, who corrected errors in that WP:BLP article (ranks #2 in Google, with 46,000 hits about Linda Carty), and then added sources, and then expanded the text. However, User:The Magnificent Clean-keeper decided to revert most of the improvements to article "Linda Carty", 2 times, and restored glaring errors, such as Linda Carty charged with "Capital Punishment" which, of course, is a punishment, not a criminal charge. Those erroneous reverts to "Linda Carty" were shocking:

• 1st revert re-adding errors (18:14, 13 March 2010): diff@revision 349650340
• 2nd revert re-adding errors (19:47, 13 March 2010): diff@revision 349666236

I was shocked about anyone wanting to de-correct a WP:BLP article, anyone wanting to re-introduce errors 2x, when User:Zlykinskyja had improved the notable article about this dual-citizen (of interest to both British & American readers) and had described her fate at Mountain View Unit (women's death row), on that very real hillside midway between Houston and Dallas, Texas. Why would someone risk scrambling and hacking such an article, twice, on Misplaced Pages? Articles about British-American citizens on death row should not be hacked and have errors re-added. So, if perhaps User:Zlykinskyja seems a little upset, please understand the prior massive rescue to a high-profile article on Misplaced Pages and having to correct problems 3 times, in total, to make Misplaced Pages seem a better source about such an important legal issue: the execution of a British citizen when capital punishment has been banned in the UK. I advise: tell other users to stop the wikihounding, stop reverting improvements to high-profile articles, and stop submitting frivolous ANI reports about User:Zlykinskyja. The future contributions of User:Zlykinskyja are incalculable to Misplaced Pages, and I've worked on many thousands of articles, so I think I know whereof I speak. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. -Wikid77 (talk) 22:02, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you Wikid77. I do feel that I can contribute a lot to Misplaced Pages in the long run, if only those pushing their own obvious agendas on the Murder of Meredith Kercher article--to present Amanda Knox as guilty of a violent sexual assault and murder--would stop trying to block my participation with these unfair and unethical tactics. These tactics of reporting me on trumped up charges, WikiHounding, intentional provocations, making threats, repeatedly deleting my work over and over and over, are really all aimed at one thing---preventing me from adding the "other side of the story" to the Kercher murder article. The aggressiveness that has been used to try to block and intimidate me from including the "other side of the story" has indeed been shameful. And it needs to come to a stop. Amanda Knox, a young student from Seattle, Washington, is a real person, a living person who is entitled to the protections afforded by the BLP policy on Misplaced Pages. Yet, there are a few editors who have gone to great lengths to block me from trying to provide some control on the article in terms of defamation. I have had to remove, modify or correct a great deal of information in the article that has been false and defamatory towards her and Raffaele Sollecito and in violation of BLP policy. I have tried to add information that tends to show that she is innocent until proven guilty in a final judicial proceeding, and that no final determination of guilt has yet been made. For this effort, a huge number of hours of my time has been taken up trying to stop these same editors from removing my corrections and edits. Yet, my editing has been in compliance with BLP policy, while some other editors are working against BLP policy. Now they have gone to the next step of aggression by trying these personal attacks to get me blocked or banned. It is not a coincidence that the edits of The Magnificent Clean-Keeper, Salvio Giuliano, and Bluewave and a few others of their group have been virtually ALL tending to show Amanda Knox in as negative and GUILTY a light as possible, and they object to most all my edits adopting a more tolerant view of her---and now they are trying to say these disputes occur because of my "conduct." No, the overriding "conduct" in this situation is that a clique of editors is trying many tactics to block me from participating, so that they can write up Amanda Knox in the article to look as guilty as possible, and that article will be on display for the world to read as she goes for her second trial this Fall. This whole thing, in my opinion, is morally and ethically wrong, and could end up violating the rights of Amanda Knox to be free of defamation and adverse unfounded negative pre-trial publicity, and violates many Misplaced Pages policies including NPOV and BLP. There should be no such thing as a criminal Trial by Misplaced Pages. Amanda Knox remains innocent until her judicial proceedings are concluded and her guilt or innocence is finally determined. I respectfully request that these editors be admonished to cease trying to block my participation on the Murder of Meredith Kercher article, and from WikiHounding me to any other article as further intimidation against my participation. Thank you. Zlykinskyja (talk) 00:36, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Trying to bring this discussion back to the subject in hand...namely Zlykinskyja's conduct...I think some of her posts above illustrate very well the points that I was trying to make earlier.

• It appears that Z thinks she is on a mission to insert a particular point of view into the Meredith Kercher article: she says, for example, In terms ... the ... "pro-Knox/anti-prosecution/pro-innocence" side, it is primarily just me.
• She assumes bad faith on the part of most other editors: most of the editors edit in a consistent pattern that can be described as the "pro-prosecution/anti-Knox/pro-guilt" side of the story.
• Whenever incivility is mentioned, she cites content disputes as the cause. This suggests that, based on her belief in the bad faith of other editors, she thinks she is justified in being uncivil.
• She assumes consensus will go against her and doesn't accept the need to engage in the consensus process require that these editors allow BOTH sides of the story in the article, and that they cannot reach a "consensus" to do otherwise.

All these things are driving other editors to despair. Bluewave (talk) 10:34, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm not 100% educated on this discussion, but Zlykinskyja, as far as your arguments, I think you might want to read WP:TLDR. Erpert (let's talk about it) 11:46, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Summary: this editor has been assuming bad faith on the part of other users ever since she started editing the MoMK article — a few examples out of many here she immediately assumes censorship, after her edit was reverted; "Now this is really disgusting. Someone, likely FormerIP, has gone and had this article locked so that only certain people can edit the article. That is truly disgusting. The locking of this article was NOT due to any vandalism. It was due to an attempt to block alternative viewpoints. This is the most extreme form of censorship."; claims of defamation; "The bullying and rudeness going on with this article has to stop."; claims of "Conspiring to Obstruct another Editor"; "The rules for this article are more: 1)if it makes Knox look good, it must be deleted; 2)if it makes Knox look bad, it stays."; "But wouldn't something like that be best to do all off-line so the Knox-haters can't trash it?"; "The anti-Knox editors should not be deleting, censoring and blocking contributions by pro-defense editors"; "Efforts by Anti-Knox Editors to Restrict Participation By Pro-defense Editors"; "They have the "consensus" and it does not include US. "They have the "consensus" and it does not include US."; "I guess rather than mediation, Magnificent Clean-Keeper would rather fight. It is all such a waste of time."; do I have to continue? BTW, sorry, if I have been verbose, here ;) — was blocked for sockpuppeting and legally threatened the admin who had blocked her , after wikilawyering. She thinks that all those who don't agree with her are wrong, trying to censor her or wikihounding her. The episode of alleged wikihounding took place a week or so ago, but she was lamenting our censorship way before then; she is apparently confusing the correct succession of events.

Here she clarifies her "agenda". Salvio giuliano (talk) 14:23, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I see that in response to my sincere statement on the extended content dispute over the Murder of Meredith Kercher article, the same editors who have been part of the improper effort to obstruct my efforts to participate to present the "other side of the story" in the article are now throwing the kitchen sink at me. This is part of their continuing effort to divert attention from the major problem with the article--their own efforts to allow only one side of the story in violation of the fundamental policies of NPOV and BLP. It will take me a while to do the proper research to respond to these additional accusations: I am still trying to learn how to do diffs, but will try to collect some to provide further information. I intend to return to provide a response as soon as I can reasonably do so, given illness in the family and other real world obligations. Thank you for your patience. I will just reply briefly now that there is nothing that I have ever said or done that excuses the WikiHounding that has occurred. WikiHounding is a form of harassment under Misplaced Pages policy, and trying to cast the person who was subjected to it as the wrongdoer can never be justified. It is not improper to object to WikiHounding, it is the effort to engage in WikiHounding that is wrongful. Zlykinskyja (talk) 15:28, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

So, now I am one of the baddies? It's not what you wrote three days ago "Salvio has not harassed me by repeatedly deleting my work on the Kercher article." Anyway, for me, this stops here. I will try to avoid you in the future and all will be well, hopefully. Salvio giuliano (talk) 17:47, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Don't worry. She said that I'm the leader of the so called anti Knox crowd so I'm the vampire who bit every one and therefore I must be held responsible for everything ;) The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 22:59, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Dwm Deletion Proceedings and User:Blueboy96

Hello. I've been contributing anonymously for a few years now, infrequently enough to never bother registering an account. I'm also a Reddit user, where recently two articles have been popular, Misplaced Pages, Notability, and Open Source Software and the follow-up to it.

They struck a chord with me, and while I can't readily check my past contributions, it saddens me to learn that many lesser-known articles I've contributed to may have been deleted.

As per the two pages I linked to, I'm here about the dwm proceedings.

I think it's very unfortunate that the first AfD was closed and reopened at all, to me it seems like an attempt to quieten outside voices and go back to business as normal.

The semi-protection of the second AfD also makes me uneasy, as though the Misplaced Pages deletion process does not respect or want outside input. I'm not very familiar with Misplaced Pages policy, so please forgive me if I make errors.

In specific, I came here about the blockings surrounding the dwm proceedings, and the conduct of the administrator responsible for them, User:Blueboy96. The following users were blocked by him on February 28:

Special:Contributions/0xd34df00d Registered in December 2007, voted in dwm AfD.

Special:Contributions/DoctorSinus Registered in October 2009, voted in dwm AfD.*

Special:Contributions/Gleb-ax Registered in October 2008, did not vote formally.

Special:Contributions/Grasagrautur Registered in February 2010, attempted good-faith source addition to dwm article, voted keep.

Special:Contributions/Ingwar-k Registered in January 2010, voted keep in wmii AfD.*

Special:Contributions/Iorlas Registered in February 2010, voted keep in dwm, QVWM, Evilwm, Aewm, wmii, Oroborus AfDs. Unblock requested and denied.

Special:Contributions/Jasonwryan Registered in February 2010, voted keep in dwm AfD.*

Special:Contributions/Jeuta Registered in February 2010, voted keep in dwm AfD.*

Special:Contributions/Necrosporus Registered in February 2010, voted keep in dwm AfD. Unblock request repeatedly denied after the AfD ended.

Special:Contributions/Thayerw Registered in September 2008, did not vote keep in dwm AfD, had made several good-faith edits prior.*

• Users that I marked with an asterisk only commented once.

The administrator also made several comments that I would deem objectionable in the second dwm AfD, such as "Delete No fewer than 11 meatpuppets have been identified as either heavily contributing to the article or came to the AfD via canvass, suggesting that this article isn't something we should keep in any event." and "Let me clarify--this article has been so tainted by meatpuppetry in my mind that if it were to be kept, it should be completely rewritten from scratch. It's a credibility issue." as if people being interested in something means they should be completely ignored.

User:Anselmgarbe and User:ArneBab were also both blocked. The former is the developer of dwm, and was unblocked on March 3 after substantial discussion. Despite being a contributor dating back to 2004. Following false accusations, he was indefinitely blocked on March 4 following a discussion full of bad faith assumptions, and the block was not repealed nor justified despite opposition by User:Kim_Bruning. User:Henrik unblocked ArneBab today, 17 days after the block was added.

I don't think making one comment (or several) in an AfD discussion merits losing your account permanently (and having unblock requests denied very quickly), and I question the judgement of an administrator who bans so many users without investigating them individually. What happened to assuming good faith and all contributors being valuable?

I question the "meatpuppet" policy in general, it seems to severely punish people who were asked to come to Misplaced Pages despite not knowing all the policies, and I don't think they should be punished at all for attempting to preserve an article they happen to be passionate about. None of these users were vindictive or made personal attacks. Is it really necessary to ban a dozen users for a small policy violation like this?

At this point I don't think many (or perhaps any) of them will come back. They came to try to save software they enjoy and were met with extreme hostility, with attempts to keep them out of the discussion ending in bans for all of them. If I were in their position, I would not return.

Why is it that the only two who were unblocked had their blocks removed because of further scrutiny? I wonder how many unnecessary permanent blocks are given out every day. 69.196.147.65 (talk) 06:35, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

This was exceptionally poorly handled by us, and a massive WP:BITE failure. Our notability policy is unpopular and hard to explain. The reasons why WP:N is a good idea are rather subtle, and imposing it with a heavy handed approach is guaranteed to alienate a lot of potential editors. This débâcle has generated a lot of bad will and strengthened the reputation of wikipedia as a bureaucracy. We're not growing any more, we can't afford to piss off potential editors. We have to be more calm and patient with new users. I don't want to point fingers to User:Blueboy96 or any other user in particular, but surely we can and must to better than this. henrik•talk 07:58, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Not just by us, since the user persisted in recruiting meatpuppets long after it had been explained why that was not a good idea. I would, though, only have blocked any accounts until such time as the debate was finished, since the locus of disruption was the AfD. I also think the AfD was closed wrongly as the loud assertions of "it's teh notable!" were not, as far as I recall, matched by, you know, reliable independent sources. Guy (Help!) 11:54, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Sure, that is a valid point. And yeah, the AfD should probably (objectively) have been closed as delete - but we can't go around pissing off everybody who isn't already an editor and knows the details of the system all the time. That is far more important than whether we have an article about an obscure X window manager or not. You and me and all other admins are already getting a poor reputation as needlessly bureaucratic jerks who delete stuff for just the hell of it. WP:RFA used to have a dozen candidates at the same time, now it's frequently empty. Our user base has plateaued. We need to do more to help people get involved and lower the initial hurdle. Sure, they'll make mistakes. Sure, they'll try to promote their own stuff initially. But we need them. And we need to figure out how to explain our policies in a way that make sense. henrik•talk 12:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

To close that AfD as a delete after the discussion would mean a complete redefinition of "consensus", or even WP:CONSENSUS. It would reduce commentators to the status of "suggested argument providers" and leave the final decision fully in the hand of whoever manages to sneak in a close first. Of course, that person then applies a magical process that gives hir perfect knowledge of all policies and guidelines, the ability to evaluate all sources with perfect understanding and unanimity, and to come to a fully justified decision. If we have those wondercreatures among our admins, why not let them come up with the input, too, and bypass all that nasty discussion in favour of admin fiat? We can assign AfDs round robin, or have a lottery on who gets to close what. By the same logic we could have bureaucrats appoint admins without those pesky and divisive community discussion. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 12:28, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

No, it would be an entirely valid interpretation of consensus, which is explicitly not a vote. There have been plenty of deletion debates closed against the majority vote where the minority correctly cites policy and the minority only blows smoke. That's why we have the whole "not a vote" thing, because votes can't override policies and AfD debates can't override the much stronger consensus that underpins guidelines like WP:RS. Guy (Help!) 18:13, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Closing against majority is something I've always been critical about. Closing against an overwhelming majority would be abuse of process. Consensus is the source of our rules, and the ultimate arbiter, not the other way around. If the rules were unambiguous, we could just write a small program to apply them. Since they are not, we rely on people to interpret them. And in this case, even discounting meatpuppets and even counting aggressive whiners, there is certainly no consensus to delete. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 09:15, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I think that removing the blocks would be a good minimal first step, perhaps accompanied by an apology. Going past that, the "meatpuppet" policy should be closely examined. Wanting to save something you care about is not a heinous act. The canvassing policy reads like its main purpose is to prevent people who care about something from being notified about its impending deletion. Having completely disinterested people debating is biased towards deletion because few of them will spend much time looking for sources if they don't care about the topic at hand. Deleting an article doesn't need to be a bad experience. If the passionate community is simply told that if they can find good sources, the article's exclusion will be reevaluated, they will do their best to find sources. If you attempt to reduce the debate to an echo chamber by protecting it, and ban users that did their best to present arguments for keeping it, that community starts to loathe you. I don't even think User:Mclaudt should be banned. His actions are barred by current policies, but the policies are broken. He was just a passionate user trying to prevent a deletion, who had no recourse on Misplaced Pages, so he had to go outside it. I think that most contentious deletion debates should end in a keep if there are any verifiable sources at all. By blocking users and preventing them from participating in a debate, yet another community is alienated and the potential base of editors becomes smaller. 69.196.147.65 (talk) 23:41, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree with largely everything you said. I propose to unblock all these accounts. The likelihood of any further disruption is low. Being passionate about an article is certainly not an offense worthy of an indefinite block, and treating infrequent contributors like some sort of second class citizens leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

The way you describe how deletions doesn't have to be a bad experience is already how the deletion process is supposed to work. It's supposed to be about working together to find sources and improve the article, or collectively deciding that it can't be done. We need to do a better job of explaining that. henrik•talk 06:55, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I admit, the mass blocks in this situation were rather heavy-handed. But considering the situation, there really was no other choice. Many of these users hadn't contributed in one or two years, then suddenly reappeared to contribute in the AfD. That, to my mind, is even worse than newbie accounts popping up simply to vote in AfDs. Add to it the fact that he continued to canvass even after being warned--and there was really no other option but to drop the hammer in my mind. Blueboy96 14:45, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

What's occurred here goes beyond heavy-handed. 11 indefinite blocks laid out in 34 minutes, 6 of them within 1-2 minutes of the previous. Five of the users are established Russian Misplaced Pages editors in good standing: ru:Участник:DoctorSinus, ru:Участник:Gleb-ax, ru:Участник:0xd34df00d, ru:Участник:Necrosporus, ru:Участник:Ingwar. Three others (User:Jasonwryan, User:Thayerw, User:Anselmgarbe) are free software developers with domains similar to their Misplaced Pages usernames. Note that the latter is the developer of dwm. The outlier, User:ArneBab was blocked several days later despite a lack of consensus and no actual proof of his biased canvassing. These aren't vandals, they did not register random strings as names and vandalize the AfD repeatedly; they merely made their best arguments for the article's inclusion. Several of these users have been around for some time, and to throw good faith out the window so readily despite their transparency is alarming. Really, they were worse off than vandals - At least most vandals tend to get a warning first. You then voted delete 8 minutes after finishing the mass-blocking of the "meatpuppets", using their existence as a justification for the delete. Adding insult to injury, User_talk:Necrosporus was denied an unblock four times by other administrators who likely assumed the block was there for a good reason... and unlike most of the others, he's still blocked. Eleven ill-conceived blocks in half an hour constitutes far more than a momentary lapse in judgement. Fedbn (talk) 08:36, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

As I said earlier, my blocks in this case were a knee-jerk reaction to what I saw as blatant votestacking by sleepers. If I had known that there were users in good standing from another project contributing to that AfD and not just mere sleeper accounts, I wouldn't have blocked. I just wish someone had informed me of this earlier. Had I known this, their statements would have looked more like people trying their hardest to contribute in a language they didn't know well, not just disjointed attempts to clog up the debate. Blueboy96 13:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

In order to prevent deletion discussions from becoming Reichstag-climbing-while-dressed-as-Spider-Man contests and to properly reflect the community's (that is, a cross-section thereof) view of the whether something should be kept/deleted/etc., sometimes measures need to be taken to prevent those who do nothing but protest all over the place (like what is being done here). The fact of the matter is that those blocked accounts didn't have any other purpose here but to defend the Dwm article. With that said, blocking may not have been absolutely necessary unless clear disruption was taking place. –MuZemike 16:12, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I beg to disagree with that “fact”. I was blocked, too, and the purpose of my account was and is to be able to contribute where I see errors I can fix quickly. I am no mayor editor, because I also work on other projects, a lot of them in free software, and want to spend time with my wife, too. But most times when I see an error and am sure that I can fix it properly (and have enough understanding of the topic to bring a real improvement) I set aside some time to fix it. Contributing to the AfD discussion might have taken much more time than a simple fix, but that was unintended and the result of seeing a glaring error in an area I am knowledgeable about. So please take back that remark. It’s unwarranted — and not only towards my account. Draketo (talk) 22:14, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Details of Blueboy96's handling of Anselmgarbe

It's incredible that we still have experienced editors here who are defending what happened. Let's take the example of Anselm Garbe, the developer of dwm. He:

• used a real name account and said openly who he was;
• came to the AfD to provide information, nothing else;
• said openly that he was canvased;
• introduced some borderline reliable sources into the discussion;
• did not insist that the sources he introduced were reliable sources;
• did not make any disruptive contribution whatsoever;
• probably had a calming influence on the angry users who tried to save the article;
• did not make any attempt to !vote (unless you count "neutral");
• reacted positively to a proposal to merge the article into Tiling window manager and made an open-ended comment that might have resulted in a merge to a different article instead;
• was polite, considerate, reasonable and intelligent throughout;
• stopped commenting on 25 February.

Then, half a week later on 28 February, Blueboy96:

• blocked User:Anselmgarbe;
• blocked him indefinitely;
• used the totally bizarre and counterfactual block summary: "Abusing multiple accounts: Self-admitted meatpuppet of Mclaudt";
• left no block message at all on the talk page.

When this was noticed and two editors asked for an unblock (Pcap and Psychonaut), instead of immediately unblocking Anselm Garbe and apologising, Blueboy96:

• wrote: "If he understands the seriousness of what he's done, there's no reason why he can't be unblocked." – note that this was completely delusional as Anselm Garbe never did anything wrong in the first place;
• wrote: "Just emailed him offering to unblock if he tells other areas he's interested in editing." – Note: 21 hours later, Anselm Garbe replied to my email and was confused because he had never received Blueboy96's email and did not even know that he was blocked;

I can confirm this, I wasn't aware that my account was blocked and I learned about it from a mail of Hans Adler on 3rd March 2010. Anselmgarbe (talk) 08:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

• did not apologise, or at least not publicly, after Anselm Garbe was unblocked (this clearly doesn't count.

I thought this was an isolated mistake, but now, with the knowledge that Blueboy96 handed out indefinite blocks en masse for the egregious "crime" of being canvased, I think this is firmly in desysop territory. Hans Adler 11:01, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

This as punishment for this and this after two years of inactivity is also totally outside policy.

How hard is it to read a short guideline such as WP:CANVAS and to note that it never even once mentions blocking the targets of the canvassing (or calls them "meat puppets", for that matter)? Hans Adler 11:32, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Part of the problem here, as already mentioned above, is that WP:CANVASS is one of the dumbest and most misguided Misplaced Pages guidelines (not policy). Why this is so can be seen by the history of its development. It was spun of off WP:SPAM, initially called "internal spamming" the policy on canvassing originally referred only to unwanted notifications (i.e. spam). Then someone who had just lost some AfD or something, with an axe to grind realized that it provided a convenient stick (or a heavy bunch of sour grapes) to beat their opponents on the head with and thus WP:CANVASS was born (note how obvious the sour grapes are there). Basically a bad selfish guideline conceived and written for less than noble reasons from some long forgotten deletionist vs. inclusionist debate. And then it got ossified as status quo.

In the real world, informing people who are potential stakeholders in a particular issue is seen as a *good thing*. If I remind somebody that a city council election is taking place and they should go vote (even if I know that person's political affiliation) that's usually considered "good citizenship". But here on Misplaced Pages, where apparently it's considered a good thing that many proposals are "flown under the radar" to get a particular result, it's all topsy turvy.radek (talk) 12:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't think that's really the problem here, since Blueboy96's actions were in no way justifiable even by WP:CANVAS. Hans Adler 12:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree, but I also think that it's the misguided nature of the guideline itself which is partly responsible for these kinds of "misunderstandings".radek (talk) 13:34, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I fully apologize for my handling of Anselm Garbe. Having always been militantly anti-spam in any online community (not just Misplaced Pages), my block of him was purely reflexive. However, it wasn't within the spirit of WP:MEAT since he did make a good-faith effort to suggest improvements to the article. Blueboy96 12:48, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi, no worries. Apology accepted. Anselmgarbe (talk) 08:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Just in case my remarks got lost in the ether ...

When I was alerted to what was going on in the first Dwm Afd, I thought I saw egregious votestacking, a good bit of it perpetrated by sleeper accounts. However, if I had known that those five .ru users were contributors in good standing on another wiki, I definitely wouldn't have blocked. Seen in light of that fact, they were merely trying to make a case for keeping the article in a language they didn't know well.

The Anselm Garbe case--it was a reflexive reaction on my part to block, as I have always had zero tolerance for spamming and votestacking. HOwever, I freely admit that he made a good-faith effort to suggest improvements. For that reason, my block of him wasn't in the spirit of WP:MEAT, and I apologize for my reflexive block of him.

Hopefully this clears this matter up. Blueboy96 13:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

It's hardly a good sign when an admin admits to blocking due to a "kneejerk reaction". Surely a certain amount of reasoned thought should precede any blocking? --Fred the Oyster (talk) 13:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

There was no way anyone could have known at the time that we were dealing with users in good standing from another project. As far as Anselm goes, as I said earlier, while it was grounded in policy, it wasn't within the spirit of the rules. Blueboy96 21:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

It doesn’t say how you will react should something similar happen again. And you only offer excuses to the ones who ‘were in good standing in another project’ as well as Anselm. What about the other blocks? And why is the treatment people got suddenly only wrong when they turn out to be ‘in good standing’? If it was wrong when done to people in good standing, how could it be right when done to newcomers? Draketo (talk) 22:23, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, exactly. Blueboy96 needs to avoid repeating such scattershot blocks of alleged 'meatpuppets', or I'll happily pick up a torch and pitchfork and call for his desysopping. Remember: you are not Judge Dredd. Fences&Windows 22:46, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. The fact that some of the users blocked happened to be users in good standing on another project is beside the point. Draketo here has been a user since 2004 and was still summarily blocked. If you've been fighting vandals and spammers for a long time it's easy to become jaded and hard to remember that all new and infrequent users deserve the same respect and assumption that they're here to help. However, that is no excuse. We should always be careful not to create special rules for some in-clique and other rules for those not already in the group. who I don't think it's productive to call for someone's head, but some sort of acknowledgment that you'll treat similar situations differently in the future would help. henrik•talk 10:27, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Blocks are intended to be a last resort, when a user's disruptive activity continues after warnings. Indefinite blocks doubly so. The assumption of good faith should be granted, with the status of most of the users herein merely reinforcing it. It did not, however, appear to be present in your actions. In this case you played judge, jury and executioner. Given that you played all three roles, it was your duty to inform yourself as to the status and outside connections of these users, but you did not. To not evaluate each of these indefinite bans carefully before placing them is a massive breach of the trust instrinsic in the community selecting you as an administrator. Apologies are insufficient - If this issue hadn't been illuminated recently these innocent contributors would have remained permanently blocked. Lastly, you have yet to address the misinformational block summary left for User:Anselmgarbe, nor the serious accusation that you claim to have communicated with him, which Anselm apparently denies. I've asked him to come here and clarify. Fedbn (talk) 01:16, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I took Anselm's statement on the AfD that he'd been alerted to the discussion as an admission he'd been canvassed. That being said, in the future unless an account that appears to have been canvassed to take part in an AfD is being clearly disruptive or it's unmistakably obvious that they're SPAs, I'll simply warn them on their talk page. Blueboy96 13:12, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

File:Goatse.fr homepage.png

Archiving procedurally because there really isn't anything more to be done at this board. The deleting administrator is not self-reverting and we don't want a wheel war. Consensus discussion can take place at DRV: Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2010 March 22. The remainder could be wrapped up on user talk pages or (at worst) conduct RFC. Durova 02:32, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

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I wanted to leave a note that I deleted the image linked above (NSFW of course), which was used in the Goatse.cx article. There was an IFD on the image that resulted in keep (with fairly low participation) and there is a semi-active MedCab case about the issue as well. However, the image seems to me to be so egregiously unencyclopedic, that I deleted it despite both of those discussions. I would hope Misplaced Pages is a place where one could learn about such things (shock images) without actually needing to see them (there are certainly plenty of other places one can do that). While we don't censor content, that an image is offensive is not an argument to keep it either, and I don't believe that particular image is adding anything helpful to the article. Prodego 20:35, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Allow me to take a shot and then answer that the image should be undeleted immediately. Prodego's deletion was out of line because: a) the reasons given are not reasons for speedy deletion; b) the deletion is contrary to a recent IfD discussion that successfully rebutted the "unencyclopedic" argument and c) it's running around the mediation process by removing it during an open MedCab case. If this was any other image, it would be unthinkable that someone would get away with deletion. Sceptre 20:52, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

As someone who was in favor at the MedCab page of deleting the image, I'd like to say that I think this deletion is entirely inappropriate. The discussion had not come to any kind of conclusion, and to unilaterally declare that you have the penultimate opinion on the issue is not at all proper. Equazcion 20:55, 21 Mar 2010 (UTC)

The image, though shocking as it was. Should not have been deleted so suddenly while consensus was trying to be reached and should be reinstated until such a consensus is found.--SKATER 21:23, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

What is this? Prodego, that was your personal opinion. We don't delete images just because they are offensive and it was being used in an article. Go to DRV and make a compelling argument that convinces other editors, just like any non-admin would have to do. And undelete the image yourself, or at least don't oppose when it gets restored by someone else. --Enric Naval (talk) 21:35, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

that an image is offensive is not an argument to keep it either, and I don't believe that particular image is adding anything helpful to the article Aside from the fact that this is an opinion, i would say the image is pretty relevant. After all, the entire concept of the goatse shock sites is displaying this exact image. What notability would these sites have achieved without showing this particular image to its unsuspecting viewers? In fact, i go as far as saying that the entire basis for any news coverage regarding this article - and thus the article itself - lies with that image. Other then this i think Sceptre states my thoughts perfectly. Excirial 21:55, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Respect. It was totally out of process and totally the right thing to do. Hans Adler 22:01, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Deleting an image when their was no consensus for deletion is the right thing to do? He deleted it on personal opinion, that's like me suddenly going around deleting articles because I don't like them.--SKATER 22:10, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Yup, deleting this image against a local consensus was the right thing to do. Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, not a mirror or repository of shock images. We are, of course, not censored (I will not even bother linking the policy page), but nothing requires us to display shock image content that we could merely link to. We should, of course, link to websites if they are worth encyclopedic coverage - that does not violate any policy at all. — Gavia immer (talk) 22:17, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Not that I like the image, but if this one goes, then so should the thousands of pictures of people's dicks on Commons. Jtrainor (talk) 22:29, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I know being bold! is a core policy of Misplaced Pages, but there are two issues here. Werther or not the image should remain is one issue, but overriding apparent community consensus while the issue is still being discussed is a completely different matter. I am not fond of processes which only slow decisions down, but in this case there is no snowball in a microwave. The mere fact that we are actually having a discussion about this should be proof of that. Excirial 23:22, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Wait, IfD is a local consensus? I thought that deletion discussions were the most global consensus discussions regarding content. Sceptre 23:40, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

For that category of image everything below an RfC that is announced on WP:CENT and the village pump is local consensus. Hans Adler 23:42, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but no-one deletes articles because AfD is only a "local consensus". XfDs are understood to be binding for a good amount of time after the discussion, unless new reasons for deletion have come up. And CSD explicitly states that a page that has survived a deletion discussion should not be speedy deleted except for the case of copyright violations. And there is no copyright violation here; as far as image rationales go, it's one of the better ones. Sceptre 23:50, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

IfD can decide whether an image should be deleted according to some offered rationale, but it can never be a forum for establishing that an image is to be permanently considered appropriate on some article. If a non-free image is not used on an article, it goes regardless. — Gavia immer (talk) 23:56, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

True, but there is still no NFCC violation; the image should not have been deleted. Sceptre 00:08, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Is Prodego seriously an admin? raseaC 23:37, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• Finally, someone who really does understand WP:IAR. Well done, Prodego. Risker (talk) 00:12, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
  • On that logic, any other admin is free to IAR and restore the image. Risker might be just as congratulatory then, that yet another admin understands IAR too. Equazcion 00:16, 22 Mar 2010 (UTC)

See now, that simply demonstrates that you do not understand WP:IAR. Risker (talk) 00:23, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Congratulating Prodego demonstrates that you do not understand the concept of being an administrator. raseaC 00:29, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I think I understand it pretty well. If someone thinks the rules (against wheel-warring, in this case) prevent one from doing what they feel will improve the encyclopedia, then they may be ignored. I furthermore think it was a pretty unhelpful comment, and frankly inflammatory, to congratulate someone this way for something as simple as ignoring everyone else in favor of what you thought the best action was. IAR means ignoring the rules -- not people. I hope you understand that. Equazcion 00:34, 22 Mar 2010 (UTC)

• • • We don't have a policy "Don't turn Misplaced Pages into a shock site". Yet. Because the case doesn't come up so often. When very exceptional cases come up for the first time we need to deal with them by bending the rules so they fit. If the rules are too stiff or a case is too far outside of what we considered when we wrote them, then the rules need to be broken. That is what IAR is for. The trick lies in understanding what is an exceptional case and what is not. Hans Adler 00:22, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• A shame that we will probably have to now waste everyone's time with a Deletion Review. This is what someone tried to pull last year with the Virgin Killer album cover as well; another single-handed deletion that ran counter to broad community consensus. Tarc (talk) 00:37, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Yes, someone should start a DRV on this, especially since it's been marked resolved for some reason... which seems excessively bureaucratic to me, but whatever. Equazcion 01:02, 22 Mar 2010 (UTC)

Motion to desysop Prodego

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Seems premature - wrong venue in any case. –xeno 00:49, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• Good grief. Restore the image, a nice wet trout for Prodego, and let's move on with the discussion of whether or not it is appropriate. (disclosure: I'm the MedCab mediator) The Wordsmith 01:35, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• comment I'm not sure if I have any weight here given that I consider myself a novice editor but Prodego's actions demonstrate a user that is completely missing the fundamental point of being an administrator. The role of an admin is, in my view, to clean up after the rest of us fuck up, not create the mess in the first place. raseaC 00:28, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• • That is a shame that user bans can be done here but there are a whole bunch of hoops for admins, especially egregiously abusive ones such as this. Tarc (talk) 00:30, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
    • Talk to the stewards on that one. They won't honor a desysop request unless ArbCom has passed off on it (or unless the account has gone rogue). NW (Talk) 00:34, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
      • This discussion just started recently. Let's try making people understand our positions first, rather than jumping straight to bullying them into doing what we want. Equazcion 00:36, 22 Mar 2010 (UTC)

Guys, It was ONE mistake. I'm sure Prodego has thought about this and could regret it. I can't speak for him, but I would have second doubts about a deletion if I had this much opposition. Don't go all bananas with a guy who deleted an image out of process. If he took out a whole sleu of images, then yes, start a motion. Let's just calm down and rethink all of this. Who knows, maybe we'll reach consensus on smoething, but going after him for one action is a bit immature. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:41, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Agreed. Even the best admins fuck up occasionally, but I'd like to see some reflection by Prodego on this one. No need to hang him out to dry. Rodhullandemu 00:53, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

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Declaration that Misplaced Pages is not a shocksite

• Hans Adler 00:25, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose prudery at every turn and corner of the project. Tarc (talk) 00:31, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• I'm not a big fan of the series of votes-or-maybe-polls that has suddenly sprung up here - but really, we aren't a shock site, and nothing in our policy opposing censorship requires that we must be. The purpose of the image in question is to be odious to the sensibilities of nearly every viewer, and we do not require that our articles discussing such images must be equally odious. As I said before, linking directly to the odious content is perfectly fine. — Gavia immer (talk) 00:39, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• Waste of space and time. To discuss objectionable material, whatever its source, we must either link to it or show it here. We have technical mechanisms in place whereby our readers may choose not to view such material. That does not mean we should not make it available, either here or on Commons. One thing I find objectionable is that an image was apparently deleted out of process while there is an ongoing discussion, because even WP:IAR does not go that far. Removing the evidence from the tribunal is not, repeat not, helpful. Rodhullandemu 00:46, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally." Hesperian 01:04, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

All very well, but to effectively discuss objectionable material, it is sometimes necessary to show it, otherwise we are being fundamentally dishonest in our mission. There is no way we can do this and be academically neutral at the same time. By publishing images and ideas that some might find offensive, we do not necessarily support the thinking behind those images, or those ideas. That is the whole point behind being a encyclopedia, and not journalism. Rodhullandemu 01:02, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

If your response to the Wikimedia Foundation's mission is "That's all very well, but....", then why are you here? Hesperian 01:04, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't see any distinction whatsoever between the Wikimedia Mission and what I said. Rodhullandemu 01:26, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I never said there was. Yet your response was "That's all very well, but...", as though our mission statement was something to be fobbed off.

My point was that issues like this are best handled by taking a fresh look at our mission. It is your considered view that goatse.cx images "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content". So be it. Hesperian 01:29, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I didn't say "but"; you attributed that to me. And please do not attribute to me opinions which I do not hold, particularly that "goatse.cx images empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content"; there is no way I would subscribe to that view". Rodhullandemu 01:37, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

"But" is the fourth word of your comment. You did say it, and therefore it is correct and proper that I attribute it to you. The diff is here. I attribute to you the opinion that "goatse.cx images empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content", because I cannot see any other way to read "I don't see any distinction whatsoever between the Wikimedia Mission and what I said." If you meant something else, kindly enlighten me. Hesperian 01:48, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• What Rodhullandemu said. Misplaced Pages is not a shock site, or a news site, or a joke site, or a memorial, or an instruction manual, or a hundred other things, but there are times in order to best be what Misplaced Pages is, that we need to display what some news, and jokes, and instructions, and obituaries, and even tasteless images. --GRuban (talk) 01:08, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

That said, I can't speak to whether this particular image is required in this particular article. But I am strongly against the idea that all images one admin doesn't like get deleted against a clear consensus at the discussion. --GRuban (talk) 01:48, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• Censorship here would be a failure to accurately describe the picture in necessary detail on the article page, not a failure to show the image. An encyclopedia describes' content, it doesn't provide content. Misplaced Pages articles on films and books don't reproduce the film or book in question, even when the relevant work is in the public domain. - DustFormsWords (talk) 01:31, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages does provide content. I bet almost every major painter has reproductions of their paintings in their articles. --NeilN 01:36, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Clearly a picture conveys more than text. If you subtract what the text conveys from what the picture conveys, you're left with the marginal benefit of displaying the picture. I'm pretty sure the marginal benefit of displaying the Mona Lisa is substantial and educational. I'm pretty sure the marginal benefit of displaying the goatse.cx image is nothing but shock value. If you can see some marginal educational benefit in displaying the goatse.cx image, kindly tell me what it is. Does it have some ineffable quality, some crucially important details that cannot be expressed in words but must be seen with the naked eye? Hesperian 01:44, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

See also Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy. Some users have argued that since the photos are in the public domain, they should be in the article. However, they are extremely disturbing and are the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. Although the controversy surrounding the leaking of photographs satisfies WP:GNG, showing them does not. "Misplaced Pages is not censored" does not mean that anything goes.--♦IanMacM♦ 08:14, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Bit of an issue here...

I've just had to edit through protection to remove a redlinked image from a page that has been under full protection since Feb 25. I'm not sure it's appropriate to to delete the image during an ongoing dispute. I do note there have been no edits to the MedCab page in a week. If mediation has stalled, perhaps a more focused RFC, formal mediation, or arbitration may be necessary (an RFC (124kb) already ran a few months ago). –xeno 01:05, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I would like to say that while I understand the deletion rationale, I find it to be totally against policy to delete an image which is the subject of an ongoing content dispute when there is no legal reason for deletion. I agree, MedCab has stalled - people are entrenched and will not back down. The same will happen at every level. It doesn't matter how long we discuss this, there will never be a satisfactory answer as this isn't something that can be decided by debate - this is about feelings, and people's feelings can't be altered that way. Thus, while I must say that the deletion was out of process, I also, even as someone who thinks the image should stay, support someone taking a definitive step on the issue. -mattbuck (Talk) 01:38, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Rewarding admins for abusing process

I'm adding a footnote as the current direction of the DRV is very worrying. Here we have a clearly unacceptable deletion but the current deadlock on DRV seems to be leaning towards endorsing the deletion, for a strange interpretation of NFCC#1 and speedy deletions of violations thereof which I've never seen before. If this DRV does end up as an "endorse deletion", then it would be clear that we don't need our deletion and editing processes any more, and we can delete any content we just don't like for flimsy justification. And that it's acceptable for an administrator for doing so! I think that it must be emphasised that the deletion policy applies for all content; there is no "gaping man's asshole" exception. Sceptre 07:06, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• Seriously? I think you're wrong. I know Misplaced Pages is not censored but that does not mean we have to make ourselves a laughing stock. Is it really difficult to understand the impact of goatse without the picture? Of course it's not. Inclusion, however sincere its motivation, makes us look puerile and undermines the credibility of the project with the mainstream user for a very small benefit in establishing credibility with what I guess is the ED user demographic. We don't need this any more than we actually need the endlessly replaced and repeated uploads of random user's cocks in masturbation - a serious treatment of the subject does not actually demand the inclusion of gratuitously offensive imagery (the operative word being gratuitous). Guy (Help!) 13:06, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

  The term "gratuitous" is, I feel, one of the most abused words in Misplaced Pages discourse. What would be gratuitous is if there were fifteen variations of Goatse in the article, all showing the man's asshole. Hell, the current amount of examples in masturbation is far more gratuitous than this. What we are using is, simply, an image in an article, in a manner clearly supported by two precedents, however you see the image: screenshots of websites, and notable images. While there is an argument that the image doesn't need to be used, successful application would only be possible if there was a wave of deletions of notable images/website screenshots to reflect this way of thinking; I abhor doing this image first because I feel that the fair use arguments are being used as a masquerade for personal distaste. Sceptre 15:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• IMO the most over-used words are "censorhip" and "suppression". YMMV. Guy (Help!) 17:53, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• You do have a point. "Harassment", too, is abused a lot too. And, honestly, I hate the misuse of these words, hence why I wrote WP:HA#NOT and WP:MINORITY. However, in this case, I believe there is a case to put forwarded that removal without the utmost care might be construed as censorship. Sceptre 20:47, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• Oh there we are in total agreement: not only could it be construed as censorship, it undoubtedly will be. Luckily we can ignore such foolishness and look at the real question, which is: is the encyclopaedic value of a picture of a gaping arse sufficient to support a fair use rationale for unfree content. I do have a lingering suspicion that at least some of those who stir up crap in favour of these and pictures of j. random editor's knob on penis and so on are basically trolling us. Guy (Help!) 22:26, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• Thankfully there has been a wave of saner heads weighing in within the last few hours, and it looks like roughly 2-1 in favor of a overturn at present. Most of the endorses do not legitimately address the actions of the deleting admin and instead focus on rationales for why they want the image deleted, falling back on an NFCC #1 red herring. Tarc (talk) 13:27, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• The thread closure does not "reward" anyone or any action. Editors are welcome to initiate other means to resolve remaining grievances. Durova 15:32, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• The thread closure may not serve as a "reward"; however, upstream a few hundred lines is a congratulatory note to the deleting admin from a current member of ArbCom. Yet another example of the growing "Community? Oh, THOSE idiots" attitude that was first explicitly acknowledged in BLP-O-Rama Vol. 1. The message is clear, to me at least. GJC 14:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• I don't think there's any reward being granted. If Prodego gets involved in some contentious situation in the future (and of course he will, he's an admin) or some borderline trouble, someone is going to dredge this up to haunt him. These kinds of things aren't easily forgotten. -- Atama頭 22:15, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• This sub-section was begun early in the DRV process, where a slew of early endorsements perhaps made it look like the community was about to endorse a community-flouting administrative action. As it has clearly swung the other way since then, I think this is now moot. Tarc (talk) 22:22, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• The suitability of a venue change really doesn't depend upon which way the consensus goes. This is strictly procedural to establish a clear solution that the community will accept. It's not supposed to steer toward either outcome. Durova 22:51, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• Maybe I am reading it wrong, but I took Sceptre's comment to be a general observation of how the DRV itself was trending at that point in time, not on your creation of it or on the closure of this AN/I. Tarc (talk) 03:03, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
• However, there are two aspect here: First, the act of unilaterally deleting an image out-of-process, against the result of a past XfD, and ignoring ongoing mediation, and secondly, the result of that act. DRV is the proper venue to decide if the image should or should not be restored. But the proper venue to discuss the act is indeed here (or at AN, or in an RfC). --Stephan Schulz (talk) 10:28, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• Once it became clear that the action was controversial and the deleting administrator would not reverse himself, then user talk or conduct RfC became the appropriate venue for that. ANI had already served its purpose. Durova 15:03, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Block review requested for Kurfurst

Moved from WP:AN#Block review requested (PBS (talk) 20:38, 22 March 2010 (UTC)):

I've just indefblocked Kurfürst (talk · contribs) per this thread on my talk page - essentially he'd reverted another editor for no good reason. In itself this isn't blockable, but I believe it's the final straw in a long-term pattern of disruptive editing. This is Kurfürst's ninth or tenth block (some log entries were changes to existing blocks) and he's made a number of appearances here and at other noticeboards (here's the latest from last week). I fully expect more polemic along the same lines as the last time I blocked him ( ), but I don't believe I'm involved and think it's time for them to move on. However, I'd very much welcome other opinions. EyeSerene 13:25, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• Endorse block Phew. That's a lot to read through. :) After looking through some previous noticeboards regarding his edits and his talk page history as well as spot-checking some of his contributions, I endorse the block. It doesn't look to me like you're involved, either; it seems like an effort to make you appear to be so in order to undermine you ability to take action. What you do seem to be is knowledgeable about the background, which is necessary in situations like this. There seems to be a pretty clear history of disruptive editing. Whether the indef block is the end of the process or the beginning, it seems appropriate. I think it's now to User:Kurfürst to decide if he can contribute without disruption and to the community to decide if its worth giving him that chance and (if so) under what circumstances. He does not seem to have been persuaded by past efforts. --Moonriddengirl 14:01, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

  Thanks very much for your careful check and response. I was convinced I'd posted this at ANI (and just spent a few confused minutes trying to find it in the page history), so if anyone wants to move it please do :) EyeSerene 15:11, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

  Serves you right. You posted in the wrong place, and now you got a careful analysis. :) Hans Adler 20:21, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

  But seriously, this looks awfully complicated. I am glad that I don't have to decide anything. Hans Adler 20:31, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

As someone who last year blocked User:Kurfürst, I am well aware of the lack of good faith between User:Kurfürst and User:Dapi89. I think that User:Kurfürst is a valuable member of the community despite his combative style. He has a POV that is different from most editors who edit in the areas that he does, and that helps our articles develop a more balanced presentation (NPOV). It is inevitable that an editor who challenges the POV of the majority of editors who watch a page will be involved in lengthy and protracted disputes if they wish to have their POV included in an article. It is unfortunate that User:Kurfürst does not use more diplomatic language, and I do think that when he makes personal attacks he should be pulled up for them.

In this case I think that consideration for the ongoing personal dispute between User:Kurfürst and User:Dapi89 has to be taken into account. Secondly before this block the longest block User:Kurfürst has had is one month back in October 2008. I suggest that it is changed to a one month block and once that block is served that for a further five months he is restricted from editing a list of specific pages and their talk pages -- such as the Battle of Britain -- where he has causing disruption. This list to be expanded as administrators see fit and to be placed on his talk page (or user page) in a prominent position. If he edits any page where he is restricted then he gets an indefinite block, and during this restricted period he would of course be expected to behave in a collegiate manner on any other page he edits. -- PBS (talk) 20:42, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, disputes caused by Kurfurst. Dapi89 (talk) 22:08, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

See this thread for my analysis of the trouble that Kurfürst has stirred up. Note that while the longest block was one month, that was reduced from an initial indefinite block. I support an indefinite block since this editor has caused far too much trouble on this project to be given any more leeway. -- Atama頭 21:42, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

There are reasons why it is called an indefinite block and not a permanent block. It is meant to be part of a process that allows an editor to adjust his or her behaviour to fit in with the group culture here on Wikiepdia. So what do you need to see for User:Kurfürst to be unblocked? -- PBS (talk) 21:51, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps Philip Baird Shearer should ask the editors that have been insulted and abused by Kurfurst for the last 2+ years to comment here. You have not had to suffer Kurfurst. And I am not the only one who has been continually targeted by him. So I find your comments offensive. Dapi89 (talk) 22:08, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Dapi89 is not the only editor who has been obliged to spend hours defending himself and his edits against Kurfurst's thorougly unpleasant and agressive attacks; time and again he has succeeded in completely disrupting articles with his "combative style" and totally non-NPOV. As PBS well knows, earlier this month Kurfurst accused another editor of being a sockpuppet; in spite of the editor being cleared KF continued with his accusations in an editorial summary Has Kurfurst apologised to User:And heg for continuing with this accusation? Has any other editor actually had an apology from Kurfurst for his use of "undiplomatic" language? I well know that editors can get overheated from time to time, and most will realise this, cool down and apologise; Kurfurst seems to be at his happiest and most condescending when he has nagged and chipped away at other editors to the point when they feel obliged to respond in kind. Surely experience over three years has shown that he will never feel feel obliged to cooperate with other editors, except on a superficial level, when absolutely forced to by administrative action? How many wet bus tickets are left? Minorhistorian (talk) 22:06, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

This is the problem. After being indef. blocked before he has come back with vengeance. He hasn't changed a jot from the first moment he started here. Some editors really have learned nothing from their dealings with him. Why don't they spare a moment to think about the other editors who do cooperate, get on with, and generally are pleasant with one another? Trouble always starts with him, and we are tired of his relentless harassment. I can't understand why PBS is plugging for a reduction/unblock. Its just another slap in the face for decent editors. I find it astonishing that PBS acknowledges that "Kurfurst has a POV different from everybody else", and yet seems to think he is a "valuable member". Its stunning that he thinks Kurfurst contributes "a balanced" perspective. This is the definition of a trouble maker. Its shocking reading.I'm actually disgusted. Dapi89 (talk) 22:18, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Dapi89 please read WP:systemic bias. -- PBS (talk) 09:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Don't patronise me. Using this to defend Kurfurst is absurd. Dapi89 (talk) 09:55, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I think Dapi's and Minorhistorian's posts illustrate the level of frustration caused by Kurfürst in editors who've worked with him; from what I've seen both are good content builders with a valuable contribution history and both work well in collaboration with others. The common denominator in these and a number of other content disputes seems to be Kurfürst. I accept that editors working from opposite POVs can be one way to achieve balance in an article, but don't believe that this is necessarily applicable here because I've seen no real issues with Dapi's editing, or that of others, that would require balancing in the first place. Kurfürst excels at creating controversy where there should be none. He has made some good edits when he sticks to factual data (such as technical specs of aircraft etc), so I understand the temptation to unblock - either to afford him one last chance to reform, or to permit him enough rope to hang himself and confirm any lingering doubts some may have. However, I question whether the overheads of managing his editing and further upsetting productive editors are worth it. EyeSerene 23:19, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't think we should get distracted lets stick to discussing the user:Kurfürst case. --PBS (talk) 09:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I thought I was :) I apologise if I was being too circumspect. The tl;dr version: I don't accept that Kurfürst supplies something that we're lacking, I don't believe he is a net benefit to Misplaced Pages, and on the evidence of his repeated misbehaviour following previous blocks I don't see any point in unblocking him again. EyeSerene 10:35, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't want to pile on, but I'd add that he tends to beat those of a different viewpoint by a variety of tricks (including selective quoting from a chosen RS, disparagement of other RS, and exhaustive re-editing to re-establish his viewpoint). Frankly I don't have the time to sort out the mess he regularly makes of previously stable articles. Technically he occasionally makes some valid points, but as a wiki editor he seems to learn nothing from his repeated blocks. Frankly I don't think he'll be missed, and that is a shame, as he does provide some valid critique once in a long while. But the process of working with or around him is so unpleasant that the small positives are vastly outweighed by the negatives. Greglocock (talk) 01:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I wonder how much nannying can be afforded to editors like Kurfurst; for every one valuable contribution he has made - and, to be fair, there have been a few - he has caused endless hours of needless, antagonistic, thoroughly frustrating "discussion" all for...what? What has actually been achieved by all of his blather?? All I see is an editor who has a consistent pattern of deliberately goading others, all because he seems to like nothing more than a good stoush. Maybe he thinks he is superior to the rest of us, maybe he has a big chip on his shoulder about the fact that Germany didn't win the Second World War; frankly I couldn't care less why he behaves like a spoiled, spiteful child. In the end all he has achieved is that he is heartily disliked by the majority of editors and several administrators who have been unfortunate enough to cross his path. He has been warned several times that any future behaviour of this nature would get him an indefinite block. How many "next times" do we have left? Minorhistorian (talk) 03:10, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

<-- From reading the above it is not clear to me if those that have commented think that "indefinite block" means "permanent block". If they do then their understanding of this process is different from mine.

My understanding is that we block editors to give them time to reflect on their behaviour not to punish them. The problem with very long blocks for behavioural issues like this is that the editor blocked has little chance to learn how to adjust their behaviour. Although I do notice that after his previous long blocks it has been some time before user:Kurfürst was blocked again. Presumably because he did modify his behaviour. My suggestion of a ban on editing a list of articles is based on Arbcom practice for editorial behaviour over edit warring over Balkans related articles]] and similar Discretionary sanctions. If one accepts that approach then a block followed by a ban on editing, for a specific length of time, a list of articles (we can debate the length of the block, the length of the edit ban and the scope of the restriction (a list of specific articles or all of the articles in a category eg Category:World War II task force articles). If such a restriction was imposed on user:Kurfürst then during the time of the probationary period of the ban if user:Kurfürst was to wantonly edits one of the listed articles, or get blocked for similar behaviour that earned him the edit ban, then he gets blocked for a very long time possibly permanently. This would seem to me to give him time to learn how to edit cooperatively with other editors in areas where hopefully he will not engage in such passionate and tenacious editing. -- PBS (talk) 09:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

You mean tendentious and tenacious. You are playing on words. The editors here don't need to be patronised. They mean permanent, as I think you well know. Your assessments of Kurfursts motives, his ability to work with others, and his agenda for being here is suspect. Fortunately, you appear to be the only one in favour of a reduction. I hope it stays that way.

Along with:

• User:Moonriddengirl
• User:Atama
• User:EyeSerene
• Me (of course)
• Minorhistorian
• Greglocock
• (and others who have not yet commented)

I hope Kurfurst remains blocked indefinitely (or permanently).

It is galling for this editor, blocked 11 times, twice indefinitely, to be given yet another chance. He has been forced to agree to work with others before. It has been abundantly clear, he can't and won't. Dapi89 (talk) 09:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• I did not say I hoped he would remain blocked indefinitely; I said I thought the indefinite block was appropriate. PBS is quite right that "indefinite" is not the same as permanent, which is why I also said, "I think it's now to User:Kurfürst to decide if he can contribute without disruption and to the community to decide if its worth giving him that chance and (if so) under what circumstances." It may be that the community will decide that it isn't worth giving him another chance, but I think it's important that we discuss the situation civilly and calmly. PBS, I don't know enough about the overall contributions of Kurfurst to know if on balance offering him to return with a restricted ban would be worthwhile, but I do think it's probably a good idea to let him at least indicate he wants to. Currently, there's no indication on his talk page that he understands the issue, wants his block lifted or would be willing to comply with such restrictions if they were offered. --Moonriddengirl 11:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough. All I want to do is make sure the admins here know exactly what they are doing and what the editors of these articles are going to suffer in the long run if this particularly nasty individual is allowed to edit again. It might be okay for a few months, but when those limitations expire, we will back to square one. Don't you think that escaping two indef blocks is indication enough? Or just going too far? The editors who are familiar with Kurfurst seem unomved by PBS' judgement. Dapi89 (talk) 11:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Again, I do not know enough about his overall contributions to judge about him specifically, but I have seen contributors come back from some pretty problematic behavior and contribute constructively. They don't do so, though, unless they recognize why their current approach isn't working and decide to change it. I would personally recommend tabling the conversation until Kurfurst offers something of substance at his talk page. --Moonriddengirl 12:07, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Ok. Although I don't believe for a moment he will stick to any promise he makes. In two years he has not. Dapi89 (talk) 12:19, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

As a somewhat interested party, my observations are that User:Kurfurst came onto the scene with an agenda and a website to boot. Some of his initial contributions linked back to resources that were on the website but when challenged, came down to his interpretations and synthesis of source material that veered into WP:OR. I find that his submissions lately come with verifiable references but still tend to be pointy. Frustrating, yes, argumentative to distraction, yes, clever, yes, constructive, not so much, collaborative, not really, willing to change, perhaps. Wikiworld giving him the clear direction that collaboration and cooperation are keys to productive contributions may be of value. Will he accept a mentor? FWiW Bzuk (talk) 13:28, 23 March 2010 (UTC).

I think his agenda is the underlying problem; I'm all for second chances, but I believe he's here for the wrong reason. Anyhow, as MRG says, until he responds this is all academic. I've indicated on his talk page that I'll copy any response of his to this thread (which I assume he's reading as I've also given him the link). There's been nothing yet, but that could be down to his antipathy towards me - another editor might get better results. EyeSerene 14:35, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I want to address something that PBS had stated. "My understanding is that we block editors to give them time to reflect on their behaviour not to punish them." The first part of that sentence isn't true (the latter portion is, however). We don't block to rehabilitate people. If a block does wake someone up and jolt them into behaving (and sometimes it does) then wonderful. But often it doesn't. Blocks aren't meant to punish people either, but they're meant to prevent disruption. An editor who is either here solely to cause disruption, or an editor who has shown an unbreakable pattern of disruption, is someone who will disrupt in the future if given editing privileges. Thus, those privileges are revoked. What I'd like to see from Kurfürst, if he does make a reasonable appeal to return, is a promise to avoid Dapi89 and to try to adhere to WP:AGF with other editors and not bring every issue to the noticeboards, to avoid edit wars (perhaps a voluntary 1RR), and in general to focus on improving content and not on what's wrong with everyone else on Misplaced Pages. That would certainly be a start. -- Atama頭 16:42, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

That would be good for me. He follows me around with a view to causing grief so a ban from approaching me and some other editos is welcome. I really don't want to have to deal with this agenda driven editor again. There is also Minorhistorian to consider. He has been abused almost as much as me. The Battle of Britain is a particular page where he causes the most damage. I would strongly urge anyone to prevent him from editing it. A key point is PBS. Even his most ardent defender (PBS) recommends a 5 months ban from this one. Perhaps also some of the articles that I create should be included. He has a habbit of campaigning for deletion and general disruption there as well. The difficulty of previous (including the indef. block), is that admins lose sight of him after he lies low for a while, then it all starts over. I hope these points are taken into consideration. But as most acknowledge, unless Kurfurst acknowledges his wrong doing publicly, there is no point to the discourse. Dapi89 (talk) 17:33, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

There seems to be activity. PBS seems eager to get this unblock over with . I guess Kurfurst will says what everyone wants to hear and that will be that. Dapi89 (talk) 12:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Badmintonhist

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

During the last few days editor Badmintonhist has been issuing all sorts of personal attacks and accusations about me (on article talk pages as well as my talk page), regarding a dispute he's been having with some anonymous editor. This is likely retaliation for him being reported for edit warring. Though I've requested that he either strike his comments or initiate a checkuser and SSP investigation (to vindicate me), he refuses and states that he "wants to maintain unblemished record of never initiating an 'official' action" (thereby retaining his plausible ability to issue unsubstantiated attacks). The anonymous editor has responded with geolocation info, and we've both disavowed his attacks several times. Here are a few choice excerpts of his attacks in the past few days:

• I rest my case. Like I said, BLAX (This is, after all, Blaxthos's talk page) there are all sorts of pieces of work floating around Misplaced Pages and you happen to be one of them... KIDDO. (obvious insinuation that I'm a piece of shit, including condescending KIDDO and outright SSP accusation)
• You don't do the college kid routine very well. Your indelible personality comes through quite clearly. Work on it. (responding to the anon editor on my talk page as if I were he, again accusing me of SSP and general bad faith)
• If I had had any real doubts to start with, Kiddo, how many Anons engage in your level of fuss-budgetry?? ... There are all sorts of "pieces of work" floating around Misplaced Pages and you just happen to be one of them. (left on my talk page, attacking me in response to an anonymous editor stating that he is not me, includes the condescending KIDDO and "piece of " attack)
• Anonymous editor, indeed! (generic attack/insinuation of SSP again)
• seems like this could be form of sock puppetry to me (to an anonymous editor, generic accusation)
• Okay, Blax, I'll keep it in mind. (to an anonymous editor, accusing me)

I have invited and welcome any sort of RFCU or SSP investigation (can I initiate one on myself?). I have asked the editor to stop, strike, and (hopefully) apologize; instead he doubled down and made the accusation and rude comments at least three more times. I have had some disagreements with this editor in the past, but I've done nothing to deserve these sort of repeated attacks. The real shame here is that some other poor bastard(s) (the anonymous editor(s)) are also being attacked (and presumably discouraged from contributing) as well. Forgive me coming straight to ANI, but WQA generally doesn't seem to be equipped to stop this sort of harassment -- can someone please help stop these unwelcome (and false!) attacks, and hopefully make Badmintonhist understand that attacks are unacceptable? Thanks in advance. //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 21:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

When it comes to sockpuppetry, you're innocent until proven guilty. He's the one that needs to start the SPI if he really does believe that that IP address was you. If not, you have nothing to worry about. —Soap— 21:29, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

The attacks now continue even after notice of this thread was issued. Soap, my worry isn't that I'll get in trouble for something -- I am completely innocent. It should be noted that I'm not even involved in the discussion that started his accusations. The problem is the near-constant harassment and accusations -- am I to just allow baseless accusations against me (and others) and clear violations of several of our policies to continue unchecked? How long would you allow a belligerent and paranoid editor continue to attempt to sully your name/reputation before seeking redress? It's clear by his refusal to start an actual SSP/RFCU investigation that he is not making the accusation in good faith, but rather wants to continue to use it (as he has in the past) as a prop to try and discredit editors with whom he disagrees. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 21:36, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Reposting the comments of the anonymous editor who is also being accused:

Blaxthos, I'm sorry to have filled your talk page up so much of me trying to defend myself against Badmintonhist. I have had issues before with accusations of sockpuppetry because my IP changes frequently (and I do not feel fully secure creating an account on this network) so I wanted to respond. I don't know if it is proper to make claims on the ANI thing if I am not the person filing the complaint or the one being filed against, but if you need me to, I can put in my 2 cents about his repeated accusations against me (although I think that most of that information can be found above in my posts on your talk page). Anyways, I'm sorry that you were somehow dragged into this whole dispute, but I am glad to see that it is being reported. Take it easy 129.133.142.139 (talk) 22:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I think Badmintonhist has two choices: they either produce diffs and file an WP:RFCU or they drop the accusations. Sock-puppetry is a serious charge and not one to be thrown around lightly (see WP:NPA#What is considered to be a personal attack?: "Accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. Serious accusations require serious evidence.") I believe most of us accept that editors can be mistaken and won't be penalised for genuine misunderstandings, but if no evidence is forthcoming, what might have been good-faith error starts to look like a bad-faith vendetta. This seems to me to be a content dispute that's become personal; perhaps an WP:RFC or other WP:DR measure might be useful in moving forward and taking the focus back where it belongs - on the content, not the contributors? EyeSerene 09:01, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, EyeSerene. I agree completely and have said as much to the editor several times (indeed, even requesting diffs and RFCU to stop the spurious accusations), but to no avail. Would you or some other admins mind making this perfectly clear to Badmintonhist? He seems content to avoid filing the SSP/RFCU so that he can retain the ability to make these accusations whenever his opinions are challenged. Also, what form of redress is available to me if he continues the pattern of attacks with no justification or action? Thanks in advance! //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 20:19, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Since Badmintonhist has been notified of this thread, I assume they've also been following it. However, just so we're all clear I've posted a note to their userpage as well. Further unsubstantiated personal attacks will lead to sanctions against them. EyeSerene 10:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Is User:Spartan a compromised account?

Spartan (talk · contribs) has not edited for almost a month, and now, in the last two days, has made a series of what only can be considered suspect edits. Woogee (talk) 01:04, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm only an occasional editor. Just because I'm speaking Swedish doesn't mean I'm "compromised."Kevin (talk) 01:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I was, threatened by him/her in Swedish, as best I can determine from Google translator:

I understand your concern, but your incorrect assessment of the North American Union based on your fake American feelings. As I pointed out, are you speaking English, which is unfortunate, but to facilitate your conversion to the Swedish language, I'll help you adapt to master the language. Anyway, there is no way that you know what you're talking about. The relationship with the robot must be confirmed only until you accept that your involvement in the Swedish business will not go unpunished. This is your only warning.

I'm not sure his edits last month were helpful, either.... At least one of them was repeated this month. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:09, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, I speak enough Swedish to see that your contributions were nonsense. In my experience, most Swedes are capable of speaking excellent English, and I suggest you stop obfuscating, since this is, er, the English language Misplaced Pages. Rodhullandemu 01:14, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I've blocked the account as I believe it is compromised. The account has hardly been active for a year and then all of a sudden we get some extremely strange edits, not limited to the following;

• Here the account makes a talk page comment in a foreign language.
• and again.
• He reverted an edit which had previously reverted vandalism so therefore said that Godzilla was a real monster.

There's others as well, but that is sufficient to at least suspect the account is compromised. Ryan Postlethwaite 01:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Seems like a plausible interpretation. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I do not believe the account is compromised. My experience with Spartan (talk · contribs) is limited to his assertions regarding the conspiracy theory aspects in the North American Union article. He made controversial claims regarding this 396 days ago, and again made similar claims today. When it comes to the North American Union, a noted "right-wing" "conspiracy theorist" on the topic is the media personality Alex Jones. In reviewing the edit history of the Alex Jones (radio host) article, I see that Spartan has added text regarding Jones' "new world order" conspiracy claims as far back as August 2007. While I do not agree with the way Spartan asserts his opinions, three years of editing the same POV on the same topic leaves me feeling quite sure that the account is not compromised. — Kralizec! (talk) 01:45, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Wait a minute... are you saying Godzilla isn't real? Then explain what happened to Tokyo. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 02:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Bishzilla.

"With a purposeful grimance and a terrible sound, she pulls the spitting WikiEgos down..." Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 04:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree that it is reasonable that this is not a compromised account. Suggest unblock. JoshuaZ (talk) 04:13, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

There's absolutely no need for an unblock. Even if the account isn't compromised, th recent edits suggest that he's going to be far from productive and he's caused quite a bit of disruption - he can stay blocked regardless. Ryan Postlethwaite 10:52, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

From my experience with the editor, I have to agree about his disruptive nature. Perhaps his block should be adjusted to reflect this ... ? — Kralizec! (talk) 18:42, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Then let's have that discussion. But let's not slide into blocking a user for one reason into another reason. If people think the user is disruptive enough to be banned then we should discuss that. That's especially relevant because if this block is for impersonating then the user in question is perfectly allowed to create another account. If this block is a ban then we're in very different territory. JoshuaZ (talk) 23:59, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. — Kralizec! (talk) 13:40, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

• Phew For a moment I thought my account had been compromised. :-) Spartaz 04:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Then you'd be in a compromising position. HalfShadow 18:46, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Recent erroneous block of User:Keepscases

I do believe that the block of Keepscases may have been wrong. I strongly believe that this user is not a sock of TownDown. There was a user under the same name (Keepscases) on Commons that was blocked as a TownDown sock, but User:Keepscases on here has said (see his oppose vote on Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Kingoomieiii) that he is not the same person on Commons that was blocked as a sock. Could a CheckUser or something be done for this one? I'm pretty sure this is not the same person. Furthermore, TownDown had only been on enwiki since 2009, while Keepscases has been around much longer, since 2007. I also think there is a pretty distinct behavioral difference between the two, as TownDown had specialized in graphics, and Keepcases as a WikiGnome/RfA participant. Not sure, but if you can prove me wrong, that I'll back down. Thanks for your time. Connormah (talk | contribs) 01:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

See Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Keepscases blocked indefinitely. –xeno 01:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I should have seen that. Thanks for the pointer. Connormah (talk | contribs) 01:50, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Yep. Our Keepscases appears  Unrelated to the Meta one, per checkuser. I've already had a lengthy discussion with the Meta CUs and we're in agreement. He's now been unblocked - Alison 03:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks all.  :) Keepscases (talk) 03:50, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

User:IronDuke is editing/removing my Talk page comments

In this Talk page discussion re the appropriateness of a quote in the Nahum Shahaf article, I said: "(This quote) reads like the voice of a child musing at the sight of dark clouds blowing in. There is nothing concrete or valid here, it is an emotive and political trojan horse. It is not a statement reflecting the work of a physicist or an investigator." User:IronDuke, citing BLP-vios, removed these comments.diff

I appreciate BLP concerns, I gave this some consideration but I could not see any other way to present my thoughts on the appropriateness of the quote with regard to its tone/content, than to specifically describe/comment on it. Anyway I don't believe that commenting on the tone/content/appropriateness of a quote is a violation of BLP.

Anyway, Ironduke continued to revert both my initial comments and later references to my comments: diff diff diff

I objected and presented my reasoning here and after Ironduke's fourth removal of my comments I asked him to stop on his Talk page.

It is a pain to go back through history to locate, then copy and replace one's Talk Page comments in the midst of an active Talk page discussion. I hope an admin can take a look at this situation. Ironduke said he is done for the night, I hope tomorrow we don't resume the same unproductive cycle!

Respectfully, RomaC (talk) 04:51, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

WP:BLP#Non-article space is the relevant policy section. BLP policy is somewhat relaxed on talk pages, and I do not think your comments were far enough out of line to merit being removed like that. At a glance it looks like there may be a personal element to this, as though the two of you have some history and don't particularly care for each other. I would add that technically this behavior is considered edit warring. The correct procedure when there is a BLP question, or any other type of intractable conflict, is to seek outside opinions. In this case WP:BLPN would probably would have be the proper forum. Further edit warring will lead to blocks. Beeblebrox (talk) 05:32, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

IronDuke warned for edit warring. Beeblebrox (talk) 05:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt attention on the matter. I agree it may be personal, Ironduke has already "banned" me from his talk page. I realize I'm not the most tactful guy in the world, but I hope we can work together on the project. Respectfully, RomaC (talk) 07:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I’ll repeat what I said on my talk page: Beeblebrox, the thoughtless template you left me was less than helpful. If you had engaged me in dialogue, you would have seen that Roma was engaged in forum-shopping. She asked me to find an admin to weigh in on the situation. So I stopped reverting her BLP vios on Nahum Shahaf and asked for an outside opinion here (and informed her I had done so). I agreed to abide by whatever that opinion was. All of this could have been made clear, Beeblebrox, had you asked me what was going on, or even checked my last few contribs. I know a template is a lot easier to slap onto a talk page than digging in and doing some research, but it is also far less helpful.

As to the issue at hand, can you tell me where policy reflects the idea that BLP is "relaxed" on talk pages?

I would also add, there are indeed personal issues here, as Roma has edit-warred notes of increasing hysteria onto my talk page, even after I demanded that she stop posting there, and even after an admin asked her to cease as well. See , , , , .

I will wait for an outside opinion (as, Beeblebrox, I already indicated I would), and will abide by it. IronDuke 22:53, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Edit-warring on Daniel 8

I seem to be involved in some back and forth with an editor who doesn't seem willing to add citations to their inclusions, despite repeated requests to do so. He seems a lot more interested in name-calling than discussion or actually finding citations for his zany additions. Maybe the page could get semi-protected for a while until the other party calms down and sees a bit of reason? - 207.181.235.214 (talk) 06:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Rather than hand out edit-warring blocks just yet, I've protected the article for a few days. However, from the talk-page discussion I think you may be operating from a misunderstanding of WP:SYNTH and consensus seems to be against you. EyeSerene 09:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I wasn't suggesting any blocks be issued; I needed some help educating the other user as to citation process and the dangers of synthesizing viewpoints while paraphrasing parts of the Bible. I am curious, precisely what misunderstanding of synthesis am I operating under? Lastly, the "consensus against me" appears to consist of one person continually adding uncited and unreferenced information. Hardly a consensus, i am thinking. - 207.181.235.214 (talk) 17:07, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I always find it amusing when someone is forum shopping for admin action under the guise of stopping an edit war that they themselves are participating in. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:53, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I find it amusing when an administrator jumps to conclusions without fully understanding what is going on. On the RFPP page, you declined this protection, stating that the user should engage the other editors on the article talk page - something he/she had already clearly done. Then you continue to prod the editor here. Bravo. Tan | 39 17:56, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm unwilling to accept the theory that initiating a discussion excuses the edit warring. Essentially the page is now protected from the ip user as well as the user they were edit warring with. The ip continually reverted the other user, while telling them to stop edit warring in their edit summaries.By definition it takes a minimum of two editors to edit war, so claiming that protection was the only way to stop the edit war was spurious, and coming here to "ask the other parent" even more so. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

And I'm rather unwilling to accept the screaming lack of good faith on your part, Beeblebrox; I presume it is the innate distrust by admins of IP editors (as I've been given ample reason to take note of). I asked for protection knowing full well that the article would be locked from editing by anyone - including me. It wasn't an attempt to kick the other user in the face, but to actually make them use the discussion page as more than a platform to call me an "ignoramus" (among other things).

And, had you scanned the article discussion, you would have confirmed that I had asked the user to self-revert until some agreement could be found with the note that if such reasonable request were not honored, I would pursue the matter here at AN/I (as I wasn't prepared to engage the user's uncooperative behavior alone). When the other user blew off that chance, I kept my word and brought the matter here. It isn't forum-shopping. I sought to resolve the problem first with the user, then with RfP and then (as the final recourse) here - pretty much problem resolution.

I am not saying I was not edit-warring a bit. I was. But you seem content to assume that I am the black hat here, and that's an inaccurate assessment of the situation. - 207.181.235.214 (talk) 10:35, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

AIV Backlog

AIV has a backlog of a couple hours. Could an admin take a look, please? - NeutralHomer • Talk • 08:29, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikihounding and harassment by User:Beyond My Ken

I second the archiving and resolution. -- Atama頭 16:56, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

User:Beyond My Ken is a sock account of User:H Debussy-Jones and before that User:Ed Fetzgerald (who was blocked mora than once for encivility). Yser:Beyond My Kmn, for the pawt several months, has been routinely Wikihounding me. I assume this is in part as retaliation for my role in exposing his sockpuppetry, an` in part becausa I am a fan of certain actors that he apparentlq worked with on(a film which he,seems to have sgme type of grudge against (his initial encounter with me consisted of him edit-warring to insert known inaccuracies into that particular article, like him trying to remove certain producers' names, etc.).
In full disclosure, I have not always edited under this account; admittedly I was found guilty of sockpuppetry myself, as I had other accounts that have now been blocked. I admit this, took some time off, and came back to get a fresh start with a new account. Per Misplaced Pages rules I have redirected my old accounts.
Anyway, before I edited as User:B-Wuuu, Beyond My Ken (then H Debussy-Jones, or "Sach") repeatedly stalked and hounded me, reverting edits with no given reason, warring, and opening investigation after investigation into me. Here, he opened a "COI" investigation in an attempt to prove that myself and others were inserting "propaganda" into articles. The admins rules against him. Disliking that result, he immediately tried to refile the investigation, in an attempt to get a different outcome, only to be unceremoniously shot down by the admins and basically told to knock it off. During this time, he also was reprimanded for an attempted outing against someone he thought was me, again demonstrating that he will go to any lengths to "get" me, for whatever reason.
Recently, after I started fresh with my new user account, Ken started up again: First, he tried to open an ANI ivestigation against me for opening a new account, throwing everything and the kitchen sink at me. It didn't work; only one admin even bothered to weigh in, and they said that I appeared to be harmless so there was no reason to ban my current account. Of course, that didn't satisfy him, so now he's opened a useless sock investigation against me, which is a complete abuse of process because I have freely admitted that these other accounts were mine, and they are now permanently stale. In the meantime, he has continued an ongoing habit of stalking me; each time I edit a page, I can expect it to be almost immediately visited and edited by Ken, even if he's never been there before. He did this as H Debussy-Jones with my old accounts; now he's doing it again. For example, recent minor edits I mde on the pages Adam & Yves and Adam and Steve were quickly followed by visits and edits by Ken.
In short, this user has a deep-seated personal bias against me, and I'm asking for him to be formally prevented from hounding me, edit warring, or opening specious investigations against me any longer. I don't know how this guy has so much time on his hands, but frankly I have a job and a personal life and his harassment is taking up too much of my time. Thank you. B-Wuuu (talk) 09:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm. For background, please see this sockpuppet report where 6 accounts were blocked, this sockpuppet report concerning me where my serial accounts were uncovered, this AN discussion concerning me in which I was allowed to contnue editing, this AN report concerning B-Wuuu filed by an editor who has been the subject of absue by one of the socks, and this sockpuppet complaint concerning B-Wuuu that I filed tonight. The Executive Summary: 6 accounts were blocked for disruptive socking, B-Wuu claims to be he person behind the accounts, and he created a new account to blatantly evade the blocks, something he doesn't deny.

B-Wuuu wants to be able to give himself a fresh start, without consulting the community, and apparently doesn't want anyone to scrutinize his edits either. The edits I made to two articles B-Wuu worked on simply fixed some formatting things,, no material was deleted, in one case I don't think I even touched his edit at all -- about the most innocuous kind of "Wikihounding" possible!

Really, the only question here is whether the community wants to allow B-Wuuu to continue editing, after a history of disruptive sockpuppetry and retaliatory behavior (such as this report). His attempt to frame this as a Wikihounding problem on my part is merely a deflection on his part, which I urge should not be encouraged by taking it seriously. If someone wants to contribute to fixing the current problem, the place to do it is here, at the SPI report. B-Wuuu has admitted to being a sockmasster and to evading multiple blocks, it merely remains to confirm his claim, and decide what to do about him. Most probably, if he is allowed to continue editing, he will eventually slip back into the disruptive patterns he followed before. I don't particularly see the value to the project of allowing that. Beyond My Ken (talk) 10:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Ed, just because you've slipped back into the destructive and hostile patterns you followed before with your previous names, doesn't mean I will. Some of us have other things to do. B-Wuuu (talk) 10:48, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, since you've just been blocked as a self-admitted sockmaster, I imagine you'll have other things to do now as well. Beyond My Ken (talk) 10:54, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Closing by involved party

Woah, it doesn't look too seemly for Beyond My Ken himself to be the one who archives that thread. I thought uninvolved users were supposed to do it. This isn't pretty either. 66.127.52.47 (talk) 15:43, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Clearly it's resolved, if the complainant is blocked. Just to set your mind at ease I've seconded it, and I'm uninvolved. Better? -- Atama頭 16:56, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

That is an extremely dangerous precedent to set. What you are saying is that if someone who has a complaint against them thinks the complaint doesn't amount to much then they may go ahead and delete it, which hardly lends itself to the smooth functioning of this noticeboard. Weakopedia (talk) 17:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Logic says that blocking the complainant doesn't necessarily resolve the whole issue, so it shouldn't be an involved party who decides that there's nothing more to see. 66.127.52.47 (talk) 17:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

If my close was unseemly, then I apologize. The "thing" with this editor has been going on for over 4 months, when one of his socks made some edits which caused me to look into his contributions, which led to putting COI warnings on their talk pages for their editing on Yesterday Was a Lie, which led to months of attacks against me, charging me with every policy infraction under the sun, with the sockpuppets used to reinforce each other and create a false impression of consensus against me. I guess the thought that the latest checkuser result and the blocking of B-Wuuu might be the end of it led me to act precipitously and close the discussion. I'll try to avoid such emotional actions in the future.

BTW, the checkuser report by User:Alison found that B-Wuuu and the six socks were socks of User:Sorrywrongnumber, an account which remains unblocked. If an admin would care to block that account and, hopefully, wrap this thing up, that would be good, I think. It's interesting to note that Yesterday Was a Lie, the center around which practically all of this editor's contributions revolve, is due for DVD release in a couple of weeks, which may be the reason that he was trying to re-establish his ability to edit. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:07, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Sorrywrongnumber has been blocked. -- Atama頭 19:29, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll try to slip into the background and get my article edit percentage back up over 80% again. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:19, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Beyond My Ken's reasoning doesn't make sense to me here... this seems fishy, I agree. If B-Wuuu were "trying to reestablish editing privileges" for the purpose that Beyond My Ken alleges, then why would he deliberately redirect his old name and openly admit that he was them? Seems to me he would just create a new account and not mention the other ones. He also hasn't been editing that article in months. He doesn't seem like a stand-up guy but frankly this complaint against Beyond My Ken seems valid to me. Looks like Ken has gotten away with several things he shouldn't have- the outing attempt is particularly bad. Reading through these earlier ANIs, I see that Ken (under his previous Jones name) has a lot of bad faith accusations against B-Wuuu and his previous names, accusing him of COI, etc.- and B-Wuuu has been accusing him right back. B-Wuuu's previous names did edit that article and related articles quite a bit- but Ken (and his Jones name) seems to have as well- in fact it looks like Ken has edited just about every article that's even linked from the Yesterday Was a Lie article, and all people even loosely involved in the production. The allegation that Ken has a COI because he worked on the movie would seem on the surface to be true. I don't think it's appropriate for this to be closed. 166.205.136.71 (talk) 20:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

OMG, will this never end? Can I mention that a number of IPs from the 166.205 range, which is assigned to mobile phones, were mentioned in the initial sockpuppet report about this editor? The 166.205s came out whenever there was heavy-duty in-fighting to be done. What I wrote at the time was:

The mobile IP is used for argumentation & defense

The IPs in the range 166.205.xxx.xxx, which are assigned to mobile devices, are brought out to conduct argumentation and defense of the other sockpuppets. This occured on WP:COIN and on Talk:Yesterday Was a Lie, and on WP:ANI . The vehemence of the arguments made by these IP socks, which do not edit independent of the constellation of articles presented above, is a strong indication of their connection to User:Sorrywrongnumber's sockfarm.

Because they're mobile phones, it's unlikely that checkuser can connect the 166.205 IPs to the sockfarm, but behavioral evidence should be sufficient to do a rangeblock, if that can be done without too much collateral damage. I'll try to collect together the actual IP numbers used. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Don't bother. That's clearly Sorrywrongnumber again. Any more posts from the IP-nut gallery and I'll block for block evasion. -- Atama頭 21:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

OK, for reference, the numbers used before were

• 166.205.130.225
• 166.205.130.187
• 166.205.131.52

There may have been thers, but if so, I've lost track of them. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

One more thing, and may I please never have to talk about this film and the person who tried to control its article ever again: the 166.205 IP linked above to an "Ed Fitzgerald" who worked in the art department on Yesterday Was a Lie. Since that's my name, this would seem to be pretty damning, except that:

• I don't live in LA, I live in NYC;
• I don't work in film, I work in theatre (you can find my credits on IBDB and IOBDB);
• Art, schmart - I can't draw for beans. I'm a stage manager and occasionally I do sound and projections;
• the "Ed Fitzgerald" credit doesn't show up on the film's official website (of course, their credits don't go too far down the hierarchy);
• IMDB is a service which allows readers to add credits;
• In the course of editing Yesterday Was a Lie over the last four months, I've gone to IMDB numerous times to check credits or find other leads, and a few weeks ago was the first time I ever saw the Ed Fitzgerald credit there – and it caught my eye immediately. I have a hard time believing that it was there before, and I somehow continually passed over it.
• That film is the only credit for this "Ed Fitzgerald" on IMDB.

Draw your own conclusions. Unfortunately, IMDB doesn't have a history system such as Misplaced Pages does to find out when the credit was added (although I suppose I could check the Wayback Machine and see what they have), so that credit sure makes it look like I'm a low-level techie with a grudge against the production. Maybe they stiffed me on salary, or the food in craft services was bad and gave me food poisoning, or the beautiful lead actress spurned my lascivious advances. Only problem is, 'taint so.

Just wanted to get that out there. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:10, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

"may I please never have to talk about this film and the person who tried to control its article ever again". I'm feelin' your pain till I see next thing you did after saying this was go to that films article and start editing it again whoever you are and wherever you live, c'mon man, gotta admit your pretty preoccupied with that film you need to cool off and maybe stay away from editing it67.23.70.14 (talk) 03:25, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm "obsessed"? Give me a fucking break. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:42, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

(out) Would someone kindly move the archive bottom down here and put us all out of our misery? Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:05, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

"Nickname" in Pershing article is actually a racial slur

A situation is developing on the John Pershing article where a handful of anon ips and one registered user are attempting to place in the biography info box at the start of the article that Pershing was called "Nigger Jack" as his nickname. Pershing was in fact called this name, but it was an insult hurled at him by opponents and some West Point cadets who disliked him. It was never in any a nickname Pershing called himself and by World War I if someone called him that it was a court martial offense. By that point, the majority fo the media and the public were calling him "Black Jack" which is far more commonly accepted as a nickname for Pershing. I believe the motives behind putting the word "nigger" in the info box are for shock value (this info is also already spoken of in the text). It would also be the same as if some angry soldier called Obama by this word, so we put "nigger" in his biography box as a nickname. Clearly inappropriate and downgrading to the article. Its been added twice so far, so this does bear watching and possible admin intervention if it continues. -OberRanks (talk) 12:14, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is not censored, and if the nickname is true and appropriately sourced, it should be included.--Crossmr (talk) 12:41, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

His common nickname was and is "Black Jack" Pershing. If the history behind that common name was that he was once called "Nigger Jack" (something i never heard before despite having developed an interest in Pershing when i lived in Mindanao) then that should be mentioned in the text, but not in the info box (since, again, it isn't the common nickname nor the one typically used by historians/quality press today or the military history writers and press at the time).Bali ultimate (talk) 12:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Putting it in the info box creates undue weight, unless there is sourcing of sufficient prominence (not just verifiability) saying that the usage was widespread enough to justify that placement. Otherwise, put it in the text as Bali Ultimate says. For a major historical figure like Pershing, sufficient prominence would mean multiple high-quality sources devoting significant space to discussing the nickname and its usage. An uncomplimentary nickname (e.g. "Tricky Dick" Nixon) can, though, become become quite prominent, maybe enough to warrant infobox placement in some cases. 66.127.52.47 (talk) 16:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

The source is reliable and it verifies the text. John Pershing wasn't the only white man who had that sort of nickname, and in another documented pre-WWI instance a white man in New York City preferred the nickname for himself. Social norms have changed enormously since that era. This does not need administrative attention; undue weight is a content issue that can be worked out on the article talk page. The epithet was not vandalism. Durova 16:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

The comparison to President Obama is ludicrous. If one angry soldier called the president a name, it would be the same as a General who was widely referred to as that? You can't be serious about that. His common nickname was "Nigger Jack". During World War I, the press began to refer to him as "Black Jack", as a euphesim for his real nickname. It was a detestable epithet, but that dosen't make it untrue. The name "Nigger Jack" has been listed in that box for quite some time, without incident. If someone wishes to remove it, then the burden of proof should fall upon that editor to provide a reliable source that this nickname was rarely used.Mk5384 (talk) 07:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
The article itself states that the press "changed" his nickname during World War I. General Pershing was given that nickname in 1897. The U.S. entered WWI in 1918. Pershing, at this time, was already a decorated general, nearing the end of his military career. He had the nickname for 21 years before even being called "Black Jack."Mk5384 (talk) 07:43, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I suggest relevant topics be copied to Talk:John J. Pershing to avoid conversations in two places. The admin above is correct that this was deemed not a vandalism issue, since it is cited material, but rather a content dispute. Discussion here should probably be archived and closed. -OberRanks (talk) 12:45, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Unclear AIV report

This report was made quite awhile ago at WP:AIV:

• Pizzamaniac09 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Reverted an absurd edit to List of Emergency! characters, then went to post warning on user page, which revealed a documented, long (though sporadic) history of deliberate vandalism cleverly disguised as amateurish edits. Fjbfour (talk) 03:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

It has been unacted upon because I don't think it is obvious what's going on here. Some of the edits appear to be vandalism to me (or at the very least, cluelessness), and there are quite a few warnings on this user's talk page. But I'd like someone else to take a look, especially someone with more pop-culture knowledge than myself. Should this editor be blocked? -- Ed (Edgar181) 13:07, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• He's did this kind of thing too often for us to reasonably let it slide many more times. I see that he has today been twice warned against adding unsourced content. If he does it once more, then he should definitely be blocked. But at this stage, I'm just supporting assuming good faith—just one more time. AGK 14:48, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Raampje

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

Could someone have a look at this users edits? He is changing links on a lot of article's, and seeing the amount of changes im rather suspicious as to whether these are valuable edits or not. Excirial 13:09, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I guess you forgot to notify the other editor about this discussion, so I have done that for you. —DoRD (talk) 13:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Now you mention it, it seems i indeed forgot to do so. Thanks for taking care of that part for me :) Excirial 13:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

It appears he is changing country of birth info in some info boxes. He is updating from the old name of the country to the currently accepted name. At the moment there is no opposition and his work appears to coincide with what is in the article. Given that there is no opposition to what he is doing and that this is an area of frequent edit wars, I would think that his edits are being accepted. Watchlisting would be good but at the moment I see no other issue. JodyB _talk 15:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

(ec) The editor is changing the birth country of a bunch of footballers to the current name of the country from what it was called when they were born. For example, this edit changed the player's birth country from SFR Yugoslavia to Croatia. I agree that the city he was born in is now located in Croatia, but in 1976, it was part of Yugoslavia.

Pre-ec, I was going to say that Raampje should not be making these changes, but as JodyB has pointed out, there has been no opposition (no discussion whatsoever, actually) with the editor, so there is no need for admin intervention. —DoRD (talk) 15:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm a believer in WP:BRD. Raampje is doing the B, but nobody else is doing the R, so the D seems unnecessary. -- Atama頭 17:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

My opinion is that the changes, while made in good faith, are not correct. The country at the time in question should be used, not the modern equivalent. Mjroots (talk) 19:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I think there's precedent for listing both, the original placename with the current placename in parentheses. Given the way the European map has changed over the decades, there are an awful lot of people who were born in a country that no longer exists or has changed its designation, so this is probably something that should be mentioned in the MoS somewhere. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:34, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Now there is opposition so hopefully the editors will take it to the talk page to discuss. The MOS is helpful on the subject but not entirely clear. I am hopeful this will self-correct.JodyB _talk 20:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Admin aid to fix irregular talk archive naming at "Mitt Romney"

The archive pages of talk:Mitt Romney suffer from two different naming regimes.
There exists an "archive1" and an "archive_1"...through "archive_x".
Here's the starting location of interest: Talk:Mitt_Romney/Archive_1#Archives

I guess a move over redirect needs to occur, and a fellow editor attempted to straighten this out,
but was stymied by some kind of needed user permissions.
Here's the conversation where we come to the realization that an admin is probably needed.
User talk:Wasted Time R#Mitt Romney talk archives.

We'd appreciate it if an admin brings the first archive into the "archive_x" naming regime,
and moves all of the other archives, so that all of the archives are equally visible, and part of the same naming regime.

Many thanks. -- Yellowdesk (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I moved them. Look okay? You might want to go through looking for broken links now - any links to Archive 3 now need to go to Archive 4, etc. Wknight94 15:20, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks, we'll take a look around. -- Yellowdesk (talk) 16:22, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

76.114.32.52

An IP user, 76.114.32.52 (see User talk: 76.114.32.52), recently vandalized the article Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories. When I looked on this address's talk page, I noticed that another user had posted a "welcome" message and encouraged this user to create an account. However, his/her reply () was:

Thanks! But if I create an account User:Alison will just block me again.

That leads me to believe that this person is editing as an IP in order to evade a block, which I believe is a violation of WP's sockpuppetry policy. I am not sure exactly who the sockmaster is, but I think it would be easy for admins to figure out. Stonemason89 (talk) 17:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

That's this guy - Alison 19:02, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

He just now posted a congratulatory message () on my talk page. The message is quite vague, and I'm not sure if it's intended to be sarcastic or not. Stonemason89 (talk) 02:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Is3-stopzilla continues to edit stopzilla beyond final warning

User:Is3-stopzilla seems to have a COI with stopzilla. This user is deleting references (which was tagged on the Recent Changes) which brought me to this article as a Page Patroller. A COI tag was placed on the article talkpage and also on the user page. User continues to edit article not using standard or valid reasons for deleting material. --Morenooso (talk) 18:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

While the username may be problematic, this revert by you is even more problematic. Firstly you are reverting to include criticism of a commercial product by some random forum poster, and the source cited for the second part does not source "The iS3 website shows the vendor is aware that its program has been unscrupulously marketed by tactics that include "tampering with searches, adware, hijacking, use of Trojans" by members of its affiliate program". O Fenian (talk) 18:33, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

You apparently forgot to notify the other editor about this discussion, however, it was taken care of by HalfShadow.

On the other hand, the editor has clearly stated that they are a representative of the company. —DoRD (talk) 18:36, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I have hardblocked the account for violation of username aggravated by WP:COI and WP:NPOV issues, as well as a WP:3RR problem. Normally it would be a soft block with a new user account option, however I decided on a hardblock because if the user wishes to contribute helpfully to Misplaced Pages I would wish he illustrates that he has read policy and requesting an unblock with evidence that he has done so before he is allowed to continue editing. I realise this seems a biting measure and would like a review. SGGH 18:59, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I also rolled back the article to the last version before the account began editing. Once issues are addressed I believe the articles problems could be looked at without COI/AUTO/whatever getting in the way. I am aware that it contains unreliable sources and a pov problem, but an uninvolved user can probably remove that. SGGH 19:09, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

OK, I've removed the POV and unreliable source problem. The editor seems to be using an IP now, which could be an unintended result of using a {{usernamehardblock}} instead of a {{usernameblock}}. FWIW, I'll leave a message on the IP's talk page. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:25, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Incivility by User:TechnoFaye

I have previously created a thread here but was referred to WP:WQA. However the thread to Misplaced Pages:Wikiquette_alerts#User:TechnoFaye has not been taken seriously. It is not the first time, WQA has numerous problems and at present is not adequately equipped to handle civility problems. I am aware of the policy on forum shopping but I have felt it necessary that this issue be handled at ANI, because there are many more experienced editors here. My main complaint is that TechnoFaye keeps on saying "Blacks are stupid". I find these comments offensive, and have tried to ignore them and put them in context. But because she keeps repeating them, I felt it necessary to get outside input. Some of the quotes include

• So how is R/I different? Eye color = self-reported race, and 11 toes = stupid (or whatever the polite word is). Why is this a false analogy?.
• My best guess is that, like Gould, some well-meaning editors feel that a genetic basis for blacks being stupid should be denied 'even if it is true.'
• "It's not about the data-centric structure; that's just the disingenuous cover story. It's about pushing a political POV, and is just like naming the article "Why Blacks are so stupid".
• What do you think of the theory that the IQ difference is due to everyone else believing that blacks are stupid
• No, it means it's extremely unlikely that one exists, because it would have to be something powerful enough to make a whole race of people stupid, yet hidden and secret enough that no one ever thought of it

These comments have been occurring over a period of at least one month. According to the user's Block log, the user has prior blocks for incivility. Wapondaponda (talk) 19:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I would echo the comments made at WQA; these edits are not incivility. Also, it seems to me that you're putting words in her mouth when you say she "keeps on saying 'Blacks are stupid'.". An uninhibited exchange of ideas is usually a good idea during a mediation. I encourage you to disagree politely with her comments, but not characterize them as uncivil. I'd recommend no action here. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:24, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Floquenbeam, TechnoFaye is not having words put into her mouth. To quote from her MySpace blog on the topic of the Race and intelligence mediation: "Why is "they're stupid" an okay explanation for everybody else's low IQ score, but blacks' score of "retarded" is due to some mysterious, unknown reason other than that they're retarded?" and "negroes are so abysmally stupid."Her blog is v NSFW Repeated racism does fall under WP:CIVIL as far as I'm concerned. If she can't reign herself in to refrain from making bigoted and inflammatory language, she should be indef blocked (regardless of her autism). Fences&Windows 22:22, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Rubbish. It seems to me that either a deliberate misunderstanding of what she is saying is being used against her and/or the quotes are being used massively out of context. I can't see any racism or bigotry, at least not from TechnoFaye. What I do see are kneejerk reactions to non-politically correct statements of unpopular realisations. Personally I see her autism as a perfect way to be unencumbered with the pervasive and ever-present PC bollocks screwing up this project. --Fred the Oyster (talk) 23:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

All I can say is that her tale of a crazy-bum-woman-living-in-the-forest to suburban-sex-slave-who-wants-to be-raped transformation story on her blog was one of the more disturbing things I have seen in a while. I couldn't get past that to actually look into the on-wiki dispute. In fact now I think I'll sign off for a while and go take a long walk. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:31, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Whereas all I see on that page is someone wanting to do exactly what they want to do with their own life... --Fred the Oyster (talk) 11:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Disruption by User:Uncle uncle uncle

• Uncle uncle uncle (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
  • Disruption by this user, at article The Next Three Days. This user apparently does not understand that film articles in their Production subsections give historical info on production and stages of filming. The user has repeatedly removed sourced material from this article with zero prior discussion. The user has been warned, and continues to repeat disruptive behavior at the article.

1. Removal of sourced material and citations, with zero explanation or prior talk page discussion
2. Removal of sourced material with no prior discussion
3. Addition of {{Out of date}} tag with no prior discussion or rationale to back up why it was added, inappropriate addition

I am involved on the page and so requesting another administrator to take action here. Thank you. -- Cirt (talk) 20:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I think that perhaps the article talk page would be the place to talk about the article - that is where I had started some discussion prior to this discussion. Where should the discussion about the film "The Next Three Days" take place - my talk page, the article talk page or here? Thanks! Uncle uncle uncle 20:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

(e/c, comment was to Cirt) Perhaps if you stopped characterizing their edits as vandalism, and stopped dropping templates on their page in lieu of actual human-to-human discussion, things would work out better. Last I checked, "prior discussion" in not needed to add tags to an article. Way too early for an ANI report, IMHO. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

It appears this is an established user, using a sock to cause disruption and feign ignorance of site policy. The user repeatedly removed sourced material with no discussion about it whatsoever. Then, the user placed an inappropriate tag on the article, with zero discussion. -- Cirt (talk) 20:33, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

The article is starting to look better - see diff of before my edit and current state of article I think that without my edits, the article would not have been improved. Cirt used my changes as the basis for the current article (which is fine with me) He changed the tense and added a note about the newer 2010 release date. Uncle uncle uncle 20:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Comment: It is fine to mark this as resolved if another administrator wishes to do so. In the future, I would hope that the sock account Uncle uncle uncle (talk · contribs) refrains from causing disruptive behavior by removing sourced information from articles with zero prior discussion. Thanks, -- Cirt (talk) 20:48, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I of course agree that this should not be at ANI but on one of the article talk page. In fact, I did initiate talk on the talk page before Cirt posted this to ANI. Since then Cirt has fixed the article in accordance with my initial edits: I removed the incorrect statement:"It is currently in the principal photography filming stage of production. The film is scheduled to be released in 2011." I believe that it is better to have no statement than an incorrect statement. And the statement: "As of October 4, 2009, filming of the movie is set to complete on December 12, 2009." - It is now past both dates as in fact the next sentence correctly states: "On December 14, 2009, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that filming of The Next Three Days was going to wrap that day,"

Cirt called me disruptive, reported me to ANI, and fixed the article to replace the untrue statements noted above with correct statements - but he neglected to use an edit summary mentioning this - or to mention at ANI that he had in fact fixed the very statements I had removed with the edit summary "remove wrong" and he had called "disruptive" Uncle uncle uncle 22:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Socks of banned User:James dalton bell editing

See Misplaced Pages:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#BLP_violations_on_.27jim_bell.27 (also have a few "love notes" on my talk page , ). I don't know if the IP range is narrow enough for a block - if not, I guess I'll ignore the attacks. To state the obvious, I do not engage in socking. --NeilN 20:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

71.36.112.0/20 blocked again, this time for 3 months. –MuZemike 21:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

More: 97.120.242.154 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) --NeilN 02:06, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm RBI'ing this one, without the B, of course. This edit seems to be close to a legal threat (Apparently the editors and administrators around here are not aware of how legally perilous their actions are..."). What's the best off-wiki way for a banned editor to complain about the content of an article? Perhaps that would be the best suggestion for the editor. Dayewalker (talk) 02:27, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

The sockmaster was told to contact OTRS --NeilN 02:30, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict) They should email OTRS via Misplaced Pages:Contact us/Article problem. –xeno 02:31, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

(ec*2) WP:OTRS, perhaps? Certainly a better choice than socking... —DoRD (talk) 02:34, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

(OD) I've suggested that at the IPs page. I know he's watching there, because he's blanked it before. Dayewalker (talk) 02:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I've left him the link on two IP pages and my own talk page, none of them seem to slow him down from edit warring on the BLP noticeboard. Any chance of a semi-protection there for a few hours? Dayewalker (talk) 05:06, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

He's jumped to the 97.120.*.* range. --NeilN 05:17, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Is it wrong ?

Is it wrong to put this tag {{notaforum}} on an article talk page for the article Fearless Photog created by User:Dream Focus he views at uncivil because he created it he views it as uncivil opinions please? Dwanyewest (talk) 21:36, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Only one comment was ever made there, by me, no one using it as a forum. Do you put notaforum tags on every talk page you go to? I find that unlikely. Your comment here should also be taken into consideration with your mindset. Seems rather rude to me. I'd like to hear the opinions of others. Dream Focus 21:42, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

This is an issue for ANI...why? --Smashville 21:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• In general, it isn't "wrong", just "unnecessary". That's mostly used when you're trying to stop a WP:FORUM problem, not preemptively. However, in this particular case, it was "wrong" because it seems likely to have been done to piss off Dream Focus (and the comment linked by DF was unproductive too). This isn't really an ANI issue. I'm going to remove the tag, it can be re-added by someone if inappropriate chatter actually does occur. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:51, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Get this sorted

I discussed this at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard I wanna get over and done with. So I will ask again. I discussed at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Comics and Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Television which would be be the appropriate character template for Masters of the Universe characters this style King Randor or this style Sea Hawk (She-Ra) its been discussed with User:Dream Focus and neither of us are gonna agree so I would prefer somone neutral resolve this. See discussions below.

Dwanyewest (talk) 22:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Then utilize dispute resolution. ANI is not for the elicitment of third opinions. –MuZemike 22:09, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Legal threat, but not to us

See User talk:JohnCD#Page deleted incorrectly. Summary: a pornographic actress and model asked why the article her publicist posted had been deleted. I said it showed no notability, we didn't like paid editing and she should ask for her money back. I also gave the article author April Storm (talk · contribs) a COI warning, and posted at WP:COIN#April Storm - paid editing by a PR.

The lady has now replied: thank you, she is in dispute with the PR and "If this is ok, I will likely use this statement in court."

• Is this a problem for Misplaced Pages?
• If I get a formal request, how should I respond, or should I pass it to someone at WMF?
• If asked, should we provide a copy of the speedy-deleted article Ashley Steel?

JohnCD (talk) 22:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

This is precisely why stuff like this shouldn't be allowed here. –MuZemike 22:24, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Her website is surprisingly safe-for-work. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 22:25, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Eeeeeeehhhhhh. It's very borderline; the other person involved is obviously a Misplaced Pages user, but not exactly one who's on the up and up. And anyone who charges money to create that pretty crappy article is being a bad businessperson; if they knew anything about Misplaced Pages, they would have known that article they created would never have passed muster, and therefore were charging money for a crap service. I think in this case a warning is sufficient, simply saying, "Our rules require you to not mention ongoing or possible litigation against other Misplaced Pages users", for two reasons: 1, it wasn't exactly a legal threat in the way we usually see them (e.g. "I'll sue you because you deleted my section on how Disney did 9/11", or "I'll sue Misplaced Pages for not deleting my article"), and 2, it's an IP, so it's not like we can indef block it, and they seem very reasonable anyway. But a warning may not even be needed, unless they continue. They aren't an established editor, and they seem to be speaking in good faith. --Golbez (talk) 22:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

My comment above spoke only to the NLT implications; as for the rest, I think that is 100% up to Mike Godwin, who would handle any legal issue pertaining to Misplaced Pages. It's not something ANI needs to discuss. --Golbez (talk) 22:29, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I sent Godwin an email. User:Zscout370 23:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Kick this to Godwin and back off. User:Zscout370 22:28, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Done, thanks. JohnCD (talk) 23:03, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Another Roman888 sock

Prodigious copyright violator and sock farmer Roman888 is at it again. Could an administrator please deal with this AfD as I have recommended (delete, salt, and block the sock)? Thanks --Mkativerata (talk) 01:33, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

And I believe the account Mkativerata is referring to is User:TomCruise55. - DustFormsWords (talk) 01:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

• • The article has now been deleted, but I'd appreciate it if someone could please consider blocking the sock. --Mkativerata (talk) 02:11, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
• Blocked. I'm not familiar with the user's history, but after looking at the evidence, it quacked indeed. JamieS93 02:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Thank you --Mkativerata (talk) 02:23, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

User:PCHS-NJROTC

I noticed this comment on User:Beach drifter's talk page, which alone is highly inappropriate. Upon reviewing User:PCHS-NJROTC's last 250 edits or so, this user appears to seek out conflict. I don't know what the proper admin action is, I just thought I'd let people know. MoozerSkadoozer (talk) 02:12, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I notice that you have neither attempted to discuss the issue with the other editor nor given them the required notice about this discussion. —DoRD (talk) 02:38, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

...though I've now taken care of the latter. —DoRD (talk) 02:42, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I've given him some advice, so let's hope he takes it. He seems open to hearing it, which is a good sign. Let's see if his behavior improves, and if not, we can always look at the situation in the future. AniMate 02:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, like I alluded to, I don't really know the proper way to do things here. And I didn't discuss it with the user because in browsing through his/her edit history, I've seen plenty of people try to reason with him/her to no avail. If no action is required and his/her actions are within reason, I can delete this. Thanks. MoozerSkadoozer (talk) 02:50, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm never big on excuses, but I need a wikibreak. When I first started here, I strived to be an example setter, and I did not seek this kind of drama. I actually enjoyed contributing here. But now, with more undisclosed stresses in real life, my patience is thinner, and my contribution quality is lesser. With excessive stress in real life, there's less ability to tolerate stress on wiki, impairing my ability to be a a good Wikipedian. Perhaps I should informally restrict myself to noncontroversial RC patrol, reverting blatant vandalism using rollback and proposing blatant nonsense for CSD, or just cut back on editing all together. RC seems to be less of a dramafest for me; I was doing it today from school (yay, they unblocked it!) and it was rather refreshing from the usual crap. I kindly made a newbie aware of the WP:3RR rule. But it is critical that I stop feeding these trolls as it is only making matters worse. Perhaps another idea would be admin coaching (would serve as a mentor, steer me away from dramafests), although I don't think I'm ready for adminship at present (maybe later). PCHS-NJROTC 03:01, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Backlog at Requests for Protection

WP:RPP looks rather backlogged to me, your kind attention is solicited. DuncanHill (talk) 02:19, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Radiopathy is hounding me in spite of his retirement

Please assist Radiopathy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and I have a long history and he has recently been blocked and chosen to retire due to the latest dispute we had and a breach of his 1RR. Even though he has recently "retired", he monitors my edits and intervenes with the express purpose of having me blocked, banned, or simply causing me distress. The constitutes hounding and I would like an admin to intervene. See here and here for my most recent recapitulations of his actions. See here for his most recent sanction leading to his most recent "retirement." (This is behavior he has engaged in previously when he has been sanctioned, retires, and then waits for awhile and requests that the sanctions be lifted in spite of no proof that his behavior has changed, e.g. here)

Since he decided to stop editing, he has returned only to try to keep me from having a sanction lifted (he was not successful), posting a spurious edit-warring template on my talk, and inserting himself in a post I made on Wikiquette alerts that is unrelated to him (he also put in his perspective on that dispute encouraging other users to ignore me.) Although he claims to not have a personal issue with me, he watches my edits apparently for the sole purpose of encouraging other users to revert, ignore, block, or ban me. (Cf. 1, 2, 3, 4, and several instances mentioned in my previous links.)

Radiopathy's sole purpose on Misplaced Pages is to disrupt my ability to edit and to harass me in addition to his spurious claims and generally uncivil interaction with me. Please intervene to stop this behavior. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:33, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I won't go so far as to endorse the accusation of wikihounding, but Radiopathy does seem to be egging on the dispute between Justin and Rafablu88, such as by telling Rafablu88 that Justin "should simply be reverted and ignored" and making what I would consider less-than-helpful comments at the WQA that Justin opened over the dispute. (Note: I got one of the unsolicited notices from Radiopathy about the WQA, and I've expressed my thoughts there on the underlying issue.) --RL0919 (talk) 03:20, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I echo every word RL0919 stated in his comment (including about receiving an unsolicited notice and expressing my thoughts there). Ncmvocalist (talk) 04:41, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to bring this edit by Radiopathy to the attention of my fellow admins. It was a uw-3rr, but added to an archive of a talk page, making it look like the warning was seen by Justin and then archived, which is clearly not the case. Not sure exactly how to describe this, but possibly disruptive. I think the warning should be struck through and a note added stating why it has been struck through because the warning was not correctly issued. Mjroots (talk) 06:28, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Clarification I archive my talk page using the move method. Radiopathy put the warning on my "live" talk page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:41, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

The edit was clearly to the /Archive018 page not the talk page. This is what I have a problem with. Mjroots (talk) 06:45, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Nope, Koavf is right, it was made before the page was moved from its live user talk position to the archive position. Thanks Koavf for clarifying this. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:51, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I think you missed this and this. Ncmvocalist (talk) 06:54, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Ahh, I see now. I was confused by Justin's method of archiving by moving the talk page itself to the archive and creating a new talk page. OK, my concerns have been allayed and this issue is now settled with no action being necessary. Mjroots (talk) 08:10, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I've struck my comments on Radiopathy's talk page. Back to the original issue raised by Justin. Mjroots (talk) 08:16, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

WP:BLPN Vandalism and Edit-Warring

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

The above listed users, suspected socks of banned/blocked User:James dalton bell has been engaging in vandalism, edit-warring, and personal attacks on WP:BLPN, as well as a couple user talk pages. I respectfully request that WP:BLPN be temporarily semi-protected for a period of, say, 7 days to give the page a break from this vandal sock. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 06:49, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm taking a rather big risk as far as collateral damage is concerned, but 97.120.240.0/20 blocked 1 month (again). –MuZemike 07:41, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Please don't do anything that might potentially get you in trouble. If there is too much collateral damage involved, please just temporarily semi-protect the WP:BLPN page. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 07:56, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Australian Capital Territory Debating Union, User:JJJ999, 121.45.216.232 & 121.45.196.175

I would like an administrator to review the Australian Capital Territory Debating Union.

It appears to me that User:JJJ999 (plus the IP's he uses 121.45.216.232 & 121.45.196.175) are acting as if he/she are owners of the article.

I have a number of issues with the article :

1. I question the notability of the ACTDU (it has been questioned before see Talk:Australian_Capital_Territory_Debating_Union#Article issues). Every time I have tried to tag it it gets reverted here or here.

2. It contains many 'refs' that are not in any way relevant to the article, that he insists on having in, for example in the lead :

• from hotfrog.com.au a directory entry for the ACTDU
• From the SA government - only thing that is relevant is a Link to the ACTU website.
• radford.com.au which is dead and no indication in the article as to what it was meant to help with,
• surch on an IP for "ACT debating team" that times out

At the end of the article, without any indication of why they are there or what they help with :

• Accessmylibrary.com - a extract from the Canberra Times that does not mention the ACTDU
• Accessmylibrary.com- a extract from the Canberra Times that does not mention the ACTDU
• Accessmylibrary.com- a extract from the Canberra Times that does not mention the ACTDU
• Accessmylibrary.com- a extract from the Canberra Times that does not mention the ACTDU
• ABC Stateline Home - transcript from a ABC radio show that also does not mention the ACTDU.
• Factiva.com a dead Factiva lookup with no indication of what it was or supports.

3. I believe that User:JJJ999 may have a WP:COI, as evidenced by the fact he has hard copies of the AGM minutes here also given the copyright statement in the two photos on the page here and here indicating he created (took) them along with a comment here where he says he can get the copy write permission sent in.

4. I think the article may be Over detailed and contain "excessive amount of intricate detail that may only interest a specific audience".

I have posted a RfC on the talk page about the first point but as of yet have had no response (Talk:Australian_Capital_Territory_Debating_Union#RFC : Notability tag)

I have also posted on the 3RR board as User:JJJ999 and the IP's made 4 reverts on Sunday (here) to which User:JJJ999 responded here but this was archived without attention - I dispute what he has written but have decided not to engage with him at this time. I have made attempts to point out my issues on the Talk page here and here.

So I am wondering the best way to move this article forward as I am sure that as soon as I start trying to fix the above issues User:JJJ999 will start reverting again. Codf1977 (talk) 07:27, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I find RfC a fairly uncertain step in dispute resolution, since you never who (if anyone) will show up. You may wish to withdraw the RfC and try one of the other methods of dispute resolution, such as WP:COIN or WP:CNB. If you are certain that there are only two of you involved, WP:3O can be a good forum to get assistance. I have generally found the volunteers who work there willing to discuss issues thoroughly. --Moonriddengirl 11:42, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I cant be certain, but am 99% sure the three are one. This edit confirms two are one in the same and the other one looks like a WP:DUCK. Codf1977 (talk) 12:05, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Then WP:3O may be your best bet. Typically, I'd list a problem like that and wait. If you don't get a response within a couple of days, then it may be necessary to seek help elsewhere. If you do, make it clear where else you've asked and why you're asking again, so it's obvious that you're not "forum shopping" but just looking for input. Having already interacted with the article as an admin, I don't think I should myself weigh in on content issues. --Moonriddengirl 12:08, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, I do not want any appearance of forum shopping so will wait a few days to see if anyone else here has any advice, and if not will go to WP:3O and make sure I cross link to here and the RfC. Codf1977 (talk) 12:41, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Gratuitous misconduct by User:Heavydata

Heavydata (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been posting deliberate, manufactured lies, including false accusations of sockpuppetry and meatpuppetry to sway opinion on a requested move he proposed . His welcome message to a new user was a false accusation of sockpuppetry . In addition, he has admitted to being affiliated with a site called Rangerboard --upon seeing that mention, I went to Rangerboard and found a recent (i.e. this month) thread consisting entirely of personal attacks against Ryulong, the primary target of Heavydata's false accusations, plus a mention of the dispute this requested move is about. So, yeah, a user who is primarily focused on smearing Ryulong is a member of an attack site against Ryulong. I can provide a link to the thread by email, as I'd rather not link an attack site on here; if you'd like to find it yourself, the title of the thread is "Misplaced Pages: Power Hogs". After I pointed out his misconduct on the talk page for the requested move, he has harassed me on my user page, posting the same false accusations , which I have since reverted. jgpTC 10:56, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Such delusion...

This user is blowing things way out of proportion, and yet another friend of Ryulong. I'm not a member of Rangerboard, I got the idea about colons from Rangerboard, SO WHAT? Ryulong approached me first, and he attempted to smear me as well as well as making up bogus reasons of why the colons should stay. Check Ryulong's edit history around the time when the request was added. He commented me a mere two or three minutes after I added the request, where we had an hour argument when he claimed he didn't care about colons, yet he's getting his buddies to join in and protect HIS precious colons. In fact, I've been a member for months mostly editing Johnny Test and other various articles. My accounts main purpose IS NOT to attack Ryulong.

I had no plans to talk to Ryulong or anyone else, but now all his friends are attacking and throwing a hissy fit OVER COLONS. I'm just tired of these games that Ryulong and his friends are doing and want a consensus on what has to be done. 70.177.84.41 IS a meat puppet, THE END. Infact, this user claims that I was stalking him when all I was doing was asking him a question of why he thinks my actions are immoral and as you can tell, he says my explanation was vandalism. These are not lies. I want to stop being attacked like this just because I believe that articles shouldn't have colons in them. You want to look at some unethical edits and harassment? Look at Ryulong and his buddy jpg. Heavydata (talk) 11:59, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Unblock request from ThomasK

ThomasK (talk · contribs) has emailed me asking to be unblocked. I looked at his talk page, where he has an unblock request -- or rather demand. He was blocked in 2006 and I'm not going to unblock him without an understanding of why he was blocked. And I wasn't impressed by his reason: " Lift this unfair indefinite block immediately. That´s my demand. I have a right to request so. I contributed enormously to Misplaced Pages and it´s more than four years since I last vandalized an article. I won´t do this anymore in the future.". But if the community thinks he should be unblocked... Dougweller (talk) 12:27, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Well... he hasn't vandalised an article for four years because he has been blocked! I don't see how "look I didn't sock" is a legitimate reason to unblock... two cents. SGGH 12:35, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Ask him what he'd edit if he's unblocked. He's grown up a bit since 2006, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 12:40, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Yep. Reblocking if that turns out to be necessary only takes a few seconds. henrik•talk 13:10, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

The phrasing of the "request" doesn't indicate any great amount of "growth". Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:25, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Factsontheground

User:Factsontheground has been the subject of scrutiny and controversy the last couple of days.Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive604#User Factsontheground using his talk page as a forum and to launch personal attacks should be reopened. Factsontheground has come back from the 24hr block inciting more issues with a user page in violation of WP:UP#POLEMIC (as mentioned here). I understand she is frustrated. She has reason to be to some extent. There have been more allegations against her made since she has returned and of course the revisiting of past transgressions. This isn't about those though. Is her user page disruptive? Does it stir up the battlefield mentality already seen in a contentious topic area? Can it be blanked and the user asked again to stop?Cptnono (talk) 12:46, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

She imply that those who oppose her edits are rasicts (see Anti-Arabism and Misplaced Pages section on her user page). I think it's disruptive.--Gilisa (talk) 13:04, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Indeed, SarekOfVulcan has already warned her about using her Misplaced Pages page to make comments about the supposed racism of other Misplaced Pages users. I concur with the enforcement of WP:UP#POLEMIC. SGGH 13:09, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Infact she was blocked for 24 hours recently for PA against editors (I'm among those) as well as removing two comments by two different editors (me for one) from article's talk page. Then she used her talk page in violation of WP:UPNOT and her talk page was blocked as well.--Gilisa (talk) 13:14, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Also, have a look at the changes she made to her userpage since this discussion started. Clearly a disruption only disruptive account, and i propose we just RBI it. Seeing the recent complaints and ANI reports in such a short timespan I do not suspected that anything positive will come from user in the long run, unless behavioral changes are made. Excirial 13:18, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I am happy to enforce another block if we agree it is needed. She has removed the content having noted this thread, though. Same length as before? SGGH 13:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I will admit that I would like to see her blocked, but blocks are meant to be preventative not punitive. If the threat of it alone was enough to encourage a better understanding then it would not be appropriate.Cptnono (talk) 13:26, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Yet given past conduct it might very well be preventative. SGGH 13:27, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

She has also just given this to Excirial and docked some more warnings from her talk (though she has the right to remove anything from her talk if she so wishes, but I suspect her motives for doing so.) SGGH 13:30, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Indeed in two discussions I was involved today she violate several of WP guidelines regarding the use of TP and attidue toward other users. As can be seen here (clear PA-but I wasn't involved directly in this issue so maybe it's not relevant) and here were I asked her to stop using the talk page for soap boxing and as a forum, but she only hush me in incivil manner. The problem is that she keep seeing herself as victim (as specifically can be understood from her UP) and unwilling to take any responsability for what she do. And it continue like that for a long time with everyday bring something new. So far she was only warned time and again or was treated softly. I don't have the time needed to that and I already spent much time in issues she was involved with, but I think that her relevant history should be reviewed and finally appropriate measurements to be taken.P.s. She just blanked her page at 13:20 , nevertheless, she was still editing its meaning shortly before --Gilisa (talk) 13:33, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of this rule. Now I am. I removed the content that was bothering people. This can be marked resolved.

Secondly, on the topic of polemics, Mbz1 is using her talk page to attack myself and others. She has a picture of dogs chasing a girl subtitled "Me and the hounds"; she continually calls me and other editors "Wikihounds". Factsontheground (talk) 14:04, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

As can be understood from the links given in the opening, you were specifically noticed by Cptnono that you are in violation with wikipedia guidelines -but yet until ANI was submitted you choosed not to remove it from your user page. I can't see how Mbz1 is relevant in your defence, to put it mildly. Looking into your previous edits and your correspondence with other editors, it is quite clear that you are familiar with WP gidelines regarding TP and etc-but even if you didn't know this specific one -you was warned by Cptnono and two days ago your TP was blocked for the very same thing.--Gilisa (talk) 14:11, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

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