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fn minimi reverting question

Hello, while I search these images on official Australian Defence Force website it shows soldiers are equipped with Minimi MK3 or converted F89 variants, however you reverted and said failed verification, why? thanks. MSA09 (talk) 04:54, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

The source itself has to directly say that it is the MK3. As with WP:GUN-USER, citing a source that only consists of an image and then drawing conclusions that do not explicitly appear within the source is considered original research. Loafiewa (talk) 16:34, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

ok, thanks MSA09 (talk) 17:06, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

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TGH

Hi, it looks like they're making one edit per IP then moving on at the moment, so blocking is not likely to be very effective. Especially if it takes a few hours for someone to notice the edit and report it to AIV, the chances are they won't be on that IP address by the time it gets blocked. Obviously if they stick to one IP or range for any length of time then it would be worth blocking them. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:24, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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Holocaust denial

To deny that Japanese war crimes were committed by Genosides is no different from Holocaust denial. Mureungdowon (talk) 21:42, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

There is a verifiability policy, the burden to prove contentious claims lies on the person making them. Casting aspersions on my own beliefs, when I made it explicitly clear that my reversion was due to the previous edit not conforming to the verifiability policy, is a form of sophistry. Loafiewa (talk) 21:58, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

No, do we need a source that the Holocaust is a genocide crime in the first place? Is it necessary to set a different standard for the way we look at the Nazis and Japan? Westerners like you demonize the Nazis and are very tolerant of Japan. Japan at that time was much more evil and more brutal than the Nazis, and was officially allied with the Nazis. Mureungdowon (talk) 00:00, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Imagine if I did the same editing as you in the Holocaust article. I am a South Korean. I think you are very racist. Mureungdowon (talk) 00:02, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

If the Nazis are evil, statist Japan in the 1930s and 1940s is also devil of devil. The Nazis massacred most of the whites, and Japan massacred most of the Asians. Westerners are less alert to Japanese war crimes because of this difference. At the time, Japan was allied with the Nazis, and they even did biological experiments like eating human flesh and Unit 731, which even the Nazis did not do. Mureungdowon (talk) 00:08, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a Wikipedia:No Nazis policy. Nazi war crimes should not be glorified or reduced. So why should only the Japanese be the exception? Almost all Koreans believe that the Japanese at that time were on the same level as the Nazis or worse. Once again, I'm a South Korean. Japanese war crimes are clearly genocide, and this is no different from German war crimes. The way you look at Japanese war crimes is very racist to me as a Korean. (Change Koreans to Jews and Japanese to Germans here.) Mureungdowon (talk) 00:19, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

No Nazis isn't a policy, it is an essay, and to be exact, it is an essay that outlines the correct behaviour when dealing with actual racist or Nazi behaviour. Verifiability is a policy, one which states that "All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material". No personal attacks, of which accusing other editors of being racist is also listed as one of their examples, happens to be another policy. Loafiewa (talk) 00:48, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I've warned the user against making personal attacks. That is unacceptable behavior on Wikipedia, and could result in a block. Mureungdowon, please do not let your passion for a subject lead you to making such unfounded accusations. You have to provide reliable sources for the claims you make in articles, so please focus your efforts on doing that, not on casting aspersions on fellow editors. BilCat (talk) 01:14, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I support a block. Look at their user page and history. Yikes. Qiushufang (talk) 03:02, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so a case will have to be made at WP:ANI. I haven't looked deeper into the users actions to determine if a block is warranted yet. BilCat (talk) 03:14, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I apologise for referring to Loafiewa as a racist. I am sorry to Loafiewa. I was angry at the word 'sophistry' among the words Loafiewa used, so I made inappropriate personal attacks. However, I don't think this is a reason to be blocked. Because I am a South Korean, I have to be sensitive about issues related to Japanese war crimes. The father of someone I'm close to is the victim of a Japanese war crime. From now on, I won't say anything aggressive to other users. (I also acknowledge that my Talk page was aggressive, and I'm going to delete it.) Mureungdowon (talk) 06:01, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of those things. It's totally understandable that you are sensitive about Japanese war crimes. However, since you are sensitive about them, you need to the careful when editing those topics, as you may become to emotional to edit such issues at times. We all have areas like that, and sometimes we have to just stay away from editing those articles directly. I stay away from certain topics myself for those reasons. It doesn't mean you can't edit such topics at all, just that you have to be careful that you don't get so emotional about them that you can't edit in a neutral manner, as Wikipedia requires. BilCat (talk) 06:42, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

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Repeat Vandalism Assistance

Hoping to draw your attention to a page Dai Viet Lan Xang War which is repeatedly vandalized and edit warred on by HungNguyen19181945. thank you StampyElephant (talk) 12:13, 1 April 2023 (UTC)