User talk:KindHorta

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 01:28, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction

The following sanction now applies to you:

You are warned to comply with the neutral point of view policy, to assume good faith, and to use reliable sources, particularly in topics related to transgender people.

You have been sanctioned for the reasons provided in this AN/I report and your edits at Talk:Transgender health care misinformation.

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender and sexuality#Final decision and, if applicable, the contentious topics procedure. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction using the appeal process. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything above is unclear to you. voorts (talk/contributions) 02:05, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

December 2024

To enforce an arbitration decision, and for disruptive editing on the page Special:Diff/1263200638, you have been blocked from editing Wikipedia for a period of 31 hours. You are welcome to edit once the block expires; however, please note that the repetition of similar behavior may result in a longer block or other sanctions.

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

voorts (talk/contributions) 20:31, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder to administrators: In May 2014, ArbCom adopted the following procedure instructing administrators regarding Arbitration Enforcement blocks: "No administrator may modify a sanction placed by another administrator without: (1) the explicit prior affirmative consent of the enforcing administrator; or (2) prior affirmative agreement for the modification at (a) AE or (b) AN or (c) ARCA (see "Important notes"). Administrators modifying sanctions out of process may at the discretion of the committee be desysopped."

That character does not display properly on my browser, it shows up as three empty boxes and skews the text beneath it, probably because it's a unicode character my browser doesn't have fonts loaded for. I was not certain whether or not the character was some sort of embedded cross scripting glyph or page attack, so I removed it. KindHorta (talk) 21:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why didn't you do that in any of your other discussions with YFNS? voorts (talk/contributions) 21:40, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed it previously before on my IP address account. It depends on what text is around it, but it's distracting. KindHorta (talk) 21:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have to dig around to find the diffs, but I have removed this character three times previously on other edits. At first I thought it might be a cross scripting attack to gain access to my browser, but I was not certain. KindHorta (talk) 21:47, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I went and looked up the character on the unicode tables from the text embedded in the page and it's some kind of weird symbol that looks a lot like a some sort of transistor symbol. It also sort of resembles a stick figure with two horns on the top of it's head. Not certain what it is but It's distracting on my page, can I please remove this character from my page? Thanks. KindHorta (talk) 21:53, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Voorts For the record, he did.[1] But I don't buy that he's removing the trans symbol because it doesn't display, but is for some reason fine with the other unicode character in my signature.

I also meant to say, I'd recommend a PBAN on Crackhead Barney because they've been editing it for a year, done nothing but add BLPVios (some so bad they needed oversighting), and pledged to keep editing. Also, a one way IBAN per the WP:HOUNDING - he'd never edited trans topics before until coming to my latest article to argue against it after transphobic comments about Crackhead Barney. Him staying away from trans healthcare misinfo is only half addressing the problem, which is him following my edits. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 21:53, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's uneccesary, I don't plan to edit crackhead barney in the future as this is an article about a transexual person. KindHorta (talk) 21:55, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or actually think she's trans - where are you getting that from? Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 22:05, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

She discusses her sexuality at length in several of her interviews. She claims to be a transgender woman who identifies as male who is also a lesbian. She uses both word in the same interview, i.e. "transexual" and "lesbian". KindHorta (talk) 22:09, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I reset my browser to support UTF-8 as the default, and I can see the symbol now, but it's too large in comparison to the other fonts. I do a lot of development on GTK3 programs and had been using several custom fonts in my browser. Not certain about this one though. KindHorta (talk) 22:05, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since I am working on a GTK3 project with chrome, I have reverted my browser back to the custom fonts for my other projects and the symbol is back to three boxes. This is apparently a recent addition to unicode which explains why my older custom fonts don't render it. I have several other languages I speak besides english and one of these projects uses custom font's to support the project I am working on which uses a machine translator to detect and render text into another language. At any rate, why I am nor allowed to police my own talk page and remove strange characters that interfere with the display attributes on my page? KindHorta (talk) 22:18, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please answer my question voorts, why am I not allowed to remove garbage characters from my own talk page? Don't you think that this is a bit extreme? KindHorta (talk) 22:35, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]