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    User:Jonadabsmith engaging in harassment?

    Jonadabsmith was blocked for SOCKing; articles have both been deleted via AfD here and here. Should have been closed ages ago. Jytdog (talk) 19:49, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

    I am rather concerned about this comment by Jonadabsmith. I quote: "Dr Harry Potts, what time would you like us to call round your office on campus for a meeting to discuss your personal attacks on students you are meant to encourage to embrace new political ideas and not silence?". Cordless Larry (talk) 20:58, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    That Dr. is the real name of User:Bondegezou, a fact which if not immediately shown on his User page is easily accessed via external link. I'm not sure how that fits into any "outing" calculation. More broadly, Jonadabsmith is unhappy about a couple of AfDs, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luke Nash-Jones and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London Students for Britain, and his comments at the AfDs and on the article Talk pages would appear to exceed the usual boundaries of WP:NPA and WP:AGF among others. JohnInDC (talk) 21:19, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't think it counts as outing, given that Bondegezou has linked to his work profile from his user page. I was more concerned about Jonadabsmith's suggestion that he wants to pay him a visit at work. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:23, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I think that's right. But addressing a person by his / her real (and full!) name rather than his User name adds, IMHO, a bit more menace to the comment. I don't know what kind of an actual threat it amounts to but it certainly seems designed to intimidate. JohnInDC (talk) 21:26, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I think the assessment here is correct, but agree it is very problematic behavior. Does seem menacing. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 21:45, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I concur; it's hardly friendly, even if it's not a threat, per se. GABHello! 21:50, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    If Bondegezou places his name and place of work on his profile, he is hardly seeking to hide such, and it is hardly unreasonable for a student of a university to ask to visit a known professor at the same establishment to resolve some difference. I stress, that there was merely a request to visit, not an actual visit. Your implication that such would involve harassment is ridiculous. A friendly chat over a cup of tea is likely to be far more productive than people playing keyboard warriors while shouting acronyms as if they are the Supreme Court. User: Jonadabsmith —Preceding undated comment added 21:29, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Jonadabsmith, regardless of the outcome of this discussion, no amount of chatting with Bondegezou is likely to change the outcome of the AfDs. Deletion is not in the gift of Bondegezou and the decision will be taken by consensus. What you need to do is establish the notability of the subjects, not attack other editors for supposedly being biased. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:33, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Cordless Larry what would you like me to do to improve the notability of the subjects? More newspaper references? Jonadabsmith

    Please see the pages WP:Golden rule and WP:RELIABLE, Jonadabsmith. Those will help you understand what is required. In-depth national newspaper coverage of the subjects would help, yes. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:39, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Jonadabsmith would also do well to read the second and fifth bullet points of Wikipedia:No personal attacks#What is considered to be a personal attack? -- as others have hinted above, he or she seems to be breaching this policy. MPS1992 (talk) 22:19, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    There is currently an SPI open on this. GABHello! 00:16, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment Their constant bringing-up of Bodegezou's political leanings, which they make clear, in the AFD as if it invalidates the fact that most of the sources are from non reliable sources is a clear sign of trying to muddy the AFD. This is unacceptable. Blackmane (talk) 00:31, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    This isn't even remotely ambiguous. The comment in question includes clear personal attacks, an inability to argue the content issue in question without going after the character of another editor, and a threat to extend harassment over this editing issue into the off-project work environment of a contributor. It's quite probable that the SPI will turn something up on this SPA, but regardless, the evidence for WP:NOTHERE seems pretty absolute. Someone should simply take this directly to an admin. Or we can always make a proposal right here. I know what my !vote will be. Snow let's rap 05:49, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @Snow Rise: Yes, all the socks are confirmed to one another and possible to the master. GABHello! 23:01, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't think that outcome comes as a shock to anyone. I am a little surprised that Bbb23 decided only to block the sock accounts and left it to another admin to decide whether to also block the likely master--but hopefully another admin will be along shortly to attend to that. It seems a pretty open and shut case of disruption and WP:NOTHERE, so the only thing I feel needs to be reiterated at this point is that Jonadabsmith can/should be blocked for the socking or for the blatant harassment/threats--and hopefully the block length will reflect the aggregate circumstances of the disruption. Personally, I'd fully support an indef in this instance, given this is clearly an SPA here to further a specific agenda--even if it means disrupting process through puppetry (generally grounds for an indef in its own right), to say nothing of threatening the off-wiki professional interests/personal well-being of a contributor. Snow let's rap 23:24, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree. At the very least, they should be blocked for the duration of the AFD, as suggested. GABHello! 23:34, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    User:Bondegezou, I'll pop over from the IHR if you need someone to watch your back mate. Bloomin' undergrads 11:36, 6 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.139.189 (talk) 11:36, 6 March 2016 (UTC)‎[reply]
    Thanks to everyone for bringing this to ANI. It did feel quite WP:HArass-y. I also note the following behaviour:

    Jonadabsmith hasn't edited since Friday night, although there's been weird stuff on both articles since: [6], [7]. The two AfDs are still open, but given that only Jonadabsmith + puppets have voted to keep and numerous editors have voted for delete, I think they are both WP:SNOWable at this point!

    It would be nice to close this issue with some administrator action one way or the other. The final SPI decision is still hanging and I hope the additional issues described above are taken into account as well. Bondegezou (talk) 10:39, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposal: Topic Ban

    A checkuser has found that Jonadabsmith is at least possibly the master behind a number of related socks reinforcing his perspectives on the articles detailed above. Looking at the greater context and considering the evidence provided by numerous editors both at the SPI and here, I'm going to say that my own assessment is that it is in fact highly probable that these accounts are either Jonadabsmith's socks or, at the very least, meat puppets. I'd encourage anyone voting on the proposal to, of course, review the SPI and the above discussion before coming to their own conclusions as to the relationship between the accounts, but what is not in question is that this user has steadfastly refused to engage in WP:AGF, making liberal use of ad hominem attacks on other users.

    Most concerning of all, this user has recently threatened to stop by the workplace of another contributor. Jonadabsmith would have us believe that "for all we know" he was just proposing to have a "cup of tea" and discuss the issues but A) looking at the wording of the comment and the disruptive/argumentative context in which it was made, I think we can all see the intent and motivation here was a clear attempt to chill the efforts of another editor through a threat to harass him at work and, B) even if we were to believe that the suggestion of coming into said user's workspace was for the purpose of civil discussion about how his edits on Wikipedia reflect on his concern for his students and his personal politics, it would still be an entirely inappropriate thing to do, or threaten to do.

    This behaviour is absolutely unacceptable. Personally I still feel it would be appropriate for any admin looking into this matter to impose an indefinite block for the fairly obvious sock-/meat-puppetry. Failing that, I'm proposing a community resolution to remove this editor from the topic areas which they are proven they cannot be involved in without disruption of the worst sort (threats to the off-project security and well being of our contributors who chose to reveal their actual names on-project, amongst other issues). Specifically my recommendation is that this user be topic banned from contributing to all areas relating to British student organizations, the Brexit or Britain's relationship to the European Union in general, all broadly construed. Snow let's rap 04:09, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • Support as nom. Snow let's rap 04:09, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Support topic ban from all areas relating to British student organizations, the Brexit or Britain's relationship to the European Union in general, all broadly construed. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 06:17, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Support. This is probably the least that should be done in this case, and a site ban is actually the preferred choice of experienced editors at this point. BTW here is the SPI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jonadabsmith. -- Softlavender (talk) 08:07, 9 March 2016 (UTC); edited 03:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Siteban (first choice) or topic ban as proposed. A clear case of someone who is trying to use Wikipedia to further an agenda. Guy (Help!) 11:34, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment I don't know that I should have a !vote as the injured party, so to speak, but if this account is not simply indef blocked, might I suggest a site ban until end of June 2016, i.e. a week after the referendum? Bondegezou (talk) 14:50, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Bondegezou, you are most definitely allowed to !vote. A site ban is considered permanent, so there are no short-term "site bans"; perhaps you meant a temporary block (which would also cover socking or block evasion). Softlavender (talk) 03:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    A clarification. Ostensibly, there are bans that are stated to last for a year, numerous Arbcom bans have been handed out in the past where editors were site banned for a a year. Obviously we all know that site bans are rarely fixed term and those site banned are even more rarely allowed to return. Blackmane (talk) 14:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Further issues

    All socks (including the two new ones) and the master account have been indef banned. The two original articles have been deleted, although a clone article was created by one of the socks and is up for speedy deletion. There's some odd IP editing going on on related topics; don't know how that fits in. If people could keep an eye out for any new socks or inappropriate IP editing, that would be helpful. Thanks. Bondegezou (talk) 18:53, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, there seems to be some hostility between rival anti-EU groups, which has spilled over on to Wikipedia. Jonadabsmith made this edit to Students for Britain and now we have IP edits such as this. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:51, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Universities for Britain speedily deleted. Bondegezou (talk) 10:03, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    User:ApprenticeFan (me) about edits in The Amazing Race

    I was so embarrassed on my contributing edits in The Amazing Race (season number) articles. Me and Masem (talk · contribs) are a frequent contributors for the show franchise that we did make shortening summary articles. I made my first edit back in April 2005 in The Amazing Race 7 and became very common ever since. The big problem is I did not give any comments without any explanations of how I cleaned up sentences to meet with the standards of WP:PLOT policy.

    Articles have been reported:

    My edits on those two articles didn't do a disruptive editing that is having a common on a good Wiki editor. At first, ESAD-Hooker (talk · contribs) became a new "Ryulong" of the Wikipedia-edit race for race/leg summary. Well, I didn't vandalize all of The Amazing Race pages since my account's creation in 2005 and this did not have previous blocks from editing. I may going to be a proper Wiki editor that meets the right standards to be understood. ApprenticeFan work 04:10, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • Soooooo..... this isn't anything that needs admin intervention and should therefore be closed as such ? ....., Your edits look fine so I don't get what the problem is ? .... –Davey2010Talk 04:31, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Davey2010: These both articles were reverted by Sportsfan 1234, the problems are less awkward grammar, cohesion and tone. That would make sure to prove better sentences. ApprenticeFan work 04:35, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh right sorry, So have you tried talking to the editors on the respective talkpages?, BTW you need to provide diffs of the issue aswell otherwise your complaint won't get far, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 04:39, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah. I checked one on The Amazing Race 27 talk page and there's an analysis of these reports were made by ESAD-Hooker itself, Masem, and etc. ApprenticeFan work 07:46, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    This looks to be largely a content dispute. WP:DRN may be a better place to discuss this. Blackmane (talk) 13:31, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Back again. I did make a file at WP:DRN and this was a premature case. ApprenticeFan work 02:41, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    My observation was, on 14 February 2016‎, in less than 1 hour, ApprenticeFan removed over 3,000 bytes. I don't think an article can be pruned with detail in that amount of time. The results of that pruning substantiates my observation ESAD-Hooker (talk) 18:33, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Your post at DRN was removed because you hadn't fufilled the base requirements: Where was there previous discussion on the Article Talk Page or User Pages? Based on the fact that this is a perenial problem, perhaps opening an RFC to establish consensus at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/The Amazing Race task force (or WikiProject Television in the context of many reality TV series) would be a good idea. Hasteur (talk) 22:55, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, there is a discussion on Talk:The Amazing Race 25#New TAR Clue Format and Summaries which the now-banned Ryulong made an idea to clean up the race summary, merging with Route Info, Detour, Roadblock or Route Info, Roadblock, Detour through a leg summary in order. ApprenticeFan work 06:48, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    A discussion from 2014 does not constitute The dispute must have been recently discussed extensively on a talk page (not just through edit summaries) to be eligible for help at DRN. and as such the request was dismissed. Please stop slinging mud regarding banned users due to the fact that it only undermines your position. Hasteur (talk) 12:43, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Apparently, I added Sportsfan 1234 in the list above, and look at those edits that I made with shortened sentences:

    Before
    Leg 1 (United States → Brazil)
    The Detour in Rio de Janeiro had teams take part in beach-related tasks on the famous Copacabana Beach.

    Airdate: September 25, 2015[1]

    At the start of The Amazing Race 27, in public view in Venice Beach, California, Phil Keoghan told the eleven teams where they would travel first: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their first task was to take a taxi to Mother's Beach in Marina del Rey and grab a Schiller water-bike. Then, they would drive it to Burton Chace Park. The first team to complete this task would receive the only tickets on the first flight while all the other teams would be on the second flight, departing half an hour later.

    Upon arriving in Rio de Janeiro, teams had to travel to Lagoa Heliport to get either a Route Info or a Fast Forward clue. For the Fast Forward, teams made their way to Clube São Conrado Free Flight where they had to ride a hang glider from Pedra Bonita and soar above the city. The teams who did not go for the Fast Forward had to pick a number and take a helicopter past Christ the Redeemer on the way to Urca Hill. Once landed, the helicopter manager would ask the teams, "What's the name of the monument you passed during the flight?" If teams gave the right answer, which was Christ the Redeemer, they would receive their next clue.

    The clue was a Detour, and the teams choose between Sand or Sidewalk. Both Detours had teams travel to Copacabana Beach where they changed into swimsuits. In Sand, teams had to play footvolley against local professional players. While the pros could not use their hands, the teams could. If teams can score six points before the pros scored eighteen, they will receive their next clue. In Sidewalk, teams had to do a giant geometric slide puzzle derived from the famous Copacabana pavement (a Portuguese pavement). Once teams completed the puzzle, they would receive their next clue. Both clues then directed teams to Arpoador Lookout for the Pit Stop.

    Leg 2 (Brazil → Argentina)
    Upon arriving in Buenos Aires, teams visited the room where the famous Argentine, Pope Francis, was baptized inside Basílica María Auxiliadora y San Carlos.

    Airdate: October 2, 2015[2]

    At the start of the leg, teams were told to fly to Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina. Upon arrival in Buenos Aires, teams had to locate the church where Pope Francis was baptized, leaving them to figure out that this refers to Basílica María Auxiliadora y San Carlos. Once at the church, teams had to pick a number in the order in which they arrived. The following morning, teams went inside the church, one at a time, to find the altar room, where the priest would give them their next clue.

    The clue was for the Detour, giving teams the choice of Cartoneros or Fletero. In Cartoneros, teams traveled to the Villa Crespo neighborhood at the intersection of Uriarte, Fray Justo Santa Maria and El Salvador Streets, where they had to pick up a cart, collect cardboard from recyclable bins, and transport it to a truck to be weighed. Once the cardboard reached a total weight of at least 100 kilograms (220 lb), the garbage worker would give them their next clue. However, there were only 8 carts available at a time. In Fletero, teams traveled to Plaza Dorrego and made their way to a Gabriel del Campo Antique Shop to pick up a statue, in pieces, and bring it to a truck. One team member would sit in the front and give the driver directions, while the other would hold the statue pieces in the back until reaching their next destination, the gazebo at Plaza Intendente Sebeer. Once they arrive at the park, they must bring all of the statue pieces, re-assemble them properly, and show the park director. If it's correct, they would get their next clue.

    The clues instructed teams to travel to Calle Bartolomé Mitre to search for their next clue, the Roadblock, asking "Who wants to go sideways?" One team member had to learn a tango routine with a twist, for the second half of the dance they were harnessed and had to finish the steps on the wall of a stage. Once they performed the entire routine correctly, they would receive their next clue, directing them to "The Cathedral of Polo", referring to Campo Argentino de Polo, for the Pit Stop.

    Leg 3 (Argentina)
    For the Roadblock in the Pampas region, team members had to properly hang a set of lamb and beef to make asado, an Argentine national dish.

    Airdate: October 9, 2015[3]

    Teams headed to San Antonio de Areco in the Pampas region and choose a pickup truck to proceed to their next destination, La Porteña. The Roadblock clue that one team member had to hang two racks of lamb and one rack of beef ribs to cook an asado. Once all meats were secured and skewered in the right direction, they received their next clue. Teams had to bring a roasted lamb and deliver to Plaza Principal to the judges for their Detour clue. In Horse, teams had to pick a polo mallet and change into polo gear. Then, they walk to a nearby riverside for a fake horse involved to navigate using a tack, then they had to push properly back to a Plaza. In Carriage, teams had to pick a buggy whip, travel by foot to La Cinacina Estancia, changed into Gaucho clothing, clean a carriage and then push it to a team of waiting horses. Once the horses were harnessed on a buggy, they rode back to the Plaza. At the end of both Detours, teams presented either the fake horse or whip to the judges and receive their next clue, instructing them to travel by foot to the Pit Stop at Parque Criollo y Museo Gauchesco Ricardo Güiraldes.

    Leg 4 (Argentina → Zambia → Zimbabwe)
    While in Zambia, teams visited Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world, which is also one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

    Airdate: October 16, 2015[4]

    Teams traveled to Livingstone, Zambia, with an advise to task their flight tickets to Johannesburg and given two separate flights to Zambia. Upon arrival, they traveled to Mukini Village to take part in a traditional welcome ceremony involving them to spit water from a blessing to be received their clue, heading to Batoka Aerodrome for a Roadblock. The team member had to choose a microlight plane fly above Victoria Falls to locate the Route Marker right below Knife's Edge bridge. Once landed, they reunited with their partner and traveled to that bridge to walk across for their next clue, sending them to Shoestrings Backpackers Lodge to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe to claim one of three departure times for the next day.

    On departure, teams received their Detour clue. In Co-Op, teams made their way to The Big Five Co-Op and had to stain and polish a carved wooden giraffe. When it was properly painted and dried, a woodcarver would give them their next clue. In Croquet, teams made their way to Victoria Falls Hotel and had to play croquet, scoring five points against professional players to receive their next clue, directed them to Rose of Charity Orphanage for the Pit Stop. Before checking in, teams were asked to donate their money to the orphanage, and were informed that the next leg was to begin immediately.

    Leg 5 (Zimbabwe)
    This leg of the race featured the first challenge of Season 1 where they had to swing across Batoka Gorge.

    Airdate: October 23, 2015[5]

    Teams traveled to the Lookout Cafe for the Roadblock. The team member participated in the very first task from Season 1, which they had to strap on a harness and free fall 200 feet (61 m) into the Batoka Gorge and swing above the Zambezi River. Once they returned to the top, they would get their Detour clue. In Crocs, where teams changed into wetsuits and submerged in a metal cage to feed meat to three Nile crocodiles using poles. Once the meat was fed, they received their next clue. In Canoes, teams had to get an inflatable canoe and paddle together across the river. Once they arrived at the riverbank, the member had to hoist their partner up a tree to retrieve the clue from a vulture's nest, and had to paddle back across the river.

    Teams traveled to The Lion Encounter where they walk through the bush accompanied by safari instructors and two lions to find their next clue in a skull, with two teams were permitted at a time, directed them to walk to Masuwe Private Game Reserve to receive a large cloth and wore around their heads. Each they had to get a basket of fruit at Masuwe Lodge to carry on their heads and continue walking carefully to the Pit Stop.

    Leg 6 (Zimbabwe → France)
    The world's famous Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which is also the second Pit Stop in the first season, served as the Pit Stop for this leg of the Race.

    Airdate: October 30, 2015[6]

    Teams started the leg to receive the Roadblock clue, one team member had to strap on a harness and bungee jump 364 feet (111 m) below Victoria Falls Bridge. Once returned to the top, they had to write their heart rate from a Fitbit fitness watch where they advise to track this information to be used for the upcoming challenge. They received their clue and headed to Paris, France. Upon arrival, they traveled by train to La Ferté-Alais to find Aérodrome Musée Volant Salis for the second Roadblock, the other team member must fly in a vintage Boeing PT-17 biplane over the French countryside to spot three words from the French Revolution motto seen from the ground: liberté, égalité, fraternité. Once recite them, a pilot would give them their next clue, sending them to travel Square Louise-Michel around Sacré-Cœur Basilica for Le Fantôme Blanc who would hand the Detour clue.

    One selection is Drops Mic, teams had to head to Quai de la Tournelle and perform a rap song by rapper Passi in Standard French. If their French pronunciation, rhythm and vibes were correct, Passi would give them their next clue. The other is Bust a Crab, teams had to travel to La Coupole Restaurant to work the Royal Platter, a signature crab dish to shuck and crack crabs properly with the chef's standards. At the end of both Detours, teams received a post card depicting a bridge, which was given to their next location, Pont Alexandre III to find their next clue, sending them to the Pit Stop "across from the iconic monument where the first team will triumph", referring to Place Charles de Gaulle, overlooking Arc de Triomphe, Phil informed them to start the next leg began immediately.

    Leg 7 (France → The Netherlands)
    The windmills around Kinderdijk are the site of this leg's Roadblock, where they had to search for a duplicate of the famous Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting.

    Airdate: November 6, 2015[7]

    Teams traveled to Rotterdam, Netherlands, in addition, they received a picture of a ship to figure out their next location was Vessel 11 to pick departure times within 15-minutes intervals for the next day. On departure, teams traveled to Kop van Zuid and had to embark the windmills in Kinderdijk for the Roadblock. One team member to find an exact duplicate of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers around nearby windmills. Once they found the correct duplicate, a miller would give them their next clue, instructed to use a Fitbit health card to record their highest heart rate from the previous leg and this heart rate from this task to subtract the difference. The solution would equal the number of tulips to pick up and deliver to the Spakenburgermeisje for their next clue.

    Teams headed to Nolet Distillery to face the Detour which they rode by tram into a specific location. In Ship, teams made their way to Millennium Tower using a training simulator to navigate a simulation of Rotterdam Harbour in stormy weather to take on a two-part mission. First, they deliver a pilot to a ship, next they went to the aid of a ship in distress. If successfully completed the mission, the captain would give their next clue. However, if they failed the mission and must try again. In Skip, teams traveled to Leuvehoofd Park and to complete a Double Dutch clapping routine on a jump rope for 45 seconds to receive their next clue, instructed them to The Hague and ride a tram to the Pit Stop at the Peace Palace.

    Leg 8 (The Netherlands → Poland)
    In Kraków, teams visited the infamous Oskar Schindler Factory to commemorate the lives of Jews killed in World War II.

    Airdate: November 13, 2015[8]

    Teams traveled to Kraków, Poland where they provide a smartphone to use the Travelocity app to book tickets. They traveled to Plaża Kraków, a hotel boat on Vistula River and the team member swam down for a clue into the pool. One Detour selection is Mine and teams head to Wieliczka Salt Mine to descend 1,000 feet (300 m) into the salt mine. Then, they had to carry a large timber support beam into a loading area, filling a mine cart with salt and pushed it back through the tunnel to a miner. The other Detour choice is Music and teams headed to the Main Square to choose a professional pianist, learn a musical piece and roll the piano through the streets to a performance area. Then, they had to perform a duet with a violinist in order to attract donations that enough to earn 100 zł (approximately US$25), they would receive their next clue.

    Teams arrived at Oskar Schindler Factory to the lives of Jewish people were saved during Kraków Ghetto. They gave a tour to commemorate the lives of Polish Jews, passed through Schindler's office to look 1,200 names inside the memorial room. Once they ended the tour, they received their clue to Kazimierz for a Roadblock. One team member had to identify seven traditional Jewish dishes from a writing list in the correct order, and then deliver them on a tray to a nearby restaurant, Klezmer-Hois. Once all of these dishes were correct, the restaurant owner would give them their next clue, directing them to the Pit Stop inside the restaurant.

    Leg 9 (Poland → India)
    Mehtab Bagh in Agra, overlooking the famous Taj Mahal, which is also one of the seven wonders of the world, served as the Pit Stop for this leg of the Race.

    Airdate: November 20, 2015[9]

    Teams headed to Agra, India, first they needed to travel by plane to Delhi. In Agra, they traveled to Hathi Ghat on a beach, the Roadblock where one team member had to transport a bundle of saris down to the banks of Yamuna River to shown how to tie for a traditional Indian washing to all of which saris are tied correctly, they had to wash them in a basin, transport across to beach to lay out for a dry. The Speed Bump required both team members must perform this task. Next, they went to Hanuman Temple in Johri Bazaar to receive a traditional Indian blessing for a Detour. In Cans, teams had to load and secure 120 metal cooking oil cans onto a flatbed bicycle through the crowded streets to deliver them to New Taj Oil Company. Once they were unloaded, they received their next clue. In Candy, teams had to cut small pieces from winter melons to make petha. Once the pieces weighed in at 1 maund (90 lb), and deliver the already packed petha to Pancchi Petha Candy Store to receive their next clue. Teams instructed to travel to Bijli Ghar Chauraha Roundabout for their next clue, directed the teams to travel to "Moonlight Garden", known locally as Mehtab Bagh, across the river from the famous Taj Mahal, and search the grounds for the Pit Stop.

    Leg 10 (India)
    This leg of the race paid tribute to the tradition of Indian Hindu wedding rituals, including Baraat.

    Airdate: November 27, 2015[10]

    • Agra (Kachora Bazaar) Roadblock: "Who's full of hot air?"
    • Agra (Shri Raj Complex – Goyal Book Store) U-Turn: Justin & Diana U-Turned Logan & Chris
    • Detour: Bring the Groom or Bring the Fun Shamsabad, Agra (Shri Ram Complex)
    • Shamsabad, Agra (Shri Ramchandra Farm House) Pit Stop: Leg 10

    The leg teams heading to Kachora Bazaar for a Roadblock. One team member had to use a pump to inflate enough balloons to fill a net attached at the back of a bicycle. Once the net was full, they rode across Yamuna bridge to deliver the balloons to a wedding planner on the other side for the next clue, instructing teams to head to Goyal Book Store. From there, they faced with the Detour. In Bring the Groom, teams had to hand-crank a portable generator until it produced enough power to light up a cumbersome candelabrum. Then they had to join a Baraat procession through the streets, the team member carrying the candelabrum while the other carried the generator, to escort a groom to his wedding party at Shri Ram Complex. Once the groom was delivered to his bride, they received their next clue. In Bring the Fun, teams had to push a mobile amusement swing through the crowded streets to deliver it to the outside playground at the same wedding party, then give eight children a ride in it to receive their next clue, instructed them to a Pit Stop inside the Shri Ramchandra Farm House.

    Leg 11 (India → Hong Kong, China → Macau, China)
    The Roadblock for this leg need teams to go to the Dancing Water Theatre inside City of Dreams in Macau where they took part in a performance of The House of Dancing Water.

    Airdate: December 4, 2015[11]

    Teams headed to Hong Kong. Upon arrival, they search a waiting Rolls-Royce at the airport to escort them to The Peninsula Hong Kong to their Detour. In Sam's, teams traveled to Sam's Tailor to pick up measurements for a suit jacket to a nearby Sam's Workshop, to properly cut out six template pieces of a matching design. They then had to deliver a finished suit to receive their next clue. In Cells, teams had to find to a marked store on Apliu Street, search boxes of used cell phones which one is turned on and dial a phone number displayed on the phone, the message would instruct them to an address on Kweilin Street to find their next clue.

    Teams traveled to Macau by ferry, and make their way to the Dancing Water Theatre inside City of Dreams for a Roadblock. One team member must apply a makeup and change a costume, had to take part in a performance of The House of Dancing Water. After diving over 30 feet (9.1 m) from the central mast-shaped platform into the surrounding pool, search a golden fish under the water and swim across to a fisherman on a raft. If they didn't complete before stopped the music and wait twenty minutes for the next performance to start over. That team member received their clue instructed to Centro Náutico da Praia Grande at the side of the Nam Van Lake and search for the Pit Stop.

    Leg 12 (Macau, China → United States)
    The final Roadblock of The Amazing Race 27 paid tribute to the NYC Fire Department by having teams take part in a firefighter training exercise.

    Airdate: December 11, 2015[12]

    Teams headed to New York City, the final destination city and made their way to NYC Fire Department Training Facility at Randall's Island for the final Roadblock. One team member had to don a firefighter's uniform to take part for a stunt training exercise. After climbing a ladder to an open window of a burning building, search inside for a dummy representing a victim. Once they exited the building with the dummy, they had to place it onto a waiting stretcher. The second part of the Roadblock was a memory task, they had to arrange firefighters' hats labeled with the capital cities of the countries visited during the Race in chronological order:

    Country Capital
    Brazil Brazil Brasília
    Argentina Argentina Buenos Aires
    Zambia Zambia Lusaka
    Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Harare
    France France Paris
    Netherlands The Netherlands Amsterdam
    Poland Poland Warsaw
    India India New Delhi
    China China Beijing

    Once all the hats were placed in the correct order, a firefighter would give them their next clue.

    Teams traveled to Belmont Park in Long Island and take a helicopter ride to Southampton. From there, they searched for their next clue to travel on foot nearly a mile to Shinnecock East County Park where had to ride a jet ski to a lobster boat, pull seven lobster traps from the water, empty them, and replace them with new traps. Once completed, they received a box containing the flags from the countries visited and tie them on a mast in order. Once they got the right order, a fisherman would give them their next clue, instructing them to swim to shore, and had to drive dune buggies down the beach for the third memory challenge. They had to assemble six Adirondack chairs things encountered during the Race must arrange them in chronological order. If the chairs were in the correct order (the water bike, the Argentine tango, an African lion, a Dutch windmill, India's Taj Mahal, and Hong Kong's Rolls Royce), the carpenter would get their final clue, directing them to travel on foot to the estate at 1620 Meadow Lane for the Finish Line.

    After
    Leg 1 (United States → Brazil)
    The Detour in Rio de Janeiro had teams take part in beach-related tasks on the famous Copacabana Beach.

    Airdate: September 25, 2015[14]

    The race started in Venice Beach, Phil Keoghan told the teams to travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. First, take them to Mother's Beach to ride Schiller water-bike and end in Burton Chace Park, the first team to finish would get the first flight and the rest on the second. In Rio, teams had to travel to Lagoa Heliport and picked a number to ride a helicopter past around Christ the Redeemer to Urca Hill. Once landed, a helicopter pilot asked, "What's the name of the monument you passed during the flight?". If they say "Christ the Redeemer", they received their next clue. The Fast Forward where teams had to travel to Clube São Conrado Free Flight and had to ride a hang glider from Pedra Bonita high above the city.

    Teams faced the Detour and had to travel to Copacabana Beach, either option is to require to wear swimwear. In Sand, teams played footvolley against local professional players that could not user their hands, only teams could. The team gave a score of six points against the pros scored eighteen, they will receive their next clue. In Sidewalk, teams take part for a huge geometric slide puzzle from a famous Copacabana pavement (a Portuguese pavement). Once completed the puzzle, they would receive their next clue. Both clues then directed teams to Arpoador Lookout for the Pit Stop.

    Leg 2 (Brazil → Argentina)
    Upon arriving in Buenos Aires, teams visited the room where the famous Argentine, Pope Francis, was baptized inside Basílica María Auxiliadora y San Carlos.

    Airdate: October 2, 2015[15]

    Teams traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina to the church where Pope Francis was baptized, leaving them to figure out was Basílica María Auxiliadora y San Carlos to pick one of three departure times the following morning. On their designated times, they find the altar room inside the church to look a priest to give them their Detour clue. In Cartoneros, teams teams traveled to the streets of Buenos Aires, had to pick up a cart, cardboard from recyclable bins, and transport to a truck to be weighed at least 100 kilograms (220 lb), the garbage worker received their next clue. However, there were only 8 carts available at a time. In Fletero, teams pick up a pieces of statue, and bring it to a truck. One team member sit in the front of the truck to give directions, the other hold the pieces to the Gazebo and must bring all of the statue pieces to re-assemble properly to the park director. If its correct, they would receive their next clue. From the Detour, teams instructed to head to Calle Bartolomé Mitre for a Roadblock. One team member had to learn a tango upside down, the second part had to harnessed and finish the steps from a stage. Once they performed the entire routine correctly, they would receive their next clue to the Pit Stop known as "The Cathedral of Polo", referring to Campo Argentino de Polo.

    Leg 3 (Argentina)
    For the Roadblock in the Pampas region, team members had to properly hang a set of lamb and beef to make asado, an Argentine national dish.

    Airdate: October 9, 2015[16]

    Teams headed to San Antonio de Areco in the Pampas region and choose a pickup truck to proceed to their next destination, La Porteña. The Roadblock clue that one team member had to hang two racks of lamb and one rack of beef ribs to cook an asado. Once all meats were secured and skewered in the right direction, they received their next clue. Teams had to bring a roasted lamb and deliver to Plaza Principal to the judges for their Detour clue. In Horse, teams had to pick a polo mallet and change into polo gear. Then, they walk to a nearby riverside for a fake horse involved to navigate using a tack, then they had to push properly back to a Plaza. In Carriage, teams had to pick a buggy whip, travel by foot to La Cinacina Estancia, changed into Gaucho clothing, clean a carriage and then push it to a team of waiting horses. Once the horses were harnessed on a buggy, they rode back to the Plaza. At the end of both Detours, teams presented either the fake horse or whip to the judges and receive their next clue, instructing them to travel by foot to the Pit Stop at Parque Criollo y Museo Gauchesco Ricardo Güiraldes.

    Leg 4 (Argentina → Zambia → Zimbabwe)
    While in Zambia, teams visited Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world, which is also one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

    Airdate: October 16, 2015[17]

    Teams traveled to Livingstone, Zambia, with an advise to task their flight tickets to Johannesburg and given two separate flights to Zambia. Upon arrival, they traveled to Mukini Village to take part in a traditional welcome ceremony involving them to spit water from a blessing to be received their clue, heading to Batoka Aerodrome for a Roadblock. The team member had to choose a microlight plane fly above Victoria Falls to locate the Route Marker right below Knife's Edge bridge. Once landed, they reunited with their partner and traveled to that bridge to walk across for their next clue, sending them to Shoestrings Backpackers Lodge to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe to claim one of three departure times for the next day.

    On departure, teams received their Detour clue. In Co-Op, teams made their way to The Big Five Co-Op and had to stain and polish a carved wooden giraffe. When it was properly painted and dried, a woodcarver would give them their next clue. In Croquet, teams made their way to Victoria Falls Hotel and had to play croquet, scoring five points against professional players to receive their next clue, directed them to Rose of Charity Orphanage for the Pit Stop. Before checking in, teams were asked to donate their money to the orphanage, and were informed that the next leg was to begin immediately.

    Leg 5 (Zimbabwe)
    This leg of the race featured the first challenge of Season 1 where they had to swing across Batoka Gorge.

    Airdate: October 23, 2015[18]

    Teams traveled to the Lookout Cafe for the Roadblock. The team member participated in the very first task from Season 1, which they had to strap on a harness and free fall 200 feet (61 m) into the Batoka Gorge and swing above the Zambezi River. Once they returned to the top, they would get their Detour clue. In Crocs, where teams changed into wetsuits and submerged in a metal cage to feed meat to three Nile crocodiles using poles. Once the meat was fed, they received their next clue. In Canoes, teams had to get an inflatable canoe and paddle together across the river. Once they arrived at the riverbank, the member had to hoist their partner up a tree to retrieve the clue from a vulture's nest, and had to paddle back across the river.

    Teams traveled to The Lion Encounter where they walk through the bush accompanied by safari instructors and two lions to find their next clue in a skull, with two teams were permitted at a time, directed them to walk to Masuwe Private Game Reserve to receive a large cloth and wore around their heads. Each they had to get a basket of fruit at Masuwe Lodge to carry on their heads and continue walking carefully to the Pit Stop.

    Leg 6 (Zimbabwe → France)
    The world's famous Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which is also the second Pit Stop in the first season, served as the Pit Stop for this leg of the Race.

    Airdate: October 30, 2015[19]

    Teams started the leg to receive the Roadblock clue, one team member had to strap on a harness and bungee jump 364 feet (111 m) below Victoria Falls Bridge. Once returned to the top, they had to write their heart rate from a Fitbit fitness watch where they advise to track this information to be used for the upcoming challenge. They received their clue and headed to Paris, France. Upon arrival, they traveled by train to La Ferté-Alais to find Aérodrome Musée Volant Salis for the second Roadblock, the other team member must fly in a vintage Boeing PT-17 biplane over the French countryside to spot three words from the French Revolution motto seen from the ground: liberté, égalité, fraternité. Once recite them, a pilot would give them their next clue, sending them to travel Square Louise-Michel around Sacré-Cœur Basilica for Le Fantôme Blanc who would hand the Detour clue.

    One selection is Drops Mic, teams had to head to Quai de la Tournelle and perform a rap song by rapper Passi in Standard French. If their French pronunciation, rhythm and vibes were correct, Passi would give them their next clue. The other is Bust a Crab, teams had to travel to La Coupole Restaurant to work the Royal Platter, a signature crab dish to shuck and crack crabs properly with the chef's standards. At the end of both Detours, teams received a post card depicting a bridge, which was given to their next location, Pont Alexandre III to find their next clue, sending them to the Pit Stop "across from the iconic monument where the first team will triumph", referring to Place Charles de Gaulle, overlooking Arc de Triomphe, Phil informed them to start the next leg began immediately.

    Leg 7 (France → The Netherlands)
    The windmills around Kinderdijk are the site of this leg's Roadblock, where they had to search for a duplicate of the famous Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting.

    Airdate: November 6, 2015[20]

    Teams traveled to Rotterdam, Netherlands, in addition, they received a picture of a ship to figure out their next location was Vessel 11 to pick departure times within 15-minutes intervals for the next day. On departure, teams traveled to Kop van Zuid and had to embark the windmills in Kinderdijk for the Roadblock. One team member to find an exact duplicate of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers around nearby windmills. Once they found the correct duplicate, a miller would give them their next clue, instructed to use a Fitbit health card to record their highest heart rate from the previous leg and this heart rate from this task to subtract the difference. The solution would equal the number of tulips to pick up and deliver to the Spakenburgermeisje for their next clue.

    Teams headed to Nolet Distillery to face the Detour which they rode by tram into a specific location. In Ship, teams made their way to Millennium Tower using a training simulator to navigate a simulation of Rotterdam Harbour in stormy weather to take on a two-part mission. First, they deliver a pilot to a ship, next they went to the aid of a ship in distress. If successfully completed the mission, the captain would give their next clue. However, if they failed the mission and must try again. In Skip, teams traveled to Leuvehoofd Park and to complete a Double Dutch clapping routine on a jump rope for 45 seconds to receive their next clue, instructed them to The Hague and ride a tram to the Pit Stop at the Peace Palace.

    Leg 8 (The Netherlands → Poland)
    In Kraków, teams visited the infamous Oskar Schindler Factory to commemorate the lives of Jews killed in World War II.

    Airdate: November 13, 2015[21]

    Teams traveled to Kraków, Poland where they provide a smartphone to use the Travelocity app to book tickets. They traveled to Plaża Kraków, a hotel boat on Vistula River and the team member swam down for a clue into the pool. One Detour selection is Mine and teams head to Wieliczka Salt Mine to descend 1,000 feet (300 m) into the salt mine. Then, they had to carry a large timber support beam into a loading area, filling a mine cart with salt and pushed it back through the tunnel to a miner. The other Detour choice is Music and teams headed to the Main Square to choose a professional pianist, learn a musical piece and roll the piano through the streets to a performance area. Then, they had to perform a duet with a violinist in order to attract donations that enough to earn 100 zł (approximately US$25), they would receive their next clue.

    Teams arrived at Oskar Schindler Factory to the lives of Jewish people were saved during Kraków Ghetto. They gave a tour to commemorate the lives of Polish Jews, passed through Schindler's office to look 1,200 names inside the memorial room. Once they ended the tour, they received their clue to Kazimierz for a Roadblock. One team member had to identify seven traditional Jewish dishes from a writing list in the correct order, and then deliver them on a tray to a nearby restaurant, Klezmer-Hois. Once all of these dishes were correct, the restaurant owner would give them their next clue, directing them to the Pit Stop inside the restaurant.

    Leg 9 (Poland → India)
    Mehtab Bagh in Agra, overlooking the famous Taj Mahal, which is also one of the seven wonders of the world, served as the Pit Stop for this leg of the Race.

    Airdate: November 20, 2015[22]

    Teams headed to Agra, India, first they needed to travel by plane to Delhi. In Agra, they traveled to Hathi Ghat on a beach, the Roadblock where one team member had to transport a bundle of saris down to the banks of Yamuna River to shown how to tie for a traditional Indian washing to all of which saris are tied correctly, they had to wash them in a basin, transport across to beach to lay out for a dry. The Speed Bump required both team members must perform this task. Next, they went to Hanuman Temple in Johri Bazaar to receive a traditional Indian blessing for a Detour. In Cans, teams had to load and secure 120 metal cooking oil cans onto a flatbed bicycle through the crowded streets to deliver them to New Taj Oil Company. Once they were unloaded, they received their next clue. In Candy, teams had to cut small pieces from winter melons to make petha. Once the pieces weighed in at 1 maund (90 lb), and deliver the already packed petha to Pancchi Petha Candy Store to receive their next clue. Teams instructed to travel to Bijli Ghar Chauraha Roundabout for their next clue, directed the teams to travel to "Moonlight Garden", known locally as Mehtab Bagh, across the river from the famous Taj Mahal, and search the grounds for the Pit Stop.

    Leg 10 (India)
    This leg of the race paid tribute to the tradition of Indian Hindu wedding rituals, including Baraat.

    Airdate: November 27, 2015[23]

    • Agra (Kachora Bazaar) Roadblock: "Who's full of hot air?"
    • Agra (Shri Raj Complex – Goyal Book Store) U-Turn: Justin & Diana U-Turned Logan & Chris
    • Detour: Bring the Groom or Bring the Fun Shamsabad, Agra (Shri Ram Complex)
    • Shamsabad, Agra (Shri Ramchandra Farm House) Pit Stop: Leg 10

    The leg teams heading to Kachora Bazaar for a Roadblock. One team member had to use a pump to inflate enough balloons to fill a net attached at the back of a bicycle. Once the net was full, they rode across Yamuna bridge to deliver the balloons to a wedding planner on the other side for the next clue, instructing teams to head to Goyal Book Store. From there, they faced with the Detour. In Bring the Groom, teams had to hand-crank a portable generator until it produced enough power to light up a cumbersome candelabrum. Then they had to join a Baraat procession through the streets, the team member carrying the candelabrum while the other carried the generator, to escort a groom to his wedding party at Shri Ram Complex. Once the groom was delivered to his bride, they received their next clue. In Bring the Fun, teams had to push a mobile amusement swing through the crowded streets to deliver it to the outside playground at the same wedding party, then give eight children a ride in it to receive their next clue, instructed them to a Pit Stop inside the Shri Ramchandra Farm House.

    Leg 11 (India → Hong Kong, China → Macau, China)
    The Roadblock for this leg need teams to go to the Dancing Water Theatre inside City of Dreams in Macau where they took part in a performance of The House of Dancing Water.

    Airdate: December 4, 2015[24]

    Teams headed to Hong Kong. Upon arrival, they search a waiting Rolls-Royce at the airport to escort them to The Peninsula Hong Kong to their Detour. In Sam's, teams traveled to Sam's Tailor to pick up measurements for a suit jacket to a nearby Sam's Workshop, to properly cut out six template pieces of a matching design. They then had to deliver a finished suit to receive their next clue. In Cells, teams had to find to a marked store on Apliu Street, search boxes of used cell phones which one is turned on and dial a phone number displayed on the phone, the message would instruct them to an address on Kweilin Street to find their next clue.

    Teams traveled to Macau by ferry, and make their way to the Dancing Water Theatre inside City of Dreams for a Roadblock. One team member must apply a makeup and change a costume, had to take part in a performance of The House of Dancing Water. After diving over 30 feet (9.1 m) from the central mast-shaped platform into the surrounding pool, search a golden fish under the water and swim across to a fisherman on a raft. If they didn't complete before stopped the music and wait twenty minutes for the next performance to start over. That team member received their clue instructed to Centro Náutico da Praia Grande at the side of the Nam Van Lake and search for the Pit Stop.

    Leg 12 (Macau, China → United States)
    The final Roadblock of The Amazing Race 27 paid tribute to the NYC Fire Department by having teams take part in a firefighter training exercise.

    Airdate: December 11, 2015[25]

    Teams headed to New York City, the final destination city and made their way to NYC Fire Department Training Facility at Randall's Island for the final Roadblock. One team member had to don a firefighter's uniform to take part for a stunt training exercise. After climbing a ladder to an open window of a burning building, search inside for a dummy representing a victim. Once they exited the building with the dummy, they had to place it onto a waiting stretcher. The second part of the Roadblock was a memory task, they had to arrange firefighters' hats labeled with the capital cities of the countries visited during the Race in chronological order:

    Country Capital
    Brazil Brazil Brasília
    Argentina Argentina Buenos Aires
    Zambia Zambia Lusaka
    Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Harare
    France France Paris
    Netherlands The Netherlands Amsterdam
    Poland Poland Warsaw
    India India New Delhi
    China China Beijing

    Once all the hats were placed in the correct order, a firefighter would give them their next clue.

    Teams traveled to Belmont Park in Long Island and take a helicopter ride to Southampton. From there, they searched for their next clue to travel on foot nearly a mile to Shinnecock East County Park where had to ride a jet ski to a lobster boat, pull seven lobster traps from the water, empty them, and replace them with new traps. Once completed, they received a box containing the flags from the countries visited and tie them on a mast in order. Once they got the right order, a fisherman would give them their next clue, instructing them to swim to shore, and had to drive dune buggies down the beach for the third memory challenge. They had to assemble six Adirondack chairs things encountered during the Race must arrange them in chronological order. If the chairs were in the correct order (the water bike, the Argentine tango, an African lion, a Dutch windmill, India's Taj Mahal, and Hong Kong's Rolls Royce), the carpenter would get their final clue, directing them to travel on foot to the estate at 1620 Meadow Lane for the Finish Line.

    References
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    2. ^ "The Amazing Race 27 Episode 2: Get In There and Think Like A Dog". TV Guide. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
    3. ^ "The Amazing Race 27 Episode 3: Where My Dogs At?". TV Guide. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
    4. ^ "The Amazing Race 27 Episode 4: Good Old Fashioned Spit in the Face". TV Guide. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
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    ESAD-Hooker fucked up my edits which wasn't look mess. That thing is we should use the after summary above which meets the standards of WP:NOT#PLOT. ApprenticeFan work 08:55, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    March 2016 User:Springee canvassing

    User reported: Springee (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Notified user: William_M._Connolley at User_talk:William_M._Connolley notifying him of dispute at article Ford Pinto

    Since you have had involvement with HughD, you should see how many edits he added to the Ford Pinto article. 200 in the 5 days before it was locked! Seriously, if you are brave you should give it a look.

    diff: 21:01 10 March 2016

    Spamming; notification of a user "with no significant connection to the topic at hand." Campaigning; non-neutral wording of notice. Vote stacking; active content discussions at article talk. Previous interaction with the targeted editor is not among the listed examples of appropriate reasons for notification to a user talk page at WP:APPNOTE.

    Springee recent previous report by Scoobydunk for canvassing 2 December 2015: WP:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive907#User_Springee_Canvassing

    Thank you. Hugh (talk) 19:22, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Not canvasing. No suggestion or request to edit the page. I'm simply blow away by HughD's ability to make 255 edits to a page since March 2nd including 3 days when the topic was locked! Springee (talk) 19:29, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree that the edit shown here is not canvassing. I don't understand what the problem is, nor do I see where Hugh's direct involvement with the talk page conversation is. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 21:38, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]


    Could we perhaps boomerang this into an assessment of HughD's editing 'style'. His shotgun attacks on the page, posting at a rate of about 1 edit per hour, night and day,for more than a week, plus the same on the talk page, when combined with a complete inability to answer a straight question with a straight answer, and his tendency to assume his arguments are the only ones that matter, make cooperating with him impossible. Greglocock (talk) 18:32, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Oshwah, I agree with Greglocock, an editor on the Pinto page, that HughD's behavior on the Ford Pinto article and talk pages has been disruptive. I'm not sure if boomerang would apply to that or not. However, I think that trying to ping Scoobydunk DOES count as canvasing and would be a boomerang. Why would HughD add a ping to Scoobydunk [8] today (Mar 15th) vs 4 days ago? Scoobydunk has no involvement with the Pinto page. The only reason to notify him of this discussion is the hopes that he can sway the group opinion. That is canvasing. Springee (talk) 12:06, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I would like to clarify, I contacted Ricky81682 requesting suggestions for dealing with HughD's disruptive editing at Ford Pinto and later Chrysler (an on going problem). Springee (talk) 17:19, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Another troll IP

    User:86.187.161.44 Eik Corell (talk) 19:18, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Blocked. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:28, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    New one: User:86.187.160.92. Hope that edit filter comes up soon. Eik Corell (talk) 19:43, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    That's blocked too. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:50, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Round 3! User:86.187.166.68 Eik Corell (talk) 19:53, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    As a non-involved non-admin I saw this discussion and the speed with which the user was blocked without discussion or diffs puzzled me. Looking just at the user's/Ip's edit history there was no context for understanding why this user was blocked. Eventually I saw the article's edit history and the discussion at Talk:Metin2#The p Server Scene (pServers) and it all made sense but even there the behavior is not "trolling", it is just a way over the top case of tendentious editing and apparent multi-IP socking/block evasion. My point is nobody should have to go look this stuff up. An ANI post is supposed to contain the necessary information/diffs/links for others to review. The link to the talk page should have been there at the least and frankly there probably should have been a single post being re-used for the ongoing problem instead of starting a new one cold. @Eik Corell:, Obviously Malcolmxl5 was previously involved and intrinsically understood the problem, but imagine if he was offline for some unforeseen reason (like a power outage) and someone else had to act on the matter. Shortcuts at ANI are not helpful if it means Admins have to go do their own research to find the history of the problem. Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 20:22, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Ah yes, there are two discussions further up the page and others in the history about this IP who is harassing Eik: this one will be helpful. IP-hopping troll, continued. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:29, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I see that. I tend to be a bit of a bulldog and not let stuff go easily so I dug in and found the following:
    Based on all of this is seems it is indeed trolling after all. Seems to me Eik Corell should revisit the ISP and try again, explaining to them that WP does not make its raw server logs available for reasons of user privacy but that the edit time stamps should provide sufficient information to identify the user involved. It has been six years and maybe they have a more enlightened view of WP these days. Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 20:46, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Eik Corell, Malcolmxl5, and Koala Tea Of Mercy: If this doesn't qualify for an LTA case, I don't know what does. I'm familiar with the problem having blocked the guy before, but a comprehensive report at LTA would make it much easier for us at AIV to block on sight. Katietalk 17:06, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, that would be helpful, if that can be done. Have blocked another two three IPs today. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:01, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yikes it feels like this guy is playing his own version of Whack-a-mole, only he's the mole and seems to like it that way! Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 09:22, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @Eik Corell: any chance you could find at any examples of this problem from 6 years ago? That would be excellent to add to the LTA case too. Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 09:27, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Yep, there's a whole range of IP's in this article's edit history, with edit wars on many video game articles. Note that in some of these early edits, the IP's start with "81." instead of the typical "86." Eik Corell (talk) 15:18, 16 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
    Sending a fresh one over to AIV (82.232.81.119). Going to ask for page protection too. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 21:56, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Binksternet engaging in Harassment

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

    The user Binksternet repeatedly reverts almost all my edits in the article Eurodance and my efforts to improve the article justifying himself my edits as original research and without first using the talk page and follow the rules of WP:DR to resolve our disputes. Instead he behaves aggressively by sending me non civility warnings on my talk page. I have already received two of them from him and one form user Mlpearc (perhaps a friend of him) who never responded to my reaction message. I have a strong reason to believe this is personal, I recently noticed he does the same in other articles as well, removing my edits without any obvious reason, for example: [9] Clicklander (talk) 08:48, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm not harassing Clicklander. What's happening is Clicklander continues to put unreferenced or poorly referenced text into the Eurodance article. Clicklander does not like having this unsupported work questioned or deleted. On the article talk page, Clicklander said there were "many" reliable sources that could be cited, but none of these have been named.[10] Instead Clicklander named www.eurokdj.com which was judged unreliable at RSN since it is a website published by Karine Sanche who is a web designer in France, not a music critic, musicologist or music journalist. If Clicklander was using music textbooks and trade magazines, and if these sources actually talked about Eurodance, then I would not have such a big problem with the edits. Binksternet (talk) 09:33, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    My report concerns your behaviour only. Whether a work in wikipedia should be questioned and deleted or not, is something should be discussed in specific talk pages and has nothing to do with this section. Do not try to confuse the administrators. Clicklander (talk) 09:45, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment (Non-administrator comment) I'm afraid that is not necessarilly true. An editor- particular relatively recently joined- should be aware that lodging a report at an administrative noticeboard oftens leads to an examination as to that editor's own behaviour and edit history. That, of course, can all of a sudden have consequences, not to say the least for the complainant. Just sayin'. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 16:41, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    They're not so easily confused. Lots of times on Wikipedia the frustration felt by a new editor is because the work isn't so very well supported by cites. Binksternet (talk) 09:48, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Kind of feel like there's nothing to see here since I'm seeing nothing. Harassment and other forms of disruption tend to leave evidence trails and there's real evidence no real evidence here.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 09:52, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Serialjoepsycho, I take it you mean, "and there's no real evidence here"? EEng 16:33, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Apologies, yes and thank you.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 19:39, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The complaint was only accompanied by one specific diff, and OP claims it was a removal without any obvious reason. However, there is a clear, and sufficient reason in the edit summary. Looks like nothing to see here, unless OP can identify some specific items of concern.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:17, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I do not know why you only looked at this diff and not at the editing history of the article I mainly pointed out, but I can help you to see more (if you want to). On the 3rd March I edited Eurodance article for first time by doing some minor improvement in the existing unreferenced parts of the article. Mainly adding some more examples in the list of artists, for example: [11] [12] and reorganized some song examples in chronological order [13] plus trying to find some references in order the existing content to be better supported [14]. Binksternet reverted all my edits twice [15] [16] ignoring my messages to use the talk page first [17] [18]. At the third time he tagged my edits for lacking citations [19], NOT the unreferenced sections but just my edits! I finally moved the tags to the correct place referring to the whole part [20]. After all this I tried to communicate with him in the talk page to order to resolve our dispute by opening a new discussion regarding my edits.

    On 4th, 6th and 7th March I attempted some more improvement again to the existing information like removing some unreliable sources as Binksternet suggested [21] added some additional info supported by references [22] [23] [24] and restructuring the chapters in better way [25]. Binksternet proceeded to a massive deletion of the unreferenced parts [26] ,info written by various editors over long time, without notifying first in the talk page for his intentions and let others to express opinions whether this should be done or if some parts could be better supported and kept.

    After notifying in the talk page on 8th March I restored the section with the artist examples which was totally screwed up after Binksternet's edits, removed the unsourced parts and added some reference for the rest [27]. I also partially restored the classification part which for me was very important for the article and added a reference to be better supported [28]. Binksternet's reaction once again was not to use the talk page to express his objections, instead he removed once again entirely the classification section and in addition he sent me this aggressive warning for blocking my account [29]. For once again I further tried to resolve our depute in the talk page explaining what I believe should be kept and why, without further restoring this part in order not to lead to edit war and wait for more opinions from other editors.

    On 14th March I added one more reference [30] and improved the House music part with some referenced info about Techno music in order the existing examples in this section to be better supported [31]. Binksternet again reverted all my edits [32] again did not use the talk page and again left me another one aggressive warning in my page [33].

    And last but not least, regarding his edit in the other article [34] yes he gave a reason for this. This reason however is invalid. Eurodance was in fact his main genre as a solo singer (not as a group member), and that's not only described inside the article but also supported by the reference Nr. 30. There are many ways to improve an article if you really want to, but from all this info to just choose to revert my edit and after all that happened in the Eurodance article for me is suspicious for his real intentions.

    Once again I am not judging whether he is right or not to want the poorly unreferenced parts of an article removed. For most parts perhaps he is right and I also agree with him. I am judging the way he does this, his attitude that for me he clearly does not respect the wikipedia's guidance for WP:DR and does not respect the other editors and their efforts. If you guys still think there is nothing to see here and still find his behaviour acceptable, then perhaps we have a different perception about what Civility means. Clicklander (talk) 09:18, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • Clicklander, you need to read WP:BRD. If you make BOLD edits, particularly if they are uncited or poorly cited, it is your responsibility to gain talk-page WP:CONSENSUS for them before attempting to replace them if they are contested or reverted. Binksternet has carefully responded to all of your queries on the article's talk page. However you have failed to achieve any policy-based consensus. Binksternet is a very very experienced editor and he is abiding by policy and by WP:BRD. You, however, are not. If you want to engage in dispute resolution, see WP:DR. There is no harassment here on Binksternet's part; however there is a failure on your part to gain consensus for your changes and a failure on your part to use or provide reliable-source citations. Softlavender (talk) 09:31, 16 March 2016 (UTC); edited 09:37, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Softlavender just for your info Binksternet is wikipedia editor since 2007, I am editor since 2009. That's our difference in experience. And experienced or not this doesn't change the way someone should behave. Clicklander (talk) 09:51, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Clicklander, you are still a novice editor and have made less than 1,150 edits to Wikipedia. Binksternet has made over 172,450 edits to Wikipedia and is a master Wikipedia editor. I think it's time to withdraw this ANI filing and learn to follow Wikipedia guidelines and policies. Continuing to prolong this thread, and failing to listen to the advice you have been given, and failing to abide by the policies and guidelines you have been notified of, may result in a WP:BOOMERANG. -- Softlavender (talk) 10:00, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Clicklander, for all your talk of civility, it's rather striking that you don't see consensus, when it's literally right in front of you. Not a single editor has said they see any merit in your complaint - and several have responded. And yet, you persist. Not really sure what more you need; but your behavior here speaks volumes about your behavior during this dispute. At this point, a word to the wise should be sufficient: but we'll soon see. However, before proceeding, may I strongly suggest that you review WP:LISTEN. X4n6 (talk) 05:25, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    It's very interesting how some people like to investigate and comment on my behaviour, on my experience, on my knowledge and how much enjoy giving advices and warnings rather than dealing with the case. I do not have anything more to say. All facts are here and anyone can draw their own conclusions. Clicklander (talk) 07:52, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • People have drawn their own conclusions. Obviously, they just haven't drawn the conclusions you want. Or want to hear. Nor do you really seem willing to listen to or learn from the explanations for their conclusions. Especially, when they offer advice you clearly don't want to hear. But the bottom line is simple: it doesn't matter if you're a new editor or a veteran. If you post poorly sourced material, which you've already tried to defend doing, then you should expect its removal. This project isn't interested in publishing your personal opinions. It's not a blog. It doesn't publish editorials. See WP:FORUM. So either reliably source your edits, or don't publish them. You cannot publish first, then go searching for sources later. If you do, expect the result. That goes for all editors. So you must decide if you're capable of - and willing to - abide by those same rules. If not, working on this encyclopedia, may not be for you. X4n6 (talk) 11:34, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Rude vulgarian editor

    Hi, can you please deal with this fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=RepRap_project&type=revision&diff=710238548&oldid=710238425

    He is also edit warring. CaptainYuge (talk) 20:44, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I have notified the editor that this ANI discussion is ongoing, as should be done. RickinBaltimore (talk) 20:46, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    When dealing with this fellow I suggest we give him a barnstar, and lets give a boomerang (smelly) trout to the OP. -Roxy the dog™ woof 20:49, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    He's Vulgarian, I've been to Vulgaria, pleasant country, but go on the off season. RickinBaltimore (talk) 21:06, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I made a typo in that dif. Redacted here since I can't do it there: "remove promotional content sourced to a conference abstract. we would not accept rank bullshit like this added to an article about a drug and we don't accept it here" I'm talking with a few people in the RepRap movement on the article Talk page, as part of my efforts to wrest that article from their abuse of WP as a kind of movement webpage, promoting what they have been doing. The goals of their movement are admirable, and I don't think they have understood that they have been abusing Wikipedia, so I am not registering any complaint here. So far the work and discussions on Talk are going relatively OK.. I am not seeking any intervention, just writing this to provide context to the community. And yes, I should use more gentle language, I know. Sometimes the promotionalism gets to me. That is my bad. Jytdog (talk) 20:54, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    You delete two thirds of an article with edits like these [35] [36], then when you're reverted by another editor and invited to discuss it at Talk: your immediate reaction is to repeat the blanking, warn them for edit warring, and now talk about boomerangs here. Just who is doing the edit warring, I wonder? Andy Dingley (talk) 21:10, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Someone may wish to review this user's history. He's got a long trail of bodies and accusations of edit warring (whilst edit warring himself) and of using COI accusations as a cudgel to batter his opponents. Note the talk page for the article in question -- he's already asserting to me a "higher level" of sourcing and notability is required for inclusion in the article, which at a glance reads far and above what is used for general notability and RS standards. Who is he to assign his own personal values above the project? I appear to have fallen in the path of a strongly agenda driven combat editor. CaptainYuge (talk) 21:15, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Actually, no. It's really clear who the edit warrior is here. [37] You've been at this for months. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:18, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I've temporarily semi-protected the article. This should not be construed as an endorsement of the current version or any that might be in the history. I trust all parties involved to use the WP:BRD process. --Kinu t/c 21:29, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks Kinu. That was helpful. I understand you are not endorsing any version - I am just glad this might drive discussion of specific content issues. Jytdog (talk) 21:45, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Edit warrning/warring

    Please cite this user: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=RepRap_project&type=revision&diff=710248489&oldid=710245750 He keeps RVing my sourced changes with NO discussion of the merits of the edits. He is wholesale undoing over a dozen edits. CaptainYuge (talk) 21:19, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Attempts to out editors

    As Andy Digley mentioned this combat editor has been warring on this article for *months* and has been abusing COI policies to attempt to coerce new editors to out themselves from anonymity. CaptainYuge (talk) 21:20, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @Andy Dingley: did you really say that Jytdog tries to coerce new editors? Don't see that in this discussion... that from a past discussion? EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 21:57, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Months of edit warring, ongoing

    He's still not stopping -- this user is unrepentant and should be blocked temporarily to curb his hostile behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=RepRap_project&type=revision&diff=710249014&oldid=710248489 CaptainYuge (talk) 21:25, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Not to mention grave threats of harm. Or not. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:34, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Now edit warring on the talk page

    Now he's removing sections from the talk page. CaptainYuge (talk) 21:36, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Ongoing edit warring on talk page

    Can someone please stop this guy? He's out of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:RepRap_project&action=history CaptainYuge (talk) 21:42, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    (edit conflict) Actually, that removal was perfectly acceptable, however I would have preferred that Jytdog not remove it himself per your reaction to when he does anything. That removal is due to WP:TPG where it is stated to Comment on content, not on the contributor: Keep the discussions focused upon the topic of the talk page, rather than on the personalities of the editors contributing to the talk page. Also, please stop making new sections every time something new comes up. It's really unnecessary. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 21:53, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Hu boy... this is going to be one hell of a boomerang... --Tarage (talk) 21:46, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    What does that mean? I filed this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Talk:RepRap_project CaptainYuge (talk) 21:48, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    A request to full-protect an article talk page! Wow, just wow. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:01, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    It means WP:BOOMARANG. QuackGuru (talk) 21:51, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    In a nutshell, it means you are not going to get the response you hoped for. You will likely be blocked for this behavior. --Tarage (talk) 21:56, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm confused. So this guy edit wars like mad for months, gets called out (in this thread!) by admins for it, and I'll be blocked because I drew attention to the problem behavior and harassment by another user? And he's... free to edit war and harass? 21:58, 15 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CaptainYuge (talk • contribs)
    Considering you don't seem to understand that your version of events conflicts with pretty much everyone else who's looking at this's thoughts, I'm doubting you are going to understand. The more you throw a tantrum, the quicker you will be blocked. This will not end well for you. --Tarage (talk) 22:24, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    You're wrong. Jytdog blanked the article to a stub. I found it. I restored a small subset of the sourced content and he began edit warring within minutes over my edits. He demonstrated on the talk page that he has a "personal" standard for what counts as encycloepdiac content, stating outright that he won't allow things in the article that fail to meet "real world impact" standards. I asked for assistance about his edit warring in response to that, as he is operating off of his own personal standards, and refused to cite what if any policies backed up his position. What exactly in the timeline have I missed? CaptainYuge (talk) 22:32, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • CaptainYuge has exploded this into some huge drama in their head, very rapidly, and is not discussing in a simple way, the content they disagree about on the article Talk page. They are doing everything but that. Which makes this all feel strangely familiar. Jytdog (talk) 21:58, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    What drama? You are edit warring like mad and ordering people on the page not to include content unless they can demonstrate it shows evidence of a "real world impact", even if it's heavily cited. You are literally edit warring that nothing be included in the article unless your own personal standard that the content has to have some arbitrary 'real world application' is met. Which policy backs that position, exactly? CaptainYuge (talk) 22:01, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Would you please return to the article Talk page and start working through specific content/sourcing that you believe should be in the article? That would be great. Just simply, one at a time. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 22:12, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    No, I think I will first call upon you to cite the specific policy you are using to justify months of edit warring first as part of dispute resolution. Please cite the policy or recuse yourself on all accounts under your control from that article. CaptainYuge (talk) 22:18, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    By refusing to use the talk page to discuss edits, you are setting yourself up to be blocked. --Tarage (talk) 22:26, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    See my 22:32, 15 March 2016 (UTC) edit here. I am perfectly willing to discuss any content based on actual accepted policies here. Jytdog is refusing to cite which policies justify ANY of his removals of content. CaptainYuge (talk) 22:34, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Call me skeptical, but the filer is a brand new account that made a serious of large and complicated edits immediately after registering and knows about various noticeboards... No comment on jytdog's behavior, but CaptainYuge's is a bit suspicious. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 22:09, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I told jytdog I edited for years on and off by IP. I finally made an account because why not? CaptainYuge (talk) 22:17, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Not necessarily. The CU report at the SPI said that CaptainYuge has another account -- which the CU didn't name -- which was apparently not being used in violation of WP:SOCK. Now that the Captain Yuge account has announced its retirement, perhaps the CU, @DeltaQuad:, might say what the name of the second account is, in case the editor decides to use it to continue what CaptainYuge began? BMK (talk) 01:36, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    That constitutes a personal attack, does it not? --Tarage (talk) 23:28, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    For when that gave the wrong result, I see that you've already opened Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CaptainYuge. When did WP:B-R-SPI become such a popular policy? 8-( Andy Dingley (talk) 20:56, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    According to CaptainYuge, they "Decided to join after years of anonymously helping...".[38] CaptainYuge stated "I told jytdog I edited for years on and off by IP. I finally made an account because why not? "[39] But it has been confirmed that "CaptainYuge does have a second account".[40] QuackGuru (talk) 16:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    The two sets of statements are not necessarily contradictory, as the two accounts could have been created at the same time. BMK (talk) 18:56, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    My reading of Yuge's comments and DeltaQuad's admirable "there is no problem" silence was that this other account was created after this business kicked off, but before the technical SPI/CU. Yet despite this, we still have ongoing sniping and veiled personal attacks like these: [41] [42] from Jytdog. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:13, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    And still continuing, "Everybody (with the exception of CaptianYuge) from the RepRap community" Andy Dingley (talk) 22:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Some thoughts

    I've mixed feelings about this, because, looking at the previous versions of the article in question, I understand the concerns regarding promotion that seems to to have motivated Jytdog here. That being said, this looks like a pretty obvious WP:BRD issue to me. This slow moving edit war of the last couple of weeks seems to have started when Jytdog removed nearly 34k of content at once, 30k in one edit. Pretty much every person who has responded to this issue on the talk page regards that as excessive. Now, A) they might largely be COI editors, and B) Jytdog might actually have the right of the content issue here, depending on his policy rationale, numbers aligned against him not withstanding. But, under BRD, because the content in question was part of a longterm stable version of the article (and especially given the boldness of removing so much content at once) the revert should have stood until such time that Jytdog had secured an unambiguous WP:LOCALCONSENSUS. As the party trying to effect a bold change to a stable version of an article, the burden is upon him to secure that consensus, especially in light of objection from every other voice on the talk page (even be that only four editors). If he, or any party, has concerns about the personal involvement/objectivity of editors working in that space, RfC can always be used to solicit additional outside voices. I think the average experienced editor is probably likely to side with Jytdog, or at least fall somewhere in the middle of the two positions but probably closer to Jytdog (as is the case with me), but A) a fuller consensus is still needed here rather than constant back-and-forth reverts or else this is, by definition, an edit war and B) I think some additional experienced editors might be able to put the issues into terms that might better satisfy the concerns of the regulars on that talk page.

    Lastly, while I have questions about CaptainYuge's motivation in all of this (after recent events, I won't exactly be gobsmacked if the latest SPI shows a link between him and Rowssusan), I do agree in principle that this discussion ought to be handled in a more WP:CIVIL manner. I understand that Jytdog may be frustrated, but in my opinion, it is never appropriate to swear for emphasis in edit summaries; if nothing else it undermines the ability of other editors to assume that the party using this language is contributing with the calm we expect, and which makes arguments most compelling. Calling another editor's good-faith contributions "rank bullshit" is just never appropriate; there's always got to be a better--that is, more accurate, specific, and collegial--way to describe the shortcomings in the material. Let's remember that most of this material represents the collaborative efforts of a significant number of editors doing their best to present this topic accurately. Those are my thoughts over this dispute; in short, substantial support for Jytdog's position, but a general sense that he could fine-tune his approach to opposition in this instance. Snow let's rap 00:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    No arguments from me. Jytdog (talk) 00:41, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    According to Arbcom and the current consensus of the administrative corps in general, it is perfectly OK (for favoured editors/admins) to swear at other editors, call them cunts, call them trolls and tell them to fuck off, and have no absolutely no repercussions despite years of incivility. As repeat offenders blocked or dragged before arbcom get let off with not even a slapped wrist, opinining that it is 'inappropriate to swear in edit summaries' is both naive and factually incorrect with the current crop of administrators. Only in death does duty end (talk) 09:28, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Normally, $20... for you, about 20K  ;) Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 19:00, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    What about $37.50 and some French postcards? BMK (talk) 17:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Only in death: - I doubt that's a true statement. Swearing directly at other users in edit summaries could definitely be considered as a WP:NPA violation and be treated with consequences. Could you please cite what led you to believe that making personal attacks at other users is perfectly fine? Thanks, — Omni Flames (talk contribs) 07:32, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Take a look at Arbcom declined cases or archived discussions at AN. See prolific uncivil editors being unblocked after less than 24 hours by their pet admins. One of the current Arbs stated in a recent rejected case that the 'community was not clear on defining civility.' There are at least 3 standing policies and one of the pillars that state civility is required, yet because current arbcom members dont want to sanction their favoured subjects (why antagonise someone who voted for you/will vote for you in the future) they make idiotic statements like that. The 'community' is clear on how civility should be treated. Its enforcement by admins and Arbcom means the reality is very different. Only in death does duty end (talk) 08:33, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Except that it is notoriously difficult to define "civility" or, for that matter, "community". Am I not part of the community? people don't just magically change when they become admins or arbs, and there is no reason whatsoever to assume that it's only friends of the apparently uncivil editors you refer to who get voted into admindom or arbdom. Chances are, their enemies get elected too, who should then, mutatis mutandis, be more than eager to block their Most Hated Editors. Drmies (talk) 15:33, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Notoriously difficult only in your head. Wikipedia:Civility, Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks, Wikipedia:Five_pillars (there are others but those are the important oneS) are all current active policies which to call yourself a community member you are expected to agree with and abide by. They clearly, in plain English describe what is and is not acceptable. Admins/Arbcom members like yourself who outright *refuse* to take action or enforce said policies are why the current actual situation is that civility is an unenforcable joke. You personally are part of the problem and you should be ashamed for continuing to state that it cant be defined. It has already been defined, read the policies. While you continue to deny them, you are activly enabling the decline in civil discussion. Only in death does duty end (talk) 16:08, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Drmies is always part of every problem.
    OID, I assume you're not dead yet, so why haven't you fulfilled your duty and stood for admin? Could it be because with only 2,373 edits in over 4 years, only 270 of which are to articles (11.4%), while 1,335 (56.3%) are to Wikipediaspace, you're really not here to improve the encyclopedia (our sole purpose for existence), but instead to bitch and moan about whatever "crosses your eyeline"? Your complaints about lack of civility would carry a lot more weight if you were actually a productive editor and not a free rider. BMK (talk) 17:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • I just looked in on this and was surprised to see this thread still alive. @Omni Flames: and @Only in death does duty end: To be clear, I did not "swear directly at anyone" in the edit note or elsewhere. Calling content "promotional" or "rank bullshit" is different from saying "you are a fucking asshole", in an edit note or anywhere else. I am not saying that it was appropriate for me to be a vulgarian in an edit note - it was not, and it got in the way of working on content which is the point of CIVIL - but what you are talking about is different from what I did here. Jytdog (talk) 21:45, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Jytdog: Oh okay, thanks for clarifying. Perhaps you should've acted in a more calm and WP:CIVIL way, because calling another editors content "rank bullshit" is not appropriate, but I agree that it wasn't a personal attack. — Omni Flames (talk contribs) 21:58, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    No one, including me, has, or has had, any argument with that. Jytdog (talk) 22:12, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah, that's pretty much exactly why I felt denying attention was the way to handle Only in Death's comment, because it felt like the discussion had achieved the most it was going to get, which is to say, a tacit agreement from everyone to move on try to be more careful, even if nobody was jumping to apologize to one-another, which is pretty good as these things go. That's why I found OID's comment unproductive. It's not a matter of whether he's right or just grousing out of cluelessness, and it's not a matter of whether he has enough contributions to warrant an opinion on these matters. It's that it didn't belong here and wasn't doing any good. I almost said as much insofar as his comment was nominally addressed at something I said--though in truth it was obviously just a way to shoehorn in a complaint into another discussion--but I realized it would just be a waste of more time (this waste of time, specifically).
    If OID thinks he's the only one who has felt like ArbCom has passed on some cases they probably shouldn't have since the last election, I daresay he's wrong, but using a thread reserved for practical purposes as a platform to attack admins broadly is just WP:SOAPBOX and frankly just dragging drama into one of those few ANI threads that didn't end with either A) a sanction or B) the community just generally exhausted and sending both sides to their corner. Besides, the kind of sanction that is most likely here is one that is decided by community resolution, not admins or ArbCom. And honestly, I think its pretty ballsy for OID to come this forum and bitch about how low our standards are concerning civility; all things considered, he's pretty lucky we aren't more strict about behaviour of that sort, considering most of us take implying that another editor is a sex offender more seriously than we do those who curse at eachother (though I find both to be well short of the behaviour expected here, personally). Let's close this and move on. Snow let's rap 07:51, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    For 'practical purposes' pretending civility is actionable anymore is a lie with no basis in the current administrative or arbcom enforced environment. Any actual blocks against repeat offenders are quickly overturned, if anyone takes action in the first place. But frankly if you wanted to keep a thread 'reserved for practical purposes' you shouldn't have labelled it 'some thoughts' and filled it with worthless and misleading pontificating. If you don't want people to comment on your proclamations, keep them to yourself. Only in death does duty end (talk) 08:44, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The difference between my post and yours OID (aside from general tone and the way they have been received) is that my comments were focused on the matter at hand. The purpose of this thread (and this noticeboard) is to address specific behavioural issues, not leverage a discussion as excuse to vent out polemic screed just to make your general dissatisfaction with the administration corps known. We can (and on a daily basis do) hand out sanctions in this space. But even better is when we manage to use it to resolve a conflict short of that, which is what was going on here at the time you decided to interject your tangent--which was just basically random bad-faith directed at parties we weren't even talking about. You want to see more people banned for incivility in general, we get it. But what we had here was a situation where we weren't going to ban anyone and the editors in question had both backed off. There was even a certain amount of owning up to how things could have been done better, and it takes strength of character to do that.
    It should have been allowed to end there--and would have, if not for your need to tell us all how things should be done... And frankly, I think it is a giant pity that everyone didn't just ignore you to show just how helpful we view that kind of thing. Except for Drmies...their response was the perfect study in how to disarm random criticism with real wit. But I'm not Drmies, so I'll just say WP:DROPTHESTICK and if you really have problems with the way blocks are used in general, take it to any one of the dozens of heavily-trafficked central community discussion spaces where such an abstract discussion might be useful (or at least more appropriate). Or, as BMK says, get some more in-depth experience of the project and RfA yourself. But don't expect random hijacks of ANI threads for the purposes soapboxing to go over well even if you somehow end up with a mop... Snow let's rap 09:48, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Weist.michael is disruptive over at AfC

    User:Weist.michael is trying to write an autobiography on himself, which in and of itself is not the reason that i am reporting him. The reason is that the user has repeatedly removed reviewer comments as well as review declined submission decisions from the draft. [[43]], [[44]], [[45]] in order to remove criticism and to ask the other parent. Not only that, but this isn't the only version of this submission to be submitted, it was previously deleted: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Weist where in the discussion the user apparently created a sock puppet User:Homie123456790 for the sole purpose of arguing against the AfD (presumably because arguing against the deletion of your own article is a conflict of interest). Flagrant misuse of reviewers time. Please block indefinitely.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  00:06, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    It was an honest mistake, I didn't think it would effect things. I was imply trying to clean up my account, I thought all that stuff looked ugly. As previously discussed, I am not the subject. This is not an autobiography. I am a big fan, hence my username, but I am not the subject. I don't know what the "sock puppet" is but i've been trying to get this article made for months so I can show Michael at this event he is going to. I did change my name once by trying to create a different account because I kept running into issues similar to this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weist.michael (talk • contribs) 00:53, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    If it was previously discussed that you are not Michael Weist, excuse me, I was not privy to that discussion. However, if it was "an honest mistake" than how do you explain [This diff] when you wrote "(changes made to citations and some content after last rejection)" in the edit summary to disguise the fact that you were deleting another editor's review comments. (note that no changes were actually made to citations between the comment and this deletion). I want to assume good faith here, but your actions have made it pretty hard. When i wrote that you shouldn't resubmit without a substantial rewrite, instead of doing such a rewrite, you deleted my comments, added a couple of links to Facebook and youtube, didn't rewrite anything, and then resubmitted it for review again.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  03:41, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I appreciate someone sticking up for me. I have felt nothing but harassed by User:Insertcleverphrasehere — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weist.michael (talk • contribs) 00:57, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    An accusation of harassment is pretty serious, but I'll let my actions stand for themselves. The only interaction I've had with the user is on the AfC draft page as well as on my talk page.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  01:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @Weist.michael: - If Michael Weist is notable enough to have a draft article, and you are not Michael Weist, then you need to change your username, as it is a violation of our WP:Username policy#Real names to have a user name that implies that you are someone who you are not. Please ask for a change of name at WP:CHU. Failure to do so may result in an admin blocking you from editing. BMK (talk) 01:30, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    There are a few inexperienced editors, and this is an inexperienced editor, who think, based on not having read the policies, that the user name of the creator of an article should be the same as the title of the article. Therefore this is probably a good-faith error, but the policy is clear. Ask for a change of name. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:10, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    AGF, this editor is inexperienced, and needs to change their username, as per the link provided by BMK. However, the repeated blanking of comments is more problematic. If it had happened a single time, than I would agree that it could have been an honest mistake. Two or more times and it appears to be a pattern of deceit. This editor hasn't worked on anything else other than this draft. I don't know if a block is warranted, or would even accomplish anything. However, the draft has been declined by at least 5 different editors, and this editor hasn't seemed willing to listen to advice and guidance. Onel5969 TT me 03:34, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I made changes to the content of the draft as well. I will request a name change. I didn't know I couldn't erase comments, I thought it was part of the page and I was simply trying to clean it up But I also added some content. I have no idea how to do nearly anything on here, so I haven't edited other's work simply because I don't want to make an error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weist.michael (talk • contribs) 17:57, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Borders around infobox images by Illegitimate Barrister

    Illegitimate Barrister has been placing the "{{!}}border" in infobox images for years.

    I first contact him and asked about this in March, 2015 here. His response seemed to take no consideration of the errors I mentioned and he just stated he thinks it makes the image look better. Less than 1 minute later he deleted my question.

    He continued to add the "{{!}}border" to images in infoboxes, and I made another comment on his page 4 days later telling him of the errors it causes and that it not only prevents images from showing up on mouseovers, it causes script errors. His response was an accusation of me stalking and harassing him, and he deleted everything again less than 1 minute later. He still continued to add the border to infobox images, and I pleaded with him one more time, stating I would take this here(to ANI). His response was the same, and also stated he would take the issue here, before deleting the thread once again within 1 minute. But this time he seemed to stop adding the border to images. Another editor complained about this also on his Talk page, which he responded to with much the same reasoning(he likes it, no big deal).

    I have occasionally ran into the same problems(seeing the border and removing it) over the last year, but not with the frequency. Now the editor has once again begun adding the border en masse, and I frustratingly gave the editor a 'Final warning'.

    After each of complaints, the editor just makes smart ass replies and then deletes the thread within 1 minute. He did state for me to find some policy which forbids him from adding this, which I am sure there must be. I don't know where they are located. Bgwhite seems to run some script that fixes the error in this edit, but I have no idea what it is. Can an administrator please get this editor to stop doing this? It not only causes mouseover errors, it screws up the page on my mobile device. Dave Dial (talk) 02:45, 17 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]

    Well, I am sadly not surprised that it has come to this. This is a complete and utter disgraceful waste of time. No violation of MOS was committed here; Davey just doesn't like my edits. So be it. But, his arbitrary feelings on my edits do not automatically constitute Wikipedia policy and he has yet to point to one MOS tenet that had been violated.

    Davey charges that I am breaking the rules. I deny it; and what is his proof? Davey have yet to properly implicate me and point to one MOS tenet that has been violated. If I did violate the MOS, Davey knows it or Davey does not know it. If Davey does know it, Davey is inexcusable for not designating the MOS tenet that has been broken and proving the fact. If Davey does not know it, Davey is inexcusable for asserting it, and especially for persisting in the assertion after Davey has tried and failed to make the proof. Davey needs to be told that persisting in a charge which one does not know to be true, is simply malicious slander.

    Before he disgracefully posted this ANI, I specifically told Davey in compromise that were he to point out the MOS tenet that I allegedly broke, I would cease the editing that he didn't like and that such hypothetical tenet supposedly banned. But he has yet to do so, and may I say that I suppose strongly that it is because it does not exist. Had he pointed out to me the MOS tenet that I allegedly broke, I would have stopped, and we wouldn't be here. But, of course, he didn't. Such is dishonesty.

    The ANI is not a tool for getting your way by making your arbitrary feelings law. The will of the sovereign is not law. You don't like my edits. Too bad. I don't like many other peoples' edits either. But I don't threaten them into submission and abuse the ANI to get my way. If any rule was broken here, it was by Davey, who stalked and threatened me.

    P.S. As for "smart-ass replies", you're the one who came up to me with hostility numerous times and stalked and threatened me. Yet you feign surprise when I object to being stalked and threatened! Such arrogance! No other users have aggressively came up to me with any concern over my editing in this matter. If you're hostile to me, I will reciprocate in kind. If you treat me with dignity, I will do the same. You've got to give respect to earn it. I've been on Wikipedia far too long to passively sit back and take B.S. like yours, and judging by the vitriol on Davey's talk page, he doesn't seem keen on getting along with other users and treating them with respect either. Oh, and I didn't "delete" the messages. That's a bald-faced lie. I don't have the ability to delete edits anyway as I am not an administrator. I simply archived them. And edits you disagree with are not "vandalism", no matter how much you may want them to be labelled as such. – Illegitimate Barrister, 04:51, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    If there isn't already something in the MOS about image borders in general and/or for infobox image borders, maybe someone start an RFC. Infoboxes could easily be coded to allow for image borders. Adding {{!}}border is not how you go about it, especially if it causes an error. As a WP:Template editor, you should know better. If you want to be able to use borders on infobox images, I suggest that you start an RFC on VPR to get consensus for updating the various infobox templates. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:47, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Fair enough. That's precisely how this should have been handled, instead of immaturely going straight to ANI. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk), 05:49, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    There's been plenty of time to handle it this way, as evidenced above. Your response is a concerning display of incivility and failure to acknowledge what the complaint here actually is. You claim you're being stalked and harassed because "Davey" simply doesn't like your edits. However he appears to explain perfectly reasonably how your edits are introducing a technical problem. That certainly constitutes more than "I don't like it". Both here and in the responses he's linked to, you're completely dismissive of this fact because "you're not breaking any rules". That may or may not be the case, but regardless most people would consider aesthetic edits that introduce technical errors to be unconstructive, negative additions, and your responses to be sub-par to what we expect in a collaborative project. I will also note that "I'm not breaking any rules" is not a reason to continue to make contested edits. We don't operate according to "rules", but according to consensus. When conflicts arise, you need to discuss and seek consensus, not brush off concerns and "archive" discussions after a minute. I don't know why this would be any different. You're a highly established editor in good standing and you should be above this. Swarm ♠ 05:58, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Illegitimate Barrister: - This didn't go "straight to ANI". I have been asking you to stop inserting the border script for over a year. All I wanted you to do was realize that it was causing errors and stop adding it. If you are acknowledging that you realize this and are going to stop adding the "{{!}}border" script, then I have no further issues with you. I just don't understand why it has taken this long. Contested edits need consensus, is one such policy. I don't know a lot about MOS, but thought since you are an editor that is helping with the project, you would receive my letting you know the script was causing errors in a better manner. Dave Dial (talk) 13:32, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Illegitimate Barrister does say on his TP... "if I've made a mistake somewhere, which we're all bound to do at some point, you can bring it to my attention so I can better rectify it." This is not, it seems, the case. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 13:58, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Illegitimate Barrister: - "If any rule was broken here, it was by Davey, who stalked and threatened me." - do you have any diffs to support this? - theWOLFchild 18:39, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Obvious solution: Narrow topic-ban from bordering images

    • Given the "slow-editwar", WP:ICANTHEARYOU, and who-cares-if-I'm-breaking-things nature of Illegitimate Barrister's behavior, and the obvious fact that this is an ongoing WP:ILIKEIT-and-I-will-never-stop stylization campaign by a self-righteous and alarmingly hostile single party against all comers, a narrow topic ban from bordering images is clearly in order.

      This is pretty simple:

      • If someone is doing something that is breaking stuff, they have to stop; if they won't voluntarily, the behavior must be curtailed by the community.
      • If someone is doing something stylistically unusual and people object to it, and the editor keeps on doing it without establishing consensus, they are making a mistake, even if no technical problems are involved.
      • If someone keeps on doing it for years, they're making more than a mistake, but a disruptive mess, and demonstrating an inability or refusal to work collaboratively.
      • It's wikilawyering and system-gaming to try to exploit as an imagined loophole the fact that one of the 47 billion things MoS doesn't specifically address is what this editor is doing; this is not about MOS at all, it's about consensus and competence (of at least two sorts).
    At Mediawiki:Common.css you'll find that making changes to any facet of how WP is rendered is very difficult to get consensus for without lots of cross-platform testing. There's no way there's consensus for running around forcing 1997-style bordered images all over WP, especially when people have been objecting for so long.

    "MOS doesn't say I can't so you can't stop me" is not how things work here, per WP:COMMONSENSE and WP:NOT#BUREAUCRACY; our guidelines only address common problems, not one-editor issues (that's what our behavioral noticeboards like this one are for).
    PS: Repeatedly asking someone to stop doing something that doesn't have consensus and appears to be tendentious (as well as destructive in this case) is not "harassment", it's standard operating procedure.
    PPS: The technical problem underlying this should be raised at WP:VPTECH for resolution, but even if there were no tech problem, IB's behavior would still be exactly the same problems it is. We should probably also update WP:USERTALK to discourage the insta-nuking of all things anyone ever posts to one's talk page, as anti-collaborative and uncivil.
     — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:32, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Editor won't stop adding unlinked entry to dab page

    Böri (talk · contribs) is determined to add "Abdashtart (Strato I, 365 - 352 BC), king of Sidon" to the dab page at Straton. S/He has been reverted many times, and I have explained on his/her talk page why dab pages don't include entries which don't have a blue link to an existing article. S/He isn't listening. PamD 09:19, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Protected for now, the user can start an RfC if he thinks it's genuinely valid, or write the article, or whatever. Guy (Help!) 09:23, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Looks like that got Böri to talk. See Talk:Straton. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 15:28, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    No problem at all, the problem is fixed so no need for protection. All good. Guy (Help!) 22:05, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks, Drmies for creating the missing article: Böri seemed determinedly unwilling, or unable, to do so him/herself. So now the link s/he was so keen to add prematurely is perfectly legitimate and all is well. I hope they're grateful to you! PamD 16:20, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Continuous disruptive editing Radegast (god)

    Chupito persistently changes the (unsourced) content with his version (also unsourced). At the end of 2014, he restored a 2011 version of the article and keeps adding unsourced info from that version. At that time, I summarized the problem on the article's talk page, tried to show the problem in my edit summaries, and warned chupito several times that his edits are disruptive. For lack/unawareness of better templates used vandalism templates on his talk page. He had stopped adding the changes in early 2015 but now he started again.

    I do not know what to do, reverting does not solve the problem. However, his unsourced content is misleading and as such I have to keep removing it or let the article be. Unfortunately, I did not have time to improve the article using proper sources, so I tried to maintain the status quo. The latest change: diff but a more profound inspection is needed. Thanks for help, --WikiHannibal (talk) 13:02, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • This looks like a minor dispute over content to me, with a lack of talk page discussion but, first and foremost, a lack of actual sourcing to fight over. Both of you claim that this or that is unsourced, but neither of you seem to be citing anything. Now, on pages 49-50 of this book I find the claim that Radegast is "well-documented"--why don't you two go prove it? And don't forget to search for alternate spellings. Did any of you order a copy of The Gods of the Ancient Slavs. Tatishchev and the Beginnings of Slavic Mythology by Myroslava T. Znayenko, reviewed here? And if not, can you please do so? Carry on, Drmies (talk) 15:22, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for looking into it. However, that's that or can I expect another administrator to help and look into the issue? I wrote that I don't have time to improve the article with proper sources and you suggest precisly that. In 2014 Cupito restored the 2011 version, users Jirka.h23 and Volunteer Marek reverted it before I got involved. But after that it was only me reverting. My point was, and is, not to use (parts of) the 2011 version, because the 2014 version had been tacitly approved by many editors (2011-2014), and was without discussion changed by Chupito in 2014. WikiHannibal (talk) 16:36, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, we could accuse Chupito of slow edit warring, but such would apply to you as well, given that both versions are woefully underreferenced and thus the claim of OR cuts both ways. I cannot see from here which version is better, which version is to be preferred, who's inserting more OR than the other. Maybe Volunteer Marek can help out, but his revert was in 2014, and what he reverted was clearly OR ("There are several arguments which indicate that the first explanation is the correct one. As already stated, ..."--that's OR); the recent reverts do not involve such language. Surely in the last two years you could have found some time to improve the article. Drmies (talk) 17:15, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I believe that if there is an unsourced edit that is considered controversial (as I consider Chupito's edits), the normal way is to keep the article as it was (until a compromise can be reached/other editors got involved) because that text has been approved by previous users. Am I wrong? Persistently adding unsourced content which is challenged is what? And, to correct, I did not introduce any OR to the article, I just tried to maintain the previous version. I did not ask you or anybody to decide which version is better. (BTW the book you mentioned is on Vasily Tatishchev's 18th century study, not on slavic mythology per se, and his views are "of little value to the historian or folklorist", to quote another review by Perkewski in Slavic Review. Sourcing the article is more complicated than you think, which Lemongirl942 already started to find out. So, to answer your previous question, I do not think I will order it.) WikiHannibal (talk) 03:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    (Non-Admin Comment) I was just looking over and found some sources including this [46]. Will post more of them on the talk page of the article. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 18:31, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Lemongirl942, thanks, but one of the problems with Google Books was that I found mostly book sources from the 1800s and early 1900s, and in many cases they are just not scientifically acceptable. Some of those are by scientists and historians; what your link is pointing to is a footnote in the 12-volume epic poem Attila or the Triumph of Christianity (1838) by William Herbert (botanist). Drmies (talk) 02:50, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    See edit summaries in Checkingtheweb's contributions (specifically, this and this). Reporting threats here per WP:NLT. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 18:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    User has been notified of this ANI thread. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 18:03, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes but can we check WP:DOLT? He appears to be contesting a date of birth. Is he right there?--Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:16, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi Malcolmxl5 - Good question. Let me take a look and get back to you. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 18:21, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Having the wrong birthday for someone isn't something that any court of law would ever take seriously as an actionable libel or slander complaint in and of itself — it's a minor and easily corrected error with no reputational consequences whatsoever, so no court of law would ever do anything but dismiss it as a frivolous complaint. I have, for the record, removed the disputed birthdate from the article on the grounds that it's not properly supported — if you have to rely on an old archived version of a source for information that's been removed from the current version of that same source, then you need to keep in mind that "it was wrong" just might be the reason it was removed, and the source failed to support 1985 as the subject's year of birth. And I've also already politely advised the editor to adjust their attitude. So for the moment I'd consider this resolved, although we should certainly keep an eye on it if it flares up again. Bearcat (talk) 18:25, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Why is your post sprinkled so generously with italics? EEng 20:28, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah, Bearcat you beat me to it. I was just removing the same information that you did; there is no year on the birthdate provided by the source, and I could find no reliable reference containing an exact date of birth, so I (well, Bearcat...) removed it from the article. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 18:30, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • I've restored the previous version which was reliably sourced and I see no particular reason to remove the information. Based on this user's own edits to that very page, they don't particularly have any idea what they're talking about and I see no reason we should grant their word any special weight. The year of birth was added after the fact by an inexperienced editor—this is certainly no reason to blank the entire page. Also, please remember we issue NLT blocks as a matter of policy, not based on our interpretation of how credible said threats are. If any semblance of a legal threat persists from this user, I will be indefinitely blocking their account. Regards, Swarm ♠ 01:22, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Laura Branigan birth date, and birth place

    Overall, the issue is official source verus user edited sources. Ultimately, the users Born53 swe and Thomas.W are using user submitted references to prove a different birth date and birth place. The official website for the singer is being ignored for this. There is a lot to read at this point and much of it in the last day. I have tried once to correct the birth date and place and got reverted. Reading over the talk page, it goes into other languages, and weird conspiracies about her age at death.

    Overall, the issue is her birth date. Official website says July 3, 1957. She was born in Brewster, New York. Descending view is July 3, 1952 in Mount Kisco, New York. Devilmanozzy (talk) 18:56, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Devilmanozzy - Have you discussed your concerns on the article's talk page, or with these editors on their talk page? ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 18:59, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I found this article [47] which quotes "one superfan" who supports the 1952 date. And then I had a look at the talk page of the article. Seems like a WP:COI. (I am not providing a diff since I don't want to violate WP:OUTING, although the editor in question has voluntarily provided the name). --Lemongirl942 (talk) 19:36, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • (edit conflict)This is ridiculous. See User talk:Diannaa#Laura Branigan for more information, and page history of Laura Branigan for previous disruption, disruption going back several years and severe enough to result in several blocks last year, and protection of the article on and off for the past several years. Laura Branigan's former manager (editing as User:Vince-OHE, formerly named "Other Half Entertainment" and with self-proclaimed COI, and also editing as many IPs), claims it's 1957 but has provided no independent sources for it, only his own website and sources that obviously got the infornation from there, while other editors, including User:Born53 swe, claim it's 1952, and have made a much more convincing case than the manager. It is in ther words a content dispute, and as such does not belong on ANI. Thomas.W talk 19:43, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree that this is a content dispute and such discussion belongs on the article's talk page, not in an ANI. Devilmanozzy, please create a discussion on the article's talk page (if you haven't already done so), so that the issue can be discussed and resolved properly. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 19:49, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Oshwah, I really don't know what to do. I usually edit at wikia, which has none of this. I am here to correct a birth date a birth place to a singer from a soundtrack to a movie I care about. Devilmanozzy (talk) 21:55, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Devilmanozzy - There are other editors that have issues with the date that you're trying to add to the article, as well as the source that you're trying to use to support the change. You need to properly discuss these concerns by navigating to the article's talk page and creating a discussion to resolve it. If another editor has already created a discussion, you will want to respond to it and discuss the issue with them and address their concerns. Once a consensus is reached, the article can be modified (or kept at the status quo) in order to reflect that consensus. In order to allow this ANI discussion to be closed for archiving (this issue does not belong on this noticeboard), please respond on my talk page with any additional questions or concerns that you may have. I'll be happy to assist you there. :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 22:17, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    User:Dweller opened up a section about getting links. (Talk:Laura Branigan#Trying to help resolve the birth year issue) Is that what is needed? Devilmanozzy (talk) 22:44, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict)"Other Half Entertainment" have behaved as if they own the article about Laura Branigan for ten years now, see this post from July 2006 on Talk:Laura Branigan, where they claim to have the right to control what's in the Wikipedia article, it is also complicated by there being two "official websites", laurabraniganonline.com, owned by Other Half Entertainment, and laurabranigan.com, owned by someone else, fighting over which site is the official one. So all of it is one big mess... Thomas.W talk 20:00, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The reason I brought this down here was because I was unable to organize a discussion on this due to how Thomas has been reacting to what I brought to the article. It is confusing to come to an article ruled by one point of view. After finding a ongoing battle starting up, I asked for help. Now it seems that the discussion is now in progress. Hopefully the outcome will be respected. Devilmanozzy (talk) 22:56, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • @SMcCandlish: In an ideal world where everything is simple, yes, but in this case the subject of the article passed away twelve years ago, leaving two official websites that AFAIK still haven't been able to settle the dispute about which one of them is the official website, since both of them still claim that they're the real official one, making them nothing more than fansites. And WP:ABOUTSELF can hardly apply in this case since the information isn't about themselves, i.e. the site and its owners (Laura Branigan's former manager), but about Laura Branigan. WP:ABOUTSELF also says that self-published sources aren't allowed if there is reasonable doubt as to its authenticity, which I feel there is since Laura Branigan is dead and can neither confirm nor deny anything that is said on either of the two "official websites". Thomas.W talk 00:17, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Why would an alleged "official" site not created by her manager be considered legit? I.e., if Branigan trusted the manger to run the site while alive, that would appear to make that the official site, well, officially, absent any evidence that the manager went nutso after she died and made weird changes. If it was ABOUTSELF-worthy before she died, it wouldn't be suddenly unreliable the day after she did, absent evidence of post-death shenanigans at the site. I can right this minute go create a third "official" Laura Branigan website but WP would have reason to take that seriously, so why are we taking seriously the claims of officialness by another site that isn't by her staff? I agree that the manager ("former manager" is kinda POV, suggesting he was terminated) acting OWNy here is a COI problem, but that's unrelated to whether the external source maintained for Branigan then and now by this person has somehow become unreliable and unofficial and not more reliable than a fansite just because she's died or because the manager is being too proprietary here. If anything, it seems like the manager is trying to be protective; it's not like he's some vandal. Anyway, if we don't want to trust either site, just say the birthdate is disputed, cite them both in once ref as example primary sources demonstrating that different dates are claimed, and leave it at that until more sources are found.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  01:46, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Possible WP:COMPETENCY issue

    While on NPP, I came across an article created by

    shMaterinski jezik ovoga korisnika je srpskohrvatski.
    Матерњи језик овога корисника је хрватскосрпски.
    hr-4Ovaj suradnik hrvatski razumije kao da mu je materinski jezik.
    en-4This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.
    sr-4Овај корисник течно говори српски језик.
    Ovaj korisnik tečno govori srpski jezik.
    bs-4Ovaj korisnik tečno govori bosanski.
    mk-2Корисникот средно зборува македонски.
    sl-2Uporabnik srednje dobro govori slovenščino.
    de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.
    la-1Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.
    This user is a member of the Cooperatives WikiProject.
    This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue)
    My sandbox

    I am reading and writing mostly in English and sometimes editing English Wikipedia also.

    My focus are content gaps and marginalized knowledge.

    When able I inform local WikiProjects of my positions and experiences, but that to use Meta more., which consisted of the following [48]. Seemingly done in good faith, but malformed and incorrect. They have had an account here since roughly 2002, but only started editing around 2011, making about 15 edits per year. They seem to have some trouble understanding how to properly create and format articles, have created several articles that have been speedied over the years, and have never responded to a comment on their talk page. There have also been some copyvios [49] and articles tagged as promotional. After they created the New Society for Visual Arts at NGBK, I redirected it, did a quick translation and improved the article... their last edit to the article was this [50]. I suspect they mean well, but lack WP:COMPETENCY. Kindzmarauli (talk) 18:58, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    It is much more simple - I moved it to sandbox as I wanted to edit it in better form and more punctual info. Also as current (English) title of the page is not at all official name of the organization (they only use nGbK in English - never translate or expand it - check original web EN pages)... Zblace (talk) 19:08, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    This is what I mean. You didn't move it to your sandbox, you turned the existing article into an unreferenced single-sentence, than you apparently copied and pasted it into your sandbox. We use English titles on the English Wikipedia, not German ones. The page you created initially wasn't an article at all, it was some sort of unreferenced sentence with a bare URL to an article on the German Wikipedia. The things you're doing here, though you may be well-intentioned, are creating a mess that people then have to clean up. Kindzmarauli (talk) 20:18, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The user has also attempted to add the entry to a dab page repeatedly. He's been warned twice by myself, subsequently resorting to personal attacks. It's unfortunate. Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 21:22, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I just removed a whole pile of unsourced POV edits fromthe article added by the IP 91.22.131.126, which would clearly seem to be the same editor. I believe a block on the editor in question is in order. BMK (talk) 14:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Application of WP:ROUGHCONSENSUS

    Robert McClenon (talk · contribs) has closed an RfC at talk:Mayan languages talk:Maya civilization in favor of a minority viewpoint held by 3 editors against 9 editors citing WP:ROUGHCONSENSUS. As I understand this policy, it is only to be applied in cases where the majority argument clearly violates a policy, and also it seems only to apply to admin closures in AfD discussions? Is this a valid and reasonable application of the policy on rough consensus?--·maunus · snunɐɯ· 19:32, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    He does specifically this RFC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KoshVorlon (talk • contribs) 20:31, 17 March 2016‎
    As to where to discuss, see Wikipedia:Closing discussions#Challenging_other_closures. As I explain there and on my talk page, the issue is whether I misread what Yes and No meant in the original question. I did see 9 No and 3 Yes !votes as a rough consensus for No. I moved this thread to WP:AN, and User:Maunus has reverted my deletion here, but the properly placed closure review is still at WP:AN. I'll leave it up to an uninvolved admin to close this thread here because WP:AN is a better forum. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:59, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    No, my question is about the correct application of the policy WP:ROUGHCONSENSUS - it is not a formal closure review. This is an appropriate place to discuss this. ·maunus · snunɐɯ· 22:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm confused. You asked if this particular RFC closure was a correct application of a guideline, yet you say you don't want to challenge the closure. We can't do the first without looking at the second. Or do you want us to go around in bureaucratic circles for a while until someone does challenge the closure? Katietalk 00:53, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    There are two separate questions. One is the application of the policy - this has broad implications. Then there is the specific case of the RfC closure, which it would only make sense to challenge if the policy has been applied incorrectly.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 01:21, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Maunus: I'm not sure what "policy" you're referring to. There is quite simply no policy. WP:ROUGHCONSENSUS is actually part of the deletion guidelines which don't apply to this situation at all. The actual policy on consensus says nothing remotely akin to what you describe; it actually makes no mention of "rough consensus" at all. You may be surprised to learn that there is no policy or guideline on closing discussions in general or the application of rough consensus. WP:RFC simply says RfCs can be closed by any uninvolved editor and directs you to WP:CLOSE for more information on formal closure. WP:CLOSE actually says the desired standard is rough consensus. So, in sum, I see nothing wrong whatsoever with Robert's closure. If you dispute his reading of consensus, then of course there are ways to appeal, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with reading a "rough consensus" and there never has been. Swarm ♠ 01:41, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Swarm:. You see nothing wrong with closing a discussion in which 9 people !vote no and 3 people !vote yes as "yes" without saying why the 3 peoples argument is considered stronger than the 9? How is that a "rough consensus"? So when can I go to an Rfc with 9 against 3 and close it in agreement with the 3 and claim "rough consensus" with no further argument? If there is no policy on "rough consensus" that aplies outside of deletion discussions then RObert McClenon misapplied the guideline since he used it as support for disregarding the majority argument.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 03:48, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Maunus: You asked a specific question above regarding "the correct application of the policy". I merely answered your question by clarifying that this aspect isn't an issue—there is no rule regarding rough consensus of any sort. Beyond that, I'm not sure why you're not understanding Robert's replies. He clearly states above that he did see a consensus for "no" and intended to side with them. He explained both here and on his talk page that he may have simply misunderstood what the "no"s meant and has offered to revise the close if he misinterpreted them. In the RfC, "no" meant do not omit the repetition. It appears he simply took them to mean do not repeat. Given the double-negative involved, it seems an easy enough mistake to make and all that's required here is a revised closing comment. I was able to deduce this by his reply on his talk page. It appears you were so caught up on the perceived injustice, you overlooked the fact that he made an honest mistake that is easily fixed. Swarm ♠ 04:19, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    What I had said was the 9 Nos and 3 Yeses was a rough consensus for No. If I misunderstood which position was Yes and which position was No, then my close was incorrect, not because of any confusion about ROUGHCONSENSUS, but because of a misunderstanding. If so, I would suggest that this thread be closed as in the wrong forum, and reopened or refiled at WP:AN. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:26, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Exactly what I was trying to explain. You misinterpreted the "no" position resulting in a mistaken closing comment opposite of the actual consensus. No big deal. We merely need someone to revise the closing comment and the issue is resolved... Swarm ♠ 04:34, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I would be fine with that, although I find it hard to believe that Robert McClenon did not realize that his closing comment was in agreement with the three yes !votes and against the 9 no votes, since the rationale in fact repeats the phrasing of the yes votes, and in no way seems to mistake yes and no. But if Robert McClenon acknowledges the closing was an error, then he can certainly revise the close himself to fit the consensus, or undo it and let someone else do the closing. ·maunus · snunɐɯ· 07:09, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I've posted to his talk page asking him to do this as it's been almost 24 hours. Doug Weller talk 07:06, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    He's reversed his close, and I re-closed it as consensus to keep the two words in the title. Hope that buttons this one up. Katietalk 14:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    WP:CIR issue?

    Swarm has indefinitely blocked the accounts (non-admin closure) Snuggums (talk / edits) 02:10, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

    Would an admin please look into the editing of User:DANE YOUSSEF? This editor has received numberous warnings over the years about not adding unsourced information to articles [51],[52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [61], and was even blocked three times for doing so [62], [63], [64], and yet continues in this practice. I left him a strongly worded warning recently about his editing [65], but there was another incident, and another warning from another editor, today. [66] The editor very rarely responds to any of these warnings, simply continues on their way. I'm afraid that the editor may not be able to understand our policies (there have been other warnings about other issues, including using multiple accounts), and may require a CIR sanction. Certainly a formal warning from an admin couldn't hurt. BMK (talk) 21:09, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Editor notified. BMK (talk) 21:11, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Block log. Previous blocks were for 48 hours, 2 weeks, and 21 days. BMK (talk) 21:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    See also User:SURFUR, which appears to be an (abandoned) alt account of the same person. My immediate impression is that userpage may be a WP:NOTWEBHOST violation; it looks like a CV/talent bio (info like height, build, hair color, eye color)... I know we have a lot of leeway for talking about ourselves on our userpages, but damn. The buffet of talent-related links and social networking links is a little worrisome as well. Other factoids: Indeffed on English Wiktionary for self-promotion (since 2010) and doesn't seem to use edit summaries. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 00:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Obviously the same guy - the user pages are pretty much identical. SURFUR has no blocks, but also has a talk page full of warnings for the same kind of stuff. BMK (talk) 00:43, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    There's also User:DANE RAMADAN YOUSSEF: abandoned account, edited from 25 January - 12 November 2011, pretty much the same kind of user page, talk page has two complains about no sources, also indef blocked on en.wiktionary. BMK (talk) 00:48, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Looks like Dane has mirrored his same CV/userpage over at meta as well. I'm wondering if this is some sort of clumsy attempt at SEO. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 00:53, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Any more accounts, make sure to check the global contribs. Dane has done the same spamming of his CV on French WP, Polish WP, species.wikimedia, WikiSource... pretty much every project we have. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 00:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • I find it nothing short of shocking that he's gotten away with this for so long. 2500+ edits and not a single one on an article talk page. Blocking him and his related accounts right now. Swarm ♠ 01:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    Handing the crosswiki spam

    While I know it kind of falls outside the purview of this board, I'm at a bit of a loss for how to address the breadth of this editor's crosswiki self-promotion. He has spammed copies of his userpage on everything from Simple English Wikipedia to Wikiquote to the MediaWiki Wiki to Spanish Wiktionary... etc etc etc. Would someone knowledgeable in how to handle these sorts of crosswiki issues take a look at this, perhaps taking discussion over to Meta? —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 05:14, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    You can ask for a steward to issue a global block at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global_block Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:31, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Just did that. I wasn't sure about the different policies and procedures they had over at meta (blocks, locks, and bans, oh my!) but after looking over the document pages and recent archives, I decided to try a global block request. Let's see how that goes. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 17:49, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    A bizarre e-mail

    Socks blocked. If you receive strange emails, don't hesitate to report. (non-admin closure) -- The Voidwalker Discuss 23:30, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

    I just received a strange e-mail from Freedomlover61 (talk · contribs). It reads:

    I noticed recently you had some trouble with edit warring.
    I can help you. Join our group.
    We will write messages in your support and do reverts in your support.
    Whatever you want us to do, we will help you do it. So long as you help each other in our group.
    If you are interested please add me on this skype id: [redacted]
    Or just reply back to this email.
    No more getting blocked on wikipedia or having edits reverted by idiots.

    Given that Freedomlover has made no edits as I am writing this, I suspect the account is a sockpuppet, though I have no idea who the sockmaster might be. Is there anything we should be doing here? Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Sir Sputnik - Indeed, that is very strange. If I remember correctly, I believe that CheckUsers can view logs of correspondences sent by an account (just "Email was sent from X to Y") - it could be a sock, but my first thought is a possible spam user. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 00:32, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    It is indeed curious. I recommend you not replying to the message. Right now, they can only email you through Wikipedia but if you reply, they will have your email address and they could continue to reach out to you. Liz Read! Talk! 00:37, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Agreed with Liz - do not respond to the user's correspondence to you. Else, the user will receive your email address in your reply. Has this user sent you this email repeatedly, or just once? My real curiosity is if he/she is sending emails to many users (again, CheckUser can confirm). Otherwise, it really doesn't assert that the account is a sockpuppet. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 00:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    They've only e-mailed me the one time, though it certainly sounds like I'm not the only one to receive this message. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/Freedomlover60 Freedomlover60 I got an e-mail from Freedomlover60 today. I will not repeat what was said in the e-mail. You won't believe what they said. I might have to take some time off of Wikipedia. QuackGuru (talk) 02:12, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    QuackGuru If the email contains any threats, outing, or otherwise anything that makes you uncomfortable, please make sure to report it using proper procedures. If you need help with that, please do not hesitate to ask. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 02:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    They've been blocked now; could someone add an "email disabled" flag to that block? —Jeremy v^_^v Bori! 02:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    o.0 ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 03:02, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    WP:Brian Martin (social scientist) : other editor is feeling stalked/harassed. And is also attacking me.

    Help Desk refered me here. As Gongwool [67] is feeling harassed and stalked I think it better to discuss resolutions with others present. On BLP WP:Brian Martin (social scientist)[68] I am getting attacked and Gongwool is feeling stalked/harassed.

    Gongwool is refusing to discuss edits with me. Rather Gongwool posted their discussion to an admin's page without notifying me. [69]

    I have made the mistake of addressing user conduct on theBLP Talk page.

    • Examples of SmithBlue addressing user conduct on talk page: [70], [71], [72], [73]
    • Examples of attacks by Gongwool and Gongwool feeling harrased :WP:Brian Martin Talk page:

    Accuses SmithBlue of CoI:[74], Accusation of Harrassment and DE, statement of no further comms.[75], Claims SmithBlue wishes to "whitewash" the article and has a CoI: [76]

    • Examples of attacks, feeling stalked and harrased, noncivil and accusatory edit sums:
    • 07:06, 9 February 2016‎ Gongwool (talk | contribs)‎ . . (7,122 bytes) (+78)‎ . . (Fixed para due to complaining IP editor.)
    • 05:29, 15 March 2016‎ Gongwool (talk | contribs)‎ . . (11,733 bytes) (+427)‎ . . (Add text from book as I was being from agro editor not practicing Good Faith.)
    • 05:55, 15 March 2016‎ Gongwool (talk | contribs)‎ . . (11,799 bytes) (+66)‎ . . (Added 2 more references to hopefully stop agro from an editor.)
    • 23:16, 17 March 2016‎ Gongwool (talk | contribs)‎ . . (13,680 bytes) (+658)‎ . . (Undid revision 710599623 by SmithBlue (talk) It is WP:RS Science news journal. Sorry, I don't discuss with this stalky editor due to his prior harassment. So won't engage in his silly arguments.)
    • 23:45, 17 March 2016‎ Gongwool (talk | contribs)‎ . . (13,704 bytes) (+24)‎ . . (→‎Criticism: Changed text to quote to satisfy any pro-OPV-AIDS / pro-Vaccine-Autism link 'Fringe theorists' who may be overly-critical of cites here for reasons of bias.)

    I do want the "stalky" "harrasment" issue cleaned up. I do not want an WP editor feeling stalked and harrasssed. Nor do I want to be portrayed in those terms. And I want the attacks to stop. Where to from here? (This BLP is very unstable. There were recent ongoing BLP violation issues. Diffs of large changes; [77], [78] Editing practices may need to be addressed.) SmithBlue (talk) 03:34, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    This is very confusing.
    1. Are you the one feeling harassed or is Gongwool feeling harassed?
    2. Are you speaking of yourself in the 3rd person?
    Blackmane (talk) 04:23, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, I SmithBlue am speaking of myself in the 3rd person above. "Gongwool [79] is feeling harassed and stalked". SmithBlue (talk) 07:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    1. Hi, yes it's confusing. I have not requested that this editor make a complaint about himself on my behalf so I have crossed out the parts of the complaint on my behalf that I never asked for. With that in mind others may understand why I don't engage with this editor.
    2. Anyway, I think the real issue here is that this particular editor has has a current suspension warning from an admin for editing "fringe theory" issues and is sore with this. Whereas I don't support fringe theory and (understandingly) have no such warnings hanging over my head. He will now certainly reply below in an attempt to engage me in some awkward argy-bargy agenda, but I will not reply. Have a good day. Thanks. Bye. Gongwool (talk) 05:41, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Please don't refactor others' comments, Gongwool. That said, I'm kinda glad this was brought here... though I am still confused. This ended up on my user talk page and frankly I ignored it as an editor dispute that I didn't want part of and because I really didn't understand what was going on. Anyway, it needs some attention. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 05:55, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    OK EvergreenFir, understood. But to all others please ignore the 95% of the above complaint which involves the other editor making a complaint about himself on my behalf. I did not authorise such. I'm also confused... but just getting on with WP editor business and avoiding those who have a 'fringe theory' (see his warning from admin here) agenda who desperately try to wind me up. I know there's policies at WP about pushing fringe theory and totally agree. Thanks, bye. Gongwool (talk) 06:20, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    As is obvious Gongwool portrays me as "pushing a fringe theory". Given that I'm not "pushing a fringe theory" this seems to be a form of taunting. Taunting would seem to disrupt editing. SmithBlue (talk) 07:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    See I told you he'd try to engage in argy-bargy argument and wind me up. Taunting? I think his bizarre reverse complaint (making a complaint on my behalf identifying himself as the offender) shows the reverse. His complaint compultion is too weird for me (sorry but I think he craves chaos on 'fringe theory'). I've better things to do. bye.!!! Gongwool (talk) 07:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Admins, experienced users. What do you suggest? SmithBlue (talk) 07:23, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    The real problem

    SmithBlue joined Wikipedia in 2007. Up to the end of 2008 xe was reasonably active, but with a number of edits related to the OPV AIDS hypothesis, a refuted AIDS origin hypothesis promoted by Edward Hooper and latterly supported by Brian Martin (the locus of dispute toady). Example edits: [80], [81], [82].

    Then, after a lengthy absence, SmithBlue returned with all guns blazing on Feb 9 2016, with this ANI report on a dispute where xe had no apparent prior involvement at all (unless xe was using an alternate account?). There's also this, linking a polemical "review" of our article on the OPV AIDS hypothesis on a crank alt-med website.

    As far as I can see, SmithBlue's major beef is with the fact that the OPV AIDS hypothesis is considered refuted. From xyr edits, xe appears to consider it rejected and suppressed, not refuted. In fact, the sources show it to be refuted by robust evidence including DNA analysis.

    Addendum: In pushing for a less dismissive treatment of this refuted hypothesis, SmithBlue has started six separate sections of discussion on Talk:Brian Martin (social scientist), five of them within a single 24 hour period. He appears to eblieve that consensus necessarily means that he must agree ([83]). This is, obviously, false: consensus does not mean unanimity, and editors are fully entitled to ignore stonewalling. SmithBlue is making large numbers of rapid-fire demands on the Talk page (e.g. this series: [84]) without allowing adequate time for others to respond. He seems, in short, to be showing all the classic signs of being here to Right Great Wrongs. His wrongteous anger is clearly getting the better of him.
    A review of SmithBlue's edits shows a determination to present The Truth™ about the OPV-AIDS hypothesis - an idea first published in that well-known medical journal Rolling Stone and primarily promoted by Edward Hooper, a journalist with no known medical qualifications, which has been refuted by phylogenetic and molecular biological studies. The word refuted here is used in its correct technical sense, ref Nature. This hypothesis has been exploited by anti-vaccination activists and has played a part in preventing the final eradication of poliomyelitis. Not just nonsense, then, but deadly nonsense - so quite high stakes as far as the reliability of Wikipedia goes.

    I issued a DS notice: [85].

    I believe that editors of the Brian Martin article are losing patience with rebutting SmithBlue's querulous demands. This seems to me to be WP:BOOMERANG territory. Guy (Help!) 09:06, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for turning up Guy. Uninvolved admins - yes Guy is a very involved admin at WP:Brian Martin - please check;
    • this diff[86] for the BLP Brian Martin that compares from immediately prior to Guy's first edit there with the article just prior to me arriving with all guns blazing.
    • This diff [87] which is the result of a cleanup by respected Wikipedians User:Darouet, User:Drmies, User:DGG, User:EverGreenFir & User:Bilby. Due, I understand, to my flagging the BLP vios and Disruptive Editing.
    • Guy protests the mass removal of material. And bilby responds :Hi! The short version is that there were a pile of BLP violations in the article - claims not supported by sources, sources being incorrectly used to create false claims, and issues around due weight. ...[88] Pure magic.

    In light of Guy's involvement in turning BLP WP:Brian Martin into an attack piece and his defence of it when I tried BLPN and AN/I I suggest that Guy's actions at BLP Briann Martin make him a subject of this ANI as well. Please bear that in mind when you read his attempts to portray me as disruptive. I think it would be helpful to ask User:Darouet, User:Drmies, User:DGG, User:EvergreenFir & User:Bilby for their views on the state of the article when they arrived. SmithBlue (talk) 09:37, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I am certainly involved in the Martin article, though more as a result of his sponsorship of an antivax PhD that fails even the most basic tests of academic rigour. Now you need to read WP:NOTTHEM. Guy (Help!) 09:42, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    The reasons you were active on Brian Martin are not why I am here. I am here in large part because of your editing conduct on WP:Brian Martin. SmithBlue (talk) 09:49, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I see that he's got his guns blazing from you too Guy (Help!), that's because you are also believe in WP:fringe policy. The offender's aim is to scare off any person who is not a pro-OPVAIDS or pro-Vax-Autism link fringe theorist, and his badgering seems to be working well. He's put in about 3 or 4 complaints about this article and seem to have failed, he won't give up. I asked him some time back to leave me alone as I knew he was "trouble" and he's done the exact opposite, finally putting in this ridiculous complaint on my behalf just to try and have an argumentative debate with me. Yep, he's trouble to you, me or any person who may support of WP:fringe policy. Can he be banned from this and any other article discussing fringe theory and fringe theory scientific correction issues? I don't know how such works. Gongwool (talk) 10:53, 18 March 2016 (UTC) Gongwool (talk) 11:01, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment There's obviously an element of content disputation here; but tbh User:Gongwool does also seem to have a somewhat unpolished attitude towards collegiality. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 11:27, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Maybe, but he's been getting along OK with Bilby and they have been collaborating well enough to improve the articles. Gongwool should be aware that it's not really necessary to poke SmithBlue with a sharp stick, xe looks like xe is quite capable of digging xyr own grave unaided. Guy (Help!) 12:05, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi and JzG, I don't admit to being too polished or experienced (unless that's a crime), but all understood and heard. Then again none of us asked for this complaint to be here, it's designed to be somewhat of a distraction, one thinks. Gongwool (talk) 12:32, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    No, SmithBlue, you are here because you want to recruit support in your attempts to push fringe content into the article, when you are failing to gain any traction at all on the article's Talk page. That much is obvious from your statement of the dispute: you want to run the opposition out of town. It's not going to work because the edits you propose are not supported by policy. It's hardly a surprise, given your very limited experience of Wikipedia. However, the problem is not with "everybody else", it's with your unwillingness to heed consensus and apparent attempts to portray a refuted antivax trope as a valid but suppressed theory. It's not suppressed, it's refuted, as our article clearly shows. The science has actually become more settled since you originally tried this. Wikipedia is not the place to present anti-vaccination tropes as anything other than the dangerous bullshit they are. This is by design. Guy (Help!) 12:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Canvassing

    WP:CANVASS and WP:NPA in one hit, good job. See [89]. Incidentally, SmithBlue, this set ([90], [91], [92], [93]) is unnecessary since the pings you already included will have alerted these good people. Guy (Help!) 12:29, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    WTF? This complainant knows no boundaries. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. Gongwool (talk) 12:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I asked explicitly about contacting the admins who cleaned up the BLP. And was told that, as long as I didn't coach them, it would be OK. Do you disagree with the advise I got from Help Desk Chat? Do you object to 5 Wikipedians who cleaned up the BLP presenting their views?SmithBlue (talk) 12:36, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    There are two parts to my statement above. The first is that your post to Seabreezes1 was unambiguously inappropriate (albeit that it shows very clearly your failure to comprehend why your edits are rejected). The second was that the other posts to Talk pages were unnecessary since they will already be aware through your mentioning them here; writing on this page is in any case going firther than contacting those admins and is instead contacting the entire admin community. I can't comment on the claim you make about Help Desk anyway, since the last posting by you to Help Desk I can find was in 2008: [94] and was about something else entirely. And anybody who's seen my talk page will know I have no problem at all with involving any other admins, especially DGG, or indeed Drmies, both of whom I hold in high regard. Guy (Help!) 13:04, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    You'll find my request for clarification in the logs of Help Desk Chat: "Do you need real-time chat help with your issue? Join our IRC channel at #wikipedia-en-help" link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/chat I appreciate your demonstration of AGF on this issue. SmithBlue (talk) 21:41, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Smokescreen

    The attempt, by Guy, to portray me as attempting "to push fringe content" has a major flaw.

    • I have not attempted to push fringe content.

    Even a quick inspection of any diff put forward will show that I am a stickler for WP policy and guidelines around pseudoscience and just about everything. WP:Baby Formula - maybe I messed up there 8 years ago and let nonsourced material remain? My goal, (was it 8 years ago when I put forward those science academic publication sources?), was to have the topic portrayed exactly in line with WP policy and guidelines. I always discussed and sought consensus. And still do. Hence this AN/I. What lies behind this smokescreen of Guy's?
    User conduct in the flicking of a BLP into an attack piece.
    Here again are the diffs showing the arc of the BLP through the Guy, Gongwool and Jewjoo period[95] and out the other side[96].

    • Guy actively defended the BLP violations on the BLPN that I started in an attempt to get the BLP vios addressed. [[97]]

    I've been watching things unfold with the Brian Martin (professor) article, and wrote this a day or two ago, and hope it helps... This article is quite derogatory about Martin himself, and his work, yet this is not based on strong evidence. It seems to be mainly based on slanted views of a WP:SPA editor. I would think the article, and Talk page, contravene WP:BLP. More clarification and context on Martin's publishing record is needed to better examine this situation, but details of Martin's key publications have been removed from the page several times: [33], [34]. Despite what is being said in this WP article, Martin has published many peer-reviewed journal articles. But, yes, he does publish widely in a diverse range of publication outlets, as many academics do. The article is portraying Martin as an activist, but to me he is just an "interdisciplinary academic" working in the area of "science and technology studies (STS)." He is a full professor employed full-time at a major university. There is an amazing amount of criticism of Martin in the second paragraph of the article, relating to Michael Primero, Andrew Wakefield, and Judith Wilyman. Yet, material about Martins' STS professorial colleagues, Mark Diesendorf, Ian Lowe and Jim Falk has been removed from the article with little discussion. Johnfos (talk) 22:45, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
     

    Negative, yes, but not inaccurate. He has a history of misidentifying cranks as whistleblowers, and his supervision of the Wilyman PhD calls into question his fitness to supervise further PhDs, as that document used confirmation bias and conspiracist thinking in place of actual evidence. Guy (Help!) 23:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
    • Guy actively defended the BLP violations on the ANI that I started (Note the smokescreening) [[98]].

    The article is being actively edited and the only material identified as an inaccurate representation of the sources has been fixed. Martin is the subject of legitimate and well-sourced criticism for his support of a PhD that failed every conceivable test of valid research work, that is not our problem to fix. I note that much of your history relates to defending Hooper's discredited advocacy of the OPV-AIDS hypothesis, a common anti-vax trope. I suspect that the "inaccuracy" you identify may in fact be accuracy that you just don't like. Guy (Help!) 09:02, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

    • On WP:Brian Martin, two edits clearly summed as BLP issues with existing discusions on Talk;

    15:29, 4 February 2016‎ 124.171.109.96 (talk)‎ . . (6,361 bytes) (-927)‎ . . (BLP issue: rem inaccurate reflection of source. see Talk) [[99]] &
    16:14, 4 February 2016‎ 124.171.109.96 (talk)‎ . . (6,558 bytes) (-185)‎ . . (rem "published by A rather than B" from lede. BLP, OR see Talk) [[100]]
    Guy claims whitewashing & reverts:
    22:55, 4 February 2016‎ JzG (talk | contribs)‎ . . (7,288 bytes) (+730)‎ . . (Reverted 4 edits by 124.171.109.96 (talk): Revert whitewashing. Please discuss on Talk efore removing material. (TW))[[101]]
    Guy with that edit summ also promoted actions in violation of BLP policy. BLP policy is clear that "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately ...". Not discussed and then later removed. And what was Guy defending?
    Here again is Bilby's reply [[102]] "... there were a pile of BLP violations in the article - claims not supported by sources, sources being incorrectly used to create false claims, ..."
    SmithBlue (talk) 14:36, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Ho-hum, it looks like big bad Guy is attempting to keep Wikipedia on the straight-and-narrow again, and someone is complaining about it again. I suppose that means that the sun will set again this evening. BMK (talk) 18:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I'll decide later if it is to rise again tomorrow, just to show that I can. #adminabuse. Drmies (talk) 18:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Don't bother, I don't mind sleeping in all day. BMK (talk) 22:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm just wondering what part of my statement is supposed to be problematic, since it's all an accurate reflection of the sources cited in the article. Guy (Help!) 00:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    SmithBlue asked me to look at the article. Without considering the history, of specific BLP questions, the actual material about the subject appears basically fair, but the presentation is slanted by multiple statements that the OPV-AIDS theory is discredited. So it is, and it is appropriate to say so in the article, but stating it one time is enough. I have noticed a similar problem in some other articles on scientist out of the mainstream. DGG ( talk ) 23:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for coming DGG. As I have raised the issue of BLP violations on the article I ask that you give your appraisal of the article as it was immediately before I intervened.[[103]]
    Yeah, that tends to happen when people keep trying to change it to suppressed or disputed instead of refuted, which is what it is. You end up with a hundred sources for a trivial and uncontentious (except to a tiny minority) fact. A pet peeve, really, since non-neutral crud gets added, it gets neutralised and left, and the paragraph never gets copyedited down to its essence. Still and all, 100% of the noise on that talk page right now is coming from one source: SmithBlue. Guy (Help!) 00:49, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposal re SmithBlue

    It is unclear to me how this thread got so long, nor why User:SmithBlue has not been blocked under the PSCI DS yet for abuse of BLP to to POV-push PSCI and for WP:Civil POV-pushing at the Martin article and the OPV AIDS hypothesis article. I propose a 48-hour block on SmithBlue to prevent further disruption to the project. The mainstream editors involved here have better things to do than keep going round and round on this stuff. Jytdog (talk) 20:06, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    My current concern is the integrity of WP. I undertake not to edit on BLP Brian Martin for 48 hours. SmithBlue (talk) 21:26, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    SmithBlue & "push fringe content" - the claims and the reality

    Guy, to evidence his claim that I am pushing fringe content provides the following cites."Example edits: [104], [105], [106]." Let us examine them:

    • [107] I provide the source details for a book written by the subject that is already in the article. And, in an BLP, add a short description of a scientific paper that the subject co-authored.
    • [108] I change section heading from "Oral polio vaccine hypothesis (disproven conjecture)" to "=== Oral polio vaccine hypothesis (rejected) ===". This is line with Nature[109]. And Guy's own use of "rejected" on this page. (see:The Real Problem:Addendum)
    • [110] I suggest that all editors work first in the areas of agreement and list a relevant scientifically published paper that I am working on. I then point out that suppression of dissent material is also relevant. This suppression material is scientifically published and focussed on as part of the history of OPV-AIDS in a 2015 textbook, "Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology - Stephen H. Jenkins". Guy has raised no objections to the use of this tertiary source on BLP Brain Martin.

    Guy has mis-categories my edits. SmithBlue (talk) 20:56, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Guy's edit that created multiple BLP vios

    BLP Policy: "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous."

    • [111] The majority of the material Guy added here fails WP:Verify. As does his addition of "Category:Anti-vaccination"

    With Guy's illustious WP history, the idea that Guy was unaware that the material failed WP:Verify must be rejected out of hand. Deliberately action against BLP policy is not about content, it is about conduct. Here we have Guy acting to knowlingly violate BLP policy. SmithBlue (talk) 21:22, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Possible shared account

    User:MrFancyBro has referred to themselves with the pronoun 'we' several times. Now, I do not believe that they intend to use the imperial we, so I believe that this strongly implies shared usage. This has occurred twice on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Kehr (2nd nomination), regarding the AfD of an article that they created, and here are the diffs: [112] and [113]. Dschslava (talk) 06:17, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    COI editors often use "we". Sometimes, for example, it's the subject of the article trying to make it less obvious. Or an attempt to make it look as if more than one person thinks the subject should have an article and are "consulting" with each other to assemble the material. It doesn't necessarily mean that the account is literally shared. I notice that this article sprang fully formed complete with properly formatted references and infobox [114] from a "new editor" on their very first edit to Wikipedia which always rings alarm bells. But... how was a new editor able to create an article within 2 days of registering an account and no previous edits? I thought it took more than that to have Autoconfirmed status. Voceditenore (talk) 10:49, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    As far as I am aware all new users can create pages straight away. (Createpages?) Autoconfirmed allows revisions to be automatically accepted. Only in death does duty end (talk) 11:49, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    From the link you posted: "Users who edit through an account they have registered may immediately create pages in any namespace (except the MediaWiki namespace, and limited to eight per minute)." Only in death does duty end (talk) 11:51, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah, thank you Only in death does duty end. Interesting, because in my experience, paid editors invariably wait four days and in the interim make 10 trivial edits to other articles to get autoconfirmed before "getting down to business". Perhaps it's because they're planning to upload a company logo simultaneously with creating the article. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:58, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    It does not always raise alarm bells. A large number of registered editors began as anons (I certainly did, for months).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:40, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Davidzamani

    This user has created a hoax page at Barry S White and removed the CSD tag. I have re-tagged it but can someone block him until this is over? Btw, the photo is also a hoax composite Gbawden (talk) 11:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Article deleted, user indefblocked as vandalism-only account.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:53, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Can someone have a look at Barry A. White? Looks like the page was recreated. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:22, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Articles are similar enough that it's (a) the same creator behind them and (b) also clearly a hoax. Timothy11111 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) had recently created it, as well as Damon Coleman. I'd already removed the Coleman article as a hoax; the White article will go also. —C.Fred (talk) 16:30, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Fake accident report

    Fake accident report:[115] I have been in no accident of any kind and me and my Subaru are just fine. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:03, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Good thing, too, considering this post:[116] (smile) --Guy Macon (talk) 13:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    As someone who has never been vaccinated, I have yet to die of Diphtheria... Only in death does duty end (talk) 13:35, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Guy Macon - Thanks for letting us know. I wonder what interactions that the person has had with you here before... ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 14:23, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Hard to tell from just an IP with one post. The only recent conflict I had with another user appears to have ended when an admin stepped in; see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive189#Arbitration enforcement action appeal by Sir Joseph and User talk:Coffee#Sir Joseph. I certainly wouldn't want to blame SJ without evidence, though. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:48, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    That's a very backhanded way of not blaming me, and if you look at that page, I'm not the one who called you names in violation of NPA and who had an AE request brought against him. If you weren't blaming me, you wouldn't have mentioned my name. You would have just said, "I've had my run-ins with some users but without evidence I obviously can't name names." Your naming me is just on this side of AGF and casting aspersions. -If you strike your comments, feel free to strike this comment as well. Sir Joseph (talk) 20:23, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I repeat, I certainly wouldn't want to blame SJ without evidence. As for these alleged "run-ins with some users", none of them resulted in anything close to this:[117], so I stand by my "...the only recent conflict I had with another user..." comment. Feel free to have the last word; I will not respond. I have no desire to have anything to do with you, but I was asked a direct question and had to give an honest response. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:01, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Someone is proposing a community ban

    Discussion here with examples provided: [118]. Long story short, User:LightandDark2000 appears to be well versed in Wikipedia rules enough to defend himself lawyer style by insisting he acts in good faith and shouldn't be harassed or punitively blocked, but still refuses to engage users' criticism of his editing style. Criticisms include stretching ambiguous sources to support his edits, reverting sourced edits then not undoing that when corrected despite the restriction posed on us by the 1RR, and only engaging in minimal discussion whenever we try to bring up the topic. As I said in the discussion, this dispute dates back to at least June: [119].

    Note this module is subject to WP:GS/SCW&ISIL and a 1RR. As I proposed in that discussion, letting an administrator talk to him may be more effective since he doesn't listen to us. NightShadeAEB (talk) 15:28, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Community ban discussions belong at AN, not on an article talk page. It certainly does seem that this editor is tendentious. The block log is longer than my arm. Katietalk 16:39, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Wouldn't CB discussions be at WP:ANI (here)? WP:AN is mostly more esoteric admin notices, and isn't what "the community" rather, the subset of the community with any stomach for these discussions) pays much attention to.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:38, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    While AN is the better place for these things, it usually gets decided on ANI anyway. Everything happens on ANI. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 23:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Regardless as to whether or not ANI is the proper venue for discussing community bans, I have placed a hat on the discussion on the talk page, redirecting users to this thread. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 23:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I recently requested to get a topic ban lifted on WP:ANI only to be told toward the end when it was clear it would not be lifted that I should have made the request at WP:AN. While it is clear the article talk page is not the correct place for discussion of bans, we need clearer instructions for editors on where is the correct place. DrChrissy (talk) 23:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I guarantee you that the placement of your request did not effect the outcome - you saw to that. BMK (talk) 00:48, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    A typically unhelpful comment from you. This thread is not about me or you. Stop wasting the communities time and try some content editing for once. DrChrissy (talk) 18:07, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    The problem is deeper and more persistent than the above seems to indicate. User:LightandDark2000 is a POV pusher who has been a very disruptive editor for a long time on the Syria module. His bad faith, bad source edits that broke long established consensus has turned all editors against him. You can read entire sections of complaints about him on the talk pages: Talk:Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War#I propose community ban on user:LightandDark2000 editing Syria- and Iraq-related maps, Talk:Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War/Archive 50#LightandDark2000, Talk:Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War#Bad Edit: Raqqa Frontline and Module talk:Iraqi insurgency detailed map/Archive 4#User:LightandDark2000.

    He has a habit of deleting complaint messages from his own talk page so that it would not reveal who he really is. Take a look at the history of edits of his talk page and you will discover dozens and dozens of deleted complaint messages from just the last year. Also there was a report about him at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive904#User:LightandDark2000 intentionally misinterpret sources for editing Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War and similar pages where he was blocked for one month. The mess he creates regularly takes time to be cleaned. He injects in the map his POV pushing and total disregard for other editors’ opinions, sources and established consensus & rules. He has done nothing but make the map wrong with his POV pushing & unresponsive behavior towards other editors. I am asking for him to be permanently banned from Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map. Tradediatalk 17:33, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposing a community ban for 166.137.105.84

    He is constantly vandalizing the same pages that a previous IP was blocked for vandalizing and for block evasion. He continues after I have warned him many, many times. Jdcomix (talk) 17:13, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Jdcomix - This IP has no block log. Why are we jumping straight to a community ban instead of using AIV to report vandalism and have the IP blocked? ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 18:37, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    FWIW, this appears to be long term abuse as documented here: User:NinjaRobotPirate/Animation hoaxer. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:45, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) Very fast and prolific vandal, multitudinously warned. Blocked for 72 hours. Thank you for reporting, Jdcomix. It is true that AIV is usually faster and better for vandalism reports. Bishonen | talk 18:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
    (edit conflict)This is an LTA abuser, being tracked by multiple editors for the last two months. Details can be found at here, as a copycat of the Animation Hoaxer. Dozens of insertions of deliberate factual errors every day or two, so far a dozen IP's have been collected. An experienced admin should consider a range block. Scr★pIronIV 18:47, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I did consider it, ScrapIronIV, but this IP isn't related to any of the others listed by NinjaRobotPirate. Bishonen | talk 18:52, 18 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
    Thank you, Bishonen. I hadn't geolocated the IP, because I have become so familiar with the behavior. All the numbers look the same after a while... This type of vandalism particularly tough to deal with, because those who perform it also insert false information into supporting articles. Scr★pIronIV 19:01, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Unfortunately they seem to be well at home among the proxies. It doesn't exactly take any skill nowadays. :-( I guess whac-a-mole is all we can do, until such time as Wikipedia starts requiring registration. Bishonen | talk 19:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
    Yeah, this looks like the US-based copycat. The geolocation is wrong (New York instead of Texas), but everything else is the same, including the ISP. It could be that AT&T Wireless doesn't have a stable geolocation for customers. I hope it's not a third vandal. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:12, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    This range (the 166.* range) seems to be a magnet to vandals. Site banned no less. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 23:28, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Indeed, this would make it the 4th user of this particular range to need a site ban. Blackmane (talk) 07:00, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    User:176.239.91.133 engaging in harassment

    Short block given by Liz. (non-admin closure) EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 05:08, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    This user is removing my sources and vandalizing my talk page.

    This is what he wrote to my talk page:

    "Hoping to work collaboratively" with a terrorism advocate? Be sure he won't blow himself up when you're trying to talk to him, GGT. --176.239.91.133 (talk) 19:49, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    He reversed my changes and removed my sources here: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Kurdistan_Freedom_Falcons&action=history

    He did the same thing in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Musa_Anter&action=history

    Ferakp (talk) 20:03, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I've given the editor a short block for personal attacks but I encourage you to discuss your editing disputes with other editors on article talk pages and user talk pages and not just post warning templates. A collaborative, not confrontational, approach can resolve a lot of conflict. Liz Read! Talk! 21:36, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Wikipedia:Sandbox

    Addressed by Malcolmxl5. Blocks and page protections meted out. (non-admin closure) EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 05:02, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    Hello,

    A rolling IP vandal has been putting different pictures of penises on the WP:Sandbox. Requesting a rangeblock, as every time an IP is blocked, another comes right on back. When looking at diffs, caution is advised.

    --TJH2018 talk 23:08, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    There's too much collateral damage for a range block, I think. I'll have another look but for the time being, I've semi-protected the sandbox for one hour. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:21, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    True, true. Thanks again. --TJH2018 talk 23:24, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, he moved on to my sandbox! I've blocked two ranges for three hours. Other people were using those ranges up to about two or three hours ago so this is only a short block. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:47, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Malcolmxl5 - I'm assuming it's the same IP but they've gone to the Sandbox talkpage so that may need protecting aswell. Smalljims blocked the IPs so far, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 23:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Nevermind didn't even realize you beaten me to it!, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:00, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, I saw it. I was watching contributions from the range. :) --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:05, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the rangeblocks. I played whack-a-vandal with him for a while. For those who can use it, 684 will help stop the jpgs he's been using, should he return.  —SMALLJIM  00:08, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Tnanks, Smalljim, the edit filter will be helpful. RevisionDelete is in place also. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:22, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Plans

    Referred to VP. (non-admin closure) EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 05:05, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    I have various plans too improve Wikipedia, to whom should I direct theses plans? 82.8.133.241 (talk) 23:22, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Try the village pump. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:32, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    IP vandalising article

    Page semi-protected for 1 week by Malcolmxl5 (non-admin closure) EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 05:06, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    User:177.207.241.167 After numerous warnings on talk page and in edits, along with reverts, this IP continues to vandalise article Jelly Jamm. Entirely replacing sections with impossibly nonsensical grammar and claims. Derick1259 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I have notified the IP, as required for all ANI posts concerning other editors. GABHello! 00:05, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Kotaku - Massive vandalism spree (around 10 vandal edits PER MINUTE)

    SPI page opened; Drmies checkuserblocked 3 more accounts, Mikarga (talk) 04:32, 19 March 2016 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]

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    On Kotaku: Massive Vandalism Spree. Mikarga (talk) 00:16, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    UPDATE: Page is now semi-protected. With that said though, the following accounts should probably be blocked for good measure:

    Wewfamilia (talk · contribs)
    Pepethememe223 (talk · contribs)
    YourBro AndFriend (talk · contribs)
    IFYOUHURTMYFRIENDS (talk · contribs)
    WannabeTomatoModest (talk · contribs)

    All blocked. A checkuser may be useful. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The two pages are related, see Lifehacker#Redesign, where Kotaku is mentioned. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 00:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    They are Gawker Media sites. This is happening as a result of Bollea v. Gawker. Reach Out to the Truth 00:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Deadspin and Bollea v. Gawker look good. Io9 also semi-protected.--Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:17, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    More accounts:

    Question: Should there (or, is there) a current SPI here? I'd be very helpful to get an admin with checkuser on this case... Mikarga (talk) 01:45, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I don't think there is an SPI open. If you could, Mikarga, that would be very helpful.--Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:47, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Malcolmxl5:  Done SPI Link Mikarga (talk) 02:12, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, Mikarga.--Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:19, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Disruptive editing by User:Spirit Ethanol

    The user-in-question launched an Rfc on 12 February 2016 (concerning this article) without seeking local consensus beforehand (according to WP:RFC, this should have been protocol). He then proceeded to mislead other editors into believing that Palestine was somehow displayed as a "substate of Israel", a nonsense accusation that has gained significant traction and eventually this deception proved successful. The understandable majority of Rfc contributors supported separating Palestine from underneath the Israel entry due to the absurd insinuation and premise that the former is displayed as a part of the latter state; this is entirely untrue—see here for more details. I have tried time and time again to convince other editors that the Rfc was indeed biased, misleading and indeed illegitimate—due to the reasons that have been aforementioned—although my attempts to enlighten have rendered almost unheard and subsequently dismissed. In my opinion, I honestly believe that this bull-in-a-china-shop approach on SE's part is unwelcome and unacceptable at Wikipedia. Palestine (and previously the renamed Palestinian National Authority) has been included underneath the Israel entry since 2009 by Zoltan Bukovszky (an experienced editor within the field) and had worked seamlessly ever since for seven years. I am also due to appeal the misconstrued evaluation of the Rfc, although I believe that reporting the unjust and reprehensible behaviour of Spirit Ethanol would be necessary prior to appeal. Note: the user-in-question has been previously blocked twice. Thanks.--Neve–selbert 01:06, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • Considering that this article would fall under ARBPIA, discussion of sanctions should be at WP:AE, unless an admin sees sufficient evidence for WP:ACDS topic ban to be imposed unilaterally. I will say that Neve-selbert's behaviour in that RFC was reprehensible. The general tone of their posts sought to dismiss and belittle any opponent to their opinion. The environment surrounding Israel-Palestine articles is bad enough without more editors like this. Blackmane (talk) 06:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Agree with Blackmane's assessment. Though frankly seems like there's enough here for a passing admin to address it directly. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 06:08, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @TracyMcClark, The Voidwalker, Zero0000, Blackmane, and Evergreenfir: Firstly, I am willing to back off from this whole palaver and discuss the matter on the talk page in a rational and sensible manner, without any battleground overtone. Secondly, I would like the behaviour of Spirit Ethanol to also be addressed, as well as mine, for absolute fairness. And thirdly, I am not a female "she", but a male, "he" editor.--Neve–selbert 08:27, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    FWIW, I was not seeking a block per se for Spirit Ethanol. I just wanted an investigation of some sort as to both why he did not seek prior consensus on the talk page before the Rfc and why he misworded the Rfc question. I am disappointed that my behaviour is somehow viewed as "reprehensible".--Neve–selbert 08:36, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I can't see how starting an RfC and attempting to resolve an edit dispute in such a civic manner is disruptive. The RfC question was not worded with intention to mislead participants, but to express how I perceived what the parent-child layout meant, which is misleading and ambiguous. Spirit Ethanol (talk) 09:13, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Spirit Ethanol: You should have sought local consensus prior to the Rfc. The fact that you ignored this is just pure recklessness. Your perception was a POV nonetheless, and it should have been discussed with familiarised editors before you kick-started the Rfc. A new discussion, meant to reflect on the evaluation, will take place in due course.--Neve–selbert 09:25, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I more or less agree with this, the RfC was essentially useless, as the only one supporting Neve-selberts position is Neve-selbert himself. So an RfC was not necessary, local consensus would have been. Neve-selbert is unlikely to have complied, just like he did not comply with the RfC, but that would have been disruptive editing and handled accordingly. That said, the RfC does not pose a problem per se, it just dragged the process out longer. On the other hand it also went to show how overwhelmingly the consensus went against Neve-selberts edits, which at least clarifies that position. --OpenFuture (talk) 10:13, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict)I disagree that a local consensus would have achieved anything. The point under discussion was Israel-Palestine related. I don't think a local consensus has ever been achieved without the discussion becoming a quasi-RFC anyway. There are just too many viewpoints by too many editors in such a contentious sphere. At least in an RFC, an administrator would close the discussion which has more binding power than a non structured discussion like an RFC. It is not recklessness and declaring it as such is an assumption of bad faith. I viewed your behaviour as reprehensible because of how you badgered every point. If it did not fit your POV, it was dismissed or responded to with disdain. This is not the behaviour one expects in a RFC. Quite frankly, I would view Spirit Ethanol's skipping of the usual free for all that is 'discussion' in PI articles as a bold application of WP:IAR. Blackmane (talk) 10:20, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I think ultimately the only way to resolve this matter was through wider community participation, especially given that many similar articles exist. That is only achieved through a RFC. Other "discussion" at the page would have been a horrendous waste of time, I think that is quite clear. AusLondonder (talk) 10:42, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment I think a boomerang may unfortunately be necessary here for the poster. They have repeatedly refused to WP:LISTEN to other editors. I first raised serious concerns about the fact that this article, which Neve-selbert appears to view as their personal property, listed Palestine as an entry under Israel, in the same way as a non-sovereign dependency such as Gibraltar in the United Kingdom. This post is simply sour grapes and an extraordinary attempt by a POV-pusher to smear a constructive editor. This is obvious by the referencing of expired blocks. AusLondonder (talk) 09:39, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • This is untrue, I am not attempting to smear anyone. I simply needed admin attention on the audacious behaviour of the editor-in-question. Any Rfc should have been launched subsequent to prior discussion as per protocol. Besides, I was simply trying to defend the status quo from a misunderstanding that eventually got out-of-hand. Had he just started a regular discussion on the talk page, without an Rfc, perhaps a unanimous agreement could have been reached without anyone jumping to any rash conclusions based on rash presumptions.--Neve–selbert 09:57, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    What admin action should be taken against you for your "audacious behaviour"? What action should be taken against you for nominating the list for deletion on 1 January using the rationale that is was still the 31st December in some parts of the world? What about nominating it for speedy deletion on bogus grounds during the middle of an Afd in which no editors agreed with you and which resulted in a snow keep? What action should be taken against you in relation to your conduct of de-legitamising and hounding opposing editors during the RfC? What action should be taken against you given your pledge to reject the community consensus from the RfC and your pledge to edit against that consensus? What action should be taken against you given your complete and utter failure to observe WP:NPOV? AusLondonder (talk) 10:12, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah, now Neve-selbert added "confusing" templates to the article without prior discussion in an apparent attempt of more disruption. --OpenFuture (talk) 10:44, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Recommend that this report be withdrawn & the boomerang effort ended. We should concentrate on the dispute at the article-in-question as being what it is - a content dispute. GoodDay (talk) 12:24, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    It should be noted that GoodDay has a history of staunchly defending this editor, a record demonstrated throughout the period of the RfC. Undermining of the RfC and it's author took place. This was in addition to consistently making ludicrous and contradictory arguments subsequently overwhelmingly rejected. AusLondonder (talk) 13:15, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    The Rfc result, is to give Palestine its own seperate entry in the article. PS - I've already contacted Neve-selbert & advised him to walk away from the topic-in-question :) GoodDay (talk) 13:25, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    So after writing above "I am willing to back off from this whole palaver", Neve-selbert still cannot let go of his obsession and now disrupts the article with tagging. [123] [124] I repeat my call for a topic ban. Or a block, at administrators' discretion. It is not acceptable to allow it to go on like this. Zerotalk 13:34, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I was blocked and the two administrators failed to communicate

    kelapstick has notified the two administrators of the issue, Mikarga (talk) 04:34, 19 March 2016 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]

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    I currently use Hola so that I can watch Big Brother Canada from the United States. I sometimes forget to turn it off after the show has ended, and I resume my work here on Wikipedia. About a week ago, while trying to continue my review for a good article nominee, I was prompted to a message that told me that I am blocked from editing on Wikipedia because of a IP proxy. The message also informed me of the two administrators who enforced the block which were Bsadowski1 (talk · contribs) and LFaraone (talk · contribs) and informed me to contact them which I contacted Bsadowski1 on March 8. I was able to return to editing on March 10, while my question to Bsadowski1 remain unanswered. On March 14, I was blocked from editing once again for the same issue and I again contacted Bsadowski1 about the problem. Again he did not answer, so I decided to try and request an unblock ticket form, and after filling out the necessary information, I was unable to continue as according to my account I was not blocked from editing. So I went back to Wikipedia and tried editing and again I received the same message informing me that I am blocked.

    I took my frustrations to Meta Wikimedia on March 15 and asked the community for help. Many users gave me tips on trying to request an unblock to be overturned but none seemed to help. Again, I tried contacting Bsadowski1 that same day angered that this adminstrator continues to ignore my cry for help. I checked his contributions and his last edit was on March 7. Today, I saw that Hola was still on and thought that it might be the cause of this block, so I turned it off and vuala I can edit now. I am writing here because Bsadowski1 failed to communicate with me and did not help me understand what was going on. I believe an administrator who does not communicate and inform the user they blocked (whether or not it was intentional or an accident of unfortunate events) should not be an authority over someone's ability to continue editing here. He and his sidekick were the admins who originally began the IP proxy block and should have been able to answer my question (yea I didn't contact the other dude but I didn't see his username until today) and help me understand that I was using an extension on my web browser that was causing the issue. Best, jona(talk) 01:31, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @AJona1992: You were never blocked; the IPs themselves were blocked. Hola works by routing you through a proxy IP, and those proxy IPs are often blocked due to abuse. Simply turn off Hola when you encounter this problem in the future and you'll be good to go. ~ RobTalk 01:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @BU Rob13: You're missing the point here. The two administrators should be questioned about their lack of communication since they were the ones who initiated the block. How are you going to be an admin and when you block someone you're gone? I am not letting these guys off the hook here. I did nothing wrong, yes I was ignorant of the fact that my extension was causing this but at the time I did not know and these guys were nowhere to be found. These admins are abusing their tools by not informing an ignorant user of his web extension, if you're going to block IPs who use Hola that's completely fine—but you need to be active when innocent users are caught in this and have no where to go. jona(talk) 02:32, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @AJona1992: The first admin you contacted hasn't been active on-site, so they were hardly ignoring you. The second one you never contacted. I'm not really sure what you expected them to do. They don't receive an alert every time a new user accesses an IP that they blocked months ago. Administrators can't even see what IP you're using to access the site. ~ RobTalk 02:47, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @BU Rob13: (stalking) Just a side note here, I think administrators with checkuser privileges can see what IP's a user uses to access the site. Mikarga (talk) 03:24, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    They can, as can non-administrator checkusers. It doesn't have to do with the admin user right, though. ~ RobTalk 03:26, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    AJona1992, I have gone ahead and left a message on Lfarone and Bsadowski's talk pages for you (you are supposed to notify users if you are discussing them here, via talk page, not pings). And yes, Bsadowsi1 has not edited since you left your message (Lfarone even longer, and I don't see a message on his talk page from you), which is why there is no response. Administrators are not expected to be available 7 days per week, and they often take extended absences (to experience life outside of Wikipedia). They do not have to announce this or justify this. As we are all volunteers. --kelapstick(bainuu) 03:36, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Long-term abuse by IPs - Cartoon category and template spamming

    I recently found IP addresses spamming Category:Cartoon Network original programs and other cartoon TV channel related categories. They also like to spam cartoon channel templates. This extends back to 2013 at least. The currently active IPs are in the 2604:2000:A005:1F00* range ([125]) which geolocates to the Hendron, VA area. Originally posted over at EFN, but after no reply and further vandalism, I figured ANI might be the better venue.

    IP addresses, chronologically;

    Is it possible to get a rangeblock for 2604:2000:A005:1F00:* (sorry, don't know how to do the CIDR)? Not sure what else to do other than get an edit filter for the type of vandalism. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 02:17, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    The CIDR range appears to be 2604:2000::/32 (as listed by the WHOIS info). However, it should probably be narrowed down to 2604:2000:a005:1f00::/64 and checked by someone more used to working with IP ranges. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 02:41, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    2604:2000:a005:1f00::/64 would do the job, I think. That would block the 19 IPv6 listed and 1 /64 allocations. It is not possible to know how many different users may be using addresses in a /64 range as no tools are available to show the contributions for an IPv6 range though I read somewhere that a single user will generally use the same /64 range. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:15, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Malcolmx15: FWIW, the 2604:2000:A005:1F00* range is just one person [126] EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:22, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Malcolmxl5: rather. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 05:03, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    2604:2000:A005:1F00::/64 is indeed one guy. It's absolutely possible to break that down further into a /128 range but it's very rare, so he's on a 45-day vacation. Meanwhile, try the edit filter guys to see if they can help. :-) Katietalk 14:38, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry, EvergreenFir, I had to sleep! Katie has taken care of this, I see. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 16:39, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you both for your help! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 16:55, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Blaine.W.B

    Peacemaker67 extended block to indefinitely. (non-admin closure) EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:23, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    Can I get a second opinion on this block? Blaine.W.B (talk · contribs). This editor is definitely WP:NOTHERE to contribute to the encyclopedia and it may be a good idea to extend the block to indefinite. Thanks! Mikarga (talk) 03:13, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Your wish is granted. Peacemaker67 upgraded it to indefinite. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:13, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    User:Вольберт

    BLOCKED INDEFINITELY
    User was blocked indefinitely as NOTHERE by KrakatoaKatie. (non-admin closure) EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 16:58, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    The user does not seem to be here to contribute to encyclopedia and apparently does not speak English. I would block them indef, but since I already reverted them several times, I am not in a position to block them anymore.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:04, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    The user continues [127], and this is pretty much the only thing they are doing on Wikipedia.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:41, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Indef NOTHERE block. Katietalk 14:32, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you Katie.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:38, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    User:176.239.115.13 engaging in harassment and vandalism

    The user was reported previously he was banned 30 hours. He is vandalizing this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Kurdistan_Freedom_Falcons&action=history

    Adding such words as (sic) and (terrorist) everywhere.Ferakp (talk) 12:06, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    This user has not been previously blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:23, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Everywhere? --176.239.115.13 (talk) 12:54, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Once you are here, please be aware that your editing [128] is disruptive, and you will get blocked if you continue.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:28, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    And for my other edits will you give me a cookie or something? --176.239.115.13 (talk) 16:49, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ymblanter: Sorry my mistake, but I believe this person is same as the person was banned yesterday. His continuing to edit the same thing and with the same style. This user was banned yesterday from making and behaving the same way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/176.239.91.133 Ferakp (talk) 17:23, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    IP editor on Vento Winds talk page

    Apparently I'm an "arrogant prick" acording to this IP editor. I suspect there maybe be some sockpuppeting going on there. In any case, petty schoolyard name calling, but if any admin thinks it is serious enough to block, feel free. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 16:05, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    latest troll IP

    User:86.187.168.190, related to my AN/I report further up the page. Eik Corell (talk) 16:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Blocked. And Future Perfect at Sunrise has reverted. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:00, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Edit warring two days after being warned plus 3RR breach using Meatpuppet duck

    Please see this edit history [129] you can see that two of the editors accused of being meat-puppets here [130] managed to break the 3RR together. One of them [131] had not been active since 21:45, 27 February 2016 before returning to help his friend disrupt disambiguation pages over the past few days. User:Неполканов on the other hand was warned about Edit warring just 23:13, 16 March 2016 as was I after I brought it to attention here although I had not made 3 reverts in 24 hours. The last version by User:Saltedcake would seem best to restore. An second attempt to resolve the dispute between the last edit war and the current one was turned down on the grounds that this is a behavioral issue. Any suggestions please? YuHuw (talk) 17:12, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    According 3RR the revert of sockpuppet editor is permitted exemption, I have revert of Yuhuw's sockpuppet new IP. I have added it this IP to the Yuhuw's active investigation 18:31, 19 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Неполканов (talk • contribs)
    The previous time that YuHuw complained about Неполканов on WP:ANI was on 16 March. The dispute was over Karaimism. But there was a conduct problem. Suggest readers have a look at Talk:Karaimism. Неполканов tried to engage over content, where as YuHuw replied using ad hominem arguments.
    YuHuw tried the WP:DRN on 17 March, but his post on WP:DRN consisted only of comments on the other editors. WP:DRN explicitly says that you should not do that. In any case, at the same time as posting on WP:DRN, YuHuw launched sock-puppet allegations against Неполканов.[132] WP:DRN does not deal with cases whilst they are being dealt with in other forums such as WP:ANI or WP:SPI.
    It is perhaps worth mentioning that YuHuw is suspected of being a block-evading sock of User:Kaz. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kaz.-- Toddy1 (talk) 19:49, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Since the basis of other editor's complaints against and reverts of YuHuw is the view that he is a sockpuppet, it would be ideal if the open SPI, which was filed February 7th, could be resolved one way or the other. There is a lot of content there to process but this feuding is going to continue on article talk pages, user talk pages and ANI until it is decided that YuHuw is a sockpuppet or isn't one. If he is, he'll face a block but if he isn't, I think that the editors who oppose his edits will have to find some policy-based reasons to do so instead of their suspicions that he is a sock. And the retaliatory SPI YuHuw filed just made things more complicated. Liz Read! Talk! 21:42, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Firstly I am not a sockpuppet. I have offered many times to prove my identity to the Wikimedia foundation but have not yet been afforded the opportunity. I would like to draw attention here though please to how Toddy1 who is not even mentioned in this complaint nor at the page in question *ALWAYS* steps in to mollycoddle Nepolkanov. I do not believe there are any sincere Admin who will believe the lies of these birds of a feather and seriously take their word for it rather than check deeply into all the pre-facts leading up to this complaint. Certainly I make mistakes concerning wiki policies unlike you Toddy who expertly works the system, but I am still relatively new here and I think I have done very well to catch up to your tricks in such a short amount of time. There is a sort of catch-22 situation here where no solutions are able to be suggested. Dispute resolution was sabotaged by Toddy1 calling me a sockpuppet so that door is closed as long as Toddy1's sockpuppet investigation is open. YuHuw (talk) 21:09, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    IP vandal editing?

    School blocked 1 year by HJ Mitchell. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 21:46, 19 March 2016 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]

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    Could someone research User:168.8.175.2. There is a trail of questionable edits associated with this IP. Thank you. Mitchumch (talk) 18:35, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I took the liberty to file the report on AIV, referring here. Eik Corell (talk) 19:27, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Abuse Filter For WP:Sandbox

    Hello again,

    Me and BethNaught have been going up against a number of IP's on the WP:Sandbox for a while now. I'm requesting that an Abuse Filter be put into place permanently for that page. I think that this would help get rid of all the lovely pictures that seem to always end up there. It would also be a good idea to put one on Draft:Sandbox. Thanks again for the help! --TJH2018 talk 20:27, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    To specify, yesterday and today an LTA sockmaster has been pasting explicit images on the sandbox in order to get it protected. If it's possible to write a filter to prevent explicit images being put there, that would be helpful. BethNaught (talk) 20:30, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    This is an extension of the above thread WP:ANI#Wikipedia:Sandbox. There was a filter mentioned in that thread you might find useful. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 20:41, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    It is, but our problem is that we don't have the rights to implement it or even look at it. TJH2018 talk 20:44, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I do, since I'm an admin. Looking into it. Thank you, Voidwalker. BethNaught (talk) 20:46, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    A feeling told me you were. --TJH2018 talk 20:48, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Zzuuzz suggested a simple filter which has solved the immediate problem. Thanks. BethNaught (talk) 21:22, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • It might be possible to get a longer term rangeblock on this IP. However, to minimise collateral, this should be broken into two chunks. The first is 70.192.240.0/22, which should cause minimal problems. The second I calculated is larger; 70.192.190.0/19. This encompases the majority of the IP edits to the sandbox. It is also much more risky, and I am unable to effectively check the range myself. It would hit all IPs in the range from 70.192.190.0-71.192.221.255. I would not object to shrinking this range to 71.192.190.0/20. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 21:17, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Getting a new IP has become really easy, with my fritzbox (popular router in Germany) it is possible to obtain a new one in under 30 seconds or so.--Laber□T 21:32, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Sicilian IPs pushing Durium Records, Nikka Costa, inserting falsehoods globally

    Both here and on Italian Wikipedia there is a person using multiple IPs from Sicily to puff up the importance of Durium Records, and promote the work of Nikka Costa. The disruption started in late January.

    These IPs have also inserted wrong information, to the point of hoaxing. For instance, the person said that producer/arranger Don Costa was killed by the John Lennon murderer Mark David Chapman in 1983, despite Chapman being in high security prison that whole year. (Here's the Italian hoax from 24 February and the English hoax from 1 March.) Another pestiferous falsehood is the repeated assertion that the song "Go Away Little Girl" was written by James Taylor and Carly Simon rather than by Gerry Goffin and Carole King;[133] this is easily disproved by looking at any of the literature on the subject.[134]

    Regarding the Durium Records connection, the IPs are listing Durium as an important part of the biography of various singers, despite having no supporting reference. At most, Durium might have been contracted to distribute in Italy the recordings of these British and American artists, but such contracts are commonplace for various countries and not notable. In this case, the Sicilian IPs are insisting that Durium must be listed in the infobox, as if the label had signed the artist themselves, which is not the case.

    Regarding the promotion of Nikka Costa, the IPs persistently add her cover versions of songs, even if the cover version is unremarkable—not talked about in the media—which is usually the case, and the IPs also add the fact that she was a child when she released the cover version.[135] Strangely, the IPs want to call her "Nippo-American" despite nobody in the media calling her that.[136][137]

    Wikipedians who have reverted the Sicilian IPs include Serols, Oshwah, Red Jay, Doniago, Smalljim, Clpo13, Jdcomix, Arjayay and GorgeCustersSabre. 79.27.106.92 was blocked twice, once by Smalljim and once by MusikAnimal. AlexiusHoratius protected "Go Away Little Girl" and the Nikka Costa biography (a BLP) after disruption from the Sicilian IPs. The same biography was also protected on Italian Wikipedia by K'n-yan.[138]

    Disruption at musical artist biographies
    Other articles disrupted
    Global contributions of these Sicilian IPs

    It looks like the Sicilian IPs are too widely spaced for a rangeblock to work. I recommend instead that we place long-term semi-protection on all of the involved articles. Binksternet (talk) 20:38, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Also, 79.56.98.36 was blocked for two weeks by Kuru. Binksternet (talk) 20:42, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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