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Arbitration enforcement action appeal by Emdosis
[edit]There is a rough consenus of uninvolved administrators to close this as moot given subsequent topic ban. Barkeep49 (talk) 15:28, 6 August 2024 (UTC) |
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Wikipedia:Arbitration_enforcement_log/2024#c-ScottishFinnishRadish-20240721163500-User_sanctions_(CT/A-I), logged at 16:34, 21 July 2024
Statement by Emdosis[edit]I was about to post the following to Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee when I saw I got banned. I'll post it here instead: (topic:ECR)
I'm guessing it's so broad that it includes user talk pages, and going even further, that it would allow a non-admin to remove an edit on another user's talk page (even though that would clash with WP:UP#OOUP). (To be very clear, I absolutely did not add that comment on Joe Roe's page knowingly violating ECR rules) Statement by Emdosis2[edit]Just found out the original block wasn't even applicable under the ARBPIA decision to begin with:
Emdosis (talk) 22:30, 22 July 2024 (UTC) Statement by ScottishFinnishRadish[edit]Just noting that I have indefinitely topic banned them as well, for WP:BATTLEGROUND editing and casting aspersions.[1][2][3] ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:02, 22 July 2024 (UTC) Statement by (involved editor 1)[edit]Statement by (involved editor 2)[edit]Discussion among uninvolved editors about the appeal by Emdosis[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by BilledMammal[edit]Emdosis made a comment that was in violation of ECR, it was reverted, and they reinstated despite discussion on their talk page saying they shouldn't. Reasonable block. Emdosis, if I can give you some advice; this sanction is the equivalent of a slap on the wrist. I suggest that you withdraw this appeal and instead accept it. In a week, when it expires, you can return, make 200 productive edits and non-trivial edits in other topic areas, and join this topic area if you are still interested in doing so. Don't earn yourself a more permanent sanction over trying to contribute to the topic area a couple of weeks early. I realize you're only 100 edits from ECR, but I suggest 200 just to avoid any controversy in the future over the edits you made within the topic area contributing to you earning ECR. In addition, I see you cited WP:IAR; for inexperienced editors, IAR is a trap that will only get you in trouble. Eventually you'll realize when it's appropriate to apply, but for now, especially within contentious topic areas, I suggest you stay well clear of it. BilledMammal (talk) 20:31, 21 July 2024 (UTC) Statement by Selfstudier[edit]I know that in theory all blocks are appealable but I will say it again, non EC editors arguing about EC restrictions should not have any standing at this board. By the time we are done here, the block will have run its course. Selfstudier (talk) 21:53, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Zero0000[edit]In my opinion, the belief that userspace edits are not in the ARBPIA topic area is well founded. Not only was the exclusion of userspace passed 6-0 by the arbcom decision that defined the topic area, but it is stated explicitly in the list of topic areas which is specified at WP:ARBECR (footnote 2) as the topic areas which are covered. Once userspace is deemed outside the topic area, even phrases like "all pages in the topic area" do not include it. Zerotalk 12:19, 28 July 2024 (UTC) Result of the appeal by Emdosis[edit]
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Ytyerushalmi
[edit]Ytyerushalmi (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from the Arab/Israel conflict, broadly construed. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:30, 5 August 2024 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning Ytyerushalmi[edit]
These two edits were made after I notified him about the 500/30 rule 16:13, 25 July 2024 , I also asked him to self revert which he declined: [4]
Discussion concerning Ytyerushalmi[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by Ytyerushalmi[edit]According to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Palestine-Israel articles the article should be - "reasonably construed" as in -
Is Or Sasson the related to the Arab-Israeli conflict? If so, then Judo, Clothing and any other article on Wikipedia is related in one way or another to the Arab-Israeli conflict. If one follows your edits, it is clear as day that you are trying to erase as many as possible mentions of Israel. As seen, you reverted my edit to Ori Sasson and Doms in Israel although both Articles are not related to the Conflict. Also, you tried to frame Hanadi Jaradat, a known terrorist, using the ambiguous term "militant" while her actions were objective terrorism. Being disputed doesn't change the fact that it is de-facto a part of The State of Israel and under its sovereignty, so he was born in Israel. Again, whether disputed or not, it is a fact that relates to him.
If his request is accepted, then each and every namespace with the mention of Israel/Palestine and Any Arab country or any other country which had interaction with the region or the entities above and every object, physical or not, geographical or not, that is directly or indirectly related to any of the mentioned entities above should be under the Extended confirmed protection.
Regarding Selfstudier - It doesn't seem like you appear to be in an objective position to recommend. Statement by Selfstudier[edit]One more in what is turning into a procession of non EC editors contesting without merit WP:ARBECR restrictions. The talk page discussion following the awareness notice is in addition sufficient reason for a sanction. Selfstudier (talk) 16:57, 26 July 2024 (UTC) Statement by (username)[edit]Result concerning Ytyerushalmi[edit]
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KlayCax
[edit]KlayCax (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from post-1992 United States politics, broadly construed. KlayCax is also warned that their conduct in the area of infoboxes has fallen short of community expectations]]. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:04, 16 August 2024 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning KlayCax[edit]
KlayCax has started several different discussions and made actual edits pushing for third-party candidates (especially RFKJR) to be added to the infobox. The July 21st discussion was started while discussions on the matter were already ongoing ([6][7]). They’ve continuously been trying to add Kennedy to the infobox, even though the matter has already been resolved [8][9]. The addition of Cornell West went against the ballot access and polling criteria spelled out in the consensus for state infoboxes. We shouldn’t have to have a discussion with KlayCax every month explaining that there’s no consensus for adding Kennedy at this stage. Prcc27 (talk) 00:03, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Discussion concerning KlayCax[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by KlayCax[edit]Response to Prcc27's initial AE: To summarize:
Finally, many editors in mid-July stated that the issue needed to be revisited. The other aspects are clearly taken out of context and not rules violations. KlayCax (talk) 07:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC) Response to Prcc27's reply: The RFC was this. 1.) I explained my reasoning at the time. Both Jill Stein and Cornell West have polled at or above 5% in Michigan. There was never a consensus on whether 5% should be an average or individual polls (since RFK has been the only one to get both it's not been approached at all outside of our conversations) and the matter was left to editor's discretion. 2.) At the time, local newspapers wrongly reported West's ballot access statement as a fact in their own voice, as West had stated that he had been certified w/ ballot access at the time. (The newspapers in question were of course considered WP: RS and I was working off of that.) In terms of Jill Stein, she has ballot access in Michigan as a member of the Green Party. 3.) Per WP: ONUS it was not reinstated. KlayCax (talk) 21:48, 28 July 2024 (UTC) Response to third Prcc27: Not true. On May 13th, "ballot access" was seen by many editors as having "had enough petitions" (as clearly visible), it was reverted, a talk page discussion ensured, and it was not reinstated by me per WP: ONUS. KlayCax (talk) 23:53, 29 July 2024 (UTC) Response to Muboshgu: Muboshgu's claims that I was violating WP: NPOV in the J.D. Vance and Kamala Harris articles. In response to this: I was not pushing any kind or sort of "left-wing" point of view in the J.D. Vance article — you seem to be arguing that I'm both violating WP: NPOV by promoting a disproportionate left (on Vance article) AND right-wing perspective (on Kamala article), and with all due respect: that doesn't make sense — by noting that he has been influenced by the Dark Enlightenment movement, a fact and description that he has also claimed and has been widely reported. It certainly does look like vandalism when it's not trimmed but removed from the article entirely. The entire notion that it is POV-pushing seems to be based on the claim that "his opinions on X or Y are unpopular so they shouldn't be in the article". That is of course not what WP: NPOV means. WP: NPOV is about reflecting the opinion of reliable sources. Not "doesn't improve or diminish their standing in the eyes of the median voter". Reliable sources have mentioned J.D. Vance's ties to the "dissent/edgy online right." It certainly does deserve mention on Wikipedia and reactionary thought is by no means too "obscure" a concept or too difficult to understand for readers. At the time, there was already a Wikilinks for readers who want more detail. I reached out on talk - as you noted - and a majority wanted it kept. Many American conservatives do use Marxism as an insult against those who hold left-wing economic positions. This is however clearly not what my edits were. Donald J. Harris is considered an economist in the post-Keynesian and Marxian schools of thought. His primary influences are Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx, is labeled a post-Keynesian and Marxian economist by multiple sources, and it's not POV-pushing to mention it, nor You left out that I also added at the same time a statement that, which undercuts the idea that Donald J. Harris influenced Kamala to any significant extent. (Donald J. Harris and Kamala Harris are notoriously not close and differ widely on politics.) The difference of the edit can be seen here showing that it was added in at the same time the diffs cited by him were. Are Marxists fans of the Democratic Party? No, of course not. All of this, again, is just differing editorial perspectives that led to discussion. KlayCax (talk) 21:16, 28 July 2024 (UTC) Response to SashiRolls: Edits in question.
Sourcing in question.
Final concluding notes: I'm requesting that the closing admin go through every edit cited before coming to a AE decision. I'm happy to explain any edit that is seem as problematic if need be through private (email) or public response (here). I do not believe that there was a violation of Wikipedia rules within the differences cited. Many of the individuals commenting have made personal attacks, false WP:SOCKPUPPET accusations, and similar things against me over the past year, but per WP: CIVILITY/WP: AGF guidelines I've been hesitant about mentioning this until now, as not sure what I can write on this outside of vague references. I've reached the max word limit (~at 1500 albeit going slightly over) to respond to every claim but it should be clear by the above that the claims are baseless and throwing the kitchen sink. KlayCax (talk) 09:16, 9 August 2024 (UTC) Final concluding notes: Part II Expected the above to be my final message but the updated August 9, 2024 "incident" is once again highly deceptive, @Red-tailed sock:. Prcc27 unilaterally changed the infobox box inclusion criteria and then retroactively punished me for the supposed "violation". If you notice: the original "consensus" that he linked was one poll with 5% ballot access. He then wanted to modify it so it was a "consistent polling criteria" of 3 polls above 5% with a 5%+ average. I found that permissible and even logical. (Despite it not being the original agreed upon criteria.) Now, he reports me retroactively for violating a "criteria" that was not specified or outlined or notified, saying that only those with Harris as a candidate are valid, saying Willing to respond to any seemingly problematic edits if a closer has a question. For now: I feel like I explained all of the cited edits and I'm completely burnt out of this conversation. KlayCax (talk) 07:05, 10 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by Qutlook[edit]
Statement by David A[edit]
Statement by Left guide[edit]
Statement by Muboshgu[edit]KlayCax has made disruptive POV edits at the 2024 US presidential election page as discussed. They have also been disruptive on other articles related to the election, including JD Vance, edit warring over some obscure political views. See Talk:JD Vance#Should there be a summary of Vance's ideology in the lead? for discussion they started after they were reverted. Also they made accusations of vandalism when a user removed information that should have been removed, and "apparent accident deletion/vandalism from WP: SPA. (?)". They also tried to add to Donald J. Harris and Kamala Harris that Donald Harris was involved in Marxism, which fails verification and is a significant POV term used by the right wing in today's US political situation.[13][14] See Talk:Kamala Harris#Removal of Shyamala Gopalan and Donald J. Harris from the lead for more of that discussion. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:34, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Statement by GreatCaesarsGhost[edit]
Statement by Super Goku V[edit]There seems to be some confusion about the RfC that was mentioned due to how it was linked to, so to clear that up it is my understanding that the referenced RfC is "RFC: What should the criteria of inclusion be for the infobox? (Question 1)" --Super Goku V (talk) 03:22, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Response to Left guide: Yes, that seems to be from this archived talk page discussion. Qutlook said at the time, Response to Qutlook: Gotcha. I will note above that the archived talk page discussion is still relevant to this discussion. --Super Goku V (talk) 04:13, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Response to KlayCax:
Response to Prcc27: I understand the criteria at 2024 United States presidential election having Kennedy listed in the infobox, but I guess not for the other states. This is the discussion you are referring to, correct? If so, can you clarify what you meant by Statement by SashiRolls[edit]I agree that the problem is not related to the topic area. I'm not sure I would agree that KlayCax is entirely harmless after having had to spend a lot of time cleaning up after them. KCx is known for edit summaries which hide the nature of their edits:
KCx also seems to have trouble identifying reliable sources, beyond the Deccan Herald example cited above.
Finally, KCx has a habit of creating RfC & RM that are snow-closed against the position they were promoting: Cf. here and here and insists on long discussions about RfCs past they disagree with (see the context of the 26 February 2024 diff above). I grant some of these diffs are a bit dated, but a pattern is clearly visible over the past year...-- SashiRolls 🌿 · 🍥 17:52, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by XavierGreen[edit]The RFC stated that any candidate who "generally has 5% in poll aggregators" and ballot access to 270 electoral college votes should be included. Myself and other editors have shown proof that he has met the RFC consensus. There are a number of editors who are vociferously commenting on the talk page making arguments that are directly contrary to the RFC.XavierGreen (talk) 21:16, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Dan Murphy[edit]I don't think the xaviergreen account should be making contributions in the uninvolved administrators area.Dan Murphy (talk) 01:13, 11 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by Scorpions1325[edit]I do not have much experience with this editor. I only just now found out that they were referred to this venue. My only substantial interactions with this editor came in the history of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization last year. I don't quite remember everything that happened, but I noticed that they insisted on adding WP:OR and unsourced content to the lede of the article. They also had no respect for WP:MEDRS. From what I have observed, this editor is disruptive in many of the areas they edit in, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Scorpions1325 (talk) 21:00, 15 August 2024 (UTC) Result concerning KlayCax[edit]
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Oleg Yunakov
[edit]No action. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:49, 6 August 2024 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning Oleg Yunakov[edit]
The image is clearly an upload from social media: Different crops were posted
@ScottishFinnishRadish: No, I did not warn 1RR or ask for a self-revert because of the previous discussion here. RAN1 (talk) 15:01, 29 July 2024 (UTC) @Oleg Yunakov: My understanding was your notifications sent you about here, which was obviously not the bottom of the page, so I found it hard to believe you didn't know there was a previous dispute. That convinced me that you knew you had reverted somebody else when you reverted me. I don't know what else you could have understood from being pinged to the first section. RAN1 (talk) 08:56, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
I've amended my complaint to include diffs where Oleg Yunakov discusses when the image was uploaded and published. They show that Oleg Yunakov knew the image had been published in Wikipedia before the first revert around the time of the second. RAN1 (talk) 02:22, 2 August 2024 (UTC) @ScottishFinnishRadish: The underlying issue here isn't being addressed; Oleg Yunakov edit warred over an obvious copyvio image because the non-derivatives we found were published after the Commons upload. In any case, that turns the 1RR exemption on its head, and considering I brought up 1RR at 15:43, 28 July 2024, I request you explain why this should be closed with no action. RAN1 (talk) 16:46, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Discussion concerning Oleg Yunakov[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by Oleg Yunakov[edit]The info was provided here. Those continuous actions start to look like a harassment (1, 2, 3, 4). With regards, Oleg Y. (talk) 20:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Till now still there is no confirmation of copyright issues or at least copies found which were published before the time when an image was uploaded to Commons as can be seen here. If someone thinks otherwise please provide reasoning why. With regards, Oleg Y. (talk) 18:38, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Also I did only one addition and just one revert after no valid argument were given on the copyright violation. Did no do any reverts after it. With regards, Oleg Y. (talk) 18:49, 29 July 2024 (UTC) Statement by BilledMammal[edit]First, the exemption only applies to "clear copyright violations". This is not a clear violation, being based solely on RAN1's suspicions, so it doesn’t apply here - RAN1 should not have violated 1RR, and should have self-reverted when asked. Second, RAN1 did not follow the gentleman’s agreement by asking Oleg to self-revert before coming here. I think a boomerang is appropriate. BilledMammal (talk) 23:06, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Statement by (username)[edit]Result concerning Oleg Yunakov[edit]
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GreekParadise
[edit]GreekParadise partial blocked for one week by ScottishFinnishRadish. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:18, 3 August 2024 (UTC) |
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Was notified before: [17]
Discussion concerning GreekParadise[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by GreekParadise[edit]Statement by (username)[edit]Result concerning GreekParadise[edit]
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Astropulse
[edit]Astropulse (talk · contribs) blocked for one week from Hamas for violating 1RR. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:24, 5 August 2024 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning Astropulse[edit]
Violated WP:1RR at Hamas with 13:16, 1 August 2024 which reinstated several earlier reverts, with the justification They have refused to self-revert or discuss further, saying that consensus is required to restore the previous content. My assessment of the talk page discussion is that consensus is against their edit.
Discussion concerning Astropulse[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by Astropulse[edit]
some consensus reached here : quoting replies from article talk page
Astropulse (talk) 02:21, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Hemiauchenia[edit]I am confused. The accused made some edits to the Hamas page, I did a reversion back to a previous version before these edits were made (as I was entitled to do under the 1RR). The accused then reverted my reversion under mistaken logic that I was violating the 1RR. As far as I am aware, they did not make a revert on the page prior to that during the previous 24 hour period, so I assumed that they were entitled to make that revert under the 1RR even if their logic was wrong. Hemiauchenia (talk) 02:53, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Sean.hoyland[edit]Regarding Astropulse's "consensus reached here : quoting replies from article talk page", since Stratojet94 is not extendedconfirmed and should not be participating in that discussion, their views have no bearing on assessments of consensus. That statement should probably be struck out. Sean.hoyland (talk) 03:45, 3 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by FortunateSons[edit]There is also this gem. It’s not catastrophic or anything, but I think it’s clearly over the line, particularly within a Contentious Topic. FortunateSons (talk) 08:29, 3 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by (username)[edit]Result concerning Astropulse[edit]
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O.maximov
[edit]O.maximov (talk · contribs) is warned against inserting content without appropriate sources in support in contravention of policies on no original research and verifiability. Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:59, 16 August 2024 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning O.maximov[edit]
On Aug 3, O.maximov reinstated one of ABHammad's edits. (ABHammad received a 0RR restriction at Jul 31 20:52, see #ABHammad.)
Other similar issues:
My first complaint was at ABHammad's talk page (O.maximov was pinged): User talk:ABHammad#Enough already. My second complaint was at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive336#Nishidani in July, which I notified O.maximov about on their user talk page. My third complaint was at #ABHammad (O.maximov was pinged). Aside from the tag-team edit warring, the edit summaries are not accurate, and the edits push a pro-Israeli POV. Levivich (talk) 18:27, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
No previous sanctions AFAIK, but multiple user talk page threads: User talk:O.maximov#March 2024, User talk:O.maximov#May 2024, User talk:O.maximov#WP:1RR at 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, User talk:O.maximov#June 2024, User talk:O.maximov#prior accounts, User talk:O.maximov#Editing against a clear consensus
Re Vanamonde93's question about talk page edits:
Something else I noticed today. I initially skipped over these diffs because of the innocuous edit summaries, but on further look, at Israel lobby in the United Kingdom on Aug 1, O.max basically rewrote it to turn it into a conspiracy theory -- as in, the existence of an Israel lobby in the UK is a conspiracy theory: 1, 2, 3; there are more edits, but those three are indicative. Search the article (any revision) for "conspiracy" and note that the sources do not even come close to supporting this notion. It's a complete misrepresentation of sources and some of the most blatant POV-pushing I've seen, even in the context of the blatant POV-pushing I've been complaining about lately. Levivich (talk) 16:30, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Discussion concerning O.maximov[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by O.maximov[edit]Levivich, I respect different thinking. You must respect that I think differently. If your purpose is for me to say that Palestinians fled or were expelled then there is no problem. I have no problem saying this and other stuff. It is a problem that you post on my page just a link and expect me to press the link. It is a problem that first thing I get from Nableezy is that he asked me if I have prior accounts. The answer is no. I don't know why you behave like this. You have a problem with a person, you speak to the person. I invite you to my talk page to discuss things. I saw Levivich posted stuff on 1RR. Bro, you are a senior editor. You know it's not 1RR. I also did my best to kindly explain to Unbandito who posted it why it's not a 1RR violation. All the warnings you posted are really unrelated. Nableezy asks me if I have another account. I told him - no. Here someone says I edited against consensus, I say - look at the page! You see many people are saying different things! You posted a message I got because I was not writing encyclopedically on Economics, I understood and improved my writing. But Levivich, why don't you post on my talk page and explain? Nableezy can you explain which edit I did is against consensus and which consensus (You posted discussions)? I have no problem talking, look at all my talking in Israel and in other articles. I have no problem to talk. If you wish to collaborate as I do, you should treat others with respect, and this does not help to improve the temperature. O.maximov (talk) 10:54, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Nableezy[edit]We had a previous consensus on this material and edit warring without a new one should result in sanctions for disruptive editing. Full stop. nableezy - 19:04, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Sean.hoyland[edit]Checkusers should be run on O.maximov and ABHammad. Regarding "It is a problem that first thing I get from Nableezy is that he asked me if I have prior accounts. The answer is no." From a purely technical perspective the question seems reasonable to me. When I look at the proximity of the O.maximov account to other accounts using a variety of different techniques, I would like to understand why the closest matches are to blocked accounts with a single master, here and here, for example. Perhaps these are false positives, but if they are not, this AE report is a waste of time and sanctions will have no impact. Sean.hoyland (talk) 12:53, 6 August 2024 (UTC) Regarding "I find the calls for CU as unconvincing...". A reason to conduct a CU is that the amount of work required to process the AE report, and the effectiveness of potential sanctions are dependent on the result of a CU. It's about efficiency and the optimal ordering of actions. If an account is found to be a disposable sockpuppet account, there is no need to spend time evaluating their editing or imposing sanctions. Assuming good faith is not the optimal approach in all cases. Other approaches can have more utility. I would argue, like FortunateSons, that it should be standard practice for AE reports once the report has been accepted as worth spending time on. The potential costs associated certain actions, like edit warring, are different for socks and non-socks. So, the likelihoods of the behavior are different. Willingness to edit war is itself an indictor that an account may be a sock because the cost of sanctions to them are zero. Sean.hoyland (talk) 05:46, 7 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by ABHammad[edit]This is the second time this month I have seen Levivich doing what seems like a weaponization of this noticeboard against editors who do not share their point of view based on their politics (and they are unsuprisingly joined by others). Previously, they accused me and other editors of tag teaming—a very serious allegation—without providing substantial evidence. While I received a 0RR sanction (rightfully), their tag teaming allegations were dismissed. Going over the new allegations, I don't see anything close to a sanctionable violation of anything. It's all content disputes that can and should be solved through discussions. But, I don't see any attempt by Levivich to do so, nor did they even try to discuss the issues with O.maximov personally. And the above claims about 'previous consensus on this material' are clearly false (if anything is happening on ARBPIA right now is forced controversial changes that take place without any attempt to achieve consensus). I think it might be time to consider sanctions of the WP:Boomerang sort. ABHammad (talk) 12:30, 5 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by FortunateSons[edit]I think the suggestion of a CU is reasonable, and really should be standard practice in any topic area as a contentious as this one once there is reasonable suspicion. Having said that, I’m not seeing conduct that goes beyond the ‘standard’ biased editing, with decent talk page engagement and no “horrible” conduct. While I’m not inherently opposed to banning for such conduct, a ban for that might catch some of our more experienced editors too, and despite some people’s well-reasoned objections, I don’t think banning most frequent contributors and starting fresh is likely to do us any good. As such, biased editors (and this seems to be closer to bias than ‘true’ partisanship) are the unavoidable norm. Regarding the filer, while I wouldn’t say that we are at a boomerang yet, they should be mindful about weaponising AE; considering the past talk page discussion, a sockpuppet investigation would have been the more productive avenue for this. FortunateSons (talk) 16:48, 5 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by fiveby[edit]Levivich, take a look at the "Politics" section for the version prior. It has Tam Dalyell's "cabal of Jewish advisers", Jenny Tonge's "financial grips", and Chris Davies' "enjoyed wallowing in her own filth" to start. I don't think you can claim that the article is merely concerned with the existence of an Israel lobby. O.max did not write that section, "the existence of an Israel lobby in the UK is a conspiracy theory" is your framing and near as i can tell not his, and if not limited to 'existence' or UK there are a number of sources which will use the words "conspiracy theory". Vanamonde93, ScottishFinnishRadish what exactly is so extremely concerning about this diff, or the other two—no doubt bad edits to a bad article—which call for a TBAN for those alone? fiveby(zero) 07:42, 7 August 2024 (UTC) fiveby(zero) 07:42, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by xDanielx[edit]The accusations of whitewashing, dogwhistles, or Nakba denial based on Result concerning O.maximov[edit]
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Givengo1
[edit]Givengo1 confirmed to be a sockpuppet at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SelfStarter2. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 21:29, 5 August 2024 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning Givengo1[edit]
User initially made these two edits to the Current Events portal:
I then issued the standard CTOP alert and ARBPIA welcome/ECR notification. They did not respond/acknowledge, then started editing again on the topic:
N/A - albeit, see #1 below?
Made aware on 1 August.
Discussion concerning Givengo1[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by Givengo1[edit]Statement by Bellerophon451[edit]I think this user is quite obviously an alt account of blocked user SelfStarter2 (talk · contribs), based on the content of his edits and the pages edited. --Bellerophon451 (talk) 16:33, 5 August 2024 (UTC) Result concerning Givengo1[edit]
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Arbitration enforcement action appeal by Astropulse
[edit]Astropulse (talk · contribs)'s appeal of the seven-day partial block from Hamas that was imposed by ScottishFinnishRadish is declined. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 02:10, 12 August 2024 (UTC) |
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Statement by Astropulse[edit]a) this was my first possible violation of 1RR - instead of a 24hrs block, a 7 day block was placed - which i think is undue. b) there were never a disruption to Wikipedia. After a possible minor violation of 1RR, Most of my changes still stand on the page. Some of it were improved upon. c) i believe the offending edit i reverted itself is violation of 1RR. This is because another editor reverted several of my edits in one edit. According to WP:3RR "A series of consecutively saved reverting edits by one user, with no intervening edits by another user, counts as one revert." In this case, there were intervening edits by another user. The edit i reverted also violated WP:DRNC , WP:DOREVERT and WP:PRESERVE, also WP:ONUS d) I was asked to revert my changes, but I refused because doing so would have introduced NPOV issues into the article. Several days have passed, and no one else has reverted my changes, as they are beneficial and have gained growing consensus on the talk page. e) editor who accused me of 1RR violation - is not a involved editor. I have settled the differences with involved editor and everything is resolved. And hence a block at this point is undue. it is a punishment, rather than a genuine attempt to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia. This violates wiki blocking policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy f) I'm not convinced i violated 1RR -> I removed a tag on the page [[47]] -> this was being counted as a revert. But i think it is just a edit because that tag was not needed anymore. No one re-added the tag - after i removed it. I dont know what is the problem. The only revert was this [[48]] because another editor reverted two people edits here [[49]] which itself i believe is a violation of 1RR Astropulse (talk) 21:20, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by ScottishFinnishRadish[edit]Their appeal demonstrates that they still don't understand what a revert is, and that they believe their own view of NPOV exempts them from 1RR. Everyone believes their edit is the neutral one, which is why it is not an exemption as listed in WP:3RRNO. This lack of understanding leads me to believe we're going to be back here fairly soon. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:51, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by (involved editor 1)[edit]Statement by (involved editor 2)[edit]Discussion among uninvolved editors about the appeal by AstroPulse[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by The Kip[edit]Just my 2 cents as a frequent AE observer - the most recent response is, at least to me, beginning to give off the impression that the user is simply WP:NOTGETTINGIT at this point. The Kip (contribs) 08:07, 10 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by (uninvolved editor 2)[edit]Result of the appeal by Astropulse[edit]
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3E1I5S8B9RF7
[edit]3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk · contribs) is warned against violating WP:NOTFORUM in their talk page comments. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:00, 16 August 2024 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning 3E1I5S8B9RF7[edit]
WP:NOTFORUM/WP:BLP/WP:NOR, Round 1, at Talk:Gaza genocide: "If dead, would Mohammed Deif be a victim of genocide?" I collapsed and archived that thread. Round 2: "Should Hamas fighters be included in the genocide death count?" I also collapsed and archived that thread, posted a template warning and alert on the user talk page, and started a new thread about the same general topic (what is the genocide death toll according to RS), with sources, without the FORUM/BLP/NOR violations. Round 3, in the thread I started: 1, 2; the second one is after the CTOP awareness alert. Across all 3 rounds, they brought exactly one source (in Round 2), and that source does not contain the words "Deif" or "genocide". Otherwise, no sources. 11 out of 12 of their most-recent (Aug 3-7) contribs are the above FORUM/BLP/NOR violations. In sum, 3E1 is persistently using this article talk page to discuss whether certain individuals/groups are innocent enough to be considered victims of genocide, without any real engagement with RS. This violates our FORUM/BLP/NOR policies. Note that there has recently been an increase in press coverage of this article (see the press template at the top of the article talk page for links), and with it an increase in disruption, and the talk page is currently ECP'd as a result. Levivich (talk) 18:37, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
@SFR/Van: Yes, it's the only one after the ARBPIA alert. There were previous alerts in other topic areas (see their UTP); I don't know if that counts as awareness under the new rules or not. I don't see this as "the first after a CTOP alert" so much as "the 11th in a row this week." The CTOP awareness alert is the reason this is at AE instead of ANI, but otherwise it's not terribly relevant in my view. CTOP awareness is a prerequisite for CTOP sanctions, but I don't think any CTOP sanctions are necessarily merited here. This doesn't rise to the level of a TBAN or anything that serious in my view; though disruptive, it's limited to one article, and I think this is the first complaint against an established editor. While they're not listening to me, they'll probably listen to admins. Levivich (talk) 15:38, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Discussion concerning 3E1I5S8B9RF7[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by 3E1I5S8B9RF7[edit]My comments weren't a forum, they were relevant questions to the controversial decision in the article to include all Hamas militants, regarded as a terrorist organization by several countries, as victims of genocide, regardless if they fell as armed fighters in a battle. I can understand if this was narrowed down to only civilian fatalities, but the current article warrants a detailed explanation. I just wanted to hear a rational explanation if this can be accepted and hear other users' thoughts. My "inconvenient" question still stands unanswered; can terrorists be considered victims of genocide?--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 15:40, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Selfstudier[edit]I get that the reported editor has a beef with the article, having also initiated MR on it. That's not a license to forum the talk page, repeatedly refusing to take the hint. Think this editor should maybe stay away from the page for a while. Selfstudier (talk) 18:57, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
.@3E1I5S8B9RF7: See here. The simplest answer to your (and BM) pointy question. If the killings are because of who they are, rather than because of what they did, then they may be victims. That question will be answered in due course by the court. Selfstudier (talk) 11:36, 9 August 2024 (UTC) @BilledMammal: The difference being that both Buidhe and myself are providing sources aimed at improving the article. Your attempting to hat them is as well rather tedious, I must say. Selfstudier (talk) 18:09, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
This is just a lost cause.Selfstudier (talk) 17:22, 11 August 2024 (UTC) @ScottishFinnishRadish: I am at a bit of a loss to understand the thinking here, this is just straight up soapboxing, including while we are still at the boards, I don't really understand why other editors are even bothering to reply to it.Selfstudier (talk) 13:51, 12 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by xDanielx[edit]This isn't WP:NOTFORUM territory at all, since 3E1I5S8B9RF7 was raising concerns about content in an effort to improve it. Levivich closing the discussions as such seems inappropriate. It's also not WP:OR to question whether sources are being interpreted or summarized correctly. One doesn't need new sources to question the application of the current ones. While WP:BLP applies to all namespaces, in practice its sourcing requirements are not enforced to the letter outside of article space. Levivich's view is that the casualty figure is properly sourced (edit: or rather that proper sources exist and can be added), but this isn't entirely clear. BilledMammal argued that it itself involves OR, since the available sources don't explicitly give a casualty figure for Gaza genocide. Giving a casualty figure for the war, and then a separate statement that a genocide is occurring, is not the same thing; one can believe that a genocide is occurring without sharing the view that combatant deaths are part of that genocide. This seems like a normal content dispute, with no legitimate policy-based reason for closing the discussions or bringing it to AE. — xDanielx T/C\R 14:20, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Sean.hoyland[edit]"This isn't WP:NOTFORUM territory at all"...patently false and not helpful at all in my view. Rewarding easily avoided WP:TALKNO violations is counterproductive in PIA and has a cost. Editors who try to convince people that they have figured out how Wikipedia should count victims of an alleged genocide based on a personal decision procedure that makes sense to them should not be taken seriously. It's bordering on a competence issue. Buried inside 3E1I5S8B9RF7's unhelpful musings and irrelevant personal opinions there is a simple and reasonable point about statistics that could easily have been expressed by "pointing to specific issues that are actionable within the content policies", the key word there being policies. No need to start fires to get attention. I fully support Levivich's entirely sensible actions. I'm sure 3E1I5S8B9RF7 is a perfectly decent editor, but no one needs to hear about how they think victim counting should work. Sean.hoyland (talk) 16:07, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by BilledMammal[edit]It feels a little unfair to focus on 3E1I5S8B9RF7 when this is a problem on both sides. The editors advocating that we count every casualty as a victim of genocide are doing the same thing that 3E1I5S8B9RF7 is, by trying to convince people that they have figured out how Wikipedia should count victims of an alleged genocide based on a personal decision procedure that makes sense to them - the sources presented in support of that claim don't say that X many people are victims, only that X many people have died in the war. BilledMammal (talk) 22:23, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Buidhe[edit]I posted evidence that the assumption that genocide victims are innocent and targeted for no reason apart from ethnic hatred is a misconception not found in international law. Also, that the attempted elimination of Hamas is described as part of the genocide by reliable sources. I agree with selfstudier that this is different from arguing the opposite based not on any reliable sources but only from personal opinions / misconceptions. (t · c) buidhe 19:46, 10 August 2024 (UTC) Statement by (username)[edit]Result concerning 3E1I5S8B9RF7[edit]
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Bluethricecreamman
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Request concerning Bluethricecreamman
[edit]- User who is submitting this request for enforcement
- BilledMammal (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 23:42, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- User against whom enforcement is requested
- Bluethricecreamman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
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- Sanction or remedy to be enforced
- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 4
- Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
Violating WP:1RR and edit warring at Genocide of indigenous peoples by repeatedly reinstating the same disputed content:
- 17:49, 24 June 2024
- 20:28, 5 August 2024
- 13:21, 6 August 2024 (self-reverted 13:51, 6 August 2024 following talk page request)
- 12:44, 7 August 2024
They refused to self-revert, saying that because they self-reverted 13:21, 6 August 2024 they were free to re-implement the edit. However, my understanding is that self-reverting, particularly when done only after the self-revert is requested, doesn't permit editors to ignore the most recent revert when re-implementing the edit and doing so comes across as WP:GAMING.
It is relevant that an RfC was held on including this content, which closed as "no consensus". As the content was only in the article for six weeks, insufficient to establish it as the status quo, this means it should be excluded until a consensus is found to include it and editors should not be reinstating it even when done without edit warring or 1RR violations.
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Discussion concerning Bluethricecreamman
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Statement by Bluethricecreamman
[edit]- a) I've explained revert then self revert doesn't count towards the counter, but BilledMammal has been harrassing me and others in talkpage to self revert. Also like... wouldn't the applicable place for this report be the edit war noticeboard? WP:AN/EW. Bluethricecreamman (talk)
- Seen some folks argue that no consensus means removal. WP:NOCONSENSUS states specifically "When discussions of proposals to add, modify, or remove material in articles end without consensus, the common result is to retain the version of the article as it was prior to the proposal or bold edit." Obviously, after that May RFC fails, we should probably keep the version of the article that had been in place since March with the included paragraph. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 18:43, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Response to result: Glad to have been informed, will read the AC/CT more carefully next time. Will update my behavior accordingly. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 19:48, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Doing a self-revert on last edit. Bluethricecreamman (talk)
Statement by ABHammad
[edit]I also noticed these problematic diffs, which seem to be part of a broader recent trend where disputed content is repeatedly inserted through edit warring in ARBPIA, despite being reverted multiple times. When asked to stop and wait for consensus, there are editors who reintroduce the disputed content anyway and insist that discussions should focus on whether the new content should be removed, rather than if it should be added in the first place. In some cases, they claim consensus exists, even when reverts indicate otherwise. Here are a few examples for these re-adds,leading to controversial content now appearing in the article:
- Genocide of indigenous peoples: beside Bluethericecreamman, the disputed content was also restored by others following the RFC closure as no consensus: [51], [52].
- Palestinians, where a new description as native/indigenous was introduced through edit warring: [53] [54] [55]
- Israeli allegations against UNRWA, where a scope change in all but name was introduced through edit warring, [56], [57], while a RM to move to "UNRWA and Israel" is now ongoing.
- Similar dynamics can be found also at Zionism. This is how its primary description as a "movement that ... aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe." was introduced, despite many reverts and substantial talk disagreement.
This seems why this may be part of the reason why Wikipedia is not pereceived as trustworthy anymore by some outside media when it comes to ARBPIA. ABHammad (talk) 08:46, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Left guide
[edit]@Bluethricecreamman: No, that noticeboard is only for normal edit-warring subject to 3RR in non-contentious topics. For edit-warring in designated contentious topics with stricter revert rules, this is the appropriate venue. Left guide (talk) 10:55, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
All else being equal, WP:ONUS policy clause stipulates that disputed material stays out of an article unless and until there is a consensus for its inclusion:
The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.
Left guide (talk) 20:19, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Selfstudier
[edit]@BilledMammal: 6 weeks? Where's that from? (also see Wikipedia_talk:Consensus#WP:NOCONSENSUS where myself and others aren't in agreement with your rather simplistic take on this matter). As for who started it, that would have been yourself on 5 August, a month and a half (!) after the RFc closure on 25 June? Selfstudier (talk) 19:22, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Result concerning Bluethricecreamman
[edit]- This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the sections above.
- A self revert does not reset the revert counter, in my opinion. Beyond that @Bluethricecreamman: I suggest you re-read the introduction to to contentious topics given your comments as from what I read here you to need
edit carefully and constructively
(emphasis in the original). In contentious topicsWikipedia’s norms and policies are more strictly enforced
and so this self-evert resets your ability to do other reverts. In general your response here - including the suggestion it's the wrong forum which it's not - indicates you don't understand what it means to be a contentious topic and don't understand that norms and policies being more strictly enforced are exactly about this sort of thing. Barkeep49 (talk) 18:55, 9 August 2024 (UTC)- Given Blue's response I am ok closing this without further action. Barkeep49 (talk) 19:50, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- I think a reminder that long term edit warring is still edit warring wouldn't go amiss, although that goes for most editors in the topic area. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:50, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Bajaria
[edit]Blocked by Theleekycauldron for two days for violating ECR. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:45, 12 August 2024 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning Bajaria[edit]
User in question initially made two edits to Portal:Current events/2024 August 4 concerning the Israel-Hamas war and related: They were subsequently given the standard CTOP alert on their talk page, although the edits were not reverted. I later noticed them while editing the current events portal - after receiving the CTOP notice, they've been on a rush of additions to prior (often months-back) CE portal entries, almost entirely concerning the Israel-Hezbollah conflict and related: I subsequently placed the ARBPIA welcome template on their talk page at 07:55 on 10 August, with an additional warning that they are not extended confirmed and therefore not allowed to edit in the area. They failed to respond, and later went right back to their additions:
N/A
The unfortunate thing is that their edits don't seem to be disruptive in the way that a lot of WP:NOTHERE non-extended confirmed editors often are within the ARBPIA area - looking through their CE contribs, I don't really detect an attempt at POV-pushing. The problem is that they've thus far been unresponsive to the notion that they're simply not allowed to be editing in the area at the moment, and they're also far further from XC than their contribution count makes it appear, given that a fairly large portion of their 430ish edits are ECR violations. The Kip (contribs) 20:16, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
Discussion concerning Bajaria[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by Bajaria[edit]
Statement by Sean.hoyland[edit]The fact that the editor chose to respond with "Do tell me, how can I be more of a disruptive entity to your service?" rather than something like "Oh no! I didn't realize I wasn't following the rules. Apologies. I'll follow them from now on." is worth highlighting. Editors shouldn't get to pick which policies and guidelines apply to them. Sean.hoyland (talk) 05:25, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by (username)[edit]Result concerning Bajaria[edit]
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PeleYoetz
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[edit]- User who is submitting this request for enforcement
- Levivich (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 20:42, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
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New three-month old account, same old edit wars.
- Zionism
- Removals of "colonization" and similar (partial list: editors who have been sanctioned recently or have pending reports at AE): Kentucky Rain24 (KR) June 6, האופה June 7, KR June 8, ABHammad June 10 (another), O.maximov June 11, האופה June 12, ABHammad July 2, O.maximov July 3, האופה July 4, Icebear244 July 4, [fully-protected July 11-14], ABHammad July 21 (predicate edit for #ABHammad report), PeleYoetz Aug 11 - first and only edit to the article with edit summary
Reverted to the last stable version ...
- first and only talk page comment -
There's clearly no consensus here ... I see 9-10 voices against the change.
- Icebear244 Jul 4, filing the complaint against Nishidani:
There is significant opposition to the proposed changes (at least 7 editors) evident on both the talk page and through repeated restorations of the last stable version.
- Icebear244 later on Jul 4 clarifies it's 9, not 7:
You seem to have overlooked @האופה, who also opposed using the term in the discussion, and it appears @Vegan416 did too.
- האופה July 4:
... At least 7 editors clearly oppose this framing
- Of the 9-10 editors, 3 have been blocked, 1 TBANed, 1 0RR, and 3 currently have pending AE reports
- Icebear244 Jul 4, filing the complaint against Nishidani:
- Removals of "colonization" and similar (partial list: editors who have been sanctioned recently or have pending reports at AE): Kentucky Rain24 (KR) June 6, האופה June 7, KR June 8, ABHammad June 10 (another), O.maximov June 11, האופה June 12, ABHammad July 2, O.maximov July 3, האופה July 4, Icebear244 July 4, [fully-protected July 11-14], ABHammad July 21 (predicate edit for #ABHammad report), PeleYoetz Aug 11 - first and only edit to the article with edit summary
- Israel - "various causes" / "various reasons": ABHammad Jun 23, האופה Jun 23, O.maximov Aug 3 (predicate edit for #O.maximov report), האופה Aug 6, PeleYoetz Aug 8 - first and only edit to the article, with edit summary
there is no consensus for this new change
. No talk page posts. - Israeli allegations against UNRWA
- האופה Aug 7 - removes it entirely in their first edit to the article with edit summary
this article is about UNRWA involvement in October 7, not the history of Israeli-UNRWA relations, removing recently added material that totally changed the scope
- PeleYoetz Aug 7 - removes it entirely in their first and only edit to the article with edit summary
the scope was changed without real discussion on the proposed change
- האופה Aug 7 - removes it entirely in their first edit to the article with edit summary
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Outside of the editors I've reported to AE, in this topic area, right now, I don't believe you will find other examples of what this report shows: two editors, "Editor A" and "Editor B", where Editor B:
- Repeats Editor A's edits, votes the same way as Editor A, or otherwise "backs up" Editor A
- Three times at three different articles
- At articles they've never edited before
- Where they've also never before participated on the talk page
- Where they contribute nothing to the article except backing up Editor A
- Within the first few months of editing
We can even drop #6, I still don't think there's another example outside of what I've posted at AE lately. @Vanamonde93: Would it change your mind if, instead of three times, it was six times? Here are three more examples: A, B; A, B; A, B. As a bonus, here's a seventh example, this time the order is reversed: B, A. This is not normal editing; this isn't something other editors do. But if we allow this to happen, if we say this is an OK thing to do, then others will start doing it, too. Levivich (talk) 19:25, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Though PeleYoetz continued editing after I filed this report, they haven't edited since Van asked for their comment four days ago. FWIW I'm fine for this to be closed as moot if admins want to; if there is future disruption, I or someone else can ask for admin intervention if needed. Levivich (talk) 21:54, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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Discussion concerning PeleYoetz
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Statement by PeleYoetz
[edit]Statement by Selfstudier
[edit]Until recently I had no real involvement with this editor other than giving an awareness notice in July. Just to add to Levivich diffs:
At Majdal Shams, First of two edits (inconsequential second edit a minute after that) to the article, nothing on talk page, arrives 2 minutes after האופה (aka HaOfa) edit and changes the SD from Town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights -> Druze town in the northern Golan Heights, an obvious POV edit.
At Masada myth, shows up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Masada myth same day as nominated by HaOfa, no prior article edits or at talk page. Agrees with HaOfa.
Same pattern at Israeli allegations against UNRWA, no prior involvement and then consecutive reverts, HaOfa then PeleYoetz.
It is doubtful that this pattern is coincidental. PeleYoetz role appears to be as back up for HaOfa, to support their actions.
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[edit]Result concerning PeleYoetz
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- I don't see what action I could reasonably take here. The ideal approach to a content dispute is for all parties to engage substantively on the talk page until it's sorted, via RfC and outside input if needed. Across the ARBPIA conflict, editors don't do this; instead are slow-moving multi-party edit-wars, and considerable stonewalling on talk pages. When this behavior becomes egregious I'm open to sanctioning anyone and everyone involved, but I don't see anything here rising to that level. A lot of users could stand to engage better on the talk page(s). Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:04, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'd be interested to hear from PeleYoetz in light of the most recent diffs. As I've said elsewhere, agreement between parties heavily invested in the topic is to be expected; a similar pattern from editors not substantively engaged implies off-wiki coordination. Vanamonde93 (talk) 19:37, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'm generally addressing this at #האופה since it's basically the same report, but these types of patterns are wildly easy to find looking at anyone who is involved in the topic area. In less than ten minutes I found more damning "evidence" for two other editors active in the topic. As I said there, if we're going to sanction based on these patterns it would have to be evenly enforced and boy howdy it would be a mess. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:11, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- I think tag-team edit-warring is disruptive. If regulars aren't willing to not be disruptive, then yeah, they've kind of forced our hand. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:20, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Levivich (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 20:50, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
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We continue with the same edit wars:
More of this editor's edits have been diffed at #ABHammad, #O.maximov, #PeleYoetz, and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive336#Statement by Levivich (Nishidani). Note the similarity in edit summaries across these edits. Levivich (talk) 20:50, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
SFR's 8 example edits provide a wonderful opportunity to show what the difference is between one side in an edit war and another:
Clearly, there is a big difference between what Self and Isk are doing in these edits, and what the "other side" of the edit war is doing in these edits. We should not treat these two sides as the same. One side is regular contributors trying to building an encyclopedia (upholding policy), the other side is new/sleeper accounts who never edited the articles before or since trying to whitewash it (violating policy). SFR, I hope you see the difference? Levivich (talk) 17:07, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
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Maybe presenting the diffs in a different way will make a difference. This and the other recent reports show HaOfa not just edit warring (my definition: repeating edits without consensus) but edit warring to remove from Wikipedia statements saying that:
- Palestinians are native or indigenous to Palestine
- the expulsion/flight was caused by Israel and not by "various causes"
- Israel annexed the Golan Heights, not "extended Israeli jurisdiction"
- Israel's occupation is illegal
- Israel is continuing to expand its settlements,
- Israel engaged in apartheid
- Zionists engaged in colonization
- Zionism as settler colonialism is not a fringe theory
At some articles, they edit war claiming (edit summaries diff'd/quoted in hatted section above) "ONUS", "FORCIBLY introduced", "start an RFC", "the rfc has just started, wait for it to conclude"; at the same time at another article, they repeatedly reinstate a bold change during an RFC. They incorrectly claimed "last stable version" while reinstating recent bold changes. They made changes with the edit summary "no consensus" while reinstating changes that had no consensus. Sometimes they did this at articles where they never edited or discussed before or since, like at multiple articles to reinstate a user-generated map with an unreliable source that failed verification.
In short: months of repeating their own and others' edits across multiple articles, violating WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR and WP:EW, with incorrect and contradictory edit summaries.
We don't need a panel of a dozen arbs for this. Reviewing admins can look at these diffs and say (1) yes/no do they violate V, NPOV, NOR, EW, or other policies, and (2) if so, what should be done if anything to prevent future violations. It's hard to answer the second question without hearing from the person being reported. The person being reported doesn't have a reason to say anything until the first question is answered.
If admins answer the first question as yes, there's no need to go to arbcom or anywhere else; see what HaOfa has to say about it. If the admins say no, then there's no need to go anywhere else, just close the report saying so. If admins disagree about whether it's yes or no, then it might be worth seeking additional input at another venue (although the decision of which venue should be left up to the editor(s) who intend to volunteer the time to present evidence).
As for the conduct of other editors, I strongly agree with Nableezy's comment that If an editor were to write 'Poland lost the majority of its Jewish population due to various causes' nobody would be talking about how there are two sides battlegrounding or edit-warring ...
. If someone can put together a list like the one above about some other editor, then they should post that to AE, and reviewing admins should answer the two questions about that set of diffs.
FWIW, from my perspective, AE has worked better than I expected so far, and I don't see why it shouldn't continue to work for this report or any other similar report. Levivich (talk) 01:43, 15 August 2024 (UTC) Edited Levivich (talk) 04:16, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- I think it would be a mistake to send this to arbcom, or take any action, without first hearing from the reported editors.
- And if there are concerns about other editors, step one would be to file an AE case against those other editors. It'll be hard to show that the community can't resolve something when no effort has been made yet. Levivich (talk) 14:45, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Me: "It'll be hard to show that the community can't resolve this."
- The community: "Hold my beer."
- HaOfa hasn't edited since I filed this report five days ago. That hasn't stopped the rest of us from filling up most of this page, and now we've somehow gotten to the point where either BM and Nabs are sanctioned or this goes to arbcom. I've tried and failed to bring this back on track.
- It took me a while to write both versions of this report. And I get that we're all volunteers, and if people don't want to read it, that's fine. Or if they read it and they don't think it amounts to much, that's fine, too. But please don't use it as a springboard to air pre-existing grievances about other editors. To everyone: if you have a problem with another editor, please file your own report (at AE, ARCA, RFAR, ANI, or wherever). Don't use my report as an opportunity to bring attention to an unrelated grievance between other people. Please respect the time I put into this. Unless it's about me, or HaOfa, it doesn't really belong in this thread, it belongs in a new one. That is, after all, what I was told when I brought up HaOfa's and others' conduct in the Nishidani thread (
Further action related to anything here will need a separate report.
). So I wrote a separate report. - And I ask again that we focus on that, and not on the sideshows (and my thanks to those who did focus on the report). HaOfa hasn't edited since I filed this report, which means there is no disruption ongoing right now, regardless of what people think about the diffs. So one available option is that this can be closed as moot; should disruption continue, I or someone else can ask for admin intervention again. And then other people can go write their own reports if they want to. Levivich (talk) 21:59, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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Discussion concerning האופה
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Statement by האופה
[edit]Statement by Bluethricecreamman
[edit]See also participation in this edit war [60] (same one as the case involving me above) Bluethricecreamman (talk) 00:38, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by ABHammad
[edit]Time to get upfront? This is the latest of multiple reports by the same editor, where unsubstantiated claims are being expressed repeatedly in what may feel like a constant threat to potentially scare off editors with different views. A substantial amount of the diffs presented are valid attempts to restore the last consensus versions in the face of constant additions of disputed content through edit warring regardless of consensus and in violation of WP:ONUS. Although it is best to assume goodfaith, this is certainly becoming cumbersome and perhaps even humiliating for these editors. We may need to consider a potential WP:BOOMERANG in this case. ABHammad (talk) 13:42, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Theleekycauldron, I think the reverts from the two editors are very different in substance. The lead for Zionism was recently changed to include a very controversial definition ("colonization of a land outside Europe") that has not achieved consensus. HaOfa appears to be restoring the last stable version and advocating for further discussion and an RfC on talk, while Selfstudier seems to be reinstating a new, disputed change despite considerable opposition (which, I must admit, includes me). I think this context should be taken into account. ABHammad (talk) 10:12, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Selfstudier
[edit]@ScottishFinnishRadish: What's that "warned for aspersions" about, please? Selfstudier (talk) 15:27, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish: Please change the misleading diff to reflect the situation. Thanks. Selfstudier (talk) 16:10, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
@ScottishFinnishRadish: That's a pretty fair misrepresentation of what has occurred at the UNRWA allegations article, the first diff is me doing what was agreed to in talk page discussions that have been taking place over a long period of time, it wasn't a revert and no-one was objecting to it until Haofa/PeleYoetz showed up together out of the blue to revert it.Selfstudier (talk) 15:35, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish: Those discussions have been going on for months including prior to that and that is why there is also an RM in process to give effect to them. I am sincerely displeased that one editor has filed a complaint against two others and yet it seems that I am being put on trial by selective diff as a result.Selfstudier (talk) 16:07, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish: You haven't reached this one as yet in your "content review". Look now at the developments with the UNRWA allegations article edits. The RM that I said was in progress has concluded as I wished it and the 2 reverts by these editors look now completely left field as both Levivich and myself initially pointed out. No need for an admin to decide any content issue, it has been decided.Selfstudier (talk) 15:21, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish: If sanctions need to be spread more widely then so be it, but the totality needs to be examined not just selected parts of it. That my name would show up at these articles is hardly a surprise, I would be surprised if it didn't, as I have been attending these articles for years, not months. As I have specifically commented at the other related case, something is rotten in the state of Denmark.Selfstudier (talk) 16:33, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Theleekycauldron: Who was I tag teaming with, please? Did you mean PeleYoetz 07:38, 11 August 2024 and Haofa 09:10, 11 August 2024? Selfstudier (talk) 09:31, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Theleekycauldron: Let me just parse that. The edits on the 10th are about different material than the edits on the 11th. Of the four edits on the 11th, I restored along with Tarnished Path while the actual reported editors here claimed to be restoring an earlier consensus version. It was my one and only edit for a month or more, so the answer to my question must be that I tag teamed with Tarnished Path, who I don't know from Adam. Are there any other examples of my tag teaming with Tarnished Path? Let me now go back to June/July. I made one edit in July, on the second, tag teaming with no-one, instead I was tag teamed by Vegan (now Tbanned) and Hammad (now 0RR). So nothing there. Let's have a look at June. On 6 June I presumably tagteamed with Unbandito against KentuckyRain(indeffed) and HaOfa (reported here). That's it, 3 edits. How on earth are those 3 edits construed as tag teaming edit warring??? Selfstudier (talk) 18:48, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Theleekycauldron: A simplification at least, no tag teaming. Except that now it is said that because I participated on the talk pages I must have been aware of earlier edit warring and that my revert therefore constituted a continuation of that edit warring (which I did not participate in) over a period of two months prior. I concede that I was aware of the prior edit warring, at least in general terms, but this construction strikes me as novel, to say the least.
- Should I have not reverted and instead started an RFC myself? Well, I don't think so, not in the circumstances, which can be adduced quite straightforwardly at the relevant talk page section, per my contemporaneous comments on 11 August at Talk:Zionism#Recent additions done against consensus, and request to get collaborative. As yet, of those calling for an RFC none has attempted to start one.Selfstudier (talk) 23:49, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish: Seriously?? 3 totally unconnected diffs from 2022??? And a diff pointing to my opening an AFD in February this year? I really do need to get this straight. Levivich files a complaint against a couple editors for tag teaming and provides a bunch of diffs as evidence of that. I add a couple more. Then I am firstly accused of tag teaming with zero diffs/evidence of that based on a single revert that I made (my one and only edit to the article in over a month, followed up immediately on the talk page). Now, how does that work, exactly? Grateful for any coherent explanation. To reiterate, if someone wants to bring a case against me for tag teaming or for anything else, then they can do that, but not that a judge turned defense attorney attempts to find me guilty of I don't know what exactly, via selective historical diffs. Selfstudier (talk) 12:24, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
If we are going to do this properly, let's look at this editor interaction thing, I threw myself and Iskandar into it for 1 January to date (this year, not 2022), What's to see? Well, the first noticeable thing is that a large majority of the results are talk pages. And RSN. So let's leave those alone and pick out an article instead, the first one we come to is South Africa's genocide case against Israel, that's a controversial one, so let's have a look a the detailed timeline for that. Oh wait, I made 109 edits but Iskandar only made 2, should we discard it or take a closer look at the 2? Let's see, what about Zionism article, 9 edits by Iskandar and 4 by me. There you go, I put it out there for anyone that wants to build their case against me. You could try it with others besides Iskandar, Nableezy, etcetera. I'll wait. Selfstudier (talk) 13:27, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
@ScottishFinnishRadish: If tag teaming is demonstrated, it should be sanctioned. One more time, waiting for anyone that wishes to bring a case against me for tag teaming using your diffs or any others. Selfstudier (talk) 15:18, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
I think it is difficult in certain cases to entirely separate content issues from behavior, however desirable that might be in theory. There is certainly a continuity of both subject matter and editors between the two cases here (one case, really) and the Nishidani case, for example. Selfstudier (talk) 10:08, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
@ScottishFinnishRadish: The content review, the link for "On the apartheid edit..." is wrong, I think? Selfstudier (talk) 18:14, 15 August 2024 (UTC) @BilledMammal: That it? Selfstudier (talk) 10:23, 16 August 2024 (UTC) @ScottishFinnishRadish: Levivich and myself did discuss such a filing during the Nishidani case but it never quite got off the ground. Not sure we're quite there with this either, part of the problem is that a case ostensibly about tag teaming has, somewhat unnecessarily imo, turned into another sort of case by osmosis or something. Not hearing from the editors in question doesn't help. If the party line is that tag teaming is too difficult to pin down, let's just say that and then we know. But let's not pretend that we're sending this case (or two cases) to Arbcom. If we did want a generalized Arbcom case, this wouldn't be it in my view.Selfstudier (talk) 11:53, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by fiveby
[edit]SFR, edits which restore the "various causes" language following IOHANNVSVERVS' comments here probably deserve a more critical view. fiveby(zero) 16:26, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by IOHANNVSVERVS
[edit]I can add this quite balatant POV-push edit [61] where HaOfa unilaterally removed the Israel Defense Forces from the infobox of Sabra and Shatila massacre. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 16:36, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Sean.hoyland
[edit]The Zionism article has been targeted by numerous people using deception via sockpuppetry. Examples include
- Here come the Suns, Kentucky Rain24 (NoCal100),
- ElLuzDelSur,
- Aroma Stylish, BanyanClimber, SoaringLL (AndresHerutJaim/יניב הורון)
- ManOnTheMoon92 (Tombah)
So we know a) the article is being targeted by sockpuppets, b) socks edit war and c) the costs of sanctions for disposable accounts is precisely zero. Any decisions based on the notion of balance, sides/bothsidesism etc. should presumably take this into account because "sides" can't include accounts that are not allowed to edit at all. This is another reason why accounts reported (and commenting) at AE should have checkusers run on them, to avoid arriving at a false balance. Sean.hoyland (talk) 09:59, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Iskandar323
[edit]With regards to the examples pulled up below regarding aligned edits by myself and Self, isn't the issue raised above by Levivich more about actual slow-motion edit warring, not just joint appearances on talk pages? I'm not saying that editors don't naturally overlap on watched pages, but there's quite a significant material difference between edit wars on page and contributions on talk. Iskandar323 (talk) 13:15, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish: It appears that you have opened Pandora's box with your examples and now BilledMammal thinks it fit to post laundry lists of complaints. I'm not really party to this AE proceeding, so I would rather appreciate it if all of these off-topic shenanigans could cease and order be re-imposed. Iskandar323 (talk) 06:58, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- @BilledMammal: On the nitty gritty, since we're getting into this, I also only argued against the geographical rescoping on the Al-Awda talk, so that's a mischaracterisation. I simply didn't engage with any other aspect. Aside from that, you mention 8 discussions where I'm in line with the community consensus and 4 not – so a 2/3 super majority of me being in line with the community consensus. You basically have beef with me on the engineer's building, where my argument was coloured by the specific HRW finding of the event as being an standout war crime case study. Differences of opinion on the relevance of that are allowed. We must agree to disagree. You have also mischaracterised the first set of edits that you have presented from myself and Self as "restores", when they are quite clearly different edits, even if overlapping. They are nothing so simple as restores, however. You would also be better to strike the error pointed out by Zero, since merely editing the table once it has been referred to is probably going to make this back and forth more troublesome to understand for the admins (without them looking at the page history). Iskandar323 (talk) 08:47, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- @BilledMammal: Similar edits aren't "restores" in the conventionally understood sense, and blandly stating that it is is misleading. As for your accusations of POV pushing, there are serious conversations to be had about language use in the conflict, as RS have highlighted, but that purpose isn't served by your reductive analysis. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:44, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Dan Murphy
[edit]Last stable version, last stable version, last stable version. No consensus, no consensus, no consensus. These folks need better material. And saying a thing does not make it so. (Point being, the constant repetition of stock phrases - ones clearly at odds with the facts, in my opinion - by fly by reverting account is telling you something) Dan Murphy (talk) 21:46, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Nableezy
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Umm, ScottishFinnishRadish, if you want to say something about me the usual thing would be to ping me. No, I am not "continuing the long term edit war", I am restoring material that already had consensus. I am not even putting in the edit that I support, I am putting in what already has an established consensus for. If you want to even pretend to give a shit about the things that matter here, like not making things up in articles, that would be great. Next time maybe ping me if you have a concern about an edit I make. If you really think my changing "fled" to "made to flee" and including "by paramilitaries and the IDF" is continuing an edit-war then feel free to justify that claim, rather than snidely assert it without so much as a the bare minimum notification that you are talking about somebody. nableezy - 15:18, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
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Barkeep49 I had no intention of engaging in this request at all until an edit of mine was raised without my being notified. I only engaged at all because another editor was courteous enough to ping me to draw my attention to it. But Ill collapse this entire section and we can all get back to pretending that all reverts are the same and anybody reverting anything is edit-warring and/or battlegrounding. I wish the admins here would have learned something from Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive336#Nishidani, where an admin was focused on "Civility concerns, Battleground concerns" and less so on the obvious bad-faith editing in which throw-away accounts are used to edit in direct opposition of what is supposedly the core policy of this place, one that is non-negotiable. But that lesson does not appear to have taken hold. Ah well, take whatever action you think necessary. And I mean that, Ive long thought you were one of the more judicious and considered admins here, so if you feel my presence on this project is a detriment then you should remove me from it. nableezy - 22:06, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- In my most decorous way, let me state that I continue to find SFR's complaints about me to be misinformed, and I cannot explain why he thinks I am the subject of this request. After he raised an edit of mine here, without pinging me or notifying me, he has then repeatedly focused on me here. While ignoring that, for example, BilledMammal has multiple times in this request made untrue statements, eg that Iskandar supported "massacre" at Al-Awda school attack when all they opposed was BilledMammal's attempt to obfuscate the target of the bombing by removing the school that was attacked from the title, or at a discussion they opened (WP:RFC/G) where he cautioned four editors for bludgeoning when one of those editors, again BilledMammal had nearly twice as many comments as another, me. And then BM presents, yet again, an inaccurate portrayal of what occurred after that cautioning, when he said I had made four comments compared to his 2, when mine were either in response to the caution or questioning why BM's continued arguing was being ignored. I cant say why SFR has this seemingly uneven focus on me, at least without once again falling afoul of the decorum requirements here. Maybe its because I dared to appeal a sanction of his, who knows, but I dont know why he keeps bringing me up. Especially when the subject of this report has not even deigned to respond to it. I am unaware of when I engag[ed] over behavior on talk pages since that warning. This is the forum for bringing complaints to uninvolved administrators, so it is curious to then complain about my doing so instead of engaging over behavior on talk pages when that was the warning. nableezy - 14:59, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- There is zero evidence of battlegrounding on my part, and I don’t see how my objection to how an administrator is acting here is in any way related to battleground behavior in the topic area. As far as tone, after having been silently accused of edit warring without notification, I spoke harshly but I also collapsed that section once Barkeep raised it. My raiding untrue statements by another editor is likewise not grounds for an Iban. SFR has repeatedly attempted to impose sanctions on me on shaky grounds, and this just continues here. I’m barely even involved in the request and I’m the one being proposed for a topic ban lol. If SFR wants a thread about me he should open it or he should do what he did previously and ban me on spurious grounds and I can appeal it. nableezy - 16:17, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- my requesting that you actually treat people fairly, and not allow the one user who actually was bludgeoning that discussion to continue doing so, and my asking you if you felt an objectively dishonest portrayal of what occurred was in fact dishonest is not engaging in behavior on talk pages or battlegrounding. I was curious as to if you actually thought that comment was honest. But if we’re raising emails I’d be happy to discuss the ones you’ve sent me including the unprompted one that started with "If you want to talk outside of the restrictions and worry of Wikipedia and without the peanut gallery of WPO, I'm more than willing". For the record, my email to SFR said "just out of curiosity, do you think an edit like this is honest? you think that is a good faith portrayal of fact there?", linking to the same comment by BM I linked to here. That’s his definition of battlegrounding I guess. nableezy - 16:37, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
I’d request this go to arbcom so we can examine all editors conduct here, especially if we are going to be ignoring the actual POV pushing and tendentious editing occurring in this topic area. nableezy - 16:46, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by BilledMammal
[edit]Since Selfstudier requested it, I reviewed some of their and Iskandar323's edits from the past month, and found the following tag teaming/mild edit warring, as defined above:
Anti-Defamation League:
- 09:12, 2 August 2024 Selfstudier added content to the lede
- 17:45, 2 August 2024 Iskandar323 restored it
- 13:59, 4 August 2024 Selfstudier restored it
- 11:30, 31 July 2024 Selfstudier removed content from the lede
- 14:33, 1 August 2024 Selfstudier removed it
- 15:02, 1 August 2024 Iskandar323 removed it
They have also engaged in POV pushing. This is most obvious in "massacre" RM's since the start of the war, where different standards are applied to attacks against Palestinians and attacks against Israelis.
- S means they supported the use of massacre
- O means they opposed the use of massacre
- N means they participated but didn't express a position on the use of massacre
- Green background means the article covers attacks on Palestinians
- Blue background means the article covers attacks on Israelis
Article | Selfstudier | Iskandar323 |
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Al-Awda school attack | N | S |
Al-Tabaeen school attack | S | - |
Engineer's Building airstrike | - | S |
Flour massacre (first RM) | S | S |
Flour massacre (second RM) | - | S |
Attack on Holit | O | O |
Kissufim massacre | - | O |
Nahal Oz attack | O | O |
Netiv HaAsara massacre | - | O |
Nir Oz attack | O | O |
Nir Yitzhak attack | - | O |
Nirim attack | - | O |
Tel al-Sultan attack | - | S |
Yeshivat Beit Yisrael bombing | O | O |
Iskandar323 in particular makes their POV pushing very clear. For example, at at Attack on Holit they said we should follow the sources, and that the arguments for massacre rely more on independent reasoning over the nature of the event
rather than the sourcing. However, at Engineer's Building airstrike they the opposite, that more than 100 civilians were massacred with narry a shred of evidence of military motive in sight, making "massacre" pretty aptly descriptive
.
See also this discussion, where they say we should counter systematic bias in reliable sources in relation to the use of massacre.
Selfstudier has done similar, although it isn't as blatant; at Nir Oz attack they said that we should only call an event a massacre when the weight of sourcing actually names it as massacre
, but at Al-Tabaeen school attack they said the opposite, that while a plurality of English language sources do not call the event a massacre
, that we should still use the term because they see it as systematic bias.
(I would also like to commend Vice regent for their position in these discussions; they have frequently participated in them and have consistently taken a neutral line.) BilledMammal (talk) 06:04, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Zero0000: Oh, I see what I did - I initially wrongly listed Iskandar323 as having supported and Selfstudier having not participated. I then realized I'd missed Selfstudier and corrected it, but didn't realize Iskandar323 had not actually participated. Corrected, thank you. BilledMammal (talk) 08:22, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Iskandar323: At Anti-Defamation League, all three edits added something along the lines of
It is known for and received criticism for its pro-Israel advocacy
to the lede. - Regarding the massacre discussions, applying different standards - POV pushing - is disruptive even when you end up aligned with consensus. Arguably, it is even more so in those cases, as the question becomes whether POV pushing changed the result. BilledMammal (talk) 09:03, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish: Regarding your proposals:
- As previously mentioned, I would support an IBAN - while I would prefer a voluntary one that expires at the end of the war, obviously the first half isn’t an option with Nableezy rejecting it.
- I think a comment restriction would be more effective than a word restriction. This is because the latter would limit the amount of evidence an editor can post, and sometimes it is necessary and productive to conduct systematic reviews of sources or similar - for example, while I summarized it in about one hundred words, in a recent non-PIA topic area RFC I posted 750,000 words of evidence (in my user space), so that editors could verify my claims rather than needing to take them on faith.
Because bludgeoning is such an issue in the topic area - many editors engage in it, and problematically I'm probably not even the worst - if this went to ArbCom I was planning to suggest a topic-wide anti-bludgeoning restriction. Specifically, that editors are limited to ten (or five, although at lower numbers issues start to occur with multi-question RFC's) comments per discussion. I would suggest/request than any anti-bludgeoning restriction imposed here use this form.
Alternatively, the standard anti-bludgeoning restriction imposed at ANI is to limit editors to two comments per discussion per day. I’m not a huge fan of this form, as in theory it still allows slow-bludgeoning, but it does seem to have worked for some editors, so perhaps the enforced delay is sufficient to control the behavior.
- I think some consideration of Iskandar’s POV pushing is also needed.
- BilledMammal (talk) 16:10, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Zero0000
[edit]To editor BilledMammal:, where did Iskandar323 support "massacre" at Al-Tabaeen school attack? Zerotalk 08:15, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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[edit]Result concerning האופה
[edit]- This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the sections above.
- I don't find this, or the report above, terribly convincing. There are two sides involved in these disputes, and both are doing the same thing.
- Genocide of indigenous peoples - Bluethricecreamman (currently open AE), Selfstudier (warned for aspersions), Bluethriceceamman again, M. Bitton (no talk page messages), Bluethriceceamman again.
- Zionism - Selfstudier, TarnishedPath, Nishidani, DMH223344, DMH223344 again, Dan Murphy and more going back.
- Israeli allegations against UNRWA - Selfstudier added, Iskander323, Selfstudier reverted.
- This doesn't actually prove anything except there is no consensus for a lot of these changes, and both sides engage in long-term edit wars for their preferred versions. We can tally up warnings and first times having edited an article, but that doesn't actually prove anything. Editors will show up at articles they have not yet edited, in fact every article that everyone has edited they had previously not edited, and huge numbers of editors have warnings and sanctions related to the topic. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:26, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- I was getting at Levivich's noting a
partial list: editors who have been sanctioned recently or have pending reports at AE
. I recently warned you and BM. Nish has a logged warning, Bluethricecreamman has an open report. Just because editors agree with someone who has been sanctioned or has a pending report at AE doesn't mean their position on content is a problem. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:34, 12 August 2024 (UTC) - The discussion at Talk:Israeli allegations against UNRWA#Article development, I assume, where you, Makeandtoss, Iskander323, Nishidani and Kashmiri discussed it? I am not at all surprised that when it was noticed by an editor from the other side of the battleground that they reverted. You were still part of the edit war there, but I'll adjust my statement a bit to make it more clear how events flowed. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:53, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Selfstudier, I'm not trying to put you on trial, but your name came up when I looked at a few of the articles in these reports so you got used as an example. What I'm trying to communicate is that the types of diffs presented by Levivich are not uncommon, and when we're dealing with relatively small groups of editors the same names are going to show up next to each other a lot. You're not on the hook for that, and I'm saying that other editors aren't either unless there is some evidence of malfeasance or bad faith editing. If we're going to start sanctioning these patterns the sanctions are going to end up widespread if applied even-handedly. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:25, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- I want to be clear to Selfstudier and Iskandar323 that I'm not proposing sanctions, this is just to illustrate my point.
- Selfstudier - Iskandar323's first talk page edit
- Iskandar323 contesting CSD on article they had just created - - Selfstudier also contesting the CSD ~20 minutes after article creation, their first edit to talk page
- Selfstudier - Iskander323 10 hours later to support, never edited article, first talk page edit
- Selfstudier nominates for deletion - 35 minutes late, first !vote in AFD is Iskandar323 supporting Selfstudier, first edit to talk page of article was an hour earlier supporting Selfstudier
- That was after a few minutes of looking. When people are active in the same topics this kind of thing is incredibly common. If we're going to ABF for these patterns then there is a lot of this going on and it should be evenly enforced. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:05, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Selfstudier, again, not saying you're doing anything wrong, just demonstrating that if we're using the threshold of "edited the same page in support of each other without having first edited the page" than it's going to be an enormous problem.
- Levivich, those were picked at random from the editor interaction analyzer. I'm sure you'll find hundreds more examples like that, as 20% of Iskandar's 46,500 edits are to pages also edited by Selfstudier, and 60% of Selfstudier's 37,800 edits are to pages also edited by Iskandar323. People who edit in this topic area edit the same pages, and people with similar views support each other. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:30, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- That is without looking particularly hard. So do we want to start sanctioning for tag-team editing? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Levivich, you were already over the diff limit with your initial statement, and now we've gone far beyond that. I think the venue you're looking for to judge when AGF isn't necessary, how many edits to an article insulates you from tag-teaming, if newly EC editors are allowed the same privileges as established editors, what amount of poor content or content one side disagrees with justifies tag team editing, if someone who made an edit was sanctioned does that mean reverting them isn't reverting, and if there is off-site coordination among new editors in the topic, isn't AE.
- If you have to provide ~35 diffs and links in your initial report and it still needs back and forth with deeper analysis it probably needs to be seen by a committee of some sort, maybe of diverse views and elected by the community to deeply analyze a wide body of evidence provided by editors addressing complex, long-running conflicts. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Luckily, while this AE report is opened in part to look at edit warring at Israel no one is continuing the long term edit war. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:05, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Nableezy, I didn't ping you because I was more concerned with showing that this edit war was still on-going to communicate the point that the editors reported here are not doing anything that is unusual or unexpected, and if we're going to sanction it there will be a lot of those sanctions going around.
- As far as your edit not being part of the long-term edit war, and instead just being a restoration of consensus, there is currently an RFC waiting closure on that point, and there has been a large number of versions of the Nakba/expulsion sentence in the lead. The version you restored is not a consensus version.
- I was getting at Levivich's noting a
Some versions of that sentence back to May 10th chosen at random |
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ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:18, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- If the issue is that a certain group of editors is tag-teaming to get around 1RR, or that people like to engage in long-term edit wars to get the article to look their own preferred way by force, wouldn't imposing individual WP:0RR restrictions be a way to stop that? Can't really edit war if you can't revert. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 15:26, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- I will note that I am not generally a fan of imposing 0RR, as there is some natural back-and-forth to Wikipedia's editing that is often healthy. But if there are individuals in this area who:
- Write decent quality articles from the ground up;
- Engage in talk page discussions productively; and
- Nonetheless, have a habit of engaging in long-term edit warring in the topic area's established articles;
- Then, we may have a case that a 0RR would work. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 15:30, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- I will note that I am not generally a fan of imposing 0RR, as there is some natural back-and-forth to Wikipedia's editing that is often healthy. But if there are individuals in this area who:
- If the issue is that a certain group of editors is tag-teaming to get around 1RR, or that people like to engage in long-term edit wars to get the article to look their own preferred way by force, wouldn't imposing individual WP:0RR restrictions be a way to stop that? Can't really edit war if you can't revert. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 15:26, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Warn HaOfa and Selfstudier for the tag-team editing at Zionism. Being the fourth and fifth reverts, respectively, is beyond reason, and HaOfa actually participated in an edit war over the same exact content two months ago. Enough already. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:54, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Why this and not for edit warring? Barkeep49 (talk) 12:45, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Barkeep49: Sorry, i meant tag-team edit warring. If there are instances of them unilaterally edit-warring, I'd be happy to lump those in. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:45, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Selfstudier: No, I mean you. I thought you'd know that I'm referring to the edits to Zionism on August 10 and 11 where KlayCax removes some text, Nishidani restores it, PeleYoetz removes it, TarnishedPath restores it, HaOfa removes it, and you restore it. Looks like tag-team edit-warring to me, and not the first instance, but the third recent instance given that there were outbreaks of it in June/July. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:45, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ABHammad: I'm not even sure how to begin to engage with "my team's edit-warring is more justified because my team was doing it in the name of stability". Edit warring is destabilizing. Next time, ask an admin to lock down the page and start an RfC instead of doing that. Also, no, the last stable revisions were the ones before you made your edit to the page on June 10/before KlayCax made their edit on August 10. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:45, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
[M]y team was doing it in the name of stability
is right up there with "they've edited the page before" in terms of justification. Add a dollop of "one of them is blocked for unrelated copyright violations" and we're cruising right along. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:12, 13 August 2024 (UTC)- @Selfstudier: in which case this is a continuation of the edit war over the lead sentence that began in June and has basically continued on-and-off since then. Given the extent of your participation on the talk page and at these AE threads, you were certainly aware that that edit war happened. In that case, your diff is still intentional edit-warring. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:51, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Why this and not for edit warring? Barkeep49 (talk) 12:45, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Levivich: I'm not sure
I need to give AE an opportunity to address this before it's taken up at any other noticeboard
is true. You could, instead, just go to the community, or, truthfully, go to ArbCom (perhaps via ARCA) since this is an area that ArbCom already has "jurisidiction" with. I will say that I think AE is pretty ill served to your desire to consider multiple editors' behaviors in relation to each other. I think both ANI and ArbCom do that better. Barkeep49 (talk) 19:55, 13 August 2024 (UTC)- Along those lines, that seems like we may want to refer this to the ArbCom. After all, if there is another process that would handle this exact sort of dispute better, and if AE is
ill served
to review this evidence, why would we not just have the better process handle this? — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 12:54, 14 August 2024 (UTC)- That's what I've been saying in the past few complicated reports. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:41, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'd support – is the scope of the case the edit warring on the one page, or more broadly the battleground behavior? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:42, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- The edit warring is just a symptom of the battleground behavior, so battleground behavior more broadly. We literally have, here at AE, an editor Pinging Nableezy saying
If you want to even pretend to give a shit about the things that matter here, like not making things up in articles, that would be great.
for an admin me pointing out that they were continuing an edit war, and they've already been sanctioned for battleground editing. That's about as battleground as it gets. If no one but me is interested in sanctioning for that type of behavior then Arbcom is the route to take. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:52, 14 August 2024 (UTC)- I think there are three other admins in the thread interested in curbing it (i proposed a small warning above), but i do feel that ArbCom is better at breaking down long-term behavior like this. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:58, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not opposed to referring this to ArbCom; the only thing holding me back from being 100% supportive is Levivich's statement that he's prefer not ArbCom. Now we as uninvolved administrators can certainly reach a different consensus - especially given the way some non-parties have come in hot to this discussion (see my comment below) but want to note this thought before we send it along. Barkeep49 (talk) 21:35, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I will note that I find Levivich's new presentation of the material more compact and thus more helpful to reaching some conclusion here. I've looked through about half of it and I'd say only about half of what I've examined concerns me and virtually none of it is edit warring, but if those ratios carry through it will add up to a pattern of problems worth a sanction. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Looking at the amended report, I don't find the two edits to Palestinians and two to Talk:Palestinians overly concerning. In the article the break is over
indigenous to Palestine, being descended from the various inhabitants of the region over the millennia, that are culturally and linguistically Arab.
anddescending from peoples who have inhabited the region of Palestine over the millennia, and who today are culturally and linguistically Arab.
, so the sticking point was using indigenous or native. There are sources provided in the talk page discussion that are from peer reviewed papers challenging the applicability of native or indigenous. It seems consensus has been formed, however, and the edits in this case were about two months ago. - The three edits to the lead of Israel aren't great. Long term edit warring is a problem, especially as all three edits are while there is an active RFC on the topic. Linking to an article that says
scholarly consensus today is that violent expulsions were the main factor
rather provided that detail does appear to be intentionally burying the lead. - The sources in Golan Heights that discuss annexation also use the phrasing
extending Israeli administration over the Golan
, and the article saysOn 14 December 1981, Israel passed the Golan Heights Law, that extended Israeli "laws, jurisdiction and administration" to the Golan Heights. Although the law effectively annexed the territory to Israel, it did not explicitly spell out a formal annexation.
It obviously changes the framing, and the annexation phrasing looks to have been pretty stable. All that said, per the edit summary of the prior edit and their edit, it looks to have been a revert about US recognition in the lead,Rv, US view doesnt belong in lead, its elswhere in article
followed bythe world's leading superpower, I think it is worth a mention
. Obviously, everyone is responsible for the full content of their edits and effects of their reverts, but this was a single edit and it appears to not have been the main thrust of the edit. - As for
Israel's governmental seat is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, though under international law East Jerusalem is Palestinian territory illegally occupied by Israel.
versusIsrael's governmental seat is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, though Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is not recognised under international law and only has limited recognition internationally.
, it should be summarizing the content in article,The Golan Heights and East Jerusalem have been fully incorporated into Israel under Israeli law, but not under international law. Israel has applied civilian law to both areas and granted their inhabitants permanent residency status and the ability to apply for citizenship. The UN Security Council has declared the annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem to be "null and void" and continues to view the territories as occupied. The status of East Jerusalem in any future peace settlement has at times been a difficult issue in negotiations between Israeli governments and representatives of the Palestinians.
- For the settlement issue,
Israel has established settlements across the occupied territories, which is deemed illegal under international law, and has annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, which is largely unrecognized internationally.
remains the the lead. A partially duplicative paragraph,Israel has established and continues to expand settlements across the occupied territories, which is deemed illegal under international law, and has annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, which is largely unrecognized internationally. Since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt, returning the Sinai Peninsula, and Jordan, and into the 2020s has normalized relations with several Arab countries. However, efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have not succeeded. Israel has been internationally criticised for its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, and been accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians by human rights organizations and UN officials.
was removed from the lead. The only information on the settlements that changed was theand continues to expand
language. Was that an issue with removing duplicate information from the lead and overlooking moving those four words to the earlier use of the same prose, or an intentional whitewashing? This was also a single edit. - On the apartheid edit, this has been a long running issue that was being actively discussed again at an RFC that ended with no consensus to include. Is the issue editors removing something that never had consensus, or repeatedly adding it?
- That's all I got in me for now, except to say that it certainly looks like we're asking admins at AE to decide which content is right. I'm not seeing black and white NPOV violations. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:41, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Selfstudier, link fixed. I formatted it like a wikilink and not an external link. :/ ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:21, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Looking at the amended report, I don't find the two edits to Palestinians and two to Talk:Palestinians overly concerning. In the article the break is over
- I will note that I find Levivich's new presentation of the material more compact and thus more helpful to reaching some conclusion here. I've looked through about half of it and I'd say only about half of what I've examined concerns me and virtually none of it is edit warring, but if those ratios carry through it will add up to a pattern of problems worth a sanction. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- The edit warring is just a symptom of the battleground behavior, so battleground behavior more broadly. We literally have, here at AE, an editor Pinging Nableezy saying
- I'd support – is the scope of the case the edit warring on the one page, or more broadly the battleground behavior? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:42, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- That's what I've been saying in the past few complicated reports. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:41, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Levivich: the community has already shown it is unable to handle this topic area. That is why there have been four arbcom cases already. AE is not some community venue. It is instead an Arbitration Committee venue where ArbCom has delegated some of its powers to others - in this case uninvolved administrators. Those administrators saying "actually we are unable to handle this with the powers you've delegated" is not an unreasonable outcome (if not one I'd like to see yet). Barkeep49 (talk) 14:48, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Along those lines, that seems like we may want to refer this to the ArbCom. After all, if there is another process that would handle this exact sort of dispute better, and if AE is
- Nableezy, it's all bad, that's why I'm calling the entire thing an edit war. You said
I am restoring material that already had consensus
, despite there never having been a consensus for that. It was the phrasing edit warred in right as the RFC started, but that doesn't give it some special status, and especially doesn't make it consensus. Everyone should stop edit warring, but acting like the four edits to Israel in the original report are the real problem doesn't pass muster. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:54, 14 August 2024 (UTC) - Nableezy I find your decorum here to be below what is expected of editors. I suggest you review the expectations, consider striking any statements you've made that do not meet those expectations, and adjust how you respond going forward. My understanding of why you're frustrated is what has stopped me for exercising one of the options presented there to uninvolved administrators. Barkeep49 (talk) 21:32, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks @Nableezy for your actions here. I'm trying to give what little time I currently have to things like this, but it's inadequate to doing a full job. And so that prevents me from having too many opinions at the moment; I hope if I spend more time I don't reach the conclusion that you need to be removed from the topic. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:00, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Barkeep49, what mystical incantation do we need to etch in runes on this page to refer this to arbcom? Do we just light some candles and repeat
Arbcom, Arbcom, please take heed! More diffs and words and context we need! Restrained and ill attended is this place! Please heed us Arbcom, TAKE THE CASE!
three times? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:34, 16 August 2024 (UTC)- Selfstudier, it's not that tag teaming is hard to pin down, it's that it is so widespread between the two sides that it doesn't make sense to treat reports in a vacuum. Also, you're not requesting a case, we admins are saying that these reports are all related and need to be handled in a venue suited to looking at an entire topic. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:04, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Close it with that rough consensus and then fill out the paperwork at WP:ARCA. I will note I haven't given up all hope here though. Barkeep49 (talk) 12:16, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- How would you like to move forward here? In my eyes there is POV pushing, battleground editing, and tag teaming, but it is coming from both sides. So we can a) do nothing, b) give out more stern finger waggings which are generally ineffective, c) start evenhandedly sanctioning for the reported behavior, d) kick it to the group designed to handle large, complex, multiparty disputes. In this section we have multiple editors who've already racked up warnings and sanctions but continue with the same behavior, so I don't see a or b as solutions. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:33, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- I think I will close this with rough consensus to send to ArbCom in around 12 hours. I understand that Barkeep has not given up all hope here, but all other admins here appear to see ArbCom as the best venue given the complexity of issues in this area, and I do see a rough consensus for such a close at this point. — Red-tailed sock (Red-tailed hawk's nest) 14:32, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
What is your rush RTH? I think you closing this when at least 2 of the four admins are still trying to find consensus with each other is a mistake. It's not like I'm 1 against 6 or 7 admins here. Barkeep49 (talk) 14:50, 16 August 2024 (UTC)- I understand that this is now a struck comment, as the objection was withdrawn, but your criticism is fair. I will try to keep this in mind going forward. — Red-tailed sock (Red-tailed hawk's nest) 15:22, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- My goal, since becoming re-involved at AE, has been to do C. Now you and I might disagree about what sanctions are appropriate; I think formal warnings are a sanction whereas it seems like you're characterizing it as stern finger wagging. I am not opposed to d if we get there but I would love to truly exhaust our ability to do c. I thought we had gotten there with this coupling of reports but now wonder if maybe it's not true. I'm hopeful I'll have some more time to reply to your evidence analysis today or tomorrow. And if taht doesn't happen then I'd have no objections to the referral. Barkeep49 (talk) 14:35, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- I call the warnings generally ineffective because, as an example, Nableezy has been racking up warnings for years, agreed to a reduction in sanctions
with an assurance from Nableezy that they will moderate their tone and bring concerns about editor behavior to an uninvolved administrator or AE rather than engaging over behavior on talk pages.
[62] and here we are again with you sayingI find your decorum here to be below what is expected of editors. I suggest you review the expectations, consider striking any statements you've made that do not meet those expectations, and adjust how you respond going forward.
Surely this is the time it won't be ineffective finger wagging. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:49, 16 August 2024 (UTC)- I with draw my objection to sending this to ArbCom. Nableezy's latest comment shows the complexity and the multiple editors involved (including perhaps SFR though I don't find those accusations all that convincing) in just this complaint. Multi-party complaints (as opposed to the serial/sequential complaints Levivich has been trying) and complaints of Administrator problems enforcing conduct in the topic area are poorly served at AE and so yes this should just go to ArbCom. Barkeep49 (talk) 15:07, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- I see this as either Arbcom or:
- I-Ban between Nableezy and BilledMammal
- Topic ban Nableezy for continued battleground/civility/tone issues
- BilledMammal restricted to 500 words in any ARBPIA discussion
- Probably a few other editors too. This isn't a standard remedy so it can't be placed by an individual administrator unless we dress it up as a topic ban from any arbpia discussion where you have already used 500 words. Just look how smooth this RFC went without the normal bludgeoners bludgeoning and opponents arguing.
- Maybe even everyone is limited to 500-1000 words in any ARBPIA discussion. Probably need to request that at ARCA for blanket application, but we can do this at AE for pages or discussions
- 0RR for pretty much anyone who has taken part in any of these long-term edit wars (including the subject of this report), which is going to be a lot of editors.
- I guess the benefit is we can do this without the huge time sink of arbcom with just a rough consensus. Do we want to try to do something drastic, or do we want to kick it up to Arbcom? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:57, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- I stand by my statement above that I do not think AE is well equipped to handle multi-party complaints like this. As a procedural matter now that sanctions are being considered against BM and Nableezy I will formally notify them (though obviously both are already paying attention). Barkeep49 (talk) 16:01, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Nableezy, you said
I am unaware of when I engag[ed] over behavior on talk pages since that warning.
immediately after talking about making multiple comments about editor behavior at an ARBPIA RFC, and as far as battleground editing you returned to that RFC to complain that they got the same "please disengage" as you did and made two additional comments, then emailed me about their correcting saying one reply to two replies. And that's just today. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:29, 16 August 2024 (UTC) - I agree with that assessment, and I think ArbCom would be the better route. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:25, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- I see this as either Arbcom or:
- I with draw my objection to sending this to ArbCom. Nableezy's latest comment shows the complexity and the multiple editors involved (including perhaps SFR though I don't find those accusations all that convincing) in just this complaint. Multi-party complaints (as opposed to the serial/sequential complaints Levivich has been trying) and complaints of Administrator problems enforcing conduct in the topic area are poorly served at AE and so yes this should just go to ArbCom. Barkeep49 (talk) 15:07, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- I call the warnings generally ineffective because, as an example, Nableezy has been racking up warnings for years, agreed to a reduction in sanctions
- I think I will close this with rough consensus to send to ArbCom in around 12 hours. I understand that Barkeep has not given up all hope here, but all other admins here appear to see ArbCom as the best venue given the complexity of issues in this area, and I do see a rough consensus for such a close at this point. — Red-tailed sock (Red-tailed hawk's nest) 14:32, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- How would you like to move forward here? In my eyes there is POV pushing, battleground editing, and tag teaming, but it is coming from both sides. So we can a) do nothing, b) give out more stern finger waggings which are generally ineffective, c) start evenhandedly sanctioning for the reported behavior, d) kick it to the group designed to handle large, complex, multiparty disputes. In this section we have multiple editors who've already racked up warnings and sanctions but continue with the same behavior, so I don't see a or b as solutions. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:33, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
Arbitration enforcement action appeal by Lima Bean Farmer
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- Appealing user
- Lima Bean Farmer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) – Lima Bean Farmer (talk) 04:50, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sanction being appealed
- Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2020 § c-Dreamy Jazz-2020-12-19T12:38:00.000Z-American politics 2
- Administrator imposing the sanction
- Dreamy Jazz (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
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- [63]
Statement by Lima Bean Farmer
[edit]I am looking to appeal a topic ban on post-1992 American politics. These case would be more open and shut if there weren’t a more recent edit to this ban. The original ban was over 3 years ago for post-1932 American politics but was changed to post-1992 American politics over a year ago. I would like to edit in this section a bit more freely, and I have not faced any sanctions or other administrative action since then. I have made large structural edits to pages such as List of productions impacted by the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and List of convicted war criminals, demonstrating my ability to work with other editors to come to consensus while also using reliable sources when and where appropriate. In summary, since my last appeal, I have demonstrated more frequent Wikipedia editing that follows guidelines, helps productive editing, and understanding consensus for the past year. Having knowledge in the topic of post-1992 politics, having this topic ban lifted would allow me greater freedom for productive editing. Thank you for your decision in advance! Lima Bean Farmer (talk) 04:50, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Dreamy Jazz
[edit]Based on a quick look from their contributions and what others have said at WP:ARCA, it seems that Lima Bean Farmer has been editing constructively elsewhere.
However, the text of this appeal does not directly address the reasons why the indefinite topic ban was placed. I would, personally, like to see some acknowledgement of what led up to the topic ban and a commitment to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
For example, in their last appeal they said please don’t hold a grudge
when asked about a comment they made while appealing their block. I would like to be sure that Lima Bean Farmer understands that we need to see that they have changed, and therefore we are not holding a grudge but instead want to be sure that the topic ban is no longer necessary. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 06:35, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- As to socking, I have not run a check. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 06:36, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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[edit]Discussion among uninvolved editors about the appeal by Lima Bean Farmer
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- I'm generally amenable to appeals made after a few years, but I'm interested in Dreamy Jazz's thoughts, as well as if there has been any further socking. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:22, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
Lemabeta
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Request concerning Lemabeta
[edit]- User who is submitting this request for enforcement
- Vanezi Astghik (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 10:35, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- User against whom enforcement is requested
- Lemabeta (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
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- Sanction or remedy to be enforced
- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Armenia-Azerbaijan 3
- Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
- 15 August 2024: Reverts to their original POV WP:OR. The problem with these are: “Armeno-Georgian” or Mamikonian roots is supported by the sources in the article (including 3 in the lede), yet the user removes the “Armeno” part and adds doubt to Mamkionian roots for no reason (second time now), engaging in WP:TE and WP:OR.
- 10 June 2024: Removes content based on “outdated” source Brosset, 1849. FYI, it's the same source that's used for Georgian origins [64]; apparently it's outdated for one thing, but can stay for another.
- 10 June 2024: Adds “cn” templates to existing sources and adds unexplained doubt.
- 15 August 2024: Removes material that's in the body; this after being specifically called out for selective POV-pushing in the previous edits and shown an additional modern WP:RS in the same comment (which was added to the article), RS that literally supported the info they removed.
- 24 July 2024: Another WP:TE and WP:OR push by changing sourced material under the guise of “WP:NEUTRALITY violation”. If you read the book's page, it literally says; “These three men, Davit Soslan, Zakare and Ivane Mkhargrdzeli restored the kingdom to a position of conquest”.
- 13 August 2024: undue Georgian POV with an “Agritourism guide” book despite the lede already having 2 sources, including a far better book from Oxford University that specializes in cheeses and states (including with a quote already in the ref); “Twisted string cheese, chechil panir, husats, or tel cheese are Armenian pasta filata cheeses,…”.
- 15 August 2024: Reverts to their undue POV now with WP:PRIMARY Georgian government source; this comes after they were shown the quote from the better secondary source that’s in the lede already which doesn’t support their POV.
- 29 June 2024: WP:OR removes any mention of Armenian from 1st paragraph and adds unexplained doubt, with OR opinionated summary “Armenocentric article”.
- 5 July: Removes any mention of Armenian and adds WP:OR doubt, no explanation.
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Lemabeta has been pushing heavy Georgian POV in multiple Armenia-Georgia articles, accompanied by downplaying Armenia/Armenians, WP:OR changes of sourced material / adding WP:OR doubt to sources, disregard of sources, or just removal of sourced material. I think it’s time AE reviews Lemabeta’s behavior; I’ve tried to talk with them but to no avail, usually they just revert and restore their original problematic edits, or push new POV. Vanezi (talk) 10:35, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- They're making personal attacks now; "If you could read, you would see that...". Vanezi (talk) 13:59, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- After this report, Lemabeta added more unexplained WP:OR doubt [65]; you can now find the authoritative, modern and South Caucasus expert source, R.Hewsen, being reduced to a mere “some Armenian”, no explanation given. FYI, Brosset 1849 is the source for prior claims to Hewsen and it’s from 19th century, but Hewsen is the one being OR downplayed/doubted by Lemabeta similar to other examples that don't suit their POV. Vanezi (talk) 08:12, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested
Discussion concerning Lemabeta
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Statement by Lemabeta
[edit]1)Cyril Toumanoff work is cited in the source, while Cyril himself never says that the Tumanishvili house was an Armenian house, but rather he says that the origins of Tumanishvili house go back to Mamikonians who Cyril considers to have originated in Georgia specifically in Zaneti region, he in his work mentions that the root of the last name Mamikonian - Mamik comes from the Georgian language theory which is also accepted by the famous Armenian historian - Nicholas Adontz, they both connected the roots of Mamikonians and therefore roots of Tumanishvili to Georgian - Lazs .[1] [2] Which was deleted by the individual reporting me.
2-3-4)The Pro-Armenian POV pushing is visible from the 2nd reference link he inserted---> [67] as you can see the he wrote that the "The Albano-Armenian theory is mostly accepted today, Adarnase being the first independent sovereign of Hereti, which was most likely an Armenian territory beforehand and followed the Monophysitism of Albanians and Armenians instead of the Christian Orthodoxy of the Bagrationis" meanwhile adding a source of Brosset, Marie-Félicité who lived in 19th century, by what standards is this considered as a "modern historians" - plural. Moreover, theory of Brosset is denounced today as he wasn't aware of the medieval works of historians attributing Adarnase of Hereti to Chosroid dynasty of Caucasus, which i inserted in the newer changes, which was completely deleted by the individual reporting me.therefore theory that isn't accepted by most, shouldn't be in the leading.
While Heretian Georgians are still present and alive called as Hers(Heretians) or Ingiloys by Azerbaijanis after changing the faith from Christianity to Islam - descendants of a legendary Heros, he keeps changing the Kingdom of Hereti ethnic affiliation to "South Caucasian" to a broader term than Georgian is. Meanwhile in modern historiography Kingdom of Hereti is considered as a Georgian monarchy 5) reference which he inserted [68] --- Since when is NPOV wording of a sentence considered as Armenophobia? But he wants to make it look like Armenian and Alan were the only reason of success of Kingdom of Georgia.
6)-7) Now let's talk about the deletion of sourced material by the individual reporting me. [69] Whole sourced etymology section was removed, because it didn't fit the pro-Armenian narrative he's pushing. Moreover, on Chechili geographical indication is registered in Georgia, protecting the origins of Chechili, which i wrote according to the articles such as Champagne and many others i listed in the talk page. Chechili origins and GI are protected in more than 30 countries like for example Champagne is.
8)Melikishvili-Melikov was never known as-Melikyan.Melikov was a russified form of Melikishvili after it was written by Heraclius II as part of Georgian nobility in treaty of Georgievsk[3]
- "if you could read" isn't an insult. It's same as "If you may" or to politely ask someone. Lemabeta (talk) 15:10, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Such blatant accusations of Armenophobia had to be answered thoroughly, since it insults my honor as a human. Lemabeta (talk) 15:13, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
References
- ^ Армения в эпоху Юстиниана: Политическое состояние на основе Нахарского строя, СПб., 1908, cт. 402-404 (Nicholas Adontz, Armenia in the Period of Justinian: The political Conditions Based on the Naxarar System. Trans. into Eng. with expanded notes, bibliography, and appendices by Nina G. Garsoian, Lisbon, 1970)
- ^ (Toumanoff 1963, p. 211, n. 23.).
- ^ (in Russian) Stanislav Vladimirovich Dumin. Pyotr Grebelsky. The Noble Houses of the Russian Empire. Moscow, Russia: 1994. Думин С. В., Гребельский П. Х. Дворянские роды Российской Империи. — Москва, 1994
Statement by (username)
[edit]Result concerning Lemabeta
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Vanezi Astghik, you're at about 670 words. Please trim to 500, and consider whether you'd like to save some words for future replies. Lemabeta, you're right at the limit; do not respond further. Both of you can request an extension, but I wouldn't recommend it at this time. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 03:06, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Bajaria - 2
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Second request concerning Bajaria
[edit]- User who is submitting this request for enforcement
- The Kip (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 21:20, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- User against whom enforcement is requested
- Bajaria (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
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- Sanction or remedy to be enforced
- ARBPIA ECR, again
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See the case still on this page above, but linked here for convenience. They received a two-day block after multiple warnings, and it subsequently took them three days to go right back to editing in the area:
- Diffs of previous relevant sanctions, if any
- Blocked 48 hours on 11 August by @Theleekycauldron: for ARBPIA ECR violations, covered in the aforementioned/above case.
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Copied from above:
- Initial CTOP notice given 07:47 on 4 August.
- Template:Welcome-arbpia given 07:55 on 10 August.
- Additional comments by editor filing complaint
As mentioned in the first case, Bajaria was given the CTOP notice on 4 August, given the ARBPIA welcome template and an additional warning by myself on 10 August, was aware and responded to the case above, and was blocked for the ECR violations. That they went right back to them, and that they were overly confrontational/didn't seem to acknowledge the repeated warnings that they aren't allowed to be editing in the ARBPIA area at the initial report, makes me wonder if CIR may come into play. Again, this really is a shame, because from their contribs it seems they could be legitimately productive if they properly worked towards XC status - they just don't seem to get that ECR is a hard-line rule. The Kip (contribs) 21:20, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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[edit]Result concerning Bajaria
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- Blocked a week. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:28, 16 August 2024 (UTC)