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Vandalism in James Bond 007 articles

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I don't understand what a guy named Barry Wom has a problem with me when I simply want to contribute to Wikipedia. My crime according to that guy: including sources in the two cited articles because it is block evasion. There must be something wrong here. If this guy thinks everyone who edits Wikipedia is evading blocks, then (Personal attack removed). Please take action because I don't understand what's going on.--2800:484:7385:3F0:F06B:6AED:EB75:F6A8 (talk) 04:49, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

I suggest you strike "he's not right in the head", as it is a personal attack. And you didn't notify them of this discussion, which is required, nor have you bothered to discuss this matter with them on their talk page. Isaidnoway (talk) 06:03, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
One thing, though, I'd like to hear from User:Barry Wom about reverting edits with "block evasion", because I can't see the block that's being evaded, and the edits are clearly good faith otherwise. Black Kite (talk) 13:57, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Seems to be a frequent edit summary they use for IP editors, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Isaidnoway (talk) 14:12, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Yes, but all for IPs from the same area, which is why I'm interested in who the blocked editor is; I can't see any previous blocks on those IP ranges. Black Kite (talk) 14:20, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
It doesn't matter if it's from a blocked/banned user. What's wrong with the blocked person or someone else editing something for good? 2800:484:7385:3F0:785A:21A7:63AB:BC7F (talk) 17:46, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Because
block evasion is a violation of Wikipedia policy, thus it very much does matter. - The Bushranger One ping only 18:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I've blocked a month for block evasion. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:17, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Long-term sockpuppeting from an editor who has been evading blocks for over eight years. Their most recently used IP range was blocked a month ago by @Daniel Case: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia Barry Wom (talk) 20:25, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I should probably identify the blocked LTA user here. This account was created in 2023, but they have been tracked back as far as this account from 2017. Their first language is Spanish and they've also been indefinitely blocked from the Spanish Wiki. Barry Wom (talk) 09:11, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
You're just like that guy. I think you're even worse. And I'll tell you why: looking at that whole sock-puppet history, it's clear that guy was being uncooperative, but neither are you with your actions. Why sabotage what others do? Another one who starts saying "violation of Wikipedia policies"; as if that would lead to jail. Finally, I see that you have, I don't know if I should call it xenophobia, toward people who speak Spanish, and it's also clear that you sow a lot of intrigue. 2800:484:7385:3F0:35CA:2F2E:9:A3BB (talk) 16:53, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
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"Brutally beaten" IP returns

See this for context. On 3 June, 2600:4040:5E53:5F00:0:0:0:0/64 was blocked for two weeks by Rsjaffe, but after the block expired they immediately returned to make the same edits.[1][2] Can we get a longer block this time? Thank you. Mellk (talk) 13:27, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Since rangeblocks haven't helped it may be better to blacklist that particular phrase. Iggy pop goes the weasel (talk) 14:34, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
 Done one month. – robertsky (talk) 15:49, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
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Done! [3] Iggy pop goes the weasel (talk) 15:30, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Thank you! Mellk (talk) 15:42, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Update: Someone came along and said it would be discussed on the mailing list, whatever that is. 😊 Iggy pop goes the weasel (talk) 13:39, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Found another edit. Not sure if this is the same person since this is from a different location and there are no other similar edits from this range. Mellk (talk) 21:03, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
My guess is that it's a different vandal. Edits in general are quite different though all in this /64 are vandalism. This one frequents AN/I so probably just picked up on the pattern. The IPs are only 40 miles apart, so there is a very slight possibility it is the same person. Not very active, so don't think action is necessary.n. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:40, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Makes sense. I saw the previous edits to ANI and thought the same. Mellk (talk) 21:43, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

User:MoneyWikipedian creating articles with nonexistent sources

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

As far as I can tell, all of the articles User:MoneyWikipedian has created are AI-generated; they mostly cite nonexistent or irrelevant sources. I draftified several of their articles and got one deleted at AfD; they then blanked their user talk page [4], which also contained warnings from two other users regarding nonexistent sources. After they reverted one of my draftifications without fixing the sourcing issues (instead they seem to have simply run the text through an LLM again [5]), I left them a personal warning message [6]. They have now blanked their user talk page again [7] without responding to the issues and have just created another article where four out of five citations simply do not exist. I'm hoping an admin can apply a pblock from mainspace until this user can explain their behavior. Toadspike [Talk] 14:19, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Communication is required. Only response I've seen to the concerns is the one-word response: "prove?". Blocked from article space and invited to discuss here.— rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:45, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
They removed an {{
AI generated}} warning with the edit summary "no prove im use Ai", which isn't a satisfactory response to anything. Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction (talk) 16:46, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I see that "Raja Kecil Rebellion" was pushed off into draft world. Maybe we should do the same for Battle of Perak (1658). Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction (talk) 18:31, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I am very busy at the moment, but I hope to check the remainder of their creations (and other content contributions) in the coming days, draftifying or AfDing as needed. If someone else does this before I get around to it, I would be very grateful. Toadspike [Talk] 18:35, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
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Concern about editor CNMall41's behavior: COI accusation, tag addition without discussion, and article flagged without due process

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Hello Admins,

I’m raising a concern regarding editor CNMall41 on the article Shashwat Singh.

On 12 June 2025, CNMall41 made the following edits:

Removed content from the Discography section claiming sources do not mention the subject — but they do.

Added the tag without first opening discussion on the Talk page.

Flagged the article with a message that “A major contributor to this article has a close connection with its subject.” This is not true.

The article was also flagged as not meeting Wikipedia’s general notability guidelines (GNG) — though no clear reason or guidance was offered.


Diffs for reference:

COI tag added without discussion

Content removal with unclear sourcing claim


I (user Msmimiin) have contributed to this page in good faith — with:

Proper citations

Neutral, verifiable content

A single account (I earlier edited from IP 103.115.24.85 just to fix a typo)


I have no undisclosed connection with the article subject, nor am I paid or promotional. The accusation of close connection is unfounded. I am happy to declare anything transparently if asked.

My requests:

1. Can an admin please review whether CNMall41’s behavior (tagging/accusations/removals) is appropriate and collaborative?


2. Can someone advise how to properly address the "not meeting guidelines" flag? I’d like to improve the article constructively and according to WP:GNG / WP:MUSICBIO.


3. Is it appropriate to remove the COI tag if there is no valid evidence and no discussion?


I appreciate any help resolving this in line with Wikipedia policies.

Thank you,

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Msmimiin (talkcontribs) 16:45, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

LLM-generated comments in Wikipedia discussions. All editors are expected to express their views in their own words. — Newslinger talk 17:00, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Also, please note that when you start a discussion about other editors on this noticeboard, you must notify them. I've notified CNMall41 for you at User talk:CNMall41 § Incidents noticeboard discussion. The instructions at the top of the noticeboard explain how to do this. — Newslinger talk 17:11, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestion. I am new , this information is helpful, but it would be much more helpful and kind if you can help me solve the problem for which I have raised my concern. For a new editor , it will be helpful to get support from the experienced ones.
Thanks 🙏 Msmimiin (talk) 18:39, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@
WP:DIFFs you find problematic and why. Polygnotus (talk) 19:32, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I request you to check the articles flag . I am not able to understand why the article have been flagged as not meeting the wikipedia guideline after providing several reliable secondary sources to each point of the article . Also, it has been tagged as the major contributor has a close connection, where's the proof of these two points ? If there are 9 edits I believe that's for the betterment of the article but why not removing this flags . Msmimiin (talk) 19:44, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I'm not seeing an adequate explanation on Talk:Shashwat Singh for how you came to possess the rights to File:Shashwat_Singh,_Indian_playback_singer,_2025.jpg, which you claimed to own when uploading the image. Can you please explain this? Further, that article has seen repeated sockpuppetry by UPE editors, which is also true of the one other article that you've made significant edits to, Aditi Paul. CNMall41 could have done a bit better of a job explaining their reasoning, but their caution seems prudent. signed, Rosguill talk 20:23, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Yes, I could have (and should have) and I'll take the trout if warranted as it was lazy on my part. I should have done the SPI on that date so sorry that we are now here wasting everyone's time. Just filed here. --CNMall41 (talk) 21:27, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Since you guys are from the west I don't expect you guys know many Indian celebs so I request you to be kind and patient and don't come to any conclusion so fast for 'new which belongs to the Indian celebs be it a single or actor or anyone , also please don't make it so difficult for new editors those who have the knowledge about the subject matter and contributing, if you point out the error and guide me what to do without flagging the same with your valuable comment , I can try and fix the eroor . We can make this a better community with each others help and support. Your comment is valuable so kindly and wisely use it that's a request.
Thanks 🙏 Msmimiin (talk) 22:47, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Is there any bylaws in wikipedia to prove the rights belongs to the uploader ? As a matter of fact as per wikipedia guidelines when anyone uploads a pic on Wikipedia commons the details of picture already exists there , when I have uploaded the picture in Wikipedia commons means I have the right very simple. Why you guys making it so difficult for Indian celebrities to have a wikipedia page and the editors who contributed their knowledge on that particular page ? Yes I have also contributed to Aditi Paul's page and other pages too where I have the knowledge about the subject matter ,those who are Indian celebs . If there's a problem let me know how to fix it , I will follow your guidelines. Msmimiin (talk) 22:36, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
By uploading as "own work", you state that you are the photographer (that's what it means for the photograph to be your own work). If that's not the case, then the rights statement needs to be updated accordingly. It is, in fact, Wikipedia policy to correctly identify image material and ensure that its license is compatible. If it is your photo, you should clarify what event it was taken at or how else you came to take such a close range photo. signed, Rosguill talk 00:15, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
As I have already mentioned in the talk page and clarified the photo has been taken from a public press meet , where I was present and took the photo hence the rights belongs to me. Hope I have clarified. Now please don't ask what is the event where is the event etc because in India specifically in Bollywood or Mumbai film industry there are events happening in every 19 mints at a random public place , may be the wall looking good and I take good pictures that's why you guys are thinking it's a professional shoot but it's not , can't you see the image details , it has the phone details, date etc then why this question is being raised I don't understand. Msmimiin (talk) 00:43, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
To be specific during the song promotion of the song 'zamaana Lage' singer Shashwat Singh in Mumbai 2025 , do I need to put this caption ? I have the rights to the photo , does that match wikipedia policy? Msmimiin (talk) 00:47, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Personally I'm satisfied with this response, without having looked at the sockpuppet case evidence, which I expect SPI clerks will resolve separately. signed, Rosguill talk 01:03, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for your response and guidance. I would like to request you to also look into the SPI matter , I strongly feel it's being mixed up , there are ids which are blocked and being tagged as sockpuppets, but when someone is genuine how they prove it is there any policy or guideline to prove not guilty here ? My IP address is different, device is different, everything different just because I have edited a same page where someone else contributed does that mean I am with them ? In that way in every wikipedia pages there are atleast 5/6 editors contribute or may be more than that then what admins will conclude ...all of them from same team or farm ? I am clueless how to solve this puzzle and allegations. If you can guide will appreciate.
Thanks in advance. Msmimiin (talk) 01:14, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
  • This discussion was closed by Star Mississippi in 1296885077, but the linked SPI report does not seem to have resulted in a block. I am not familiar with the purported sockmaster and do not have any insight into this particular match, although as I noted above the suspicion of sockpuppetry is certainly reasonable. signed, Rosguill talk 00:11, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
    Hi I think you guys are doing SPI on some other ID's where I have no relation or connection , neither anyone can establish that connection when I don't have the connection, admins can check the IP and location feel free to check it and come to a closure and release me from your suspect list , this is absolutely not needed , suspecting an innocent and genuine contributor is not required..
    I hope you or other admins will come to a closure soon and release me from your sock puppet suspect list.
    Thanks Msmimiin (talk) 00:57, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
    I have no objection with your reopening @Rosguill. @Msmimiin please stop asking multiple people to review and expedite the SPI. It will be handled as a matter of standard practice and will not be expedited just because you request it. But to paraphrase @Robert McClenon, if you don't want to be accused of being a sock, stop behaving like one. You are not a new editor. Star Mississippi 01:37, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
    That sounds like WP:Canvassing to me. Trailblazer101🔥 (discuss · contribs) 01:43, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
    Much needed unbiased POV. Thanks Msmimiin (talk) 02:07, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
    I think I should clarify that my comment was referring to Msmimiin directly asking individual editors to help them. That is what canvassing is. Trailblazer101🔥 (discuss · contribs) 03:40, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
    Thanks again . Since I am a new editor I don't know lot of terms , educating myself and applying it here . I didn't know how to react or do the needful ence asked for the guidance here didn't know it's called canvassing, will not repeat the mistake. Msmimiin (talk) 06:00, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
It is 100% CANVASSING and it continues.--CNMall41 (talk) 16:11, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
  • When multiple admins are commenting about my id , I am requesting all of them . I am a new editor that's the reason I am shocked to know I am suspected as a sockpuppet, well I don't know how they behave, definitely not like me who is defending politely. Sockpuppets will never defend since they know they are guilty, they will wait for the verdict since I am new , I don't know all this hence genuinely seek help . Anyway, thanks for your valuable suggestion, will wait for the conclusion of the standard practice.
    Thanks again. Msmimiin (talk) 01:50, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I just wanted to note that
communication and consensus building. Trailblazer101🔥 (discuss · contribs) 01:24, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Much needed reply . Thanks for the neutral POV. Msmimiin (talk) 02:05, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Hello, Msmimiin. I know it's stressful being named in an SPI case. I know, I was accused of being a sock when I first started editing here, many longtime editors have. But, in these sorts of cases, being impatient can often cause one to lash out and say inappropriate comments which can make the situation worse. Our Checkusers are volunteers, just like you and and I are and they will get to review SPI cases when they can. Just be patient and continue with your regular editing.
Also, since you are a new editor, you probably are unaware that anyone who files a case at ANI or AN is scrutinized as much as the person they are naming in a complaint. It's because of this that many editor guides in Wikipedia essays warn against editors coming to ANI to file complaints. You might have opened the complaint but you do not control the direction of the discussion and if it turns out that editors have more questions about your editing than CNMall41's editing, well, you become the topic of discussion, not CNMall41. That's not a factor that is under your control. So, again, answer questions that are posed to you and be patient.
Finally, do not make assumptions about longterm editors. You said that we are from "the west" but as you are here longer, you'll soon discover that editors here are from all over the globe, from Pakistan, New Zealand, Myanmar, Ghana, Canada, the UK, Iran, from all continents and many countries. We don't represent one location, country or philosophy. Liz Read! Talk! 03:34, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for this reply. Very helpful insights for a new editor. Will be patient. Thanks Msmimiin (talk) 05:39, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
The SPI already fond Msmimiin having a connection to another account. If this is open because of possible sanctions of my accusation, let's proceed. If not, I see no reason why this should be open. --CNMall41 (talk) 16:11, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Hi I am msmimiin and I don't have any connection with any other account as per as editing is concerned to any wiki pages , I have only one account through which I am contributing as an editor here . I had opened an account named 'Lopamudra Das' but forgot the password of that account and never able to logged in hence I am using my gmail account which is Msmimiin and I have never used any other account than Msmimiin for any editing , SPI team can check that for sure and come to a closure . My IP address and editing details are visible to all the admins. Msmimiin (talk) 18:30, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
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21st century genocides

Parts of the article are covered by

WP:ARBECR. Since it's only parts of the article, the article is not ECR protected. Additionally, many people enjoy arguing about the word genocide, so IPs and non-XC accounts are edit warring over the contentious topics part. I've posted here rather than request protection because I don't know which venue is likely to produce the most effective outcome (which I also don't know - IP/account blocks vs protection). Sean.hoyland (talk) 05:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

I mean... if part is covered by an extended confirmed restriction, then may as well ECP the entire page, especially if there is a lot of non-EC activity. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 05:15, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
But is that necessary? Editors aware of A-I ARBECR requirements are supposed to self modulate when needed. If the numbers get overwhelming protection might be needed. But it looks to me like semi would be enough to cut out most of it any hopefully any non EC confirmed can be persuaded they need to stay away from the ECR parts. Nil Einne (talk) 06:29, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
hopefully any non EC confirmed can be persuaded they need to stay away from the ECR parts. I admire your optimism, but I find that this sort of thing is rarely paid attention to by IPs and the like.
To be honest an article like this should be indef semi'd. It's always going to turn into a battleground. — Czello (music) 07:06, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Agreed. If a non-EC editor wants to make changes to it they can always request it on the talk page. » Gommeh (he/him) 13:04, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Regarding if part is covered by an extended confirmed restriction, then may as well ECP the entire page, especially if there is a lot of non-EC activity, this sounds alright, but as a decision procedure it doesn't scale well because the parts of articles covered by an extended confirmed restriction can range from just over 0% to just under 100%. Somewhere in that range is a fuzzy transition zone that causes people to not add the section=yes or relatedcontent=yes part to the talk page template so that ECR applies to the entire article rather than part(s) and the article can be protected. The whole ECR thing is a little...nondeterministic. Sean.hoyland (talk) 12:02, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I agree with that reasoning if it's something like a line in a BLP that says "so and so said this thing about this ECR topic", but this is a list of genocides. Even in the lines that aren't ECR'd, it's still such a topic of contention that we're better off locking it up. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 04:36, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Edit warring,
WP:ICANTHEARYOU

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

Now, I must admit I am also a bit guilty for being a bit to harsh condisering this editor has only like 200+ edits and I also am partially responsible for the edit war, but I hugely suspect a

WP:NOTHERE
editor due to targeting of Chinese sources.

Reason being quite blatantly marking reliable chinese sources as "questionable".(hell, they marked a chinese police website as questionable in regards to a quite uncontroversial claim about chinese police[8]) Most of the sources I used are typically considered relatively reliable(such as The paper or people's daily).

Now, I seriously hope this is just a case of a new editor not being aware of the 3 revert rule or someone unfamiliar with chinese sources along with

WP:ONUS([9][10]
).

They also claim that they need to see "consensus"(despite me pointing to multiple pieces of evidence of wikiproject china along with other users considering the sources(or goverment affiliatted sources in general) can be considered reliable in most cases) for "my opinion is that they should be deemed inadmissible since the sources are all state owned publications[11]" even though I cited multiple times where the state owned sources have been considered reliable, or state owned sources in this context, though they have shown ignorance to the examples I have given and insist on reverting my edits.

Additionally, they have also done edit warring(which i am also unfortunelately responsible for,) in the previous articles of Chengguan (agency) and SWAT along with several others. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 10:04, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

This is an entirely frivolous report. There's been no targeting of Chinese sources, there's been targeting of state owned/influenced sources which is an entirely different matter. My position is that they should be deemed inadmissible regardless of the circumstances or nationality (i.e. the United States). If administrators want to intervene more directly or know more about the background to this dispute, they can go to these two article sections [12] and [13]. Nghtcmdr (talk) 11:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
My position is that they should be deemed inadmissible regardless of the circumstances or nationality is simply incompatible with consensus. As described at
WP:TELESUR). As such, the reliability of state-owned sources must be determined on a case by case basis. With that said, I think you'd be hard-pressed to successfully argue a source is unreliable solely on the basis that it is state-owned. Weirdguyz (talk) 12:27, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
@
I've started a discussion at
@
I honestly never even planned a discussion due to
WP:ICANTHEARYOU in the first place. I'm gonna be honest, I question whether the person even understood policies, and I made it quite clear that the sources are, from my experience and from the perspective of editors about Chinese related topics(along with several previous discussions, such as WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 468#Possible uses of deprecated sources (in some contexts): Baidu Baike and China Central Television (CCTV)). Thehistorianisaac (talk) 13:12, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
Updates:
User has demonstrated lack of
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User:Nghtcmdr

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Resolved
 – Both users blocked 24 hours for 3RR violation on
Tactical Police Vehicle. — Daniel Case (talk) 02:39, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

(I previously already posted this on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Edit warring, WP:NOTHERE and WP:ICANTHEARYOU, but I haven't received any response after my updates, even though the conduct of the user has simply gotten worse)

WP:ICANTHEARYOU
) along with edit warring and ignoring consensus.

There are already multiple incidents involving edit warring such as here and here. The user has also engaged in rather uncivil behavior, such as:

WP:GASLIGHT

  • Your linked noticeboard discussion shows one person who said Chinese state controlled publications could be used as long as "it doesn't involve sensitive political topics or is obviously self-serving government propaganda." That is entirely different from the claim which you fabricated, which is that the participants there would have concluded that Chinese state affiliated publications could be used on this article.[16] (For context, they falsely accused me of "fabricating claims" when I explained how consensus on the discussion meant that in this case the sources could be used)
  • That's not my burden to bear because I'm not the one appealing to consensus. You can't provide the location because you fabricated the positions of the participants who took part in that discussion.[17] (For context, they are again falsely accusing me of "fabricating claims" after I told them the consensus following the discussion would apply to this instance)


Borderline

WP:TAGTEAM

  • You're not the other user, so stop trying to answer for them.[18] (For context, I tried to explain policies which they did not like)


Ignorance towards consensus(

WP:FILIBUSTER


I originally hoped and assumed these were simply rookie mistakes from an new editor, though the ignorance of rules along with incivility even under multiple warnings makes this really questionable.

Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:06, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

The heart of the issue is that this user makes claims but doesn't provide the supporting evidence when asked to do so. At this point, someone needs to step in and mediate the disputes [35] [36] directly because this is just getting out of hand. Nghtcmdr (talk) 05:26, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr: Again, I directly linked the discussion, you chose not to read it.
In fact, you fail to acknowledge the fact that you have repeatedly been ignorant to many policies(Such as WP:RS, WP:RSPNOT) and have also been, in general, incivil. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 05:46, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
The point is no longer about the supporting evidence(Which i provided, but you chose not to read or deliberately misinterpret it), it is that you repeatedly have engaged in incivil behavior, such as edit wars(not just with me, but other editors [37]. In fact, such behavior falls under
WP:REPUTABLE
(and even government sources) sources as "questionable" due to them being government affiliated, something that many other editors have repeatedly told you has nothing to do with reliability.
In fact, you have deliberately misinterpreted policies for the purpose of
WP:COMPETENCE or just downright lying on multiple occasions here[43][44] where you made claims of the content added being "controversial and sensitive topics", when the content I added was regarding the equipment, training and role of SWAT which is absolutely uncontroversial, as pointed out multiple times both by me and other editors. [45]
Your own behavior needs to be addressed before the discussion regarding the sources(Which, country to your claim [46], is not disputed content). In fact, it has been pointed out that the content is not "controversial" or "disputed", and hopefully this is just simply a rookie mistake on your end at best, though I am really questioning whether that is the case considering your conduct. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 06:43, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Seems like even in this discussion he is
Disclosing that I am somewhat involved as I made a comment in the previous topic about this user, and one of my comments has been referenced by Isaac in this topic. At this point I do not think there is any way that Nghtcmdr's conduct is not blatant
WP:IDHT. As detailed by Isaac, in every discussion, Nghtcmdr demands proof of these sources' reliability ad nauseam, but dismisses every single discussion Isaac or any other user presents as being insufficient. They seem to be under the impression that there is a null hypothesis, and that it is that sources are unreliable unless proof of reliability can be given. This is not the case. Reliability is subject to consensus, and the consensus — based on the fact that we have one user continuously refusing to actually listen to anything anyone says, even as multiple people try and explain to them why they are wrong — is that these sources are reliable reliable in this circumstance. Weirdguyz (talk) 15:06, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
I am concerned that the approach Nghtcmdr represents a kind of cybernetic reinforcement of existing neutrality problems regarding China. I've expressed concern in the past that Wikipedia systematically treats the dissident experience as more reliable than the experience of Chinese people who are not dissidents. This is systematic because Wikipedia tends to treat as unreliable those sources that are in-line with the PoV of the Chinese state and because those sources that Wikipedia tends to treat as reliable simply care more about the dissident experience than that of people who are doing fine in China. I don't think this is an individual-editor problem but rather one that extends beyond Wikipedia and into the various materials we use. I also think much of this is a linguistic bias. The two biggest enemies of China are the UK and the USA. It's not surprising, then, that English language media, most of which comes from the USA and the UK communicates those biases and that academics in the anglosphere, and in that media environment, are more interested in dissidents than others. But this is where that self-reinforcing loop comes into play. Because the default on Wikipedia is to treat Chinese sources as less reliable, a new editor coming into these spaces looks at perfectly reasonable uses of Chinese sources (such as a description of their police or fire services) and goes, "well Chinese sources are unreliable so these should go."
As I view this problem as being systematic I don't really blame Nghtcmdr for that but what is in their control is to recognize they've pushed too hard and that they're missing some of those valuable context-driven queues for source reliability. What they should be doing is recognizing that they are missing subtleties here regarding source reliability and that they've thus made a mistake from which they should step back. I hope that they will recognize this and that this thread can be closed without sanctions. But if they cannot we may need to ask them to stay away from Chinese topics until they have a chance to learn more about handling these situations. Simonm223 (talk) 15:27, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Perfectly said. I agree that a lot of times, Chinese sources are often treated unfairly, thanks to geopolitical issues and systematic bias along with the language barrier. As you have said, I also have hoped(from the start) that Nghtcmdr is doing a rookie mistake, though I do have my concerns regarding the false accusations directed towards me(I'm not that scared of the accusations themselves, rather the lack of civility is what concerns), along with ignoring explanations. I do hope with enough convincing they do understand policies, though I do think sanctions may be brought out should these issues persist. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:34, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Update:
User has engaged in even more
Yet more .
He has claimed 1) includes nearly all the information in your version 2) contains information which is not in your version, though seeing the revisions [50] it is quite obvious this is not the case, and is the contrary. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 05:55, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Update: User has shown even more ignorance of consensus [51] or "your changes are wrong because it goes against my opinion of what other people said" are not proper arguments. [52]For the China-related disagreements, my write up of the section should be preferred(Even though consensus has shown my one has nothing wrong, and their's is blatant deletion of content from my version) Thehistorianisaac (talk) 07:33, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Even more
Update:
User has now engaged in
WT:MILHIST
, they made baseless accusations of me doing "The other editor you are talking to has been adding mainly Chinese language sources from state controlled publications as part of what appears to be part of their larger strategy of conditioning the wider community into accepting those type of sources, so it doesn't strike me as a surprise that they would try to fill this article with as much Chinese as possible in furtherance of that strategy. Whether there are deeper political dynamics at play I don't know and am not in a position to speculate, but the idea that there is a larger context at work is something to keep in mind when trying to gauge the seriousness of this problem."
[54]
This is a serious breach of
WP:HOUNDING, and also is repeatedly harassing me. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:03, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I seriously request immediate admin intervention. At this point, the user has started to harass me on topics outside of the original discussion, and has started to make even more baseless accusations against me. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:16, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Further update:
User has again, attempted to edit war [55], citing a discussion which has yet to be finished yet as "consensus". Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:20, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Even after I explained the
WP:POINT
.
Additionally, his claim of so it doesn't strike me as a surprise that they would try to fill this article with as much Chinese as possible in furtherance of that strategy.[57] can be interpreted as slightly racist. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:39, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Further updates:
User has reported me on WP:AN/3 and has taken my quotes out of context. [58] Thehistorianisaac (talk) 06:25, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I have protected the article for 3 days in response to the edit war report. This can be undone by the admin closing this discussion without notifying me. PhilKnight (talk) 06:37, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
That's great, but I would suggest that the editor's other misconduct be addressed. The edit war seems to be part of a harassment campaign by them directed towards me. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 06:44, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
More updates:
User has posted a DNR thread about me [59] and has continued to use an UNFINISHED discussion as proof of consensus.
@Nghtcmdr Please stop opening threads about me before you have addressed your incivility Thehistorianisaac (talk) 08:35, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I would seriously recommend an admin take literally any action here. Even without considering the merits of either parties arguments, it is clear that these editors cannot work with each other and at the very least a no-fault two-way IBAN is needed. This has been going on for almost a week with exceptionally little in the way of substantive responses to Isaac's concerns. Weirdguyz (talk) 08:30, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
It's now escalated to the point that Nghtcmdr's behavior has gone past
WP:GASLIGHTING
, it has reached a point of borderline harassment and possibly even WP:HOUNDING.
Me and @RovingPersonalityConstruct were having a rather civil and normal discussion on WT:MILHIST [60], when Nghtcmdr decided to go to said discussion and making extremely incivil comments towards me[61], and proceeded to edit war on said article, and even decided to take my edit summary out of context.
Immediate actions are needed. This no longer has plausible deniability as "Rookie mistakes" as I have hoped for a week before, and seems more like targeted actions. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 08:40, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
You engaged @
responsibility as you were the one who sought to include the disputed content. Nghtcmdr (talk) 14:59, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
Point is, I still decided to engage in the discussion constructively and provided my opinion, while you decided to make completely false accusations and conspiracy theories about me on said discussion. It doesn't really matter who starts the discussion, as long as it exists and we respect said discussion without violating policies.
Additionally, your conduct on the discussion(which you brought up but failed to address properly outside of repeatedly blaming me) is only the tip of the iceberg of all your misconduct here. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:03, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@
battlespace where you need to win every disagreement you get into by doing everything you can to ensure your version of the material stays published. If you really respected policy, you would have, without reverting @RovingPersonalityConstruct back, started the discussion after their first revert of your edit. Nghtcmdr (talk) 15:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
Again, please address the other concerns regarding your own misconduct.
I'm not the one treating this as a battlespace(Ironically, you have targeted me multiple times on several different edits), nor will I treat this as a battlespace. The point is, I have went to the discussion and explained my edits(It does not matter who starts the discussion, as long as it is used productively), but you decided to attack me personally for topics completely irrelevant to the discussion[64], and have spread false lies about me, reverted my edit when I explained that the discussion was still ongoing.
You are the one choosing to edit war and harass me here. And, keep in mind, this is just your most recent misconduct, as our previous edit wars and incivility still need to be addressed. Again, I remind you, shifting the blame on me(when I respected the discussion, and stayed civil) is not going to help you. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:33, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@Thehistorianisaac The point is you "discussed" only after you "won" your edit war with @RovingPersonalityConstruct. Nghtcmdr (talk) 15:36, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
Again, I remind you to address your incivility issues. In fact, in regards to the discussion, what you should be addressing is how you decided to personally harass me and engage in what could be interpreted as
WP:WINNING
. I chose to gave my opinion on the matter, and I listened to RovingPersonalityConstruct's own opinion respectfully on WT:MILHIST.
In contrast, you chose to use this as an opportunity to
WP:SMEAR
me and engage in harassment. This needs to be addressed by you immediately.
Again, I would suggest immediate admin intervention. At this point, the incivility of Nghtcmdr has been going on for quite a long time by now, and it is quite questionable how long it is taking for any meaningful admin involvement. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:44, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
should I ping the Bushranger or Liz? These are some serious accusations... And they aren't getting responded to Rhinocrat (talk) 17:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I already messaged Liz before, but no response yet. But yeah, feel free to do so. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 23:39, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Further updates:
Ironically, @Nghtcmdr is falsely accusing another editor without evidence of "WP:OR" and "Bending policy" on a TALK PAGE.[65]
Again, I would highly advise admins take action here, as
WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior from said user has been going on for multiple weeks by now. It's honestly ridiculous how long this is taking. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 23:42, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Further updates:
Said user has now went on a vandalism spree of removing non-english sources and replacing them with english sources that do not cover said info, or just completely deleting properly sourced info if they are in other languages.
[66][67][68]
User has also added unverified info. [69] Thehistorianisaac (talk) 00:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
I have filed a report against @Thehistorianisaac for harassment (hounding) Nghtcmdr (talk) 00:37, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr Stop falsely accusing me of "hounding". You chose to incorrectly remove info, I restored said info. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 00:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
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Dununderud9894

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This user replied to their block notification using a bad word, which I reverted. Could you please revoke their talk page access? Thanks! Faster than Thunder (talk | contributions) Tamil speakers: Contribute here

The comment was on-topic to asking about their block and not directed at a specific user, so I'm not inclined to take action just for that. —C.Fred (talk) 00:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
However—and I'm intentionally not linking diffs—after looking at the edits the user made, block-without-warning was 100% appropriate in this case. —C.Fred (talk) 00:36, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
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21st century genocides

Parts of the article are covered by

WP:ARBECR. Since it's only parts of the article, the article is not ECR protected. Additionally, many people enjoy arguing about the word genocide, so IPs and non-XC accounts are edit warring over the contentious topics part. I've posted here rather than request protection because I don't know which venue is likely to produce the most effective outcome (which I also don't know - IP/account blocks vs protection). Sean.hoyland (talk) 05:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

I mean... if part is covered by an extended confirmed restriction, then may as well ECP the entire page, especially if there is a lot of non-EC activity. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 05:15, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
But is that necessary? Editors aware of A-I ARBECR requirements are supposed to self modulate when needed. If the numbers get overwhelming protection might be needed. But it looks to me like semi would be enough to cut out most of it any hopefully any non EC confirmed can be persuaded they need to stay away from the ECR parts. Nil Einne (talk) 06:29, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
hopefully any non EC confirmed can be persuaded they need to stay away from the ECR parts. I admire your optimism, but I find that this sort of thing is rarely paid attention to by IPs and the like.
To be honest an article like this should be indef semi'd. It's always going to turn into a battleground. — Czello (music) 07:06, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Agreed. If a non-EC editor wants to make changes to it they can always request it on the talk page. » Gommeh (he/him) 13:04, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Regarding if part is covered by an extended confirmed restriction, then may as well ECP the entire page, especially if there is a lot of non-EC activity, this sounds alright, but as a decision procedure it doesn't scale well because the parts of articles covered by an extended confirmed restriction can range from just over 0% to just under 100%. Somewhere in that range is a fuzzy transition zone that causes people to not add the section=yes or relatedcontent=yes part to the talk page template so that ECR applies to the entire article rather than part(s) and the article can be protected. The whole ECR thing is a little...nondeterministic. Sean.hoyland (talk) 12:02, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I agree with that reasoning if it's something like a line in a BLP that says "so and so said this thing about this ECR topic", but this is a list of genocides. Even in the lines that aren't ECR'd, it's still such a topic of contention that we're better off locking it up. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 04:36, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Edit warring,
WP:ICANTHEARYOU

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

Now, I must admit I am also a bit guilty for being a bit to harsh condisering this editor has only like 200+ edits and I also am partially responsible for the edit war, but I hugely suspect a

WP:NOTHERE
editor due to targeting of Chinese sources.

Reason being quite blatantly marking reliable chinese sources as "questionable".(hell, they marked a chinese police website as questionable in regards to a quite uncontroversial claim about chinese police[70]) Most of the sources I used are typically considered relatively reliable(such as The paper or people's daily).

Now, I seriously hope this is just a case of a new editor not being aware of the 3 revert rule or someone unfamiliar with chinese sources along with

WP:ONUS([71][72]
).

They also claim that they need to see "consensus"(despite me pointing to multiple pieces of evidence of wikiproject china along with other users considering the sources(or goverment affiliatted sources in general) can be considered reliable in most cases) for "my opinion is that they should be deemed inadmissible since the sources are all state owned publications[73]" even though I cited multiple times where the state owned sources have been considered reliable, or state owned sources in this context, though they have shown ignorance to the examples I have given and insist on reverting my edits.

Additionally, they have also done edit warring(which i am also unfortunelately responsible for,) in the previous articles of Chengguan (agency) and SWAT along with several others. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 10:04, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

This is an entirely frivolous report. There's been no targeting of Chinese sources, there's been targeting of state owned/influenced sources which is an entirely different matter. My position is that they should be deemed inadmissible regardless of the circumstances or nationality (i.e. the United States). If administrators want to intervene more directly or know more about the background to this dispute, they can go to these two article sections [74] and [75]. Nghtcmdr (talk) 11:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
My position is that they should be deemed inadmissible regardless of the circumstances or nationality is simply incompatible with consensus. As described at
WP:TELESUR). As such, the reliability of state-owned sources must be determined on a case by case basis. With that said, I think you'd be hard-pressed to successfully argue a source is unreliable solely on the basis that it is state-owned. Weirdguyz (talk) 12:27, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
@
I've started a discussion at
@
I honestly never even planned a discussion due to
WP:ICANTHEARYOU in the first place. I'm gonna be honest, I question whether the person even understood policies, and I made it quite clear that the sources are, from my experience and from the perspective of editors about Chinese related topics(along with several previous discussions, such as WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 468#Possible uses of deprecated sources (in some contexts): Baidu Baike and China Central Television (CCTV)). Thehistorianisaac (talk) 13:12, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
Updates:
User has demonstrated lack of
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User:Nghtcmdr

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Resolved
 – Both users blocked 24 hours for 3RR violation on
Tactical Police Vehicle. — Daniel Case (talk) 02:39, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

(I previously already posted this on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Edit warring, WP:NOTHERE and WP:ICANTHEARYOU, but I haven't received any response after my updates, even though the conduct of the user has simply gotten worse)

WP:ICANTHEARYOU
) along with edit warring and ignoring consensus.

There are already multiple incidents involving edit warring such as here and here. The user has also engaged in rather uncivil behavior, such as:

WP:GASLIGHT

  • Your linked noticeboard discussion shows one person who said Chinese state controlled publications could be used as long as "it doesn't involve sensitive political topics or is obviously self-serving government propaganda." That is entirely different from the claim which you fabricated, which is that the participants there would have concluded that Chinese state affiliated publications could be used on this article.[78] (For context, they falsely accused me of "fabricating claims" when I explained how consensus on the discussion meant that in this case the sources could be used)
  • That's not my burden to bear because I'm not the one appealing to consensus. You can't provide the location because you fabricated the positions of the participants who took part in that discussion.[79] (For context, they are again falsely accusing me of "fabricating claims" after I told them the consensus following the discussion would apply to this instance)


Borderline

WP:TAGTEAM

  • You're not the other user, so stop trying to answer for them.[80] (For context, I tried to explain policies which they did not like)


Ignorance towards consensus(

WP:FILIBUSTER


I originally hoped and assumed these were simply rookie mistakes from an new editor, though the ignorance of rules along with incivility even under multiple warnings makes this really questionable.

Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:06, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

The heart of the issue is that this user makes claims but doesn't provide the supporting evidence when asked to do so. At this point, someone needs to step in and mediate the disputes [97] [98] directly because this is just getting out of hand. Nghtcmdr (talk) 05:26, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr: Again, I directly linked the discussion, you chose not to read it.
In fact, you fail to acknowledge the fact that you have repeatedly been ignorant to many policies(Such as WP:RS, WP:RSPNOT) and have also been, in general, incivil. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 05:46, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
The point is no longer about the supporting evidence(Which i provided, but you chose not to read or deliberately misinterpret it), it is that you repeatedly have engaged in incivil behavior, such as edit wars(not just with me, but other editors [99]. In fact, such behavior falls under
WP:REPUTABLE
(and even government sources) sources as "questionable" due to them being government affiliated, something that many other editors have repeatedly told you has nothing to do with reliability.
In fact, you have deliberately misinterpreted policies for the purpose of
WP:COMPETENCE or just downright lying on multiple occasions here[105][106] where you made claims of the content added being "controversial and sensitive topics", when the content I added was regarding the equipment, training and role of SWAT which is absolutely uncontroversial, as pointed out multiple times both by me and other editors. [107]
Your own behavior needs to be addressed before the discussion regarding the sources(Which, country to your claim [108], is not disputed content). In fact, it has been pointed out that the content is not "controversial" or "disputed", and hopefully this is just simply a rookie mistake on your end at best, though I am really questioning whether that is the case considering your conduct. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 06:43, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Seems like even in this discussion he is
Disclosing that I am somewhat involved as I made a comment in the previous topic about this user, and one of my comments has been referenced by Isaac in this topic. At this point I do not think there is any way that Nghtcmdr's conduct is not blatant
WP:IDHT. As detailed by Isaac, in every discussion, Nghtcmdr demands proof of these sources' reliability ad nauseam, but dismisses every single discussion Isaac or any other user presents as being insufficient. They seem to be under the impression that there is a null hypothesis, and that it is that sources are unreliable unless proof of reliability can be given. This is not the case. Reliability is subject to consensus, and the consensus — based on the fact that we have one user continuously refusing to actually listen to anything anyone says, even as multiple people try and explain to them why they are wrong — is that these sources are reliable reliable in this circumstance. Weirdguyz (talk) 15:06, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
I am concerned that the approach Nghtcmdr represents a kind of cybernetic reinforcement of existing neutrality problems regarding China. I've expressed concern in the past that Wikipedia systematically treats the dissident experience as more reliable than the experience of Chinese people who are not dissidents. This is systematic because Wikipedia tends to treat as unreliable those sources that are in-line with the PoV of the Chinese state and because those sources that Wikipedia tends to treat as reliable simply care more about the dissident experience than that of people who are doing fine in China. I don't think this is an individual-editor problem but rather one that extends beyond Wikipedia and into the various materials we use. I also think much of this is a linguistic bias. The two biggest enemies of China are the UK and the USA. It's not surprising, then, that English language media, most of which comes from the USA and the UK communicates those biases and that academics in the anglosphere, and in that media environment, are more interested in dissidents than others. But this is where that self-reinforcing loop comes into play. Because the default on Wikipedia is to treat Chinese sources as less reliable, a new editor coming into these spaces looks at perfectly reasonable uses of Chinese sources (such as a description of their police or fire services) and goes, "well Chinese sources are unreliable so these should go."
As I view this problem as being systematic I don't really blame Nghtcmdr for that but what is in their control is to recognize they've pushed too hard and that they're missing some of those valuable context-driven queues for source reliability. What they should be doing is recognizing that they are missing subtleties here regarding source reliability and that they've thus made a mistake from which they should step back. I hope that they will recognize this and that this thread can be closed without sanctions. But if they cannot we may need to ask them to stay away from Chinese topics until they have a chance to learn more about handling these situations. Simonm223 (talk) 15:27, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Perfectly said. I agree that a lot of times, Chinese sources are often treated unfairly, thanks to geopolitical issues and systematic bias along with the language barrier. As you have said, I also have hoped(from the start) that Nghtcmdr is doing a rookie mistake, though I do have my concerns regarding the false accusations directed towards me(I'm not that scared of the accusations themselves, rather the lack of civility is what concerns), along with ignoring explanations. I do hope with enough convincing they do understand policies, though I do think sanctions may be brought out should these issues persist. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:34, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Update:
User has engaged in even more
Yet more .
He has claimed 1) includes nearly all the information in your version 2) contains information which is not in your version, though seeing the revisions [112] it is quite obvious this is not the case, and is the contrary. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 05:55, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Update: User has shown even more ignorance of consensus [113] or "your changes are wrong because it goes against my opinion of what other people said" are not proper arguments. [114]For the China-related disagreements, my write up of the section should be preferred(Even though consensus has shown my one has nothing wrong, and their's is blatant deletion of content from my version) Thehistorianisaac (talk) 07:33, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Even more
Update:
User has now engaged in
WT:MILHIST
, they made baseless accusations of me doing "The other editor you are talking to has been adding mainly Chinese language sources from state controlled publications as part of what appears to be part of their larger strategy of conditioning the wider community into accepting those type of sources, so it doesn't strike me as a surprise that they would try to fill this article with as much Chinese as possible in furtherance of that strategy. Whether there are deeper political dynamics at play I don't know and am not in a position to speculate, but the idea that there is a larger context at work is something to keep in mind when trying to gauge the seriousness of this problem."
[116]
This is a serious breach of
WP:HOUNDING, and also is repeatedly harassing me. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:03, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I seriously request immediate admin intervention. At this point, the user has started to harass me on topics outside of the original discussion, and has started to make even more baseless accusations against me. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:16, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Further update:
User has again, attempted to edit war [117], citing a discussion which has yet to be finished yet as "consensus". Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:20, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Even after I explained the
WP:POINT
.
Additionally, his claim of so it doesn't strike me as a surprise that they would try to fill this article with as much Chinese as possible in furtherance of that strategy.[119] can be interpreted as slightly racist. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:39, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Further updates:
User has reported me on WP:AN/3 and has taken my quotes out of context. [120] Thehistorianisaac (talk) 06:25, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I have protected the article for 3 days in response to the edit war report. This can be undone by the admin closing this discussion without notifying me. PhilKnight (talk) 06:37, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
That's great, but I would suggest that the editor's other misconduct be addressed. The edit war seems to be part of a harassment campaign by them directed towards me. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 06:44, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
More updates:
User has posted a DNR thread about me [121] and has continued to use an UNFINISHED discussion as proof of consensus.
@Nghtcmdr Please stop opening threads about me before you have addressed your incivility Thehistorianisaac (talk) 08:35, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I would seriously recommend an admin take literally any action here. Even without considering the merits of either parties arguments, it is clear that these editors cannot work with each other and at the very least a no-fault two-way IBAN is needed. This has been going on for almost a week with exceptionally little in the way of substantive responses to Isaac's concerns. Weirdguyz (talk) 08:30, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
It's now escalated to the point that Nghtcmdr's behavior has gone past
WP:GASLIGHTING
, it has reached a point of borderline harassment and possibly even WP:HOUNDING.
Me and @RovingPersonalityConstruct were having a rather civil and normal discussion on WT:MILHIST [122], when Nghtcmdr decided to go to said discussion and making extremely incivil comments towards me[123], and proceeded to edit war on said article, and even decided to take my edit summary out of context.
Immediate actions are needed. This no longer has plausible deniability as "Rookie mistakes" as I have hoped for a week before, and seems more like targeted actions. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 08:40, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
You engaged @
responsibility as you were the one who sought to include the disputed content. Nghtcmdr (talk) 14:59, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
Point is, I still decided to engage in the discussion constructively and provided my opinion, while you decided to make completely false accusations and conspiracy theories about me on said discussion. It doesn't really matter who starts the discussion, as long as it exists and we respect said discussion without violating policies.
Additionally, your conduct on the discussion(which you brought up but failed to address properly outside of repeatedly blaming me) is only the tip of the iceberg of all your misconduct here. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:03, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@
battlespace where you need to win every disagreement you get into by doing everything you can to ensure your version of the material stays published. If you really respected policy, you would have, without reverting @RovingPersonalityConstruct back, started the discussion after their first revert of your edit. Nghtcmdr (talk) 15:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
Again, please address the other concerns regarding your own misconduct.
I'm not the one treating this as a battlespace(Ironically, you have targeted me multiple times on several different edits), nor will I treat this as a battlespace. The point is, I have went to the discussion and explained my edits(It does not matter who starts the discussion, as long as it is used productively), but you decided to attack me personally for topics completely irrelevant to the discussion[126], and have spread false lies about me, reverted my edit when I explained that the discussion was still ongoing.
You are the one choosing to edit war and harass me here. And, keep in mind, this is just your most recent misconduct, as our previous edit wars and incivility still need to be addressed. Again, I remind you, shifting the blame on me(when I respected the discussion, and stayed civil) is not going to help you. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:33, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@Thehistorianisaac The point is you "discussed" only after you "won" your edit war with @RovingPersonalityConstruct. Nghtcmdr (talk) 15:36, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
Again, I remind you to address your incivility issues. In fact, in regards to the discussion, what you should be addressing is how you decided to personally harass me and engage in what could be interpreted as
WP:WINNING
. I chose to gave my opinion on the matter, and I listened to RovingPersonalityConstruct's own opinion respectfully on WT:MILHIST.
In contrast, you chose to use this as an opportunity to
WP:SMEAR
me and engage in harassment. This needs to be addressed by you immediately.
Again, I would suggest immediate admin intervention. At this point, the incivility of Nghtcmdr has been going on for quite a long time by now, and it is quite questionable how long it is taking for any meaningful admin involvement. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:44, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
should I ping the Bushranger or Liz? These are some serious accusations... And they aren't getting responded to Rhinocrat (talk) 17:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I already messaged Liz before, but no response yet. But yeah, feel free to do so. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 23:39, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Further updates:
Ironically, @Nghtcmdr is falsely accusing another editor without evidence of "WP:OR" and "Bending policy" on a TALK PAGE.[127]
Again, I would highly advise admins take action here, as
WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior from said user has been going on for multiple weeks by now. It's honestly ridiculous how long this is taking. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 23:42, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Further updates:
Said user has now went on a vandalism spree of removing non-english sources and replacing them with english sources that do not cover said info, or just completely deleting properly sourced info if they are in other languages.
[128][129][130]
User has also added unverified info. [131] Thehistorianisaac (talk) 00:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
I have filed a report against @Thehistorianisaac for harassment (hounding) Nghtcmdr (talk) 00:37, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr Stop falsely accusing me of "hounding". You chose to incorrectly remove info, I restored said info. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 00:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
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Dununderud9894

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This user replied to their block notification using a bad word, which I reverted. Could you please revoke their talk page access? Thanks! Faster than Thunder (talk | contributions) Tamil speakers: Contribute here

The comment was on-topic to asking about their block and not directed at a specific user, so I'm not inclined to take action just for that. —C.Fred (talk) 00:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
However—and I'm intentionally not linking diffs—after looking at the edits the user made, block-without-warning was 100% appropriate in this case. —C.Fred (talk) 00:36, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
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Continued page disruption

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

Previous Report: [132] The blocked IP in the previous report has been using a different IP to continue with their disruptive edits to the same Hot Wheels Let's Race page despite no sources to prove their edits.[133][134] NacreousPuma855 (talk) 17:27, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

To clarify, the IP in this report is a possible sock puppet of the IP blocked in the previous report, as the IP in this report had been disrupting the same pages multiple times. NacreousPuma855 (talk) 13:27, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Persistent addition of unsourced content by 2600:480A:4A72:6000:0:0:0:0/64

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2600:480A:4A72:6000:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Keeps adding unsourced content to articles, continued after block expired (/64 has been blocked 4 times previously, most recently for 6 months), also see the three previous ANI reports regarding this range (September 2024, September 2024 again, December 2024). Recent examples of addition of unsourced content: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Waxworker (talk) 13:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

The last ranegblock just expired and they're back to the same edits that led to the previous blocks. I've reblocked the /64 for a year.-- Ponyobons mots 15:33, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
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MarcinTorun1971

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MarcinTorun1971 keeps persistently adding unsourced material in articles as can be seen here and here. I think they are not the only articles where they add unsourced material. They are also an unresponsive editor, since they have been warned about it before and I also reached out to them on their talk page (diff), but they never responded or corrected their conduct. StephenMacky1 (talk) 12:53, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I'd support a pblock until they can contribute to this discussion and explain themselves. If they don't, it's a
Honest question for others -- looking at the history of Frankfurt mafia (as linked by OP), is that vandalism+reversion over and over, or is that an edit war with both sides violating 3RR? I don't disagree that User:MarcinTorun1971 is being disruptive in their edits and non-communication regardless but I'm curious of peoples' thoughts on the distinction. — tony 18:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
3RR doesn't apply to obvious vandalism. » Gommeh (he/him) 18:32, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
I think a better way I could have phrased my question is whether this meets the threshold of obvious vandalism. If it does,
WP:AIV is the place to be; if not, then is this an edit war? — tony 18:41, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
If I violated
It should be noted that edit warring, disruption, and even
made up one day. That said, there is no 3RR violation here - both MarcinTorum1971 and StephenMacky1 are at three reverts. I'm going to revert the page to the status quo ante bellum and protect it for a week so this can be disussed on the article talk page. - The Bushranger One ping only 19:20, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
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User:OspreyPL’s COI

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

Hello, I am opening this thread because I am seriously concerned about the edits made by the account OspreyPL. It seems to me that there is an undeniable conflict of interest, although I cannot say with absolute certainty it is related to paid editing. It is essentially an account created in 2009 that edited in a reasonably acceptable way for a year or two, then went dormant with very few edits. Around 2022, it became active again, showing a particular interest in Duolingo and related articles.

However, the edits on Duolingo-related articles seem overwhelmingly biased, constantly removing criticism and adding primary sources in an attempt to support original research. What stands out most to me at the moment is when they removed a criticism from The New York Times. The critique was about the lack of human interaction in the app. OspreyPL’s justification for the removal was almost laughable: Duolingo now allows users to “talk” to its characters…

In another edit, they quietly removed the information that a Guarani course exists. That may have been a mistake, of course, but I had already pointed it out to them, and they seemed to accept it well. In fact, just a few days later, they removed a reliable source from a well-known author in the field who criticized the Guarani course on Duolingo, claiming the course is only accessible via direct link. They ignored the fact that this is a legitimate criticism from a real person about a real (and still existing) course. I want to stress that they were already aware of this.

Also, in this edit, they also quietly added that the courses are “well-developed”. According to OspreyPL, the source for this claim is the website “duolingodata.com”.

The entire article seems like a mess. For example, this particular edit remained in the article for six months. Whether it is true or not, the source was terrible, and the language just as bad. I would like to bring this issue to the community’s attention, and I believe the problems with this account are just the tip of the iceberg. Thank you, RodRabelo7 (talk) 17:21, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

I cleaned the article up a bit (so anyone looking to see if RodRabelo7 is correct should look at an old version of the article). It is indeed a mess. Polygnotus (talk) 18:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I'm not sure if there's a COI and will presume there isn't unless there's evidence to the contrary, but at the very least this is a
They have not edited since May 1, but the problematic edits are ongoing and they have gaps in their editing previously. I have p-blocked Star Mississippi 22:57, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
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User:Alirana24 disruptively using AI and is WP:NOTHERE

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Alirana24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

This editor has been almost exclusively using AI for writing and communication, and is mainly here to promote their essay about preventing World War III. Most important are these recent bizarre comments [135] [136] where he defends his usage of ChatGPT and claims that ChatGPT told him to publish his essay. Note the edit summary My truth my reality also all my thinking written by my friend chatgpt. More context below.

His articles Prevention of World War III and Informal economy of South Asia are clearly AI-generated; Prevention of World War III contains broken URLs such as https://www.undp.org/publications/sustaining-peace-through-development and https://www.unaoc.org/intercultural-dialogue/. An original version of the latter article also contains broken URLs such as https://www.fao.org/south-asia. The writing style is pretty clearly AI-generated too.

WP:NOTESSAY. He he has bludgeoned the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Essays/The Moral Duty to Prevent World War III with AI-generated comments, and falsely claimed he didn't use AI to write the article before backtracking in his more recent comments. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

I agree this person is NOTHERE, or at the very least doesn't understand how we view using LLMs on Wikipedia. Additionally you forgot to inform them of this discussion as required. It's been an hour so I've done that for you. » Gommeh (he/him) 23:05, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I did notify them here. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 23:11, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
As I understand it you're supposed to use the ANI notice template. » Gommeh (he/him) 23:46, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I see it now. Most people put it in a separate section so I missed it (I use the iOS app). Thanks » Gommeh (he/him) 23:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Based on his comments at the two deletion discussions I'd say this is
Also note the user Zahid131 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). In this diff, he says that he works for Alirana. @JBW (courtesy ping) initially blocked both of them for being sockpuppet and sockpuppeteer respectively, however unblocked both after comments on Zahid's talk page. Zahid too has been using AI and commenting on the same discussions as Alirana. Aydoh8[what have I done now?] 23:43, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Thank you to all respected editors for your review and input. I now understand clearly that my contributions did not meet Wikipedia’s standards. I admit I used ChatGPT to help me express my thoughts, and I realize that relying on AI-generated text without full understanding of the policies was a mistake.
I did not come to Wikipedia to promote myself, but rather to raise awareness about peace. However, I now understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a platform for essays or advocacy. I sincerely apologize if my actions caused disruption.
Going forward, I will not use Wikipedia to post such material again. If my account remains blocked, I accept that with respect for the community’s rules. Thank you all again — I learned from this experience and still admire the work that editors here do.
— Muhammad Ali Rana (Alirana24) Alirana24 (talk) 23:57, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Noting that this comment is also AI-generated, as can be seen by comparing to his non-AI comments such as this. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 00:11, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Case in point. Aydoh8[what have I done now?] 00:27, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Ugh. I don't want to indefinitely block someone that's talking about peace and love. He's obviously got the wrong idea about Wikipedia, though. Well, I'll leave a message on his talk page. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:51, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
NinjaRobotPirate, if it makes you feel better, you could make it a sock block. But you'll want to check in with JBW. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zahid131. -- asilvering (talk) 02:57, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Well, in my opinion, the CU data says they're the same person. The data needs to be interpreted by a human, so the final result could vary by CheckUser (and their skill). I don't really feel like debating the CU results or getting involved in block-drama right now, so I'll leave it to either the community or another administrator. I also see a pretty big difference between Special:Diff/1296888894 and Special:Diff/1296962021. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:16, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
@
pixie dust CheckUser data can't say that they are the same person: the most it can possibly say is that they are editing in the same place either on the same computer or on different computers with the same software setup, which is completely compatible with their claim to be owner and employee of the same business. That doesn't mean they are not the same person, but it does mean that it's not proven that they are. I initially blocked both accounts for sockpuppetry but further evidence that I saw led me to doubt that, so I unblocked. Nevertheless, I do see at least one account, and probably both, as NOTHERE, and so I am close to reblocking for that reason. However, I am inclined to give them a little more time before deciding whether to do that. JBW (talk) 13:42, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
OK, in the short time since I wrote that message I have seen yet more blatant lies from Alirana24, which has pushed me off the fence, and I am going to block that account again. I will consider whether to block Zahid131 too. JBW (talk) 13:50, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
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Disruptive behavior and personal attacks over
WP:AIRSPECS

I was going to wait until after I got over my jet lag to start this, but so many lines have been crossed that I can no longer wait. I wrote this topic while waiting for a connection flight, so please forgive its rushed structure. For context, this dispute revolves around

WP:AIRSPECS, a 20+ year old consensus regarding how aircraft specifications are displayed (specifically stating that only one variant should be covered in the specs section of each article) in articles that was not followed on about a few dozen airliner articles. When this was pointed out (I believe this is where it started), I began fixing the articles in question (Airbus A350, Boeing 707, Boeing 720, Boeing 717, Boeing 727, Boeing 737, Boeing 737 Classic, Boeing 737 Next Generation, and Boeing 777 are the articles I remember), but was met with extreme backlash by several editors who preferred the old versions despite the long-standing consensus. Several discussions were started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Layout (Aircraft) (including an RfC), and after a while I tagged as many non-compliant articles as I could find with Template:Overly detailed
.

Instead, I'm bringing this here to discuss the behavior of several editors;

WP:G10
.

Fast forward to today, and Electricmemory enters the mix and things start moving fast. In chronological order:

This series of events indicates to me that these two editors share a mindset of not only ignoring, but blatantly rejecting consensus, and patterns of

Without comment on the rest of the issue, I want to point out that project-specific style guides can only be viewed as recommendations, not rules. See
WP:PROPOSAL process has the actual status of an optional essay. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:38, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
While true, they're still best-purposes guides - and the discussion around this has been absolutely atrocious, with the side wanting to change the discussion (which is legit) starting with bad faith from the start (which isn't) and with what looks like
off-wiki collaboration due to numerous accounts that had been idle for years (at least one since 2011!) suddenly appearing in the discussion to back up the point. This is just the unfortunate end of a disgusting process. - The Bushranger One ping only 18:15, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
So to be clear I have nothing to do with off-wiki collaboration. I’m a introverted autistic teenager I don’t know nearly enough people to do that. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 20:43, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
It's obvious you came by the discussion in good faith. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for multiple other participants in that mess. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:31, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
WP:LOCALCONSENSUS. - ZLEA T\C 00:13, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
By saying "may or may not represent..." they are saying that absent an RfC, these cannot be relied upon to be a broad community consensus. Duration is not listed as a factor in it representing consensus. The only factor establishing broad community consensus is having it go through the policy and guideline proposal process. As
So, you’re accusing me of making an attack page and then you come down here and rip my character to shreds. Got it, not. Also citing me telling another Wikipedian to fix a problem as an attack is insanity. I’m not gonna do this with you quite frankly.Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 17:14, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Also citing me telling another Wikipedian to fix a problem I assume you're referring to this edit. Which isn't insanity, it's absolutely a personal attack. - The Bushranger One ping only 18:11, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
First of all, no. 2nd of all you need to shut your mouth. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 20:08, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Calling someone a moron is certainly a personal attack. And this comment is also not civil. Apologizing and continuing the discussion politely is the correct move here. LordDiscord (talk) 20:56, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Take this to the arbitration committee for all I care, I couldnt give any less of a flying fucking fuck. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 17:27, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
It won't require ARBCOM. It just requires the first admin to deal your upcoming indef block. See ya. Ravenswing 20:18, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Ok, so I don’t think blocking anyone is needed. What I do think is needed is some kind of mediation. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 20:41, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
You have proven numerous times that you cannot be trusted to conduct yourself civilly, so forgive me for not trusting that you would suddenly conduct yourself in any kind of mediation. - ZLEA T\C 00:13, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Planeandaquariumgeek certainly was not being civil. I don’t see Electricmemory ignoring consensus or being disruptive – they responded to Planeandaquariumgeek and said “Despite my opinion on this I know better than to just revert everything immediately”. LordDiscord (talk) 21:04, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I would call performing a close on an RfC after reverting one of the edits related to it with an edit summary clearly indicating they have taken a side in the dispute (not to mention numerous posts on one of the involved party's talk pages doubling down on such) to be a highly disruptive case of
There was no consensus to begin with as you are insinuating under WP:CON and you leaving messages on my talk pages forcing through your changes is the exact kind of egregious violations that you're committing right now. This kind of Goebbelsian behaviour is apalling and reverting edits made by hundreds of contributors over the years smacks of arrogance. Long story short, unless you have consensus, I saw all articles edited by @ZLEA must be reverted to their original state with detailed variant tables as they do not in their present form convey information to the user in a logical format. Swapcv (talk) 12:31, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
(edit conflict) I am afraid that is incorrect, consensus for the style guide that ZLEA is following has existed since the first iteration of the guideline (which was known as 'page content' at the time). I noted this on the talk page earlier this month.
An RfC was raised to gain consensus for table formatted specifications to replace
Template:Aircraft specifications. The RfC would not be needed if a consensus guideline supporting the table format already existed. The RfC is still open, I have expressed my views there in a civil manner, no consensus for change has been gained there so far. It has been raised elsewhere here that project guidelines are not necessarily the law which may be so but there is a world of difference in clarity between six variants and one variant. I explained how seas of numbers are not encyclopedic as well but have now stopped as the problem is not being acknowledged. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 14:53, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
That maybe true, but the tabular format was accepted as the format to explain all the discrete differences between each variant within an aircraft family. Also given that this format has remained so for a very long time and was a result of contributions made by hundreds of editors over two decades so a form of consensus already exists. Thus for a contributor to then come along all of a sudden make sweeping changes citing obscure style guides which are non-binding and then stonewall the process by weaponising editing policy then it sets in deep suspicions about the users intentions. Therefore it is my recommendation that unless this dispute is resolved all changes made by the parties involved be reverted to the original state as it existed before, i.e with the specification tables intact, until either {{WP:AIRMOS}} is amended or a RfC for either side of the argument is achieved. Thank you. Swapcv (talk) 18:18, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Swapcv Did you seriously just compare me to Joseph Goebbels? - ZLEA T\C 16:32, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Due to irreconciliable differences with you on this topic, due to the accusations you've put on me and the vitiated atmosphere as a result, I will no longer be engaging in a direct discussion with you on this. If you wish for a mediation, I am all for it and happy to cooperate. Good day. Swapcv (talk) 18:21, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Blocked one week for doubling down on Godwin's Law. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:29, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Planeandaquariumgeek has now performed a mass revert at Airbus A350, Boeing 707, Boeing 720, Boeing 717, Boeing 727, Boeing 737, Boeing 737 Classic, and Boeing 737 Next Generation. I request they be immediately blocked to prevent further disruption. - ZLEA T\C 02:53, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

I have no intention of causing disruption. My point is that right now you have 1 supporter and I have one. That’s why I advise we get a neutral mod in on this. Also honestly I’d be a bit happier if you make the info on the 727 about the -200 instead of the -100 since that’s the more common and thus more well known variant. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 03:31, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Also at this point if this escalated any further I intend on escalating to ARBCOM. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 03:38, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
  • esclates
Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 03:39, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
You say you don't intend to cause disruption and are willing to talk through this, but then you pull stunts like this. This user has demonstrated numerous times today that they cannot be trusted to not abuse editing privileges, so I once again ask that they be immediately blocked. - ZLEA T\C 03:50, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I honestly have 0 intent of causing a disruption and that’s why I’m asking for a neutral mediator. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 03:58, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
An editor who has no intent to cause disruption but is repeatedly disruptive anyway is arguably worse, since it indicates a severe
So if you’re gonna accuse me of being incompetent I’m just gonna explain something: I’m in honor, my name is in honor, my person is in honor, and that means that attacking my person could come with fees. And before you further call me incompetent I’m just making it clear that I am soul possessing flesh and blood and not an oxymoron. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 04:19, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I did not call you incompetent, I just pointed out a fact that repeated disruption without intent is a sign of a lack of the required competence to contribute constructively. Your personal attack was an obvious case of bad faith. Whether you intended it or not, this rant of yours was both inflammatory and disruptive, as were your numerous reverts against the current consensus. You have not demonstrated that you are willing or able to constructively engage with editors who disagree with you. Whether you are acting in good or bad faith is beside the point, continued disruption will get you blocked regardless of your intentions. - ZLEA T\C 04:45, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
That is quite literally calling him incompetent. Electricmemory (talk) 20:15, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
This was a really poor idea. Arbitration cases are quite rare -- there are only a handful a year -- and they're typically absolutely last resort community things not bog standard routing conduct disputes (which this is). If you were trying to cause disruption, I can't think of many things more disruptive than filing an obviously frivolous arbitration request. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 03:55, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I have removed the arbitration case request as obviously premature (talk page message). Thanks, Daniel (talk) 03:58, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Basically what’s happened is that ZLEA is refusing mediation, so we basically have no other option that i know of. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 03:59, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Basically what’s happened is that ZLEA is refusing mediation. Should mediation be required in the dispute and it is requested by a far less disruptive editor, I will accept it. Obviously, I have no interest in debating with an editor this disruptive. It's too late for you to request mediation. You gave up that privilege when you made this edit. - ZLEA T\C 04:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
So basically here’s the deal. If this goes into mediation we could probably resolve this in 24 hours. If it doesn’t we’re gonna be going back and forth for a while. Planeandaquariumgeek (talk) 04:16, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
As I stated before, I have no interest in debating with an editor this disruptive. It's too late for you to request mediation. You gave up that privilege when you made this edit. - ZLEA T\C 04:21, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
The problem is clearly you have no interest in debating with anyone, at all. You have made it exceptionally clear you refuse to accept change of any sort, even if it's in-arguably an improvement. Electricmemory (talk) 20:17, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • I've blocked Planeandaquariumgeek for 72 hours for personal attacks, with note Take a few days to chill out and just not think about this. When you come back, either find something else to focus on, or find a way to express your opinions on this dispute calmly and civilly. This is a courtesy because I can tell you do care about building an encyclopedia. A second block regarding the same conduct will likely be indefinite. I hope they take that advice. I haven't looked at Electricmemory or ZLEA's conduct; just trying to step in here before P&AG says something they can't unsay. --
An IP seems to have continued Planeandaquariumgeek's mass reverts. I have opened an SPI case here. - ZLEA T\C 15:08, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Mm, here's a twist, though, Tamzin: his statement above of So if you’re gonna accuse me of being incompetent I’m just gonna explain something: I’m in honor, my name is in honor, my person is in honor, and that means that attacking my person could come with fees. That sounds like a legal threat to me. Ravenswing 00:56, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Tamzin Ravenswing On the other hand i think that Wikimedia’s policies are very much ableist and in violation of the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA) and would be grounds for at minimum a lawsuit, but potentially a class action lawsuit since this has affected many people.[137] - ZLEA T\C 02:09, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Sigh. This is in the gray area of
Thanks. I had started to respond but then I saw you posted your response before me. I'll wait to see what happens next before I respond again. - ZLEA T\C 02:37, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Tamzin@ZLEA I haven't said anything that qualifies as a personal attack, not sure why ZLEA even said that to being with... Electricmemory (talk) 20:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

One has to wonder if ZLEA is really interested in solving this, given that he has refused any form of mediation or dispute resolution, did not attempt to message me personally even once, instead going straight to ANI in an attempt to get everyone he disagrees with blocked. If you're actually interested in solving the dispute, this is very much not the route to take. This is something that belongs in an RFC, not here. Electricmemory (talk) 20:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

It might help if you stopped making *new* personal attacks after the old ones. Especially on the ANI page like this. MilesVorkosigan (talk) 20:44, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Please tell me where I've made something which qualifies as a personal attack. Electricmemory (talk) 20:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
A) The post I replied to.
B) The post where you called ZLEA a moron.
IF you don't believe that kind of thing is a personal attack, you need to go re-read WP:NPA.

EDIT: My mistake! Sorry, the 'moron' comment was from another user. But the rest stands. MilesVorkosigan (talk) 20:52, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I wasn't the person who called anyone a moron. Please double check the comment signature. And the comment you replied to is a statement of verifiable fact; ZLEA did not attempt any other forms of dispute resolution, let alone ones that would solve the primary content dispute. Electricmemory (talk) 20:55, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
I did go back and check, as you can tell by the 'EDIT' I added along with the strikethrough and apology that I added before you replied.
And also before you went back and stealth-edited the comment I had replied to in order to remove your claim that It feels to me like ZLEA is interested only in getting his way. Please do not edit your comments after people have already replied to them, unless you make the change clear. MilesVorkosigan (talk) 21:05, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Since Electricmemory is so keen on misrepresenting the purpose of this discussion, I will reiterate that my coming here had nothing to do with attempting to meditate a dispute. I came here to address disruption and incivility from two editors involved in said dispute. I, perhaps more than anyone, want this dispute to end as soon as possible. However, I do not believe that is possible given the behavior we are all witnessing here. - ZLEA T\C 22:44, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Reporting editor, Etzedek24's Disruptive Editing and Mass Deletion of Madison West High School article

The editor Etzedek24 recently made a mass deletion on the page: Madison West High School, as he claimed NPOV violations yet clearly deleting expansions of the article that is completely natural or merely informative of the school's history (e.g. it's history of location selection, architecture style, number of students sacrificed in WWII, and 21st century news reportings of the school's controversies.)

Because I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, I do not know how to directly cite his change, so I copy pasted Madison West High School page's History:

" 00:39, 24 June 2025 Etzedek24 talk contribs  21,951 bytes −11,702  Restored revision 1294040524 by Etzedek24 (talk): Revert to last good version. Removed POV language in the lead. "

And Etzedek24 has intimidated me in my talk page, instead of the article's talk page, that if I revert those changes I could face potential ban.

I has restored the current Madison West High School page to a previous consensus version by a senior editor, EvergreenFir.

I see this as unfair, and his editing clearly disruptive, and I request an impartial arbitration and necessary intervention from administrators to resolve the editing war. Feather943 (talk) 02:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

You were supposed to alert the editor of this discussion per the big alerts at the top of this page. I've done so for you. Tarlby (t) (c) 02:54, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for your assistance. I am unfamiliar with many Wikipedia's functions, and I will continue to learn. Feather943 (talk) 02:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Latest disruptive editing from Etzedek24 was made. He again deleted all expansions to Madison West High School, including ones that do not violate NPOV.
03:00, 24 June 2025 Etzedek24 talk contribs  21,865 bytes −11,142  Restored revision 1297071153 by Etzedek24 (talk): Last good version. You did not have consensus, other editors were reverting the edits you made. Feather943 (talk) 03:03, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
I has restored the current Madison West High School page to a previous consensus version by a senior editor, EvergreenFir. - This does not seem to be the case? @EvergreenFir reverted your edits, and you proceded to revert their revert? GoldRomean (talk) 03:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
I did not revert his reverts yet, because he could easily do it again and this won't end. I will request a page protection and further administrator interventions. Feather943 (talk) 03:12, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
And @Etzedek24 reverted my edits, not @EvergreenFir. Feather943 (talk) 03:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
I am talking about the part where you said, "to a previous consensus version by a senior editor, EvergreenFir". GoldRomean (talk) 03:18, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Response from the accused: This user has been engaged in a low-intensity edit war going back to April. They were adding clearly partisan prose and sources that violated NPOV and GNG, and whenever their edits were reverted or removed (by me or other editors), they simply reverted them back. I recognize that I have not engaged in as much discussion as I should have, but as I am not active on Wikipedia much these days, I did not think they would

But you could just deleted those NPOV sections, if I accept your premise tentatively.
There are good-faith contributions I made to the article including expanding the school's major academic competition clubs, founding history, style of architecture, Golden Star alumni during WWII, and recent school renovations. It clearly becomes disruptive editing, when you delete ALL of them without distinguishment. Feather943 (talk) 03:20, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Did you try to
peacefully talk with Etzedek before trying to get them reprimanded? Tarlby (t) (c) 03:23, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Yes, I did. I made a comment in Madison West High School's Talk page, and to Etzedek24's talk page. That comment is as below:
"Hello Etzedek24,
I do not wish this to involve an editing war. The WILL findings were accurate and true; they directly cited West High School's email without distortion or paraphrasing. And West High School's action of dividing students' parents into "white student room" and "student of color room" can be described as racism by Webster dictionary definition, "a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race" and could violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This would be more likely true under the latest Supreme Court 9-0, Ames v. Ohio Dep't. of Youth Servs., 605 U.S. ____ (2025). ruling, pointed to the text of Title VII, which contains no language that requires an individual in the majority to meet a higher standard than that of an individual in the minority. Moreover, this was significant news reported by local papers and a point of contention between parents and the district at the time.
Additionally, the lawsuits regarding the use of forced pronouns in the School Policy were a significant issue as well. You deleted it without any reason.
It is the spirit of Wikipedia not to censor, and what has happened needs to be shown as they were.
I have deleted the Trump 2025 Executive Order part, as you reasonably mentioned, it did not mention West High School. I deleted the introduction part that mentions' West's 'Scandals and Controversies' because they would not reflect recency as time goes forward.
What do you think about removing the "Scandals" part, and keeping "Controversies" as the section title, because I believe our disagreement is that you or some others holding different political views could disagree what WILL be cited as Scandals; however, it is in all accuracy to say they are controversial because of that.
Please let me know if you have further comments or dissents. I appreciate your time and this civil discourse, and let's keep it in good faith.
Sincerely,
Feather943 Feather943 (talk) 04:06, 12 June 2025 (UTC) "
Etzedek24 accuses me of not Listening, but he never talked to my page until today's mass-deletion and this comment to my talk page:
"Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's
neutral point of view policy. Much of the prose and citations you inserted into the article are unreliable, not independent of the subject, and in many cases, concern the school district itself and not the school. Continued reversions to this material will be taken to ANI or AN3. Etzedek24 (I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record) 00:43, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
]"

The version that Feather943 keeps restoring is largely based on primary and low-quality sources and adds a section about a "policy that allowed students to change their gender identity" cited to

WP:NOTHERE behavior. Woodroar (talk) 03:38, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Untrue. a DEI officer implementing Critical Race Theory and silencing conservatives has been deleted by @EvergreenFir. Citation from WILL was reported by local medias at that time, and it was about Madison West Administrators dividing students into ""white student room" and "student of color room" per unedited direct quotation from school email.
Not addressing @Etzedek24‘s mass and unexplained deletion of sections:
About School
1924-1930: Founding
1939-1945: World War II
2020-2024: Renovation
2020–2022: Academic and Policy Changes Feather943 (talk) 03:46, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
It has been restored to that version again. I would revert, but am approaching 3RR territory. Etzedek24 (I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record) 03:47, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
It was reverted so the Administrators can clearly see the damage done by your mass-deletion. Feather943 (talk) 03:52, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Explain & Justify your deletion of:
About School
Extracurricular Activities (new edits to include a list of current academic competitive clubs via order of alphabet, and hyperlinking them,)
Main Events of School
1924-1930: Founding
1939-1945: World War II
2020-2024: Renovation
2020–2022: Academic and Policy Changes
Feather943 (talk) 03:55, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Objection to
WP:RGW
per evidence above.
Objection to
WP:NOTHERE accusations. per my effort of major expansions of the page under Main Events of School, and @Etzedek24 also deleted my addition to Extracurricular Activities. In his mass-deletion, he deleted the link I provided to the School's most updated list of current clubs, and a listing and hyperlinks of it's academic competitive clubs. Feather943 (talk) 03:51, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Restored by UPE account after sock creation – G5 applies?

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The page

undisclosed paid editing. All these events trace back to the recreation of the Guard film page. Given the chain of actions—especially the multiple recreations by confirmed sockpuppets and UPE —this appears to qualify under G5 or PROD.? Refer to this case2405:201:C410:3058:480B:B793:A1A2:4E2E (talk) 17:28, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

(A gnome writes) I've tagged Guard (film)Guard (film) as {{R from incomplete disambiguation}}. The prefix "the" is almost never a good disambiguator (though I know a couple of examples, such as The The) . Narky Blert (talk) 17:51, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
@Narky Blert hi, What about Guard (2025 film)? Created by sock and draft moved by UPE.

2405:201:C410:3058:CDCD:C325:31A5:7AEC (talk) 18:01, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

No comment. That article is at AFD. I have no opinion on its merits. I lack the enthusiasm and energy needed to form an opinion. Narky Blert (talk) 18:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
To be precise, it was PRODdded, not AfD'd. That said, this was expanded from a redirect by a sock, and restored by a now UPE-blocked editor. Given that, I'm going to delete, restore the original redirect, and then move to Guard (film) where this was orignally, then restoring that redirect's current history. What a mess. - The Bushranger One ping only 19:28, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
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Genre warrior

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User has been persistently engaging in genre warring across multiple articles, without sources, discussions, or consensus. They have received plentiful warnings about this on their talk page, which also include links to

WP:GWAR, but they are still continuing their disruptive editing, causing more work for other editors to clean up. Magatta (talk) 16:24, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

diffs and links to previous discussions with the editor? Cullen328 (talk) 16:58, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Diff of the user's talk page can be found here. There are discussions from January, February and this month. I'd like to point out that they replied to the one from February saying they'd provide proof supporting their genre changes (diff: [138]) but have yet to do so satisfactorily using a reliable source, and that they also said they'd proven I Touch Myself to be in the alternative rock genre (diff: [139]) when they did not. » Gommeh (he/him) 17:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Sure. Here is one instance where I left a warning on the user's talk page back in February following a undiscussed insertion of a genre at If You Only Knew, which was also backed by RYM (an unreliable source) [140]. The user then responded claiming they will have more "proof" the aforementioned song is of that style. [141]
Please note that until last week I went off Wikipedia for a while, so I never properly documented a lot of their subsequent edits until recently, but a look at this user's contributions gives a clear track record of their disruptive editing surrounding genres.
More recently, about two days ago, the user [142] at Miss You Much, which I reverted, and left a level 3 warning on their talk page, advising them to participate in discussion before inserting potentially controversial genres.[143] There was no reply from this user, and five days later, made another insertion at Digging Your Scene, which prompted me to issue a level four warning.[144] This also got no response, and most recently, the user made another undiscussed genre insertion at Video Killed the Radio Star.[145], which is why I brought the matter here.
Also, this is not my interaction, but User:Doctorhawkes issued a level one warning to this user back in January, following a similar edit made at I Touch Myself. The user responded saying they "proved" the song was in that style because they believed so, and didn't provide a source, or start a discussion, in order to give other editors a chance to reach consensus.[146] Magatta (talk) 17:23, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Due to CrimeFind31's persistent addition of unsourced musical genres, I have indefinitely blocked them from editing article space. They have been violating the core content policies of
edit requests on article talk pages. If they want to add a genre, they must provide a reliable source verifying that genre. Cullen328 (talk) 23:38, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
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User:RocketDwiki mass-reverting my edits

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This might be better suited for the edit warring noticeboard, but

MOS:TIES. This noticeboard might be overkill, but I'm not getting an answer and I don't want to start an edit war. ―Panamitsu (talk) 08:50, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I agree wholeheartedly with your edits. Tagging
WP:CIR for violating the MOS, however, it's possible that Rocket didn't know about the guidelines. Not an excuse, of course. Have they been warned specifically about the MOS before? » Gommeh (he/him) 20:27, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
never been warned about the MOS. @Panamitsu should have been more polite in their request and pointed out the guidelines. RocketDwiki (talk) 23:50, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
In general, what
MOS:TIES says is that if an article is related to a place that speaks English (US, Canada, India, UK, etc) then you are supposed to use the national variety of English spoken there. This includes spellings (e.g. "color" for US-related articles vs "colour" for UK-related articles) and vocabulary (US "trunk" vs UK "boot" to refer to the part of a car where you put your suitcases). » Gommeh (he/him) 23:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
The edit summaries of my edits all were "add {{Use American English}} template per
MOS:TIES. When in doubt, please discuss, and please don't make reverts in the middle of a conversation. ―Panamitsu (talk) 00:25, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
RocketDwiki, if you haven't taken the time to find out the appropriate usage of a template, you shouldn't be removing it. It is down to you to look for guidelines before you start messing around with such things. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:30, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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Hounding by Thehistorianisaac

The editor has been following my edits in violation of

policy by reverting contributions that I've made across multiple articles and joining a discussion between myself and an unrelated third editor for an article which I have edited. [147] [148] [149] [150] [151] [152] [153] In light of their report against me, I am requesting administrative action against this user. Nghtcmdr (talk) 00:25, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm wondering if it's time for a two-way interaction ban? —C.Fred (talk) 00:27, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@C.Fred
This is a completely false report intendent to harass me. This is not hounding, @Nghtcmdr incorrectly removed info(In fact, they have targeted info I have added, so if anybody is hounding, it is them), and I simply added back the info.
Additionally, @Nghtcmdr has failed to address his misconduct on ANI. [154]
In fact, ironically, @
@Nghtcmdr
You are taking things out of context. In fact, I highly suspect the edits that I reverted were exactly
WP:HOUND
. You have targeted articles where I have added info, and deleted said properly sourced info.
In fact, you have yet to respond to your own misconduct on ANI. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 00:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@
monitoring my edits? Nghtcmdr (talk) 01:13, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
I DO monitor your edits, as I have seen a pattern of them being disruptive and involving unsourced info. Such behavior is NOT
WP:HOUND. Other users have tracked my edits before(Back when I was new and my edits were, frankly, not that great), and such is a commonly done practice among people who prevent disruptive editing as WP:HOUND has stated. I have not reverted all your edits, as I do acknowledge some are okay, however when I revert edits where you have removed properly sourced info(without proper explanation) or add unverified info, that is not WP:HOUND. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 01:21, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
You reverted five edits that I made across five articles within a matter of seconds. That's called
That is not hounding. YOUR edits removed information(properly sourced) by the way, and I had to restore it. Instead of falsely accusing me of hounding, read the policies you are citing and STOP making disruptive edits. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 02:12, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Whatever's going on here is clearly starting to disrupt a number of military-related topics, and it needs to stop now. Nghtcmdr, I'd be *real* careful about throwing around accusations of

WP:HOUND on an undo, repeatedly, does not adequately explain why you're reverting the content nor does it show any serious attempt at consensus building (and yes, I've been following the back-and-forth on y'alls talk pages for several days now and am not impressed). If you want admins to dig into the root cause of this, y'all better be prepared for boomerangs to fly.SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 01:39, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

As I explained to @C.Fred on my talk page, the reason for the proximity in timing is because I took a sustained interest in law enforcement/defense-material on Wikipedia only after I started editing it again in light of the 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators. Nghtcmdr (talk) 02:07, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
What got you into editing does not matter here. What DOES matter is that you are falsely accusing me of hounding(along with all of your previous misconduct, which you have yet to address), when ALL the edits I reverted were very openly bad edits(either simply unsourced info or just quite blatant removal of properly sourced info). Instead of complaining when I undo your bad edits, how about you read the policies properly and see why I actually reverted them? Thehistorianisaac (talk) 02:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Swatjester
I would also suggest immediately addressing @Nghtcmdr's long list of misconduct [156]. It is ridiculous how long it is taking for any admin intervention to arrive, considering that other editors have also voiced their concerns. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 02:10, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Both Nghtcmdr and Thehistorianisaac have been blocked for 24 hours for edit-warring. I don't think 24 hours will be sufficient to put this dispute to rest as it has already gone on nearly two weeks. But, hey, let's see if anything changes tomorrow.
If this bickering continues, I'd support an IBan. What I've observed over June is that Thehistorianisaac rejects Nghtcmdr's editing and I don't think Thehistorianisaac will stop following Nghtcmdr unless Nghtcmdr receives a substantial sanction which despite several noticeboard complaints, no admin has found necessary to impose. Liz Read! Talk! 05:07, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Liz
I don't "reject" Nghtcmdr's edits, I reject all edits that go against wikipedia's policy and/or are disruptive, which includes quite a lot of @Nghtcmdr's edits.
Nghtcmdr is obviously very ignorant to the policies he cites, and has shown blatant
WP:ICANTHEARYOU behavior. He has repeatedly deleted reliable sources "because they are not in english". Unless either Nghtcmdr chooses to actually read the policies he claims justify removing properly sourced info, I will continue to ask for sanctions.Also, Multiple other editors have requested sanctions be taken against Nghtcmdr [157] [158]
I seriously question why no actions have taken place against Nghtcmdr. Again, if you see the original ANI, you can see Nghtcmdr has often done personal attacks, ICANTHEARYOU, WP:BLUDGEON, general harassment [159] and ignorance of policies. I seriously do not understand why no admin has found it nessecary to giv seanctions. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 07:27, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Persistent POV by User:Surayeproject3

Surayeproject3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Background

On the 2025-04-07, User Surayeproject3 was formally warned not to edit article related to Assyrian, Syriac, Chaldean, and Aramean, without talk page discussion beforehand. See this. (Ctrl+F: "block for edit-warring").

On the 2025-05-06, Surayeproject3 made a list of articles that are highly sensitive to the topic Assyrian/Aramean. See this. For example, user Surayeproject3 proceeded to edit villages which he had listed as highly sensitive, including Anitli and Haberli (see below). (Ctrl+F: "Assyrian village").

On the 2025-05-20, I, Historynerd361, was informed by an mediator that Surayeproject3 has has agreed to "move away from the contentious aspects of the topic for the time being." See this.

User Surayeproject3 has since his warning on April 7 kept on editing articles related to the sensitive topic. Mostly templates was added by Surayeproject3. However he has swiftly went back to editing Assyrian/Aramean related topics and once again, pushes a POV. One example is shown here where his edit summary says Condensing some references into Bibliography but he simultaneously adds the term Assyrian. Here he creates a diversion.

Examples of edits made after the warning: [160] [161] Edits made before the warning: [162] [163] [164] [165] [166], [167], [168], [169], [170], [171], [172], [173], [174], [175], [176], [177], [178], [179]

Violations

WP:EDIT WARRING
: edit-warring to push a POV.

Actions Attempted

Warned on 2025-04-07. Ignored the warning and returned to his old habits within a short time. Surayeproject3 talk page archive includes several attempts by other editors not fuel the Assyrian/Aramean dispute more than necessary.

Suggested Action

Indefinite block or topic ban to prevent further disruption.


{{Historynerd361 (talk) 19:35, 22 June 2025 (UTC)|Historynerd361}}

OP, please make sure to give them a notification about this discussion as required by policy. I noticed you didn't do that and have done that for you. Additionally please remember to sign your comments with four tildes per
Whelp, can't say I'm impressed by their edits. Last time I remembered seeing them on my talk page, they replied:

Sounds good with me. I've been recommended by Hammersoft to follow the same path, so I'll mostly focus on other topic areas for now. Would it be a problem to edit articles in the topic area that are not contentious or part of the controversy (say for example, cuisine, or something related to the Syriac alphabet)?

A bit sad to see them making edits more directly related to the main controversy without communicating on
Talk:Haberli, İdil (although they did communicate on Talk:Üçköy, Nusaybin!)
By the way, in the discussion you linked, @Asilvering did later rescind their warning, although that shouldn't have been interpreted as a go-ahead for making changes without prior discussion either. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 19:49, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Some points to respond:
  • The moderator who stated "any further undiscussed changes of this nature will receive a block for edit-warring" rescinded this following lowered disputes
  • The mediator mentioned, Chaotic Enby, stated that I am OK to edit articles in the topic area that were no part of recent controversies [180] - for villages (this applies to both Anıtlı, Midyat and Haberli, İdil), I discussed this with another editor in the topic area [181] to ask their opinion
  • Historynerd361 has stated there was editing warring taking place, though he has not stated where the edit warring has happened
@Chaotic Enby If nobody contested the changes on the actual article itself, is it still disruptive to the topic area? I'm not sure that every change like the ones on Haberli, İdil requires a talk page message every time. I've also edited outside of the topic area as well. Surayeproject3 (talk) 19:53, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Well, it's technically not disruptive editing, but, regardless of the article you are doing it on, changing "Syriac" to "Assyrian" is still close to the heart of the controversy. You mention Haberli, but another editor explicitly contested it on that article's talk page. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 19:58, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Actually, Syriac is still there. I added Assyrian in front of it to make it "Assyrian/Syriac", so it was the only type of change like that on the article, see this diff [182]. User623921 was Wlaak's old username, so it's not a different user contesting it [183]. Surayeproject3 (talk) 20:03, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
That seems fine to me, especially since the link is to the article that is currently titled
Assyrians
.
@Historynerd361, I gather you're not on the same "side" of this dispute as Surayeproject. If you're interested in taking part in some mediated discussion on how to handle the topic, would you add your name to the list at User:Asilvering/List of ACAS parties? This was my earlier attempt to see who we could gather into the same room to talk about all of this, but since Wlaak has basically disappeared after being topic-banned (and that SPI is still outstanding), I haven't tried to push it forward, out of the worry that we were missing someone from the "Aramean side", so to speak. -- asilvering (talk) 03:06, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder. I sure will add my name to the list. However I just want to note that Syriac redirect has already been retargeted to a disambiguation page, not to any Assyrian article. I also want to point out that surayeproject3 has been editing the same area he listed to be highly sensitive and listed for GS, the same area he said he'd step down from after being advised to. Even though he was advised to use talk page before editing he did not go through with that on the villages listed above. Surayeproject3 adding the term Assyrian just adds more to my skepticism. Even if he claims Assyrian/Syriac is a more neutral term, he won’t surf around wikipedia and add the name Syriac to where Assyrian stands alone. I am pointing this put in order to avoid POV edits, as he has proven to do in the past. Historynerd361 (talk) 10:02, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

User:121.169.43.133 adding speedy deletion tags to seemingly random articles

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Special:Contributions/121.169.43.133 The articles don't meet the speedy deletion criteria by a long shot, so this is obvious vandalism. TurboSuperA+(connect) 09:29, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Materialscientist proxy-blocked it, likewise Special:Contributions/71.231.165.84 that they were abusing just prior to that. And several admins gave various other blocks to other IPs and ranges. DMacks (talk) 09:34, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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GRocasFan2024 repeated NPA violations

GRocasFan2024 has been continuously been violating

WP:NPA by posting swear words and even middle finger emojis to other users who are posting vandalism warnings. See their edits on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GRocasFan2024&action=history, most egregriously Special:Diff/1293882691
.

Plenty of users have warned them for their edits since April and they have been continuing to make these edits; only recently has it gotten much worse. The warning in April didn't get a reply, and the one in May got a polite "sorry" reply. However, the replies this month are very rude and violate

WP:NPA
.

This continued aggression has been getting very inappropriate and I believe a permanent block with no talk page access is warranted. MouseCursor or a keyboard? 21:11, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Since the last offensive reply (10 days ago) Gro... seems to have been a productive editor, and there are no reverts in the last 50 edits. While the behavior was unacceptable, the user appears to have reformed. Blocks are preventative, not punitive, so blocking at this time doesn't seem appropriate to me. If the behavior recurs, sure, but not now. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:23, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • I'd like to hear from User:GRocasFan2024. Wikipedia has kind of a wishy-washy attitude about "swear words". If it's a personal attack, they are usually sanctioned. But swear words used in isolation, as an expression of frustration? Well, some of our editors who've been around the longest have used them so it doesn't seem fair to censor new editors but allow longtimers to let the expletives fly. Liz Read! Talk! 00:52, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
    As the target of said profanity and bird, I took no offense as I was only trying to help correct their expectations about sourcing and writing articles (and there would be no block from me since I'm not an admin). They're improving and need some guidance, and I've had no issues with them since. Nathannah📮 02:12, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
    Liz, I agree with your overall point and wish that all editors of whatever experience level would refrain from emphasizing their points with F-bombs. However, it is a rare longtimer who would write JUST BLOCK ME FOR EDITING IF YOU FUCKING WANT!!!!!!!!!! I DON’T FUCKING CARE!!!!!!!!!! followed by the predictable emoji. All caps. Twenty exclamation marks. Given the editor's chosen topic area, there may be a question of maturity involved. GRocasFan2024, this is a collaborative project. Please refrain from angry profane outbursts if you want to keep editing Wikipedia. Thanks. Nathannah, thank you for your mature response. Cullen328 (talk) 02:19, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
I have seen longtimers post messages like that in the past. But it was on their way out, leaving Wikipedia in their wake. Comments like that are hard to come back from. Editors who encounter them don't easily forget explosions of harsh words. So, I guess it's a question of how much ROPE to offer. Being called to ANI is often enough to scare editors straight. Liz Read! Talk! 03:53, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
As the person who warned GRocasFan2024 almost 2 weeks ago for incivility after they responded to a warning for disruptive editing at 2 articles with a middle finger emoji directed at myself, I agree with Nathannah that I have had no issues since my warning. Lavalizard101 (talk) 11:05, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Continued vandalism/disruptive editing by User:43.252.60.197

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I just undid this edit. Looking at their talk page they have received plenty of warnings for vandalism. They received blocks in the past, but it looks like their last block expired. TurboSuperA+(connect) 09:21, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

It looks like they've only made one edit since the block expired in January. If they continue, we can look into blocking them again. - The Bushranger One ping only 10:10, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
You're right. I thought the previous edit was January 2025, not 2024. My mistake. TurboSuperA+(connect) 11:29, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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Acmeonel

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This user has been repeatedly changing genealogical information of Ottoman royalty without any sources, in some cases removing unsourced sourced information. They are continuing to do so despite reverts and being warned on their talk page. Diffs:

Elestrophe (talk) 10:54, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I see now they were temporarily blocked by User:Materialscientist at the same time as I was writing this report, so I suppose nothing else needs to be done. Elestrophe (talk) 11:14, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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User:SounderBruce

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I'm making this post because of my interaction with SounderBruce and

Pattullo Bridge Replacement
into.

When I made the change SounderBruce, they reverted it here with the comment 'Should not be split without discussion', which was unclear. At this point, I didn't do anything. I didn't undo it. I asked on their talk page to see if there was a policy I wasn't following and if they disagreed they should have explained in the articles Talk page. I did that here, which I think is fair. Instead they undid it from their talk page and did not add anything to the talk the page or explain anything to me. I then try again to get them to discuss it. Same response, this time using rollback to undo my questions and requests for discussion on their talk page.

This is where I'm very confused. I don't know if he's disputing it, if it's because I didn't do attribution or anything. This is when I undo their undo but also start a discussion on the talk page.

SounderBruce undoes it and this is the only short time they participate in any discussion. I get a sense of misunderstanding (there's name change which SounderBruce doesn't know about) and SounderBruce doesn't think the replacement bridge information should be there. I think that's fair and think the 2nd paragraph should be moved to the History Section and the first paragraph can stay. This is where I think there's understanding and so I make those changes. This is my mistake and it was fully reverted by SounderBruce. However, they have still yet to have a discussion on the last 2 paragraphs and refuses to participate. User:EducatedRedneck suggested we use Excerpt template, which I think is a good idea, but once again SounderBruce isn't saying anything.

I'm really at the end of my rope and feel like I'm being bit as a newcomer. I don't know all the policies, which is why I asked upfront. --Created Account For Old UI (talk) 02:57, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

@
WP:3O you called to the talk page appears to have the same opinion. So I'm not sure what remains in the dispute here? You can go ahead and implement the suggestions by the 3O. -- asilvering (talk) 03:15, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
It's not the content dispute that I'm posting here. It's the interaction that I'm talking about here. The failure to discuss. I'm not sure if I implement's EducatedRedneck idea that it won't just be reverted by SounderBruce.
The fact that SounderBruce didn't discuss anything (until I undid their undo) and consistent reverted my requests for their train of thought. How do I know SounderBruce doesn't like EducatedRedneck idea or is in favour of it? I don't. Created Account For Old UI (talk) 03:23, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
If I understand their meaning, SounderBruce's first revert included the message The notice exists for a reason, which refers to the Please keep discussion of specific article issues on their respective talk page instead of dispersing the discussion; any additions here will be reverted and ignored notice at the top of their page. A bit cryptic and
bitey on their part. Woodroar (talk) 03:31, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I'm rather more unimpressed with this one. -- asilvering (talk) 03:36, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Why though? Why is it that I tried multiple times to engage and was getting stonewalled? Why is it okay to ignore the requests for discussions? Isn't that going to annoy other users who are trying to edit an article in good faith.
I don't get how that behaviour can be accepted. I can guarantee you that if I did that at work. I'd be fired. At some point the user will snap. Created Account For Old UI (talk) 03:41, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Well, luckily for all of us, we're all volunteers, and no one can or will fire us. For the same reason, none of us are obligated to do much of anything at all, and that includes taking part in discussions, for the most part. If SounderBruce doesn't have anything to add, or doesn't care to say anything, they're under no obligation to. If someone both fails to discuss and prevents you from editing the article, then that lack of discussion presents a problem. So, like I said, and like the 3O said: just make that next edit. They will either come to the discussion, or they'll let it stand. You've done mostly everything right so far, so just keep going.
As for the more general existential questions you're asking: my advice is that you stop worrying about what other people may or may not be thinking. You can't make anyone do or believe anything. The only behaviour you control is your own. If your own behaviour is patient, calm, and in good faith, you have very little to worry about. Take a deep breath, make the edit you want to make, and deal with the reaction to it if one comes and not before. -- asilvering (talk) 03:56, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Thanks. This is good advice. Created Account For Old UI (talk) 04:06, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Indeed, you don't, but now it's 2:1. And if SounderBruce reverts you again in those circumstances, without any further discussion, I would consider that to be edit-warring. -- asilvering (talk) 03:33, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Created Account For Old UI, what did you find unclear about "Should not be split without discussion"? That seems quite a clear statement. SounderBruce's lack of response on their User talk is not the best outcome, but they are correct that the best place to discuss article content is on an article talkpage. If you're looking for specific policies to govern every actions permissibility or lack of, those don't exist. However, in general any bold edit can be reverted, and in general such reverts should be discussed on article talkpages. CMD (talk) 03:54, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I wasn't trying to discuss it on their talk page. I put on their talk page that they should explain their reasoning for "Should not be split without discussion" on the article's talk page.
That's not clear though. Shouldn't users have to explain why they didn't like the split. Because without that it sounds like 'oh I don't like it'.
Maybe this is just me but I feel like if you don't like an edit and you undo it, that you should be obligated to explain why not just "Should not be split without discussion" Created Account For Old UI (talk) 04:03, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Yes and no. If an edit is disputed, it's ultimately up to the person who wants to make the edit to build consensus for it. In the meantime, the status quo should prevail in the article. And since we're volunteers, you can't really make someone say more than "I don't like it". So your options at that point are to wait and see if more people join the discussion, go to 3O, post at a relevant WikiProject, etc. That being said, of course it's nearly always better for editors to explain their viewpoint. If your reason for changing the article makes sense and doesn't violate any policies or guidelines, and the other editor doesn't explain themselves, there's a good chance that consensus will eventually go your way. Woodroar (talk) 04:21, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I guess I'm too used to places where the reason you disagree is expects. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind in the future. Created Account For Old UI (talk) 04:33, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
It is expected to come up as part of discussion, but the onus for initiating discussion leans towards the person seeking a change. CMD (talk) 06:48, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
I did not know that. If I was told as such, I would have done so. Created Account For Old UI (talk) 07:01, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
That's not a problem, there's always more to learn. CMD (talk) 07:07, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Not entirely sure why this is important enough for AN/I, because it looks like a fairly benign content dispute that isn't even really a dispute. I do agree with SounderBruce that it was premature to split without a name for the new bridge having been announced, and the content at the split article would fit fine within the existing article until the name is announced. I was tempted to DRAFTIFY it (as it's very
WP:CRYSTALBALLish right now), but will defer to others if they feel strongly enough to do it or not... —Locke Coletc 03:56, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
This is an extreme and unwarranted escalation. No editor should be expected to be on-call for the entirety of a weekend, and I would advise that patience is necessary when approaching Wikipedia. I have not had time to look at Talk:Pattullo Bridge yet, so the last paragraph in this original post is completely unsubstantiated and I will respond only to the accusation of incivility that is being made here.
Clearly, there is some confusion here. The initial split was made without a discussion and appeared to be a mass removal of content, including information that would only pertain to the original bridge rather than its replacement. I reverted and neglected to request that a discussion be opened; it was a mistake on my part, as it was 2 am local time and I was about to log off for the day.
As for my talk page message: I do not think it is unreasonable for an editor to ask for discussions to be in a single area for accountability and housekeeping purposes. I have previously had editors take issue with my use of talk page discussions, so this is something that I use to ensure compliance with site policies. I do not think it is appropriate for an editor to accuse another of "making it impossible" to discuss a topic or "engaging in uncivil behavior" and not expect to have that kind of language removed from a user talk page. SounderBruce 05:56, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
You could have easily replied to my first talk page message with 'I'll post on the articles talk page in due time' (which is all those messages were to begin with). You reverted it twice. I can't give you the benefit of the doubt when the alternative isn't much work, so the on-call isn't expected at all. It gives the impression that you are avoiding the discussion. Heck, you could have done nothing. Didn't revert or anything and in due time add it to the article's talk page and then delete it from your talk page. Created Account For Old UI (talk) 06:06, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
"Avoiding the discussion" is not a credible claim when there's only been a mere few hours between responses. The essay linked above even advises that a wait of several days is recommended. There is no obligation to swiftly respond to a content dispute, and there is certainly no obligation for an editor to do nothing if there is a sudden and undiscussed change to a stable article. SounderBruce 06:29, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
There was no expectation from my side. The problem is the undo and revert of the talk page messages without anything else. Like I said. You could have done nothing. If you did nothing. I wouldn't have said anything and went on with my day and wait for a response on the articles talk page. You did reply. You replied by nuking my messages. Created Account For Old UI (talk) 06:40, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
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Icaneditalot42

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Icaneditalot42 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Edit-warring, belligerent behavior. Lots of messages and warnings on user talk page, behavior doesn't change. Previous two-week block didn't help either. — Chrisahn (talk) 11:38, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Blocked one month for DE. Could have been any number of reasons. Will leave a note that any further on expiry will not be tolerated Star Mississippi 11:43, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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Persistent disruptive editing and bad-faith engagement by @XYZ 250706

I am bringing this here after months of attempting to resolve a prolonged, frustrating content and conduct dispute with user @

WP:CONSENSUS without actually stating what makes the changes controversial." XYZ has since deleted the discussion but it can be accessed at the talk page edit history here, at the discussion titled 'People's democratic state'.

I would appreciate admin input, advice, or actions. Thank you. EarthDude (talk) 06:04, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

60% editors who took part in previous discussion supported my view. I requested User:Robert McClenon to review sourcing and his report supported my view. The issue related to people's democratic state was resolved with other editor. There was misunderstanding, but I and the other editor reached consensus through discussion. User: EarthDude blatantly imposes his edits over others to his POV. I removed far-left as it is nowhere mentioned in his source and previously other editors have removed adding far-left added by some IP address and sock editors. I told no other sources says that EMS Namboodiripad removed any Politburo member and history of CPIM politburo also doesn't indicate any removal/purge. XYZ 250706 (talk) 13:38, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Anti-Imperialism is mentioned here (https://books.google.co.in/books?id=AgybDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA32&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) and even in other sources and Earth Dude continuously removed those things. Besides he thinks discussion not holding his views cannot be regarded as consensus. XYZ 250706 (talk) 13:44, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
One editor also accused EarthDude for imposing his POV. User Talk: EarthDude#Stop deleting and imposing your POV. XYZ 250706 (talk) 13:53, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
What you are talking about was a seven day old account who reverted my edits and attacked me for POV pushing, even though all I did was grammatical fixes, removing minor and non encyclopedic information (like the number of languages someone knew) and adding some reliably sourced content. Said wikipedia usee had also attacked other senior and more established editors for a supposed "anti-Indian" agenda, and after which they stopped all engagement with the platform. Im pretty sure the last time I checked, basic wikipedia editing work was not "POV pushing."

Also, once again, you are manufacturing a non-existent consensus. A simply look at the discussion would show how polarized it was and how no full consensus was reached.

On 30 May, a third-party editor opened a discussion titled "Battleground conduct and edit warring" on your talk page regarding your
WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior, edit warring, and misrepresentation of wikipedia policy, and suggested you open a dispute resolution. You have since deleted the discussion without meaningfully engaging with that either. EarthDude (talk) 15:05, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
See the issue was resolved between us and that issue was regarding you. I want to draw the admin's attention to Talk:Communist Party of India (Marxist) where 3 editors supported adding multiple ideologies and 2 opposed it and one more editor supported clarifying ideologies here Talk:Communist Party of India (Marxist)#Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 19 September 2024. The idea to analyse sources by Robert McClenon was given to me by Wikipedia admin Star Mississippi. Previously also multiple ideologies were added in the article and any editor removed that without any consensus or discussion. You didn't support any idea doesn't mean there is no consensus. XYZ 250706 (talk) 16:17, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Regarding, the Politburo debate, I have already placed my view in the discussion opened by EarthDude here in Talk:Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)#Regarding the History section. Not supporting his views/ideas can't be disruption or bad faith edit. XYZ 250706 (talk) 16:21, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • This is a content dispute ranging over several articles and it looks like the situation would be aided by the Dispute resolution process. Has that been attempted yet? You both have to be willing to participate and understand that a compromise might involve you not getting "your" way. But trying to eliminate an editor who has different perspective than your own doesn't work. You have to be willing to engage without attacking the other editor and right now, I'm not seeing much mutual respect. Liz Read! Talk! 04:44, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
    @Liz Once more I want to emphasize the fact that I opened discussion regarding CPIM's ideologies. There three editors supported adding more ideologies and two opposed it. One more editor in one previous discussion (edit request) supported clarifying ideologies. So I added multiple ideologies. But User:EarthDude reverted those changes saying that consensus is not arrived. Then he opened another discussion. He was first saying that sourcing was not at all good and then when I am showing reliable sources, he is saying those are redundant. XYZ 250706 (talk) 10:45, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
    Even when you opened a discussion, and mind you the only attempt at consensus building you ever made, you still kept bypassing it by editing into the article your proposed changes, far before any consensus was ever reached. From the start, I said much of your proposed inclusions were somewhat redundant but I agreed with some points and all I did was highlight the issues with your sourcing. Just some days ago, I even included one of your proposals to the article. But then you began accusing and attacking me, and going to unrelated discussions of my talk page to further attack me, and as a whole acting as if there was some kind of war going on between the two of us. EarthDude (talk) 14:28, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
    First of all, I removed changes like NCERT sources, ideology like environmentalism, democratic socialism as they were steongly opposed by others in discussions. I didn't made any personal attack to anybody. XYZ 250706 (talk) 16:09, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
    By the way, multiple ideologies were added to the article even about 8 months ago. One editor removed it without consensus. I added them with some tweaks. Besides somedays ago, one more editor User:Ahammed Saad edited the page [the version revised by me (without NCERT sources, environmentalism)] and he just added Communism also. No opposition for adding other ideologies was done by him also. XYZ 250706 (talk) 16:16, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
    I had been thinking of opening a dispute resolution for quite some time but there were strict rules written at the top that it should not have anything to do with user behavior, so I was quite conflicted on that. I ended up deciding ANI because this is much more about user conduct than a simple content dispute. I have opened a lot of discussions. I have compromised on a LOT of issues. But I see none of that from the other side. EarthDude (talk) 14:23, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Untamed1910

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I have been having some problems with Untamed1910 (talk · contribs) today. He/she has been calling me names today and he even said I should go and kiss a cow. He even attempted but unsuccessfully to make up false claims and said that I was retarded. He/she has been doing this from late last night through today and while I'm not sure what his/her problem is, but someone needs to seriously give him/her a good talking too. Last but not least he even said I should put my head in a Ceiling Fan. 71.33.184.243 (talk) 18:50, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Can you provide the diff of the alleged name-calling please? Gommeh 🎮 19:09, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
I see no sign of anything of the sort from Untamed1910 in the last 24 hours, only a little routine reverting and warning of various editors. Which of those were you? NebY (talk) 19:14, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
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WP:ANI , this is clearly the same person using 75.166.65.148, 75.166.91.31 and 75.166.94.120 Untamed1910 (talk) 19:33, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
This is clearly the same user that has been spamming this report in the past under various IPs. Lavalizard101 (talk) 19:35, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
I've blocked
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JaylonN

JaylonN has been making a series of edits to pages, largely for awards shows, that violate various manual of style rules, including

WP:OVERLINK. They also break tables and templates in their edits. They have been warned multiple times, including a final warning, and have not responded to any of them. They do not use edit reasons to explain what they are doing. I reported this user to AIV and it was suggested to me that I bring the report in here instead. I'm also pinging @Livelikemusic:, who has also been reverting JaylonN's edits and made five of the seven warnings on their talk page. Doc Strange (talk) 02:50, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Doc Strange,
Did you read the instructions at the top of this page? Among other points, it states Be brief and include diffs demonstrating the problem. It's hard to judge this complaint when you have provided no examples of behavior that you find disruptive. If you expect editors to go out and find all of this on their own, you probably will be waiting a long time for a response. It's the filer's responsibility to lay out an easy-to-understand and compelling case and that includes diffs. Liz Read! Talk! 03:47, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Well, they received
competence issue at play here with this user? Their refusal to acknowledge any warning on their talk page is alarming, as well, and their non-response to this AN/I filing is telling. livelikemusic (TALK!) 14:45, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, Liz, it's been a while since I've made an ANI report. Here's a couple examples of the examples I have:

  • WP:OVERLINK
    is a rule even though they've been warned about the manual of style - there is no specific warning explaining why you shouldn't link every single time an artist's name is mentioned. There are several different edits here, which seem to indicate they are not using the preview option and are making different edits for everything they want to do. There are many, many instances over the course of their edits.
  • WP:OVERLINK
    despite multiple warnings and reverts is a repeat issue with this user's edits.
  • 54th Annual Grammy Awards: Here, they make several more edits, including something that breaks a table and causes the bottom portion of the article to be messed up because they did not include a div col end.

All of their edits have no edit summaries, which makes it difficult to parse what they are doing They have not responded to any of the many warnings about these issues on their talk page. Their edit history is voluminous, and largely seems to be on these award show accounts. I don't think this is

single purpose account territory, but it comes awful close to one.Livelikemusic has covered some of the other basic issues here with this user's edits. Doc Strange (talk) 16:45, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Edit warring on "Weizmann Institute of Science" page

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The new user with IP 37.142.39.223 keeps dismissing edit war warnings despite having been warned. It has been the 3rd time that he/she removed sources and the part of the paragraph that he/she did not like, despite being backed from previously existing sources. Also showed signs of not reading them after being advised to review sources backing statements before removing content. The 1st warning was issued on the edit description, the second on his/her user page and still proceded with the 3rd removal of sources and statement. He/she ignored the warning that another revert would result in the present request for blocking and went ahead. For the said, I request provisional blocking. Josep a11 (talk) 15:11, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I don't see much of a reason for blocking especially since
WP:CONSENSUS regarding whether or not the Israeli attacks were in fact in retaliation by discussing the issue with other editors on the talk page. » Gommeh (he/him) 16:06, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
After looking at the IP's talk page, it seems like you were POV pushing when you said It is very obvious that if the initial attack on iranian soil was perpetrated the 13th of June 2025, that the attack on the Weizman Institute 2 days after, the 15th, was a retaliatory attack. The IP was correct in saying that we base our content on what
WP:SYNTH says, Do not combine material from multiple sources to state or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources. » Gommeh (he/him) 16:15, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Yes, you are right that the sentence I used to defend against the first revert is POV, but the background of the problem is that he/she removed the initial source that backs the statement from the page. As far as I know, one does not remove sources on Wikipedia unless specific rather special conditions happen, right? Josep a11 (talk) 17:56, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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TPA abuse by IP

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User:2A04:4A43:873F:F26C:610F:8832:7072:11E5 Should have their TPA removed ASAP for posting stuff like this. AlphaBetaGamma (Talk/report any mistakes here) 14:49, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Yes please. User is still making threats. Nubzor (T | C) 15:34, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Another example diff. Yuck. Narky Blert (talk) 15:39, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Several admins semi-conflicted tightening the block in several ways. DMacks (talk) 15:46, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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Lawsuits

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My lawyer is suing Wikipedia. 200.88.232.106 (talk) 16:13, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Since we don't know who you are, no reason to worry. Meanwhile you are blocked for the legal threat. Doug Weller talk 16:17, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
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Does one have a COI with one's 'public personality' / crimes against humanity in outer space

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I first became aware of this editor through their additions of some incorrect information about the SARS virus ([184]. In discussing these inaccuracies on the talk page, I was told that those records ought not to be erased from history just as how Nazis tried to erase the holocaust.([185]) and It either falls into the crimes against humanity or complaints to the journal on the ethics of it. ([186])

Many of their additions depended on citations to an author called 'Yang Pachankis' (Also sometimes called 'Yang Cao') who tends to publish mostly through selfpub preprints ([187]), predatory publishers ([188][189]), or vanity presses ([190], here). There are also oft declined biographical drafts at Draft:Yang_Cao and at the now deleted Draft:Yang Pachankis.

A previous version of Quinhonk's user page (here) stated a conflict of interest with regard to Pachankis, though that notice has since been removed. They've called these cites 'my work' ([191]) in talk messages.

After they abandoned the AFC process and moved the autobiography to article space, I asked them on their user talk to respect our COI guidelines. In response they stated that it isn't self promotion because Myself is myself, as I said, and the public personality is separated from myself. ([192]).

In a talk page discussion in which I opposed the addition of cites of theirs from a predatory publisher, they responded that It concerns the remedies for the crimes against humanity in outer space. I am making the documents public at the same time as an expert witness. Principally the ICC waived my confidentiality obligations. I only weigh the matter of responsibility. ([193]).

This is starting to feel like a case of

You only assume a subjective epistemology on the words, and then you demand the others good faith while your action on reverting the feminist movements too without clear reasoning evidenced your faith and motivation is against me as a person, and not as an editor here. Quinhonk (talk) 14:06, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
Sorry for being blunt, you have been in a power struggle mentality. Quinhonk (talk) 14:07, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
Myself is myself and that is my privacy and Myself is myself, as I said, and the public personality is separated from myself what is that even supposed to mean?
you have been in a power struggle mentality actually, they have been extremely patient with you. M.Bitton (talk) 14:10, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
At this point their edits are indistinguishable from trolling. Canterbury Tail talk 14:13, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
I am not sure that this person is
WP:NOTHERE
personally, at the worst they're just unaware of our policies and expectations, particularly COI.
I had a look at Quinhonk's talk page and want further clarification on a few things OP and Quinhonk said. Under User talk:Quinhonk#Respecting Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines MrOllie said, You've already admitted it elsewhere on Wikipedia, you can't deny it now that it has become inconvenient. To which Quinhonk replied, Myself is myself, as I said, and the public personality is separated from myself. [...] Now you can reflect on my assertions on the wording on who is Xi Jinping. Can you please elaborate on what you meant by this and provide the relevant diffs?
Finally, I'm inclined to agree with @M.Bitton in that MrOllie has been very patient. Gommeh 🎮 14:14, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
@
OK, thanks @
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AlAhlyAC

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I need to step back from dealing with this user, and am hoping someone else can step in.

AlAhlyAC has been submitting problematic edits for about a week. Issues include making multiple test edits (6 separate edits to change one number), various nonconstructive, unsourced, and error-filled changes, and, most importantly the huge issue with the username itself (re Al Ahly SC). Many warnings given. No response from user on talk page, neither to myself nor other editors.

Today, AlAhlyAC changed all the text on my own User page to read "Ban this person," and then subsequently removed all content from my page.

If someone could have a word about any or all of these issues, I would appreciate it. Thank you, Jessicapierce (talk) 01:06, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Blocked x 48 hrs. Their edits to your user page were clearly malicious and unacceptable. Any further disruption from this user is likely to end with an indef. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:18, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
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Persistent addition of unsourced content by 1.141.36.112

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1.141.36.112 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Keeps adding unsourced content to articles, continued after final warning and hasn't responded to warnings - behaviour continued after a 31h block on the 15th. Recent examples of addition of unsourced content: 1, 2, 3, 4. Waxworker (talk) 11:03, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Reblocked, this time for a month. This is mostly vandalism and there are a bunch of abuse filter hits as well.-- Ponyobons mots 17:31, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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ToadetteEdit, Project Space Again

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I did not want to be here, but consider myself too involved to take unilateral action.

that they just not edit those areas, but they seem unable to understand, comply. I know they are young, but I think they have been given more than enough rope.

I am not advocating for a site block, but I think this user and the community would benefit from a ban from project space so there is no grey area for them to struggle with. If something truly necessary that affects them comes up, they can alert a user via their Talk and this would not be PROXYing, but the community will not collapse without TE's participation in project space so there is no need for them to edit. Thoughts? Star Mississippi 13:57, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

...is what i would say, if the other problems with proxy editing detailed below weren't there. once they're ready to appeal the ban, they should definitely address what's going on there, maybe even over the issues raised in this part of the thread, because we can't just leave those sussy shenanigans unaddressed consarn (grave) (obituary) 13:58, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

TE proxy editing

I omitted this from my filing as I did not want to pile on, but now that User_talk:ToadetteEdit#Hansen_Bridge_(Downieville,_California) exists (thanks @Netherzone), I think it's time to raise this simmering issue. Even prior to his site ban, TE has accepted Greghenderson2006 drafts. At first I thought they were just a novice AfC reviewer unaware of the complex issues behind his drafts and blocks but now in the last week they have recreated (not accepted, created out of whole cloth) two drafts that happened to be created by his latest sock. I think there is something going on here. NB: I have draftified the latest as it should not be in mainspace without experienced eyes. Star Mississippi 22:37, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
I really don't know what to make of this. Part of me is wondering if they knew full well this would attract negative attention. I'm not a reviewer so I don't know how they even found the articles? Or how they found out the editor had been banned. TE started out with vandalism reverts for a while, I'm not sure how they wouldn't know that recreating a socks articles would look suspicious?
I would rather try and assume good faith and that this was done as they thought the articles were noteworthy and they were helping out the project. Knitsey (talk) 08:25, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
@Star Mississippi, regarding proxy editing, Toadette had a list of all the articles that Greghenderson2006's sockpuppet, Historyjunkie2024 had created on her user page (it was listed under "To do"), she just removed it with this edit: [196]. (It was a Special:Log listing of Historyjunkies's creations. some articles need checking). GregHenderson/Historyjunkie had a habit of reaching out to inexperienced NPP/AfC patrollers to review his articles. I'm pinging @Graywalls also as they may recall. This contradicts that she came across the sock articles by "randomly clicking on links", (and randomly coming across two of the sock's deleted articles and recreating them) sure seems to indicate coordination/communication with the blocked editor after he was blocked. I would Support a block based on the violations of restrictions in the above section and also for willful proxy editing for a known blocked user and their sockpuppet. Netherzone (talk) 13:11, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
This is certainly concerning. I do still want to believe that despite the issues ToadetteEdit does have the projects best interests at heart; I would be very interested to hear what she has to say on this topic. CoconutOctopus talk 13:36, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
TE putting a link to that list on their User page is incongruent with them understanding that recreating those articles would be problematic. If you know it's a bad look to recreate a sock's deleted articles then then you would keep that link literally anywhere else. Their writings on this draft talk page as well as their user talk page make me think they just saw the sock's articles get deleted and decided to check to see if any of them were worth re-creating because they (presumably) enjoy creating articles. I don't know TE but in reading multiple related noticeboard and talk page threads it does not seem crazy to me that they simply do not know that this could be seen as problematic. If we assume good faith then it's premature at best to suggest a site block for recreating those articles without evidence of coordination. — tony 19:00, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
@TonySt - Just to clarify, there is also a history of TE answering GregHenderson2006's COI edit requests without properly checking the sources when it was a known that the blocked editor had a habit of misrepresenting sources [197], if you read thru the thread he even challenged her edits for not being to his liking while he was blocked back in March 2024. So it seems she was aware there were problems, and even admits that (after GH was banned) I looked at Greg's talk page and saw the simplewiki entry linked from it. (His sock created those on en-Wiki.) Then later said I read pages and click on random links. Re: the message on the recent draft talk that you linked, I had to ask her to do that for future reviewers. Over the past couple years great deal of patience, mentoring and good faith have been extended to TE for quite a long time by several editors. Netherzone (talk) 21:32, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Thanks @Netherzone for the further background. In light of the to do list and the clear deception, I am now in support of a full block which makes me sad. Star Mississippi 00:31, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for those details. The longevity of their association is something I somehow missed until reading through that thread. I support a block. As an aside, you have been an extremely patient person with all of your communication with this editor. — tony 05:05, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Thanks Tony, I always recognized her potential. Sadly she became her worst enemy. I wish her well and hope she can apply her skills elsewhere in life to great success. If she does get fully blocked she will have the time to devote to other avenues. I think she is just as frustrated here as the rest of us. Netherzone (talk) 12:38, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Support There is a clear lack of comprehension going on here, coupled with persistent denials and attempts to evade restrictions (well-meaning or not). If this is the only way to stop that, it needs to be done. Intothatdarkness 12:34, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Support based on application of
  • Support, Just another of the many problems, I've watched all of this far hoping TE would course-correct, but that doesn't seem to be the case. My only interaction with them was when they managed to accept an AFC draft without reading any of the sources. It left a sour taste in my mouth, but I did not think much of it, but coupled with this, it makes me think they are not a good fit for AFC and NPP reviewing. The fact they are also topic-banned from project space makes me also open to supporting a CBAN. Sohom (talk) 20:40, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Support full site ban - TE didn't comprehend enough about the terms of PS ban. I would support pblocking TE from respective PTS pages. We are running out of options to help TE. Ahri Boy (talk) 23:01, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Support site ban, the fact that they went on Wikibreak (which is a pattern it seems) and removed something that makes them look bad, especially considering the socks historical behavior, makes it clear they either have zero desire to change or are unable to change. The fact that they aren't engaging with this ANI thread at all despite clearly having seen it is also not in their favor. LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 03:05, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Support block from project space. Oppose siteban. I remain of the notion that the previous blocks shouldn't have had such a complicated set of exceptions, which basically just set up failure for a young editor lacking in maturity (though the block exceptions were made with the best of intentions). TE isn't a vandal, a spammer, a UPE, or a copyright infringer, so I think the danger to articles is limited. I also would urge TE to take a voluntary step back from Wikipedia no matter what for their own good; it's simply not healthy for Wikipedia to be such a large part of a person's sense of self, especially a young person. This is a worthy project, but you should be seeking out a far wider set of experiences at your age. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 07:43, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
    Support a block from project space but I oppose a site ban per CoffeeCrumbs. I think TE has a lot to offer this project but they need some restrictions. I would think this is 'last chance saloon' for TE. Knitsey (talk) 12:52, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
    Support project space block, oppose site ban. I have basically the same reasoning as CoffeeCrumbs. If TE really continues to do the proxy editing problem after this thread is done, I wouldn't oppose a site ban. (I hope this will never happen, though.) I am relatively younger than pretty much anyone here, and I do feel that sometimes, we all need to take a break. What I'm hoping is that a WikiBreak with a projectspace block gives some time to relax, chill out, and focusing on real-life matters more helps some thoughts to be sorted out. AlphaBetaGamma (Talk/report any mistakes here) 13:11, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
    How much more ROPE are people willing to give? They’ve already been told to take a step back. EF5 13:41, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
    I agree, sadly. Every time this user has made a poor choice or decision, it's always someone else's fault. I've seen no demonstrated ability to really learn from past mistakes, only a series of slight temporary course corrections and a failure to understand what they did wrong. Perhaps an enforced break will allow them to gain perspective and learn how things work here. Clearly they can't be counted on to step back on their own (which is unfortunate). Intothatdarkness 14:07, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
    Also adding that they’ve already been given a last chance (multiple, actually) and blew every single one. Why should we continue to give them “last chances” which they will predictably not follow? I myself am in the same age range as them, if that adds any sort of significance, especially as they’ve been using their age for pity points. EF5 14:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
    I started editing when I was like, 14-15? I don't remember, I could never even imagen using my age as an excuse, others bringing up that I was a bit young so should be cut slack, sure, I could see that, but using my age myself would just be, shitty. Wikipedia is an adult space, there is nothing wrong with younger folk editing(and that should be encouraged imo but that's besides the fact), but we all should be expected to act like adults regardless of age. LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 14:49, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Support a project space block, oppose a siteban. Hopefully by having the software determine what is and isn't allowed will stem the disruption caused by prior references to the ban. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:34, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Support project ban/block, but not site ban/block. I don't think a sitewide ban should be considered right now, but if disruption/ban violations occur, then it might be time. Also by having a look at Toadette's talk page, the user is taking a break because of this and even accepting a ban/block. And they never touched onto this thread, although they did open one at AN. The current ban (located at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions#Final warnings / Unblock conditions) allows Toadette to participate in this thread, which is one of the exceptions, provided that Toadette is involved, which this one definitely is. JuniperChill (talk) 17:56, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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Strange message from Amazigh Bot

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BeProper

Earlier today,

WP:DUCK, this seems an unusually obvious attempt at block evasion. Jeppiz (talk) 19:30, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

BeProper was never blocked from Talk:Donald Trump, although they apparently recognize that others are losing patience. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 20:13, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
To let you know, Mindany whatever is not me. Just to clarify. Thanks. BeProper (talk) 21:07, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
I'd also point out FalseClaimsByTrump107%Issue (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) but I cannot make a case for SPI based on the limited number of diffs. EvergreenFir (talk) 22:39, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
I think they're trolling us, and a NOTHERE block is in order regardless of the potential of them being a sock. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 03:43, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
I note that removed my post [[202]], yet here play dumb [[203]]. Slatersteven (talk) 09:36, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
Sorry, that was an accident. I affirm again that I did not intentionally delete your post. I thought that was something else. BeProper (talk) 11:34, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

The basis for this report is flawed, Jeppiz. It's not possible to be blocked from editing about Trump; users can only be topic banned from editing about a particular topic, and that has not happened to BeProper. They have merely been blocked from particular pages, namely Trumpism and Talk:Trumpism. (And not "earlier today" — not sure where that came from — but on 12 March this year, so the timing of the creation Mindåny9841 isn't relevant to any socking suspicions.) That does not affect their editing of Talk:Donald Trump, which is a different particular page. Note the difference between blocks and bans. Bishonen | tålk 10:09, 26 June 2025 (UTC).

I don’t see the evidence required for an SPI. But BeProper’s overall behavior here screams

WP:IDHT, they never provide sources, their posts are repetitive, and their TP is a stream of warnings because they either don’t understand or agree with Wikipedia’s policies and possibly not even its mission. They have been advised multiple times to avoid CTOPs until they have the hang of editing here. If they continue along the current path, ultimately there will be a proper filing here. O3000, Ret. (talk) 12:09, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

I completely agree. Bishonen | tålk 12:37, 26 June 2025 (UTC).

Emoore2914

After disruptive edits, uncivil behaviour, and alleged use of generative AI and sockpuppets,[1][2][3] Emoore2914 was given a warning by Drmies.[4] Despite this, Emoore2914 has now vandalised my talk page,[5] and attempted to revert an admin's removal of a {{Merge}} tag.[6] I've lost all confidence that Emoore2914 will change their behaviour, and believe they'll simply continue harassing me and making further disruptive edits. Pinging MarioGom and Significa liberdade, who've also previously interacted with Emoore2914. — AFC Vixen 🦊 12:02, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

IP User in violation of WP:AGF and disruptively editing both Democratic-Republican Party and its talk page

This IP user has numerous times [204] [205] [206] [207] [208] [209] disruptively reinstated a disputed edit, the most recent occasion of which was in violation of

WP:3RR
.

On top of that, after I submitted an Edit Request on the talk page, they've responded numerous times to said edit request, refusing to provide actual reasoning against my requested changes, at most simply claiming that their edit wasn't a case of original research (despite my explaining multiple times precisely how it does constitute original research) and wrongly accusing me of bad faith or of "not engaging" (with the talk page/with their points) several times: [210] [211] [212] [213] [214] [215].

This user is consistently being disruptive and refusing to abide by Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, including

WP:DISRUPTIVE
. Frankly, the most recent discussion I've been engaged in with them has been exhausting, and I think my later replies to their messages demonstrate that.

As this is an IP User, I'm not sure precisely how blocking them would work, but I'd greatly appreciate a sysop weighing in on this user's behaviour and doing something about their conduct. – GlowstoneUnknown (Talk) 15:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

I recommend reading the discussion of the page in question. It should be quite illuminating about how dishonestly he's framing things here. 2601:18A:817D:9320:1409:3753:96A9:49ED (talk) 16:38, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
I don't think the IP is engaging in OR on the whole, as displayed by the quote from the source. The actual wording is a bit harder to defend, but since this dispute has been going on the talk page for a couple of years now, it needs a closer reading than given on this page. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:43, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

User not responding to talk page concerns after consistent addition of unsourced and improper English skills

User:LepYd258 has been consistently making edits that do not have proper sourcing.

This account is newly created, split from Ydlp19 following some sort of e-mail verification issue, which I believe is properly disclosed on the new account, LepYd258's talk page. Ydlp19 first created their account back in 2019, editing football-related articles similar to what they do now. Issues with adding unsourced content, as well as a standard of English not up to encyclopedic standards can be seen then. Select diffs:

Over the years, surprisingly few concerns have been raised on their talk page, but of the few that have been added, none of them have been addressed. In fact, they have only ever made one edit to their own user talk page. This is a violation of

WP:NOTHERE
, as the user seemingly is not making an effort to collaborate with other individuals.

They have also been

WP:UNRESPONSIVE
within their own edits, nearly never using an edit summary.

Last month, User:Gommeh warned them several times in a short period of time, as well as left a note directing them to other language encyclopedias. It was around this time that I began editing Swiss football-related articles and saw Ydlp editing a lot. I left an auto-numbered warning around this time for general uncited content. I then noticed that the user was involved at ANI. The discussion did not result in any outcome, I had also left a message at this discussion with my own experience, but ultimately nothing came of it, most likely because the warnings had been issued too quickly after each other. A note that Ydlp did not participate at all in the discussion, nor did they acknowledge that it was happening.

Since they created their new account, I noticed the account with a similar name and left a note for anyone coming across the page that the user had moved to a new account. On the talk page of the new account, I have left warnings for various pieces of unsourced content I have come across while editing football articles. This diff is a good example of what sort of content they consistently add, a poorly formatted sentence that is unsourced about promotion or relegation to a new league, with dozens of these edits being made. This edit that I came across is another similar example, but there are several more.

The user makes constructive edits a decent amount, simple updating of data or adding tables that do not contain much prose for the article. Overall this pattern of editing has gone on for multiple years, and after no communication I feel the need to open up a second, more in-depth discussion here, at the very least in hopes of getting some response from them. Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 18:43, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

As I said at
WP:CIR
.
Tagging @Cenderabird as they were the person that originally brought Ydlp's problematic editing to my attention. » Gommeh (he/him) 17:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Before requesting full blocks against a fellow editor, I've asked them on their User talk page to participate in this discussion. I'm not optimistic that they will engage but I think this is a necessary step.
And I just want to comment that it used to be very rare to see an editor or admin suggest an
WP:CIR block, it was only for instances where an editor under discussion did not understand the basic rules about how Wikipedia operates usually because of their age or a lack of facility with the English language. But now I see this suggestion every day that I stop by ANI. This is not a casual request to make and it should only be proposed in situations where it is truly deserved, not just for instances where editors don't respond on their User talk page in a timely manner. By proposing a CIR block, you are, in effect, stating that the editor is incompetent which could also be seen as a personal attack. "Let's block" should not be your "go to" solution for every problem. Years ago, ANI used to be a noticeboard full of hanging judges but thankfully, those days are long gone. Now if we could get more editors to leave personal messages and not plaster User talk pages with multiple templates, I think the atmosphere would improve. Liz Read! Talk! 05:49, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
I think the only hope currently is a block that leads to them noticing, then hopefully participating here. Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 14:49, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I restored this section. For some reason, OneClickArchiver archived the completely wrong section. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 17:03, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Persistent addition of unsourced content by 83.219.39.190

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83.219.39.190 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Keeps adding unsourced content to articles, continued after final warning and hasn't responded to warnings. IP has been blocked 4 times previously, most recently in September 2021 for 3 years. The edits leading up to the 2021 block are to articles related to cartoons, similarly to their recent edits. Recent examples of addition of unsourced content: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Waxworker (talk) 17:19, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

I blocked for another 3 years. Deor (talk) 17:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
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Threat can be seen here LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 15:16, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Blocked. Normally I'd want to see prior warnings, but given that this is their only edit to date, it's pretty clearly a case of
Per
WP:DOLT I've suppressed the edits they were talking about. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:22, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
I see there's a news station that's reporting what I assume are the allegations in question, but there's only the one report at present. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:36, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
I've also requested more eyes at BLPN. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:46, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
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LordDiscord's gaming of the extended confirmed permission

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LordDiscord has engaged in

community-authorized general sanctions
. The following timeline illustrates this behavior:

  • 4 June: As of this date, LordDiscord had made 62 edits on their account.
  • 5 June: LordDiscord made an edit to the New START article about the Russo-Ukrainian War.
  • WP:RUSUKR
    general sanctions.
  • 13:27, 10 June: LordDiscord made another edit to the New START article about the Russo-Ukrainian War.
  • WP:ECR
    .
  • 15:17, 10 June: Mellk warned LordDiscord that LordDiscord's 10 June edit to the New START article was in violation of the extended confirmed restriction.
  • 15:45, 10 June: LordDiscord said to Mellk, "I will avoid editing the page because you asked", referring to the New START article.
  • 15:51, 10 June – 05:25, 11 June: LordDiscord made over 200 small edits to various articles, marking most of those edits as minor.
  • WP:GAMING
    guideline.
  • 13:50–22:04, 11 June: LordDiscord made over 200 additional small edits to various articles, marking almost all of those edits as minor.
  • User typo team
    }}.
  • 23:51, 11 June – 22:54, 12 June: LordDiscord made over 60 additional small edits to various articles, marking almost all of these edits as minor. LordDiscord automatically gained the
    extended confirmed permission
    during this batch of edits.
  • WP:RUSUKR
    .
  • 23:19, 12 June: LordDiscord deleted their discussion with Mellk, using the edit summary "Content restriction notice no longer applicable."
  • WP:RUSUKR
    .
  • WP:ECR
    .
  • WP:CT/A-I topic area, gave them a barnstar with a message that included "And congratulations on getting to Extended Confirmed!", and encouraged them to reapply for the extended confirmed permission shortly after it was revoked by Star Mississippi
    .

Based on the above behavior, I recommend revoking LordDiscord's

extended confirmed permission and allowing LordDiscord to reapply for the permission after they accumulate an appropriate number of non-trivial edits and demonstrate a better understanding of community norms. — Newslinger talk 18:20, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Support per Newslinger. Starfall2015 let's talk profile 18:32, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
9 June: Mellk alerted LordDiscord to the WP:RUSUKR general sanctions.
13:27, 10 June: LordDiscord made another edit to the New START article about the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The template posted was confusing and said on it that it didn’t mean any of my edits were wrong. I had zero idea that there was a sanction blocking me from editing a treaty page at this point, or that I violated any rules. The template needs to be way more clear.
14:52, 10 June: Mellk reminded LordDiscord that the topic area is covered under WP:ECR.
After which I never violated the policy again.
15:17, 10 June: Mellk warned LordDiscord that LordDiscord's 10 June edit to the New STARTarticle was in violation of the extended confirmed restriction.
The edit I made was before Mellk’s “reminder” above. Again, I never violated the policy after I was made aware of what it was.
23:15, 12 June: LordDiscord edited the Minsk agreements article, which is covered under WP:RUSUKR.
Why are you leaving off that I posted my proposed change in the talk page first and then was told to make the change myself? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Minsk_agreements#c-Lova_Falk-20250612052700-LordDiscord-20250612042800 I made no unilateral change, and my changes seem uncontroversial, just grammar/wording/formatting.
15:54, 15 June: LordDiscord edited the article Dmitry Rogozin, which is covered under WP:RUSUKR.
The page has no ECR protection, and if it had, I wouldn’t have edited it. I had no idea it was covered under WP:RUSUKR.
22 June – present: In another discussion on this noticeboard, LordDiscord defended Jensenjan's gaming of the extended confirmed permission in the WP:CT/A-I topic area, gave them a barnstarwith a message that included "And congratulations on getting to Extended Confirmed!", and encouraged them to reapply for the extended confirmed permission shortly after it was revoked by Star Mississippi.
I defended Jensenjan because I felt like he was facing the same false accusations that I did, and that these personal attacks against new contributors making useful edits are detrimental to the project. I don’t think he gamed permissions, I think he made constructive edits and then made one good-faith mistake.
Can you show any unconstructive edits I made on ECR pages? LordDiscord (talk) 18:42, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
I have made over 350 edits to pages since getting ECR. The last 77 of them minor, but I guess this is just more “gaming” for some unknown purpose. Can you point to any unconstructive edits at all from any of these? What exactly is the urgent problem here?
If you wish to get rid of my ECR, I actually have no objection to this. I have not been editing ECR pages anyway, which I am not comfortable doing, except for typos, which I could put in the talk pages (which would be more annoying, but whatever) and the Minsk agreement page, which I put in the talk page first to get a consensus, because I didn’t want to make an even remotely significant change to such an important article without consensus. But I strongly object to false accusations about gaming (which none of this is evidence for whatsoever) or going after me because I took the side of another user.
Nor do I see how why this couldn’t go in my talk page first. If you don’t want me editing any ECR articles, you could have asked, and I would have been perfectly happy to accept your request. LordDiscord (talk) 19:06, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
LordDiscord, the point of the earlier diffs in the timeline is to establish what happened before you made hundreds of small edits. While the
WP:GAMING to you in a discussion on your user talk page and warned you about making hundreds of small edits, so your continued permission gaming after that discussion is grounds for being examined on this noticeboard. — Newslinger talk 19:35, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, you identified two edits to articles under ECR protection after LordDiscord reached ECR status.
I looked at both of those edits, one was a simple typo fix, the other was mostly grammar corrections with one word change that someone *might* consider controversial.
I don't see how WP:GAMING would apply if those edits were all constructive and nothing against policy was done in the ~385 edits since then. Are there any other diffs you consider troubling? MilesVorkosigan (talk) 19:22, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
Yeah, looking at a randomly-selected one of those 'over 200 small edits, most marked as minor': [218] Entirely cromulent small, minor edit, making an entirely valid typo fix. Let's check a few more. Valid typo fix, valid typo fix, valid typo fix. I could check more, but I have a feeling the rest are just like these - which are pretty much exactly the sort of edits we want an XC-seeking editor to make - demonstrating constructive, productive contributions. Suggest this be closed with a {{trout}} to the OP, and a suggestion that in the future they check the acutal content of edits they're suggesting are evidence of misconduct to see if they are, in fact, evidence of misconduct. - The Bushranger One ping only 19:36, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
I trouted the OP as you discussed, and they accepted it on their talk page. As such I'm going to treat this as closed - can always be reopened if need be. Gommeh 🎮 00:29, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
Yeah, I don’t see how this is GAMING either. Suggest a close. EF5 19:38, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
Agreed, I doubt this is GAMING either.
As a side note, I would have recommended that you use the user warning Template:uw-gaming1 to discuss this with the user before coming to ANI. I saw no warnings issued on their talk page and thought I'd point it out for the future. Gommeh 🎮 19:52, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
Templating the editor is/was unnecessary. They were already
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Personal attacks and vandalism on List of dinosaur genera

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These two IP users have vandalized List of dinosaur genera by adding false dinosaur names and writing what could be taken as death threats against me, SlvrHwk (both frequent contributors to the page), and Justjourney (who reverted the initial threat not including them). So far the vandalism edits have been reverted, but I’m preemptively reporting this here in case it escalates.

First, remember to sign all comments you make on Talk pages and noticeboards so other editors know who they are responding to.
Both IPs have received blocks for vandalism. In the future, you might report them to
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WP:GAMING

Jensenjan has gamed their way to 500 edits in a bit over a month and then on

Poorly sourced from a wiki perspective perhaps, but "a truly non-biased, factual opening paragraph without citations from angry Arabs" according to one of the many people involved in targeting that article in the media and social media. Like ban evasion/sockpuppetry, new accounts 'gaming' the extendedconfirmed privilege then making a significant proportion of revisions in the topic area is not very unusual. Sean.hoyland (talk) 11:06, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
When I found the page that has that quote, my internet security told me not to open it. I took the guidance.
Obviously your internet security is antisemitic. Gaming is not the major issue for me. The most troubling thing is not that there is gaming, or influence operations that cause susceptible people to come here, it's that when they get here, they very often credulously implement the task assigned externally, rather than engage with Wikipedia processes by reading previous discussions, the sources cited etc. I assume this is because our articles are written by (checks notes) "random internet assholes", or because "Wikipedia let NeoNazis vandalise theiir site", or because "the antisemites...can brigade and pervert a structure like Wikipedia". I can see gaming. But I can't see susceptibility to misinformation/external influence operations. Sean.hoyland (talk) 12:12, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
The gaming is a symptom of a desire to act in a certain manner. In this circumstance to act in a manner pushed by other parties. So while you might not see it as the major issue, in and of itself, it is indicative of a issues.
I see it as one of many issues that are not really being addressed. 2161 accounts have been granted the extendedconfirmed privilege so far this year. How many of them gamed EC? Nobody knows. What we do know is that accounts that acquire EC quickly are significantly more likely to be blocked than accounts that take their time. So, recognizing gaming and yanking the grant may be a good preventative measure. A confounding factor is the notion of 'staleness'. Gaming might not be noticed until long after the grant was issued and the account has gone on to make many, many edits in the topic area. Another confounding factor is the 'what is gaming?' question. Wikipedia provides several tools that help new editors make many edits in a short time, through the Growth Team features and other tools. Sean.hoyland (talk) 16:56, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
I, do not understand your point. LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 17:23, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Gaming EC to edit in the PIA topic area happens. There should be better countermeasures and the EC grant should be removed if there is agreement that gaming has occurred.
  • We don't monitor EC grant acquisition to spot gaming.
  • We should do a better job at spotting gaming. It may save time in the longer run because rapid acquisition of the EC grant is positively correlated with blocks.
  • EC gaming is usually found by luck or too late. Here is an example of what looks like gaming EC to edit in the PIA topic area. I didn't notice this until almost 2 years after the gaming occurred, well into 'stale' territory. And that account may be sanctioned soon.
  • It is not always clear whether something is or is not 'gaming'. Wikipedia provides tools to help people game privileges by making constructive edits. Sean.hoyland (talk) 17:49, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
    Entirely agree that we should do a better job at spotting it. In this circumstance if the editor had gotten their
I'm confused as to why Britannica would be flagged by security software. It's, a well known website. LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 14:12, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
I was referring to the only site where a search on the phrase "a truly non-biased, factual opening paragraph without citations from angry Arabs" got a hit.
okay, I took a look at it, and yeah, a site having a self-signed/expired/invalid ssl cert, is a massive red flag. It doesn't even load on my phone when I click though it, root domain loads just fie tho, but its overran with ads, like every time you click a link, you get a full screen ad when it loads, as well as those "click allow notifications" popups that are used as a vector for phising scams. LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 16:17, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Meta issues aside, I have removed EC from this particular user. They're welcome to reapply if needed and gaming can be addressed then. Star Mississippi 21:29, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

I gotta say I don't get the claim of “gaming” here. Someone wants to edit a topic that requires XC. We tell them they can’t do that until they have 500 edits. They go and make 500 edits in a different topic, now they are XC and they edit they article they want - and we accuse them of “gaming” because they went and did exactly what we asked them to, and we want to take away their XC? WTF? EscEscEsc (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 19:36, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

They are expected to make 500 constructive edits. Look at their edit history - for instance on the 19th, instead of making 2-3 large edits to
+1 to The Bushranger. The point of making 500 edits is to learn the ropes of Wikipedia before diving into difficult topics, and that takes ''time.'' No one learns how to navigate Wikipedia's intricacies in a couple of days. (Hell's bells, no one really can learn them in a month, however gung ho they may be.) This is not a race, and a disproportionate number of editors who Absolutely Have To Edit a contentious topic article Right! Now! are the ones with partisan axes to grind. Ravenswing 09:59, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
So, 3 months is insufficient? Why not change the policy instead of sending people to ANI for following the policy. Maybe PIA takes 5,000 esits and a year if that is the goal. 12.75.114.25 (talk) 20:36, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
30 days (not three months) is entirely sufficient, if an editor has 500 constructive edits during that time. The system is fine. People gaming it is not. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:52, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
Its only 30 days? I didn't realize that. That seems great to stop accidental entries, but not close to being able to stop anyone who wants to write about politics instead of focusing on improving an encyclopedia. 12.75.114.25 (talk) 21:19, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
Agreed, and it is an example of WP:ASPERSIONS absent evidence. LordDiscord (talk) 19:20, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
While true, it is - as I pointed out - evidenced by their contribution history. Making 57 tiny edits to a single article in a single day, many of which are 'add/remove a space' or 'add a single punctuation mark', is
I beg to differ. As a non-native English speaker, I sometimes have to work hard at a sentence or a paragraph until it looks like good English. I would like to compliment myself on what looks like solid, idiomatic English, which is not always the case when I begin to work on an entry or being able to incorporate additional information as I work my way through the text. Additionally, I do not yet consider myself an experienced editor, but with the kind help that I expect to receive from you and others, I hope to advance at a good speed. I thank you for the opportunity to explain myself here and for the time and effort you took in addressing my hard work. Jensenjan (talk) 09:03, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Dear Bushranger, would you be kind enough to tell me where I supposedly made 57 tiny edits to a single article in a single day? I will look it up and explain myself. I am most certain that something like that never happened, but I'll check and promise to revert to you with a serious answer to that claim. Again, thank you for your kind interest. Jensenjan (talk) 09:09, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
They are referring to the Eve page. LordDiscord (talk) 12:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
LordDiscord, thank you very much for making the effort to point out to me where that unjust accusation came from.
I am looking at my edits of 19.06.2025 which were indeed multiple and I am flabbergasted that anyone could call these edits "gaming". Yes, there were also many small edits to get the language or the order in place, but I rearranged several paragraphs in the entry to make it more logical; I made sense of the two creation stories in Genesis 1 & 2, which were not clear before; I explained the interpretations of the Lilith story, the equal male-female versus female inferior problem; correctly cited biblical verses and Hebrew names of Cain and Abel; put certain items into their correct chronological context and added references to various sources, all of which are valid and relevant. If there is such a thing, I respectfully ask to make a big note on my WP resume saying that I'm a good and serious person trying to do a good job. I wish I can do as good a job on other entries as well. Jensenjan (talk) 13:42, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
That is not clearly the case. Gaming says they must be unconstructive or trivial. What percentage of the edits were not constructive or trivial? Adding a needed comma or space is absolutely constructive and important to the project. The examples given in the article are dummy edits and unconstructive edits to a sandbox, not edits that improved actual pages.
I haven’t looked through all the cases, but the edits were made continually over a period of three hours and the few I looked at seemed useful. Spending three hours to improve the encyclopedia should be praised, regardless of whether it got them 11% closer to ECR. Again, I have not looked at all of them though. LordDiscord (talk) 12:47, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
WP:ASPERSIONS? My point is that evidence of gaming is tricky, often ambiguous, because it is trying to be evidence of intent, and we can't see intent. Sean.hoyland (talk) 09:56, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Absent evidence, absolutely this would be
WP:ASPERSIONS. Wikipedia should be friendly and open to new users, and personal attacks are greatly detrimental to this. Older editors need to be talked to when they step out of line too. LordDiscord (talk) 12:28, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Also, would be curious which statement this party made that was “inconsistent with the evidence”? Please post on the user’s talk page and inform them they are being discussed here, so they may defend themselves. (“When starting a discussion about an editor, you must leave a notice on their talk page.”) LordDiscord (talk) 13:50, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Hi LordDiscord,
The person who made the accusation is TarnishedPath.
I may have overstepped my capabilities to edit what apparently is a very contested entry, but it seems to me that the entry "Zionism" indeed is skewed and does not mirror a truthful description of the subject. Somehow, several articles have popped up in some of my other feeds on this subject's treatment in WP, so apparently it has caught the attention of other people as well. I respectfully suggest that senior editors seriously look at this entry to make it more balanced. Further, I found it strange how fast and furiously TarnishedPath jumped at me when I added a small addition with a valid reference. Perhaps it is worth the while for senior WP editors to look into this esteemed editor's history concerning this entry and other ones concerning similar subjects. Of course, all for the benefit of improving WP, which I am sure that you and I work hard to do. I thank you for that. Jensenjan (talk) 14:01, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Oh, I thought Sean.hoyland was bringing up a graph of a third-party. If this is about you, I am curious what they think you said in response to gaming accusations that was inconsistent with the evidence. I think you have responded to the accusations completely consistently with the evidence. LordDiscord (talk) 14:22, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Dear LordDiscord,
Yes, after TarnishedPath objected to - and apparently removed - my addition, a few other people attacked me. I think we have exhausted this issue for now and I thank you again for supporting my innocence in this case. Hopefully, we can now all go back to what we are here for, to improve on WP and bring balanced knowledge to the world. Jensenjan (talk) 14:43, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
LordDiscord, there is no need to inform anyone because the plot is anonymized, it is presented as an ambiguous edge case (there are many), and it is not for Jensenjan. And thank you for your response. It illustrates many of the challenges with the notion of 'gaming'. There's a mismatch between what Wikipedia wants from editors in contentious topic areas (someone recently used the term 'true
WP:CLUE' to describe this) and the crude proxy we use to try to measure it, 500 edits+30 days. In practice, there's often no relationship between these 2 things. If XC is meant to be some kind of proxy for experience, knowing the rules, rationality, ability to collaborate, things like that, which seems to be the intention, are small edits that legitimately improve Wikipedia (typos, grammar, etc.) useful indicators? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe the ability to collaborate on talk pages to find consensus is a better indicator. I disagree with limiting it to obvious things like "making irrelevant changes in a sandbox" because people keen to tunnel through the barrier to get into contentious topic areas (or get back in after being banned) are usually smarter than that. I do agree though that when 'the behavior after seems similar to the behavior before' a claim of 'gaming' should be much less persuasive. As for 'Are there any edits from this user on an XC page that were controversial?', my view is once you are asking a question like that about complicated properties of revisions you are not talking about 'gaming' anymore. Almost any edit can be controversial to someone in a contentious topic area. Sean.hoyland (talk) 15:37, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Right, generally anonymized — but only if it isn’t someone participating here who would recognize through keen observation the pattern of edits. Otherwise it would have a chilling, accusatory effect, as Jensenjan felt when they thought it was them. You could imagine a scenario where someone defended someone else on gaming accusations and an editor who disagreed posted a graph like that along with such veiled accusations (such as “responded with a statement inconsistent with the evidence”) — this would be generally be seen as threatening (seen as quietly hinting that if they continue defending the other user, they will get accused of the same thing) and would likely send the anonymized user into a state of fear, stifling open discussion. I am sure you wouldn’t do such a thing, of course, but can you just confirm it is not anyone else participating in this topic to put my old mind to rest?
Sandbox and dummy edits are the only examples given for WP:PGAME. I don’t see how useful edits would be unconstructive or trivial.
Regarding, “Almost any edit can be controversial to someone in a contentious topic area”, you didn’t say what this anonymized user’s edits on XC pages were. For all I know, perhaps the only edits the anonymized user unilaterally did on XC pages could be changing “seperate” to “separate” or “occured” to “occurred”. These are obviously just examples I fabricated, and are almost certainly not what the anonymized user actually did — but if this were the case, would you consider these “controversial”? LordDiscord (talk) 01:47, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
I have opened a separate discussion about LordDiscord's conduct at #LordDiscord's gaming of the extended confirmed permission. — Newslinger talk 18:30, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
That discussion was closed with consensus that LordDiscord was not permission gaming. I had seen LordDiscord's conduct as a more clear-cut case of permission gaming than Jensenjan's conduct, so in light of this, I am revising my interpretation of the
support their re-application for the extended confirmed permission. — Newslinger talk 20:20, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
My understanding from reading the gaming article is that it does not just involve how you get to ECR, but that you acquire it in order to abuse it. I think the abuse is a key part. Both of the examples in WP:PGAME bring up abusing the ability:
Example: A new editor makes 10 dummy edits to become autoconfirmed, and then makes controversial changes to semi-protected articles, moves a promotional draft to article space, vandalizes articles, or otherwise edits disruptively.
Example: An editor makes many unconstructive edits in a sandbox to become extended confirmed, and then makes controversial changes to extended confirmed protected articles.
The section itself is very short and does not specify that, but gaming in general is defined as “deliberately misusing Wikipedia's policy or process for personal advantage at the expense of other editors or the Wikipedia community”. Unconstructive edits are at the expense of the community, but I think the opposite is true for constructive edits.
Had the anonymized user went on to make unconstructive edits, I don’t think a post about them would have gotten much dispute. I think that is by far the main reason for (mostly) support for XC suspension in this case (where there was an unconstructive edit right after ECR) and (mostly) opposition in the other case (where there was not).
In any case, regardless of ECR, I think less experienced users (including myself and Jensenjan) should be especially careful that what we add is constructive and to collaborate on controversial articles, because we obviously don’t know Wikipedia’s policies on articles as well as more experienced editors. There is no disadvantage (and indeed much advantage) to discussing in a talk page for anything that might be controversial, there is generally no urgency. And certainly there should be no edit warring if something is removed. Which is what I intend to do and hopefully the same is true for Jensenjan.
Sorry for the long post. LordDiscord (talk) 03:30, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Refocusing (Jensenjan)

Long term
WP:BATTLEGROUND
and harassment

This is by far not the first ANI regarding this user, as I have previously made two ANIs [219] [220] regarding said user, and they have also made their own ANI making false accusations towards me[221].

WP:ICANTHEARYOU in regards to policies, consensus, or people explaining policies. They have also shown general lack of understanding regarding reliability/sourcing related policies, despite other editors( [222] [223]
) trying to explain policies, they tend to simply ignore policies or consensus.

They have also shown a general tendency to be incivil towards other editors and have edit warred and have done various forms of WP:BATTLEGROUND editing, from

WP:BLUDGEON
to harassment.


Here is a list of all their policy violations(there are likely more):


Edit warring

[224][225][226]


WP:ICANTHEARYOU
, and failure to understand policies related to WP:RS, False accusations

Multiple editors(outside of myself)[227] [228] [229] [230] have voiced concerns with how they assume all sources are "unreliable"(I have also pointed out

WP:HOUNDING
", when I suspect they are doing exactly what WP:HOUNDING is, as it is quite suspicious that the info they removed had been edited by me before.

This has happened, well, way too many times:

[231] - Source was PLA website, which somehow was called "unreliable", which really questions whether @Nghtcmdr actually does research on what the sources are, or whether they understand what a reliable source is. [232][233] - Removed sources simply for being "Non english" [234] - Ironically, adding unsourced info [235] - Claims that "sources are not needed" [236] - Removal of "non-english sources" that were reliable [237] - Mass removal of non-english sources and replacing them with a source I doubt covers that info [238] - Removal of reliably sourced info [239] - Removal of reliably sourced info

WP:BLUDGEON

[240] - Showed bludgeoning behavior on this discussion.

WP:ICANTHEARYOU

[241] - Falsely accusing me of "fabricating claims" even after I posted a link to the discussion I was citing

Harassment

The other editor you are talking to has been adding mainly Chinese language sources from state controlled publications as part of what appears to be part of their larger strategy of conditioning the wider community into accepting those type of sources, so it doesn't strike me as a surprise that they would try to fill this article with as much Chinese as possible in furtherance of that strategy. Whether there are deeper political dynamics at play I don't know and am not in a position to speculate, but the idea that there is a larger context at work is something to keep in mind when trying to gauge the seriousness of this problem. [242]

In the same topic, they have reverted my edit[243] citing an unfinished discussion to start an edit war.

Thehistorianisaac (talk) 05:12, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
The
drop the stick, withdraw this complaint (given both the grenading and the fact that the previous discussion is still open), take that vacation, and see if you have any new feelings about things when you return. - The Bushranger One ping only 05:17, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
@The Bushranger; Thanks for the reminder that the quote is grenading, I removed it; I probably phrased that horribly, as I will be going on a vacation tmr night and will not be able to respond;
I seriously question how "No action is necessary". This user has shown known ignorance to policies and explanations of policies, and has also been quite incivil towards others. I suggest that again, the actions of Nghtcmdr be reviewed(and sanctions be administrated), as at this point, multiple editors [244] [245] [246] have pointed out that sanctions are needed in the case that they continue to ignore policies/the reliability of sources they remove, which is the case here.
I have pointed out and helped to explain many of the above policies to @Nghtcmdr, however they still have chosen to continue their spree of "if it ain't an english source, I will remove it"
Listen: I don't like biting the newcomers, but this has been going on for a long time now and their behavior hasn't gotten better(in fact, arguably it has gotten worse), and they refuse to listen to any explanation of policy that they don't like. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 05:56, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
Oh for pity's sake, if Nghtcmdr needed any evidence of hounding, opening this while there were already two ANI topics open between these two is solid gold. Yes, Thehistorianisaac, we get that "Nghtcmdr Delenda Est!" is one of your raison d'etres on Wikipedia right now, and it must be galling that you have to go on vacation without them already having been indeffed, but enough is enough. Right now, I'd support a two-way IBAN, and if there are other editors who feel strongly enough about the issue to see it through, they can do so. Drop the damn stick already, and if admins don't react the way you like to this, then they don't. Ravenswing 06:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
It's been going on for a while, and it's beginning to disrupt law enforcement/military related topics, and there has been harassment/personal attacks coming from them on multiple occasions as pointed above. I believe in avoiding sanctions whenever possible, though at this point I really doubt there is any way they will listen to policy. I don't think it's beating a dead horse to try to ask for some action(at the very least, somebody needs to tell them not to remove sources for simply not being english on their talk page). I already have tried to explain policies properly, which they have often ignored. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 07:25, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
@
follow and revert my edits ([247] [248] [249] [250]) despite their awareness of the hounding accusations I had made in an edit war report that I filed against them. In one of these cases, they reverted against consensus that was formed when a third editor said [251] they preferred my version of the article content to theirs. Nghtcmdr (talk) 07:49, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
For each of the edits I have reverted, there were very obvious problems with them(Either lack of sourcing or removal of properly sourced content). WP:HOUND explicitly states Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles. which my edits fall under.
As for the chengguan article, consensus from said user said BOTH sources can exist.[252] You are leaving out the fact that said editor stated BOTH versions is fine and never stated they "preferred your version"
Thehistorianisaac (talk) 08:31, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
I apologize if I was a little bit too harsh, considering you are a new editor. I believe(and hope) you are acting in good faith, and simply are not completely aware of policies. I also believe you could be a good editor, as seen by some of your edits.
However, what I would suggest is that if you do not understand a particular policy, feel free to ask on the help desk or teahouse, and if someone explains a policy to you(e.g. all sources are presumed reliable if they have not been discussed or are self published, or WP:NONENG means prioritize finding english sources and not to remove them), do listen to them.
Additionally, if you have questions regarding the reliability of a source in a different language, feel free to reach out to me(after I'm done with my vacation) or relevant wikiprojects/WP:RSN, and avoid removing them before you discuss so(Especially not stuff like the Chinese military website or MOD website). I hope that this resolves the dispute in the most friendly way possible. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 10:24, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
More hounding from the editor [253] [254] 10:28, 26 June 2025 (UTC)Nghtcmdr (talk)
@Nghtcmdr
As for the Hounding accusations:
Yes, I do understand why you are frustrated, I had my own edits tracked by other users before(and trust me, it was not fun, though they taught me the vast majority of my knowledge regarding wikipeida rules), the reason I am tracking your edits is because I see a tendency for you(as said above) to remove properly sourced info. Such tracking of your edits falls under Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles. In fact, such practices are recommended both for Recent changes patrol and WikiProject Spam. The contribution logs can be used in the dispute resolution process to gather evidence to be presented in incidents and arbitration cases.[255] and is not considered hounding.
I, again hope this can help to resolve our dispute, and if you find sources questionable, feel free to always ask me, or WP:RSN. I am always willing to help out if you need me. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 11:21, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
@
@The Bushranger
The problem is, I have reminded them multiple times that they have misunderstood the policies they are citing, yet they have chosen to completely ignore it. Could you explain to them that
WP:NONENG
does not mean "delete all non-english sources" as they believe?
The most preferable outcome is obviously Nghtcmdr stops their incorrect deletion spree and listens to policies. At this point, since Nghtcmdr has shown to be ignorant towards policies(such as
WP:RSPNOT
) or attempts to explain policies to them, this does not seem the most likely.
Yes, I understand
WP:BRIE
, but as I said before, I(along with other editors) have already tried to explain policies to them, which they have blatantly ignored despite multiple reminders. Listen: I don't like to bite newcomers, and I have dealt with many new editors not aware of the rules. Usually, per policy, I just tell them their edit was against policy, and they understand the edit. However, this is obviously not the situation, as at this point they have blatantly chose to ignore policy(or deliberately choose to misinterpret said policies despite being reminded that it is not what the policy means), and attempt to edit war when someone points out their edit was not right.
I have already tried to explain policies in a civil manner multiple times, and have also attempted to ask for admin intervention when it was obvious that this was a
WP:ICANTHEARYOU situation(which had been completely ignored). Could you tell me if there is any other alternate way out of this, as I have pointed out again that a lot of Nghtcmdr's edits are often problematic and go against policy/consensus. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 00:19, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
More hounding from the editor ([256] [257] [258] [259] [260] [261] [262]) In one of these cases, they asked for content verification despite my edit [263] which already satisfied that requirement. Nghtcmdr (talk) 00:58, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nghtcmdr
You are taking my quote out of context. I reverted it BEFORE you added the verification.
Now that there is verification, I will not revert it. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 01:37, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
  • drop the stick
    , they mean DROPPING THE STICK. That means, stop commenting on Nghtcmdr, stop reviewing their edits, stop opening complaints on noticeboards about them, just pretend that you are both on this enormous project of 7 million articles and try not to run into each other.
It means that you need to move on, don't ask for alternative ways to try to get Nghtcmdr to do things the way you want them done, you need to forget that they are even editing this project and focus on the articles, not them. If another admin wants to enforce a twoway interacton block or even a oneway interaction block, I would support it because it seems like it is only the threat of being sanctioned that could result in you never uttering this editor's name again. If you haven't been able to tell by the responses from other editors, we are tired of hearing about this feud and if you continue with this, it will BOOMERANG on you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:46, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Apparent COI at Mark Nesler

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


MarkNeslerMusic (talk · contribs) has been making multiple COI edits on Mark Nesler. I issued them a warning about the COI and relevant policies at 2:13pm my time, yet they still continue making edits to the page. Additionally, according to @JBW and @Knitsey's warnings they also made unsourced promotional edits at [264] and unexplained deletions at [265] and [266]. Both of those edits were made after I gave him my warning. They have not responded to anything we've posted on their talk page. Gommeh 🎮 21:11, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

The removal of the marriage [267], they might be removing that due to privacy but they are not communicating or using edit summaries so I'm only guessing.
I did ping them on their talk page in the hope they would see the messages but they have continued editing. Knitsey (talk) 21:21, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
I've blocked the account. JBW (talk) 22:06, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
It is tragic he didn't know the correct acronyms to remove improperly sourced information from a BLP. An interview with Marty Dodson isn't a reliable source for Mark Nesler's relationship status. Hopefully someone removes that block of policy violating prose for him. Or at least adds a reliable source. 12.75.41.116 (talk) 22:16, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
That has been done. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:29, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

MotorolaBoy's love for calling me a nationalist

MotorolaBoy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Since their first two edits on this website, MotorolaBoy seems to have beef with me and my username. They've been accusing me of

Sabaean colonization of Africa) that I've supported renaming where they have made acusations suspiciously similar to the ones Apprentix (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) have made towards me 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 07:23, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Sounds like a
WP:NPA violation to me. Can you please describe the issues Apprentix has had with you in the past? » Gommeh (he/him) 20:22, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
This discussion that we've had on that article's talk page (link) where they've accused me of nationalist editing multiple times.
You can see this ANI post about him Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1174#User:Apprentix 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 07:26, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Abo Yemen has been attempting to ban me, accusing me of sockpuppeting because I edited using my IP a handful of times prior to making this account (which I never hid, stopped doing when informed not to, and he wouldn't have known had I not said it was me), and now claiming I'm the same person as a banned account I've never seen at all. To know what our disagreement stems from check User talk:Asilvering#Block evasion. Abo Yemen is targeting and harassing me in an effort to stop me from opposing his obviously historical revisionist edits which would either be described as nationalistic or racist. After he followed me across multiple pages he never contributed to so he could revert my edits, leaving antagonizing comments I naturally accused him of having motivations I believed did not align with proper conduct on this site (or so I thought).
If you ban me like he's wanted since I began editing or take his side in harassing me further like everyone else up to this point has I don't care. My experience here has bene nothing but unpleasant to say the least. It was only when someone left a message on my talk page stating I would likely have my ability to edit revoked because of Abo Yemens campaign to stop me from opposing his obviously biased editing history that I decided to reply after deciding I would no longer do more than read on wikipedia due to him. Abo Yemen should be banned, as I said in the other thread I'm not requesting anyone do so yet. That will come in due time provided I'm treated fairly now. Theres a litany of evidence against him I'll be bringing forward.
You can take away my editing ability though, if you don't want me to defend myself from his aggression or rightfully criticize his manipulation of history then this is not the place for me. MotorolaBoy (talk) 21:18, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
@MotorolaBoy, it is really important that you assume good faith, and that you bring evidence if you're going to accuse another editor of some kind of misconduct. If Abo Yemen is making racist edits that push a nationalist point of view, we'll get him to stop. But we're not going to do anything whatsoever without any evidence. Meanwhile, Abo Yemen has provided evidence of you harassing him, and that absolutely will get you blocked if you don't cut it out. -- asilvering (talk) 02:41, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
@MotorolaBoy It aint that deep. Just stop it with the personal attacks. I literally have nothing against you, and I am definitely not a racist (like, wtf??) 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 05:55, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
Brother I've only been on here for a week but you started it and might still get me banned. You've definitely been following me around and trying to mess with me. I'm gonna accuse you of racism and harassment since you're playing dirty. MotorolaBoy (talk) 16:47, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
What's most likely to get you blocked is the way you keep making personal attacks against another user and not providing any evidence of your claims against him.
Abo Yemen isn't forcing you to do that, it is your choice. MilesVorkosigan (talk) 16:53, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
He also very clearly did not "start it", since MotorolaBoy's first edits are personal attacks. I've tempblocked as a final warning, since "I'm gonna accuse you of racism and harassment since you're playing dirty" is pretty unambiguous, but since a bunch of this went down on my own talk page, some other admin should handle it if it keeps going. -- asilvering (talk) 16:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
  • They have been actively editing today. I've posted a request for them to come and respond to your complaint, Abo Yemen. Let's see what they have to say. Liz Read! Talk! 04:07, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Abo Yemen, since you brought it up, can you provide a link to that 3 paragraph rant? Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:09, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
@Liz, that's at User talk:Asilvering#Block evasion. -- asilvering (talk) 06:43, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
@Liz they said in that same discussion that they stand by everything they said User talk:Asilvering#c-MotorolaBoy-20250624212700-Abo_Yemen-20250624071100, and this comment of theirs where they said I'd like both you and Abo Yemen to look through not only this reply chain but my activity and come to more logical conclusions. Well, I don't expect that of him is another implied personal attack. They also claimed that their intention in this conversation was to not only defend myself from his attempt to ban me but explain my previous comments accusing him of nationalist motivations. Like I said above I will bring forward evidence (of which there's plenty) (emphasis mine) but never did. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 19:55, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Apprentix has been evading his block using IPs, the one at
WP:DUCKy, a CU would be good. Kowal2701 (talk) 06:46, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
@Kowal2701, feel free to file an SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BasedHistorian PHD. If you can provide diffs that clearly make the connection between MotorolaBoy and Apprentix, you can ask for CU. -- asilvering (talk) 07:04, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Sorry not at my laptop. Might be able to later. I’ve seen CUs requested in AN threads Kowal2701 (talk) 07:12, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
I'd also suggest CUing them to check if they're Habesha212 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who also have evaded their block using ips (See this discussion that was started using their IP Talk:Sabaeans in the Horn of Africa#Flagrant misinformation) 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 07:30, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Just noting that asilvering issued a short block to MotorolaBoy today for harrassment. I guess we'll see if it influences their behavior. Liz Read! Talk! 04:20, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
    Yes, and pulling out what I said above, for clarity, since a bunch of this went down on my own talk page, some other admin should handle it if it keeps going. Don't anyone expect me to take any further action in this thread. -- asilvering (talk) 04:27, 27 June 2025 (UTC)