Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive824

User Vahram Mekhitaryan repeatedly added wrong, not related links in articles, and starting edit wars. Please take some action against it. That user repeatedly adding original research statement ([1]), which has been removed per discussion at talk page, but he readding it again. Adding non related links ([2], [3], [4]). Besides, reverting edits with uncertain/wrong explainations in edit summary. He was previosly blocked 3 times for edit war in same article. — Preceding

(Non-administrator comment) What discussion on the talk page? There's nothing there but a list of WikiProjects (I even checked the history and found nothing). Erpert WHAT DO YOU WANT??? 18:52, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

[5], [6] that statement has been removed, but that user added it again and again.--

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) 08:53, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

A new, so far single purpose editor User2001 is making persistent and repeated major changes (mostly deletions) to the article Jook-sing, without Edit summaries or Talk page discussion, despite repeated requests to do so in my Edit summaries and on the user's Talk page. I have also posted on the article's talk page. No response.

We seem to be facing an insoluble communication problem which indicates possible

Can an Admin please have a look? HiLo48 (talk) 05:09, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I support HiLo48 in his concern about this editor's actions. --Greenmaven (talk) 05:39, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

As per Jack Greenmaven. Also note similar edits:

• User2001 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Writer1962 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Writer1999 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

In ictu oculi (talk) 05:52, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Temporarily blocked User2001 for 3RR violation. You may want to advise user in his talk page what and why. he can reply there if he wishes as the talk page is open. Should he continue edit warring, then there will be longer blocks forthcoming. -- Alexf^(talk) 13:39, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I note we still have absolutely no response from this editor. HiLo48 (talk) 04:11, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

User Vahram Mekhitaryan repeatedly added wrong, not related links in articles, and starting edit wars. Please take some action against it. That user repeatedly adding original research statement ([7]), which has been removed per discussion at talk page, but he readding it again. Adding non related links ([8], [9], [10]). Besides, reverting edits with uncertain/wrong explainations in edit summary. He was previosly blocked 3 times for edit war in same article. — Preceding

(Non-administrator comment) What discussion on the talk page? There's nothing there but a list of WikiProjects (I even checked the history and found nothing). Erpert WHAT DO YOU WANT??? 18:52, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

[11], [12] that statement has been removed, but that user added it again and again.--

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) 08:53, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Demetrioscz have deleted a discussion content. With this argument: remove personal comments about the article page. Those are claims of the book's author. Only discussions regarding how to improve the article should be present here. You can cite reliable 3rd party sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Cartwheels_in_a_Sari:_A_Memoir_of_Growing_Up_Cult&action=history --

Demetrioscz is correct in his edit. The comments at the talk page are not related to the improvement of the article, but are someone's rebuttal to the content of the book. Please do not restore the commentary again. Additionally, you should read Wikipedia:Free speech. You do not have the right to free speech on the Wikimedia project. only (talk) 17:27, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Only - of course Richard Reinhardt has freedom of speech on a Wikimedia project. The United States Government cannot come here and remove his comments! However, any Wikipedia editor could remove them and there is nothing he can do about it. =) --v/r - TP 17:38, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Sure there is! He can file an ANI. :D -

^theWOLFchild

02:11, 26 December 2013 (UTC) ((Non-administrator comment))

Settai3 was warned about uploading several copyrighted images yesterday.[13] Despite this, the user has continued to upload a number of images, sometimes even replacing fair use images for new copyrighted ones.LM2000 (talk) 18:13, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

The uploads are happening over at the Commons, not here. I have put a (second) final warning on their Commons talk page and will post something on their talk page on this wiki as well. I have also posted at the Commons admin notice board. -- Diannaa (talk) 18:47, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

This image was accidentally reduced to Fair use sizes, but is, in fact, PD-Text (the rationale everyone forgets about). Can someone please restore the full size?

Thank you,

Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:37, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

This is still copyrighted. Title pages are also "other protected type in sense of the local copyright law," according to commons:Template:PD-text. --George Ho (talk) 09:40, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Also, title pages may be eligible for British copyright. George Ho (talk) 09:46, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

1. No, that is completely wrong. None of the copyrightable music appears in the image. Commons' statements are not relevant: Commons works under international law, only American copyright law matters HERE. Please review Wikipedia:Public_domain#Non-creative_works.
2. Only American copyright applies on English Wikipedia. That may well be a reason not to move it to commons, but has no relevance to here. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:48, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

I don't get your "interpretation" on the guideline. It doesn't say that English Wikipedia must follow solely on the American law. George Ho (talk) 19:57, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

^theWOLFchild

02:15, 26 December 2013 (UTC) ((Non-administrator comment))

• "Only American copyright applies on English Wikipedia" - I can't make this NOPE big enough. Wikipedia must respect both American copyright law and the copyright law of the country of origin. This is why there are some (perhaps even "many") cases where something is PD in the country of origin but is copyrighted in the United States and, thus, cannot be freely used here. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 04:52, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Please see {{Do not move to Commons}} and pages that use it, e.g. File:Marcel Duchamp Mona Lisa LHOOQ.jpg. We care about the PD-in-origin-but-not-USA cases because we're a USA-based organisation and could be liable for copyright infringement lawsuits for those cases. Unlike Commons, we don't care about PD-in-USA-but-not-origin cases by longstanding policy, and since we're not a UK-based organisation, we're not liable to copyright infringement lawsuits for those cases. Of course, if you're in the UK you might be liable to an individual lawsuit; that's why we've always been careful to remind non-Americans to follow their own laws, and when they find PD-in-USA-but-not-origin images from their own countries, to ask American editors to upload the images in question in order to avoid problems. Nyttend (talk) 06:01, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

182.249.240.10 (talk) 15:41, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

UPDATE He has apparently finally replied to me on his talk page, asking me (in Japanese) for quotations from the sources I already cited. This is, as far as I know, not a requirement on Wikipedia, and is difficult as hell to do on a phone (my only Internet source at the moment). I also a quote would stop him, given how he has otherwise dismissed all the sources, and he keeps misrepresenting the meaning of a certain word, apparently assuming he's the only one on English Wikipedia who speaks Japanese, imagine what he could do with an entire block of text. 182.249.240.9 (talk) 16:01, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I've not looked at it all but Toraijin just means an immigrant to Japan, not specifically Korean. It can be used for all people who came to settle in Japan from overseas. Canterbury Tail talk 16:33, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I know, but the sources all specifically say Baekje. Juzumaru is dismissing all but one of my sources, and refusing to actually read that one source, instead judging it by its title. His edit summary in English also implies he is claiming the word specifically means someone NOT from Korea, which is wrong. 182.249.240.33 (talk) 16:46, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Note it appears that there is now a massive edit war going on over the Japanese invasion of Korea with mass changes and it looks like not a small amount of sockpuppetry. Canterbury Tail talk 16:40, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I don't know anything about that. I edit classical Japanese literature articles on the Kojiki and Manyoshu related topics. In fact, when it come to modern politics, I'm probably closer to "Juzumaru's side". 182.249.240.33 (talk) 16:46, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

The definition of the ja word 渡来/torai (人/jin means person) is here. What's the problem? The next sentence on the

Tang China. Oda Mari (talk

) 17:37, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

You are right. But think about it: why does Juzumaru want to go out of his way to remove the word "Korean" from the opening sentence? And why does he keep insisting that the word toraijin doesn't specifically mean Korean (something I never claimed)? The most obvious answer seems to be that he wants to remove reference to Korea, but his poor English skill led him to miss the second sentence's reference to Kudara. This is consistent with the far-right, fringe POV that has apparently informed

every other edit he has made on English Wikipedia. I am also increasingly troubled by the edit war CT above mentions. Can we get a mass CU on the SPAs in that dispute? (If I'm gonna talk about sockpuppetry, I should probably disclose that I have an account, but when I try to edit from it on my phone I keep getting logged out and losing my edits.) 182.249.240.15 (talk

) 03:36, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

The reason for this is written in genealogy dictionary of Japan.(Shinsen Shōjiroku) Mainstream of the Traijin was the Chinese who lived in the Korean Peninsula. (foreign: 326 families; of those, 163 were from China, 104 from Baekje, 41 from Goguryeo, 9 from Silla, and 9 from Gaya.) I do not deny the possibility that Okura's ancestors came from the Korean Peninsula. However, reference cited is not certain his ethnicity. Therefore, scholars did not write "Okura is a Korean." --Juzumaru (talk) 14:41, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

They wrote this about the Yamanoue-Okura.[18] If someone refute this opinion, he is far-right? Yamanoue no Okura was a famous poet in eighth-century Japan, who immigrated from Korean Baekje.[93][94][95] Influenced by the Madhyamika School of Buddhism growing out of his Former Baekje cultural heritage,[93] he addressed social concerns through his poem,[96] unlike other Japanese poets of the time, who spoke for the ethos of land, love, death and devine monarchy.[97] He later became a tutor to the crown prince and Governor of a province in Japan.[93] The reputation of Yamanoue no Okura has sharply risen in the twentieth century,[98] he became, in the general consensus of sub-sequent centuries of Japanese literary scholarship, one of the most memorable, most influential, and today most often cited poets of the Old Japanese period.[93] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juzumaru (talk • contribs) 14:05, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Read the sources I cited, please. All of them state that he came (or possibly came) from the Korean state of Baekje. You haven't cited a single source that says otherwise. You clearly are not an expert in this area, so why the hell should the rest of us have to take your word on this? Anyway, you don't know "my POV" so stop

assuming bad faith by claiming my edits are rooted in some kind of pro-Korean, anti-Japanese POV (nothing could be further from the truth). 182.249.240.25 (talk

) 15:00, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Frankly speaking, this IP user(182.249.240.xxx) is clueless in the Japan classic literature. And, "he came (or possibly came) from the Korean state of Baekje" is not written in the source. (Baekje is ruined in the 600 when Okura was born. ）182.249.240.xxx, You'll read

WP:WEIGHT

. Your claim is not a common sense. I quote an article of Yamaue-no-Okura from a Japanese well-known encyclopedia.

• "Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten" published by The
  Asahi Shinbun
  奈良時代の歌人。『万葉集』に,推定作を含む長歌11首,短歌60首余,旋頭歌1首,漢詩文3首を残す。また『類聚歌林』を編んだが,現存しない。大宝1(701)年遣唐少録に任ぜられる際に,「无位山於億良」と『続日本紀』にみえる...
• Heibonsha World Encyclopedia万葉歌人。701年(大宝1)遣唐少録，714年(和銅7)従五位下，716年(霊亀2)伯耆守，721年(養老5)東宮(のちの聖武天皇)の侍講となり，726年(神亀3)ころ筑前守赴任，732年(天平4)帰京して翌年卒したらしい。
• "Dainihon Jinmei Jiten" (Dictionary of Japanese Biography) published by The Kodansha斉明天皇6年生まれ。大宝(たいほう)2年遣唐(けんとう)少録として唐(中国)にわたる。帰国後伯耆守(ほうきのかみ),東宮侍講をへて筑前守(ちくぜんのかみ)となり,大宰府で大伴旅人(おおともの-たびと)らとまじわった。
• Daijisen published by The Shogakukan［660～733ころ］奈良前期の官人・歌人。大宝2年（702）渡唐し、帰国後、伯耆守(ほうきのかみ)・東宮侍講・筑前守を歴任。思想性・社会性をもつ歌を詠んだ。
• Daijirin（660～733頃） 奈良前期の官人・歌人。遣唐少録として渡唐。帰国後伯耆守・東宮侍講・筑前守を歴任。筑前守時代に大伴旅人と親交。漢文学の学殖深く，その影響下に人生的・社会的題材の歌を詠んだ。万葉集に多くの歌を残す。家集「類聚歌林」は伝わらない。

There is no famous encyclopedia of Japan written, "Okura is Korean". --Juzumaru (talk) 16:42, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Someone please

WP:NOTHERE. 182.249.240.31 (talk

) 10:13, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

After that bizarre final attack on me, the user apparently has decided to confine himself to ja.wiki. I have contacted him on his talk page there, and hopefully we have worked out our differences. I wanted him to stay off JLit articles in areas he clearly doesn't understand, and if he's staying off English Wikipedia altogether then I guesd that's solved. This thread can (probably) be closed now. 182.249.240.39 (talk) 14:49, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

I've prepared the Talkpage to the Japanese version of Wikipedia for this anonymous user. And, he would be happy. --Juzumaru (talk) 02:28, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Someone should leave a message on Juzumaru's talk page advising them to edit the Japanese Wikipedia, because it's evident that they speak Japanese with more fluency than they do English. Epicgenius (talk) 17:21, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done -- Ross HillTalk to me! 17:27, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

 Request: An administrator needs to close this thread as a content dispute. No admin action is needed. Ross HillTalk to me! 03:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

This isn't a content dispute. I "won" the specific content dispute before posting here. The problem is that every single one of the user's edits demonstrate

promoting an anti-Korean agenda he would stop editing Wikipedia entirely. 182.249.240.4 (talk

) 03:00, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

WP:BATTLEGROUND. LFaraone

17:42, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry. Quotes added. I'm not the one with the BATTLEGROUND mentality, anyway... 182.249.240.39 (talk) 04:30, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

NOTE relevant archived thread:

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) 00:44, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Ante Vranković (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Can another administrator please step in and consider the latest unblock request at User talk:Ante Vranković? I think we're getting a little combative there, and it would be good for another administrator to step in and make a decision or add an outside view sooner rather than later. only (talk) 18:14, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) If he is re-blocked, I suggest revoking his talk page access too. Erpert ^{WHAT DO YOU WANT???} 20:47, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

A penchant for lawyering, invoking the Foundation, arguing semantics, general combativeness, and all this with only 23 edits. I don't see why this user needs to be unblocked. -- John Reaves 22:12, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

WP:NOTHERE. AndyTheGrump (talk

) 22:26, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

well, he was unblocked by TParis, so we'll have to keep an eye on him now as he edits. None so far outside the talk page. only (talk) 22:43, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Seriously, take him at his latest offer: "if it will make you feel better, you are free to completely block my account now, so that I won`t be able to put out the obvious facts about the case (this is my official statement/agreement on that)." This editor is up to no good. His threat is still hanging in the background. While we can let him know that the Foundation has no power to prevent him from pursuing legal action outside of Wikipedia, we cannot allow anyone to edit who would even dream of doing it. Period. The very thought of doing so must be expunged from their mentality, and that seems to be out of the question with this editor. They totally assume bad faith about everyone who disagrees with them, calling them liars, and they are therefore unfit to be here. So, an indef ban and lock the talk page, and don't follow their suggestion to "unblock my account now or delete it as it never eXisted." No, we keep the account open for the record for all editors to see. We can blank the page, but not delete the history. --

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) 01:01, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

• No "other administrator with an outside view" is needed here. If
  ^theWOLFchild
  02:08, 26 December 2013 (UTC) ((Non-administrator comment))

• I'm not quite sure you understand the situation here. The user was seeking unblock which TParis eventually granted a few hours after I posted this thread. only (talk) 02:16, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

• Oops, got that backward. But, hey, if TP unblocked him, I'm sure that was for a good reason too. Now we'll just see what happens... -
  ^theWOLFchild
  03:06, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

• Subsequent comments by Ante indicate a need for an indef. --
  talk
  ) 05:02, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I disagree. This is just his talk page. He is a little upset and there is a language barrier issue. Give him a chance to cool down and see what he does. -

^theWOLFchild

06:41, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Agree with Wolfchild. Blocking is generally not an urgent matter when all that's happening is talk. While I had suggested in the previous thread that consideration be given to not unblocking even in light of a retraction, TParis should be given deference with respect to that decision. Sounding angry or combative is, while a bad sign, not on its own grounds for blocking, especially in light of the recent unblock. Tempers are running high. We should be cool. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 07:35, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Trainmastercrc (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been acting awkwardly in this edit, and the past ones, either he is acting abnormally, or was probably compromised, and apparently, Hes been using the S-word in his userpage, can an experienced editor check this out? Thanks, Dreth 02:03, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) - He does have the word "shit" repeated on his user page 4,147 times. Yeah, that's a little weird. But some people have a hard time on the holidays. -

^theWOLFchild

03:50, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I have tagged their user page for deletion under criteria

G3 (pure vandalism). Thanks, Ross HillTalk to me!

03:55, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I have blocked the account indefinitely as being possibly compromised. only (talk) 12:05, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Only, I don't think that was necessary. Trainmastercrc has not made any poor edits to the mainspace, and his edits to his own userpage are not proof enough to believe his account is compromised. Consider unblocking, and reblock if he vandalises outside his userspace. Thanks, Ross HillTalk to me! 16:54, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I stand by the block; it's a protection block for the project. He has made these very erratic and out of character edits to his user page. By blocking him, it prevents him from making any erratic, out of character edits to the articles as well. We'll see what happens if/when he attempts to appeal the block, but I'd lean to the "better safe than sorry" side here. only (talk) 17:01, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I have to agree with Ross. The edits have been confined to user space where people are given a little more latitude with what they add there (like I said, maybe he's just 'venting') This editor hasn't disrupted the project. Can you really block someone for something they might do? -

^theWOLFchild

21:24, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

User: Thewolfchild. It would be better and suggest a compromise if this were changed to a temporary 1-week block, That way when Trainmastercrc's block expires, we can see what happens then. Dreth

23:16, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes...it's called prevention. From Wikipedia:Blocking policy: "A block for protection may be necessary in response to...an account appearing to have been compromised." This is an account that appears to be compromised. only (talk) 00:59, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

I would rather take a chance that they make a few easily reversible edits, than keep them blocked for edits to their userpage that don't even contradict Wikipedia policy. Ross HillTalk to me! 01:19, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

If the edits don't "contradict Wikipedia policy," why did you label them as vandalism and request deletion of his page? only (talk) 01:30, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

In case the account was compromised and those edits were not theirs. Although in hindsight

revdel is a better alternative. Ross HillTalk to me!

01:48, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, shit. Deference should go to only as the blocking admin, but if you disagree with an indef, you should be open to unblocking at the first request for one. Chevron deference at work in real life. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 07:41, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

• Good block we shouldn't take chances on compromised accounts. The usual unblocking routes are available in the event there's really some other explanation. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Ultimate cosmic evil (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) committed a lot of page move vandalism in the last few minutes. The account is now blocked, but is there an easy way to revert these moves? I could certainly use a hand with it. only (talk) 03:08, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

There are hundreds of reverts to undo; many of them went through 3 moves so it's not as simple as just hitting "revert." I can't do these right now; I'm signing off in the next few minutes. Sorry to leave people this mess, but I just simply can't do this right now. only (talk) 03:14, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

The easiest way to do this is go through all his moves and Rollback them. The talk pages should be automatically re-moved. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:29, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

For me it looks like, that every of his moves are now undone and there is nothing else to do. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:43, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

There is something weird going on here. Before the spree of name edits the user did were seem to be completely legitimate and unrelated to the page move vandalism. This includes adding notability templates, proding an article, reverted blanking of a closed AFD, Templating an anon for content blanking etc.--174.93.163.194 (talk) 03:49, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Maybe his/her account got compromised/hacked? Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:55, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Probably just a case of someone building up edits to become autoconfirmed and not drawing any negative attention to itself before going on its spree. only (talk) 11:58, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm fairly sure I and a couple of other admins and users have cleaned up everything done by that account, at least as far as the obvious page move vandalism. What a mess! Thank you everyone for being around this evening to call attention to it and help. Please let me or this thread know if anyone notices anything that hasn't been taken care of. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 04:07, 26 December 2013 (UTC

I wasted a while going through these untill I realised that you have all done them already. Never mind, thanks everyone for your prompt action. This is the kind of vandalism that with the best will in the world we should have absolutely

no patience with. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk

) 04:25, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Something seems wrong with this picture, especially the fact that the suspected operator/culprit is Ginsuloft. While I don't doubt the CU report, I do doubt whether this was good hand/bad hand socking or whether it was a family member who created that account and then went on a spree. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 15:15, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I find this edit by Ginsuloft to be kind of peculiar. I don't know why he would disable the bot like that... only (talk) 15:25, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Wait! So it was Ginsuloft all along? Oh my, considering how he contributed to the encyclopedia. Dreth 16:12, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Wow, that is surprising. Thankfully his attempt to gain sysop tools was unsuccessful. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:20, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

We have seen admins go bonkers and the results can be very disruptive. That said, I've emailed Ginsuloft and am awaiting a reply, which may clear things up. Does Ginsuloft use a shared or public IP? Sportsguy17 (T • C) 20:32, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

And if it's a static IP, then what happens. Dreth 21:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

It's impossible to tell with