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2024 March

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Full Faith and Credit Clause (talk|edit|history|logs|links|archive|watch) (RM) (Discussion with closer)

Closer has assessed the move rather than the arguments made. An alternative examination of JSTOR evidence does not support the conclusion reached by the closer. Cinderella157 (talk) 09:37, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Specifically:

  1. Rather than reviewing evidence as offered and confirming that the evidence supports the conclusions claimed in the discussion, the closer has conducted alternative analyses of the evidence offered and applied their own criteria not offered in the discussion or specifically evident from P&G to reach conclusions.
  2. In respect to ngram evidence, they provided their own analysis, that would group Full Faith and Credit Clause with Full Faith and Credit clause as supporting the present title, when ngram evidence offered in the discussion did not do this.
  3. They offered their own opinion (not evidenced in the discussion) for discarding the ngram evidence.
  4. There was however, discussion that would give reason to discard the HeinOnline search (as done), but they conducted their own detailed review of the results. Such a detailed analysis was not offered in the discussion. This goes beyond the source evidence as offered and what conclusions/assertions were made in respect to that evidence. The claim in the discussion was that HeinOnline and JSTOR results showed that English-language sources almost uniformly use "Full Faith and Credit Clause". A counterargument was made that the results do not actually show that it is uniformly used. The closers own analysis shows this.
  5. When they analysed the JSTOR search, they found 16:6 for capitalising from one page of 25 results and assert this is a 3:1 ratio that supports capitalisation. No discussion at the RM would assert that a 3:1 ratio is sufficient to apply capitalisation, nor does P&G state this. This is their own interpretation of P&G (notwithstanding that their own analysis of JSTOR gives a ratio of 2.7:1).
  6. They chose to analyse 25 results from JSTOR but 100 results from HeinOnline on the subsequently stated basis that the former gives 25 results per page and the latter gave scrolling results. There is no substantial difference between analysing 100 results from HeinOnline an equal number of results from JSTOR. The rational for analysing only 25 JSTOR v 100 HeinOnline results lacks substance.
  7. The difference, however, is that a small number of results are more likely to give a skewed result (a statistical "fact"), which has happened in this instance. Considering an equal number of results as done with HeinOnline (ie 100), the conclusion is substantially different, even by the arguments that they would make. Analysing 100 JSTOR results gives only 56% capitalisation. It is clearly not a substantial majority per
    MOS:CAPS
    .

Cinderella157 (talk) 09:37, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Closers comment I see the role of the closer as involving two things; verifying that the evidence provided matches the assertions made about it, and weighing the evidence and arguments provided through the lens of Wikipedia policy.
I believe in this discussion I did so:
Regarding #2, I assessed whether the claims made about the ngrams evidence (Majority lowercase, even, per book stats) were correct - and to do this, I had to group the forms that used lowercase, and I had to group the forms that used upper case. I see basic arithmetic as appropriate for a closer to do, even when the editor who initially presented the argument and evidence did not do so.
Regarding #3, closers are expected to consider the reliability of sources presented as evidence, per
WP:SOURCETYPES
. The most obvious example of this is if one editor bases their argument of GUNREL sources, and a second on GREL, then the second editors arguments are stronger - even if no editor raises the reliability issues of the first editors sources.
Regarding #4, editors asserted that HeinOnline supported capitalization. I merely reviewed the evidence to determine whether these claims were accurate.
Regarding #5, I didn't assert this is a 3:1 ratio that supports capitalisation. My conclusion is that whether 3:1 is sufficient to support capitalization is unclear - there is no ratio provided by the guideline - and in this discussion there was no consensus among editors as to whether it was sufficient.
BilledMammal (talk) 10:50, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
With respect, editor SportingFlyer, I don't know how else a closer is supposed to operate. You do look at the sources and you do draw a conclusion from them in regard to their application to the arguments; however, this does not mean that the closer's "opinion" is weightier than involved editors, it means that the closer has done their job well. So again, would you have closers ignore the RS details of the involved editors' arguments?
ed. put'er there 11:05, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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@Paine Ellsworth: The role of the closer is to review consensus, not to review sources. If sources have been used in the discussion, there's no reason why the closer can't review them to see what they say. It's clear here the closer performed original research (look at their ngram link, along with the fact they chose how to weight the sources they reviewed), which turns the role of the closer from a finder of consensus to someone who substituted their own opinion based on their interpretation of the facts. The only place here where that should happen consistently here is with copyright matters, the one place where consensus is less important than experience. SportingFlyer T·C 00:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay then, guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I would have closed the same way, and so would you probably; the only difference for me would be that my close would have been short and sweet, and the only way editors would have discovered extras like my reviewing sources and such would have been during informal discussion on my talk page. And that brings us right back to the reasons to endorse here. Is the closure reasonable? Yes. Is it in line with the closing instructions? Yes. Even you have endorsed the closure after asking for it to be vacated. We've caught a smelly ol' trout here. When I catch a fish, I either clean it and cook it, or I throw it back; can't do both.
ed. put'er there 01:01, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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I would have reached the same conclusion, but I would not have closed the same way. I agree those advocating for the move had a more correct interpretation of policy, but you did not have to perform any additional research to determine those supporting had not definitively shown
WP:NCCAPS applied to get to the no consensus result. As someone who participates and rarely closes, I also hate supervotes, and am not afraid to call them out... The only thing odd about the close was that the closer's opinion didn't actually change the outcome of the close. SportingFlyer T·C 01:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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Per
WP:IMR, there are two substantive reasons to initiate a move review. In initiating this MR, there are two reasons given. The second relates to the closers assessment of JSTOR evidence, whether this was reasonable or whether a more reasonable assessment leads to a different conclusion. There is also additional evidence that was added at the time of the close but caused an edit conflict with the close. Cinderella157 (talk) 01:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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Nice touch with your "E.C." above. I should mention that I had a lowercase "ec" (edit conflict) with your endorsement. I got over it :>)
ed. put'er there 10:38, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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Robertsky moved the article to an inflammatory and non-neutral title, "

WP:IMPARTIAL. The sourcing is not definitive to say the least as to whether there was a massacre and whether the reliable sourcing calls it that, as required by NPOVNAME, and moving to this title puts Wikipedia in the position of saying in its own voice that a massacre indeed was committed by the IDF. Local consensus, legitimate or tainted or not, does not overruled NPOV. Coretheapple (talk) 21:37, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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  • Involved endorse. First, I do not see how in the slightest way the title "flour massacre" is inflammatory, and I find the claim about neutrality to be weak because many sources do call this a massacre even though many mainstream Western sources do not, and this is a de facto massacre. The talk page is ECP and that Twitter/X post was not advocating for people to participate in the RM, so the claims about canvassing are basically null. Also, move review is not a place to continue the discussion about whether the article should be moved or not, but rather a place to evaluate whether the close was, for example, an accurate representation of the consensus. I see no problems whatsoever with Robertsky's closure. User3749 (talk) 09:20, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - So that something worthwhile comes from this review, perhaps editors with concerns about the appropriate use of the word massacre could review Category:Massacres_in_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict and its subcategory contents like List of massacres in the Palestinian territories and List of massacres in Israel to ensure that they comply with policy. Sean.hoyland (talk) 12:05, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • It seems that either we have a lot of inflammatory and non-neutral article titles, or we don't. starship.paint (RUN) 16:11, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment (uninvolved with move request, involved with article) - after the RM was opened, and even after the RM was closed, more sources, including non-English sources, have emerged to support the title "Flour massacre". I do not believe they were raised in the RM. CNN / Libération / Le Monde / KOMPAS TV / The Hankyoreh / Al-Ahram starship.paint (RUN) 16:07, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It should also be pointed out here that the original article title of "incident" was made by a non-EC user, in violation of
WP:RMUM reverted by another EC user. If it had gone by that title originally, I doubt anyone would've even suggested moving it to "incident", let alone get a consensus on doing so. --Gimmethegepgun (talk) 13:11, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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Additional comment:
WP:NOTCURRENTTITLE is essentially the same thing as BARTENDER, and is part of RMCI. It cautions against opening a Move Review in such a circumstance, instead endorsing the ability to open a new RM immediately if it is believed that the chosen title is incorrect (which robertsky noted in the closing comment). With this in mind, it seems to me that the scope of this review ought to be limited to whether there was consensus that it had to move somewhere, and whether the chosen destination was completely unreasonable --Gimmethegepgun (talk) 14:13, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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In the closing statement, Robertsky unambiguously said that there is a consensus to move to a title with 'massacre' in it rather than just that there is a consensus to move somewhere else away from the previous title. Also, in the last sentence, they also said that another RM could be opened only to discuss which of the possible 'massacre' titles to use. If the original closing statement is endorsed, then a new RM to move to a new title without 'massacre' would be considered as going against previous consensus and speedily closed. StellarHalo (talk) 07:16, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse (involved): The closer made an entirely reasonable call given the not just super but controlling majority of votes for some sort of move, per
Iskandar323 (talk) 12:53, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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COVID-19 lab leak theory (talk|edit|history|logs|links|archive|watch) (RM) (Discussion with closer)

Admin did not leave enough time to discuss this review. Users had shown support for the new move request in previous move request discussions. 72.222.92.103 (talk) 00:27, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User Bbb23 has threatened an editing block for filing this review request. 72.222.92.103 (talk) 03:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse (involved). The IP 2600:8804:6600:4:* created 3 RMs at Talk:COVID-19 lab leak theory in the last month, and didn't receive a single support !vote in any of the 3 RMs. Not a good use of editor time. –Novem Linguae (talk) 04:32, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Closer note - editors reviewing this request should note that the 2600:8804:6600:4:x:x:x:x and 72.222.x.x editors are the same person, and the 199.192.x.x editor is probably the same person as well.
I speedy closed this because the request is the third this editor posted on this article in less than two weeks and the fourth by the same editor since October, following a fifth by someone else in August 2023. That's five requests in a little over six months, and opposition was overwhelming in all of them. The filer's move request on 20 February was closed by Adumbrativus after the full 7 days, with several of the commenters expressing frustration at the frequency of the requests in spite of strong consensus for the current title. The filer posted another move request on 28 February (one day later); that request was removed (not closed, technically) by Novem Linguae who suggested waiting "a couple months" before making another request. The filer ignored that advice and re-posted the same request on 1 March (two days later). I speedy closed that request after a generous four days (to be clear I wasn't waiting - it was four days in when I came across it) when there were still no comments supporting the move, and I imposed a moratorium of one year because of the previous commenters expressing frustration with the repetitive move requests.
In review I see that Adumbrativus invited a move request on the question of whether or not to pluralize "theory" in the page title. I disagree: when Novem Linguae removed the 28 February move request they asked if any other editors wanted to continue the discussion, and the only response was to the effect of "please no, enough is enough". That suggests to me that the requests are disruptive, but others may have a different opinion on that. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 04:36, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse (involved). That Talk page is plagued with endless move requests which generate the same sort of discussion but which don't go anywhere (and which would make little meaningful difference to anything even if they did). Thanks to Ivanvector for stepping in to tamp down the disruption. Bon courage (talk) 05:41, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak endorse (uninvolved). I've looked over the talk page and page history briefly, and I agree that the repeated RMs were reaching the point of disruption; I don't blame the regular participants on the talk page for becoming exhausted by them, and I think that the issuance of a moratorium was appropriate in the situation. However, I'm not sure that a speedy close was appropriate for this particular discussion. Most of the repetitive RMs were pushing for the destination "COVID-19 lab leak conspiracy theory" (or near-identical titles); however, this latest RM advocated moving the page to "COVID-19 lab leak theories", pluralizing the last word and omitting any mention of conspiracies. This difference is pretty important, in my view: while there was effectively unanimous consensus against "conspiracy theory" language, there was more openness to the idea of "theories", with both Crossroads and Tewdar expressing some level of support for that formulation in the 20 February RM.
    I don't think anything would be gained by reopening the RM at this point – the talk page watchers are tired of RMs, after all, and the comments in the 1 March RM expressed nigh-unanimous and cogently argued opposition. However, if an analogous situation crops up in the future, I think it'd be better to let the last few days of the RM play out rather than speedy-closing. ModernDayTrilobite (talkcontribs) 17:15, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse I don't understand why the IP was blocked for posting the move review, though I think Ivanvector got this one exactly right. SportingFlyer T·C 23:05, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • As ModernDayTrilobite suggests, it's wrong to tie together the previous proposals for "conspiracy", which have been repeatedly rejected, with the latest proposal for pluralizing, which has not been the subject of any previous RM. I assume it was a good faith request. As a genuinely different proposal, it was entitled to a discussion on the merits, a discussion which did not require a pre-discussion discussion to obtain prior consent of other involved "boldly closing" editors. Thanks to SilverLocust for the reasoned argument – I endorse the not-moved outcome. Adumbrativus (talk) 05:52, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse (uninvolved). Looking through the recent move requests, it appears to me that the frequency of RMs was reaching a point of disruptiveness from the IP editor, whether intentional or not, and each previous RM generated consensus against a move. While other editors observe a difference between the initial "conspiracy theory" request and the new plural "theories" request, Ivanvector noted that this request was a duplicate of one that had generated no input whatsoever after four days. The IP editor was told to not resubmit a move request, and yet another one was resubmitted not long after. I see no reason to relist or otherwise overturn. --Delta1989 (talk) (contributions) 15:33, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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