Loading AI tools
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hello Anonimu. Just an FYI, the 5% rule is only for single-candidate elections – it doesn't apply to parliamentary ones. Cheers, Number 57 18:03, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Just wanted to mention that you have reverted two attempts by two different users including me at renaming the page Irina Walker. Note that there have been no previous RMs for this page and you are the only person who has been opposing the move. Do you have a specific reason or are you just asking for a discussion to take place? Keivan.fTalk 22:53, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
You mentioned on the AfD that you're planning on proposing the sisters for deletion. If you do, and they end up at AfD, please let me know. --JBL (talk) 15:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
It’s been about a week since the article on Irina has been deleted. As JBL stated, I was wondering if you were still willing to have the articles about the other two sisters nominated as well, since you argued they had a similar level of notability and I’m sure we don’t wish to discriminate between the sisters. Keivan.fTalk 16:38, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. tgeorgescu (talk) 12:24, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
The sattelite imagery showed, and overwhelmingly so, that this has occured.
Chesapeake77 (talk) 01:02, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Aren't you under a 1RR restriction on anything related to Russia? Volunteer Marek 22:01, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.. Volunteer Marek 22:06, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
I've looked into it and it looks like you are under a general 1RR restriction (as well as civility parole and an injunction to "act impeccably"). AFAICT these restrictions were never removed nor were they limited only to Balkan area. Please observe them. Volunteer Marek 07:01, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Comments on user behavior are off limits on article Talk pages. Article talk pages are restricted to discussion of how to improve the article. I've collapsed a portion of a discussion you initiated at Talk:War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, because it was exclusively about user behavior. If you need to raise a behavioral issue concerning a user, please start by addressing them at their User talk page, where such discussions are appropriate. In addition, the section header you chose violated several of the recommendations at WP:TALKHEADPOV, including (bold in the original): Don't criticize in headings, Don't address other users in a heading and Never use headings to attack other users. I've reverted the section header to what it was Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 07:33, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
Based on your comments in the discussion you initiated at Talk:War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, may I suggest you re-read the page on WP:Vandalism, because I think you're under some misconceptions about what it is and is not. Here's a Gedankenexperiment for you:
A Russian soldier's grandfather living in Magnitogorsk consumes only official Russian press and TV news, and vigorously supports the governmental line about the war. He is active at Wikipedia (having worked for a few years as an attaché at the Washington embassy in the late 50s under Khrushchev), and is going around to all the articles related to the Ukraine war, pulling out numerous western sources because they are specifically labeled "fakes" in the Russian media, and substituting propaganda from Russian news, and other friendly sources, completely tilting the articles from their former neutral state, to nothing but a totally biased, one-sided whitewash, and pure, pro-Russian account of the war, which he earnestly believes to be exactly what is happening in Ukraine after he has removed all the "pro-western fake news". After all, it's all he hears, and he wants everyone to know the truth. Is he a vandal?
Answer: No. That does not fit the definition of a vandal. Here's an excerpt from WP:Vandalism:
"On Wikipedia, vandalism has a very specific meaning: editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia."
Did you know, for example, that "Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism." As long as an editor is attempting to improve Wikipedia in good faith, "their edits are not vandalism, even if they violate some core policy of Wikipedia."
In several of your edits at the Talk:War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, you ascribe "vandalism" to an editor's actions at the article:
These four edits constitute repeated accusations of vandalism against another editor, at the wrong venue, and without supporting evidence. Whatever you think of the quality of their content, this editor is clearly acting to improve the article, and the encyclopedia. You may entirely disagree with the article content this editor wishes to include in the article, which is fine; methods of dispute resolution exist to help resolve content disputes, and the article Talk page is the right place to talk that out. But your accusations of vandalism are doubly wrong there: first, because they don't belong on an article talk page at all (wrong venue; use the User talk page for that), and secondly, because of your mistaken idea of what constitutes vandalism at Wikipedia.
If upon reflection, you now believe the other editor's actions do not constitute vandalism, you could WP:REDACT your comments by striking them out, like this (unfortunately edit summary text cannot be changed). If you still believe you have identified vandalism at the article, then you are free to raise it in a neutral manner at the editor's user talk page, incorporating WP:DIFFs as evidence to support your allegations. However, please refrain from making any further comments about other editors' motivations or editing behavior on an article Talk page, and most especially, please refrain from accusations of vandalism at the article Talk page. A pattern of unfounded accusations may be seen as WP:DISRUPTIVE, or a personal attack. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 09:03, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
@Mathglot: He's been here since 2005, he knows what vandalism is and what it isn't. He's also on civility parole and subject to 1RR (these restrictions have never been lifted) which were imposed as conditions of removing his indefinite ban. Volunteer Marek 09:07, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
The malicious removal of encyclopedic content, or the changing of such content beyond all recognition, without any regard to our core content policies of neutral point of view (which does not mean no point of view), verifiability and no original research, is a deliberate attempt to damage Wikipedia.
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
You are also subject to a 1RR restriction. Volunteer Marek 21:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Volunteer Marek 23:47, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
The following topic ban now applies to you:
Editing or discussing anything to do with the WP:ARBEE topic area, including Russia or Ukraine, broadly construed.
You have been sanctioned per an April 11 AE report (permalink). It demonstrates tendentious editing which is alarming and discreditable. And has no place on the English Wikipedia.
This topic ban is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. Please read WP:TBAN to understand what a topic ban is. If you do not comply with the topic ban, you may be blocked for an extended period to enforce the ban.
If you wish to appeal the ban, please read the appeals process. You are free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you. El_C 01:54, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.