User:Pmanderson/Preston Brooks
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I trust the following, from WP:UBD was intended as a joke :
- Where did you get that idea from?! This is to confirm if templates were correctly deleted under T1. A template can easily be T1 and still have people in here clamoring for its undeletion; we have some real lunatic MySpacers in here who are voting "undelete" on everything. We're basically just ignoring them. But we don't appreciate other people going along with them for some kind of weird process wonkery reasons. --Cyde Weys 19:11, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[1]
Nevertheless, an admin who declares
- "our" intention to ignore a part of the voices on one side of an issue
- and "our" lack of appreciation for other arguments on that issue
should really not be closing or kibitzing such debates. Someone might take him seriously.
Doc suggested two interpretations of the "we" here. There is another one; [2] Cyde is an editor; although he doesn't seem to have done much with article text lately. There was a time when he thought there were more imprtant things he could contribute to the encyclopedia than fighting the UserBox Wars. [3][4] which also demonstrates his one-time conviction that Process is Important for admins. Perhaps he will recollect himself.
- I decided not to post this; the offending message is gone now, and the discussion in question closed. But then I ran across Wikipedia:Deletion review/Automobile and Motor Manufacturer CFD, which suggests Cyde may not have been joking.
- There was a Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_24#Automobile_manufacturers_categories CfD about renaming categories of automobile manufacturers by country.
- Fairly early on, a amendment was suggested, making the categories for the UK and the Dominions Motor manufacturers instead. It got a sound majority; I would count it 7-2-2.
- Cyde did the renaming, making all the cats Automobile manufacturers instead.
- When asked about it, he cited a slogan of his own, that Consistency is God as though it were policy; all this for an Anglo-American usage dispute.
- There was a Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_24#Automobile_manufacturers_categories CfD about renaming categories of automobile manufacturers by country.
- This is no way for an admin to behave. Septentrionalis 04:45, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Joseph McCarthy
ArbCom Wikipedia:Requests for Arbitration/Ultramarine decided that Democratic peace theory should be edited by consensus. I did not edit it until Robdurbar invited me to do so; I was away from Wikipedia some of that time. I intentionally avoided my past edits, concentrating on clarifying, shortening, and expanding the text I found (as the empty left half of this diff will show). I once accidentally [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_peace_theory&diff=35287790&oldid=35285151 deleted\ a section, but I [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_peace_theory&diff=35290231&oldid=35289375 put it back in a few minutes, in conflict with Rob's reversion.
Ultramarine has now come back; his only edits for the last four weeks have been the recent imposition of five dispute tags. He has been reluctant to justify them on Talk; and when he has done so, all his explanations have been that the present text differs from the edit he made back on 7 November. Reverting to this would erase several other editors' contributions as well as my own.
He has threatened to use the arbcom decision to keep the tags there.
I request intervention; I would prefer mediation.
[edit] Doubtful claims of Ultramarine
Unfortunately, such inexactitude is not confined to this page (in his most recent claims it ascends to misstatement of fact [7]; as Mr. West [8] and I [9] have both attempted to explain to Ultramarine, the substance of that section is included in the collaborative version here. But Ultramarine can accept no phrasing but his own. )
Ultramarine misreads also the sources he himself brings to the discussion. Mr. West had to remonstrate with him several times on Democratic peace theory. 23:42 13 August 200517:13 22 August. On Criticisms of communism, Ultramarine insisted [Talk:Criticisms_of_communism#Life_expectancy][ on sourcing expansive statements on late Soviet alcoholism on a single source[10] with a single sentence on the subject:
- On an individual level, alcohol consumption is strongly implicated in being at least partially responsible for many of these trends.
M. Tudoreanu is about right in describing this as "maybe, we think, perhaps alcohol consumption could be a factor" lower edit.
(ArbCom does not need to decide the content dispute here; Western newspapers were full of anecdotal accounts of late Soviet alcoholism - but any of them would a better source than this.)
[edit] Editing with Ultramarine
From Talk:Criticisms of communism:
[edit] 23 July
- 15:00, 23 July 2005 (UTC) [11]
- Ultramarine suggests a long paragraph on Communist pollution
- 15:17 and 15:40 23 July 2005 [12]
- Mihnea includes it in Criticisms of communism, except one sentence, and a mention of the Caspian Sea.
- 15:28, 23 July 2005 (UTC) [13]
- Ultramarine complains
- 16:01, 23 July 2005 [14]
- Mihnea supplies the demanded sources
- 16:17, 23 July 2005 [15]
- Mihnea explains exclusion of the Caspian Sea....disappeared, since it hasn't.
- 16:28, 23 July 2005 [16]
- Ultramarine complains that the source proving the Caspian Sea still exists are out of date (believe it or not)
- 17;28 23 July 2005 [17]
- I propose a compromise on the Caspian (which is accepted).
- I oppose Ultramarine's last sentence, which is:
- Many of the rivers were polluted; several were virtually ecologically dead
- as redundant, and virtually is a weaselword; but if included, I will dispute it, not reject it.
- 19:02, 23 July 2005 [18]
- Ultramarine threatens to "have the page protected, using my version".
[edit] 17 August
- 20:06 [19]
- Ultramarine makes page protection request.
[edit] 20 August
- 05:30, 20 August 2005 (UTC) [20]
- Ultramarine makes a list of demands, including the sentence above
- 20:19, 20 August 2005 (UTC) [21]
- I repeat my objections, and the promise not to revert it.
[edit] 22 August
- 17:48 [22]
- The page is protected
- 17:49 and 23:01 22 Ausust 2005 [23]
- Robert West defends the sentence, at least in part
[edit] 26 Ausust
- 13:43, 26 August 2005 [24]
- Ultramarine finally cites his source, which is a paper on Cuba
- 15:46, 26 August 2005 [25]
- I comment that the sentence is cut-and-paste from a paper on Cuba.
[edit] 27 August
- 07:24, 27 August 2005 [26]
- Robert West asks for a more precise phrasing for any sentence on river pollution
[edit] 28 August
- 20:18, 28 August 2005 [27]
- I suggest an alternate sentence (which is not cut-and-paste; it summarizes several paragraphs from a paper on Poland in 1990:
- The Vistula was poisoned with mining spoil, agricultural runoff, and sewage; its fish were inedible, its waters green with algae; much of its water was useless for man or beast.
- I suggest an alternate sentence (which is not cut-and-paste; it summarizes several paragraphs from a paper on Poland in 1990:
[edit] 30 August
- 15:43, 30 August 2005 [28]
- Ultramarine insists on his sentence
[edit] 14 September
- 23:24, 14 September 2005 [29]
- and insists....
All this over one and a half sentences, which Ultramarine could have included in the collaborative version at any time; at least till he himself had the page protected. He conducts every discussion in this style. I hope that ArbCom will consider this as mitigation of anybody's annoyance with Ultramarine.
[edit] Time line
I have changed format for brevity. Most of this evidence seems to me to come under one of two heads:
- "So what? What charge is this evidence for?"
- Incomplete quotation; in which case I have put the quotation in full.
- 15 January 2005: A long dispute between 172 and me starts regarding whether the article Communism should have any mention of the large scale human rights violations that occurred [30].
- If this is evidence for anything, it is for a charge against User:172, who is not a party to this arbitration. Both versions of Criticisms of communism certainly discuss human rights violations. I've edited Communism only once (and IIRC 172 reverted my edit), so I can't comment further.
- 15 February 2005: I start editing Democratic peace theory [31].
- 31 May 2005:Mihnea Tudoreanu starts editing Democratic peace theory [32] .
- Mihnea did one compound edit [33];Ultramarine reverted most of it fifteen and twenty minutes later [34][35]; and Mihnea never edited the page again. page history
- 3 June 2005 Septentrionalis/Pmanderson starts editing Democratic peace theory [36].
- 6 June 2005 Robert A West starts editing the talk page of Democratic peace theory [37].
- All three of these get a "so what?"
- 8 June 2005 Frivolous accusations by Septentrionalis of copyvivo in order to remove arguments [38].
- "Substantial stretches of word-for-word duplication will not do. Please read the policies and put the article into compliance. (For all I know, it was non-compliant when you began to edit it. This is not an exercise in casting blame. ) Septentrionalis 22:03, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) "
- This is not removal; it was a recommendation that Ultramarine rephrase.
- 23 June 2005 Septentrionalis adds the 2V template to Democratic peace theory [39].
- So what?
- 172 now again tries to completely remove all criticisms from the Communism article. When this fails [41], he creates the Criticisms of communism article and moves the material there [42].
- Again, not a charge against any party to this arbitration.
- Discussions and edits on Democracy regarding the role of capitalism. Repeated deletions of referenced facts [43].
- Ultramarine does not seem to recognize that a discussion can be factual and still PoV.
- 19 July 2005 172 sends a personal message to Slimvirgin regarding the 3RR [44].
- So what?
- 20 July 2005 Slimvirgin blocks me fours day after the initial request [45]. 172 thanks Slimvirgin for the block [46].
- Poor Ultramarine! If politeness proves two people are plotting, what a dreary world he must live in.
- 20 July 2005 Spontaneous page protection of Democracy without request [47].
- The page was protected because of the edit war resulting in 3RR violations.
- RFC against me by Mihnea Tudoreanu [48]. 172, Septentrionalis, and Robert A West participated in the planing before the RfC, in part by using email for things too sensitive for the talk pages.
- In fact, this is false; 172 wrote the RFC himself. But so what? We have private emails to talk privately.
- Apparently they filed the RfC while I was blocked so that I should have no chance to make an initial response "You MUST leave a note on Ultramarine's talk page ASAP informing him of the RfC; since he's blocked, he can't do anything about it" [49][50].
- False: I urged Mihnea to fulfill a formal requirement, even though Ultramarine would not (in this case) benefit from the formality: "You MUST leave a note on Ultramarine's talk page ASAP informing him of the RfC; since he's blocked, he can't do anything about it, but he will he justified in complaining if you don't Septentrionalis 00:18, 21 July 2005 (UTC)"
- 21 July 2005 I add the Two-version template to Criticisms of communism [51].
- Since {{twoversions}} is not user-imposable page protection, so what?
- 26 July 2005: Septentrionalis states that it was first now, two months after the start of the dispute, that he had read a basic review paper of the DPT that I had repeatedly pointed out and admits drawing conclusions without checking my sources [52].
- 27 July 2005 When I commented on Septentrionalis statement [53], he changes to that he had read the review earlier but that "the memory blurred" [54].
- So what? I made a mistake and admitted it.
- 27 July 2005 I add referenced critical facts to Vladimir Lenin which previously was clinically free from any [55]. This as usual starts a series of summary deletions, involving among other Mihnea Tudoreanu and 172 [56][57]. I request and get page protection [58]. This finally starts a factual discussion [59]. The article now has some critical content.
- Irrelevant, again.
- 27 July 2005 172 is blocked for 3RR violation reported by me [60]. 172 sends new personal message to Slimvirgin [61]. After a long discussion, 172 is unblocked.
- 172 still isn't part of this arbitration; neither is SlimVirgin. 172 was unblocked by Mackensen, as the discussion linked to will show. All admins (including Carbonite, who blocked) agreed that Ultramarine's case was weak, because 172 had reverted to different texts. In brief, so what?
- 2 August 2005 On Wikipedia:Peer review Septentrionalis deceptively claims to be a neutral mediator of Criticisms of communism. We had at that time already been in dispute over the DPT article for two months [62].
- Misquotation: What I said was: "I looked at the article in an effort to mediate this dispute", which effort I did make; it even got Ultrmarine to stop edit-warring for a couple weeks.
- 14 August 2005
Robert A West , Mihnea Tudoreanu, and Septentrionalis reach a "consensus" between the three of them regarding Criticisms of communism. They ignore that a poll should not be used for "fact finding", make no attempt to let their straw poll be known outside the talk page, like on RfC or Wikipedia:Current surveys, and make no attempt to reach a consensus regarding the nature of the poll, as required on Wikipedia:Survey guidelines. Thereafter they refuse to discuss the facts, delete the 2V tag, and simply keeps mass reverting to their preferred version [63][64]. This despite Wikipedia:Consensus and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not: "Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy. Its primary method of finding consensus is discussion, not voting. In difficult cases, straw polls may be conducted to help determine consensus, but are to be used with caution and not to be treated as binding votes."
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- The evidence for an actually existing consensus is presented in /evidence#consensus.
- 18 August 2005 RFA [sic] against me by Septentrionalis. I add counter-charges and include Mihnea Tudoreanu and Robert A West [65]. After this Mihnea Tudoreanu and somewhat later Robert A West have almost completely avoided disputes with me, the burden of which seems to have fallen almost entirely on Septentrionalis. Factual discussions resume for a while on Criticisms of communism after my counter-charges.
- The claim of a break of discussion on Talk:Criticisms of communism is a lie. There were over a hundred edits on 15-17 August, almost all of them substantive and most of those by the majority.
- 22 August 2005 Page protection of Criticisms of communism after request by me. As clearly stated, this was due to the continued deletions of the 2V tag, not in order to win the debate with my version on top, as they continue to insinuate [66].
- See /Evidence#page protection. Ultramarine did threaten to have the page protected with his version; and he requested such protection.
- 24 August 2005 Robert A West states to one the members of the Arbitration Committee "Since I did not initiate the action, and was not named as a party by Septentrionalis, I am not sure exactly what this means." [67]. In fact, he was one of the authors of the RFA against me and he and Septentrionalis carefully coordinated their actions, even if only Septentrionalis presented it. My counter-charges were however not part of their plan [68][69][70].
- Mr. West's statement is perfectly true. I posted the RfAr myself and was prepared to have Ultramarine and myself the only parties at risk. Since I had to discuss the actions of editors not party, I consulted them so as to say nothing about them they disputed, which seemed only fair.
- 7 September 2005 Uncivil edit summaries by Septentrionalis
"Updating 2v for his latest dead pigeon" [71]. "restore collaborative version over unilateral PoV rant" [72].
- 9 September 2005 Uncivil edit summaries by Septentrionalis "rv fraudulent superstition" [73].
"Revert from incomplete inaccurate and dishonest piece of Rummel-worship" [74].
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- And his edit remains all those things, although I should have kept my temper.
- 7 September 2005 Septentrionalis criticizes a reference style that my version no longer has [75], showing that he has poor understanding of what he blankly reverts and criticizes, which he also admits [76]. My latest version at the time [77]. He has still not corrected the problem he inaccurately criticizes my version for in his own version.
- Not, I admit, the first of my priorities.
- Septentrionalis deliberately lies regarding my "practice" [78], he is for example well aware that I have not requested that my version should be on top after page protection [79].
- The full list of "Ultramarine's practices" was this:
- First, the list of proposed changes, which he expects other editors to implement. Wikipedia expects its editors to be bold with such changes, especially a list of local changes; Wikipedia then expects editors to accept that they will be edited mercilessly in return.
- Ultramarine consistently chooses to do neither of these. The reason may not be beyond conjecture; but I couldn't possibly comment. Instead he
- repeatedly demands the same text; even when it is deprecated by consensus or is a cut-and-paste copyvio
- insists that "his" text is "correct", being from peer-reviewed articles — even when it is being deprecated for some other reason, like PoV or style.
- insists that the "enemies of liberal democracy" are censoring the Truth.
- sets up his own PoV fork of the article.
- claims {{twoversions}} is a form of protection.
- persistently reverts to "his" "correct" version
- demands actual page protection, with "his version on top", on account of the one-man edit war he been engaged in.
- No one else seems to have taken this last point as a claim that Ultramarine in fact demanded "his version" on RfPP; and I have acknowledged elsewhere that he didn't. I observe that he denies none of the other points.
- The full list of "Ultramarine's practices" was this:
Uncivil comments by Septentrionalis [80] [81].
- 16 September 2005 Septentrionalis on Democracy claims to be "centrist" [82] and that it is thus not the extreme left and right who are criticizing liberal democracy. This despite his blank denials of referenced facts on Criticisms of communism and his blank refusal to admit any consequence for Marxist theory of the real-world failures of the Communist states. His insistence on a very rigid Marxist interpretation of history has been commented on before by other editors [83] [84].
- See Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Ultramarine/Evidence#Evidence_presented_by_Dejvid, the editor quoted, who says "had Utramarine done more than skim thru the discussion then he would have seen that nature of the disagreement was 180 degrees away from how he, Ultramarine, has presented it." I shall return to this point.
- idem On Russian famine of 1921 he has removed negative facts and added an inaccurate apology [85] and in a dispute with another editor argued that it is doubtful that even the Holodomor was a genocide [86][87].
- see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Ultramarine/Evidence#16_September_2005_2 for evidence on this.
[edit] 18 September 2005
Septentrionalis continues to refer to a "consensus" on Democratic peace theory as an excuse for mass deletion of referenced facts and arguments [88]. In fact, there have never even been a straw poll and other editors have disagreed with his version [89][90].
[edit] 21 September 2005
Septentrionalis edits Wikipedia:Consensus [91].
[edit] 22 September 2005
Septentrionalis adds his initial RFA to this page [92] after I had written my response and then states "Ultramarine appears to have left these charges unaddressed, except two: that he threatened to have Criticisms of communism protected "with his version on top", and that he is failing to recognize consensus against him." He deceptively does not add my response to his initial RFA [93].
[edit] 23 September 2005
Examination of one of Septentrionalis few sources, a book where he as usual refuses to give page numbers or quotes, shows no support for his claim, which thus appears to be a deliberate fabrication [94].
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Please fully protect. Single editor performing massive deletions of sourced material; of which these edits are only the latest. More at Talk:Democratic peace theory#Deletions of sourced material. Septentrionalis 21:06, 7 April 2006 (UTC) See also
- 18:47, 2 April 2006
- See Talk:Democratic peace theory#1 for a discussion of the issue here; this is also editing against consensus.
- 22:55, 3 April 2006 **shorter than the others, but in the process he attached the footnotes to the wrong sentences.
- 04:17, 4 April 2006
Septentrionalis is selectively including very old studies as a straw man for the theory. While excluding recent supporting research, see User:Ultramarine/sandbox4. The article needs to be trimmed from excessive details from studies done in the 70s and 80s, which also outside observers agree on.Ultramarine 21:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- All the more reason for protection, isn't it? Septentrionalis 21:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- Ultramarine's trimmings are of anything opposed to his point of view, which is that of three extreme writers. Any effort to present a wider scope of those who support the democratic peace is immediately removed. Septentrionalis 21:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- I think anyone who tries to read and understand Septentrionalis text and compare it to the modern reserach will agree that it needs a massive rewrite. Again, see User:Ultramarine/sandbox4. Ultramarine 21:48, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- My general point is that views of most researchers and their studies and arguments are not farily represented. It should also be noted that Septentrionalis has on several other articles constantly tried to exclude well-sourced advantages of democracy and related research. See for example this, where he deletes every sourced advantage of liberal democracy while keeping many claimed unsourced disadvantages.[95] Or this, where he completely deletes the painstakingly made table regarding world-wide democracy from Freedom House.[96]Ultramarine 21:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- Ultramarine's trimmings are of anything opposed to his point of view, which is that of three extreme writers. Any effort to present a wider scope of those who support the democratic peace is immediately removed. Septentrionalis 21:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- Ultramarine's failure to understand that he cannot simply cut-and-paster whole paragraphs from different sources is another question. Freedom House is a collecttion of plagiarisms from their own website, but it doesn't need protection; it isn't getting worse.Septentrionalis 22:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Regarding Septentrionalis only supporter, Robert A West, he is real-world friend or relative of Septentrionalis. See their extensive collaborative editing of numerous Baron West and Earl De La Warr. They have extremely deep knowledge about this particular aristocratic family. Ultramarine 22:07, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- So what? As Robert West wrote when this last came up[97]: "So, which of us is being smeared? And for what? Ultramarine, do you have a point?"
This has been presented to WP:ANI, but I am reviving the request here because the removals are continuing, and ANI has not yet acted.
