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[edit] User:Berks
The above user has been stalking me on a number of articles which I have started and developed over the last few weeks. This has led to an edit war which is annoying beyond all measure. He has obviously categorised me as difficult and inflexible, and on a number of occasions has stated that I am not worth talking to. I feel that his following me and changing articles as they are being written, is more than any reasonable person should be expected to endure. Besides Hermann Eckstein which was started a few hours ago, he has edited among others - sometimes constructively, often maliciously - George Albu, Lionel Phillips, Lady Phillips. I feel that I am being deliberately targeted by Berks and cannot work under these conditions. For a list of articles I have started please see my home page. Some help and intervention would be appreciated. Paul venter 13:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- In order to avoid discussion forking, it should be noted that this situation has already been commented on above (look up about 9 sections). Please leave all future comments there. Thank you. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 14:44, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] User:B9 hummingbird hovering
Marks almost every edit made as minor. When cautioned about it It's not vandalism, per se, but has, in past content disputes, been seen as a dishonest way of pushing unsourced POV material into article so it won't be noticed. retorted (their words) with an accusation of offensiveness. Continues, after being asked not to mark additions of information as minor, to mark them as minor.--Vidkun 13:46, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- Well you did kinda hint he was being sneaky. I would probably have taken offense too. I left him a polite note on his talk page telling him how to turn it off in his preferences. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn
[edit] Another WP:BLP case
This stems from an OTRS complaint.
was stated in the article on to have been a member of Heritage Front, a white supremacist organisation; therefore she was stated to be a white supremacist, and Canadian Heritage Alliance was stated to be a white supremacist organisation. Uninvited Company stubbed it, but it still contained a stray weasel word, and of the two sources one is 404, one seems pretty trivial, and the other looks like a piece of investigative journalism which is, functionally, the sole source for either.
Problem 1: Guille denies ever having been a member of the Heritage Front. Others have also denied this.
Problem 2: Although it is stated that Guille was to appear on charges [1], there is no other coverage of this that I can find, and no evidence of a conviction.
Problem 3: I set out to rewrite the Guille article from scratch, but with fewer than 900 Google hits (including mirrors) and zero on GNews or Factiva I could not actually find any neutral sources from which to draw.
Problem 4: As problem 3, but for Canadian Heritage Alliance, and the number of ghits is below 600.
Truthfully, I'd vote to keep these at AfD based on the sources originally cited and because of my natural bias against racists, but I am having a really hard time finding anything which indicates notability of these subjects. I'm pretty confident that if I heard her speak I would cheerfully pelt her with rotten fruit, but despite my liberal tendencies I can't see that as a reason for maintaining an article. Guy (Help!) 14:23, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] User:Soroush vs and 89.165.58.9
On 300 (film)'s talk page we're having a struggle with User:Soroush vs and anon IP 89.165.58.9, both of which I'm assuming is the same person (seeing as how they are both posting the same message), but I may be wrong. They are continuously spamming the talk page, even after several warnings, with the same message. Despite being repeatedly told that the talk page is not a forum, this article does receive a lot of forum-ish additions, but this user has, by my count, copy and pasted the same message more than six times after having been reverted, and has likewise added innappropriate comments about the movie (not the article) in the past. Some help would be appreciated. María: (habla conmigo) 15:11, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- You've already given a level 3/4 warning to the non-anon so I think that's fine if you keep increasing it. The best thing to do, however, would be to ask the user why he/she is continuously posting that information again and again. x42bn6 Talk 15:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Attribution/Poll
Per comments on the Talk page here, and in other locales, it appears groups of editors are specifically against Jimbo's specifically requested public poll to gauge thoughts/support on the idea of the ATT merger. As it has been stated that the Poll is "dead" per users such as User:WAS 4.250, I am nominating this. If there is wide spread support to run this poll, this page should be kept. The MfD is here:
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Attribution/Poll
Thank you. - Denny 16:17, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- Glad that was speedy closed. No one is forced to participate in a poll, but editors shouldn't try to go against those that do want to participate. You have been played into submitting the poll for deletion and derailling the whole proces. Here's a rule of thumb: if you don't want something deleted, don't nominate it. --Edokter (Talk) 17:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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- I realized afterwards that those who want to stop the poll had unwittingly manipulated me into doing that. - Denny 18:14, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Huh?! You saw discussion regarding the possibility of not taking the poll "live," so you ran off and nominated the whole thing for deletion (despite the fact that you didn't want to delete it, nor did anyone else). —David Levy 18:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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On that note, good luck with this poll. I'm going on to work on completely different things for now and won't be editing these pages again except to state my desires when the poll does go live. - Denny 19:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Guess that didn't last long.El_C 18:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- My faith in my peers having the common sense to let everyone finally voice their opinion in one place, with everyone being notified, won out. - Denny 18:14, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Outside of MfD, thankfuly. El_C 18:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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- "Let everyone finally voice their opinion in one place"?! You forked the discussion into yet another vote on a separate page!
- Your argument is a straw man, given the fact that no one is attempting to silence discussion or prevent adequate notification. Only the format is under debate. —David Levy 18:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Since getting involved with this really my only concern is that 1) every or theoretically as many users get shown this thing for at least a week, so no one misses it for being out of WP a day or three; 2) everyone gets to see and read everyone's thoughts on ATT in one centralized place. Whether we call it a poll, rfc, or whatever, is meaningless. Basically, people are entitled to voice their support or displeasure at this point in one centralized place. - Denny 18:28, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] User:CarlHewitt revisited
I'd like a second opinion as to whether suspected sock puppet 2ndMouse (talk • contribs) is violating Carl's RfAr in multiple edits of concurrent programming articles, mostly adding Carl's articles and re-adding his POV. As I've actually made substantive edits in (some) of the articles, I don't think I'm the one to block. Please feel free to edit the {{user}} template to a more appropriate template if it adds appropriate links. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 16:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sockpuppet attack - range block?
After this sockpuppet army attack by Shuppiluliuma (talk • contribs), involving mass uploads of unfree images, and most recently this: [2], I'm considering a range block. Takers, anybody? We are dealing with two blocks of /16 each, for starters. He has apparently enough wheathered accounts to sit through semiprotection of his articles. Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- I support it. That said, I suspect complaints will be raised about blocking 131,072 IP addresses. It's worth trying to contact the ISP first though this has never worked for me. --Yamla 16:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Microsoft
Can an admin pls fix this? It was moved to Micropoop and Microcrap, then blanked, and it appears that, without admin tools, I can't fix it. I don't know how/where to find the article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. Am I correct that admin tools were needed to undo that, or should I have been able to do it? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Fixed. And also Xbox 360 moved by by the same account User:Falcon866, who seems to have previously been a good contributor. His account may have been compromised. Anyone familiar with this user? There is an email enabled- perhaps I should contact him.... WjBscribe 17:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- I just denied his first unblock request, but do what you will if he responds in a way you deem worthy of unblocking, and preferably if you can get a bit of consensus to do so. My view: I see a history of off-and-on vandalism, including previous pagemove vandalism. If this account is compromised, it should be blocked. If this user is interspersing good edits with vandalism in order to game the system, it should be blocked. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 17:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Agree as well. The March 10 A-Rod to Gay-Rod is too recent. I'm not convinved on the moves to The Naked Brothers Band either; it seems that the original disambiguation page made sense. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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- And then there's User:66.30.157.82, whose autoblock affected Falcon866 (User_talk:Falcon866/Archive_1). Looks like the user. There may be more instances of this occurring... -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 17:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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