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This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on

This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Allow private schools to be characterized as non-affiliated as well as religious, in infobox?

Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

Note: I am informing everyone who commented on the above RfCs, whether they supported or opposed the final consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:31, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Another RfA?

Are you really looking to go through Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Abecedare 3. As much as I think a third unanimous RfA would be unique in WP's history, I don't think it's necessary, so please come back and edit! —SpacemanSpiff 07:02, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

request article or redirect,

 Article title: Business Owner, Eng. Yasir I. Kashgari,

I would like to request article, or redirect, 

and the content could be reffered at:

https://article.wn.com/view/2017/07/28/Eng_Yasir_I_Kashgari_Business_Owner/ https://sites.google.com/site/ykashgari/ http://ykashgari.webs.com/ http://businesscase.webs.com/

The content is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png" /></a>
Business Owner, Eng. Yasir I. Kashgari ... by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="https://www.yaserkashgari.wix.com/ykashgari#!welcome/c12if" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Eng. Yasir I. Kashgari</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>.
Based on a work at <a xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" href="https://www.yaserkashgari.wix.com/ykashgari#!welcome/c12if" rel="dct:source">https://www.yaserkashgari.wix.com/ykashgari#!welcome/c12if</a>.

Not arab, Not muslims ... 

 Yasir I. Kashgari  20:26, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Precious four years!

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:40, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, stranger

Who is this stranger I see before me? Long time, no see. - Sitush (talk) 00:59, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

@Sitush: Hey yourself! Just happened to stop by INB that day and was delighted to see posts by RP and you - shows this corner of wikipedia is still in good hands. Hope you all are doing well offline too. Too busy at the moment to resume daily editing, but will try and stop by a bit more regularly. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 15:58, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
@Abecedare: Good to see you again, after a long time!, Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 16:47, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
@Ms Sarah Welch: Thanks Sarah. Hope you are doing well too! Abecedare (talk) 17:46, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Abecedare

Thanks for informing me about the mistake i did while editing the official languages of india, sorry for my misunderstanding i'm glad there are people who check the edits correctly, thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Proudmaratha (talk • contribs) 06:56, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

@Proudmaratha: While it is good that you realize the problem with your edit to the Official language article, unfortunately your other edits continue to be problematic. For example, your recent three additions to Prakrit related article, in which you added content unsupported by any source and in one case contradicted by a source that was already present. You also appear to be using a sock account, Theiitian (talk · contribs) to edit-war once your earlier edits were reverted. If such disruption does not stop, you are likely to be blocked from editing. Abecedare (talk) 14:21, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Ciao, Abecedare: FLAG OF INDIA

Source for color values: INKSCAPE.

Use "Fill and stroke" option in INKSCAPE on SVG flag sections. (User: FDRMRZUSA; 07 July 2018) — Preceding unsigned comment added by FDRMRZUSA (talk • contribs)

@FDRMRZUSA: That's enterprising!
Unfortunately though, it is unlikely to pass the WP:RS/WP:NOR standards. The method assumes that you have an uncompressed flag image that can be guaranteed to meet the prescribed standards exactly (I assume you did the analysis on flag images downloaded from wikipedia, which arguably runs into problem of circular sourcing) Also, although I don't know if this is true for Indian or other country flags, I have seen color prescription for logos that differ depending upon the medium they to be are published in (eg, print vs screen), and this method would miss that too. But kudos on the initiative. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 17:02, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Hello

I came here through your post on my talk page. Pls mention which edit you referred . It would serve me great . ARKA 05:56, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Request: Please add a semi protect status to Wikipedia:Translation/Discussion and it's sub pages. ARKA 06:04, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

@Dr. Sroy: Sorry, had missed your second note here. In any case, semi-protecting the page you created would not be appropriate since there has been no disruption there and barring that, we don't want to prevent anyone from making good-faith edits at the venue.
An unrelated suggestion: could you take it a bit slow and edit existing wikipedia articles to familiarize yourself with content policies and processes, before creating new articles and starting now forums in project space? Abecedare (talk) 05:46, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
:OK I WILL SEE!

but since i was over interested in translating pages ( and got no good platform ) i created the project page ( which i believe to be simpler ) and invited editors to translate. also there exists a discussion ! the project has started and is active now! but it is now an mfd page :( on the accuse of

  • i had <500 edits
  • broader trans wiki already exists

(but not concentrated to the purpose of translation , i feel!)

ARKA (talk) 06:48, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

unrelated to here: please help me to install twinkle

ARKA (talk) 06:55, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

@Dr. Sroy: To install Twinkle, go to your User Preferences and in the Gadget tab, under the Browsing section, check the box for Twinkle. Abecedare (talk) 23:34, 11 July .(UTC)
@Abecedare: But unfortunately , it's already checked ! Moreover I am operating from a mobile... So, even after using Google chrome I can't perform "Press Ctrl-Shift-R (⌘-Shift-R on a Mac)" here!

I tried hard but I can't figure out how to bypass my cache. Please help.

ARKA (talk) 05:20, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

@Dr. Sroy: try posting your query at WP:VP/T. Be sure to include information about your mobile OS, browser, whether you are looking at the mobile or desktop version of the site etc. Abecedare (talk) 05:48, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
@Abecedare: Thanks for your help!

ARKA (talk)

Learn some manners

Would you mind deleting what you posted to my talk page? I mean the threat to ban me if I repeat my good-faith editing undoing what an arrogant abuser is doing here. Thanks. And make sure you do it quickly. TrinityTrinityTrinity (talk) 15:10, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

@TrinityTrinityTrinity: You are generally free to remove messages from your own talkpage (see WP:OWNTALK). Note that the warning I gave would still stand. Abecedare (talk) 15:27, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
I asked you to remove it. And there was no need to repeat yourself. What I said still stands to. TrinityTrinityTrinity (talk) 16:47, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
You are a sarcastic internet hard man. I'm pleased I encounter such people as yourself only rarely. TrinityTrinityTrinity (talk) 20:18, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

ANI close

Just FYI: this pussy-grabbing and exorcist puppet garbage was added to the ANI thread even after your close and a further BLP violating comment as well[1] directly contrary to your closing comment. I would suggest acting before ANI turns into a complete carnival. --Pudeo (talk) 08:28, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Responded. Hope everyone can drop this and move along (How's that for optimism ? :) ) Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 08:43, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for responding to it, but it didn't work EENG is insistent and responded by restoring it again [2] and personally attacking me [3]. Maybe you can just go ahead and block them as I suggested the first time. The comment EENG added "Trump sexually assaults women and is proud of it" really is a BLP violation.--Rusf10 (talk) 16:20, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
@Rusf10: While I disagree with User:EEng's reasoning and conduct, for now I am going to follow the advice I offered you all: drop the matter and concentrate on building the encyclpedia instead of wasting all this time watching each-other's edits and filing and responding to complaints (other admins, of course, are free to act if they think it apprpriate). And I would take the BLP complaint to be more sincere if you hadn't just repeated the sentence you object to! Please disengage and stop treating wikipedia as a battleground/schoolyard; none of you are coming across well in the process. Abecedare (talk) 16:37, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
So that's it, you're not even going to remove the content from ANI again?--Rusf10 (talk) 17:07, 16 July 2018 (UTC)


Draft

Shouldn't the draft stay up since it's not an actual article and doesn't come up in search results? I was going to add more sourced info to the draft over time and then move it to article space. Aitch & Aitch Aitch (talk) 11:32, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Will reply on your talkpage. Abecedare (talk) 13:45, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Sanskrit

Hi, the information was from a previous version of the page. Thanks for noting it to me. I'll address it as best that I can. Thanks. Ficusindica (talk) 22:19, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@Ficusindica: Thanks for the response. Best to continue any follow-up discussion on the article talkpage, where other interested editors can chime in. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 22:34, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Swami Nithyananda

Akhilkodali seems to be one the regular meat puppets (or socks perhaps). These single purpose accounts don't care about the encyclopedia, only about that article, with a conflict of interest (either to demonize or whitewash, and as a secondary effect in this case affect the reputation of another person). I'll let you evaluate, as you're an administrator, but considering the persistent issues, I'm wondering if semi-protection is enough (especially that they're now on this campaign)... Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 22:26, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Frankly, I hadn't been following the talkpage discussion because I saw that there were at least two experienced editors involved. Haven't thus kept track of who's who among the SPAs. But will try to keep a closer eye. Don't hesitate to approach me/BLPN/ANI if immediate or wider attention is needed. Abecedare (talk) 22:33, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
It's similar for me: although the article is watchlisted the battles are so perennial that when I noticed another experienced editor there I mostly ignored the recent activity. Then that very editor may very well be overloaded. I also admit not caring much about the subject, but watchlisted because of previous BLPN requests. In any case, thanks for your quick intervention. —PaleoNeonate – 22:38, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Articles like these often attract attention only from editors who are deeply interested in the topic: either as supporters or detractors. So it would be good if User:SMcCandlish and you, who don't have any vested interest in spinning the article, continue to be involved. I'll post at message at WT:INB to see if you can get more help. Abecedare (talk) 23:02, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. I also noticed your message about sourcing. I didn't reply there as I wasn't present during most of the article development, but I also admit that it's difficult for me to determine which Indian sources would be more likely to be reliable. Thanks for the paper suggestions there; if more dispassionate editors who are used to Indian topics join, they could likely also help with source selection. —PaleoNeonate – 23:28, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
I'll keep watchlisting it. I don't give a hoot about the subject, but I care about our coverage being neutral. I got involved because someone I know goes to one of his temples, and they complained that the article was an attack page (which at the time it definitely was, and it still borders on it). I noticed quickly that it see-saws between wave of demonization and claims of miracles and godhead. However, I don't have the patience to "manage" the page. I figured out that someone from his organization (late last year, I think) was editing the page, and reached them off-wiki with some advice on how to avoid problems, and how to challenge dubious claims, but this seems to have had little effect. The suggestions on the talk page like "just fill in the blanks of this citation template for the source you claim" have been ignored (about the world-records stuff), which is a shame since it's interesting and would be good balancing material given the scandal-mongering at the article. The scandals are legit to cover in summary, but they're too detailed, and recently wandered into posting some third-party's medical records (they may have been available from a public source off-site, but that doesn't make it right). Two of us deleted those records scans (hosted at one of Nithyanada's own sites, or run by his fans, it's hard to be certain).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:40, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Oh, and Guinness world records. —PaleoNeonate – 23:47, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

"Everyone hold off for half an hour"

Hi Abecedare. Have you seen the {{in use}} template? It is designed for exactly this purpose. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 08:23, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

@Martin of Sheffield: Thanks for the pointer. I knew of {{Under construction}} but that would have been an overkill for the scale of my edits at SBC. {{In use}} would have been perfect though. Will be throwing it around from now on. Abecedare (talk) 12:08, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Your notes about Ramdhun

Dear respected editor,

Just because you are writing in fighting mode, do not make your story a fact. Go ahead and do research about author of Ram dhun and actual phrases of the same.

Thanks in anticipation Best Regards Manishasinghal (talk) 05:23, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Replied on your talkpage. Abecedare (talk) 13:53, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

You've got mail

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Hello Abecedare

Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I am new to Wikipedia and am unaware of its guidelines. I actually wanted to create a page of the company i belong. Can you please help me for publishing the brand page?

182.76.101.202 (talk) 05:40, 11 July 2018 (UTC)PoojaGoyal91

@PoojaGoyal91: it was a common and understandable error. I suggest that you read wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines so that you can avoid inadvertently falling afoul of them again. As for creating a wikipedia article on LopScoop: unfortunately I don't believe it passes passes wikipedia's standard of notability for websites/internet businesses. However, if after reading the concerned guidelines (see WP:NWEB), you believe otherwise, just contect me again and we can see how to proceed. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 06:00, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

@Abecedare: Hi Abecedare, I have written the article, I have 2-3 genuine references and a small history, can you help me publishing the article named "LopScooop", i can provide you the content if you need? PoojaGoyal91 (talk) 06:48, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

@PoojaGoyal91: since you have a declared conflict about the subject, you will need to go through the "Article for creation" process to create the article. That is: you'll create a draft, which will then be reviewed by an independent reviewer for compliance with wikipedia's content policies and then, if the draft is found acceptable, it will be moved to wikipedia mainspace where it will be easily accessible to general readers and search engines. To begin the process:
  1. Read the AFC page, paying close attention to the disclosure requirements
  2. Once ready use the Article wizard to upload the draft.
I should forewarn you though that the review process will take time (a few weeks would not be unexpected) and that at the end of that, acceptance of the draft is far from a certainty. Also wikipedians often take a very jaundiced view of COI and paid editing and sometimes that shows up as rudeness; the fact that you have openly declared your association with the company should help prevent that from happening but you should nevertheless be prepared. I'm letting you know all this just so you begin the process with eyes open. :)
Feel free to contact me if you run into any problems. Abecedare (talk) 06:29, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

@Abecedare: Hi Abecedare, i have created a draft, please check and give me a genuine feedback. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:LopScoop 171.61.155.5 (talk) 05:16, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

@PoojaGoyal91: I have read through the current draft and see several issues:
  • There are several claims in the draft that cannot be verified through the exiting sources (for example: the ownership, inverstment and partnership information in the History and Funding and Partnership sections)
  • More importantly there is no indication that the company/app meets wikipedia's standards of notability (WP:NWEB, WP:NORG or WP:GNG). The brief blurbs in the "five best apps to make money" lists produced by Dainik Jagran and Khabar india doesn't meet the expected "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" standard.
For an independent opinion you can submit your draft for review, but I wouldn't hold much hope that it will pass the AFC review, or survive a deletion discussion. Abecedare (talk) 19:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

India Unreferenced BLPs

Hello, I was reading Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Unreferenced BLPs. I don't know/remember intersection tool, but with the availability of quarry.wmflabs.org or some tools like petscan.wmflabs.org perhaps we can generate or update a few lists. Here is a search result page. Perhaps we can generate a few such results and use for quick access. --Titodutta (talk) 21:02, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

@Titodutta: What is it producing results of? I see that it's a list of articles, but I'm unsure what the connection is (other than they mostly seem to be about India).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:06, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
@Titodutta and SMcCandlish: I too don't recall what exact search criterion we had used last time, but (in Category:All unreferenced BLPs) ∩ (has {{WikiProject India}} template), which is what I read your petscan to be checking for, seems to be a perfectly reasonable approach. Btw, it is heartening that "only" 70 articles were found; WP:BLPPROD process seems to have had a positive effect!
Would you go ahead and start a discussion at WT:INB to invite editors to go over the listed article? Maybe someone there can also suggest additional search possibilities. Abecedare (talk) 23:23, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
OK, looking at this discussion, it seems back in 2010 we searched for (in Category:All unreferenced BLPs) ∩ (in Category:India or its subcat). Can such a search be repeated using the current tools? Abecedare (talk) 23:36, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Petscan can be set to search for (in Category:All unreferenced BLPs) ∩ (in Category:India or its subcats to depth N). For example searching the India sub-categories to depth 10 finds 187 reasonable-looking candidates. Increasing the depth to say 15 though, produces a much-larger (734 candidates;) and much-weirder list, which could be a tool issue or issue with categorization.
Can always ask at WP:VPT, if needed. Abecedare (talk) 14:49, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
  • I missed your message. I apologise sir. There are more than 5000 pages on my watchlist, I should work on it . The reason I started this thread was perhaps we can work on a few lists with Petscan or more importantly quarry and link it on the project space, that these are some of the areas to work on (I have little knowledge about SQL, I can learn if needed), such as "unsourced Indian BLPs" or "Uncategorised Indian articles" or "Indian book articles with ISBN errors to fix", or "Indian movie articles with CS1 reference errors" etc. These are just a few examples. Such lists should be very helpful. --Titodutta (talk) 15:22, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
@Titodutta: I hadn't taken a look at Quarry in any detail since I didn't find a documentation page at a quick glance. However looking at some example recent queries, I don't think insufficient SQL knowledge would be a barrier, although it will take some time/effort to learn what exact Wikipedia-specific data is available and the corresponding data-structures. Asking at WP:VPT should quicken that process.
Overall, I like your proposals, and perhaps we can get started with what we already know to do through Petscan and gauge interest at WT:INB. After all, we will eventually need human volunteer editors to go through the "articles that need attention" lists we generate through petscan/quarry. Abecedare (talk) 17:01, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

DS and edit notices

Re the DS alert you placed on Talk:Adam's Bridge. I think you also need to place an edit notice for the alert to be effective. Not sure but @NeilN: will know if it is necessary. --regentspark (comment) 16:17, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

NeilN has abandoned all his responsibilities and gone vacationing, but I'll look through the process pages in around an hour and try to figure it out. Abecedare (talk) 17:38, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Hey RP, as I understand from the template documentation:
  • {{Ds/talk notice}} can be used just for informational purposes that "use of discretionary sanctions has been authorized by the Arbitration Committee" for the relevant topic area.
  • {{Ds/editnotice}}, on the other hand, is used to inform editors that some particular editing restrictions have been applied by an admin under the remit provided by the DS regime
Afaict, the latter is not the case for Adam's Bridge article and I, in any case, would be considered involved and thus not the right person to formulate such restrictions. Is that reading correct? Talk-page stalkers are welcome to chime in. Abecedare (talk) 20:02, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
You are correct. The form of template you added is for informational purposes and can be added by anyone. --NeilN talk to me 14:39, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Welcome back, Neil! Abecedare (talk) 16:45, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks NeilN. Good to know. And welcome back!--regentspark (comment) 18:39, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Business user name

Hi, this user and username appears to be representing a business --> [4].... Another problem he is doing self promotional editing... but I Am not able to find the appropriate speedy deletion criteria or tag to tag this page... please advice me how to tag this for speedy... thank you.. --Adamstraw99 (talk) 06:55, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

@Adamstraw99: Thanks for spotting this. I've blocked the user for username violation and promotional editing, and told them how they can regain their editing privileges. Is there some article that needs to be deleted too? I didn't find anything in the user's contribution history except for the promotional material they added Shirala and Karad, which you and other editors appear to have already cleaned up. Abecedare (talk) 07:34, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for your action, I don't think they edited much beyond the mentioned articles.. Thank You --Adamstraw99 (talk) 07:41, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

ANI notice

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. wumbolo ^^^ 21:00, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Well done

The Original Barnstar
For being the first editor to mention Sarah Jeoung's controversy on her article after admin block

--RandomUser3510 (talk) 06:00, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Nergaal

I blocked him indefinitely for disruption at the same time you imposed a topic ban. Which is the better path, would you say? I am not certain. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 02:20, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Now looking back at their previous (non-contentious) edits in other areas, I think trying the topic ban is possibly worthwhile. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 02:27, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
@Paul Erik: No issues with both sanctions being in place. I haven't researched their contributions outside this topic area, to determine if the indefinite block is worth lifting (through regular unblock appeal). But the topic-ban will be a back-stop in any case, since its clear that Sarah Jeong is a not a suitable area for them to be editing in. Abecedare (talk) 02:33, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Fully agree. Their history in editing football-related topics includes problems with edit-warring, but not nearing the level of disruption related to the Jeong topic. I have unblocked to give a chance for the topic ban potentially to help. Thanks. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 02:41, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Looks good. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 02:44, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Now (appropriately) re-blocked by User:Ian.thomson for immediately violating the sanction. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 02:49, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
After all our head-scratching and fine-tuning to not be unfair... <bang-head-on desk> Abecedare (talk) 02:52, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, it was worth a try. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 02:59, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
I thought the topic ban instead of the block was a good idea.
I told him that he needed to stop using "#cancelwhitepeople" as an edit summary.
He didn't listen. That's his problem, though. Ian.thomson (talk) 02:55, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Clearly. Abecedare (talk) 03:02, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Suicide by cop, eh, Ian.thomson? What a waste. Abecedare (talk) 04:30, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
That's weird, the family DNA tests don't show me having all that much Irish. Ian.thomson (talk) 04:35, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Reverted Edits on M. Karunanidhi

Hey, hi. Is this a bot or a person? Why are my edits being constantly reverted? Okay thanks. I did change the wordings a bit. So what am I supposed to do in this case? This person is now no more and I am also referencing the original link. Is there a better way you suggest? Praveentech (talk)

@Praveentech: See your talkpage. I left you message regarding copyrighted text. Also note that there is already a section on Karunanidhi's death in the article. Abecedare (talk) 13:56, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
@Abecedare: Woops. My bad. Will check again and update accordingly. Thanks. :) Hope I haven't caused any damage to my account. BTW, who are you? Just curious. Praveentech (talk) 13:58, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
@Praveentech: No problem. Just a common occurrence at rapidly developing articles when news breaks. You can see some (non-personal) information about my wikipedia profile on my userpage. Abecedare (talk) 14:02, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Karunanidhi

Hello, could you please check Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Karunanidhi? As the person seeking help is good friend, my action may not be fully neutral. That's why I am not doing anything there, other than suggesting discussion page and noticeboard(s). --Titodutta (talk) 22:55, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Will take a look. Abecedare (talk) 00:18, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. It has been very helpful. --Titodutta (talk) 18:06, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Sarah Jeong DR

Hello, I have brought the unfruitful Sarah Jeong discussion to dispute resolution and am notifying you because you have commented on the Talk page since August 3. You can find a link here: Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:Sarah_Jeong. All the best, Ikjbagl (talk) 12:04, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ikjbagl: The DR will likely be declined as the current "dispute" is unlikely to be amenable to reasoned, slow-paced, discussion that is expected at that venue. And to answer your question about why some changes to the page are being allowed through while no addition regarding the tweet-controversy has been made: that is as per wikipedia's WP:PROTECTION policy with the former being non-controversial changes (unrelated to the edit-war or dispute that led to the article being protected) that I have posted in response to open {{edit-protected}} requests on the page, while the latter issue is still being discussed (although, frankly, the discussion is a mess!). If you wish, you can ask another admin whose opinion you trust to review the matter. Abecedare (talk) 14:36, 4 August 2018 (UTC) .

You might want to ECP or at least semi the article before full protection expires or else we're going to get BLP vios/vandalism as soon as protection expires. If you're concerned about WP:NO-PREEMPT, do it as a arbitration enforcement action. --NeilN talk to me 04:35, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

@NeilN: As of this moment I am of mind to let the full protection expire, and imposing semi/ecp/1RR depending on what happens. May be somewhat of a make-work plan, but any intervening vandalism and BLP violations can be reverted, revdelled etc, and this will prevent later second-guessing of whether the restrictions were really necessary; and if those steps somehow prove to be unneeded, even better. Trust you have the page watchlisted; you assistance may be needed in a few hours. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 12:43, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
Here here, I'm ready to revert a ton of edits based on what happens with the article. Jdcomix (talk) 18:26, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
@Jdcomix: Can you clarify what you mean or intend to do? Abecedare (talk) 18:28, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
Just patrol the page like I would do with any other article that's being targeted by sockpuppets, vandals, etc. I have a lot of experience dealing with vandalism here. Jdcomix (talk) 18:29, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
That will be appreciated. Thanks. Abecedare (talk) 18:31, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

@NeilN and Drmies: are there any further hoops to jump through to impose an editing restriction, besides

Abecedare (talk) 20:23, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Q

Abecedare can you please review this edit, I do not think that it received consensus on the talk page to insert information about her book in the lead of the article Ikjbagl (talk) 03:03, 6 August 2018 (UTC): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Jeong&type=revision&diff=853628491&oldid=853626931

P.S. Actually, it looks like someone CREATED the whole article from a redirect so they could insert information about it on the Sarah Jeong page.
@Ikjbagl: This is not within the scope of the edit-restrictions, but if you object to it, you can always follow the usual WP:BRD process. That's the formal admin answer.
As personal advice fwiw: consider how much this matters to you and how much time and energy you are willing to devote to this minor dispute in a minor article? For instance, I saw the Utilis Coquinario article you created, which I thought was very good contribution to encyclopedic knowledge and of more value than whether that one sentence remains or not in the this articles lede. Wouldn't it be more satisfactory to work on something similar rather than get caught up in these passing wiki-battles? Btw if you do create a new article in the future, don't forget to nominate it for WP:DYK so that it can appear on wikipedia's front-page. Abecedare (talk) 03:18, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
This is really frustrating. It DOESN'T matter to me, at all, I really don't care about this person any tiny bit. I have been trying very hard to propose neutral edits and source them well, and from my point of view, it seems like edits that slant in one perspective are indiscriminately allowed on the page, while any edit critical of Ms. Jeong is put to the third degree (and then only admitted when seriously weakened). It seems like two users in particular are doing everything to fluff up this person's page, the fluffery seems VERY obvious to me, and yet it is allowed. I even get yelled at when I suggest that something of the sort is going on, when it seems pretty obvious to me that people trying to add extraneous and non-important information about a book published years ago are only adding that information now to dilute controversy on a person's page. I just don't understand how this is allowed on a website that prides itself for not taking a point of view. If I removed that sentence from the lead, or if someone tried to put anything remotely critical on the page or in the lead (which I don't understand why putting things in the lead but not the body is allowed), I am sure that I would be warned again or blocked for violating some rule I've never heard of, while anyone editing the page to add more positive information is allowed to do so. This is wrong, and it doesn't feel anything close to neutral. Again, this really doesn't matter to me, and I would honestly be a much happier person right now if I just ignored the page and pretended it didn't exist, but I just can't do that at this point. It's wrong. It's not neutral, and it's not encyclopedic. Ikjbagl (talk) 03:36, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
I doubt you have a conflict-of-interest with the subject, but you have obviously got emotionally invested in SEEING THE RIGHT THING DONE, DAMIT!. All I can tell you from experience, is that it is easy to lose perspective on wikipedia in this way, and sincerely suggest that you at least take a break from the article/wikipedia for today. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 03:43, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
I don't really understand how that would be a bad thing. Wouldn't wiki be a better place if people wanted to see the right thing done? Why would you want anything else? I disagree with what you linked (I wasn't trying to expose anything controversial, and I always cited nothing but mainstream news organizations), but I guess I agree with your paraphrasing of its title. I do feel emotionally invested in presenting neutral information on this subject. I think there are more people editing who are invested in presenting non-neutral information on the subject, and they are here from each side. I guess I'll try to ignore this stupid page, but I feel like it's a failure to cede it to more partisan people. I think Wikipedia is worse off for this whole ordeal. Nobody won here, everybody failed and it's very sad. Ikjbagl (talk) 04:09, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Ongoing edit saga

Abecedare First of all thanks for your involvement with the article and its talk page. It seems like this proposal is quickly devolving into a mess, with bad motives being assumed, suggestions that voting doesn't matter anyway, and people on both sides saying that WP:UNDUE demands that the quotes be included, and that the quotes not be included.

It's fairly disheartening since SWL36 and I have already spent considerable time beforehand trying to craft some text that would be as acceptable as possible, without watering down or obscuring the controversy. SWL36 also dug up 10-20 RS links after being told how critical that was by the same people who now insist it doesn't matter.

I'm asking if maybe it doesn't make more sense for other admins or seasoned editors to step in here and resolve the question about whether quoting the tweets verbatim is acceptable or not. Then the discussion won't have to keep going endlessly in circles. Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask. I'm not too acquainted with WP's other mechanisms for resolving this type of dispute. 2600:1700:B951:3F40:9E40:FEE3:9AD8:9C28 (talk) 06:02, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

2600, you won't like hearing this but User:GorillaWarfare, User:Drmies, User:Jytdog and some other editors opposing the proposal are among the the most seasoned editors around on wikipedia (I won't list their wiki-credentials but go check their contribution history, and their user and talk-pages). I'll also point out that when SWL36 had first proposed the text under discussion as an edit-protected request, I too had advised him that uncontextualized tweet-quotes (as in just "one tweet said...") have no chance of passing the BLP-test, so I'll preempt 'voting' on the above proposal to prevent editors wasting their time. Please rethink, and ask for advice from editors experienced in the BLP area or at WP:BLPN, if needed. (Unfortunately, he chose to ignore that)
I know it can be frustrating, but shouldn't you at least consider the possibility that GW, Drmies, Jytdog et al know what they are talking about as far as application of wikipedia policies goes? Abecedare (talk) 07:33, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I did consider what they've said. I just don't see the consistency with other recent controversies where the articles tend to include quotes for context. Admittedly I didn't see their talk pages or try to determine how seasoned they are. I just saw existing editors both agree and disagree so I thought that's where it stood. I think if they're unambiguously right then more people should step in to say so, for everyone's sake. It was more like a request for more eyeballs on the issue. One last thing: I can't speak for SWL36 but I believe I saw somewhere that he/she missed your advice or got confused somehow. It wasn't intentional. 2600:1700:B951:3F40:9E40:FEE3:9AD8:9C28 (talk) 08:12, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the understanding. Just use Sarah Jeong article as a learning experience (baptism by fire!), and realize that not all articles on wikipedi are so contentious and such a challange to change even minimally. I'd also suggest that you sign up for an account since that makes communication easier and you obviously have valuable skills to contribute. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 08:21, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Let me just add that I do not oppose including tweets per se, and it is easily argued that some of her tweets are so widely quoted that the article should include them--but, as I hoped I made clear on that talk page, the problem isn't so much the tweets themselves (I'm fine with two being cited, I think) but the context. I don't doubt that they're hers, I don't doubt they're much-discussed, but I have serious problems with the context in which they were placed in that one proposal I looked at, and the almost universal clamor of "INCLUDE THE TWEETS" ignores the seriousness of the issue. Drmies (talk) 16:31, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
@Drmies: As a reader of a significant fraction of the discussion on the talkpage over the past week, I think that's the position of many experienced contributors. GW made that argument repeatedly in this section. And User:Gandydancer had a beautifully concise summary of the issues involved with the various options. But given the traffic on the page and the rush to make everything a support-oppose poll, many of these point are getting lost or needed to be repeated continuously. Abecedare (talk) 16:43, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
@Drmies: These are the tweets here and here. As I've been saying they're the closest I could find among what was widely reported to self-contained thoughts. That's because initially people were insisting on the controversy part being very succinct, to not make it the entire article, and these tweets seemed the most self-explanatory. They weren't replies to anyone. Twitter makes it clear when you're directly replying to someone, by showing what came before. All the context/explanation she ever provided is already summarized in the article ("'counter-trolling' in reaction to harassment she had experienced") and almost all (or all?) RS leave it there. On the talk page someone was repeatedly asking detractors what exactly is the extra context that's needed and no one could supply it. Additionally, a couple of the most vocal editors have already explicitly or implicitly (by linking to a Vox opinion piece which makes the case) claimed this is all a hoax or right-wing conspiracy or something, so when they insist their objection is about lack of context or undue weight they've made it hard to accept that at face value.
If you see Sarah's explanation here, the abusive tweets she received are not even in the same months as the two tweets being considered, so apart from that catch-all defense about "counter-trolling" already in the article I can't see why they'd be included. Unfortunately, as a tech writer like her knows, it takes 10 minutes to create a new Twitter account and post whatever you want. So they haven't been checked out, they're not included in any RS that I'm aware of, and we just don't know much about them but we do have Sarah's own words which she's said are hers. I hope this at least clarifies my reasoning. 2600:1700:B951:3F40:9E40:FEE3:9AD8:9C28 (talk) 20:12, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
For holding the fort on Sarah Jeong and making non-contentious edits through full protection, and dealing with complaints (some stupid) as a result. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:34, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, User:Robert McClenon. Abecedare (talk) 22:38, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

I've started the discussion about the Press Template matter here:

Talk:Sarah Jeong#User User:Abecedare removed the press template on this talk page without starting a discussion here. Should we reinstate it?

Please, come and partake Openlydialectic (talk) 23:35, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Removal of {{press}} on Talk:Sarah Jeong per WP:BLPDS?

As per your invitation to discuss your removal of the {{press}} template on Talk:Sarah Jeong - can you explain? --GRuban (talk) 20:07, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for opening this here. I also invite Openlydialectic to join in. Please give me a short while to get back to you on this. Abecedare (talk) 20:10, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
  • I believe the template should stay. First, it exists for a reason - to let wikipedians know the article they are discussing has been mentioned on the news. Even Breitbart technically qualifies as news - but we can discuss that. I dont see why we should remove that entire template from the talk page because of 2-3 bad sheep. I also strongly believe you should start a discussion on the talk page of the article, not on yours, so that other editors have a better chance of seeing and participating in that conversation Openlydialectic (talk) 20:17, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Ok, here is my experience with use of the template at Talk:Sarah Jeong and my subsequent thinking:
  1. I originally reverted addition of a Breitbart article to the template, because of the nature of the source and most importantly because of its headline, which I believe to be a BLP violation. I realize that BLP doesn't dictate what sources outside wikipedia write or say; but IMO it still applies when we choose to bring that material here, and the scale of the violation needs to be balanced with the encyclopedic gains of including it. So while I think discussing and citing BBC's 'racist tweet' headline is perfectly fine, I am not convinced that the Breitbart article passes that bar.
  2. I was asked at that time why the Daily Caller links were left in even though that source is equally suspect. My (weak) excuse was that at least those headlines, like BBC's, applied the 'racist' label to the tweets and not the subject herself. My (stronger) unstated reason was to avoid unnecessary drama and Streisand effect (yes, I am aware of the irony).
  3. Since then two independent editors (acting in good faith and likely not aware of the earlier removal) have re-added the Breitbart article back in the template. More recently, an article from The Western Journal was also added; I am not really familiar with that source, but do scroll down that article page to see their note on how Facebook is treating their content.
  4. I assume you are aware that wikipedia's coverage of Sarah Jeong has caught-on on conservative/alt-right media and I would expect more such articles to be published in the coming days. I don't want to see the {{press}} template provide a carte blanche for any media to publish any article headline/article about the BLP subject and have it automatically included at Talk:Sarah Jeong. Of course, any source or press coverage that helps us improve the Sarah Jeong article can still be discussed on the talkpage, irrespective of the presence of the template.
For those reasons, I removed the {{press}} template for now. Once the current furor has died down, we can revisit the issue and add back the template after some discussion of what articles to keep in or out (for example, The Atlantic article would be an obvious choice to keep in).
Your thoughts? Abecedare (talk) 20:38, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
The press template is literally for press coverage. It has nothing to do with a source improving the article, that template is template:refideas. -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:47, 8 August 2018 (UTC) (please Reply to icon mention me on reply; thanks!)
The articles were found from a Google News search with the query sarah jeong wikipedia, and I included all articles published by news organizations that have their own Wikipedia articles (excluding one classified as a blog by Google News). I added these entries to give other editors context on the history of the article and its talk page. The {{press}} template serves the same purpose as the {{connected contributor}} template: to disclose more information regarding the article's editing process.
Whether or not the {{press}} template should be on the talk page parallels the discussion on the talk page regarding whether or not Jeong's tweets should be in the article. However, the contentious bits in the headlines are in quotes and attributed to the publisher, not Wikipedia or its editors. If redacting the headlines would make the {{press}} template conform to WP:BLP, I believe a redaction would still be a better option than removing it entirely. — Newslinger talk 20:51, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your input User:Newslinger. I'll wait for User:GRuban, User:Openlydialectic to add their thoughts (others are welcome too) and then think it over myself. I don't want to indulge too much of your time on this either, since this meta-issue is really several steps removed from actually improving the article. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 21:03, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
I strongly feel you should start this discussion on that article's talk page. Openlydialectic (talk) 22:10, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
@Openlydialectic: This is indeed the right venue for action taken as a discretionary sanction. In any case, can we please discuss the substance of the arguments, rather than the venue? I really would like to know your thoughts in response to my explanation above and the comments by the other editors. Abecedare (talk) 22:20, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

I think I like your original reasoning, that we should exclude articles that make a personal attack on the subject in their titles. The point of the {{press}} template is to note which news organizations have taken notice of our article specifically; it's sort of a scrapbook, "look who's noticed our work". That's not a good enough reason to include disputed text that could be seen as an attack on a living person, especially, as you note, there are already a number of these, and the number could grow. However, I think we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater, and should still include articles that do not violate BLP in their titles. We can put an HTML comment regarding this dividing line by the template. --GRuban (talk) 21:04, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

That's a good suggestion. Do you think only the headline should be a consideration, or should the iffi-ness of the source also count against it? Are any of you aware of prior discussions on this topic in general; so that we don't try to reinvent the wheel. Abecedare (talk) 21:13, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
  • @GRuban:: Is this what you had in mind? Others: is this an acceptable resolution for you all? Abecedare (talk) 23:31, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
    You have more faith in the word "consider" than I, I'm afraid. I'd think something like "no attacks on article subject in title". The iffiness is tough; sure we can start with Atlantic in, Breitbart out, but what about the vast grey area in between? Daily Caller, Slate, Salon, HuffPost, Washington Times...? I'd lean towards list them all (as long as they are actual media orgs, not one guy's blog), one article per source ( they'll generally link to their other articles on the subject themselves: "as we last wrote here..."). But that's my suggestion. You're the man with the mop. Uneasy hangs the head that ... Etc. --GRuban (talk) 02:18, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
@GRuban: I left it vague exactly because I didn't want to cook up a "rule" de novo :) Hoping that the notice will at least give (good faith) editors pause to think. I have also posted at BLPN for feedback and to see if the issue has already been discussed somewhere. The larger rule-making is best done on a wikipedia-wide basis. Abecedare (talk) 02:29, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Sarah Jeong 2

  • Hi Abecedare, just wanted to say my opinion, which is that specific content does not have to be proposed in an entirely new section, because if that were the case, we would have dozens of proposals. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) wumbolo ^^^ 11:28, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Irrational

Rejecting a host of quite-reputable and reliable news sources along with Britannica, on the pretext that the former have failed to properly check fact(s) and that the latter is a tertiary source (WTF??); claiming that an arrest of a chief-minister (on grounds of corruption-charges, as found by an official commission) is non-significant to be mentioned because he was ultimately non-convicted; white-washing attempts by removing mentions of LTTE connections (which have been a quite important locus of Karunanidhi-politics for a while and have been tended to, in vast expenses)---we are way too nice with a POV pusher.Pinging @Titodutta:∯WBGconverse 05:23, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for my slow response at the page. I have been at the source-gathering and reading stage and haven't really worried about minor content disputes at the article because the current version is so bad that much of it essentially needs rewriting. See for example the Early life and family section in which:
  • the first sentence makes bald statements about his original name and claimed Telugu ancestry, without giving the reader any idea as to why those facts/contentions are of significance (except that an experienced Wikipedia reader will see the ref-bombing and intuit that there is something scandalous afoot) .
  • Second sentence on, the para is hard to parse (only now that I have read some background material, do I know what some of it is referring to)
  • And suddenly in middle of the para the timeline jumps to 1953 and describes events related to the Kallakudi protests, which are also, and better, described in the Entry into politics section.
I hope to be rewriting this section today and then we can start to debate issues of phrasing, sourcing etc. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 12:40, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
  • Hm, caste-related articles are sometimes very difficult to handle and we see regular disputes. I agree that Abecedare shows great patience and skill in solving disputes. About rewriting what Abecedare has suggested: that seems to be a good idea. --Titodutta (talk) 14:23, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Umm...

I don't really see how linking to sources can really be an legitimate WP:BLPDS enforcement issue. And I'm not sure you can block someone for attempting to discuss the issue when you invited people to feel free to discuss with me. I think you need to either unblock, or ask for a review at AN. Maybe I'm missing something. GMGtalk 23:58, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: Have you see the discussion in the section above, and my discussion on the editor's talkpage ? Abecedare (talk) 00:03, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
While I think your reasoning makes sense regarding the {{press}} template, you really should not have been the one to block. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:06, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I'm obviously not endorsing Openlydialectic's behavior in general : [5], however, i try to be honest and unbiased, therefore, unless i'm mistaken, it seems that your block is against this. Cheers.---Wikaviani (talk) 00:19, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I don't agree about Involved (will have to read the policy again) but given the feedback I will unblock. Can you or any other admin, review my pre-block actions? Abecedare (talk) 00:12, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I'm a new user, and i may be mistaken as i said, however, the rule says something like "Admins cannot act as admins when they have been acting as editors". Best regards.---Wikaviani (talk) 00:17, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I have been only acting in the administrative role at Sarah Jeong and with respect to the editors there. So I certainly don't believe I'm involved. @GorillaWarfare and GreenMeansGo: would you lease review my actions? Abecedare (talk) 00:20, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Sorry. I started to reply and then had to clean up after dinner. With regard to INVOLVED, it's at best iffy. Removing the talk page template was not an admin action. "Iffy" is not a place you want to be in with respect to INVOLVED. I would recommend again either unblocking or asking to a self review at AN. If not unblocking, it looks a lot like someone is going to ask for a review, and if so, it's much better for you if you are the one to do it. GMGtalk 00:25, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Oh, I've already unblocked. Will address the rest of your concerns below. Abecedare (talk) 00:28, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
@GreenMeansGo: I had unblocked at 00:13 UTC. So setting that aside, can you expand on your comment about me being involved? Abecedare (talk) 00:37, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I...feel like there's more here than someone with a toddler at 9pm local time can really address adequately and with any sense of nuance. I'll look into putting together a better answer tomorrow morning with an appropriate amount of coffee. GMGtalk 01:11, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
@GreenMeansGo: Thanks for the offer. Abecedare (talk) 02:01, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
(edit conflict) I think you removing the template and agreeing to discuss it as you have above was well within your discretion. My concern more is that you were the one who removed the template for BLP concerns, and then blocked Openlydialectic for trying to discuss. I understand not wanting him to discuss it on the talk page, but that is where you should have gotten another admin involved. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:26, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
@GorillaWarfare: Quick replies (after edit-conflicts),
  • blocked Openlydialectic for trying to discuss This part I disagree with, since I repeated invited and encouraged Open to discuss the issue (see above section and their talkpage), and the block was for disruption and not for disagreeing with me on the {{press}} template or trying to discuss the issue.
  • but that is where you should have gotten another admin involved. This part I'll take onboard. I wanted to avoid further disruption at the talkpage, but I see that your suggested approach would be better.
Abecedare (talk) 00:34, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
It seems the disruption was repeatedly trying to discuss this on the article talk page, though? GorillaWarfare (talk) 01:27, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
@GorillaWarfare: As you can perhaps guess from the above (and this) section,I am not averse to discussing matters. So, in my view the sequence of disruption was:
  1. Restoration of content deleted under WP:BLPDS, to which my response was this (I followed up with implementing GRuban's suggestion and posting above to see if that met everyone's objection).
  2. Openlydialectic's response, which included the expressed intention to restore the Breitbart link. My response.
  3. Openlydialectics's opening the talkpage discussion.
At this point, as you said, it would have been better to involve another admin instead of blocking myself. But for me the disruption was the escalating behavior, and not just the final step. Abecedare (talk) 01:46, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
And oh, the reason I had proposed my talk page for discussion of the BLPDS action (rather than the article talk page) was because my understanding is that such actions are first appealed to the relevant admin and then AN etc, if that doesn't resolve it. I had pointed this out to the user; is my understanding of the process incorrect? Abecedare (talk) 01:57, 9 August 2018 (UTC)


Thank you for your answer Abecedare. I'll let the far more experienced users than me you have pinged give their opinion. Best regards.---Wikaviani (talk) 00:27, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

  • Ok. So, BLP dictates what we can say, not what sources can say. Sources can say whatever they want, and we can say objectively terrible things about people and not run afoul of BLP as long as we're sticking with the weight given in the preponderance of reliable sources. Further, the talk page template didn't actually say anything, but only provided citations. There is no even hypothetical way I can think of where simply providing otherwise reliable citations can violate BLP, since it is the sources themselves that decide whether something is a BLP violation. You could argue that a source like Breitbart is unreliable, akin to posting an attack blog with an inflammatory title, which probably would be a BLP violation. But that argument falls flat when the template was restored leaving only the Atlantic article.
Now you may feel that this template is not conducive to productive discussion. Maybe you're right. Maybe not. I can imagine good arguments on both sides. But that's an editorial decision, not a DS enforcement action. Making that editorial decision makes you involved. Discussing that editorial decision is exactly what editors are expected to do, and the discussion they opened on the issue was reasonable. It was a plain language question about how editors felt regarding the template, not anything akin to a foul screed or overwhelming bludgeoning that we would need to immediately hat. Even if you were technically correct, that the talk page was the incorrect venue, the post would have still been practically if not technically appropriate.
So yeah, it was an overreaction, and you should have asked for a second opinion, which would have probably advised you that it was an overreaction. GMGtalk 11:01, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
@GreenMeansGo: I largely agree with your take and especially with the "should have asked for a second opinion" bit (I'd quibble with some details regd "involved" but that would be missing the larger point). Thanks for taking the time and providing the input. Abecedare (talk) 12:52, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
So, where are we on having a discussion on the contents of the press template at Talk:Sarah Jeong, will that be allowed? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:07, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: As I said on your talkpage, I believe that it would be better to have a broader discussion on WP:BLPN/WP:VPP to decide the policy issue, and then apply it to Talk:Sarah Jeong. But if you still want to discuss only the narrower frame, Talk:Sarah Jeong would be the right place to start that discussion. I'll recuse from participating in that latter discussion as an admin since I've already made my position on the topic clear, and ping user:Paul Erik to keep an eye on any BLP issues that may arise in the process. Abecedare (talk) 13:14, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Acknowledged. I will try to keep an eye ...although I unfortunately will not be around as much this weekend as I was over the past week. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 13:32, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. I think of it more as a local consensus thing, mostly (there are exeptions like outing etc) under editorial discretion rather than written policy, my personal interpretation being "if it's press, add it". Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:22, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

مھتاب احمد

Now here comes another spurious SPI, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DBigXray, filed by مھتاب احمد (talk · contribs) against DBigXray (talk · contribs). Alleging two unrelated editors as socks of each other. I expect someone to revert that SPI since it doesn't deserve any archiving.

This account has never filed an SPI or had any edits to SPI,[6] before SheriffIsInTown was topic banned and has his appeal rejected.[7] This account has been proxying for SheriffIsInTown who also used to file SPIs against obviously unrelated accounts to win content disputes.

It is also unnatural because this editor has WP:CIR issues as he wasn't even able to vote on AfDs and for that he had been topic banned per consensus on WP:ANI.[8] It is impossible that he has eventually became capable enough to file SPIs against the editors he never interacted.

Like I had already substantiated in Nauriya's SPI, the fact is that SheriffIsInTown is behind such SPIs.[9] I can name each of them.

SheriffIsInTown himself can't file SPIs because he is topic banned from this subject (conflicts between India and Pakistan). That's why he is exploiting those editors who either way don't even care about English Wikipedia as evident from the recent contributions of مھتاب احمد, with last edit being this spurious SPI,[10] second last edit was suppressed for outing another editor,[11][12] and third last was a contribution to another spurious SPI. Lorstaking (talk) 11:41, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the ping and the detailed explanation. I was wondering who this user مھتاب احمد (talk · contribs) ("Urdu_ID" henceforth) is and what is really his beef with me. I recall no interaction "ever" with this editor. And hence no reason to assume bad faith on either his side or mine. That he has filed an entirely bogus SPI against me is quite shocking to be frank. The loads of garbage being presented as evidence is frankly nothing more than wishful thinking. I dont even know who AccessCrawl is and why he is being clubbed with me. Urdu_ID and his handler seem or (trying to be) unaware of WP:RCP. I have seen AccessCrawl responding to some of the AfDs that I have participated. AccessCrawl seems to be regular at AfDs. Calling AccessCrawl's AfD contribution as Meat puppetry, is nothing more than Horseshit. The Comment on Twinkle is clearly laughable and I would leave it at that.
  • I digged deeper in the UrduIDs contribution and found that UrduID has filed several SPIs all without no interaction with the users he alleged, on SPI. He is a clear case of WP:CIR for his poor English and bad comments, The ANI thread [13] where he got topic banned from AfD reveals more possible collusion.
  • Due to UrduID's rather obvious poor english, It is quite clear to me that his account is being used by others to copy paste at ANI and SPI.
  • Filing bad faith bogus SPI reports on behalf of topic banned users, as a part of SMEAR CAMPAIGN clearly a case of WP:NOTHERE. I expect an Indef block on this UrduID for repeating this again and again.
  • Now regarding the question of who is behind Urdu ID, I am not sure, So I can only speculate. I am not aware of SherriffInTown and never had any interaction with him either. But what I clearly know is the first SPI against me was filed by a User TopGun who was also into habit of filing spurious SPI cases against editors who had content dispute with him wth an intention to malign the other editor. (probably TopGun changed his city/location and came back as SherrifInTown and now filing SPIs via UrduID.)
  • I hope the admins will take a strong note of this and roll back the "bad faith SPI filling" clearly filed to malign editors in good standing--DBigXray 14:08, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Lorstaking, no comment necessary on the WP:ADMINSHOPPING, but are you connected to any of those two accounts? Indeed Accesscrawl also sounds a lot like you. Maybe that is why this SPI has drawn such an emotional response from you. Or maybe its because these users' ask you offline to defend their socks? The last time my SPI caught a sock with his pants down[14] you and your crew went all over yourself just to defend the sock.[15] That is enough to diminish your credibility. And I thought Bbb3 already told you not to do mudslinging on SheriffIsInTown?[16] مھتاب احمد (talk) 14:45, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
@Lorstaking, DBigXray, and مھتاب احمد: Thanks for the info. However, it would be best:
  1. To argue the evidence/rebuttal about DBigXray-Accesscrawl's alleged socking at the SPI
  2. If the discussion there could be limited to persons directly involved.
I have noted the accusation of proxy-editing, but will be able to delve into it only later. Abecedare (talk) 15:20, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Obaid Raza

You had warned Obaid Raza[17] but he has continued to engage in WP:PROXYING. While more than a few of his recent contributions can be construed as such, the ones from yesterday were completely in violation of what you had warned, i.e. "battleground conduct". Yesterday he came online after being offline for over 7 days for supporting a faulty report against Kautilya3,[18] and his messages were similar to those ones from NadirAli, who is topic banned from the reported article and he is presently blocked.

ObaidRaza: {{noping|Kautilya3}} has already been warned for edit warring on this noticeboard '''twice''' by {{ping|Bbb23}}.[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring&oldid=741455773#User:Kautilya3_reported_by_User:SheriffIsInTown_(Result:_Warned)] I don't see any need for favouritism or extra chances here which were not given to new users such as {{U|Son of Kolachi}}. Kautilya3's "clean block log" means nothing. He has gotten away with all his previous disruption by sheer luck, favouritism and elaborate deception (for example he escaped sanctions for abusing multiple accounts some years ago[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kautilya3/Archives/Archive_1#Use_of_alternative_accounts]) [19]

NadirAli: He has convinced sysops before that his abuse of multiple accounts was "accidental" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kautilya3/Archives/Archive_1#Use_of_alternative_accounts] and he has even convinced them that his edit warring was not a 1RR violation because he "misunderstood" policy.[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring&oldid=741455773#User:Kautilya3_reported_by_User:SheriffIsInTown_(Result:_Warned)] I believe the administrators have already been too lenient in dealing with his wrongdoings.[20]

Another edit from Obaid Raza showed nothing more than desperation to get the user blocked anyhow. Swarm criticized these comments of Obaid Raza.[21]

To be more accurate, Obaid Raza was never involved in any of the events he has cited. He never edited the article in question[22] nor the very popular noticeboard where the complaint was resolved.[23] Lorstaking (talk) 10:37, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

I see that the responding admin User:Swarm already saw through the speciousness of the report. As I am sure you realize, proxying is behavior that we can sometimes recognize when we see it ourselves, but is hard to prove to others, so I'll take a look later to judge if there is cumulative evidence in Raza's case to make the the proxying suspicion concrete. Abecedare (talk) 14:03, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
I see you have topic banned him. I read your note on his talk page and maybe your diffs were still an underestimation and there were more examples. He also filed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AmritasyaPutra without any necessary interaction with me or Amritasya putra. Just giving my 2 cents for justifying the sanction :) Sdmarathe (talk) 05:28, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. I'd seen that and if the user appeals, we can present and exhaustive list of their proxy edits. Hopefully, the recent block/topic-ban will dissuade others from "lending" their accounts for such use... at least for some time. Abecedare (talk) 06:25, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

WP:AN3

I saw that you protected this noticeboard indefinitely - just wanted to let you know this in case you didn't mean to do this ;-). ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 06:09, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

@Oshwah: Had to recheck because I am very much capable of making such a mistake! :)
But I think we are ok: The edit protection expires in another two hours. Only the move protection is indefinite (which has been the case since 2013). Btw, if you wish to undo the semi-protection early be my guest. I am not doing so myself since I'll be logging off soon and therefore won't be able to keep an eye for the IP returning. Abecedare (talk) 06:21, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Abecedare - I'm a moron - you're absolutely correct, and I apologize for bothering you about this :-). ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 06:34, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
WP:NPA please. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 06:36, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
I'll be happy to block Oshwah for that; I think he's been warned before. O, that always gives me thought too, and I'm kind of happy I'm not the only one. Seriously, Abecedare, can I block him? Please? Just for like three hours as a first offense? Drmies (talk) 02:10, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Confession: when I semi-protected AN3 for 3 hours I had inadvertently reduced the move-protection from indef to three hours too, till I got a pop-up message saying something like "Are you sure you want to do that?" And yet, when User:Oshwah left the above message, I had to double check what I had actually done. As with kids vs adults, if ""normal" editors knew how much we admins fake "knowing" stuff, we would lose all (remaining) trust.
So sorry User:Drmies, my Rawlian ethics (aka selfish sense of self-preservation) won't allow me give you the permission you beg for. :) Abecedare (talk) 02:22, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the link--very interesting. And yes, same here. Also, damn. Not sure I've blocked an admin before; I was hoping it would finally happen. Drmies (talk) 02:25, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi, did you block me due to a misunderstanding?

  • (Hi Abacadare, and thank you for admin-ing, which I am sure is a tedious job due in part to people like me showing up to ask questions about it.) I believe you are mistaken that this edit reflects a BLP violation. My discussion of whether ""dumbass fucking white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants" can be factually regarded as a statement of racial animus was not talking about Sarah Jeong's state of mind, but rather the tweet's actual English meaning, interpreted as standalone. As such, my statement was uncontroversial and supported by all the best sources, including in fact the NYT, Jeong's employer, who found fault with these tweets. I am not suggesting that we inject editors' opinions into the article. The only sources in disagreement with me on this might be the sources that reflect a bias toward intersectional social justice activism. I respect those sources enough not to propose that Wikipedia speak in its own voice to say that the tweets reflect racial animus, but rather propose letting the tweets speak for themselves, with exactly the same context as is given by our best neutral RS's like WaPo. It's not clear to me why any of this would violate BLP.
  • Similarly on the coatrack thing, I am not sure why you see my participation in this highly contentious and popular debate as a violation. I have never suggested (to my knowledge) that Jeong's problematic tweets should be the primary focus of her article. Where did I say that, or what am I missing here? Wookian (talk) 00:15, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
@Wookian: By coatracking I am referring to your gratuitous and repeated quoting of the Jeong tweet, not in the particular context of proposing its inclusion in the article but in general discussion, including in the note above. Also you are not blocked; only topic-banned from Jeong related content and discussions. Abecedare (talk) 00:25, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
OK, I didn't know that you wanted people to (generally?) avoid quoting the tweets on the Talk page. To be fair, the verbatim content of the tweets was pretty much the subject of debate and comes directly from our neutral RS's like WaPo, so it is not obvious to me that the Talk page shouldn't refer clearly to the material under discussion. When you don't refer to it clearly, I think something is missing. Wouldn't you agree? Wookian (talk) 00:35, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
@Wookian: As I said above it is okay (indeed unavoidable) to quote specific tweets on the talkpage discussion, in context proposing that those specific tweets be quoted in the article, as at the top of the section here. However, that was not the context that you were repeatedly quoting them including in this and this edit. Also note that the reason for the topic ban is "disruptive and tendentious editing and WP:BLP, WP:TPG, and WP:AGF violations on the article talk-page and other venues," with the gratuitous tweet quoting only being the last straw as I said in my note on your talkpage. Abecedare (talk) 00:57, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
It is my position that the point I was making in that comment on my personal Talk page necessitated a direct quote of the tweet. If somebody told me "it's just an opinion that 'fuck ornithologists' bears occupational animus", my reply would be much less effective if I don't quote the statement. Of course "fuck ornithologists" bears occupational animus as long as we are very clear what statement we are talking about. (Note that I also clarified to you already that I wasn't making a claim about what was in the speaker's heart, just what the statement says according to our reliable sources - in this case including the NYT which disapproved of the tweets). Wookian (talk) 01:11, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
As far as the tacked on complaints, all I can reply to is what you cite specific examples of. If your main precipitating trigger for this topic ban turns out to have been based on a misunderstanding, I'd politely request that you back up a step and reconsider. It is of course up to you. Wookian (talk) 01:11, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

On further studying this, it seems unlikely that you will be responsive to my request. In reading your Talk page (you're a busy individual), I have discovered that you are already involved in the dispute over which you infracted me. In fact, you appear to have pre-judged the outcome of the very popular and contentious debate I was participating in over on the Sarah Jeong Talk page. I refer to your comment above: "uncontextualized tweet-quotes (as in just "one tweet said...") have no chance of passing the BLP-test, so I'll preempt 'voting' on the above proposal to prevent editors wasting their time. Please rethink, and ask for advice from editors experienced in the BLP area or at WP:BLPN, if needed." As you know, I was participating in debate about whether to include quotes of the tweets very much as you describe above - those that Jeong posted publicly "without context", and were quoted as such by WaPo and other neutral RS's. The only context would then be what was already in the article for fairness - Jeong's excuse. The editor Jytdog had suggested (multiple times in the Talk page, actually) that it might be expected that people would inject tweets from third party racists and/or material about women and how they react to abuse online; and I challenged Jytdog on that, pointing out that accepting Jeong's excuse and bringing in all that narrative building infrastructure was not necessary, and would constitute adopting an editor's opinion instead of following our neutral RS's. It was of course after that that Jytdog piled on to my talk page. Did Jytdog get you involved? Is this part of a reprisal against me for calling out Jytdog for injecting inappropriate personal opinion into the discussion? I really hope not.

Anyway, you are clearly very deeply invested in the other side of the debate, and unlikely to agree with my position here. Cheers! Wookian (talk) 15:50, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

@Wookian: If you have been following the page over the past week, I am clearly involved in the page as an administrator, which includes providing guidance to editors (esp. new ones) on what process is likely to be fruitful, or not. And no, I haven't had any on- or off-wiki contact regarding you with Jytdog or any other user, for that matter. Abecedare (talk) 16:15, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Abecedare, you have not communicated effectively with me as an admin. Above, you said By coatracking I am referring to your gratuitous and repeated quoting of the Jeong tweet, not in the particular context of proposing its inclusion in the article but in general discussion, including in the note above.

It is worth noting that it was only after topic-banning me that you explained what you meant by "coatracking" with the above statement. Prior to that, such a meaning was not obvious from your remarks to me. If I had known you didn't want people quoting Jeong's tweets in the Talk page, then I wouldn't have continued quoted them after your warning. Of course, I would have still objected strongly over that censorship of free debate and discussion, since you were basically taking the opposing side in the debate and like many editors, I think your side in the debate is mistaken, per the example of our best neutral RS's. However, on my good faith reading of the WP:COATRACK article, the meaning I inferred was that an editor shouldn't give one obscure "sin" of a BLP individual undue weight, e.g. by making it the focus of an article when that is unwarranted. I asked you what you meant, however you quickly brought down the ban hammer (OK, topic block) without taking the time to explain your meaning beforehand. That is poor communication on your part, FYI. When the only way to comply with your extremely unclear and vague warning is to stop writing on a topic, then maybe you have room for improvement as an administrator. Of course, Jytdog's interaction with me suggests that getting me to stop writing on the topic and driving my voice away from the debate was a goal. Was it yours as well? Wookian (talk) 02:06, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

@Wookian: Please see the full-justification for your topic-ban that I left on your talkpage. And despite you claims to that effect, we were not on "opposing side in the debate"; my role at the article talkpage has been to facilitate the discussion and ensure that wikipedia policies (esp., BLP) are not violated.
And if I may make an observation (take it fwiw): in the above comments as well as Talk:Sarah Jeong (eg, [24], [25]) you appear to be treating discussion on wikipedia as verbal-fencing matches in which one scores points by striking the other side, while trying to remain just within the boundary marked by the formal rules. That's not what this project is for. Abecedare (talk) 02:45, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
To say that following our neutral RS's in posting the verbatim tweet content is a BLP violation (and infract me over it) is taking a position in the debate. Your words and actions show you to be are inextricably, undeniably involved in the debate, and your opinion is widely disagreed with by editors like myself. Some of the most relevant statements disagreeing with your position in that debate point out how other articles have a different standard. For example, our dear friend Jytdog argued (elsewhere) that Roseanne Barr's tweet of "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj" could be identified as racist in a "sky is blue" way. (Also, notice Barr's tweet is OK to quote even though she's BLP?) However, when I try to discuss whether Sarah Jeong's tweet "<abecedare doesn't want anybody to read this because he/she censors wikipedia>" is a "sky is blue" racial slur on its face, as many of our neutral sources recognize and quote verbatim... suddenly everything must be censored due to BLP and there's a huge push to construct a favorable narrative about "context" favored only by POV conflicted sources. Wookian (talk) 03:08, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for the feedback. If I may make an observation (take it fwiw), abuse of the admin system as a debate tactic is poor form. Wookian (talk) 03:08, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Patna–Digha Ghat line

On 15 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Patna–Digha Ghat line, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Indian Railways runs loss-making trains on the Patna–Digha Ghat line to prevent encroachment? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Patna–Digha Ghat line. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Patna–Digha Ghat line), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Disruptive User

Hi, This user User talk:Pradeepchhatani is inserting his own name in various films Articles [26] , [27] , [28] ... Its really very hectic and time wasting exercise to clean up this mess.. He is clearly WP:NOTHERE... Can something be done?? Thanks -- Adamstraw99 (talk) 12:45, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@Adamstraw99: Left them a message about wikipedia's promotional editing and COI policies. Lets see if they continue after your warning and this. Many persons don't even realize that they are not supposed to update wikipedia entries to document their life/careers. Abecedare (talk) 13:50, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your action --Adamstraw99 (talk) 13:52, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Mohamed Sheikh, Baron Sheikh

I think someone might have to personally explain privately to both 'the new Mrs Sheikh' and Lord Sheikh, individually, that the House of Lords and the College of Arms (the College are a non-governmental department within the Royal Household (ie Buckingham Palace) which also administers the membership list of the House of Lords) demand and require, per protocol (set out by the Palace in consultation with the Home Office and the House of Lords, and recorded in the likes of Debrett's), that the previous wife (as she still sits as a trustee and a director of Lord Sheikh's personal and family charity, according to the filings released online by Companies House and by the Charity Commission) ceases the use of the title 'Lady' upon the remarriage of a life Peer, and that might cause 'some difficulties' (to put it mildly!) in terms of relationship between Lord Sheikh and his daughter (possibly also a trustee and a director), for one thing! Lord Sheikh and Muradova probably went off to Pakistani-administered Kashmir to undergo a 'customary Islamic marriage ceremony' in 2015, thinking that it doesn't count back here in England as 'wife' for the purpose of the College and the House authorities. -- 87.102.116.36 (talk) 13:50, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

I haven't looked at the particulars of the subject's marriage(s), which are best discussed, along with supporting sources and awareness of due weight, by editors on the article talkpage. In the meantime, I'd suggest that you too stop speculating about the motives of the various persons involved and insinuating that the IP editing the page is one of those persons. See WP:NOTFORUM. Abecedare (talk) 13:57, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Peers of the Realm (such as he is, as a life Peer) are entitled to 'enroll' their (family) 'pedigrees' in the College of Arms and they generally also have the likes of the details of their marriages etc recorded and entered separately in the likes of Debrett's [29]... only those would suffice and nothing else, what I am really saying is! (The burden of proof has to be such, because the wife of a Peer, provided that the marriage ceremony (wedding) is known (and was legally valid in the first place, and the ceremony validly held), is automatically entitled to the style of (to call herself and requires herself to be called) 'Lady'.) -- 87.102.116.36 (talk) 15:44, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
87.102, discussion of what sources would be acceptable is pre-mature until someone actually digs up some potential sources for the marriage(s). I am not particularly interested in the topic, so I haven't searched for sources myself. In any case, all this is best discussed at Talk:Mohamed Sheikh, Baron Sheikh, where interested editors are more likely to see it. Abecedare (talk) 15:54, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
That would be too libellous (I suspect you might in fact be based in India rather than here in England, but who knows and also that's 'by-the-by'!)... look, here in England, copies of the latest (or reasonably modern) editions of Debretts are generally available at the British Library and 'all good' University libraries and reference libraries. This is what we (generally) go by (rely on), for things like that. (And any future discussion should bear this (discussion) in mind.) -- 87.102.116.36 (talk) 16:07, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Susta

Please take a look at the recent edits to Susta page. Thanks. – Jakichandan (talk) 08:38, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

@Jakichandan and Raju Babu: The current version can perhaps be improved/split to make the distinction between the "Susta rural municipality" and the (disputed) "Susta village" territory clearer, but overall it looks to be a marked improvement over the previous versions (eg, this immediately prior one). The remaining issues can be discussed at Talk:Susta and, if needed, more editors from the India- and Nepal-wikiproject can be invited to help. Abecedare (talk) 14:53, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
@Abecedare: I was wondering if the Nepalese government uses the term "Susta rural Municipality" to refer to the same disputed territory or "Susta Village" and the "Susta rural municipality" is different? Moreover, the currently cited sources apparently don't give the exact detail of who currently controls the disputed territory.—Jakichandan (talk) 15:04, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
(after ec) Yes, it is confusing! Let me start this discussion on the article talkpage where more editors interested in the topic can see it, and perhaps we can figure it out. I have watchlisted the article and will chime in after I have read the sources properly, and if I have something useful to add. Abecedare (talk) 15:10, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
Will it be okay to move this discussion from here to Talk :Susta via copy paste or should a new discussion be started there? Thanks. —Jakichandan (talk) 15:07, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
@Jakichandan: See this. Since the above conversation between us is short enough, IMO it is easier to just repeat the pertinent bits on the article talkpage, instead of copying the whole. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 15:15, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
I have repeated on the article talk page. Thanks.—Jakichandan (talk) 16:21, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
  • @Jakichandan: To address your "I was wondering if the Nepalese government uses the term "Susta rural Municipality" to refer to the same disputed territory or "Susta Village""
Possibly, although since the area and population of the municipality is larger than those of the disputed region, it may only contain the latter. But I'll need to read the source(s) in detail before I can comment with any certainty. Abecedare (talk) 16:49, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
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Susta village on the eastern side of river
  • @Jakichandan and Abecedare: According to the former administrative structure susta village (east of Gandak river) was part of Tribenisusta village development committee (ward no. 4), after restructuring of the administrative divisions (after 10 March 2017) Susta village is part of Susta rural municipality of Parasi District. Susta village has approximately 5000 acres of area only but Susta Rural Municipality has 91.24 sqkm area. The Susta village is surrounded by India from north, east and south, Gandak river flows from west whenever, Susta Rural Municipality (mainland) is situated other side of river connected with Nepal.--- 👤Raju💌 17:44, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
Check it on google map, showing susta as a part of Nepal "Susta" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 17 August 2018.--- 👤Raju💌 18:00, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
@Raju Babu: Thanks for the additional notes. I'll take a look and comment at Talk:Susta, perhaps over the weekend. Abecedare (talk) 19:13, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Barred symbols

Just a quick query/suggestion regarding "Any policy change proposals should be taken to WP:VPP," which seems to imply that such a block is according to policy. Were you alluding to WP:POLEMIC? A few argued that it was applicable but a significant portion of the support was seemingly due to users thinking it was the right thing to do with little mention of policy. I think the word "change" is the issue. Strike that word and the implicit assertion that such a block is according to policy goes away. I could, however, be reading more into it than is there. Best regards, — Godsy (TALKCONT) 00:19, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

@Godsy: As you suspect, you are reading more into it than was there. I simply meant that any general discussion about whether wikipedia's P&G should further codify what content, userboxes, images etc are/aren't allowable on userpages belongs at VPP.
FWIW, I believe Tony's block was entirely proper and flows directly from what wikipedia is and is not (see esp. WP:NOTSTUPID). Abecedare (talk) 00:54, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Sure, WP:NOTFREESPEECH could be argued as well. I think the block should have been based on, likely justly, the editors talk page and article contributions. I just do not think that the bare application of File:Black Sun.svg to one's userpage warrants a block as some other users seemed to believe, especially when e.g. userboxes like User:Gr8opinionater/Userboxes/Neo-Fascist exist and are in use. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 01:12, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Yes, it is possible that an editor may add the File:Black Sun.svg image for innocent reasons, in which case a block would be unjustified. But I don't think that hypothetical is of much value in this particular instance.
Historical aside: Back sometime in 2006-2008 there was a big wikipedia-wide debate on whether (IIRC) the Wikiproject Hinduism's welcome template should continue to include the swastika. The project members, of course, used the symbol entirely without any allusion to Nazism but that wouldn't have always been obvious to a new editors not familiar with the symbols use in India/Hinduism. Somewhere on wikipedia that debate must still be archived, and will provide all the pro-and-con arguments about such image use. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 01:39, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
If you have a few hours, read through this and this; and that was far from the only place the debate was happening. Happy reading! :) Abecedare (talk) 01:47, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
  • Since I was pinged: Yes, I’m more vocal in my belief that we should block on sight for stuff like this (and I’m willing to be the guy who makes the blocks when needed), but our pretty consistent practice for the last few years at least has been that we block people who openly display Nazi propaganda images and Nazi iconography on their userpage. NPOV (which is the principle that is usually being appealed to indirectly when these blocks come up) does not mean we have to treat the Nazi like we treat other editors: the principle mandates that we treat him in a way that is consistent with the ideals and objectives of our project and movement as well as the policies of our local community. Displaying an image like he displayed with the clear intent that he had was in itself an act of violence (emotional and mental) against a significant part of the editorial population that Nazis and white nationalists think would be better off murdered and dead. That action is inherently incompatible with everything Wikipedia stands for: it is a form of harassment against Jewish editors, editors of colour, Roma editors, LGBT editors, and anyone else that evil ideology has in the past or currently wishes dead. Such an act is disruptive because it impacts the ability of Wikipedia to function as a collaborative project, and admins have long had the discretion to block for disruptive edits not formally codified in policy but which are a detriment to the project. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:32, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
@TonyBallioni: Perhaps that has been the practice as of late. Other than that, I largely disagree for various reasons. However, I am not willing to defend the placement of abhorrent symbols or ideology userboxes on userpages unless the need arises. The day an editor making unquestionably constructive edits (i.e. clearly leaving their ideologies out of their editing) wants to put such things on their userpage, should it ever arrive, is the day we can cross that bridge. That clearly was not the case in this instance; as I made clear at AN/I: my problem was with the block reason, not necessarily the block. Best regards, — Godsy (TALKCONT) 07:56, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
I think the point is such a day will never come as that is an inherently disruptive action. TonyBallioni (talk) 08:48, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
This conversation reminds me of this which I recently noticed, there used to be only one tranclusion to the user's page, now none (Special:Permalink/853300451). I also just tagged this for notwebhost... Something more interesting and likely fine is this other user box. —PaleoNeonate – 09:18, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

For closing that darn ANI thread. Simonm223 (talk) 17:42, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
The closing was easy. Reading it was hard. Coffee needed and appreciated. :) Abecedare (talk) 17:45, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Toward the end Participating in it got very coffee-requiring. LOL Simonm223 (talk) 19:29, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

RevDel for CopyVios

needed here, appreciate if you can help to take care of it. thanks. --DBigXray 18:52, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for catching and reporting it. Abecedare (talk) 19:02, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
Some more revdels needed from the same user Special:Contributions/Gyanigurmukhsinghkhalsa --DBigXrayᗙ 16:56, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Done. Thanks again. Abecedare (talk) 19:05, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Son of Kolachi

Son of Kolachi (talk · contribs) started out his Wiki editing with edit warring on Human rights abuses in Kashmir, and even after coming back from a arbitration enforcement block,[30] he still edit warred[31] on that article that it was protected by EdJohnston and now only extended confirmed users can edit it.

He is still edit warring as he edit warred on Pakistan by reverting two times[32][33] without starting or participating on talk page before 2 reverts,[34] and now that page is protected by EdJohnston and only extended confirmed users can edit it.

Son of Kolachi seems to be a sock of Mfarazbaig.

These similarities comes after the SPI.[46] While I note that "unrelated" result takes things into a different level, this sock farm is made up of paid editors and socks often come as "unrelated" while completely matching the behavior. It is more clear in this case that Mfarazbaig is behind this account.

Last year, when Mfarazbaig was socking as IPs,[47] (see Bearen Hunter's note on blocking this IP range) the IPs geolocated to the same area as they do with the IP, 39.57.170.104 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), which was abused by Son of Kolachi on this article before he started using his account to continue the edit war.[48][49]

In the case of Son of Kolachi, the case is clear that this is not a new user at all, he is too focused with edit warring on subjects where he is defending rather poor edits and indeed disrupting this subject by turning less controversial articles into extended confirmed protected articles and he apparently knows he should not do this. Lorstaking (talk) 07:05, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

@Lorstaking: If you think User:Son of Kolachi should have been blocked instead of the Pakistan and Human rights abuses in Kashmir articles being edit-protected you should discuss that with the concerned admin, User:EdJohnston, although my guess is that Ed chose page-protection because the problem at those pages is not limited to one user. The rest of Son of Kolachi's recent edits should be handle-able through the regular BRD process.
As for potential socking, that is best discussed at WP:SPI. I have learned to be not-surprised at the extent of sock/meat-puppetry in this area and therefore can imagine it happening in this case too; however, given CU's "unrelated" finding at the earlier SPI filing, behavioral evidence would need to be particularly strong. Abecedare (talk) 15:51, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
@Bbb23: @Ivanvector: You guys investigated this and the result came "Unrelated". I don't even know this guy and had no interaction with Lorstaking. Yet they tend to level an accusation against me. I don't know what to make of this. Son of Kolachi (talk) 17:22, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Abecedare, thanks for handling this. Bbb23 and I have both already declined admin action with this set of evidence: Bbb23 ran CU on Son of Kolachi against Liborbital (the sockmaster of whom Mfarazbaig is a confirmed sock) and found the accounts unrelated, and Lorstaking's behavioural analysis (the same one they've offered here) was and is unconvincing. Ed also evidently saw that the disruption is not limited to one user and saw fit to protect the page instead, which was a wise response. Lorstaking is just here adminshopping, in the same pattern as I noted ([50]) in the NadirAli topic ban thread: that Lorstaking's allies in the India-Pakistan topic war agitate through whichever venues have not already rejected them, seeking sanctions against their editorial opponents in order to "win" content disputes.
This request is harassment and it's clearly intended to be harassment. If I see any more of these repeat investigations and/or adminshopping from this group of editors, I'm going to block them. I'm done warning them. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:42, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
@Ivanvector: Read WP:BLOCKING for understanding when blocks are made. Read WP:INVOLVED for understanding that you are not allowed to block editors you feud with. Violation of either can lead to desysoping. My above request was intended to get rid of disruption and there are multiple concerns raised here. You are replying this 30 hours old thread after following a ping made by a disruptive account for continuing your WP:BATTLE and it speaks against you only. Overriding an admin call where you are WP:INVOLVED is in fact worse. Your clear assumption of bad faith only makes the problem worse. You are not allowed to protect any editor from being reported even if you weren't WP:INVOLVED. Bbb23 didnt declined the report but left it open for behavioral analysis. Who told you that Mfarazbaig is a confirmed sock of Liborbital? He is unrelated to Liborbital. Which "NadirAli topic ban thread" are you recalling? There has been no such thread. Given the factual errors in your brief comment, I don't have to explain things any further but acknowledge that you can easily err. I strongly recommend you to familiarize yourself with the policies and work in a collegial environment. Alternatively, you can stay out if your presence has been completely unhelpful like here. Lorstaking (talk) 03:52, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
What's the point of all this war of words and threats? If there is a specific issue, that can be dealt with at the right time and venue. Else, lets just spend the time improving some article or, you know, otherwise enjoying the weekend! Abecedare (talk) 04:43, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

WP:IUC at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Unite_the_Right_rally&action=history

Can you check here why some are restoring uncivil comments?

"If you just want to bitch about WP, go write a fucking blog and leave the rest of us alone to actually do the work of writing an encyclopedia"

Civility restriction: Users are required to follow proper decorum during discussions and edits. Users may be sanctioned (including blocks) if they make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.225.100.234 (talk) 23:17, 27 August 2018‎ (UTC)

Thanks 109.225 for reporting that 9-day old edit. But while WP:AGF may sometimes make us appear naive, it doesn't make us stupid. Abecedare (talk) 00:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

My question is, is it breaking WP:IUC or not? since copying that comment in the talk page got it autocensored so you had to modify it when you quote it there. now if there is an autocensor on a comment, if that is not a rulebreak comment then what is?

Can you tell me what part of that sentence has to do with changing the article?


On another note, I suppose it does not break the Palestine vs Israel arbitration, since faith goldy did attend in Israel and was pro Israel, so them calling supporters of Israel neo Nazis is not NPOV then either or? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJqp0sNVCU — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.225.103.169 (talk) 21:52, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

And my question, which I'm going to look at more, is how many blocks these two IP ranges have had since at least 2012. Doug Weller talk 07:56, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
Evidently one, now blocked, range. Doug Weller talk 11:38, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Abusive edit summaries

Hi, can you please have a look at the edit summaries of this page history -->> [51] , I Think the edit summary dated 08:09, 24 August 2018‎ is very abusive and disturbing and should not be visible on wiki... thanks --Adamstraw99 (talk) 08:12, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) I revdeleted one edit and its summary. If there are more, please report to ANI for faster response. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 10:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Adam, Ivan or handling it. This is a known IP-vandal, so keep a lookout for him to return on other random Delhi and Indian-politics related pages. Abecedare (talk) 14:44, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Nauriya

I was waiting for your to return per your notice above. It seems that I am not really going to edit enough for some days and that's why I thought of leaving the message here.

Last time Nauriya wasn't provided a systematic block and you had said you will intervene in future if there is any more "socking/copyvio/proxying".[52]

The log shows that he has violated copyrights 2 times on 23 August 2018.[53] I would remind that the overall record was found to be horrible when investigated last time, i.e. "deletion of 52 out of 118 uploaded images deleted for being copyvio". Lorstaking (talk) 16:03, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Evidently the problem is more bigger than what I have noted above. Meatpuppetry most likely occurred after the warning.[54] I tagged his most recent article as copyvio [55] and seeing more recent issues. Given the past two indef blocks[56][57] for this problem have clearly failed to resolve this disastrous issue, I believe an ANI thread would be worth it. Lorstaking (talk) 05:49, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, @Ivanvector: did warn you against this behavior. Son of Kolachi (talk) 08:59, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
(responding to ping) I revdeleted the copyvio contribs on the linked page, which Nauriya had already removed. Regarding the August incidents, courtesy ping Diannaa. Lorstaking, if you think this is part of a pattern of inappropriate editing then do consider making a report at ANI. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 10:44, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
He's had several warnings. I will add him to my list of people to monitor. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Multiple instances of copyright violations in last 2 weeks are concerning especially after two indef blocks, past copyright investigation as well as the final warning given by Abecedare. I started a thread on ANI as thought above.[58] Lorstaking (talk) 13:10, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

What happens to...

Hello Abecedare, I am picking on you as a random admin who commented about one particular user. Disclaimer, as an involved ed I may not be qualified to speak on this. The other ed recently received an indef site ban, and they leave behind oodles of subpages in userspace. To be clear, I have not reviewed any of it I can not say whether it meets conditions for MFD based on content alone. I'm looking ahead though, either to when readers find that stuff or when this user tries to come back. They have had much condemnation to offer offwiki and have contemplated ways to create a false image in a future request to come back. In the interests of prevention, and purely as a matter of housekeeping, do we routinely clean up this sort of thing en masse? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:41, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

@NewsAndEventsGuy: Good questions but since I am not active in WP:MFD area, I am not sure what the current practice for keeping/deleting such pages is. Afaik, userspace pages are not indexed by search engines, and deleting them does not save "space" on wikipedia servers; so there is not much harm in having them around. My instinct therefore is to just let them be unless there are copyvio or polemical issues, or until they lead to some concrete disruption. On the other hand, I would be fine with anyone nominating them for deletion and would even add my support if there is any indication that Robert is linking to them from his off-wiki blogs and websites and falsely portraying them as "wikipedia articles". Abecedare (talk) 15:21, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. In the great scheme of things there are much more important things to worry about, so I'll follow your lead and let it lie. You don't need my permission, of course, but you're welcome to share my inquiry with anyone. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:44, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

"Pita" or "pitta" in the OED3

Hi Abecedare, and thanks again for providing the info for "shish kebab" from the OED3 a couple of months ago. I wonder if I could trouble you for another look-up, this time for "pitta" or maybe "pita"? There are some statements in Pita#Etymology, cited to OED3, that are vastly different from OED2. For example, an attestation in 1108, and that it was received from Greek "into Levantine Arabic (as fatteh, since Arabic lacks the sound /p/)". If you don't want to post the whole entry, you could also send it by email if you'd like. Thanks! --IamNotU (talk) 02:51, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

@IamNotU: The etymology for Pita in OED is pretty long and involved; so I have emailed it to you. The good news is that the entry was updated in June 2006 for OED3, so it really should be a good source. For comparison purposes I have also emailed you the OED2 (1989) etymology, which (as you suspect) was significantly simpler. Abecedare (talk) 03:20, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Got it, thanks a lot!! --IamNotU (talk) 17:14, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
(talk page gnome) Just saying: I wish I had some right now (or naan, with dal). —PaleoNeonate – 09:08, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to provide consultancy

Hi Abecedare,

I'm inviting admins to join our team at parli.co providing advice on how to build and manage a collaborative website. Parli.co is an emerging project aiming at building a sort of Wikipedia of arguments around controversial topics (more info here). Part of our budget will be destined to such consultancy work, and we think we could benefit from the experience of Wikipedia janitors and admins. Feel free to message me back with interest and questions. --isacdaavid 23:04, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Come on, people. This looks like a good effort. All the editors that we block can go there and add their opinions, and we will be spared. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:49, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Everyone is invited. I am sending invitations manually in alphabetical order based on Wikipedia:List of administrators/Active. This is only a heuristic and I realize I could miss potential partners. We don't see Parli as trying to compete with Wikipedia (it's not an encyclopedia to begin with), nor is it an attempt to give voice to fringe groups who don't get a chance here. --isacdaavid 21:02, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
No, I Don't think this will progress unless you disclose the going rates first..... Adamstraw99 (talk) 00:44, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
I'm not the right person to provide that information. All I do is recruit interested participants and get them in contact with Parli's benevolent dictator for life, with whom employees like myself strike the deals. --isacdaavid 20:27, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
  • @Isacdaavid: Thanks for the invite but at least at the moment I won't have the time to participate. Also, the undisclosed payment terms and structure, restriction of invitations to admins, the fact that the contributions are not freely licensed (but rather are considered property of "Jadala Ltd") etc do not really inspire confidence. But perhaps that just represents growing pains, and someday if the project proves worthwhile and I have more time I'll volunteer for it (I won't undertake any paid activities associated with my wikipedia identity, even if it is on another website). Abecedare (talk) 21:52, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Information of Durganagar

Why you remove the City name of Durganagar? Kolkata is the City of Durganagar . And Also why you remove municipality name and Climate type. It is needless to say that Kolkata is the City of Durganagar. And also Durganagar south and east location are under South Dum Dum municipality. And also this location climate type is Tropicana. So At this point Why you remove those information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmitMondal1299 (talk • contribs) 07:14, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

@AmitMondal1299: I reverted your edits to the Durganagar article because you used a sock-account to perform those changes, despite previous invitation to discuss disputed edits and warnings of socking. I'll leave it to the regular editors of the article to judge the merits of your latest edits; in case any part of those are controversial you can follow recommended "BRD-process" and discuss the issue at Talk:Durganagar. Similarly please discuss the climmate-type issue on the article talkpage. Pinging @Chandan Guha and SshibumXZ: so that they are aware of this exchange. Abecedare (talk) 22:02, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
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