User talk:Black Kite/Archive 83
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Thanks
Thanks for always being so even handed in your rope as an admin . And sorry for being a bit of a pest at ANI. All the best. Bacondrum 00:05, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Green for hope
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Today, we have a DYK about Wilhelm Knabe, who stood up for future with the striking school children when he was in his 90s, - a model, - see here. - Thank you for your position in the arb case request, - I feel I have to stay away, but there are conversations further down on the page, in case of interest, - in a nutshell: "... will not improve kindness, nor any article". - Yesterday, I made sure on a hike that the flowers are actually blooming ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:27, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Note
@Black Kite: Please check your email, if you haven't yet. --Chillabit (talk) 02:35, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- Chillabit Replied. Black Kite (talk) 02:46, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Black Kite: Sent another reply. --Chillabit (talk) 03:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Re: Dominion Voting Systems
Your revert of my edit without participation on the article's Talk Page is noted. This is not WP:SYNTH. Senators Lix Warren, Ron Wyden and Amy Klobuchar did all the SYNTH in their letter. They pulled together multiple security concerns expressed in multiple mainstream, reliable sources. Read the footnotes in that letter, they are extensive. Also please review the video of the Atlantic Council conference. All, or almost all, of the speakers at the conference were former Obama Admin officials. These are Democrats expressing these concerns about the security of Dominion (and other) voting machines and related software. I urge you to restore my edit and participate on the article Talk Page. Flavor of the Month (talk) 18:26, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- As I said, I wouldn't have had so much of a problem with it had it not been in the lead paragraph. Black Kite (talk) 19:39, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- It isn't the lead paragraph. It's between the second and third paragraphs. And these were significant events in the company's history. Rather than an "either the lead or the Reliability section," why not both? Deal with the 2017-2020 period briefly in the lead section (between the second and third paragraphs), and in greater detail below. Flavor of the Month (talk) 06:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry - I was unclear - I meant the lead section. It's not significant except as regards reliability. And putting it before the election part insinuates that Trump's claims may have had merit, even though they didn't. Black Kite (talk) 10:57, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- The portion of Trump's claims about undetected election fraud do have some merit, as reflected in a recent dissenting opinion by Clarence Thomas. Three Democratic senators, as well as several former Obama Admin officials on the Atlantic Council, and CNN reporters covering hacker conventions, shared those concerns in 2017-2019 ... but have now mysteriously fallen silent about those concerns. And even if those claims didn't have any merit at all, it is still a significant development in the history of the company and its products, so it belongs in the lead section. Please, let's have this discussion on the article Talk page. Flavor of the Month (talk) 16:00, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ah yes, that well known neutral figure Clarence Thomas. Forgive me if I don't take that seriously. Black Kite (talk) 19:15, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Every bit as neutral and unbiased as the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wore a special necklace every time one of her many, many dissenting opinions was announced. I'm sure you hold her memory in the highest regard, as do I. But perhaps not for the same reasons. Flavor of the Month (talk) 23:57, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Since I'm not American, not really. And I don't really care aout the election either, for the same reasons. But I can reliably determine when information is being introduced into an article with an agenda, having been here 15 years. Black Kite (talk) 00:09, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- My only agenda here is publishing a neutral, well sourced encyclopedia article that covers Dominion's entire history in a completely NPOV way. Right now it's not NPOV. Far too heavy on the November 2020-March 2021 period, when Team Trump, QAnon and their tribe of nuts were making ridiculous claims about Dominion. Absolutely nothing on the 2016-19 period, when the Democrats and the mainstream media were criticizing Dominion with facts and data and 10-minute successful hacks of their voting machines by 11-year-olds. I wonder why? Flavor of the Month (talk) 03:03, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Since I'm not American, not really. And I don't really care aout the election either, for the same reasons. But I can reliably determine when information is being introduced into an article with an agenda, having been here 15 years. Black Kite (talk) 00:09, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Every bit as neutral and unbiased as the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wore a special necklace every time one of her many, many dissenting opinions was announced. I'm sure you hold her memory in the highest regard, as do I. But perhaps not for the same reasons. Flavor of the Month (talk) 23:57, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ah yes, that well known neutral figure Clarence Thomas. Forgive me if I don't take that seriously. Black Kite (talk) 19:15, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- The portion of Trump's claims about undetected election fraud do have some merit, as reflected in a recent dissenting opinion by Clarence Thomas. Three Democratic senators, as well as several former Obama Admin officials on the Atlantic Council, and CNN reporters covering hacker conventions, shared those concerns in 2017-2019 ... but have now mysteriously fallen silent about those concerns. And even if those claims didn't have any merit at all, it is still a significant development in the history of the company and its products, so it belongs in the lead section. Please, let's have this discussion on the article Talk page. Flavor of the Month (talk) 16:00, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry - I was unclear - I meant the lead section. It's not significant except as regards reliability. And putting it before the election part insinuates that Trump's claims may have had merit, even though they didn't. Black Kite (talk) 10:57, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- It isn't the lead paragraph. It's between the second and third paragraphs. And these were significant events in the company's history. Rather than an "either the lead or the Reliability section," why not both? Deal with the 2017-2020 period briefly in the lead section (between the second and third paragraphs), and in greater detail below. Flavor of the Month (talk) 06:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Glenn Roeder
On 1 March 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Glenn Roeder, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. —Bagumba (talk) 14:38, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Note 2
@Black Kite:, sent a reply. --Chillabit (talk) 19:28, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- Got it - thanks for that. Black Kite (talk) 20:20, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Cultural Marxism page block
Since this discussion appears to be happening elsewhere as well, could it stick to one location please? Thanks
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You blocked me from editing the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory talk page, giving this rationale: “Even a cursory reading of Talk:Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory makes it very clear that the page - and its many other editors - need a rest from Swood100's persistent badgering and inability to drop the stick.” Could you clarify what you see as “persistent badgering and inability to drop the stick”? Take the section POV pushing, for example. It was during this that Bacondrum concluded that charges should be brought against me. Where did I go over the line? Thanks. — Swood100 (talk) 18:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Would you characterize these reverted edits as exemplifying my inability to drop the stick?Yes. Please state what the issue was, what the resolution was, and how my edits ignored that resolution.I have already done so, on your Talk page. Please see above. Newimpartial (talk) 18:59, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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Six hours x2!
Haha, great minds, etc. El_C 01:36, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Make that twice! Black Kite (talk) 01:38, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Oh, and as an added funny, for reasons which I no longer recall, 6 has been my lucky number since early childhood (proof); though, that isn't why I picked it here — 12 seemed too long and 3 too short, so I split the difference. El_C 14:51, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Exactly the logic I used! Black Kite (talk) 17:03, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Block needed
Hello, could you please block H Truck? Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 15:49, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- And nuke the creations... Pahunkat (talk) 15:49, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you! Pahunkat (talk) 16:13, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Vandalism - Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
Please restore page to the original template prior to vandalism by Kate R Delaney, which first occurred on February 17, 2021. Please refer you page edits for further information. Thank you. MrsPhinch (talk) 12:48, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
- MrsPhinch Please explain the vandalism issue. I am also looking at self-promotion here, as your name appears seven times in that version of the article. Black Kite (talk) 12:56, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
From what I see in the edit history, Kate R DeLaney began altering the page on Feb 17, 2021. Will reversing Kate R DeLaney’s edits to its prior state restore page to its pre-vandalism state? TempoBravo (talk) 13:42, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Archiving of Cultural Marxism page block discussion
This discussion is closed.
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Why did you archive the Cultural Marxism page block section to Archive 83? I thought that we were in the middle of trying to determine whether my edits were improper. No longer? What is the resolution of that? What did you mean by “since collapsing didn't work”? — Swood100 (talk) 00:14, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
@Black Kite: “That kind of edit is prohibited.” “Why?” “It has already been explained to you.” “No it hasn’t. Please explain it again or point me to a previous explanation.” “This is persistent badgering and inability to drop the stick. I’m going to enforcement.” Do the Wikipedia rules allow a person accused of an editing offense to be penalized without having been presented with specific edits of his and an explanation as to how they constitute an offense? According to the U. S. Supreme Court:
When one editor doesn’t like the edits of another editor, or wishes to establish or enforce a POV consensus, can he simply take the matter to the administrator’s noticeboard, make a general accusation of a refusal to drop the stick, refuse to specify a settled resolution of an editing dispute, refuse to disclose facts that would show how a specific edit, or group of edits, ignored that settled resolution, and expect to have his charges upheld? That’s absurd. How can an uninvolved admin, in a reasonable amount of time, on an article having extensive talkpage archives, possibly be able to identify a consensus that is nowhere spelled out and that is actually an attempt to circumvent the NPOV requirements through hand-waving? The WP:NPOV page makes clear that attempts to establish POV editing limitations under the guise of consensus can be expected and are prohibited. However, what mechanism is there to enforce this? Fundamental fairness requires that any editor who formally charges another editor with failure to observe the settled resolution of an editing dispute must have already specified what the resolution of the dispute was, which edits conflict with the resolution, and if it is not obvious, why the edits conflict with the resolution. This will (a) eliminate attempts to implement a POV scheme behind a façade of consensus that nobody will articulate (as is happening here), (b) eliminate the unfairness of penalizing an editor without first explaining the nature of the offense and giving him an opportunity to defend himself, (c) reduce arbitrary enforcement of the rules against disruption by allowing the admin to quickly discover the subject of the specific editing dispute, the resolution that is being claimed, and the edits that are asserted to ignore that resolution. If “everybody knows” what is being prohibited and why, then what is the objection to a requirement that that this be spelled out explicitly before an enforcement proceeding is begun? Do the drawbacks of requiring this exceed the potential benefits, such as an easier job for the admin, eliminating covert attempts to enforce a POV consensus, eliminating the requirement that editors adhere to unspecified rules or be penalized, and encouraging editors to make a bona fide effort to at least attempt to resolve their own conflicts by stating their positions clearly and concretely to each other before involving outsiders? What is the justification for a refusal to articulate rules of conduct? Rules that nobody will articulate cannot be enforced. — Swood100 (talk) 20:34, 8 March 2021 (UTC) @Newimpartial: I should also have pinged you on this, though the questions were directed to Black Kite. — Swood100 (talk) 20:58, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
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- Black Kite, I've told Swood100 that they can no longer discuss this here. They've just moved the bludgeoning from the CM talk page to here. If you think you're too involved to enforce that with a block, please let me know if they continue here and I don't notice. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:07, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Floquenbeam Thanks - I was going to tell them similar myself. I'm going to collapse this now. Black Kite (talk) 18:11, 9 March 2021 (UTC)