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The narrowly construed TBAN

Hey V! I'm not procedurally opposed to a TBAN that isn't "broadly construed", and I applaud admin efforts to frame TBANs as narrowly as possible, both for the banned editor and the community. That said, I'm curious how you found consensus for the narrow version. I'm seeing broad support for the proposal, which was a broadly construed GENSEX TBAN. Some supporters called for an even broader ban. The few opposers did not make any statement about the breadth of the proposal being at issue. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:00, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Hm...given that (as I've just had called to my attention) policy seems to consider broadly construed the default, fair point. I don't know. GENSEX...it's a really, really difficult tban, I feel like. Maybe I should take it to XRV? Valereee (talk) 18:07, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
There's no rush. Would you do me a personal favor and take 24h to consider your decision? If we still disagree, either XRV or AN (since we could frame this a closure challenge) would be workable. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:10, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
@Firefangledfeathers@Valereee I should have posted this earlier. I’ve asked about the issue, without naming names, at Wikipedia talk:Banning policy#Can a topic ban from a ct area specifically exclude “broadly construed”?. FFF I see you found it. Doug Weller talk 18:30, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
I've subscribed to it, thanks, Doug. I'm not sure the issue is whether we can exclude broadly construed, as WP:TBAN seems to indicate that if it isn't specified as not broadly construed, it's assumed to be broadly construed, which would seem to indicate that not being broadly construed is a possibility. I think the bigger issue might be whether making it not broadly construed I may have ignored consensus if tbans typically default to broadly construed, so that the fact participants in that discussion didn't specify broadly construed, I should have assumed they meant broadly construed (and looking back now, that was proposer's wording). Gosh, lots of double negatives in there, are you seeing what I'm getting at? Valereee (talk) 11:51, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
@Firefangledfeathers, I don't disagree with you. I may have been overriding consensus, which of course isn't what I intended. My instinct is to try to be as kind as possible with a tban for a well-intentioned editor, because when you've got one person trying to be careful vs. hundreds watching them, it seems like there's always going to be someone among those hundreds who is just aching to be able to yell "Gotcha", and I've seen how demoralizing that can be. And GENSEX is even more full of tricky issues than most tbans.
It hasn't been a full 24 (and thanks for that gracefulness and graciousness), but right now I think I'm leaning toward maybe we take it to XRV or AN for input? Again, I do not disagree with you. But maybe it would be good to get community thinking on whether a closer has this much discretion? Thoughts? Valereee (talk) 12:06, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
@Valereee XRV seems a bit harsh, not a pleasant place. A number of good editors have been taken there for ridiculous reasons. I was taken there by a now blocked editor acting on behalf of another blocked editor for removing TPA. The complaint, like most others, was rejected. AN would be much more appropriate. Doug Weller talk 13:17, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
Either is fine with me. What I'm looking for personally is not so much convincing me to adjust this particular close, which of course I'm happy to do if that's what the community wants, but whether in general there is room for such discretion. Valereee (talk) 13:38, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
I think that given that the proposal specifically stated Due to their comments as outlined above, JacktheBrown be topic banned from the GENSEX area, broadly construed and that in your closing you stated Clear consensus for a topic ban from WP:GENSEX. No consensus for further restrictions that leaves us in a situation which it appears that consensus has been overridden. It may be within your remit as the closing admin to do so but I can't see that your made any reasoning of that in your close.
As I said above I'm not crash hot on pushing for an appeal myself, primarily because through experience I see the exercise as mostly futile, and would hope that you would modify what you have recorded as the sanction. However if it is to be taken anywhere I agree with Doug that WP:AN would be the more appropriate venue than WP:XRV. TarnishedPathtalk 13:32, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
If you didn't intend to override consensus, then I don't think it's necessary to have a community discussion on whether someone evaluating consensus has discretion to modify the proposal. (I think a discussion on that at the administrative action review page would be a quick no as per policy; discussing the specific scenario in question would be better suited for another venue.) Are you actually wanting a discussion on whether or not your evaluation of consensus is accurate? isaacl (talk) 21:06, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
I do think I'll take this to AN in the next few hours. I think the main questions are:
  1. Was there consensus for a broadly construed TBAN?
  2. If so, do admins have discretion to implement a ban that is narrower than the one that has consensus?
Is that a fair phrasing of the questions? Are there others that need asking? I'll probably also summarize the situation and link the discussion. Don't have a draft. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 22:23, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
I can give a preview of what you'll hear for number 2: administrators can enact an editing restriction only when authorized by policy, the community, or the arbitration committee (to whom the community has delegated authority). So if the scenario doesn't fall under these cases, administrators do not have discretion to create their own editing restriction; the community has to decide upon it (or the arbitration committee on its behalf). Now there are prominent admins who like to craft middle-ground remedies in their evaluation of a discussion's outcome, and have the social capital to encourage everyone to go along. But if someone really objects, this approach isn't supported by policy, as it's the admin imposing their view without prior discussion. isaacl (talk) 23:44, 24 August 2024 (UTC)


Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding the above matter. The thread is Broad vs. narrow TBAN closure at ANI. Thank you. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 02:30, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, FFF! Very fair phrasing, I'll subscribe. Valereee (talk) 11:09, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

bit of help?

I'm involved, but could you take a look at this conversation re: ILS2006's conduct? And if you wanna check over my shoulder regarding my deletion and undeletion of 2030 European Women's Handball Championship and 2032 European Men's Handball Championship, that'd also be helpful, thanks :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:29, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Nice. I've asked them to discuss. After nearly 10K edits, from a look at their talk this editor doesn't immediately seem to be developing into a net positive. Valereee (talk) 11:27, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Do you know what articles I have done? ILoveSport2006 (talk) 11:29, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Hello, @ILoveSport2006, thanks for coming in. Shall we discuss at your user talk? Valereee (talk) 11:37, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
@Theleekycauldron I am sorry for you because you helped me a lot and if people acted the same way as you did, by acknowledging that the bidding process has advanced and not doubled down on saying "they're the same", then I wouldn't have gotten upset and angry. ILoveSport2006 (talk) 11:47, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2024)

Director Sergio Leone (right) and actor Enzo Santaniello on the set of the film
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I didn't understand; can I edit, for example, pages like Ricky Martin (he's homosexual), Tiziano Ferro (he's homosexual) and Gianni Versace (he was homosexual)? JacktheBrown (talk) 14:20, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Jack, let's take this to your talk. Valereee (talk) 14:22, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

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Heads up

My behavior is getting out of control again. If I ever get taken to WP:ANI or blocked temporarily, can you change it to indefinite? I am asking you in particular because you did offer to block me under some conditions in the past. Sorry to inconvenience you. Scorpions1325 (talk) 21:57, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Just ping me if you need to. Valereee (talk) 14:06, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
I really mean it this time. My worldview is even less stable than it was a year ago, and it is causing me distress and to behave highly inappropriately. I still have a CCI I have been working on for 3 years that I want to complete. I am 99% done with it, but I might need some help to finish the rest. Once I am done with it, I want to stay off this site until at least the end of the year. Wizardman, DanCherek, The4lines is there any way you can help me finish this CCI sooner? Scorpions1325 (talk) 22:10, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Never mind. I am done with the CCI. I am just going to leave the project indefinitely. I don't see myself as coming back any time soon. No block is necessary. Scorpions1325 (talk) 03:20, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Christmas horror as TOTW article

@Valereee Hi! I wanted to let you know that the article Christmas horror is a current candidate to be chosen for the meta:Translation of the week project, meaning if it succeeds it could be translated into several other languages in the span of a week. If you want to see how the process is going and vote yourself, you can check it at meta:Translation of the week/Translation candidates#en:Christmas horror. Have a nice day! Brunnaiz (talk) 19:31, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Wow, so cool! Very cool project! Thanks, @Brunnaiz! Valereee (talk) 20:43, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

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@Valereee: now? "...outlook.it". JacktheBrown (talk) 17:38, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Got it this time.
It may just be that there's a single person with a dynamic account who is coming in. You could encourage them to create an account so they won't look like dozens of IPs.
The question of meat puppetry has nothing to do with whether you argued with anyone outside of WP. The question is whether something you've said influenced someone to come in, even inadvertently. Literally saying to friends "Cappuccino is now being called Austrian on Wikipedia! I'm trying to fight against it, but no one is helping!" or whatever can bring in what WP considers to be meat puppets. Valereee (talk) 17:46, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
The point is that my friends don't know my account (I've never mentioned it to them); I've always kept my account very secret outside of Wikipedia. JacktheBrown (talk) 17:59, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Re: your email. There's really no way to get at the root of the problem other than to keep filing new SPIs and protecting the articles. Valereee (talk) 15:28, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
I hope that sooner or later Xiaomichel will realise that what they're doing is completely against the rules; I still have faith in them. JacktheBrown (talk) 15:45, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

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re: Christmas horror article

Valeree, I saw how you handled a few recent altercations regarding editors posting walls of text and I was very impressed with your professionalism. Is there a way I can contact you via pinging or email directly? I have a very important problem I'm dealing with on wiki and I was wondering if I could just ask you for advice as I value your opinion greatly. Is there a way to email you directly, maybe thru a third party? Please help. 68.129.16.246 (talk) 17:11, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

You can email me via Wikipedia, but you have to register and log in to see the 'email this user' link. I sometimes don't respond via email, though, especially to users I haven't worked with extensively. Valereee (talk) 18:59, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
I registered. When I log in, where do I find the "email this user" link? I don't see it. 68.129.16.246 (talk) 23:14, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Ladyfingers

I made some change in Ladyfingers article, adding some sources that show, I think, that a double origin, Savoy and Piedmont, like for bagna cauda is more apt, but a French Ip (I think I know who it is) keep vandalizing the page. Can you look it up? 79.17.172.126 (talk) 16:55, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2024)

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Cancel culture

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Valereee, he's at it again! Please help?

Valereee; I have been following the way you attempted to deal with an editor named Andrzejbanas over the past 8 months, and I see you finally had him partially blocked from editing. I'm writing to ask if you could possibly help me with a problem I'm having now with that same individual. Since getting blocked from editing the "Universal Monsters" page, he has gone on an editing rampage, making BOLD edits that involve deleting entire sections of established wiki-articles without seeking Consensus on any of the various talk pages. In the past 3 days, he deleted 80% of the information on a film article called Jesus Franco which was a long-established article that has been on wikipedia for many years. The section he deleted was titled "Filmography", and it contained a ton of valuable information on Jesus Franco's films and collaborators, and comprised about 80% of the article! It featured two columns, "Alternate Film Titles" and "Notes". The Notes column was meticulously set up to allow readers to quickly search the names of his former collaborators (actors, producers, etc.) all arranged chronologically, and the other column featured all of the various alternate titles of his 173 films (they were released in many different countries under many different titles). Andrzejbanas created a totally separate "Filmography" page (in two days) and then deleted the Filmography section that was on the main "Jesus Franco" page without even asking anyone! His filmography list does not contain ANY of the information that he deleted from the other page, all of that data is just GONE! I tried to repost it but he deleted it again. I offered him a compromise that we leave both pages up, but he is insisting on keeping that deleted information off wikipedia, and I don't understand why, since NONE of that information was carried over onto the new page that he created. This Franco article has been on wikipedia for many many years, and many horror film fans (such as myself) use it every week as a reference since it was so accurate (it took about ten YEARS to create and double-check). Is there a way to possibly enlarge his block to prevent him from deleting the Jesus Franco article as he has done? I ask you because I know what you went through with him for so long (you were incredibly patient!), and I thought you would appreciate what I'm going through now. Please help? Thank you so much for your time.49Bottles (talk) 17:52, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Andrzejbanas is saying he removed a bunch of unsourced material, and spun the extremely long filmography into its own article. Unsourced material is a valid removal, and spinning off a 'works'-type article is productive for a bio of a creative artist that is too long. If you can find reliable sources for the removed material, and A is still objecting, that would be an issue. He seems to be saying he looked at the source and the material wasn't there? Valereee (talk) 13:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
He researched 173 films in two days? A week ago, he didn't even have those two reference books. But now he's researched the whole topic thoroughly in two days? That's impossible. 49Bottles (talk) 21:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Just chiming in to clarify, the article previously had some individual sources for the filmography, all referring to two books by Thrower (currently used in the article) with no references to page numbers. Prior to September 2023, there were no sources in the filmography. An IP had added them here. I did not have access to either of these two volumes of 500 page books until recently. Now that I have, I've tried to adapt what was in these books to a filmography that follows a manual of style a bit closer. I was debating making a discussion topic before creating the separate page, but I figured more specifically sourced material trumped writing mini-articles about films within a filmography. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:41, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
(**And you did all this in TWO DAYS?)49Bottles (talk) 18:25, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Valereee, the entire filmography section that he deleted WAS sourced out of the 2-volume reference book set by Stephen Thrower, which is why it was so credited at the beginning of the article. They are the same exact books Andrzejbanas used. The author devoted one chapter to each of Franco's 173 films, which were arranged chronologically so it's obvious which pages were used for each film (meanwhile Andrzejbanas prefers that each film on the list be accompanied by a corresponding page number, and he's complaining the article was too long?). All of the research (unless a separate source is cited) came from the same books that Andrzebajanas used. So actually the entire article IS sourced, I don't know what he's talking about "unsourced". To list a page number next to each line of type would be ludicrous, in my opinion, and redundant, don't you agree? If he can't find the facts in the reference books, he isn't doing the research thoroughly enough. (He only took two DAYS to write the entire filmograplhy! How carefully could he possibly have done it?). So he's making it sound like he just transferred the information over to another page in a slimmed-down format, which is a lie. None of the data he erased was carried over onto his new page, NONE of it! It's all just been wiped clean, just because he personally isn't interested in alternate titles or any kind of behind-the-scenes information regarding the chronology of Franco's collaborators, but fans who collect Franco films ARE very interested in that type of information. On his filmogrpahy, Andrze listed each film under only ONE title that he picked abitrarily, so readers who only know those films under their variant titles will never even FIND them on his list. He streamlined the whole topic down to the point where the article is basically devoid of any useful information whatsoever. If you collected Franco films like I do, you'd know what i'm talking about. I suggest we bring the whole thing to the talk page for consensus. I don't object to his creating a second article like he did, I'm just asking that he leave the original Franco page the way it was. Isn't that fair?49Bottles (talk) 18:25, 3 September 2024 (UTC) PS - Valereee, After all you went through with this guy with the Christmas Horror article and that insanely long Universal Horror talk page, I can't believe you can't relate to this very similar situation. I'm sure you recall how he claimed your material was all unsourced too? He likes to quote wiki-rules to everyone else but himself. Meanwhile he is a Sealion who likes to bully everyone. We should decide the Franco matter on the talk page, and not just let one person decide what information he feels like including, no?49Bottles (talk) 18:37, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes, deciding it on the talk page is best. You can ask people at WP:WikiProject Film to chime in, and ask for help at WP:30. Valereee (talk) 22:14, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Valereee, do you know an editor named Cloreenbaconskin? She commented on the Jesus Franco dispute yesterday (in my favor) and now Andrzejbanas has apparently reported the both of us to wikipedia trying to get us blocked from editing! Can he get us blocked just for disagreeing with him? I don't even know Cloreenbaconskin (I'm assuming it's a her?). Why is Andrzejbanas permitted to continue to harass the other wiki editors like this? 23:53, 3 September 2024 (UTC) 49Bottles (talk) 23:53, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
He can get you blocked for WP:sockpuppetry. Wikipedia does not approve of one person pretending they're two people. Valereee (talk) 00:48, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

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India is unhappy with WP again

[5]. We'll see what happens. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Interesting legal case, Wikipedia as a public utility. In a philosophical way, that's perhaps a mark of success. CMD (talk) 09:24, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
"Public utilities are meant to supply goods and services that are considered essential". That is an interesting argument. However, if the service is "truth", we don't supply that. It may be one of the aims, but it's too elusive, we have to settle for aiming at "the best of what we can know right now." Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:51, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
I think our service is information. Whether the information is true or not, that's for the philosophers. CMD (talk) 10:57, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
Everyone immediately runs over to see if anything's happening at Asian News International. Or if they're confused, ANI Valereee (talk) 10:52, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
The "ANI sues Wikipedia" angle is a bit funny. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:04, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
Also funny is that pretty much every report on this is quoting what ANI dislikes WP saying about it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:06, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
Also funny to me is the judge saying, "We will close your business transactions here." Um... Valereee (talk) 12:08, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
WMF is fundraising in India. Maybe not at this very moment, but still. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:09, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
Streisand Effect. Valereee (talk) 12:08, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
Of course. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

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  • and I pinged you about the same thing he's emailing you about, despite your request that he not email you. I'm disappointed, but the evidence is fairly strong. Star Mississippi 16:45, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
    @Star Mississippi, I'm only seeing some pretty iffy-looking and easily manufactured evidence that socks are doing things that Jack did at a couple of articles Jack shouldn't edit? Are you seeing something stronger than that? I don't have CU, but it sounds like the CU was simply 'possible'. Valereee (talk) 17:13, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
    I think a CU showing any link (which is how I understand Possible to come into play) is problematic. How would these editors have insight/access to how Jack edits to draw a possible technological link. AvvisVene could be a sophisticated joe job, but I don't think so. Jack was adamant he could edit Rowling despite many editors making it clear that was prohibited by the t-ban. Like with the Algerian boxer, he can't seem to stay away. I'm not going to block, I'm too Involved but I really think this is continuing to devolve and we're headed toward broader sanctions. Star Mississippi 17:25, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
    SM, I don't really understand how CU works, but the difference between possible and likely is, if in CU-speak it means anything close to what these two words mean in typical idiomatic English, huge. If it means what it means in idiomatic English, possible means 'can't rule it out'. That is not a link.
    Is Jack problematic? Yes. Do I want him blocked for sockpuppetry if that didn't actually happen? No. Valereee (talk) 21:05, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

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