User:Aucaman/sandbox

Statement by User:Aucaman

 * Note:'' My older statement is here. The one you're reading is more accurate.

I started editing Wikipedia on Oct. 24, 2005. In the first three months I was involved in editing various controversial articles, but you cannot find anyone complaining about my work.

Sometime in early February, I came across the Kurdish people article. This is how I found the page:. Apparently a group of users (namely, Manik666, Khoikhoi, and SouthernComfort) were pushing hard to label Kurds "Iranian" in the first line of the article and downplay any ethnic/cultural similarity with other groups. The page was protected, and I used the opportunity to work out a compromise. The page was already protected in their favor, so they saw no need to compromise. User:69.196.139.250's behavior seemed the most remarkable. He repeatedly copy-pasted various unsigned (usually bold-faced/capitalized) messages demonizing the other side and their "anti-Iranian agenda". This is the same user as Manik666.

Around the same time, I got involved in the Persian people article. There was already a dispute in place, but there was very little discussion taking place. I myself took issue with the use of the term "Aryan" as a marker for some unknown race of which Persians were claimed to be descended. My edit was sitting there for 2 weeks until some anon reverted it. This anon would later turn out to be ManiF. My subsequent attempts to change the wording of the sentence were immediately reverted by ManiF. Seeing how things were not working out, I let ManiF keep his version but asked for a dispute tag to be put in the section until the dispute is resolved. ManiF removed the dispute tag in less than 30 minutes and started accusing me of racism, propagating false information, and others. He then made some weird compromise offer, and threatened to disrupt other articles if I didn't take back my concerns. Since I'd never been in a situation like this, following the vandalism article ("As a general rule, do not remove other people's dispute tags twice during a 24 hour period."), I assumed the other side's edits to be vandalism. Probably due to some meatpuppetry/sockpuppetry campaign by ManiF, there was now an influx of various anon users constantly taking off the dispute tag, which led to the page being protected. ManiF himself violated 3RR long before I did (see context); at least I believed I was reverting vandalism. This is also about when User:Kashk and User:Zmmz started joining the discussions.

Following the page's protection, there was a campaign of false warnings and harassment, mostly by ManiF and Kashk, but also by some anons.( among others.) Zmmz and Kashk declared me to be illogical and went on to setup an RfC in order to "ban" me. Zmmz and ManiF together spammed some 20+ users asking them to "vote" on the RfC. Zmmz also started intervening wherever he saw my name, constantly demonizing me by referring to the RfC. At some point I couldn't help but to respond to one of the personal attacks. Although I took off the response within minutes and apologized for it, Kashk and Zmmz continued their campaign of harassment - this time pointing to my "personal attacks" record. At some point I brought this up with the admins in which case both Kashk and Zmmz were warned. But Zmmz continued to harass me (not even sparing my personal user page ) until he was blocked for it.

It now appears that ManiF, Zmmz, and Kashk are part of a POV-pushing team involving users Zereshk, SouthernComfort, and Khoikhoi. They persistently try to overrepresent Iranian contributions to the world at the expense of other groups. This spans across some 40+ articles and involves many other users (most of whom are probably not aware of this arbitration). A good list of articles has been provided by Zereshk himself when recuiting for users on the Farsi Wikipedia:. I believe such actions lead to the disruption and fractionalizing of Wikipedia and directly undermine its credibility as a neutral source of information. AucamanTalk 00:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)