User talk:Amisom

December 2020
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for creating hoax articles and not providing an explanation. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:59, 17 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I'd like to register my opposition to unblocking a user who knowingly let a hoax article sit for two years while "editing productively" and ignored concerns about it for equally as long. GRINCHIDICAE🎄  02:55, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Amisom, indefinitely is less than eternally. See WP:Standard offer, as that is 6 months and a good demonstration of your understanding of the mistake.--Quisqualis (talk) 05:34, 18 December 2020 (UTC)


 * This vandal does not seem to understand the situation or what a productive and positive editor actually is. This isn't something that was "done" and over, it is something that is still ongoing by virtue of this hoax information making it into at least 11 other sites. Putting the word explanation in quotes in the unblock request (twice) shows an arrogant disregard for this ongoing situation. At a minimum they should clean up the mess which they created with this hoax before being considered foran unblock (I will still oppose any unblock).  // Timothy ::  talk  06:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Can I ask what steps you would suggest in terms of cleaning up? Amisom (talk) 09:22, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I note that the block explanation says, "unblock at your discretion once they've satisfactorily answered User:CaptainEek's question about whether they've made other hoaxes". To be fair to myself I have answered that ('No') and it's unclear what more is necessary. Requiring me to take [at least] six months out beause of something I did once nearly two years ago feels punitive and that's not what the blocking system is there for. Amisom (talk) 09:26, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , My suggestion for you cleaning up your mess is simple: Go to every single site where this information is present, explain the situation and have the material deleted. This is an entirely reasonable beginning, but I highly doubt you will even start to do this. An unblock shouldn't even be mentioned before this is completely done.
 * You did not do this two years ago: this is an ongoing situation. This block is not punitive, it is preventative: Your continuing dismissive attitude towards this situation is reason to assume you do not understand the situation and I believe you will do this again given the opportunity. When you ignored posts about this ongoing situation until you were blocked, it showed you had no intention of answering for your actions, short of being blocked. I do not believe you regret your actions, I believe you regret being caught (your claim on other editors to AGF about your actions is completely gone). On top of all this you haven't even mentioned the needless work you created for others. The above replies show your sole concern is about how this impacts you, not other editors, not WP.
 * When you created a hoax and allowed it to continue, you mocked every editor that works hard to improve WP.  // Timothy ::  talk  10:47, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * You do know that the mirror sites are run by robots right? They're not manually compiled. They don't accept contacts from members of the public. Amisom (talk) 10:51, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * How you correct the situation you created is your problem, not others. Spend the time you used to spend on WP figuring out a solution.  // Timothy ::  talk  11:06, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Asking me to do something impossible doesn’t seem constructive. Amisom (talk) 11:54, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * You have zero credibility on determining what is constructive, and I disagree it is impossible, start with WHOIS lookup for domain contact information.  // Timothy ::  talk  17:02, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * It's not really a question of credibility. What you're asking is self-evidently impossible (and I can't help wondering if that's why you're demanding it as a precondition to being unblocked). Amisom (talk) 17:12, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Final reply: A quick WHOIS search will show it is not impossible.  // Timothy ::  talk  18:02, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Really? Do tell me where on this Whois page it lists contact details for this particular mirror site? 🙄 Amisom (talk) 18:05, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , knock it off. I have never seen an administrator care about mirror sites in unblock requests. What those sites do or do not do with our information is not our problem, and expecting a blocked editor to take offwiki action like this is basically unacceptable as an unblock condition, both from a practical perspective and a "things that we can reasonably ask someone to do" perspective. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:15, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * rather sad that you appear to be taking the side of a hoax article creator against a longstanding excellent contributor to the project who is now apparently leaving, what happened to your WP:AGF and WP:Civility). Theroadislong (talk) 22:01, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Timothy’s suggestion (while doubtless made in goood faith) was unrealistic and far from sensible. I’m not sure why you think we should overlook this fact just beveusse he’s a long-standing excellent contributor and threatening to leave: those things don’t somehow magically make his proposal sensible. Amisom (talk) 22:05, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , I am on nobody's "side". TimothyBlue made unreasonable and harassing demands of a blocked editor and I asked them to stop. No more, no less. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:11, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The requests may or may not be unreasonable, but calling them harassing, with all the baggage that word carries, is too strong. Amisom: you say that TimothyBlue's suggestion was "doubtless made in good faith", but earlier you also all but claimed he deliberately suggested impossible conditions so you would never be unblocked. I'm not sure what gives. – Teratix ₵ 23:53, 18 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Since I have answered the question you specified in your block message, where do you think I should go from here? Amisom (talk) 22:13, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ? Amisom (talk) 17:12, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I would rather a different admin review the unblock. Please file a new unblock request. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:11, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Creating a hoax article is one thing. Sitting on the article for two years without informing anyone is another – and without intervention I don't see any reason this situation would have changed. Wilfully ignoring multiple editors' concerns posted on their talk page – to the point where they needed to be blocked before they started taking them seriously – is just the icing on the cake, and spending as much time comparing themselves to Sisyphus as reflecting on their own conduct in unblock discussions is the cherry on top. I don't see any evidence these behaviours will change if Amisom is unblocked. If they are ever unblocked, at a bare minimum they should be indefinitely required to submit their articles through AfC. – Teratix ₵ 23:53, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * That condition is fine. Amisom (talk) 09:20, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

In what sense have I failed to be accountable? I accept that I created a hoax. I’ve confirmed that I haven’t created more than one. I’ve asked what people would like me to do about this and (aside from one suggestion so daft that it was rejected by the blocking admin) there has been no response. What more do you think I should of done? Amisom (talk) 18:36, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The unaccountability was prior to having been blocked, when you failed to engage with questions about your prior edits, as well as sitting on a hoax for 2 years. There is no easy way to repair a violation of trust, and the standard offer, linked above, is the main process by which editors are expected to do so. signed,Rosguill talk 18:40, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

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Amisom (talk) 06:27, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Much like myself, Yamla has access to the checkuser tool. This allows us to see information from system logs such as what browser made the edit, and what IP. My opinion is that the device that was used to make the logged-out edit in question is Symbol confirmed.svg Technically indistinguishable from the device that was used to edit with this account. !ɘM γɿɘυϘ ⅃ϘƧ  21:57, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

OK - I mean I guess that makes sense since we all use office computers in the same office? Amisom (talk) 22:07, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Following your appeal to the Arbitration Committee, I've removed the checkuser portion of the block, but you will still need to address hoax issue. This is without particular comment on who is responsible for that edit—there was but the one edit and the explanation in the appeal is plausible. The more important issue is the creation of hoax articles.  Maxim (talk)  15:15, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you Maxim! Amisom (talk) 08:57, 1 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi ,
 * If there is a way back, it won't be an easy one. I have revoked extended-confirmation and rollback for now; you'll need to slowly re-build your reputation from lower than zero. I propose the following binding unblock conditions:
 * An indefinite prohibition of directly creating (including creating by moving, and including the replacement of a redirect by actual content) pages – any kind of pages, even redirects and disambiguations – in the article namespace.
 * An indefinite requirement to put all future page creations for the mainspace through the WP:AFC process instead : By creating a draft in the Draft namespace (not the User namespace), adding {{subst:AfC draft}} to it and following its instructions.
 * An indefinite requirement to place the following code at the very top of any new page created by you in the Article or Draft namespace:  – and not to modify or remove this notice yourself, even after the article has been accepted and moved. This requirement, with "The creator" replaced by "An editor", also applies to existing drafts if you significantly extend them, add any offline or paywalled source to them, or submit them for review.
 * An indefinite prohibition of using offline or paywalled sources for the addition or restoration of any material to existing mainspace pages. If you add a citation to an existing mainspace page, it has to contain a link to an easily accessible Internet source.
 * An indefinite prohibition of re-adding material that you had originally added, and that has afterwards been removed by someone else for verifiability or neutrality concerns. You are welcome to create a discussion on the article's talk page if this happens, but you must not re-add the material if other users have expressed disagreement about its inclusion. If a consensus for inclusion is reached, someone else can re-add the material on your behalf. This is a much stricter interpretation of the edit warring policy than WP:3RR, and violating this restriction is defined as edit warring.
 * Additionally:
 * Your editing will likely be watched carefully, and possibly with a noticeable amount of general distrust, so you may receive multiple notifications about multiple concerns from the same user. You agree that this is expectable and a necessary evil after your hoax creation, and not a form of harassment – specifically not "hounding".
 * You will be accountable for your contributions, similar to what is usually required from administrators per WP:ADMINACCT and WP:ADMINCOND. Specifically, you will not dismiss others' concerns because they are not administrators . You will neither ignore, nor remove without answer, any messages written by human editors on your talk page. If you repeatedly do so, you may be re-blocked, and you agree that an overly dismissive response to reasonable concerns can be a block-justifying issue by itself (cf. WP:DISRUPTSIGNS/WP:IDHT).
 * You will stay in the top three sections of the Graham's hierarchy of disagreement pyramid on article talk pages and in other content-related discussions, such as deletion discussions: Refutation and counterarguments are fine, pure contradiction is problematic, responding to others' tone or ad hominem answers in such discussions may lead to a re-block without any warning. Specifically, you will not respond to others by telling them "don't be so patronising" or by accusing them of lying.
 * These conditions can then be appealed at WP:AN at any time, and the exceptions at WP:BANEX apply.
 * If you explicitly agree to these conditions, I'm in favor of an unblock and will implement it unless there are objections from other administrators, especially, or.
 * Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:15, 3 July 2021 (UTC)


 * , I will trust your judgment. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:12, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * . I am not entirely comfortable with this user. They are intelligent, but also somewhat devious (wikilawering over technicalities rather than getting the point and apologising), dishonest (creating a convincing hoax article), combative, opiniated, and problematic. They tend to get into arguments with people over minor incidents, and will take these minor matters to ANI, thus dragging in others, and wasting volunteers' time. On looking back through their contributions, they don't stand out at the moment as being a genuine asset to the project: they add little of quality, spending most of their time removing material. On the other hand, the material they remove is often inappropriate, so they are doing the right thing. Though the way they remove it can lead to misunderstandings and arguments, they have of late been using the talkpage to get consensus to remove material, which is a positive step forward. And I feel that on the whole they are moving toward becoming a useful member of the project.
 * As you have laid out some helpful restrictions, and there are positive signs in Amisom's recent editing, I am not going to object to the unblocking. Perhaps the restrictions on creating pages could be softened. Amisom has only created four pages (and the other three are not hoaxes), so this is not an area they are interested in (their main area of interest is in removing material rather than adding, and - as I say above, they seem to have a good nose for finding inappropriate material) - indeed, I would like them to become more involved in adding material, and in creating pages, as I feel that is useful in giving them a greater understanding of Wikipedia. An editor is more rounded when they are involved in both removing and adding material.
 * I haven't looked fully into Amisom's history, but it might be possible that their combative and uncooperative stance may stem from resentment when new at poor treatment from more experienced users. When I was a new user I experienced poor treatment from experienced users. I think we could as a community be more welcoming and protective of new users, especially those who make mistakes. It is almost inevitable that new users will make mistakes, and we shouldn't be ramming those mistakes down their throat, we should instead be more supportive and helpful.
 * On the article creation restrictions, I would suggest dropping the first and third restriction, and modifying the second one to just putting article creations through AFC. I don't think creating hoax articles is why Amisom is here; and though they don't appear to have explained themselves, I see it as an intellectual experiment, the answer to which they have now found, and so would be unlikely to repeat again - especially knowing that if they did they would be blocked indefinitely.
 * Also, informally, I would suggest to Amisom that if they have removed material and someone has objected or reverted, that they not revert or revert back, but reach out to an admin, and I'll include myself in that, to look into the matter. And if they feel they wish to take a matter to ANI, that they first reach out to an admin, and I include myself in that, to discuss the matter first. And that they follow the advice of the admin. Though, of course, if they feel that they can handle the situation themselves first by talking it through calmly and politely on the talkpage, so much the better. But if that starts to go badly, then the option to reach out to an admin will still be there.
 * Thanks ToBeFree for doing this. SilkTork (talk) 09:49, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much,, for the detailed analysis! I'm fine with adjusting the restrictions as described by you, and would also be interested in 's opinion about this all. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:31, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for the dleay, I'm happy with the proposed agreement Amisom (talk) 06:58, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello ? ? Amisom (talk) 12:12, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, this page had probably already disappeared from my watchlist. Unblocking. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:18, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

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As your account is not extended-confirmed you cannot take part in discussions dealing with the Arab/Israel conflict, other than making constructive edit requests. If you continue to violate this sanction you will be blocked. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:02, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I did make a constructive edit request. Block away if you want. Amisom (talk) 18:03, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Reopening an edit request is not permitted for non-ec editors in that topic. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Says who? Amisom (talk) 18:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, the exception in WP:ARBECR #A.1 is explicitly restricted to making an edit request non-disruptively, and re-opening a request in the way shown in Special:Diff/1235840600 is arguably disruptive enough to be prohibited. The point of allowing edit requests is to allow obvious mistakes to be corrected and clearly helpful changes to be made, not to allow exhaustive discussion in case of disagreements between the requester and the answering volunteers. &#126; ToBeFree (talk) 18:42, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * If you really want to argue that my re-opening my clear and simple request for politically slanted content to be removed, was disruptive, go ahead and block me. Amisom (talk) 18:44, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

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