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September 2019
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Warrowen massacre, from its old location at User:Austhistory99/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. -Liancetalk/contribs 16:21, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Warrowen massacre has been accepted
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MfD nomination of Draft:Indigenous Australian Inter-tribal Wars and Violence
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blanked section
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Proposed deletion of Warrowen massacre


The article Warrowen massacre has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Nominate for deletion. Relies almost entirely on primary sources. These are sensational, colonial accounts, the language used in these primary sources demonstrates a strong bias and profound racism, secondary sources are needed. The office of the Protector of Aborigines is certainly not a reliable source in this context. Boro Boro Willum, for example may not have existed at all, I can find no other source that mentions this tribe or one with a similar name, it's likely a colonial fiction."

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Nomination of Warrowen massacre for deletion
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October 2020
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Massacre of Running Waters, from its old location at User:Austhistory99/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Nathan2055talk - contribs 05:37, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Massacre of Running Waters (October 29)
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Snowycats (talk) 04:55, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Massacre of Running Waters has been accepted
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COI and defamation
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Bacondrum</b> 11:44, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Indefinite block
<div class="user-block" style="padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: 1px solid #a9a9a9; background-color: #ffefd5; min-height: 40px"> You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for disruptive editing (including blatant advocacy and conflict of interest violations). 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:. El_C 14:58, 25 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Courtesy link to ANI discussion that lead to block


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1056#Serious_conflict_of_interest_issues,_blatant_advocacy_and_defamation <b style="color: blue;">Bacon</b><b style="color: Orange;">drum</b> 00:37, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Looking carefully at this: and in particular comments they have posted under the username MungoMann, where they make it clear they were colluding with User:PetroAntonio to push a particular POV: "We on the Centre-right appear to be losing the day-to-day ‘cultural-war’ because we have real, fruitful lives and don’t spend mind-numbing hours on the keyboard ‘re-writing history and ‘the narrative’, like our Progressive-Left opponents do. Nevertheless, if we have some spare time it is worthwhile lobbing into Wikipedia ( the Oracle of the Progressive Left!) some real history from time to time. In the long run it will help our cause in the cultural wars. Today Wikipedia approved my entry on the Aboriginal inter-tribal Massacre of Running Waters." They've never fully owned up to much of their disruptive behavior: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2020/09/something-wiki-this-way-comes/ they should remain indef blocked, their behavior here and offwiki has been blatantly agenda driven. If they are to be merely topic banned then that should be broadly construed to include all topics relating to Australian politics IMO, or at the very least Aboriginal Australians and the Australian culture wars, at the very least. Though I think their behavior here has been so far beyond the pale that they should remain indef blocked. <b style="color: blue;">Bacon</b><b style="color: Orange;">drum</b> 10:16, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1056#Serious_conflict_of_interest_issues,_blatant_advocacy_and_defamation

MfD nomination of User:Austhistory99/Indigenous Australian Inter-tribal Wars and Violence
User:Austhistory99/Indigenous Australian Inter-tribal Wars and Violence, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Austhistory99/Indigenous Australian Inter-tribal Wars and Violence and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:Austhistory99/Indigenous Australian Inter-tribal Wars and Violence during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. <b style="color: blue;">Bacon</b><b style="color: Orange;">drum</b> 20:49, 31 March 2021 (UTC)


 * This page I have in draft User:Austhistory99/Indigenous Australian Inter-tribal Wars and Violence should NOT be deleted. Scholarship on this topic is a valid area of research. For example a book has recently been published by Christophe Darmangeat a lecturer at the University of Paris which has received high praise from academics around the world such as :


 * Editorial Reviews (See :

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P3ZWWNS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 )

This is the first comprehensive study of the literature on the roles of collective violence in classical Aboriginal Australia. . . . Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia makes a most useful addition to the anthropological literature on Australian society as it was before conquest by the British Empire. The nature of that society has recently come under considerable social media debate and public discussion in Australia. This book is thus a very timely contribution to our understanding of the past. -- Peter Sutton, South Australian Museum

For over a century anthropologists have sought to counter ethnocentric and unilineal evolutionary views of Australian hunter-gatherer societies by emphasizing their sophisticated environmental knowledge, efficacious socio-political organization, and complex cosmology. Embedded in this approach has been a tacit acceptance by the vast majority of anthropologists that pre-European Australia was a continent of peace where conflict was solved solely through cooperation and avoidance. This view has had a profound impact on the study of the origins of violence and warfare in human history. A handful of scholars have reevaluated this assumption through consideration of evidence from archaeology, oral tradition, history, ethnography, and material culture. This book, however, is the first comprehensive analysis of this material. Darmangeat assembles detailed evidence for violence and warfare among Australian foragers through the critical lens of a Marxist perspective. Particularly valuable is his emphasis on placing conflict within the context of traditional justice systems. The result is a vital and long overdue contribution to the study of the origins of violence and warfare among hunter-gatherers.

-- Mark W. Allen, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona

Until the first English settlement in 1788, the Australian continent was solely inhabited by hunter-gatherers whose social life mirrored human history for 95% of our existence. Darmangeat’s Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia is the richest and most comprehensive source of eye-witnessed violence ranging from simple assault to feud and warfare ever compiled for the continent. As such, the accounts therein are central for our understanding the origins of organized violence. Just as importantly, his theoretically informed classification of collective violence is a valuable guide for researchers.

-- Raymond Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Christophe Darmangeat has produced an exhaustive volume on traditional Aboriginal Australian justice and warfare. I opened the book with trepidation because the topic is fraught with problems of politics, definition, interpretation, bias, prejudice and missing data. But I was pleasantly surprised to find all the issues were tackled head on with a very readable forensic analysis. This methodical book is fascinating to read and an excellent record that questions many past assumptions about hunter-gatherer lifeways. -- Paul S. C. Taçon, Griffith University

The subject of Australian Aboriginal warfare – whether Aborigines went to war and if so how and why – has become a vital issue in scholarship on the origins of human warfare. In Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia, Christophe Darmangeat has made an enormously valuable contribution by assembling a large database of widely scattered reports on Aboriginal violence, evaluating this evidence, and discussing its implications for current research on war and its origins.

-- Paul "Jim" Roscoe, University of Maine --This text refers to the hardcover edition. About the Author

It appears that the editor <b style="color: blue;">Bacon</b><b style="color: Orange;">drum</b> who raised this request for deletion may be not acting in good faith. It appears he has gone through all my Wikipedia additions and is attempting to delete them because he/she claims '...this draft was clearly created as an attack on Aboriginal Australians - It's essentially racist...'. I strenuously deny this charge. Some of my contributions have been saved by the intervention of other editors (see talk Warrowen massacre and Massacre of Running Waters who clearly see the value of these neutral contributions which are just recording aspects of Australian history as supported by the academics above. Except where other editors have come to the defence of my additions, I am unable to prevent deletion of all my other contributions to various pages over the past few years as <b style="color: blue;">Bacon</b><b style="color: Orange;">drum</b> has succeeded in having my account blocked, despite several applications to have my account unblocked.

It is very important for the reputation of Wikipedia's neutrality for another senior editor to review the blocking and deleting on my account and page contributions. If contributors like myself can't add documented, referenced and peer-reviewed third party information to Wikipedia there is not much point to Wikipedia then. Austhistory99 (talk) 22:12, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * The sources don't cease to exist just because this blatantly racist attack page does. If an editor who hasn't been blocked for pushing a racist agenda wants to use the sources to write a NPOV article nothing is stopping them. <b style="color: blue;">Bacon</b><b style="color: Orange;">drum</b> 23:04, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Title's like this "The Daily Threat of Violence in pre-Colonial and Colonial Australian Aboriginal Society" are so obviously loaded (and racist, in my opinion). "Violence in Modern Australian Aboriginal Society see Indigenous Australians and crime" it's so obviously contructed to malign Aboriginal people - bald faced racism. "a 30 to 40 year old Aboriginal male was excavated at Narrabeen in Northern Sydney in a dune near the coast having been killed by Death Spears" I'm sure a few people were speared to death in Europe over the years, the framing of this issue as it is presented here is simply loaded with racism. The entire draft article is cherry-picked and framed in the most negative way possible, blind-Freddy could see the racist agenda at play here. <b style="color: blue;">Bacon</b><b style="color: Orange;">drum</b> 23:18, 31 March 2021 (UTC)


 * In answer to <b style="color: blue;">Bacon</b><b style="color: Orange;">drum</b>, you in my opinion are providing further evidence of Bad Faith. My article is only Draft phase and I cannot finish and edit because you have blocked me. The point that you raise that, "The Daily Threat of Violence in pre-Colonial and Colonial Australian Aboriginal Society" is 'racist' is wrong. This is much the same point made by other editors on other Wikipedia pages, for example see
 * Australian frontier wars in Wikipedia which basically states

Section = Traditional Aboriginal warfare, Aboriginal warrior "According to the historian John Connor, traditional Aboriginal warfare should be examined on its own terms and not by definitions of war derived from other societies. Aboriginal people did not have distinct ideas of war and peace, and traditional warfare was common, taking place between groups on an ongoing basis, with great rivalries being maintained over extended periods of time." It is not up to an editor like yourself to appoint yourself as a censor of our history, much of which is being added to Wikipedia by other editors who you have not cancelled (yet).Austhistory99 (talk) 23:53, 31 March 2021 (UTC)