User talk:ShamashOfThe6ura

Unblocking
What brought this article to your attention? — Berean Hunter   (talk)  10:10, 20 September 2020 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  10:55, 20 September 2020 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:08, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * As an ethnic Assyrian myself this village is quite important to our cultural consciousness, and having good friends from these villages, I do place great importance on this village. That being said I had being going over etymologies of the name Alqosh, where this name may have originated from, and I looked to Wikipedia to see if someone had already added it. I was in progress of looking at sources verifying that it comes from the Assyrian-Aramaic language, meaning some derivative 'El' (God) and 'Qosh/Qush'(Qishta/QSHT) to mean 'God of the Bow' or 'the Bow of [our] God'. I wasn't fully happy with the resources so I did not add it just yet - but I had a look and in the summary only the Chaldean religious-sect identifier was there and the Assyrian identifier was left out. I looked through the sources to see if it was lacking proper sources but the sources verify that the inhabitants are ethnically Assyrian. Therefore I made the change and added to the talk section on why I made the change. I realise this has been the battlegrounds for many edits but not everyone who comes by to make a contribution should be labelled as a sock puppet/meat puppet.
 * "...and having good friends from these villages" and "I realise this has been the battlegrounds for many edits" Right. You weren't just sitting around and the subject of the etymology of this one village popped up randomly in your head such that it was the impetus for you to create an account and make that edit. How did the etymology of this one village come up?
 * If you are insinuating that my friends may have been a part of whatever happened across these edits that anyone can have a look at while just visiting the Talk section of the article, then you are sorely mistaken, I meant I have actual friends who's ancestral village is in Alqosh. I'm not too sure what you're expecting, some thorough backlog/diary of thoughts and exact events that would have lead me to this article? I don't know what to tell you, when you have friends and your friends are also interested in their cultural roots, conversations about these things happen naturally. That is the impetus, correcting misinformation or rather, erasure of information. Alqosh wasn't the only one mind you, there's a number of villages/tribes such as Tkhuma, Azekh/Idil (Bet Zabdai), etc. as most Assyrian-based articles are missing a lot of information. I was going to go and fix the etymologies and various other information that I clearly can't now that I've been blocked. To your last point, I made the account not to make the edit - If I wanted to edit this specific article alone and just this I'd have just edited and left without an account. If I wanted to evade a block - I'd have made the edit, been blocked, then made an account to evade the block. I edited first, then made an account to attribute the edit to myself and then provide reasoning. I feel like this block is predicated on a suspicion alone, with no actual evidence to point to sock puppetry/meat puppetry. Finally just to reiterate, to your point about there being an edit battleground here, of course I am aware of this, you need only click the talk section to see this; I'm not sure what the point of you bringing this up was.
 * There has been off wiki collusion. Someone who was socking got caught and was blocked. Subsequently, they took to twitter and lied about what happened and made it sound like an anti-Assyrian thing. Some have knowingly conspired to cause editors here problems and some accounts have been banned by the foundation. Meatpuppets responding will get blocked, too. I don't believe that you were honest and this wasn't a coincidence.
 * This prior off-wiki collusion is neither here nor there since there is no evidence to support that I am a part of that movement - it literally comes down to your word against mine, which isn't a valid basis for banning someone. Surely there needs to be some kind of proof that I am part of this collusion to block me. Does this mean anyone who edits the Alqosh page to mention Assyrians just gets instantly banned? For how long and who is deciding this? Keep in mind this entire time it's just been between me and you here, so if I were sockpuppeting or meatpuppeting there wouldn't only be me here. Again, what it comes down to is if I have broken Wikipedia's policy for editing articles. The objective truth of what happened is that I edited the article, added a talk section explaining why I edited the article, and got banned without any discussion of the edit but just baseless suspicion of being a meatpuppet/sockpuppet. This is no grounds for blocking someone.