Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive103

YehudaTelAviv64
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Request concerning YehudaTelAviv64

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : —Biosketch (talk) 23:08, 2 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: WP:ARBPIA


 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :
 * 1) 14:49, 1 December 2011 – revert of this edit by me
 * 2) 10:23, 2 December 2011 – revert of this edit by User:George
 * 3) 17:49, 2 December 2011 – probably also a revert revert of this edit by User:Jiujitsuguy


 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :
 * 1) Warned on 1 December 2011 by me, followed by this message by Admin:EdJohnston.

The user's behavior is aggressive and hostile, and his edits at Golan Heights and Holocaust-related articles articles could be considered POV-oriented. Additionally, there've been concerns he's masquerading as a new user under false pretenses.—Biosketch (talk) 23:08, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :
 * After being formally advised by an Admin of ARBPIA sanctions, YTA64 continues to edit-war against consensus at Golan Heights:
 * 04:21, 4 December 2011 – partial revert of the same infobox content that he's been edit-warring over since he started editing the article a few days ago
 * 06:22, 4 December 2011 – and again, same thing—Biosketch (talk) 09:54, 4 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested : Notified.—Biosketch (talk) 23:18, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Statement by YehudaTelAviv64
This user is hounding me in response to me reporting him for edit warring here in the Administrators noticeboard.

Also, he calls my removal of an image with clear copyright violations a revert of an edit from May 16, 2011. It's entirely unreasonable to call my removal of that image a revert, especially since I had never even heard of that edit until Biosketch hunted it down for this ridiculous witch-hunt. I went through a lot of work to track down the origin of that image and I found that it is a Rights Managed photo that is part of the Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS collection. Biosketch himself recommended that that image. Biosketch is just hounding me for the sake of hounding me.

The same is also true for the third diff he links to. I tracked down the copyright violation (it's a Corbis Rights Managed photo) and removed the image from the article. Biosketch then tracked down some ancient edit from February 2011 and claimed the image removal was a revert of that. The first diff he links to was an edit where I undid a revert that he himself made and did not bother to discuss on the talk page. He also did not link to his revert here. I opened a discussion regarding my edit immediately, but Biosketch did not bother to link to that discussion when he opened this request.

I was very clear in my image removal edit summaries that they were clear copyright violations. I suspect that Biosketch threw those edits into this request as part of his hounding efforts to make it make it more difficult to respond to this request by adding spurious accusations to refute. He must have seen those edit summaries.

Furthermore, "concerns he's masquerading as a new user under false pretenses" refers to these  personal attacks that I reported here in Wikiquette assistance. Also, he accused me of "aggressive and hostile" and "POV-oriented" edits but then did not point out any instances of this.

I would appreciate it if someone could stop Biosketch from hounding me so I can instead spend my time on constructive edits. YehudaTelAviv64 (talk) 04:21, 3 December 2011 (UTC)


 * In response to EdJohnston: I agree and think that Biosketch just created this request to hound me. However, technically, you shouldn't be editing in the "Result concerning YehudaTelAviv64" section since you are actually an involved administrator. As part of Biosketch's "Additional comments" he mentions "concerns he's masquerading as a new user under false pretenses." Those false accusations include one by you here. YehudaTelAviv64 (talk) 04:31, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * In response to WGFinley: I was hasty in labeling the edit I reverted "vandalism", but I only did that in the edit summary. When I opened a discussion in the talk page I used more accurate language. YehudaTelAviv64 (talk) 04:36, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Comments by others about the request concerning YehudaTelAviv64
I don't understand your reaction to the questions about whether you have edited before and your statements about lack of evidence. You look like a sockpuppet because your edits are not like those of a new user. The observational evidence suggests that you are not a new user. Every edit you make is one more piece of evidence that you aren't a new user. So, they aren't evidenceless statements. They're statements based on observations by experienced rational observers using heuristic methods that have a near 100% success rate. In other words, people know what sockpuppets look like and you look like one. You could simply say whether or not you have edited under a previous account and if you have, tell people what it was and move on. You haven't done that yet. You've confirmed that you aren't a Pelican which has at least ruled out one of the large water birds but while questions remain unanswered and you find yourself in conflict with other users, partly because of their doubts and partly because of your responses to them, my concern is that your presence will attract sockpuppets to the topic area who will justify their presence by your presence. Editors could also use it as yet another excuse to do nothing about the long term repeat offender sockpuppetry by people whose views they agree with. If you just answer the question, edit constructively and don't come into conflict with other editors, people might just leave you alone.  Sean.hoyland  - talk 06:23, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment by Sean.hoyland
 * I act insulted when people accuse me of being a sockpuppet because it's insulting to my intelligence. A stupid person would have trouble understanding Wikipedia formatting right off the bat and these accusers point to my correct formatting as proof of sock-puppetry. I have never edited under a previous account. I'm astounded that people are surprised that I was able to learn about formatting from Wikipedia's pages on formatting and by looking at other formatting in articles. This is not complicated stuff. Your "100% success rate" figure sounds made up. I am not a sockpuppet, time to move on people. I've been accused of both pro-Israel bias and anti-Israel bias now, and that was just for my constructive edits. I'd like to spend more time working on my constructive edits, but it's difficult when confused editors hound me with false accusations. YehudaTelAviv64 (talk) 07:19, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, since you've said that you've not edited under a previous account that is all I wanted to hear, thank you. And if you could continue to edit in a way that results in you being accused of both pro-Israel bias and anti-Israel bias that would be great.  Sean.hoyland  - talk 08:41, 3 December 2011 (UTC)


 * It appears the pelican remark is because an editor accused Yehuda of being User:Supreme Deliciousness whose user page features an image of a pelican. What I will say is that what seems more relevant to me is how the editor has used various templates and policy references. My impression from the editor's actual usage of formatting is that this is not an experienced editor. The way the editor started out citing sources, for instance, is similar to how I started out with citations. Using the ref tags and simple brackets around a plain link rather than a more complex citation template does not suggest an experienced editor. Also, any editor who brushes up against a serious dispute is likely to end up becoming very familiar with policy very quickly. Even so, the manner in which Yehuda pursued policy actions again does not demonstrate familiarity. He went to AN/I to report an ArbCom violation. If this was an editor familiar with the dispute and familiar with Wikipedia it is not likely that he would have been unaware that AE is the place to file such reports.


 * None of this editor's contributions appear to be particularly problematic or tendentious. Seems this is more a case of WP:BITE than anything else.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 07:44, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Shrike
Did the user broke 1RR?  

Comment by Cptnono
Reverts are reverts. He was right to make them (copyvio is a major concern) but it is not exempt from edit warring in the topic area. To block or ban would be silly since he was not being malicious but don't give a strait pass on it. Wikipedia is not supposed to be a bureaucracy but when editing in this topic area it is. It should have been "hey YehudaTelAviv64, next time make the revert but follow it up immediately with a request for assistance from the community". He was actually right says consensus but we all know editors have assumed (and edit warred) over copyright violations when it is undetermined. Being proactive by seeking the proper channels (there is a whole group of Wikipedians who look out for potential copyvios) would have been better than what resulted. I think admins should be a little more blunt in their warnings on this. Yes, he thought he was right. But he may not be right next time. Make the revert if you are confident that it is for the good of the project but make sure to follow it up in the appropriate channels. It may not matter in other topic areas but it matters here since not following protocol ends in requests for enforcement of the arbitration decision. That does not help anyone.

Result concerning YehudaTelAviv64

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Appears an admonition about reverts in P-I space and use of the term "vandalism" are in order. --WGFinley (talk) 01:45, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Diff 1 is troubling, with the "vandalism" comment, will await his response.
 * 2) Diff 2 and Diff 3 the user was right, they are copyvios   and appear to be on their way out at Commons.
 * 3) The sock allegation has no proof submitted, you'll need to provide more info or go to WP:SPI if you have evidence believing the user to be a sock.
 * YehudaTelAviv64 has now been warned of the discretionary sanctions under ARBPIA, per the result of an AN3 case. In case any discretionary sanctions are deemed necessary, they can only be based on edits which take place subsequent to this warning. I agree that some of Y's reverts are justified by valid concern about copyright violation, so those should not count against the 1RR limit. I don't see anything in the present AE complaint that would justify a block of YehudaTelAviv64. EdJohnston (talk) 04:09, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I find the tactic of digging out months-old diffs buried in the page history to be particularly distasteful. T. Canens (talk) 00:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed. --WGFinley (talk) 19:02, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Editor75439
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Request concerning Editor75439

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : MastCell Talk 18:18, 4 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence (discretionary sanctions)


 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :

is a single-purpose account. Over the 5 days since this account's creation, it has made several hundred edits focusing solely on William Herbert Sheldon and his claims about somatotype and constitutional psychology. I believe that this topic clearly falls under the WP:ARBR&I discretionary sanctions ("the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour, broadly construed").

This account's edits consistently remove (well-sourced) negative information and attempt to present this topic in an unduly favorable light. For instance, here he removes two New York Times citations, leaving the article essentially unsourced. (The Times states that Sheldon's claims have "long been dismissed by most scientists as quackery", a conclusion which is unacceptable to Editor75439). He seeks to replace the content of these reliable sources with his personal opinion (that "Sheldon's somatotypology is the de-facto standard in modern developmental psychology.")

He has edit-warred to remove the Times source; see, where he uses a false and deceptive edit summary (the quote is not from a "former Ivy League student", as even the briefest perusal of the source confirms). He was blocked for edit-warring to remove this sourced material on 3 December; since the block expired, he has immediately resumed edit-warring to remove the sources and material, with no further discussion.

He clearly places his personal viewpoint above that of reliable sources (e.g. edit summary here), and has edit-warred to remove those reliable sources and replace them with his personal beliefs.

His talkpage contributions (which start here) are less than constructive:
 * "your capacity to add any meaningful contributions to Wikipedia is at best disputable."
 * "Arguments like 'but I know' is a typical weasel arguments used by people with bloated self-esteem. Could you do us all a favour and refrain from infesting this article with your weasels?"


 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :


 * 1) Warned on 2 December by.

This is a single-purpose agenda account edit-warring to remove well-sourced information and to promote their personal beliefs. Since their behavior contravenes a large percentage of our content and behavioral policies, I think administrative action is warranted even in the absence of discretionary sanctions. Since the article falls under discretionary sanctions, the bar should be if anything a bit lower for dealing with this kind of editing.
 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :

I would request a topic ban or, failing that, a 1RR restriction to at least tamp down the agenda-driven edit-warring to a manageable level. MastCell Talk 18:18, 4 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :
 * 

Comments by others about the request concerning Editor75439
The user in question has failed to follow Wikipedia policy multiple times, even after warnings, ranging from NPOV (removal of critical material, particularly material critical of fringe theories) to failing to discuss massive changes on the talk page to engaging in personal attacks (see Talk:Somatotype and constitutional psychology/Archive 1). Most of the material this user has newly added (after the block was lifted) is extremely similar or identical to the previously-removed (for original syntheses, material not in citations, etc) material, thus being a de facto reversion. I have attempted to do some repair work on the article, including placing back in some critical material removed by Editor75439; we will see whether the user in question (if allowed) removes, reverts, or otherwise alters it from NPOV. Allens (talk) 18:29, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Apparently they are continuing down that road. See diff et seq. De728631 (talk) 18:32, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * And similarly on Somatotype and constitutional psychology; see diffs, . I will, of course, refrain from further reversions of this material (at least while this user is allowed to be active), not wishing to engage in an edit war; it is unfortunate that this leaves some citations not properly formatted (I had been trying to turn this user's block quotes into proper citations with, if desired, quote portions). Allens (talk) 18:59, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning Editor75439

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 * Topic banned indefinitely. NW ( Talk ) 18:58, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

FergusM1970
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Request concerning FergusM1970

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : Mo ainm  ~Talk  10:11, 6 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: Requests for arbitration/The Troubles


 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :


 * 1) 09:08, 6 December 2011 Revert #1 to FergusM1970's version
 * 2) 09:33, 6 December 2011 Revert #2 to FergusM1970's version
 * 3) 09:49, 6 December 2011 Revert #3 to FergusM1970's version
 * 4) 09:58, 6 December 2011 Revert #4 to FergusM1970's version
 * 5) 10:03, 6 December 2011 Revert #5 to FergusM1970's version


 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :


 * 1) Warned on 09:43, 6 December 2011 by


 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :

Edit warring against consensus and against multiple editors. My offer for him to self-revert and avoid being reported was met with this and revert #4. Since starting this request editor has now made a fifth revert in a 24 hour period..

Notification of this request
 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :

Statement by FergusM1970
The city is called Londonderry. That's it's legal name. There is no dispute about this, therefore it's ridiculous for people to insist that the nickname "Derry" is given prominence over the actual name. Multiple editors acting together to force me to either break 3RR or leave false information in an article is abusive. I request that the users who have reverted my edits are required to prove that the city is NOT properly named Londonderry, and that if they cannot do this they are subjected to appropriate sanctions. --FergusM1970 (talk) 11:38, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Comments by others about the request concerning FergusM1970
You'd think someone so obsessed with accuracy wouldn't replace the text "While the city is more usually known as Derry" with "also called Derry by Irish nationalists" despite the references he removed saying "but today most people just call it Derry, whatever their politics" and "Popular opinion has it that nationalists call it Derry while Protestants call it Londonderry. However, as with most things in Northern Ireland, it's not always as simple as that. Many Protestants also refer familiarly to the city as Derry". Of course we (well, most of us I hope) all can see therefore the edits aren't related to accuracy at all, but FergusM1970 editing based on his own opinions. WP:ROPE springs to mind with this editor, based on his current talk page posts I'm not brimming with confidence that the behaviour won't continue once his current block expires, so we'll probably be back here again in a few days time I think.... 2 lines of K 303  13:15, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning FergusM1970

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I've enacted a short (standard 24hrs) block to stop the edit-warring, because FergusM1970 had already broken 3RR and seemed unwilling to stop. I'll leave this open for the moment to determine if further discretionary sanctions are appropriate. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:56, 6 December 2011 (UTC)


 * So, lemme see. The guy has two prior blocks for revert-warring, one back in 2009 (on a political topic broadly related to British national politics) and another (though on an unrelated topic) as recently as a month ago. He's showing an aggressive and inflexible "I'm right, you're wrong" stance and unwillingness to consider established consensus. This [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:FergusM1970&diff=464377144&oldid=464376797] edit appears quite unacceptable to me. I also find this [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:FergusM1970&diff=prev&oldid=464375390] edit troublesome, as its reference to "people who don't like the laws of the land they choose to live in", directed at Northern Irish republicans, displays a highly hostile and divisive attitude.
 * Any objections against a topic ban? The area is now not only under the old Requests for arbitration/The Troubles but also under Standard discretionary sanctions. Has the necessary warning paperwork be done to apply those? Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems he was warned but he did exactly 3 reverts after the warning. I'm on the fence about it and might be inclined to admonish as oppose to sanction. --WGFinley (talk) 15:12, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * "Only" three reverts after the warning? I'm not sure how that is supposed to be a mitigating factor. This means he had already broken 1RR before the warning, so even a single revert after it was two too many. Plus breaking normal 3RR too. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:24, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict)I think that the warning (issued at 09:43 Dec 6 UTC) is fair notification, and I think you must be mistaken WGFinley - the WP:TROUBLES ruling imposes a 1rr on all articles related to it - he was in breach that ruling before the warning. He then reverted 3 times after the notification, thus he is well into sanctionable territory. Support topic ban based on this and on the battleground mentality evidenced by FPaS-- Cailil  talk 15:31, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that FergusM1970 has clearly broken the 1RR, which needs no warning. By continuing to revert after Mo ainm gave him a warning on his talk page that linked to the WP:TROUBLES arbcom case, Fergus opened himself up to regular discretionary sanctions. It seems to me that, given how determined he is, a three-month restriction from the Troubles articles could be justified. EdJohnston (talk) 15:46, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Request concerning Jonchapple

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : Domer48  'fenian'  21:00, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: Arbitration Enforcement Topic Ban


 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :


 * 1) 7 December 2011 Editor is Topic Banned from "All articles related to The Troubles, defined as: any article that could be reasonably construed as being related to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland..." as of 11:41, 20 October 2011
 * 2) 6 October 2011 While adding the fact tags are questionable considering their ban, removing the text is violating their ban.
 * 3) 6 December 2011 Again, this has been a matter of some dispute and is also subject to the Topic Ban.


 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :


 * 1) Warned on20 October 2011 by explicit warning on flags
 * 2) Warned on20 October 2011 by
 * 3) Warned on 29 October 2011 by
 * 4) Warned on 14 October 2011 by


 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :This editor was given a topic ban on 20 October 2011 for violating the terms of their Arbitration enforced probation. They were explicitly warned about the issue of flags and some of the diff's used during the Arbitration which imposed the topic ban were on exactly the same article herehere. Having been topic banned, they were then blocked by Arbitration for 3 weeks for violating the ban and imposed by Mkativerata here. Despite this block, they then launch a personal attack on me describing me as a sympathisers of terror. Regardless of the fact that they have been already warned by Arbitration for another personal attack on me, I actually let this go despite the scurrilous nature of the attack. Now having be warned, blocked and "Topic Banned" from all articles related to The Troubles, they again violated their ban. Regardless of who makes an edit on a Troubles related article, this editor has no business on these subjects! They are Banned. I also want that personal attack removed.


 * Reply to Bretonbanquet: They were given explicit warnings on flags! They are topic banned, and have no business reverting anyone on any article that is covered by their ban. They were blocked for violating their topic ban already, and were explicitly warned about personal attacks. They have ignored all and every warning.-- Domer48  'fenian'  22:50, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've added another diff as I consider it a violation of their ban. Adding fact-tags only to remove the text is plain gaming of the ban and the fact-tags.-- Domer48  'fenian'  23:07, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :

Statement by Jonchapple
Ed, I reverted an IP-hopping vandal. Bretonbanquet above or somebody else would have done exactly the same if I hadn't've got there first, because the edit added an incorrect piece of pointy vandalism that directly contravened both Wikipedia consensus and the bare facts. And if you really think I'm making "no effort to curtial my inappropriate edits", we must really be looking at a different list of contributions. I see a set of useful, contructive, good-faith edits that are helping to make this project a more accurate resource. I don't know what else I can say. JonC Talk 22:28, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Comments by others about the request concerning Jonchapple
Can an article about a racing driver be reasonably construed as being related to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland..? Bretonbanquet (talk) 21:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It is not the racing driver article per se but the addition/reversion of Irish/British flags that is covered by the sanctions. Mo ainm  ~Talk  22:17, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Even when he's simply reverting vandalism by a popped-up-out-of-nowhere IP? The edit he reverted looks extremely dubious to say the least. Bretonbanquet (talk) 22:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It wasn't vandalism it is a long running content dispute that is ongoing and I'm surprised that he even made the revert knowing full well that flags were covered in his topic ban. As regard to it being an IP hopping vandal I don't know if they are or not but they made two edits which certainly wouldn't be construed as vandalism. Mo ainm  ~Talk  22:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The dispute has been dormant for five weeks after no sources were found by anyone to back up one side of the argument. Given the discussion on the talk page and the lack of edit summary, I'd say it was vandalism. A total of two edits, one of which just happens to be extremely contentious? Hmmm... At best, it's disruptive. Bretonbanquet (talk) 22:48, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * As I was the last one to enter the UK flag icon before the IP edited it to the Irish one I feel that if Jonchapple hadnt undone it myself or Bretonbanquet would have . I had edited the discussion page[] with up-to-date facts before I became aware of this . If this is consistent with the Troubles ruling, maybe in Jonchapple's case it is , it is also about the motor racing issue. There is no evidence to show that Carroll has ever been Irish in a sporting sense and that the remit of flags in motor racing infoboxes is based on sporting nationality - Northern Irish isnt a motor racing nationality and as Carroll isnt Irish the editor has just undone a comment with-out an edit summary and without a discussion ot the talk page . The IP made no effort to engage , discuss or explain their edit , the undoing of which would seem appropriate for an article on motor racing .Murry1975 (talk) 02:08, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning Jonchapple

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 * The recent practice at AE has been to consider revert warring on British versus Irish nationality for people born in Northern Ireland as being covered by Troubles enforcement. In fact Jonchapple was blocked for a week on 28 October for this revert in which he disputed the nationality of a golfer named Rory McIlroy. His new edits at Adam Carroll represent more of the same. Nothing has changed, he was blocked before for the same thing, and he seems to be making no effort to curtail his inappropriate edits. I suggest doubling the previous block, which was for three weeks. EdJohnston (talk) 22:17, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Per Ed, I agree this is more of the same from Jonchapple and support a 6 week block. However, given that this user will then have been blocked for 9 weeks of his 13 week (3 month) topic ban for violating it I'd suggest resetting the ban from the date of his future unblock (ie a new 3 month topic ban to run from Jan 18 2012)-- Cailil  talk 23:41, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Jonchapple for six weeks. If he wasn't aware that edit-warring over nationalities like that was considered to be within the scope of WP:TROUBLES, he might have had a defence, but considering Ed clearly warned him about it (and this is very similar conduct to that which got him blocked last time), that is not applicable. The suggestion resetting the topic ban is not an unreasonable one and I'll leave this open for discussion of that proposal. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  23:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I support the block, the two edits are blatant violations of the TBAN, it wasn't vandalism that was added, typical POV pushing in this topic space (large chunk of Unionist vs Nationalist language in the first diff and "province" vs "country" of Northern Ireland in the second). I support resetting the topic ban to 3 months from this date. --WGFinley (talk) 01:57, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Request concerning VanishedUser314159

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : Professor marginalia (talk) 00:34, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience
 * Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist


 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :


 * 1) 8 Dec 2011 Maybe just the most ironic edit. Has been editing from this IP since indef block in Mar 2011 for socking to evade sanctions, more persistently since about Oct 2011
 * 2) 15 Dec 2010 Confirms he edited with the IP before his block

Not necessary. He knows he can't do this.
 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :

It's a shame it's come to this, but this is a mess. With all the courtesy blanking on his behalf, the misuse of the Right to Vanish, socking, and block evasions - I had to say something. I always found him to be a real asset at wikipedia and I don't have any opinion about the arbitration cases he was party in-I didn't follow them. It was only because in a discussion with him yesterday, I recognized the IP as VanishedUser314159 and looked him up that I learned he was currently blocked. But to continue editing he should come out in the open, seek his block be removed and edit under his user account.
 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :


 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :

Statement by 128.59.171.194
I know that as an IP my abilities to edit on Wikipedia are limited. I encourage any administrator who thinks it appropriate to block this IP if you feel the contributions have been in any way disruptive. I do not have access to VanishedUser314159's account, nor do I have any desire to create a user account. 128.59.171.194 (talk) 02:17, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning VanishedUser314159

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 * In December 2010, VanishedUser314159 added the signature of a named account under a talk comment left by this IP. In January 2011 the vanished user offered to take a one-year wikibreak, but it does not appear that he was serious. The IP geolocates to Columbia University. I've notified Jpgordon, who placed the indefinite block on VanishedUser314159 in March 2011, to see if he wants to comment. The IP is very active on fringe topics since March 2011, which goes against past advice by Arbcom. It also violates a one-year topic ban from fringe science imposed here at AE in January 2011, still visible in Archive81. Unless the user volunteers to seek unblock under his main account we may need to treat this as evasion of an AE block and shut down the IP for a long period. It does not appear necessary to go to Arbcom for advice since they have expressed themselves clearly in the past. We should consider imposing a one-year block. We can give the user the address of arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org if he is hoping that the Committee has changed its mind about allowing him to use multiple identities. EdJohnston (talk) 04:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That diff is pretty clear proof it is him, it appears a block defense has been lined up as the IP added the Shared IP Edu template. Since the IP went right on editing after responding here and the IP is clearly associated with the banned user and I don't see any other substantive edits from this IP indicating it is truly shared it would seem a long term block is in order.--WGFinley (talk) 14:22, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Closing:  is blocked for one year for evading the AE block of User:VanishedUser314159 and the AE topic ban from pseudoscience and fringe science imposed in January 2011. This sanction is being logged in WP:ARBPS and in Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist.  EdJohnston (talk) 03:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Someone35
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Request concerning Someone35

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : Nableezy 15:23, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: ARBPIA


 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :


 * 1) 2 December 2011 See below
 * 2) 19:39, 6 December 2011 See below for explanation
 * 3) 19:15, 7 December 2011 Hounding
 * 4) 10:04, 9 December 2011 Hounding, disruptive editing
 * 5) 9 December 2011 Accusing others of being paid to edit Wikipedia


 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :


 * 1) Notified of the case on 24 August 2011‎
 * 2) Topic banned following the user calling me an "antisemite"

Someone35, after having his or her indefinite topic ban for calling another user (me) an antisemite without any evidence reduced to a 3 month topic ban on appeal has continued with the same immature behavior that demonstrates why the user should restricted from the topic area. In the first diff above the user personalizes a dispute at a talk page by asking an inane question to me. In the second diff the user continues with this pattern, asking if I am employed. In the the third diff, the user tendentiously follows my contributions to an article he or she had never edited to make a personal attack, claiming that I am not editing article to "contribute" to them but rather to "agitate people against Israel". That the user has no idea what they are talking about on the issue under discussion does not seem to faze him or her. In the fourth edit, the user again hounds my contributions to ask an extremely inappropriate question, asking how much I am paid to edit here. The meaning of that diff is made clear in the final diff, in which the user again makes the absurd accusation that I was paid to be involved in a discussion at Talk:Jerusalem. This is not daycare, and we should not have to deal with children running around making a nuisance of themselves. The user's disruption has escalated from a minor annoyance to active disruption, and I request that his or her indefinite topic ban be reimposed. When the user can demonstrate that he or she has the required maturity to edit in the topic area the ban can be rescinded, but I think it is clear that after the 3 month ban that this child still is not fit to edit in the topic area.
 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :
 * It is very obvious who the user was referring to in the edit on his talk page, and the comments below are disingenuous to say the least. Compare this with this and you can see that the claim that he was not referring to a specific user falls flat. This is similar to the behavior that occurred prior to the user's last topic ban, where the user claimed that because he or she called me an antisemite in Hebrew but not English it should not count. See the past thread here (collapsed section, the extension of the ban occurred during an appeal of a block).  nableezy  - 16:27, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Notified
 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :

Statement by Someone35
I'll reply to each edit:

1. How is this a violation of any guideline?

2. Was there anything offensive in this question?

3. Am I not allowed to involve in a discussion about a place that I know well? I even visited there a few months ago so I am knowledgeable in that article.

4. That edit was underlined for a purpose...

5. Did I mention you there? See who's wikihounding (or stalking) others...

Reply to Nableezy's statement:


 * I already apologized for that, look for it if you want.
 * In my opinion that question wasn't inane, also you didn't even answer me, you just removed it.
 * That's because you haven't answered me, you could at least say that you are not interested in telling me that...
 * Again, I am knowledgeable about Hiriya and I agreed with his position.
 * That was underlined for a purpose
 * Where did I mention you in the last diff? Also, the meaning of the userbox you put in the bottom of your userpage is also clear and you can get arrested for supporting terrorist organizations...
 * Again, I am knowledgeable about Hiriya and I agreed with his position.
 * That was underlined for a purpose
 * Where did I mention you in the last diff? Also, the meaning of the userbox you put in the bottom of your userpage is also clear and you can get arrested for supporting terrorist organizations...
 * Where did I mention you in the last diff? Also, the meaning of the userbox you put in the bottom of your userpage is also clear and you can get arrested for supporting terrorist organizations...
 * Where did I mention you in the last diff? Also, the meaning of the userbox you put in the bottom of your userpage is also clear and you can get arrested for supporting terrorist organizations...


 * Since mostly children read Wikipedia (usually to copy their HW from there), you SHOULD have children editing here in order to make Wikipedia more open to children.

Also, Nableezy is the only user who seems to be disrupted by my edits and that's the 3rd or 4th time he reports me.

Response to WGFinley: Nableezy is the only editor who complains about me. Once I saw asad's warning I removed the problematic sentences. But I went out for about 3 hours so I only saw it after Nableezy complained here.--  Someone35  16:13, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Does the fact he's the only one that complains about you change the fact that you asked him if he has a job and accused him of being paid to edit WP? --WGFinley (talk) 16:15, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I haven't accused him. I haven't even mentioned him in that edit. I asked him once oafishly (that's the word google translate gave me, I'm not sure it's accurate, I never heard of this word before) if he has a job since he seems to edit a lot on Wikipedia. As far as I know, asking somebody if he has a job isn't against any Wikipedia policy.--  Someone35  16:20, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Man, you really outta stop burying yourself with these self-destructive comments. Have you not taken to heart what you have learned in your mentoring course? -asad (talk) 16:24, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I removed the sentences you asked me to remove in order not to get myself in trouble, but I only saw your warning after Nableezy reported me--  Someone35  16:26, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Response to Nableezy's second comment: There other people who are not you that make POV pushing edits and are getting paid for editing Wikipedia...--  Someone35  16:35, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Response to the admins: Then give me a one year interaction ban with Nableezy, since I don't engage in edit wars with other users, or make problematic edits in Israeli Palestinian conflict articles (I am not edit warring or violating any rule there). Also, again, I removed the sentences Nableezy complains about in the moment I saw asad's warning, but apparently it was too late and Nableezy already wrote the report here.--  Someone35  06:46, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Comments by others about the request concerning Someone35
@WGFinley We shouldn't continue to add a little more time and send them back out to cause issues when their TBAN expires. Precisely. So why add a little more time and send Someone35 back out when his (proposed year-long) topic ban expires? Why not reinstate his indefinite topic ban? Hasn't he made good use of the WP:ROPE he was given? — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 20:09, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment by Malik Shabazz

I'm Someone35's mentor (agreed after his initial topic ban) so unfortunately I'm partly responsible for this, as I only noticed and replied to all this on Friday morning. The mentoring work that we've done so far clearly hasn't successfully dealt with the issue that Someone35 has extremely strong views about certain groups whose stated aim is to destroy his country, that he (wrongly) associates opposing viewpoints on Wikipedia with those groups, and that he not only focuses his feelings about this on Nableezy as an individual, but also doesn't restrain himself from expressing those feelings on Wikipedia. (In retrospect, probably the first part of the mentoring should have been "let's talk about Nableezy and your feelings about Nableezy", but instead I took a more conventional approach.)
 * Comment by Demiurge1000

The comments made are indefensible; there's no world in which one asks a on-wiki opponent "do you have a job?" just out of curiosity, and secondly I don't see how Someone35 or anyone else can expect the comments about paid editing to be interpreted as other than referring to Nableezy.

I would prefer WGFinley's suggestion of a year long topic ban rather than an indefinite one, though the only argument I have in support of that is that for a teenager, a year is a very long time.

An alternative suggestion would be an indefinite one-way interaction action ban to stay away from Nableezy, to include not editing any articles where Nableezy already edits. I do feel that if adhered to, this would prevent the expression of personal animosity that is the focus of the problem here. I'm aware that one-way interaction bans are generally frowned upon because of the potential for provocation in the other direction, but Nableezy has been very restrained in dealing with this, so I don't believe that would be an issue. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:58, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Someone35's interaction with Nableezy is unfortunate, and exhibits an immaturity that should not be tolerated. It does seem, however, that it's not driven by subject or content issues, rather by a personal one with an editor who is himself controversial when it comes to this topic area, as it's not the first time conflicts have risen around him. A topic ban may not be a focused enough solution, wherein a long interaction ban would more likely address the root of the problematic behavior. If within or after such a ban, Someone35 continues to behave this way towards Nableezy, then there would be good reason to widen the scope of the ban to include the topic. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 18:28, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment by MichaelNetzer


 * Michael, it's part of the nature of the topic area that there is hardly an editor in it of which some other editor would not say that they are controversial or have been the source of conflict.      ←   ZScarpia  19:10, 10 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I didn't intend to single out anyone in the overall context of this topic area, and I appreciate it being hot for most everyone. Only to say that it is specifically a personal issue in this case, which has roots in the interaction between both editors. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 19:50, 10 December 2011 (UTC)


 * You'll notice that Demiurge thinks it goes a bit further than a personal issue. Having said that, I have no view on what the best solution would be.      ←   ZScarpia  20:26, 10 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Not sure about that, ZScarpia. Demiurge suggests a one way interaction ban as an alternative solution saying: "I do feel that if adhered to, this would prevent the expression of personal animosity that is the focus of the problem here." True that SO35's young age plays a factor as well, but it does seem to focus on a personal animosity. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 20:59, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning Someone35

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Of Nableezy's submitted diffs 2 is a pretty blatant personal attack and 4 and 5 are battleground fodder. Previous ban was 3 months, I believe a year off of P-I is in order as this isn't even a month since the last TBAN expired. We shouldn't continue to add a little more time and send them back out to cause issues when their TBAN expires. --WGFinley (talk) 16:05, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * @Malik -I might be so inclined to support that but wouldn't make that call solo, would like some other opinions. --WGFinley (talk) 22:54, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Agree that the case for reinstating the editor's I/P topic ban is strong. I suggest that the indefinite topic ban be reimposed, with the option for review of the ban after one year and then every three months thereafter. EdJohnston (talk) 04:33, 10 December 2011 (UTC)


 * @Demiurge1000 and MichaelNetzer: A review of Someone35's last two appearances at AE does not inspire confidence about his ability to edit neutrally on Israeli/Palestinian topics. The problems with his editing shown here in August and here in September indicate that it's not just a question of interpersonal conflict with Nableezy. It's clear to me that Someone35 could not live up to the hopes that people had for his reform when his ban was commuted to three months back in September. If anyone thinks that Someone35 has a good grasp of what is going on here, read over the five points that begin his statement, above. Asad112 has responded above that Someone35 is burying himself with self-destructive comments. EdJohnston (talk) 05:21, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Due to the appeal of Someone35's mentor, I'm inclined to go with one year as pretty ample and don't want to make this too complicated. So I will make it a year TBAN and wrap this up. --WGFinley (talk) 05:57, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Wgfinley
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Request concerning Wgfinley

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : asad (talk) 22:21, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: WP:ADMINACCT

WGFinley has seemingly lost sight of his of his duties as an Administrator on Wikipedia. As to why I feel this has happened, I will not speculate it was do to his preference towards a certain POV, unwillingness to admit a mistake or even flat out arrogance, because I quite frankly see that as irrelevant. This all stems from his adjudication of the User:Jiujitsuguy case. In quick summary, Jiujitsuguy violated WP:Consensus (in particular WP:Legality of Israeli settlements), by removing reference to Katzrin being an Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights. Jiujitsuguy later self-reverted. Something is important to note here: that although the complaint was originally filed for JJGs removal of a consensus statement, more diffs were added which shows that Jiujitsuguy deliberately abused sources to push a certain POV. This was especially concerning considering JJGs recent expiration of a topic-ban of, which he received largely for misrepresenting sources.

I am not going to copy the text verbatim, but it is clear to see from JJGs most recent A/E case he distorted sources to push a POV that Mount Hermon is in Israel. Both User:EdJohnston and User:Timotheus Canens both seemed to agree that there was an issue with JJGs sources and were willing to discuss the matter. But WGFinley was not interested at all. WGF was asked multiple times to please address the issue of JJG misrepresenting sources, he either did not, or claimed that he already did. I still, until this very second, have no idea where he purportedly addressed the issues.

JJG source misrepresentation diffs:
 * 1) 13 Nov 2011 Claims Mt. Hermon is in Israel by using the Fodor's Travel Guide source and the quote he cites in the ref, "Mt Hermon, famous as Israel’s highest mountain," but leaves out, "at 9,230 feet above sea level -- is actually in Syrian territory." The full quote should read (with the strikethroughs being what JJG omitted), "Mt. Hermon -- famous as Israel's highest mountain, at 9,230 feet above sea level -- is actually in Syrian territory. " (see the source here)
 * 2) 13 Nov 2011 Uses this source to claim Mt. Hermon is in Israel, although the source clearly writes, "Mount Hermon reaches 9232 feet, but its peak is actually located on the border between Lebanon and Syria. The Hermon Ski Resort is in Israel's Golan Heights."

Besides the multiple requests on the A/E thread, WGF was asked on his talk page to explain the issue:
 * 1) 30 Nov 2011 Asked by User:Malik Shabazz to address JJG misrepresenting sources after prematurely closing the A/E thread without seeing T. Canens latest post calling for a topic-ban
 * 2) 30 Nov 2011 User:Gatoclass brought to WGF's attention that the issue in A/E was misuse of sources
 * 3) 1 Dec 2011 Matter brought to attention, again by User:Nableezy with request for an explantion
 * 4) 1 Dec 2011 Asked by myself to, again, address the issue of misrepresentation of sources

WGF's confusion of the matter was further illustrated by claiming that JJG had "self-reverted" himself at Mount Hermon, which he never did (see Mount Hermon's history): '''This was the only other time WGF even brought up JJG and Mount Hermon in the same post. Neither of the diffs refer to him addressing misrepresentation of sources at all, whatsoever:'''
 * 1) 30 Nov 2011
 * 1) 30 Nov 2011

Lets pretend for a second that we want to accept WGF's position that Nableezy was uncivil and, therefore, WGF wouldn't want to respond to someone who was acting to so "uncivil" towards him. Fine. But what is the excuse for the other three editors who posed the same question? WP:ADMIN clearly states, "Administrators are expected to respond promptly and civilly to queries about their Wikipedia-related conduct and administrator actions and to justify them when needed." WGF can't just say he has responded to something he didn't even respond to push the issue aside. He should be accountable for his actions, he can't use ambiguity to disguise bad judgement calls he has made as an admin. He seems to have an issue with editors questioning decisions he makes, as is evidenced by the amount of "discussion closed" hats he places on his talk page.
 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :

But what has become even more hard to bear in this whole debate is the fact that some admins are only catching the tail-end of the situation and noticing Nableezy's perceived "incivility", without even understanding the context of the situation. By doing that, some admins seem willing to sacrifice one "uncivil" editor to better the so-called "Project", but not look at the larger issue of POV-pushing and falsification of sources. Being an admin on A/E is not about personal vendettas or tallying up blocks and bans, it is about using tools in a proper way to make the encyclopedia experience more reliable for the average person trying to get information on a topic based on a simple Google search. This admin, in particular, has decided that a more important issue for A/E is the is an editors perceived incivility, but not one editors manipulation of sources that degrade the quality of the encyclopedia. I find that extremely distasteful.

I don't think WGF's adminship should be recalled, but I do think he should not be allowed to adjudicate anything further relating to ARBPIA. He should also be reminded, that he should be required to give a clear response when serious questions (like falsification of sources) are asked to him.

Notified
 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :

Comment by Zero0000
I do not support any actual sanction against WGFinley. However, I wish to record that several times I have been quite startled by the apparent animosity that WGFinley shows towards Nableezy, very little of which seems to be justified by the circumstances, and by the lack of logic displayed by WGFinley when discussing matters related to Nableezy. The AE process should not only be dispassionate, but should appear dispassionate to a disinterested reader. That is not the case here. I think WGFinley should voluntarily retire from AE cases involving Nableezy. Zerotalk 22:54, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Shuki
The best defense is a good offense We see 'friend' Nableezy about to get an indef, so best thing to do is attack the admin. Nice. --Shuki (talk) 22:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes... it does seem transparent. It's also amusing that once Nableezy put up his initial unadvised tirade, Asad undid Nableezy's edit, then after he was reverted (by me), brushed it off as an accident . All seems a bit too coincidental... Plot Spoiler (talk) 22:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Nableezy
Re Shuki, I dont think I am about to be "indef'd" for anything, so I dont see what that comment adds. But to the substance. I think that WGF has demonstrated that he lacks the competence to be administering the topic area. I do not know what can be done about this short of him either voluntarily agreeing to refrain from doing so or an RFC and arbitration case to force him to do so. I dont know that AE is a venue where this can be addressed. But WGF has repeatedly made false statements on AE, and has repeatedly refused to provide any explanation for those clearly false statements. I have asked him several times to this comment. He has steadfastly refused to do so. The comment he made is simply untrue, and in his refusal to acknowledge that he, in my opinion, forfeited the right to act as an admin in this area. But again, I dont know that AE is equipped to deal with incompetence by supposed uninvolved admins.  nableezy  - 22:40, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning Wgfinley

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 * I disagreed with WGFinley's position in the matter cited, but I am not seeing anything actionable here. At the very least, the linked policy is not a remedy that this page is empowered to enforce&mdash;"Arbitration Enforcement is not the place for anything other than enforcement of a closed Arbitration Committee ruling". This is the purview of WP:AN or WP:A/R/C. I would highly discourage any reporting to those pages, because I don't think that there is merit to this request, but that is your decision. NW ( Talk ) 22:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, the issue has been moved to the administrators' noticeboard -asad (talk) 22:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement action appeal by The Devil's Advocate
''Procedural notes: The rules governing arbitration enforcement appeals are found in this 2010 ArbCom motion. According to that motion, a "clear, substantial, and active consensus of uninvolved editors" is required to overturn an arbitration enforcement action. To help determine any such consensus, involved editors may make brief statements in separate sections but should not edit the section for discussion among uninvolved editors. Editors are normally considered involved if they are in a current dispute with the sanctioning or sanctioned editor, or have taken part in disputes (if any) related to the contested enforcement action. Administrators having taken administrative actions are not normally considered involved for this reason alone (see WP:UNINVOLVED).''


 * Appealing user : – The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 16:15, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/September 11 conspiracy theories
 * Sanction being appealed : Block logged at


 * Administrator imposing the sanction :


 * Notification of that administrator : User is blocked and can't send notice, I acknowledge the appeal. --WGFinley (talk) 22:34, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Statement by The Devil's Advocate
The policy on topic bans indicates there are exemptions to topic bans where the editor is addressing a legitimate concern about the ban. I believed the concerns I was raising fell under such an exemption. Other than the concerns obvious from my comment, like the editor who pushed for the topic ban apparently using it to game consensus to revert uncontroversial changes on the disputed article, I provided several more concerns on my talk page. My understanding is that one reason a topic ban provides for exemptions in the case of notifying admins about violations of interaction bans is because a violation on the part of one individual inherently invites a violation by the other individual. In other words, one editor should not be baiting another individual into violating a ban and an editor under a topic ban should raise concerns about such baiting to an admin. Here I went to the admin who had specifically imposed the topic ban, indicating I had no intention of violating the topic ban. Given all of this, I believe this was not worthy of a block. Even if one argues that it was a violation, the circumstances were sufficiently ambiguous under the policy that the imposition of any block seems inappropriate.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 16:15, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * While my block has expired I still have every intention of pushing this appeal. As it pertains to Zero's argument I am not suggesting that I was not commenting on an editor's actions in the topic area, but that the specific concerns I had about those actions fell under an exemption. As I say below, the actions of the editor who filed the request leading to the topic ban had numerous issues with it that were relevant to the topic ban. See the last sentence or two of the comment on WG's talk page to get what I was concerned about. I believe this question needs some clarification as an editor concerned about WP:GAME relating to the editor who files an AE report should be able to notify an informed admin about this without fearing a block.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 19:18, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Additionally, I would ask that EdJohnston not present himself as an uninvolved admin in this case since his involvement in the dispute about the block on my talk page clearly falls under one of the criteria listed in the procedural notes at the top of this appeal. I have e-mailed him twice about his being an involved admin, but the first time he insisted he wasn't and he has yet to respond to the second e-mail I sent yesterday morning where I specifically quoted the criteria above.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 19:18, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Response to WG on block appeal
While I understand the concern about a comment about a user's conduct becoming a discussion, this would be true for any exemption. Mentioning an editor's actions in violation of an interaction ban, for instance, may cause the other editor to respond in a way that leads to further violations, but the point is where the comment is made. An admin can hardly argue that he would not be able to control what is occurring on his own talk page. That is why I made the comment there. Perhaps it would have been better to send an e-mail, something I considered, but when using e-mail there is a concern about it being perceived as an inappropriate effort to lobby in secret.

I further feel I had to mention why the action was of concern and that required some specificity. To be clear, it was not a general concern about an editor continuing to make contributions to the article, but the attempt to undo uncontroversial contributions of mine that had been standing for weeks and the way that attempt was being portrayed. The editor who filed the request leading to my topic ban was using the topic ban resulting from that request to revert changes of mine and give them the illusion of real consensus by implying that it was a compromise being put up for discussion, even though the editor knew the person who was being reverted was not going to be able to provide input on the "compromise" over those edits. Since the topic ban ten days ago this proposal has been the editor's only action on the article.

That, from my perspective, is quite a serious concern about the ban. Editors using AE to game the system is certainly a problem and goes straight to the question of whether the request was made in good faith in the first place. One impression I got from the proposal was that the editor was being vindictive and attempting to hound me by undoing as many of my contributions as possible until I stopped contributing to the article altogether. It should be added that this specifically concerned an issue I raised with WG about the topic ban being extended to talk pages as it seems unlikely the editor making this proposal would have done so knowing I could quickly chime in to point out all the deceptive language being used.

Finally, despite what WG says, I have no real animosity towards any of the editors contributing to the article. On several occasions I have sought the opinions of these editors on changes to the article and have specifically sought to accommodate their concerns. Sometimes I have found them cooperative, and other times I have found them to be the opposite. After the edit-warring block issued by EdJohnston it appears the latter response has become more common.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 23:52, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Statement by WGFinley
TDA states he was just inquiring about his ban, I think that's clearly not the case as shown in what he wrote on my talk page.

TDA was given a 30 day TBAN for 9/11 articles (log) resulting from a previous AE Request. My notification to him is very clear to him about the terms including, "...any discussion of that topic on other pages. While he may have been speaking about the ban to complain about it he went on about the conduct of another user, how they were making changes to the article and this was wrong because he was banned.

This is a common reaction of TBAN users but as we had previously discussed his TBAN in excruciating great detail there was no ambiguity he was under a TBAN. If the other user he was referring to responded it would just make the article talk page out of my talk page and clearly that's what TBAN's are intended to prevent - further disturbance on the article. I've tried very hard to encourage TDA to work collaboratively but he can't seem to put aside the animosity he has against other users, and one user in particular, in order to edit harmoniously.--WGFinley (talk) 22:49, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I believe WG's wikilink on "excruciatingly great detail" of discussion on the ban is referring to this discussion. That discussion did not concern what qualifies as an exemption, however.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 19:28, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Statement by Jordgette
Am I expected to defend myself for posting in my userspace a draft of suggested changes to an article, and asking for community input, without making a single actual revert or edit to the article in question since November 21? No thank you; I will use that time to improve an article instead. But if it would make you feel better, I'll ask someone else to move over those changes once discussion is closed. (Or maybe that's still "gaming consensus"...I'll take my chances.)  -Jord gette  [talk]  01:51, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Result of the appeal by The Devil's Advocate

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 * The Devil's Advocate is *not* appealing his recent one-month topic ban from 9/11 articles, he is appealing the one week block that was issued by WGFinley for making this edit at WG's talk. The language of WP:TBAN permits restricting the banned editor from raising the issues anywhere on Wikipedia, including on user talk pages. Finley used this specific wording to impose the ban:


 * "This is to inform you that, as the result of this Arbitration Enforcement request you are hereby banned from editing all articles which relate to the September 11 attacks, broadly interpreted, as well as their talk pages, and from any discussion of that topic on other pages. The ban is through 30 December 2011."


 * TDA violated the restriction by using Finley's talk to complain about actions of the other party in the edit war, User:Jordgette. WGF's action appears routine to me, since this is how topic bans are supposed to work. On his user talk TDA is contesting at length the accepted theory of topic bans. He argues that the admins are wrong in trying to prevent him from from discussing the other party's editing of the 9/11 articles since his own topic ban was imposed.  I recommend declining this appeal. EdJohnston (talk) 03:13, 10 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Looks like a topic ban violation to me. If he just argued about his block that would be one thing, but he mostly argued about the editing of others.  Decline appeal.  Zerotalk 07:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * TDA's action (the comment to WGFinley ) is clearly a breach of the ban. The block is a obvious, as the ban clearly states "any discussion of that topic [ September 11 attacks ] on other pages." On the basis that this appeal is about said block I'm declining it. Additionally TDA's comments about Ed are not appropriate - Ed has not violated WP:INVOLVED because, "warnings, calm and reasonable discussion and explanation of those warnings, advice about community norms, and suggestions on possible wordings and approaches, do not make an administrator 'involved'."-- Cailil  talk 20:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Cptnono
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Request concerning Cptnono

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : Nableezy 01:02, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :
 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: ARBPIA
 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :


 * 1) 11 December 2011‎ Revert of this edit


 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :
 * 1) Notified of interaction ban by

The notice of the interaction ban specified that the user may not Undo any edit by Nableezy to any page except your own user or user talk pages (by any means, including the rollback function). This is the first time Cptnono has ever edited the article Irgun. The user has also followed me to Palestinian Arabic having never edited that page before either. The same is true for the article Palestinian people. The user had also never edited that article in the past. I have avoided Cptnono with complete diligence, ensuring my compliance with the interaction ban, a ban that was placed due to the Ctpnonos tendentious hounding and repeated hurling of vexatious and unsupported accusations against me. I find it unbelievable that the last three articles edited by Cptnono were all edited for the very first time by the user, shortly after I edited them, and that Cptnono has some other way of explaining how he arrived at those articles besides by hounding my contributions. The diff listed is a straight forward violation of the ban, and the edits to Palestinian people and Palestinian Arabic are arguably also violations as they show that Cptnono continues with his tendentious hounding of my edits. I request the interaction ban be enforced and the user blocked.
 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :
 * Excuse me, but what the hell are you talking about? Cptnono has followed me around from article to article, with all of his latest edits being on pages that I have recently been editing, and with none of them on pages the user has ever edited in the past. That I brought up your incompetence in the thread on Jiujitsuguy after you repeatedly either ignored the evidence or deliberately misrepresented it has not one bit to do with this issue. Cptnono has an interaction ban with me. One of the restrictions is not making any reverts of edits made by me. The edit listed above is a revert of an edit made by me. Even you should be able to add those things together and arrive at Cptnono violated the interaction ban.  nableezy  - 03:59, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * And WGF, if you want to play all hard about reverts, how about noticing the editors who have not said one word on the talk page while reverting, such as Cptnono, AndresHerutJaim, and *cough, sock, cough* JungerMan Chips Ahoy!. I havent even made a revert that counts as a revert on that page, and you want to topic ban me? <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 04:22, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

@Mkativerata: Im not looking for a battle, I expressly wish to not have to deal with somebody such as Cptnono at all. But he actively seeks me out. The last time this happened he repeatedly directed absurd accusations at me without ever providing even a whiff of any evidence, while hounding me from article to article drunkenly daring others to revert him. So I requested, and received, an interaction ban. Ive ignored several violations of it, but here we have as a set of edits the recurrence of the old pattern of following me around, seemingly just to annoy me. Cptnono, until the last days, had never edited Irgun, Palestinian people, or Palestinian Arabic. I have been editing each within the last week. It isnt really surprising that the user has revived this old sport of trying to keep tabs on me, but is annoying, and at least one of the recent edits is a straightforward violation of the interaction ban. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 04:18, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ed, could you please explain to me what an interaction ban is? Is Cptnono's edit a revert of my edit? If not, why not? Because others were also reverting the edit? What of the following of my contributions to multiple article that he has never edited in the past? Is that not a user actively seeking out an interaction where interaction is banned? <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 07:44, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

@WGF, and I am still dismayed that an admin who has repeatedly distorted evidence and refused to answer questions about factually incorrect claims made still considers himself qualified to comment at AE. If forced to choose which behavior is more objectionable, my "tone" or your repeated willful distortion of evidence, I would have to say that yours is. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 20:16, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * You arent entitled to demand that people accept your poorly formed judgment, based on repeated willful distortions of evidence, in complete silence, and you are not entitled to both demand that I only discuss the case at AE and then complain that I then discussed the case at AE. My question to Ed was not incivil or condescending, I am sincerely asking Ed what his view on the limits of the interaction ban is. I said please because I was attempting to be respectful, not condescending. When I write you have no idea what you are talking about it is because you repeatedly demonstrate that you have no idea what you are talking about. You have repeatedly made outright fabrications on the content of diffs, and repeatedly refused to answer questions about why you made such obviously untrue comments. This raises serious questions of competence. You approach AE as though you can determine who is being "disruptive" by whose name you see most often. You seemingly forget that we are here to write an encyclopedia, and when you repeatedly ignore such blatantly dishonest actions as lying about sources and equate a users tone with that, you show that you do in fact have no idea what you are talking about. Your claim that my past bans have had no impact on my editing is demonstrably false. All of my topic bans, all of them, have been due to issues with reverting. I have had no such issues in quite a long time, with the exceptions of my reverting socks of banned editors, a detail that while you may think unimportant most admins actually notice. This was a prima facie violation of an interaction ban. If competent uninvolved admins feel that it is not actually a violation then so be it, but you are attempting to place a topic ban without being able to show a single instance of my disrupting the P-I article space. You are attempting to ban me purely out of spite, because I have asked you to address several issues that raise serious questions about your competence to be acting as an administrator at AE. You have so far refused to address any of those issues, and now, in a charming bit of irony, attempting to use AE vexatiously to silence [an] opponent. I am not obligated to accept your decisions as though were edicts from upon high, and I did not demand any further action, nor is it disruptive for me to raise such issues. You repeatedly ignored evidence of a user lying about sources. I dont think I am being disruptive when I raise that at the lone place you said it may be raised. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 03:24, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Enigmaman, you say I continue[d] to press the issue in a diff that predates the one where I supposedly refus[e] to respect the process here. WGF asked that I only discuss the issue at AE, and now is complaining that I discussed the issue at AE. I accepted the process, I simply wanted to make a comment that the process involved several admins ignoring, for whatever reason, be it nefarious or not, that an editor repeatedly lied about sources. What I wrote was I dont care anymore, it isnt worth wasting my time with an obvious sock. I just want to have it written down here that several admins have ignored repeated willful distortion of sources to push a fringe POV into an article. I think that is a pretty clear acceptance of the process, though one in which I voice my frustration with the fact that it was allowed to be manipulated by an admins bizarre and unsupported comments regarding the evidence. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 04:28, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * And further, I challenge the assertion that there have been spurious AE filings by myself. All of them, including this one, bring prima facie violations of either a specific ban or the discretionary sanctions. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 04:30, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I am purposely ignoring the comments of the usual people with the usual views as they arent at all relevant. I will address one however. Michael, if one were to compare your comments to me and my comments to you they would quickly see that there is indeed one party who routinely makes obscene, absurd, often derisive comments to the other. It isnt me though. Despite my lowly Arab background, I have been quite restrained when dealing with your particular brand of policy twisting to disruptively push a settler-centric POV across a range of pages. How that is at all relevant is however left to the imagination of the reader. This thread was about a violation of an interaction ban. It has unsurprisingly been distorted into something else by the very same admin who ignored and enabled a user lying about sourced, and in turn a collection of users unsurprising in its makeup are are here cheerleading. WGF does not like the fact that I have raised serious questions about his competence, so he concocts this attempt to silence me, rather than actually address the issue of his repeatedly making things up out of thin air and ignoring, if not outright lying about, evidence of a user lying about sources. That you dislike that I prevent you from repeatedly pushing a settler POV into articles or that I prevent you from claiming occupied territory as Israel's is not cause for a ban. And while it is not surprising that you are again involving yourself in this attempt to see me banned, it is also unimportant. The issue here remains what it was when I brought this here. If competent uninvolved admins say there was no violation then so be it. Currently there are two such admins who say there is no ban (Ed and Wordsmith) and I am fine with that judgment. I would like them to clarify why there was no violation, and under what circumstances a revert of an edit made by one editor in an interaction ban against the other may be performed. But this attempt to turn this into a case for my banning fails on several levels. The first is that there is 0 evidence, none at all, of my disrupting anything anywhere. I have raised questions of WGF's actions, if he wishes to be an admin he is obligated to answer those questions. He refused to do so on his talk page, and he complains that I asked those questions here when he directed me to discuss the issues here. That is transparent attempt at silencing dissent, and one that raises even more questions of competence. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 15:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

@Calil, there has been no evidence brought that I am attempting to "game the system". You raise past topic bans as evidence of a failure to adjust actions, but that is simply untrue. All of my past topic bans were the result of issues with reverting, and I have had no such issues in quite some time. The "case for boomerang" is simply an admin upset that I call him on his actions and he refuses to both address the issues and further refuses to even be questioned. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 15:44, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * To put the comments about the past AE case into context, I invite everybody to look at the timeline here. Also, if this is to be the people of Wikipedia vs Nableezy I would appreciate a new request where I do not have the burden of defending myself in this clusterfuck of a section as well as having the enviable task of defending myself against an "uninvolved admin" playing the role of both prosecutor and judge. I am more than happy to address every single point that WGF or anybody else would like to raise, a courtesy that unfortunately was not extended to me by WGF. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 01:32, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

@Ed, I recognize that AE is not as you a say a precision machine and further I agree that my presentation of the issues was not optimal. And I will say that I think the few admins that deal with arbitration enforcement do, for the most part, a fine job. There are a few admins that I think are either overly harsh or overly lenient, but all in all most do a fine job doing a very difficult task, and all of you should be thanked for taking on such a task. I admittedly have a sharp tongue, but I dont think I have ever questioned an admins competence to be standing here in judgment prior to this event. It isnt simply the failure to respond, it is the failure to admit a wrong, to refuse to acknowledge a mistake, that is what causes my outrage. WGF wrote something that was flat out untrue, and despite repeated, and initially respectful and civil, attempts to raise the issue, he refused to acknowledge even reading the diff in question. I repeatedly attempted to get him to explain his comment, he still has not, first refusing to do so at his talk page and saying he will only discuss the issue on AE, and now citing my attempt to discuss the issue on AE as disrupting AE. How else do you expect me to react? An admin who refuses to justify his comments, who has made demonstrably false claims on AE, who has refused to explain why he made such claims, is now actively campaigning for sanctions against me. And doing so on the basis of my bringing what was a prima facie violation of an interaction ban. The same admin who equated the repeated deliberate distortion of sources to insert factual errors into an encyclopedia article to Nableezy's tone. Please, and I ask this sincerely, how should I react to that? <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 03:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ed, I wasnt questioning the judgment on the interaction ban being violated or not, if that is the case consider me informed of the standard, what I wrote about WGF's behavior was in regard to the JJG issue and how that relates to this most recent call for a long-term ban. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 03:58, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Notified
 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :

Statement by Cptnono
I only looked at the edit summary between Supreme Deliciousness and Jujitsuguy. I did not realize that so many people were involved, including Nableezy. So my bad for continuing an edit war. And I went to Palestinian People after seeing the comment by Newt Gingirch on CNN. Cptnono (talk) 18:42, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Now that I've had more coffee this morning I want to expand on my statement. I was under the impression that the interaction ban was put in place partially to limit disruption at AE. This is a whole lot of needless drama. Nableezy and Gatoclass assume I was intentionally reverting an edit made by Nableezy. I did not know at the time that he was involved at the article since I was checking a diff I saw between two editors I have had many interactions with. Although Nableezy might think it is all about him, I am actually interested in the Palestinian people and the fringe (some would certainly call it racist) debate over if the Palestinians are their actually a unique subset within the Arab population (for the record I do not see how they cannot be). The Newt Gingrich comment of an "invented people" reminded me of the issue. The line I tagged with the clarify template was because I was confused by the line. I was also under the impression that Tiamut was the primary author of the Palestinian People article and considered making the edit I made a year ago but decided against it to not ruffle her feathers. It is not always about Nableezy. The interaction ban is already being ignored right now but I am not going to make it worse by commenting on what I think the admins should do.Cptnono (talk) 20:41, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * It is pretty obvious what is going to happen here. I am fairly confident that most uninvolved editors (along with the admins here) would not consider my revert of Supreme Deliciousness as an intentional revert of Nableezy. There could be the question of me hounding him but I think my explanation is sufficient (it is easy for me to assume it is sufficient since I know I was not). I could argue that Nableezy is hounding me with this AE (there is an interaction ban) but I don't care to get involved with that discussion. If this is at AN now then you guys can handle that. It should not have gotten to this point but I doubt anyone is surprised. I don't have any topic bans in the area (some civility blocks are there, though) so close this out and continue the constant and disruptive back and forth at AN. In regards to this case: I should have thought to look at any edit made in the topic area since there is a chance Nableezy is involved. I should not have made a revert without looking at the history. If I would have it would have been clear that there was previous drama and the talk page would have been better. Nableezy won't be getting a boomerrang. We all know it even if some of us think he deserves it. So I am happy to end this with me saying "my bad", you guys can hash it out at AN.Cptnono (talk) 05:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Would you mind amending it to "more cautious" instead or "warned" (Common vernacular not aligning with use on Wikipedia)? I can still edit the articles as long as I don't touch his, right?Cptnono (talk) 15:36, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Zero0000
I don't see "unless someone else has reverted the same edit in the meanwhile" in Cptnono's interaction ban. Indeed, under such an interpretation it is hard to see how an interaction ban could have any effect since there is always someone else around to throw the first punch. Cptnono's edit is a prima facie interaction ban violation. If it is judged to not be a violation, then the interaction ban should be clarified and all parties made aware of the change. Punishing Nableezy for making a report on a perfectly reasonable interpretation would be quite outrageous. More generally, while it is reasonable to be frustrated and annoyed at the level of dispute in this area, taking it out on those who bring disputes to the proper authorities (which this board is supposed to be) is not an appropriate way of dealing with it. All that does is make the serial violators more bold. Zerotalk 03:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Mkativerata

 * (I'm an admin who has declared himself involved in respect of ARBPIA) I think Nableezy might have picked the wrong battle construing the interaction ban a bit widely here. But the suggestion to "solve" the issue by handing out multiple topic bans would be a gross misjudgement. I think this should be closed as "no action". When multiple editors have contributed to an edit-war but none of them have done anything egregious on their own, locking the article is the sensible solution (and I see that's been done), not punitive action. These kind of edit wars really aren't that bad. --Mkativerata (talk) 04:08, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * @Nableezy: I've struck "picked the wrong battle"; I mean it in a colloquial rather than a perjorative ("battleground") sense. I think this episode is yet another demonstration of the futility of interaction bans, more than anything. --Mkativerata (talk) 04:26, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * @WGFinley: with respect, the fact that much of the "evidence" in support in of your proposed topic ban is perceived "incivility" towards you, and the subsequent gross overreaction of proposing a 12 month topic ban, suggests that you are not in a good position to be acting here. You either need to have a thicker skin or walk away. --Mkativerata (talk) 11:04, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Malik Shabazz
First, I'm laughing to myself that you think a self-revert is a 1RR violation. But moreso, I'm laughing that Cptnono, who added Category:Resistance movements, didn't notice that it was already there (having been restored by AndresHerutJaim). — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:16, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Apologies, then, Wgfinley. I'm still laughing at Cptnono (and all of us—including myself—who reverted afterward) for missing the fact that the category was already on the page. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 06:42, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Statement by Broccolo
Per WGFinley, Cptnono has never reverted Nableezy, and as Nableezy said he and Cptnono are under interaction ban. With this frivolous AE Nableezy violated his interaction ban with Cptnono. Could you please enforce the ban by sanctioning the filer? Broccolo (talk) 04:48, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by MichaelNetzer
During my short time in the I/P area, I'd likely be considered someone who'd be happy to see a sanction against Nableezy in this case. We've had heated exchanges where I've tried to get across the folly of aggressive editing. I've repeatedly stressed that reporting to AE is not a method I choose for solving disputes. Over the last few days, and through a mutual effort to resolve an extended disagreement, I was gratified to see a better collaborative spirit developing between us. Like Mkativerata, I believe this request for action against Cptono is misplaced and unnecessary. But I also agree with him that a TBAN, especially multiple ones, could be an overkill. I'd certainly prefer to see a less trigger happy finger when it comes to filing such requests. However, I'm of a mind that a more creative approach is necessary to help ease tensions. I'm not sure how to convey this need other than by setting an example. If I could, I'd place a reverse interaction ban on both editors so they can only edit together, on one specific article, within a topic other than I/P - and would only lift the ban when they become sufficiently cooperative. I know that's a bit of a stretch and only suggest it rhetorically, to help stress the need for a change in attitude here. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 07:05, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

@Nableezy: We may foreseeably have a proper venue for those issues between us, but I don't believe this is the one, so I won't answer your misrepresentations here. For the purposes of this report, I believe you need to tone down the aggressive approach in situations you don't agree with. It only makes things difficult for yourself and everyone else around you. It will also inevitably all boomerang anyway, with even more force than before. Please take that to heart. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 17:43, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Gatoclass
Whether or not it counts as a revert if you revert the same content as the other party in your interaction ban that someone restored in an intermediate edit is a question that may need clarification. However, when you are under an interaction ban with someone, you are obviously asking for trouble when you start editing the same pages the other party has recently edited, and especially when you start reverting the same content. So whether or not one thinks Cptnono has technically violated his ban, I think it pretty clear he has violated the ban in spirit. Whether that is grounds for sanction an uninvolved admin can decide, but I would certainly think a warning at the very least to avoid such behaviour in future would be appropriate. Gatoclass (talk) 07:55, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

The Wordsmith's comment is about the most sensible I've seen in this case yet. I suggest that Cptnono be advised to take more care not to edit in a way that could be interpreted as wikihounding and to leave it at that. Someone may also want to start a discussion about the revert-with-intermediate-edits issue in the meantime. Other than that, I think we should all take The Wordsmith's advice and find something a bit more wholesome to do at this time of year. Gatoclass (talk) 15:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Nishidani
Reluctantly again, since I think only admins and the parties directly concerned should comment here. 'I am still dismayed at Nableezy's conduct on AE.' What does conduct mean here? Contextually it suggests unacceptable behaviour. All I see is a report requesting deliberation, and possibly action. If Nableezy's conduct is thought disconcerting, it should be explained exactly in what this consists. Does it mean there is a quota for filing reports? Nishidani (talk) 18:49, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 'How many admins who have the temerity to work AE do we need to lose before this nonsense stops'.(WGFinley)
 * Um. If admins complain of their workload, I think a little familiarity with articles, and the extraordinary lengths editors must go to write articles in the I/P area, will suggest that the labourers are obliged to exercise an infinitely greater degree of patience to edit there. It is far far harder to work as peons than as overseers, and if the foreman complain of fatigue, they should do so with an eye to what the workers in the field have to cope with. I read the above as a request not to play the unionist, but shut up, because people up top in administration shouldn't have too much paperwork on their tables, and dislike the disruption of their time when the hoi polloi wish the rules to be clarified on site disputes. The list you draw up shows Nableezy, just one person, making requests for rule observance. It can only make sense if you list the large number of editors on the other side who have draw him into arbitration. Aside from the chronic assaults on his page, he does get stick from an extensive number of editors who share the same POV, whereas the same is not true of them. I say this with no prejudice against the latter, who have as much right to appeal as Nableezy.Nishidani (talk) 09:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 'The only way to deal with an account that's been topic banned 6 times and tries to game the system in order to "defeat" the "other side" would be an indefinite topic ban.'
 * These casual remarks suggests vague impressionism rather than informed deliberation. There are several editors more reliable than myself who have the same impression in recent times, that administrative judgement in here shows signs of frustration at the frequent recourse to requests for oversight, or evinces even personal dislike of the kind that leads some to disregard clear evidence in cases in order to close a case with 'no action taken', rather than manifesting patient coolheadedness. A significant number of editors have long worked overtime to rid wikipedia of Nableezy, who is very particular about process, and the strict adherence to policy in an area where it is customarily under constant challenge. Those who have complained are not paragon's of neutrality, but partisans of a (legitimate) POV. That his every move is watched, his page defaced, his work undone by I/P editors and dozens of socks, is known. That is no reason to make exceptions in his case, but I don't see much evidence here that he is the problematical character a loose scan of diffs leads some admins to think. For one thing, he has no record for larding articles with misleading, false or provocatively onesided material, which can't be said for many of those who find his presence disagreeable. To attribute to him a battlefield mentality intent on simply wasting time to 'defeat the other side' is patent nonsense. He is a policy wonk, and in the I/P area policy is under constant challenge.Nishidani (talk) 16:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Oops by asad
Concerning this, I hit rollback on my mobile phone browser on accident. Sorry folks. -asad (talk) 03:56, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Plot Spoiler
I think we're setting a very dangerous precedent by closing this without even a figurative slap on the wrist for Nableezy's quite ugly conduct. In the future, other editors will now have a strong basis for uncivil conduct and personal attacks against admins on AE, without sanction (lest we be playing favorites). This is without even getting into the fact that Nableezy and his gang are now openly trying to intimidate this admin into complete silence on the Administrators' noticeboard. Very ugly precedents indeed... Plot Spoiler (talk) 15:38, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I have to agree that excusing Nableezy's behavior exclusively, because he's an "effective spokesman" for one side of the I/P space is a dangerous precedent that displays a particular prejudice and effectively nullifies most WP behavioral guidelines. It is an astonishing excuse to give for such blatant violations of the most basic tenets of WP policy. An editor from the other side who behaves this way and pours so much poison into the editing environment would have been out of here long ago. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 16:03, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Dangerous ? His gang ? Intimidate ? Your comment is unhelpful and misguided. What is happening at AN is about potential non-compliance with WP:ADMINACCT, a mandatory policy, amongst other important things. There is a perceived problem. There are differences of opinion. It's adversely affecting the functioning of AE. We have already lost one admin who did a fine job in my view. It's important to resolve the issues to everyone's satisfaction including WGFinley. Ugly and uncivil conduct ? This is ugly and uncivil conduct. You could try to help to make things better here. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 4px 1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> Sean.hoyland  - talk 16:12, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Or this. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 16:22, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * "This" was a relatively kind way of showing how my comments were prejudicely distorted in that discussion. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 17:15, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * If you can't concede that Nableezy's conduct wasn't shockingly out of line with all decorum and accepted behavior here... then it just brings all the more clarity to your role here. Plot Spoiler (talk) 16:20, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Shockingly out of line with all decorum and accepted behavior here? For calling an admin out for repeatedly making false statements and refusing to justify his actions? I think we must edit different websites. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 16:22, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * You are again confusing issues of content and civility in order to justify aggressive and offensive behavior, Nableezy. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 16:43, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * No, not even a little bit. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 16:48, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * eh ? I'm not the one complaining about ugly and uncivil conduct. I don't care if people say fuck off or whatever to eachother. I don't even care if Cptnono gets drunk and acts like an asshat, bless him. At least he's completely honest about it. I'm complaining about your transparently obvious double standards and your apparent lack of self-awareness. Double standards are why it's almost impossible to get anything done in this topic area. My role here, if you want to call it that, is to try to help clear up the mess, baby step by baby step, created by people who are so blind that they can't even see themselves in the mirror let alone what is in the sources and policy. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 4px 1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> Sean.hoyland  - talk 16:39, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * When you're constantly up to bat for one of the worst battleground editors bar none, it clearly shows that you're more a part of the problem and not the solution -- no matter how many times you claim that you're just here to help. Plot Spoiler (talk) 19:51, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Demonizing hyperbole and spy plots are out of place here. But one expects them. To rise to the bait however is to underestimate the intelligence and perceptiveness of the chaps who have to handle this crap. Let's try in future not to interrupt interactions between plaintiff, accused and admins. We're all grown up, and everyone is fully capable of defending himself. Lengthy external threads only blur matters. I think the only excuse for commenting here is when one sees something significantly unfair in the provisory comments by admins, late in the piece. Only then such 'community input' exercise its proper function. Nishidani (talk) 16:56, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Conduct of WGFinley
That you are using the section for uninvolved administrators to further whatever your agenda is against Nableezy for the second time on a request not concerning Nableezy is frankly disgusting and insulting. Nableezy is not the only user who has an issue with your conduct or your attitude. In fact going by your talk page and the several hundreds of words by other editors, the issue is not even limited to your conduct on AE or P-I issues. That should tell you all you need to know. If I were Nableezy and faced with your refusal to admit when you are wrong or your obvious bias in the JJG (and this) case, then I too would be more than a little pissed off and my tone would be, understandably, no different to his. I'm sure you'll have plenty of admin friends ready to endorse your view without all the facts, just as it is no surprise that meatpuppets like Broccolo turn up to stick the knife in Nableezy. You talk of loosing admins "who have the temerity to work AE", do you not see how your own filibustering in the JJG case, keeping it open so long when there was consensus for action was connected to Tim resigning? And that's on top of the hounding by the subject of this very request. You need to recuse yourself and strike your ridiculous proposals from this request and take a good hard look at your attitude. If you have issues with Nableezy and want to work them out then take them to his/your talk page rather than using this AE to win. — <b class="IPA"> ₪₪  ch1902   ₪₪ </b> 12:20, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * "meatpuppets" like me contributed almost 140,000 edits to he.wiki, abour 850 articles, and 20 or so FA's. When you try to insult someone, please try to check the facts and not being like Haaretz. I could have been insulted by your rude comment, but this requires me to take you seriously. As you yourself does exactly what you complain on, I do not. I consider you nothing more than GMG. Broccolo (talk) 13:47, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * BTW, it's interesting that until you edited here you had 6 edits in the last 2 years. How is it that a non-active user know who I am and knows exactly how to get to this discussion? Broccolo (talk) 13:53, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * And this is exactly why I rarely speak up and get involved in battles; accusations abound and nothing but bad faith. I am more than aware of P-I conflict from when it spills over to Commons (where I do most of my work) as it did recently with JJG, SD, Biosketch, Nableezy, Chesdovi, etc. I assume we're all familiar with those names. I am no article writer, I admit, instead I give my volunteer time to where I have skills I can offer and that is in vectorizing images used in articles. I used to contribute to the Graphic Lab here until I realised most image action is by way of Commons so I moved there. Maybe in your opinion that is worthless, it doesn't really bother me. I know you from Commons, and I know of you from en.wiki and my statement of meatpuppetry is based on your contributions here, not he.wiki. I won't go on because it will only make me the subject of more attacks, and I can't be dealing with that. There's a saying "the spectator sees more of the game", well I've seen plenty of the game you all play and it doesn't interest me. I thought I could post something to make people see sense, but I should have known that I would get burnt for it, so with that I'm back off my to less than stellar contributions elsewhere. — <b class="IPA"> ₪₪  ch1902   ₪₪ </b> 14:47, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not involved in this discussion, but there is another AE related to me and WGFinley is posting in the uninvolved administrators section even though he is heavily involved in the edits under scrutiny. Also, he has accused me of making a "revert" even though it is clearly not a revert. YehudaTelAviv64 (talk) 14:55, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * There is certainly an issue with admins here being accused of being in the pocket of the other side. I raised this issue as part of my attemped ARBPIA3 case. It took Cptnono less than 24 hours to start hounding T Canens again after the closing of my request. The fact that his attack on T Canens after Epeefleche's block for POV-motivated harrassment of CCI was widely opposed did not deter Cptnono. Even if Arbcom were too spineless to do something about this, there really needs to be some measure taken against this sort of behaviour.--Peter cohen (talk) 15:00, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The behavior isn't limited to WGFinley. I've been involved in multiple AEs and EdJohnston has commented on each of them, even though he is not an uninvolved administrator. For example, my current AE. He also invented a new definition for "revert" that has nothing to do with Wikipedia's definition. This administrator has no regard for Wikipedia policies and thinks that he can do whatever he wants. YehudaTelAviv64 (talk) 15:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

WGFinley's comments on the aggressive and disrespectful tone that Nableezy uses with editors and admins he disagrees with, visible in his responses here, are justified, as is his effort to confront and address it in this, and previous AE requests. Nableezy's lack of patience and hostility around the I/P space is way above what should be tolerated by all standards of WP Civility. Though everyone involved is entitled to their POV angles, it needs to be stressed to Nableezy that his conduct of intimidation, derision and threats against people who are offended with his consistent uncivil one-sided assaults, is not conducive to a healthy editing environment. Most editors and admins prefer not to respond to him with the same type of aggression, though it's often the only way to get his attention in order to convey to him the severity of his behavior. Addressing the issue of tone and attitude needed for a healthy collaborative environment is paramount for achieving a more efficient and harmonious editing space. WGFinley's motion here has been long needed so that Nableezy might understand that its his own behavior that is the root cause which turns nearly every disagreement with him into a battleground. More often than not, these instances make it to AE on a technicality and fail to address the primary behavioral cause. It's time to try to address the disruptive and nearly poisonous atmosphere that Nableezy's conduct causes and encourages in this space. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 15:21, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Michael, you may be right about Nableezy, but that does not give WGFinley free rein to ignore Wikipedia policies. It would be bad enough for a regular editor to chose to ignore Wikipedia policies, but WGFinley is an administrator, and is held to a higher standard:
 * Administrators are expected to lead by example and to behave in a respectful, civil manner in their interactions with others. Administrators are expected to follow Wikipedia policies and to perform their duties to the best of their abilities. YehudaTelAviv64 (talk) 15:24, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I haven't seen anywhere that WGFinley's behavior was disrespectful to anyone, YTA64. From what I've seen in his responses to Nab's confrontational and arguably uncivil assertions to him does not seem to violate Wikipedia policies and performing his duties to the best of his abilities. The problem here is very severe and the root cause rarely brought to surface. Technical issues are asserted aggressively and disrespectfully to mask frustration over disagreements. It's a very difficult thing for an admin to address and most prefer to stay away from it. It seems to me that WGF is following policy above and beyond the norm in order to do what an administrator is meant to in such a case. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 15:45, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I have continued this conversation at WGFinley's talk page. YehudaTelAviv64 (talk) 16:15, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Devil's Advocate

 * I think you made a mistake there. It appears the "clarify" tag was added to the article on Palestinian Arabic before Gingrich's comments. He made the comments on Friday and your edit appears to have been made right after 12:00 A.M. Friday, which I think would be well before the interview aired.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 01:15, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The comment above was responding to an apparent error with Cptnono's explanation for his edits. I had made the response directly to Cptnono, but he moved my comments with the following edit summary:


 * "yes, I must have made a mistake by reading the incendiary comments made by Gingirch three days before the interview with the Israeli press. Do me a favor and keep your comments in your own section and read the news before it "broke""


 * I can find nothing to suggest Gingrich had made these comments before the interview with the Jewish Channel, which is an American channel. Since Cptnono is presenting this to explain how he was not purposefully editing articles Nableezy has recently edited I think it is a point in need of clarification.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 16:25, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Closing Summary by AgadaUrbanit
Seventeen WP:AE cases were initiated in 2011 by User:Nableezy. The success rate is not very impressive, especially lately, but there is still an active discussion on that at WP:AN. My calculus teacher believed that if you need to peek an arbitrary number 17 is the way to go. Not too small not to large and deliciously prime. However User:Nableezy is expecting to squeeze #18 till AE administrators log out for Christmas break, see diff.

Probably that would be an intensification of existing conflict evident from this collision in this WP:BLPN discussion. Maybe some Triumvirate of uninvolved administrators could close the RfC at WP:V - the discussion is over there. This discussion here is a Groundhog Day anyways, see AgadaUrbanit (talk) 23:20, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning Cptnono

 * This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.

This is a pretty contrived and vexatious request from Nableezy and given his conduct on a recent AE filing we he refused to accept the decision and continue the discussion after it was closed I think it's time for a ban from WP:AE again as well as another TBAN.

There's no "I got here first, now you can't edit" in an interaction ban and Nableezy knows it. There's a 4 day lapse between Nableezy's edit and Cptnono's and this revert by Brewcrewer which was reverted by DePiep which was reverted by JJG which was reverted by SD which was reverted by Malik which was reverted again by Malik in violation of 1RR (though of himself and I expect there's an explanation) which was reverted by AndresHerutJaim which was finally reverted by Cptnono as Nableezy outlined. Of course then DePiep needed to revert that which was then reverted by JungerMan who in turn was reverted by Malik again until I brought an end to this nonsense by protecting the page.. So, in making this report Nableezy ignored the 7 previous reversions prior to Cptnono.
 * @Malik - It was meant to be humorous slightly, I just have to cover all bases with this crew lest someone point out a 1RR violation was missed and not noted. You know how it goes here. --WGFinley (talk) 06:27, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

I stated writing a remedy but I believe long term TBANs of multiple parties are in order here and will wait for others to weigh in. Some of these folks are fresh off of TBANs and are revert warring the placement of a category in an article. --WGFinley (talk) 03:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * @WGF: I agree that there is no violation of Cptnono's interaction ban with Nableezy here. Malik self-reverted one of his edits, so if we exclude him, nobody edited more than once at Irgun. It is unclear why anyone's editing of Irgun would be the occasion for topic bans. The reverts by several people at Irgun suggest a lack of good judgment even though 1RR was not broken. It would be hard to formalize a new restriction like 'use common sense before reverting anything on a hot-button article when several people have already reverted it'. EdJohnston (talk) 05:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm concerned about the number of owners of previous TBANs here thought it was okay to get in a revert war, they all know they shouldn't be and this is the exact kind of nonsense that continues to cause disruption, AE filings, etc, etc. --WGFinley (talk) 06:27, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I could see the logic of issuing bans for those previously under a TBAN, based on poor judgment exhibited on a hot-button article. But you'd need to state the criterion for your action clearly. Also be aware that, if the rule is generalized, you might start getting more AE submissions since there is more than one hot-button article. EdJohnston (talk) 06:49, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I was going to put some up but after further consideration I think there is a case to be made (per Gatoclass) about this needing to be clarified on AE. So while I would be inclined to not take any action except warn all those concerned this is unacceptable I am still dismayed at Nableezy's conduct on AE. --WGFinley (talk) 17:11, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

I'd suggest a remedy of trouts all around. Seriously, everyone needs to go outside and enjoy some sunshine (unless it is raining, in which case I would strongly suggest bringing along an umbrella). The Wordsmith Talk to me 14:23, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Am I the only one who thinks that Nableezy could have been acting in good faith? I've been taking an extended break from AE until recently so perhaps I've been out of this place for too long, but I can see why one would be suspicious of Cptnono turning up to continue an edit war that was started by Nableezy (with whom he has an interaction ban). I don't know if there is enough evidence to suggest that Cptnono was there to aggravate Nableezy, but I don't see this AE complaint as inherently disruptive. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  15:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I thought I was missing something that everyone seemed to get. I agree with HJ's post, and am more concerned about the number of editors who chose to revert while discussion was going on at Talk:Irgun. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 15:57, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * As below, agree this is not a conclusive breach of an interaction ban but it isn't a vexatious report either - I can see how Nableezy interpreted this as a breach of that ban (but disagree with him). I think NW's point about more general "slow" editwarring is important - this could be dealt with via page based probation (as Ed notes this shows a "lack of good judgement") but I don't see the need for high level personalized action against Cptnono, or Nableezy or anyone else in this instance-- Cailil   talk 16:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I would disagree that it is a problem that might can be addressed by page protection. The fact that three editors joined the edit war after the sock issue was resolved and that there was an edit war after a few days of discussion involving several different editors (some diffs excluded) is indicative of a very battleground approach to the matter, which I think we need to look at more closely than we are. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 21:53, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I conceded above I see some merit to there being need for clarification (I still think this is the last venue for that and not the first) but you have hit on what I was getting to about this article. All these folks know not to do this but yet they persisted just the same with continuous reverts. --WGFinley (talk) 22:57, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Conduct of Nableezy
Not sure there was any doubt on this but, here we go. At the risk of a firestorm (although the previous 3 week AE request seems to constitute one already) this appears to be a clear boomerang.
 * 1) Despite a recent AE report being closed Nableezy chose to continue commenting and thus disrupted AE by refusing to accept the decision and demanding further action. He doesn't respect the process here and will continue commenting as long as he likes.
 * 2) This led to a disruption of AE by another user commenting with Nableezy replying followed by some back and forth with Nableezy having the last word.
 * 3) Nableezy displayed similar conduct on my talk page where I asked him on multiple occasions to use AE for the venue of discussion.
 * 4) By my count Nableezy has been banned entirely from the topic 6 times   not including an article ban  and three ban modifications. They appear to have had no impact.
 * 5) He's been subject to multiple sanctions as a result of AE reports  or AN3 reports.  Nableezy knows the process on AE.
 * 6) Excuse me, but what the hell are you talking about? - clearly uncivil
 * 7) Ed, could you please explain to me what an interaction ban is? - clearly condescendingly uncivil.
 * 8) You simply do not know what you are talking about. an an insinuation of off-wiki canvassing with absolutely no evidence.
 * 9) Finally, his practice of "file AE first, ask questions later". He could have asked an admin for an opinion on this, including the admin who put the interaction ban in place. Instead it's run off to AE and try to use it vexatiously to silence another opponent.

How many admins who have the temerity to work AE do we need to lose before this nonsense stops? Every comment he makes to someone who dares disagree with him is dripping with venom. Many admins simply just give up and determine it's not worth the headache and quit participating here (don't' think i need to name names).

Given the totality of this conduct, and a ton of other conduct (interaction bans, blocks for violating bans, etc) I haven't even cited, it is clear Nableezy believes Wikipedia is a battleground for despite all these actions and sanctions Nableezy continues to disrupt AE and the P-I article space. I submit a ban from submitting or commenting cases not concerning him on AE is in order along with a topic ban from P-I for 1 year which is the source of this conduct. --WGFinley (talk) 02:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * At the very least, something needs to be done about the repeated filings of spurious AEs against those who disagree with him. indicates a refusal to respect the process here. Then we have this, where he continues to press the issue.  Enigma  msg  04:05, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The only way to deal with an account that's been topic banned 6 times and tries to game the system in order to "defeat" the "other side" would be an indefinite topic ban. Such behaviour would demonstrate a failure to get the point about changing their attitude to others and to wikipedia's policies with sanctions of a definite duration. This measure prevents disruption and can be lifted when the account shows that they have adjusted their behaviour appropriately. At least on a prima facie basis it is not unreasonable to consider WP:BOOMERANG here wrt Nableezy. However, as I haven't had an in-depth look at their edits yet (but will later) I wont declare support or oppose at this point, but I'm considering the point-- Cailil  talk 15:22, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Having examined this I do think it would be harsh, and maybe even rash, to impose either a 12 month or indefinite sanction on Nableezy. Thus I would oppose such action at this time, as I'm inclined to agree with HJ and NW above. Nableezy needs to tone it down - the general last wordiness of their approach here has not been helpful. Broadly speaking, their rhetoric has been borderline and while I empathize WGF, I don't agree that this is grounds for the use of an ArbCom remedy of such magnitude. I do think this is inappropriate, but not within the remit of ARBPIA and is perhaps better for AN etc-- Cailil  talk 16:42, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I understand the question of venue but I think this is precisely the venue to address the issue at hand, save ARBPIA3 which I was initially opposed to but now thinking is inevitable. This page clearly states if one comes here with unclean hands or disrupts AE they are making themselves subject to sanction themselves. --WGFinley (talk) 22:54, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't see this evidence as justifying a ban of Nableezy. Nableezy first got upset with WGFinley due to the Jiujitsuguy case, so far as I can tell. That case was not optimally argued from Nableezy's side though close study of his diffs revealed there was some merit to his assertions. There are some ways that the JJG case might have been handled better. It would be best if Nableezy would recognize that AE is not a precision machine, can't understand everyone's points perfectly, and should be expected to approach truth only in a long-term fashion. If someone is truly a bad actor, their case will be reviewed more than once since they will make return appearances at AE. Nableezy is one of the more effective spokesmen for the Palestinian side of certain disputes and he has also done a lot of content work. Nableezy's recent outrage about some admins failing to respond to him certainly seems over the top. In the AE system, failure to take action is not appealable and people should be willing to live with that.
 * Anyone who wants to review Nableezy's record in more detail is welcome to view the large dump of data collected by his opponents in Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive102, which enumerates all the AE cases he filed in the last two years. Some of the reasoning by editors in that case could also be applied here. The case was closed on 25 November with no action against Nableezy, though I notice that WGF did argue for sanctions even at that time. EdJohnston (talk) 02:11, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * @Nableezy: Not every detail of every complaint may be fully analyzed or responded to. Your complaint of an interaction ban violation was not terribly convincing since your revert was so far back in the history. People may respond to edits that they see on their watchlists, and some editors have very large watchlists. Deliberate WP:HOUNDING is usually conspicuous. Interaction bans are inherently more vague than stuff like 1RR violations which are easy to check. EdJohnston (talk) 03:50, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Moving For Closure
If I'm reading the consensus correctly:
 * 1) Cptnono did not violate his interaction ban, but should be warned about editing on articles where Nableezy has edited.
 * 2) This is not a WP:BOOMERANG but Nableezy should be warned to "tone it down" (suggestions on better wording appreciated).
 * 3) All editors who got into the edit war are admonished for doing so and disrupting the article.

Do I have it correct? I will agree to all these points. --WGFinley (talk) 14:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds OK to me. EdJohnston (talk) 16:57, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * OK.  Enigma  msg 00:48, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Boothello
Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

Request concerning Boothello

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : Hipocrite (talk) 12:40, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race_and_intelligence


 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :


 * 1) 01:13, 13 December 2011 Dishonest edit summary - not actually worried about it appearing twice, rather, just acting as an article gatekeeper to prevent improvement
 * 2) 21:03, 13 November 2011 Varnish
 * 3) 03:49, 27 October 2011 Varnish
 * 4) 21:06, 30 October 2011 Varnish
 * Pretty much all of this editors mainspace contributions are varnish on the reputation of scientific racists.


 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :


 * 1) Warned on 02:12, 6 May 2011‎ by

This single purpose account is continuing the behavior that other accounts were banned for in August 2010 - consistent violations of NPOV. Further, while it's obvious that this is not the users first account (second edit shows facility with templates beyond what any new user has -, and fourth edit already knows what "OR" is - without having edited a talk page, ever.), the user is evasive about their prior history , even though their IP is in the public domain and has only one edit - , though it is in exactly the same metropolitan area as now topic banned David.Kane (who, shockingly enough, stopped editing with any regularity just 3 weeks after this SPA showed up!)
 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :

We don't need POV pushing SPA's in the space. Solve this.


 * In regards to Boothello's response - It's fabricated - in 2010, he states he was engaged in a "college wikipedia project." Then, all of a sudden, we're one year further and Boothello, out of the blue, only edits in this topic space because that's where all his "post-secondary education lies." But if he does have a "post-secondary education," he only started it 3 months ago, and he did it in exactly the same location as where he went to college - and - catch this - he never changed apartments. Yeah, that's likley. Hipocrite (talk) 20:25, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * In regards to Boothello's attempt to walk back his slip up - no, my friend, it cannot, and further, there is no college in Boston that allows you to study only one subject. Hipocrite (talk) 21:24, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :

Statement by Boothello
Sigh. The sock puppet question was addressed previously discussed here. The IP I used to edit under was, and after joining I've still occasionally used that IP when I forgot to log in. Including edits from that IP, I've been active on Wikipedia since July 2009. Obviously a lot of what I did from that IP is stuff I shouldn't have done, but it's wrong that I first showed up after David.Kane was topic banned. I stopped vandalizing and started trying to contribute productively as part of a college wikipedia project in fall 2010. The only reason I'm "evasive" about this is because I'm embarrassed about the vandalism I used to do, and I think most other editors in my shoes would also be embarrassed about that. I have already invited both Hipocrite and Mathsci to file and SPI if they really think I'm a sockpuppet of a David.Kane, but neither of them has. The only evidence that he and I are the same person seems to be that we both live in Boston.

If you look at the diffs that Hipocrite posted, it's obvious this is a content dispute. Two of the four edits were the outcome of extensive talk page discussion, and also a followup to changes made by other editors. this was the outcome of discussion here between me and Maunus, and I made it to be consistent with a similar edit from him. this edit was the outcome of discussion here between me and Vsevolodkrolikov, where we agreed to reword this article's description of the Pioneer Fund and move it to another part of the article. He had already added the new wording to the lead and I was removing the old wording because the discussion was about moving the description, not duplicating it. this edit was removing content from an article about a book that had nothing to do with the book, it was about criticism of some of the author's unrelated work. If the article had been about book on any other topic, removing criticism of the author's unrelated work wouldn't have even been controversial.

I am a single purpose account, I'll admit. I edit solely in this topic because it's where my post-secondary education lies, and it's no mystery that IQ/race articles on wikipedia need more work than articles on most of my other interests. But for someone uninvolved looking at my edits, I don't think there's any evidence that I'm editing the articles in a way that isn't consistent with policy and consensus. This is clearly a thankless job. My decision to go from vandalism to productive editing has caused my edits to be criticized more rather than less. I've tried removing content from the articles that's excessively favorable to the hereditarian position about race and intelligence, such as and  but nobody seems to notice that. Hipocrite is offended that I also remove excesses about the perspective that everyone who researches R&I is a racist. It's true that I make that kind of edit more often, but not because I think it's more important. When someone adds content that's excessive in the hereditarian direction it's usually dealt with right away by people like Aprock and Maunus. But currently people don't seem to care as much about avoiding excesses in the opposite direction. NPOV requires that we avoid both.

I'll also note that the "warning" from Aprock linked to above isn't an official warning in the discretionary-sanctions sense. Official warnings under discretionary sanctions can only be made by an uninvolved admin, and Aprock is not one.Boothello (talk) 20:11, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment on Hipocrite
Since Hipocrite is who posted this thread, I should point out the string edits he's made to the article today. He's removed a lot of well-sourced information with the misleading edit summary "not a reliable source". The sources that he removed with this edit summary include papers published in the journals Psychology, Public Policy and Law and The Open Psychology Journal, and also books published by Praeger, Methuen Publishing, Pergamon Press and W. W. Norton & Company. When Victor Chmara reverted the removal of these sources, Hipocrite threatened him with a ban. 

There's no doubt many of these books and papers are controversial, but being controversial does not mean a source fails WP:RS. The claim that these aren't reliable sources seems like a flimsy justification to remove content that he disagrees with. I think this makes it even more obvious that Hipocrite is going to AE over a content dispute, and one where RS policy isn't on his side.Boothello (talk) 20:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * @Hipocrite: by "post-secondary education" I just mean I'm in college. Post-secondary education can mean anything after high school. Higher education lists college as one of the things this term can mean, and that's how I'm using it. I never said psychology is the only thing I'm studying, but as I said, these are the articles where I feel able to help the most. If semantic nitpicking is the best evidence you can find that I'm a sockpuppet, I'm not interested in discussing it beyond this.Boothello (talk) 21:39, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * @EdJohnston: I thought that to count as an official warning, a notification of the discretionary sanctions had to be logged on the arbitration case page. Only admins can do that. I also thought the point of this requirement is so that if a person's conduct is a problem, they can have a chance to change it before they're sanctioned. An uninvolved admin can be impartial enough to determine that. But it doesn't seem like it should mean the same thing if an involved editor "warns" their opponent during a dispute. Is a warning of the discretionary sanctions something that any editor can give to anyone else in any situation? If I've misunderstood this policy, I apologize.Boothello (talk) 21:07, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * @Mathsci: you brought up that edit last time you accused me of being a sock, and I explained it then. That's a shared IP address between me and my roommate, and that edit was from him. After he made it, I asked him to stop with the vandalism and I think he did. I know vandalism is a problem from shared IPs, but I don't see how that's evidence of sockpuppetry.Boothello (talk) 21:25, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * @Aprock: I honestly don't see anything in those comments that goes against policy. I think maybe you and I just have naturally different editing styles, rather than it being a simple matter of right and wrong. I've never been blocked for anything I did on R&I articles and no uninvolved admin has ever warned me about it either. But if an uninvolved admin looks at these diffs and decides I'm doing something wrong and issues me a warning, I'll listen and modify my behavior accordingly.


 * For now I just want to point out the number of edits I've made that were obviously helpful. I've added a lot content from secondary sources and rewrote several sections to make them less undue, such as   Taking edits like this into account, I think my involvement in R&I articles has made the articles better than they would have been otherwise.Boothello (talk) 11:42, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

POV pushing?
I know I qualify as a single purpose account, and I know that SPAs need to edit neutrally instead of following an agenda. But I am very concerned that the admins commenting here are just taking it at Hipocrite and Aprock's word that my edits are not neutral. Can you please look at the diffs and decide for yourselves if they are? When I've removed criticism from any of these articles it's had an obvious policy justification, like removing criticism from the article about Rushton's book cited to sources that don't mention the book. And I've provided numerous examples of making edits in favor of the opposite perspective. Just being accused of POV pushing shouldn't be enough for a topic ban, I think admins need to look for themselves at the diffs to see if it's really the case.

The four editors who have been most consistently involved in this topic are Maunus, VsevelodKrolokov, Victor Chmara, and Aprock. Of these four, three do not have any problem with my editing. Maunus is the most significant because as Mathsci points out below, Maunus was initially suspicious of me, and I eventually won his trust. More recently he's commented that he thinks my editing shows me to be a reasonable person. Maunus's perspective about R&I is the opposite of the POV I've been accused of pushing, and he does not by any means always agree with me about content, so I think it counts for a lot that he still thinks my editing is alright. This thread was posted at a time when he, VsevelodKrolokov, and Victor Chmara seem to be all inactive, so the selection of people commenting in this AE report is not a good sampling of how the regulars on these articles feel about my editing. Administrators NEED to decide whether I'm POV pushing by looking at the diffs, and not just reacting to the editors who've posted here.Boothello (talk) 22:25, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Mathsci
The problems here have been around for a while, since the WP:ARBR&I case was closed. I was contemplating filing an SPI report, related to the account of, renamed. This account has been inactive since April. Since a request has just been made here, it makes more sense to post the report here. Like all SPI reports, there is no certainty that I am correct.

Boothello is a single-purpose account editing solely in the area covered by WP:ARBR&I. His editing started not long after the case was closed. It is editing in one area but he usually makes only a few low-level edits a week. He intially edited logged off from a Brookline IP, which had been used by another user with a completely different editing profile, This has never been adequately explained by Boothello. His MO on wikipedia is indistinguishable from that of David.Kane/Ephery, indefinitely topic-banned from the same set of articles. He recently edited logged off by mistake from an IP address which locates to within a radius of 1 or 2 km of the registered private address of the now defunct website User:Ephery/EphBlog. In this recent diff, Boothello inadvertently displayed an intimate knowledge of the mode of editing of Race and intelligence during the period in Spring 2010, a long while before his current account was registered. That is inconsistent with his previous statements on this noticeboard and more recently on his talk page that, while editing as an IP, he was an "immature vandal" but then reformed overnight to adopt an online persona indistinguishable from that of David.Kane.

I could be wrong of course, but his knowledge of WP:ARBR&I, of wikipedia editors only active during his "immature vandal" phase, his knowledge of editing of articles covered by the ban, his lobbying tactics, his edit warring on race and intelligence. his wikilawyering on Talk:Race and intelligence and elsewhere, in addition to the actual location of his IP, provide a strong case that this could be sockpuppetry by David.Kane. Mathsci (talk) 13:26, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Boothello gives an explanation of his own editing patterns which is not credible in any way. When he apparently had turned over a new leaf, infantile edits still appeared out of the blue . Clearly these edits were made by somebody in quite a different age group (a generation or so below Boothello). That is supported by the fact that his named account has never suffered from such bizarre lapses into childish editing at any stage whatsoever. I would imagine that any long-term puppetmaster, active for a sufficiently long period (in this case just over one year), will inevitably make mistakes; that appears to be what has happened here. Boothello's claim that his editing is somehow related to a supposed university course in the Boston area also lacks any credibility whatsoever. Yes, his account has a single-minded agenda with "troubling overtones" (to use Newyorkbrad's euphemism), but that was already the problem with David.Kane's editing. He has been reminded on several occasions about the special editing conditions that apply to articles covered byWP:ARBR&I on his talk page. Here for example is a notification in May 2011 from Aprock. Mathsci (talk) 21:06, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Boothello has now written a message to David.Kane. Mathsci (talk) 00:29, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment: Although he has taken time off from wikipedia, a while back, when being lobbied by Boothello about Volunteer Marek, Maunus did make some fairly frank comments directly to Boothello. Mathsci (talk) 22:38, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Statement by Volunteer Marek
There's most certainly a lot of WP:DUCK going on here, as well as the apparent match between the IP address and User:Ephery's blog location.

In addition to the fact that
 * Boothello edits exclusively articles edited previously by Ephery,
 * and the fact that he began editing shortly after Ephery was indef topic banned in the R&I case
 * and the fact that the POV, as well as the approach and tone of the two users is pretty similar (though somewhat bland)

there is also the fact that there is no overlap between the two user's edits. Boothello began editing on November 8, 2010 and has made about 400 edits since then. Between November 8, 2010 and April 24, 2011 (the date of the last edit made by Ephery), there had been only two days on which both users made edits:


 * February 6, 2011, Ephery made an edit at 12:36 and Boothello made an edit at 22:07 - a difference of almost twelve hours.
 * April 24, 2011 (Ephery's last edit) - Ephery made an edit at 1:40 and Boothello made an edit at 4:15 - a difference more than two hours (it's possible that one account is being edited from home while the other from work or school).

For the rest of the time period the two accounts never edited on the same day.

So add that to the number of "coincidences" shared between two accounts both of which are located within a 2km radius (roughly, about 15 city blocks, or a 20 minute walk at a leisure pace).

 Volunteer Marek  22:01, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Professor marginalia
I saw this request on my watchlist but haven't followed the latest disputes in the involved pages. A major reason (but not the only one) that the Race articles are such a headache still is because of all the proxy editing. Even when these proxies are behaving reasonably, they tends to cause disruption because it takes a toll on other editors when they're aware they are being gamed here, leaving them few options but to look the other way or put up with it, play nice, and "collaborate" with those circumventing bans, blocks etc.

The disruption here is a case in point. Boothello's explanation is improbable. To go from nothing but juvenile horseplay like this, this and this to edit summaries about WP:SYN, WP:BLP and WP:V, a user now versed in even the minutia of the subject like this and this - in just a matter of months in some college class? It's more probable that the real something which explains this has been willfully left out of the story.

Boothello is a SPA. I don't know that Boothello is Ephery although there are coincidences. Following his topic ban, Ephery returned to the dispute on two occasions. The first was to defend Ferahgo in an AE request filed to topic ban her under WP:SHARE, editing on 28 Sep 2010. This request had languished for a few weeks without a decision until WeijiBaikeBianji's comment resumed discussions on 27 Sep 2010. Boothello opened his account on 27 Sep 2010 but this account was not used for comment on this AE. His first edit came abt 2 months after he opened the account. Ephery's next (and last) involvement in the R/I dispute was against WeijiBaikeBianji which was initiated by one and supported by a couple more proxy accounts. Boothello did not participate in the RFC either. But on the issue of enabling the proxies, his first edit to Talk:Race (classification of humans) was a defense of a proxy editor whose rant I (and others) reverted. Boothello took issue with me (and others) for removing this. The page had been plagued by socks and loons causing chaos with their soapboxing, rants and conspiracy mongering. This was one of many steps taken to get the discussion back on track, including page protections, archiving the soapboxing, etc and numerous warnings were left on the page that inappropriate stuff would be closed or removed if they continued. (This user was later ID'd as a banned sock and blocked.) What is strange is that Boothello left his objection there, but then immediately traveled over to Race and intelligence to complain about this again. He'd never before made an edit to that page either or its main space. Another month goes by there before we see any substantive content related edits or discussion. He was referee'ing for this sock in two pages, but why? He wasn't even active in either of those pages at the time, and his total contribution for either by that date was just a handful of edits posted nearly two months before.

It's stuff like that raise suspicions. And like I said, suspicions are enough in these sock-prone articles that tempers and good will are in short supply and consensus building is nearly impossible. Professor marginalia (talk) 01:23, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by aprock
Boothello is a single purpose account engaged in actively editing articles under R/I. The biggest problem faced with Boothello parallels the problems faced with some of the editors who have been topic banned. In pursuing his preferred POV, Boothello regularly misreads and misinterprets both sources and editors. The effect of this is to create an atmosphere of tendentious editing, where Boothello must be point by point convinced of even the smallest detail presented in the sources. This level of nit-picking would be useful and productive if (i) it was directed at actively editing and improving articles, and (ii) it was generally correct. Unfortunately, it is often neither. Much of this questioning of edits and sources has the effect of stalling any progress until Boothello is satisfied. This level of gatekeeping, whether well intentioned or intentional, is quite disruptive. aprock (talk) 03:53, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Causation and Correlation: In his final comment of his first WP discussion Boothello refers to the Alfred Binet article stating: "[IQ tests] were invented to predict scholastic performance". Reviewing the article makes it clear that instead the original IQ tests were invented to diagnose learning disabilities.


 * Processing time: This talk page discussion has Boothello proposing to rewrite (and expand) coverage of some marginal content, which really doesn't merit significant coverage, saying: "Race and reaction time isn't discussed anywhere else on Wikipedia, so we have an obligation to make this part of the article informative to readers."


 * While discussing the problematic issues with presenting extensive data instead of clear conclusions Boothello says: "lay people who are looking at the data will often see what they want to see, but that's just part of human psychology and I don't think we should try to avoid it."


 * Talk:Race and intelligence: Ten days into an extensive discussion of a POV tag where several POV problems with the article are discussed, Boothello joins the discussion declaring: "I'm removing the tag." He then states "It is a misuse of the tag to add it just because you might find POV issues when you review the article next week."  despite the fact that multiple editors have pointed out multiple problems with the article as written.


 * Talk:IQ and the Wealth of Nations: I honestly don't have really the heart to dig through all of the giant wall of text. It's a perfect example of the kind of tendentious editing that can occur with civil POV pushers.  The meat of the issue is that Boothello wanted a biased source to be used without specific mention of the kind of bias the source was encumbered with.  Volunteer Marek might have more insight since he was primarily involved here.


 * Talk:Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence: Another giant wall of text. This one I participated in.  The discussion resolves around two secondary sources (a textbook and a professional report) which make similar statements about genetics, groups, and intelligence.  One specifically singles out Ashkenazi Jews, while the other discusses the conclusions in terms of white and blacks.  Much back and forth ensues about how to uses the sources, and whether or not they can be used, with Boothello objecting to the textbook because it was too old, and the report because while it discusses Ashkenazi Jews elsewhere, it does not do so explicitly when making the statement.

There is more as well, but time constraints impinge. aprock (talk) 06:33, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Statement by EdJohnston on the request concerning Boothello
If User:David.Kane (now User:Ephery) were to have started a second account as Boothello, it would be a concern because Ephery is under an indefinite ban from the topic of race and intelligence. Boothello is not currently under any restriction, though he's been notified. It does not seem to be an open-and-shut case that this is the same editor. Those who want to look for comments with a similar point of view might begin with the wikistalk results comparing Ephery and Boothello. The topic of R&I is quite technical and it would be helpful if other editors who have worked on that topic could become aware of this AE. Does anyone object if one of the participants wants to notify others? They could (for example) notify everyone who participated in one of the arb cases, clarifications, or past AEs. It would also be helpful if someone could report whether Boothello's editing has been discussed on any admin boards, and provide links if they have been. EdJohnston (talk) 18:33, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * @Boothello: The case at WP:ARBR&I provides for standard discretionary sanctions. Under the current wording of the latter page, any editor (not just an admin) may issue a warning: "Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to the decision authorizing sanctions; and, where appropriate, should be counseled on specific steps that he or she can take to improve his or her editing in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines."
 * Hence Boothello should consider himself warned under WP:ARBR&I per Aprock's notice. It would be especially ironic if someone who had filed an AE request last May asking for action against Volunteer Marek under the discretionary sanctions should need a specially-engraved notice of the existence of the discretionary sanctions. EdJohnston (talk) 20:35, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning Boothello

 * This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.


 * The links between Boothello and other named accounts are suspicious but not, in my mind, definitive. Boothello's mode of interaction is certainly highly reminiscent of that of previously banned agenda accounts in this topic area (e.g., ). In fact, Captain Occam is at present making nearly identical arguments about "warnings" vs. "notifications" of discretionary sanctions (e.g. , ). But in the end, I think the matter of potential alternate account use is academic. The last thing this topic area needs is another single-purpose account dedicated to promoting a minoritarian viewpoint. This is both a personal administrative viewpoint (see #17) and my reading of the gist of the ArbCom case. This topic area has been awash in such single-purpose agenda accounts. The fact that this particular account is suspicious as a sockpuppet is perhaps an aggravating factor, but I think the underlying issue addressed in the ArbCom case was that these sorts of agenda accounts are problematic and thus liable to discretionary sanctions. As such, I would favor a topic ban, but I'm not going to close this thread or act unilaterally. I will await input and a decision from EdJohnston and/or other admins. MastCell Talk 18:58, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Section 5.2 of WP:ARBR&I provides that editors contributing to the area of conflict must: "..adhere strictly to fundamental Wikipedia policies, including but not limited to: maintaining a neutral point of view; avoiding undue weight; carefully citing disputed statements to reliable sources; and avoiding edit-warring and incivility." Single-purpose agenda accounts will not be able to meet the neutrality requirement, so I am sympathetic to a topic ban. This area has been troubled by agenda accounts in the past, so we would not be responding to an imagined problem. EdJohnston (talk) 21:18, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Single use account + patterns similar to banned editors = quack to me, we don't have the resources to prove each and every one. I support a topic ban, open to discussion on term. --WGFinley (talk) 05:47, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Request concerning Nableezy

 * User who is submitting this request for enforcement : AgadaUrbanit (talk) 21:40, 14 December 2011 (UTC)


 * User against whom enforcement is requested :


 * Sanction or remedy to be enforced: ARBPIA


 * Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it :


 * 1) 19:12, 14 December 2011 - WP:EW at Nazareth


 * Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required) :


 * 1) Warned on 20:16, 14 December 2011 by


 * Additional comments by editor filing complaint :

I am uninvolved in RfC taking place at Nazareth talk page, though I've noticed its existence. I do not have any opinion on the matter. I have reverted an IP, since I was not sure that the anonymous editor was aware of the discussion and warned other editors not to get into WP:EW. However User:Nableezy, who is active contributor to talk page discussion, reverted anyway. The Nazareth page immediately got protected due to Edit warring / Content dispute: Nationalist revert war by EdJohnston. Ed suggested:

However Nab believes:

I personally do not know what should be done here, but maybe AE administrator could figure it out.
 * Re nableezy - 21:54, 14 December 2011: I'm not sure why you have waited for revert of IP in order to start edit waring. You are still appear trigger happy with reverts, despite your numerous clarifications that you are indeed cured Why have not you edited earlier, if you believe your actions were justified? If you have agreed to Ed's limitation, which I have not noticed earlier, then maybe this incident is moot. AgadaUrbanit (talk) 22:17, 14 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested :

notification

Statement by Nableezy
Umm, what? <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Given Agada's repeated vexatious comments about me in numerous AE requests (a sample,, , , ), would it be possible to instate an interaction ban? I generally avoid Agada as I feel dealing with him is a waste of time, but that one-sided self-imposed ban doesnt do much. I would appreciate a restriction being placed so I dont have to deal with this user's incessant squabbling. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:48, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

And, just for clarity, despite Agada's dishonest portrayal of my comments above, I had already agreed to Ed's proposed restriction, and we were discussing the issue on my talk page. The reason Agada brought this here is obvious, so much so that I think I can leave it unsaid. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 21:54, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Regardless of how this is closed, I would still like an interaction ban with Agada. His constant squabbling is more than a minor annoyance, and if at all possible I would like to avoid dealing with this particular "editor". His whinging is becoming more and more tiring. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 23:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Michael, your comments have several distortions, and given your familiarity with English I have no doubt they are intentional. I dont plan on responding here to an editor who repeatedly distorts things, and, as you have proven yourself to be such an editor, I dont plan on replying to your latest fabrication. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 13:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Unsurprisingly, a collection of like-minded users have arrived, blessing us with what they think is their oh-so-clever evidence. Can this finally be dealt with? Or is there a reason that every time I am either brought here or bring somebody else here, a chorus of users, the submitter of this report included, bring a collection of distortions, fabrications, and outright untruths in a poor attempt to create confusion about the actual issue. Can this please be dealt with now? I again suggest that this board do away with comments by involved users. Everybody already knows that Shuki, MichaelNetzer, Hearfourmewesique and several others think I am a BadMan. I dont see why it is necessary or productive to give them another venue to distort evidence. Article space should be plenty for them. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 13:39, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Shuki
Frankly, I think the vast majority of heavily-involved I-P editors on both sides of the POV have had nice extended topic bans and have cooled down substantially. Except Nableezy who, if even sentenced, gets short ones, and then raises appeals successfully to get back on the battleground. Some have even said Nableezy is needed because they add 'balance'. I've come back from a one year hiatus from I-P and I am truly amazed that Nableezy has managed to keep the aggressive attitude intact. But what's the point of bothering to bring Nableezy to AE? The invincible smart one who seems to wait until the 24hrs are up to revert (in the past 3RR, and now 1RR) and if caught on a mistake, merely apologizes for the technicality and everyone is happy. The person with nine lives, who always gets a second chance, who gets endless warnings from AE admins, just when the guideline is about to be thrown and some admin comes by on AE to be the voice of mercy. --Shuki (talk) 22:34, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

In our pretty little world of WP, we want to assume that everyone is really civil and here to build the encyclopedia. Where someone can screw up but apologize, even if that same someone screws up dozens of times, attacks others for same infractions, but a simple 'who me? I'm sorry' is enough for this one too. I've never seen one editor get so much attention from AE admins, so many personal warnings on the user's talk page, so many breaks. What is being accomplished here? I suggest WP:BOOMERANG here but EdJohnston, sorry to call your bluff, but the admins are all talk. --Shuki (talk) 22:52, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by RolandR
This seems a totally unfounded complaint. Several editors were involved in reverting and re-reverting, but AU has seen fit to complain about just one of them. As evidence of Nableezy's alleged malpractice, he cites a comment by an admin made an hour after his edit. How can Nableezy have been guilty of ignoring a polite suggestion, if it had not yet been offered. The "Get Nab" crowd just don't give up, do they? RolandR (talk) 22:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Re Ed'd proposal below about blocking all editors involved in an extended edit war, this proposal could only be of benefit to Wikipedia if it had a clear exemption for editors reverting obvious vandals, sock puppets, New SPAs created in order to entrap editors, and other offenders who plague I/P articles. In the absence of such an exemption, their vexatious POV edits would be required to remain, and those attempting to enforce Wikipedia policies would be penalised. RolandR (talk) 17:56, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by The Devil's Advocate
Just think it should be noted that the first revert Nableezy made was of editor Odiwkatc who appears to have made the edit within a minute of registering, and it so far being that editor's only contribution. Maybe there should be a checkuser inquiry made into that editor. Also, I think when there is an RfC going on any attempt to change the wording away from the old consensus should be frowned upon unless it actually seeks to balance the concerns of both sides. Making a new change that only favors one side seems more like an attempt by that side in the dispute to force their version into place thus undercutting the RfC.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 00:03, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by MichaelNetzer
@EdJohnston: While it's understandable to be duly forgiving of Nableezy's behavior because he's an effective representative for a cause, concerns voiced around the I/P space recently are not at all frivolous or unfounded. This case may not be representative of the core issues needing to be addressed here, but still, a voluntary ban on adding a word to an article has little to do with a problem of conduct that persists after every slap of the wrist Nableezy gets. Editors under fire from him have to endure insults, bad faith insinuations, distortions of intent, intimidation and generally the type of aggression that's not tolerated in anyone else's behavior. It's worrisome that Nableezy seems to become more empowered in time knowing he can dish out the most toxic diatribe with impunity because administrators afford him special protection. If such a door is to be opened on Wikipedia, then we can eventually expect the collapse of the conduct guidelines altogether.

Nableezy does not show an obligation to change his tone in the editing space, regardless of repeated advice and warnings about it. He's said himself that 1RR bans caused him to curb those violations. The next time he blows up at someone and contaminates a relatively collaborative atmosphere, a ban for uncivil conduct needs to be considered more seriously because even he admits that a stringent measure compels him to modify his behavior. The kid gloves treatment not afforded to others will continue to boomerang and cause arbitrators to spend more time putting out his fires than most anything else they do. A certain measure of tolerance can be appreciated, but only until it becomes a detriment to the community as a whole. I say this with utmost respect for your efforts to keep things peaceful here. -MichaelNetzer (talk) 05:55, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * @Nableezy: What I see in that discussion is the beginning of a disagreement that quickly escalates into a fight, mainly because you project an uncompromising one sided attitude that seeks to pulverize anyone standing in your way. You show no capacity to collaborate with others as they attempt to cooperate with you. Then you fly off the handle when shown that your source attempts to whitewash, for obvious political reasons, a speaker who is on record for having called for mass genocide. You show no capacity of understanding how that speaker can be offensive to people his remarks are directed against, yet you are of the quickest editors to take offense at the slightest criticism directed at you. It is not at all a pretty game that you play. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 07:32, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * What kind of compromise would you have found appropriate? Using a book by a source who has previously directly been denied RS status in this context? Or a non-refereed journal article by a person who seems to have no relevant credentials? In this case compromise would have been detrimental to the integrity of the project - please show some understanding of how offensive that might be to some of us. Please also take some time to think hard about the game that you are playing. <i style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"><b style="color:#531">u</b><b style="color:#430">n</b><b style="color:#330">☯</b><b style="color:#230">m</b><b style="color:#130">i</b></i> 07:58, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I did not say anything about compromising on an RS, though this particular case there exists no consensus for the RS being unreliable in the broad way Nableezy characterized it in his first response "Wow. A book published by WND Books by an author of WorldNetDaily fame". This characterization does not reflect the consensus discussion and wrongly excludes the source on a broad basis that was never agreed to. The article in question cited reliable sources itself, which at least should made it legitimate to ask the question and should have been taken into consideration instead of such an aggressive mocking dismissal by an experienced editor, who's expected by all WP standards to show more courtesy to younger and less experienced editors. Naturally, most of us are familiar with this incivility used by Nableezy, especially to overpower, intimidate and drag editors into arguments he can use to file another in a long series of complaints against (which he's already threatened this editor with). Instead of rising above the battle-POV-aggressive tone he uses to disqualify information that doesn't suit his prejudice, something all WP guidelines frown upon, he could have been more courteous in explaining his reservation. If you are so offended at a perfectly legitimate question about using an RS but are not offended at the near malicious behavior Nableezy displayed in waging such uncivil battle for his "cause" (with declarative AE admin support), then perhaps it's better for you reflect on that double standard with yourself alone. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 19:28, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Interesting. I've been following that exchange at Talk:Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict. It's not okay to repeatedly bring poor quality sources to discussions. It's especially not okay to make ethically indefensible and morally repugnant accusations based on total distortions of what another editor has said and done and the nature of a source. That's wrong, as in right and wrong. If someone does that they can't expect things to go well and they certainly shouldn't be defended by others. Perhaps Hearfourmewesique has simply misinterpreted the situation. I really hope so, because the alternative explanation, that it is willful, is quite astonishing. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 4px 1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> Sean.hoyland  - talk 09:22, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Your definition of poor quality is amusing. You call Klein's book a poor source, but have no problems with other books written in the spirit of refusal to recognize Israel, thus insisting on calling all what is Israeli "Palestinian". Your neutrality mask is melting, and no one actually says anywhere that Aaron Klein is unreliable, nor that Middle East Quarterly is unreliable, especially when its article cites 43 of its own reliable and verified sources. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 19:38, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Tiamut
Well its more of a question really. Is Nableezy's ban on reinstating the word "Palestinian" to apply to any text with that word in it? What I mean is even when its not the source of a dispute but the word happens to be in a paragraph where other material is being contested? And if so, doesn't that pretty much amount to a topic ban? Thanks.  T i a m u t talk 18:54, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment by Hearfourmewesique
Ever since the beginning of my (relatively) short time in the I-P area, I was reverted dozens of times and reported to ArbCom without being given the time to properly respond to warnings, mostly by Nableezy, which resulted in being blocked twice. Now he is trying, for the second time, to threaten to report me for alleged lies and attacks on him and/or his sources, when in reality all I do is call him out on the use (and defense) of controversial sources, which constitute the coverage of work that is anti-Semitic in nature. Moreover, he is falsely accusing me of WP:HOUNDing him because I chimed in in a couple of discussions,in which he is involved, and reverted a couple of his contributions; he also threatened to start hounding me unless I ceased being involved in the same topic areas as he is. He calls sources I provide "excremental" and "crap", claiming "it's not gonna fly here". It is clear that Nableezy is very experienced in what he does, and I see it as WP:Civil POV pushing, which, of course, is the worst kind because it is the hardest to prosecute or even detect without being called incivil or having bad faith. Incidentally, it seems as if he filed more reports on this board than anyone else, all against editors who do not edit in a strong pro-Palestinian fashion. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 06:17, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * This offers some context for the above charges. <i style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"><b style="color:#539">u</b><b style="color:#438">n</b><b style="color:#338">☯</b><b style="color:#238">m</b><b style="color:#138">i</b></i> 06:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes it does. It offers a dispute about a book that opinions over it seem to be divided 50/50, while the poisonous incivility and intimidation in the discussion were more like 100% from one side. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 06:38, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Are you serious?!? That editor claimed that I attempted to use a source by somebody calling for the destruction of all Jews when what I was citing was a report by the Office of the Mayor of London. And all the incivility came from one side. Yes, I was uncivil when an editor maliciously lied that I was citing somebody who called for genocide. How terrible of me. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 06:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Rofl. No, it shows one editor with severe competency issues and another who is calmly but with increasing frustration trying to set him straight. If you really believe the characterization you have put forwards then I feel very sorry for you. <i style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"><b style="color:#620">u</b><b style="color:#519">n</b><b style="color:#419">☯</b><b style="color:#319">m</b><b style="color:#219">i</b></i> 07:39, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Your link is for a subsection, so I scrolled up to see how everything started and commented on that first. I've made another comment to Nab about the subsection itself. And I do appreciate the affection, you're not the first to feel sorry for me. --MichaelNetzer (talk) 07:52, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Not by somebody, about somebody, and the quote speaks for itself – should I provide the links again? Also, to make things worse, Nableezy is now suggesting to ban all users, who are not in his favor, from this noticeboard. When exactly does too much become too much??? Hearfourmewesique (talk) 19:04, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, not surprising – now Nableezy is seeking an extended ban against me... gee, I wonder why? Hearfourmewesique (talk) 20:03, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Result concerning Nableezy

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 * Since Nableezy has already agreed to the voluntary restriction, I think this report could be closed. Another option would be to sanction all the editors who reverted on 'Palestinian' in the Nazareth article after the RfC was opened at 09:25 on 12 December. That set of people would include the filer of this report. The revert war at Nazareth caught my attention because (a) that article is on my watch list, (b) the war is reminiscent of one at Irgun (discussed here recently) where several people reverted the same thing back and forth but nobody broke 1RR. The term 'poor judgment' was used in the Irgun case, and that also seems to apply to Nazareth. EdJohnston (talk) 22:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Closing: Per his somewhat reluctant agreement here, Nableezy is restricted from adding the word 'Palestinian' to any articles until 15 January. The wording of the restriction was proposed here. EdJohnston (talk) 15:05, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * One final comment. It is worth considering whether the practices should be changed so that all participants in an 'extended revert war', like the one here (at Nazareth) or the one in a recently-closed AE at Irgun, could be blocked for a period of time. This would allow admin action even when the 1RR was not broken. Proper definition of 'extended revert war' would be needed. Perhaps: making the same revert of a controversial term as a previous editor made, within 24 hours. A similar issue came up in a case regarding Eastern Europe some time back. EdJohnston (talk) 17:51, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * @RolandR: I'd agree to modify the proposal to exempt any editor who (a) reverted something as vandalism, then reported the person to AIV and the request is plausible or (b) filed an SPI on an apparent sock where the SPI checks out as a good-faith complaint. I'd agree that Odiwkatc who participated in the Nazareth war qualifies as an apparent sock. EdJohnston (talk) 18:05, 15 December 2011 (UTC)