Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Coolcat, Davenbelle and Stereotek/Evidence/Davenbelle's Evidence re Coolcat

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 * Davenbelle's evidence page re User:Cool Cat (formerly known as User:Coolcat)

Page updated (minor), still far from comprehensive; Davenbelle 07:40, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Unless otherwise stated, all edits are attributable to User:Cool Cat (formerly known as User:Coolcat)

This document is far from complete and does not yet cover much of User:Cool Cat's most egregious conduct. It has been built-up while following various threads of editing and many of the most serious have not been worked through yet. The chronological ordering has some advantages, but a reorganization by subject would clarify the readability of it all.

A work in progress
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Feb 4, 2005

 * 08:07, Feb 4, 2005
 * Cc's very first edit: Kurdistan Workers Party; removes Freedom For Öcalan from External links. link


 * nb: Cc's current editcount


 * 08:37, Feb 4, 2005
 * Cc's fourth edit: Turkey; removes several blocks of text related to Kurds, EU Minority Rights requirements, religion, and changes Kurdish population percentages to much lower numbers.

Feb 10, 2005

 * 10:06, Feb 10, 2005 -- no edits since Feb 4
 * Edits Turkey again; adds reasonable info near top, but also rewrites later paragraph to eliminate discussion of Armenian Genocide and Kurdish independence movement to simply state: "The allegations of so called Armenian Genocide in Ottoman era has ceased."


 * 10:43, Feb 10, 2005
 * Edits Kurdistan Workers Party again; adds "This article belongs to "Leftist terrorist organizations" category and is constantly beeing abused by supporters of this terorist organisation." as the first line of the article and removes three links from External links: Kurdish Info, PKK Guerillas I, PKK Guerillas II.


 * 16:14, Feb 10, 2005
 * Assorted Anti-Kurdish POV-Editing to Kurdish people. No edit summary; edit marked as 'minor'.


 * 16:27, Feb 10, 2005
 * Removes the last two External links from Kurdistan Workers Party with edit summary: "Broken, both links dont work. DUH!"; links: PKK, KONGRA-GEL; they worked for me.


 * 17:10, Feb 10, 2005
 * Extensive Anti-Kurdish POV-Editing to Kurdistan; large removals of text.


 * 17:12, Feb 10, 2005
 * Removes Image:Flag of Kurdistan.png from Kurdistan with Edit Summary: "There is no such thing as a kurdish flag as there is no kurdish state"

Feb 13, 2005

 * 08:35, Feb 13, 2005
 * Edits Turkey again; removes paragraph referring to Arminian Genocide with Edit Summary: "This article contains information on the Republic of Turkey not Ottoman empier. Please post them elsewhere." No sign that the text was posted anywhere else.

Feb 14, 2005

 * 14:09, Feb 14, 2005
 * Posts (also) to User talk:Jayjg in reference to Kurdistan Workers Party: "I do not understand why you had a restore to that page as the information was shifted around. No infomation was deleted, terror network propoganda was filtered. It is a terrorist organisation and I will not tolerate its propoganda. Call me a close minded fool but I will not be declared a cold blooded killer by them." unsigned


 * 14:37, Feb 14, 2005
 * edits Turkey again; removes same material as 10:06, Feb 10, 2005 without adding new sentence (had been reverted by User:Jayjg). Reverted by User:Tony Sidaway with Edit Summary: "Revert POV pushing by Coolcat. See talk page".


 * 15:47, Feb 14, 2005
 * User:Tony Sidaway posts to Talk:Turkey a request to User:Coolcat to "Please stop POV pushing."


 * 17:59, Feb 14, 2005
 * removes all External links, Interwiki links, and Catagories from Kurdistan Workers Party with Edit Summary: "LINKS DONT WORK 404 NOT FOUND :P". Reverted by User:Tony Sidaway with Edit Summary: "Revert last edit (simple vandalism)".


 * 18:29, Feb 14, 2005
 * Edits Kurdistan Workers Party; removes Freedom For Öcalan again. Reverted by User:Tony Sidaway with Edit Summary: "Revert (appears to be simple vandalism again)".


 * 22:24, Feb 14, 2005
 * Removes Image:Flag of Kurdistan.png from Kurdistan again with Edit Summary: "There is no such thing as a kurdish flag as there is no kurdish state. Flag does not represent the kurds". Reverted by User:Tony Sidaway w/ caption change: "Flag of Kurdistan" &rarr; "Flag of Kurdistan which is flown by Kurds in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq and in Turkey".


 * 23:46, Feb 14, 2005
 * Removes "and in Turkey" from caption of Image:Flag of Kurdistan.png in Kurdistan with Edit Summary: "There is no Kurdish autonomous region in turkey nor is the flag flown. Caption ok else than that. Though its not the flag of kurdistan so I dont think it relly belongs here".


 * 23:50, Feb 14, 2005
 * Adds "These boundaries were drawn with more concern for the division of oil resources and influence between different colonial powers and for rewarding pro-Allied Arab leaders than for ethnic distributions. Turkey did request northern Iraq but the allies were more concerned with oil than stability. The major reason of conflicts in Arica and the Middle east is rather random border drawing." to Kurdistan.


 * 23:51, Feb 14, 2005
 * User:Tony Sidaway changes caption of Image:Flag of Kurdistan.png in Kurdistan to end w/ "and by Turkish Kurds" with Edit Summary: "Fix ambiguous wording. By Kurds in Turkey, not Kurds in some non-existent autonomous region (my bad)".

Feb 15, 2005

 * 08:00, Feb 15, 2005
 * Changes caption of Image:Flag of Kurdistan.png in Kurdistan to "Flag of the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq" with Edit Summary: "Never seen the flag in turkey. Would not right as its not the Kurdish flag. it is a kurdish flag". Reverted by User:Tony Sidaway with Edit Summary: "Revert. See Flag of Kurdistan".


 * 20:17, Feb 15, 2005
 * User:Uriber Removes "The major reason of conflicts in Arica and the Middle east is rather random border drawing." from Kurdistan with Edit Summary: "removed off-topic, POV, commentary"; sentence had been added by Cc as part of this edit.

Feb 16, 2005

 * 22:18, Feb 16, 2005
 * Removes redlink to Kurdish Republic of Mahabad from Flag of Kurdistan with Edit Summary: "fixed broken link"


 * 22:18, Feb 16, 2005
 * Removes redlink to Xoybûn from Flag of Kurdistan with Edit Summary: "fixed another broken link"


 * 23:19, Feb 16, 2005
 * Reverted on Flag of Kurdistan by User:Iota who wrote "They're not broken links. They're links for someone to create articles in future."


 * 22:21, Feb 16, 2005
 * Changes caption of Image:Flag of Kurdistan.png in Kurdistan to "Flag of Kurdistan which represents the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq" with Edit Summary: "It is not the Kurdish flag it is A kurdish flag. Clarified phrase.". Reverted by User:Tony Sidaway with Edit Summary: "Revert. See Flag of Kurdistan".


 * 22:23, Feb 16, 2005
 * Changes "Since that time Kurdish nationalists have continued to seek independence in an area approximating that identified at Sevres." to "Since that time some Kurds have continued to seek independence in an area approximating that identified at the long revoked Sevres." in Kurdistan with no Edit Summary; marked as minor.


 * 22:33, Feb 16, 2005
 * Deletes talk by User:Tony Sidaway plus his own reply from Talk:Kurdistan with Edit Summary: "Not a part of the discussion"; talk was about Tony's revert of deletions by Cc.

// continues; and there's stuff in talk... // 465 edits in a 15 hour strech is an edit every 1.9 minutes // 3870 edits in 47 days is an edit every 17.5 minutes; // assuming a 16 hour day gives an edit every 11.5 minutes.

Feb 17, 2005

 * 00:54, Feb 17, 2005
 * Removes redlinks again from Flag of Kurdistan with Edit Summary: "Simple Vandalism. They will be added when those articles are created." (so anti-wiki)


 * 01:07, Feb 17, 2005
 * Removes redlink to Lake Taz from Demographics section of Kurdish people with Edit Summary "Removed broken link". nb: most of this section has subsequently been removed.

Feb 18, 2005

 * 02:00, Feb 18, 2005
 * CC's first edit of Armenian Genocide. Adds tag. Does not state a reason on the talk page.
 * Adds insult to injury.

Feb 19, 2005

 * 10:19, Feb 19, 2005
 * Tries to speedy Flag of Kurdistan with Edit Summary: "" . Reverted by User:Szyslak with Edit Summary: "This is not a speedy candidate b/c it doesn't meet any of the criteria for speedy deletion; . Anyone who wants it deleted can put it on VfD".


 * 20:01, Feb 19, 2005
 * Redirects People's Congress of Kurdistan to Kurdistan Workers Party; no Edit Summary.


 * 20:09, Feb 19, 2005
 * Cc's first edit of Young Turks. Adds tag. Does not state a reason on the talk page. Reverted by User:Wetman with Edit Summary: "rv a "factual accuracy disputed tag added by a non-contributor to the article or discussion".


 * 21:08, Feb 19, 2005
 * Tags Flag of Kurdistan with Vote for Deletion.
 * See: Votes for deletion/Flag of Kurdistan (unanimous to keep). See also: Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.

Feb 21, 2005

 * 16:46, Feb 21, 2005
 * Adds tag to Young Turks again. with Edit Summary: "Propoganda material. There definately esxists propoganda. Should be fixed...". Does not state a reason on the talk page. Does give a reason by adding a new first line to the article: "Appears to be a sub article of Armenian Genocide article, either should be merged with it as the alligations are an international dispute. Its full of opinions than facts.  ". Both edits reverted by User:Mirv with Edit Summary: "hooey".


 * 16:54, Feb 21, 2005
 * Removes half of "major regional schisms" sentence from Turkey with Edit Summary: "Incorrect info. Propoganda material. Falls under Sneaky Vandalism at best".
 * Major regional schisms depend on ethnicity (mainly Kurdish-inhabited southeast), economy (industry, cash crops, and tourism in coastal regions), and rainfall (Black Sea littoral, where summer drought is unknown).


 * 17:07, Feb 21, 2005
 * User:Dabbler removes rest of "major regional schisms" sentence with Edit Summary: "Deleted a sentence made meaningless by previous deletions".

Feb 23, 2005

 * 10:16, Feb 23, 2005
 * User:195.175.37.11 restores "major regional schisms" sentence to Turkey with Edit Summary: "Don't mess with this sentence again, retard".

Feb 25, 2005

 * 00:12, Feb 25, 2005
 * User:81.1.77.131 edits Demographics section of Kurdish people to add info on Turkish Government's treatment of Kurds; edit [04:26, Feb 25, 2005 reverted] by User:Coolcat with Edit Summary: "POV reverted back to IOTAs edit. Author warned...". "warning" at User talk:81.1.77.131: "Neutrality on Wikipedia" -- "You are hereby warned to refrain from POV please read wikipedia articles: Neutral point of viewand the What Wikipedia is not article".


 * 04:26, Feb 25, 2005
 * Removes references to North Kurdistan and Kurdistan from Turkey and removes "major regional schisms" sentence again with Edit Summary: "Why are people insisting on POV material that stuff is pure propoganda... Also fixed a sentence, its more meaning full now I believe" (I disagree)


 * 10:11, Feb 25, 2005
 * User:195.175.37.11 restores "major regional schisms" sentence to Turkey with Edit Summary: "Supplying relevant geographical data is not a POV but being anti-Kurd is one."

Feb 26, 2005

 * 11:08, Feb 26, 2005
 * Removes "major regional schisms" sentence from Turkey again with Edit Summary: "1) Information is false. I lived trhough out the place. 2) I am not anti Kurd 3) Thats propoganda and POV."

Feb 27, 2005

 * 10:40, Feb 27, 2005
 * Removes "Conflict in the southeastern region of the country between secessionist Kurdish rebels and the government calmed in 1999 but re-emerged in 2004 and is one of the main internal disputes." from Turkey with Edit Summary: "Dispute is historic, added it to recent history where it belongs, conflict did not restart." false edit summary


 * 11:34, Feb 27, 2005
 * Listed Image:Flag of Kurdistan.png at Requested moves for Image:Flag of Kurdistan.png &rarr; Image:Flag of Kurdish Autonomous Region.png or Image:Flag of the Kingdom of Kurdistan.png
 * See: Consensus against.

Mar 1, 2005

 * 08:51, Mar 1, 2005
 * User:195.175.37.8 restores "major regional schisms" sentence to Turkey again (slightly reworded) with Edit Summary: "1- The word "precipitation" is more appropriate, 2- You are anti-Kurd"


 * 16:57, Mar 1, 2005
 * Reverts User:195.175.37.8 on Turkey (which also removed this) with Edit Summary: "Reverted, POV is uncacceptable.. Your accusations itself is a POV, your facts are baseless your statements are offensive and are gramaticaly incorrect. READ WHAT WIKIPEDIA IS NOT".

Mar 2, 2005

 * 07:04, Mar 2, 2005
 * User:195.175.37.8 restores "major regional schisms" sentence to Turkey yet again with Edit Summary: "Wikipedia is not a tool of propaganda, including yours of ethnic hatred".


 * 08:37, Mar 2, 2005
 * User:195.175.37.8 revises sentence in Turkey to read "major regional diversities" with Edit Summary: "employed a more "POV-free" word".


 * 08:43, Mar 2, 2005
 * User:195.175.37.8 corrects demographics percentages (90%-97%&rarr;80%-85%) with Edit Summary: "the percentage figures are false".


 * 09:22, Mar 2, 2005
 * User:195.175.37.8 posts (also) to Talk:Turkey: Section "Coolcat's Lack of Neutral POV": "User Coolcat constantly assaults each article he sees the word "Kurd" in." (rest omitted; see diffs).

Mar 4, 2005

 * 07:09, Mar 4, 2005
 * Removes "major regional diversities" sentence from Turkey with Edit Summary: "That information does not belong here. THIS IS NOT A PROPOGANDA TOOL".
 * "The major regional diversities depend on ethnicity (mainly Kurdish-inhabited southeast), economy (industry and cash crops in coastal regions), and precipitation (Black Sea littoral where summer drought is unknown)."


 * 08:06, Mar 4, 2005
 * Removes a characterization of Iraqi Ba'athist regime as "the greatest ruling party in world history" with Edit Summary: "Someone was smoking too much weed or whatever...", but also rewrites "The American-sponsored idea of a Federal Republic, with a relatively high level of autonomy for the Kurds, currently appears to be the most popular." to read: "The American-sponsored idea of a Federal Republic, with a relatively high level of autonomy for the Kurds, which is opossed by the surrounding nations as it will desitablise the already trobbled region."


 * 08:20, Mar 4, 2005
 * Anti-Kurdish rewording of Kurdish people. Removes characterization that "the Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without their own state"; importunes that an independent Kurdistan "would significantly destabilise the region."


 * 07:21, Mar 5, 2005
 * Reverts vandalism by User:LadiesLoveCoolJames diff with Edit Summary: "Vandalism detected, all vandalism is done by various annonymous users, I had taken the time and put up a trace. All vandalism is from internet cafes. This must be stopped." &mdash; right.

Mar 5, 2005

 * 08:00, Mar 5, 2005
 * Tags Pan-Turkism with Vote for Deletion. Uses Template:Pan-Turkism (which he didn't create until 5 minutes later) to insert his own message into the VFD notice; see below.
 * See: Votes for deletion/Pan-Turkism. Article was kept, of course.


 * 08:05, Mar 5, 2005
 * Creates Template:Pan-Turkism which states:
 * In my opinion this article is 99.81% POV and doesn't look salvagible, should either be competely rewriten (which not much would be left) as I opose the article and dispute its factuality. I am a bad cadinadte to do the work myself, I will check the article left and if it is neutral should not bug me. In my opinion this information is a political discussion and wikipedia is not a soapbox for those.
 * Delete or completely rewrite --Cool Cat| My Talk 08:05, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * (template is not currently used; another bit o' shite that someone will have to clean-up)

Mar 6, 2005

 * 01:03, Mar 6, 2005
 * Edits Turkey to change high end of population percentage range from 90% to 97% with Edit Summary: "sneaky vandalism"
 * nb:lots of edits of the figure...


 * 15:49, Mar 6, 2005
 * Posts following to User talk:MacGyverMagic re Kurdistan Workers Party:
 * Your edit removed significant amount of material (that I added prior). I strongly believe that wasn't your intention. As you reverted the material back before deleting it. :) Fix this whenever you are done playing with pocket knife and blowing things up. :P --Cool Cat|My Talk 15:49, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Has the temerity to add this: "And can you please archive your talk?"


 * 16:07, Mar 6, 2005
 * Posts to Talk:Kurdistan Workers Party a bit about "My article"; See also: Ownership of articles.


 * 16:39, Mar 6, 2005
 * Tags KurdishMedia.com for Vote for Deletion without Edit Summary or talk.
 * See: Votes for deletion/KurdishMedia.com (kept, of course). Cc, see: Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.

Mar 17, 2005

 * 22:56, Mar 17, 2005
 * Uncivil comment to User:Fadix on Talk:Armenian Genocide: "Please GRAB a dictionary and READ WTF "Neutral" means ALSO read Neutral Point of View".

Mar 18, 2005

 * 00:36, Mar 18, 2005
 * Personal Attack against User:Fadix on Talk:Armenian Genocide; "I think you should cut back on crack".

Mar 19, 2005

 * 22:08, Mar 19, 2005
 * Bizarre personal attack on User:Fadix posted to Talk:Armenian Genocide. Presumes authority and alludes to destruction; "recognise my authority" a la Cartman; "This article is more than simple history discussion but is a diplomatic dispute between Turkey and Armenia".

Mar 21, 2005

 * 04:30, Mar 21, 2005
 * Explicit denial historic factuality of Armenian Genocide posted to Talk:Armenian Genocide: "I deny the holocoust, so does a lot of scholars".

Mar 24, 2005

 * 08:18, Mar 24, 2005
 * Threatening section heading on User talk:MacGyverMagic " ==Stereotek + Fadix = Death== " while seeking assistance with users opposing him.

Mar 26, 2005

 * 19:50, Mar 26, 2005
 * Adds to Young Turks; then adds , too (again); on talk says: "Do not ask me to leave." plus his previous reason from Feb 21. Reverted by User:Davenbelle with Edit Summary: "rv User:Coolcat hooey".

Mar 27, 2005

 * 01:23, Mar 27, 2005
 * Personal Attack against User:Davenbelle on Talk:Armenian Genocide; "You cant read either, the color format is discussed above".


 * 07:30, Mar 27, 2005
 * User:Stereotek posts to Talk:Turkey:
 * "Coolcat: 'I will be soon reproting your HUNT for coolcat posts'. Good luck! My main reason for checking your 'contributions' in Turkey related articles, is that I consider the vast majority of your edits to be of extremely low quality, and not suitable for an encyclopedia. Another fact is that I consider the majority of your edits in Turkey related articles to be POV"


 * 07:59, Mar 27, 2005
 * Asks User:Netoholic: "Why the hell did you move my template registered under my user name. What is your problem?"; User:Netoholic's reply: "While I should just ignore that, for it's purely hostile tone, I'll explain." (rest omitted; see diff)


 * 08:19, Mar 27, 2005
 * Threatens User:Fadix, User:Stereotek, and User:Davenbelle on his user page: "If you annoy me like this, I will be forced to disrupt your wiki bond" (whatever that is)

Mar 28, 2005

 * 06:57, Mar 28, 2005
 * Personal Attack against User:Adam Carr on Greco-Turkish relations: "I know some of their facts better than people who sit in an office and make smart talk". Adam has a PhD in history.


 * 09:52, Mar 28, 2005
 * Personal Attack against User:Davenbelle in Edit Summary of revert of Kemal Atatürk; "User lacks ability to read discussion, seeking help".

Apr 7, 2005

 * 01:05, Apr 7, 2005
 * Removes Image:Kurdish lands_92_cropped.jpg from Kurdish people with Edit Summary: "Map not necesary and avalible in an article defining the region". See: Death of a thousand cuts.

Apr 10, 2005

 * 02:44, Apr 10, 2005
 * Complains at User talk:Tony Sidaway that "Stereotek and Davenbelle, are still reverting my edits", to which Tony replies: "Well I looked at what you're doing on Kurdistan Workers Party and I'm not surprised. If I were editing that page I'd do the same myself, because you're removing external links for bogus reasons..." && " I don't think you yet fully understand NPOV" (for full reply see diff).


 * 10:19, Apr 10, 2005
 * Implied threat to User:Fadix (or possibly User:Stereotek and User:Davenbelle) on User talk:Mel Etitis: "I dont want user to die, I want him to be hurt so he stops". Mel Etitis comments on this on User talk:Coolcat: "You're getting over-heated again; talk of hurting other editors, even if meant metaphorically, is not advisable. I note that there's already a request for arbitration, incidentally. Do you really want another?".