Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kven/Evidence

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Evidence that the defendant must be aware of the case
.`'mikka (t) 18:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

First assertion
Violations of WP:SOCK: Has assumed a number of identities, including User:Stop false Swedish Nationalism, User:No sources from Sweden, User:Art Dominique, User:Ppt, User:Pifarre, User:Digi Wiki, User:Steve Wondering, and probably many more.

Second assertion
Violations of WP:VAND, especially on user pages and talk pages:  and undoubtedly more
 * User:Leifern:, , , , ,
 * User:Mikkalai:, ,

First assertion
Violations of WP:SOCK and WP:VAND on articles.

During the last 2 months, article Kvens of the past has been under sock puppet revert war, as well as Kvens (example ), Kings of Kvenland and Kven language. Situation seems to have started earlier last year already. The revert is always to the same kind of half-imaginatory POV content (like ), that the user wants to push in Wikipedia in a way or another. Content overlaps and conflicts with several articles, user insisting that all related pages should be merged and replaced with his article. User often marks his vandalism as minor edits (example ). Constant article reverts have been done under sock puppets, , , , , , , , and so on.

User has only today (15.09.2006) adopted at least 4 more sock puppets that go on tampering the aforementioned articles. --Drieakko 13:30, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

The same behavior goes on without any change. ,,. --Drieakko 13:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The user is also spreading this to article about Varangians. . --Drieakko 14:10, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Second assertion
Violations of WP:SOCK and WP:VAND on talk pages.

Sock puppets have taken over the related talk pages, the user pushing his POV under additional user names, (not a real username, only a fake signature), , and so on. All sock puppets ignore criticism presented against his actions and ideas in the talk page, making reasonable discussions with him difficult.

User usually expresses himself in Talk:Kven and Talk:Kvens of the past in an intimidating way, calling other users "proven vandals" and trying to turn discussions personal (example ). He is posting more or less the same long rants over and over again and lately also to several talk pages (Talk:Kven, Talk:Kvens of the past, Talk:Kven language, example, , ), trying to prevent any normal discussions before others have approved of his POV. Lately other users (including me) have started to revert his repeated posts (examples, , , ) on the related talk pages, in addition to his actions on the articles themselves. --Drieakko 04:15, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

This week's sock puppets on talk pages seem to be at least, , and. --Drieakko 16:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

User has vandalized userpages

 * March 7, 2006 --  Adding disputed tags to my userpage
 * March 7, 2006 --  Adding disputed tags to my userpage
 * March 7, 2006 --  doing to same to user:Big Adamsky
 * March 6, 2006 --  doing the same to user:Big Adamsky

Kven-User misuses talkpages
The use of multiple sock-puppets on one and the same page, confuses the reader. Kven-User has also a habit of addressing his other sockpuppets, as though he has the support of many.


 * August 29, 2006 -- (signing as ) makes an edit demanding the article be restored to the version of user:Digi Wiki

Kven-User is impossible to reason with
Here I will present that Kven-User makes the same arguments over and over again, and that discussions are futile.
 * General:
 * As a response to the RfC initiated against him, he responded with >20 pages of rants: Requests_for_comment/Kven_users_RfC
 * An archived talk page shows endless rants, most of them from Kven-User. Talk:Kven/Archive 1.
 * March, 2006 -- User:Mikkalai/arkven again show the way Kven-User discusses, this time with the username
 * Specific:
 * March 22, 2006 -- makes a 7kb (7,100 characters) post  under three different headers.
 * May 21, 2006 -- (signing as ) a 5,1kb post with two headers
 * September 1, 2006 -- makes a 5,5kb edit, again under three different headers

I have seen several users giving up on the Kven-User, saying "this isn't going to get anywhere. Why not just block him".
 * Other users give up
 * April 12, 2006 -- An anonymous user (now registered as ) active in April-May 2006 finally said "Why do I bother" (Talk:Kven/Archive 1)
 * May 12, 2006 -- said "well, I just feel that with all the bullshit, I wonder why this user can't just be indefinitely blocked. Why do we have to go through all the trouble?"

Kven-User has made a vaste number of edits that have been reverted
I am awaiting answer from user:Mikkalai whether a CheckUser ever revealed which the sockpuppets were. / Fred-Chess 14:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I will for the time being assume that those names listed at User:Mikkalai/arkven are all the same user. The pattern is rather obvious.

I assume here, that the edits were reverted because of consensus, mostly because they lacked verified sources. They are all the same pattern: They introduce material to make the Kvens seem more important.

The Kven-User started out by editing the articles Varangians and Kven in December 2005, and was reverted as follows:
 * To Varangians:
 * December 1, 2005 --  reverts
 * December 3, 2005 -- user:Ghirlandajo reverts
 * December 3, 2005 -- Adam Bishop reverts 213.216.199.10
 * December 3, 2005 --  reverts 213.216.199.10
 * December 5, 2005 -- Wiglaf reverts a Kven-User
 * December 5, 2005 -- Mikkalai reverts a Kven-User.
 * December 23, 2005 -- Ghirlandajo reverts
 * To Kven:
 * December 2, 2005 -- reverts 213.216.199.10
 * December 3, 2005 -- Mikkalai reverts 213.216.199.2/213.216.199.10
 * May 5, 2006, Mikkalai reverts :
 * May 5, 2006, reverts :
 * To Kings of Kvenland:
 * September 8, 2006: reverts
 * September 15, 2006: reverts Steve Wondering
 * Protections
 * Article Kven has been protected/semi-protected three times: By user:SlimVirgin 13-18 March, 2006 (vandalism, sockpuppetry ) ; By myself (Fred-Chess) 22-23 March 2006 (Lack of constructive additions) ; by user:Mikkalai 5 April 2006-henceforth ([no reason given]).
 * Article Kvens of the past has been semi-protected two times: By user:Mikkalai 1-23 Aug 2006 (sockpuppet revert war), by myself (Fred-Chess) 2 Sep 2006-henceforth (repeated sock-puppet problem)

User has vandalized many Northern Norway municipality articles
Violations of WP:VAND, on articles about muncipalities, villages, and rivers in Finnmark and Troms. Using several accounts including sock puppet and anonymous user  the user has used cut-and-paste to add the same incorrect POV history section to many articles (one example: ).Labongo 14:53, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

User has violated WP:NPA
Violations of WP:NPA on talk pages including Talk:Kven and Talk:Kvens of the past. Using sock puppets, anonymous user posts, or anonymous users "signing" as sock puppets, the user has accused editors disagreeing with him as vandals, threatened to delete or vandalize other editors comments , and deleted comments .Labongo 15:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

User has created parallel versions of Kven article
The user has attempted to create a parallel version of the Kvens article by creating articles using a different spelling of the word such as [| Kveeni] and [| Kvæn].Labongo 10:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

User has changed redirects
The user has changed redirect pages to the Kvens and Kvens of the past articles. One example: [| Kvenland]. This and other redirects were protected after a request for protection was posted on Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.Labongo 10:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

User uses sockpuppets in revert war
Today October 11. The user has been involved in an edit war on Kvens, Kven language and Kvens of the past using the users, , and. Example: Labongo 14:14, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

User only reverts articles
This is a hard accusation to prove. I present it in order to allow others, including the Kven user, to prove me wrong.

Since the end of July the user has only reverted articles to his own older version. All of his reverts have been reverted. So the user has not contributed with any improvements to the Kven articles since the end of July.Labongo 12:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Evidence presented by user Kraak
First of all I want to inform everyone that I have contributed to the article Kvens of the past using different IP addresses starting with 217 and 130. I am the user sighing "Why do I Bother", mentioned by Fred-Chess. My apologies for the mess.

Kven User assumes the name of another, well-known person
I suspect that Oikio Aikio is another sock-puppet of Kven User. "Oikio Aikio" means "Real Aikio" in Finnish. This seems to be a very crude attack against Ante Aikio, a relatively well-known Sami linguist who contributes to the English Wikipedia using his real name. In the edit history page of Kings of Kvenland, "Oikio Aikio" has claimed Ante Aikio to be a "fake Aikio"! Kraak 06:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Evidence presented by user Ante Aikio
This message is just to confirm the blatant personal attack against me that user Kraak already reported above. I edit the Wikipedia under my real name Ante Aikio. I have noticed that there is an ongoing edit war in a number of Kven-related articles, caused by user Steve Wondering and his sockpuppets, but I have not been following this closely. However, on 15 September 2006 10:51-10:55, I reverted three vandal edits by this user at Kven, Kvens of the past and Kings of Kvenland. After this the user apparently created a sockpuppet Oikio Aikio, meaning 'the real Aikio' in Finnish (oikio is a dialectal form of oikea 'right, real'), and reverted my edits at Kings of Kvenland, calling me "the fake Aikio" in the edit summary. --AAikio 06:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)