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19 January 2013

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It may seem precipitous to launch an SPI on the basis of a single diff, but Virg38 edited only with regard to the artist and writer Guillerm or Guillermo Zamor, who goes by the mononym Zamor professionally and whose BLP article is currently titled Zamor (artist). The new account Notadicht seems to have been created for the same purpose. The diffs below represent contributions by Virg38 for comparison to the single diff of Notadicht. I hope this SPI doesn't seem premature, but if you look at User talk:Virg38, you'll see that the user has a history of disruption, so I'm hoping to prevent more of the same. Cynwolfe (talk) 19:23, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Virg38 seems not to understand the purpose of disambiguation. Here Virg38 exclaims that Your desimbiguation is full of envy and little power!; in the same diff, other editors are insulted as ignorant, and a vague legal threat is made about "Zamor" being a brand registered in France. The implication here and elsewhere is that a refusal to title Guillerm Zamor's article with the mononym (and no disambiguator) is insulting to the stature of this person. There are at least two other individuals named Zamor who have articles: Oreste Zamor, who was briefly president of Haiti, and a Bengali of the French Revolutionary era who was either named Zamor and given the "Christian" name Louis Benoît, or whose full name was Louis Benoît Zamor; the latter's article has been named Zamor since 2008, and its title may indeed need further disambiguation. Here Virg38 usurped the French Revolutionary's page by replacing it with content on G. Zamor. No editor has disputed the notability of G. Zamor (although unlike the other two Zamors, he appeared in no published books that I found). The basis for Virg38's indignation is hard to understand, as is Notadicht's. The only question is how properly to disambiguate these figures and title their articles.
 * Both Virg38 and Notadicht seem not to have English as their first language and exhibit similar verbal patterns, such as using the subhead "Refute"(in this long edit, where Virg38 acknowledges a personal connection to the BLP). Virg38 writes that Zamor has created a Foundation with a new point of view about art in the whole world, and Notadicht that Zamor is creating a Foundation with a new concept of Art and Humanities. Both become highly emotional and speak in terms of other editors being "wrong" about the importance of this figure and somehow antagonistic toward him, without addressing our points about disambiguation.


 * In this new diff, you see again the combative tone, with the other editor accused of not being neutral merely for pointing out what the article says. Like Virg38, Notadicht assumes that any questioning of the article, even for copyediting or factchecking, is an attack on the subject. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:20, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Seems pretty clear to me. Not a WP:CLEANSTART because the editor went right back to the same area, and voted twice. Rschen7754 06:50, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked master 2 weeks and sock indef, closing. --Rschen7754 06:50, 26 January 2013 (UTC)