Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance/archive8

02-November-2006

 * Explained on User_talk:Dina : this user violates WP:REVERT and WP:FAITH to such an extent it doesn't have plausible denial for its deletion of content, i.e. incompetence resulting in vandalism. -- 62.147.39.202 04:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

04-November-2006
70.185.125.101 has acted uncivil and inappropriate in talk pages of the articles which he has edited. He has been warned multiple times on his talk page, but persists in his caustic behavior. 17:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Jvalant is attempting to disrupt the Indian Rebellion of 1857 article , promoting Indian nationalism at the expense of the quality of the article. Whilst implying that anyone who disagrees with him is an "Imperialist" or a "racist". His views obviously need some level of inclusion in the article, but not at the expense of different points of view. 18:00, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

11-November-2006
User:Power_level_(Dragon_Ball) is making repeated personal attacks on User:Someguy0830. He has been warned with a 'be civil' template, but he wants me to remove it (User_talk:Yuser31415). Do you think I should remove it or leave it there? I'm not sure what his game is, but he seems to want all his warnings removed immediately afterward they are put onto his talk page. Looks fishy to me. Yuser31415 talk 21:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No problems, resoluted. Yuser31415 talk 01:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

12-November-2006
User:DocFisherKing (also ostensibly User:66.246.72.108, among other IP addresses) has a long history of repeatedly reverting my edits (and the edits of other users) to his own versions of the David Duke page, with accusations of vandalism on my part in the edit summary.

--Ryodox 09:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


 * No truth in that statement, see for yourself! DocFisherKing
 * Well, nice try Ryodox


 * 208.192.66.196
 * Record Type:  IP Address
 * UUNET Technologies, Inc. UUNET1996B (NET-208-192-0-0-1)
 * 208.192.0.0 - 208.255.255.255
 * WS/EXOP OF KEARNEY MISSOURI DBA UNITE | GREATER KANSAS CITY |
 * EXOP OF MISSOURI | CLAY COUNTY |UU-208-192-64-D4 (NET-208-192-64-0-1)
 * 208.192.64.0 - 208.192.79.255

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kearney%2C_Missouri&diff=prev&oldid=87189434

You didn't fool me! DocFisherKing

LOL. That "evidence" shows that I am now logged in from the IP of 208.192.66.196. I've been found out! Seriously, though, you're being ridiculous, this is the same disregard for Wikipedia policy that I'm referring to. Someone else will remove your impertinent "evidence" soon enough. --Ryodox 10:00, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Whatever you say, it's evidence! DocFisherKing


 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * DocFisherKing

13-November-2006
User User:Eleemosynary has always been a kind of strident voice on the Rush Limbaugh page. However, recently that user has begun making more personal attacks seen on the talk page. They have not yet gotten to the point where I feel comfortable slapping up template but the constant charges of bias and unfounded attacks against other editors has really soured the discussion. This user also after disagreeing with a few edits went through the article deleting many sections seemingly out of spite. I am relatively new to this kind of behavior so thought I would seek outside assistance especially considering the charged atmosphere. --06:16, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

15-November-2006
User:Mr.6661 is contacting people who appear to be fans of Avenged Sevenfold, claiming to be the guitarist from the band. This is obviously not the real person, and I'm hoping something can be done to stop this person from contacting anyone else, and spreading false information about the fans of A7X on the Wiki. I have reason to believe that this person might also be User:Metallifan, although I could be wrong. The account in question has already been approached by various members of Wikipedia and asked to stop his actions, although to no avail. -- Boa  Drumm  er   07:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

16-November-2006
There's already a comment about this user above, but User:70.185.125.101 is still leveling personal attacks against users, behaving in an uncivil manner (Example: ) and making edits that are inappropriate at best. Several editors have tried to talk to him about this, on both his Talk Page and the articles' Talk Pages, but he's not listening and maintains that he's doing nothing wrong. Most recently he has tried to add sexual content, and links to pornographic films to an article about a children's TV series, and has been openly hostile when the content was removed. DanielEng 05:02, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

User JoshuaZ appears to have abused his SysOP priviliges, violating WP:BP and demonstrating a complete misunderstanding of WP:ADMIN. 18:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I fail to see how. I'm not seeing anything wrong there, except an admin trying to stop unsourced, POV material. And please sign your posts. -- Elar  a  girl  Talk 22:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

17-November-2006
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to get help but things are out of control at guitar. There has been continual vandalism and now User:Will Pittenger has been reverting to vandalized versions. Several people (myself included) didn't notice what he had done and we reverted newer vandalism to his versions. Now the page has old vandalism sprinkeled throughout. Hopefully someone knows how to fix this situation. I put a warning at Will's user page.17:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I forgot to mention that the type of vandalism is where a bunch of dates, numbers and things have been changed.17:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Fixed the vandalism, not such a big problem as I supposed at first.18:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * This problem has been resolved.-Crunchy Numbers 16:03, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Please help at Democrat Party (phrase). I've been struggling with 71.139.0.12 who keeps making not-vandalism but unhelpful / contentious / arbitrary edits, and now with User:Rjensen. I just need the support of some experienced editors who can back up the enforcement of WP:V and just someone with a good sense for how Wikipedia works, because I feel that both these users are a bit unexperienced, so we've been butting heads a bit. 22:35, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

18-November-2006
User at Portal talk:China is making many changes without stopping to discuss objections to previous changes first. Someone needs to explain to him that discussion and consensus is more important than making a lot of changes quickly. 00:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I have a user deleting all my edits most of them without a single link and threatening me via email. 72.81.21.181 03:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

On Neuro-linguistic Programming, I want to make sure my own behaviour is ok here, diff. My edits were attempts to improve the quality of the article. Other than that I really need advice on how to strongly encourage to use "fact", "dubious" or "quote_required" tags rather than blanket reverts. --Comaze 04:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Abu badali has added Template:Replaceable fair use templates to several of the images I've uploaded, without following the instructions in the template to notify the original uploader. This, in addition to blanketly adding this tag to what appear to be a wide variety of promotional photos; his user log indicates several hundred edits of exactly the same type, and it appears to me unlikely the user is making any case-by-case determination or using any judgement before making this sweeping edits. If user is not notifying me that my images are now subject to deletion, I'm guessing the same thing is not happening to several hundred other editors. 23:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

19-November-2006
Re: EFax (fax service).

A user (previously operating under the name User:Haynesj, but now operating anonymously from a small number of IP addresses ) has been for a long time engaging in edit-warring on this page. In January 2006 he requested that the page be protected as it was a registered trademark of his company, J2 Global Communications. (That claim is false, as is shown on the (hopefully) current version of the page). Since then, he has been vociferously demanding that all other users leave the page alone, and has reverted nearly all constructive edits to the page, often calling them vandalism. That small stub article has now had over 150 edits since July 2004. He has recently vandalised Fax server (see ) and Efax (disambiguation) (see ) by replacing those articles with material about his product alone. He has edited Yac Fax (see ) to promote his product. Somebody operating from one of the addresses which he uses (and which is assigned to his company) has vandalised Wireless access point (see ). Several people have attempted to discuss matters with him over a long period, but he persists in his activities, claiming that since his company produces the product, he is entitled to control the content of the page.

See some of his discussion at:
 * Talk:EFax (fax service)
 * Articles for deletion/Efax
 * User_talk:Haynesj
 * User_talk:Ifnord/

He has used the following accounts and IP addresses:
 * Nov. 2006 71.198.42.49 Comcast Cable Communications
 * Apr. 2006 - Nov. 2006 204.11.170.3 J2 Global Communications (producer of EFax (fax service))
 * Jan. 2006 - Nov. 2006 71.106.166.133 Verizon Internet Services
 * Dec. 2005 - June 2006 71.105.109.113 Verizon Internet Services
 * Nov. 2004 - Feb. 2006 207.213.246.3 JFax (former name of EFax (fax service))
 * Dec. 2005 User:Haynesj

09:15, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

20-November-2006
User User:Wiki187 just created an account to avoid a spam block as User:125.23.47.249. The editor has been placing threats in comments along with his external links. I'd prefer if someone could help because my catching him in the act and adding multiple spam warnings may have exacerbated the situation. --17:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

22-November-2006
. I am here for procedural reasons only, feedback to avoid runaway system destruction ( info theory and electronics metaphor, also applied in a work called "The Nerves of Government" governance. I firmly believe I have met some admins who are not ethically ot tempermentally up to the job. I don't have a lot of time presently to deal with this but would like to see Wiki not taken by little tyrants. But who cares?Wblakesx 02:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * "Label the comment neutrally but do not sign and do not use names (type 02:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC), which gives only a timestamp)....". don't know if I understand this bit? My problems can be picked up at my user    talk page, wblakesx talk. I have never modified an article itself, and have never had any problems before. I have found incivility and presumtions, from some admins, of bad faith where none existed. After removing the objected to material have "been left hanging in the air". I replied to links left on my talk page and have been threated for vandalism and serious vandalism.


 * RE: Yanni Sustained anon edits but all exactly the same edit, by users 63.167.255.231 (vandal warnings in history), 147.133.54.167, (vandal warnings in history - see 11/12, 11/20 in history) 71.34.214.212, and same initial edit as well by David Foster who is by history, fixed on adding arrest records and mug shots to Wikipedia articles.  It has been cited that Wikipedia is not tabloid journalism - per Biographies of living persons and What Wikipedia is not.  Page was requested to be semi-protected but denied.    Compromise is sought by using most recent news story, and using an encyclopedic tone.  Requesting review of history of page and all these users.  Please advise if correct protocol has been taken, and if not, please advise further.  Thank you.  15:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

24-November-2006

 * A user has since December 2005 made 161 post on 42 article talk pages, plus 85 edits to his own talk page, but has never edited an article; neither do his posts suggest any specific changes to be made. He claims he is using the talk pages to provide a "commentary" to the articles, but seems to make a virtue out of disregarding WP:TPG, The purpose of a Wikipedia talk page is to provide space for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or project page (my bolding). His posts tend to be obscure, evasive, confusing, polemic, selfconscious - he seems to consider these commentaries an art form or an academic activity in its own right, rather than a part of a proces to improve the actual articles. His commentaries are perhaps suitable for a coffee break chit-chat at an academic institution amongst scholars who enjoy that sport, but here, he's just cluttering up talk pages with discussions going nowhere. I have not identified the editor in question, as I do not want to report him at this point - in fact it's difficult to single out anything to report. Rather, I would like advice on how to proceed, if at all, based on the assumption that my assessment is fair.16:13, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Good_articles/Review -- dissatisfied users express frustration of the GA process and GA reviewers. / 23:38, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * See above, Good_articles/Review. I'm not sure how I can ask about my own behavior w/o signing my post, unless someone looks at the hist. But if people look at the hist, then leaving your post unsigned is kinda useless, don't you think? But anyhow. I am very open to constructive criticism regarding my behavior in the disagreement above. 00:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

25-November-2006
An unregistered User edited my User page and talk page with some pretty harsh comments. Don't know who he is, but I'd appreciate this being looked into. Cheers. -Sparky

27-November-2006

 * Please, would an Admin address my request to block user Jaber for violating Personal attack as explained in detail on Admin Rockpocket's Talk page . Admin Rockpocket will be on Wikileave until the 28th.  Thank you very much for Lcnj 17:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Would an admin please examine the frequent reversions at Reading, Pennsylvania regarding whom is and is not a notable resident. Attempts have been made to contact the two users primarily involved with the dispute, whom may be one-in-the-same: 65.122.19.5 and Mercifulfate86.  A post to the Talk page has been made but received no response from the two aforementioned users.  Thank you for your time.  22:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)