Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Darkstar1st

Discussion following outside view by R-41

 * (moved from main RfC page. – Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:14, 6 January 2013 (UTC))
 * soviet union was a constitutionally socialist state, a little confused how me stating that fact has offended anyone?
 * The his user page he identifies himself as an opponent of communism consists of a photo of me in front of the House of Terror. the description, where facist and later the "liberating" Communist regimes interrogated, tortured and killed people. is quite accurate. People's Republic of Hungary official state name of Hungary from 1949 to 1989 during its Communist period under the guidance of the Soviet Union.
 * associates all of socialism with totalitarianism i actually think socialism would be the ideal form of government for those freely associated, and equally terrifying for those not. judging from the talk, even rs have trouble agreeing on the very definition. to me it is as simple as being social, almost like a "howdy". no rational person would walk past a starving child and not offer whatever food he had, or a dry place to sleep, or a skill, maybe fishing. social may even be the wrong word, perhaps "human" would better describe the basic human needs addressed by such. my goal editing these articles is to bring forth rs who experienced the actual period, to balance the overwhelming amount of rs for these articles who did not. having lived in a former communist country for years, i have a unique perspective most do not. most of my inspiration is from conversations with old residents of Budapest who lived thru WW2 and what followed. much of history still walks the streets here, like László Csizsik-Csatáry did only months ago.  Darkstar1st (talk) 16:08, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * In the view of what users have said below, and above, I am now amending my proposal as per the comment below by Dave Dial, for what should be done in one respect that will be balanced in both placing responsibility on Darkstar1st for his actions and firmly seal a resolution to this. Darkstar1st should receive one, and only one final chance to desist from tenacious editing, and should he fail to do so, he will face topic bans. This means that when Wikipedia community support does not endorse his views, as represented by a strong majority of people opposed (let's put it at the least of 75%) after prolonged conversation (let's put that at one week) that should he continue to push his view against community consensus, that that will be the violation of his final chance and that a topic ban will be initiated the topics of socialism, communism, fascism, and topics involving a direct association with these three main topics. This will be his one chance alone to change his editing behaviour, as Wikipedia community patience has expired over his tenacious editing, and he will ultimately be responsible for either acting on the advice here, or failing to do so and facing topic ban on the topics mentioned above.--R-41 (talk) 08:23, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Overly elaborate and not a standard remedy. Either Darkstar1st needs a topic ban now, or he doesn't.  No editor should be subject to a sword of Damocles this contorted.  For the record, I support a topic ban now. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ɖ⊝כ⊙þ Contrib.  21:12, 6 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Darkstar1st's reply is a perfect example of the tendentiousness with which he approaches all articles. The socialist parties of the world, such as Labor in the UK, Australia and NZ, Social Democrats in Sweden and Germany, and Socialists in France, Spain and Greece, have nothing in common with Stalin's Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, yet he continues to bait people who identify as their supporters.  TFD (talk) 23:59, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Misuse of Checkuser

 * (moved from main RfC page. – Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:14, 6 January 2013 (UTC))

Not content with simply having an RfC/U, one editor contacted a checkuser to pursue a ludicrous assertion that Darkstar1st was a sock puppet. ... It urns out that Budapest is not near Nashville TN! "Fishing expeditions" during an RfC/U seem to indicate an agendum beyonf "editor behaviour" is present. Cheers. Collect (talk) 13:05, 23 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Darkstar1st has told us that he lives in Nashville but is residing in Hungary. TFD (talk) 07:45, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * i am actually in tamarindo costa rica now. Darkstar1st (talk) 13:41, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I suppose TFD regards itinerancy as proof of socking . It ain't. And fishing is fishing is fishing, and TFD seems quite the angler. Collect (talk) 12:38, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Could you just admit you were wrong, rather than misrepresenting me. This is an encyclopedia not a cable TV spin zone.  Rational arguments are preferred over spin.  BTW your comments have ought to do with the dicsussion under persual.  TFD (talk) 13:47, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Your "accuracy rate" at SPI is about 25% last I checked. This is fact.  As for your implication that I am "irrational" - that won't wash, TFD.  I would point out the CU you solicited by email told you that your case was non-existent here.  Cheers. Collect (talk) 14:13, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Accuracy is measured by whether or not sufficient evidence is presented to warrant checkuser or to obtain a block without checkuser. By those standards my "success rate" is close to 100%.  You on the other hand always oppose checkusers being carried out and your success rate is close to 0%.  If you do not like SPI procedures then you should lobby to change them rather than personally attacking editors who follow procedures.  If you think that checkusers are wrongly carrying out checks then complain about them, not me.  Also, you appear not to understand what checkuser is.  It is a method of determining if two accounts are editing from the same location, not pixiedust.  TFD (talk) 14:30, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Deep end time eh? 1.  I have posted at SPI and have, IIRC, an 80% accuracy rating when I accuse someone.  Your 25% contains the ones where a CU was done and you were wrong.   So  much for your claim of infallibility ("100%"??? Really????) . Not just the ones where the CU laughed (figuratively) at the lack of evidence .   In Wikipedia terms "a CU" refers to a person with access to the "checkuser tool" - and you should know that -rather than toss fluff in the air here .  2. BTW, I was in a formal contractual position to know over the past 30 years exactly what a "CU" is on a major ISP.  I think you do not have quite that level of experience.  Cheers.  Collect (talk) 15:18, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * but am am not a sock and have edited and created articles in very different topics from those whom you accuse me of socking. not everyone who disagrees with you is the same person. Darkstar1st (talk) 13:51, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If a CU is carried out it means that the checkuser believes there is enough evidence to carry one out. If you think that there is something wrong with CU then tell them to change their procedures.  In some cases sockpuppets may be cleared by CU but are discovered later.  For example, the disruptive sockpuppet Tentontunic whom you gallantly defended.  Is there any reason why you defend all these disruptive editors not only at SPI, but at other boards as well?  Do you think that disruptive, tendentious editors improve the project?  TFD (talk) 17:32, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Wow! Ad hominem attacks galore!  I believe that where "evidence" is required by Wikipedia policy, and is not furnished, that anyone with an iota of respect for process would act as I have. Period. Collect (talk) 22:20, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Darned good question. And lots of puppetmasters and their socks "have edited and created articles in very different topics"; it's part of how they get away with it for a while.  I'm not directly accusing Darkstar1st of socking, but have to concur with The Four Deuces that WP:CU would not have gone there if they did not feel there was strong evidence. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ɖ⊝כ⊙þ Contrib.  21:09, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * And there had been an SPI on Darkstar1st as TFD well knows. And the fact that I have this horrid habit of thinking that when SPI says it needs "evidence", that it needs "evidence" and not just listing every editor TFD has a run-in with.  I have a 1.000 batting average at SPI, TFD has an 18% success rate.   DS was not a sock in 2010  where TFD himself made the accusation on 20 April.   And thus this chasing of him as a sock by soliciting a CU to "investigate" by an editor with a wonderful 18% acuracy rating seems quite enough, thank you. Collect (talk) 22:19, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Can you tell me why (other than the different locations) you thought it wrong to request checkuser and for checkusers to accept that request? And can you find any cases I made within the last two years where CU was refused?  TFD (talk) 22:45, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I can not tell what email requests you have made unless you list them - but your SPI requests were denied a number of times - including in Jan 2011 for example. Can you tell us what email requests you have made of CUs in the past year or so?  Right now - your batting average is all of 18% for accusations of registered users.  And do you not understand that repeatedly accusing someone of being a sock is quite likely to make them less loving of you? Collect (talk) 23:35, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * That is just under the wire of two years. The editor I reported has been blocked five times for edit-warring, block evasion, and personal attacks or harrassment.  However I have learned since then to investigate and prepare SPI requests more thoroughly.  And I have never made an e-mail request for checkuser.  TFD (talk) 00:19, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Discussion about statement by Fut.Perf.

 * (moved here from main RfC page. – Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:37, 6 January 2013 (UTC))

As was pointed out at the time, in exhaustive detail, the version Darkstar relied on was a digitised text; I linked to a scanned copy of the original. We discussed this at length, and all other editors agreed that the reading "socialist" was an OCR error. Despite this, Darkstar continued to argue for his reading. He also repeatedly denied that ther word "scholist" existed, even after I posted a scan of the relevant OED page. Other editors' frustration is not with Darkstar's different views, nor with the fact that we do not accept his readings of sources, but with the fact that he continues to belabour the point, even after such evidence. Even a year after I posted the OED scan, he continues to argue that the word does not exist. Also, it should be noted that, at the time, it was Darkstare who accused me of lying, not the other way round. RolandR (talk) 16:32, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Ugh, that last diff certainly shows an utter lack of understanding of how to use dictionaries. Much of this really looks like it boils down to a "competence" problem; that would also fit in with your second-from-last diff above (the one I also mentioned in my statement as being utterly confused). Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:04, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The implication of the discussion by Darkstar1st at Talk:Socialism/Archive 13 was that the intention of the author was to use the word "socialist" and he challenged whether the word "scoliast" (or whatever it was) was even a word. Had he been constructive, he would have just said that the Van Anker edition had used the word "socialist", and narrowed the scope of the discussion.  I seriously doubt that he has access to a copy of the original as he claimed..  Even if the 1738 edition had read "socialist", it would have been an error and Darkstar1st argued that it was intentional.  (It is most likely that the word "socialist" was put into a c. 1880 copy of the 1738 version as a typesetting error, and was then scanned into the Google version that Darkstar1st used.)  TFD (talk) 17:18, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * social concerns of poverty, social oppression, and gross inequality of wealth seemed to fit with the context of the passage sound the alarms to rebellion...defame the king...inflame the mob..., having heard Roland's arguments (the image provided notes the term is likely a misspelling as does this different source,  "You found this page by searching for the keyword Scholist The proper spelling of this word is: Scholiast" ) suggesting one who has nothing but school training, a mere theorist i understand why most conclude Roland's meaning was what the author meant. the section where i proposed the edit was Etymology how their form and meaning have changed over time. i thought it could have been the beginning of use for the term socialist, knowing it means something much different today. notice of the 3 spellings for the obscure term, "Scholist" is virtually non-existent.  Darkstar1st (talk) 10:24, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Your reading makes no sense. Your version ot the text reads, "Long Prayers serve [ Gilbert Rule's] Party fro many great Ends;  in them they can sound the Alarms to Rebellion, commend themselves highly, defame the King, rail against and revile Malignants, raise and inflame the mob.... Moreover, Mr. Rule, to shew his Parts, longs for an Adversary like himself. I wish, says he, a Socialist would make it appear, by a solid Refutation, what Ignorance I have discover'd in my Writings, I am ready to defend it."  Why would a socialist call for another socialist to refute his claims?  Obviously the "socialist" is one supporting the King.  And if you had read the book you would have found that it was an attack on the Presbyterians who had forced Anglican priests out of Scotland following the Glorious Revolution of 1688.  It has nothing to do with "social concerns of poverty, social oppression, and gross inequality of wealth".  Presbyterians were all for making money.  TFD (talk) 13:03, 8 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Once again you distort the source. The OED does not say that scholist is "likely a misspelling". It provides an etymology, a definition, and examples of the use of this word. It also states "But perhaps an error for sciolist". "Perhaps" is not the same as "likely", "error" is not the same as "misspelling", and "sciolist" is not the same as "scholiast". That's three distortions of one short sentence. This does noot suggest that you have learnt any lesson from the recent AN/I and RFC/U, where you were lucky to escape a topic ban. It would be better for you to drop this line of argument forthwith. RolandR (talk) 14:34, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, there was no standard spelling in 1692. The author(s) may have meant a scholastic, someone who interprets Catholic doctrine.  It would be in keeping with the wittiness of the book that Rule saw no difference between Anglicans and Catholics.  TFD (talk) 22:13, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * TDF, interpret it anyway you like, i dropped the debate years ago. Roland, see the second link which certainly clarifies the term you cite is a misspelling. "You found this page by searching for the keyword Scholist The proper spelling of this word is: Scholiast". I am pleased you now realize the word socialist was in version i originally cited, perhaps this can be a turning point for us. until then i plan to stay as far away from you and others as possible, hoping you will do the same. Darkstar1st (talk) 22:34, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * In any etymological dispute between the Oxford English Dictionary and OmniDict (whatever that is), I would accept the definition in the OED. And no, I do not accept that the word in the version you originally cited was "socialist". RolandR (talk) 00:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * then we can agree to disagree as this will be our last interaction, i wish you the very best Roland. Darkstar1st (talk) 00:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The use of the word "socialist" was obviously an error and you should have acknowledged that when it was pointed out to you that earlier version of the book used another word. Instead you continued to argue and still do that it was the intention of using the word and you continue to argue for it here, despite the absurdity of your argument.  There is little doubt that it is a typesetting error made in 1880 and hence of zero interest to the article.  TFD (talk) 16:47, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * disagree, i am not interested in edit you mention and haven't made a post concerning etymology at socialism/talk in years. addressing your allegations i made an attempt to explain my reasoning for doubting your explanation of a misprint, i am now convinced the effort was futile and i do not plan to repeat the exercise. also, you are wrong about the existence of an earlier version, the edition i referenced was published in 1738 for Van Anker, Rotterdam, the 1st year of publication for the book. perhaps you confused the 1748 Richard Baldwin edition? this will be our final farewell TDF, no hard feelings. Darkstar1st (talk) 17:23, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Discussion of endorsement of original summary by A13ean

 * could you provide a dif of what you mean, ...require responses by other editors.? Darkstar1st (talk) 17:05, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I think you just gave us one, since you surely remember your own actions and don't need to be reminded of them, but here you are asking A13ean to waste time reminding you. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ⊝כ⊙þ Contrib.  21:04, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Premature closure
Re: Requests for comment/Darkstar1st – I concur with RolandR that the closure by Youreallycan was premature and was properly reverted. The way to get more uninvolved community input in an RFC like this is to let people know about it in places like WP:AN/I, not to shut it down and shut everyone up. It's a called a request for comment not a request for silence. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ⊝כ⊙þ Contrib.  21:23, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

discussion per response
North, I agree and even suggested those editors with such inclination were welcome to amend my proposal, i would/do not object. if you wish to attribute it to the historians who wrote the book, be my guest. perhaps i should have worded it that way to start, which would have likely prevented this unpleasant debate. Darkstar1st (talk) 13:52, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I did not know that you made that offer. North8000 (talk) 14:34, 9 January 2013 (UTC)