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Lord Hume of Berwick

Please could an admin urgently look at the arguments going on with this page. One editor is clearly attempting to push an untested claim to this barony on behalf of a family which is clearly POV. Admin User:BrownHairedGirl has previously looked at it, but that is all and is now away. She suggests another admin (see too her Talk Page). David Lauder 08:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Administrators are not magical content deciderers. You need Misplaced Pages:Request for comment. Neil ╦ 09:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

User:Matthew

Please don't come here just to argue. Try using your own talk pages, the WP:EPISODE talk page or an RFC. Thanks Nick 10:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

For the second time, Matthew has mass reverted episodes I have redirected (see #Mass deletion of television articles by TTN) per that a open consensus is required. He is extremely biased in his actions, yet he seems to believe that he is acting as some sort of mediator. He doesn't seem to care if there were open discussions or not either. Both Talk:List of Entourage episodes#Single episodes and Talk:List of Drake & Josh episodes#Single episodes were open for days with no response (the IP in the first one was just going from list to list with another generic message), but he still reverted them. This obviously doesn't fall under Matthew objecting to the redirects, but rather him objecting to WP:EPISODE. It would be nice if someone could ask him to back off from this, and instead pursue changing the guideline like he should be doing. TTN 10:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps you should cease disrupting Misplaced Pages to make a point, clearly you are also biased (so I'm not sure how that adds any weight to your argument). You've been told by many people to stop what you are doing, people not being aware of a section on a talk page isn't good enough reason to proceed when you've faced mass opposition. Remember (and this is the key word): guideline. That's all it is, even if it did support you. Matthew 10:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

You're seriously saying that I should bring in outside people to get these redirected? That is the only possible way a "consensus" by your standards is going to happen. I also fail to see any sort of policy requiring a consensus. I get some people pushing for a discussion beforehand, but this is on the side of ridiculous. I am not making a point; I am trying follow the style that the guideline has given instead of blindly looking the other way. I would be pushing a point if this was all because someone redirected "my" episode articles. Methinks one stating that all articles should exist regardless of verifiability and notability is the one pushing the point here. TTN 10:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Boy, you should to buckle up your 'tude.

Misplaced Pages:Consensus, "When there are disagreements, they are resolved through polite discussion and negotiation, in an attempt to develop a consensus", your actions have been vehemently opposed, "If we find that a particular consensus happens often, we write it down as a guideline", we have one see WP:EPISODE... if you wish to propose a change to make it more stringent to support you then do it. Please also have a look over Misplaced Pages:Consensus#Reasonable consensus-building. Matthew 10:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Yet, there are no disagreements; there's only you. You cannot decide that there is a disagreement over those single episodes; you need to let the single editors do that. Your disagreement is with WP:EPISODE, not with single series. Each one needs to be done on its own, yet you're lumping it up. And again, where is it saying that a discussed consensus is required? How are single messages not enough? TTN 10:57, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks on Talk:Hippie

Mombas (talk · contribs) keeps using Talk:Hippie to post personal attacks against me instead of discussing the article. His current attacks consist of repeatedly telling me that I am a "control freak" and advising me to "better serve your time by returning to your former role as a member of the cheer squad for the pro-Zionist hecklers", and is now using the talk page to wage a campaign of "either blocking or censoring User:Viriditas". He has also made a large number of false accusations against me, inferring that I am engaging in "persistent vandalism; persistent gross incivility; persistent harassment; persistently posting unsourced or poorly sourced contentious biographical material about living persons; persistent spamming; edit warring or revert warring; and breaching the sock puppetry policy." In response to these persistent attacks, I have asked Mombas to stop twice . In response, he has begun claiming that I am making personal attacks and has waged a harassment campaign on my talk page replete with a continued barrage of false personal attack warnings which is quite bizarre. I am requesting administrative intervention by a neutral party. Thank you. —Viriditas | Talk 10:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Removed speedy template

User:Eurovision+rain=sad removed a Template:nonsense template that I placed on his article Simon Mistry , which I suspect was created in violation of WP:POINT after a I marked an article about his band as not notable. The Simon Mistry article is about one of the band members.

Paul Carpenter 10:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Article deleted, user warned for remvoing speedy tags - I'll keep an eye on him. Ryan Postlethwaite 10:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

User:Jamez21

James21 seems to be a 14 year old kid that wants to create a webpage about his pal. Unfortunately the kid is not notable. Joshua Denis and Joshua denis have been deleted repeatedly, but he keeps recreating the page which is essentially a copy of Origami. Valentinian 11:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

this needs flushing as well. --Fredrick day 11:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

CSD tag added to the latter, I don't have the technical ability to delete, so if an admin would... thanks in advance, Navou 12:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Juro reincarnation

Svetovid (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is a very disruptive editor, revert warrer (always playing out the 3RR) , has a strong anti-Hungarian sentiment , deletes every hungarian words/aliases, despite that those villages/towns have hungarian majority and they are officially bilingual places, very agressive, and constant POV pusher (kinda "slovakia über alles" style). User constantly moves english articles to it's slovak names , despite this is english and not slovak wikipedia, deletes every Hungarian stuff from them , calling them lies, whoever puts them back, are called ireedentist/nationalist/racist whatever, you know, guess what else. This behave perfectly fits to indefinite banned user, User:Juro, who's behave, style, POV pushing, and deleting of Hungarian names in Hungary-related articles (with the reason given also) are perfectly the same as Juro. Note also, that Juro is a notorious sock puppeter , and ban evader , , and edits from dinamic IPs and proxys, so he managed to use some of his sockpuppets almost half year! He also impersonated other users, user:VinceB . I am absolutely sure, these two are the same, even if IP does not match, Svetovid acts like Juro, speaks like Juro, same POV edits he does, accuses the same with every hungarian users, also deletes hungarian names from bilingual towns and villages as Juro, and also moves articles from english to their Slovak names, as Juro. If these two aren't the same, than they are twins. --193.224.247.34 14:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Requesting block of user MGlosenger for vandalism

User MGlosenger has made it his personal mission to vandalise the Spectra-Morphic page by deleting all of the content and replacing it with information on Australian football coach William Lang. Everytime I restore the content, he replaces all of it minutes later. Spectra-Morphic was a legitimate sound technique used in the 1960s and 1970s, and I'm not sure why MGlosenger has taken it upon himself to call it a hoax and replace the content numerous times each day. Any help would be appreciated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Soundgeek (talk • contribs).

Edits like these (, , , ) by MGlosenger (talk · contribs) do seem a little WP:POINTy. However, his point seems valid - without any evidence that "Spectra-Morphic" actually exists (in the form of reliable sources), the article should be speedily deleted as a hoax. I can't get any Google hits for it, but if you can find sources the article could be re-created. I'm going to recuse myself from taking any administrative action here, however, since User:MGlosenger recently managed to bait me into a discussion at Talk:Ephedra. MastCell 15:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I warned the user, and told him to take it to AFD if he think it should be deleted. Bjelleklang - talk Bug Me 15:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Agree with Bjelleklang. First off, hoaxes are not speedy deletion candidates unless they can qualify as "pure vandalism". Second, lack of ghits is not that convincing to me: this is supposed to be a sound processing technique from the 1960s, I'm not surprised it's not easy to find on the internet. If MGlosenger wants the article deleted, he should go to AfD, not vandalize the article. Mangojuice 15:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Please check the history of the article and count how many times Soundgeek has removed the tags asking for sources. It might be difficult for someone else to find sources proving that an obscure recording technique from the 1960s existed. When the person who created 100% of the text of the article can't provide a single source for it and destroys the evidence that he got asked for sources what is the most likely explanation ? 192.250.34.161 14:06, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

MGlosner (talk · contribs) dumping the William Lang text into the article is disruptive, so a warning is totally appropriate. That said, Spectra-Morphic is setting off my hoax detectors; there are a lot of red flags here. Mango may be correct that given the date on this it's probably not going to oozing ghits, but if it doesn't get sourcing sometime soon it will probably end up on AFD.--Isotope23 16:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Also look at http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Spectra-morphic&diff=136250633&oldid=136250125 ; why is Soundgeek himself redirecting Spectra-morphic to William Lang ? Could it be that Soundgeek and MGlosner are the same person and he just forgot which one he was logged as ? 192.250.34.161 14:13, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

User Sal Slytherin

As predicted in Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Æthelbert of Kent and User:Hel Hufflepuff, User:Sal Slytherin has appeared and is making vandalistic edits like his two Hogwarts-named associates or sockpuppets. Anthony Appleyard 16:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I think they are trying to open the chamber on Misplaced Pages. NK has blocked him. — Nearly Headless Nick 16:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

RUReady2Testify (talk · contribs · logs)

New editor from Estonia seeks expert help and guidance, particularly interested in learning more about WP:NPOV and WP:OWN. User:DLX and myself have interacted extensively with him, but he now feels he is being bullied. I left a message for an uninvolved admin to review the situation, but it seems he is off-line. Any help and/or guidance gratefully accepted. --John 17:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Impostor

This user is using my name and posing as me, spamming/vandalizing articles that I post at in an effort to blame me. I suspect he's the same vandal that has been dealt with by me at Wookieepedia. I would appreciate it if he could be blocked. Kuralyov 18:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

User is gone. Naconkantari 18:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Threat

I don't know how serious this threat is, but I thought I would bring it to everyone's attention. IrishGuy 23:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Was indef blocked by Yamamoto. bibliomaniac15 An age old question... 00:36, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Indef block doesn't notify the school. ThuranX 02:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I've sent a short email with a link to the diff to the email address on the school website. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 02:16, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I sent this one to CheckUser. It could possibly be that someone is trying to ruin someone else's name, because the threat included someone's name in it. Once the cops get the IP address used, the cops can use this as evidence to send the death threat maker to the detention home and clear up a possible case of identity theft, because the death threat issuer stated either his name or the name of a person he or she wanted ruined. Jesse Viviano 23:24, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a thorough job, thanks to Zman and Jesse Viviano for their follow up! ThuranX 23:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I just got a reply from school officials saying thanks, no details. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 23:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Dailykos (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

I added this to UAA, but it's been sitting for a while and nobody seems to know exactly how to handle it, so I figured that maybe I should leave a report here to open up some discussion. This user, who registered in November of '05 and has edited occasionally since then, has a username that is substantially identical to that of Daily Kos, a well-known political website. In an edit made earlier today, the account claimed to be Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the founder of the Daily Kos site. It seems to me that we should attempt to verify his identity, to eliminate the possibility of an impostor (and make open any COI issues, since the account has edited both Daily Kos and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga). Does anyone know the right way to ask for verification, and is that the right course to pursue here? -Hit bull, win steak 19:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Block and get them to post on their site stating that the WP user is the same person is the usual procedure. --GDonato (talk) 20:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't have The Tools, so if he should be blocked, someone else needs to do it. -Hit bull, win steak 21:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

It's now moot, since he's just confirmed to me, via e-mail, that he is in fact who he says he is. Should I file this anywhere (send a copy to the foundation, maybe)? -Hit bull, win steak 18:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Forward it to OTRS. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 22:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

How do I do that? Sorry, I find the OTRS page kind of unclear. -Hit bull, win steak 02:41, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Dbachmann (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Much too often user:Dbachmann thinks himself qualified to insert his point of view, pretending some kind of undisputed truth or "generally accepted" wisdom without bothering to source. He keeps vandalizing my edits on Nordwestblock on the pretext that he wants to keep Misplaced Pages "clean from fantastic speculation", even though he comes up with fantastic speculations of himself. Indeed, he deleted a {{Fact}} tag and inserted his OR instead: . I already addressed his inclination to come up with statement of his own, even to contradict scholars inserting unsourced personal views and comments as if he was qualified to do so on equal terms. To get an impression I refer to my extensive admonitions at Talk of the Runic alphabet: . He does not seem to like that I mention scholars that cast doubt on what he likes to prevail as the one and only truth (like the validity of the Kurgan hypothesis or assumed early Germanic invasions originating from Scandinavia) and just keep on contradicting sourced information, and now he violates WP:AGF by reverting edits on the pretext of my alleged "agenda" - thus showing a mere personal grudge against my contributions. The only agenda I have is to contradict unsourced statements taken for granted - such as many of the statements DBachmann is used to impose on Misplaced Pages. Insisting on obsolete views without bothering to source is WP:OR. Worse, to delete any suggestion of contradictory information is a serious violation of the Misplaced Pages policy of neutrality. The extreme effort DBachmann invests in Misplaced Pages are no justification for "not giving a hoot" about the efforts of others to supply valuable information. Please read this argument of DBachmann for reverting my edit, where he admits not to give a hoot and still insists his ideas (of Chatti and Cherusci not being Germanic and instead dominated by a Germanic superstratum) to be "undisputed": utterly untrue, since such ideas are disputed, and his "rectification" is without any sourcing: . His other reverts of this article are disruptive in the sense they intend to destroy perfectly valid contextual information, like here: . I think this kind of behaviour deserves to be addressed. Rokus01 20:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Why does this require administrator attention? Content disputes are best addressed through dispute resolution. --Akhilleus (talk) 20:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't consider this a simple content dispute. Dbachmann takes the habit of abusing the Misplaced Pages policies I mentioned on a personal basis and on a large scale. Rokus01 21:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

This seems to be a dispute on content. We don't settle content disputes on AN/I, you might want to check out WP:Resolving disputes to see how to deal with this issue.--Jersey Devil 20:24, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I must say in Dbachmann's defense that he is doing some great work fighting to keep local patriotic OR out of the Nordwestblock article. Rokus01 is writing about the pre-historic Nordwestblock by referring to a late Dutch mythology and the genetics of modern Dutchmen.--Berig 20:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

This are the words of a Scandinavian patriot, waging edit wars on obsolete "out of Scandinavia" information concerning the Germanic origin. This is also one of the NPOV views Dbachmann adheres to. Both administrators have an habit in deleting information that would be in aparent contradiction to those views. Also, previously Dbachmann did not show any scruples in defending the nationalists of "Greater Iran".Rokus01 21:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Please don't use this page to pursue your content dispute, go through dispute resolution instead. --Akhilleus (talk) 21:57, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Could you please specify why you think this is a content dispute? This suggests you assume the dispute on content is more important to me than my denunciation of the violation of Misplaced Pages policies mentioned above. I don't ask different views on content to be addressed, but the way how simple rules are are disobeyed. According to what I know violation of WP rules is an incident. Rokus01 22:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

To ignore an incident (or rather, a pattern of incidents) and dismiss violations of WP policy like this, on this very place, would be an incident by itself. I insist administrators here to specify their reasons for ignoring WP guidelines and call such infractions something else, and subsequently check this subject as resolved. Addressing WP:AGF, WP:OR and a list of other things reflecting NPOV edits and edit warring deals with an incident, not content. Rokus01 05:30, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

There are a couple of arbcom cases relating to Dbachmann at the moment if you have anything to say. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:33, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

75.4.23.134 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Less than a minute after I mentioned the name of User:Artaxiad on Talk:Armenia, Subartu And Sumer, a likely sock of this permabanned user started trolling and revert warring in the article with claims along the lines of "most" western sources now reveal Armenians have been in the Armenian Highland well over four thousand years", an assertion which has been instantly debunked on Talk:Armenia. Please investigate. --Ghirla 07:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The editing pattern is the one of Artaxiad. The IP is listed in spam databases . I have blocked the IP as an Artaxiad's sock but maybe the open proxy might serve better Alex Bakharev 03:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Seems pretty clear to me that these allegations are unfounded; in any case, WP:DR would be a better venue than WP:ANI -- Samir 03:02, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Allegations of state terrorism in Sri Lanka

User:Blnguyen and User:Sarvagnya have started their WP:POV motivated edits of the following

Please take immediate action. Still the consensus is not reached on WP:RS.Lustead 08:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Their action is fully appropriate. Your attempts at forum shopping are not. If you care to scroll up, you will see the page explicitly says that it is not part of our dispute resolution procedures. --Ghirla 08:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Lustead, you asked for "neutral editors" to comment. I presume you mean that excluded the Tamils and Sinhalese editors....Now with Ghirla here, and Gnanapiti objecting via his removal of these tripod sites, socialist lobby groups and these ethnic lobby groups, we have 8-1 saying that these sources are hopeless. When are you going to give up? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

And I note that both you and Lotlil registered within one hour of each other, and both seemed to work out how to use popups and ANI within your first ten edits. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:46, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Seems pretty clear to me that these allegations are unfounded; if anything it's Lustead and company that are injecting POV pseudo-sources into these articles. -- Samir 03:02, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

User:Auto-revert, User:80.34.17.209

Not sure if this is the correct area but here goes:

Persistently inserting mention of Barry Ley (determined non notable as in the archives of deleted article Barry Ley) in Dalton, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, including the freewebs site of Barry Ley

Malicious/spiteful and pointless reverts of user Nate1481: Special:Contributions/Auto-revert

appears to be same person as confirmed sockpuppeteer banned user DrParkes: Misplaced Pages:Suspected_sock_puppets/DrParkes who is almost certainly Barry Ley himself

Persistently reverting Brazilian Jiu-jitsu to the factually unsupported versions of banned user DrParkes

obvious sockpuppetry and malicious intent in general, including creation of obvious attempts at bot impersonation with User:Helpbot and User:Assist-bot (also check editing histories of those against those of IP listed, Auto-revert, and the banned sockpuppet accounts of DrParkes)

Intervention requested. FlowWTG 08:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Only just got on of would have brought this myself, a large proportion of the reverted edits are of me using AWB to change Martial Arts to Martial arts & other bits while working through. The added freewebs link shows Barry Ley as a blue belt in BJJ the second rank so inherently not notable without somthing more. There are also some comments on the Dalton talk page.--Nate1481(/_contribs) 08:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Also note User:88.17.108.158 following the same pattern. FlowWTG 08:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I have indefinitely blocked User:Auto-revert for being (or posing as) a bot created without express permission of Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval, causing deliberate disruption aimed to harrass selected users. I do not believe an account created solely to revert war is of any benefit to Misplaced Pages. Both IPs softblocked for a few months. Neil ╦ 09:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

User:PostrevertHas just done exactly the same, including the misleading summaries, on the Dalton page --Nate1481(/_contribs) 11:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Postrevert indef blocked, userpages of all of the above deleted (WP:DENY) and some pages watchlisted. Sigh. Natalie 12:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Add User:Undo-edit to that list as well. Natalie 14:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

User:88.17.112.11 is also following the same pattern Kaly99 17:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

User:Hiddensonyvaio and User:JoeBender

Both of these users have been very busy vandals tonight. Sheep81 09:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Neil ╦ 09:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Sanitycheck (talk · contribs), Jerusalem

I'm apprehensive about blocking Sanitycheck (talk · contribs) as I'm sure someone's going to say "I'm involved" and that "this is a content dispute", but this user has been merely the latest in a string of editors whose primary agenda is eliminating the fact that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel without so much as leaving a word on the talk page. The semi-protection has been helpful, keeping the majority of these issues confined to the talk page, especially with a Muslim extremist site directing people to this article, but there are always a few that get through. There was a temporary reprieve from 3RR for editors reverting such edits while this article was today's featured article (May 23), but I'm not sure if that exemption still applies. Is it vandalism or a "content dispute" that falls under the guise of the three-revert rule? I'm weary about reverting again... -- tariqabjotu 13:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

• I blocked the guy for 24 hours for clear 3RR violation yesterday & Yamla just declined the unblock. It's clear that he's here just for pushing his own agenda. If he persists, well, he'll just get blocked for a longer period - Alison ☺ 19:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

129.133.124.xxx, second request for admin review

Can an admin please review the edits of 129.133.124.195 (talk · contribs)? Along with this look at 129.133.124.194 (talk · contribs), 129.133.124.199 (talk · contribs), 129.133.124.203 (talk · contribs), 129.133.124.204 (talk · contribs), and 129.133.124.217 (talk · contribs) -- edit patterns show this almost certainly to be one editor. In my opinion, there's a block-worthy history of trolling and incivility there. Posted previously here but no admin has responded and there continue to be more unproductive edits and (what looks to me like) trolling from these IPs. -- Rbellin|Talk 18:26, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't see the problem with these edits. Could you provide diffs for any comments or additions you found objectionable? TimVickers 21:31, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Did you look at the diffs in the previous ANI post I linked? Also, there's this, for incivility; this and this for personal attacks ("I think you're a clown"); this and numerous other similar remarks refusing to provide sources on topics the user edit-wars over. Or just look at the entire Copyvio section of Talk:Kappa Alpha Society for a completely derailed discussion in which the user assumes bad faith of every other editor and ignores even the most basic pointers to Misplaced Pages copyright policy. And see the bottom of Talk:Wesleyan University for other users' concerns with this IP, and the second round (first is here) of strange imitative non-replies to my concerns about this IP's editing behavior. I really feel this is worth an admin's scrutiny and a possible block for trolling, since the editor several times disclaims any interest in improving Misplaced Pages articles, but seems interested only in revert-warring or using Talk pages to score points. Please take a look at the diffs here and in the archived post and take the time to read the two Talk pages linked here and see if you agree. -- Rbellin|Talk 01:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Eksdee1

Deleted content from Lito y Polaco and replaced it with gibberish. After warning him on his talk page he removed the warning in order to hide any evidence of vandalism. --Pasajero 18:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Users are allowed to remove messages from their talk page after reading them. Unless they are committing further vandalism, there is no need for further warnings. Any previous warnings are still preserved in the page history. Vassyana 19:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Legal threat: Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

Could i request someone to look at the page? --Kim D. Petersen 18:57, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Page semi-protected and IP warned. -- Avi 19:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Raising this article at WP:BLP/N as well. Vassyana 19:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

69.119.7.8

Added nonsense to Lito y Polaco. --Pasajero 18:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The user's last edit was 3 minutes before the first warning. Funpika 19:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

SummerThunder's back again

Prepare for another attack by SummerThunder (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)--I just caught a very likely sock of his, 0CD dick (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Since his socks usually come in waves, admins need to get ready to play whack-a-mole.Blueboy96 19:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks to other editors

User:Naus has made a rude comment towards other editors. He has a generally negative attitude as well. .

User:JakeLM's negative comments is even more harsh by labeling the talk page of Goguryeo as a "giant circlejerk for Korean ethnocentrists".

I believe that action be taken against these editors. thank you. Good friend100 19:31, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The former has a warning template posted by you - that is the correct action. The latter's section seems to be gone from the talk page. x42bn6 Talk Mess 22:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Problem with editor

Counter-revolutionary (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) insists on restoring a personal attack made by a troll on an article talk page. He has twice restored it claiming it was a good faith edit. General Peabody (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was a clear troll and not acting in good faith, and the editor in question is merely restoring the comment to be disruptive. Administrative intervention requested, thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 19:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I have found this myself and have not been told by the complainant. I made it clear I was acting in good faith and my soloution was to strke through the text, which I don't see anything wrong with - considering I did not insert it! --Counter-revolutionary 19:42, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

You restored a personal attack on two editors you have previously been involved in a dispute with. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 19:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Technically there is no consensus for removing PAs in general. I think it may have been a better idea to goto his talk page rather than going straight to ANI. However we should probably wait for what an administrator says. Funpika 19:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

There's no consensus on removing them, but reinserting them - in full knowledge of what they say and even if you didn't originally type it and even if you strike it through - isn't really on. I will re-remove the attack; please don't reinsert it. Neil ╦ 20:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Douglaswood (talk · contribs)

The above user, apparently an entertainment executive, is attempting to hijack the Douglas Wood article (which is about a former hostage) to write about himself. Reverted and warned once, but went back and re-inserted the autobiographical material. RJASE1 20:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Added a sterner warning; if he continues, he'll be blocked. MastCell 20:31, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

He's doing it again, please block. RJASE1 20:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Blocked for 24 hours. Ryan Postlethwaite 20:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

If that doesn't get the point across, the next block should be indefinite. MastCell 20:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw

Long-term, serious vandalism on this page by persistent vandal (see http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Irvine_Laidlaw%2C_Baron_Laidlaw&diff=prev&oldid=136440313). Consider page protection. Batonrouger 20:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFPP does requests quicker. x42bn6 Talk Mess 22:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. - main vandal now on 6-month schoolblock - Alison ☺ 22:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

M.deSousa using Misplaced Pages to push off-WP agenda

Hello;

M.deSousa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has long been using Misplaced Pages to push the claims of a fringe imposter pretender by the name of Rosario Poidimani (who claims to be "His Royal Highness Rosario Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Braganza, Duke of Braganza". Obviously, these are fanaticisms with no basis in fact. Manuel De Sousa, however, frequently reverts articles to POV forms which he has edited, even using changing NPOV in a weasel-ish manner in an attempt to foster legitimacy for this self-styled Duke which he has been connected to (Manuel De Sousa used to post on alt.talk.royalty from the email address grandoffice@royalhouseofportugal.org (the sham website purporting to give the truth of the "true" queen of Portugal) click "view profile" near the top of that post). Manuel De Sousa also labels some edits contrary to his as libel. Those might constitute veiled legal threats if you ask me.

I don't know why this man was unblocked in the first place. He had a number of sockpuppets while banned and still has a number of suspected sockpuppets. Going to his contributions page and clicking the differences for just about any of his edits illustrates everything I have said. He tries to "convince" people of the "duke's" claim to the throne of Portugal (Rosario was actually arrested recently for fraud, forging documents, extortion, and criminal association) and Manuel De Sousa is an associate of his making edits for Rosario's vanity and to push his false claims. I feel that he ought to be permanently banned. Dealing with his vandalism is tiresome. Charles 20:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

A Wikipedian, Choess, also notes Manuel De Sousa's edits and links to one of his off-site posts. Charles 20:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I thought this guy was banned long ago. At any rate, I've blocked him indefinitely. – Steel 21:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I really feel it was what needed to be done. Charles 21:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppet concern

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

I am concerned that Malbour enziz, Noble of pemberton, Crowdman 4000, and Pax vulcurcross may be operated by a user listed at RfA, User:Pax:Vobiscum. All of the users listed may be a part of a voting fraud at Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Pax:Vobiscum. The first four users listed above have voiced their support for User:Pax:Vobiscum within minutes of eachother. The fourth user listed, Pax vulcurcross has a similar name to the RfA candidate. The first four users' only or almost only contributions are to the RfA. The first four users give vague reasons without even appearing to know anything about the candidate at hand. They also give vague reasons without any real reasons. Most newbies wouldn't know anything about RfA, either. The first four are obviously sockpuppets of eachother, but I just wanted to confirm that the RfA candidate at hand was not operating sockpuppets. I trust Pax:Vobiscum, but most users also trusted Robdurbar, too, so I just wanted to make sure. I was going to list at WP:CHECK, but it said to try other means first, and for a situation in which involved voting fraud that does not effect the outcome, to list here. Thanks. Cool Blue 23:31, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

• Something's definitely not right about that. Only contribs on all four are RfA votes???? I don't think so ... - Alison ☺ 00:16, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • What do you mean "I don't think so..."? Cool Blue 00:40, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
    • I mean, I suspect sockery here. On who's behalf, I do not know, and for that reason I strongly recommend this go to WP:RFCU - Alison ☺ 00:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
      • Inconveniently an RFCU request probably would not be answered until after the RFA closes, and would most likely be denied if the suspected socks did not affect the RFA's outcome. Funpika 00:48, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
        • Could we notify the people who close RFA's of this, and suspend the decision until a RFCU can take place. BH (Talk) 00:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
          • The discussion needs to be closed I believe. Decision made, meaning either Pax is a sysop or not. Though I could be wrong and a suspended decision would be good enough for the Checkusers. A WP:BN notice seems appropriate. Perhaps we should also contact a Checkuser about this. Funpika 01:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
            • I should preface this comment by saying I'm not an admin. However closing the RfA now would be a bad idea, because if sockpuppets were used, there is no way he should be sysopped. I also just notified the user of this thread. BH (Talk) 01:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
              • I have posted a message on WP:BN. Also, I noticed that the SPA comments were already discounted and will in no way effect the discussion, I highly doubt that a Checkuser will see if there was sockpuppetry however because of the lack of effect on vote outcome. Funpika 01:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I've checked these out with CheckUser. All four of these users are sockpuppets of the vandal Molag Bal (talk · contribs). The admin candidate in question is unrelated to them. Dmcdevit·t 03:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Good. Let's block them and move on, in the interests of the RfA candidate. I'll mark this as closed now - Alison ☺ 04:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Some of the others are dubious too. Pipermantolisopa (talk · contribs) has been around only since May 15. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 03:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The 'crats will doubtlessly take all this into account when the RfA closes - Alison ☺ 04:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Why hasn't this guy been tagged yet?

After seeing this via a current DYK article up front, I noticed that both of User:Ultrabeater's Talkpage and contributions look extremely funny. He has been tagged numerous times for uploading copyrighted images and work, and it looks like he hasn't heard of 3RR due to his edits. Does he need a friendly nudge into the right direction or is it suspicious activity??--293.xx.xxx.xx 00:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Block (and now page protection) review

I indefinitely blocked Vranak (talk · contribs) today following what I considered to be general incivility and (what I considered to be) a personal attack. This user has a talk page history of other editors complaining about similar general behavior, particularly disruption at the reference desks.

I don't consider an indef block to be out of line for this, however, as this account is indisputably a sock puppet of indef blocked Cjwright79 (talk · contribs). Cjwright79 was blocked late last year for the same type of incivility and disruption, plus plenty of vandalism and sock puppets (see User talk:Cjwright79 for a good run-down, including previous ANI threads). I, and Consumed Crustacean (talk · contribs), knew in December that this account was the same editor, but kept a lid on it as it was generally not abusive and had pledged to leave his disruption days behind.

I've blocked this account because it appears to have generally exhausted the patience of much of the community by acting in generally the same manner as its predecessors, the personal attack (and subsequent snide responses to several editors expressing that such statements were out-of-line) was the proverbial straw. I felt it was no longer necessary to let a previously indef-blocked user be disruptive.

There has since been a denied unblock request and several other comments at User talk:Vranak. I felt that Vranak's most recent edits to the page amounted to trolling and protected the page.

I welcome anyone & everyone's input here: did I overstep my bounds? is the block justified? was the talk page protection justified? If any other admin wishes to undo any of my actions, I will willingly step aside. Thanks, — Scientizzle 01:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I was somewhat involved so I won't attempt to review, but I blocked another sockpuppet of the same guy today, see User talk:Mathiemood. He seems like a garden variety kook/troll to me, but any review or other input is welcome. I don't care one way or another on talk page protection- let him insult whoever he wants, it only makes him look like more of a kook. Friday (talk) 04:20, 7 June 2007 (UTC)