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These diffs show the type of edit that is evidence of ] and ]. I predict that if the editing dispute on ] continues, the result will be arbitration and bans. If you don't want to be one of the editors who gets banned, please take the high road. I strongly recommend that you personally follow a zero revert rule. If you see an edit you don't like, go to the talk page and calmly, politely explain why and wait for other editors to respond. If any editor refuses to discuss, they are setting themselves up to be the ones sanctioned. Think long term, not about the article content of the next minute. Finally, you need to recognize that you won't get your way even half of the time. Make suggestions and take it in stride if they aren't adopted. It is better to get one third of what you want and have it stick, and to go for 100% and get nothing. ] <sup>]</sup> 14:22, 29 April 2014 (UTC) These diffs show the type of edit that is evidence of ] and ]. I predict that if the editing dispute on ] continues, the result will be arbitration and bans. If you don't want to be one of the editors who gets banned, please take the high road. I strongly recommend that you personally follow a zero revert rule. If you see an edit you don't like, go to the talk page and calmly, politely explain why and wait for other editors to respond. If any editor refuses to discuss, they are setting themselves up to be the ones sanctioned. Think long term, not about the article content of the next minute. Finally, you need to recognize that you won't get your way even half of the time. Make suggestions and take it in stride if they aren't adopted. It is better to get one third of what you want and have it stick, than to go for 100% and get nothing. ] <sup>]</sup> 14:22, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

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April 2014

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Disagreement on poster

I realize we have a legitimate disagreement of opinion here, and I'd like to resolve it in a reasonable way. Rather than spreading it out to a million pages, Talk:Leon Trotsky seems like the best place to discuss this, and get third opinions, so it's not just you and me.--Pharos (talk) 05:11, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Its not about our "opinion", Pharos, but alright. -- Director (talk) 05:12, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely

I will post details in a moment. Please be patient. Jehochman 16:13, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

("Please be patient"? As if I have a choice :))
Well good day to you, Jehochman. I would expect the details (or at least the basic reason) would accompany the block, but since they did not, I look forward to them eagerly. And I'm sure they'll be very good "details" indeed - because if this is a joke, its not a very good one. I'm led to believe abuse of admin privileges to indeff block long-serving editors on a whim is generally frowned upon. -- Director (talk) 16:38, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
This account is blocked indefinitely for tendentious POV pushing, disrupting the formation of consensus and for using article space to spread anti-semitic propaganda. It also appears that DIREKTOR (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and PRODUCER (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) may be related accounts working together in a way that is not allowed. Please see this discussion and Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Jews_and_Communism and Misplaced Pages:Deletion_review/Log/2014_March_14. Sorry for the delay, I forgot to hit the save button before taking lunch. Jehochman 16:13, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Good one there. Seriously, though, you can stop now. I'm not buying you never heard of WP:TOOLMISUSE.. -- Director (talk) 19:01, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I don't care what you buy. Jehochman 19:09, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I see. I hope you're aware of how inappropriate this action is, on how many separate levels?
  • #1 Firstly, from what I am reading of the thread you linked, you are WP:INVOLVED in the discussion regarding the relevant dispute at hand. You've made it abundantly clear you are heavily biased regarding the ongoing content dispute, before blocking the opponents of the side you fancy.
  • #2 Secondly, indeffing users on grounds of perceived "POV-pushing", without discussion, is against communal norms and policies. I dare say perhaps especially if the users have almost double your own contributions to the project and have been expanding it for almost a decade. I pushed no POV, in fact practically everything I did over there has been restoring the status quo ante, against changes generally opposed on the talkpage by Producer, myself, and a slew of other users you seem to have forgotten to block. As for your "antisemite" remarks, I believe they're plainly sanctionable.
  • #3 Thirdly: said lack of discussion renders users accused of misconduct incapable of defending themselves, which might make it easier to miss things like this SPI report. Or this one. You also might try not posting a discussion I never heard of or participated in as evidence of my being a sock of Producer.
Now, I am biased of course, but so far as I can see nothing you posted demonstrates any kind of misconduct, beyond advocating an article alongside fourteen other people. Frankly I think if anyone should be sanctioned - its you, for abusing admin tools, as well vicious slander and personal attack. The more I read of that sad exchange over on Jim's talk, the more it seems to me you fancy yourself some kind of antisemite-hunting superhero.
Naturally I don't expect you will reverse your action, but this is quite blatant misuse of admin tools and I will of course be appealing. -- Director (talk) 19:38, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Please relax the accusations and focus on the correctness or incorrectness of your own behavior. That's my advice for filing a successful appeal. Checkuser does not prove accounts are unrelated. You could be two people working together, or one person editing from two network locations or using a proxy. Checkuser is not any sort of magic. Jehochman 20:19, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice, but its kind of hard to "focus on my behavior" when you've got nothing but vague nonsense to go on from the block rationale. I can only really point out that I can't see any TE or POV-pushing in anything you posted, and that the block is suspicious. I will also request an evaluation as to whether you are, in fact, WP:INVOLVED. Though I agree that personal attacks and abuse of admin tools as such, are not related to the matter at hand.
As "flawed" as checkuser might be, its objectively a bit more to go on than "they might be working together!", with "they agree on this talkpage!" as support. As are the statements of virtually anyone who's worked with Producer or myself. -- Director (talk) 20:44, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
You have to admit that the user names are really similar, and you both capitalize all the letters. It's like you are trying to show you are two peas in the same pod. I've linked to three discussions where you and/or PRODUCER are posting many, many times, both pushing the same point of view. If anybody reads those pages carefully, I think they will come to the same conclusion I did, that both accounts should be blocked until there is an agreement about how to prevent further problems.

Questions for you to address:

  1. Why do you and PRODUCER have such similar user names? Are you friends or otherwise working together?
  2. Why does Jews and Communism look so much like the article on Metawiki. ?
  3. Do you think that Jews and Communism is a neutral article?
  4. Can you say why Jews and Communism should be a different article than Jewish Bolshevism? How is J&C not a POV fork?
  5. How is J&C not merely an attack page, thinly veiled anti-semitism?

Thanks. Jehochman 20:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)


(edit conflict) All that said, I will point out this is the first time I ever heard of metapedia, and if Producer did in fact copy content from that site I am prepared to re-nominate the article for deletion myself. So far as I can see, however, that's just more of that distasteful slander I'm reading so much of: the Metapedia article was expanded through the typical "biaspedia" procedure of mirroring cherry-picked Misplaced Pages content - almost a month after the Misplaced Pages article was created by Producer. Before its expansion in March the article bore no resemblance to Misplaced Pages's article (I'd post the diffs but the site is apparently blacklisted). Its good to know Metapedia is apparently a place I can use to get anyone I dislike indeff blocked, by mirroring their contributions there. -- Director (talk) 20:44, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Jehochman:

  • I agree with DIREKTOR that indeffing users who edited wikipedia for so many years, without any previous discussion, is against communal norms.
  • Important note: I am involved editor, not only in J+C dispute, but also in many other disputes with DIREKTOR and PRODUCER, often as opposed to them. I don't say I disagree with your action, but I just think that communal norms should be followed, especially if they really deserve to be banned. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:21, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I'd say "thank you", but I'm getting rather mixed messages from your post, Antid. -- Director (talk) 22:18, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Responding to Senator McCarthy's inquiries above:

  1. I explained that about fifty separate times, and I find it outrageously insulting that you indeff blocked me first, and asked me about it later. My username refers to a "director" in the sense of a business executive. You can tell by the use of the letter "K". Its a Serbo-Croatian word that can only mean director (business). Producer's name is in English, and is apparently derived from film-making terminology. Its also an appropriate pun, since he has apparently "produced" quite a bit of content on this project . Why are the names capitalized? Well mine is capitalized because that's my childhood nickname (in an ironic sense), and its simply the way in which I used to sign into video games, which back in the day did not have lowercase - if I must go "full disclosure" here! Why Producer capitalized his username, I have no idea.
  2. Because the psycho Nazis at that insane asylum selectively mirrored the Misplaced Pages article! A month later. As biaspedias usually do.
  3. No, Senator. But I don't think it can be improved at all unless the participants stop trying to change it through edit-warring, and respect basic Misplaced Pages behavioral guidelines.
  4. Because the standing consensus at the Jewish Bolshevism article (which I opposed!) is that the article does not include the topic. That's why the article was created in the first place. As to why The Four Deuces advocates diametrically opposite points of view whenever it suits him - you'll have to ask him that.
  5. Because, so far as I can see, its written through strict and rigorous adherence to highest-quality reliable sources.

Please move the lamp a bit to the side now, I can't see you. -- Director (talk) 20:44, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

I like the tone of your answers, even though I don't agree with your point 5. Nevertheless, I'm going to unblock you. One bit of a warning though: Pharos is cleaning up Jews and Communism. Pharos is another very experienced editor with a good reputation. Please don't obstruct his work. Thank you. Jehochman 22:05, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I thought that's the tone you were going for. And after "roughing me up", you gently suggest my next course of action. How am I to interpret that? -- Director (talk) 22:07, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

I am not involved in any way in editing the article in question, but have offered (as I recall) some advice on the talk page. I want to thank User:DIREKTOR for his (relatively) calm response. I also want to thank User:Jehochman for acting promptly in what he clearly believes was in defense of WP, and for unblocking DIREKTOR now. I think it is important for everyone to continue to focus on WP:AGF. JoeSperrazza (talk) 22:22, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Jehochman's "bit of warning" just above launched AGF out the window for me. Whether or not Pharos' edits are beneficial, it seems to me Jehochman may well be using his admin tools to intimidate participants in a content dispute, in order to render an outcome he openly favors. -- Director (talk) 22:28, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
No editorial outcome is pre-ordaned by my actions. My suggestion not to obstruct Pharos (or any editor) from improving the article is good advice for you (or any other editor). Please give him a chance and see in total what results, then discuss any diagreements. Jehochman 22:40, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Ah, its a suggestion and advice, not a "warning". That does sound much less like an open threat. -- Director (talk) 22:43, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Diffs

These diffs show the type of edit that is evidence of WP:OWN and WP:BATTLE. I predict that if the editing dispute on Jews and Communism continues, the result will be arbitration and bans. If you don't want to be one of the editors who gets banned, please take the high road. I strongly recommend that you personally follow a zero revert rule. If you see an edit you don't like, go to the talk page and calmly, politely explain why and wait for other editors to respond. If any editor refuses to discuss, they are setting themselves up to be the ones sanctioned. Think long term, not about the article content of the next minute. Finally, you need to recognize that you won't get your way even half of the time. Make suggestions and take it in stride if they aren't adopted. It is better to get one third of what you want and have it stick, than to go for 100% and get nothing. Jehochman 14:22, 29 April 2014 (UTC)