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==My plan for re-instatement==


It has been over 11 months since I received a warning, entitled ], from , and then a block from another administrator ]. There is a process for re-instatement, which I plan to follow. But first, I plan on pinging HJ Mitchell, and some of the other people who voiced opinions, with some points I think they overlooked.
== comment ==


That other administrator started a thread, at ] ''(])''.
Please .


Some people responding there, looked at ], and disagreed with HJ Mitchell's initial description that it was an "attack page". I didn't think it was an attack page, either. I thought it was a neutrally written stub, that fairly summarized the references it used.
Ah, I see I wrote to you about adding guys to this category already.


Multiple other individuals weighing in there seem to be agreeing that what I was accused of - using the wikipedia to settle a pre-existing grudge - was terrible, and merited a block. It is unclear whether they actually looked at ], to confirm or refute for themselves, whether it actually had been an attack page.
I continue to think adding any Guantanamo captive to this category, who haven't faced credible charges of terrorism, is a huge mistake. If you check the allegations against them, you will see most of the Guantanamo captives who have been
added to this category didn't even face allegations of terrorism during their ].


HJ Mitchell, I am not aware of anyone making the assertion, before you did, that I had a grudge against Mr Trotta. I see lots of places where this assertion is repeated. And, sorry, I am afraid all those people may simply have trusted you. They shouldn't have. The assertion is false. I'll explain this, in detail, below at ].
I'll meet you part way. I'll remove this category from hald the inappropriately placed articles, and let you remove the other half. Agreed?


I will temporarily snip other things from this page. If I am re-instated, I'll put them in my archives. I will snip anything on this page that is not related to my block, and that WPANI discussion.
Cheers! ] 15:11, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


== Only warning ==
:Replayed on ] ] (<sup>]</sup> - <sup>]</sup>) 15:24, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


Do ''not'' write Misplaced Pages articles about people with whom you are in dispute elsewhere, and do not use your superior skills as an editor to get one up in a dispute. What you did at ] was outrageous, and to continue doing it despite the request of the subject is appalling. If you ever do anything like that again I will indefinitely block you. Quite frankly, the only reason I didn't block you straight away is that I won't be able to be around for the fallout and it's poor practice to "block and run". ] &#124; ] 23:35, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
==CSIS for once, not CIA==
It just caught my eye that "a CSIS operative named only as "Mike" gave testimony at ''Trial of Mahmoud Jaballah, December 17, 2001, Page 330.'' Check out and search for "Khadr", you'll see his testimony/statement. Thought it might be worth two minutes of looking-into, though I'm not going to add it to {{tl|DCSIS}} with quite so little information sadly. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 07:44, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
:Aha, mentions a CSIS agent testifying in Toronto against Jaballah, could be the same guy...though here he's referred to as J.P. and portrayed as seemingly ignorant about Islamic extremism...admitted his experience came from reading ], about 35 with 12 years in counter-terrorism. No indication if it's the same guy or not. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 07:56, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
::Oddly, seems to be the CSIS agent proving his inexperience as related in the earlier article, but here he is "Dave", not "J.P."...but after referring to himself as a "Middle Eastern expert", he says that Iran is Arabian (not Persian), can't give an estimate of the population of Egypt or name any North African countries. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 08:43, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
:Oh come on, "P.G." has testified against , ''and'' . You coy devil, what, we have one CSIS agent who knows everybody held under ]s? "Random" point of interest that '''P'''hilip '''G'''ibson before - perhaps the newspapers are misreporting him as an "agent" and he is in fact their main media/courtroom liasion? That might make more sense. ''shrugs''. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 08:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
::My apologies for spamming your talk page last night, sometimes I just seem to use it as a sandbox ] <sup>(]) </sup> 04:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


* ] DGG , almost a year ago, on ]
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I was just looking over the bit you added about the deep water port and I'm sure the references say six groups in the consortium but it doesn't seem to identify which six. In the FP trading desk link it mentions Rio Tinto Plc and BHP Billition Plc as members. It also mentions Zinifex Limited, Sabina Silver Corp and ] but it's unclear if they are members of the consortium. In the star.com link it appears that Kitikmeot Corp want to build the port with public/private financing. Mentioned there are Sabina Silver, Zinifex Ltd, Rio Tinto Inc, Miramar Mining, Dundee Precious Metals, BHP Billiton and DeBeers. But it's still not clear who is part of the consortium and what they are willing to fund. Cheers. ] ] 03:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
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: <code>As for the deletion, and protection. HJ Mitchell, you did the deletion and protection. Do you truly consider it an attack page? Or as unsourced negative information?</code>
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: I saw where you said: ''"I'll be back. I've never lost my love for the encyclopaedia, I just have a family and a demanding day job, neither of which I had in 2009!"''


: Okay, you are prioritizing. I get it. But I got blocked after you concluded I wrote an attack page. Some third parties reviewed the article and concluded it was NOT an attack page. I am concerned that a lot of the people who endorsed my block simply took your word for it. So, I think your returning here, to explain yourself, should be a higher priority. It has been almost a whole year, after all.
:Ah. I am glad you found it interesting. I was going to give you a headsup, but you found my references first. Shall we cut the table back to those firms mentioned in both articles? I thought about writing to info@sabinasilver.com -- an email address my web search threw up. The Geo coords for the community of Bathurst Inlet place it about half way down the inlet. I wonder if the inlet starts having too many navigational hazards south of there.


: ] has some simple criterion. An attack page ''"...exists primarily to disparage or threaten its subject; or ... is entirely negative in tone..."'' I don't think the Dan Trotta article was negative in tone. I don't think it disparaged or threatened the real life Dan Trotta.
:I created some other maps. I think the existing maps were uploaded in error. If they were "all rights reserved", we can't distribute them under a free liscence.


: HJ Mitchell, if you saw something that made the Dan Trotta article an attack page, that I missed, and those third parties missed, I really hope you will share that with everyone.
:I cam across the link to the Bathurst Inlet story when I was looking for more information about Harper's most recent announcement on Arctic patrol frigates, and an Arctic deep-water port. Iqaluit no longer has it sewn up. I agree with the commentators who feel the CCG should continue to play a big role in asserting sovereignty. Have you read any of the articles the Canadian American Strategic Review, and SFU, has published about Arctic issues? If not you should take a look.


: Warning. I have further questions for you. But one thing at a time. ] (]) 22:04, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
:Yes, sure I can rename the map.


* {{ping|HJ Mitchell}} I am going to check , once a day, and I am going to {{tl|ping}} you every day I see you made edits, but did not come here to explain why you characterized the Dan Trotta article as an attack page. ] (]) 15:56, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
:Cheers! ] 06:30, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
*:No, you're not. Talk page access revoked. ] (<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub>) 16:33, 24 February 2022 (UTC)


== March 2021 ==
::Thanks for the map. It might be useful to contact Sabina or one of the others like BHP or Rio Tinto. All of the ones mentioned will benefit from the road and port but it would be interesting to see who is the main backers. I'll have to check out the articles you mention as I haven't read them yet. ] ] 20:19, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
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*You need to explain that article that {{U|HJ Mitchell}} deleted, ], which you seem to have created following a personal off-wiki dispute with the person. You cannot just move on as if nothing happened. I've placed a note at ] for other administrators to weigh in on the matter. You may respond here, and your comments will be copied over. ] (]) 15:09, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
*See ] (]). ] (]) 08:41, 4 March 2021 (UTC)


==Headshots snipped from Canadian Film Centre images==
==A request==
Would it be possible to get ] changed to "Communities where ] is spoken". Inuinnaqtun is an official language in both the NWT and Nunavut, althought some say it's only a dialect of ]. Inuktitut is spoken from Gjoa Haven to the east. Thanks. ] ] 04:44, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


For more than a decade the Canadian Film Centre held events, attended by figures in the Canadian film and television industry, or philanthopists and politicians who supported the industry.. They uploaded several thousand images from those events to flickr. They released them under free licenses - licenses that allowed them to be freely re-used.
==Guantanamo captive's uniforms==
A {{]}} template has been added to the article ], suggesting that it be deleted according to the ] process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Misplaced Pages's ], and the deletion notice explains why (see also "]" and ]). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the <code><nowiki>{{dated prod}}</nowiki></code> notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on ]. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the ], the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the ] or it can be sent to ], where it may be deleted if ] to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{tl|db-author}}. --] ] 17:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


The images they released included very well-known public figures for whom we had not yet found free images - like ] and his wife ]. They also included figures from the industry who were on the cusp of being well-known, like ]. We have lots of free images of her now. But for the first six months she was notable enough for a BLP the only free image we had of her was one I cropped from a CFC event.
:I apologize if the tag seemed to be too quick. On one hand, I am fully aware of my tendency to be a little quick on the trigger with tagging new articles that I run across while patrolling the ]. On the other, Misplaced Pages has yet to devise a "list of articles that have passed a suitable grace period", so the other list is all I have to go on if I'm going to be doing this sort of thing at all.


I am not the only WMF contributor who cropped images from the images the CFC uploaded to flickr. But I did the lion's share of it.
:I'm not psychic--I can only base an assessment of an article on what's there, not on what's ''going'' to be there, and I can't predict whether or not a "first draft" is going to be improved at all, except that from my experience, more often than not they ''don't'' get improved. The solution to this is to not post an article before it is complete--that's what the "show preview" button and ] are for.
{{commonscat-inline|Headshots of individuals cropped from the Canadian Film Centre's photos}} contains almost 1000 headshots of about 700 to 800 distinct individuals.


Did this work fully comply with the policies of en.wiki, and the commons? I don't think there is any question that this work was fully policy compliant.
:Furthermore, that first version of the article seemed sufficiently incoherent to me that the debate in my mind wasn't whether to prod it or leave it alone, but whether to prod it or speedy-tag it as nonsense. I'm still dubious as to whether the subject of Gitmo ''uniforms'' merits a whole article by itself, but now that the article has been improved substantially I'm not going to press the issue by sending it to ]--after Sherurcij cleaned it up and added to it, I dropped it from my watchlist and moved on to other things.


Was the effort I put into this worthwhile? Well, there were many dozens of BLP articles, that previously had no images of the BLP, until one of these images cropped from a larger CFC were added to them. So, yes, I think my efforts, and the efforts of some other people, were not only full policy compliant, but were completely worthwhile.
:Anyway, I hope you better understand where I'm coming from here. Our goal here is the same--making this a better encyclopedia. Thanks, take care, and here's hoping that the whole issue soon ceases to be a current event and becomes merely a matter of history. --] ] 16:33, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


No, I can't agree that cropping those images was harrassment, for any meaningful definition of harrassment. ] (]) 08:52, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
::Okay. Thanks for the civil reply.


==The wikipedia's vulnerability to being spoofed...==
::That no one has gone to the trouble of providing a tool for listing articles that were newly created some reasonable period of time ago was no excuse for the other nominators to have chosen to ignore the recommendation of {{tl|cfd}} and {{tl|csd}} to allow a grace peiod


The wikipedia has proven vulnerable to being spoofed. Sadly, it seems there are individuals out there, with time on their hands, who are prepared to spend dozens or hundreds of hours to stealthily undermining the wikipedia. These individuals know how to make lots of valid edits, so that their disruptive edits either go undetected, or seem like good faith mistakes. I know of two individuals, who engaged in this kind of disruption, who, nevertheless, were entrusted with administrator authority.
::My number one compute had to be retired early. I am using my number two computer, a 1 gigahertz machine, with limited memory. The policy recommends nominators accommodate people like me who have to save often, because of limited resources. I am drawing your attention to this aspect of the policy because your recommendation is not only counter-policy, but it is not really an option for me, and, I believe, many others.


There is the ] example, and the ] example. See ] for a somewhat inadequate summary of the Qworty disaster.
::I think compliance with the policy requires new page patrolers like you to make accommodations for editors like me, and not vice versa.


In my opinion, the vulnerability to being spoofed particularly extends to courtesy deletion. In my opinion it should be regarded as essential that all individuals making requests to delete images or articles about themselves should first have the OTRS team confirm they really are who they say they are.
::Cordially, ] 17:08, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


I think this is one of the things ], the administrator who left the ] here, did. I checked. Administrator HJ was not a member of the OTRS team. So, he made no attempt to refute or confirm whether ] was the real life Dan Trotta.
== Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list ==


In my opinion, no matter how obvious it may have seemed to administrator HJ, that Imissdisco was the real life Dan Trotta, he should have recognized that it was essential that OTRS confirm his identity. If OTRS confirms it, there is an audit trail. If Administrator HJ privately satisfies himself that he was corresponding with the real life individual, there is no audit trail.
I'm reluctant to put this up for deletion, but to me it is irredeemably original research by synthesis. I understand you disagree, and there is little point in each of us repeating our positions. Could the material be merged somewhere? ] <sup>]</sup> 18:10, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


Who else could it have been? I have wikistalkers, one of whom is not only malicious, but is also extremely clever. Pretending to be a real life individual is exactly the kind of stunt this individual would pull. ] (]) 09:44, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
==re Dilawar==


==A request for courtesy deletion is not a criteria for speedy deletion==
I'm not challenging that, but I think it's a bit over the top to assume their motivation, and put it in a disambguation page with no reference. The phrase "for kicks" seems too unencyclopedic (I'd even say too informal) for this topic. The current wording gets the point without being sensational (the point here being primarily to tell different people with the same name apart) while the article specifies the details in a more formal tone. Most encyclopedia articles should have a certain formality to them; if they're about a victim of a violent crime, then even more so. -] 15:37, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


Many contributors who weighed in at ] voiced the opinion that administrator ] was authorized to delete the ] article, on his sole authority, as a response to the apparent request for courtesy deletion. Leaving aside that administrator HJ usurped the authority of the OTRS team, and did not seem to make any effort to confirm the requestor was the real life individual, responding to courtesy deletion requests is not a ]. Policy allows administrators to take a request for courtesy deletion into account, '''when closing a discussion'''. That means the request can be the deciding factor in a delete closure of an XfD that would otherwise close as "no consensus".
== Guantanamo captive's uniforms ==
Hi Geo Swan. You are off to such a great start on the article ] that it may qualify to appear on Misplaced Pages's ] under the '''Did you know...''' section. The Main Page gets about and appearing on the ] may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for '''Did you know...''' nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at ] If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the ] list. Also, don't forget to keep checking back at ] for comments regarding your nomination. Again, great job on the article. -- <font face="Kristen ITC">''']''' <sup>''(])''</sup></font> 21:09, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


I went through a two year long process over the speedy deletion of a brand new article I started on ]. I started the article in January 2009, or at least I thought I had. But, when I went back to add some more material, I couldn't find it. I was ready to kick myself, for merely thinking I started it, and failing to notice that it didn't get saved, due to a loss of session. But, that wasn't it.
==Hunger strikes still ongoing==
could be used as a source to update several articles with "As of July 2007..." ] <sup>(]) </sup> 04:55, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


I had started it, and an administrator had deleted it, without leaving me a heads-up. When I asked for an explanation he explained Norwitz contacted OTRS, and requested its deletion. The administrator was nice about it. He said Norwitz hadn't complained that the article was unfair, or inaccurate. Norwitz just didn't want to be covered by a wikipedia article.
== DYK ==


That administrator and I had multiple discussions, over the next two years - every time the google news alert I had on Norwitz brought me a new reference that I thought further enhanced his notability. That administrator remained really nice about it, but he wasn't going to budge.
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|} <!-- ], ] --> --] 17:22, 22 July 2007 (UTC)


So, I told him I was taking the article to DRV.
== USMA's CSRT study ==
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I haven't had time to look through it yet but I see that their second PDF is a direct response to the Denbeauxs.<br>
-- ] 22:40, 28 July 2007 (UTC)


At the DRV everyone agreed:
==Rahmatullah Safi==
# the granting of requests for courtesy deletion is not automatic;
A {{]}} template has been added to the article ], suggesting that it be deleted according to the ] process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Misplaced Pages's ], and the deletion notice explains why (see also "]" and ]). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the <code><nowiki>{{dated prod}}</nowiki></code> notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on ]. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the ], the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the ] or it can be sent to ], where it may be deleted if ] to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{tl|db-author}}. <span id="{{{User|Lilac Soul}}}" class="plainlinks" style="color:#002bb8">] <sup>(] <small>•</small> ] <small>•</small> )</span></sup> 18:06, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
# the decision to delete, in response to a request for courtesy deletion, is only authorized when closing a discussion - ie XfD.


Yes, of course, administrators are authorized to delete attack pages - when those pages genuinely are attack pages.
==Coffee==
Over the weekend I'm in Ottawa, so would some time around noon (or at least before 2pm...) any weekday next week work for you? I'll also draw your attention to ], and in case you were interested, ] has signed up on Misplaced Pages - a good chance to try and draw her out to talk some more about what is/isn't valid information. (She's engaged in some minor "whitewashing" on her father's wiki article, though talk page discussion is clearing it up, imho) ] <sup>(]) </sup> 17:38, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
:Tuesday at noon sounds fine. I'd be interested in finding out who that "important Arab" is, now that you mention it. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 04:11, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


I strongly suspect administrator HJ could not provide a meaningful explanation as to how he reached the conclusion the Dan Trotta article was an attack page. If they can provide a convincing explanation, I'll request re-instatement, and promise not to do whatever their explanation says I did wrong. But, it seems to me that neutrally written articles, that fairly summarize what the references say, are not attack pages, for any reasonable definition of "attack page". ] (]) 10:39, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
::Just confirming that I still intend to be there tomorrow - probably be nursing back an iced cappucino. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 00:38, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


==HH RfC== ==Teachable moments==
Any chance you could provide some diffs for the RfC? It would be helpful to have links to the comments you mention. &ndash; ] <small>]</small> 18:23, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
: ] <small>]</small> 20:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
:: Good grief! Then there's also his responses to your request for civility on his own talk page, which were also quite uncivil. Thanks for adding the link to the timeline of your interactions with him. It's quite clear that his habit of incivility goes far beyond what we've experienced with the ] article. --] 20:32, 11 August 2007 (UTC)


Administrator ] admonished me for using my ''"superior skills as an editor to get one up in a dispute"''.
== Re:More info please ==
:] -- ] 01:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)


Administrator HJ, my first problem with this passage is that, of course more experienced wikipedians should share their knowledge and experience with less experienced people. The wikipedia has no single training manaul, no single tutorial. This means ].
== Undeletion of Religious Conversion and Terrorism ==


My second problem with this passage is, where in the name of heck did you get the idea I engage in discussions in order to win them? I am committed to entering every discussion I engage in bearing in mind that I might be wrong, and the other guy might be right. If I realize I was wrong I try to say so. I try to acknowledge being mistaken even when doing so is unpleasant. I think my record of owning up to mistakes is pretty good.
Yes, I realized after the fact I should not have added to the closed discussion. I'd certainly join you in suggesting undeletion. How is it done? How do you propose to frame it? See my talk page. ] 04:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


Administrator HJ, all human beings are subject to normal human fallibility. I know this includes me. I know this includes you. I believe a fair and thorough review of my record will show that when I find myself in a discussion with someone for whom English is a second language, or someone who might have dyslexia, or something similar, I will do my best to respond to what they really meant, even if they actually wrote something that was vulnerable to misinterpretation or mockery. Why? Because we are all fallible, and their trouble expressing themselves doesn't prove they are wrong, and, if I am able to express myself more clearly, that does not make me right.
: I agree with your approach, it makes a lot of sense, I think it has the best possibility of success. It can clearly be shown that the correct process wasn't followed, so if the Admins put aside personal views, we can probably get it undeleted. That said, the controversial nature of the subject will probably result in deletion requests down the road... ] 06:13, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


Yes, we can see discussions here, where an articulate person was able to evade acknowledging they were wrong, and was able to "win" the discussion, in spite of realizing they were mistaken. But I don't do that. I am mystified as to how you came to the conclusion I would ever do that.
== ] ==


I've stated that, in any discussion where a third party makes a request for courtesy deletion, I think it is essential they show us the courtesy of confidentially confirming they are who they say they are. I stand by that, due to the wikipedia's track record of vulnerability to being spoofed. I challenge your assertion that informing Imissdisco of this was an instance of me using my ''"superior skills as an editor to get one up in a dispute"''. I think you erred in usurping the role of the OTRS team. ] (]) 11:24, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
:''(<small>the following is a reply to </small>)
Hi, I agree that it was a copyright violation. I would have removed it from the history if possible but since the letter was there from the very first edit I couldn't do that. ] ] 08:47, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


== We are all fallible - me too ==
:''(<small>the following is a reply to </small>)
To respond to your questions:
# Abdul Aziz
# A statement by the copyright holder that the material is in the public domain or released under the GFDL. Or that it is a work of the united states federal government. Neither of those seems to be the case. I admit this is a bit theoretical but legally Abdul Aziz holds the copyright and all text posted on Misplaced Pages must be public domain or released under the GFDL.


We are all fallible - me too.
That the letter was "almost certainly meant for to be made public" does not mean the letter is in the "public domain". Those two are not the same. Mind you, I think a small portion of the letter could be posted in the article under fair use. But it will have to pass the ]. The excerpt which was used is too long to pass those criteria. ] ] 12:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


I am putting this section at the end, because I think my own mistakes are dwarfed by the mistakes made by other people.
== from Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Robert Preston (military lawyer) ==


Briefly, a fair and detailed examination of my record will show I have generally bent over backwards to NOT respond to triggers from angry respondents.
I am putting a comment here I was initially going to put on ]
:*I'll repeat, it was not my intention to trigger the feeling you were being attacked.
**You aren't disputing that ] says: '''''"Always explain your reasoning. This allows others to challenge or support facts, suggest compromises or identify alternative courses of action that might not yet have been considered. It also allows administrators to determine at the end of the discussion, whether your concerns have been addressed and whether your comments still apply if the article was significantly rewritten during the discussion period."
**Are your disputing that your initial justifications fell short of being reasoned arguments.
***
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::or that also falls short of being a reasoned argument on the merits of the article?
**You aren't challenging whether I am entitled to ask you to try harder to use reasoned arguments? You are just concerned that the way I phrased my request wasn't tactful enough?
**So, I am open to suggestions as to how you would have preferred to have me request more reasoned arguments.
*Cheers! ] 00:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


I didn't do that with the Dan Trotta article. I have held back from responding to triggers 99.x percent of the time. I didn't do that there. Why? My best friend died over Christmas, 2020. March 3rd, 2021, was over 2 months since his death, and I was still adjusting. Pre-covid we met at a coffee shop, and hung out, just about every day, for ten years. Even during covid I saw him several times a week. We went to the same pharmacy, and I brought him his prescriptions.
== Category talk:Afghan politicians ==


In late February I bought a twelve-pack, of alcoholic beverages. I hardly drink at all. But I drank a few of those, per night, at the time ] was demanding the deletion of the headshot cropped from ].
Hello, thanks alot for your understanding on the . I really appreciate your understanding. Can you also please help me out with another category? Can you please vote and comment and . I would really appreciate your input here. Thanks alot. --] 01:19, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


I think over ninety percent of Imissdisco's edits on the commons should be recognized as vandalism. I think most of their edits on en.wiki, were vandalism as well.
==Abdul Aziz Saad Al Khaldi==
I have my preferences set so an email is sent to me whenever someone edits one of my User talk pages. Those emails make my call phone ding. On February 28, 2021, my phone dinged, again, and again, as the individual behind Imissdisco left a series of redundant re-nominations to delete the headshot I cropped. Those redundant re-nominations had frivolous edit summaries were clearly intended to provoke me.
Any idea whose brother ] is? Let me know anytime about ZK - again, preferably weekends of weekdays around noon-ish ] <sup>(]) </sup> 01:33, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
I copied the Dan Trotta article to wikipedia article space while Imissdisco's redundant and offensive renominations were ringing my phone.


99.x percent of the time I rise above petty provocations from vandals. I didn't anticipate that two drinks was all it took for my normal restraint against responding in kind to lapse. But, apparently, that was all it took. ] (]) 08:48, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
*Sorry, I don't know about Al Khaldi's brother.
*I told her we could meet her in her neighbourhood. I'll let you know when I hear back.
*Cheers! ] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


: There’s a lot here, and candidly, I’ve just spent too much time on this issue. This will be it for me. So many people have reached out and offered to help, and I’m really grateful. I thought this was over, but Geo Swan is back, apparently. So I guess I am too.


: Before this exhausting experience, I had little to no experience with wiki pages, other than reading them. Even now, after Geo Swan forced me to get involved and defend myself, I can barely keep my head above water.
==Notability of ]==
]Hello, this is a message from ]. A tag has been placed on ], by {{#ifeq:{{{nom}}}|1|]&nbsp;(]&nbsp;'''·''' ]),}} another Misplaced Pages user, requesting that it be ] from Misplaced Pages. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because ] seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the ], articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please ]. <br><br>To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting ], please affix the template <nowiki>{{hangon}}</nowiki> to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at ]. Feel free to contact the ] if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that '''this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself.''' ] 03:02, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
:Hi Geo Swan - As I said in my initial post, I don't see why he's any more notable than the others that have been "disappeared." The general (abhorrent) practice is certainly worth noting, but I'm not clear on why this man is especially notable. However, you're probably right that a more constrained flag such as {{tl|notability}} would have been more appropriate. I'll bear that in mind in future, thanks for the feedback! --] ]/] 02:28, 25 August 2007 (UTC)


: This started when he created a page on Wikimedia that had a tagged photo of me. I wasn’t crazy about the photo, so I politely asked if it could be taken down. I was met with wild accusations - that I was trying to manipulate the page for nefarious reasons, that I was only there to vandalize it, that I was looking to sabotage Dan Trotta’s image, etc. The lion’s share of these accusations were made by Geo Swan.
==Per Nom==
The guideline against using per nom states it's not a good idea if ''if several people already have showed support for the nominator''. However, at the start of a discussion, it can be helpful to show that the deletion motion is supported. In the ] AFD, there was an argument that the nomination was bad faith, and my support was showing I felt the article deserved deletion regardless. Anyhoo, I'm aware of the guideline, and I generally add my own reasoning to established debates. Cheers, ]<small><font color="#000000"><sup>]</sup></font></small> 16:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


: Maybe it was dumb to ask for the photo to be taken down. It certainly was vain. But I didn’t think it warranted that kind of abuse. I got frustrated, and decided to drop it. But not before telling Geo Swan what I thought of him. He responded by saying if here were so inclined, he could create a Misplaced Pages page about me.
==Wikiproject:Terrorism==
Greetings,


: Then he did create it.
I was hoping I could get some input from you, about ''']'''of ] with ]. It seems there's a lot of overlap between the two projects, and if we spent a few days merging the lists of articles, sharing ideas and collaborating on improving the same articles which both projects are focused on improving...we could really make some headway. Whether you're in favour, or against, the idea of a merger - I'd appreciate some feedback regardless. Much thanks. (By the way, don't know if you noticed but Jamal's wife is also now on Wiki - I'm thinking of doing a series of interviews for Wikinews for ZK, her and Sophie Harkat, at the very least. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 21:41, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


: I tried to delete it, then when he wouldn’t let me, I attempted to at least alter it, because he completely misrepresented my bio. Geo Swan apparently glanced at a few interviews I gave, then threw something together as a quick “FU” to me. This was distressing for a couple of reasons, primarily because I had no control over the page. He’d made it so I couldn’t alter any of the info. Assume for a second you’ve never contributed to a wiki page - I don’t know the protocol, and it was way more complicated than I thought. Any time I tried to do anything, it was shot down. Then I was labeled a “vandal”, or something, I don’t remember the term exactly. Finally, after HJ Mitchell recognized what was going on, he labeled it an “attack page”, and I think Geo Swan was banned or something. I’m still really grateful to HJ for stepping in and making it right.
== Religious conversion and terrorism ==


: Users who had assumed I was a vandal apologized when they saw their mistake, and we’re extremely kind and helpful. They saw what Geo Swan had done. It was really kinda sweet, actually.
I see there has been no action on this (and I can't find any discussion of a possible undelete). How did this progress? ] 03:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


: A page with a bad photo and some incorrect info might not seem like a big deal, even if it was created with malicious intent, as this one was. But my work info was misrepresented by Geo Swan, and that was particularly stressful. Even after I gave up and said I wouldn’t fight it, and asked if he could just correct the info, he refused. Im a screenwriter, and when I’m up for a job, people google my name (as with most industries). If they see false or incorrect info about me, that reflects directly on me. Even now, Geo Swan’s created a page about me on Wiki Alpha, and the info is incorrect. I can’t go through the rigamarole of this fight again, so I’ll just have to hope it’ll right itself at some point.
==ZK==
Can I get your opinion on ZK replacing the word "jihaded" with "shahadah" in the direct quote? She says "jihaded" in the video, and while I don't see any particular reason for her quote to even be in the article - if it is, I think it has to be an accurate representation of what she ''said'', not what she now wishes she'd said. I hate to come down too hard on subjects on their own articles, but honestly...I'd insist on the same for anybody else...in fact I believe I had this identical argument with ] ages ago, when he wanted to change a direct-quote from his book to say "military-industrial" instead of "government" or something. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 02:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


: I’m sorry for his loss, but this situation went on for days (still is!). His excuse of “I got drunk” just doesn’t hold water, imo. He’s still altering wiki pages about me. Has he been drunk this whole time? ] (]) 20:55, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
:I wikified it. It didn't occur to me that there was a possibility of revisionism. At first I thought ] didn't make sense, in context. But then I remembered the young kid, and the terrible confusion over the young kid who interpreted the word his translator used for ] as the word for ].


==I requested the restoration of the image, on commons -- here's why==
:In general I think the best kind of friend we can be to other people on the wikipedia is to give them a quiet heads-up when we think they are bending or breaching the policies. But, in ZK's case, I think I might extend greater ], and let outsiders who haven't had real contact with her, to call her on possible breaches.


Whoever is using the Imissdisco wiki-ID has asserted, above, they weren't really a vandal. I thought their edits to the image in question would show otherwise. The image has been restored, and I think edits 2 through 8 do show clear vandalism.
:I wasn't aware of your confrontation with JS. I heard him speak -- twice -- once at when I still live in Waterloo, in the 1980s. And once in 1991, at the University of Toronto. During the UofT speech I was struck by how depressed he seemed. I thought "this is a man whose mental health is at risk. He could commit suicide one day." It seemed to me that he had been confronting really terrible human rights abuses for so long that it had left him almost terminally depressed. He told a story about his son, he and his wife were driving to another teaching engagement with their 18 year old son. They were discussing politics, when his son said, "why can't I have a normal childhood? Why can't we ever talk about the normal things normal Americans talk to their kids about, like the local football team?"


# 11:49, 26 February 2021‎
:No, I don't think this justifies revisionism.
# 13:40, 28 February 2021‎
# 13:42, 28 February 2021‎
# 13:41, 28 February 2021‎
# 13:42, 28 February 2021‎
# 14:00, 28 February 2021‎
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In the commons deletion discussion I explained the importance for the person using Imissdisco to confirm their real world identity, because we couldn't know they were the real Dan Trotta, or a frenemy. This is probably what Imissdisco meant, above, when he asserted he was met with "wild accusations". In that discussion I said if they followed the simple steps to confirm their identity I would support courtesy deletion.
:Maybe you are right about ZK.


For no reason at all Imissdisco claimed they didn't believe me. And made the seven redundant, insulting vandal nominations. I've now captured diffs, and the text of those insulting redundant vandal nominations.
:I don't know if you were following my talk page when I was having my ugly confrontations with ]? Someone had put two images on the ] article. One was a still from the CBC documentary ]. The other was a reduced resolution image from the old movie ]. JM tried to claim I was responsible for some other guy's posting of a poorly liscenced image, because I left him a note about it on his home page, and didn't immiediately tag it.


The Dan Trotta crop is merely one of a thousand similar crops, and I do not consider it much of a loss if imissdisco takes the simple step of confidentially confirming they really are the real life Dan Trotta, and we honour an identity confirmed request for courtesy deletion. ] (]) 21:10, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
:Cheers! ] 05:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


: Ridiculous. Even now, you can’t own the fact that you created a wiki page as an attack on me. That’s why you’ve been banned. You want to be reinstated, but you’ve shown no remorse or even responsibility for your actions. I am Dan Trotta, and I definitely told you to F off. I’d happily do it again if you treated me, or anyone else that way, again. I’m not going into the weeds with you on this. You knew I couldn’t navigate the system or protocol, yet you offered no help or guidance. All of this is someone else’s fault, to hear you tell it. HJ was right - you used your editing skills to get a one up in a dispute. You just can’t admit to what you’ve done, can you? ] (]) 03:12, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
== an oversight? ==


: And as an aside, you’ve only included the edits that occurred after things got heated. I was totally civil and decent when I initially requested deletion, not to mention upfront about my inexperience. Thanks again for your help ] (]) 03:15, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Greetings,


:* Changed my mind. I said I was done, but I’ll make time. I may have little to no acumen when it comes to wiki, but as long as you continue to vie for reinstatement, I’ll be there to remind people of what you’ve done. ] (]) 16:58, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
When you added some improvements , you also removed a couple of links that looked okay to me. Was this an oversight? Cheers! ] 22:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
::* I find your intense hostility utterly exhausting.
:Really? I don't remember doing that ... although I generally remove all external links and make them references. -- ] 03:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
::* I don't apologize simply because someone demands an apology. I wrote an essay ], which you are welcome to read.
::* Before I go any farther discussing your complaints I am going to point out one of two things you and I both know, that no one else here knows.
::* You and and both know I do not know you, in real life. We have never met. I have no grudges against you, in real life.
::* I know you know this.
::* Our first exchange was in ]
::* You told me I was blocked over what you said I did to you.
::* That is incorrect.
::* You have acknowledged your inexperience with WMF projects, so you have not understood why I was actually blocked. I am going to paraphrase for you, in layman's language, what the administrator who blocked me told the WMF community.
::* They said, you had said, I '''HAD''' known you before we exchanged comments on the wikimedia commons. He told the WMF community I "fabricated" an image of you on commons, as part of a pre-existing real-life vendetta against you, that started off-wiki, and that I subsequently wrote an article about you, to attack you, as part of that real life vendetta against you.
::* As an outsider you don't understand that there is a huge difference between what you thought you said, and what he claimed you said.
::* So, ], you have a test of your character here. Can you acknowledge we don't know one another, in real life?
::* In the interests of brevity, I will stop with this single point, and call on you to acknowledge we don't know one another, in real life. ] (]) 21:25, 21 February 2022 (UTC)


:::* Irrelevant and silly. What difference does it make whether or not we’ve met? We had a dispute on Commons, and in retaliation, you created a Misplaced Pages page about me. It’s documented, and everyone knows it. Blocked, banned, whatever. Your test of character would be acknowledging what you did without couching it with “I got drunk”. Anyway, this is delicious to watch. I notice you deleted your friends post, the one where they told you how ridiculous your arguments have been. Why not keep it up in the interest of transparency?
== Joaquin ==
Is he using a diff of my comments to justify other edits? If so, point it out and I will certainly set him straight. Cases come through BLPN, you look them over, you comment on them, and they get archived. My comments would only apply to the snapshot of the situation that I was looking at. If they are being used elsewhere, I don't agree to that. - ] 23:03, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


:::: Also, you know who I am. I have nothing to hide. You’re the one who’s hiding behind a username. That’s the difference between us. All my cards are on the table, I’ve done nothing wrong. You’re still trying to convince everyone what you did was justified. THAT’S why you haven’t been reinstated.
== Reply ==
Unless you are a sockpuppet of ], that comment had nothing to do with you, and nothing to do with conspiracy theories. It had everything to do with people who use their websites to "out" personal information about Misplaced Pages editors, attack those editors, and encourage others to harass those editors in real life. Alex Jones has done that, and I was reading about incidents that make it seem that ] is also doing that. My question to Tom was asking for confirmation about whether or not Murphy is indeed doing that. I was attempting to use "shorthand" and be a little vague. - ] 16:51, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
* Looking at Tom's talk page, I suspect because my comment was posted after yours, that you thought it had something to do with you. It didn't. New section. Different topic. - ] 17:00, 6 September 2007 (UTC)


:::: And I love it. Exactly what you deserve. ] (]) 16:01, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
== Deletion courtesy ==


Are you saying this isn’t the reason you were blocked:
Actually, I have no idea. I am at best an occasional nominator to the deletion debates, and if such a switch in attitude occured over the time I have been participating in deletion discussions, I haven't known about it. I've always assumed the large warning template on the templates/article/category/whatever was a pretty good warning.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive330#Block_of_User:Geo_Swan
Feel free to go to ]. That's why it's there, after all. ] 03:19, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


Because it seems quite clear ] (]) 16:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
== purely procedural ==


Not only that, I see you continue to alter the page YOU created about me on Wikialpha. You’re clearly doing this bc you think it bugs me. But I’m over it, sweetheart. I’ll keep editing it until you get it right. Aren’t you supposed to be good at this? Comprehension is key, I’d imagine.
Yes, my comment on the debate about Template:AfghanRefugeeCamp was purely procedural, and you can quote me on that at deletion review if you want. Basically, the debate had been open for 11 days, over twice as long as it needed to be, and in that time nobody had spoken up for the template. My concern was mainly for the backlog at TfD, and apparent inability of the admins to close what should have been a no-brainer. ] <sub>]</sub> 08:01, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


Yet another reason you shouldn’t be reinstated — you use wiki as a vehicle to exact your demented little version of revenge. I may not be a pro at this, but I know wiki shouldn’t be used as a weapon. Which is exactly what you’ve been doing.
==WP:Terrorism==
Hey, I'm trying to "revamp" ] and inject some new life into it, make it a more useful tool for everybody involved - was wondering if it would make sense to hijack ] and just turn it into Deletion Sorting/Terrorism, that way more group members will watchlist it, and consequently our project will be able to better represent a knowledgeable base of academi...(''Hey, what I mean to say is, more people will vote "keep!" on disputed articles, but I know admitting this on a talk page is going to come back to haunt me when somebody drags it up in six months and accuses me of vote-stacking...which I totally intend to do!''). Seems like a better idea than running two "similar" deletion sorting lists each with only half as many people watching for upcoming AfDs. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 02:29, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


I’d really appreciate it if you apologized, acknowledge what you’ve done, and took the other wiki pages down. That would be a big step, and I’m sure the community here would see it as going a long way towards your being reinstated.
:In reverse order
:*I think the use of the deletion sorting mechanism is not considered vote soliciting -- because those with views that differ with yours have the same opportunity to see the notice as those ho agree with you.
:*I don't know how many people have it on their watchlist. Maybe only half a dozen or so.
:*I would certainly subscribe to a deletion sorting thing devoted to terrorism related articles.
:**I would subscribe to a new deletion sorting thing devoted to terrorism related articles.
:**I would raise no objections if you wanted to rename the Guantanamo deletion sorting thing to terrorism, to net a wider scope.
:**FWIW ] started it. He had nominated one Guantanamo article for deletion, with the announcement that it would be a test case for the deletion of all the Guantanamo articles that were "identical".
:Cheers! ] 02:46, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


Because here’s what YOU don’t know. I’m in contact with other admins. We exchange emails - we’re pretty friendly. And they are totally unimpressed with your behaviour, to say the least.
== Re: Your help would be appreciated... ==


] (]) 16:34, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
As the comment above mentions, 'If after the normal time period, there are no objections to deletion of a template, it can simply be deleted.' (]), which this case satisfies.


==Individuals whose articles are illustrated with an image cropped from a Canadian Film Centre photo==
As for you not being informed of the nomination, it is considered courteous to do so but it is not a requirement prior to deletion.


For fifteen years or more the Canadian Film Centre published images from events they held, and released them under a free license. Those images became a rich source of headshots to illustrate our articles. Many individuals cropped headshots from the original Canadian Film Centre images, but I cropped the Lion's share of them. I make absolutely no apology for having done so.
As for the redlinks, out of the 11 links in the template, 8 were, and always have been, redlinks and only 3 linked to existing articles. I don't know about the inclusion criteria for refugee camps, but were all those listed of significance and likely to have articles created on them in the near future? Two of the existing articles are relatively short, is there enough information and points of discussion on the camps to make them into longer articles or is that about it? Are all the camps linked, open at the same time in response to the same events? Are the camps (including the two previously mentioned) part of a slightly wider topic (such as the last statement), the article on which could include information about the camps rather than splitting them into a short article on each? The answers should guide you as to whether they need to be linked as part of a navigational template. As it stood, a navigational template with only three blue links and 8 redlinks wasn't particularly useful, and navigational templates with so few (active) links are usually deleted as the topics should be linkable through inline links making the template redundant. Depending on the answer to the previous questions, we can see where to go from here and the possibility of restoring the template or creating a template with a different scope. As for ], it is up to you whether you take it there and I cannot direct you either way. I hope that helps, and let me know if you want any points expanding on. Thanks, ]] 15:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


Who would have thought there were no other free images of former Lieutenant Governor ], or of ], or of ], from Joe Clark's cabinet?
:It's more the notability of the ones that hadn't been created that I was trying to establish and whether they were likely to be created. No categories were included as part of the transclusion of the template. As for the other admin, if you have concerns about their actions I suggest you raise them on their talk page. Thanks, ]] 18:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


Below is a gallery of some of those images, with a link to the associated article... ] (]) 23:10, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
== religious conversion and terrorism ==


<gallery>
So what's going on with this? Are you going to deletion review, do you want comments, or what? You've had a lot of time to review this, and to work on your alternate version but I don't see any indication that its going anywhere. Before I contact the admin who restored the page to ask him/her what is going on I was hoping you would tell me what the deal is. Thanks.] 14:59, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
File:Adaline at the Slaight Music Residency Showcase 2013 (10042086745).jpg| ]
:'''Toronto Star Issue'''
File:Adam Azimov at the Actors Conservatory Showcase (5454604796).jpg| ]
:Thanks for the response. The question you asked at the is actually pretty irrelevant to the . It is relevant to the reliability of the source you have asked about, but that was not the source which I called unreliable in my edit summary. If you review the you will see two important things. First of all the primary reference was to which supposedly reproduces an article from the Toronto Star. As I believe it has been pointed out to you at the Reliable sources/Noticeboard, a source that reproduces another source without the mark of authentication is not reliable. I can see how you failed to grasp that I was in fact claiming that a forum on www.canadiancoalition.com is an unreliable source for reproducing news from other sources which do not authenticate such reproduction--my comment had nothing to do with the Toronto Star itself. Again, this fact is irrelevant to the reliability of said news paper (which is clearly counted as a reliable source for news) but entirely relevant to my edit. The other important thing you will notice is that I made two other points in this edit, besides the one about said forum not being reliable. 1) I pointed out that that the words in the text I was editing were in part taken word for word from the unreliable source--as in plagiarized from the forum 2) that the only exception to the plagiarism was in fact a missattribution of quotation marks. This missattribution made it seem that a terrorism expert was saying something that actually was prose from the writer, or at least according to the forum copy that was linked. Now again it is impossible to say even if the forum copy is a good reproduction of the Toronto Star--and that is the main issue here regarding source reliability. You may also notice that after all of my excisions I actually left a reference to the very same Toronto Star piece in the entry. Why is that? Because that reference never linked to the forum reproduction. '''Clearly, I don't have any concerns with the Toronto Star itself'''. Clearly that idea is entirely misguided in terms of the edit in question. Now that you've made me look this closely into the issue, I would say that the other Toronto Star quote probably needs to be verified as well with the actual imprint version because it is just as likely that the quote itself came from the forum reproduction--though this isn't clear and hence I would never remove it on those grounds. I hope this has been enlightening to you. I still think, pardon me for psychoanalyzing, that you assumed from the very beginning there was impropriety and never gave me any benefit of any doubt on any of these edits. That's just my opinion and you can disagree with it, but I think you should review them with a bit more contextual thoroughness if you really want to get to the bottom of this. Cheers.] 00:17, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
File:Adam Beach CFC 2013 (cropped).jpg| ]
::''Addendum'' -- The reference may have been made originally to a link to www.thestar.com, which I presume would have been to the article in question. However, this link never provided any information as to what it was referencing, and existed only as a dead link when I came upon the entry. It was removed as a dead link. The first appearance of both the supposed text of this piece and of the citation came together in the above mentioned forum version. Just to be clear so there is no confusion here.] 12:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
File:Alan Fotheringham at the CFC Annual BBQ Fundraiser 2014 (15190304362) (cropped).jpg| ]
:'''Adam Gadahn'''
File:Albert Schultz.jpg| ]
:You claimed in your that I "removed his entry because thought the reference didn't back up that he was associated with terrorism." Here I need you to understand, though I forgive the mistake, that your statement is in fact simply '''NOT TRUE'''. I did not remove his entry at all and please have a look at the edit history. I removed two references provided for his entry. 1) I removed because it was cited after the statement: "Appeared in al Qaeda videos." As my edit summary states, the reference only ever backed up that he was "believed" to be the man in an al Qaeda video. Now you may ask why not then change the text to: "He is believed to have appeared in al Qaeda videos?" Had the entry been called "Religious converts and suspected terrorism" then I might have changed the sentence. As it is the statement the reference was meant to verify simply was not verified by the reference hence the removal. 2) I also removed because it didn't establish Adam as a terrorist, but maybe as a spokesman for al Qaeda. Here is the first sentence of the story: "An American ''thought to be'' an al-Qaida activist appeared in a videotape with the terror group’s deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars." The story was mostly about a video in which, again it is "believed" this man appeared. It also included this blunt statement: "The video included no direct threats of terror attacks." I concluded, after '''reading''' the source that it was bad because it didn't actually substantiate anything but "belief", and even at that this belief didn't make the man a terrorist, or someone making terrorist threats even, but someone speaking for a known terrorist group. Again I felt that the reference simply did not back the statement it was referencing, hence a bad reference. Not an unreliable reference ... but not appropriate for the statements it had been attached to. I want to leave you with this. ''Please be more careful with your statements''. As I have pointed out to you it is clear in the edit history that I didn't remove any of the text about Adam in the entry but only the references. Please review the edit history.] 04:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
File:Alex Paxton-Beesley at the 2016 CFC Annual Garden Party (27583475410).jpg| ]
:'''General Concerns with Sources'''
File:Alexandra Ordolis in 2016.png| ]
:I want to address a more general issue here that is related to both of the above, more so to the Adam Gadahn scenario. Very few of my removals of references had anything to do with the reliability of the sources themselves. There was the case of a spreadsheet that clearly did not meet our criteria and the case of the forum (and maybe one or two others). However, a vast majority were removed because they were sources that didn't actually attest to any of the information they were added to as references. I'm sure I mentioned this to you on your talk page and during the AfD. I'm not the lazy sort who sees a reference and says "oh looks good, this stuff is sourced." No I like to read the sources to make sure they have something to do with what they are sourcing. You'd be surprised at how often people get away with misquoting, fabricating material and otherwise simply throwing up ghost references. When the lack of good references has been made an issue, and all of a sudden a bunch of references appear to back statements then it is our job to look into them. Anybody can find articles in reliable media and create links to them, but if they don't source the statement they are linked to in the entry then they are useless ... even if they can be considered reliable ''as sources in the abstract''. This is exactly what I was dealing with. Trust me I didn't enjoy reading these sources through but I did, and then I explained as well as I could in the edit summaries why exactly a specific source failed to prove any relevance. Again my feeling is still that you simply didn't want to give me the benefit of the doubt here.] 04:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
File:Allie X at CFC 25th Anniversary Celebration in LA.jpg| ]
'''So you're not moving forward with this?'''
File:Amanda Brugel at the 2017 CFC Annual BBQ Fundraiser (37026258601) (cropped).jpg| ]
File:Amanda Parris at the 2017 CFC Annual Gala & Auction (31875590663).jpg| ]
File:Andy Thompson at the Cruel and Unusual Premiere (14295878911).jpg| ]
File:Angela Asher at a TIFF Cocktail Reception at the Spoke Club.jpg| ]
File:Ann Medina at the 2018 CFC Annual Garden Party (42354115484).jpg| ]
File:Anthony Leo at the 2018 CFC Annual Garden Party (42354113954).jpg| ]
File:Araya Mengesha at the 2019 CFC Annual Gala & Auction (40243906083).jpg| ]
File:Art Hindle at the CFC Annual BBQ Fundraiser 2014 (15003887259).jpg| ]
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It's been quite a while now since you had the entry resurrected from its resting place. Are you going to move on with this or what? It's also been over a week since you have edited any of the relevant pages or discussed anything related to this. I don't mean to sound like a pain but I really think that if you intend on dredging this up and ask to have pages brought back from the dead then you ought to do something or else gracefully let them go back to where they lay. Thanks and best.] 00:07, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
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:I don't have a problem with you working on the a new version of the entry, but I do have a problem with the idea that the restored version should housed on Wiki indefinitely for you to work on. It would seem that unless you are going to initiate a deletion review you will have to be BOLD and recreate the entry or a similar one on your own. If an admin restores deleted materials so that you can do this at your discretion 4 months down the road (or again so that you can initiate a review whenever you want) I think that you do damage to the integrity of the deletion process, and as the nominator of the AfD I think I'll feel like my efforts (thus far deemed completely within policy and procedure) were for naught. So yes, unless you plan on doing something now you should ask the admin who restored it for you to put back to rest. Thanks.] 11:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)


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I don't have the page watched, so I wasn't aware of your lengthy explanation. On a quick read, it appears to be a position statement against US policy. I think the section on the tribunal in the article is completely unnecessary and violates ]. When I read an article and can ascertain the political view of the author with regard to the subject, it has POV problems. It's as simple as that. Obviously, you oppose US policy on this subject, and your personal feelings have spilled over into the article. Take a look at ], for example. There's no detailed explanation of the Nuremberg Trials, just a link to that article. I think it does these people a disservice to use their individual articles to debate US policy. IMHO, their articles should be limited to the details of their own situation. Link to the tribunals from each. Then, the individual articles might be free of POV, although there will be a holy war at the tribunal articles (if there's not already). Of course, it's harder to oppose ]ING if it's going on at 100 different articles, but these sections really don't belong. Cheers! --'''<span style="background:Black;color:White">&nbsp;]|]|]&nbsp;</span>''' 18:13, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


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:All articles related to the GWOT are controversial. I am going to ask you to consider that your test -- I am not trying to be sarcastic, but I am going to call it a '''"I know it when I see it"''' test -- is simply not reliable. This test could only be reliable if you, yourself could guarantee you were 110% free of any POV yourself. Of course that isn't true. No one is free of POV. We all have to make a conscious effort to be aware our POV, so we can do our best to keep it from our contributions to article space. ] 02:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
::I disagree. I'm not saying the test is whether I agree or disagree with the content. The test is whether I can discern ''your'' POV by reading what you have written. And it's obvious. And it shouldn't be. On the other template, the POV is just as obvious. Whether or not it's factual, it reads like propaganda, and it's not particularly relevant to the subject of the article. It's simply not appropriate to take a POV position against the "GWOT" in each detainee's article. --'''<span style="background:Black;color:White">&nbsp;]|]|]&nbsp;</span>''' 16:19, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
:::I fixed the caption on the second template and removed the POV tag. I don't know why I didn't just do that in the first place. I still don't think the TalibanBounty template belongs, but I'm satisfied with the second one now. --'''<span style="background:Black;color:White">&nbsp;]|]|]&nbsp;</span>''' 16:24, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


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:::Sorry, your perception that my contributions are tainted by '''my POV''' could just as easily be explained by your reading of my contribution being filtered through '''your POV'''.


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:::I am going to repeat this. My contribution could completely comply with ], and yet be perceived to be biased by someone laboring under common misconceptions, or who have biases that they are simply unaware of.


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:::Maybe you are right? But you won't convine me by simply stating that you can perceive '''my contributions are biased''', when that perception could '''just as easily be explained by your bias.'''
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I just created ] seeing his name mentioned as being a doctor who was present in Tora Bora - would appreciate if you can dig around for his ARB transcripts or anything else to help bring his article in line with the other Gitmos. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 00:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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:I don't see a POV issue here, but if I'm reading an article about an individual detainee, why do I care how long the room is? It may arguably be appropriate to describe the room in an article about the CSRT's, but not the individual detainees, which is where this template is being used.
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The Tribunal's President sat in the big chair.
:Same comment. We're discussing detainees, and the caption is telling me where the "judge" sits.


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The detainee sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor in the white, plastic garden chair.
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:Finally we get to the detainee. But unfortunately, it's just telling us where he sat during a hearing. And all of the detainees are sitting in the same place. So why is it worth mentioning? The answer is that it's not, unless one is trying to make a point by contrasting the judge in the "big chair" against the shackled detainee in the "white, plastic garden chair". But setting up such a contrast, i.e., selecting these particular facts and presenting them in this particular way, would be editorializing by trying to engender sympathy for the detainee. So whether because of unimportance or POV concerns, this fact does not belong here.


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A one way mirror behind the Tribunal President allowed observers to observe clandestinely.
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:Again, even if this fact is relevant to the tribunals, it is not relevant to individual detainees. Of course, "clandestine" itself carries a negative connotation. It means more than "without being seen". It suggests that specific measures are being taken to remain unseen. This is irrelevant to individual detainees, but relevant to someone who is looking for aspects of the tribunals to criticize.


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In theory the open sessions of the Tribunals were open to the press. Three chairs were reserved for them.
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In practice the Tribunal only intermittently told the press that Tribunals were being held.
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And when they did they kept the detainee's identities secret.
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In practice almost all Tribunals went unobserved.
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:A third editorial contrast. How is it relevant to the detainee's article that his tribunal was unobserved? Almost all of them were unobserved, so it is nothing particular to that detainee. Bringing this up in an individual detainee's article is an unnecessary criticism of the tribunals in general and therefore a POV statement.
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I didn't misinterpret facts either, I didn't even consider them. Facts have no bearing in TfD, which is one of the main differences between it and AfD. Templates which provide factual, correct, sourced information are deleted constantly for a variety of reasons. When it comes down to it, it just wasn't what ''templates'' are for. Feel free to add the ''information,'' as wiki-text, back into the articles, and I would be happy to provide both the deleted template content and the list of articles I removed it from upon request. ]<small>]</small> 20:12, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


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I don't get that many challenges. When I ask my challengers to be civil and specific:
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I am going to remind you that a perceived POV is not supposed to be one of the criteria we offer for deletion. A perceived POV is supposed to trigger a discussion about the perceived POV, on the talk page.
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:Hi Geo, nice to meet you. I seriously did it mean to impugn ''you'' in any way, shape, or form. My feeling is that labeling any person a terrorist, using only a singular source or primary source (here, the unreliable DoD), simply repeats the point of view of the DoD, and unfortunately doesn't seem to square with me per BLP. It's not the list itself, nor any of your contributions--if multiple sources or multiple governments labeled them as terrorists, I'd be fine with it. Using just the words of one government is the problem. It merely parrots and repeats the DoD's stance, and we can't give them (or the UK government, or the Saudi government, or whomever) any special weight or value. If we do this will either be an advocacy piece, or a hit piece/attack article, depending on the reader's point of view, and nothing more. As such, the article in it's current form (and name) is unacceptable.


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:Rename, multiple sources required. Probably should never exist at this current name, as it could be seen as an endorsement of the DoD stance, which we will not do.


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Thanks for your message :-), actually I am not from that area. Personally speaking I don't think "Afghan" should be replaced by "Afghanistani", Afghanistan liteally means means land of the Afghans. I am of but not entirely sure why the idea arose that Afghan should only be used to described ethnic Pashtuns, whilst Afghanistani (which etymologically is derived from Afghan), literally speaking "Afghanistani refugee" means refugee of the land of Afghans.


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In English speaking countries, and this is the English wikipedia, they are almost universally known as "Afghan refugees" (correct me if I am wrong), originally the article was called ], I to ] for this reason.


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After moving the article, I thought I'd link any articles with Afghan refugees or relating to Afghan refugees to this article as the Afghan refugee article seems rather undeveloped for a topic of its nature - there is much that can be added about refugee camps in neighbouring countries, distribution etc, the article was created in January 2006 perhaps if it had been moved earlier it would have a lot more content.
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Anyway, I'm going a bit of topic there, but basically I would oppose "Afghanistani refugees", a google search of "Afghanistani refugees" has only 245 results, whilst "Afghan refugees" yields 469,000 results, it is logical to go with the most common usuage, which is why I moved the article in the first place.


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As suggested, I have also created the category:Afghan refugees.
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:Ah. OK. Well, I am not from the area either. But, if I recall their arguments:
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:*The current boundaries of Afghanistan demark areas that contain multiple ethnic groups.
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:*Traditionally the land of the Afghans only referred to the area inhabited by the Pashtuns -- which, if I am not mistaken, also encompasses Pakistan's "tribal areas" -- Waziristan for example actually crossing the border into the area around Tora Bora.
:*The non-Pashtun areas of what is now Afghanistan are largely composed of Shia moslems, not Sunni Muslims.
:*Tne non-Pashtun areas of what is now Afghanistan largely speak Farsi, or a Turkic language.
:*The non-Pashtun areas of what is now Afghanistan are culturally distinct.
:*The history of the non-Pashtun areas of what is now Afghanistan include periods when they were independent, and periods when they were on the opposited side of imperial borders from the Pashtun area.
:*Prominent citizens of Afghanistan, who are not from the Pashtun ethnic group, choose to refer to themselves as Afghanistanis, not Afghans.
:I am not sure I got all those arguments right. I'll check with those two correspondents.
:Glad to see you create ]. I'll start using it.
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::With respect to the third comment "Traditionally the land of the Afghans only referred to the area inhabited by the Pashtuns" - Pashtuns nationalists refer to these areas as ] or ] (or other similar variants).
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::The last point is the key point however, "Prominent citizens of Afghanistan, who are not from the Pashtun ethnic group, choose to refer to themselves as Afghanistanis, not Afghans."


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::If it is the case that a majority of non-Pashtuns describe themselves as Afghanistanis rather than Afghans (and this is cited) then this becomes a valid argument. Even if this true, I personally don't think the article name should be changed, perhaps the lead section could mention this, however I #think# most of the Afghan refugees were Pashtuns who would have described themselves as Afghans.


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:::Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I wasn't suggesting changing the name of ] or ]. I've been trying to get more information about this issue. Thanks for the info on Pashtunistan. I added a couple of Afghans to the category. I'll add more, as I have time.


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My concern is that you're not writing about a notable list here -- you're essentially reprinting the list. If the list is notable and this becomes a summary style article, that's one thing. If it's reprinting the list and attributing it to the DoD instead of talking about the list and indicating that legal scholars have attributed it to the DoD, that's advocacy and breaches NPOV in my opinion. That appears to be where the list is at this point. ] 22:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)


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:Well, first, I believe the Seton Hall list is a notable list.
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:If you look at the study, you will see that it is the Seton Hall team who named the list '''"Defense Department list of terrorist organizations other than the Taliban or al Qaeda"'''. I thought using their name was appropriate. I think using their name frees me of a violation of ]. Could I have called it something like: ]. Or I could have called the article something like ].
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:Why didn't I pick one of those names? It never occurred to me to call it anything other than what the Seton Hall scholars called it.


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:I '''thought''' the text of the article made clear that the list was the Seton Hall scholar's compilation and interpolation. I didn't think anyone who read the article was going to mistake it for a DoD list. But if you think that is a concern, by all means, let's address it.
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In response to your question about "a BLP accident wating to happen". My views are clearer on the relevant ANI, but in a nutshell. Those people on that list, a list who's title categorically states that these people are terrorists, have not been legally tried, sentenced or had the allegations against them proven by anybody. There is no proof whatsoever that they are terrorists. The only references given are directly from the people making the (unproven) allegations. It is one thing to have a vandal libelling someone, it's another thing totally to have a full article doing so. Given that there is no proof of the assertions (speaking about the article rather than the government), the article is in effect libelling those people on the list. So it's not so much an accident as a amjor train wreck. Just because the US can flout human rights doesn't mean that WP can. ---- ] 00:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)


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:Actually I haven't blanked/deleted anything. What you thought about ] doesn't necessarily reflect what others see. Perhaps you should read the first sentence of the article. As you ask, what you seem to be missing is a wider, less parochial perspective. I hope that helps answer your queries. ---- ] 00:56, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for input. I have been involved in a mediation where an editor appears to be rather selective in his use of sources, so that any unit veteran's citation of army regulations that tend to support an official name of the unit as '''3rd United States Infantry Regiment''' is an indication of bias to him. For suggesting that a unit veteran is a primary source according to the plain language of his citation of ] against several of us, we were called on the carpet for mediation, and since my last edit on the mediation discussion page several days ago, there has been no movement one way or another. I agree that army regs should be credible to the limits of the topics they address, but an inability of the other party to admit as much appears to have caused a stall... ] 21:37, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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Hello,

I don't know that much about the smaller institutions in Pakistan, other than they are not government funded. Basically for some people in Pakistan, it is not always convenient, especially in rural areas, to attend goverment schools/colleges - when they may need to earn
a livelihood as well.

There is also the problem of the quality of education in some of the govenment run schools, see ], some people pay for private education.

However there are various private organistaions allowing the poor and illiterate to attend, usually religous organisations, the funding of which can vary. An institution that provides pays for living costs, board and tuition will prove very attractive to poorer people who've received an incomplete education.

You might also want to see ].

Incidently ] is not a Pashtun area, it is in the western Punjab and it is mainly ].

Regards :-)<br />
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My plan for re-instatement

It has been over 11 months since I received a warning, entitled #Only warning, from HJ Mitchell, and then a block from another administrator #March 2021. There is a process for re-instatement, which I plan to follow. But first, I plan on pinging HJ Mitchell, and some of the other people who voiced opinions, with some points I think they overlooked.

That other administrator started a thread, at WP:ANI (here).

Some people responding there, looked at Dan Trotta, and disagreed with HJ Mitchell's initial description that it was an "attack page". I didn't think it was an attack page, either. I thought it was a neutrally written stub, that fairly summarized the references it used.

Multiple other individuals weighing in there seem to be agreeing that what I was accused of - using the wikipedia to settle a pre-existing grudge - was terrible, and merited a block. It is unclear whether they actually looked at Dan Trotta, to confirm or refute for themselves, whether it actually had been an attack page.

HJ Mitchell, I am not aware of anyone making the assertion, before you did, that I had a grudge against Mr Trotta. I see lots of places where this assertion is repeated. And, sorry, I am afraid all those people may simply have trusted you. They shouldn't have. The assertion is false. I'll explain this, in detail, below at #Headshots snipped from Canadian Film Centre images.

I will temporarily snip other things from this page. If I am re-instated, I'll put them in my archives. I will snip anything on this page that is not related to my block, and that WPANI discussion.

Only warning

Do not write Misplaced Pages articles about people with whom you are in dispute elsewhere, and do not use your superior skills as an editor to get one up in a dispute. What you did at Dan Trotta was outrageous, and to continue doing it despite the request of the subject is appalling. If you ever do anything like that again I will indefinitely block you. Quite frankly, the only reason I didn't block you straight away is that I won't be able to be around for the fallout and it's poor practice to "block and run". HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:35, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

As for the deletion, and protection. HJ Mitchell, you did the deletion and protection. Do you truly consider it an attack page? Or as unsourced negative information?
I saw the recent note on your talk page where you said: "I'll be back. I've never lost my love for the encyclopaedia, I just have a family and a demanding day job, neither of which I had in 2009!"
Okay, you are prioritizing. I get it. But I got blocked after you concluded I wrote an attack page. Some third parties reviewed the article and concluded it was NOT an attack page. I am concerned that a lot of the people who endorsed my block simply took your word for it. So, I think your returning here, to explain yourself, should be a higher priority. It has been almost a whole year, after all.
WP:Attack page has some simple criterion. An attack page "...exists primarily to disparage or threaten its subject; or ... is entirely negative in tone..." I don't think the Dan Trotta article was negative in tone. I don't think it disparaged or threatened the real life Dan Trotta.
HJ Mitchell, if you saw something that made the Dan Trotta article an attack page, that I missed, and those third parties missed, I really hope you will share that with everyone.
Warning. I have further questions for you. But one thing at a time. Geo Swan (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

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Headshots snipped from Canadian Film Centre images

For more than a decade the Canadian Film Centre held events, attended by figures in the Canadian film and television industry, or philanthopists and politicians who supported the industry.. They uploaded several thousand images from those events to flickr. They released them under free licenses - licenses that allowed them to be freely re-used.

The images they released included very well-known public figures for whom we had not yet found free images - like Conrad Black and his wife Barbara Amiel. They also included figures from the industry who were on the cusp of being well-known, like Tatiana Maslany. We have lots of free images of her now. But for the first six months she was notable enough for a BLP the only free image we had of her was one I cropped from a CFC event.

I am not the only WMF contributor who cropped images from the images the CFC uploaded to flickr. But I did the lion's share of it. Media related to Headshots of individuals cropped from the Canadian Film Centre's photos at Wikimedia Commons contains almost 1000 headshots of about 700 to 800 distinct individuals.

Did this work fully comply with the policies of en.wiki, and the commons? I don't think there is any question that this work was fully policy compliant.

Was the effort I put into this worthwhile? Well, there were many dozens of BLP articles, that previously had no images of the BLP, until one of these images cropped from a larger CFC were added to them. So, yes, I think my efforts, and the efforts of some other people, were not only full policy compliant, but were completely worthwhile.

No, I can't agree that cropping those images was harrassment, for any meaningful definition of harrassment. Geo Swan (talk) 08:52, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

The wikipedia's vulnerability to being spoofed...

The wikipedia has proven vulnerable to being spoofed. Sadly, it seems there are individuals out there, with time on their hands, who are prepared to spend dozens or hundreds of hours to stealthily undermining the wikipedia. These individuals know how to make lots of valid edits, so that their disruptive edits either go undetected, or seem like good faith mistakes. I know of two individuals, who engaged in this kind of disruption, who, nevertheless, were entrusted with administrator authority.

There is the Essjay controversy example, and the User:Qworty example. See List of Misplaced Pages controversies#Robert Clark Young for a somewhat inadequate summary of the Qworty disaster.

In my opinion, the vulnerability to being spoofed particularly extends to courtesy deletion. In my opinion it should be regarded as essential that all individuals making requests to delete images or articles about themselves should first have the OTRS team confirm they really are who they say they are.

I think this is one of the things User:HJ Mitchell, the administrator who left the #Only warning here, did. I checked. Administrator HJ was not a member of the OTRS team. So, he made no attempt to refute or confirm whether User:Imissdisco was the real life Dan Trotta.

In my opinion, no matter how obvious it may have seemed to administrator HJ, that Imissdisco was the real life Dan Trotta, he should have recognized that it was essential that OTRS confirm his identity. If OTRS confirms it, there is an audit trail. If Administrator HJ privately satisfies himself that he was corresponding with the real life individual, there is no audit trail.

Who else could it have been? I have wikistalkers, one of whom is not only malicious, but is also extremely clever. Pretending to be a real life individual is exactly the kind of stunt this individual would pull. Geo Swan (talk) 09:44, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

A request for courtesy deletion is not a criteria for speedy deletion

Many contributors who weighed in at WP:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive330#Block_of_User:Geo_Swan voiced the opinion that administrator HJ Mitchell was authorized to delete the Dan Trotta article, on his sole authority, as a response to the apparent request for courtesy deletion. Leaving aside that administrator HJ usurped the authority of the OTRS team, and did not seem to make any effort to confirm the requestor was the real life individual, responding to courtesy deletion requests is not a Criteria for speedy deletion. Policy allows administrators to take a request for courtesy deletion into account, when closing a discussion. That means the request can be the deciding factor in a delete closure of an XfD that would otherwise close as "no consensus".

I went through a two year long process over the speedy deletion of a brand new article I started on Jeffrey Norwitz. I started the article in January 2009, or at least I thought I had. But, when I went back to add some more material, I couldn't find it. I was ready to kick myself, for merely thinking I started it, and failing to notice that it didn't get saved, due to a loss of session. But, that wasn't it.

I had started it, and an administrator had deleted it, without leaving me a heads-up. When I asked for an explanation he explained Norwitz contacted OTRS, and requested its deletion. The administrator was nice about it. He said Norwitz hadn't complained that the article was unfair, or inaccurate. Norwitz just didn't want to be covered by a wikipedia article.

That administrator and I had multiple discussions, over the next two years - every time the google news alert I had on Norwitz brought me a new reference that I thought further enhanced his notability. That administrator remained really nice about it, but he wasn't going to budge.

So, I told him I was taking the article to DRV.

At the DRV everyone agreed:

  1. the granting of requests for courtesy deletion is not automatic;
  2. the decision to delete, in response to a request for courtesy deletion, is only authorized when closing a discussion - ie XfD.

Yes, of course, administrators are authorized to delete attack pages - when those pages genuinely are attack pages.

I strongly suspect administrator HJ could not provide a meaningful explanation as to how he reached the conclusion the Dan Trotta article was an attack page. If they can provide a convincing explanation, I'll request re-instatement, and promise not to do whatever their explanation says I did wrong. But, it seems to me that neutrally written articles, that fairly summarize what the references say, are not attack pages, for any reasonable definition of "attack page". Geo Swan (talk) 10:39, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Teachable moments

Administrator HJ Mitchell admonished me for using my "superior skills as an editor to get one up in a dispute".

Administrator HJ, my first problem with this passage is that, of course more experienced wikipedians should share their knowledge and experience with less experienced people. The wikipedia has no single training manaul, no single tutorial. This means Every question, every disagreement, is a teachable moment.

My second problem with this passage is, where in the name of heck did you get the idea I engage in discussions in order to win them? I am committed to entering every discussion I engage in bearing in mind that I might be wrong, and the other guy might be right. If I realize I was wrong I try to say so. I try to acknowledge being mistaken even when doing so is unpleasant. I think my record of owning up to mistakes is pretty good.

Administrator HJ, all human beings are subject to normal human fallibility. I know this includes me. I know this includes you. I believe a fair and thorough review of my record will show that when I find myself in a discussion with someone for whom English is a second language, or someone who might have dyslexia, or something similar, I will do my best to respond to what they really meant, even if they actually wrote something that was vulnerable to misinterpretation or mockery. Why? Because we are all fallible, and their trouble expressing themselves doesn't prove they are wrong, and, if I am able to express myself more clearly, that does not make me right.

Yes, we can see discussions here, where an articulate person was able to evade acknowledging they were wrong, and was able to "win" the discussion, in spite of realizing they were mistaken. But I don't do that. I am mystified as to how you came to the conclusion I would ever do that.

I've stated that, in any discussion where a third party makes a request for courtesy deletion, I think it is essential they show us the courtesy of confidentially confirming they are who they say they are. I stand by that, due to the wikipedia's track record of vulnerability to being spoofed. I challenge your assertion that informing Imissdisco of this was an instance of me using my "superior skills as an editor to get one up in a dispute". I think you erred in usurping the role of the OTRS team. Geo Swan (talk) 11:24, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

We are all fallible - me too

We are all fallible - me too.

I am putting this section at the end, because I think my own mistakes are dwarfed by the mistakes made by other people.

Briefly, a fair and detailed examination of my record will show I have generally bent over backwards to NOT respond to triggers from angry respondents.

I didn't do that with the Dan Trotta article. I have held back from responding to triggers 99.x percent of the time. I didn't do that there. Why? My best friend died over Christmas, 2020. March 3rd, 2021, was over 2 months since his death, and I was still adjusting. Pre-covid we met at a coffee shop, and hung out, just about every day, for ten years. Even during covid I saw him several times a week. We went to the same pharmacy, and I brought him his prescriptions.

In late February I bought a twelve-pack, of alcoholic beverages. I hardly drink at all. But I drank a few of those, per night, at the time User:Imissdisco was demanding the deletion of the headshot cropped from File:Gale Anne Hurd Masterclass 2 (6829984489).jpg.

I think over ninety percent of Imissdisco's edits on the commons should be recognized as vandalism. I think most of their edits on en.wiki, were vandalism as well. I have my preferences set so an email is sent to me whenever someone edits one of my User talk pages. Those emails make my call phone ding. On February 28, 2021, my phone dinged, again, and again, as the individual behind Imissdisco left a series of redundant re-nominations to delete the headshot I cropped. Those redundant re-nominations had frivolous edit summaries were clearly intended to provoke me. I copied the Dan Trotta article to wikipedia article space while Imissdisco's redundant and offensive renominations were ringing my phone.

99.x percent of the time I rise above petty provocations from vandals. I didn't anticipate that two drinks was all it took for my normal restraint against responding in kind to lapse. But, apparently, that was all it took. Geo Swan (talk) 08:48, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

There’s a lot here, and candidly, I’ve just spent too much time on this issue. This will be it for me. So many people have reached out and offered to help, and I’m really grateful. I thought this was over, but Geo Swan is back, apparently. So I guess I am too.
Before this exhausting experience, I had little to no experience with wiki pages, other than reading them. Even now, after Geo Swan forced me to get involved and defend myself, I can barely keep my head above water.
This started when he created a page on Wikimedia that had a tagged photo of me. I wasn’t crazy about the photo, so I politely asked if it could be taken down. I was met with wild accusations - that I was trying to manipulate the page for nefarious reasons, that I was only there to vandalize it, that I was looking to sabotage Dan Trotta’s image, etc. The lion’s share of these accusations were made by Geo Swan.
Maybe it was dumb to ask for the photo to be taken down. It certainly was vain. But I didn’t think it warranted that kind of abuse. I got frustrated, and decided to drop it. But not before telling Geo Swan what I thought of him. He responded by saying if here were so inclined, he could create a Misplaced Pages page about me.
Then he did create it.
I tried to delete it, then when he wouldn’t let me, I attempted to at least alter it, because he completely misrepresented my bio. Geo Swan apparently glanced at a few interviews I gave, then threw something together as a quick “FU” to me. This was distressing for a couple of reasons, primarily because I had no control over the page. He’d made it so I couldn’t alter any of the info. Assume for a second you’ve never contributed to a wiki page - I don’t know the protocol, and it was way more complicated than I thought. Any time I tried to do anything, it was shot down. Then I was labeled a “vandal”, or something, I don’t remember the term exactly. Finally, after HJ Mitchell recognized what was going on, he labeled it an “attack page”, and I think Geo Swan was banned or something. I’m still really grateful to HJ for stepping in and making it right.
Users who had assumed I was a vandal apologized when they saw their mistake, and we’re extremely kind and helpful. They saw what Geo Swan had done. It was really kinda sweet, actually.
A page with a bad photo and some incorrect info might not seem like a big deal, even if it was created with malicious intent, as this one was. But my work info was misrepresented by Geo Swan, and that was particularly stressful. Even after I gave up and said I wouldn’t fight it, and asked if he could just correct the info, he refused. Im a screenwriter, and when I’m up for a job, people google my name (as with most industries). If they see false or incorrect info about me, that reflects directly on me. Even now, Geo Swan’s created a page about me on Wiki Alpha, and the info is incorrect. I can’t go through the rigamarole of this fight again, so I’ll just have to hope it’ll right itself at some point.
I’m sorry for his loss, but this situation went on for days (still is!). His excuse of “I got drunk” just doesn’t hold water, imo. He’s still altering wiki pages about me. Has he been drunk this whole time? Imissdisco (talk) 20:55, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

I requested the restoration of the image, on commons -- here's why

Whoever is using the Imissdisco wiki-ID has asserted, above, they weren't really a vandal. I thought their edits to the image in question would show otherwise. The image has been restored, and I think edits 2 through 8 do show clear vandalism.

  1. 11:49, 26 February 2021‎ It's a photo of me and I'd rather it not be public
  2. 13:40, 28 February 2021‎ Fuck you that's why
  3. 13:42, 28 February 2021‎ Just because
  4. 13:41, 28 February 2021‎It's Sunday
  5. 13:42, 28 February 2021‎ Geo Swan is a real feckless douche
  6. 14:00, 28 February 2021‎ Get back
  7. 14:00, 28 February 2021‎ To where you once belonged
  8. 13:59, 28 February 2021‎ Let's keep going

In the commons deletion discussion I explained the importance for the person using Imissdisco to confirm their real world identity, because we couldn't know they were the real Dan Trotta, or a frenemy. This is probably what Imissdisco meant, above, when he asserted he was met with "wild accusations". In that discussion I said if they followed the simple steps to confirm their identity I would support courtesy deletion.

For no reason at all Imissdisco claimed they didn't believe me. And made the seven redundant, insulting vandal nominations. I've now captured diffs, and the text of those insulting redundant vandal nominations.

The Dan Trotta crop is merely one of a thousand similar crops, and I do not consider it much of a loss if imissdisco takes the simple step of confidentially confirming they really are the real life Dan Trotta, and we honour an identity confirmed request for courtesy deletion. Geo Swan (talk) 21:10, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Ridiculous. Even now, you can’t own the fact that you created a wiki page as an attack on me. That’s why you’ve been banned. You want to be reinstated, but you’ve shown no remorse or even responsibility for your actions. I am Dan Trotta, and I definitely told you to F off. I’d happily do it again if you treated me, or anyone else that way, again. I’m not going into the weeds with you on this. You knew I couldn’t navigate the system or protocol, yet you offered no help or guidance. All of this is someone else’s fault, to hear you tell it. HJ was right - you used your editing skills to get a one up in a dispute. You just can’t admit to what you’ve done, can you? Imissdisco (talk) 03:12, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
And as an aside, you’ve only included the edits that occurred after things got heated. I was totally civil and decent when I initially requested deletion, not to mention upfront about my inexperience. Thanks again for your help Imissdisco (talk) 03:15, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
  • Changed my mind. I said I was done, but I’ll make time. I may have little to no acumen when it comes to wiki, but as long as you continue to vie for reinstatement, I’ll be there to remind people of what you’ve done. Imissdisco (talk) 16:58, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
  • I find your intense hostility utterly exhausting.
  • I don't apologize simply because someone demands an apology. I wrote an essay on apologies, which you are welcome to read.
  • Before I go any farther discussing your complaints I am going to point out one of two things you and I both know, that no one else here knows.
  • You and and both know I do not know you, in real life. We have never met. I have no grudges against you, in real life.
  • I know you know this.
  • Our first exchange was in Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Dan_Trotta_at_the_Gale_Anne_Hurd_Masterclass_(6829984489).jpg
  • You told me I was blocked over what you said I did to you.
  • That is incorrect.
  • You have acknowledged your inexperience with WMF projects, so you have not understood why I was actually blocked. I am going to paraphrase for you, in layman's language, what the administrator who blocked me told the WMF community.
  • They said, you had said, I HAD known you before we exchanged comments on the wikimedia commons. He told the WMF community I "fabricated" an image of you on commons, as part of a pre-existing real-life vendetta against you, that started off-wiki, and that I subsequently wrote an article about you, to attack you, as part of that real life vendetta against you.
  • As an outsider you don't understand that there is a huge difference between what you thought you said, and what he claimed you said.
  • So, Imissdisco, you have a test of your character here. Can you acknowledge we don't know one another, in real life?
  • In the interests of brevity, I will stop with this single point, and call on you to acknowledge we don't know one another, in real life. Geo Swan (talk) 21:25, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
  • Irrelevant and silly. What difference does it make whether or not we’ve met? We had a dispute on Commons, and in retaliation, you created a Misplaced Pages page about me. It’s documented, and everyone knows it. Blocked, banned, whatever. Your test of character would be acknowledging what you did without couching it with “I got drunk”. Anyway, this is delicious to watch. I notice you deleted your friends post, the one where they told you how ridiculous your arguments have been. Why not keep it up in the interest of transparency?
Also, you know who I am. I have nothing to hide. You’re the one who’s hiding behind a username. That’s the difference between us. All my cards are on the table, I’ve done nothing wrong. You’re still trying to convince everyone what you did was justified. THAT’S why you haven’t been reinstated.
And I love it. Exactly what you deserve. Imissdisco (talk) 16:01, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Are you saying this isn’t the reason you were blocked:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive330#Block_of_User:Geo_Swan

Because it seems quite clear Imissdisco (talk) 16:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Not only that, I see you continue to alter the page YOU created about me on Wikialpha. You’re clearly doing this bc you think it bugs me. But I’m over it, sweetheart. I’ll keep editing it until you get it right. Aren’t you supposed to be good at this? Comprehension is key, I’d imagine.

Yet another reason you shouldn’t be reinstated — you use wiki as a vehicle to exact your demented little version of revenge. I may not be a pro at this, but I know wiki shouldn’t be used as a weapon. Which is exactly what you’ve been doing.

I’d really appreciate it if you apologized, acknowledge what you’ve done, and took the other wiki pages down. That would be a big step, and I’m sure the community here would see it as going a long way towards your being reinstated.

Because here’s what YOU don’t know. I’m in contact with other admins. We exchange emails - we’re pretty friendly. And they are totally unimpressed with your behaviour, to say the least.

Imissdisco (talk) 16:34, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Individuals whose articles are illustrated with an image cropped from a Canadian Film Centre photo

For fifteen years or more the Canadian Film Centre published images from events they held, and released them under a free license. Those images became a rich source of headshots to illustrate our articles. Many individuals cropped headshots from the original Canadian Film Centre images, but I cropped the Lion's share of them. I make absolutely no apology for having done so.

Who would have thought there were no other free images of former Lieutenant Governor Hilary Weston, or of Barbara Amiel, or of Flora McDonald, from Joe Clark's cabinet?

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Proposed deletion of Salish Star

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Deletion discussion about Suzanne Lachelier

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Proposed deletion of Ben Moreell (disambiguation)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Abdullah Asiri

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