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== Blocked indefinitely (1st year AE) ==


I have blocked you for one year as an arbitration action for breaching both your topic ban from British politics, imposed by ArbCom in ], and your topic ban from "living people who are significantly involved in politics, broadly construed (including, but not limited to, candidates, activists, and political journalists or commentators)", imposed by me under the auspices of ]. After that year, the block continues indefinitely as a regular admin block for disruptive editing.
== Digital Anthropology research ==


The violation that caused this block is ]. I will take a moment to explain why I am electing to impose the maximum DS block length for an edit that, on its surface, may appear fairly minor:
Hello Philip Cross,
* Your three previous TBAN violation blocks were all for cases in which you appeared to deliberately ] of your TBAN.
My name is Stephanie Barker and I am a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am currently enrolled in a Digital Anthropology class, which attempts to answer how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world. For my final project I am doing an ethnography on women Misplaced Pages users and as a member of the WikiProject Women page I was hoping I could ask you some questions about your experiences editing Misplaced Pages pages.
* You are coming immediately off of a three-month block and the imposition of the new additional TBAN.
1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me.
* You spent much of those three months editing our sister wiki Wikiquote. We often encourage editors to edit sister wikis while blocked, but I note that much of your editing there was in the topic areas you are banned from here, including edits like ] regarding Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew and ] regarding George Galloway, subject of the community ABAN that was expanded into the BritPol TBAN. I am ''not'' sanctioning you for this sister-wiki conduct, as it is beyond my jurisdiction, but it does speak to your state of mind regarding the intersection of enwiki, enwikiquote, and biographies of living persons, and in that way it influences my assessment of your intent here.
2. How did you become interested in editing Misplaced Pages pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages?
* ] is, by any reasonable definition, a living person significantly involved in politics, and specifically British politics at that. Her article has a 262-word section on her political views, and she has written professionally about politics. You know this because ''you quoted her political commentary when you wrote ]''.
3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Misplaced Pages? If yes, please explain the situation to me.
* And that is the crux of it. You wrote her Wikiquote page, including content about politics, and then you came to enwiki and added a link to it to her article.
4. How would you describe your gender?
5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Misplaced Pages editor?
Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I would like you to know that I am only sharing my research with my professor and the other students in my class. If you would like me to send you a copy of my final project, I would be more than happy to!
Sincerely,
] (]) 00:37, 2 August 2016 (UTC)


If this had been a case of adding some other template to her article, it would be a minimal violation of the TBANs, and I would have probably responded with an only warning. But this specific template linked to content ''you'' had written that would have much more squarely violated your TBANs if written on this wiki, and which show you knew she was engaged in political journalism.
: Sorry, Stephanie Barker I am not able to help you with your project. Good luck with your research. ] (]) 07:26, 2 August 2016 (UTC)


I can view this as nothing other than trying to game the system yet again. There is no reason to expect a warning will suffice where three blocks haven't. There is no reason to expect broadening your BLP TBAN will suffice when you've flouted the current one at the first opportunity. And so I conclude there is no adequate preventative remedy other than an indefinite block, the first year as an AE action. The paperwork for that is included below.
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<div class="user-block" style="padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: 1px solid #a9a9a9; background-color: #ffefd5; min-height: 40px">]To enforce an ], you have been ''']''' from editing for a period of '''1 year'''. You are welcome to edit once the block expires; however, please note that the repetition of similar behavior may result in a longer block or other sanctions. <p>If you believe this block is unjustified, please read the ] (specifically ]) before appealing. Place the following on your talk page: <!-- Copy the text as it appears on your page, not as it appears in this edit area. --><span style="font-size:97%;">{{tlx|unblock|2=reason=Please copy my appeal to the &#91;&#91;WP:AE{{!}}arbitration enforcement noticeboard&#93;&#93; or &#91;&#91;WP:AN{{!}}administrators' noticeboard&#93;&#93;. ''Your reason here OR place the reason below this template.'' &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;}}</span>. If you intend to appeal on the arbitration enforcement noticeboard, I suggest you use the ] on your talk page so it can be copied over easily. <div class="sysop-show"><hr/><p style="line-height: 90%;"><small>'''Reminder to administrators:''' In May 2014, ArbCom adopted the following ] regarding Arbitration Enforcement blocks: "No administrator may modify a sanction placed by another administrator without: (1) the explicit prior affirmative consent of the enforcing administrator; or (2) prior affirmative agreement for the modification at (a) AE or (b) AN or (c) ARCA (see "Important notes" ). Administrators modifying sanctions out of process may at the discretion of the committee be desysopped."</small></p></div></div><!-- Template:uw-aeblock -->
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: I apologize for my edits to the Hadley Freeman article. Obviously, I did not consider the trans issue come under the "broadly construed" politics provision; the mention of a parliamentary act is only in passing. Freeman's Wikiquote article naturally mainly contains Freeman's own writing, the only portion directly contributed by me says she "is an American British journalist based in London. She wrote for ''The Guardian'' from 2000 to 2022." The only direct reference to a living (Polish) politician in the quotes I selected for Wikiquote is in passing. None of the Misplaced Pages categories describe her as being a "political journalist". Adding the wikiquote template to Ms Freeman's Misplaced Pages article is not original content with a BLP issue with faulty sourcing, although I did not dare add the template to other articles which are about explicitly political writers I added to the other Wikimedia site. I would have removed it if asked, which is normally a requirement.
Hello I see you have been a recent editor to this page. There is a user who is writing highly-charged and venomous accusations against this website in the Misplaced Pages article, accompanied with similarly bellicose edit summaries and talk page posts. All this would be OK if he had better sources than two minor blogs. But he still shows no sign of dropping the stick. Can you keep an eye on the page? <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 01:12, 3 August 2016 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
: I recall when someone objected to my edits in January 2021 to the article on the suppressed television film '']'' (1969), which had illicitly appeared on YouTube, it was considered the British royal family was excluded from the British politics post-1978 topic ban, so my addition to the Ghislaine Maxwell WQ article mentioning the Duke of York and his mother, the late Queen, should not be considered any kind of breach. The quote you mention in the Wikiquote article about a Scottish politician relates to an incident much cited in the UK media over the years and should have been added long ago. It isn't even directly about politics.
: If mentioning my edits to Wikiquote on my user page is so objectionable, please remove it. ] (]) 15:25, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
::Again, this sanction is not a comment on any edits you made on Wikiquote, where your TBANs do not apply. It's up to Wikiquote's admins to determine whether any violation of their own policies occurred. Rather, I took the Wikiquote edits into account inasmuch as they showed your continued interest in editing about living people involved in British politics, which is relevant to assessing your intent in adding a link from such a person's enwiki BLP to a page you wrote on another wiki. Your own comment here seems to show you were aware you were editing within a political topic area. If you were someone who'd just been topic-banned for the first time, now would be the time to discuss what "broadly construed" means and explain that yes, someone who has extensively commented publicly about a divisive political issue in the UK and who you have quoted as writing about Polish politics is both a) someone involved in British politics and b) a political commentator and/or journalist, but this has been going on for ''years'', and you've had three previous tempblocks during which you could have asked questions. So I'm afraid I don't buy this, at this late juncture, and even if I did, I fear it would be too little, too late. If you'd like to appeal the block, there are instructions in the template above. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she&#124;they&#124;xe)</span> 16:02, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
:::{{re|Tamzin}}, if I've understood Philip's block correctly, he cannot make edits to his user page such as . At the risk of making myself look uncharitable, it might be worth making that clear. <span style="font-family: Perpetua, serif; font-size:120%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;←&nbsp;&nbsp;]&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> 09:45, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
::::If Philip Cross successfully appeals this block, any necessary TBAN issue clarifications can be made at that time. That said, I do not see that edit as having been a violation, myself. The issue with the edit I blocked over was linking to content on Wikiquote that would have been a TBAN violation if added here (on top of the underlying violation of editing that article to begin with); linking to Wikiquote is not in itself a violation. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she&#124;they&#124;xe)</span> 09:57, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
'''Comment''': I'm not an administrator, but personally I hope that one day ] is given another chance to edit on Misplaced Pages. He has made over 200,000 helpful edits on a wide variety of different topics. It's unfortunate that issues have arisen about a British politics ban. He has apologised for edits to the biography of the journalist ] and I think it would be a shame if Philip's overall contribution to Misplaced Pages was permanently lost. ] (]) 12:21, 18 December 2022 (UTC)


:There's always the ]. Also, contributions are ]. Their contributions are still logged but if they continue to not follow policies, this is why blocks are done. – ] (]) 20:34, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
: Yes, will do. Looks like an entry on the ] page may need to be added at some point. ] (]) 10:30, 3 August 2016 (UTC)


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If not, why do you feel the need to curate his career and delete the reference to his breach of contract at The Guardian?


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: No, I am not George Monbiot. It is possible to observe edits to articles via a watchlist. In the edit mode, see on the right below the edit summary box and the drop down summaries. As of yesterday, Monbiot's conflict of interest has not been taken up by any third party sources, usually necessary to establish an event's ]. For this reason it is liable to be removed by any editor. ] (]) 15:16, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


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::Do you think that this redirect needs to be recreated? Sorry for the verbiage above, it was generated automatically, I should have been more thoughtful. ] (]) 08:05, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
:::@] Blocked editors shouldn't be discussing editing. That's editing by proxy. Next step is to remove their talk page access. ] ] 08:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
::::Doug Weller, thank you! I was slow and did not get a hint. Philip Cross, I sincerely apologize and did not mean to do you any harm. ] (]) 08:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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: Doug Weller, please see , , and , all unconstructive, if admittedly not necessarily outright vandalism, for what I mean. ] (]) 11:13, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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== Expressing the hope for a festive review of Philip's indefinite block ==
::: Monbiot has not been transparent and open about his association with these charities and your deletions fall into that kind of activity. He did not include them in his 'register of interests', when he insists he is scrupulous on the matter of all his interests. He is clearly not. I will be including your behaviour in an article I am authoring on George Monbiot's activity. ] (]) 15:48, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


Not being an administrator, I'm not sure exactly how the appeals process works. I don't know if the appeal has to come directly from Philip Cross himself for a lifting of the block to be considered or if one of the admins who previously blocked Philip, such as ] or ], would now perhaps be able to independently review the indefinite block which was given over two years ago in October 2022.
:::: Let's stick to a chronology so third parties can see how this develops, if you do not mind. Complain to administrators if you want, I would welcome it. ] (]) 15:54, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


One of the policies of Misplaced Pages is ] – Assuming good faith (AGF) means assuming that people are not deliberately trying to hurt Misplaced Pages. Most people try to help the project, not hurt it. For the minority of users who engage in deliberate and persistent vandalism I'm not sympathetic at all towards them if they receive an indefinite block. Such vandals are clearly trying to hurt the project and it would be wrong to allow them to continue with disruptive vandalism.
::::: Could you explain why you are curating Monbiot's entry and acted within minutes of my addition of this new information? The only beneficiary from your editing is, in fact, George Monbiot, although The Guardian probably would not like people knowing of Monbiot's activities. ] (]) 16:05, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


Philip, however, has made over 200,000 helpful edits and has not engaged in any vandalism. It was unfortunate that issues emerged about a British politics ban. My own view, especially if one assumes good faith, is that I don't think there was any malicious attempt by Philip to try to bend the rules in relation to the British politics ban. Genuine mistakes can happen. I think there was a grey area (UK) / gray area (US) in terms of whether some journalists such as ] were specifically part of British politics.
::::: I told you above, Monbiot is on my watchlist. At the moment, follow edits to his page. So any of the 114 other people may choose to remove the passage on his conflict of interest. ] (]) 16:14, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


Philip's response to the indefinite block was:
::::: On that basis, the fact that I had added the entry alerted over one hundred people, none of which, apart from you, decided to immediately edit it. Your editing was within minutes. I find this earnestness interesting. Your only reason provided is that Monbiot being on your watchlist. You decided to delete the edit, and your justification is that it would be deleted anyway. Why not wait for processes to take their course? Why leap in so quickly? As I have written, only Monbiot and The Guardian benefit from your activity. Are you sure you are not George Monbiot? ] (]) 16:30, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


''I apologize for my edits to the Hadley Freeman article. Obviously, I did not consider the trans issue come under the "broadly construed" politics provision; the mention of a parliamentary act is only in passing.''
::::: I am not George Monbiot. Do you have a ] by any chance? ] (]) 16:49, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


Philip offered an apology and if one assumes good faith then one could accept his explanation that his edits to the Hadley Freeman article were a mistake rather than a malicious attempt to bend the rules.
::::: You appear to be Andrew Philip Cross, bane of one Neil Clark, whom you have banished from Misplaced Pages. He does not appear to like you. ] (]) 17:51, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


Even after Philip was blocked he has been on the receiving end of some unpleasant or uncivil comments from users on his talk page – which seems to me a bit like kicking a man when he is already down.
::::::: Thank goodness you now accept the truth. Clark's own Misplaced Pages page was ] on the grounds of his non-notability. I have cited Neil Clark actually, but most of his work is hardly a reliable source, and he has always been a fairly fringe pundit, even though he was once published by serious mainstream publications. I will now assume you would gladly cite with approval those with similar politics, such as George Galloway Seumas Milne, and John Pilger. ] (]) 18:24, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


For Christians (and non-practicing Christians such as myself who only attend church a couple of times a year at Christmas and Easter) the ] provides a period of pause and reflection. Or as ] sang in his 1988 festive UK Number one single "A time for forgiving and for forgetting. Christmas is love, Christmas is peace. A time for hating and fighting to cease." Three years earlier, in the 1985 UK Christmas Number One single, Michael Barratt (better known as Welsh singer ]) sang that the festive period is a time for "love and understanding".
::::::: I did not accept the 'truth'; I found it out for myself when you did not provide it. It is unlikely I will be declaring any affinity Galloway, Milne, Pilger, or even Monbiot. ] (]) 18:37, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


In a festive spirit of forgiveness and understanding, I hope Philip can be given another chance. I welcomed the fact that another prolific editor of Misplaced Pages who has made over 200,000 edits, ], had his indefinite block lifted last year by ]. Since Martin's indefinite block was lifted, he has made valuable and positive contributions to the project. I feel that Philip could do the same if he was able to be given another chance.
== Jeremy Corbyn ==


Before he was blocked, Philip's wide range of contributions included many articles on films, TV shows, actors, authors, books and a wide number of articles on ] and Jazz musicians. Incidentally, when I was a younger man in my twenties I wasn't particularly keen on Jazz music, preferring ]. But my musical tastes have since become broader and more eclectic and I now enjoy listening to some Jazz singers such as ] and indeed enjoy reading about some articles on Jazz musicians which Philip has made a big contribution towards on Misplaced Pages.
In restoring the material about Corbyn and anti-semitism, you're now in >1rr territory. I suggest self-reverting. ] (]) 10:06, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


I hope that Philip's indefinite block since October 2022 can be reviewed in a festive spirit. Regards, ] (]) 00:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
This is new material. I have not used this citation before, or for quite some time. Yesterday I tried to move Corbyn's "friends" comments about Hamas from March 2009, and his July 2015 comments on ''Channel 4 News''. Not the same. ] (]) 10:18, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
:You prefer to have the idea tested? ] (]) 10:22, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

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Blocked indefinitely (1st year AE)

I have blocked you for one year as an arbitration action for breaching both your topic ban from British politics, imposed by ArbCom in Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/BLP issues on British politics articles, and your topic ban from "living people who are significantly involved in politics, broadly construed (including, but not limited to, candidates, activists, and political journalists or commentators)", imposed by me under the auspices of WP:NEWBLPBAN. After that year, the block continues indefinitely as a regular admin block for disruptive editing.

The violation that caused this block is this. I will take a moment to explain why I am electing to impose the maximum DS block length for an edit that, on its surface, may appear fairly minor:

  • Your three previous TBAN violation blocks were all for cases in which you appeared to deliberately test the limits of your TBAN.
  • You are coming immediately off of a three-month block and the imposition of the new additional TBAN.
  • You spent much of those three months editing our sister wiki Wikiquote. We often encourage editors to edit sister wikis while blocked, but I note that much of your editing there was in the topic areas you are banned from here, including edits like this regarding Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew and this regarding George Galloway, subject of the community ABAN that was expanded into the BritPol TBAN. I am not sanctioning you for this sister-wiki conduct, as it is beyond my jurisdiction, but it does speak to your state of mind regarding the intersection of enwiki, enwikiquote, and biographies of living persons, and in that way it influences my assessment of your intent here.
  • Hadley Freeman is, by any reasonable definition, a living person significantly involved in politics, and specifically British politics at that. Her article has a 262-word section on her political views, and she has written professionally about politics. You know this because you quoted her political commentary when you wrote q:Hadley Freeman.
  • And that is the crux of it. You wrote her Wikiquote page, including content about politics, and then you came to enwiki and added a link to it to her article.

If this had been a case of adding some other template to her article, it would be a minimal violation of the TBANs, and I would have probably responded with an only warning. But this specific template linked to content you had written that would have much more squarely violated your TBANs if written on this wiki, and which show you knew she was engaged in political journalism.

I can view this as nothing other than trying to game the system yet again. There is no reason to expect a warning will suffice where three blocks haven't. There is no reason to expect broadening your BLP TBAN will suffice when you've flouted the current one at the first opportunity. And so I conclude there is no adequate preventative remedy other than an indefinite block, the first year as an AE action. The paperwork for that is included below.

AE block template (this links to the British Politics case but the block will be logged under BLP as well)
To enforce an arbitration decision, you have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 year. You are welcome to edit once the block expires; however, please note that the repetition of similar behavior may result in a longer block or other sanctions.

If you believe this block is unjustified, please read the guide to appealing blocks (specifically this section) before appealing. Place the following on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Please copy my appeal to the ] or ]. Your reason here OR place the reason below this template. ~~~~}}. If you intend to appeal on the arbitration enforcement noticeboard, I suggest you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template on your talk page so it can be copied over easily.

Reminder to administrators: In May 2014, ArbCom adopted the following procedure instructing administrators regarding Arbitration Enforcement blocks: "No administrator may modify a sanction placed by another administrator without: (1) the explicit prior affirmative consent of the enforcing administrator; or (2) prior affirmative agreement for the modification at (a) AE or (b) AN or (c) ARCA (see "Important notes" ). Administrators modifying sanctions out of process may at the discretion of the committee be desysopped."

-- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 14:03, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

I apologize for my edits to the Hadley Freeman article. Obviously, I did not consider the trans issue come under the "broadly construed" politics provision; the mention of a parliamentary act is only in passing. Freeman's Wikiquote article naturally mainly contains Freeman's own writing, the only portion directly contributed by me says she "is an American British journalist based in London. She wrote for The Guardian from 2000 to 2022." The only direct reference to a living (Polish) politician in the quotes I selected for Wikiquote is in passing. None of the Misplaced Pages categories describe her as being a "political journalist". Adding the wikiquote template to Ms Freeman's Misplaced Pages article is not original content with a BLP issue with faulty sourcing, although I did not dare add the template to other articles which are about explicitly political writers I added to the other Wikimedia site. I would have removed it if asked, which is normally a requirement.
I recall when someone objected to my edits in January 2021 to the article on the suppressed television film Royal Family (1969), which had illicitly appeared on YouTube, it was considered the British royal family was excluded from the British politics post-1978 topic ban, so my addition to the Ghislaine Maxwell WQ article mentioning the Duke of York and his mother, the late Queen, should not be considered any kind of breach. The quote you mention in the Wikiquote article about a Scottish politician relates to an incident much cited in the UK media over the years and should have been added long ago. It isn't even directly about politics.
If mentioning my edits to Wikiquote on my user page is so objectionable, please remove it. Philip Cross (talk) 15:25, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Again, this sanction is not a comment on any edits you made on Wikiquote, where your TBANs do not apply. It's up to Wikiquote's admins to determine whether any violation of their own policies occurred. Rather, I took the Wikiquote edits into account inasmuch as they showed your continued interest in editing about living people involved in British politics, which is relevant to assessing your intent in adding a link from such a person's enwiki BLP to a page you wrote on another wiki. Your own comment here seems to show you were aware you were editing within a political topic area. If you were someone who'd just been topic-banned for the first time, now would be the time to discuss what "broadly construed" means and explain that yes, someone who has extensively commented publicly about a divisive political issue in the UK and who you have quoted as writing about Polish politics is both a) someone involved in British politics and b) a political commentator and/or journalist, but this has been going on for years, and you've had three previous tempblocks during which you could have asked questions. So I'm afraid I don't buy this, at this late juncture, and even if I did, I fear it would be too little, too late. If you'd like to appeal the block, there are instructions in the template above. -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 16:02, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
@Tamzin:, if I've understood Philip's block correctly, he cannot make edits to his user page such as this one. At the risk of making myself look uncharitable, it might be worth making that clear.     ←   ZScarpia   09:45, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
If Philip Cross successfully appeals this block, any necessary TBAN issue clarifications can be made at that time. That said, I do not see that edit as having been a violation, myself. The issue with the edit I blocked over was linking to content on Wikiquote that would have been a TBAN violation if added here (on top of the underlying violation of editing that article to begin with); linking to Wikiquote is not in itself a violation. -- Tamzin (she|they|xe) 09:57, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Comment: I'm not an administrator, but personally I hope that one day Philip Cross is given another chance to edit on Misplaced Pages. He has made over 200,000 helpful edits on a wide variety of different topics. It's unfortunate that issues have arisen about a British politics ban. He has apologised for edits to the biography of the journalist Hadley Freeman and I think it would be a shame if Philip's overall contribution to Misplaced Pages was permanently lost. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 12:21, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

There's always the standard offer. Also, contributions are for an entire good. Their contributions are still logged but if they continue to not follow policies, this is why blocks are done. – The Grid (talk) 20:34, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Sydney Cooke

Hello, Philip Cross

Welcome to Misplaced Pages! I edit here too, under the username Викидим, and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I've proposed an article that you started, Sydney Cooke, for deletion because it meets one or more of our deletion criteria, and I don't think that it is suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. The particular issue can be found in the notice that is now visible at the top of the article.

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Викидим (talk) 22:38, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Do you think that this redirect needs to be recreated? Sorry for the verbiage above, it was generated automatically, I should have been more thoughtful. Викидим (talk) 08:05, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
@Викидим Blocked editors shouldn't be discussing editing. That's editing by proxy. Next step is to remove their talk page access. Doug Weller talk 08:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Doug Weller, thank you! I was slow and did not get a hint. Philip Cross, I sincerely apologize and did not mean to do you any harm. Викидим (talk) 08:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Please don't use your talk page for anything but an appeal - and I don't see occasional vandalism

I hope that's clear. Doug Weller talk 10:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Doug Weller, please see this edit, this edit, and this edit, all unconstructive, if admittedly not necessarily outright vandalism, for what I mean. Philip Cross (talk) 11:13, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Definitely unconstructive yet not outright vandalism. But a very tiny percent of edits on your talk page. Doug Weller talk 12:22, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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Expressing the hope for a festive review of Philip's indefinite block

Not being an administrator, I'm not sure exactly how the appeals process works. I don't know if the appeal has to come directly from Philip Cross himself for a lifting of the block to be considered or if one of the admins who previously blocked Philip, such as Sandstein or HJ Mitchell, would now perhaps be able to independently review the indefinite block which was given over two years ago in October 2022.

One of the policies of Misplaced Pages is WP:AGF – Assuming good faith (AGF) means assuming that people are not deliberately trying to hurt Misplaced Pages. Most people try to help the project, not hurt it. For the minority of users who engage in deliberate and persistent vandalism I'm not sympathetic at all towards them if they receive an indefinite block. Such vandals are clearly trying to hurt the project and it would be wrong to allow them to continue with disruptive vandalism.

Philip, however, has made over 200,000 helpful edits and has not engaged in any vandalism. It was unfortunate that issues emerged about a British politics ban. My own view, especially if one assumes good faith, is that I don't think there was any malicious attempt by Philip to try to bend the rules in relation to the British politics ban. Genuine mistakes can happen. I think there was a grey area (UK) / gray area (US) in terms of whether some journalists such as Hadley Freeman were specifically part of British politics.

Philip's response to the indefinite block was:

I apologize for my edits to the Hadley Freeman article. Obviously, I did not consider the trans issue come under the "broadly construed" politics provision; the mention of a parliamentary act is only in passing.

Philip offered an apology and if one assumes good faith then one could accept his explanation that his edits to the Hadley Freeman article were a mistake rather than a malicious attempt to bend the rules.

Even after Philip was blocked he has been on the receiving end of some unpleasant or uncivil comments from users on his talk page – which seems to me a bit like kicking a man when he is already down.

For Christians (and non-practicing Christians such as myself who only attend church a couple of times a year at Christmas and Easter) the Christmas and holiday season provides a period of pause and reflection. Or as Cliff Richard sang in his 1988 festive UK Number one single "A time for forgiving and for forgetting. Christmas is love, Christmas is peace. A time for hating and fighting to cease." Three years earlier, in the 1985 UK Christmas Number One single, Michael Barratt (better known as Welsh singer Shakin' Stevens) sang that the festive period is a time for "love and understanding".

In a festive spirit of forgiveness and understanding, I hope Philip can be given another chance. I welcomed the fact that another prolific editor of Misplaced Pages who has made over 200,000 edits, Martinevans123, had his indefinite block lifted last year by Diannaa. Since Martin's indefinite block was lifted, he has made valuable and positive contributions to the project. I feel that Philip could do the same if he was able to be given another chance.

Before he was blocked, Philip's wide range of contributions included many articles on films, TV shows, actors, authors, books and a wide number of articles on Jazz and Jazz musicians. Incidentally, when I was a younger man in my twenties I wasn't particularly keen on Jazz music, preferring Soft rock. But my musical tastes have since become broader and more eclectic and I now enjoy listening to some Jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and indeed enjoy reading about some articles on Jazz musicians which Philip has made a big contribution towards on Misplaced Pages.

I hope that Philip's indefinite block since October 2022 can be reviewed in a festive spirit. Regards, Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 00:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)