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Well, I'm back. I'll not be as busy as I was, but having undergone my wiki-detox I feel somewhat refreshed for it. There is still lots of good left to do, even if much of it will inevitably involve butting my head against a brick wall again.

Subpages:

Recently archived

Please check the archives for anything older. Moreschi (talk) 22:09, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey, welcome back!

We've missed you so much. FAUoFPaS (Ж) 22:15, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

I missed you too. It's great to return and see all the old names are still going strong - Chris, yourself, Dieter, Folantin, Doug, Antandrus, Verbal - the crowd. Perhaps now I can accept my limitations a little more after a couple months of total wiki-detox - no email, no talkpage checks, no noticeboard checks, nothing. It helped, I think.
I see we've got ourselves another ARBMAC. Good heavens. Anything I can do? Moreschi (talk) 22:20, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh God, I just clicked that link. Dear God. 1 week for him. Moreschi (talk) 22:24, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Let's hope that some of the other things that come up aren't as bad as that one. Good to have you back from me as well. John Carter (talk) 22:30, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
It would be great if you could help keep a watch on the noise from the sidelines a bit. With all this "involved admin" talk, I've hardly been able to do any serious admin stuff in the Balkans for a while. I find myself reduced to warning people off counterpoint violations, can you imagine that. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:35, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
You know where to find me. One can but hope ArbCom will deal with the ringleaders of the latest disturbances. But doubtless the usual random crap is still going on at a higher pitch and with less attention.
Oh, and can someone tell me what this is "Tang Dynasty" case is all about? I was trying to classify it in my Plague subpage and got stuck. It looked to be some kind of Turkic versus Chinese bash - is that right? Moreschi (talk) 22:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
That looks like a question of reliable sources and insults, from what little I could see. And sorry about the vandalism. There's some psycho out there who has a sick obsession with "Yo to the Nympho" or however he puts it, particularly on trying to delete User talk:Ned Scott. I protected my talk page, so he came here because I'd just edited here. I guess. Sorry. John Carter (talk) 22:54, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey, welcome back. No kidding. A lot of people missed you. I hope you had a great break! All the best, Antandrus (talk) 00:56, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm so glad to see you back. We've needed folks like you lately. I don't know if you saw that I've managed to get entangled in the Macedonia/"FYROM" mess this time (why is it that editors who would rather just listen to opera always have to deal with nationalists instead?) Heimstern Läufer (talk) 03:57, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

← What kept you occupied for 3 months? Was there an uninterrupted staging of the Nibelungen cycle? Or does that just seem like it would take 3 months? MastCell  05:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Whatever, glad to see you back. Dougweller (talk) 05:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey, great to see you back! You will probably not be surprised to learn that the ethnic bitchery on Misplaced Pages has been business as usual in your absence. In brighter news, the Agrippina article made it to FA. --Folantin (talk) 08:09, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Echo the above - glad to see you back! Oooh and a namecheck! Better than a barnstar (which I've still never been given by anyone). And I'm part of a crowd :) Cheers, Verbal chat 10:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Just noticed this (three guesses;). Welcome home, Jack Merridew 11:15, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome back. We missed you. Hmmm, doesn't sound to original, does it? But it's true :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)


Welcome back again! Nathan 23:27, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Protected

I have semi-protected this page so that you know who will get bored. It will expire after not too long. Feel free to adjust or reverse this action. Chillum 22:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Tweaked slightly. Moreschi (talk) 22:56, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

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If I am reading correctly then I believe that User:Sephiroth BCR is advising that I notify the three mentors of this discussion. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, --A Nobody 09:26, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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Occupation of the Baltic states

This article could probably use a couple more eyes. You may find some of the comments on Hiberniantears' talk page related to this subject interesting as well. John Carter (talk) 00:57, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

A long overdue thanks

The Outlaw Halo Award
I saw this just now and thought of you. Thanks for being the only part of the community that was willing to step up to the plate when I was about to tear my hair out over a disruptive, self-proclaimed subject-matter expert in January. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:41, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

(about the award)

Amen to that. MastCell  03:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

A sock of Jacob Peters?

Hi,

could you take a look into User:PasswordUsername's edit history? There's a concern that it might be a sock of Jacob Peters, and I don't know anybody else with that level of experience in recognising Peters' socks. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 15:26, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Nope. This guy's in New Jersey, JP is always in California. Moreschi (talk) 20:08, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
I see. Thank you. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 17:34, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Also please look at User:Kupredu. Same pattern - Stalinist-like POV on Russia, Eastern Europe and related articles (and Allende, where his edits seem weird in the same way as JP's) combined with anti-Israel edits on pages related to Hamas and Hezbollah. He's also told me to "consult" some of the same sources (Mawdsley) as an IP on Lenin did some time ago, which you blocked for being JP's sock . Pattern is similar here too - remove text and references of Western authors he considers objectionable and replace with Soviet based sources.radek (talk) 00:57, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

For example consider this statement by Jacob Peters: "The statement that "many countries" consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization is a factual error. Out of nearly 200 countries in the world, the only countries that slander Hezbollah as terrorist are America/Israel, England, Canada, Nederlands, and Australia.", from . And this edit summary by Kupredu: "The opinion of a couple of regimes should not have more coverage than that of the other 190 states in the world.", . Both on Hezbollah. Similar on Hamas (I don't know if JP was ever involved in that one).radek (talk) 01:11, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Some more evidence. This user: that you blocked for being JP's sock - note the contrib list; aside from the pro-Soviet stuff, editing articles related to Sudan and , (like Kupredu here: ), and articles related to Armenia/Azerbaijan, IP's vandalisms and (and Kupredu here ). So very much the same pattern: pro-Soviet/Israel and Palestine/Armenia and Azerbaijan/Sudan + a few a bit more related ones.radek (talk) 08:31, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

I do not have Stalinist POV. In fact, I haven't made a single positive edit about Stalin and I don't edit 1930s Soviet political history, either: so much for that (my edits to the neo-Stalinism article discuss the term and its criteria). I have not made any edits on the Israel-Palestine conflict, except for adding a word or two here or there to one or two articles (like inserting "pro-Israel" once to describe the ADL's stance on "Naturei Karta").

And I do not slander people with very similar right-wing views as sock-puppets.

PasswordUsername (talk) 14:38, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Not you, Kupredu.radek (talk) 14:46, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Kupredu looks to have been blocked. Nice catch, people. Moreschi (talk) 20:08, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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aegean Macedonians vs Greek Macedonians/Bulgarian Macedonians

Hi Moreschi,

I want an explanation as to why Aegean Macedonians are forced into the article Slavic-speakers of Greek Macedonia, while Greek Macedonians and Bulgarian Macedonians get to have their own article instead of being within the article Macedonia (Greece) and Blagoevgrad Province, respectfully?

Mactruth

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Merge

I've suggested a merge of Beyond Belief (symposium) to The Science Network. Please go to either article for a link to the discussion if you are interested. Steve Dufour (talk) 17:40, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Luigi 28

Hi Moreschi, why did you block this user: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Luigi_28 without checkuser http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Luigi_28 ? I'm sure User:Luigi 28 and User:PIO were different users. IPs from www.libero.it provider are all of 151.* range. PIO's IPs were 151.67.*. Luigi's IPs were 151.70.*.

151.67 should be from Apulia http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/151.67.84.100 , while 151.70 is from Veneto http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/151.70.71.169 .

I'm working with him on Italian Wiki where he is a great user: http://it.wikipedia.org/Speciale:Contributi/Presbite . I think we need his contribution also in English Wiki. Is it possible to ask for a readmission? He was blocked unfairly.--Grifter72 (talk) 16:59, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Could you please answer?--Grifter72 (talk) 09:02, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Problematic user

Hi! I mean Beatle Fab Four (talk · contribs). Though technically within the limits of 3RR, most of his edits so far have been reverts, usually in support of his favorite users across a large number of articles, avoiding any meaningful discussion. This is disruptive. Could you please put him under the Eastern European parole and start a community discussion of his behavior or something? I can't do anything because any discussion would be immediately hijacked by a crowd of his pals, followed by their enemies, and so on. Well, just look at the situation when you have time, you know best what to do. Colchicum (talk) 20:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Old sock puppet accusations

In December 2008 you or someone else accused Roobit (talk · contribs) of operating sock puppets. The claim was that Poetcourt1 (talk · contribs) and Belarus2 (talk · contribs) are sockpuppets of Roobit. At the time it was difficult to refute this claim as the real sockmaster was unknown. The issue was finally solved in March, it turned out that the accounts are in fact sockpuppets of Bloomfield (talk · contribs). The related discussion is here: User talk:Alex Bakharev/Archive23#Nazi crimes in Estonia. Could you remove the sockmaster template from his talk page and restore the banned user template. If you are not convinced, please propose some place to discuss the issue. I have started a thread at User talk:Roobit. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

  • I would object to Roobit being unblocked. He has only made 276 edits in Misplaced Pages but has managed to be very disruptive, including gross incivility in violation of Misplaced Pages:DIGWUREN#Editors_warned as recently as December 2008:
10:47, 12 December 2008: "This is of course not how an encyclopedic entry should be structured or look like. It is ideologically so charged, so inflammatory, views expressed are so one-sided, that unless you a Baltic or Estonian ethno-Nazi or its close supporter, the entry is worthless"
10:47, 12 December 2008: "Modern Estonian ethno-Nazis fail to grasp the fact"
02:47, 18 June 2007: "modern day Estonian Nazis"
As well as soap boxing:
Open Letter Appeal on his User page and again in article space article space.
Note that Petri Krohn is subject to an ANI report Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Threat_by_User:Petri_Krohn --Martintg (talk) 05:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
It wasn't sockpuppetry that Roobit was blocked for, and this was a decision upheld by the community, i.e. ban. For a taste of his more recent attitudes see , if you read Russian. Меня забанили в английской википедии - тамошние этнофашисты, русофобы и прибалтийские антисемиты не терпят критики их фантастической истории, и я решил не писать даже в русской Википедии. Зачем поддерживать чужой и чуждый идеологический проект? A battleground mentality in its clearest form. Colchicum (talk) 10:41, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Nobody has asked Roobit to be unblocked. What this is about is clearing this sockpuppet mixup. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 08:46, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Given your interest in these areas...

have a look at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Israel_Palestine_Collaboration/Placename_guidelines, on the talk page of which I have inquired here, and set up voting on consensus here to get as wide a vote as possible over two months to nail a consensus for naming conventions for I/P as pursuant to remedy 13.1 of Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria. Hopefully, once we have some naming conventions set in stone it will make the job of policing partly easier.

I have proposed a similar thing at the ARBMAC2 case to get the community to thrash this out now once and for all. Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

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Aegean Macedonians vs Greek Macedonians/Bulgarian Macedonians

Hi Moreschi,

I want an explanation as to why the article Aegean Macedonians was forced into the article Slavic-speakers of Greek Macedonia, while Greek Macedonians and Bulgarian Macedonians get to have their own article instead of being within the article Macedonia (Greece) and Blagoevgrad Province respectfully?

Aegean Macedonian is a subgroup just like Greek Macedonian, or Bulgarian Macedonian is. I believe Aegean Macedonian should have their own article if the other two subgroups are allowed too. Mactruth (talk) 04:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

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List of important operas

Hi! I know it's been over two years, but since I only recently found the article, I just wanted to say that you did an awesome job with List of important operas. Keep up the good work! Jafeluv (talk) 10:47, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

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HMS Pinafore

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Assistance

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Squier M80 article

Hi--I see that you were the admin that deleted this article as a PROD. Any chance we could get it restored or that I could get access to the original article text? I would like to work on an article for this (admittedly slightly obscure) guitar. Thanks! · rodii · 16:56, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

ping · rodii · 14:24, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Remove discretionary sanctions at Jewish lobby?

Things have been very quiet for almost a year and even substantial changes have been dealt with calmly. I'd hate to see someone sanctioned for not realizing there are sanctions - I forgot myself til noticed top of page today. Thanks. CarolMooreDC (talk) 18:04, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Someone changed the name without any discussion. They are engaged in a lot of POV activity, so this is especially problematic. I was told an admin will have to change it back. Could you? Or should I go elsewhere? Thanks. CarolMooreDC (talk) 03:26, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

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topic ban

ASFIK you can't topic ban ] anyone without community consensus. Off2riorob (talk) 01:08, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello....don't block and run. Off2riorob (talk) 01:17, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure people are allowed to go to bed, go to dinner, do whatever after blocking a person, Off2riorob. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 02:20, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Off2riorob: Administrators can most certainly topic-ban people to prevent disruption, provided they have reasonable grounds for assuming admin community consensus for such a measure, just as they can block people (and just as they only should block on precisely the same reasonable assumption of consensus). A topic ban is essentially just a selective use of one's power to block, and milder than a block, so there's no reason to place higher thresholds on it than on blocking. In the present case, there is additionally the "discretionary sanctions" clause of WP:ARBMAC, which explicitly allows topic bans. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:59, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
That's the one. As far as WP:ARBMAC is concerned, I can do whatever I like, whenever I like, to whomever I like. I've been doing so very successfully for what, a year? 2? In addition, I do most certainly reserve the right to ban flamers for a week and then go to sleep, particularly at 2 in the morning! Please. Moreschi (talk) 13:14, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh, and by the way, welcome back, Moreschi. We've missed you. :-) Heimstern Läufer (talk) 14:24, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Right, thanks for commenting. Off2riorob (talk) 15:23, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Tournesol

glad to see you editing, welcome back. --dab (𒁳) 17:30, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Hetoum I

Hi. Could you please have a look at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Hetoum I? I believe I have enough evidence to link this user with massive disruption on AA articles. Thanks. Grandmaster 08:28, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Hey, welcome back! The nationalists have missed you! :-) Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 19:35, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi again. I understand that SPI takes time, but in the meantime 216.165.33.90 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) continues mass reverting the AA articles. Is there anything that could be done to stop this IP? Note that previously similar IPs 216.165.33.9 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 216.165.12.158 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 216.165.12.84 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) from the same university were blocked for the same type of disruption. Grandmaster 07:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

New section

Hi there, Moreschi. Welcome back. Your presence has been sorely missed and I was hoping that you can help me out with something. Can you please take a look at this and this and make your own assessment of it?

I have noticed some bizarre relations with another account on Misplaced Pages and one on Commons. They all appear dubious; even from the color photos, we can seen from the colors and the slight tint that they all come from journals, magazines or books. The evidence, the timing, the contributions, etc. all suggest very strongly that it's editor Neftchi (formerly Baku87), and he is adding the copyrighted pictures for Neftchi. Check where he has contributed and check the pattern of Neftchi edits there.

Also, note that while you blocked Neftchi previously under AA2, he does not appear to be restricted. After his block expired after impersonating a real person, the first thing he did is to revert. Is he yes or is he not under restrictions? Please note that he was only blocked for a very short time for the most grave offense that any users from any parties have done previously: impersonating a real person and passing himself as him. He has yet to show any remorse for his actions and even went further to suggest that the individual who reported him was behind it. Thanks a lot.--Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 21:00, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Slightly overwhelmed with request at this point, but I'll take a look. Moreschi (talk) 23:43, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Authenticism

The article Authenticism was deleted after policy; it has been re-instated by a sock of the original author of the article. Would you mind deleting it again? -- Evertype·✆ 22:12, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Done. Moreschi (talk) 23:43, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

User:Imbris

Hi Moreschi, hate to be a nag, but have you had a chance to follow-up on my report on User:Imbris' yet? --DIREKTOR 07:12, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Next up the to-do list. That wil be around 2pm GMT. Hetoum will be after. Haven't got time for anything right now. Moreschi (talk) 07:14, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Left a message, let's see if that has any effect. Moreschi (talk) 23:43, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
I know its silly! :) I imagine that's why he hasn't gotten blocked yet. People see how trivial these disputes of his are on all those obscure articles, and they just snicker and go about their business. But its spread to so many articles and has lasted so long I'm not laughing anymore. Its incredibly disruptive. The guy makes the most absurd edits and defends them to the death, unless the other guy gives in there's going to be edit-warring for months on end. He essentially goes around picking fights and "defends Croatia honor" by changing flags and such. Even in the face of being directly contradicted by sources there's no way he'll stop with edit-warring once he's made-up his mind. All he does is edit-war and pick fights, he's extremely detrimental to the quality of this group of fringe articles. I won't beat about the bush: imho he certainly deserved a block twenty times over by know. However, at this point, I'd settle for anything that will stop his disruption. (P.S. you can expect one of his standard... "responses" pretty soon...) --DIREKTOR 00:12, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
For what its worth, I'm sorry this ugly business spread to your talkpage, it was not my intention. User:Imbris has not yet stopped any of his "campaigns", and continues to edit-war to push his edits, despite having been reverted and warned on numerous occasions by a large number of Users. --DIREKTOR 23:07, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
More and more inventions by Mr. DIREKTOR. Mr. DIREKTOR is the only source of edit-war, I have reverted only in those cases where no sources were presented and where Mr. DIREKTOR continues his blatant POV. Do you know that there exist a direct wikilink from the beginings of Mr. DIREKTORs carrear on en.wiki where he insist that Croats and Serbs are one Serbo-Croat people which speak the Serbo-Croat language. -- Imbris (talk) 23:10, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
I will not reply here again, for me the issue is EOD. Naturally Moreschi can contact me at my talk page. Nice to see that Mr. DIREKTOR goes around the procedure and behind fellow contributors back.. . -- Imbris (talk) 23:12, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


Has the administrator warned Mr. DIREKTOR

The answer to that question is: No

If my edits are meaningless, then why does Mr. DIREKTOR insist on his revertion of those very same edits?

The answer is that nobody should be faced with such level of accusation and Mr. DIREKTOR is full of accusations, but have you looked at his record. No. Have you noticed that Mr. DIREKTOR picks up every chance of edit-warring even in those occasions where some agreement was achieved.

Also mentioning Eurovision was a nice way of telling (of knowing) that somebody doesn't do well in other fields, is that what happened.

Mr. DIREKTOR's only wish was to find an admin that will listen to his side of the story and act without questioning the motives of his desire to block somebody from editing. Mr. DIREKTOR is full of slandering of my character.

His methods of accusations goes like this: (1) He offends editors to the virge of reciprocation (2) When the editor doesn't reciprocate, he simply accuse he/she as a nationalist (3) He invents often that somebody called him a communist (4) He then insist on those inventions and paints a pretty picture as if a Yugoslav cannot be a nationalist Etc. Etc.

He has no sources for his blatant POV-pushing, like that United Nations fabulation, the Coat of arms of the Federal State of Croatia, and most recently his authorship of the Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and the lattest addition of the Coat of arms of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, which has no sources (nor the desing, nor for the colours), Etc. Etc.

Imbris (talk) 22:48, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Souliotes again

Before making the OR of language shifting, it would have been better if you checked the sources more carefully. especially Fleming you used as a ref is misquoted. Moreover the epithet Albanian Brigand for Ali is historically wrong in the context. Ali fought Souliotes while he was an Ottoman Pasha and that is the correct term, moreover Souliotes were brigands for themselves ransoming nearby villages. From my understanding first you rm well referenced material, than later based on the misuse of the refs you periphrased wrongly the lead completely going against previous NPOV version Aigest (talk) 12:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

All I did was rewrite the lede so the knotty ethnicity question was neatly sidestepped. If there was other inaccurate material in the lede before I started that is not my problem. Kindly {{sofixit}} and actually bother to check the diffs and read what I wrote. Assuming you can fix it without adding stupid numbers of cites, that is. Moreschi (talk) 12:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I see that, but if you could take the time to see in the talk page why there were so many refs you could understand the question in hand although Kreshnik tried to explain it to you In the meantime your ref removals proposals leaded to the change of the lead for previous consensual version (NPOV version their origin clear Albanian as all refs agree, their time of assimilation not specified majority after Greek revolution some during it, that's the reason of 15refs )to actually an OR. I appreciate your efforts in this topic but a further contribution by your part was expected, especially when your own version of consensual aim (I noticed it) contains wrong refs. Regards Aigest (talk) 12:24, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

No, you have not read the talk page. I clearly stated I had NO objection to "albanian origin" going back in. And this "time of assimilation" nonsense has got absolutely nothing to do with any of my edits.
Also, please write in more comprehensible English. I appreciate it's not your first language but I don't really want to have read every one of your posts 5 times over just to figure out what the general point is. Moreschi (talk) 12:29, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I didn't mean you opposed it. A further participation in the article was expected after your version was opposed. Sorry about the language, kind of hurry;) Aigest (talk) 12:37, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

After the below comment by Alex, would you consider to join the debate on Fleming on the talk page ? I think that there is a misuse of her work. Regards Aigest (talk) 14:09, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually we are still discussing Fleming, I was forced to copy all the paragraph from her book because we are having a dispute regarding its interpretation. In my opinion she express herself an opinion, while Alex thinks that is Bearlein opinion could you participate there please the tex and link is this one

Fleming p. 66 note 36) link Fleming words in Bold, Baerlein in Italics.

36) This point however can be overstated. Baerlein for example writes: "Now, since we find a Greek people largely talking Albanian and thorough Albanians writings in Greek, it is obvious that the languages which were used in the daily life of the two sandjaks (sic) gave little indication of the people's political sentiments. Yet there have not been publicists who were rashly based their arguments on the habitual language. How far astray this leads one we shall see when contemplating the heroic Souliotes, who in Albanian shouted their defiance of the threatening Greek letters sent by Ali Pasha" (Baerlein 1968, 22). The Albanian-speaking Orthodox Suliotes resisted domination of all sorts, Orthodox and Muslim, Albanian and greek speaking, and their alliance shifted depending on who offered them the greatest chance of ongoing freedom.

Regards Aigest (talk) 07:59, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Edit war

Thanks for your numerous contributions. I really believe that the version you edited on Souliotes was a good consensus at the time. However, in your recent warning I saw my name also, related to edit-waring, I do not see how am I involved in all that? —Anna Comnena (talk) 12:18, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
You were at 3RR yesterday at Albania and last week did a fair few on Albania nationalism. Everything's clearly got quite out of hand all round since I went on my break a while back, whereas before when I was around to actually enforce WP:ARBMAC we actually had some discipline and edit-warring was minimized. At the moment there's a just a big travelling circus going round fighting from article to article. Moreschi (talk) 12:22, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Discipline is completely necessary, there is great POV pushing from editors. I am fairly new in WP, my primary interest was culture and art, but I must say that I got disappointed when WP:OR and WP:TE are apparent on so many articles (more in particular Albanian nationalism) and no-one seems to do anything about it. I have raised the question on Misplaced Pages:No_original_research/Noticeboard#WP:Synth_on_Albanian_nationalism and the editor there seems to agree with me, also Third Opinion agreed with me. However, I never was subject of edit-waring in Albanian nationalism article. Check for yourself. There were two cases that I did rv, in Prizren and in Albania (in both cases was backed by an admin - though got warned once in Prizren). —Anna Comnena (talk) 13:30, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Anna,please try to keep the cases to their pages.The No_original_research/Noticeboard shows that you are the one who is wrong, not i.I would have found it more courtial if you informed me of the OR and if you did not try to do things like this PeterSymonds talk,Dbachmann talk.Megistias (talk) 20:39, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for you help in Souliotes. Unfortunately, User:Aigest still disagrees with this approach making several reverts in the lead (as well in history section-Greek War of Independence- but without giving there a single reason), and in similar pages (Markos Botsaris, insisting on the previous version. I asked him to read the sourced material carefully but it seems to be fruitless. (Insists on the 15 books, and misuses 'rs' books like Flemming)Alexikoua (talk) 13:36, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Edit war on Adem Jashari

. I reported Tadija, can you check my report?--Kreshnik25 (talk) 15:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Heads up

You have some collateral damage here. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:11, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Dealt with. Moreschi (talk) 23:43, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry

I thought your only edit was a typo correction, and I did fix that. It wasn't a matter of being discourteous to you, just a mistake. Sorry I wasn't more careful. -- Noroton (talk) 20:38, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Dealt with. Moreschi (talk) 23:43, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

potential sock

Given your recent involvement in Greece-Albania articles, I thought I should notify you of an SPI I have filed here . This new user, Kreshnik, strongly reminds me of the dreadful User:Sarandioti, with which you may or may not be familiar with. --Athenean (talk) 21:27, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for dealing with that sock in such a decisive manner. Sarandioti was one of the most disruptive users I have ever encountered and he got what was coming to him. In such cases, can we go ahead and roll back all the contribs of the sock? Btw, he will almost certainly be back, if he isn't already (the Lceliku account), so I'll be on the lookout. --Athenean (talk) 22:14, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Anything that wasn't completely worthless, go ahead. Nice report, by the way. Moreschi (talk) 22:18, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, I learn from the best. --Athenean (talk) 22:27, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Would like your eyes on this...

Since you were the blocking admin on the "Travis Bickle" edit war, I'd like your opinion on Talk:Travis Bickle#Recent edit war and handling of this article.

Thanks

- J Greb (talk) 03:00, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Another SPI

Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Andranikpasha. Grandmaster 10:11, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Block evasion

Hallo there! Just want to inform you that I saw a message from a recently blocked User:I_Pakapshem, on my talk page: ] (used his i.p. in order to be able to post it there), saying that he (I_Pakapshem) does not agree with my comments on the wp:spi case against Kreshnik25 ].

Actually, his comment is in full accordance with his unblock request explanation ignoring the reasons he was blocked ].Alexikoua (talk) 21:13, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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1RR

Hi Moreschi, thanks for your fair minded intervention yesterday, I think it might be a good learning experience for me. I think I understand the condition, I can add anything I want (cited and correct) to any article if someone reverts my edit I can replace it once, one revert on a page per day, that could be 20 reverts on 20 pages, one per page, on any number of pages. I didn't really know this but if I go to a page and think .. the lede is excessively long and I trim it, that is a revert? Also .. I take care of a few articles from what is mostly ip comedy edits (they are technically not vandalism but perhaps uncited), if I revert those with an edit summary of.. reverting comedy uncited ip edit, would that be counted as a revert? I expect I will go very slowly with reduced editing for the time being. Regards. Off2riorob (talk) 12:38, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Can I revert these edits from the ip? I would say they have been destructive, so they would not count as a revert? Off2riorob (talk) 14:32, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

POV

WHaT CAn I DO tO PUsH MY own PoV, my SOURCED POV, bY the wAy? Guildenrich 13:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guildenrich (talk • contribs)

Um, found your own wiki? Have you actually bothered to read WP:NPOV? Moreschi (talk) 13:15, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
How can I found my own wiki? Can you give me any advice? Guildenrich (talk)-- 14:47, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Disruptive editing by sockpuppet

This individual, which is also this anon ip and this anon ip, is removing referenced information concerning the figures for the Armenian Genocide and/or Hamidian massacres,. This individual was previously involved in removing Kurd(s)/Kurdish from articles where upon I sent him a warning, which was summarily deleted and replaced by this response, Misplaced Pages is not your private site,you cen be an anti-turk but[REDACTED] is an objective platform.. Which is very similar to the nationalistic vandalism posted on my talk page later, wikipedia is not your armenian propaganda machine. Could you help with this problem? --Kansas Bear (talk) 18:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Now this person and his/her sockpuppet is changing pictures on the Kurdish people article, removing Saladin et.al., and trying to create "new" pictures for the Kurdish people article. --Kansas Bear (talk) 21:09, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Mingrelians

  • 20:54, 19 June 2008 Moreschi protected Mingrelians ‎ (Laz vandal )

I'd like to review this to see if semiprotection is still necessary. Please see the discussion I started at talk:Mingrelians. --TS 04:36, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Also, do you recall what this was about? I don't know what the reference to "PIO" in the message means. The semiprotection is still in operation.
  • 14:41, 22 June 2008 Moreschi protected Istrian exodus ‎ (persistent PIO socking )
--TS 17:32, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I've begun a discussion of this semiprotection at talk:Istrian exodus. --TS 09:25, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

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Sorry!

My mistake. I'm new to RCP, and got a bit trigger-happy with Twinkle. Saw the massive drop in bytes and assumed blind removal of content. Hit the button too fast to examine closer. Sorry!! BlazerKnight (talk) 10:36, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Jingiby

Hey there, isn't a year a bit harsh? I mean, Jingiby was discussing and he was not the most active reverter at Orpheus and Thracians. Can you explain why Jingiby ought to be banned and not User:Megistias or even me? Thanks :) Best, Todor→Bozhinov 10:38, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Just for outstanding WP:LAME. There's a reason why it's called myth, people. The origins are beyond rescue. Fighting over whether Orpheus is Thracian or Macedonian or Greek is just so ridiculous: and clearly this is something of a meme in Bulgarian nationalism, so if we can positively identify him as "Thracian", then the next logical step is to identify him as Bulgarian. Which is really cynical. Megistias at least appears to have been on the right side of this one, and, to his credit, tried to counter POV-pushing by writing about it, although I think his "Orpheus in nationalism" would do better slimmed-down slightly at Bulgarian nationalism. Jingiby has been skating on the edge for a very long time now, and this pushed him over it. Moreschi (talk) 10:42, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I can't see why the possible Thracian origin of Orpheus can lead to him being identified as Bulgarian. My personal opinion, not necessarily asked for, is that the section has a decidedly POV-pushing intent aimed at discrediting any links of Orpheus with Thracians and their mythology. I see Jingiby as merely trying to prevent that.
Indeed, the theory of Thracian origin of the modern Bulgarians has its place in Bulgarian nationalism, but it is by no means widespread and by no means supported by leading scholars. Megistias is known for citing texts out of context and using inappropriate quotes to push an opinion, I've caught him twice already; I believe he did the same with the "In Nationalism" section. "Bulgarian nationalism interprets anything Thracian as Bulgarian" is not a valid claim, and newspaper articles on a certain archaeologist's opinion cannot be equated with the opinion of Bulgarian scholarship.
But sure, Orpheus is very popular in Bulgaria and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a "Land of Orpheus" slogan. He did spend some time in the Rhodopes, so why not? It's just advertising, and not that blatant actually. Todor→Bozhinov 11:01, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Citing texts out of context? Caught him? Todor right here you are practically denying the existence of a number of Neolithic cultures.my talk page.On this we dont know much on Thracians and their mythology.The Bulgarian state itself promotes and backs claims regarding Orpheus.Megistias (talk) 11:05, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
And that Menemberia,Nesebar was somehow founded in 2000 BC? diff,diff.How is that even possible? Or adding external links in that form as references/ diff in Parvomay? And this was a commercial link (after "A dam of the river Kajalijka between Iskra"), strange link that you baptized as a ref. Megistias (talk) 12:21, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Could you possible explain to Todor what is Neolithic and what is not? diffMegistias (talk) 19:44, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Orpheus

Try this but its heavy and sometimes slows down my pc The-Odrysian-Kingdom-of-Thrace.Its a pdf of sorts from scrbd.Megistias (talk) 12:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Sarandioti sock

Hi Moreschi,

Seems like the latest Sarandtioti sock: . Brand new redlink account, performs exactly the same edits as Sarandioti: . Best, --Athenean (talk) 20:13, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Hallo! Since you have dealed before with the specific user, I inform you that I've initiated an wp:ani case against User:Guildenrich. Characteristically, the last version of his userpage is a propaganda concert, giving unreliable bibliography about attrocities against Albanians.Alexikoua (talk) 05:14, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Rodgarton

I have upped the block on Rodgarton (talk · contribs) to one month, after 2 IPs (one of them identifying himself as Rodgarton) continued disruption. I'd like that you review the situation. Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra 10:34, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Dido and Aeneas (opera)

As you're an admin, perhaps you could move the above back to ], as we seem to have a consensus. I tried, but wasn't allowed to do it because of the redirect (or something technical like that). Best wishes. --GuillaumeTell 14:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Bishonen 4

Hey Moreschi. It appears that the original revisions of Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Bishonen 4 have been deleted and only certain revisions were restored. Is there any issue with restoring the page creation and subsequent six edits? --MZMcBride (talk) 20:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Race and intelligence

In the past you have expressed a very level-headed approach to this article. There has been a lenghty discussion 9argument) just in the past few days, leading to page protection. I have participated in this discussion but not much, in the past few days, so I don't know what specifically led to the protection. Unimportant. What is important in my mind is the potential for you to review the last few day's talk and identify key issues in content or content politics that you either can clarify, or where you may ask a question that might help antagonistic parties clarify the issue and move towards some way of collaborating smoothly. In any event I think your assessment at this juncture would be constructive. Slrubenstein | Talk 23:58, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Topic Ban

Greetings. Since you offered up a comment here , I have posted a reply arguing my case. Many thanks. Asgardian (talk) 00:13, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh dear indeed

I got a bit carried away with the rolling back there - sorry about that. I'm almost glad it will be deleted because the whole thing has become a bit of an embarrassment on me now. I've now told Ottava he's on his own. Frankly, I can see where a lot of people are coming from with this RfC. I sort of agree with its general gist, but I'm failing to see why this suddenly needs solving now. Going to leave for a bit now. Regards, Majorly talk 11:53, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Bulgarian nationalism

Should i develop those two sections here  ? As it adresses the history of nationalism.Or should i take this directly to later eras articles? Communist Bulgaria · Bulgaria since 1989.Megistias (talk) 21:09, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
This is the result of my effort.,.Despite my crude writing this is something that occured during communism and has carried on to today in a form and should be somehow mentioned.Megistias (talk) 19:37, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Ptrustct

Hi. Ptrustct (talk · contribs) is an obvious SPA, who just reverted your merge of Radical Islamism in Azerbaijan and another article. It looks like this activity is coordinated off wiki. I asked for CU: , but in the meantime edit warring by SPAs needs to be stopped. Regards, Grandmaster 06:17, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Also, according to CU, Aptak (talk · contribs) is a sock of banned user Verjakette (talk · contribs). Grandmaster 19:32, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Albanian nationalism split and merger

Would you support me in merging Albanian nationalism article with National Renaissance of Albania, and putting some of the current material to Greater Albania. —Anna Comnena (talk) 08:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Anna you ve already suggested merging and splitting the Albanian nationalism article in its talk page.And it cant happen for the reasons mentioned there.Megistias (talk) 09:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Anna C., you insist on fictional minorities in Greece. Arvanites are not considered an Albanian minority, see (Albanian_communities_in_Greece). Moreover, I wonder were you found the 50,000 Chams in Greece today ].Alexikoua (talk) 08:56, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi Alexi, i think it would be better to discuss this issue on Talk:Albanians, or even my talk page User talk:Anna Comnena - I believe I did not put the 50,000 number of Chams, it should have been around 17,000. —Anna Comnena (talk) 09:01, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

FYI

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Neolithic

Again the Neolithic issue.History of Plovdiv & Plovdiv.User Avidius readds this diff History of Plovdiv, and this Plovdiv giving a tourist tone to the article sections and claiming that This source he used is also claiming unreal things as that the city is "contemporary of Troy and Mycenae, and older than Rome, Carthage or Constantinople." see talk page on answer. He also used this abvg that claims that the city is older than the mentioned cities.The city had continual habitation but thats all ( Rodwell, Dennis (2007). Conservation and Sustainability in Historic cities. Blackwell Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 1405126566.) The claims on the other cities are irrelevant and the abvg "ref" has to go as well.Involved users seem to be unable to understand this that i have posted twice.

Thracians

A continuation of the edit-war at Orpheus is ongoing. Could you please check it out when you have time? Thanks, --Athenean (talk) 21:31, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Academic Sources

Since you have decided to erase an academic source I have no choice but to inform neutral administrators in the matter. As per the rules of Misplaced Pages, removing academic sources is vandalism.--Monshuai (talk) 00:47, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

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