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Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Misplaced Pages's policy on edit warring. Thank you. 24.177.121.29 (talk) 18:08, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Funny. Sean.hoyland - talk 18:11, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

amiram goldblum

hi sean - i am coming to you "on purpose", knowing that we don't always see eye to eye. and despite this, we have been productive wiki editors for the past few years. so, i am starting with you. will you please have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Amiram_Goldblum and the article itself. it had been deleted in august, and the deleting editor explained why. i corrected all of the 'issues', and basically, wrote an entire new article (you can see it in the first diff). since then, a user named rastiniak (who sometimes claims he is goldblum himself, and sometimes not) and an anon IP (who also claims to be goldblum and sometimes not), have taken apart the article. i have given these editors the benefit of the doubt (and certainly if it is the subject himself, then he knows, right?). but, it can't possibly be that 4-5 RS are all wrong, are all too extreme, etc. - it just isn't right....imho. and his style of commenting on the talk page (and in the edit summaries) is quite alarming. so, please, take a look at the article, his edits, the comments on the talk page, etc. i would appreciate it. Soosim (talk) 15:06, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

I'll have a look through this next week. I know absolutely nothing about Amiram Goldblum, which is probably an advantage. If things get out of control on a BLP article, I think it's always worth considering posting something at WP:BLPN. It seems to be watched by quite a lot of editors and I've seen it help solve issues and result in more monitoring of an article many times. Sean.hoyland - talk 16:45, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

in the few hours since i wrote to you, it did get worse.....i'll try blpn, and you can look too. thanks. Soosim (talk) 17:01, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Sean, this is a horrible mess. The article is being vandalised by Runtshit socks, who keep adding defamatory content. An earlier article on Goldblum was deleted, at his request, because of Runtshit libels and vandalism. It's true that he is himself editing the article, and apparently edit-warring; but he is facing an apparently coordinated attack, which may be linked to a libel action in Israel. I'm not sure what is the best approach here. Both scierntifically and politically, Goldblum would appear to be notable, but the article is such a magnet for defamation that perhaps it should again be deleted. Failing that, it should certainly be edit-protected, to prevent IPs and throwaway SPAs from adding abuse and libel. It would certainly be wrong to take any action against Goldblum/Rastiniak alone. RolandR (talk) 18:18, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Ah, Runtshit socks...I can see how that poses an ethical dilemma for Misplaced Pages. I see that "pending changes" has been implemented for the article. It'll be interesting to see whether that works. If it does, it should probably be done for a lot more articles in the topic area. Sean.hoyland - talk 07:22, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

here here! Soosim (talk) 07:43, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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Sorry

I was wrong, you did not say you had a copy of the book, you said you were looking at the GBooks version. Please accept my apology. Darkness Shines (talk) 13:51, 7 December 2012 (UTC)