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Anon user editing from the following IPs (and more) all from the same ISP - Telstra Internet of Southeastern Australia: 203.54.9.147 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.168 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.195 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.68 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.132 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.33 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.223 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.43 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.141 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.168 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.169 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.174.100/ (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.206 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.174.12 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.127 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.125 (talk · contribs) /203.54.186.96 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.128 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.202 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.26 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.33 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.57 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.75 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.78 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.106 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.250 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.19 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.197 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.152 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.141 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.98 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.9 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.214 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.225 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.186.125 (talk · contribs) 203.54.9.33 (talk · contribs) / 203.54.9.185 (talk · contribs)

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Statement of the dispute

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The anon has edited a number of articles, particularly relating to Gundagai, New South Wales (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), a small town in south-eastern Australia. He asserts various facts but usually fails to back them up with sources, although sometimes sources have been provided later in the discussion. He has then attacked editors who disagree with him.

Description

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In the course of editing, the anon editor has added unsourced and unverified information. He has also abused editors who have questioned the sources or who have worked on the articles in the normal course of editing. The anon editor has engaged in extensive discourse on talk pages of articles but refuses to sign his comments and intersperses comments among edits made by others, making the dialogue all but impossible to follow. He has also included comments and first person ramblings into articles.

The major area of contention began with the assertion concerning an alleged massacre of indigenous Australians in 1838 near Gundagai, New South Wales and symbolism of the massacre by the statue of the Dog on the Tuckerbox. The information was also added to the article on the Hume Highway. Various editors researched the assertion and none could find any source to substantiate it. For their pains they have been abused.

Note there are a very great many diffs involved and have not all been included; they are of course visible in the histories of the articles and and in the contributions of the IPs.

Evidence of disputed behavior

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  1. Gundagai: Initial edits asserting massacre - ; Refusal to cite sources, for example
  2. Murrumbidgee: - declined (per edit summary comments) to provide citations: but accused others of failing to uphold his unreferenced edits
  3. Associated attacks on other editors -
    • AYArktos , including accusations of stalking.
    • Grahamec
    • Robertmeyers
    • Longhair
    • Unspecified "admins"
  4. Regardless of which article talk page, the editor refuses to sign posts nor does he observe any courtesy in formatting his comments sequentially. He has been asked several times to sign.
  5. Inserting comments in middle of articles:
  6. Assertions about posting confidential indigenous information: , editors working on Gundagai and related articles have been quite careful to cite sources and those sources are published sources. The accusations from the anon editor are quite bizarre. He, however, makes constant reference to unpublished material relating to indigenous matters, for example , which other editors have removed with the statement (if it shouldn't be posted here - don't post it). The anon also suggests a conspiracy to hide highly significant material which he can't reference right now, but "cannot ever go up her ebecause of the dreadful atatcks on me by an admin etc." .
  7. Avoidance of blocks

Applicable policies and guidelines

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  1. No original research and Verifiability
  2. No personal attacks, Civility, Etiquette
  3. Blocking policy

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

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In addition to article talk page discussions responding to and addressing issues raised by user and by user's behaviour:
  • User talk:King of Hearts
    • King of Hearts explained why not to remove comments from talk pages (and alternative actions) and advised no personal attacks

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

{Users who tried and failed to resolve the dispute}

  1. User:AYArktos
  2. User:Longhair
  3. User:Robertmyers

Other users who endorse this summary

  1. —Minun 13:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  2. Snottygobble 00:53, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Response

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Statement of AYArktos' intended ongoing reponse to this editor

As per the comments on Talk:Gundagai, New South Wales and Talk:Wiradjuri, I intend to semi-protect any related articles if I notice any abusive edits being carried out from the same IP range - abusive edits refers to the tone of the edit summary as well as the actual edit itself.

All editors should be aware of Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines, specifically: No original research, Verifiability, No personal attacks, Civility and Etiquette. Any editors breaching any of the policies will be blocked and their contributions reverted.
Recommencing editing in less than the block period is a breach of the Blocking policy.
All editors have also been put on notice that comments on talk pages should be signed. Unsigned comments may be reverted.

I will revert all unsigned comments and/ or comments made by editors who are breaching a block. Blocking policy states:

While blocked, a user is not permitted to edit any pages other than their own talk page. Sysops may reset the blocks of users who intentionally use various tactics to evade a block, and may extend the original blocks if the user commits further blockable acts. Accounts and IPs used in evading a block may also be blocked appropriately. Edits made by blocked users while blocked may be reverted.

Sign your posts on talk pages supported by Help:Talk page states You should sign your contributions by typing three or four tildes. Although this is only a guideline, coupled with the regular incivility shown by this editor, I will enforce this guideline by reverting every unsigned comment or inappropriate edit that breaches WP:NPA or WP:Civil. Despite her protestations to the contrary, she is knowingly breaching blocks - she has been blocked repeatedly for a week at a time, escalated from first 3 hour to then 24 hour blocks and more recently 1 week blocks.

I have placed this approach here so that there is no misunderstanding of my intentions. I am happy to hear from anybody who disagrees with my approach and to modify it in accordance with community concensus--A Y Arktos\ 21:58, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Users who endorse this summary:

  1. Viridae 01:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Outside view

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