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MrLag525

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Carter00000

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Pranesh Ravikumar

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Bookku

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Trickipaedia

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Request concerning Trickipaedia

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User who is submitting this request for enforcement
Venkat TL (talk Â· contribs Â· deleted contribs Â· logs Â· filter log Â· block user Â· block log) 11:12, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
User against whom enforcement is requested
Trickipaedia (talk Â· contribs Â· deleted contribs Â· logs Â· filter log Â· block user Â· block log)

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Sanction or remedy to be enforced
Wikipedia:General sanctions/South Asian social groups, WP:ARBIPA, WP:NEWBLPBAN
Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
  1. Special:Diff/1107338973 29 August 2022, Trickipaedia removed caste related biography information from an Indian politician's page. The info was reliably sourced where the politician has explicitly self identified himself with the caste.
  2. Special:Diff/1110902128 removed the same again (edit warring) without completing discussion. (I have not reverted his second edit, so far)
  3. Special:Diff/1110424602 same disruption on other articles.

It seems Trickipaedia has taken it upon himself to purge Wikipedia of caste related information. When asked about what Wikipedia policy approves of his actions, I was called a promoter of casteism (which I take as a personal attack), in a message on my user talk Special:Diff/1110904786 and was asked to "stop casteism". (I am neither a caste warrior, nor caste promoter etc). Responding to my question, Special:Diff/1110778705/1110904555 he pointed me to WP:GS/CASTE, even though that page nowhere says anything about purging caste info from articles.

I have not checked his past contributions to gauge the extent of this disruption, so admins should check and revert them. I am making this request to the admins to put an end to his purging and disruption of information and personal attacks when challenged.

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Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested
Special:Diff/1110924214
Additional comments by editor filing complaint
  • @Deepfriedokra: Trickipaedia himself quoted Special:Diff/1110904786 GS/CASTE so you cannot say, that he is not aware about General Sanctions. Venkat TL (talk) 12:03, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Trickipaedia: First of all you need to calm down. I am not calling for your block or ban in this request, (although it is possible if you dont leave any other option for the admins). I am asking you to stop removing caste information from biographies. Especially not with the misleading reasons and policy misrepresentation that you have been doing so far. Also you should stop calling other users "caste promoters" if they challenge your removal. It is ok to have an opinion that a bit of info is not deserved in an article, but it is not ok to make personal attacks when others question your opinion and action. Much less edit war over it. Since you feel so strongly about caste, for your own personal mental peace, I suggest you dont edit anything related to caste.
I am not sure where you are coming from and your intentions behind this bowdlerizing of encyclopedic information from Biographies. Some people wrongly believe that by censoring any mention of caste will simply abolish it. Just as some people in USA believe that preventing kids from learning about slavery, will stop racism. It doesn't. No you cannot do it by deleting history from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not for caste activism. Let me give you an analogy of this situation related to your edits. 44th US President Barak Obama, when he says he is black, he is not promoting racism or inviting racism. Neither are Wiki users promoting racism when they write it in his bio. Sisodia has genuine reasons in discussing his caste with the newspaper. Similarly Wikipedia documents his political positions as he is a public servant. (Deputy Chief Minister) an executive government post. --Venkat TL (talk) 18:48, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion concerning Trickipaedia

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Statement by Trickipaedia

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Exactly what is the "charge" and what is the proposed punishment? What Venkat TL is doing here is bullying by unnecessarily dragging me to some sort of penal noticeboard. I have not vandalised any page or acted in bad faith in any article edit ever. And the other bit about Sonia Gandhi that somebody mentioned, can be referenced through thousands of scholarly books (go to books.google.com) , including her authoritative biography. So I have no idea why adding her real name before immigrating to India, is a problem. Is every Indian person's Wikipedia page supposed to mention his "caste", an outmoded and divisive distinction? There has to be some relevance to the article. Doesn't the GS/CASTE policy mention that "explicitly including caste associations" can be a ground for sanctions? So, it should be Venkat TL who should be sanctioned for including it.

Caste is a sensitive matter and I do not see why somebody wants to sanction someone for removing "caste" of a living Indian politician. Have I committed a grave sin? This is the norm that many others follow and tell others. I did not invent it; I noted others saying that caste affiliations are discouraged unless relevant.

In any case, I think the right thing would have been to send me a message about why including caste for every Indian politician/person is important and inviting me to a talk page discussion on Sisodia's talk page about why his caste must be mentioned there. Instead, it has turned into an ego war where the complainant wants to feel some sort of gleeful sense of victory and vanquishing for getting me "sanctioned"—a practice some editors engage in but is actually very bad for the Project where many people genuinely want to contribute. Honestly, the admins would be wise to not turn something so trivial into negativity. If everybody here agrees that caste must be mentioned for Sisodia and other Indians, then just say it. Why "sanction" me for doing what I think is reasonable. Why are we applying a different standard for Indian politicians when we don't mention "race" for Western politicians? If there is anyone here who needs sanctioning then it is Venkat TL who is obviously abusing this forum which is used for serious matters and not basic content dispute. I rest my case and will not read or reply any further.--Trickipaedia (talk) 17:47, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

--Trickipaedia (talk) 17:47, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Result concerning Trickipaedia

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Edits like this (in opposition to the source clearly given), this additional removal of Rajput, and while not critical, adding unsourced BLP info in the IPA area (just before the DS alert by DW), all make me think they don't need to be in the IPA area. Their other edits to technical articles seem ok on the surface, but there seems to be a desire to Right Great Wrongs in regard to castes. This isn't conducive to collaboration. The disruption is new and limited to just a couple of edits at this time, but still, I would need to hear from Trickipaedia to get an idea where they expect to go from here. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 12:31, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Trickipaedia, if your goal was to demonstrate why sanctions aren't necessary, you failed spectacularly. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 02:21, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think we could do a tban on anything related to the caste system in India, and that would be a narrow but adequate sanction that should remove disruption without keeping them from being able to edit in the area. Just not anything caste related. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 12:29, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • WP:GS/CASTE does say "explicitly including caste associations", but that phrase means that the general sanctions that page is for apply to content relating to caste associations. For example an editor could be topic banned from editing topics related to caste associations under those sanctions if they edit disruptively. That page doesn't say anything about what you can or cannot include in articles and certainly does not mean you can be sanctioned just for mentioning caste. I hope this is just a big misunderstanding but I don't object to the topic ban suggested above. Hut 8.5 18:29, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Extorc

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Request concerning Extorc

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User who is submitting this request for enforcement
Venkat TL (talk Â· contribs Â· deleted contribs Â· logs Â· filter log Â· block user Â· block log) 13:44, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
User against whom enforcement is requested
Extorc (talk Â· contribs Â· deleted contribs Â· logs Â· filter log Â· block user Â· block log)

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Sanction or remedy to be enforced
WP:NEWBLPBAN, WP:ARBIPA
Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
On Popular Front of India (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
  1. 23 September 2022 Multiple BLP violations of WP:SUSPECT was wrongly restored. Extremely controversial content based on primary sources was wrongly restored.
  2. 23 September 2022 Despite warning on user talk and Article talk to not restore the contentious and poorly sourced material, went ahead to violate WP:BLP once again with edit warring.
    Since the above 2 diffs involve large amount of text, you can refer to these smaller diffs, Where I removed the content, but the same was restored by Extorc in above mass reverts. Special:Diff/1111743592/1111744176, Special:Diff/1111744533/1111744672, Special:Diff/1111758739/1111759127 among others.
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Additional comments by editor filing complaint
As mentioned here Special:Diff/1111873135, Extorc believes that if arrests of a person have occured the person can be named on Wikipedia articles.
The article is controversial and Extorc was repeatedly asked by me to be mindful of WP:BLP yet he proceeded to repeatedly add it into the article. Many of the additions were originally added by Extorc (e.g. Special:Diff/1089577061), so I believe this user needs a timeout until he agrees not to violate WP:SUSPECT and shows understanding of WP:BLP. --Venkat TL (talk) 13:52, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Extorc's response makes clear his motivations to edit war and restore the policy violations. I believe his plan was to take this to WP:ANEW. He claims I removed content "without providing any meaningful explanation". As if the long discussion and explanation by me, on the talk page dont even exist. Rest of the diffs are attempts at deflection. --Venkat TL (talk) 15:12, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion concerning Extorc

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Statement by Extorc

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Venkat TL appears to be using "BLP" as an exemption for his content removal of over 30,000 bytes of content by providing misleading edit summaries[17][18] and using horrible sources such as Instagram.com.[19] . If Venkat TL wants to rewrite some sentences or remove the names then he needs to mention that but he is using "BLP" as improper justification for removing more than 30,000 bytes and that is WP:DE.

On talk page, nobody has bought the claims of Venkat TL so far. See Talk:Popular Front of India#Recent removals.

This misuse and misrepresentation of WP:BLP is a heavily prevalent from Venkat TL. This is totally evident from the very recent 4RR violation he did just yesterday on Raju Srivastav (I edited and watchlisted this article before so I know[20]) and he is already going through a report on WP:ANEW (permalink) for it.

On Raju Srivastav, he charged the subject "for his hypocrisy",[21] and defended this BLP violation on talk page[22] even after being told several times about the violation.

He was warned on his talk page by admin Liz for the misconduct.[23] On ANEW, admin Bbb23 told Venkat TL that "Venkat TL's claim of a BLP exemption for edit-warring is at least procedurally invalid",[24] but Venkat TL kept trying to prove himself that he correct (see WP:IDHT).[25]

Not even 1 day was elapsed and Venkat TL is already misusing "BLP" to get rid of over 30,000 bytes of content without providing any meaningful explanation. The last block of Venkat TL on July 2022 for edit warring was also over the same edit warring by using BLP as justification.[26]

I find Venkat TL to be unfit to edit in this area, be it about the subjects that involve BLPs or South Asia. >>> Extorc.talk 15:01, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Result concerning Extorc

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Screendeemer

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Jargo Nautilus

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Request concerning Jargo Nautilus

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User who is submitting this request for enforcement
Selfstudier (talk Â· contribs Â· deleted contribs Â· logs Â· filter log Â· block user Â· block log) 17:35, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
User against whom enforcement is requested
Jargo Nautilus (talk Â· contribs Â· deleted contribs Â· logs Â· filter log Â· block user Â· block log)

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Sanction or remedy to be enforced
WP:ARBEE
Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
  1. 12 September 2022 "Clearly, both of you are trying to push some kind of an agenda" & "both of you guys came into this discussion without sources and without a good reason, so you decided to start this fake debate over nothing in order to waste everyone's time."
  2. 12 September 2022 Re above diff, editor asked to be WP:CIVIL and avoid casting WP:ASPERSIONS about other editors.

Response to this request "Notice that this entire discussion has basically been a SOAPBOX on behalf of you and Gitz" & "You made a survey in order to push your changes". I did not start the RFC and my first edit to the page, here was made after the RFC had started, so this accusation is completely false in my case, @Gitz6666: may speak for themselves. followed by "Nope, I accused you guys of trying to push a POV without sources...The problem is that both of you, especially Gitz, took it upon yourselves to escalate this ridiculous discussion into an entire RfC, which was unwarranted. We don't need RfCs over something as trivial as what you guys are discussing." Again, completely false accusation as already stated.

  1. 14 September 2022 Editor asked to "Please mind WP:PA, WP:CIV and WP:TALK. Please also read WP:BLUDGEON." Gitz may comment on this as it their talk page warning.
  2. 14 September 2022 Request on user talk page to focus on content and not on editors.

Here I state that the RFC has a proper RFCbefore and editor Gitz also explains why the RFC was appropriate and the response was Bludgeon 1 & Bludgeon 2 and continued in similar vein with further misconceived allegations about the appropriateness of the RFC process as mentioned in my additional comments below and leading to the following request on the user talk page to desist.

  1. 16 September 2022 Editor asked not to WP:BLUDGEON.
Diffs of previous relevant sanctions, if any


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Additional comments by editor filing complaint

In response to comments made by myself and another editor at their talk page, editor in both cases did not respond, deleted the comment and requested that no further comments be made at their talk page. A simple glance over the contents of Talk:Donetsk People's Republic#RfC on the legal status of the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples’ Republics suffices to show the extent of WP:BLUDGEON. Not only are editors comments a significant proportion of total comments, a large proportion of the material consists of unsupported opinion and unnecessary repetition of points made previously. At a very late stage in the RFC, editor has taken to asserting that the RFC is ill-posed, biased, inappropriate, wrong, etc and after the conversation starting here ("I am confident that any "proceedings" that you launch will be thoroughly ignored by the administrators. There is already at least one other user on this talk page who has had enough of your shenanigans."), I gave up and filed this request for enforcement.

@Jargo Nautilus: The number of times that you yourself, SelfStudier, and various other editors have launched personal attacks against myself and other editors is too many to count. Diffs please and I have been participating in an RfC, and SelfStudier has been behaving disruptively throughout its duration, Some of SelfStudier's comments over at Talk:DPR have been particularly disruptive, but I've refrained from deleting any of his comments at Talk:DPR again, diffs please.
@El C: Apologies for the substandard report, note to self to do better.
Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

Discussion concerning Jargo Nautilus

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Statement by Jargo Nautilus

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I believe that this arbitration discussion is unnecessary. I have been participating in an RfC, and SelfStudier has been behaving disruptively throughout its duration. I feel no need to present any arguments. The facts speak for themselves. If the administrators have any questions, they can talk to me in person on my Talk Page or via email. Everything that has occurred is clearly on display over at Talk:Donetsk People's Republic, so it is unnecessary to repeat any of that content here. Thank you for reading this, and I wish you good health. Jargo Nautilus (talk) 17:44, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]


If I may, I will ping some users whom I think could be relevant to this discussion. - @Mzajac: - @Vanilla Wizard:

@My very best wishes - To clarify, I have a "bias" against the Russian Federation regime, not against "Russians" in general. Indeed, my perspective on global affairs is generally very fair. Jargo Nautilus (talk) 14:54, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@User:El C - I am currently being harassed -- unprovoked, mind you -- by some random other Wikipedian whom, to my knowledge, I have never interacted with before. Please do something about this, thank you. [33] [34] Note: I have engaged with them, although I have attempted to be civil. Jargo Nautilus (talk) 18:43, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

^From what I can tell, the other user seems to believe that I am "bigoted" against Russians, due to the section on my talk page titled "Russians are mafia. Change my mind.", written on September 3, 2022. However, they seem to have missed the section higher up on the page titled "Public statement: Russians who are suffering under the Russian Federation regime, I am on your side", written on August 1, 2022. Jargo Nautilus (talk) 19:43, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Mellk

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Unfortunately this editor has an issue with battleground behavior and despite various warnings, is unable to understand this. This as a result has caused disruption. On Talk:Russia, a user created a new section simply for personal attacks and casting aspersions; when this was removed by multiple users per TPG, JN kept restoring it[35][36] and made a new subsection about how he and the other user was being censored[37][38] and again making more walls of text on the talk page[39]. Then he makes a new section on his own talk page about how "Russians are mafia" and makes a vague threat related to this "censorship"[40], then again continues to restore the original personal attacks and the walls of text he made on Talk:Russia[41][42] and then continues on with personal attacks[43] and using the other user's talk page as his soapbox where he again makes personal attacks against "orcs" and "Ruzzkies" "censoring" him[44][45]. Still he continues to restore the text on Talk:Russia after another user removes it[46][47]. Again continues attacking editors on talk pages ("See you in Hell!")[48]. When I ask him to stop with any further personal attacks, he states that he has "no idea" what "Ruzzkies" means which he used earlier and then states "orc" is not a slur because it refers to Russian military only[49] and so when I ask him why he used it, he says it is because the other editors who he deems supports Russian war narrative is an "honorary soldier".[50] Mellk (talk) 20:34, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The diffs are from earlier in the month but gives some context and may be subject to standard administrative action.

Also, @Jargo Nautilus: please respond in your own section. Mellk (talk) 20:49, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Jargo Nautilus: I have not made any personal attacks against you. I asked you to stop making personal attacks but you rejected this and tried to justify the comments you made, for example referring to other editors as "orcs" because they are an "honorary soldier", as mentioned earlier. Mellk (talk) 22:51, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Jargo Nautilus: I asked you to not make vague threats. You wrote: Don't delete my comments or things will get messy[51]. I do not see how asking you to not make such comments is a personal attack, even if you did not mean to direct it at anyone. I was referring to your comments, not you personally. Mellk (talk) 22:59, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Jargo Nautilus: You made a new section on your talk page saying "Russians are mafia" and asking if they have any humanity left. I asked you not to do this because it was inappropriate, even on your own talk page. Mellk (talk) 23:05, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Jargo Nautilus: What I did was check the block log. Mellk (talk) 23:58, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Deepfriedokra: If you are referring to the editor who originally made the personal attacks on Talk:Russia whose comment JN kept restoring, then Colinmcdermott (who was blocked not long before that for personal attacks regarding the same article). I am not sure if deleting those comments was the best move, but I do not think JN's response (by making various kinds of personal attacks and walls of text) was appropriate here. Mellk (talk) 21:47, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Deepfriedokra: While I was not involved in the removal of comments in Talk:Russia, just wondering, could the original comment have been removed per WP:TPO, specifically "removing harmful posts" which mentions personal attacks? As well as being off-topic. Since I would imagine accusing other editors of working in troll factories would count as one.[52] Or it should have been collapsed. Thanks. Mellk (talk) 22:16, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Volunteer Marek

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Oh god. Ok. There are FIVE diffs provided in the Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it. ONLY ONE of these diffs is an edit (a talk page comment) by the person who this report is about. The other FOUR are OTHER people ... just saying stuff. This diff is from the filer and, hilariously enough, it's level of of "incivility" is probably HIGHER than that that can be found in the one diff out of the five above that is from the subject.

This is about as spurious as a request can get. Volunteer Marek 20:55, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Aquillion

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I do think that the sort of thing in the first diff needs to be discouraged a bit more strongly than it currently is; part of the reason so many WP:ACDS areas are so difficult to edit is because having WP:ASPERSIONS like that flung around without consequence encourages other editors to either retaliate (if they disagree) or to say similar things and generally treat others as bad-faith editors (if they agree), contributing to a broader WP:BATTLEGROUND / non-WP:AGF atmosphere. But clearly a single diff like that is insufficient to go straight to WP:AE - if we removed people for that there would be almost nobody left in WP:ACDS topic areas at all. Also, links to warnings are generally only useful if they show someone was informed that they were doing something wrong and then kept doing it afterwards. The key point is to establish that they're not listening and that this can't be settled by lesser means. Showing yourself warning them after the diff of their being aspersion-y, without showing any other problems after that, doesn't establish anything beyond the fact that you think their actions are bad, which is already self-evident from the fact that you're taking them to AE. --Aquillion (talk) 21:43, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Gitz6666

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The main problem with Jargo Nautilus's contribution is the uncontainable flood of comments that they pour into the talk pages. That behaviour can be seen in Talk:Donetsk People's Republic: from 2 to 16 September, they made 91 edits to the RfC that I started; I'm quite talkative myself and I made 23 edits overall to that RfC. But see also Talk:Russian separatist forces in Donbas: from 13 August to 3 September they made 42 edits to the RM I started. I made 25 edits and I apologise for that: it's way too much. But JN's way of contributing to the discussion drags you into endless and unproductive back-and-forth, and I wouldn't have made my 23+25 comments if it wasn't for their 91+42, so I'm sensitive to the problem: it's a waste of time, is frustrating and it also makes it more difficult for other editors to join the discussion. Also Talk:International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic shows the problem: from 2 August onwards, Michael Z stops replying to JN, but they continue to discuss in solitude for days and days building impassable walls of text. Obviously most of their comments are off-topic and WP:SOAPBOX, they have difficulties in complying with WP:TALK and WP:NOTFORUM and a tendency to WP:BLUDGEON the discussion. I don't know if this is sanctionable behaviour and I have no difficulty in AGF in this case, as I don't see any mean intentions, but it's objectively disruptive and is a problem that needs to be addressed somehow, either by the admins or by JN themselves. Final note: occasionally JN falls short of civility: [53] [54]. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 01:52, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@My very best wishes JN's willingness to discuss disagreements is actually part of the problem. Discussion is a working method here rather than a goal in itself. Willingness to discuss without willingness to compromise and build a consensus can be acceptable and even commendable in real life and on social media, but in Wikipedia is called WP:SEALIONING and is often seen as disruptive. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 13:01, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Chipmunkdavis

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Talkpage interjections by JN disruptive, with talkpages treated as a place of polemic (eg. User talk:Jargo Nautilus). This is tricky to show clearly in 20 diffs, as it's a deluge of individual comments. They necro discussions and use talkpages for personal commentary (and sometimes add commentary to articles). Here is the start of 1,200 words starting with "I don't have any material/sources about this, just my thoughts". A related issue is adding a continuous serious of comments. The 1,200 words included that initial edit and five others. The edit history of this arbitration page is an example.

These personal opinions bludgeon conversations, see here where an RfC went from this to being doubled in length with off-topic opinion. Their opinion sometimes shifts into pure invective.

Most problematically, edits are seen as a battleground-style crusade [55][56][57]. They edit and move other people's comments. They leave passive agressive instructions/threats ([58][59][60][61][62]) and engage in direct harassment [63][64][65] (even editing archives). They address me with what seem to be dismissive nicknames they won't explain, and explicitly declare opponents.

I stress again this is a hard pattern to show through a small selection of diffs. These long series of entirely unsourced personal opinion edits end up on every talkpage, flooding edit histories, watchlists, and of course actual discussions. This issues are not limited to WP:ARBEE, but ARBEE covers a large component of the recent disruption. CMD (talk) 00:39, 17 September 2022 (UTC) shortened CMD (talk) 02:08, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I note that two new odd nicknames and more passive aggressive threats have been added to this very case since my original comment. CMD (talk) 02:08, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@El_C That comment referred to this edit partially striking through someone else's edit because they found that part to be inaccurate. CMD (talk) 08:08, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@El C: No preference on scope so long as it hits the problematic topic, but whatever the scope it really needs to come with a clear warning against further unsubstantiated commentary on other editors. CMD (talk) 16:56, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by My very best wishes

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I do not see any serious reason for sanctioning Jargo Nautilus. Here is why.

  1. None of their recent edits in article main space appear problematic.
  2. Their edits on article talk pages do look excessive, occasionally strange and usually unsourced. However, making comments based on a personal expertise or even personal opinion on the subject is allowed on article talk pages. A lot of people do it, especially during RfC (and a lot of comments by Jargo Nautilus are related to RfC). Does he crosses the line of Wikipedia:Don't bludgeon the process? Not in my opinion, or may be only on one page.
  3. Some of their comments on user talk pages are cryptic, but I do not see them as sufficiently offensive to warrant any immediate sanctions per WP:NPA. My very best wishes (talk) 23:46, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I do agree that user Jargo Nautilus has an anti-Russian bias strong views [66], but his willingness of discuss disagreements is actually a good thing, not a reason for sanctions, in my opinion. My very best wishes (talk) 12:27, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Even if his behavior on talk pages is problematic, this is something related to modern Russia, not to "modern armed conflicts". My very best wishes (talk) 13:47, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Vanilla Wizard

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I have mixed feelings here. This AE filing does a poor job at demonstrating issues with JN's behavior, but other comments from other editors demonstrate serious concerns. I recommend they take all of Deepfriedokra's advice. As a fellow autistic Wikipedian I +1 everything they said. If they do receive a TBAN, I prefer a temporary to an indef. If they can drop the battleground mentality then they should be fine to contribute to pages about geopolitics in the future.

My advice for JN is as follows:

  1. Be more cautious about publishing edits that read more as political commentary than as contributions to building an encyclopedia. It's okay to briefly state your views on your user page, but don't use your talk page as a blog.
  2. Don't view the encyclopedia as a battleground where pro <x> and anti <x> editors clash, lest you risk a WP:NOTHERE indef. Everyone has a set of biases, but we're not here to "fight for our side." And you definitely shouldn't declare enemies. Seriously. Don't do that.
  3. Don't edit or strike other editors' comments. An exception could be if they get indeffed as a sockpuppet account. Other than that, if you want someone to edit their comments, ask them if they'd be willing to do it themselves.
  4. Calling other editors by funny nicknames isn't inherently a problem, but if they ask you not to do that, then don't continue.
  5. Be cautious about generating walls of text, especially in RFCs as this can make it much harder for whoever closes the discussion to parse through it. This one isn't as serious of an issue as the others IMO. I do it too. I'm bad at keeping things concise. I'm rambling right now, even. But try your best to notice when your messages are getting excessively long.
  6. Most importantly: know when to take a wikibreak! I used to have unmanageable stress that made me a much more irritable person. I started editing when I was a teenager with an undiagnosed and untreated anxiety disorder. I completely sympathize and empathize. If you're feeling stressed, it's okay to just log out. It's okay to disappear for an entire month if that's what it takes. Do whatever you need to do to destress. Edits you make under stress are much more likely to be regrettable.

In summary: I think JN can continue to be a productive editor, but they really need to have WP:BATTLEGROUND in mind going forward. A TBAN from articles related to current military conflicts could be acceptable if it lasts roughly 6 months to a year, but I wouldn't endorse an indefinite one.

 Vanilla  Wizard 💙 20:20, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Result concerning Jargo Nautilus

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  • Concur with Volunteer Marek. Selfstudier, this is an exceptionally poor report. It's nearly at WP:BOOMERANG level, which honestly surprises me from an editor of your tenure in WP:ACDS topics. It isn't germane that you to provide your warnings concerning claims of personal attacks, aspersions, incivility, etc., rather you are expected to show those things themselves. It isn't reasonable to expect reviewers to connect your reactions to whatever actions prompted these. That is your burden. Two is too many steps. So you need to amend the diffs to reflect what those warnings were in response to. The first diff, while a bit subpar, doesn't seem that egregious. Which is all the direct evidence you have atm. El_C 21:26, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jargo Nautilus, I sampled some of Mellk's diffs randomly ("random" though they may be), and your style is way too abrasive and vitriolic and polemical. Perhaps the other side is acting similarly, I don't know as no evidence has been provided to show that — but the point is that you need to dial it back considerably.
  • So please use article talk pages calmly and dispassionately, and above all else, targeted to specifics. If there are broader problems with a page or a set of pages, this (or WP:AN / WP:ANI) would be the venue for you to present these (Volunteer Marek knows what I'm talking about there *wink*). So to sum up: you need to communicate any concerns without the WP:BATTLEGROUND, and you need to do so in a targeted way as well as in the appropriate venue. El_C 18:47, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jargo Nautilus, thanks, I appreciate that. Please make sure you follow through on that. I realize that these are, to put it delicately, challenging times, but allowances for that can only extend to a point. Also, did you ever review the WP:ASPERSIONS page? When you say that Mellk has engaged in personal attacks without evidence of these, that is an aspersion par excellence. Because it just hangs there, unproven. So either provide evidence, or it shouldn't be mentioned at all. Please also keep in mind that this is not a quasi-criminal procedure, and in case, my sense is that warnings might suffice here. And probably no need to escalate these to logged warnings at this point, either (unless I missed something especially egregious). El_C 23:10, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jargo Nautilus, sorry, but that is not evidence. What is required are quotes and the WP:DIFFs associated with these. El_C 23:42, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jargo Nautilus, a warning from an uninvolved admin is not the same as a warning from an editor who is party to the dispute. Because a warning from an admin could be enforced with sanctions if ignored. You are free to remove any and all warnings (or anything at all) from your user talk page. You can even blank your talk page entirely, if you want. You are not required to keep those displayed, whether issued by an admin or not. All a removal indicates is that you're aware of and have read them. El_C 23:49, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jargo Nautilus, I don't know where you've gotten that impression concerning warnings and formalism, but there is no such requirement. Thus, there's nothing inherently problematic with the placement of that comment/warning. El_C 23:53, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Chipmunkdavis, you are at nearly double the word and diff limit. Please condense. Thanks. El_C 01:39, 17 September 2022
  • Jargo Nautilus, per Chipmunkdavis' evidence, you are WP:BLUDGEONING to excess to the point of it having the effect of a filibuster. You need to be more concise and as a general principle base your comments on pertinent sources (i.e. avoid contravening WP:NOTAFORUM). And what's with repeatedly calling CMD Jones? What even is that? Well, whatever it is, it's weird (as in it makes no sense) and inappropriate.
CMD, for your part, it's kinda ridiculous that you tell Jargo Nautilus to "not edit others' comments" (diff), when that edit corrected the link of Talk:Russa#Add Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022, to the lead into Talk:Russia#Add Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022, to the lead (diff). That is not only allowed, but is in fact encouraged. El_C 03:32, 17 September 2022 (UTC) Strike: My mistake, that was Jargo Nautilus' own comment. I have no idea what edit CMD is referring to there. El_C 03:38, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jargo Nautilus, please never strike part of someone else's comment for accuracy or for any other reason. That is a big no-no. To an outside observer, it'll always look like it was done by the comment's author. If you have a correction, you've your own comments to quote and strike and do whatever with. Honestly, it's a little astonishing to me that you've been here for years, yet you do not realize how misleading and inappropriate doing that is. El_C 12:32, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jargo Nautilus, I asked you directly above to collapse comments that others responded to rather than remove the text outright — why have you not done so? You've also not responded to the matter of calling CMD all those names (Jones, Bob, Frank), including twice in this very complaint. Now you've accused someone of "racist comments," yet again with zero evidence. Above (way above), I asked you whether you've reviewed the WP:ASPERSIONS page, a question which you never answered (I don't think). But I presume you didn't review it since you're still continuing to do it. As for misquotes, again, correct those (or anything) in your own comment. You have no right to intrude on someone else's comment like that.
For the last time, you need to stop levelling accusations against other editors without evidence (i.e. aspersions). That is sanctionable misconduct. At this point, I'm just about ready to close this report with an indef WP:TBAN from WP:ARBEE. If any admin objects, please let me know. I'll wait 24 hours before doing so, in any case. El_C 18:45, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jargo Nautilus, sorry, I intended to wrap this up myself, and I had an entire day in which to do so (which was plenty) before RL obligations took precedent. But then My very best wishes' Holocaust comment on your talk page, the edit summary more than anything, threw me on a loop (diff). It also coincided with an unrelated stressful on-wiki event (this one), which thankfully ended okay in the end. Anyway, now I don't know if I'll get a chance to be the one to give a closure of this report the attention it deserves. None of that is on you, obviously, it's just bad luck. El_C 16:58, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Same, I agree with VM, this seems a waste of time. As for Mellk's comment about JN restoring comments on the talk page, I tend to agree with JN there. It's fine if others disagree, but editing warring to remove comments was the wrong thing to do. There are going to be heated comments, leave it be unless it is vandalism. This is a textbook example of doing an AE report in the wrong way. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 21:32, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Jargo Nautilus, you are over your limit on words, and I think we've heard enough. The short answer is, your behavior in that one diff is below expectations, and you need to stop that. Personally, I'm not inclined to do more than informally warn you about that at this time. I would also add that while I agreed your comment shouldn't have been reverted out, you are getting close to being in WP:FORUM territory. We aren't here to see if Russians believe Putin or not. Go to a blog or forum for that. We are here to build an encyclopedia. I'm going to pass on closing this, but that is pretty much how I would close it. Pull back on the attitude, and stop treating the talk page as a forum. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:00, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]