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User:ScienceApologist

This may or may not violate the Arbcom rulings at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist; I'll let the readers decide. The links:

Incivility in edit summary: [1]
Incivility at the article's talk:[2]

Additionally, he's edited tendentiously, as well as against consensus. The above article (electronic voice phenomenon) was locked due to editwarring. The edit war occurred between SA and User:LionelStarkweather. See this diff for the last edit before it was locked, showing the content dispute. It was was locked with the Lionel version intact; while locked, there was a discussion on the talk which initially include SA; however, he stopped discussing after a while. Following the article's unlocking, he reverted without any further mention, starting a revert war that led to the article being locked again. He also removed the infobox and a sound file without any talk discussion and vague edit summaries (here and here). He calims WP:V on the second; it is not being used as a source, ergo, WP:V doesn't apply.

Per the arbcom ruling, he's restricted from making disruptive edits. I would argue that these edits are extremely disruptive, especially seeing the (for a while) constructive discussion that was occurring (see Talk:Electronic voice phenomenon sections "Moving on" and "edit request". 130.101.152.155 (talk) 19:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration enforcement requests should not be accepted from sock puppet accounts. Jehochman ^Talk 20:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not a sock Jehcoman, see your talk. I use public computer terminals where the IP changes with different terminals. I use various IPs in the 130.101 range. See Talk:Electronic voice phenomenon and Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Davkal (3rd). You shouldn't have posted that reply before I had a chance to respond to the message you left on my talk. 130.101.152.155 (talk) 20:52, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:ForeverFreeSpeech

Fresh off a block and right back at it... I'm not going to list specific diffs since pretty much every other edit summary is a case in itself. Check out Special:Contributions/ForeverFreeSpeech.

Cheers, pedro gonnet - talk - 07.03.2008 16:46

Before seeing this post, I indef blocked ForeverFreeSpeech for persistent, unrepentant incivility, personal attacks, POV-pushing, and disruption. If the block is also appropriate under Arbcom enforcement, I suppose that is icing on the cake. · jersyko talk 17:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What arbcom case is this from? — Rlevse • Talk • 12:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles. -- ChrisO (talk) 14:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ren and Stimpy episode

Please restore Son of Stimpy per the injunction in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters 2. This article was deleted on March 5. Related discussion at User talk:Seicer. Catchpole (talk) 16:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The injunction doesn't apply to speedy deletion. Will ^(talk) 16:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) I just restored the article because the injunction seemed to say not to delete or undelete (change status quo) as of Feb 3. There is not mention in the injunction that speedies are excluded. This article was re-created Jan 27, 2008 and deleted Mar 5, 2008. Jehochman ^Talk 16:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For the duration of this case, no editor shall redirect or delete any currently existing article regarding a television series episode or character; nor un-redirect or un-delete any currently redirected or deleted article on such a topic, nor apply or remove a tag related to notability to such an article. Administrators are authorized to revert such changes on sight, and to block any editors that persist in making them after being warned of this injunction.
— Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters 2#Temporary injunction

Can't you admins do anything without wheel-warring? I see someone else has deleted it. Catchpole (talk) 16:27, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, but I am out of the loop with recent ArbCom actions. I saw this page at CAT:CSD and took care of it, not knwoing that doing so violated any ArbCom rulings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesse Viviano (talk • contribs) 20:39, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gee, thanks for notifying me of this. seicer | talk | contribs 00:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I recall discussion of particular episodes having notability. This is one of those landmark episodes I'd have thought. Hopefully finding indep sources won't be too hard. [[::User:Casliber|Casliber]] ([[::User talk:Casliber|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Casliber|contribs]]) 01:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Encyclopedia Dramatica

Please block 91.121.88.13 (talk · contribs) for reverting the removal of a link to ED per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MONGO. Will ^(talk) 15:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above user (User:Sceptre) has broken WP:3RR in attempting to enforce this, and has repeatedly removed the anon's legitimate comments. Chubbles (talk) 15:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They are not legitimate. Per the above case, any user who inserts links to ED will be reverted and blocked. This includes the url. You've broken the AC ruling too. Will ^(talk) 15:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note that what was removed was the phrase "" in another user's comment - not a url, but the name of the site - and the same embedded in an Alexa search, which is now a broken link. Chubbles (talk) 15:58, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Saying "x.com" isn't an url is like saying a cup of tea isn't without two sugars. Will ^(talk) 16:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Saying "x.com" is no less legitimate than referring to Amazon as "Amazon.com". Chubbles (talk) 16:06, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ED? Legitimate? I'm sorry, you missed the party. BJAODN was deleted months ago. Will ^(talk) 16:07, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the above user is deliberatively trying to sabotage a point I made against him in a civil debate. His actions appear in extremely bad form. There was no link to ED, it was a link to an Alexa graph comparing traffic against two other sites. --Truthseeq (talk) 17:13, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The ruling says "Links to Encyclopædia Dramatica may be removed wherever found on Wikipedia as may material imported from it." A debate on the DRV is ongoing here. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've requested clarification on the ruling itself: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Request for clarification: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MONGO. Mackensen (talk) 16:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia Moldova

Due to growing risk of an edit war (three reverts by each of the two parties yesterday, and claims by one of which that such a risk is high), I have taken the preventative step of restricting Dpotop (talk · contribs) and Xasha (talk · contribs) to one revert per two days for two weeks on all related articles and zero-tolerance for incivility on the talk pages. I bring this measure to discussion before other uninvolved admins, whom I am asking to help enforce this. Note that I am forgoing the warning this time and thus am not logging it in the arbitration page — let this measure serve as a warning, and let's hope it resonates (if enough uninvolved admins feel that position is in error, the restrictions will be revoked). Thx. El_C 11:43, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think you mixed up Moldova with Macedonia? (But no problem, we can easily extend the Balkans up there. :-) I know what you're going to say now: They both start with M, so I can't tell them apart.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:14, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly! (you remembered the M, to boot: full credits for that!) I copied the wrong template and a comedy of errors ensued. All fixed. El_C 12:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BereTuborg (talk · contribs) added to the restrictions. El_C 18:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Waterboarding

70.109.223.188 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
Waterboarding (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

This IP user seems to be edit warring. [3] Could they be a blocked or banned user returning to cause trouble? Jehochman ^Talk 19:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gets very old very fast, doesn't it? I've blocked the IP user for 24 hours (the second block inside a week, I noticed). -- ChrisO (talk) 20:09, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the 2nd block within a week? --nyc171 (talk) 00:29, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that they've been unblocked. For what it's worth, categorization disputes are generally kind of a silly thing to edit-war and better worked out on the talk page, but I think the unblock is fine as long as the IP is not edit-warring further. I'm considering semi-protecting the page temporarily given the volume of unconstructive IP editing over the past few days - any thoughts? MastCell ^Talk 21:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like a winner. We've got a repeat socker on the loose, recently banned, who will probably be showing up. If we take the wind out of their sails, they might go home and rethink their life. Jehochman ^Talk 21:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The unblock appears to be a mistake. Here are the diffs for edit warring: [4][5][6][7] When a user makes the same edit over and over and over again, that's edit warring. I like the way the user wikilawyers with ChrisO. It reminds me of Neutral Good (talk · contribs) and BryanFromPalatine (talk · contribs). Jehochman ^Talk 21:55, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I agree he was edit-warring. Just not sure how useful replacing the block is going to be vs. semi'ing the target article, which I'm going to do now. MastCell ^Talk 22:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about all the drama here. I was not trying to be disruptive and didn't know this was a "problem" article until I was told so on my talk page. I will try not to revert more than once on this article. The differences above are from 2 days ago before I was warned. Also, I was blocked awhile back when I first came here, not twice in one week. Thank you.--70.109.223.188 (talk) 14:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC) Bold text[reply]

Resolved issues

User:RodentofDeath

The following discussion is an archived report. Please do not modify it. Subsequent reports should be made in a new section.

Banned user appears to have reapeared once again this time as User:weighted Companion Cube. User makes first post on Wikipedia just two days after User:RodentofDeath is referred to ArbCom.

Rodent has already been caught out twice breaching his ban.

User:weighted Companion Cube has posted on same disputed article and seems to follow the same wording and tactics of RodentofDeath.

Then this user posts in deletion request a posting that is an obvious defence of RodentofDeath and seems to taunt User:Edgarde, who had been one of the complainents in the arbitration case.

Edgarde had just previously posted this on my talk page.

Rodent has previously stated in his ArbCom case that he travels and uses multiple IP addresses. A look on this user's talk page also shows the same sort of problems he had as RodentofDeath with other Editors. Susanbryce (talk) 22:43, 7 March 2008 (UTC)slight copyediting and link piping by • VigilancePrime • • • 23:01 (UTC) 7 Mar '08 for ease of readability.[reply]

so the record is clear - i am not RodentOfDeath. if i had known there was some arbitration involved, i likely would have stayed away from this entirely. Also, i dont think having problems with SqueakBox is evidence of anything given what ive looked at. contact me if theres further questions. Weighted Companion Cube (are you still there?/don't throw me in the fire) 14:22, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WCC is

Unrelated to RodentOfDeath. Thatcher 20:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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