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Malik Shabazz arbitration case

I am sending this to users involved in an arbitration case. I am not aware of too many details of the case. I also don't know how these cases work.

However I noticed that Malik Shabazz also violates Sockpuppeting rules.

He has two users: Malik Shabazz and User:MShabazz

He claims that User:MShabazz is a WP:DOPPELGANGER account.

However, not only does he use the account for editing (which violates the WP:DOPPELGANGER policy -), he also uses the account together with his Malik Shabazz account for edit warring. For example when he was harassing me and laughing at me for my mistake of editing another user's talk page he [[1]]

  • First he undid my edit with user Malik Shabazz [2]
  • Then He used his sockpupet user MShabazz to undo my edit the second time: [3]


(Then he harassed me and laughed at me and wrote: "PS: I'm sorry it took you half an hour to figure out why I gave VanEman a barnstar more than a year ago. I hope your reading skills improve." )

Is there anything that could be done now? Caseeart (talk) 05:37, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Caseeart – I would suggest you to launch an investigation against both usernames at WP:SPI and then a Checkuser will determine whether the both usernames are used by same individual or not. Even if he claims that he uses WP:DOPPELGANGER, Since he used both accounts abusively that he was clearly involved in vandalism then he may not become entitled for use of WP:DOPPELGANGER account. At the moment, Ceradon doesn't have administrative tools in this account, you may need to seek someone's help at Checkuser. ♔ MONARCH Talk to me 00:12, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
If you check the history of MShabazz it has been a declared alternate account since at least 2009. No point running a check for sockpuppetry or indeed accusing someone of using an undeclared alternate account when it was clearly a declared one. ϢereSpielChequers 13:51, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
WereSpielChequers, I guess you're right, That user Malik Shabazz was previously served as an administrator and his mop was removed due to misuse of administrative tools. Now it appears he is using both accounts to engage in vandalising the articles like what Caseeart asserted. ♔ MONARCH Talk to me 00:40, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
No comment as to why he is no longer an administrator, but I can understand why he has a separate account to edit from a smartphone - having tried editing from a smartphone you really don't want extra buttons such as Rollback on such a device. Vandalism is a serious accusation that you'd need to strike or supply a diff for, at the moment there are only two difs [4] [5] of his on this page and both look good to me. ϢereSpielChequers 05:50, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
WereSpielChequers To me it doesn't look good. He reverted entire message left by Caseeart on VanEman's talk page. I think you should deal with this issue as i don't have administrative powers to deal with these kind of issues, I only got a “rollbacker” option that might not help to resolve this kind of issue. Maybe Caseeart or you should report this to WP:ANI and seek the opinion(s) from other sysops. That would be the best place to discuss this issue. As of now Malik Shabazz and MShabazz have declared the actual relationship between two accounts, but i suspect both accounts are used for engage in vandalism (i.e reverting edits and harassing Caseeart) is a serious violation of policies and guidelines. ♔ MONARCH Talk to me 09:22, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

@Alpha Monarch: What facts lie behind your repeated assertions that I engage in vandalism? You were told that unfounded allegations of vandalism should be struck, and yet you persist. Please read and try to understand WP:VANDALISM (and WP:ASPERSIONS). Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 05:41, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Malik Shabazz You have harrased that user by removing the contents from VanEman's talk page, This clearly highlights the sentence of “VANDALISM”. Where you removed this, and then you used the alternative account to remove this. This is serious violation of use of abusing multiple accounts. You have also been accused of misusing the administrator tools and got your tools removed. I don't think you're a honest editor. ♔ MONARCH Talk to me 06:08, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Your inability to understand what you read is frightening. I have never harassed Caseeart (and how is my removal of his "gravedancing" from another editor's Talk page harassment or vandalism, anyway?), nor have I ever abused multiple accounts. You really should learn how to read a page's edit history as well as WP:VANDALISM and WP:ASPERSIONS. — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 21:30, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

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My apologies for not being around to answer questions. The past is the past, I've looked at the old emails, and I'd definitely have supported both your RFA and your continued work. Prodego talk 05:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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LondonArt2010 is asking me about revisiting the possibility of Lorenzo Belenguer. He presented a lot of links. I think some of them may be unhelpful, but I notice some Spanish newspapers did write articles with Belenguer as the main subject (Example: "Lorenzo Belenguer conquista Londres" by Las Provincias). Do you know a Spanish editor and/or an editor interested art and/or biography articles who is willing to take a closer look? (I can post the specific article if need be). I would like for another party unfamiliar with the case to check if this subject meets WP:GNG and/or biography criteria.

If this subject does meet notability criteria I think another user (someone other than LondonArt2010) should write the article, maybe through an articles for creation process. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:43, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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Have you ever had problems with Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.255.142.215 (talk) 19:29, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Vonnegut

I reverted your removal of the self-assessment section, which you stated was because "Wikipedia uses reliable, third-party sources, therefore Vonnegut's on assessment of his work is largely irrelevant." Per Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources, self-assessment (and more generally, self-published sources) is allowed provided

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I believe that this section meets all of these requirements. If you disagree, we should discuss and/or get a third party to serve as arbiter.

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Warmest Wishes for Health, Wealth and Wisdom through the Holidays and the Coming Year! Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 12:29, 24 December 2015 (UTC)


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When is competing with Google not competing with Google?
Help wanted!
What's better than one traffic report? Two!
10 articles, 6 lists, and 11 pictures have been promoted in this cycle
When it rains, it pours
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The Bugle: Issue CXXI, April 2016

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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

Wikimedia Switzerland board members involved in paid-editing firm
More reports surface of pirates' new favorite database: Wikimedia Commons
Prince's death breaks traffic report records
Seven articles, six lists, and four pictures were promoted these weeks
Arbitration news
Making sense of Wikipedia's social network
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The Signpost: 17 May 2016

Christophe Henner and Nataliia Tymkiv respond to the Signpost's questions
Paid-editing controversy
Citations needed
Nine featured articles, eight featured lists, and six featured pictures
Prince gives way to Captain America
News from two arbitration cases
35 competitors move on to round 3
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stanton and ubox

  • I probably can't participate in a FAC because I wanna work on my own very long-term project, but I fixed some things for you, and I'll chip in more in the future. You have many books that are not {{cite book}}. I find this userbox to be extremely useful: {{User:Yunshui/Userbox citeconverter}}. It's the bottom-most ubox on my upage. If you just copy the book info from the Stanton page and search for it on Google books, you can copy/paste the url into the ubox and get a pretty {{cite book}}. The very last field is usually a page range; I usually delete that and replace it with |ref=harv. Cheers!   Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 07:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

Dates and venues for WikiCon USA 2016, WikiCon India 2016, 2016 Glam Boot Camp and 2016 Wikimedia Diversity Conference
Sue Gardner appears to be earning more money as the WMF's special advisor than she did as its executive director
Not everything you read online is fact
Another eight featured articles, three featured lists and five featured pictures
Mental health carries a powerful stigma. The more we are open about it, the less that weighs all of us down
Gamaliel and others case nears its end, and there are new 30/500 rules
Round-up of recent Wikipedia research
We've recently come into possession of a new tool.
Albin Olsson has been right there with them, capturing dramatic images of singers from around the world.
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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

The Signpost analyzes the WMF's revised annual plan
Recent press interviews
One article, one list, and seven images were featured this week
Film and television maintain a strong grasp on Wikipedia's readership
The final results of the heated case
We sat down with the writers of some of the most vistied Wikipedia articles
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The Bugle: Issue CXXII, May–June 2016

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

WMF board chair Patricio Lorente answers questions
Wikimedia enters academic publishing
Eleven featured articles, nine featured lists and fourteen featured pictures
Recent media coverage of Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Two for the price of one—do the popular Commons image contest and Wikidata licensing serve the community as well as they should?
Wikipedia's most read articles in the last two weeks
Poetry: “it is the stuff of the soul; it speaks to the body, the mind, and the spirit alike.” Sonja Bohm worked for years to get all of Florence Earle Coates’ poetry online, and now proofreads poetry on the English Wikisource, the free library. We asked why.
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The Signpost: 04 July 2016

News from Wikimania and the courts
Paid-contributions disclosure vs. outing
Reliability worries
Six articles, nine lists, one topic and thirteen pictures promoted
European football and politics dominate the top-10
From the Wikimedia Foundation blog
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The Bugle: Issue CXXIII, July 2016

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From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

Four seats to be filled in top WMF grantmaking body; General Counsel and Secretary Geoff Brigham leaves Wikimedia
New ArbCom restrictions; genetically modified food safety
Female scientists in India; Cracked.com probes Wikipedia's weaknesses
Promotions in four featured-content forums
Northern summer makes sport the winner
Plus a clerk appointment and two motions
Plus navigating the Chinese Wikipedia, and talkpage sentiment
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The Signpost: 04 August 2016

And the Signpost loses and gains a co-editor-in-chief
WMF and Alphabet are developing an algorithm designed to detect personal attacks
Plus Android and Taylor Swift
Condolences are being left on his English Wikipedia talk page
Pokémon Go led the chart for two weeks running
Eight articles, two lists and fourteen pictures were promoted
Plus: new Wiki Studies journal, Wikipedia usage on Twitter and more
WMF announces enhancements to the notifications system
New user scripts and other tech news
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The Bugle: Issue CXXIV, August 2016

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The Signpost: 18 August 2016

Conference draws highly diverse and productive participation, and several years' advocacy pays off in a new government policy
Guest post recaps in-depth engagement of experts to address Wikipedia gender gap while improving coverage of their field
Wikipedia coverage ranged from sobering to playful in this issue's roundup
Eight articles, eleven lists, one topic and five pictures were promoted
Politics gives way to sports, TV and film
A review of numerous useful Wikipedia customizations
New case opened, and a reminder to administrators not to impose blocks based on private information
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The Signpost: 06 September 2016

The Board’s two-year moratorium on new chapters and thematic organisations has expired; presentation of new criteria is reigniting smoldering controversies and introducing new ones
A comparison of the 15 most-read articles related to the Olympics, in seven language editions of Wikipedia
Wikipedia gaining ground in credibility among librarians; and a healthy helping of media coverage
An interview with WikiProject TV member CAWylie
Twelve articles, eight lists and four pictures were promoted
An update on two weeks of Wikipedia traffic, based on a new and improved tracking tool
New scripts and technical news
One study encounters critique of its ethics from Wikipedians; another critiques the ethics employed by Wikipedia
Switzerland's largest public science library is uploading 134k photos
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The Bugle: Issue CXXV, September 2016

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Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

Medical school class's Wikipedia contributions profiled as case study; and a remembrance of Ray Saintonge, Wikimedian since 2002
This edition's roundup of media coverage
Nineteen articles, eleven lists, one portal and twelve pictures were promoted
TRM, CUOS '16, R&I, RfC
Four weeks of Wikipedia's most popular articles examined
Titles with numbers now sort numerically, and a new tool to check how template parameters are used
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The Bugle: Issue CXXVI, October 2016

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

Wikimedia Foundation reports on fundraising challenges and new initiatives; Indian botanists rally to build Wikimedia Commons' photo collection
A new "peer academy" is proposed to find and support leadership in volunteer communities
And this edition's roundup of media coverage
A new editor, a new parsing algorithm, and another server switch
Twelve articles, twelve lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted
Donald Trump remains a view-magnet, others change their channel
We explore the study, which sought insights from Wikipedia metadata into global events
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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license
Plus our roundup of recent media stories
Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled
Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist
Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure
Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted
Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob
Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights
A recap of recent research in our realm
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The Bugle: Issue CXXVII, November 2016

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Ceradon. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

An overview of the English Wikipedia ArbCom election; brief notes as Asian and African initiatives wind down
Election prompts media to explore themes important to Wikipedians, including news literacy, privacy, and data security
115,000 images were submitted as part of the annual competition.
A sampling of photo submissions to the annual photography campaign
Eight articles, two lists and nine pictures were promoted
A close examination of the efficacy of the GA Cup contest, a longstanding effort to reduce the backlog of articles awaiting review
Empowering volunteers and local chapters to engage with fundraising would yield varied benefits
Someone is likely to dominate traffic for a long time
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The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016

Roundup of the year's news from the Wikimedia world, featuring Wikipedia's 15th anniversary and organizational disarray at the Wikimedia Foundation
WMF reflects, to some degree, on its past approaches to strategic planning
The German Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee loses more than half its members amid political feud
A proposal from the Inspire Campaign to address harassment was recently implemented to prevent unconstructive and malicious editing on user pages
Even a well executed outreach event can yield disappointing results
Wikipedia women in the news, and media reacts to 2016 ad banner campaign
Twenty-three articles, ten lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted
And a roundup of recently-added tools
Four weeks of popular article analysis
Winning photos in world's largest photography contest reveal a world of monuments—and the volunteers who love them
Privacy and Tor, and several other studies
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Merry Christmas


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The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017

Building toward better recruitment and retention
A close look at the history of approving administrators on English Wikipedia, and a roundup of news
The wiki environment can appear deceptively uniform, but it masks strikingly different editorial experiences
The latest media reports
Twelve articles, thirteen lists and twelve pictures were promoted
Various minor developments
If you're reading this, you escaped 2016 alive
Data sets now available on Commons, wishes to be worked on in 2017, and a recap of the Wikimedia Developer Summit
And several other research papers reviewed and summarized
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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

The two statements prompt extensive community discussion; plus, our updates on recent ArbCom decisions
Undisclosed paid editing by a financial broker mired in scandal spans years, impacting Wikipedia's editors and readers
Foundation's latest foray into political waters, and grants funding structured data and anti-harassment measures, met with enthusiasm and concern
Several developments in the $2.5 million strategic planning process explored, and a team within the software production department is sidelined
Our second interview with the productive WikiProject Birds crew
Veteran editing workshop leader responds to a previous Signpost op-ed
Wikipedia's response to Trump inauguration and a fruitful, public "edit war" lead our media updates
Plus the latest scripts, bots, and tech news
Three weeks of the most popular Wikipedia articles
Twenty-eight articles, seven lists, two topics and four pictures were promoted
Women's marches on seven continents attracted strong Wikipedia engagement; Media luminaries and a presidential candidate joined WMF boss Katherine Maher at a New York gathering
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The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017

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March Madness 2017

G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

  • tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
  • updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
  • creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

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