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Michael Zapruder

Article is being edited by someone claiming to be the subject. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 17:02, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Skywatcher68, thank you very much for the notification. I don't think there's a need for administrative action at this time, but I have informed Michael Zapruder about relevant policies and guidelines on their user talk page now (permanent link). If you encounter a similar case, you can probably also just take this approach. Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:08, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

General question on Banning process

I ran across this: User talk:Tenebrae#Community ban violation and am contacting you because you posted it. I have no interest/knowledge/ax-to-grind, just a rabbit hole I ran down, but I wandered around trying to understand the process, and why this editor had been banned. Is there an arbitration discussion somewhere that can reviewed? I didn't find warnings etc. in archived talk pages. Thanks in advance for the guidance. • Bobsd • (talk) 17:14, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) They were community banned as the result of an AN discussion. There's an easy-to-miss "discussion at AN" link at the very top of their talk page within the block banner. tony 17:21, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Sadly, some of the links in the discussion are broken. Bobsd, if I remember correctly, in a nutshell, Tenebrae had edited with a strong conflict of interest and used anti-harassment policies to get others sanctioned for uncovering the dirty secret. The Arbitration Committee stepped in and clarified that Tenebrae has a clear conflict of interest, and the community reacted by banning the user from the entire English Wikipedia. See also [1], [2]. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:28, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You are being generous on the "easy-to-miss", which I certainly did! That's what I was looking for. Thanks! • Bobsd • (talk) 20:18, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair, it's also linked in the block reason above the user's contribution list, but it's not much less hidden there. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:26, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]