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Ok, my mistake. It is little bit of problem of appearance and structure of this article. Many articles are commonly used flag and emblem in infoboxes, if really exist. In articles about older Roman Empire flag is missing and that is understandable, but it is a fact that the Byzantine flag really existed. Why coin instead of flag? Why can not the article look like the others? There are too many differences between the articles about "normal states" and the Roman/Byzantine Empires, it will encourage next users to edit this strange condition. In other historic articles about states and countries are normally used flags and emblems of last period of their existence. Dragovit12:23, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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I must repeat, that file "Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1453-1844).svg" is fictitious, please visit Wikimedia Commons and make sure about it. Dragovit08:40, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Flag
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Do you have a source for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Flag you uploaded?
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Please review WP:BRD. When your Bold edit has been Reverted by another editor, the next step, if you continue to think the edit is necessary, is to Discuss it on the article talk page, not to re-revert it, which is the first step to edit warring. During the discussion, the article remains in the status quo ante. Thanks, Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:44, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The Flag of German Reich (1933–1935) is a well-known historical fact, it isn't flag of the Weimar Republic, because colours are different, is indentical with flag of former German Empire (1871–1918) and there is no reason to revert editation or write comments for long-term discuss. Stop revert, thanks. Dragovit21:55, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for updating the info box on Kievan' Rus. I notice that the section on religion in that article starts with the conversion to Christianity. Perhaps you could add a paragraph or two on the role of paganism in the creation of the Kievan state. Is there any academic work looking at how the Varangians' paganism blended (if it did) with the paganism of the Slavic tribes in the Rus'? Paulmlieberman (talk) 14:04, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, Dragovit. per se, the time you spent in a particular edit is not a valid argument for overruling the current consensus (which, as you may find out, it is even closer to removing the whole infobox altogether). In any case read WP:BRD and act accordingly.--Asqueladd (talk) 22:50, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know of any argument, which could be against my edits. I understand, that your message makes some sense, but I've been doing such edits for years, and there's never been any problem with that, maybe hundreds of edits like this. So I will try to solve this matter by creating "collapsible lists" in the infobox to separate main belligerent states from others, as a solution and compromise. Please do not revert this edit. I believe this is the best way how to solve it than keeping infobox that contains only cc. 10 % of the whole information is useless, so there is no reason to keep it current content, which is obviously basic and low-quality informative value. I can prove my arguments. For example, taifa states like Badajoz and Zaragoza were much larger and stronger than Emirate of Granada, but Emirate of Granada is mentioned in the infobox and Badajoz or Zaragoza not. I've examined all articles about battles, and this is the result of my work. Just think about it. --Dragovit 10:20, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Because you did not do it, I have opened a thread in the talk page [1]. Everyone can address their concerns there. But please refrain from edit warrying meanwhile. Cheers.--Asqueladd (talk) 09:53, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As you wish, do it according to your stupid rules or what is it. Before my edit there was the flag of Bourbon France and late flag of England, but you had no problem with that, you're probably blind or biased. Dragovit 1:19, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
That's why the rule exists. Because people keep putting in anachronistic symbols. As for Barons' Crusade, I didn't even remove the flags, just the countries, since it makes no sense to say that France was a belligerent at all. Srnec (talk) 01:37, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
But the countries were there before my editing and until I did the edit, you didn't notice it, so it's weird. There is nothing anachronistic about symbols and flags, just see Template:Country data, there's states with flags, if it anachronistic, it wouldn't be ever created, so removing flags seems illogical by my view. Please show me the rules about anachronistic symbols and than I decide what to do correctly. Dragovit 9:16, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
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Coats of arms are used in many articles and many wikipedists return them as soon as they are absent, but often without accuracy, so their absence has no advantage. They are helpful to understand connections between the belligerents and the commanders below them. Without them, infoboxes are confusing, a mess of text in which there is a lengthy search. State symbols such as flags and heraldry can say a lot about the states. For example, Germany without a flag is not sure which one it is. It can be the current Federal Republic of Germany or Nazi Germany etc. I don't understand these rules to prohibit the use of all symbols and flags across the board, it doesn't help anyone. By the way, in this rule is written: "examples of acceptable exceptions include infobox templates for military conflicts and infoboxes including international competitions..." so they are allowed in infoboxes about wars and military conflicts. So I didn't break any rules. Dragovit18:19, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If it isn't clear to you, there is no consensus for these things in every article. Please stop it. And stop forcing image sizes in infoboxes. Srnec (talk) 22:59, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Stop disturbing the uniform appearance and form of entire Wikipedia, your interventions are like vandalism. I explained to you why this rule cannot be applied as you interpret it. Dragovit00:04, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Please insert the same notice to user Srnec's talkpage, he just ruined several hours of my editing work, by reverting he continuously blocks the editing of articles, it's propably stalking. Thank you. Dragovit08:10, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey, you have to realize that on this project, when all is said and done, consensus is law. Whether it seems right to you or not, that's how it is. On this issue, consensus is against you. You made your case, clearly and at length, and repeatedly, but consensus is still against you. There is no point in pursuing this any further. The best thing you can right now is let this go and move on. If you keep pushing this, I can almost guarantee you will be topic banned, at the very least. If you keep making negative comments about other editors, you will most likely end up blocked as well.
I know you have a lot to offer and I belive you want to help build and improve this project. But you can't do that if you're blocked and/or topic banned. There is much more you can do, other than adding coats-of-arms to infoboxes. Don't lose your access over this one issue. For now, let this go, work on other stuff. This is just a friendly heads up. - wolf04:27, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Coats of arms redux
I see this issue has popped up again, and is now at WP:AN. Dragovit, I can again only caution you to back off this. There are editors, and now an admin calling for you to be indefinitely blocked. I'm not sure if you've noticed, but you have no support in the debates you keep finding yourself in. There is also a sense that you are perhaps tone deaf to the opinions of other editors, the majority of which are against you. You also have a somewhat abrasive attitude in your comments that is not helping your case at all. All of this over infobox icons... ask yourself: is it worth it? Is it worth pushing this until you find yourself blocked? Because I can almost guarantee that is going to happen if you continue. I can also guarantee that you will not sway the community to your side on this.
As I see it, you have two options;
Post a comment that you have given this further thought, and even though you don't agree with the community in this, you will abide by the the consensus and you will let this matter drop. You will no longer pursue the issue of icons in infoboxes. This will hopefully allow you to continue editing, there are plenty of other things you can work on. Perhaps look at adding coats of arms to the body of articles instead, or creating a table of various coats of arms to link to. Anything other than infoboxes.
Keep doing what your doing. Push the infobox issue. Deny any consensus. Argue with everyone. And in short order face a likely indefinite block. It would probably be at least 6 months before you could return, but even then, it would only be after admitting you were wrong, apologizing to the community and promising to not bring up the icons in infoboxes issue again.
Like last time, this is just a friendly heads up. I have no dog in this fight. You didn't acknowledge my last comment here, so I don't even know if you read it, but it's in your best interests to consider what the advice being offered. - wolf18:24, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Did I commit a personal attack? That is absurd. What is personal about describing your actions as vandalism when they are obviously? You turned several articles with pictures into vague plain text and ruined my work (and not just my) that lasted for hours even though you didn't have the permission or consensus to do it. Dragovit (talk) 17:00, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Per consensus of a discussion at the administrators' noticeboard ([2]), you are indefinitely topic banned by the Wikipedia community from editing in the areas of flags, coats of arms, or other national symbols, broadly construed. The process to request an appeal or modification of this restriction is found here. Any violations of this topic ban may lead to a block from editing without further warning. If you have any questions regarding this, please ask on my talk page. SeraphimbladeTalk to me19:25, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It seems unfair and unfounded to me because much has been written in that discussion about me that isn't true. Some of my words have been taken out of context and given them a different meaning although it were made as considerations and questions to the community, they were presented in a completely different way as offensive, which isn't true. Dragovit (talk) 22:07, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You need to give people more credit than that. They can see for themselves just what you did and did not write, along with what edits you did and did not make. I tried to warn you about this, twice, but you didn't ease off, (or even acknowledge the posts). You can't say you didn't know this was coming. I can only warn you, for a third time, to let this go. You were fortunate you weren't blocked indefinitely. Instead, you were only given a T-ban, which you can appeal in 6 months, and if successful you can resume editing flags and coats-of-arms, etc. In the meantime, there's plenty of other things to do on WP. But if you keep at this, you'll likely end up getting that block after all. (jmho) - wolf23:19, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@wolf: Thank you for your previous warning, but what I wrote were reflections and opinions, also complaints, all of that for someone trustworthy who could respond and assess, because I was still expecting support of the community, but I received no meaningful answer, only condemnation. I rationally thought the community would side with flag icons and flag icon templates (country datas) which are a large number and which I modified and expanded over several years and it seems illogical to me that it's described differently only as my fault and misconduct, although it was mostly my work that was removed, then of course I wanted to defend it without even retaliate for that, so I will definitely appeal after that time. Although I've never been banned before, I've never vandalized an article or damaged someone's work, even I didn't name anyone specifically to make someone feel hurt. My edits were done in articles about military conflicts (mainly infoboxes), which concerned the flags, but not the flags themselves. That's why it seems illogical to me that the ban is on editing flags and coats of arms. Now I don't know exactly what I'm allowed to edit. So I can edit anything, but if I touch a flag somewhere in some editing, will I be penalized for it? That doesn't make sense to me. Please let someone definitely remove those flag icons in all the articles, I use the Wikipedia often and it's awful to watch how each article looks different, but the fact that articles don't have an identical style and without these interactive features, Wikipedia seems old-fashioned and partly loses its meaning for me. Dragovit (talk) 07:11, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If you are unclear what a topic ban means, you should review that. Basically, it means you are not allowed to edit or discuss anything regarding those subjects anywhere on Wikipedia. (Which does include here; statements such as the above where you talk about the subject and encourage certain actions on it could also be considered violations. And yes, the topic ban does apply on this talk page as well.) So basically, don't add or remove them from articles, don't encourage others to do the same, and don't discuss the matter at all. Find something else to do for a while. If after six months or a year have passed, you believe you have an understanding of what went wrong and how you can improve, try filing an appeal and explaining that. But in the meantime, stay completely away from the subject, including discussing it or making suggestions about it. SeraphimbladeTalk to me14:43, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Seraphimblade: I consider this to be informative, but if I'm not allowed to edit or discuss, it's also unrighteous and doesn't correspond to reality, when the TBAN speaks about "disruptive editing" and my edits were never disruptive (if you don't mean long comments in a discussion, which I don't), always been expanding by more information (expressed in higher number points in green sometimes worth thousands) and before when I started editing many years ago, these articles were in neglected condition. I added more information and images, created order, style etc and this lasted for many years without complications, as you can see from their history. It can be considered "disruptive" to remove them after many years of their presence. I was expecting a factual discussion and it was supposed to be about history when it comes to articles about historical topics. Even the consensus is not the result of a factual discussion about history, it's the result of opinions about the technical/aesthetic meaning of icons. That is why I asked that the discussion on this be renewed and now in historical way. If this current consensus is enough, then I have no problem accepting it, but it seemed necessary to ask to resume the discussion, because in some articles there may be icons of flags and for adding in others I got a ban, also I don't think I should get a ban for asking for a renewed discussion. What whent wrong is that prejudices and someone's gossips prevailed over the factual discussion, because I see that it doesn't matter what I write, whether it's self-justification or apology, nothing is taken into account. It should also be taken into account that my language skills are limited, which did not happen, my opponents were perhaps all Americans for whom English is their mother language. If I wrote something that was not accepted, it could be due to this. My ways of expressing myself are influenced by a completely different language, in which words sometimes have a different meaning or use. In any case I consider my edits to be fine and I should not be treated this way, I don't deserve a ban and to be included in the "same category" as malicious editors such as vandals, for example. So I'll ask for his appeal as soon as possible. Dragovit (talk) 11:26, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion ran for substantially longer than the required time frame, and had a good deal of participation from uninvolved, experienced editors. So, since it seems like you are making an appeal to me as the closer here, I am afraid I stand by my interpretation of that discussion's consensus. You can appeal using any of the other methods at any time, and while I will caution you that it may not have a desirable result if you do not first show that you haven't considered and taken on board the feedback provided to you there, what happens next is ultimately up to you. I realize that you don't think you were disruptive, but I would ask you to consider how many previously uninvolved editors agreed that you in fact were, and to consider why they agreed with that assessment. That does not mean that anyone thinks you intended to do something wrong; quite the converse, I believe you that your intentions were good ones. But the outcomes were not, so please consider why, despite such good intentions, things ended up this way. SeraphimbladeTalk to me14:30, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Greetings,
We are working on a Draft:Avret Esir Pazarları about Ottoman times female slavery with a special focus on the state of non-elite common women slavery in those times.
Please do have a look at Draft:Avret Esir Pazarları and help expand the draft with (East European) refs if you find topic interested in.
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Besides the two edits I linked in my block, the following are also breeches of your topic ban: here, here, here, here, here, here, and others. The only reason I didn't block for three months is that this is only your second block. You are not permitted to edit flags ... in any way. That includes things like "banners", coats of arms, etc. Find something else to edit. Ealdgyth (talk) 14:41, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It is all pretty simple. Editing in violation of a topic ban is a valid reason to be blocked. If you don't want to be blocked repeatedly, don't violate your topic ban repeatedly. The only way you can edit topics you are banned from editing without being blocked is to first successfully appeal for your topic ban to be revoked. Agricolae (talk) 20:01, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks a lot for your contribution to Hittite Empire. The seal of the last king. I was wondering what to put there for ages. I really wanna improve that page and I struggled a lot for years. Thank you :) Metuboy (talk) 22:56, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You are topic banned from the topic area of flags, coats of arms, or other national symbols. You should not be doing these edits and frankly, if you can't stop, you'll end up indef banned. Ealdgyth (talk) 13:44, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
But that's exactly what happened, that I'm banned indefinitely, because it's been a long time since I got banned and now I see, that ban is still ongoing, but why? There's honestly no reason to be banned indefinitely. Why am I banned again and for what? I have never harmed Wikipedia or its community. That ban was for some conflict with consensus and discussions, when I was reprimanded for saying something inappropriate although it wasn't intended that way. Will I be punished forever for this? I said that English is not my mother language and I find difficult to communicate. Why am I banned for flags, coats of arms and symbols if it has nothing to do with it? The ban seems illogical and too harsh to me and I don't understand why it hasn't been lifted. Dragovit (talk) 14:18, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
For it to be lifted, you'd need to appeal for it to be lifted. You were topic banned because you refused to accept consensus was against your edits. And since then, you've not abided by that topic ban. To have a hope of the topic ban being lifted, you need to stop violating it, for at least six months, before you ask for it to be lifted. And a bit of advice, just going away for six months without editing much will not show that you're abiding by the topic ban nearly as well as editing for six months without breaking the topic ban. Ealdgyth (talk) 14:25, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It is probably true that I refused to accept the consensus, but not a consensus in general, only that particular consensus for the specific reason that it was done in haste and by users who were not familiar with the issue. This is how it seemed to me and that refusal was my first reaction, because I had strong doubts about it, but it did not mean that I would insist on refusal or disregard consensus in general, I didn't want to cause trouble either. If I caused them, I am very sorry, it wasn't the intention. All I wanted was more time to more discuss and involve more users for consensus and then I would accept it, then there would be no reason to refuse it. That's all, I didn't mean to harm or cause trouble. I've been on Wikipedia for over ten years and I haven't been banned, I'm not a troublemaker causing conflicts. I didn't know that my refusal would have such consequences, but now It doesn't matter anymore. This is all I just wanted to say because it seems to me that it is still being taken negatively. I believe a six month or more ban did not violate, propably I didn't edit anything related to flags and coats of arms and I started edit again recently because I thought the ban was overdue, so it's my fault. Anyway, thanks for the advice, I will try to fulfill these conditions. Dragovit (talk) 14:56, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I am asking you to unblock (unban). It's true that I used "sockpuppet" and I want to apologize very much for that, but let's talk about the two previous bans, how pointless and absurd they were. These bans were about "flags and coats of arms, state emblems etc" for disrespecting the consensus for avoid flagicons in infoboxes, whereas I see no context between this. How can these particular flagicons be related to ban of all flags and symbols? Then there is another important insight: How is it possible to respect the consensus created in two days by few users and which has absolutely no effect, because flagicons are used exactly by the same way as before. No effect or consequence of this consensus, the flagicons continue to be used unchanged. It follows that I have been banned without reason, because these bans had no effect on my editing of flags and emblems. I have done nothing wrong in their context before, so why did such a punishment come? I used my old account as "sockpuppet" to bypass the ban on occasion, because I was convinced that the previous ban about "flags and coats" was completely wrong and later also expired, I know that it couldn't be canceled without a request, but I was hoping it would be considered expired and cancelled. I'm still active on Wikipedia and only banned in the English version, but why? I've been doing with flagicons and infoboxes on Wikipedia for a decade without complications, then there was an artificial problem about the size of the flagicons that it was inappropriate to use them even though they have been used here for years before, this is because of the dubious theory that it provides no benefit to the readers. This was the main argument of the user who consensus called, but in my opinion he was just presenting his own personal view and vision which is questionable, but importantly the consensus left no effect or change in the rules about flagicon use. The flagicons and flagicon templates are still used by the same, they were only removed in a few articles, but in some they came back again as I noticed, so what effect did the consensus and my bans have? The answer is nothing. The user wanted to prevent me from editing some particual articles related to flagicons and watched which articles I edited, but he didn't solve any issue by it. The flagicons are still being used by other users without changes, only I was penalized, but why? It's user who doesn't see the difference between the French royalist and Canadian modern flags and speaks for all users assuming that they don't see the difference like he does. That's as subjective as it gets. Were the faults really only on my side? My edits have always been correct, in good faith and beneficial to the Wikipedia project for whole decade and I will continue to do so on other language versions of Wikipedia which use these flagicons normally, so I didn't notice anything change, anywhere. This current block seems too harsh to me. This problem of "sockpuppeting" is apparently serious, but it would not happen in some circumstances. I apologize for that, I don't know what to say next. Thank you for understanding.
Decline reason:
This lengthy request seems to be trying to relitigate the issues that led to the initial block, and also trying to justify the block evasion, not saying why it was wrong. You apologized, but it comes off to me as being sorry you were caught, not sorry you did it. I don't see grounds to remove the block. 331dot (talk) 15:32, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm confused now, it's probably a misunderstanding if it seem disingenuous as "attempts to justify"... I wrote it the best I could and tried to describe everything truthfully and unbiased about what preceded the block. What else should I write about it or myself? I'm not proud that I used my old account as "sockpuppet", but what to write about it more than an apology, which is not enough anyway? Who can write how it seem, who among us is a psychologist or a mind reader? An apology means that I realize that it was a wrong deed. What more to say? Rather, tell me how it can be compensated. I wrote this because before that I was a ordinary user who had editing as a hobby for many years and never harmed Wikipedia in any way. I have never been blocked in the Czech Wikipedia for this or any other reason, while I edit there exactly as I edited here. In the Czech Wiki are the majority of my edits and no one there sees me as a threat or trouble-maker, no one restricts or penalizes me there, because I am a normal user all time and here it was no different except the one user. I don't know what else to do, even an apology is interpreted differently and means nothing. Why my words have no value here? What exactly is false about what I described? The flagicons and flag templates that started it all are used without changes or restrictions, that is obvious, also the other Wikis unchanged, so don't be surprised by it if those blocks seems unnecessary to me. Dragovit (talk) 17:22, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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