I have replied to Primefac's email about the DM RFC, copying you via the address Primefac gave me. If you do not receive this, or your mail has changed (I noted some conversation about this at AN, though as I do not know which address was used when, I'm not sure which one was given to me) let me know, and we'll figure things out. Best, Vanamonde (talk) 07:03, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I was just wondering whether you had heard from Ezhiki at all. I know he was editing less and less, but he hasn't edited for more than 6 months. I hope he hasn't gone away for good. Fenix down (talk) 14:11, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, I do not have any means of connecting to him other than posting at his talk page. I noticed indeed that 6 months is his greatest editing gap ever, but unfortunately I do not know what happened. I hope he is well.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:28, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Georgian Museum of Fine Arts vs Georgian National Gallery
Hi, I have started creating a page for the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts. You have connected to Georgian National Gallery, which is a completely different page. Georgian Museum of Fine Arts is a new museum in Tbilisi that opened October 2, 2018. Please reverse your changes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lobo87 (talk • contribs) 16:44, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It should stay tagged for two days. I asked you to tag it, but you ignored the request. Then I had to tag it myself, hence the delay.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:23, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I didn't understand the meaning of tag. Anyways, Sorry for that and thanks a lot.Footwiks (talk)
Please refrain from hijacking pages as you did with one of the pages you edited. Should you believe the subject you were writing about deserves an article, please use the Article Wizard, which has an option to create a draft version that you can then get feedback on. If you continue to hijack an existing article, you may be blocked from editing. If you have any questions, you are always welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you..
The timeline section has been in place since August 2018 without a single complaint. On what grounds did you lock in the existing article? CerroFerro (talk) 17:26, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm Arthistorian1977. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Luiz Gustavo Novaes Palhares, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
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@Arthistorian1977:, I assume it was an error (I do not see any issues with the article except for it being a one-line stub), but if it was not please let me know what is wrong, so that I could be more attentive in the future. Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:51, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ymblanter: Hi, it definitely was. I think it was just sitting in the cache of the tool, and I saw it as unreviewed and when I press "review", it made it actually "unreviewed". It happens to me from time to time. My sincere apologies. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 09:23, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm Arthistorian1977. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Sergiev-Kazan Church, Krasnoobsk, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
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It should be registered on Commons. I was in October in China, my laptop died, and for whatever reason on my ipad I was logged in here but not on Wikidata or Commons (I did not even think it was possible). But I was in a jury of Wiki Loves Monuments Russia, and there I had some photos to grade urgently, and they were linked to my Commons account. (And I do not remember my password, and I also could not recover a temporary one because Google is blocked, and VPN did not work properly). Then I just registered a new account and asked the grading system to be reattached to that account. It is quite possible that I never visited the English Wikipedia from that account, and it has never been created locally.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:25, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Australian Better Families
G'day, Ymblanter, re Australian Better Families apologies, we seem to have been looking at this at the same time and I inadvertently changed the protection time. I have restored it to the period you placed on it. Strangely, when I went to protect it, I didn't get the usual warning when the article has already been protected. I only got an "edit conflict" when I went to put the template on it. Anyway, sorry. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 08:01, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, it happens all the time, and actually 3 days would also have been ok, I usually seem to be on a longer term side compared to other administrators.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:05, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ymblanter, I noticed you semi-protected this article following a request for indef SP. Thank-you for disregarding the 'indefinite' element and only protecting for a week. Having looked at the article history it is clear that the co-called disruptive editing claimed by User:CFCF is nothing of the sort. There is evidence of content dispute, but that's all. The request for SP appears, at least to me, to be an example of trying to close down IP editors. Silas Stoat (talk) 21:11, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
There was clearly disruptive editing by IPs, but, unless there are very good reason, I never make the first protection indefinite.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:14, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I couldn't find any - at least not of the first page of the edit history - content dispute only. I guess the problem is that one man's disruptive editing is another man's valid contribution. When the latter is an IP he is at an immediate disadvantage. Silas Stoat (talk) 21:18, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
For me, content dispute in which one (or both) of the sides makes the same edits for years without going to the talk page is disruptive editing.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:26, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi I created about 800 subdivisions of Puerto Rico articles.
Many times the subdivision has the same name as the municipality.
Oftentimes, as well, there is a barrio with the same name, except in a different municipality. So again, I put the municipality in parenthesis, as I've seen time and again. So In that case all along, I've named it with the municipality in parenthesis.
I noticed you moved an article (changing the name) and separate the
subdivision with a comma, so instead of Lajas (Lajas) it is now Lajas, Lajas
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lajas,_Lajas&oldid=879930922
The thing is there are 800 articles and I would estimate that 70% of the articles are using the Lajas (Lajas) format. Wondering if there's a specific rule in the MOS for this and I apologize if my way of naming the articles was incorrect. Now I'd like to know if all the articles where the municipality is in parenthesis will/should be redirected/moved to match the (comma) Lajas, Lajas naming convention? Thank you for your time and have a good day... --the eloquent peasant (talk) 03:31, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am pretty sure we do not use parentheses in the names of localities. Let me try to find an exact policy/guideline and come back. Thanks for working on the Puerto Rico barrios.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:37, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
1) you/we/I would move the page to the barrio name, municipality name, Puerto Rico. i.e. Lajas, Lajas would become Lajas, Lajas, Puerto Rico. Would you agree or not?
2) in the case of about 75 barrios named "name barrio-pueblo" we would not need to include a comma followed by the municipality name because it's self-explanatory. i.e. Cayey barrio-pueblo would become Cayey barrio-pueblo, Puerto Rico or even simply be left as Cayey barrio-pueblo. But based on the MOS, it seems adding "Puerto Rico" disambiguates the issue:
MOS states, "In some cases, the article title should include additional text, such as a country name or province name, for example, Paris, Maine or Red River (Victoria). The additional text is called a disambiguation tag. The disambiguation tag provides context to the reader, and helps uniquely identify places when multiple places share the same name. The following general principles apply to such tags:
In some cases, including most towns in the United States, the most appropriate title includes the non-parenthesized State name as a tag, even when it is not needed for disambiguation."
Many if not all (I didn't check all) of the San Juan barrio articles seem to have been named correctly. That was before my time. They are named barrio, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Thanks again if you're willing to help me with this. Also, I'll have to learn / read up on if there more to a move than meets the eye? --the eloquent peasant (talk) 22:50, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I certainly agree for #1 and will help with the moves (though I might be slow). For #2 (barrio-pueblos) I think it would be safer to ask at a dedicated Wikiproject (I am not sure which one would be better, it is probably good to check which Wikiprojects are around. Or asking at the talk page of [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names).--Ymblanter (talk) 21:56, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'll ask around re: # 2. Also, I wonder why wouldn't we just place a redirect tag on each barrio's talk page only 'cause I'm concerned I might not know how to do any clean-up that may be needed after a move. Anyway, it's late and tomorrow's another day. Have a good one!--the eloquent peasant (talk) 04:32, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have moved two articles from the bottom of the page, but I can switch to the sandbox, no problem. I kept the redirects, I only directed the talk page redirects, but this is not required.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:38, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I moved the article to Palmarejo, Cape Verde. Now, Palmarejo still has a lot of backlinks, most of which (but not all of them) are coming from the giant template. I already fixed the template, but we need to wait for several hours until the caching issues will be fixed (may be already fiexed for you). We can then fix the remaining backlinks and set a disambig page. If you come to this (I will soon go to sleep and will be largely unavailable tomorrow), do not forget hatnotes.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:47, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi again. You said the article "John Boyne" is pending changes for six months, but then you indefinitely semi-protected it. Which one should be more correct and more appropriate? -- George Ho (talk) 09:45, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Short Description of London Underground station articles
Hi Ymblanter! I'm really intrigued to know why you added these short desc templates, which seems to me that aren't of any use. Would you mind explaining? Your edits have been flooding my watchlist lol Thanks VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:29, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Vincent60030:, They are needed for mobile users, see WP:Short description. My apologies for flooding the watchlist. I want to add them anyway, but I will try to distribute my work so that I add alternatively short descriptions to articles on metro stations for different cities, then it will be easier qua watchlists.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:05, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I will try to minimize the collateral damage. I know myself how inconvenient it is when someone makes a lot of small changes during a short period in the articles of the same type all of which I have on my watchlist.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:07, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still learning from you and've decided to try my hand at some of these short descriptions and taking this good discussion into consideration. Thanks! --Level C (talk) 00:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Two considerations are (i) if you do it manually, do not do too much at a time for the above reasons; (ii) if you started working with a group of articles finish it, since we do not have instruments to check which articles have short description, and checking them one by one is really annoying.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:28, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to know whey you declined to protect our company wikipedia page for semi-protect and full-protect, I would prefer to have full-protection on our page since we are facing some vandalism from IP's and fake users changing our company status to closed and defunct, we need to avoid these actions and if you want I will send you official email from company owner or my official email.
Unless you count your own edits as vandalism, the last IP edit was yesterday, and the one before in July 2018. This is well below our standard threshold for article protection.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:09, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ymblanter,
we need one admin to be responsible these changes, I did clean all the vandalism yesterday coming from named users like (A10.comfan24) and public IP's and changed some figures to make the company active and you can chech that, another time if you want official emails I can provide.
Again: If an article has been vandalized three times in a year, we do not semi-protect. You can just revert vandalism. I for example protected an article today which was vandalized five times in 24h by different IPs who inserted there serious violations of our policy on biographies of living people. This is what merits protection, vandalism three time per year does not.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:30, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm Arthistorian1977. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Slovenskoye, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
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@Ymblanter: Agh, it happens to me all the time. When I open an unreviewed article and someone else does the same when I press review, it marks it unreviewed :( The same others do to me. Might be a raise condition bug. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 08:12, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, it is indeed quite common. No need to apologize, I was just double-checking whether there was a real problem with the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:15, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
sorry, this is the time regarding this page, a tendentious IP does not care about anything, with disruptive modifications/deletions...I opened the issue in the talk page long ago, no answer..I warned the IP for edit warring, no result...others also noticed, but it still goes on...please do the needful. Thank You for your time.(KIENGIR (talk) 20:58, 8 February 2019 (UTC))[reply]
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Ymblanter, as seen here, you stated, "I think pending changes protection is working fine for the time being. It can not completely stop disruptive editing, and this is not what it was designed for." And Oshwah agreed. But pending changes did not work fine in the case of the IP showing up again and making the same problematic edit, and WP:Pending changes states, "Pending changes protection is a tool used to suppress vandalism and certain other recurrent nuisances on Wikipedia while allowing a good-faith user to submit an edit for review." So I'm not clear on the "this is not what it was designed for" part of your comment...unless you mean that pending changes is meant to help decrease disruptive editing instead of completely eliminate it. Either way, one goal of the protection is to prevent vandalism and other disruptive editing by IPs and non-autoconfirmed registered editors from showing up in the article. As seen here, I addressed the editor who reviewed the IP's latest edit and accepted it. The editor explained that they didn't pay close attention to the edit.
Now that I've sourced the piece, I understand leaving pending changes in place, considering that an editor is unlikely to accept the IP removing the source if the IP does that when removing the middle name again, but pending changes didn't work fine that first try. If the editor had accepted the IP's edit because the middle name was unsourced, then I can see the argument that pending changes did work fine that first try. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 05:18, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Pending changes protection is usually configured when there is persistent long-term but infrequent disruption in an article by non-autoconfirmed users but at the same time there are also good IP edits to the article. Gia Carangi has exactly this profile. Whereas this year disruption mainly comes from one IP, whom I now blocked for a week (and if they continue disrupting editing after the expiration of the block they will need to be blocked again), I see good (or at least not reverted) IP edits in November. It is unfortunate that a bad edit was accepted, but since you talked to the user I hope it is not going to happen anymore. Of course it we see after some period (say a couple of months) that this kind of protection does not help, and that bad IP edits are still made frequently on a regular basis, we can upgrade it to semi, but my analysis of the situation was that, three days after the pending changes protection was configured and with only one bad edit in the meanwhile, it is too early to reach this conclusion.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Some unsolicited advice from a "wise old man". I know you have administrative responsibilities, but you should relax. There's probably not a single article on Wikipedia that doesn't violate some guideline. Anyway, the whole internet/web is going to go up in a puff of smoke some day. Just enjoy it! Cheers! WQUlrich (talk) 00:52, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Shin Lim
@ymblanter There was absolutely no good reason or good faith from you to change the edit level of the page, because my edits was about adding Shin Lim's Chinese name to the page, unless you have something against his Chinese name. But that would make you and the people who were intentionally ignoring the content of my edits and deleting his Chinese name from it look very shady, pathetic, and cowardly.2604:6000:D786:6C00:3DF7:791D:751C:69D4 (talk) 19:49, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You obviously have no comprehension of what "disruptive" means. An action needs to have an equal and opposite reaction in order to be disruptive. So if my edits were disruptive, then by definition those who changed my edits were equally disruptive. But did you call their edits disruptive, too? Of course not, because by using an underhanded method to censor specific information that you didn't like but cannot refute on facts and logic, and then deleting my previous reply to you, you have proven that you are not only a biased coward but also a moron of such pathetic caliber that wikipedia has been given a bad name by dumb schmos like yourself who play censors here.66.24.187.63 (talk) 23:54, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I do not know why but I've seen that you unfairly protected those 3 articles that I edited recently to a user who does not understand several tips in his discussion page and here I have tried to add Rica Fukami's birth reference because I realized that in the Japanese Wikipedia article I did not see the actress's birth year nor is it singer, rather is a narrator of anime series but with its reversals the IPs like us consider us as cross-wikis in different languages in Wikipedia, as it does in Wikidata right here and threatens us with wanting to block us globally so easily. 152.0.140.236 (talk) 18:56, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have not seen that you engaged at the talk pages of the articles (in fact, you have not), and you changed your IP to start edit-warring. This is a typucal situation when we protect articles.. If you want to change the birth date, go to the article talk page and show which reliable sources confirm your version of the birth date.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:00, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Ymblanter, i noticed that recently you have tagged the February 2019 Warsaw Conference article with ARBPIA and envoked 6 month protection upon the request of user:Foster tree, who unilaterally decided that the article is somehow related to AI Conflict. It is obvious however that the Conference was in fact dealing with the Arab-Israeli coalition against Iran supported by the US, and not anything related with previous conflict of Israel with Arab League. There has already been a similar misunderstanding with the Iran–Israel proxy conflict article, where ARBPIA was rightfully removed by BU Rob13 upon my clarification request. Please note, that the Warsaw Conference article still falls under the WP:GS/SCW&ISIL sanctions due to relevance with the Syrian Civil War and ISIL, which are separate sanctions from ARBPIA, and were installed specifically for the purpose of separating the issue of Syrian Civil War and Iran-Israel engagements from the generally unrelated Arab-Israeli conflict. I would appreciate if the sanctions would be corrected from ARBPIA to SCW&ISIL as explained.GreyShark (dibra) 08:02, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Done, will configure the talk page template later. In fact, the disruption was specifically related to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but as soon as the sanctions work I do not particularly care which sanctions have been exactly imposed.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:09, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, what disruption are you referring to? (the page seems to have been generally stable with no specific edit-warring) Anyway, it is still tagged as ARBPIA while editing.GreyShark (dibra) 12:14, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
On a second thought, I decided to remove protection altogether. We are not authorized to put articles under extended confirmed protection outside of the ARBPIA area; there was no disruption in the article since 14 February, and normally the article does not need to be protected. If disruption resumes, semi-protection can be added.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:49, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Done as well. There are currently some technical issues with that article (see at its bottom) which I have no time to fix, but may be someone else could.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:38, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is of course confusing - in real life the Catalans did rule the Greek islands for a while, or more specifically the Catalan Company did. And Fomenko does say "At the beginning of the war, in 1377-1378 a.d.,the troops of the Navarrans invade Attica and con-quer it ([195], page 265). The primary initiator of the war, the Corinthian ruler Nerio, acts as an ally ofthe Navarrans who invade the Duchy of Athens, which is still under Catalan rule at this point". That was a real conflict apparently between the Catalan Company and the Navarrese Company and it was in Greece, not Spain. And of course isn't really between "troops of the Navarrans" etc. In fact the Duchy of Athens was under the Crown of Aragon although I guess it might have been controlled by Catalans, reading the Crown of Aragon article. So I'm reverting you, ok? Doug Wellertalk16:57, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, good. I still think it could be formulated in a less confusing way, but unfortunately I do not have time right now to deal with it.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:13, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Winged Blades of Godric: I requested protection at RFPP at the time that editing disputes were ongong, as I consider myself involved here, but then I went to do something else for the day and couldn't follow up. If my request didn't get actioned until several hours after the dispute was resolved then I agree with resetting to ec, and apologies for the minor inconvenience. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:18, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I protected indeed four hours after the edit-warring stopped, but the edit-warring itself was going on for about five hours, and it was not unreasonable to assume that it could resume. However, after being aggressively attacked like this I have no desire to return to the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:41, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is fine, but next time you choose a topic title at the talk page of someone who was trying to close the RFPP requests nobody else at te time cared to close to be "Bad protection", you probably should not be surprised that this someone feels it as aggressive.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:49, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Regrets, that was a bad choice. I intended to leave a short note but it came out to be way terse:( Your actions over RFPP are immensely valued:-) ∯WBGconverse18:58, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ivanvector, I can be fairly blamed for my part in quasi-edit-warring:-( When you deal with a bunch of nationalist SPAs sprouting random nonsense (and effectively stonewalling); it's a bit frustrating but I ought to have conducted myself better.
But, by the time YmBlanter tended to the request, the article was stable for hours and the traces of revert-warring had long died. And since then, the article had been stable despite his un-protection:-) ∯WBGconverse18:22, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Help re. SPI on ru.wikipedia
Hi Ymblanter, I was wondering if you could help. I came across this SPI on ru wikipedia which may be relevant on en wikipedia. See also User talk:Sir_Sputnik#Cross language Wikipedia sock - advice. I think this may warrant to be raised as SPI over here, but I wanted to be sure I have all the facts before raising. The google translation of the Russian SPI does not make much sense, so I was wondering if you could help me understand the gist of it. Many thanks!! pseudonymJake Brockmantalk19:22, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Small discovery from looking at this. Openlydialectic = Niqabu, however Niqabu also appears to be Paral Aydzen based on the cu log. The technical evidence is that they have had the same static IP for at least two and a half years in common. Same article as the other. No sleepers seen while looking. — Berean Hunter(talk)20:36, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
First of all thank you for protecting the page as per my request at Wikipedia:Request for page protection. In spite of the protection, there is continuous edit warring and vandalism in this page as well as in the related page Grand Mufti of India which is also protected. This user is edit warring in the page saying the sources used are paid media and are not reliable. In fact, all the mainstream media has covered the event and the sources used in the page are major national newspapers. I asked the user to provide a source with a conflicting claim which he could not. I request you to kindly look into the pages and advise whether I should go for Wikipedia:Extended confirmed protection or a higher protection level. Malayala Sahityam (talk) 14:19, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The user is continuing removing sourced information from the page. He/she is replying at the talk page but still repeating personal opinion on the matter and is unable to provide any references to substantiate it. Please see the discussion pages as well and decide whether the user's editing pattern qualifies for a ban. Thanks. Malayala Sahityam (talk) 19:20, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Re: your recent protection of this article. Thank you for the prompt response, but I noticed the page is only protected to "autoconfirmed or confirmed" access, which only requires 10 edits & 4 days to achieve. One of the DE accounts made 33 consecutive edits to the page while another one made 11 consecutive edits. Both accounts have reached the requisite number of edits to access the page, with just with their disruptive edits alone and will reach the 4-day minimum tomorrow/the next day, before the 7-day protection expires, essentially rendering this level of protection as ineffectual. Would it possible to increase the protection to "extended confirmed"? Thank you - wolf17:33, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We may not use extended confirmed before it has been demonstrated that semi-protection was not effective. In this sense no, I can not change the protection now. On the other hand, if the accounts are clearly disruptive, they should be blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:36, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
On 28 February you temporarily protected Moore's law[2]. We are still getting edits promoting an outfit from Taiwan who made a single diode (not an entire chip) that (according to the source) "has the potential to move beyond Moore’s Law".
The disruption IMO is still too intensive for pending changes. I applied three weeks semi, let us see what happens when it expires.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:30, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion at Talk: Kylie Jenner#Less Redundant Use of She. Same Goes For Kourtney/Khloe.
This is an edit semi protected request that I did to Kim Kardashian a while ago. The main idea of this improvement is that her surname shouldn't be used more than once after opening sentence of her occupations of a model/TV personality respectively.
Now on to the main story. You have to do something to Kourtney Khloe and Kylie of having their surnames being repeated after opening sentences of said professions instead of she. Why? Cause it sounds REALLY repetitive and trite.
The former two should have Kardashian follow their leads while the latter is a Jenner. Seriously you should take this edit semi protected request.
Me again. I have put in a request at RFPP. It is beyond the usual because of the history of paid editing, and now the fury directed at this company and its founder. Perhaps you have time to look in to it? Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:46, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies, I was offline for two hours, and the request was acted on. If it turns out that the protection has been insufficient, we can alwaye increase the level.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:39, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks again ... there is just too much to keep up with. I think I cleaned up the citations, and most of the BLP stuff, but no time to do more. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:40, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for helping me out with closing CfDs. I know that its not the most appreciated admin job, but without admins to list NACs for processing I wouldn't be able to help out, so thank you for trusting me with the closures and for making the edits necessary to carry them out. DannyS712 (talk) 20:10, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, indeed, it must have been comes. I am unable to see my own typos, in addition, English is not my mother tongue, and I make a lot of such errors. This one was more than two years ago, a typo did not lead to any misunderstanding, and I am inclined to leave it as it is.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:44, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ymblanter! I hope you're doing well and that life is happy for you. :-) I was making my normal rounds through the admin noticeboards and request pages and saw that you responded to a protection request for Karl Urban. You applied pending changes protection to the article, but responded to the request stating that you applied semi protection to it. Given the article's history, I'm pretty sure that you just responded with the incorrect template and that you applied the protection level that was intended. I just wanted to message you about it and let you know; I went ahead and fixed it for you. ;-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)04:59, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Добрый день. Можете перенаправить этот запрос на кого-либо технически грамотного админа? Я просто не понимаю сути проблемы: добавить ссылку в статью я не могу, но при этом и сам сайт и какая-либо часть ссылки отсутствуют в блэк-листах EnWiki и Меты. --Wanderer777 (talk) 12:55, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Давайте ещё пару дней подождём, я перенёс вниз (тут темы добавляются снизу, а не сверху), и задал вопрос. Если так и не будет никакой реакции, я что-нибудь придумаю.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:12, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, your warning worked in this article, but the IP turned to the Category:Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), and despite already two discussions in two different pages after three reverts made this edit [[3]], though the IP address altered a little bit: (177.207.150.217)...does it worth to post to this an edit warring notice, or because the address is different, I have to assume that is another user? Thank you for your time.(KIENGIR (talk) 17:31, 25 March 2019 (UTC))[reply]
Sure, no problem. I would prefer not to - this is not such a big deal, and hopefully the talk page discussion would decide which version is preferable.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:11, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mar 24 NFOOTY AfDs
Hi Ymblanter, regarding your recent dozen or so AfD nominations of footballers todays... are these eligible for CSD A7 (db-person) and if not, why not? The claim to significance does not seem credible (one of the requirements of WP:CSD#A7) if it clearly doesn't pass the subject notability guideline (i.e., doesn't meet NFOOTY) and without any references cited at all, there's no credible claim of significant coverage to meet GNG. (If it wasn't for the Soccerway links, it would be a BLPPROD, right?)
Another, related question: these are all created on one day by one editor. None apparently have any indicia of notability. In fact, the indicia on these articles is that their subjects are not notable. If I want to !vote to delete, I have to now go and do a BEFORE search for a dozen youth players to confirm that they're not notable? As would any other !voter? That's a ton of work. It seems nonsensical. Tomorrow, the same editor can create 12 more of these–we can create stubs about youth footballers until the cows come home, we'll never keep up AfDing them one by one. Do you think this is a problem? If so, what should be done?
Third question, if you'll indulge me: I see this (creation of non-notable footy stubs) as the same thing as the portals, and the same thing as mass categorization. But they get treated so disparately. In one case, we rollback. In another, we AfD each, one by one. In a third, we have RfCs to figure out what to do. It seems so inconsistent, yet after 18 years, how do we not have a procedure for handling the mass-creation or mass-editing of anything? Especially after such high profile past instances of mass-creation of stuff? I guess my question is: if we have to go through these FOOTY creations one by one to delete them, how come we don't have to go through the white supremacist nationalist categorizations one by one before rolling those back? To be clear: I'm not suggesting anyone did anything wrong in either case or anyone should do anything different, I'm just seeking to understand why things that I see as the same are seen by others as different.
1) Indeed, they are eligible for PROD, most of them even for BLPPROD (most Soccerway links are bogus), and I guess I could delete them via A7. However, I noticed that the creator has a couple of these articles moved to draft, and they immediately recreated them in the main space (I deleted both drafts today). After the first four nominations I left a fairly strong message at the talk page of the creator, but they did not edit at least until the end of the nominations. One article was previously deleted. It is generally safer to have them go once through AfD because then every recreation can be speedy deleted as A5. 2)-3) Concerning mass deletions: if I remember correctly, you have participated in the GS case recently. The crux of the case was that someone in good faith was performing for many years mass actions which he thought were according to the policies, and then suddenly it turned out that some users (and, in particular, some vocal users) think this is quite contrary to the policy, and demands of blocks, bans, and desysops were suddenly in the air. I personally think (well, I am actually quite sure) these articles are not notable, but it would be enough to have one vocal user to point out that I A7-deleted 20 articles which might have been notable and then I am suddenly in the spot with all kind of shit being thrown into me. I have been there, and I do not like it. Even if the Arbcom decides after half a year that I was likely correct. If the user continues creating such articles after my warning, we have means to deal with them. If not - 20 articles is smth the community can handle. I spent in the morning 2 hours of my time cleaning up RFPP, and even if I have taken 20 minutes extra time from the community by sending these articles to AfD I am still on a net good side.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:30, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. though your opponents are probably thinking differently, but nobody going to die if it stays like this for three days. I checked that there is no obvious vandalism and no BLP violations in the current version.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:30, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am already there, issue is not new, analysis, fast checking and removal of reliable sources is going on from long time since 2012 over different articles, despite wp:rsn informed not to do so.भास्कर् BhagawatiSpeak11:47, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something silly.
Hi Ymblanter, just a note about your recent NFOOTY noms. Some of them (though not all) do quite easily pass NFOOTY (eg. Paulo Victor Costa Soares, Alexis Ramos etc.). Please remember WP:BEFORE when nominating a large amount of seemingly similar articles - some might be notable for inclusion and only require clean-up. I do note, however, that those articles were (and still are to a slightly lesser extent) horribly written and you could have easily BLPPRODed them so props to you for letting the community decide as, hopefully, doing so will result in the notable players been kept and a solid article being written on them. Cheers, Tropicanan (talk) 10:48, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I do not see any evidence that any of them played for the international team, and none of the articles claims that. I only see claims of U-23 team which does not create notability.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:10, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
And thank you for teaching me the Wikipedia policies. It is particularly valuable to get taught by a user with 2 weeks tenure and 130 edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:14, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Just because an article doesn't state something doesn't mean it is not true. Research! All the ones I'm !voting keep for played (started or were substituted on) in an international match vs Bangladesh a few weeks ago (1). Also, ever heard of IP editing? Or pinging? Tropicanan (talk) 11:20, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
lock page
you locked the bee and puppy cat page. this is the post that is being put up and then taken down. ==Animation change==
Following the release of the first episode many fans expressed upset in the change in animation style and overall tone from the pilot. The lack of communication between the Patreon funded team and changes made left many of those who funded the project upset. When questioned about this, creator Allegri responded on Tumbrl that "Bee’s design changed… cuz… I wanted it to. I wasn’t happy with how the animation studio interpreted the original design, so i counteracted the choices i made and hoped it would animate better… but also I redesigned it cuz i wasn’t happy with how I designed it either!!”[1]. its the other guy that can't let the legitimate edit go. if your going to lock it at least see what content is being removed first, and if its legitimate undo the change. you still can and you should.
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Hi, i made those moves 'cause in Ukraine the only official language is Ukrainian, and i don't understand why there were also Russian names. I know that in some areas of Ukraine there is a large minority that speaks Russian, but it is not an official language. It's like if we put the names in Spanish in American cities page where Spanish is much spoken, if not a majority.
However Arianatoreblink is my brotherMvvnlightbae (talk) 11:40, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Seriously, if you do not understand you should ask first before making several thousands of edits. Do you really think the Russian names are here just because in 15 years nobody noticed that Russian is not an official language in Ukraine, and users were adding them thinking Russian is official? An nobody knows what the real name for Chernobyl should be? And for Kiev (which is protected, so that you did not manage to move it)? Next I see disruption from your side, and I block you and your alleged brother as well.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:45, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Need protection for the page as its under massive edit of ten times in a day. need to put some more sources but till than need protection. also kindly suggest can i do new edit. or cann changes be undo so that i can edit sources.Rusianejohn (talk) 13:17, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My edit of the Khazar Hypothesis section of the Ashkenazi Jews article is NOT vandalism. It makes it accurate and politically neutral. There is evidence that the Ashkenazi Jews are descended from the Khazars. But, some people want to keep it out of the article to further a political agenda. [1][2]
Like I said, there's a political agenda at play here. Some people are afraid that it would weaken the Jewish claim to Israel if it came out that the Ashkenazi Jews were primarily descended from people other than the Israelites. They don't care care about the truth. They just want to turn the article into a propaganda platform.
Gimme a break! That's not what I said. Go look at the edit history of the article. I've been fighting this battle for over 2 years. Why do you think there's been so much opposition to my edit?
I do have an opinion about this, but this is not why I protected the article. I protected it because of your disruptive behavior. Please go to the talk page and discuss.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:58, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've seen that episode. It has no relevance to this discussion. But, what bothered me about it was the way the Nazis captured Kirk and Spock. One of them thought Spock's skin color was unusual. But, it wasn't. As a Vulcan, Spock's blood is green. But his skin color wasn't out of the ordinary for an Ekosian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:1703:45A4:358A:5DED:D422:A6C0 (talk) 20:27, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I goofed!
Yesterday, I mistakenly submitted a request for page protection for List of Call the Midwife episodes. I'm not sure what I was thinking, but it should actually have been List of Call the Midwife characters that needed the request for page protection from the Harrisburg, PA IP. He/she is not stopping, and worse, has now started up on the main Call the Midwife article. Would you mind checking the two and applying page protection at least to the characters article? I'm sorry for the error! ----Dr.Margi✉02:38, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have undone their edit since they need to discuss it at the talk page first, but I do not have any opinion on the validity of the information they add. There are references which at the first glance look legit, though admittedly I did not spend much time looking at them.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:57, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I felt that you have put a indefinite protection for first offence without particular category arbitration on the Final Solution article isn’t very fair towards some good faith IPs. I’d recommend you to revert to pending changes, and see how that works. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.213.49.97 (talk) 05:33, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I made the point she is not notable but admittedly not in the best possible way. You make a good point, this is the third time in a couple of weeks I get negative comments about my AfD nominations. I will stay away from it for a while.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:42, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi YMblanter (and pinging co-closers Fish+Karate and GoldenRing): If you're comfortable doing so, could you comment on this COI/N post regarding that lengthy RfC you closed? The RfC opener, Guy Macon, apparently has doubts that the RfC's general finding applies in my case (as an acupuncturist) and is seeking admin guidance.[7]
Request you to give protection to Dakshina Kannada article from vandalism
Anonymous editors have been vandalizing the Tulu Nadu content of Dakshina Kannada article, and also inserting fake demographic percentages. I request you to please give protection to Dakshina Kannada article. 106.206.41.230 (talk) 16:11, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I am concerned at this point there is no reason to protect the article. I would also have rejected a request at [[WP:RFPP].--Ymblanter (talk) 16:15, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
A barnstar for you!
The Admin's Barnstar
For helping out at CfD, and being willing to make the fully-protected edits necessary to allow me close discussions. Thank you so much. DannyS712 (talk) 05:33, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Doug Weller: I had another look and I do not think ec protection would be needed at this point. I see one confirmed user who made problematic edits, the user has been warned (and if they make the same edit for the third time they must be blocked), and they are anyway only 50 edits away from becoming extended confirmed. I added the article to my watchlist, I hope this would be sufficient. If they return, I block them. If another confirmed user appears, I can always ec protect it.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You're the most recent admin to block Oreratile1207, so I'm contacting you. After you extended their existing block to 3 months for their personal attacks on Cullen328, they apparently socked to evade it (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oreratile1207/Archive), but the blocking admin did not reset the existing block on the master. Shortly after the block expired, the account resumed exactly the behavior that earned their previous blocks by adding false sourcing [8] and unsourced information [9], and a short while ago they left a message for me not to revert their unsourced addition [10]. The editor seems to have learned nothing despite multiple chances to improve. I've seen editors indeffed for a lot less, so if you're in the mood, I heartily support saving everyone a lot of time. Bakazaka (talk) 08:01, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
To be honest, they added unsourced info into articles already full of similarly unsourced or badly sourced info, so I am hesitant to block them indef just for this.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:50, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The evidence is clear. Compare edits with User:Leavemydaughteralone, User:Underwritten and User:GoBotsters. They constantly move pages, edit genocide articles particularly List of articles, California genocide and those relating to Soviet war crimes. User:6ullga is a relatively new account that has begun editing similar pages in the exact same manner. القمر يضيء في الصباح (talk) 22:57, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You extended-confirm protected this article as an Arab-Israeli conflict article. Did you make a mistake? It's a US-based website used by people engaged in short-term renting. Nyttend (talk) 23:57, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I know what airbnb is. There was an edit-warring concerning one of their Palestinian locations, and at the time it was reasonable to ec protect it (I was responding to an RFPP request). Afterwards, I discussed the topic with Galobtter at this page, and we decided it would be reasonable to unprotect after half a year.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:05, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, just wanted to let you know that I've asked Arbcom for a little clarification here. I don't think everything with tiny Israel-Palestine coverage should count (it seems a bit extreme to consider Sea level related, merely because File:Israel Sea Level BW 1.JPG appears near the top), so at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment I said basically "Ymblanter and I interpret things differently, so would you please tell us which of us is holding the interpretation you intended". As I said there, This is not some sort of complaint/argument/etc. Just trying to get an authoritative statement on this decision's scope. Please let me know if I've said anything that can be interpreted as hostile, because I'm not unhappy and don't intend anything to sound as if I am. Nyttend (talk) 01:26, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ymblanter, thanks for the quick work on what appears to be yet another HughD sock here [[11]] Recently I suspect the same sock was active here. Would you please consider removing the comments. I tried but editors unfamiliar with HughD objected. [[12]], [[13]]. Thanks, Springee (talk) 15:31, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, this is a sock. Every edit who makes edits exclusively to change Northern Kurdish language to Ezidi language, or Kurdish to Yezidi, is a sock (who I believe only used IPs, but I might be wring). I reverted a recent edit, but I am not comfortable applying a range block. The easiest is probably to revert on sight.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:05, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You reviewed an page of mine so I was wondering if you could help me. My page on Ally Prisock has been nominated for deletion. For the life of me I do not understand why as it is sourced and she is a professional soccer player. How do I get an article that has been flagged as Nomination for deletion to not be deleted?
This is without a doubt the same person, but they have not edited since the block of Boneticore. There is not much we can do about it.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:28, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You can indeed open an SPI but given the block is short duration and than they do not check Ips, I think chances are not big.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:45, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hm. Can't CUs find socks created from the same IP? If I provide them with the account and the IP, can't they check if other accounts were created? This seems to suggest so, but I'm unfamiliar with CU in general. Isa (talk) 18:55, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ymblanter. Thanks for all your work with page protections, etc. I know we didn't see eye-to-eye last year, and I apologise for everything I said, and anything that may have offended you in any way. I'm not going to make excuses, what was said was said, but I do regret the whole thing. Lets just say it was some off-wiki issues that dragged me down here too. I'm here to build content and do good, and I know you are too. I won't be offended if you don't think I'm being sincere and understand if you remove/revert this. Once again, apologies for what I said - it should not have happened. Thanks. LugnutsFire Walk with Me19:11, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for noticing. I thought I added it there (I specifically remember removing these extra lines), but I might have lost it indeed. I will check now and add if I have lost it.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:28, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
arbpia edit notices
Hi Ymblanter, regarding [15], [16], [17], [18] and [19], the template that goes on the talk page is {{ARBPIA}} while the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} goes on the respective edit notice pages (eg Template:Editnotices/Page/Amka). Those 5 all look like they have the edit notice already, but some are missing {{ARBPIA}}. I just wanted to let you know why I changed the template added (or removed the edit notice template entirely for the pages that already have {{ARBPIA}} on the talk page). nableezy - 21:59, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, this is fine, I was sure I have done smth wrong and this is why I only placed five notices. I will continue tomorrow.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:01, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. regarding 2nd-millennium disestablishment in Europe I wished to sum up the entire millennium of disestablishment in Europe. There is the category Category:2nd-millennium disestablishments in Europe. This video does just that, neatly sums it up in a way that is a million times easier than going through all the sub categories of a millennium. The best place to put it i thought was in a dedicated article for the category. How would you suggest i link it up? I messaged the creator to see if they would link the actual viewo into the article however the best i could do was put a link to this very useful video.
You know, we are not a platform to promote youtube videos. The article had no text, only a link, and this is why I deleted it. You are welcome to recreate the article, but it must conform to our policies, and only after that we can discuss whether the link can be there (my guess is it should not be there, but this is just an opinion of one user).--Ymblanter (talk) 10:38, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I see that we've been editing the page for Marfa Kryukova. You removed my note about copy editing saying it was not needed. I'm curious about this because I definitely see things that aren't ideal grammatical constructions in English. For example, the use of prepositions is off: "interest in Russia to the Northern folklore"; "invited to perform to Arkhangelsk" -- both of these would more commonly be 'in'. There are other passages that I think could be made clearer.
Do you disagree that the grammar could be improved, or do you or someone else plan to update it? If you'd like-- though I'm completely unfamiliar with the subject of the article-- I could work on an update and either publish it, or show it to you first. Jkgree (talk) 17:44, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I have written the article. I am surprised to see things like "invited to perform to Arkhangelsk" (I guess it was "invited to Arkhangelsk to perform"), but generally I find it reasonably well written, and I do not think it requires additional effort. If you are planning to copyedit, you are most welcome to do it, but I am not happy to have a maintenance template on an article I have written which would stay there forever.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:07, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
OK. I will work on some updates. It seems that you watch this page, so if you see anything that you disagree with, you can let me know, or just change it. I expect, by the way, that any changes I make would be pretty non-controversial. Jkgree (talk) 19:05, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have made updates. I included some hidden notes on the page; you may want to look for them and add or change something. Jkgree (talk) 15:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I semi-protected for three days. The most recent IP seens to have found the talk page, but there were other instances earlier today, and it is better if the article stays protected for a while.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:54, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have not looked at all of their edits, but in what I looked at I did not see anything which would require revision deletion.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:45, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, there’s nothing there but virtual graffiti, so to speak, and I suppose scrubbing it off has its own set of problems. Again, thanks. Qwirkle (talk) 16:01, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I was wondering whether you could cast your eye over this AfD please and let me know whether you think my relist rationale is OK. I'm not really sure that I should take any more administrative action, as I wonder whether I might be considered involved. It would be good to get your opinion as someone who has occasional involvement in football AfDs but isn't active in the project and so I think is independent. Thanks, Fenix down (talk) 14:41, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think relisting is a possible option, but I would say if they want to discuss the players individually let them discuss the players individually. Do you want me to close it as procedural close and renominate all these guys for individual AfDs?--Ymblanter (talk) 15:11, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If you think that would be for the best I am happy for you to do that. It all seems rather bureaucratic to me, given no one has suggested anything for these players around GNG. I wanted people who had voted for procedural keep on the fear that it would be a chaotic AfD time to reflect given that has deomonstrably not happened, but some people seem to just want to try again for a third time. Probably best to close and reopen to get the proper engagement. Thanks, Fenix down (talk) 15:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Right now it is pending changes protected however it is also extended confirmed protected so can you remove the pending changes protected as it is extended confirmed protected indefinite and extended confirmed edits are automatically accepted and you can always add it back if the article is unprotected Abote2 (talk) 11:54, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Please, pay attention to the following article: "Totskoye nuclear exercise". A user whose contributions seem to be biased has removed tons of information from there, hiding every fact that tells us that the exercise did not have disastrous consequences, that "local citizens were offered temporary evacuation", that "experts of the Leningrad Scientific Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene conducted their own radioecological investigation of the area around the blast site", that "in 1994-1995 four Russian and four American experts formed a joint commission for studying the impact of the explosion on the blast site and the surrounding territories" and didn't find anything even remotely apocalyptic there, etc, etc, etc. He also removed the memoirs of those veterans who participated in the exercise, leaving only what doesn't contradict his own POV.
I highly recommend that you add that page to your watchlist and stop the user from removing extremely important and sourced content in the most inappropriate manner. 213.193.14.55 (talk) 12:49, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I guess you have confused me with some other user, as I have only restored a large portion of the text that was removed along with highly important facts from primary sources. Well, anyway, thanks for the attention, I'll try to discuss with the user. 213.193.14.55 (talk) 14:05, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Tons of information" like this: "The degree of radiation exposure on the armored vehicles, clothes and military personnel was measured immediately after every combat mission. According to the data of remote control and measuring equipment installed at 730 meters from the epicenter, the level of radiation reached 65 R/h two minutes after the blast, dropped to 10 R/h after 10 minutes, 2.4 R/h after 25 minutes, and 1.5 R/h after 47 minutes". I think a semiprotection of this page is in order. My very best wishes (talk) 00:37, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Whereas it is technically possible to have a lower level move protection than the edit protection, I do not think we have a single page here with this protection configuration, and this would also be a very odd thing to do. If you think this is a real problem it probably needs to be discussed in a more general setting on a village pump.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:04, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ymblanter: the actual move protection wouldn't decrease - you still need file mover rights. Also, it is also a very odd thing to extended-confirmed protect a file - its the only page in the entire namespace that has extended-confirmed move (or edit) protection. Anyway, its not a big deal, just wondering. --DannyS712 (talk) 07:11, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, I do not have any ideas and generally regard the bot's work as random process (though I am indeed surprised they did not move the category). I will look into it, presumably some manual work needs to be done.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:43, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Since you undid my edit please provide an authoritative Russian Federation government citation to confirm your point that Russia has only four official religions. A citation from a author's book may correctly reflect that author's statement but be incorrect with regard to the actual official position and legislation of the Russian Federation. I would think that Wikipedia would prefer factual information.Moryak (talk) 18:12, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
User:Ymblanter, Hi. This past Sunday, I visited the Hebrew University library in Jerusalem to do more research on the Roman-era village, Kefar Hananya. I realize that I am under a topic ban in the I/A area, which topic ban I am willing to abide-by, without incident (until I am able to appeal the topic ban later this year), but I wish to know if the topic ban applies to adding archaeological information about the site (without discussing or engaging in matters related to the Israeli-Arab conflict), even though the article has a history related to that conflict. If I can remember correctly, there was once a discussion on one of the Boards where the question was asked about making an edit that was not connected or related in any way or form to the area of the topic ban, and someone there voiced his opinion that this was Okay. I may be mistaken, however, so this is why I am asking you. Of course, if I am permitted to add this archaeological information (data), I will not interject in those matters wherein, previously, other editors had objected to their inclusion.Davidbena (talk) 01:08, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I would say this material is related to the conflict broadly construed but not reasonably construed, so that should be compare to the formulation of the topic ban. If it is still unclear, or if you disagree with me, the safest way would be to ask at the ArbCom talk page (and start a clarification request if the matter proves to be more complicated).--Ymblanter (talk) 05:23, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am sorry to reply like this, but realistically, I just do not have time now for any activity which takes longer than 10 minutes. It is unlikely I will have this time until the end of August.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:29, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Jewish collaborators with Nazi Germany (occupied Poland)
They were all Jewish by nationality and had Polish citizenship. The infobox person description [20] clearly states that you can add a citizenship section where nationality and citizenship are different. Mathiasrex (talk) 13:55, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Again, there is an ANI discussion of this topic (with btw converges to an opposite conclusion), and your sudden apperarance in this topic right now, aftr a month of your inactivity and immediately after I have extended-conformed protected one of the articles, can not be coincidental. If you want your opinion hears, you should not be acting as a sock.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:04, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Insist on what? If you are indeed a sock, your account must be blocked since it was used to edit a protected article the original accounts has no access to.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:14, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ymblanter, in light of your statement at ArbCom Case request [21], which concerns mostly myself and Icewhiz, I feel it necessary to point out that 1) I have never edited the article on Chaim Rumkowski and 2) at the ANI you reference I supported Jayjg's contention that this stuff doesn't belong in the lede (or the infobox for that matter). This is some other crap I am not involved in, don't care much about (I kind of despise infoboxes anyway), and it just happens to be in the same topic area.Volunteer Marek (talk) 08:51, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is fine, I do not think I ever said you are involved in this particular crap. I do not even know who is involved there.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:59, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
IIRC, although Russian is your native tongue, you are not fluent in Ukrainian. The above article needs a lot of work, and many of the sources are Ukrainian. I've been doing some clean-up, but I have to guess at a lot of things because I can't read the sources. Also, I suspect there is far too much non-noteworthy material (the article reads like a resume of every single thing he ever did), but again I'm not confident in my ability to make the best decisions. Assuming you don't want to, or don't feel able to, tackle editing the article, do you know of someone who could? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:45, 25 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I would be willing to help, but realistically I do not have much time right now (real-life issues, I can be constantly doing easy maintenance work which does not require much reflection, but finding a slot for 30 minutes work on one subject is difficult), and also I am not as familiar with Ukrainian media (in the first approximation, most of them are just blog platforms as they only publish opinion pieces, but beyond that I know very little). I hope Iryna Harpy or Yuliya Romero might be interested. If something straightforward would be needed, such as checking a specific source (even if it is in Ukrainian) or translating a piece of text, I can do it as well.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:52, 25 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately due to (also) real-life issues I am not as active on Wikipedia as I used to be (as you can check here). And.. when I edit these days I do it stylistically at the absolute minimum necessary level... — Yulia Romero • Talk to me!22:45, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked editor back to making same edits
Yesterday, you blockedUser:96.231.110.11 after I asked for help at ANI because he or she is stalking my edits and reverting them with no discussion. It looks like he or she has simply changed to a different IP address - 65.112.187.66 - and has continued making the same edits. Can you please block this IP address, too, or otherwise try to convince this person to collaborate? Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 21:44, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello.
As you—unlike me—have an experience with this specific person, you can probably stop this bollocks more effectively than some thread on AN/I. Is escalation of trivial disputes her usual manner of conduct? If it is, then I astonished about the respective block log. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 05:50, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I will have a look but it is likely I will only able to do it after Monday (I am on holidays with very little internet and on a mobile)--Ymblanter (talk) 06:10, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am afraid I do not see how I can revision-deleted them based on policies. (You can of course welcome to ask another administrator, but I am not sure they would agree). I will have a word with Iryna now.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:50, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Because they were reverting to the established version, while you were edit-warring to add your edit. Per WP:BRD, you should have stopped after their first revert. I however included them into the ANI report.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:59, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think your chronology is accurate, but at least I understand your reasoning, thanks. In any case, could you please fix a small but confusing typo in your ANI report? You said I called your warnings "treats," when in fact I used the word "threats." R2 (bleep) 20:17, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry to bother you again. I went back through the archives of Talk:RT (TV network) and was surprised to find that, contrary to your representations at ANI, you are strikingly involved in the development of that article, and in particular in the closely related question of whether RT should be considered propaganda or disinformation. Now, what I find most disconcerting about your conduct today is that there has been an RfC pending on that on that exact issue, yet you chose to come after me instead of participating in the RfC. Why? R2 (bleep) 23:52, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Again, I have no interest in content in this case. You are always try to drag me into content issues. The only thing I am interested in for this article is to make sure there is no disruption (meaning policies have been observed etc). Unfortunately the topic has a high potential for disruption, and in the past it was edited by so-called Russian propaganda trolls (IP users or editors whose salary was paid by Russian government). I do not see why I should be participating in RfC, and I a not trying to push my political views here. (Btw our dispute does not have ny relation to my political views here, I have no opinion on how many times RT was caught on disinformation, I just know that this is not a subject one should edit-war over).--Ymblanter (talk) 05:29, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That is totally inconsistent with your participation in the article since at least 2014. I think some honesty is in order here. R2 (bleep) 17:34, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am honest, and it is not up to you to make such accusations against me. Additionally, you repeatedly asked me to fuck off, I fucked off, but you apparently can not stop posting here. Why do not you check all my 140 000 edits and make a report? Additionally, you were told by ALL USERS WITHOUT ANY EXCEPTION who had to say something that your behavior is not ok in this episode, and you continue insisting it is ok. May be it is time for self-reflection for you? So far you clearly demonstrate a complete lack of clue.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:43, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I was hoping for some degree of reconciliation with you, but I guess I didn't approach that very effectively. I'm sorry for that. I guess we just see many conduct issues very differently. R2 (bleep) 17:58, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
New editor's suspicious edits at Kuril Islands-related articles
Hi Ymblanter. Just wanted to bring your attention to User:Ineedtostopforgetting's recent edits, like this or this. Essentially he is Japanizing all articles about Kuril Islands, including article moves to Japanese names. Can you please have a look at it? Thanks. - Darwinek (talk) 23:23, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Darwinek, What exactly is 'suspicious' about my edits? I was correcting grammartical errors, adding in native names and new information about the region. In general, the articles weren't well-kept. Also, why did you not approach me directly on my talk page to clarify more about it so that we could possibly come to a consensus? Are you trying to vilify me by approaching another admin? Non-admins can't edit articles without being questioned now? - Ineedtostopforgetting (talk) 04:25, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I see indeed POV and not maintenance, and I am going to block your account if you do not stop. In the meanwhile, I will be reverting your edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:43, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Have you actually bothered to look at my edits though? How exactly is changing the correct capital of Hokkaido from 'Tokyo' to 'Sapporo', adding the flags of the 2 nations (Russia & Japan), adding the term Island to Shikotan to correspond with the Kunashiri Island article, adding the native name of the stratovolcanoes/mountains located on the islands 'POV'? - Ineedtostopforgetting (talk) 08:27, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If you found some of my edits an issue with you, you could have reverted that and explain the reasons as to why, so I could better understand it. But you probably decided that was too much work for you. Instead, you decided to revert the entire edit outright, reverse all the work, and threaten to block me. So much for assuming good faith. - Ineedtostopforgetting (talk) 08:45, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Would you please stop playing an idiot? Kunashir is located in Russia. All countries except Japan recognize this, and therefore the principal names of localities and geographic features located on Kuril Islands are taken from Russian, not from Japanese. Moving articles from Russian names to Japanese names is disruption. (Japanese names were already in the articles, for the record). Adding info about smth currently located in "Kunashiri, Japan" is disruption. You perfectly know this. If you do it once again, I will block your account. Is this sufficiently clear?--Ymblanter (talk) 08:51, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In Ukraine, the official language is Ukrainian only. Russian, Romanian and Hungarian do not have any, regional or official status. Please return my edits. Also today, the US Council on Geographical Names unanimously supported the decision to replace the official name of the capital of Ukraine from "Kiev" to "Kyiv" in an international base. The Embassy of Ukraine in the USA reports this on Facebook. We will seek to rename the article on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vitaliyf261 (talk • contribs) 20:59, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You are already seeking this for years and so far failed miserably. You may want to look at Talk:Kiev/naming. Wikipedia operates on the basis of consensus, see WP:CONSENSUS, not on the basis of the opinion of the Ukrainian government. The current consensus is to keep Russian names.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:05, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Signed, thanks for noticing, I am way past the usual bedtime here, and the probability to screw up is already significant.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:01, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think I was pretty clear at WP:ANI that this is not going to happen. If you want to change anything, go to the talk page and discuss.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:46, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure why do you think that if you have changed the IP I am going to start all over again. I already said everything I wanted to say.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:59, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No unregistered editor really has a reason to edit a portal anyway, since portals are rather complicated. The vandal will now vandalize either other portals or other math articles, and subsequent admins will have to decide whether to use more semi-protection or range blocks. Oh well. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:53, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I apologize but I possibly do not get your point. The portal was semi-protected since 2010, and the protection was lifted in March 2019 with the comment that it is not needed anymore. The vandal proved that it is needed, and I reprotected it again indefinitely, on your request. Are you saying that I should have not done it, or that I should also look at other portals / nath articles the vandal can potentially be interested in?--Ymblanter (talk) 03:54, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors. Thank you.
There is already a discussion on the talk page (in which there is no consensus to remove the flags); your report at WP:RFPP appears like a blatant assumption of bad faith (have you looked at the discussion???); reverts were to status quo as the page was before removal by User:Bondegezou (have you looked at the page history???). Filing a report at WP:RFPP and then going on to revert an editor which you disagree with and have managed to lock out of any editing seems really improper. 107.190.33.254 (talk) 18:06, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I actually looked at the discussion and I see that you are the only editor arguing for the flags. I do not particularly care whether flags are there or not, I am administrator, and my interest here is to stop the edit-warring. However, you were given a policy-based reason why the flags should not be there, and to restore them you would probably need to do a better job than just say "I am tired to repeat my arguments".--Ymblanter (talk) 18:11, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Accusations of sockpuppetry (grounded in which reasoning?) and of IP hopping (while I have had the same IP for a long time) are also not what I would expect from an admin. 107.190.33.254 (talk) 18:20, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure why Infobox:Election should have any relation to the article about an epidemic. However, I am in principle fine with these arguments, of both sides. What I am not really fine with is that you make an argument, declare the discussion finished, go to the article and revert to your preferred version. We have certain policies which definitely apply to this case and which say why this behavior is not acceptable, do I need to cite them? Open an RfC and wait until it gets summarized either way, or, at the very least, wait for several days (well, now you will have to wait for a week) and see that no new arguments are forthcoming, announce that you are going to readd the flags, and then, if there is indeed no consensus, nobody would contest this.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:23, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
See the first comment I made on the Ebola page for why the discussions are related (in short, User:Bondegezou started massively removing flags from many articles citing INFOBOXFLAG). I am not reverting to "my preferred version" (and yes I am aware of m:The Wrong Version), I am reverting to status quo (which is, to my understanding, what should be done unless there is consensus to change, which User:Bondegezou definitively failed to obtain on talk page (in fact, he has made the exact same points on both pages in what seems like a case of WP:IDHT, per another user, see this and compare with this). 107.190.33.254 (talk) 18:30, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have indeed heard your argument that this was a long-standing version. However, if there are serious arguments that it is not the version compliant with the policy, these arguments have to be considered. I happened to notice this edit-warring, I have not seen other discussions you are referring to. I have never heard of Bondegezou until yesterday and I have no idea who they are, but if you think they massively disrupt Wikipedia by editing against consensus, you should report them to ANI.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:35, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I know that this is your opinion. Please now use it to convince your opponent, or, if this is not possible, to bring it to some way of dispute resolution. Edit-warring is not an acceptable dispute resolution avenue.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:42, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That has already been attempted (on the two relevant talk pages), but the "opponent" (if use of that term is acceptable despite a certain policy) seems to be exhibiting WP:IDHT as I think has been demonstrated by the diffs of talk page contributions - despite the intervention of other editors in disputing the "opponent's" reliance on the letter and not the spirit of the "law". Which is why I feel ok reverting said editor who tried to reinstate their change on multiple articles without gaining consensus for their change and was violating WP:STATUSQUO which indicates that "During a dispute discussion, until a consensus is established, you should not revert away from the status quo". 107.190.33.254 (talk) 18:51, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As I already said, if you think the behavior of your opponent is disruptive you should have reported them at ANI. You can still do it, and if your representation of the situation is correct, you will have flags restored much sooner than in a week. Concerning WP:STATUSQUO, may I please remind you that this is an essay. If there is a policy argument why the old version is not acceptable one does not have to revert to that version.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:57, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I find this quite suspicious given the first attempt was unsourced and the second attempt was falsifying information from the source. At no time did this editor go to the talk page and post a quote with a page number to verify this information, as I had asked.
It does not look an obvious sock to me, and it might be an it.wiki user who is new here, so I would say try the talk page first, and see whether they are responsive.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:24, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. In this case, the issue must be discussed at the talk page of the article. Reverting several dozen times in a day on the basis "I do not like this picture" is not a valid dispute resolution avenue.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:26, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is not my role as administrator. You really must go to the talk page of the article and reach consensus with other editors.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:05, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I totally do not understand the context of this message, but if it is aboutone of the articles I protected, you would need to discuss the issue at the talk page of the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:09, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
At 17 January 2017 you had removed new page Chystyakove to Torez, and destroyed the long history of article Torez, with all its authors, at least from 2010, see log.
As you perfectly know, Ukraine did not exist at the time, and he can not be Ukrainian-born. He was born in the Russian Empire. Specifically for Repin, the question has been discussed multiple times, and, as far as I remember, the article was even protected for a while. Concerning other persons, I asked a question at MOS talk page, I hope somebody will point me out to more relevant discussions.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:36, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Of course, Ukraine did not exist as an independent state. But Ukraine existed as a country and there was a separate Ukrainian nation. Britannica is not a marginal source to Wikipedia editors rejected it. I do not insist on this case, but I think my other edits are correct.--KHMELNYTSKYIA (talk) 09:48, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What you need is to stop evade your block, wait for half a year, and then, if you are still interested in editing Wikipedia, post an unblock request citing WP:Standard offer on your main account page.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:27, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
09:25, 27 July 2019 Ymblanter deleted page Talk:Bonin Islands/Archive 1 (G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page)
This is an invalid rationale... you were not "the author" of the talk page archive. You should have left the redirect behind after moving the page. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:31, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is perfectly my right to delete an absolutely useless redirect I myself created a minute prior to deletion which nobody else edited.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:41, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
^Page moves are excluded because of a history of improper deletions of these redirects. A move creates a redirect to ensure that any external links that point to Wikipedia remain valid; should such links exist, deleting these redirects will break them. Such redirects must be discussed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion before deletion. However, redirects that were obviously made in error can be deleted as G6, technical deletions.
Note in the deleted historySS49 started a new archive (a fork of the existing archive), which likely would have been prevented had the redirect been left behind. The archive hadn't been moved back when your move was reversed, until I just did it. wbm1058 (talk) 16:54, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I still believe talk page redirects are useless (and people should move archives when moving the articles), but I have better use of my time than nominating every such redirect for MfD, so I will just stop deleting them. There are so many things in Wikipedia I disagree with, I can survive having one more.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:12, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I sympathize and understand the annoyance with the need for managing talk page redirects. But they are not completely useless. Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects is populated by {{R from move}} which is placed on talk page redirects left behind after moves. You might be surprised at how often an article is moved without its talk, much less talk archives. I patrol this category and resync several talk pages with their articles every week. If those talk page redirects had been deleted, then these unsynced talk pages wouldn't be detected by {{R from move}}. This is a sort of kludgey workaround for limitations of the MediaWiki software, and it would be nice if the software didn't allow these unsynched talk pages to exist in the first place. wbm1058 (talk) 18:20, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is ok to add the new info. I undid some of your edits because they were removing info, in particular, they removed the infobox.--Ymblanter (talk) 04:15, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ymblanter, For what it's worth I suspect this IP editor is another HughD sock. It's a Chicago based AT&T IP. It's also odd that their only edits are in two very unrelated areas I'm currently involved with, firearms and LBGT rights. In this case the IP editor added some LBGT related information to a republican representative's page. I've never worked on that article specifically but the coincidence just struck me. The editor's edits in the area of guns looks like typical HughD. Rather detailed and methodical edit summaries, a bit of overselling sources or quoting damning lines vs just summarizing. Anyway, I've seen enough HughD socks that this one peaked my radar. [[26]] Springee (talk) 17:47, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the report. Whereas it is likely that this is HughD evading the block, I am hesitant to block. If disruption continues, the best route might be to file an SPI, though CUs usually avoid identifying IPs of blocked users.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:32, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No where does it say on [[WP:PW/RS] the reference I have provided on Brian Blair can't be used. The source is valid and is from not only an Official site but also the company who runs the official site. No where have I been provided anything that says it can't be used. Please see for yourself this is a valid video that backs up the retirement of the person the article is about and when it happened which can be seen here. I have referenced nothing that is unsourced or poorly sourced and was targeted as an IP and I believe that 100% as this user has done it to me before over the last 5 years but when a confirmed user posts the exact same reference he does nothing and leaves it and has now gotten the article semi protected so he can once again remove the reference and take ownership of the article. When something vaild is shown to me that says it cant be refrenced then I wont add it but the user has failed to do so pointing me to an article that has NEVER said it cant be used and I have seen used in the past on other articles. User has now reverted the edits yet again for the 4th or 5th time and now says its per [WP:EL] which also does not say a post from Facebook cant be used.2601:805:8205:7E0A:901F:10F8:CFDB:D528 (talk) 10:58, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
There is only one opponent who has now reverted the article for the 5th time who I tried talking to on their talk page who in turn because they knew they were wrong filed a false claim of unsourced references and got you to lock the page from IPs so he could do as he wished after he violated 3rr and edit warred with me with no valid reason to remove the content. If I had a user name this wouldn't have happened but because I'm an IP user and have been for the last 5 years now I get locked out and he gets ownership of the article and no punishment for violating 3RR and editing warring, Must be another Admin in his pocket like has happened before when he has pulled this crap and then let the content stay because a confirmed user posted it and not an IP. This is why IP users and new users are afraid to edit here because Users are allowed to do this crap and Admins allow it. 2601:805:8205:7E0A:901F:10F8:CFDB:D528 (talk) 11:23, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is a good point to stop this conversation. Why should you talking to an "admin in his pocket" if you can talk to them directly.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:25, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. LizRead!Talk!05:18, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Geez, he's been busy. Ymblanter, you're an admin on several of the wikis this guy has been spamming (Commons, En.Wiki, Wikidata); I think WP:RBI (plus Special:Nuke) is a very safe option if you happen to see anything related to "Yash Gawli". NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:42, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I know all about WP:WRONGVERSION but still... When you protected Gawli, you locked a version which could be speedy deleted as G11, possibly G12 (a section is copied from IMDb) and close but not quite A7 (check out the woeful sources consisting of essentially the same vanity bio posted in various sites that let you do that. Even the IMDb page is BS since I'm pretty sure he wasn't writing his first screenplay at age 6). Any chance you can restore the redirect until this is sorted out? Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 19:56, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Tianbei New Area and Kuytun are not the same thing, that Tianbei New Area is directed to Kuytun is a fault. delete "Tianbei New Area" please, i'll write the title. thanks. Cncs (talk) 14:31 22 Auguest 2019 (UTC)
Just noticed the truckload of substubs this editor created earlier in the year like Concepción District, San Rafael. As if the canton articles didn't already need enough work. They're needed articles but should have been generated with a bot or something to at least contain information. I see you've just blocked him, doesn't surprise me. ♦ Dr. Blofeld17:57, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Indeed, he created quite a lot of articles of low-level administrative divisions. Some of them were incorrect, and I corrected the factual information, but I am sure there are quite a lot I did not find, and all of them need work anyway.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yikes, I was just looking through User:Shevonsilva. He's created about 100 years work for 100 wikipedians there!! He seems to have gone through geohive or or one of those province databases type sites in an A-Z of countries and blue linked every missing municioality worldwide!♦ Dr. Blofeld18:42, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What might they say in Russia, "dryan"? I've been learning a bit of Russian, Bolshoye spasiba! The cryllic lettering scares me though! We need another contest just to expand some of his stubs!♦ Dr. Blofeld18:51, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) This is just what do I suggest. A user is preoccupied with Wikimedia global blocks whereas has not an account suitable for Meta-wiki. Meta.Wikimedia is not known for especially widespread repression of dissidents, so sapienti sat…Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:18, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
An article you recently created, Parabel (rural locality), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Nnadigoodluck (talk) 11:46, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the time you took in considering my candidacy for adminship. Your early support was very appreciated - it was a long 16 minutes between posting the nomination and your support. I hope I live up to, or exceed, your expectations for me. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:07, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Are you sure Kiev is English? Can you provide any proves?
Kyiv is the right version as decided by UNCSGN (United Nations Conferences on the Standardization of Geographical Names) and UNGEGN (United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names) ."Kiev" is in Russian. AltRNative (talk) 21:40, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am really amazed at how people seriously think that we have such a grave mistake on a world's fifth most popular website for 20 years, in every article, and nobody noticed this yet. In fact, we have a dedicated page, Talk:Kiev/Naming, with all discussions collected there over many years. Your argument has been also addressed there multiple times.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:24, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is certainly correct. I also have another explanation, but, since it does not necessarily apply specifically to the topic starter, I will better keep it to myself.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:43, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, and thank you for your work on copyright issues. Lately I have run into a serious problem: I have been doing an extremely high proportion of the reviewing of the listings at CopyPatrol, having done 50 to 75 reviews daily for the last few weeks. It's not realistic to think that I can keep this up indefinitely, as it consumes many hours each day, and it's not good for me to spend so much time in front of the computer. And if for some reason I become unavailable the results will be dire. What I'm hoping to do is recruit a small group of experienced users who visit Copypatrol daily and clear 5 to 10 cases each, to help spread the burden around a little bit, as well as create a cadre of people who can take over if for some reason I am not able to edit any more. Since you've got some experience in copyright clean-up, I am inviting you to consider visiting the page on a regular basis – even daily, like I do! – and clearing a number of cases. It would be a really big help if you could! Thanks for your time, — Diannaa🍁 (talk) 20:02, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
A r m i n i u s (talk·contribs)
This editor has, since 16 October 2016, been changing Byzantine to "Eastern Roman" in articles covering issues after the 6th century. A r m i n i u s has been warned about this by me and user:Cplakidas, both warnings still present on their talk page. Is there anything you can do? --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:34, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Your protecting the page by allowing pending revisions isn't working out too well because the same editor has come back twice already to again re-insert false information into the article....William, is the complaint department really on the roof?14:48, 21 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Good call on protecting this. It is part of long-running edit war between Koavf and others across multiple related articles (also The Midnight Snack, Tom and Jerry: The Mansion Cat). But the stable version of all three was not a redirect, so I think you've protected the "wrong version" here. Koavf blanked-and-redirected The Night Before Christmas (1941 film)on 31 August, it was contested a few days latter, and they have reverted to their preferred version 5 times in the last month. Similar story on the other articles. I've since blocked Koavf for continuing the edit war after being advised by multiple editors to take it to AfD/a talk page and restored the stable versions of the other two. Do you have any objection to me restoring this revision of The Night Before Christmas? – Joe (talk) 07:57, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Joe Roe: The protection has expired, and I do not have any opinion on what is better (though I see indeed that the article was around for several years before edit-warring started in August). If you want to restore it please do it by all means.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:13, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Yuri. Could you point me towards the rejected Arbcom filing that Fram made against you, probably in 2017? I am writing a lengthy opposition to his attempt to regain Administrative tools and am having a hard time finding it. Thank you. —tim /// Carrite (talk) 12:12, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tim. You probably mean this one, I had to resign from the ArbCom Ec because for whatever reason the ArbCom did not decline the case right away, but continued discussing until the election started. I am actually Yaroslav, but I am used to people not remembering this, so you do not need to feel sorry.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:48, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Abuse of Wikipedia
Your comment "You are currently edit-warring in Nontrinitarianism, and you edits show that you are not well familiar with Wikipedia policies, in particular on verifiability and reliable sources." demonstrates bias and corruption by you. You are expressing your opinions, not fact, and your opinions are false. They demonstrate an arrogant, smug, and condescending attitude, which is fairly common on Wikipedia. Just because you do not *agree* that something is, in fact, verifiable and reliable doesn't therefore mean that it is not.
You would do well to consider these things. It is perhaps the greatest flaw of Wikipedia that opinion is to be found within almost every page, disguised as "fact" because it is merely repeating the opinions of others shared elsewhere. It's what makes Wikipedia so useless: bias, in every article, and encouraged by people like you, who cite "the rules", but don't actually follow them yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timber72 (talk • contribs) 15:47, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I protected the template after a RFPP request has been filed (there was indeed edit-warring), and I did not yet look at AN3, but I can have a look now.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:54, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What's your say to S.A. Julio's breach of the three-revert rule. He reverted four times and if you don't take action this will be an offense to Wikipedia.--Sakiv (talk) 16:10, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Great, thanks. I am indeed tired of that, I make them every day, and I have a global rollback I which I really need and can not relinquish. I will give the code a try.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:23, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hey! Can I (re)create the deleted article of Rathish Ambat? I believe the person passes the notability test. If you also do believe so and could do something about the administrators' block, it'd be great. Else, I could try to start it as a draft. What do you think? — JosephJames09:42, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think it is safer to start in the draft and the have an administrator moving it (for instance, by submitting it for approval).--Ymblanter (talk) 09:46, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Palestine-Israel articles 4 arbitration case commencing
In August 2019, the Arbitration Committee resolved to open the Palestine-Israel articles 4 arbitration case as a suspended case due to workload considerations. The Committee is now un-suspending and commencing the case.
The primary scope of the case is: Evaluating the clarity and effectiveness of current remedies in the ARBPIA area. More information can be found here.
Concerning the topic ban, I do not see a clear consensus. Whereas most of the commenters supported some form of topic ban, there is no consensus whether it must be one-way or two-way.
I am afraid this very message violates your topic ban. I am not going to block you for this, since you might misunderstand the scope, but the next time you can be blocked. When I have time, I will look into the Berezovsky article.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:04, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You courtesy deleted User:LauraHale and User talk:LauraHale. I thought that, normally, while an individual could get their main User: page deleted, User talk: pages were normally preserved, so that third parties could understand, and learn from, whatever controversy lead to their departure. Normally aren't user talk pages usually only courtesy blanked?
I don't know anything about User:LauraHale, except I gather that she had a conflict with Fram, some time ago, and, in several fora, Fram's defenders are now saying stuff like, "Oh yeah? What about all the people Laura Hale harrassed?"
Was there something exceptional about her departure?
Was it intentional that her contribution history can't be examined?
(ec) She vanished during WP:FRAM, and got renamed into a vanished user. The page and the talk page I believe are still available under that new name (which I do not have at hand, but which would not be difficult to find, for example, at the talk page of the recently closed ArbCom case). What I deleted were redirects, which otherwise were getting some regular mailing she was subscribed to and did not care to unsubscribe.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:01, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please delete this. Someone sent me this saying it’s official. I thought it was legitimate.But a simple google search revealed that it’s a filtered (png to jpeg) version of the one available here. Please. I don’t want to get into trouble because of this. — Vaibhavafro💬15:30, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for protecting the page of Phoenix. The amount of vandalism going on that page is ridiculous. I was thinking of protecting the article myself, but you beat me to the punch. Thank you once more. Tony the Marine (talk) 13:58, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I created User:Isaacl/Community/Defining community norms of behaviour after our last discussion on shepherding a discussion on behavioural norms. As I linked to in the opening paragraph on that page, English Wikipedia already has lots of essays on "do this" and "don't do this" behaviour. In previous discussions, a lot of people chip in with "here's a scenario we should cover", but I don't think adding more piecemeal recommendations on behaviour will be much more helpful than the existing mass of guidance pages. Thus my idea is to try to extract common themes from the many different scenarios that have arisen, and then, based on these, draft some behavioural principles.
I'm still occupied with the other set of discussions I wanted to initiate, so am not ready at this moment to assume primary responsibility for shepherding discussion in this area. (Plus, it's not an approach I really feel passionately about.) Are you interested in taking the lead? isaacl (talk) 11:09, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I though a bit about this, and I currently do not think how it could work. May be one person can read all the essays and see whether there is a significant overlap, but I plainly do not have time for this now, and I do not see how it can be crowdsourced. Sorry for this. I still have the page on my watchlist in case something would start happening there.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:43, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't anticipate there being a lot of people wanting to work on extracting common themes. I'm guessing it will either be one person (such as me) or a couple of people splitting up the work. A lot of the essays are pretty short and their titles are a fair summary of the content. For the first phase, what's needed is someone to publicize the initiative and keep contributors on track, putting digressions into a parking lot for later discussion. I appreciate your interest and understand time commitment is always a problem, particularly given that these types of initiatives fail most of the time, as consensus decision-making doesn't work well in a large group. isaacl (talk) 10:28, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As Bart Simpson says, "Ay, caramba!" As an unbiased (but involved) editor, what appears to have happened at Justin Trudeau is that an editor has puffed it up with biased pro-Trudeau BS the day before the election, and now the article is locked. I trimmed excess puffery a few days ago, but the editor who has been filling this article with pro-Trudeau text added it back. Now, "An publication based on the investigations of 20 respected academics" who praise Trudeau is back and cannot be removed. If this isn't gaming the system. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:42, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I had a look, but I can not determine to which pre-war version I would need to revert, and reverting to an arbitrary version is not really an option since I can not use my administrator privileges to get involved into edit-warring by editing fully protected article. I would recommend resolving this question at the talk page; if there is consensus please ping me or any other administrator who is online, and the edit can be done very quickly.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:50, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Unbelievable that an editor would make these kinds of accusations. Magnolia you left out major content from the source which you call puffery. I discussed my concerns on the talk page, which you requested, and my edit summaries clearly indicate what I am doing. Yet here you call me sneaky. Perhaps I should have quoted the source which described the academics as renowned, but I didn't I toned it down to "respected". I summarized the important points made in the sources as documented by yes, renowned academics, and I was clear to leave in the positive aspects of Harper's government as well as Trudeau's. Further, how would I have known the article would be protected. Are you accusing me of controlling the protection as well as your other accusations. Your comment that the content from the source are "pro Trudeau BS" when that content is the main focus of the book are both confusing and problematic. How could you miss the main points made by the book. I am an experienced editor who strives to be neutral always. That you see any pro Trudeau content as biased may point tO your own editing. As I said on my page this kind of accusation is anger making. Please retract or at the very least don't make these kind of accusations again for anyone. And by the way I have not "filled" the article with pro Trudeau content. I did with discussion and support remove a few lines which I felt were violations of BLP and Weight. A few lines removed does not equal "filled" a falsehood you are posting as if true. I am ticked off! Littleolive oil (talk) 18:43, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My position, given what I have recently witnessed, is that the article should stay locked and that the decision should remain in the hands of the admin.Littleolive oil (talk) 19:18, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Given your edit history I was sure you would choose forward. Anyway, thanks Ymblanter for your help and hosting some good banter. Cheers! Magnolia677 (talk) 23:06, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure what choosing "forward" means nor should you think it's possible to understand an editor from their edit history. While I had deliberately stayed away from Canadian politics, to avoid contentious articles, I was very concerned by a wave of editors with clear agendas, often stated, and given those articles fall under BLP or have BLP content I decided to edit on some of those articles, never thinking how convoluted such editing can become. The Andrew Scheer article is pretty well written and quite balanced, the Trudeau leaning articles were not so much that way. I do not like personal attacks; I've had a fill of it myself as an editor, I don't like attacks on our BLP subjects, whomever they are, and I like our articles to adhere as strictly to policy as possible. Littleolive oil (talk) 16:40, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Just a heads up that I reduced the protection on Justin Trudeau back to semi. The election happened yesterday, so the edit war that was happening is now moot, and the article needs to be updated with the results. I'm honestly not sure if I was supposed to check with you before doing this, but I trust you won't mind. Cheers. – bradv🍁04:18, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Done I happened to be around, but please leave future requests at WP:RPFPP with possible exceptions of re-protection of the articles I recently protected, or if I screwed up. You will generally get a faster and more competent response than here.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:37, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
IP's are adding recurrently content without consensus/discussion though in the talk I asked them for discussion. It is totally ignored, at this point some action is needed. Thank You(KIENGIR (talk) 21:22, 26 October 2019 (UTC))[reply]
Hope this question finds you well and that your evening is otherwise going well. : )
As the CfD closers for several closed, or supposedly closed, CfDs that I had initiated, I had a procedural question for either of you to answer. Rather than post on each of your talk pages, I decided to pick a talk page and ping you both.
With AfDs, I've noticed that when closed as delete, the AfD closing administrator unlinks the backlinks, deletes the page and associated talk page, and closes the deletion discussion. When closed as merge or redirect, the deletion discussion is closed and the talk page(s) are updated with the results.
With CfDs, it seems to be similar with AfDs in that if it's closed as delete, the resulting pages are upmerged or split, as applicable, into related categories and the discussion closed. However, with Category:Credit union centrals of Canada, in my nomination, I recommended the possibility of dually merging to each of Category:Credit unions of Canada and Category:Credit union leagues. It was merged to the former, but not the latter, I presume, because that was specified at the very top of nomination? In such cases, when formulating a nomination like that, should I not put the dual merge in the textual description of the nomination and instead format it at the top? If so, how should I format that?
With regard to Category:Mayors of Kelowna, I noticed it was closed as merge even though, functionally, the result was an upmerge and delete. Who handles the upmerge and how do we get the resulting empty category deleted?
I am not closing so many CfDs, but these are categories for discussion (whereas AfD is for articles for deletion), and this is why a discussion at CfD can sometimes take unexpected turns. I assume you have expressed yourself correctly at the nominations, it is just the voters presented arguments which eventually convinced the closer to take the decision what it was.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:27, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
And concerning your first nomination (Credit union centrals of Canada) I can not read at the nomination page what you say here, so probably you indeed should have been more explicit.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:30, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Просьба объяснить участнику Tempus что тут не ру-вики и буллинг вроде такого: "Поскольку с данным участником не представляется возможным ведение какого-либо диалога" [30] тут не уместен.--Nicoljaus (talk) 22:16, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Вот здесь вы ошибаетесь. Цель Tempus-а это всех перебанить с ним несогласных (как он это делает в руВики, там он без конца жалуется A.Vajrapani = Alexandrine, которая всегда выполнит любой запрос Tempus-а и всех перебанит). Я уже писал что под ником Tempus пишут несколько человек, поскольку один человек физически не может писать 16 часов в сутки без перерыва, внося правки в статьи через каждые 2-3 минуты. Вы почитайте обсуждение этой статьи в руВики, там же настоящее хамство от Tempus, в обсуждении других статей руВики такое же хамство Tempus-а, вместо ответов на вопросы – пушинг, вместо обсуждения – забалтывание темы. РуВики давно превратилась в откровенную пропагандистскую помойку правительства РФ благодаря A.Vajrapani Tempus и подобным.Wlbw68 (talk) 01:52, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Далее, вы зачем-то обвинили меня в "добавлении ютьюб под видом авторитетного источника". Как легко убедиться, я отменил удаление внешней ссылки, сделанное под надуманным предлогом, исходя из пункта 4 правила WP:ELMAYBE: Sites that fail to meet criteria for reliable sources yet still contain information about the subject of the article from knowledgeable sources.--Nicoljaus (talk) 07:27, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(кр) Информацию, что Дворкин якобы известный ученый-медиевист добавил недавно сам Tempus: [31]. Когдя я это убрал, он начал войну правок. Обсуждать в специально созданной теме не хочет, вместо этого продолжает преследование оппонента.--Nicoljaus (talk) 08:21, 30 October 2019 (UTC) upd: 08:25, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(кр) ″якобы известный ученый-медиевист добавил″ — А вот это приписывание мне того, что я не делал. Карточка учёного ставится независимо от степени известности (это вообще нигде не прописано). И добавил я только её.--Tempus (talk) 08:36, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Дворкин вовсе не учёный и совсем не медиевист, обычный религиозный проправительственный пропагандист, причем очень топорный. Нет ни одного серьезного религиоведа, который бы не прошелся бы с резкой критикой по вопиюще безграмотной деятельности Дворкина как сектоведа. Tempus же пытается сделать из мухи (Дворкина) слона, поэтому и ведет войну правок, а всех с ним несогласных стремиться перебанить как в руВики.Wlbw68 (talk) 02:31, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Коллега Ymblanter, а все правки внесённые участником Nicoljaus за последние два дня так и останутся в статье? Они что вдруг стали консенсусными? По какой причине не был произведён возврат к той версии, которая была до того, как данный участник вдруг решил обратить своё внимание на данную статью?--Tempus (talk) 14:52, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Нет, у нас нет таких правил. Откатывают только явный вандализм или грумые нарушения правил о биографиях ныне живущих людях. В данном случае я не вижу ни того, ни другого.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:04, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Хорошо, а чем по своей сути отличается видеонарезка Никитина, которую удалил другой администратор, отличается от того анонимного pdf-документа с сайта некоммерческой организации, который добавил с раздел ″External links″ участник Nicoljaus?--Tempus (talk) 16:39, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Простите, Вы и ваши оппоненты пытаетесь втянуть меня в обсуждение содержании статьи по существу. Этого а делать не буду. Это не русская Википедия, где элементарные вопросы обсуждаются годами, и не удаётся принять никакое решение. Тут есть механизмы разрешения конфликтов, много и самые разнообразные.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:44, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for semi protecting the Bejte article. The IPs have made a similar thing with this article too. I am rather confused, so can you take a look, and semi protect the latter too, if it is needed? Ktrimi991 (talk) 11:37, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. The person who is using the IPs is a LTA account on the Albanian Wikipedia. After socking with several accounts there, it seems that he has shifted focus to enwiki. I hope he reflects and opts for constructive editing only. Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 11:44, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Future Perfect at Sunrise:, I think we need to go for CfD (which is what always happens with contested speedy moves; in this case I waited for 48 h after the last reply, assuming that all interested parties had a chance to give their opinion). Whether we need to revert the move before going to CfD - I would say no, just because this increases the world's entropy unnecessarily, and the CfD would decide it anyway, but if you feel really strongly about it we can revert the speedy move (technically, move the category back).--Ymblanter (talk) 13:24, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've never cared much for categories, but I would also contest this move. The old category was useful in that it marked places that were part of the ancient "Hellenistic world" -- which is a useful thing to mark, and also something distinct from being completely "Greek". Way back in the day, this distinction was pretty meaningful, even if today it is obscure -- for example, the Hasmonean Kingdom was quite heavily influenced by Greek... everything, yet its foundation was resistance against the form of Hellenization that threatened the native cultural identity. --Calthinus (talk)
@Calthinus: Someone has to create a discussion. I am not feeling comfortable presenting somen=body else's arguments, but if you want, I can create a request and you could write there your arguments.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:28, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You, the mover, are not active in the topic area; three people who are including one admin contest it. We could all waste our time with some discussion on some board. Or we could go back to the status quo, and move on with our lives. But I understand if there are procedures and wikibureaucracy and whatever -- if so, please copy paste my arguments.--Calthinus (talk) 19:33, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies, I see indeed that the information was sourced in the body of the article. You were just unfortunate to make this edit after a series of bad users of non-autoconfirmed edits and just at the time I was checking whether the page needs protection. No problem from my side to restore this material in the lede.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:08, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Have you considered ARBCOM?
Hi Ymblanter,
I was wondering whether you'd considered running for ARBCOM this year - we're in need of quite a few good candidates and I thought you'd make a great arb, especially with your experience on ru-wiki. Apologies if it's been asked and answered before. Cheers. Nosebagbear (talk) 18:14, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, but I still remember this too well. It was not really a pleasant experience, and who cares that it later turned out to be related with WP:FRAM. May be in several years.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:19, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nosebagbear, In my limited dealings with Ymblanter, I would wholeheartedly concur for your recommendation for her or him to run for ArbCom. Ymblanter is an experienced, neutral XfD closer, and was thoughtful in her or his reply to me on this talk page when I asked about the process for double merging and upmerging of categories post-close. Doug Mehus (talk) 19:34, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
фейковый портрет Челлини
По совету Shakko пишу вам. Проблема замечена в русской вики, но она касается и множества других вики, в том числе и англ. В статьи о Бенвенуто Челлини на многих языках под видом "Автопортрета" оказался вставлен портрет неизвестного человека работы неизвестного художника. В качестве Автопортрета" Челлини его атрибутирует исключительно владелец картины, мировое искусствоведение эту фейковую атрибуцию игнорирует. Шакко несколько дней назад этот портрет на викискладе переименовала и везде вычистила. Однако сегодня этот портрет в другой версии вновь был везде проставлен. Вы не могли бы проконтролировать этот фейк в англовики? --Netelo (talk) 18:42, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
он сейчас везде занимается массовыми откатами. В мелких вики пишу на страницах обсуждения статьи, тут -- может прикроете ее от редактирования? Это явно проплаченный пиарщик. --Shakko (talk) 18:48, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Я ему это уже написал на странице обсуждения. Статью я защитить по правилам не могу, а его заблокировать, если это продолжится - легко.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:53, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, an IP is keeping on reverting, ignoring completely other users along with the talk page. Please revert & protect the page. Thank You(KIENGIR (talk) 22:27, 8 November 2019 (UTC))[reply]
Здравствуйте, уважаемый коллега! Прошу Вас взять под наблюдение данную статью, чтобы в ней строго соблюдалось правило BLP и добавлялись только проверенные сведения (включая нынешние трагические), поскольку в русскоязычном разделе администраторы её несколько раз ставили на защиту. Tempus (talk) 12:00, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing special, I check the need for rollback (motivation and justfied reverts in recent history), generally editing history, and whether the candidate has come recently against some problems with other users which could suggest giving rollback is too early.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:20, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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hello,
we kind of clashed with protection; it is now at 3 days semi I think, but if you want 1 week, go ahead. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar (talk) 12:23, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
IP vandalism is heavily high and ongoing...please protect the article and revert until the most recent last stable version by Flyer22 Reborn. Thank You.(KIENGIR (talk) 20:13, 16 November 2019 (UTC))[reply]
I responded in like-kind to you accusation of ABF in this section of ACE2020. [33]. Since you are still working some time later, maybe you have missed it.
Per WP:ADMINACCT broadly construed, and in particular the linked article relating to effective communication by Admins towards members of the general community WP:Requests_for_arbitration/Betacommand#Communication, I would ask you to clarify your reason for intervening on my "discussion" with If you disagree with the proposed solution you will have all the chances to oppose it next year.. My comments were in relation to the preceding "discussion points" by an Admin. editor. Bearing in mind what has been defined there:- This page is literally nothing more than a list of things to discuss ahead of the 2020 elections and that the section is a think tank, why was Kundpung's very lengthy support discussion permitted without rebuke when my comparatively short rejection discussion of his wish list was summarily criticised by you? I am not an Admin, he is. I hope you are able to see the concern here. Comments about a mere suggested point for discussion in 10 months time should surely be treated evenhandedly, regardless who makes the pont and which side they agree with? Leaky caldron (talk) 12:36, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My reaction to your reply ans the absence of such reaction to Kudpung's message was because I believe that your message is borderline personal attack, and his is not. In addition, you did not mark offsets so that it was not clear that you are replying to specific point of Kudpung, it looked like you made a general statement. I did not write anything about admins there whatsoever. May I please also remind you that you do not "own" discussions, and that all users are welcome to participate in open discussions. There is no policy on Wikipedia which would require me to justify why I entered the discussion, and, in particular, why I responded to you within 8 minutes (the correct answer would be because the item appeared on top of my watchlist).--Ymblanter (talk) 12:53, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is not really an acceptable answer. The indents were added. They were removed and I have added them again for clarity. You have taken sides, unfairly and without objectivity. Kundpung's wish list is a discussion and has no more place there than mine, or, mine has the same right to be there without being challenged by you. You cannot have it both ways. I think Kudpung's remarks about my use of English parts of speech is also a borderline personal attack. Are you intending to do anything about that, please? Leaky caldron (talk) 13:07, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi again. Someone has hatted part of that section against the discussion at WP:AN. I am not satisfied that my comments have been hatted and the Admin's prior comments remain despite also being part of the general discussion rather than the actual proposal which you have outlined there. Leaky caldron (talk) 10:36, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Your comment in the edit summary of a revert “this is clearly incorrect, we are not a propaganda vehicle for the Ukrainian government” is uncivil, presumes bad faith, and represents a serious accusation against me personally. Please reconsider your words, retract and apologize for this comment.
I’ll respond to your factual assertion separately in the naming convention’s talk page. —MichaelZ. 2019-11-27 17:40 z
Good, I apologize for this comment. I guess you have been here long enough to know that edit summaries can not be retracted. Please have in mind though that you are edit-warring all over the place for already several days, and this is not compatible with WP:ADMINACCT. Please stop and think whether what you are doing helps up to build an encyclopedia.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:45, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Please cool it with the accusations. You reverted my good-faith edit and I responded in talk. I accept your apology and there’s no more need to keep up the hostility. —MichaelZ. 2019-11-27 18:16 z
Kobenz
FYI: I didn’t edit Kobenz at all, and got the system message that you reverted an edit made under my login. I just changed my password to a strong because the only explanation I can think of is someone guessed my password. —MichaelZ. 2019-11-27 18:13 z
It’s the only suspicious edit in my global contributions. I’ve asked someone to check-user on that edit. Hopefully no more problem. —MichaelZ. 2019-11-27 18:27 z
Hi Ymblanter. Re the Ancient Greek categories, what should be done now? The discussion has not attracted new opinions for days, though nobody is closing it. Should a request for closure be made somewhere? Or, since you are not involved in the content dispute itself, could you make the closure? Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 23:46, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, I can not close it. I think we just need to wait for an uninvolved administrator to close it. You can also request closing, but CfD is usually a horrible mess and people try to avoid it.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:19, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. You should not close a discussion if you do not feel sure that is the best way to go. The discussion there is messy also because it concerns a controversial Balkan dispute. Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 23:00, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Arbitration? Beto O'Rourke article
Hullo Ymblanter, I am NicholasNotabene. I see your name on the semi-protected status of the Beto O'Rourke article.
I am not familiar with Wikipedia processes, but I would like to request some kind of arbitration on this article as I keep trying to make edits and a second editor keeps simply reverting or deleting my edits wholesale. I have also attempted to communicate with the editor on his "talk" page to no avail. Can you please enlighten me as to the proper steps I need to take ?
Please wait a bit longer for the talk page reaction. You left a comment several hours ago. If there is no reaction at all say within a day and the user keeps editing other articles, you can try to engage at their user talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:20, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, both of them in the meanwhile played a number of matches in a fully professional league and thus crossed the notability threshold. No need to Afd.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:21, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
How can I best help resolve this situation? User has been accused of COI for years predating my involvement and there seems to be a widespread agreement that their history presents COI concerns. One option would be to report to WP:COIN, but I'd only want to do that if it was actually the correct next step and actually helpful. Feoffer (talk) 08:57, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
COIN is one option; continue ANI is another option. I do not want to be much involved with this case because I have dealt with some users around this sock / meatpuppet farm before, and every time I feel I lose a year of my life.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:03, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Now we got User:Le luxembourgeois out of the blue, so that SPI might be the best way forward, but I do not currently have time to file it.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:20, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
regarding the subject, there is recently ten reverts because of an IP, I expected soon others will do something, but as I see no further steps has been made, please protect the article, since the phenomenon seems daily for a while. Thank You(KIENGIR (talk) 00:57, 12 December 2019 (UTC))[reply]
Hello could you please add my profile to editing nitasha kaul profile I do have proper proof that she is a British citizen through data obtained through Freedom of information act UK from her university Westminster.Plublication of the data obtained requires only one more copyright wavier .Hope you will add my profile to edit her infos Bkr3da (talk) 04:36, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I sent it to TfD. It looks like there is a sockfarm producing these templates, but I currently do not have time to go through it--Ymblanter (talk) 12:58, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true.
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well MarnetteD|Talk17:09, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Which line of the text are you referring to? If it was some specifically I can modify it or replace it? you decided to remove everything and made it impossible for me to correct it. Leechjoel9 (talk) 21:14, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I understand what you mean. By modify i meant rewriting with own words. You did remove other stuff than text. The weblink and tables were not copyright voilations. So could you make my edit visalble so I can re-use them instead of creating again. Leechjoel9 (talk) 21:23, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It was another template, but not the exact info. I do think its relevant to have the infobox, since it puts the UNESCO heritage site text in context. It gives a good overview.Leechjoel9 (talk) 21:52, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merry Christmas, Ymblanter! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. And for all the help you've thrown my way over the years. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969TT me19:13, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, there is no problem mentioning this, but I thiught she was wanted in the US for internet piracy anyway, so it might be a part of a bigger story.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:17, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!
Hope you enjoy the Christmas eve with the ones you love and step into the new year with lots of happiness and good health. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!CAPTAIN RAJU(T)12:43, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Shreyas father is Tamilian from Kerala. Shreyas has one sister. His sister once said that her father is Tamil Instagram . So pls kindly change . Msz01 (talk) 14:25, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So you want to use even the tiniest bit of critical thinking before block restoring typos and a completely incorrect short summary. Also none of that info is unsourced or BLP vio. 86.161.77.253 (talk) 09:39, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's all already covered on the talk page, with sources. And I'm talking about the typos and the incorrect summary you restored. The summary is an new addition today. It's incorrect. It's inconsistent with the sources info in the article and it falls under WP:BRD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.77.253 (talk) 09:43, 23 December 2019 (UTC) 86.161.77.253 (talk) 09:47, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry but I am not going to be involcved into the content. The source says "British Emirati-born", you changed this to "Emirati" without adding a new source; hence this is a BLP violation and had to be reverted. Since you have done this repeatedly, I protected the article. The rest you need to clear up at the talk page (where there have been no discussion since 2017, and even then there was no consensus).--Ymblanter (talk) 11:46, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is exactly the problem. You're not reading the edits, or applying an ounce of brain power. I'm not the one changing the short description to Emirati. You're the one restoring an incorrect bold addition because you can't be bothered to look at what you're restoring and protecting.
Indeed, this is just pointless edit-warring, especially if the reasoning is not backed up by a talk page discussion. It is still not too late for you to go to the talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:01, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. ―Buster7☎14:43, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm DGG. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Towton Hall, Towton (North Yorkshire), and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
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このミラPはYmblanterたちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます! フレフレ、みんなの未来!/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE! ミラP04:58, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I got the notification "The page Korea Science Award" has been reviewed" but nothing shows up on the Talk page. Thank you for reviewing the page I put together; I really appreciate that. Does the review also include a quality assessment of the page? I thought I would see one on the Talk page but I might be confused as maybe "review" does not include a quality assessment. Thank you again for checking the page I put together. ₪RicknAsia₪01:37, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, review in this context means Wikipedia:New pages patrol. The quality assessment is something the Wikiproject folks do, they will presumably come at some point. My role was just to ensure that the article can stay in the main namespace and satisfies the basic requirements. Thanks for the work.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:56, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the history, it seems that my next nomination in the list deleted it form the list (see this). They are all tagged have had their sub-categories already moved. Can't we just bypass the bureaucratic need to nominate them again and then wait a few days more, and just move them to the /working section? No one commented on the entire list so there is no reason anyone would start now. --Gonnym (talk) 15:42, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I would not do it. Nothing is going to happen in two days, once you nominated the cats the process is almost automatic. On the other hand, if there are objections, we are going to have a lot of trouble for bypassing the policy-established procedure.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:47, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]