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User talk:Yonteng"political" editing of New Kadampa Tradition articleYonten - please explain what exactly *in the article as it stands* warrants the inclusion of this tag? for an article to be "disputed" there must be some current disagreement amongst editors about its content: what, in the article, is being disputed? you say "Edoitors from obth sides using Wiki as political tool"; your use of "sides" and "political" here is revealing. what sides? what is disputed? this article has been worked on by a number of editors for some time to reach its current state. your inclusion of this tag is unwarranted, imo. i have posted the above on the New Kadampa Tradition talk page - the proper place for discussioon of your proposed edit.Atisha's cook (talk) 11:08, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
OOOOOH! Lets see what they think, eh?Nice to see you......to see you, nice!PS If neutral means pushing the criticism section right to the end, editing out any new critical material, reverting changes without explaining them and bullying any editors who hold opposing views to yours so they dont return to the page, i guess that makes you neutral. You use the language of reasonableness but for years you have lied and bullied people off this page.Yet when someone else does what you do, you throw all your toys out of your pram and start crying about the injustice of it sll-I sincerely hope the editors do a thorough job-maybe they can google your user names too and see the fanatical anti Dalai lama war you are waging across the internet on numerous sites. Remember, the NKT is probably the most controversial New Buddhist Movement there is and there are many who can see straight through the supposed neutrality of the one sided article you have forced onto wikipedia-How can it possibly neutral? You are clearly not functioning at a normal level of intellectual dispassion. All I have done is engage you at the level you have engaged others on this page to freak them out. Now you freak out and scream injustice. Editors, mail Chris Fynn, mail Kt66, look at th edit historys, see how refenced 3rd party sources are removed without justification and replaced with self justifying propaganda-all I want is non NPOV banners on the page along with a warning that citations need to be validated-the alternnative is for wikipedia to become just another tool in the NKT anti Dalai Lama war, using the medium to promote legitimacy and hide any uncomfortable truths. This demeans wikipdia. Why not let the scientologists run their own page and block any opposing views there/ That is what is happening here.Googlr NKT and 'cult' or 'controversy' Read the reems of info and then read the wik page-spot the subtle difference? Love to all (really!) Yonten G94.192.139.167 (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Many WP editors who followed the WP guidelines gave up: one of them wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/New_Kadampa_Tradition_(2nd_nomination) See also the following passage 'Secondly, I worked alongside kt66 on WP for a couple of years, and although he was sometimes furious at himself for having spent so much of his life promoting NKT, when he came here, he learned to balance his opinions carefully with fact. It was mainly due to his efforts that the NKT, DS, KG articles remained reasonably balanced. Of course, now that GKG has told his students to stay away from discussion groups, it is unlikely that his faithful followers would continue to edit and discuss on WP - but it appears this isn't the case. Once more, the said articles are blatantly biased in NKT's favour - so much so that they garner attention as being not much more than promo. material. If you wish to present the NKT, DS, GKG etc in a manner that meets the criteria of an encyclopedia, it is essential that you reflect the facts of these things in an impartial manner. Unfortunately, it appears that there are no students of GKG, of the DSS, or any other supporter who is yet able to do that. It is fascinating. If we read the texts of the Kadampa tradition (I recommend ISBN 0-86171-440-7 as a seminal work which accurately represents the entire lojong foundation, or the great translations of the LRCM for Je Rinpoche's Lam Rim.) we are told to reveal our own faults first, and to hide our qualities. This behaviour is NOT something readers find when coming across the NKT sponsored pages of WP. Instead, they are faced with no mention of the controversies, politics or sexual escapades that the organisation is stained with.
you can also take a look at Rudhy’s page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rudyh01#The_never-ending_story_about_Shugden Kt66 has abandoned his substantial wiki contributions See http://westernshugdensociety.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/wikipedia-dorje-shugdens-enlightened-lineage-or-how-to-make-history/#comment-988 Also, Chris Fynn has stopped contributing-see his page These people are real propaganda spreading cyber bullies, shafting the innocent public by hijacking wiki to post their own particular version of the 'truth' on NKT, Dorje Shugden, DS Controversy and Kelsang Gyatso pages-All I want is to see neutrality banners at the top of these pages. In this way wiki covers itsels and behaves morally responsibly in this ugly cyber war that the group have perpetuated for several years now. Wikipedia has a moral obligation to warn the public that these pages are less than reliable.
Your recent editsHi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button WP:AIV reportMoved from WP:AIV to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Yonteng. utcursch | talk 12:48, 10 May 2009 (UTC) Block, warning, adviceI've blocked you for 24h for edit warring and incivility at New Kadampa Tradition. If you don't want this to happen again, then you ned to (a) stop edit warring, (b) slow down a bit and (c) focus on the edits, not the editors. Far too much of your talk page contributions consist of attacks or insinuations against other editors. Don't do it William M. Connolley (talk) 18:13, 10 May 2009 (UTC) ((unblock-auto|1=94.192.139.167|2=Autoblocked{{unblock-auto|1=94.192.139.167|2=Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Yonteng". The reason given for Yonteng's block is: "edit warring / incivility at New Kadampa Tradition".|3=William M. Connolley|4=1435198))
BANNERS ON NKT ARTICLEhttp://westernshugdensociety.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/wikipedia-dorje-shugdens-enlightened-lineage-or-how-to-make-history/ EXPLAINS THE REASONS FOR THESE BANNERS Please make it clear where you want the reasons for the replacement of these banners to appear Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Yonteng. May 2009
William I will post an expalanation on the NKT talk page if you wilud please unblock me as you sadi you would (the block expired about an hour ago but its still on)Yonteng (talk) 19:00, 14 May 2009 (UTC) 
Block message: Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Yonteng". The reason given for Yonteng's block is: "edit warring at New Kadampa Tradition".
Decline reason: You were not caught by an accidental autoblocked. You were directly blocked because your behavior was disriptive to Wikipedia. If you wish to be unblocked, you must use the {{unblock}} template instead, and you MUST make an explanation of why you should be unblocked. You request is likely to be declined if you do not explain that you fully understand why you were blocked, and also can convince us that you are not going to continue the same behavior that got you blocked. Please read WP:GAB for more help. — Jayron32.talk.contribs 19:27, 14 May 2009 (UTC) {{unblock}}
Of course iunderstand why i was blocked-Please read the follwing to try and understand what is happening-sorry its lengthy but this is a situation that has gone on for years and I really think these people are screwing wiki As you are probably well aware, Wikipedia policy on Conflict of Interest guidelines state: ‘A Wikipedia conflict of interest (COI) is an incompatibility between the aim of Wikipedia, which is to produce a neutral, reliably sourced encyclopedia, and the aims of an individual editor. COI editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote your own interests or those of other individuals, companies, or groups. Where advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest...... The COI then lists the following examples of COI: Campaigning Activities regarded by insiders as simply "getting the word out" may appear promotional or propagandistic to the outside world. If you edit articles while involved with organizations that engage in advocacy in that area, you may have a conflict of interest. Close relationships Any situation where strong relationships can develop may trigger a conflict of interest. Conflict of interest can be personal, religious, political, academic, financial, and legal. It is not determined by area, but is created by relationships that involve a high level of personal commitment to, involvement with, or dependence upon, a person, subject, idea, tradition, or organization.’ I note that all of the contributing editors who are consistently editing this article, as well as the related Dorje Shugden and Dorje Shugden Controversy and Kelsang Gyatso (the NKT founder) ones are members of the NKT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Truthbody states: I am a Buddhist in the New Kadampa Tradition and a student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Atisha%27s_cook states on that page in relating personal experience of a demonstration in the USA organised by Kelsang Gyatso and NKT seniors :’I saw all this myself and I saw and felt the crowd's vitriol’ indicating clear involvement with the Western Shugden Society, a group populated overwhelmingly by NKT members. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Truthsayer62 states: ‘I'm a practitioner of Kadampa Buddhism for about fourteen years’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emptymountains states on his talk page ‘My name is Michael-James’ . http://www.dharmaweb.org/index.php/Virginia names Michael-James as principal contact for ‘Kadampa Meditation Group, Location: Norfolk, VA 23517, Contact: Michael-James’ All of these editors are therefore clearly members of the New Kadampa tradition as well as being regular contributors to each of the aforementioned articles. Moreover, a majority of these editors have faced repeated allegations of sock puppetry when editing articles (See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Eyesofcompassion&oldid=226226514 & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Truthsayer62 ) and have on occasions been blocked as a result. Other contributors (Kt 66, Rudy, Chris Fynn) have consistently raised the issue of the lack of neutrality of these editors (see, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rudyh01#The_never-ending_story_about_Shugden) and some of these long term valued contributors have abandoned their attempts to balance the articles these NKT editors dominate (ie The New Kadampa Tradition, Dorje Shugden. The Dorje Shugden Controversy, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso). See, for example, http://westernshugdensociety.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/wikipedia-dorje-shugdens-enlightened-lineage-or-how-to-make-history/ which states: For more than one year now Wikipedia:Reliable Sources, like Dreyfus, Kay, von Brück, Mumford or Nebesky-Wojkowitz, as well as other qualified scholarly papers on the history of Shugden worship (and / or the Shugden Controversy / New Kadampa Tradition) have been repeatedly deleted or misrepresented on Wikipedia – in almost all cases by a group of engaged NKT editors – or these qualified sources have been blocked by them as being “heavily biased”; and for a long time NKT blogs and anonymous websites made by Shugdenpas replaced Wikipedia:Reliable Sources. Now the academic sources are just not mentioned any more or they are presented only marginal, and in a way that it does not interfere with the World-view of NKT. The history and talk pages of Wikipedia, as well as the notices on the Adminboard, offer everybody the chance to explore this for himself. The last notice on the Adminboard can be read here: Users Emptymountains and Truthbody. Other strategies included the sockpuppets of ‘Wisdombuddha’ or multiple accounts fom the same IP. One year ago an editor, who was not involved in editing these articles, gave already a notice on the Administrators’ noticeboard, stating … these users are deleting sourced information and have a clear POV that they’ve conspired to promote on Wikipedia. They are pretty intransigent when it comes to talking about reverting and they show bad faith in editing. I don’t know the intricacies of this dispute, but you don’t need to in order to see how mass deletions of verifiable and reliable information are a bad idea….’ Since then, nothing has really changed and hence this is increasingly becoming a fruitless case where editors who attempt to place any critical views on these pages are being bullied of them by what to all intents and purposes appears to be a dedicated team of NKT editors. User Empty Mountains actually uses the phrase ‘We say this because...’ (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dorje_Shugden_controversy under the heading ‘proposed restructure’) indicating a coordinated team effort at work on these pages When a further possible sockpuppet of these individuals, ‘Eyes of Compassion’ was warned about this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eyesofcompassion the explanation was given that NKT ‘Buddhist practitioners were all gathered for a Festival in England and hence were independently accessing the internet from the same server’ seemingly demonstrating a concerted and coordinated effort on the part of this team to influence WP content, though each purported individual claimed to be acting ‘independently’. A number of issues have also been raised by editors following WP guidelines for articles these NKT editors contribute to, to be examined by administrators (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/New_Kadampa_Tradition_(2nd_nomination) & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_Kadampa_Tradition/Archive_8#kt66_aka_Tenzin_Paljor which states: I worked alongside kt66 on WP for a couple of years, and although he was sometimes furious at himself for having spent so much of his life promoting NKT, when he came here, he learned to balance his opinions carefully with fact. It was mainly due to his efforts that the NKT, DS, KG articles remained reasonably balanced. Of course, now that GKG has told his students to stay away from discussion groups, it is unlikely that his faithful followers would continue to edit and discuss on WP - but it appears this isn't the case. Once more, the said articles are blatantly biased in NKT's favour - so much so that they garner attention as being not much more than promo. material. If you wish to present the NKT, DS, GKG etc in a manner that meets the criteria of an encyclopedia, it is essential that you reflect the facts of these things in an impartial manner. It is apparent that the above editors (Truthsayer62, Truthbody, Atisha’s Cook and Empty Mountains) have a COI and should not be allowed to edit WP articles on these subjects, be it these names or from the same IP under alternative pseudonyms. Since their work on the articles mentioned leads to a clearly imbalanced perspective I am placing the NPOV banners on the NKT page. Moreover, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Blocks states: Accounts that appear, based on their edit history, to exist for the sole or primary purpose of promoting a person, company, product, service, or organization in apparent violation of this guideline should be warned and made aware of this guideline. If the same pattern of editing continues after the warning, the account may be blocked. Since these issues have already been raised repeatedly, since a number of the editors named has faced multiple allegations of sock puppetry/ biased editing/ unwarranted banner reversion, non NPOV, and COI, and since the present articles are heavily biased, making little or no mention of the considerable arguments against the NKT and its religio-political activities, as welI as the allegations of sexual abuse and political machinations that are widespread across the internet (see, for example www.newkadampa.com ) and have appeared in various newspapers and periodicals (see previous web ref) I would strongly advise these editors to leave the banner as you are now at a stage where continued editing of said articles will merit your being blocked. I am also alerting administrators to your activities in the interests of neutrality. Empty Mountains reference to ‘Yonteng's edit warring’ is ‘gaming the system’; it is inflammatory and demonstrates a musinderstanding of the term which is defined as: ‘...when contributors, or groups of contributors, repeatedly revert each other's contributions.’ In other words, for edit warring to occur, at least two parties must be involved. In this case, while I am acting alone, Empty Mountains and colleagues, all members of the same religious organisation, are involved in a disagreement over whether the content of the NKT and related pages are neutral in content. EM and colleagues, each of whom have been editing this page for some time, believe they are. I, on the other hand, who have some knowledge of the history of the group but am somewhat inexperienced in WP etiquette believe they are not, principally because of what does not appear on the page rather than what does. In short, this is not ‘my’ edit war; it is ‘ours’. To claim it is mine is to draw attention away from the fact that we are equally responsible for this dispute. There are multiple allegations against the NKT which it would take a long time to delineate. Fortunately, the history of these pages outlines all of the many concerns in full, as anyone who wishes to enquire will see. I am at a disadvantage because I can only place the NPOV banner on the page three times before I fall foul of the 3RR rule. Because my ‘opponents’ are a team of 4 editors, each can revert my banner twice before moderators are alerted. Thus, the NKT team of editors can revert my banners 8 times in a day before questions are raised. Recent assertions of the internet becoming a domain of mob rule rather than one of freedom of speech begin to ring true. Finally, the obliteration of approximately 22 of the 23 allegations I raised concerning the controversial nature of the group, claiming they are appropriately ‘addressed’ without any significant explanation could be construed as an indication of unwillingness to consider alternative views on this article where the main aim is to achieve a neutral point of view. The claim that ‘the majority of allegations are unsubstantiated’ is the viewpoint expressed by the NKT themselves and not their critics, according to whom , if not all of the allegations have been repeatedly substantiated. It is a thoroughly one-sided view I would like to thank Truthbody, for pointing me to the Obama site ‘Fight the smears’. The remarkable resemblance between it, and the NKTs own ‘Fighting the smears’ page has been noted, indeed the resemblance between the two pages in terms of format, structure and message is almost uncanny. I suppose the only real difference between the two is that President Obama’s campaign was entirely political whereas the NKT’s campaign to clear its good name after widespread criticism of it throughout the International Press and to promote Shugden worship is of an entirely apolitical and solely religious nature (?) I sincerely hope this helps bring about a more balanced article, Yonteng {{unblock}}Yonteng (talk) 19:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Basically, this is a CoI-these people are using wp to post propaganda for their religious sect unopposed-anyone who posts gets editted out and when i put neutrality banners on it, they 3RR me (theres 4 of them0each can revert twice daily=8 without problems. Outside this group lots of people say it is a cult but on WP, they are squeaky clean_they know the rules Idont so the truth gets lost HELP!!!! ANI notificationThere's another discussion about your editing at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Second_Attempted_Outing. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:21, 14 May 2009 (UTC) New Kadampa Tradition bannersSorry for all this rant but this is a serious case of WP abuse by what appears to be an organised gang of editors working to promote a highly controversial relgious sect. Please be patient and read once, slowly {{adminhelp}} As you are probably well aware, Wikipedia policy on Conflict of Interest guidelines state: ‘A Wikipedia conflict of interest (COI) is an incompatibility between the aim of Wikipedia, which is to produce a neutral, reliably sourced encyclopedia, and the aims of an individual editor. COI editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote your own interests or those of other individuals, companies, or groups. Where advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest...... The COI then lists the following examples of COI: Campaigning Activities regarded by insiders as simply "getting the word out" may appear promotional or propagandistic to the outside world. If you edit articles while involved with organizations that engage in advocacy in that area, you may have a conflict of interest. Close relationships Any situation where strong relationships can develop may trigger a conflict of interest. Conflict of interest can be personal, religious, political, academic, financial, and legal. It is not determined by area, but is created by relationships that involve a high level of personal commitment to, involvement with, or dependence upon, a person, subject, idea, tradition, or organization.’ I note that all of the contributing editors who are consistently editing this article, as well as the related Dorje Shugden and Dorje Shugden Controversy and Kelsang Gyatso (the NKT founder) ones are members of the NKT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Truthbody states: I am a Buddhist in the New Kadampa Tradition and a student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Atisha%27s_cook states on that page in relating personal experience of a demonstration in the USA organised by Kelsang Gyatso and NKT seniors :’I saw all this myself and I saw and felt the crowd's vitriol’ indicating clear involvement with the Western Shugden Society, a group populated overwhelmingly by NKT members. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Truthsayer62 states: ‘I'm a practitioner of Kadampa Buddhism for about fourteen years’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emptymountains <info meeting suppression redacted> All of these editors are therefore clearly members of the New Kadampa tradition as well as being regular contributors to each of the aforementioned articles. Moreover, a majority of these editors have faced repeated allegations of sock puppetry when editing articles (See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Eyesofcompassion&oldid=226226514 & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Truthsayer62 ) and have on occasions been blocked as a result. Other contributors (Kt 66, Rudy, Chris Fynn) have consistently raised the issue of the lack of neutrality of these editors (see, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rudyh01#The_never-ending_story_about_Shugden) and some of these long term valued contributors have abandoned their attempts to balance the articles these NKT editors dominate (ie The New Kadampa Tradition, Dorje Shugden. The Dorje Shugden Controversy, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso). See, for example, http://westernshugdensociety.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/wikipedia-dorje-shugdens-enlightened-lineage-or-how-to-make-history/ which states: For more than one year now Wikipedia:Reliable Sources, like Dreyfus, Kay, von Brück, Mumford or Nebesky-Wojkowitz, as well as other qualified scholarly papers on the history of Shugden worship (and / or the Shugden Controversy / New Kadampa Tradition) have been repeatedly deleted or misrepresented on Wikipedia – in almost all cases by a group of engaged NKT editors – or these qualified sources have been blocked by them as being “heavily biased”; and for a long time NKT blogs and anonymous websites made by Shugdenpas replaced Wikipedia:Reliable Sources. Now the academic sources are just not mentioned any more or they are presented only marginal, and in a way that it does not interfere with the World-view of NKT. The history and talk pages of Wikipedia, as well as the notices on the Adminboard, offer everybody the chance to explore this for himself. The last notice on the Adminboard can be read here: Users Emptymountains and Truthbody. Other strategies included the sockpuppets of ‘Wisdombuddha’ or multiple accounts fom the same IP. One year ago an editor, who was not involved in editing these articles, gave already a notice on the Administrators’ noticeboard, stating … these users are deleting sourced information and have a clear POV that they’ve conspired to promote on Wikipedia. They are pretty intransigent when it comes to talking about reverting and they show bad faith in editing. I don’t know the intricacies of this dispute, but you don’t need to in order to see how mass deletions of verifiable and reliable information are a bad idea….’ Since then, nothing has really changed and hence this is increasingly becoming a fruitless case where editors who attempt to place any critical views on these pages are being bullied of them by what to all intents and purposes appears to be a dedicated team of NKT editors. User Empty Mountains actually uses the phrase ‘We say this because...’ (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dorje_Shugden_controversy under the heading ‘proposed restructure’) indicating a coordinated team effort at work on these pages When a further possible sockpuppet of these individuals, ‘Eyes of Compassion’ was warned about this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eyesofcompassion the explanation was given that NKT ‘Buddhist practitioners were all gathered for a Festival in England and hence were independently accessing the internet from the same server’ seemingly demonstrating a concerted and coordinated effort on the part of this team to influence WP content, though each purported individual claimed to be acting ‘independently’. A number of issues have also been raised by editors following WP guidelines for articles these NKT editors contribute to, to be examined by administrators (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/New_Kadampa_Tradition_(2nd_nomination) & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_Kadampa_Tradition/Archive_8#kt66_aka_Tenzin_Paljor which states: I worked alongside kt66 on WP for a couple of years, and although he was sometimes furious at himself for having spent so much of his life promoting NKT, when he came here, he learned to balance his opinions carefully with fact. It was mainly due to his efforts that the NKT, DS, KG articles remained reasonably balanced. Of course, now that GKG has told his students to stay away from discussion groups, it is unlikely that his faithful followers would continue to edit and discuss on WP - but it appears this isn't the case. Once more, the said articles are blatantly biased in NKT's favour - so much so that they garner attention as being not much more than promo. material. If you wish to present the NKT, DS, GKG etc in a manner that meets the criteria of an encyclopedia, it is essential that you reflect the facts of these things in an impartial manner. It is apparent that the above editors (Truthsayer62, Truthbody, Atisha’s Cook and Empty Mountains) have a COI and should not be allowed to edit WP articles on these subjects, be it these names or from the same IP under alternative pseudonyms. Since their work on the articles mentioned leads to a clearly imbalanced perspective I am placing the NPOV banners on the NKT page. Moreover, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Blocks states: Accounts that appear, based on their edit history, to exist for the sole or primary purpose of promoting a person, company, product, service, or organization in apparent violation of this guideline should be warned and made aware of this guideline. If the same pattern of editing continues after the warning, the account may be blocked. Since these issues have already been raised repeatedly, since a number of the editors named has faced multiple allegations of sock puppetry/ biased editing/ unwarranted banner reversion, non NPOV, and COI, and since the present articles are heavily biased, making little or no mention of the considerable arguments against the NKT and its religio-political activities, as welI as the allegations of sexual abuse and political machinations that are widespread across the internet (see, for example www.newkadampa.com ) and have appeared in various newspapers and periodicals (see previous web ref) I would strongly advise these editors to leave the banner as you are now at a stage where continued editing of said articles will merit your being blocked. I am also alerting administrators to your activities in the interests of neutrality. Empty Mountains reference to ‘Yonteng's edit warring’ is ‘gaming the system’; it is inflammatory and demonstrates a musinderstanding of the term which is defined as: ‘...when contributors, or groups of contributors, repeatedly revert each other's contributions.’ In other words, for edit warring to occur, at least two parties must be involved. In this case, while I am acting alone, Empty Mountains and colleagues, all members of the same religious organisation, are involved in a disagreement over whether the content of the NKT and related pages are neutral in content. EM and colleagues, each of whom have been editing this page for some time, believe they are. I, on the other hand, who have some knowledge of the history of the group but am somewhat inexperienced in WP etiquette believe they are not, principally because of what does not appear on the page rather than what does. In short, this is not ‘my’ edit war; it is ‘ours’. To claim it is mine is to draw attention away from the fact that we are equally responsible for this dispute There are multiple allegations against the NKT which it would take a long time to delineate. Fortunately, the history of these pages outlines all of the many concerns in full, as anyone who wishes to enquire will see. I am at a disadvantage because I can only place the NPOV banner on the page three times before I fall foul of the 3RR rule. Because my ‘opponents’ are a team of 4 editors, each can revert my banner twice before moderators are alerted. Thus, the NKT team of editors can revert my banners 8 times in a day before questions are raised. Recent assertions of the internet becoming a domain of mob rule rather than one of freedom of speech begin to ring true. Finally, the obliteration of approximately 22 of the 23 allegations I raised concerning the controversial nature of the group, claiming they are appropriately ‘addressed’ without any significant explanation could be construed as an indication of unwillingness to consider alternative views on this article where the main aim is to achieve a neutral point of view. The claim that ‘the majority of allegations are unsubstantiated’ is the viewpoint expressed by the NKT themselves and not their critics, according to whom , if not all of the allegations have been repeatedly substantiated. It is a thoroughly one-sided view I would like to thank Truthbody, for pointing me to the Obama site ‘Fight the smears’. The remarkable resemblance between it, and the NKTs own ‘Fighting the smears’ page has been noted, indeed the resemblance between the two pages in terms of format, structure and message is almost uncanny. I suppose the only real difference between the two is that President Obama’s campaign was entirely political whereas the NKT’s campaign to clear its good name after widespread criticism of it throughout the International Press and to promote Shugden worship is of an entirely apolitical and solely religious nature (?) I sincerely hope this helps bring about a more balanced article, Yonteng
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Hi Chzz I just think these people either need blocking or the article needs to be markes as permanently non-neutral. They really are manipulating WP for propaganda purposes. Loads of editors have tried to present the otherside but they just get deleted out/bullied until they give up. This is all part of a big anti Dalai Lama propaganda war, covert and overt, but nothing seems to be happening to stem their activities. Repeated requests for article deletion, repeated allegations of sock puppetry, criticism of the practices on this page mooted at elsewhere on the net and yet WP carries on regardless. User emptymountains just reported me for 'outing him' when he even uses his real name (Michael-james) on his user page-they just learned the rules and bend them to their advantage-surely something has to happen??? best wishesYonteng (talk) 20:56, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Please just read the thing I posted before you take sides???I think youll find that if numerous editors report these people repeatedly for the same thing (as they have), there is a chance it might be happening. Remember what they say,'Just because you have paranoia it doesnt mean that everyone isnt out to get you!Seriously, i honestly beleive there is substance to the multiple allegations-If you start SHOUTING and threatening to block that doesnt really do anything to help get to the bottom of this. After all, isnt it important that WP can be relid on as a valid and truthful resource? No hard feelingsYonteng (talk) 21:15, 14 May 2009 (UTC) best wishes Yonteng (talk) 21:15, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Users Kt66, See section 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_Kadampa_Tradition/Archive_8#kt66_aka_Tenzin_Paljor and Chris Fynn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CFynn You might also take a look at http://westernshugdensociety.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/wikipedia-dorje-shugdens-enlightened-lineage-or-how-to-make-history/ Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/New_Kadampa_Tradition_(2nd_nomination) Please take a look at these and they should give you a picture of the other side. You might compare the contents of the WP page on the NKT to newkadampa.com as well! Rudy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rudyh01#The_never-ending_story_about_Shugden, I hope you have time to look at these things before proceedingYonteng (talk) 21:26, 14 May 2009 (UTC) For your diff see http://info-buddhism.com/#nkt No hard feelingsYonteng (talk) 21:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
There are methods for all of this. However, repeated rants about how everyone there has a POV and violating WP:OUTING multiple times will do nothing but get you blocked. Frankly, normally you would be indefinitely blocked for half of the conduct done here. A suggestion would be to head to WP:COIN and file a reasonable calm report discussing the issues. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:49, 14 May 2009 (UTC) Banner on New Kadampa Tradition articleYONTENG - what is wrong with you? for goodness' sake: grow up. stop this ridiculous behaviour! GIVE SOME EXAMPLES OF DISPUTED CONTENT IN THE ARTICLE *BEFORE* RE-ADDING THE NPOV BANNER. if you can't do so, then the banner has no validity. provide *reasoned* examples - not just another rant full of conspiracy theories about "anti-Dalai Lama campaigns" and "teams of NKT editors" and sock-puppetry. all that is just ad hominem, and, frankly, insane. reason your edits, or don't make them. at the monent, you are contributing nothing of value. Atisha's cook (talk) 23:36, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
The reasons are fully explained above, principally CoI. best wishes and may the farce be with you! YontenYonteng (talk) 07:14, 15 May 2009 (UTC) Dear Atisha's Cook H I have just posted an explanation of the reason for the banner on the NKT talk page. Hope this helps clarify things a little. G'day!Yonteng (talk) 08:54, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
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AN3Please stop putting ill-formatted reports on AN3. If you can't be bothered to work out how to format these things properly, do something else. Besides which, you and Ac are on 1RR parole and the situation is in hand from a 3RR perspective. You don't need an admins attention, you need editors interested in the content William M. Connolley (talk) 21:04, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Willliam I can see from your approach that you are a stickler for the rules-which is great- but this is a dispute over content which, I can see from your approach, is not something that really interests you. And why should it?This is a boring subject for non-specialists. I would like to ask you if you can contact anyone (an admin not an ed) who is of a similar status to yourself who you think might be willing to look into this a little, for the sake of accuracy and NPOV on WP. Finally, I thought the 1RR rule meant I could only place the banners up once-which is what i did. Your application of the rule seem to be a zero RR application??? Please, try to be a little more patient with newbies like myself-WP is a complex medium for people who find Word challenging PeaceYonteng (talk) 08:11, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Block message: violation of 1RR parole at New Kadampa Tradition
Decline reason: This is not an autoblock; you have been directly blocked for violating your parole and edit-warring. — FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:40, 18 May 2009 (UTC) My block notice says Ive been autoblocked WP:Assume Good Faith(bumped from above) Yonteng - this is from a summary of an arbitration by Durova to a COIN filed against William M. Connolley here. i find the whole discussion there very interesting; i realize that my conduct on New Kadampa Tradition could reasonably be construed as indicating that i've fallen foul of this tendency described by Durova below, and i believe that yours could also, as could some of your statements. "...editors who have any vehement POV are prone to construing misconduct into the actions of opposing editors, then once they convince themselves that the other side has breached policies (whether or not it really has), the vehement POVers begin violating policies themselves. Sometimes they violate policies blatantly. Other times they seem to misread policy or fail to appreciate when they apply an unequal standard." i hope that in future we can both try to abide by WP:AGF. is it possible for you to assume good faith on my part, and that of other editors on this article? you've stated that you wish only to improve the neutrality of this article (New Kadampa Tradition) - that's also my intention. if you now contribute to it reasonably and collaborate and discuss with other editors, then i will assume that you do so in good faith. best wishes, Atisha's cook (talk) 13:19, 19 May 2009 (UTC) Well i think in truth I will probably not trust you but its nothing personal, its just because of our allegiances. But I can see no reason for us to be rude to one another (Lets leave that to the boys!)I saw someone on the BBC the other day talking about the monstrous personality that the anonymity of the internet can create in contributors. Shall we say, when we get on line, its a bit like Jekyll's potion? All I want is a balanced article that includes a) the good things about the NKT and b)the critical info. If thats what you want, we dont have a problem tBest wishesYonteng (talk) 13:36, 19 May 2009 (UTC) Conflict of Interest{{uw-coi}} This second wp:coi citation comes about as you have consistently not assumed wp:good faith of other editors on the New Kadampa Tradition page, and have accused us of several strange things, most recently accusing me of a "spying campaign"! These kinds of paranoid and ad hominem statements (attacking the editor rather than the edits) seem to indicate that you are the one who has a strong and personal POV against the New Kadampa Tradition and people in it, and, if that is indeed the case, then you should be careful and follow the wp:coi guidelines above when editing this article. Thanks.(Truthbody (talk) 17:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC))
So you consider it appropriate to replace the NPOV tag?? 94.192.139.167 (talk) 19:33, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, could you repeat that? (thats a joke.)Yonteng (talk) 20:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC) 3RR
Dear Yonteng, Technically, you could be reported for (once again) violating the three revert rule yesterday:
Be mindful! is all I'm saying. Emptymountains (talk) 12:15, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the concern. After all, where would we be without me!Yonteng (talk) 15:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
YT, please undo your last few changes to the NKT article, so that I don't have to report you for 3RR. Thanks! Emptymountains (talk) 08:59, 3 June 2009 (UTC) Check discussion page pleaseYonteng (talk) 09:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC) My bias according to user Atisha's Cook (see edit history)< moved from Talk:New Kadampa Tradition >
No, Ive been practicing Dharma;)Yonteng (talk) 17:35, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Gosh, AC; how serious you take things Just relax!-please make edits WITH proper citations-do not edit out banners without discussion and do feel like an equal (perhaps look at how EM is apporaching things)-you lost it for a quite a while now but Im sure if you stick to WP guidelines, youll be fine-WE are trying to work together here Please dont spoil it.Ad Homs are no longer kosher here. AC If you want to understand the way we are now working, I think a good place would be not to consider any info critical of the NKT to be 'negative prpaganda' and non-NPOV and simultaneously, stop considering all information which is 'positive' about the NKT to be 'simple information;some of it IS propaganda. We are trying to gain a balance between the positive and negative here, and eradicate propaganda from EITHER side, in the interests of neutrality BTW, with respect to my little joke,when you say 'you have to stop holding, or at the very least stop *stating* that you hold, such a clearly negative view' are you advising me to lie? Such behaviour is unbecoming in a buddhist and anyone who demonstrates such devious,political mindedness would not be held very highly in my estimation.It is akin to misusing WP rules to manipulate article content and I am sure you would not want to me to be accused of that. I advise all contributors to -1) be truthful -2) Develop a sense of humour (are you German? [Sorry Andi-its a joke])Yonteng (talk) 10:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Wow, my own section-fame at last! many thanks for your interesting perspective. I have already set out my views on the need for balance in the article above and I would therefore refer you to the answer I gave earlier. Best wishesYonteng (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:27, 26 May 2009 (UTC).
Please dont be so antagonistic and try to calm down. I do not have to justify myself to you.One might just as easily ask the same questions in relation to yourself If you wish to contribute to the ediiting of the article, please do so. As long a your edits are 3PS, that will be fine. Best wishesYonteng (talk) 12:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
I fully agree that WP is no place for propaganda. I hope that can be borne in mind by all concerned. Other than that, i have nothing to say in response to what are basically ad homs. Please feel free to edit the article on the basis of valid sources.Yonteng (talk) 07:49, 27 May 2009 (UTC) Your quote from above seems relevant and can be applied to both sides of the debate "...editors who have any vehement POV are prone to construing misconduct into the actions of opposing editors, then once they convince themselves that the other side has breached policies (whether or not it really has), the vehement POVers begin violating policies themselves. Sometimes they violate policies blatantly. Other times they seem to misread policy or fail to appreciate when they apply an unequal standard." Please bear your suggested quote in mind before any further communication11:27, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
All things being impermanent, I'd have a hard job not changing. I suggest you stop wasting your time here-its all far too personalYonteng (talk) 15:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
AgreeYonteng (talk) 17:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear AC Thanks for that. Please, you do seem to be confusing my 'mission' with the tradition(s) I practice. I am sorry to disappoint but this is a misconception, probably born of the old addage, 'the faults we see in others would not be visible if we did not have them within ourselves'. My only wish is that the public are aware of ALL the facts about the NKT wherein, everything in the garden is not rosey, let us say. To deny this would be inaprropriate and deceptive.Please, do not protest for the human right to freedom of whatever when you would deny the public the same basic human right to freedom of information. This could be likened to demonstrating for the religious freedom to practice a deity that is complicit in sectarian efforts to restrict the religious freedom of others to practice as they wish.I will not be reporting you for your outburst; I have been subject to such childish and manipulative behaviour and have no wish to emulate it. Finally, I would remind you that the Dharma is a mirror with which we examine our own faults; to turn it towards others means we see nothing of ourselves AND obscure the reality that lies before us. I hope you pass through your anger quickly and wish you peace and happiness. Sorry you are burning so much at the moment.Please rest a littleYonteng (talk) 07:47, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Your recent editsHi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button BlockedYou're on 1RR parole (Talk:New_Kadampa_Tradition#1RR_sanction) and Reverts made without explicitly including the word "revert" "undid" or "rv" or anything else will result in an extended block. So [8] is a vio, as were your edits as an anon earlier. 72h William M. Connolley (talk) 12:05, 9 June 2009 (UTC) WMC HelloHi Still stuck in edit warring with NKT eds. recently i have placed a reference in the intro section and supported it with numerous 3PS in the text plus on the discussion page (see bottom of that page) NKT editors (4 of them) have responded repeatedly by reverting without any 3ps supporting reasons, only personal opinion. As before, they can RV 8 times before 3rr kicks in, me 2 times (or with 1rr once). If you look at the evidence and 3PS you can see my 'cult' quote is valid and also that all 4 eds have provided no substantial support for their RVs.They simply dont want the public to know that there is a strong belief in the big wide world that they are a cult. I would therefore ask that you consider your decisionYonteng (talk) 12:10, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
It seems the law is more important than morality on WP-4 combined eds get 8 edits before 3rr, 1 ed gets 2. I will follow your advice though I believe it would be in your and WPs interest to look a little more deply into issues behind this edit war rather than simply applying rules.All that suffers is the crsdibility of WP. Please dont forget to lift my block. have good oneYonteng (talk) 14:37, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
'So the lesson is, you cannot win revert wars, especially if you're outgunned' In other words, on WP mob rule is the law and truth takes a back seat.94.192.139.167 (talk) 08:20, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
COIRather than engaging in fruitless edit warring, if you beleive there is one, consider adding a COI tag to NKT related articles and clearly explaining your reasons on the talk pages. NKT members may stand in conflict of interest if advancing the cause of the NKT or their beleifs is more important to them than advancing the aims of Wikipedia. Similarly ex-NKT memebers may stand in COI if dissing the NKT is more important to them than advancing the aims of Wikipedia. Lodru (talk) 06:45, 22 October 2009 (UTC) |
