User:Aucaman/sandbox

:Note:'' My older statement is here. The one you're reading is more accurate.

I started editing Wikipedia on Oct. 24, 2005. In the first three months I was involved in editing various controversial articles, but you cannot find anyone complaining about my work.

Sometime in early February, I came across the Kurdish people article. This is how I found the page: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kurdish_people&offset=20060130183919&limit=100&action=history]. Apparently a group of users (namely, Manik666, Khoikhoi, and SouthernComfort) were pushing hard to label Kurds "Iranian" in the first line of the article and downplay any ethnic/cultural similarity with other groups.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kurdish_people&diff=37308917&oldid=37306899] The page was protected, and I used the opportunity to work out a compromise.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Kurdish_people&oldid=40825694] The page was already protected in their favor, so they saw no need to compromise. User:69.196.139.250's behavior seemed the most remarkable. He repeatedly copy-pasted various unsigned (usually bold-faced/capitalized) messages demonizing the other side and their "anti-Iranian agenda".[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=prev&diff=39017115&title=Talk%3AKurdish_people][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=prev&diff=40383346&title=Talk%3AKurdish_people] This is the same user as Manik666.

Around the same time, I got involved in the Persian people article. There was already a dispute in place, but there was very little discussion taking place.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Persian_people/Archive_1#NPOV_dispute] I myself took issue with the use of the term "Aryan" as a marker for some unknown race of which Persians were claimed to be descended.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=prev&diff=38921977&title=Persian_people] My edit was sitting there for 2 weeks until some anon reverted it.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Persian_people&diff=40929377&oldid=40927247] This anon would later turn out to be ManiF.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Al-Karaji&diff=next&oldid=47364900] My subsequent attempts to change the wording of the sentence were immediately reverted by ManiF.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Persian_people&diff=41166234&oldid=41151905] Seeing how things were not working out, I let ManiF keep his version but asked for a dispute tag to be put in the section until the dispute is resolved.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Persian_people&diff=41249764&oldid=41245984] ManiF removed the dispute tag in less than 30 minutes and started accusing me of racism, propagating false information, and others.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Persian_people&diff=next&oldid=41249764][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aucaman&diff=prev&oldid=41239530][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aucaman&diff=prev&oldid=41243181] He then made some weird [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aucaman&diff=next&oldid=41258620 compromise offer], and threatened to disrupt other articles if I didn't take back my concerns.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aucaman&diff=next&oldid=41253946][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aucaman&diff=next&oldid=41270579] Since I'd never been in a situation like this, following the vandalism article ("As a general rule, do not remove other people's dispute tags twice during a 24 hour period."), I assumed the other side's edits to be vandalism. Probably due to some meatpuppetry/sockpuppetry campaign by ManiF, there was now an influx of various anon users constantly taking off the dispute tag, which led to the page being protected.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Persian_people&offset=20060301120000&limit=24&action=history] ManiF himself violated 3RR long before I did (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Persian_people&offset=20060228041400&limit=24&action=history context]); at least I believed I was reverting vandalism. This is also about when User:Kashk and User:Zmmz started joining the discussions.

Following the page's protection, there was a campaign of false warnings and harassment, mostly by ManiF and Kashk, but also by some anons.([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAucaman&diff=41739094&oldid=41700800][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAucaman&diff=41652288&oldid=41439062][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aucaman&diff=next&oldid=41652401][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAucaman&diff=41755573&oldid=41741694][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAucaman&diff=41779804&oldid=41769247][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAucaman&diff=41990795&oldid=41925729][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAucaman&diff=42789405&oldid=42771579][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAucaman&diff=42133973&oldid=42062411] among others.) Zmmz and Kashk declared me to be illogical and went on to setup an RfC in order to "ban" me.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Aucaman/Evidence#Zmmz_et_al._neglected_the_mediation.2C_never_showing_interest_in_a_substantial_compromise_or_consenus] Zmmz and ManiF together spammed some 20+ users asking them to "vote" on the RfC. Zmmz also started intervening wherever he saw my name, constantly demonizing me by referring to the RfC.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=prev&diff=43688361&title=User_talk%3AAshmoo] At some point I couldn't help but to respond to one of the personal attacks.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Chick_Bowen&diff=43522611&oldid=43518880] Although I took off the response within minutes and apologized for it, Kashk and Zmmz continued their campaign of harassment - this time pointing to my "personal attacks" record. At some point I brought this up with the admins in which case both Kashk and Zmmz were warned. But Zmmz continued to harass me (not even sparing my personal user page [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Aucaman/read/adminship&action=history]) until he was blocked for it.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:Zmmz]

It now appears that ManiF, Zmmz, and Kashk are part of a POV-pushing team involving users Zereshk, SouthernComfort, and Khoikhoi. They persistently try to overrepresent Iranian contributions to the world at the expense of other groups. This spans across some 40+ articles and involves many other users (most of whom are probably not aware of this arbitration). A good list of articles has been provided by Zereshk himself when recuiting for users on the Farsi Wikipedia: [http://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%82%D9%87%D9%88%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87&oldid=159286#.D9.85.D8.AD.D8.A7.DA.A9.D9.85.D9.87_.D8.AF.D8.B3.D8.AA.D9.87_.D8.AC.D9.85.D8.B9.DB.8C_.DA.A9.D8.A7.D8.B1.D8.A8.D8.B1.D8.A7.D9.86_.D8.A7.DB.8C.D8.B1.D8.A7.D9.86.DB.8C_.D9.88.DB.8C.DA.A9.DB.8C_.D9.BE.D8.AF.DB.8C.D8.A7.DB.8C_.D8.A7.D9.86.DA.AF.D9.84.DB.8C.D8.B3.DB.8C2]. I believe such actions lead to the disruption and fractionalizing of Wikipedia and directly undermine its credibility as a neutral source of information. Aucaman^Talk 00:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)