User:Dicklyon/Annotated diffs

ANI thread opened 10:55, 8 June 2025, in case we want to focus on what led to it, as opposed to what happened during it.

:* 1 – 04:34, 9 June 2025 – Dicklyon moved page Crimean Blockade (1655) to Crimean blockade (1655): Change to sentence case (MOS:AT). See subsequent discussion at Talk:Blockade of the Kerch strait – where an even better title was settled on, less than 24 hours later.

:* 2 – 11:06, 7 June 2025 – This is Chicdat at User talk:Chicdat, adding a complaint about lowercasers: "The reason the lowercasers hold sway over the NCCAPS move request is because the letter of the law, for the most part, supports them." No mention of Dicklyon.

:* 3 – 18:01, 9 June 2025 – Dicklyon making fun of other editors at WT:MOSCAPS: "The other option is to do like Andy Dingley and Randy Kryn and a few others like to do, which is to say that every multi-word title that identifies a specific topic is a proper name."

:* 4 – duplicate of 3

:* 5 – 21:21, 8 June 2025 – Andy Dingley expressing a negative opinion of Dicklyon in this ANI thread. "absolutely incorrigible over this, forever". No specifics.

:* 6 – 12:32, 9 June 2025 – Andy Dingley complaining about Dicklyon to Sammy in this ANI thread, ending with "Dicklyon is always right. Anyone who says otherwise is unpatriotic, disloyal to the project, and should be deported to Venezuela." Not about anything I've done, but how he thinks I never get punished for what I've done.

:* 7 – 12:34, 5 June 2025 – Sammy D commenting in Talk:War of the cities, a capitalizing RM that I had already expressed opposition in; no mention of Dicklyon. Hard to guess why this link was in the ANI thread.

:* 8 – 11:23, 26 May 2025 – Plumber opened this RM discussion: Talk:Syrian revolution#Requested move 26 May 2025. No mention of Dicklyon at this point.

:* 9 – 11:14, 31 March 2025 – Chicdat opposing at Talk:Abbasid revolution#Requested move 31 March 2025, an RM Cinderella157 opened. Opined: "yet another instance in this editor's tendentious crusade to lowercase every proper name on Wikipedia." (not about Dicklyon) It closed with a consensus for lowercase.

:* 10 – 13:30, 3 April 2025 – Chicdat at his talk page, about the RM of 9, to Cinderella157: "Very well. I will drop the stick now. Although I still don't believe my comment was a personal attack and certainly didn't mean it that way, I can see how it could be perceived as such. As consensus is moving towards the threshold for capitalization being a significant majority, there's very little that I need to say before consensus is reached, so I will probably be staying out of these capitalization discussions in the future, for the most part."

:* 11 – 11:26, 21 May 2025 – Cinderella expressing an opinion at WP:VPROP#On redirect from mis/other capitalization tags, about other capitalization tags and categories, disagreeing with Dicklyon's proposal.

:* 12 – 00:21, 22 May 2025 – Cinderella at the above discussion, asking for clarification.

:* 13 – 04:16, 8 June 2025 – Cinderella answering Sammy D at WT:MOSCAPS#Large number of undiscussed potentially controversial moves., explaining what "potentially controversial" means, in the section where Sammy D had complained that 5 of Dicklyon's moves were potentially controversial (none of the 5 have yet been challenged or reverted, so it's just a "potential" he's talking about)

:* 14 – 8 June 2025 – Cinderella discussing the "usually" in the MIL MOS, at WT:MOSCAPS

:* 15 – 15:59, 18 May 2025 – EEng reverting Chicdat's removal of some key wording from the MIL MOS.

:* 16 – 08:04, 27 April 2025 – Cinderella explaining and opining in the RM he started at Talk:Second Battle of Tarain. Oddly, it's still open after several relistings, differing opinions, very low participation.

:* 17 – 19:13, 25 April 2025 – Chicdat opposing in the above RM

:* 18 – 10:28, 12 April 2025 – Chicdat opposing Cinderella's RM to downcase Church Fathers; it closed with consensus to keep it capped.

:* 19 – 13:29, 23 April 2025 – Chicdat starting an RM to re-cap Romanian revolution

:* 20 – 12:32, 9 June 2025 – One of Chicdat's comments in this thread, about another ANI thread about Iran or something?

:* 21 – 13:44, 18 May 2025 – Chicdat edits the MOS with edit summary: Military terms: added without discussion by Dicklyon in 2019, I am removing it. Have a discussion on the talk if you disagree. (this was then reverted by EEng)

:* 22 – duplicate of 21

:* 23 – 17:37, 9 June 2025 – Sammy D opining in WT:MOSCAPS#Foreign language military terms translated to English that "Shovel" might be a proper name as the Army uses it, because they capitalize it

:* 24 – 00:45, 21 May 2025 – Dicklyon moved page 2021 Tri-State tornado to Tri-state tornado of 1921: parallel to the recent 2025 consensus move – My famous century typo move.

:* 25 – 23:58, 10 June 2025 – Robert McClenon in this ANI thread, added the heading ==Proposal 1: Ban for Dicklyon== above Josh's opinion that maybe I should be banned. Josh later objected to this refactoring and re-interpretation of his comments. This thing Robert McClenon did is what I see ANI "regulars" do a lot: fan the flames of a discussion into a debate about a severe consequence.

:* 26 – 05:40, 11 June 2025 – ed17 removed Dicklyon's note at WT:MOSCAPS pointing out that Sammy's complaint had been cited at ANI. He said it was blatant canvassing.

:* 27 – 11:48, 26 February 2024 – Amakuru arguing that a block of Dicklyon was reasonable, when many others disagreed about whether calling another editor "obstructionist" was a personal attack

:* 28 – duplicate of 25

:* 29 – duplicate of 25

:* 30 – duplicate of 25

:* 31 – 14:04, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon answers Robert McClenon's query in this ANI thread about "the reports of being disruptive are exaggerated", suggests certain other editors are pissed off about losing some capital letters; remarks "So far, no relevant links".

:* 32 – 03:32, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon updated link case in Template:Ulysses S. Grant; the corresponding move in 2019 was from Dicklyon's request at WP:RMTR

:* 33 – 03:29, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon did more link case changes in the template mentioned above, but 3 minutes earlier.

:* 34 – 18:28, 9 June 2025 – At the redirect NFL Draft, Dicklyon put the "R from non-preferred capitalization" tag since Randy Kryn had removed the "R from miscapitalion" tag that he objects to.

:* 35 – duplicate of number 1

:* 36 – duplicate of number 3

:* 37 – 02:53, 14 March 2025 – The Bushranger reverts Dicklyon's undiscussed move of XM395 Precision Guided Mortar Munition; later that day Dicklyon started an RM discussion which concluded with a consensus to lowercase, with only one supporter and no opposition, not even the Bushranger. See RM at Talk:XM395 precision guided mortar munition

:* 38 – like 37, about the same time, but on Talk:M1156 precision guidance kit. 3 supporters and no opposition.

:* 39 – like 37 and 38 but a few days later, on Talk:M1297 Army ground mobility vehicle. Just 1 support, no opposition.

::37–39 were linked by Andy Dingley, who also wikilinked Talk:M6 aircrew survival weapon there and said "I realise I'm spitting in the wind here but I wish the MOS wouldn't mandate original research by stating that Wikipedia should use a different name than everybody else." That RM went to lowercase with 5:1, with The Bushranger opposing. The WikiProject Military History gets automatic alerts of RM discussions, but most of them either don't care and don't feel like opposing guidelines.

:* 40 – 04:20, 9 June 2025 – Dicklyon moved page Left-Bank Uprising to Left-bank uprising: Change to sentence case (MOS:AT); now under discussion at Talk:Left-Bank uprising. Linked by Sammy D in this thread as an example of "Absolutely refuses to stop making controversial moves even while being questioned on multiple boards. Hides behind MOS which is being questioned."

:* 41 – 04:27, 9 June 2025 – Dicklyon case and dash fixes at Left-bank uprising, including going to "left-bank Ukraine" and "the right bankk" in the text. Linked by Sammy D who wrote, "This isn't just carrying out uncontroversial moves, following MOS, this is pure bad faith. I've said it all before and don't talk to dick lyon. Sigh."

:* 42 – 04:45, 9 June 2025 – Dicklyon downcasings at Cossack Hetmanate; still unchallenged though the bank thing is under discussion elsewhere so some updates may be needed later (does someone prefer ANI over BRD maybe?)

:* 43 – 22:31, 8 February 2024 – Dicklyon moved page USFL Draft to USFL draft over redirect: Change to sentence case (MOS:AT): Overwhelmingly lowercase in sources; no conceivable reason for anyone to object. (betrays lack of imagination, obviously)

:* 44 – 04:45, 9 June 2025 – Dicklyon case fix, including more downcasing and hyphen fixing of left and right banks; linked by TurboSuperA+, expanding scope from moves and RM to case edits in articles (related).

:* 45 – Dicklyon's link to a 2007 edit of his that get him an edit-warring block

:* 46 – Dicklyon's link to his 2007 revert at Archives of Sexual Behavior that got him an edit-warring block

:* 47 – Dicklyon's link to his 2009 edit at William Timmons (lobbyist) that got him an edit-warring block

:* 48 – Dicklyon's link to his 2009 edit at William Timmons (lobbyist) that got him yet another edit-warring block

:* 49 – 18:17, 10 June 2025 – In this ANI thread (not clear who linked it or why) SMcCandlish refutes The Bushranger's bad memory of who did what, with: Uh, Dicklyon had virtually nothing to do with WP following usual usage (lower-case) outside of specialist publications when it comes to common names of birds and other organisms. That result came about after an RM (opened by no one who is a regular at MoS or AT), followed by an RM, followed by an RfC attempting to overturn the MR. That last part of course saw involvement from MoS regulars, since it took place the the MoS talk page. But DL was barely involved in that either. This is a good example of irrational "Dicklyon hating", ...

:* 50 – 21:02, 12 January 2024 – Newyorkbrad in the NFL Draft RFC: "Upper case pre status quo. The parade of decapitalization crusades in various subject-matter areas, against the longstanding preferences of the editors who work in those subject areas, has had a consistently demoralizing effect for a very long time, and should be strongly discouraged."

:* 51 – duplicate of 24

:* 52 – 23:25, 11 June 2025 – In this ANI thread, SMcCandlish says "Chicdat, this conspiracy-theory mongering needs to stop. ..."

:* 53 – 22:39, 7 June 2025 – Sammy D makes an argument for capitalization based on a "simple Google search" at an RM started by 4meter4 at Talk:Five freedoms

:* 54 – 23:50, 7 June 2025 – Randy Kryn in the RM above, 'There are many "fives" lowercased (i.e. WP:Five pillars). This page title, being a proper name, should not be one of them.'

:* 55 – 00:48, 4 June 2025 – Dicklyon presents some source observations in an RM he started at Talk:NRL Grand Final

:* 56 – 18:45, 11 June 2025 – In this ANI thread, Dicklyon asks BeanieFan "Are you still sore that you lost some caps at Talk:CFL draft#Requested move 27 March 2024?"

:* 57 – duplicate of 56

:* 58 – 18:08, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon in this ANI thread tells BeanieFan: "BeanieFan, you are another who prefers a lot more capitalization that the consensus typically does. Your opinions there are OK; you're free to express that my edits regarding capitalization are not a net positive. But that is not a reason to ban me."

:* 59 – 18:25, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon in this ANI thread, asking Abo Yemen "Do you have any actual reason to support this ban?"

:* 60 – 18:30, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon follow up to Abu Yemen suggesting that he might be biased by his "sadly" reaction in recent (Jan'25) downcasing RM

:* 61 – 20:49, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon telling Abu Yemen "I feel disappointed in you, too, for jumping into something you don't understand, fueled by mean-spirited over-capitalizers who want to see me gone so they can have their capital letters."

:* 62 – duplicate of 61

:* 63 – 21:13, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon in this ANI thread, telling Hey man im josh that he is mean-spirited, judged by threats like [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Dicklyon&diff=prev&oldid=1290086784 this by Josh], a threat to go to ANI because he didn't like how Dicklyon used maintenance category tagging to help with post-move cleanups

:* 64 – 18:46, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon in this ANI thread, opposing a ban proposal with "It's still a content dispute – Pretty much everyone wanting to get me banned here has an axe to grind about capitalization. It's not about my behavior, except that I work on moving things toward what P&G say. This is lame. "

:* 65 – 23:47, 10 August 2024 (almost a year ago) – Dicklyon did a bold move to lowercase; it was soon reverted. A subsequent RM to lowercase "Sultanate" on 5 articles at Talk:Ahmadnagar Sultanate closed as not moved (kept capital). The close was not challenged.

:* 66 – 03:30, 9 February 2024 (well over a year ago) – The Wordsmith chews Dicklyon out on his talk page for doing a move that he had been told might be controversial, explaining why be blocked him.

:* 67 – 02:38, 22 October 2024 (almost a year ago) – Dicklyon made a bold move that was shortly reverted. Subsequent RM at Talk:Northern Mannerism#Requested move 22 October 2024 closed leaving "Mannerism" capped on these. The close was not challenged.

:* 68 – 04:04, 26 July 2024 (almost a year ago) – Dicklyon boldly moved Flemish Baroque painting to lowercase baroque; it was quickly reversed by Randy Kryn. No RM was started.

:* 69 – 17:26, 5 October 2024 (almost a year ago) – Dicklyon boldly downcased Shunga Empire. It was reversed 5 days later as "not uncontroversial". In October, editor JingJongPascal started an RM to lowercase it again, but that closed as not moved; Dicklyon did not participate.

:* 70 – like number 65, but a different sultanate, the one with the RM at Talk:Ahmadnagar Sultanate

:* 71 – duplicate of 24

:* 72 – 00:59, 21 May 2025 – Dicklyon repairs the tornado typo move, moving to Tri-state tornado of 2021 to be consistent with recent RM/MR of 1925 tri-state tornado. This turned out not to be a good idea, and is still being discussed at Talk:2021 Tri-State tornado#Requested move 21 May 2025.

:* 73 – 21:05, 11 June 2025 – In this ANI thread, Dicklyon started the process of annotating the list of blocks that Hey man im josh provided, to show that the majority of them were unrelated to capitalization, with edit summary "is it OK if I annotate these? If not, revert and I'll put things elsewhere"; it turned out it was not OK with Josh.

:* 74 – 21:13, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon updated the annotation mentioned above

:* 75 – 21:20, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon updated and did more annotations of Josh's list of blocks

:* 76 – 21:23, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon updated and did more annotations of Josh's list of blocks

:* 77 – 21:40, 11 June 2025 – Dicklyon updated and did more annotations of Josh's list of blocks

:* 78 – 01:10, 11 Jun 2025 – Cinderella157 moved page Union Navy to Union navy: Change to sentence case (MOS:AT): A descriptive name for the USN during the civil war - compare with Union army

Categorization by time of action

In 2025 before the ANI complaint