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He is just ignoring us and is using his sock puppets to avoid his Block! What can be done? He has more than one "tell" that gives him away. --Sott 08:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Blu Aardvark and Mistress Selina Kyle: unblocking
Reiki vandal and suspected sock puppet
User 58.178.137.47 vandalised Reiki with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reiki&curid=166329&diff=55704581&oldid=55680868 edit]. Given the history of edits, can someone please check if the account is a sockpuppet. Thanks. Mccready 08:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
: Mcready. You are most unhelpful. Why don't you try talking to me? You bet I know my way around Wikipedia. Your behaviour is borderline breaching WP:OWN on that article. You are making the mistake of thinking you couldn't possibly be in the minority when actually, you are in the minority. Your edits are unwanted. Get over yourself. I am nobodies sockpuppet. I am simply anonymous. 58.178.137.47 11:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
: Further to that, which user are you also accusing? Who do you claim I am sockpuppet of? I hope you notified them. 58.178.137.47 04:23, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
::I don't know if he's a sockpuppet, but he was a vandal. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 22:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[[User:Encyclopedist]] (aka Clyde vandal) announces massive vandalism attack
A few weeks back, Encyclopedist blew up at User:John Reid, and launched a major sock-puppetting attack on John. When the attack was traced back to Encyclopedist and the underlying IP was blocked, Encyclopedist staged a showy exit from the project. Except he has never fully left, continuing to request unblocking of the IP itself. This request has been denied several times.
Now, on that IP talk page, he says that he was the "Clyde vandal" (not familiar with that vandal myself), that he's about to gain access to a large number of different computers from which to edit, and about to launch some new, major vandal attacks against John Reid, User:Mackensen, and the project in general.
No idea how credible the threat is, but this guy has definitely displayed some finesse in his previous attacks on John. Mostly wanted to toss this up here to get a few more eyes on alert if he does begin his threatened assault tomorrow. - TexasAndroid 18:32, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
:He was indeed the Clyde vandal (see User:Essjay/Checkuser/Cases/CIyde); I knew at the time there was a connection through university IPs, but because he was considered an upstanding Wikipedian, I decided that it was another student at the university. It is entirely possible that he's graduated now, but if not, a phone call to the University's ITS department, and perhaps to the Dean's office, will clear it up immediately, permanently, and to the satisfaction of all involved. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 02:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::Erm, if it helps in identifying him, here's a picture I took of him (sitting next to Jimbo Wales) at the St. Pete meetup Raul654 02:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:::(Presumably after seeing my above post) Encyclopedist emailed me tonight to say that he will not be vandalizing anymore. A call to his university is not necessarily. Raul654 03:41, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::::He has posted to my Talk page as User:MyApology and sounds sincere. User:Zoe|(talk) 22:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[[User:Phaedriel]]
Phaedriel is being nailed by a stalker at the moment. Those of you who are on the mailing list know about it. Anything that anyone can do to help would be appreciated. Right now, more than anything else, Phaedriel needs our support and I hope people will give it to her. Her userpage has information on what's been going on. --Woohookitty(meow) 13:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:Could I just add that she's asked to be left alone in quiet contemplation. Let's try to respect that. --kingboyk 13:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::But she also posted about the stalking on her user page, so she is not trying to keep it secret. NoSeptember talk 14:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:::We need to find ways of protecting, defending and supporting users who come under the kind of psychological warfare attacks she was subject to. I suppose one thing we could do is encourage users who need anonymity to preserve it from their first edit and choice of user name. A beginning user has little reason to anticipate the day they may be required to deal with difficult people who will exploit personal information. Fred Bauder 14:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::::Absolutely agree, although the last time I saw this topic discussed, it got limited response. NoSeptember talk 14:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:::::Yes, I wanted to add language in the registration dialog discouraging people from disclosing their actual identities (well, at least pointing out that several people have received real-life harrassment due to activities on wikipedia), but couldn't convince anyone else: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Username&diff=29857426&oldid=29784224] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Signupend&diff=30563430&oldid=29871281] were the strongest statements I could get in. Demi T/C 18:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
It's important that those that wish to remain anonymous do so by not reveiling their real name, their place of work, where they hang out, etc. I would be cautious about telling people to not post personal information by ensuring the wording doesn't freak people out and cause them to not contribute. I don't think she is under any potentiality of losing her job...just her privacy perhaps.--MONGO 18:41, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:I think we can do a few things, or Wikimedia could, to help prevent one type of stalking (threats to work). We should probably get the Foundation to have a couple of letters on hand that explain to employers that the named person is a volunteer and might well be harrassed for working for the good of mankind. That would help in that part of things (and it can be written in a neutral manner that doesn't take a position on a particular argument). Additionally, though, we need to be able to generate multiple calls to authorities to indicate the severity of a personal stalking. Geogre 00:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
::Agreed. I can see no reason the foundation cannot lend a hand in the manner you have described.--MONGO 03:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
[[User:Guillen]] ([[User talk:Guillen|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/Guillen|contribs]])
This user has begun to try my patience.
He has twice vandalized my user page [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BigDT&diff=prev&oldid=56124943], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:BigDT&diff=prev&oldid=56013028], accusing me of being some kind of Catholic anti-evangelical bigot. (For the record, I am not Catholic - I am a conservative, evangelical, born again, Bible-believing, whatever term you want to use - they all mean the same to me, Christian.)
He has three times completely replaced without comment a well-written Spiritual warfare article with a POV/original research piece. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiritual_warfare&diff=56127088&oldid=56022632], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiritual_warfare&diff=56009069&oldid=55888698], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiritual_warfare&diff=55421898&oldid=54698032]. See afd discussion of his version.
He also left an inflammatory message on User:Jim Henry's talk page [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jim_Henry&diff=prev&oldid=56008088].
He has posted material on Plymouth Brethren several times that is block copied from http://www.brethrenonline.org/faqs/PBHIST.HTM - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plymouth_Brethren&diff=56127658&oldid=56029180], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plymouth_Brethren&diff=55772579&oldid=55307224]
I, and others have left several messages to User talk:Guillen attempting to explain the problems with his edits, but there has been no acknowledgement of them other than calling us evil Catholics.
If you look at his contributions, there seems to be something of a language barrier. Many of his contributions are in more or less broken English and he seems to see a strong bias where there is none. Assuming good faith, is it possible for someone who speaks his native language (Swedish?) to engage him on his talk page about these issues?
One other diff - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FSankta_lusse&diff=56126127&oldid=56028072] - to an AFD of an article he wrote - tries my ability to assume good faith.
BigDT 15:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- content dispute?--205.188.116.65 15:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Vandalism of a user page, repeatedly posting copyvio material, replacing articles with personal essays, and personal attacks go beyond a content dispute BigDT 15:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I have reverted what I viewed as a personal attack placed on User:BigDT's userpage by this user. I also note that every edit he has made has been marked as minor. The user hasn't made an edits since the three talk messages I left earlier today, including instructions on both of those points. GRBerry 22:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[[User:THE KING]] and OR in Monash University dorm articles
{{user|THE KING}} has been edit warring (albeit slowly) over the inclusion of what I consider blatant POV OR to articles about dorms and related topics to Monash University. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farrer_Hall&diff=prev&oldid=56163828 this] for his most recent attempt to restore this content, which at best describes without any hope of verification (or encyclopedic worth) what the social atmosphere of the dorm is as far as drinking and bar hopping, and at worst makes such claims as the prevalence of homosexuality on certain dorm floors, and the masturbation habits of certain students. See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Passion_Pop&diff=prev&oldid=55096756] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richardson_Hall&diff=prev&oldid=25031823] for a couple more examples. THE KING has complained about this on my talk page, taking it as a personal vendetta, so I'm posting here because of that and the fact that I'm rather sick of policing these stupid dorm articles (see links at Monash Residential Services). Postdlf 17:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I think what postdlf is trying to get at here is that he thinks it's acceptable to just flollok about the place reverting peoples edits because they contain something that he doesn't like. If you dont like it, remove the offending statement - don't revert the entire edit, which i may have worked on for some time to get rid of pov and OR material. eg [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Passion_Pop&diff=55105035&oldid=55097387], why did he have to de-wikify the links too? In my opinion, postdlf is just a warmonger who cares more about noticeboards like this and pinning people up on them than he does about the integrity of the encyclopedia, and i said as much on his talk page. Yes, if you remove the entire edit i do take it as a personal vendetta and the only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive - not in vain - for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. THE KING 17:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Or we could save ourselves a lot of trouble and just delete the entire series of articles on "Monash University residence halls" as non-notable? I don't see any claims to notability in any of the six articles, and as long as they exist, they're going to attract nonsense like this. Demiurge 18:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'm fine with that option as well. Postdlf 18:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well we all know they wouldn't pass AFD. Wikipedia's politics have swung to deletionism far too much over the last year for that to happen. I guess it just comes down to whether you are mature enough to let them be? Or do you want to take the easy road, the one which you know will be worst for wikipedia? THE KING 18:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I've taken the liberty: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monash Residential Services. Demiurge 19:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- You have demonstrated your immaturity as expected. THE KING 19:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Strange how placing such information in Wikipedia is mature, but removing it is not. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 19:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Please dont enter into this discussion without the appropriate context, morv. Removing this info is not the cause of my concern. Dont make me add you to my List of people who need a kick in the arse for taking the easy road. THE KING 19:35, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'm reverting your edits because the "faggot" reference on your user page is a personal attack, and in my opinion so is your "List of people who need a kick in the arse for taking the easy road" because it's reporting what you see as editor deficiencies in an aggressive and confrontational manner. However, that said I've made my point I won't be reverting any more. Please have a think about it. --kingboyk 19:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Please note that THE KING's User page specifically attacks the principles of NOR and Verifiability. I'm sorry, but those are official Wikipedia policies, and you'll have to get them changed before you try avoiding them. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
The AFD is taking care of the dorm articles, but he's also continued to insert an OR/student vanity paragraph into Passion Pop, with such beautifully encyclopedic statements as this: "Many prefer this drink over beer, and since it is as cheap if not cheaper, it often finds its way into low class University functions, either straight or in a punch."[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Passion_Pop&diff=prev&oldid=56166060] I've already removed it (again), but I also think the rest of that article needs to be pruned for OR beyond that obvious paragraph. Postdlf 00:36, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Tony Sidaway unilaterally cancels satanism userbox restoral discussion
Tony has unilaterally closed the deletion review of the Satanism userbox with the comment Closing this because such a template would obviously bring Wikipedia into disrepute.).
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ADeletion_review&diff=56173898&oldid=56172292].
In my opinion this is an inappropriate use of admin powers and/or clerk powers; there are legitimate devout Satanists out there, and rejecting the presense of a userbox for them absent a policy which prevents all religious userboxes in template space is religious bigotry against a minority, tiny and kooky as it may be. Georgewilliamherbert 20:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:I'd fully support this decision if we also got rid of userboxes for other religions across the board. Otherwise, it would appear that we're singling out the poor Satanists. Al 20:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:: Support I support your proposed solution of deleting all of them. --pgk(talk) 20:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::Count me in as supporting this proposal as well. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::Alienus, I concur that we should get rid of all such userboxes under proposed T2. However, the failure to delete any one such template can always be used to prevent deletion of another. Conversely, the deletion of any one can be cited as a precedent to delete another. You can be assured of my support in deleting any userbox falling under T2, regardless of ideology. Nevertheless, I think you'd agree that if we must be discriminatory, this isn't a bad one to see off - Satanism is particularly controversial as religions go, and identification with it will give Wikipedia a bad reputation in a way that the major religions will not.Timothy Usher 20:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::This would be much easier if every single deletion was not followed by this kind of messy rigmarole at WP:DRV…we could simply wipe the lot but you can imagine the storm of protest which would ensue. To be quite frank, it strains the limits of WP:AGF to believe that absolutely everybody who says "why not just delete the lot" would actually support such a move if it occurred, and it is mostly anticipation of the backlash which keeps the mop in the bucket. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 20:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:::Strains the limits? Quote me: Delete the lot of them.Timothy Usher 21:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
: I'm confident that this is best for Wikipedia. I don't think the goal of producing a high quality encyclopedia can be served by encouraging, though the provision of templates saying "I'm a satanist" and the like, the use of Wikipedia's website for social networking and coordination of work between adherents of satanism. It could only bring the whole enterprise into disrepute to permit such abuse. Therefore it's inappropriate to hold a DRV-style debate where traditionally the item is restored if a certain proportion of editors vote to restore it. We cannot make such a decision on the basis of votes. Perhaps a discussion on the talk page of the template might be appropriate, though I think it would require a very strong case to be made for this particular template. --Tony Sidaway 20:20, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::The flaw here is that you are unilaterally deciding for a small, generally despised, and yet legitimate religion, while simultaneously not intervening to delete other more popular religious userboxes.
::Whether religious userboxes should uniformly be removed or not is a completely differnet question than whether removing simply the tiny helpless minority is a policy of discrimination that Wikipedia should put up with.
::If you want them to go, then apply that to all of them. I agree with the wider argument (not enough to actively initiate such a move, but in principle). Applying it to fringe religions one at a time but not the big ones is a grossly abusive manner of solving the problem, however.
::Either initiate a blanket removal of all such userboxes, or leave the little ones alone. In between is using your personal judgement as to the validity of particular religions to substitute for Wikipedia policy consensus, and it's not good WP policy for us to let you do that. The judgement that Satanism as a template brings disrepute, but Christianity or Islam or Buddhism don't, is obviously flawed and must be overturned. Georgewilliamherbert 20:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::I wholeheartedly agree with Tony Sidaway.
::Georgewilliamherbert wrote, "The judgement that Satanism as a template brings disrepute, but Christianity or Islam or Buddhism don't, is obviously flawed and must be overturned."
::You have got to be kidding. Say it's unfair, fine, but don't pretend you can't see the difference. Even if a Satanist yourself, surely you will acknowledge that your religion (rightly or wrongly) has a poor reputation among the general public.Timothy Usher 20:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:::I am not a Satanist, no. And Satanism is far from the only religion to have a poor reputation among elements of the general public, or of the general public as a whole. Anti-Islamic sentiment was rather high on Sept 12, 2001, for example, but that would have been a grossly illegitimate reason to nuke a Muslim userbox that day.
:::The logic that Tony is using generally (that we shouldn't have such userboxes as a class) is fine. The specific logic, that because a majority of people don't like one particular religion we can nuke its userbox, is clearly flawed. Unpopularity is as a general rule not a valid reason to delete wikipedia-Anything. In attacking Satanism's popularity to defend Tony, you completely miss the point.
:::Georgewilliamherbert 20:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:::Guess what? It doesn't matter if something has a good or bad reputation. First of all, "reputation" is regionally and culturally arbitrary (see Islam). Secondly, WP:NOT (#1.9 in case you're not familiar with that page). Your position only comes down to what you think of the topic. But even if you could take a worldwide poll to determine a topic's reputation, that still wouldn't make it unsuitable. To build an NPOV encyclopedia requires NPOV policies, and NPOV administration of those policies. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 21:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- This is ludicrous. Deleting an in-progress DRV just because you don't like it is inappropriate. It would be one thing if it were WP:SNOW, but it was even money what was going to happen. (By the way, I voted or opined or whatever we call these things Keep Deleted, but that doesn't mean that the process should be terminated.) Also, User:Improv deleted User:CharonX/Userboxes/User christian despite the fact that it has been through eleventy billion TFDs and DRVs and been upheld every time. IMO, both of these actions are indefensible and should be refersed immediately. BigDT 20:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Fully support tony sidaway. wikipedia does not need such template. Ideally, users shouldn't have the need to proclaim beliefs strongly on their userpages (remember? userpages are for wikiwork content), but if a user must do it, he can just write it so, it's the template what it's unneeded, has no point (since users can just write "I'm a satanist" on their pages, no censorshi issues either), and thus it was ok to get rid of it. Likewise with all political parties and religion userboxes. They are not good for wikipedia. -- Drini 20:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::Then nominate them all for deletion, don't just start with small, unpopular ones. And don't let Tony short-circuit legitimate policy discussions based on his judgement alone. Georgewilliamherbert 20:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
It is all or nothing, but not selectively based on whatever arguments. If religeon ones are allowed, they are all allowed. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 20:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:If there is a policy to disallow religion-declaring userboxes, then it should be used uniformly. Deciding that Satanism, or any other specific religion, should be deleted is entirely partisan, which violates the spirit of WP:NPOV completely.
:If Satanism is disreptuable, where do we draw the line and who draws it? Should we go after the religions that proselytize door to door? How about the ones that support polygamy? How about just the ones that we consider heretical or evil? Is this ChristianWikiPedia? Al 20:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:I just want to say that this AN/I is not supposed to be a vote on the template itself or its worth, but is a comment regarding the unilateral decision to skip such a vote. In this, I think Georgewilliamherbert is correct in saying there's no particular reason why process couldn't have been allowed to continue as it was already doing before Tony stepped in and decided it was pointless. I see no real reason to skip it except Tony saying that in his mind it is clear. That's great, Tony, but looking at the voting record makes it clear that it isn't an "obvious" answer, and the mixed response here makes it clear that there is some reason to discuss it. Rather than having a discussion-about-a-discussion, the original should just be restored and people with opinions about it should go there to discuss the merits or problems with the template. --Fastfission 20:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::*Second proposed remedy here of restoring the DRV and let it run its course. As a secondary proposal, Tony should initiate a Miscellany for Deletion for all religious userboxes. Georgewilliamherbert 21:03, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Remarks like such a template would obviously bring Wikipedia into disrepute constitute an attack on the entire religion of satanism. It's ironic that the people who are against "inflammatory and offensive" userboxes use such divisive and inflammatory comments in their rhetoric. Grue 20:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Support Sidaway. Out-of-line DRVs do not need to remain open or run their course. We're building an encyclopedia. Having this in the template namespace does not contribute to this goal. --You Know Who (Dark Mark) 20:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I think we should do away with DRV and let Tony decide the suitability of all WP content. I propose a poll. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 20:52, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:: Wikipedia is not a democracy -- Drini 21:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I Support letting Tony handle all deletion reviews. Sounds like an excellent idea. --Cyde↔Weys 20:56, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::I agree. Tom Harrison Talk 21:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::Good idea.Timothy Usher 21:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::Yes. --Sam Blanning(talk) 22:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:::after the last lot of damage the inclusionists did to the DRV process I think not.Geni 00:50, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Christians have killed a lot more people than Satanists, historically. I think the faster we speedy all ideological templates the better. Making any argument based on the popularity of the religion in question is wholly inappropriate. -GTBacchus(talk) 20:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm not opposed to deleting all the religion userboxes, since Jimbo discourages their use. However, to say that we can't get rid of satanism because we have Christianity is not logical. It's most unlikely that "this user is a Christian" could harm the reputation of Wikipedia to the same extent as "this user is a satanist". Let us recall that while Jimbo seems to discourage all "this user is" boxes, and therefore can be said to disapprove of the "straight", "gay", "lesbian", "bisexual" ones, the only one where he actually intervened (forcefully) was the one that said "this user is a pedophile". It seems silly to claim that a controversial userbox does no more harm to the reputation of the project than an uncontroversial one. AnnH ♫ 21:06, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
(edit conflict, so indenting)
::Pedophilia is, for good reason, illegal. Satanism is, for equally good reason, not. The idea that a Satanism userbox could somehow "harm the reputation of Wikipedia" is silly. Rather, you appear to be projecting your personal tastes on us. You are, of course, entitled to your beliefs. However, you are not entitled to force them on us.
::What truly harms the reputation of Wikipedia is the accurate perception that it is a haven for bigotry. I'm absolutely certain that if I nominated all the Christian userboxes on your user page for deletion, they would survive. What does that tell you about our genuine commitment to WP:NPOV? Al 21:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:::Strictly from a legal standpoint, this is false. Pedophilia is, depending on the point of view, a paraphilia or a sexual preference, and is not illegal. In must global jurisdictions, however, acting on it is. RadioKirk talk to me 22:21, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:I understand Musical Linguist's point, and it's clear that Satanism is less "reputable" than Christianity (in the circles we care about), but that's not my point. I'm not making the "silly" claim of Ann's last sentence above. I am claiming that it's not our place to even enter the arena of saying "this belief is reputable, this other one isn't." Once you decide that about one belief, you have to start deciding it about others, at at some point, you find yourself making completely indefensible decisions. Better to just treat all beliefs equally, as something inappropriate for template space, like Jimbo said. -GTBacchus(talk) 21:12, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
How about we put "This user follows the cult of
:Avillia: How is this comment helpful? ++Lar: t/c 22:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
::How is this discussion helpful? We are once again dragging this whole mess into AN:I and we are continuing to set a record for most Wikidrama in a week. Can we just agree to shift to a complete neutral on TfDing established userboxes until someone makes a policy which gains consensus? --Avillia (Avillia me!) 00:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
What's likely to harm the reputation of Wikipedia is not consistent, and is not based on reason or justice; It's based on popular perception. If anyone thinks This user is a Satanist will not negatively effect the reputation of Wikipedia, that person is out of touch with what most people think. Tom Harrison Talk 21:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I give my thoughts in the form of a userbox:
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BigDT 21:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
This closure was overturned by another admin. Can we all leave this alone here now? There are better places to debate whether userboxes should be deleted. And this page is unlikely to produce any stronger remedy than overturning the early closure. GRBerry 22:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:Second. Off to the T1/T2 debates now that it's been restored to normal WP process. Georgewilliamherbert 22:41, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Get rid of all userboxes that advocate or even identify a point of view. Incrementally, or all at once. There has been plenty of time for them to be userified (and I will happily undelete and userify on request any I judge not to be directly divisive) now. They need to go. ++Lar: t/c 22:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:This point is now more-or-less moot, except that I would expect Tony to recuse himself from taking action on these particular userboxes. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 22:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
The proposed policy just failed consensus and, thus, the war wages on. It's time to subst the userboxes to the users' spaces and, as for the templates, "wipe them out. All of them." (Well, excepting Babel, of course.) Let's put this damned thing to bed. RadioKirk talk to me 22:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
The following comment was deleted as collateral damage in a revert - see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=56217962&oldid=56217745] for original diff
Tony seems to be EXTREMELY controversial. Applying the same logic, why do we not delete him? I'm not suggesting that this be done; I'm just showing your reasoning applied to a different subject. --mboverload@ 22:52, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:The logic of the userbox deletionist logic would certainly suggest that as a first step toward a solution. I'm not in favor of it, either. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to look at the word "unilaterally" in this section title from all angles and I just don't see it. What I see is Tony having widespread support for his actions and yet, his closure was reverted. Pot, Kettle? Oh, and I support this closure and continuing to remove these from the template space. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 23:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
:Widespread support? So you will have no problem getting a consensus together to make this kind of action policy?Geni 00:56, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
::Always the devil's advocate? I'm sure you're quite well aware of the fiasco that has been consensus making on userboxes given the flaring tempers, misunderstanding of discussion vs vote, etc. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 00:59, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
:::Which means that no position has widespread support. Thus it is not a good idea to claim it. Wikipedia's normal solution to a lack of consensus is inaction. For some reason people don't appear to be ready to accept that course this time. Makes life interesting though.Geni 02:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
::::Or that piling on and favoring votes over discussion has become the latest fetish. So creating scads more userboxes is inaction? .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 02:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
:::::Latest?Geni 10:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
::::::Could I give you some more straw? You seem to be spreading it around rather thickly. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 10:58, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
:::::::You seemed to indicate that useing voteing over disscussion is something new. It isn't in any case I prefer block voteing to admins trying to force issues. People trying to settle stuff by block voteing does tend to work out in the end, it also tends to involve less screaming.Geni 11:32, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Tony Sidaway's reasoning is flawed. If he thinks all religion boxes should be deleted, he should say so in his reasoning, rather than singling out Satanism. Otherwise, if he wanted to delete Satanism boxes but not other religions, that'd be highly inappropriate. Andjam 01:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Tony action was fine, and the deletions should be even more widespread as several editors on both sides of the issue have said here. Then all that energy that is being expending defending things that have nothing at all to do with building an encyclopedia can be used to...well, build an encyclopedia! Rx StrangeLove 02:08, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I support Tony in this matter. Userboxes, for the most part, simply need to go away.--MONGO 03:56, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
- I support Tony's action, though I think his comment was out of line and insulting. I'd like to see all userboxes eliminated except those specifically of value to encyclopedia building. Problem is defining that subset; right now, mine say I'm a native English speaker, a marginal German speaker, and a musician; each of these says what I do, not what I believe. I think that's where the distinction lies; but there are nasty fuzzies there. (User Catholic might be bad. User Catholicism scholar might be OK. What about User Catholic priest?) --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 04:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
:That's too easy... ;) RadioKirk talk to me 04:31, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
:We can ask, what is the likely app? Language competency invites others to come to us for translation. That's practical. On the other end of the spectrum, "This user is interested in X" is a barely-disguised way to preserve the inappropriate userbox, complete with preexisting links to thusly-marked users.
:There us actually no need for templates declaring our "interests", except to facilitate talk-page spamming, vote-stacking and the like.
:One pillar of T2 policy ought be that offending templates must be deleted, not redirected. That way, we can't keep our partisan tokens through dishonest language.Timothy Usher 05:56, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I renew the following suggestion stated above. "This closure was overturned by another admin. Can we all leave this alone here now? There are better places to debate whether userboxes should be deleted. And this page is unlikely to produce any stronger remedy than overturning the early closure. GRBerry 22:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)" The template is back in deletion review. Better places to discuss T1 and T2 include but are certainly not limited to Wikipedia talk:T1 and T2 debates. GRBerry 14:48, 1 June 2006 (UTC)