User talk:Fred Bauder/Archive 20
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Zero is edit warring.....Again
Zeri is edit warring again. This is what one editor had to say about the propeganda sources he is using:
ArbCom should have acted in a more equal way and you can still fix it before closing the arbitration. Zeq 05:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- We are going to close the case. It was mostly about your behavior. If Zero turns out to be a problem, perhaps another case may address his problems. 13:54, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- The case was about an edit war that had two sides. You decided to ignore one side. Are we "friends" again ?
- And I still need clarification about sources (which you also ignored). Zeq 16:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
ArbCom related issue
There's one or two Lightbringer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (more recently Basil_Rathbone (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for purposes of checkability) socks causing problems on Freemasonry and List of Anti-Masons in particular. Anderson12 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has posted material twice to the talk page that he would not know about unless he was Basil/LB, as Basil posted it and it was moved. Anderson accused me of being a sock of a user he had never talked to User:Grye, as when he posted the sock template on my page, Grye seemed to be inactive (and was therefore not included on the mediation request for Jahbulon).
WMMrgn (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) ("William Morgan") is trying to create a list of Anti-Masons, and somehow the article survived AfD, but his claims were inaccurate, shown to be such on the Talk Page, and he did not respond to said claims except to claim tha tPoe was an anti-Mason based on a webpage about US Presidents suspected to be Masons.
I have posted on ANI, VIP, AIV, and RFCU, and nothing has happened. I have asked various admins to intercede, and nothing has happened. Who do you think is empowered when socks go unpunished and can continue to harass people and disrupt pages? It's certainly not the regular editors.
So, what have I got for options besides going through an RFAr that really doesn't need to be done, as it's already been decided by a prior decision? MSJapan (talk · contribs) 16:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
sockpupet
this user is clearly a sockpupet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pierremenard&diff=prev&oldid=38421850
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User%3A68.219.203.209
he has been blocked before on 3RR. use multiple IP addresses all pointing to Atlanta Ga. .
Any idea ? Zeq 19:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Alberuni/Proposed_decision
ArbCom rulling
Did ArbCom rulled that this source is not compatiable with Wikipedia sources policy:
Leonard J. Davis and M. Decter, Eds., Myths and facts: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Washington DC: Near East Report, 1982 ?
Thanks for clarification. Zeq 12:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Is it published by the Israeli government or an organization closely affiliated with the government? Fred Bauder 13:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed it is: American Israel Public Affairs Committee. --Ian Pitchford 13:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Myths and Facts has been a standard "how to answer critics of Israel" handbook at least since the early 1960s. From 1964 until sometime in the 1990s it was published by Near East Report, which is a publishing imprint of AIPAC. After that, the publisher has been the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, whose description of themselves reads like a carbon-copy of AIPAC's but I don't know exactly what their relationship is. The editor is Mitchell Bard, who was previously the editor of Near East Report, so nothing has really changed. I have never seen Myths and Facts cited as a source by a professional historian. --Zero 13:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- My question was to Fred, and it was a very specific one:
- "Did ArbCom rulled that this source is not compatiable with Wikipedia sources policy" ?
- If ArbCom rulled that I want to see it in writing. If not, I want to use it as source.
- On a different level let me add that "affiliation with the Israeli govermet" is not a crime or something that discredit any source. Even being a memeber of a Zionost organization is not something (as far as I know) that cause someone to become a non usefull source. What bother in that question is again the clear bias. Clearly many many Palestinian organizations are engaged in propeganda but are still used as sources in Wikipedia. So the question was and still is:
- "Did ArbCom rulled that this source is not compatiable with Wikipedia sources policy" ?
Thank You, Zeq 17:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Why would anyone elect to use material from a non-academic organisation with a strong political agenda rather than a scholarly source? --Ian Pitchford 17:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- I am not debating this with Ian here. I want to know what ArbCom rulled on this source. Zeq 18:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Also note that Zero and Ian quote Mattar extensively, despite the clear propaganda agenda he is associated with:
- He is considered by many "the academic wing" of the PLO and he wrote the Mufti biography that left out the Mufti's Nazi collaboration. I.e., he can hardly be considered an unbiased academic. Why should ties to Zionist/Israeli orgs discredit an author when Mattar's ties to the PLO don't discredit him? Kriegman 03:02, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
PS I want to add to this a similar question about the news paper Haaretz as Zero removed a quote from an Haaretz article I placed earlier. On edit wars I will not ask this time. It seems Zero is allowed those with impunity. Zeq 17:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Fred, We need an answer. Not giving me an answer that this source is banned I would understand the normal default that it is OK to use this source. I do not see how this source violate Wikipedia polcy (it is not a self published book) If anyone has proof that it should not be used it should have been presented to ArbCom and no one did. Zeq 04:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Fred, One more request to get an answer on this. Thanks. Zeq 17:24, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Generally each reference must be considered in terms of how it is view by experts in the field. My impression is that material issued by the Government of Israel is generally considered propagandistic, in Wikipedia terms, POV. Fred Bauder 22:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Fred, we have a verifiability policy, so everyone can check and know where the material came from. This book is not published by the Israeli goverment. Was it rulled "inappropriate" for Wikipedia ? I understand from your answer that it was not rulled as such. Please correct if I am wrong. Just to be clear I want to repeat the original question (which is not about the Israeli goverment):
Did ArbCom rulled that this source is not compatiable with Wikipedia sources policy:
Leonard J. Davis and M. Decter, Eds., Myths and facts: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Washington DC: Near East Report, 1982 ?
Zeq 04:58, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Fred, can you ask ArbCom to clarify if this book can or can not be used as source ? Thanks. Zeq 10:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
My arbitration case
Fred, I have some concerns about the remedies that are currently being proposed in my Arbcom case (Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tony Sidaway/Proposed decision). The proposed remedy that I find most problematic (put forth by User:Dmcdevit) reads: "Crotalus horridus is prohibited from creating or editing userboxes (either templatized or hard-coded into a userpage". The problem I have with this is that I have about a dozen userboxes, and this would heavily restrict my ability to edit my own user page. No one has ever claimed that my user page was disruptive - see User:Crotalus horridus - none of the controversial user boxes (political, religious, etc.) are there, nor is anything else that violates Wikipedia policy. I ask that this remedy either be voted down or modified so that it doesn't impact me in this manner.
I also have problems with the second remedy, "Crotalus horridus is placed indefinitely on Wikipedia:Probation." This simply isn't justified based on the evidence. It should be noted that the other party to arbitration, User:Tony Sidaway, has stated that he feels that these remedies are unnecessary . I'm also concerned that these findings against me, as the plaintiff, will have a chilling effect on individuals who want to bring well-founded arbitration cases in the future, since no editor is perfect and almost anyone has some edits that could be construed as disruptive or as violating Wikipedia policy.
I'd appreciate if you could take these concerns into consideration when casting your vote on the arbitration case. Thank you in advance for your time. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 02:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia: Requests for arbitration
I tried to go to the RfAr page from my watch list entry. I get a message saying that it does not exist. Is there some weird technical problem? Does the ArbCom need to request Developer help in restoring the RfAr page? Robert McClenon 23:15, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Problem resolved, more or less. I was not able to view the page from the watch list, but I was able to view the history. I edited the most recent copy of the page from the history and saved it. I think that the RfAr page is as it should be. You might want to have a clerk check it to ensure that nothing is wrong with it. Robert McClenon 23:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Chris2 23:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)