User:Rmhermen
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[edit]I am a Wikipedia:administrator since July 5, 2004. I first contributed to Wikipedia in April of 2001 (oldest edits lost in early software upgrades). My first edit with my username appears to be on April 26. I have been active on a number of online projects - active and passive (SETI@Home, Distributed Proofreaders, Mars crater labeling, Stardust@Home, Folding@Home on the Wikipedia team: Team page, etc.)
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| Pages deleted | 3958 |
| Revisions deleted | 14 |
| Pages restored | 30 |
| Pages protected | 80 |
| Pages unprotected | 9 |
| Protections modified | 23 |
| Users blocked | 101 |
| Users reblocked | 1 |
| User rights modified | 1 |
Administrative backlog
[edit]Reports
[edit]- 94.44.234.239 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) – Tripped filter 766 twice in the last 5 minutes (Alt-right labeling, details). Report false positive. DatBot (talk) 19:56, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Warned user. Daniel Case (talk) 19:58, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
User-reported
[edit]- 2600:381:F301:E02B:B82B:5AD8:E666:6694 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Block-evading user continuing to make the same reverts to Talk:2024 Oregon State Senate election and several other pages (has been going on for weeks). Jamedeus (talk) 18:43, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Partially blocked. from article, draft and draft talk namespace. Daniel Case (talk) 20:00, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Iask1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Adding destructive content and deleting information with a fictitious reason (this and this), adding non-existent information to the text of the article, which violates WP:LIE, in addition, the user is blocked. Dushnilkin (talk) 18:46, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Can you provide diffs? I'm looking through the contribution history on each article you've linked and it's not entirely obvious to me what's going on/what you are saying is WP:VANDALISM. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 19:12, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- KangaroooJack (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Has been given multiple warnings and a block for vandalism back in 2023. Now in 2024 has had multiple reverts for vandalism. avalean (talk) 19:45, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Warned user. Level 3. Their two edits today are their first in months, and with only one block and a year ago at that I don't consider that sufficient to justify a second one. Daniel Case (talk) 20:06, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- 2409:40D5:5:B02E:8000:0:0:0 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) 4+ reverts after warnings, continuing to troll Smallangryplanet (talk) 20:12, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- 148.252.140.61 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) – On Leo Kokubo (diff): vandalism after final warning.
/etc/owuh $ (💬 | she/her)20:14, 16 November 2024 (UTC) - 47.229.204.3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Persistent addition of unsourced content. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:21, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- 96.57.226.74 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) – On Derelicts of Dialect (diff): vandalism after final warning. Block evasion by Special:Contributions/47.17.47.199 who was also using Special:Contributions/98.113.203.234. See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1117#Brooklyn_IP_keeps_removing_Entertainment_Weekly_from_cites. This person is obsessed with updating ew.com cites, but has always done it the wrong way. Binksternet (talk) 20:23, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- ILikeToTroll123 (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal)
Low confidence There is low confidence in this filter test, so please be careful when blocking. -- DQB (owner / report) 20:10, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
This username matched "troll" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 20:10, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Note on file The word troll may imply an intent to disrupt Wikipedia - but that is not certain. Please use discretion to determine if this is a violation or not. -- DQB (owner / report) 20:10, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
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Current requests for increase in protection level
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Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Almost nonstop vandalism even with pending changes. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 00:18, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Question: were you asking to change the current protection level? Dr vulpes (Talk) 04:49, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Dr vulpes yes Filmssssssssssss (talk) 04:55, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 20:30, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Dr vulpes yes Filmssssssssssss (talk) 04:55, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. HurricaneEdgar 03:35, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Note: There appears to be a lot of work going on with that article right now and there have only been two reverts. I'm going to leave this up for now but if there is a large pick up feel free to ping me here or on my talk page. Dr vulpes (Talk) 04:45, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. As it's a developing tropical storm and news event, it's inevitable that it will attract a lot of editors and there will be information added in good faith that will have to be reverted. Unless there's an actual wave of disruptive editing I think we can let this one be, as you suggest. Daniel Case (talk) 20:35, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite pending changes protection: Would like to test PC workings in my own userspace. This might be a bit out of policy, but would be grateful if an admin can do it. Thanks! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 05:18, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Bunnypranav: In case you didn't know, you can test admin tools (including pending changes) on the websites listed at testwiki:Wikipedia:Requests/Tools. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:51, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Declined per above. Daniel Case (talk) 20:28, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated. TeapotsOfDoom (talk) 05:40, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Creation protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 20:26, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated. TeapotsOfDoom (talk) 05:41, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Creation protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 20:27, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Cassiopeia talk 05:42, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It's been more than 12 hours since the last outburst of disruption. Daniel Case (talk) 20:42, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalish by user Techfreak977. The person is making edits to information that are already sourced from official and government portals. The person is making changes without quoting any sources. 103.190.40.59 (talk) 08:12, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 08:23, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel Case (talk) 20:50, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rai_dynasty&oldid=1257712536. Hammad (talk) 08:17, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:04, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – A sockpuppet using ip to edit in this and multiple other similar articles. The ip differs everytime but the edit made is almost the same everytime. Disruptive. Yuthoob (talk) 09:09, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent adding of false information by IPs. 1033Forest (talk) 12:47, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalism. Joeykai (talk) 18:27, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism since 16:48, 29 October 2024. Alith Anar 18:34, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Edit wars by IPs who are constantly vandalizing the page, changing the edit to include false information, without sources or undoing edits without any justification. There needs to be temporary semi-protection that only registered users can edit it. ErickCF (talk) 18:50, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent block evasion by a user who makes the same unexplained revert until their new IP is banned, then finds another IP and repeats. Page was previously semi-protected for 2 weeks, vandalism resumed when protection expired. Jamedeus (talk) 18:55, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Content dispute at Queen of Asia (gem) involving IP editors and the now-blocked account GIR LANKA PVT LTD; repeatedly adding unsourced/COI content. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:06, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Requesting short-term protection to prevent repeated IP vandalism of article related to contest which has just been held. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 19:17, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
+1 Reason: Event just finished, impending vandalism Pdhadam (talk) 19:20, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
+2Reason: Vandalism following Georgia's win in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024. 212.127.158.35 (talk) 19:27, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
+3Reason: High level of vandalism Paprikamajonees (talk) 19:30, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Pickersgill-Cunliffe. Favonian (talk) 20:16, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Vandalism by sock puppet master Andrew5. MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 19:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 19:43, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Already protected by administrator Pickersgill-Cunliffe. Favonian (talk) 20:17, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – For some reason this Talk page is the target for a vandalism campaign. It might be worth giving it a break please?. DBaK (talk) 19:21, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism. CatchMe (talk) 19:42, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 19:44, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: This page is plagued by well-meaning people who "correct" the spelling of the title, thinking it a typo.
It is incredibly well documented that this book is called "Love and Freindship" [sic], and this misspelling has carried down to the current day, with modern editions preserving it. But many editors assume that Jane Austen would not have spelled a simple word wrong, and go through the article replacing "Freindship" with "Friendship" where it appears. This, despite being correct from the point of view of good spelling, is incorrect from the point of view of factually describing Ms Austen's novel. You can see mentions of "i before e except after c" on the talk page!
Since this keeps happening, please could the page be protected, or some notice added to prevent these well-meaning but incorrect edits? 86.144.214.36 (talk) 20:28, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
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Reason: The page was semi-protected in 2010 due to vandalism, which I presume was related to the shooting. It's been 14 years since then (and 25 years since the shooting) - I don't think the school is still significant enough to the point where ppl still want to vandalize its page anymore. 100.7.34.111 (talk) 14:44, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: We're to do 210.14.96.34 (talk) 18:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Declined Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 18:04, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
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My suggestion is to leave out the following 2 sentences in the "German complicity" paragraph as they seem to be based on misunderstandings:
"She also highlighted police suppression of pro-Palestine protests throughout Germany[509] as evidence of state complicity.[508] Karen Wells et al. highlight how Germany has entrenched its complicity in Israel's actions by banning use of the word "genocide" in reference to Israel.[471][better source needed]"
1. In general violent protests are not allowed in Germany. As some of the first pro-Palestine protests were violent, they were sometimes forbidden by courts, if they were expected to turn violent. But that is common policy in Gemany with all subjects and not special for pro-Palestine protests.
Meanwhile, there even is a calendar concerning pro-Palestinian protests[1] with daily up to 20 protests all over Germany. Thus, there is no general police suppression of pro-Palestine protests as is suggested by the current wording.
2. The word “genocide” is not banned in reference to Israel in Germany - maybe that was a misunderstanding: What is not allowed in Germany is to call for genocide against Jews. The slogan “From the river to the sea” is seen as such call and banned. Gilbert04 (talk) 15:34, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- @FortunateSons: A quick browse shows at least for the first part support for removal, can you add any additional incite? -- Cdjp1 (talk) 12:38, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- I can confirm that both statements are broadly true. IMO, the best resource for this discussion (in the contemporary context) is probably Steinberg: Versammlungsfreiheit nach dem 7. Oktober - NVwZ 2024, 302. Direct citation: “Die Subsumtion unter diesen Tatbestand bereitet aber auch sonst Probleme. Die Stadt Frankfurt a. M. hatte dem Anmelder einer Versammlung „Frieden in Nahost" am 2.12.2023 untersagt, während der Versammlung zur Vernichtung Israels aufzurufen, dem Staat Israel das Existenzrecht abzusprechen, sowie die Aussagen „Israel Kindermörder", „Juden Kindermörder", „Israel bringt Kinder um" sowie „From the river to the sea" zu tätigen. Diese Beschränkungen hob das VG Frankfurt vollständig auf. Auf die Beschwerde der Stadt differenzierte der VGH Kassel Aufrufe zur Vernichtung Israels verstießen - wie gesagt - gegen § 111 StGB und die Aussage „Juden Kindermörder" erfülle den Tatbestand der Volksverhetzung (§ 130 StGB). Demgegenüber wurden andere Außerungen wie „Kindermörder Israel" oder die Bezeichnung der israelischen Militäroperationen in Gaza als „Genozid" nicht beanstandet und die Entscheidung des VG insoweit aufrechterhalten. Es sei davon auszugehen, dass bei den militärischen Verteidigungshandlungen Israels auch Kinder zu Schaden kämen. Eine solche laienhafte Zuspitzung sei im Rahmen der Meinungsfreiheit hinzunehmen. Anders hatte der VGH Mannheim am 21.10.2023 ein Verbot der Parole „Israel Kindermörder" und „Israel bringt Kinder um" durch die Versammlungsbehörde trotz bestehender Zweifel über deren Strafbarkeit aufrechterhalten; im Verfahren des vorläufigen Rechtsschutzes sei nur eine summarische Prüfung möglich; eine einmal getätigte Äußerung könne nicht rückgängig gemacht werden. Die Unterscheidung zwischen antisemitisch und antiisraelisch stellt sicherlich eine Gratwanderung dar, die hier im Einzelnen nicht beschrieben werden kann“autotranslated: “However, the subsumption under this offense also causes other problems. On December 2, 2023, the city of Frankfurt am Main had prohibited the person registering a meeting "Peace in the Middle East" from calling for the destruction of Israel during the meeting, from denying the State of Israel the right to exist, and from making the statements "Israel, child murderer," "Jews, child murderer," "Israel kills children" and "From the river to the sea." The Administrative Court of Frankfurt completely lifted these restrictions. In response to the city's complaint, the Administrative Court of Kassel differentiated that calls for the destruction of Israel violated - as mentioned - Section 111 of the Criminal Code and that the statement "Jews, child murderer" constituted incitement to hatred (Section 130 of the Criminal Code). In contrast, other statements such as "Israel, child murderer" or the description of Israeli military operations in Gaza as "genocide" were not objected to and the Administrative Court's decision was upheld in this respect. It can be assumed that children would also be harmed in Israel's military defense actions. Such a lay exaggeration must be accepted within the framework of freedom of expression. On October 21, 2023, the Mannheim Higher Administrative Court upheld a ban on the slogans "Israel, child murderer" and "Israel kills children" by the assembly authority despite existing doubts about their criminal liability; in the interim legal protection procedure, only a summary examination is possible; a statement once made cannot be reversed. The distinction between anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli is certainly a balancing act that cannot be described in detail here.” There is no broad ban on pro-Palestinian protests either, and they were even allowed to happen on Oct. 7 of this year (in some cases). While there are legal disputes on specifics for both, I’m pretty confident that no reasonable person would disagree with “broadly permitted” regarding both claims. FortunateSons (talk) 16:54, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- Bonus: there can be cases where something isn’t criminal, but can be restricted in other ways, for example due to different burdens of proof or social pressures. FortunateSons (talk) 17:11, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- I can confirm that both statements are broadly true. IMO, the best resource for this discussion (in the contemporary context) is probably Steinberg: Versammlungsfreiheit nach dem 7. Oktober - NVwZ 2024, 302. Direct citation: “Die Subsumtion unter diesen Tatbestand bereitet aber auch sonst Probleme. Die Stadt Frankfurt a. M. hatte dem Anmelder einer Versammlung „Frieden in Nahost" am 2.12.2023 untersagt, während der Versammlung zur Vernichtung Israels aufzurufen, dem Staat Israel das Existenzrecht abzusprechen, sowie die Aussagen „Israel Kindermörder", „Juden Kindermörder", „Israel bringt Kinder um" sowie „From the river to the sea" zu tätigen. Diese Beschränkungen hob das VG Frankfurt vollständig auf. Auf die Beschwerde der Stadt differenzierte der VGH Kassel Aufrufe zur Vernichtung Israels verstießen - wie gesagt - gegen § 111 StGB und die Aussage „Juden Kindermörder" erfülle den Tatbestand der Volksverhetzung (§ 130 StGB). Demgegenüber wurden andere Außerungen wie „Kindermörder Israel" oder die Bezeichnung der israelischen Militäroperationen in Gaza als „Genozid" nicht beanstandet und die Entscheidung des VG insoweit aufrechterhalten. Es sei davon auszugehen, dass bei den militärischen Verteidigungshandlungen Israels auch Kinder zu Schaden kämen. Eine solche laienhafte Zuspitzung sei im Rahmen der Meinungsfreiheit hinzunehmen. Anders hatte der VGH Mannheim am 21.10.2023 ein Verbot der Parole „Israel Kindermörder" und „Israel bringt Kinder um" durch die Versammlungsbehörde trotz bestehender Zweifel über deren Strafbarkeit aufrechterhalten; im Verfahren des vorläufigen Rechtsschutzes sei nur eine summarische Prüfung möglich; eine einmal getätigte Äußerung könne nicht rückgängig gemacht werden. Die Unterscheidung zwischen antisemitisch und antiisraelisch stellt sicherlich eine Gratwanderung dar, die hier im Einzelnen nicht beschrieben werden kann“autotranslated: “However, the subsumption under this offense also causes other problems. On December 2, 2023, the city of Frankfurt am Main had prohibited the person registering a meeting "Peace in the Middle East" from calling for the destruction of Israel during the meeting, from denying the State of Israel the right to exist, and from making the statements "Israel, child murderer," "Jews, child murderer," "Israel kills children" and "From the river to the sea." The Administrative Court of Frankfurt completely lifted these restrictions. In response to the city's complaint, the Administrative Court of Kassel differentiated that calls for the destruction of Israel violated - as mentioned - Section 111 of the Criminal Code and that the statement "Jews, child murderer" constituted incitement to hatred (Section 130 of the Criminal Code). In contrast, other statements such as "Israel, child murderer" or the description of Israeli military operations in Gaza as "genocide" were not objected to and the Administrative Court's decision was upheld in this respect. It can be assumed that children would also be harmed in Israel's military defense actions. Such a lay exaggeration must be accepted within the framework of freedom of expression. On October 21, 2023, the Mannheim Higher Administrative Court upheld a ban on the slogans "Israel, child murderer" and "Israel kills children" by the assembly authority despite existing doubts about their criminal liability; in the interim legal protection procedure, only a summary examination is possible; a statement once made cannot be reversed. The distinction between anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli is certainly a balancing act that cannot be described in detail here.” There is no broad ban on pro-Palestinian protests either, and they were even allowed to happen on Oct. 7 of this year (in some cases). While there are legal disputes on specifics for both, I’m pretty confident that no reasonable person would disagree with “broadly permitted” regarding both claims. FortunateSons (talk) 16:54, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- I've removed #2. But there does seem to be evidence that pro-Palestine protests have been banned in parts of Germany at times.[2][3][4].VR (Please ping on reply) 14:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Maybe the following article gives a bit more clarity.[[5]] Gilbert04 (talk) 18:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Unfortunately that source seems incomplete. Germany has indeed suppressed peaceful criticism of Israel.[6] And Washington Post says "A planned photo exhibit in southwestern Germany was canceled as a result of social media posts by its curator, including one describing “genocide” in Gaza."[7] VR (Please ping on reply) 22:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Maybe the following article gives a bit more clarity.[[5]] Gilbert04 (talk) 18:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Consider changing "The Israeli government rejected South Africa's allegations, and accused the court of being antisemitic, which it often does when criticised" to "The Israeli government has been accused of consistently weaponizing antisemitism against it's critics, including in the ICJ ruling." Ecco2kstan (talk) 23:12, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- The Weaponization of antisemitism page hyperlinked over "often done" has many sources to draw from regarding the accusations' consistency and nature.
- My main concern with the original text is that it's voiced as if it's an observation made by a Wikipedian. The benefit here is that the weaponization of antisemitism has a clearer consistency grounded outside of Wikipedia. Perhaps other ways to word this out include adding a time scale (increasingly accused since Oct. 7th) or specifying the critique (against critiques of their actions since Oct 7th).
- If a lead paragraph change is necessary, there may be reason to outline Israeli motives and conditions for the genocide, including Zionism and anti-Arab racism. Ecco2kstan (talk) 23:25, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Ecco2kstan, how about: "The Israeli government rejected South Africa's allegations. Supporters of Israel say that accusing Israel of genocide is both antisemitic[10][11] and a form of Holocaust erasure[12], but others argue antisemitism shouldn't be exploited to shield Israel from such allegations.[13][14][15][16]".VR (Please ping on reply) 00:12, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not as familiar with the Holocaust erasure claims, but I'm happy with that reworking! If that weaponization of Holocaust denial detail isn't on the weaponization of antisemitism page already, it might be a worthwhile phenomenon incorporate if there's more citations you can find. I might look into it myself. Thanks! Ecco2kstan (talk) 03:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- That does sound quite balanced. +1 from me. Neutral Editor 645 (talk) 18:02, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Vice regent: Would you please make this change, so we can close this request? ~Anachronist (talk) 21:28, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- The text I originally wanted modified was changed to "Israel's supporters say that accusing Israel of genocide is antisemitic, but others argue antisemitism should not be exploited to shield Israel from such allegations" after other discussions on the talk page. I almost like it better, but by saying "Israel's supporters" it relieves some of the responsibility from the Israeli government in the accusations that was, to an extent, duly credited in the original modification. Maybe now, it should just say "The Israeli government and their supporters say that accusing the state for genocide antisemitic..." or something similar. Ecco2kstan (talk) 17:39, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Ecco2kstan, how about: "The Israeli government rejected South Africa's allegations. Supporters of Israel say that accusing Israel of genocide is both antisemitic[10][11] and a form of Holocaust erasure[12], but others argue antisemitism shouldn't be exploited to shield Israel from such allegations.[13][14][15][16]".VR (Please ping on reply) 00:12, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
The 70% figure in both the primary and the secondary source refers to the deaths that were verified by the UN Human Rights Office, not the totality of deaths in Gaza.
Accordingly, the current phrasing "70% of Palestinian deaths in Gaza are women and children" is inaccurate and should be changed to "70% of the 8,119 verified deaths were women and children" Zlmark (talk) 06:10, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Zlmark I agree with this - Wikipedia needs to be accurate and reliable. Things like this are pushing millions of people away from Wikipedia, when we want to do the opposite. We want this to change. Becoming more accurate is key. Hopefully this happens. Avishai @Avishai11 Avishai11 (talk) 20:07, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
in the content, higehst grossing franchises, rank 4 (Cop Universe), in that one, the movie Singham Returns (2014) is highlighted in green which indicates it is a recent movie, but actually the movie Singham Again (2024) should be highlighted in green because unlike Singham Returns, it is a recent movie, it has wrongly been marked, kindly correct it. Thanks :) Zev the Editor (talk) 16:21, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
I would like to request the addition of the following paragraph on Singapore’s support for a two-state solution under the section "International Positions on the Two-State Solution" in the Two-state solution article:
International Positions on the Two-State Solution
Singapore: Singapore supports a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, advocating for a negotiated outcome aligned with relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions. According to Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore believes this approach allows Israelis and Palestinians to coexist peacefully and securely, considering it the only viable path toward a comprehensive, just, and lasting resolution. Singapore also consistently upholds the Palestinian right to a homeland. The PLO, which constitutes the key pillar of the current Palestinian Authority, accepts Israel's right to exist and has renounced terrorism.[1]
EsenL (talk) 02:07, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
References
- ^ "Reply to Parliamentary Question on Palestine". Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- Source? Providing a source to back up your edit drastically improves the chance it'll be done. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 02:18, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
In the "Indirect" section, the following sentence should be added after "186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza":
Three days after the publication, one of the writers, Professor Martin McKee, clarified that the 186,000 figure was “purely illustrative”[1] and stated that “our piece has been greatly misquoted and misinterpreted.”[2]
References
- ^ "Concerns regarding Gaza mortality estimates". The Lancet. November 4, 2024.
- ^ "'186,000 Gazans dead': Lancet magazine publishes new blood libel". The Jerusalem Post. July 9, 2024.
Zlmark (talk) 16:26, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
I would like to request that a change be made for accuracy under the subhead Origin and spread: Other events. There is a reference to a photo of a man carrying two dead geese, but it is actually only one goose. Footnotes 54, 58, and 59 all state that there is one goose in the photo. Footnote 60 says two geese, but this is evidently a mistake on TMZ's part as the photo itself clearly shows only one goose.
I suggest that the wording "man carrying two dead Canada geese" be changed to "man carrying a dead Canada goose".
In the next sentence I suggest that the wording "The geese were roadkill" either be changed to "The goose was roadkill" or that this part of the sentence be eliminated since the only source for the goose being roadkill is the TMZ article which may be unreliable and perhaps should be removed as a reference? It's possible the official quoted by TMZ was referring to a different incident altogether involving two roadkill geese and TMZ mistakenly linked this to the Columbus photo.
Then I suggest in the following sentence the wording "stealing geese" be changed to "stealing a goose".
Also, I would like to suggest that the semi-protected status be lifted from the Talk page of this article. 2600:100A:B10A:4AA1:0:21:7E13:E301 (talk) 23:18, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- The talk-page protection cannot be reversed here; either contact El C or appeal at WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement to get it lifted. (I will note, however, that the semi-protection is set to lift 16 December.) —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 07:44, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
I suggest changing the map on the states agreeing with with the Genocide charge (green coloured) to include Spain and Ireland, as these declared to join South Africa's case in the ICJ and generally agree with the allegations in public statements. Ireland also passed a motion in the parliament declaring it a genocide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:9e8:9a4:6900:50f:51e:c5cd:b7cf (talk • contribs) 15:10, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
In the state results table, I would like to request that the columns labeled Margin and Margin swing be filled in, for those rows/states in which the relevant data has already been entered. Obviously not every state has data, but most do.
This should be trivial, at least for Margin, but the inability to sort by margin has been annoying me for a week now. LoganStokols (talk) 19:23, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
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I'd like to keep using AutoWikiBrowser to better add WikiProjects to talk pages in other languages, such as those in the Vietnamese versions of Establishments in Italy by year, as well as fixing (not necessarily removing like before) unknown parameters in templates. OpalYosutebito (talk) 13:22, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
Disambugation links. I really enjoy doing them and I'd like to help bring the "articles with Dab links" number into the 3 digits. If you'll look at my dab history you'll see I have dealt with everything from standard, to Vandalism, to navbox, and even had to update a module for a disambugation link that had been present for a few months. I'm currently null editing manually ~120 pages so they won't be on the dab list and slow anyone else down. I currently do the majority of my disambugation on mobile, but if granted permission I can allocate two days on desktop to disambiguate. Based on on current normal fluctuations, I'm confident that I can help get disambiguation articles down to triple digits within 3-4 months. (notwithstanding random navbox disambiguation). I am currently ranked in the top 10 DAB users although that doesn't mean much right now considering the top 2 have about ten times my number. RCSCott91 (talk) 19:22, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
I want to replace these links. For example, "LGBTQ" per WP:CONSUB and "minor-planet" for "minor-planet designation" per WP:HYPHEN and Talk:Minor-planet designation#Requested move 21 September 2021. Absolutiva (talk) 01:34, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
I own the Carpimaps2 account. Please transfer AWB rights from this account to this alt account, which I plan to use for AWB edits. Thanks. Ca talk to me! 12:47, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
There's a category with over 2,000 articles that I would like to diffuse into sub-categories. I do regularly use WP:CATALOT but this requires manually selecting each article which would be time consuming in this case due the sheer number of articles involved. Also, many of the articles will need to included in more than one sub-category. AWB would make the job easier as I can create lists of articles to be included in each sub-category and let AWB do the rest. Obi2canibe (talk) 22:06, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
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Reason for requesting extended confirmed rights: Hello, I am a student in a Turkish school called "İzmir Özel Türk Koleji" (https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/İzmir_Özel_Türk_Koleji) and I have created a Turkish translation with additional helpful and up to date info and would like to publish this to the public English wikipedia but since my account is not yet eligible to do this I am requesting the permission to publish my English translation of this page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Berker1237/Izmir_Private_Turkish_College). Berker1237 (talk) 22:56, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
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I'd like to be a part of the new page patrol process. I have an extensive record with AfD, successfully arguing for deletion of several unsourced or otherwise un-notable articles that should not have been created in the first place. While I have created only a few entirely new articles, all of my articles have been extensively researched and well-sourced. I believe I meet all the requirements in terms of number of edits and length of time on Wikipedia. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:19, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
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I am an experienced Wikipedia editor. I occasionally need to move pages from one title to another. I'll post a discussion about it if I think there's going to be any controversy about it, but very often I'm dealing with low-interest pages that other editors simply aren't working on. If there's no existing page, I can go ahead and do the move, but if there's an existing redirect page, there's no way that I can do the swap and move the page history along with it. I recently got frustrated with this and moved a plant species page (who's name in the title did not match current taxonomy) from Micromeria douglasii to Clinopodium douglasii by simply cutting and pasting between the two. I'm informed that's really not the right way to do it - I'd like to get swap page right and backtrack and do it the right way. (Revert to pre-move versions of each page, swap, and re-enter later edits.) Peter G Werner (talk) 02:08, 14 November 2024 (UTC) |
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I've been patrolling recent changes for a quiet while about Sri Lankan Articles, and I strongly believe this permission might be helpful. IDB.S (talk) 05:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
As an active recent changes patroller, I have dealt with and reverted/warned many instances of vandalism, BLP, and unsourced content. Lately, I saw that the pending changes backlog was quite high and would like to expand my contributions to that area. Thank you for your time. VolatileAnomaly (talk) 05:17, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
I was granted temporary PCR privileges about four years ago, but did not request an extension due to genuine concerns regarding competence that were raised ahead of my successful rollback request about a month later. However, I believe that I have, at least for the most part, rectified these concerns over the past few months, where I have gotten much more active at AfC, NPP, and counter-vandalism (mainly using AntiVandal and, more recently, Huggle). Additionally, the reason for the competence concerns is now moot, since they arose due to my tendency to ask seemingly frivolous questions on AN and the help desk, while I now exercise great caution before bringing anything to the former, and rarely use the latter, as I am now much more familiar with our policies and guidelines, and no longer need as much clarification on them as then (see User talk:JJPMaster/Archive 2#WP:AN). If any concerns are still present, please let me know. Otherwise, I at least request that my temporary rights be restored, if it is not possible for me to be granted full rights at this time. Courtesy pings: Nick, ToBeFree, Liz. JJPMaster (she/they) 17:47, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
I have been patrolling RC since 8 August 2024 and would ask to have Pending changes reviewer rights. I've initially had a request for this permission here on 30 September 2024 but was denied. Anyways, I have stumbled upon across lots of Pending edits on RC and some of them appear to be constructive. I have a good understanding in basic and some advanced Wikipedia policies and have been editing Wikipedia since April 2024 and have nearly 9,000 edits in my contributions. Thank you. PEPSI697 (💬 • 📝) 05:58, 15 November 2024 (UTC) |
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I respectfully request Rollback access to facilitate the use of Huggle, which will allow me to promptly and efficiently revert vandalism. I've been monitoring Recent Changes for the past 2-3 months, reverting disruptive edits. I'm familiar with some Wikipedia policies, including: Reporting repeated vandals after 4 talk page warnings at WP:AIV, reporting reporting sock puppet accounts at WP:SPI and following the 3-revert rule (WP:3RR). And also I'm familiar with the use of Twinkle. ®asteem Talk 20:32, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
I think I am ready for Rollback user rights, after being declined twice before. I have 1835 mainspace edits, several months finding and reverting vandalism, and almost always notifying editors about their edits. I understand that Rollback is only used for obvious vandalism, and it should not be used for good-faith edits. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 21:31, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason for requesting rollback rights: I am deeply interested in editing and improving Wikipedia articles, with a particular focus on topics related to films. Given the prevalence of vandalism in film-related articles, I believe having rollback rights would enable me to address such issues more efficiently. I am committed to contributing positively to Wikipedia and ensuring the integrity of its content. SayantanDhara (talk) 04:48, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I was granted a 3-month trial by Robertsky, and I used Anti-Vandal to counter vandalism. However, it was not renewed. Now I would like to continue using this amazing tool to counter vandalism. Thanks. GrabUp - Talk 14:27, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason for requesting rollback rights Lemonademan22 (talk) 15:43, 16 November 2024 (UTC) I request this tool to counter vandalism, which I am seeing constantly especially on the articles I edit. I am a very active user and are already reverting edits and warning users of unsourced material or cases of WP:OR Lemonademan22 (talk) 15:43, 16 November 2024 (UTC) |
I am at about 70,000 edits aross all Wiki projects.
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Help box by Jennavecia (talk · contribs)
"Do you want to take a survey?"
[edit]On Feb. 12, 2005, I did a random pages survey. Out of 100 random pages, only 1 was a U.S. town. That's progress. Three towns in the UK, 1 in Spain and 1 in Portugal also turned up. Overall biographies were the largest category at 22%, followed by geography with 15% total. Then Lists at 7%, Disambiguation pages at 6%.
On Feb. 24, 2006, I repeated the 100 random page survey, this time getting 5 U.S. towns. Overall, geography had 26%, biography 21%, fiction 9%, music 4%, colleges 4%, lists 3% and disambigs 4%. Clearly geography and biography are our largest areas. Music, science and business scored less than I expected. Non-individual History was hardly discernable.
Even by Feb. 2005, 100 out of almost 500,000 was not statistically significant but was as much as I had patience for.
Wikiprojects I am a member of:
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan
Short To Do list
[edit]- add maps to cities in Chad
- have done ten largest plus A-Biltine (plus Doba, Faya-Largeau, Goz Beïda, Guéréda, Mao, Ouara) from List of cities in Chad
- sources for Hook and Cod wars
- History of camping
- User:Rmhermen/sandbox
- reduce repetition between Chemical Weapons Convention, Chemical weapon proliferation, Destruction of chemical weapons, Chemical weapon#Disposal and Chemical warfare
- Pueblo Chemical Depot - full destruction in Sept 2016
- Joan Walsh Anglund
Early Anon work, no need to bug the developers
[edit]Up to Dec 16, 2003, all the edits at these anonymous id's were mine (59 edits):
- User:64.152.154.140
- User:64.152.153.104
- User:166.90.233.102
- User:65.25.234.xxx
- User:64.7.163.180
- User:64.152.153.139
- User:63.212.148.98
- User:64.152.159.57
- User:64.152.154.147
More recently 1,250 or so edits on 75.41.110.200 are apparently all mine. Apparently my new ID is 75.41.109.190. There are undoubtedly many others as the earliest history of many articles was not preserved by the software.
List of most of my original pictures and some maps
[edit]For copyright declaration purposes The following photographs and diagrams on Wikipedia were taken by and uploaded by me and released under GNU-FDL:
- Update March 21, 2006 by searching with Interiot's Tool (no longer updated - [19] does edit counts though)
Pictures
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Maps
[edit]- Image:Michigan map.png
- Image:Toledo Strip.png
- Image:Les Cheneaux Islands.PNG
- Image:Blackfeet Indian Reservation map.PNG
- Image:1999_west_nile_map.png, and the others in article
- Image:US execution methods.png
- Image:Lake of Egypt.PNG - an unimproved map
- Image:Upper Peninsula of Michigan.png
Numerous locator maps for U.S. national parks like Image:LocMap Big Bend National Park.png and Image:LocMap Tongariro National Park.png - most now replaced by dynamic map system
