User talk:Anonymous44

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Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. You moved Anti-Serbism to Serbophobia by copying and pasting the contents. Please don't do that, as the page histories are lost, and for GFDL reasons, they are needed. If you want to move the page, ask an administrator at the help desk or the administrators' noticeboard. --Telex 14:49, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Highgate Vampire

I would suggest suggesting that 195.... and 81.... are the same person, report a 3RR violation as such, and ask for a block on both.

Actually, to save you some time, I just blocked the pair. If they keep it up after tomorrow, try that strategy. Cheers, JYolkowski // talk 16:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPA

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. GabrielF 15:07, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

(A note for the benefit of Wikipedia chroniclers): that was in connection with this edit of mine. --Anonymous44 15:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the message. In general I agree with you but sometimes it's necessary and helpful for an article that has editors who might be too closely connected to the topic and have a hard time seeing bias, or maybe they even wish to POV push intentionally. In anycase, several other editors, if united, can force the other side that is lacking sound arguments to either defend the issue, rethink their possition, or cause them give in as they realize that its going to be untenable, and counter-productive. Sometimes this entails some edit warring jst to see f they can get away with POV pushing. If they can, they will. The cure sometimes involves mounting an opposition within the community that is willing to be bold and not timid with their rights to assert the version of the article that is most in accord with NPOV policies--to assert their consensus and vote with their edits. The worst that can happen is that if it continues the article gets locked for a while and this also encourages both sides to talk it out more, as well as get others involved in working out what the real objections are, and if they are valid.Giovanni33 06:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
No.91 (aka Anonymous44) tried the same line with me, and I was definitely impuning his ability to edit a wikipedia article according to the rules. On the Michael Parenti article he wants to push a particular, actually unrelated, issue. Jbowler (talk) 21:04, 25 December 2007 (UTC) John Bowler
LOL.--Anonymous44 (talk) 21:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please consider joining me in filing an RFC over the Zionism links issue.

I'd like to keep this as narrow as possible, and focus only on the links section. If you're interested, could I ask you to provide me with:

a) a few diffs illustrating reversions on the article page that reflect bias on the part of career editors there

b) (if you feel like it) specific instances of incivility or bias you encounted on the talk page there.

Thanks, BYT 12:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Good day!

Since today is such a nice day, I decided I'd be a good friend and spread the Wiki Love by sending you this list of former members of the United States House of Representatives. --Evergreens78 20:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Very nice of you, but I think my talk page is easier to use without it, so I removed it. Best, --Anonymous44 21:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:V opinion request

Hi there, do you have an opinion on which of these formulations of a paragraph in this policy is preferable? Tim Vickers 16:20, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I feel much the same. However, the policy is certainly better than it was before, so thank you for your efforts, discussion and support through this very acrimonious process. Tim Vickers 16:21, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I admire your patience and your truly tireless efforts in driving this issue forward. I agree that the current version is an improvement, and I hope it stays (more or less) that way, so that everyone can devote more of their time to editing. Once again, best wishes! --Anonymous44 16:43, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you.

Thank you for your support, I had the feeling I was not entirely wrong. I would appreciate your opinion at User talk:Until(1 == 2)/Removal of uncited content. It would be nice to have more input, so I don't feel like it is just a small group of people telling me what to do. Until(1 == 2) 20:21, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Age of unreferenced

I made a post to Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Age of unreferenced that you might be interested in. Jeepday (talk) 03:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your recent post to WT:V. The choice of the word "verifiable" for WP:V, instead of "sourced" or "verified", is very intentional. It reflects a consensus among editors that information that clearly can be cited does not need to be removed only because no explicit citation is given. This is in accord with the principle that Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy. This meaning of verifiability has been discussed several times since I have arrived at WP, and the result is always to keep the current wording. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Oh God. So you wrote this to me five months ago. But guess what - I'm repeating this for the umptieth time, to the umptieth person - I never said everything unsourced needs to be deleted. I only said that one may delete it, i.e. that the editor who wants to keep it should provide a source rather than edit war if someone deletes it. That this is the only, I repeat only reasonable meaning of the phrase "burden of evidence". It's also the only reasonable way for Wikipedia to work. It is frightening that I am even forced to debate this with so many people. So I won't do it anymore, and God help you all. --Anonymous44 (talk) 01:34, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No Complaint

Copied from User:Jilliana27's talk page: I see you have been complaining to Jbowler about the difficulty of reference formatting. My recommendation is - if it's too difficult to figure out how to do it, don't worry about it, just complete it in the same way as you would complete a normal Word document. The only thing that really matters is to make sure that your footnote numbers mean something, so all you need to add to your present text is a reference list at the bottom explaining which books you have designated with [3], [6] etc.. That shouldn't be too much work, and that's what would make your material really verifiable. The conversion to the usual Wikipedia-style footnotes can be done by someone else, it's not urgent at all and in fact it's not even formally mandatory (see WP:Citing sources. --Anonymous44 (talk) 19:17, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I suggest two things here one is that I asked for assistance and the other is that we have opposing agendas. I would like to see an appropriate article, properly cited which a consensus may agree upon in the near future. You seem contentious and argumentative.--Jilliana27 (talk) 00:38, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
OK, I'll change the word "complaining" to "saying". You have said that it's difficult. Will that make you pay attention to the rest of what I wrote, namely that you don't need to do the difficult part? I'm trying to help here, despite the fact that we have opposing opinions, because our common goal should be to fix this as soon as possible. --Anonymous44 (talk) 15:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User 216.246.137.137

Is a user out of the north east of the USA, the problem is the set of edits of said user are similar to some of yours. No linguistics I admit (the Cyrillic stuff is popular music). Anyway, I'm pretty sure I recognize the text, so whoever it is has decided to return to their old ways. I summarily deleted it - in so far as it contains any facts they duplicate those already in the Communism section. Jbowler (talk) 20:44, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

No kidding, similar to mine? And perhaps to User:VMORO, who resembles me a lot, as we all know? (you might get this irony, if you try hard). Frankly, I'm sick of your stupid suspicions. It's a pity you couldn't possibly convince the admins to do a WP:checkuser on their basis, but unless you are going to try it, just spare me your ... thoughts.--Anonymous44 (talk) 20:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

They're not my suspicions, I'm actually relaying them from several other people who are looking at this but not editting. I just investigated them. I suspect the problem actually comes almost entirely from US students - almost certainly US born students - because they have been exposed to precisely the sort of media manipulation Parenti criticises. You had many of the same reactions as me (i.e. that a reasonable person would read the various texts in a critical way.) Unfortunately wikipedia is a US publication read mostly by US readers and Parenti seems to aim to be iconoclastic of US icons. Checkuser is pointless - it doesn't matter whether the damage is done by one person or many, it's the same, and wikipedia has no method of preventing it; it takes 30 seconds to reset a DSL router to get a new IP. As I said before my strategy is to get WP:entity to take responsibility for their own mess. Jbowler: 74.32.171.56 (talk) 21:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

As I said, you'd better try Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard and explain what you are worried about to the admins there. This is as close to the "WP:entity" as you can get - though strictly speaking, all of us are part of it. --Anonymous44 (talk) 21:53, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Linguistics

Hi. Recently there was a hot debate on the article Dialects of the Macedonian language. According to me and a couple of other users it is utterly POVed and it causes endless edit-wars on other articles connected to it as well.. The reasoning behind the whole situation is that there is no article about Dialects of Bulgarian. As I'm not a linguistics, I can only ask someone who is actually an expert on the subject to try and create such an article. I know it might be too much and you might not wanna do it or don't have the time etc. It'd be no problem if you said no, I just had to ask someone. Cheers. --Laveol T 09:52, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, besides the time issue, I'm not particularly knowledgeable in Bulgarian dialects at all (I'm flattered that you somehow thought I could be an "expert on the subject", though). All I could try to do is sketch a brief resume of Stoykov's book [1], but articles based on a single source are frowned upon, as far as I remember.--Anonymous44 (talk) 12:42, 12 June 2008 (UTC)