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Nuremberg Laws edit

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The arbitration committee has decided that editors with less than 500 edits, such as yourself, may not edit any article which is broadly related to the Arab-Israeli conflict , including Talk pages of such articles. You were probably not aware of this restriction when you edited Talk:Zionism , so I am making you aware of it now. Please to not continue to edit there until you have accumulated 500 or more edits in other areas of the encyclopedia. Read more about the case here WP:ARBPIA3. Epson Salts (talk) 00:04, 13 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Question edit

Which other accounts did you use, prior to this one? Epson Salts (talk) 00:05, 13 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Well, I guess I have my answer Epson Salts (talk) 22:03, 24 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

September 2016 edit

  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Nuremberg Laws. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been undone.

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  Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Priestly source, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. 🔯 Sir Joseph 🍸(talk) 14:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

I gave exactly the same reason that Pico gave at this edit, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Priestly_source&diff=737521579&oldid=729434816 Did you send him the same comment? The reason given is perfect justification for the revert. It is not a hypothesis. It is accepted by academics that there was a Priestly source.Guns of brixham (talk) 14:20, 19 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
No. The Priestly Source is ACCORDING to the Documentary Hypotheses, one of the sources. You can't say that the Priestly Source is a source of the Torah, that is not POV nor what the sources state. 🔯 Sir Joseph 🍸(talk) 14:29, 19 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
Did you make the same point to Pico, did you also make that point on the talk page?

Talk:Nuremberg Laws edit

If I am understanding you correctly, you are saying that you don't actually care about the material about the Communists, but are only pressing that point as a way of reintroducing your proposal of stripping out background material about the Jews from the article. If this is true, it's a disruptive way for you to behave, in my opinion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:29, 19 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

I'm now agreeing with you that the material should only relate to the NL, so you are correct that the material about the Communists should not be restored to this article. I just do not think that it is not in the spirit of wikipedia to decide that some victims of the NL should have more coverage than others. Here is the introduction to wikipedia article racial policy of Nazi Germany. 'The racial policy of Nazi Germany included policies and laws implemented in Nazi Germany (1933–45) based on a specific racist doctrine asserting the superiority of the Aryan race, which claimed scientific legitimacy.' The racist doctrine asserted the supremacy of the Aryan race, and there was a hierarchy of subordinate races and groups, such as Communists below that. The NL being one example of application to the three mentioned groups. Whereas the Civil Service Law applied to all non Aryans and Communists. Therefore in each case all groups specified under that particular law should be given coverage as to the effects on them. I am asking that the specific groups affected by each piece of legislation or discrimination should be treated as how they were affected by that individual piece of legislation or discrimination.

I believe that victims of the NL should be given appropriate coverage relevant to how the laws were applied to them, and background material should reflect that. For example the article includes material on the economic effect of Nazi discrimination on Jews, yet I am now unable to add material that reflects Gypsies being subject to a special employment tax, or being re deployed from jobs to slave labour. If there were no economic effects on Gypsies, then I would not have anything to add, but there was, and I do. There was anti Gypsy legislation before the NL, and it set the background as to why Gypsies where included in the NL. Without that background it appears as if they were an afterthought. They were not, and that remains my concern.Guns of brixham (talk) 11:39, 20 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

September 2016 edit

 
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Request reason:

This is the first time I have been on wikipedia. Why have I been blocked? Guns of brixham (talk) 08:46, 25 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Decline reason:

It's not the first time you've been on Wikipedia; this account has been editing since September 16. You were blocked because you are believed to be the same user as Dalai lama ding dong (talk · contribs). Yamla (talk) 12:00, 25 September 2016 (UTC)Reply


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It is September 2016 now, so I do not understand what the reference to September 2016 means. Believed to be is not the same as known to be. Can you ban editors because they are thought to be someone else? how can I prove that this is my first and only account?Guns of brixham (talk) 13:20, 25 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

"this account has been editing since September 16"; there didn't appear to be a need to specify the year, as I thought this was self-evident. I'll clarify. This account has been editing since September 16, 2016. As to how you can prove that this is your first and only account, you basically can't. The overlap is much, much, much too large to be coincidence. --Yamla (talk) 22:37, 25 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
This account has been making contributions since 1st August 2016. Why would you mention Sept 16? If that error is an example of the information that you base the block on then it is no wonder that you have made this mistake. The overlap between my mainstream views and millions of other people is not coincidence. I don't know why are banning me when I have made such useful edits. What a loss to wikipedia.Guns of brixham (talk) 17:36, 26 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
You are correct, I didn't scroll far enough down. I brought it up because you claimed, "This is the first time I have been on wikipedia." but, as you point out, you've actually been contributing for a while now. Actually, looks like since July 11th, 2016. It's quite likely you meant "this is the first account I've used" rather than how I read it. But again, the concern is the significant overlap between your edits and the blocked user, Dalai lama ding dong (talk · contribs). It's not just the focus on the same articles, it's the same sort of edits. --Yamla (talk) 18:21, 26 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
Note that a request to WP:UTRS may be helpful here. They can have another checkuser (or at least, another editor familiar with this problematic blocked vandal) validate or refute your block, for example. --Yamla (talk) 18:42, 26 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the response, yes I did mean that this is the first account I have had. Since I don't know what the other user did or wrote about I can't comment on any resemblance. Most of the articles I have edited had hardly been touched for years, e.g. Kabbblah, Midrash, Baal Shev Tom, Mishnah,Folk Religion. I added RS and removed flowery language. I think that is just standard wikipedia editing, and not related to any 'same sort of edits'. Perhaps if someone looked at the overall number of edits I have made they would see that I have mainly operated in remote areas where I did not see anyone else. Maybe I should have stayed there. I once edited the Zionism talk page by mistake but I have not gone into Israel Palestine areas since. I know that I got excited about what I feel is a lack of material relating to the genocide of Roma/Sinti at the hands of the Nazis but I have been far from disruptive, and I have never indulged in revert wars. I will try your suggestion. I would really like to stay and I would take any kind of sabbatical or period of monitoring in order to do so.Guns of brixham (talk) 19:06, 26 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

 
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