Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring

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User:Vraxxthelord reported by User:Fylindfotberserk (Result: Blocked indefinitely)

Page: Prabhas (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: Vraxxthelord (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 17:12, 5 July 2024 (UTC) ""
2. 17:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "reduced bias, as brief period of decline cannot be used to describe only 2 films performance. neutral viewpoint"
3. 16:53, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "Reduced bias, cleaned up content"
4. 02:33, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "Reduced bias, cleaned up content. fixed grammer as "went on to play a dual role". listed Saaho as a notable film due to its profitability"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 17:10, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on Prabhas."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

Keeps edit warring, apparently "reducing bias", while introducing bias and puffery. Doesn't abide by WP:BRD, has a histpry of edit-warring and got blocked multiple times. Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:31, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked indefinitely.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:45, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

  Put CTOPS notice on article talk page. Daniel Case (talk) 20:30, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Charliehdb reported by User:The Herald (Result: Blocked one week)

Page: List of highest-grossing Indian films (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: Charliehdb (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 17:17, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "rm source from FP Staff, per WP:ICTFSOURCES and WP:NEWSORGINDIA. Also Variety gives 7 days bo only, see the date published. Updated with latest source"
2. 14:05, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "Reverted 1 edit by Jayanthkumar123 (talk): The source may not say, but its the collection given makers"
3. 13:59, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "Reverted 1 edit by Jayanthkumar123 (talk): Rm collection from makers"
4. 13:44, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "/* Highest-grossing films */ fix"
5. 12:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "/* Highest-grossing films */ rm collection from makers"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 14:38, 5 July 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on List of highest-grossing Indian films."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

1. 14:37, 5 July 2024 (UTC) on User talk:Jayanthkumar123 "Warning: Edit warring on List of highest-grossing Indian films."

Comments:

Editwarring and reverts after warnings and discussions. Cherry picking the desired source and not willing to add other reliable source that describe the box office collections. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 17:54, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

• Also edit warring at List of highest-grossing Telugu films.

— The Herald (Benison) (talk) 18:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of one week. Bbb23 (talk) 18:10, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

User: Vif12vf reported by User:Brikcity (Result: Both blocked)

Page: Template:Albanians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) User being reported: Vif12vf (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [1]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [2]
2. [3]
3. [4]
4. [5]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [6][7]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [8]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [9]

Comments:

This user has been repeatedly warned about edit warring and continues to do so on various different articles and templates. They have been a user for quite a while so their blatant disregard for the rules is quite alarming. They have been reverting my contributions without cause or explanation, and it is clear that it is consistent behavior. I warned the user to stop twice and they deleted the warning message from their talk page

• Both blocked by Vanjagenije, Vif12vf for 3 months and Brikcity for 31 hours.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:21, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

I have also added a CTOPS notice to the talk page. Daniel Case (talk) 20:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

User:58.97.224.20 reported by User:Ae245 (Result: Blocked 2 weeks)

Page: Preap Sovath (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: 58.97.224.20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 19:16, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1232976845 by Ae245 (talk)"
2. 16:45, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1232975794 by Mean as custard (talk)"
3. 13:42, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1232932871 by Mean as custard (talk)"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 16:48, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Preap Sovath."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

Constant addition of promotional material. Ae245 (talk) 19:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 2 weeks ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:24, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Hbzbmb reported by User:Sportsfan 1234 (Result: Blocked 24 hours)

Page: India at the 2024 Summer Olympics (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: Hbzbmb (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. Consecutive edits made from 20:44, 6 July 2024 (UTC) to 20:47, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
   1. 20:44, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1232998393 by Sportsfan 1234 (talk)"
   2. 20:45, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1232998294 by Sportsfan 1234 (talk)"
   3. 20:45, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1232998245 by Sportsfan 1234 (talk)"
   4. 20:46, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1232998337 by Sportsfan 1234 (talk)"
   5. 20:46, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1232998083 by Sportsfan 1234 (talk)"
   6. 20:47, 6 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid destructive amendments to remove Quotas. Medals decided per Quotas and not Athletes."

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

1. 20:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC) on Talk:India at the 2024 Summer Olympics "/* Competitors */ new section"

Comments:

User was warned one week ago here [10]. I brought it to this noticeboard here [11]. The user was asked to revert their edits and contribute to the discussion on the talk page. Its been a week since, and there was no contribution on the talk page by Hbzbmb. I have since made those edits to the article, which now have since been reverted again without any discussion by Hbzbmb. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 21:12, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

I think it would help if you engaged in a civilised manner without making false and misleading assertions. Your previous complaint was declined.

Declined per discussion above. Daniel Case (talk) 04:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

This is after User:Red-tailed_hawk had explained to you:

"In general, multiple consecutive edits that are uninterrupted by anyone (i.e. a series of consecutive edits) are considered to be one edit for the purpose of WP:3RR. For that reason, I don't see a 3RR violation per se, but I do see what appears to a form of plain edit warring."

I had provided the following explanation: "Thank you. I have replied to your message on the talk page, explaining the issue. I agree with the value of discussion when edits are contested. In this case, User:Sportsfan 1234 removed useful information that added value to the page and which was added by another user. This removal was done without any explanation. Therefore, I restored the useful information (added by a third user) explaining that it was useful and that it was being removed by User:Sportsfan 1234 without any discussion. User:Sportsfan 1234's response (from the very post) was not to engage in any discussion but to tell me that my editing rights might be removed. Hbzbmb (talk) 21:57, 29 June 2024 (UTC)"

You are the one who then reverted the constructive edits by a third-party user to revert them. You need to be more constructive and collaborative on this site. But more importantly, perhaps, if you wish to raise an objection, at least do it through proper arguments rather than through falsehoods. Hbzbmb (talk) 21:24, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 24 hours. This is the previous report and since that previous report there has been no attempt by Hbzbmb to use the article's talk page to discuss the content. Both editors should focus on using the talk page rather than constantly reverting. @Sportsfan 1234: it might help to be a little more specific than this as to what you mean by Per WP:OLYMPICS Standard; looking at Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics I don't see any reference to quotas. Aoidh (talk) 00:48, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

User:37.220.113.172 reported by User:142.189.149.94 (Result: Page protected)

Page: Ney (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 37.220.113.172 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [12]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. Revision as of 20:34, 6 July 2024
2. Revision as of 18:41, 6 July 2024
3. Revision as of 17:19, 5 July 2024
4. Revision as of 20:01, 3 July 2024

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [13]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [14]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [15]

Comments:

He makes changes without commenting and without giving any reason why. His changes are ethnocentric, he wipes out Persian, Turkish, and Jewish identities that use the Ney, which is ridiculous with anyone familiar with regions musical traditions. There is no etymological evidence of the Ney being anything other than Iranian/Persian. His own comments were at the beginning claiming that the page was "Citing sources, correcting and retracting the sabotages that occurred in the article". The source he cites is a blog with no citations of its own, while a quick google search even has the MET referring to it as an Iranian instrument. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504821

Please revert it to either RoyalCream's entry or my latest revision, or as it suits Wiki standards. Please forgive me for any mistakes I've made, I'm not quite familiar with Wiki formatting yet.

• Page protected by User:Daniel Quinlan for two weeks. - Aoidh (talk) 00:53, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Zefr reported by User:Wikaviani (Result: Both editors blocked 48 hours)

Page: Almond (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Zefr (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [16]
2. [17]
3. [18]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [19]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [20] [21]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [22]

Comments:

The reported user refuses to engage properly in a discussion on the talk page, where an IP and me both disagreed with their edits. Also, another editor also reverted a similar edit few days ago. Despite the disagreement of 3 editors, the reported user keeps editing the article on shaky ground and refuses to follow WP:CON, WP:BRD and WP:WEIGHT.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:39, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 48 hours Aoidh (talk) 01:03, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you very much for handling this case swiftly. Best.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:14, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

• Both editors blocked – for a period of 48 hours for edit warring. Aoidh (talk) 01:32, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

User:78.82.30.40 reported by User:BalaM314 (Result: Page protected)

Page: Lars Söderdahl (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: 78.82.30.40 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 02:36, 7 July 2024 (UTC) ""
2. 02:33, 7 July 2024 (UTC) ""
3. 01:46, 7 July 2024 (UTC) ""
4. 00:57, 7 July 2024 (UTC) ""
5. 00:55, 7 July 2024 (UTC) ""

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 02:34, 7 July 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Lars Söderdahl."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

• Page protected Aoidh (talk) 03:06, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Bravehm reported by User:HistoryofIran (Result: Indefinitely blocked)

Page: Hazaras (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Bravehm (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 20:19, 24 May 2024
2. 21:56, 24 May 2024
3. 23:22, 24 May 2024
4. 23:31, 24 May 2024
5. 13:58, 20 June 2024
6. 15:20, 7 July 2024

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [23]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [24]

Comments:

Bravehm did it again - more manipulative long term edit warring. After their block expired (see their previous report here [25]), they resumed edit warring and their dishonest/manipulative edit summaries ("Please do not change the location of the contents", they're the ones making the chance though...). This user has countless times engaged in this type of dishonesty/manipulation (eg [26] [27]), which I think shows that they are WP:NOTHERE. Granted this time they reverted much less, but it's still very concerning. --HistoryofIran (talk) 16:01, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

• Indefinitely blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:18, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks Bbb23! HistoryofIran (talk) 16:42, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

User:2601:47:4D01:3580:69FC:A34F:9804:7A85 reported by User:SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (Result: /64 blocked 2 weeks)

Page: African-American Muslims (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 2601:47:4D01:3580:69FC:A34F:9804:7A85 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [28]
2. [29]
3. [30]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning:

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page:

Comments:
Although this article is blocked the IP engaged in edit wars with other users, it even went to far as to create an account named Userace1117o engage in an edit war with an another IP SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 16:26, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

• Bbb23 has blocked Userace1117. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd, the report is a bit hard to parse. I had to guess that the "o" at the end of the username is a typo, the specific reported IPv6 address has last edited over 5 days ago, the third link is not a diff, the page is semi-protected et cetera.
• /64 Blocked – for a period of 2 weeks ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:36, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Ao192 reported by User:ShovelandSpade (Result: One blocked, one warned)

Page: Battle of Agios Dometios (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Manolis Bikakis (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Ao192 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 17:20, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
2. 15:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: []

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [User talk:Ao192]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [User talk:Ao192]

Comments:
User has made multiple POV and borderline nationalist edits, a few users including me have warned him against his actions but he continues, if we look at his talk page, its riddled with warnings by other editors on these pages and he doesn't listen, continues to disrupt. Whats more disturbing is a particular comment he made on an edit where apparently it was ok to decapitate people and put them in mass graves, (This happened in the Battle of Agios Dometios talk page, Ive never reported anyone before so I have no idea how to link and all properly but here it is in quotes) "Decapitating a dead body and throwing it into a grave isnt a war crime either. They atleast had the decency to make a mass grave, they could've just let them to rot in the open.", he said this in his edit on July 6 2024. I tried communicating this to him in his talk page, instead he blanked me and went and reverted my edit again on Agios Dometios. He has since issued a rebuttal saying things like "The Greeks were begging and crying to the United Nations for a ceasefire, which the dumb turks agreed on...", "I havent said "cutting heads off" is ok, mutilating a dead corpse is not a serious war crime is what i've said...", at best, the immaturity of the user in these topics warrants at least a topic ban and as just seen, he has previously been blocked by User:ToBeFree for disruptive editing.ShovelandSpade (talk) 18:42, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Im just going to reply to you the same way i did in the DMs:

- "1) As to the 498 dying in the invasion, the only source that claims that is the Turkish government which is an unreliable source in and of itself when it gets to Cyprus, the numbers by some have been estimated to be between 3,500 - 6,000 so that whole argument is moot."

Yes while that is a Turkish claim, Multiple 3rd party accounts back this claim up, putting TAF casualties to be 498. https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Books-by-topic/MCUP-Titles-A-Z/Phase-Line-Attila/ Like this one here. Id love to see where you got the "6,000 dead". and if you are talking about civilian casualties, then we can figure greek losses to be around 12,000 or 6,000 aswell.

- "2) ELDYK was 950 people at the begining of the invasion not at the end."

Considering ur sources say 105 mainland greek soldiers died in the war, with 30 of them being members of the 1st raider squadron or whatever its just at around 900 then, no wonder i have written 4000-4500 there, its not exact.

- "3) As to Manolis Bikakis, it is not only the Greek ministry of defense (Which until recently never officially recognised actions on Cyprus), there are multiple eyewitness accounts from different battalions in Cyprus which all make the same claims about Bikakis, the only one disputing it, is the Turkish government (No surprise there)."

Show me a single non partisan, non greek and a 3rd party source telling this, plus the "multiple eyewitness accounts from different battalions in cyprus." There isnt even a single page made about manolis in Turkish, let alone the government for christ sake.

- "4) As to the Mongols claim, it is historically true so again I dont see where your issue is."

add it into the main invasion of cyprus then. Mongol invasion of cyprus.. The same article has "But the defenders of the camp stand firm and send the souls of the agarine dogs back to Allah." written. Agarine dogs.

- "5) If you think cutting off heads and throwing them in mass graves is ok because in your own words "They atleast had the decency to make a mass grave, they could've just let them to rot in the open" is something that makes me think you should maybe not be editing on wikipedia if this is your line of reasoning."

I havent said "cutting heads off" is ok, mutilating a dead corpse is not a serious war crime is what i've said, neither are mass graves of dead enemy troops. Infact putting your enemies into mass graves is a sign of respect instead of leaving them to rot in the open. Which in my opinion is justified after all the Greek and Cypriot troops have done against the Turkish Cypriots peacefully living on the island (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Christmas_(1963) ) Again, its just a claim made by "eldyk members"

All the pages ive seen you in are using greek sources only (some a part of the government), im yet to see a single 3rd party account thats in a foreign language.

Your 4th sentence clearly shows who youre biased towards and what you are. Wikipedia is a place of original research and objective people, not for the likes of you. If you continue this type of behaviour your account is probably gonna get IP-suspended and all the pages you have worked on nominated for a deletion.

Battle of Agios Dometios

- "600+ Turks were killed"

Already disproven considering only 498 had died with the link i have just sent.

https://www.anixneuseis.gr/%CE%B7-%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%B7-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83-%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%BA%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%83/ This link here also says only 60 Turkish troops were killed or wounded by greek troops A. Dometios.

- "Only 83 Greek soldiers were killed"

An additional 60 were killed as the same reference says above, totaling a number of 143. The same link above also says "dozens" of Greek soldiers were captured by Turkish troops.

- "6000 turkish troops were present"

Again, an unreliable partisan source, which refers to turks as mongols and agarine dogs, claiming this but we can still put it as an extra "Greek Claim"

- "1850 greek troops were present" Ive read every link there, not a single one mentions that. Putting all the units present like i said, 1 battalion is roughly around 1000 soldiers, ELDYK totaling up to 1000 and a squadron consists of around 50 to 500 men. we can roughly estimate the size around 3500 to 4500.

- "It was a greek victory"

The Greeks were begging and crying to the United Nations for a ceasefire, which the dumb turks agreed on and the ceasefire happened right before Turkish forces properly setting an attack on Nicosia and capturing it, which includes Agios Dometios, thus resulting the Greek victory on A. Dometios, not because they bravely fought against the invading "agarine dogs", it was because of the forced UN ceasefire which halted Turkish advance. The turks also captured a bunch of fortified locations and positions https://www.protothema.gr/greece/article/558431/elduk/ including the grammar house and the ELDYK camp, plus half of nicosia, i dont know how those doesnt sound like a victory to you.

Also half of agios dometios was captured by turkey before, again, due to the UN ceasefire, they could not capture the rest of the town.

- "Why are there so many "greek media claims"?"

Because every single article used as reference and as a "reliable" source happens to be greek which obviously

Whats so borderline nationalist about these? I havent used a SINGLE Turkish source while all the references in the page is made up of greek sources Ao192 (talk) 18:48, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

also my opinion on what the turkish soldiers do against greek soldiers literally doesnt matter as it has no effect on the page itself. yet you tried to get me banned for my opinions about turkish soldiers mutilating greek soldiers, instead of the "disruptive" editing i've done on the page LoL. Ao192 (talk) 18:56, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Gonna let admins deal with you cause not only have I tried youre just digging yourself deeper holes. "My opinion on what the turkish soldiers do against greek soldiers..." alone isnt a good start. ShovelandSpade (talk) 18:58, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

One blocked, one warned. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:32, 7 July 2024 (UTC)