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Nishidani

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ה-זפר

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Marteau

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Requests may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs (not counting required information), except by permission of a reviewing administrator.

Request concerning Marteau

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User who is submitting this request for enforcement
Volunteer Marek (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 19:32, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
User against whom enforcement is requested
Marteau (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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Sanction or remedy to be enforced
WP:ARBBLP and WP:ARBAP2:
Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
  1. [31] This is just a link to the history of the Alicia Machado talk page. A lot of material got rev-del because it was deeply offensive and a BLP violation. Marteau's comment at 01:03, 1 October 2016‎ was rev del'ed. Marteau received a BLP and DS notification soon after [32]
  2. October 3 Here Marteau proposes that we change "it was reported she gained too much weigh and rumors began to circulate", which was bad enough, to "it was reported that she swelled to more than 160 pound". Trying to write that someone "swelled" rather than "gained weight" is a pretty obvious attempt to attack the person in violation of BLP. Yes, the word "swelled" is used in the source but is done to CRITICIZE that kind of language. Trying to use that to back up BLP-violating language is disingenuous and dishonest.
  3. October 5 Here Marteau is trying to use a non-reliable trashy source to attack the subject of this BLP by insulting her intelligence (The headline of the tabloid is "Venezuela's former Miss Universe Alicia Machado has a blond moment".

The above were done while the article was under full protection, so these are violations on the talk page. BLP also applies to talk pages. The diffs also show that Marteau's primary interest in the article is to use it as a vehicle for attacking the subject.

  1. October 7 Here, after full protection expired Marteau puts in the BLP violating text, which gives WP:UNDUE weight to trivial information. Marteau also placed stuff about Machado shutting down twitter due to abuse in the "Personal life" section.
Diffs of previous relevant sanctions, if any

Note that Marteau was given a DS/BLP sanction notice back in April by User:Cwobeel [33]. So the BLP notification received for the Machado article, from User:Callannecc was actually his second one. This means two things. First, when he was posting this stuff to the Machado page he was already aware of BLP and the relevant discretionary sanctions, but did it anyway. Second, while I understand that DS notifications are suppose to be only notifications and not actual warnings, usually they're given out when somebody's being up to no good. The fact that he was notified twice of BLP DS means that this isn't the first time someone had problems with Marteau's BLP editing.

Also, on this one, your mileage might vary, but Marteau's also received a DS notification for Gamergate issues [34]

(Note that I left a message at User:Alison's talk page, since she was the one who rev-del'ed a good chunk of the talk page, about this matter [35])

I would also like to suggest that in addition to whatever sanctions are placed on Marteau (a topic ban from this article seems like a minimum), the article itself be restored to full protection.

Note User:Paul Keller commenting below is a sock puppet of permanently banned User:Lokalkosmopolit (Lokal got perma banned for harassing myself and another user, which is also why his sock is here - for more of the same). I filed the relevant SPI.

And checkuser confirmed [36].Volunteer Marek (talk) 14:13, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If discretionary sanctions are requested, supply evidence that the user is aware of them (see WP:AC/DS#Awareness and alerts)
See above: [37] [38] [39]
Additional comments by editor filing complaint
Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested


Discussion concerning Marteau

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Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator.
Administrators may remove or shorten noncompliant statements. Disruptive contributions may result in blocks.

Statement by Marteau

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Marek has been fighting with passion the inclusion of the instance where Alica Machado confused countries on Twitter, then suffered vicious attacks, leading to her quitting Twitter. Marek has called this at various times "trivial", "deeply offensive", "junk", "nonsense", undue weight, and a BLP violation. This incident is widely cited by numerous reliable sources and is certainly notable. That editors are compelled to fight Marek repeatedly on such issues in this, and other, articles related to political figures and issues wastes untold numbers of hours editors could be using to improve the encyclopedia.

Marek has been making the rounds on various pages about how I changed "gained too much weight" (which did not appear in the sources) to "swelled" (which is the exact term used by the Washington Post). Marek claims the Post used this term as criticism of such language, but such an intent is not present in the source. I dropped the matter instantly and made nothing further of its removal, however, Marek just goes on and on and ON about how egregious my using the verbiage the Post used was, attempting to use it as a cudgel of some sort.

He then complains I was "trying to use a non-reliable trashy source to attack the subject of this BLP by insulting her intelligence" in a talk page comment. All I have to say is I have never used anything but impeccable sources in the article space, and that sometimes I let my proverbial hair down in talk pages, to my detriment perhaps. I will say, however, that I immediately thought better of it and self reverted this comment eight minutes after the fact with no prompting from anyone.

That he attempts to smear me with the fact that I have received Gamergate notices and such. Such notices are given out like candy to editors who edit such articles. And coming from someone with 12 entries on his block log, directed to someone with none on his log for 10+ years here, such an attempt to cast aspersions on me in such a way is pathetic in its grasping.

A boomerang, however, might be in order. I count at least seven reverts by Marek on the Machado article within the past 24 hours. To be honest, I have no stomach for pursuing a 3RR violation, for I am sure Marek will claim BLP exceptions and such, and I am not in a fighting or vindictive mood. Combine that with a general battleground mentality on the Machado article (and other political articles) his snark, his insults, and his pattern of tendention, he's certainly well past due for line 13 to be added to the already 12 lines in his block log. Marteau (talk) 21:21, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Paul Keller

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Edits by Marteau were all fully in line with policy. The Twitter controversy was widely handled in the media. What is concerning is the filing party's spree of revert warring in the article today [40], [41], [42]. It is part of VM's wider campaign of a) entering as much negative information to articles concerning Trump as possible; b) while equally removing all information disadvantagous for the Clinton side from other articles. [43]. This has been going on for quite some time. --Paul Keller (talk) 20:35, 7 October 2016 (UTC) - Striking comment from confirmed sockpuppet. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 17:23, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by The Wordsmith

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As a point of order, I edit election-related articles so I'm considering myself WP:INVOLVED here. As such, I'm recused from this request. The WordsmithTalk to me 20:38, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by James J. Lambden

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In almost every political article our editing intersects Marek's turned the article into a battleground. This is simply a continuation.

Recent examples:

Both instances involved blatant misrepresentation.

Another example comes from a 3RR report against Marek only 3 days ago. I comment that previous reports against him "show a number of established, apparently non-partisan editors concerned about [his] behavior." He responds: "they show nothing of the kind", forcing me to link the actual comments:

It's either that he's forgotten the number of cautions from administrators (in which case he shouldn't be editing sensitive articles) or he hasn't and was aware the claim "they show nothing of the kind" was untrue when he made it (in which case again he shouldn't be editing sensitive articles.)

As I said in that same request: How many different editors have to complain and how many reports showing the same behavior across multiple articles have to be submitted before an admin takes action? This disruption is long-term and ongoing. James J. Lambden (talk) 22:31, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by NPalgan2

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Agree with James J Lambden. Some highlights of my recent interactions with Volunteer Marek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alicia_Machado#.22Trump.27s_racism.22 "La Reforma is not a reliable source” (if Marek had done any research at all he’d have seen that it is a major and respectable Mexican newspaper, he had not made a good faith attempt to determine reliability) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alicia_Machado&diff=743065729&oldid=743065372 Here Marek claims without any evidence that El Nuevo Herald and Publimetro Colombia are not RSs just because he doesn’t want the quotes included. Any research would have shown the opposite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hillary_Rodham_cattle_futures_controversy#blatant_synthesis Here Marek notes correctly that the article abstract does not directly name Clinton (presumably for legal reasons). I admit, until we found a second source (vox.com) directly tying the article to Clinton there was a synth issue. But once again it’s difficult to see how Marek could have read the abstract and not seen that it was about clinton (it very obviously mentions the precise period October 11, 1978, through July 31, 1979), but he still makes loud and insulting accusations of bad faith towards the editors who had been discussing whether to include article further up the talk page. He continues claiming SYNTH on the talk page and on the BLPN for days after the vox article has been brought to his attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alicia_Machado#Uh.2C_what.3F Here I added two sources noting Trump’s non-denial, then found a third NYTimes source noting Trump’s spokeswoman issued a denial. Dr. Fleischmann condensed this. Then Marek shows up, and has another ‘accidental’ failure to notice the NYTimes denial and becomes abusive towards me . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alicia_Machado#New_BLP_violations more insults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hillary_Rodham_cattle_futures_controversy#using_NR_as_RS Marek plays dumb when his inconsistent standards for RS in BLPs are noted. lower down he again becomes insulting.

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Result concerning Marteau

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MShabazz

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Kamel Tebaast

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Simert Ove

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Volunteer Marek

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Shy Twinkling

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Anythingyouwant

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