User talk:ED209

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Contents 1 pm_shef personal attacks 2 Sockpuppet thing 3 Michael Di Biase 4 User notice: temporary 3RR block 4.1 Regarding reversions[1] made on July 18, 2006 (UTC) to Michael Di Biase 5 VW 6 3RR 7 NPA 8 Assume Good Faith 9 do not remove warnings 10 Re: Vaughan Election Page 11 sockpuppetry 12 This whole edit war thing 13 Vaughan municipal election, 2006 14 Vandalism 15 No Legal Threats 16 Blocked 17 Libel 18 Sockpuppetry case 19 Your Question 20 Notice 21 Michael Di Biase 22 Robocop Reference??

[edit] pm_shef personal attacks

We've gone through this before with User talk:Pm shef#UndergroundRailroad. Personal attacks refer to other Wikipedia editors and not the subjects of the articles. However, the remarks made by pm_shef were not a good idea. See Wikipedia:No personal attacks for more information. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:53, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppet thing

• I'd just like to apologize for the whole sockpuppet issue. After reading Thatcher's comments at the RfC, I realized that I was probably mistaken. So you have my sincere apologizes for labelling you as a sockpuppet. It's clear our edit don't always agree with each other, but it was not fair of me to label you a sockpuppet so prematurely. I hope once this whole rediculousness is over, we can work constructively together. pm_shef 04:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Di Biase

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. -- JamesTeterenko 02:54, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

• This all started a few days ago when pm_shef removed my content from this page. He did not prove to me nor did we hold any kind of vote when he reverted the traffic ticket story. I am not backing down to him in this case because I know his agenda. He is not acting in good faith as he claims. His father and Mr. Di Biase are political allies. Many people around Vaughan are skeptical of Mr. Di Biase because of this incident. The very fact that something Vaughan-related makes the Toronto Star is a big deal. Considering that nobody eles seems to have anything to contribute to this page, I believe that a story like this is relevant. I am sick and tired of arguing this, especially with an impending world war outbreaking in the Middle East. In the end, if the traffic story is not left on Di Biase's page, I propose we delete the entire article. What's the point of having this entry if we are not going to include this relevant fact.

• To further support my opinion, I direct everybody to Hazel McCallion, who is the mayor of nearby Mississauga. Under personal it states: "In May 2006 she had an accident and crashed her car into a sign post. She claimed that she was distracted by her cell phone and has agreed to hire a driver. If she does, she will be the only mayor in the Greater Toronto Area municipalities to have a personal driver." ED209 05:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

• My response to the above can be found at Talk:Michael Di Biase. - pm_shef 22:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User notice: temporary 3RR block

[edit] VW

• How do you know "for a fact"? Beyond his username being the same as PD's website (circumstantial evidence, I know), CheckUser, his contribution history and his own admission all prove him to be PD. In terms of where the admission was made, I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere during the discussion of our proposed "truce" agreement where we would both refrain from editing selected articles - pm_shef 22:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• Ok well, "pretty sure it was somewhere" doesn't mean a whole lot. I agree the fact he goes under the name VaughanWatch makes it look like there is a connection. However, I think that more people are watching Vaughan now than ever, and the name is simply a coincidence. ED209 22:45, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, more people are watching Vaughan now. But they're watching the articles because of the edit wars that his 52 sockpuppets instigated, not just out of some random coincidence. His account was created before the conflict. And in terms of where the admission was, I could look for it, but I know its there, and I'm fairly busy for the next few weeks, so don't really have time to go digging. - pm_shef 22:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. - pm_shef 23:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• I'm glad you know the rules. One more edit today by you on the Michael Di Biase page or the Vaughan Election page and you will have broken this rule. ED209 23:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• I'm quite aware, thanks. - pm_shef 23:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• Just give up on this. ED209 23:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• On what? The 3RR or the content dispute? Cause I'm clearly right on the content dispute, as evidenced by the fact that all objective editors seem to agree with me. - pm_shef 23:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• Give up on the content side of it. You need to make a strong argument, not just a few editors who see things the same way you do. To have some councillors receiving 96 or 97% in corporate funds (mainly from developers) makes this an issue. ED209 00:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• The piece you're missing though is that the maximum corporate donation is $750, meaning that they have little to no effect on the outcome of the election or the politics of the candidate. In the world of electoral politics $750 is small change, enough to buy a couple lawn signs, thats about it. Receiving 96% of donations (not sure where you got that number from) from corporations doesn't mean much, cause it's all coming from different corporations. To compare it to lobby politics in the States (which is essentially what you're doing) simply doesn't make sense. Not to mention that the majority of editors agree with me. - pm_shef 00:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• $750 from each individual of a corporation could lead to thousands and thousands of dollars. I suggest you check the books. ED209 00:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• And it takes thousands and thousands of dollars to run a campaign, so exactly what's your point? Has there actually been some evidence of wrongdoing on anyone's part? Bearcat 00:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia rules, for the record, are that in an edit dispute, the information under discussion stays out of the article pending consensus, not vice versa. You are not to add this again unless and until a consensus develops in favour of putting it back in; the onus is not the other way around. Bearcat 00:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• Bearcat, you are a disgrace. Why is it that you take such an active role in helping pm_shef and antagonize my every move. As far as I'm concerned, there is no discussion. This IS an issue for resident taxpapers at the City of Vaughan. I happen to be one. Plus, when a Vaughan-related story makes the Toronto Star, it is significant. Municipal issues usually revolve around money issues. This qualifies. If you were a fair admin, you would take this to a vote at the very least. However, you seem content to discredit me and side with pm_shef. ED209 01:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass what you think of me. Wikipedia does not have a "voting" process; talk page discussion is the correct process to follow in an editing dispute. I'm here to ensure that the rules are followed, not to take sides, and said rules are:

1. Discuss on talk page to reach a consensus.
2. Any disputed information stays out of the article until a consensus is reached.
3. Reliable sources, verifiability, neutral point of view.

So, to review: you must provide an actual verifiable media source specifically showing that Vaughan voters have actually determined corporate donations to be one of the key issues in the campaign; "I live here and I know" is not a valid Wikipedia source. You must provide a media source specifically showing that it's a uniquely Vaughan-related issue, and not just a general phenomenon that could be just as legitimately applied to every single Wikipedia article on any city's municipal elections.

I don't know how many times I'm have to explain this to you: I have no political affiliations to anyone involved in Vaughan politics, I don't live in Vaughan, and I really don't care which side likes me more in this dispute. I'm not interested in either helping pm_shef or antagonizing you for the sake of it — my only interest in this matter is ensuring that the rules are followed, and at this moment you're the one who happens to be on the wrong side of them. So take your "disgrace" and blow it out your nostril. Bearcat 01:50, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Also: you do not have a right to remove text formatting (bold, italics, etc.) or wikilinks (square brackets around words) from an article; if you make any further edits whose final result is an article that doesn't contain a single link to any other article in its body text, you will be blocked for vandalism. Finally, the three-revert rule applies just as much to you as to pm_shef; it is not a license for you to revert three times just to try to push somebody else into a 3RR violation, or to calculate it so that your version is left standing when your opponent hits three. You will accordingly also be editblocked if I ever see you post another edit summary in which you're keeping a running tally of how many reverts another editor has left. Bearcat 02:32, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• You are a bully user:Bearcat. I have no idea what you are talking about as regards to the removal of text formatting or wikilinks. Anything I may have did was unintentional, because I am not clear when I did these things. Again, it seems like you pick on me a lot more. user:pm_shef always reminds me and other users how many reverts we've made, yet you do not say anything to him. I see this is a lost cause now. It is difficult to find any election issue that is unique to a municipality. All I can tell you is people have been talking about it. We already provided a Vaughan Citizen and Toronto Star link to stories discussing the issue in Vaughan. ED209 04:12, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding text formatting, I'm talking about this version of Michael Di Biase, which you reverted to more than once. And who's this "we" in the final line of your comment? Bearcat 14:20, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• JonhnnyCanuck and I make two. ED209 17:03, 21 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. Namecalling, including calling people a "bully" is considered unacceptable under Wikipedia policy. - pm_shef 19:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assume Good Faith

• Please assume good faith when dealing with other editors. See Wikipedia:Assume good faith for the guidelines on this. - pm_shef 03:51, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] do not remove warnings

Do not remove warnings from your talk page. And do not remove sourced info fro articles, as you are doing to the ironically named Michael Di Biase. Please read WP:OWN, Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Circeus 04:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• Did you at least do your research on this situation? Doesn't seem like it. ED209 04:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I was not aware of a large scale dispute, beyond the fact that the two of are butting heads all over the place over apparently minor local political issues. I would seriously advise the botj of you to seek mediation. I do not care about either of you two's outside conections. I care about an encyclopedia. And your quabbling (on both sides) is not helping. Circeus 04:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Vaughan Election Page

My reply, copied from my talk page - Ckatz
I might ask you what your reason is for persisting in this, frankly, rather pathetic edit war. You've already been taken to task by an admin for ignoring established Wiki procedure, and it was quite a scolding at that. Pm shef obviously has an agenda too, he really should clearly state his personal and professional connections to the Vaughan political process, and he's certainly not without fault in this matter. However, and this is an important point, he at least appears to be doing something on Wikipedia other than arguing endlessly about a municipal election. I mean, really, get a life already. This is an encyclopedia project with a global audience. Absolutely no-one in their right mind cares about this, unless they're from Vaughan. (I'd wager that there are probably a lot of Vaughan residents who would cringe if they knew what sort of presence their (town?city?district?) now has on the Web.) To be perfectly honest, I didn't even know where Vaughan was before I happened to stumble across this dispute, and after watching it for quite some time, I'm even less impressed. If you want to add a controversial point, take it to the talk page and hammer out a compromise. If you aren't satisfied with the results, then there are other avenues to explore in terms of expanding input into a difference of opinion. Why this article exists is beyond me -- it would make more sense to just Afd the thing and hope it goes away. --Ckatz 04:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• The article exists because of user:pm_shef. I would nominate it for deletion if I wasn't sure that user:pm_shef would gather up all of his wikifriends to vote for a keep. Why not just ban both of his from touching Vaughan articles. Also, if you look through my history, I have contributed to other pages. ED209 04:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

The bulk of your main space edits (with the exception of four edits to Miami Vice to add two links and one edit to William Russ to mention that he was in Miami Vice, seem to deal with politics in Vaughan. Is this not correct? --Ckatz 05:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• If you go farther back there was other edits. But, sure, recently I have been interested in Vaughan and Miami Vice. Look at pm_shef's history and you'll notice the same thing. His interests are very narrow and they deal with Vaughan or politicians in formerly in Vaughan. ED209 05:20, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sockpuppetry

I have not accused you of anything, and I freely admitted I had no real insight in it. It is obvious, though, that users making biased edits in Vaughan articles are subject to suspicions of being related to user:VaughanWatch, just as users making highly biased edits to freemasonry articles are subject to suspicions of user:Lightbringer sockpuppetry. Circeus 05:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This whole edit war thing

Hey -- I don't know if you remember me, but I was involved as an independent party in the whole Vaughan politics thing before, and I saw the fighting had broken out again, and I'm here to help. What I'd like you to do, first of all, is to not place any warnings on pm_shef's talk page (I'm asking the same of pm_shef), not just for now, but indefinitely. Both of you know the rules on here, it's just a way of you two to attack each other, so the warnings serve no purpose anymore. I want to remind you to assume good faith in pm_shef; thanks to VW we all know about his father, but he is willing to compromise and he believes in Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Second, do not call any of pm_shef's edits vandalism. You may strongly disagree with them, but vandalism means something different, and it's inflaming the situation, which is good for nobody. Third, in your edit summaries, stick to describing your edits in a simple way. Back-and-forth discussions in edit summaries are a bad thing; go to the talk page when you want to have one.

To turn to the actual edit conflict that spawned the latest round of nastiness, I have some comments on Talk:Michael Di Biase that I'll be adding in a few minutes. Mangojuice^talk 05:16, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• I remember you user:mangojuice, you'll be able to provide some perspective on this. Keep in mind though, I left for a month or two, while user:pm_shef has been in the spotlight now for quite a long time. ED209 05:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• • Sure, I realize that. But in looking at the exchange back and forth, it's clear there's animosity between you two, but it's also clear you aren't even working very well on the actual dispute. You have to stop fighting about the community rules and work on the issues in the articles. Mangojuice^talk 13:08, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vaughan municipal election, 2006

You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia for violating the three-revert rule on Vaughan municipal election, 2006.  Your block will expire in 48 hours. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• Seems a bit unfair to have the other party involved with only a 24-hour block. Plus, I never actually broke the 3RR. I was involved in two seperate disputes. The "controversy" section and the "main issues" section. I never exceeded the limit on either individually. ED209 00:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

I've given you a brief time out. Do not vandalize articles. It's that simple. And no, "that guy on TV told me to do it" won't count as an excuse. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 15:54, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Have a sense of humour about it. It should stay like that for a day or two. ED209 15:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Legal Threats

Re: This edit. Please see Wikipedia:No legal threats - under no circumstances are such comments allowed, and further occurance will result in blocking. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:20, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

• It was a wish, not a threat. ED209 17:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked

You are blocked for one week for your death legal threat on The M62Manchester's Talk page, for your violation of WP:POINT on RFCU, and for general all-around being a nuisance. Please play nice when you come back. User:Zoe|(talk) 22:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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• That checkuser does not clear you, the result was inconclusive. -- pm_shef 20:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Stop replacing the unblock tag just to gain attention. If you want to edit something you will have to wait for your block to expire. --pgk^(talk) 20:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libel

• The above entry which incorrectly indicates that I made a death threat is considered libel and should be dealt with accordingly by the admins. I also want user:Zoe to be held responsible. ED209 22:36, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
  • You are quite right. I made an egregious error. I meant to say legal threat, not death threat. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:12, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/ED209 for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. pm_shef 00:48, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your Question

• I'm not quite sure why you needed to make 4 edits to ask that question... but anyways. As I'm sure you're aware, I go to school in Montreal - so by default I don't have much to do with the election. As I said in the Vaughan Citizen article, I'm not actually participating in the campaign - an unfortunate side effect of going to school out of town. -- pm_shef 02:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notice

• Just so you're aware, I (pmshef) have changed my username to this one, to try and avoid the privacy issues I've been dealing with for the last little bit. I'd very much appreciate it if you avoided bringing up my RL identity on Wikipedia, if you need to talk to me about something involving that, please feel free to do so via email. -- Chabuk 02:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Di Biase

• Thank you for experimenting with the page Michael Di Biase on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. ED, you know full well that Di Biase is still the mayor, there is no need to cause trouble at this point. -- Chabuk ^{[ T • C ]} 23:00, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

• I have blocked you for 1 week for inserting this blatant misinformation. You know full well this is not allowed. -- JamesTeterenko 05:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robocop Reference??

Is your name a Robocop Reference? I should first introduce myself, I'm Ace Fighter! I think it's cool that you used that for a name, have you seen the movie? its good. Ace Fighter 00:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

• Yes, my name is a reference to the movie. ED209 21:59, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Aha cool, good movie, Ace Fighter 20:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)