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List of Azerbaijanis

Hi Sarah. I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and was not able to contribute to wiki. Now that I’m back I see that the List of Azerbaijanis is protected because of an edit war and Khosrow deleted a number of persons from the list despite the lengthy discussion we had with your mediation. [1] I really appreciate your efforts to help resolve the dispute, but I see that Khosrow completely ignores opinions of other editors.

The current intro of the article says:

This is a list of prominent people from the Republic of Azerbaijan (or, previously, the Azerbaijan SSR) and Iranian Azerbaijan. The list includes both ethnic Azerbaijanis, non-Turkic speaking Iranians before the Turkification of Azerbaijan, and members of other ethnicities from the region.

The persons that he removed perfectly comply with this description. So what in your opinion should we do now? Should we let Khosrow to have it his way or is there any other way to resolve the issue? Thanks in advance for your assistance. Regards, Grandmaster 07:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

The solution is quite simple. Move everyone who is not of the Azerbaijani nationality to their respective pages. Simple as that. Then we wont have such a misinformative and controversial article. There is already a debate going on in the List of Turks article as to why Atila the Hun and the President of the R. of Azerbaijan are in the list, along with others. The very same issue that I have been sayin is avoidable if all the List of .... articles are consistant.Khosrow II 18:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Once again, Khosrow, it's not an ethnic list and the article says so. Thanks for your response, Sarah. I don’t mind posting on the talk of the article, but I think I said everything that could have been said here: User_talk:Sarah_Ewart/KII-GM2 It’s been quite a prolonged discussion that led to nothing. Grandmaster 06:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

It kept going in circles because you made it so. You never address the main issues, infact, you avoid them. For example, I have asked you for over a month to express your problems with a certain section, yet instead of doing so you start another revert war all over again.Khosrow II 20:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sarah. I raised the issue once again on the talk of the List of Azerbaijanis as discussed. I hope it will help resolve the dispute. Also, could you please have a look at the actions of the user Arash the Bowman. He appears to be a meatpuppet. Please check up his contribs, his contributions are nothing but rvs of the articles to the versions, reflecting a certain POV. [2] Regards, Grandmaster 12:25, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Right now I tend to think that he’s a meatpuppet, but quite possible that he’s a sock. We had an incident during the discussion on Iranian people article, which eventually became an FA, when one of the Iranian users voted 3 times under different IPs (checkuser established the fact). And at the same time another user was mobilizing people to vote via an Internet forum. So I suspect that similar activity continues. Some people try to use numerical superiority to have some regional articles reflect a certain position. I don’t want to make any personal accusations without having enough proof, but I can see that Arash mostly rvs the articles to the version of Khosrow. I don’t know if it is just a coincidence or not, but it looks very suspicious. Grandmaster 07:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

I am sorry that i "abused" FisherQueen, but she bothers me and i dont really like her. I will stop and please forgive me!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jackwen (talk • contribs).

Australia Zoo

Do you even visit Australia Zoo? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.186.245.220 (talk • contribs) 16:22, December 1, 2006 (UTC)

Vandal Block on 69.119.119.178

Thanks for taking action to block 69.119.119.178, who appears to be an incorrigible vandal. I reverted this person's vandal-edits on the Alexz Johnson article - one of several articles vandalized in the last day or two.

Is there any way of blocking this user for longer than 2 months? We can be sure that as soon as any ban expires, it will be business as usual for this vandal. People who do this sort of thing have no right to "contribute" to Wikipedia, and they spoil things for those of us who are trying to maintain the articles.

Thanks again!

User:JD_Fan

Sockpuppet

Hi, Sarah. Is there a way to block user User:Ulvi I.? He is clearly a sockpuppet, he resurfaces every time there is a dispute with Azeri editors, starts reverting people, then miraculously vanishes. This only aggrevates the disputes. Thank you. --TigranTheGreat 01:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

You should ask for a checkuser before making accusations. I can say the same about ROOB323, who was not previously known as an editor of Armenia-Azerbaijan related articles and suddenly turned up to support Fadix. Grandmaster 06:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Sarah, I also had a similar ecounter with GM and Ulvi. Ulvi suddenly appeared where ever GM needed help, and then when GM disappeared for awhile so did Ulvi. Suspicious, no?Khosrow II 20:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I know and I asked Ulvi on his talk page to withdraw from the dispute between you and GM. I considered filing a request for checkuser when I discovered that his 13th edit was the dishonest certification of the LIGerasimova RfC. Unfortunately, if he is a sockpuppet, the account isn't used regularly or frequently enough for them to still have the IP log to establish a pattern. And it's easy to get around checkuser once you're aware that it exists. I think he's probably a meatpuppet, rather than a sockpuppet, but either way, I do agree it is a very suspicious account. Sarah Ewart 20:27, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

As I repeated several times, I have limited time and I interfere when I have time and feel necessary to interfere and when I see that someone violates neutrality policy and makes edits that are not based on reliable sources. In some cases, my opionion does not mach with other users from Azerbaijan. All, please refrain from accusations and let us discuss around the topic. Thank you for your attention.

--Ulvi I. 06:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Extension of Block on 69.119.119.178

Thanks for the quick action on extending the block - much appreciated! Let's hope that 69.119.119.178 grows out of it. He obviously put a lot of thought into what he was doing - hopefully, he can channel that elsewhere in the future.

User:JD_Fan

Thanks

It's ok. Thank you for your time anyway. I will find a way to deal with him.--TigranTheGreat 08:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome, and glad I nicely surprised you. Since you like my surprises, are you single? --TigranTheGreat 03:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Canuckster's user & talk pages

I think it's time to protect Canuckster's user & talk pages since they are constantly being reverted to Canuckster's preferred version by not only Canuckster himself but also several anon IPs as well. Scobell302 14:58, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Zoe Tay

Walaha2006 is the latest sockpuppet to revert all edits made to Zoe Tay, and the outrageous thing is, he/she is applying for administrator status to circumvent the POV pushing. I've already made a report at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Zoe_Tay. Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! OngBS 16:47, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your note explaining about Jance. Is this the right place to respond? I wasn't sure. Drzuckerman 20:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Adem Somyurek

He keeps moving it - i think something should be done. PMA 12:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Paid advertising on Wiki

Sarah, I was hoping you could help. Someone (I don't know who) has been adding links to a paid plastic surgery promotional website on at least 5 Wiki articles: on plastic surgery, silicone, breast implants, breast reduction surgery, and breast reconstruction surgery. Here is the link -- despite the title of it, you can see it is all about "how to find a plastic surgeon in your zip code" and only the surgeons who pay are listed there:

I removed this link, but hoped you could help figure out who put it up and talk to them, perhaps even ban them since this had already been discussed on the breast implant page, removed in response to concerns about it, and then was put back. Thanks!Drzuckerman 19:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

3RR violation

Thank you for your concern with my RfA. For what it's worth, my 3RR violation was accidental; I was dealing with a user who was persistently reverting to the same text, and had been blocked before. I lost count over the course of a day and did a fourth reversion in 23:45, instead of proposing an alternate text, as I had intended, or going to AN3 myself. Septentrionalis 19:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Award Time!

For dealing with the "Canadian politics troll" without wavering, I hereby present you with this Vandal Whacking Stick. Scobell302 02:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I second that award. Thanks Sarah! - Finnegans wake 12:17, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Norman Mailer

It is a great quote, isn't it? :) - Finnegans wake 12:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

More Paid Advertising and POV links

Please let me know if I should add my notes to you to my old notes, or to the end (I did the latter but wasn't sure). Also, I didn't really understand what Allison said to you about the links. I went over the links on the breast implant article and found another one to a webpage that was covered with paid advertising. So I deleted that link, and also a few very out of date links, and replaced with links from newer and more NPOV sources, such as the National Cancer Institute and the US-FDA. Most of the best research has been conducted in the last 6 years, and several of the links were from before those studies were published.

However, there is a plastic surgeon who is very active on these webpages, Dr. Oliver, who has reverted to those links in the recent past, and had apparently initially included the promotional links too, so I hope he will not revert. My training is in epidemiology and public health, so I have a more research-oriented perspective, his perspective is more concerned with surgical technique and cosmetic outcomes. In the spirit of compromise I tried to make sure the links were balanced, including some that I'm sure he'll like but are more credible and up to date than the ones he had included. Again, thanks so much for your help! Drzuckerman 04:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC) --A few hours after I sent this note, oliver reverted to all his links, including the one with advertising. He seems to believe that his POV is the "mainstream" POV -- but he even deleted the much more relevant, credible links to the National Cancer Institute and FDA. He has been vandalizing this site for months, and everytime he disagrees with me he insults me, calling me biased and "political" which is ridiculous since I have a post-doc in epidemiology and public health from Yale Medical School and was on the faculty of Yale and Vassar and a researcher at Harvard (all of which he knows, and is even on my bio on wiki). Breast reconstruction is not a political issue, it is a health issue. I hope you can help us -- several women's health experts have repeatedly agreed with me, but he ignores all of us.Drzuckerman 00:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement

I think we will need to keep the impetus up for a while - my personal motivation is that I had the Late Frank Broeze as my maritime history lecturer at UWA (ok so I ended up with BA Hons Asian Studies at Murdoch so thats another story) - and he was inspirational and quite a supportive and enthusiastic person in the UWA history dept - his areas changed before he died - but his ways of looking at international history really had a breath of fresh air in them - I think he might have been partly behind of the series of Indian Ocean Conferences we had in Perth for a while - they really got a lot of people thinking about the whole Indian Ocean littoral in a much wider way than taditional historians. I've commented to Gn and Mn that I was bewildered to find maritime history subsumed into a vast network of hollow category trees which seem to originate from an almost school book article 'ship transport'( diverted from water transport) - and even the history project seem to have subsumed it - oh well with enough people joining in maybe we can change the way that other countries/regions are done - and the whole maritime history project can become as important as I think it should be -anyways. as always I digress. Thanks for your support. SatuSuro 14:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

re:Nathannoblet

Thanks for the note, Sarah; I hope I can get through to him, but based on precedent, I'm not sure it'll happen - as far as I can tell, Scott became involved in the issue due to his attempt to mediate between Nathan and Longhair. The RfAr will most likely be rejected, but I'm hopeful that I can persuade Nathan to withdraw it on his own terms. I'll keep you posted. riana_dzasta 17:14, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Interesting typo, by the way! :) riana_dzasta 17:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Replied :) riana_dzasta 17:36, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Another RfAr from Nathan? What'd I miss? ;) -- Longhair\^talk 09:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Your reply on Samir's page

Check out the user page of User:The suicide forest, whose inquiry you just responded to on Samir's page. Regards, Newyorkbrad 02:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

THANKS

Thanks so much for your help on the implant article!!!!Drzuckerman 05:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Sarah. Thanks for the page move - i was just about to ask you. looks great. Oh, and thanks for the "character" reference the other day for myself and cyberjunkie re another Jackp issue. i probably shouldn't have paid that much attention to it. thanks --Merbabu 12:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for voting

To Sarah

Hi Sarah, Thank you so much for unblocking me. I know the question about Twister Twist you sent me. You can see the reason on my talk page. Also, I was wondering, can I remove the sockpuppet tag on my user page since I'm unblocked?

             Sincerly,
             --Tennislover 01:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

(I'll remove the sockpuppet notice) --Yamla 01:44, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you

I can now edit. Very grateful. ThuranX 05:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

GNAA test page

I've gone ahead and deleted it. I was trying to work out how to do something, which I'm glad to say I didn't do! - Ta bu shi da yu 07:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

It's ok, I was going to remove it myself

Fully understood. I thought long and hard about making that post at AWNB and decided it was the right thing to do at the time (I felt it best to let somebody closer to the problem know... I felt quite powerless at the time). It got the right people into gear and serves no purpose now so it's best deleted. Good to hear the end resolve was a happy outcome. It's best swept under the carpet so we can all move on.

An admirer hey? I get my fair share around here when I'm in vandal-swatting mode, though it's been a while. :) This one took me by surprise when I found it :) -- Longhair\^talk 03:03, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Space for Carlo

I didn't have room, and Am not an established user, but If you could assist me in deleteing Articles that would be helpful, I'm trying to clean up wikipedia and do not know how to delete or nominate. User talk:Carlo V. Sexron 06:00, 14 December 2006

Thank You Ma'am for allowing me this space.

As a user of Wikipedia I feel that I am obliged to keep it a clean and reliable source for information, however it has come to my attention that there are several users trying to create personal biographies that contain useless, non encyclopedic information. I have learned how to mark pages now!

This has assisted me in keeping useless bio pages off of Wikipedia. Thank you for your time in reading this, Providing me space and your contributions (which I admire) to Wikipedia.

Anyway...

This is more of a ramble, but I LOVE wikipedia AND Australia! I plan on moving there in the future because I hate the Portland rain and weather! I admire your work, and hope that we will cross paths again!

Sincerely Yours Carlo V. Sexron 19:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Carlo V. Sexron

• Thanks Again!

Thank you for your redirect from the old account!

Your work is once again greatly appreciated and I thank you for taking time out of your day to help me and keep Wikipedia a nice place for the world!

With Great Pride and Joy Carlo V. Sexron 19:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Carlo V. Sexron.

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