User talk:NikoSilver/Macedonia
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Useful links:
- April discussion in WT:U that lead to mass blocks and scrambles of country/usernames: thread (agreeing users: User:Alexander 007, User:Pschemp, User:Essjay, User:Malo). At least 113 country-usernames were blocked by 5 admins.
- 113 precedent user blocks by 5 admins (Pschemp, Freakofnurture, JoanneB, Banes and Malo):
- (see also thread of List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames for a summary)
Click to see the complete list of block-logs
- Users appealing to precedent in determining rationale for RFCN:
- Pschemp and NikoSilver asking him to change his name. Note: "Macedonia" was the ONLY country/username not changed then by those that were asked to!
- Current Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Macedonia, where User:Future Perfect at Sunrise, User:Francis Tyers, User:NikoSilver, User:Deskana, desire the outcome of "preferably, for Macedonia to change his username", on the grounds of WP:U "inflammatory".
- Recent attempt to include that in policy: Wikipedia talk:Username policy#Countries et al (failed on the grounds that "we don't need to change policy for 1 user", and suggestion to "proceed in WP:RFCN" for the particular user)
- Last WP:RFCN about country-name Macedonia: thread (early closed with no consensus - re-opened 6 times by three independent users)
- Provocative response to the above RFCN by the user in his userpage. (Check the map on the right and compare to the irredentist concept of United Macedonia).
- Description of "inflammatory":
- Macedonia naming dispute has escalated to the highest international authority (United Nations), still pending resolution.
- Macedonia (terminology) - featured article describing the ambiguity and the conflict
- United Macedonia - Extreme nationalist and irredentist concept propagated repeatedly by the user in his userpage so as to allude and confuse for being a Wikipedia article. (even transwikied! now again deleted)
- Indisputably (well past "potentially") offended ethnic groups:
- Most Greeks and especially Macedonians (Greek)[1][2][3][4]
- Most Bulgarians and especially the inhabitants of Blagoevgrad province[5][6]
- Many moderate ethnic Macedonians who would not like a "User:Macedonia" seemingly speaking on behalf[7] of their country with such extremities.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Liotta, P. H. and Simons, A. Thicker than Water? Kin, Religion, and Conflict in the Balkans, from Parameters, Winter 1998, pp. 11-27
- ^ Jupp, J. The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Cambridge University Press, October 1, 2001. ISBN 0-521-80789-1, p. 147.
- ^ ΕΡΤ online Stark message to Skopje, 2007-01-24. Retrieved on 2007-01-25
- ^ Also see Macedonians (Greek) for more details
- ^ British Council — Bulgaria. Macedonians of Bulgaria. Retrieved on September 11, 2006.
- ^ Also see Macedonia (terminology)#In demographics
- ^ See Pschemp's remark in WT:U:
...It was decided that just like using the name of famous living person if you are not that person is not allowed, we don't allow country names because there is no single person who has the authority to edit as a country...
