User talk:Alex Bakharev/Archive12

Happy New Year! E104421 12:55, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

C Новим годом! --Yakudza 16:10, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

DDima wishes you an upcoming Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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С Рождеством Христовым и Новым годом! —dima/s-ko/ 19:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

С Новым годом! Здоровья, счастья, творческих успехов! -- Vald 16:59, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Присоединяюсь, и от всей души желаю хорошего, успешного нового года. To a happy and rewarding 2007! - Introvert • ~ 22:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

С наступающим!

Off topic: be careful when you call 25 December the "Catholic Christmas day". And now for the real thing: can I wish you Happy Hanuka? If so, ברשות, לחיים! (sorry, wrong order, I know, should come out as "b'rshut, lekhaim")

As for the people who now find themselves acting in a bad movie, I hope the season of good will, will provide a good issue to all of this mess. С Новым годом! and c Рождеством, if that applies (too)!--Pan Gerwazy 17:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

The article-writers come first

I've read your comments here and there, and I feel the same as you about the loss of good editors in the past few days (let's hope they come back); and it's actually upsetting me, as I can tell it is you. I know we both have experience of Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish editors, many of whom make Giano look like a mouse: they include some of my favourite editors—I mean characters like Ghirla, Piotrus, Irpen, and Halibutt—because they are so hard-working and brilliant. It depresses me when their work is distracted by any of this wretched civility lawyering: I hope we don't lose anyone more of the great "mastodon" or bulldog article-making wikipedians, because they are some of the best we have. qp10qp 19:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I have read your essay on talk:Geogre and agree wholeheartedly. Alex Bakharev 00:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Ghirlandajo

Hi Alex, thanks for your message on my page. Do you know if Ghirlandajo is really out of here, or just on a very determined wikibreak? He doesn't even reply to e-mail, so it's not looking good... It's certainly a huge loss to the project if he's gone. :-( Bishonen | talk 03:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

Happy New Year!

File:1953 S Novym Godom.jpg

Happy New Year! (Ukrainian: З Новим Роком!, Russian: С Новым Годом!). I wish you in 2007 to be spared of the real life troubles so that you will continue to care about Wikipedia. We will all make it a better encyclopedia! I also wish things here run smoothly enough to have our involvement in Wikipedia space at minimum, so that we can spend more time at Main. --Irpen

Image:Alferov jores.jpg

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Thank you for your consideration

Thank you for the consideration you gave to my RfA. To be chosen as an administrator requires a high level of confidence by a broad section of the community. Although I received a great deal of support, at this time I do not hold the level of confidence required, and the RfA did not pass. You were one of the oppose votes, and raised concerns. I am more than willing to discuss those concerns with you if you are interested. Please let me know. Sincerely, --BostonMA ^talk 12:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Jan Dzierżon

Alex, could you, being neutral to this issue, consider sprotecting Jan Dzierżon ? It seems it is plagued by rather extreme anonymous users from both "Polish" and "German" sides. Maybe a period of peace would help cooling it down a bit. --Lysy^talk 21:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

• Done Alex Bakharev 21:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that was quick. --Lysy^talk 21:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Спасибо большóе!

Thanks for the Cyrillic correction on Moscow Boys Choir. --User:Hempfel P.S. Спасибо большóе!

Typo

I think you meant "cannot be replaced". You wrote "can".[1] Tyrenius 01:39, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• Fixed, thanks for tmentioning it Alex Bakharev 05:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Image licensing

Hello!

I was looking at Image:Chornovil Vyacheslav.jpg which is licensed as {{attribution}}. It is sourced from here and the website says: © 2003-2004 bukinfo.cv.ua. Всi права захищенi. I was wondering if you could determine if this is compatible with the license. My translation using Babelfish yielded the following: "Vs.i of the right of zakhishchen.i." --Oden 22:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• The website says (on the green fild in the bottom): © 2003-2004 bukinfo.cv.ua. Всi права захищенi Використання матерiалiв з обов'язковим посиланням на джерело iнформацiї.: Copyright bukinfo.cv.ua All rights are protected. Reusing of materials is only allowed with a compulsory reference to the source of information. I think it is fully qualify for the attribution tag. Alex Bakharev 23:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Саша, этот деятель на все мои фаир юз фотографии пошел, мол они несоответсвют первому пункту. Разберись с ним, и с Рождеством Христовым тебя! --Kuban Cossack 23:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I left a note on Image talk:Chornovil Vyacheslav.jpg linking to this discussion, in case someone else should question the license. Thanks for your help! --Oden 23:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy new year and ...

Hi, I saw your comment on W‌‌‌ikIra‌‌‌n AfD. Please See this invitation to attacking me on english wikipedia and POV Pushing to Sharif Linux article. See it's talk page if you are fammiliar with copyright issues. Happy new year :-) Hessam 09:56, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't see any personal attack and I have never attacked anyone or used vulgarity like you do above (which I'm not going to repeat. I asked a legitimate question of the administrator there. But you Hessam, just made another vulgar attack as per Zereshk's comments on User_talk:Khoikhoi. You were warned against that action twice and you have done it again. Khodavand 10:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

A leglimate question with inviting him to create an account on english wikipedia to answer me?! What action?! Hessam 10:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I asked him to create an account to answer your accusations against WikIran - he is the main administrator there (and I assume he started the project) and I believe he has a right to know when someone is attacking that project and making libelous and bad-faith accusations. Khodavand 11:09, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Guys, do not fight. So far nothing is worth fighting. WikiIran seems to be so far small but harmless site. If it will be moved to a user or portal space it is fine, left in the main space - no big deal either. The Hessam's references show only some civil talk on the WikiIran's talk pages, that would fit perfectly well to our talk pages as well (still better keep discussion Wikipedia business on Wikipedia's talk page and WikiIran's business on WikiIran). There is a theoretical possibility that WikiIran might become a new ED or WR, etc: the place there nasty personal attacks against our editors are started and there all sorts of stupid flashmob actions are coordinated. If it will become true we would have to purge the references to the site and ban their most active contributors. I am sure the creators of WikiIran are smarter than that. Otherwise see no harm from the new site or the article about it. Alex Bakharev 11:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Question: what is "ED" and "WR"? Anyway I appreciate your rational comments on this issues. There is nothing bad faith about WikIran that I can see (and I am an editor there) and I am positive it would never go in a bad-faith direction. Khodavand 11:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Article was deleted as "non-notable based on WP:WEB and WP:RS" - but those are guidelines, so is there a point to take it to deletion review or let it go? You suggest a move to portal space - how is this done? Khodavand 11:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

BTW if WikIran should be deleted based on those two guidelines, how come Wikimedia sites like Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Persian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, and others are not deleted also? Khodavand 11:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

User Page

Would you please warn this user about his user page regarding to this guideline?! Hessam 12:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Yanukovych brussels.jpg

I noticed that you removed the imagevio notice from Image:Yanukovych brussels.jpg. The notice also serves as a references to Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2007 January 6/Images. Also, there is a equivalent public domain image on the commons, Image:Yanukovych.jpg. I would suggest replacing the image in question which at best can be licensed under a attribution license and could possibly be a copyright infringement with the public domain image from the commons (diff). --Oden 16:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Another IP vandal

Hi and a Happy New Year. Please see this. I had left a warning for vandalism and trolling on that IP's page, and this is what I received. Thanks. Dahn 00:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

• Done Alex Bakharev 00:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

ScottFisher Sockpuppets

You asked for a reference. Did you see this: [2]. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.86.36.97 (talk) 12:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

• I have blocked Patty Rising Alex Bakharev 22:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

• • Thank you. Does the image need to be deleted? 80.86.36.97 14:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for inviting me and showing me around, nice to see other Russians on Wikipedia. :D Communist47 16:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

unprotect request

Hi Alex, I'd appreciate if you could unprotect Districts of Israel, as there seems to be agreement on Talk among all but one of us as to what course to follow. Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 05:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

• Done Alex Bakharev 05:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm hesitant to again request unprotection, but Khoikhoi seems to have accepted a compromise. Perhaps you should read the Talk yourself? Thanks for your assistance in any event. Tewfik^Talk 05:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Thank you for your support in my my RfA, which passed with a tally of 117/0/1. I hope that my conduct as an admin lives up to the somewhat flattering confidence the community has shown in me. I hope that my experience as an admin on Commons stands me in good stead for it here, and that I don't get carried away and remember there are differences. :) Please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page should you need anything or want to discuss something with me.--Nilfanion (talk) 16:03, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Orthodox church (building)

huh? чаво-чаво? `'mikka 02:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Nataliya Dmytruk

Take a look at Nataliya Dmytruk after this edit. Also look who uploaded Image:Nataliya Dmytruk.jpg. The change between a free use image and a fair use image took place here. I found this free image while going through User:Irpen's upload log.

We could all have saved ourselves a lot of trouble by simply switching back to the free image instead of debating the issue of replaceability. I also entertained the idea of leaving a message at User talk:Irpen about why it is wrong to substitute a free image with a fair use image, but I think that he or she already knows this. I also thought about adding this article to List of Ukrainians, but I am unsure if it is suitable. --Oden 16:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Ahwaz

After looking at the current state of of Ethnic minorities in Iran, I understand why Ahwaz was objecting to it. To be fair, I think he didn't go far enough. Beit Or 18:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Note

A user, Quizimodo, that you blocked is abusing the ability to edit his talk page by blanking. John Reaves 07:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• I think he has his right for this. I did not want to drive him from Wiki, just to stop the disruption, I am sorry if he is left Alex Bakharev 07:45, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Antarctica church.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Antarctica church.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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User:82.77.7.239

Translation of the message received here: "You stink from far away. One can tell you are a stinking kike. Never mind, there's a place in front for you at the next holocaust you regurgitated thing you! You'll leave this message [on your page], as it is not maculature! You altered shit! I would make soap out of you, but you kike meat is stinking and unsuitable for soap!" This is perhaps the time to call admin's attention to the fact that this person and his acolytes roam free and untouched on Romanian wikipedia, and that they have authored hundreds of articles with demeaning and strongly anti-semitic content. Dahn 18:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

That person also uses this IP, and I suspect he is also User:Daos. It is entirely possible that all of them are avatars of ro:Utilizator:Dacodava. Dahn 19:10, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Both IPs are already blocked by Khoikhoi. I need some proof to act against Daos. Alex Bakharev 23:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Alexander Lebedev

Hello

Thank you for your recent edits to the Alexander Lebedev article, I have never seen an article grow so fast in such a short period of time, its as if you were waiting for this page to start so you can add all of the info you added. I am in the process of collecting more English references/sources to add to it. There is quite a lot of info out there: [3] & [4] Thanks again.Trade2tradewell 16:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Advice

I am unable to edit the Ethnic minorities in Iran article - even updating a wikilink to an article (Politics of Khuzestan) which has had a name change. [5] My POV tag was also deleted on a section that contains an extremely POV statement "The current governmental policy can be characterised by a mixture of celebrating and furthering cultural diversity under a joint Iranian national umbrella ..." The Iranian government couldn't write better propaganda even if it tried! I have attempted in the past to insert a more NPOV sentence, but this has been disallowed [6]. I'd like your advice on how I proceed when every edit I make is reverted, even updating wikilinks.--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 21:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for protecting that page. I have put two paragraphs that I think are the most POV parts of the article up for discussion on the talk page, gave my reasons and suggestions. I will now wait for the response. Hopefully, a settlement will be reached soon.--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 02:21, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

A4bot

I have now unblocked A4bot. Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/A4bot for the approval. Agathoclea 00:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Civility

Hey, can you take a quick look here. I am having some serious problems with civility on Tajik's part. I tried being nice, being formal, being humorous, but he still comes back with all types of personal attacks and degrading comments, both about me, about Turks and about I don't know what. I reported him for 3RR yesterday, but nothing happened. But the main problem is with civility. Thanks Baristarim 01:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Unlegitimate blocking, please pay attention!

Alex, you blocked my IP adress 77.123.148.219 with a reason "because your IP address was recently used by "A4bot". The reason given for A4bot's block is: "unauthorized bot".

Note that this reason was not true!

Here my bot have alredy got a flag (Here is a file log), thus it was not already "unauthorized". I had to write to other english administrators with a request to unblock me. Luckily Agathoclea did it. Please do not cause such unlegitimate things more. Thank you for understanding. --A4 01:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Fisss is back

...and so are unsourced images he keeps uploading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Patriarshy.JPG Azov 04:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

user:Halibutt disruptive behavior

Hello Alex Bakharev. It is problems with Halibutt again, I know that he and other his Polish friends trusts you, so I thought that maybe you could help in this case again. I do not going to describe his "left" of wikipedia (in quite a disruptive style [7]) but by his "left" he his doing disruptive edits again - mocking from Lithuanian language again - [8]; uses nonconstructive edit summaries [9], mocking from living persons (violation of living persons biography) by adding various names [10] like Kazimierz Garszwa instead of Kazimieras Garšva. Please could you advise on this situation?. M.K. 13:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

M.K., the incivilities you mention are relatively minor. Halibutt is just returned after some crisis with his relations with other editors and I do not want to start the thing again. Try to ignore his personal faults and discuss articles instead if you can Alex Bakharev 10:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I will try to do as you say, but i do not know how long, if such behavior will continue. BTW, can you delete this Kazimierz Garszwa redirect, because it was created to present particular contributor attitude only; and have no value in EN wiki. Cheers, M.K. 18:21, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

• Done Alex Bakharev 20:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for deleting WP:Point product. M.K. 14:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Question

It is no state secret that Jidan (talk · contribs), Ahwaz (talk · contribs), and Azerbaijani (talk · contribs) (among others I'm sure) have taken to edit-warring on the Persian Gulf and Ethnic minorities in Iran articles (and perhaps others), levying claims of nationalism and other not-so-friendly remarks on the way. As a result, you protected the Ethnic minorities in Iran article, and I protected the Persian Gulf. I'm just sick of having every article tangentially related to Israel, Islam, and the Arab-Muslim-Persian world protected and overseen because editors see them as battlegrounds to continue the nonsense feuds that plague the real world. So my question is, at what point (in your opinion) do we stop policing the articles and instead start going after those editors who are especially disruptive in these articles? -- tariqabjotu 16:24, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

• There are many conflicts in these regions. So people understandably do not trust each others and keep the battleground mentalities. If we ban all such editors there will be almost no development in these areas. If we ban some but not the others we could get highly biased articles. If we do not ban we would get royal administrative headaches, but the development ought to be good ... Alex Bakharev 10:59, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Politics of Khuzestan

Could you have a look at this article. User:Ali doostzadeh insists that the line he has inserted is different from the previous sentence, but I think it says the same thing[11]. Also, he says that Arabs are immigrants, but this is not true unless you believe that a people who have been in Khuzestan since the seventh century are immigrants - I was willing to delete the term "indigenous" when referring to Arabs as a compromise[12], but he insists that a people that has been .[13] He added fact tags to one section, then just deleted the section.[14] I've worked hard on this article and have tried hard to include all POVs, including criticism of human rights organisations and the argument that ethnic issues are being exploited or encouraged by foreign governments (which is the Iranian government's position).

I don't want to see this article degenerate with a petty edit war and I don't want to violate 3RR again and be blocked again, yet User:Ali doostzadeh is making this impossible. It is interesting to note that he has not edited this article before. He has taken an interest after I made updates on the elections section of the article today [15] - although he has not disputed this section yet. This has also raised my suspicions: [16]--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 21:14, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

The Arabs in Khuzestan are immigrants. Some from Qajar times like Bani-Torof. Thus they are not only not indigenous, but they are non-indigenous relative to the Indo-Iranian elemnts of the aea and you brought the issue up. You know how much the claim indigenous has to do with land claims. (Look at Israel and Palestine). Thus this needs to be mentioned. As per the so called groups, it is well knownn that Saddam supported Arabic separatist groups you mentioned and thus their POV is not valid either. Critism from human rights organization directly refer to reports from these groups and it needs to be mentioned that these groups had an input on those reports. As per the treatment of Shi'ites in the Arab world, this will have an entry. It doesn't matter if it raises your suspicisions or not, since it is a valid entry. --alidoostzadeh 21:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Removing images from article pages

I have started a new thread on this subject at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Removing_images_on_sight. Feel free to weigh in. --Oden 07:36, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Good Humor

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For unfailingly remaining civil and assuming good faith. How you manage to always do this is a big mystery to me. (I wish I had the same strength of character :-). Oden 09:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Livejournal page - edits

Hello. I added a few lines and a couple of accompanying links to news articles in the references. I only noticed afterwards that you had edited the page. I'm sorry if we conflicted while editing. I do trust though that the links and and minor additions that were added help to update and expand the intent of the article section, since which time the persons and situations in question have had several recent and important developments. I hope that the addition is helpful and properly documented. Hope this helps. Just wanted to let you know so as to touch base with you. Thanks again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.173.245.20 (talk) 01:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC).

Featured Picture nomination

Hi Alex. Can I ask you to delete the Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks which I created, as I have just made the same nomination only on the Commons, so I won't be needing the nomination on Wikipedia anymore? TIA, —dima/s-ko/ 02:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

• Done Alex Bakharev 02:59, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! —dima/s-ko/ 03:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Unsoursed image

Alex please see. User:Yarillastremenog removed tag no source from Image:Ukrainiannazigirls.jpg, Image:Ukrainiannaziatrocity2.jpg, Image:Ukrainiannaziatrocity2.jpg and Image:Ukrainiannaziatrocity.jpg. --Yakudza 00:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

• I left a note on his talk page. Alex Bakharev 01:15, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Thank you. --Yakudza 01:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Stalin's antisemitism

Thanks for merging the histories at Stalin's antisemitism. There is however still a cut-and-paste split at the talk page. -- Petri Krohn 12:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Lutsk

AFter the German invasion the Soviets (NKVD, wardens?) killed several hundreds of Lutsk prisoners. One person has removed this information twice. I have quoted two links ,also removed by the person. Would you be so kind to stop him? Xx236 15:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

• You seems to find a compromise with User:Kuban kazak without my intervention. Thanks! Alex Bakharev 20:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Could you help, please?

Dear Alex! I really have a trouble and can not agree with Vlad Fedorov and another unregistered Russian user. But I also understand that my editing may be POV. Could you take a look at the articles Active measures, Human rights in Russia, GRU, and FSB, and correct whatever you think should be corrected? Otherwise, everything will simply be destroyed. This is really frustrating. Probably I have to focus on biology. Thanks a lot. Biophys 17:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

• Biophys! I will try to do what I can later today Alex Bakharev 20:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

• Oh... Biophys couldn't just live with his pain over Stomakhin article. Of course deleting his conspiracy theories, defamatory statements, unsupported statements and his libels (referred to by him as summarizing) should be reviewed by someone sane.Vlad fedorov 07:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• • Guys, I will look, I promise Alex Bakharev 07:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 18 January, 2007, a fact from the article Alexander Lebedev, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

-- Yomangani^talk 01:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Oden (talk · contribs) and WP:STALK

You posted this comment at 13:16, 11 January 2007 (here):

User:Oden is doing useful and unthankful job of enforcing our increasingly more strict policies of the fair use image by patrolling old images. It is a delicate task there it is critical to explain users that how their images that were celebrated catch just a few months ago now are considered shameful policy violations. Obviously, the users should receive all the explanations over the policy changes, be encouraged to find the free equivalents of the fair use, there should be an honest dialog over their reasons while the free images are unsuitable for the articles. The most important the users should not feel that tagging of their images is a sort of a personal harassment or a vendetta. I am not sure Oden is doing a right thing in this respect. He has chosen to patrol the fair use images based on the uploader. Often he has a disagreement with a user, then "review" all his her image over years. As a result the uploader feels harassed and persecuted even if Oden's claims are valid. From the point of view of stimulating the search for free images mass tagging of images by a single uploader are counterproductive: if tagging one..two images per week stimulate users to find free substitutes or releasing the images under free copyright licenses, mass tagging just lead to apathy.

Oden was many times warned by different admins not to violate WP:STALK and to be more thoughtful about user's feelings see [17],

[18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26].

I have counted at least five different admins and two prolific users in good standing. Still after all this warnings he behaves exactly the same. E.g. after a mild personal attack from [[User:Kuban Kazak] [27]. Oden within minutes started tagging Kuban's images: [28], [29], [30], [31], [32]. He never had any ineterest in Kuban images. I wish to apply WP:AGF but it is difficult not to see the usage of copyright issues as a weapon in a personal conflict, the thing a few admins including me specifically asked Oden not to do. Very similar methods are used by Oden in his personal conflict with Irpen. Irpen is not a problem user out of hundreds of the images he uploaded only a couple were found wrong but he does not take the stalking lightly. I specifically asked Oden to leave irpen's upload log along. Still after all these warnings Oden is still bragging about searching this log [33].

Guys, Oden is a very hardworking user and I do not want to block him, but the warnings do not have any effects so far. Can somebody talk with him and persuade him to change his modus operandi? Alex Bakharev 13:16, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I was hoping to avoid commenting on this comment, but I now feel compelled to do so.

User:Irpen

As regards my interaction with User:Irpen: in december 2006 we interacted at Image talk:Werbowy.jpg, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Abu badali and WP:AN/I. On January 6, 2007 I tagged Image:Yanukovych brussels.jpg as copyrighted. It begs the question of how I found the image?

Here is how: the article on Ruslana gets spammed with images, I have eight edits to that article since December 8, 2006 (diff 1 diff 2 diff 3 diff 4 diff 5 diff 6 diff 7 diff 8). On January 6, 2007 I checked the image licenses for all the images in Ruslana. I found that Image:Ruslana pub.jpg had a resolution which was higher than web-resolution and tagged it (diff). I checked who the uploader was and rechecked the upload logs looking at the two images preceding and two images following this upload. The first image preceding this one which had not been deleted was Image:Yanukovych brussels.jpg. User:Irpen had tagged it as {{attribution}}, while the image caption said "All rights reserved. All materials on this site belong to Victor Yanukovych’s Press Centre. © 2004-2006 In case any of these site materials are used, reference to ya2006.com.ua is obligatory." I tagged the image as fair use (diff) and then as replaceable fair use (diff). User:Irpen removed the tag and wrote "rv trolling, the tag says it all" (diff). I then tagged is as {{imagevio}} (diff) and copied it to Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2007 January 6/Images where it is awaiting processing. Alex: if I was nitpicking Irpen in December, why wait until the next month to tag an additional image? Isn't it more likely that this is the result of two cursory exams of the log?

User:Kuban kazak

User:Kuban kazak removed {{imagevio}} from Image:Yanukovych brussels.jpg and wrote "copyright paranoya" in the edit summary (diff). I reverted (diff) and left a message on that users talk page that the templates should not be removed until the issue has been resolved (diff). The users response was to revert and write in the edit summary "please keep my talk page free of copyright paranoya" (diff). (There was also a personal attack here, but that is beside the point.)

Removing images tags without addressing the fundamental issue in apparent bad faith can be considered harmful. When I left a message on Kuban kazak's talk page (diff) the user responded in the same manner (diff). This gave me cause for concern that the user's image uploads could be called into question. Since this user did not respond to my previous comment on the user's talk page I saw no reason to interact further with that user. I reviewed that users upload log. Some of the images I tagged as replaceable (listed above), in other instances I added a detailed fair use rationale (diff 1 diff 2 diff 3 diff 4 diff 5) Alex: if my intention was to harass or stalk this user, why did I then add detailed fair use rationales to these images?

Stalking

As for stalking, it is common practice at WP:PUI and other similar venues to examine and list the contributions of editors. Recent changes, new page and newbie patrollers also interact with users who disagree with them in a similar manner. If such behaviour is acceptable there it should also be acceptable elsewhere (or in contrast if such behaviour is unacceptable elsewhere it should also be unacceptable there). As I have stated before if a user makes an edit which indicates that they do not fully comprehened our policies then examening that user's logs and taking necessary action is not stalking. Of course I would prefer to interact with any user in a positive manner.

Stalking is a disruptive, out-of-process bad-faith edit. WP:STALK says:

"The term "wiki-stalking" has been coined to describe following a contributor around the wiki, editing the same articles as the target, with the intent of causing annoyance or distress to another contributor."

"This does not include checking up on an editor to fix errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, nor does it mean reading a user's contribution log; those logs are public for good reason. The important part is the disruption - disruption is considered harmful."

When a contributor refers to one of our five pillars as "grand yet hollow principles like 'free content' " (diff) I find cause for concern.

Conflict of interest

User:Alex Bakharev has stated that User:Irpen is Alex's friend (diff). I don't regard this as a conflict of interest, but it is interesting to note.

Behaviour of user:Alex Bakharev

I have much respect for Alex Bakharev, but I find Alex's continued insinuation that I violate WP:STALK to be less than helpful. Consider events from my perspective: being reported to WP:AN/I several times by users who do not comprehend our image use policies is very frustrating. Alex's repeated claim that I am a wiki-stalker can hardly be aimed at improving my experience.

Alex Bakharev also removed the copyright notice from Image:Yanukovych brussels.jpg (here), but the image has been reported to Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2007 January 6/Images. Alex knows that removing copyright tags applied in good faith is not proper etiquette, so I have to presume that Alex's action was based on an assumption that the copyright notice was added with malice. It wasn't, since the copyright status really is being called into question.

I also don't like the way Alex Bakharev downplays the roles of user:Irpen and user:Kuban kazak. Irpen has a history of vandalizing image tags (Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Irpen). And how can a personal attack be "mild"? (Interestigly enough the edit which Alex refers to as the personal attack is the one that precedes the edit which I regarded as a personal attack. That makes two personal attacks.)

"Bragging"

Alex: I really thought I managed to do something good when I found a free image in User:irpen's upload log (my comment on your talk page). I also found it strange that user:irpen first uploaded a free image, replaced it with a fair use image (diff), and then did not make the rest of use aware of the existence of a free image when Irpen presented arguments for why the fair use image could not be considered replaceable.

I wasn't bragging, I was happy that I managed to find a replacement image under a free license. If you thought that I was bragging you could have told me so, I had no idea that you felt like this. We have agreed on issues many times (here, here and here), and I have always valued your opinions. It saddens me that you believe my motives to be something else than the promotion of free content.

Incivility on my part

As for any incivility on my part it is of course disruptive and inexcusable. My only reason is my increased frustration with the present situation (see my user page and this edit).

In conclusion

The way my contributions have been portrayed makes it sound as if I see deleting images as an end. They are at best means to an end, then end being a free encyclopedia. My interactions with the users in question has been limited to the images in question, and the articles in which they are used. If I were a wiki-stalker I would probably also have edit outside of this scope.

I have suffered harassment several times when removing copyrighted content. One editor created three puppet accounts and vandalized by userspace repeatedly (like here). I've also had the dubious pleasure of users creating vandal accounts with descriptive terminology appended to my username (User:Odenass, User:Odinass).

An indication of my respect for the separation of a user's contributions to Wikipedia from their personal life is that I started this thread. If I were a cyberstalker I probably would not have written that, would I?

Sincerely, --Oden 22:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

I wanna put this on my user page, but am scared to death to do it. nobs 03:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes

This user survived twelve months in the Wikigulag.

Arab speakers of Khuzestan

Hi the Arab speakers of Khuzestan are non-idigineous relative to the indo-Iranian population of the area and displaced them historically. Most of their major tribes came in during the safavid and qajar era. This is well known that after the Islamic conquest, many Iranians were brutually killed or wiped out. I am not sure if admins can take side on this issue, but I can definitely provide more than enough facts with this regards. [[34]]--alidoostzadeh 01:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

• I thought you were talking about modern emigrants from Saddam and post-Saddam Iraq. I think it is stronly POV to label as emigrants people who lived on the land for a millenium. By the same criterium Persian in Iran, Slavs in Russia and Anglo-Saxon in Britain are all non-indugineus immigrants. Alex Bakharev 03:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Arabs have been living in Khuzestan since Sassanid times. Attempts to cast them as immigrants and not entitled to consideration or tolerance are racism pure and simple. Blaming current-day Arab citizens of Iran for actions committed 1300 years ago (actions that Ali is exagerrating) is also racism. I haven't been working on the Khuzestani articles for a while, being short on time, but I am quite familiar with the ethnic Persian nationalist viewpoint. Zora 06:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

See the talk-page. The majority of Arabs of Khuzestan came during the Safavid and Qajar era. There is no Arab presence in Khuzestan before Islamic invasion of Iran. You are talking about Shapur and his settlement of Arabs around Kerman based on Tabari. Kerman is far from Khuzestan. As per racism, I think you need to look no further that some of the groups in that page were suppored directly by Saddam and Saddam expelled many Iranians from iraq and also killed many Iranians in Iraq (Kurds) and dropped chemical bombs on Iranian civilians and yet some of these groups mentioned in that page were backed by him. --alidoostzadeh 06:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Guys, Saddam was a bad guy, no questions about it, but I fail to see, how non-Iraqi Arabs are responsible for his crimes (the Iraqis are hardly responsible either since Saddam was not a democratically elected leader). Lets not talk nonsense Alex Bakharev 09:21, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Districts of Israel

Hi there, we have been trying to resolve this on the talk page. Though Khoikhoi hasn't been in agreement with the majority there, and instead s/he appears to be constantly pushing his own differing viewpoint onto the article. You will notice that when s/he reverts there is no reason given. As such would you please look at the recent entires to the talk page. After reading it you should be able to see that there is no consensus whatsoever for having no image at all in the article, but that instead Israel districts.png is the one which should be on the page. Thanks for you attention to this matter. Mathmo ^Talk 07:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

errr... never mind, perhaps.... I see you wrote your view on the talk page while I was writing this on yours! lol Anyhow... I'd appreciate it if you took another glance at the talk page so that you are able to then judge what the current majority consensus is on it. Thanks. Mathmo ^Talk 07:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 20:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA! It succeeded, and I now have The Tools – which I'm planning to use as wisely as I possibly can. I hope I will be worth your confidence. Thanks again! :-) –mysid☎ 20:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:New articles bot

Unfortunatly nobody could be found to create it for us. See Wikipedia_talk:Bot_requests#No_bot_despite_wide_support.3F. Perhaps you can stirr up some attention - I didn't know how to be 'less vague'... :( -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  04:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

The nice thing about this bot is it would make our jobs easier, so time saving in the long run :) -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  20:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Phallus and Putin by Biophys

User Biophys has added the following text by three edits in section called fiction:

(cur) (last) 18:28, 25 January 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (→In fiction) (cur) (last) 18:28, 25 January 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (→In fiction) (cur) (last) 18:26, 25 January 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (→In fiction)

When Russian President Vladimir Putin called on women to have more children, journalist Vladimir Rakhmankov wrote a satiric paper calling Putin "the nation's phallic symbol." Vlad fedorov 03:58, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Guess??? "Phallus" article of course.Vlad fedorov 04:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 26 January, 2007, a fact from the article Yakov Kreizer, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomangani^talk 08:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Bots

Hi Alex: you added Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AlexNewArtBot to the WP:BRFA page, but that page doesn't exist yet. When you create it please readd it to the page. —Mets501 (talk) 04:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Done. Sorry for putting a redlink. Alex Bakharev 04:22, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Dear Alex please help with Stomakhin article

Alex, although I agree that some phrases are realy may be disputed, Biophys deletes sourced and supported material. Please review my explanations at [35] and review the article. Mikka is absent and Biophys does whatever he wants.Vlad fedorov 04:42, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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Politics of Khuzestan

There is an attempt by two political editors to remove entire sections from this article without comment.[36] [37] [38] The edit war is accompanied by various offensive accusations against me and another editor: Nazi, anti-Iranian, insane, promoters of genocide, separatist, racist, Baathist, Saddam supporter, propagandist: [39] [40] [41] If there is to be any solutions to the editorial disputes on this article and other articles related to Al-Ahwaz (Khuzestan), there need to be great admin attention. I have filed a request for comment, but I can see from previous requests that little is done.[42] I have also agreed to mediation [43], but this offer was turned down by another editor in dispute.[44]--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 18:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

That you are separatist is from the fact that you had statement in your page calling for Arab unification. You didn't deny it , but just erased it. [45]. So it is not accusation. And that is the political stance of the Ba'athist party and Saddam as well and Saddam was a racist. The other user Khorshid who is half Arab is discussing racism amongst arab separatist groups, so his accusation is valid. As per removing OR that is part of wikipedia rule. Specially when it comes to distorting history. I asked for names of Professors in major universities who agree with the historical manipulations made by Bani-Torof. You didn't respond neither did Zora. If you find such a Professor, and none exist actually, then it is perfectly valid source. Note nobody removed Amnesty international or HRW, even though their information is manipulated by separatist groups. But you can not reference separatist groups as making valid claims. Sites such as HRW and amnestry are okay. I would read Wikipedia's policy on OR and also the part that wikipedia is not a soap box. --alidoostzadeh 19:15, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

1. I am entitled to put what the hell I want on my user page, so long as it is within Wikipedia rules. Who are you to demand that people cannot put up a legitimate user box on their user page?

2. You state that it is the political stance of the Ba'athists to call for Arab unity and that means anyone who calls for Arab unity is a racist and a Saddam supporter. Consequently, you are calling me a racist simply because of a user box I had on my user page months ago. Get over your stupid paranoia about Arabs, will you? I find you deeply offensive.

3. There is nothing original in the sections you deleted unilaterally. It was all sourced. Your deletions are vandalism and you are a vandal. Go read Wikipedia policies yourself.--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 19:33, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

You are entitled to do it. But then I am entitled to call you a separatist based on that since by definiton of the tag, you believe separating the arab speaking portion of Khuzestan. Thus you can not claim to be unbiased in the issue as you portray it. As per OR, you must refer to sites that are neutral. Sites that directly supported Saddam [46] and praise Gammal Abdel Naser [47] are not neutral. Note Iranian users did not delete amnesty or HRW although they are partially biased, but the other sites like the ones supporting Saddam are not neutral when it comes to sections on Human Rights. And note pan-arabism by its legacy has been racist politically. Since Arab unity does not take into account Iraq's diverse population and for example its result was the genocide of Kurds. Note the sites I removed contain both political support for the likes of Saddam and Gammal Abdel Naser and also advance historical revisionism (Bani-Torof's article which has been fully criticized in the talk page). If you want to create an article on historical revisionism by pan-arabist be my guess, but an article on Khuzestan should not contain OR. --alidoostzadeh 19:56, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I have never supported separatism in Khuzestan, so get that straight. Nor are you unbiased - you clearly are, as is everyone. I can only see a passing reference to Saddam Hussein's execution on just one of those sites you have deleted (www.arabistan.org), which the site seems to oppose (as do many people, including many Kurds). It is just another bit of your paranoia. Note that Iranian nationalism has always tended to have a Persian chauvinist tendency. I don't know whether you are a Persian chauvinist, but you clearly have a problem with Arabs and Arab editors on Wikipedia.--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 20:01, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

One point on the issue of Arab unity. The Arab unity user box contains the emblem of the Arab League, which Iran has said it wishes to join [48]. Iran also sponsors organisations that support Arab unity. So how is calling for Arab unity anti-Iranian?--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 20:19, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Note Iran's government is not my concern. Pan-arabism is racist as shown by Saddam, Gamal abdel Naser and etc. The site has maps that have clearly separated Khuzestan regions of Iran (all the Lur,Bakhtiari, Persian parts) and even extends to Bushehr!. I am sorry but that is not a relible site by wiki-standard. I am all ears to people who are full Phds and have doctorates or encyclopedias. --alidoostzadeh 20:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

But you also removed other sites - basically anything you can get away with. And Nasser was married to an Iranian! You can't get away with this "all Arabs are racist" nonsense. As for people with full PhDs, the director of the Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation is Dr Karim Abdian [49], but you insist that this organisation is separatist and is not a reliable source. You only want those whose views you share to be used in this article. You are undermining NPOV.--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 22:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Nasser was anti-Iranian and changed the name of Persian Gulf. I have a PhD also, the arabistan site is totally unreliable. The site is POV. It has a map claiming all of Khuzestan (which is mostly non-Arab) alongside Bushehr. It praises the likes of Saddam and Nasser (major propoent of pan-arabist nationalism) and those it is not a reliable academic site and can not be considered factual. Note its meering with HRW also shows why the reports were biased. As per director of Ahwaz is not a full professor with publications in peer-reviewed journals. He quotes historical revisionists like Bani-Torof. Thus it is not reliable (although much less radical than arabistan.org) site. Note I did not say all Arabs are racist, but I said when a matter of factual objectivity is at stake, we can only quote qualified academics who are recognized and have peer reviewed journals. Random web-sites (even if the owner has a PhD) does not account. Else I can create a website and put all of my ideologies and beliefs and quote it as fact in Wikipedia. This is against wikipedia's policy. --alidoostzadeh 23:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

So, now a phd is not enough to be sourced by Wikipedia. All sources must be academic. Could I have clarification that this is Wikipedia rules? Also, there is a professor from Shaw Univesity in the US named Dr Ali Al-Taie who states that "The Arabs of Khuzistan/al-Ahwaz have been in the area before the Persians arrived. Ethnic Arabs maintained this presence as the allies under the Persian Achaemenis Empire (539-333 BC). Despite the various political changes, Arabs have remained subject to systematic 'Persianization' and have been deprived of their collective ethnic rights."[50]. Since he meets the criteria you have set, I will put his quote into the article.--الأهواز | Hamid | Ahwaz 23:09, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

IS Professor Shaw a historian that writes on Achaemenid, elamite issues? I have not seen a single journal article or book about Achaemenid empire from him. Where are his articles in major journals on Achaemenid and elamite history. By the way if PhD is enough, then I will start quoting my own opinion. How is that?Please do not make a circus out of wikipedia. Each study has its own experts. Elamite/Achaemenid history has its own expert (Potts, Frye, Brian..etc.). AEI is also a political organization. --alidoostzadeh 23:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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Alex please review my 24h arbitrary block

Dear Alex, following Biophys accuses and his reverting of your edit article on Stomakhin I was arbitrarily blocked by English speaking users. It is evident that they cannot validate statements of Biophys that I have violated BLP. Is the court sentence is enough reliable source? This is now the most important matter in the dispute. By the way, if we would apply the same criteria to Stomakhin supporters statements they should be deleted too since they contradict to offcial materials, news articles and so on. Biophys wants only his sources to be in the article. It is evident he doesn't consent to any version made by you, me or Mikka. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.184.225.28 (talk) 07:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC).

I agreed long time ago that the court sentence is enough reliable source. Only RKO site and citation by Sokolov are unreliable. If this citation does not appear, everything else can be hopefully negotiated. My position was not to use any unreliable defamatory sources at all (as Wikipedia requires). The compromise position is to describe the citation by Sokolov in general words (as I did it) but do not provide direct citation, since it contradicts the alleged source, and Sokolov himself do not refer to any source. Biophys 20:46, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Yanukovych brussels.jpg

Hi Alex. I see that you removed the copyvio notice from this image. I don't want to just override another administrator's action, but all rights reserved means, well, all rights reserved. Nowhere do they say that they are permitting the image's use in all cases, or in any case. "If the image is used, attribution must be given" is not the same as "if attribution is given, the image may be used." The all rights reserve tag very clearly indicates that they could take action against those responsible for any use of the image that they disapproved of; thus the {{attribution}} tag is incorrect. This image should be deleted, and if you do not object I will do so. --Robth^Talk 21:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Naming issues

Please take a look at conversation I have started. May be we can do something about this in a good faith.--Bryndza 14:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Nice addition to Gregory of Nazianzus

Thanks for adding the beautiful image! Wareh 14:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Have you noticed this?

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Extreme_long-term_sockpuppetism

Due to the edit histories I'm giving you and Piotr the heads up. Looks like your neck of the woods. Durova^Charge! 19:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)