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Ognistysztorm
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by Ognistysztorm » Wed Dec 11, 2024 8:15 pm
The Arbitration Committee had to ban Ivana because she's going off the rails by too much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1262118418
For making edits in the Palestine–Israel topic area after off-wiki canvassing requests, and encouraging other users to game the extended confirmed restriction and engage in disruptive editing, Ïvana (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is indefinitely banned from Wikipedia. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
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Ognistysztorm
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by Ognistysztorm » Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:01 pm
Wikipedia suspends pro-Palestine editors coordinating efforts behind the scenes.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-inno ... cle-833180
BUT, there's a caveat like always. Anti-Hamas users such as ABHammad were in the meantime blocked from the site out of spurious accusations that they're sockpuppets of Icewhiz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1262600124
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1262625724
At this point, nothing surprises me.
Behavioral evidence? I hope that's a joke. If we're to use edit summaries such as 'adding info' to find sockpuppeteers, we'd have half the editors on Wikipedia blocked. Anyone with a clear mind can see that I am not connected to Icewhiz or HaOfa in any way. This is persecution driven entirely by politics, reminiscent of Stalin-era purges.
Editors who don't align with the ideology on Wikipedia-joining the demonization of a certain country and people enforced by our unblockable "regulars," who never face consequences, are banned. Those who aren't their friends and don't follow the ideological rules end up blocked after the disruptive regulars file baseless claims against them. The regulars have found their go-to tactic: the Icewhiz accusation. Disagree with them? Sure, they’ll claim everyone is just another account of Icewhiz.
And this happens just as I was about to submit much evidence to ArbCom for PIA5, showing how our community has been distorted and infiltrated. ARBPIA has become blatant propaganda, with our systems (including SPI) weaponized to block individuals based on false claims. Those who filed the case against me are, not suprisingly, parties to the Arbcom case. It's a shame we have come to the point of show trials and kangaroo courts.
If there is any logic or sense left in our system and community, this block should be lifted immediately.
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by Ognistysztorm » Sat Dec 14, 2024 2:22 pm
The Flood is trying to squirm out of the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1263034835
I greatly apologise if I am interrupting, or talking out of order, or breaking any to me unknown rule here, but my overactive autistic pattern-recognition cannot help to notice several very suspicious simultaneously coinciding "coincidences" for this case.
1) As stated above, on the "pro-Israel no matter what its government does" "side" there are very suspiciously professional sockmasters who have used hundreds of disruptive and systematically manipulative sockpuppet accounts.
2) BilledMammal's extensive work here in Wikipedia to catalogue the activity of all mostly good faith pro-human rights editors who have a differing perspective than himself regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict seemed to be very unnaturally thorough in terms of absolutely enormous required manual workload for something supposedly not handled via customised artificial intelligence software and supercomputers unavailable to the public at large.
3) BilledMammal has previously participated in several attempts to delegitimise and thereby remove all references from Al Jazeera from Wikipedia, which is the main news organisation that reports war crimes by the Israeli government. [28] [29] [30]
And another longtime editor apparently noticed that BilledMammal's behaviour and current arguments (that it is somehow not the army of bad faith editing sockpuppets that is the problem, but rather the usually well-behaved longterm good faith editors who add reliably referenced information and have logical arguments... at least as long as those editors have committed the crime of being for all human rights, including those of Palestinians, and as such are obstacles to the sockpuppet army) are very similar to those of a banned old sockpuppet editor. [31]
4) BilledMammal's list was somehow quickly found and published by "journalist" in heavy support of the current actions of the Israeli government.
5) The information in question was quickly retweeted by Elon Musk in front of 52.7 million people, while attacking Wikipedia, likely in order to build massive social agitation regarding the case.
6) As seen in the following articles, Elon Musk has apparently become a close ally of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [32] [33] [34]
7) Right after Donald Trump won the United States election 2024, as Benjamin Netanyahu and a large statistical majority of the Israeli population wished (likely due to that the support for Israel's current military policies has been statistically recorded as being much stronger among the Republican voter base than among the Democrat voter base, rather than any significant difference in the support from the Biden and Trump administrations), BilledMammal initiated a process to attack several of the editors that he had catalogued.
All of the above, combined with the very heavy overall western media hushdown regarding the full scale of the horrors being committed against the Palestinians, outside of Wikipedia, turns on my possibly paranoid pattern-recognition and makes me heavily suspect that Mossad or another professional information-manipulating intelligence agency may be involved regarding this case in order to get the almost last public western bastion of reliable truthful information, meaning Wikipedia, in line with the other western news reporting, since the pro-Israeli government sockpuppet army will then have no dedicated defence left against them revising all of the Wikipedia pages regarding this conflict as they wish, including by completely banning all references to Al Jazeera.
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by Ognistysztorm » Sat Dec 14, 2024 2:38 pm
Continuation of sophistry:
Also, I ask that Wikipedia's arbitration committee members will please take into consideration that, although the pro-all human rights "side" editors are overall nice people by my experience, they are also only human, and as such they may get somewhat testy sometimes due to being bombarded with videos depicting extremely tragic human rights abuses as a natural part of staying informed for their work here, combined with having to deal with a neverending army of extremely biased bad faith editing sockpuppets, and extreme insults and even death threats from pro-Israeli government editors, which I think, yes, are very valid excuses regarding such an extreme situation, especially when dealing with editors who seem to defend the atrocities.
Just a few personally experienced example links following here, and the editors who have been dealing with this topic area far more extensively and for far longer than myself (I have currently also almost entirely retired from it, due to not being emotionally stable enough to continuously deal with this level of horror), have naturally had to endure extremely more of it. [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]
Also, punishing any of them for comparatively extremely minor offences considering the full context of the situation and everything they have had to deal with, would not only be extremely unfair, but also enormously worsen the overall reliability and behaviour connected to this topic area in Wikipedia, and also play entirely into the hands of the sockpuppet army that is systematically attempting to remove the most knowledgeable and reliable members there, who know how to edit properly and who follow Wikipedia's rules, to streamline Wikipedia with mainstream western news media portrayals and control over public information and perception. It would open up the floodgates for trolls, vandals, death threatening criminals, and large-scale removals of reliable content.
That is all. I hope that my unfiltered manner of communication (I have a very hard time being intellectually dishonest due to my mental handicaps) will not get me in serious trouble here.
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by ericbarbour » Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:42 pm
Dammit. Now I have to add this one to the book wiki.
Haven't even issued a decision and already banning people. KANGAROO KOURT.
