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Two years!

-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:22, 24 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Out of curiosity, is it worth RevDel'ing this edit from almost 20 years ago? I feel it is libelous but I dunno. Cheers! 🇺🇲JayCubby✡ please edit my user page! Talk 00:37, 26 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Hello. I conferred with a member of the oversight team and we've decided not to apply revision deletion to the edit. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 02:08, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Thanks for doing that! Out of curiosity, where does one draw the line with this sort of thing? 🇺🇲JayCubby✡ please edit my user page! Talk 02:10, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Actually upon looking again I had missed the allegation of criminal conduct at the very bottom of the page. I'm going to revdel that now. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 02:22, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Ah thanks! 🇺🇲JayCubby✡ please edit my user page! Talk 02:32, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I'm wondering what I've done to provoke the warnings on my talk page? Please note, I am trying to take a wikibreak so you may wish to drop me an email if an urgent reply is required. W C M _email 10:47, 28 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Hi Red-tailed hawk,

I thought you were very fair and even-handed in the way you handled this editwarring dispute yesterday I was involved in.

I just wanted to bring it to your attention that Beccanyr appears unsatisfied with this result and is engaging in admin-shopping by reaching out to another admin they seem friendly with here.

Thanks, Peter L Griffin ( talk) 02:51, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your message. I don't find that to be admin shopping; the user made a post on a noticeboard, and then reached out to an uninvolved administrator to ask the admin to take a look. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 17:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Red-tailed hawk, I am concerned that Peter L Griffin appears to be continuing to war toward their preferred version of their page. [1] and [2] are separate reverts within 24 hours of one another, at least. I stopped looking after I found two. (Tried to report on 3RRN; Twinkle failed me.) I am moreover concerned about the general pattern that I see as a minimally involved editor: the editing pattern looks like WP:STONEWALLing and WP:Civil POV pushing to me. Russ Woodroofe ( talk) 22:19, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Hi there Russ,

I am aware that Death of Nex Benedict is contentious and that 1RR is in effect, and I have been very carful to not violate that.

The first link you share is not a revert, but a normal edit adding contextual information -- " To revert is to undo the action of another editor." Only the second edit is a revert, and one revert is not in violation of 1RR. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 22:32, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Not to mention, there is also an exemption for removing unsourced information, and my edit was exactly that -- so it could even be argued that there were zero reverts for 1RR purposes. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 22:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I do, however, want to bring notice to violations of 1RR by User:Sawerchessread, who appears to make POV edits by removing reference to water pouring from the lead:

[1, [2 Peter L Griffin ( talk) 22:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

The edit summary "removing this is highly contentious" makes it clear that Griffin knew that he was reverting an earlier edit in the 1st revert (precisely, [3]). Russ Woodroofe ( talk) 22:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

If the first edit is a revert, who am I reverting? Peter L Griffin ( talk) 22:40, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I have gotten extremely busy in my personal life recently, so I write in haste. If an edit returns content to as it was in a previous revision in some non-trivial way (I.e. not fixing a clear typo) then it is a revert. If the meaning fundamentally changes because of an edit, then it is a revert. I don’t have the ability to dig through diffs and assess admin actions at the moment owing to my busy-ness, though any other admin is, and I trust that someone else will take a look at the present report on the AN3 board. — Red-tailed sock  _{(Red-tailed hawk's nest)} 14:51, 2 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Hey @ Red-tailed hawk, sorry to be a bother yet again. I seem to have been reported for edit warring on Death of Nex Benedict again by a different user. I've been mindful since last time, thought, and I don't think you'll find that I have -- though the other user has edited in violation of 1RR. Since you handled this last time, I thought you might want to handle this again.

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:Peter_L_Griffin_reported_by_User:Sawerchessread_(Result:_) Peter L Griffin ( talk) 02:12, 2 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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Thank you for the kind reply to Markus Prokott when he requested extended confirmation. Sometimes it feels that some experienced users are a bit blunt towards less experienced users requesting or doing something not perfectly according to guideline. I know the guidelines are all there, but the volume is overwhelming and some of us have not read everything yet. Thank you again. Thermofan ( talk) 08:49, 2 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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I would be interested in your thoughts and comments and page improvements on the Gladys (owl) | Talk:Gladys (owl) page which was proposed for deletion one day after it was created. It is about an escaped Eurasian eagle-owl that later was killed after getting hit by a vehicle. However, this occured in Minnesota, not New York City. Myotus ( talk) 16:48, 3 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Hello. I don't really have the time to go through the sourcing at the moment. My apologies. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 02:38, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Hi, you left a comment asking if I could explain the 3 sources I think fit the qualifications for the 10xTravel draft (found here: /info/en/?search=Draft:10xTravel). I think sources 3 and 4 (these are from the same ABC News story but with some different info), source 8, and source 10 are most fitting for those qualifications. However I also think the overall grouping of all the sources I've listed add up to a reputable amount/quality of sourcing. If you could re-review this, I would appreciate it. Thank you so much. Editor782 ( talk) 17:07, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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My arbitration case felt very stacked against me at the end so I didn't bother with defending myself.

The flour massacre article has become unrecognizable compared to when I last edited it; that of course does not excuse my violation of 1RR. I am simply saying that the dust has settled and that my edit war with BilledMammal was a blip in retrospect. I will admit that I went overboard with reverting Alpoin117, but I still don't think a vandal who insulted me warranted a permanent ban.

All in all I would only like for my suspension to not be indefinite. Half a year would be good enough. I've grown to be less impulsive since this all started, especially for an environment as heated as ARBPIA. I enjoyed adding content on lesser-known events within the topic such as protests and I was even the first person to mention Aaron Bushnell's name on Wikipedia at the article for self-immolation. I'm sorry for this message if I'm not allowed to file for an amendment on people's talk pages. Feel free to suggest editing restrictions that I may undertake in exchange for being able to edit in ARBPIA again, when and if that moment arrives. Salmoonlight ( talk) 21:44, 12 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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