Case Opened on 00:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Case Closed on 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
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The next big nationalism case after Azerbaijan-Armenia, Eastern Europe etc. There are three main disputes between four neighbouring nations here:
The players in this edit war are a relatively small number of established ringleaders, plus a large and volatile group of short-lived accounts. The balances of edit-warring firepower are such that the four nations involved have established a local pecking order of POV-pushing: Greek tendentious editing can generally get away with murder; Bulgarian tendentious editing will have its way as long as it's not against the Greeks; Albanian editors get their way because Greeks and Bulgarians come to their aid just to annoy the Macedonians; and most Macedonian editors are immobilized to such a degree they can hardly get an edit through without having it reverted immediately - leading to predictable outbreaks of sock attacks and other forms of retaliatory disruption from their side.
We need topic bans for a couple of ringleaders and revert paroles for at least a dozen others, plus administrative carte blanche for dealing with new disruption, à la Armenia-Azerbaijan.
Fut.Perf.
☼ 09:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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User:Future Perfect at Sunrise's claim that "Greek tendentious editing can generally get away with murder" is baffling, given that the "fragile consensus" he mentions has been struck at the expense of the Greek position, and any dissent is immediately censored. The name
Macedonia is used throughout Wikipedia in a way that is highly offensive to Greeks, especially Macedonians; see
Macedonia naming dispute for further information. Furthermore, his portrayal of one side as the perennial victims is unhelpful in a complicated dispute of this nature.
User:Kékrōps 10:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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It is true that this is a very sensitive issue to all parties involved. However, being sensitive does not equal being nationalistic. The recent surge in edit warring occurs because tensions are extremely heightened outside Wikipedia. These weeks or even days are a turning point in the
Macedonia naming dispute, since UN is drafting a final plan to be accepted by both RoM and Greece before RoM's entry to
NATO. Apart from that, I'm disappointed that
User:Future Perfect at Sunrise is clearly taking sides in this dispute. Perhaps he's been long enough to these topics to have lost the balance he should have as an administrator? As a Greek I feel insulted by the use of an expression such as "Greeks can get away with murder", especially without any diff supporting it. So I certainly support this is escalated, in order for ArbCom to establish some guidelines for both editors and admins. --
Avg 14:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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I concur with the point of view of Fut.Perf. In areas such as this, uninvolved admins need more leeway to forcefully arbitrate disputes and get rid of obvious trolls. Part of the problem comes from demographics and wealth, there are more Greeks, and more Bulgarians on the internet than Macedonians. This follows through to Wikipedia. There is a tendency for both Bulgarians and Greeks to "gang up" on Macedonians as Fut. Perf. describes.
Talk pages also generally get filled with nationalist rubbish and personal attacks / comments, one example of the off-topic stuff that goes on in most pages
here. Fortunately Fut. Perf. had the good sense to remove this particular lot, but there is so much more.
Topic and article bans would be very welcome for the more disruptive users. Particularly those found engaging in "tag-team" reverting to avoid the 3RR.
I'd like to add that it isn't all users, many Greek, Macedonian and Bulgarian users manage to work on articles together perfectly well (see for example
Macedonia (terminology) as suggested by Niko below). I'd like to add that not "practically adopting" the Greek position does not mean the same thing as "practically adopting" the ethnic Macedonian position.
I fully agree with the comments of Fut.Perf. The whole issue with Macedonian related articles has gone too far. As mentioned before the fact that members of the other ethnic groups gang up or "tag-team" against the edits of Macedonian users is quite apparent and troubling. This has gone so far that I have even seen ethnic Macedonian users leave Wikipedia because of this sort of injustice. Although some Greek users may not agree Fut.Perf is correct when stating that Greek users can get away with almost anything. The edits speak for themselves as in almost any conflict the Greek side has won. The several users that push the Bulgarian POV are quite successful mainly due to their organization. It is rare that I see edits from Macedonians that aren't reverted within 10 minutes. Besides the fact that it is proven that many of these users use socks I think some more investigation needs to be done as I suspect multiple users may be using those accounts to achive what they have. And as Fut.Perf also mentioned it is quite disappointing to see these users supporting the Albanians just to annoy the Macedonians. A solution must be found for this.
Ireland101 21:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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All people in Macedonia have a origin ethnic and this ethnic must be clearly showed. E.g. many Bulgarian revolutionaries are considered like ethnic Macedonian in Republic Macedonia.
One of discussed people is Boris Sarafov. He is regular Bulgarian military officer, born in Region of Macedonia (present-day in Bulgaria). Some notes:
1. Boris Sarafov in your Memoirs he defined himself like ethnic Bulgarian. Boris Sarafov heve never defined like other ethnic.
2. In Republic of Macedonia defined ethnic origin according to born places. E.g. all members of
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, born in Region of Macedonia are defined like Macedonians (ethnic) and this members born in North Bulgaria or Adrianople Thrace like Bulgarians. Art. 1 from Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Regulation says, that in organization can member Bulgarians only. For more information see
IMRO.
3. Boris Sarafov's brother Krastyo Sarofov is one of most popular and favorite Bulgarian theter actors. In Bulgaria
Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts is the only one Theatre and Film Arts institution of higher education for all Bulgaria.
4. In Bulgarian
SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library are preserved a lot of IMRO documents and personal correspondence of Boris Sarafov and all Bulgarian national heros from Macedonia, where they many times are defined themself like ethic Bulgarians. I see that for some of Bulgarians national heros there are already for several sources proved them ethnicity. What is need number sources, which put finish of this madness, to be defined some for ethic Macedonian, after he defined himself like Bulgarians! --
Li4kata 10:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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I will answer to Future with citations from two persons.
- The first one is from
Krste Misirkov, the most prominent figure of the ethnic Macedonian national awakening and as he was proclamed from
Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Macedonian #1 of 20th Century. The citatation is from his mostly known work "On the Macedonian Matters" from 1903, were the central issue was - the existence, or not, of a
Macedonian nation distinct from the
Bulgarian nation.
"...We spokе Bulgarian language and we believed with Bulgarians is our strong power...The future of Macedonia was in the spiritual union of the Bulgarians in Macedonia... The Macedonian Slavs ware called Bulgarians...The biggest part of the population ware called Bulgarians... All spoke that Macedonians are Bulgarians...".
- The second one is from the former Vice-President and Premier of Republic of Macedonia and now Bulgarian citizen
Ljubčo Georgievski.In late summer of 2007 Georgievski published his book "Facing the truth" in Bulgaria. In it he reveals his attitude to Macedonian identity and Bulgarian past in the Republic of Macedonia:
"Why are we ashamed and flee from the truth that whole positive Macedonian revolutionaries traditions comes exactly from
Bulgarian Exarchate's part of Macedonian people. We shall not say a new truth if we mention the fact that everyone,
Gotse Delchev,
Dame Gruev,
Giorche Petrov,
Pere Toshev - must I list and count all of them - were
Bulgarian Exarchate's teachers in Macedonia."
And now we have to change their ethnicity, or what?
Jingby 15:51, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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I agree with Future Perfect. The fact that there is a pecking order disgusts me and this issue needs to be resolved. I am not saying Macedonians are always the victims but on Wikipedia it seems to be the case.
While Greeks take offense at hearing the name Macedonian referring to the ethnic Macedonians, ethnic Macedonians take offense in not being called Macedonians. The Greeks have the identifier "Greek" and some of them use "Macedonian", the Macedonians only have "Macedonian" and that is where the problem lies. But my question is, why did Greece not have a problem with the
Socialist Republic of Macedonia? They used the name Macedonia (not Currently Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) yet Greece and Greeks did not care. And from the official codification (not invention) in 1944 of the Macedonian language up until Macedonian independence, there was no protest from the Greek side. It all happened after independence, when the Greek Government stated that Macedonia is Greek and Greeks started claiming that the use of "Macedonian" in connection with the newly independent country was offensive. After a while, what you claim and what you think can become the same. This may have happened with Skopjan and Slavomacedonian on the other side. Problem is, we can't change anything in terms of what is offensive now.
But in other parts of the world (even Melbourne, which has the most Greeks outside Athens), everybody knows what people mean when saying Macedonia. I went to a school where 1/3 of students were Greek and 1/3 were Macedonian - we learned our respective languages in the school, and no Greek (student, teacher or parent) referred to Macedonians as Slavs or Skopjans, but simply Macedonians. If you ask any Greek, regardless of geographical region, where they come from, they will say Greece, not Macedonia, not Thessaly but Greece. The ones that say Macedonia refer to the country, and even Greeks know this. I have even seen nationalist (or maybe just racist) Greeks saying "Macedonians Suck" - and that is a partial resolution (Greeks can hate Macedonians, yet call them by their name).
The Bulgarian users like to edit everything to do with Macedonians - even indisputably non-Bulgarian things like the SR Macedonia/SFR Yugoslavia place of birth thing. That is another problem.
And Future Perfect is not taking sides - many Macedonians find many articles unsatisfactory. Unfortunately, if Bulgarians and Greeks find articles unsatisfactory, they have the power in numbers to change them in the long run. Alex
202.10.89.28 07:47, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
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I can agree with Future Perfect. Macedonian editors are immobilized because they are in much smaller number than Bulgarian and Greek editors and have worse organisation. For example Bulgairan editors- in fact one account: ForeignerFromTheEast which is controlled by more people and is 24h ON. An answer for Jingiby, quote from foreword from Krste Misirkov's book "On Macedonian matters": " As a succesor of idea for full separation of our concerns from concerns of the other Balkan nations and for fully indpendent national and cultural evolution, I wrote this book on macedonian central dialect which from now will be Macedonian literary language".
strich3D
I praise FuturePerf's righteous actions regarding the state opf this article. He is coorect, as it is very obvious, that there is an heirarchy of collaboration, if you will, between editors of different ethnic affiliations. It seems that our Bulgarian fellows seem to have hijacked the articles. Especially ethnic macedonians article, it is full of Bulgarian history and reads like some kind of nationalist newspaper article trying to convince masses as to how obvious it is that Macedonians are Bulgarians. One might even accuse them of sheer arrogance, placing edits such as "Macedonians are ethnopolitically disoriented Bulgarians". Now, I have always maintained respect for the regular Bulgarian editors, Jingiby, etc, etc. They are certainly knowledgeable and raise good points, but a line is crossed when the intentionally steer the article into their own agenda. Eg [
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Macedonians_%28ethnic_group%29&oldid=167334772#World_War_I}
As for the Greek position, their focus is on the anything referring to the name and history of macedonia. I have already attempted to outline fallabilities in their whole arguement in the naming dispute article. Initially, the Slav Macedonian perspective section was a mere 2 lines, versus pages of greek perspective. I elaborated. To my surprise, it was not mass reverted, albeit it was certainly watered down to suit a more Greek-acceptable position, whilst the Greek perspective remains 100% pro-Greek and un-diluted.
This issue needs to be resolved. The whole ethnicity and historical debate has many facts which can be interpreted many ways. I am keen on working cooperatively and do not deny other perspectives, but the Greek and Bulgarian editors need to allow a Slav macedonian perspective to be heard without labelling it 'nationalist' or 'pseudoscience', becuase that's just a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Yes, there are some Macedonian editors who exxagerate, etc, but i see mysel to be conservative and factual.
Hxseek 22:33, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
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Im with FutPerf on this, I explained my pov on the
Incident Page but I'll repeat some points that I find very important:
the Bulgarian editors listed above (some are missing actually), beside their tendentious behaviour, insist on keeping highly questionable sources:
There are several other examples scattered throughout Wikipedia. By allowing the use of such sources, Wikipedia is ruining its own credibility. I vote that Wikipedia's BOTs should be programmed to automaticaly consider such links as spam and to subsequently remove them.
Regarding the behaviour of the Greek editors: a personal Greek user page on Wikipedia that can be considered as contentious and provokative:
User:Asteraki. Quote: This user is able to contribute with an Intermediate level of Bulgarian southwestern dialect of
FYROM.(end of quote) Refers to the
Macedonian language as to
Bulgarian language. Also the user had a sub-page which seemed to be a political pamphlet at
User:Asteraki/VARDARSKA-(FYROM) (refering to
Republic of Macedonia as
Vardarska Banovina etc.). See
this also. Despite all, the user remains active on Wikipedia.
I tried not to get involved in any edit-warring recently until this problem is solved, but my inactivity is abused by
User: Jingiby who continues agenda pushing and adding questionable sources for example to
Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo (also see the
Talk page).
P.S. A notable problem is the article
National Liberation War of Macedonia where the Bulgarian editors have tried to add very contentious statements which are almost near to neo-nazism, such as that the Bulgarian Axis-allied army was greeted as a liberator in Macedonia during the WWII.
[2] They supported their statement with a WWII Bulgarian source published in 1941 (МАКЕДОНИЯ 1941, "Възкресението" - С. Нанев, 1941 г.) ----
Dzole (
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Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter (4/0/0/0)
- Accept.
Kirill 18:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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- Accept.
Paul August
☎ 04:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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- Accept. We can take a look and help some perhaps, but the most effective way to address these issues is to attract more impartial editors/admins to these article to help mediate content disputes and explain content policies to newbies. Would be helpful for some experienced users to watchlist related categories.
FloNight
♥♥♥ 11:55, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
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- Accept.
James F.
(talk) 22:02, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
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Final decision
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1) Wikipedia is a project to create a neutral encyclopedia. Use of the site for other purposes—including, but not limited to, advocacy, propaganda, furtherance of outside conflicts, and political or ideological struggle—is prohibited.
- Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
Decorum
3) Wikipedia users are expected to behave reasonably and calmly in their interactions with other users, to keep their cool when editing, and to avoid acting in a manner that brings the project into disrepute. Unseemly conduct—including, but not limited to,
personal attacks,
incivility,
assumptions of bad faith,
trolling,
harassment, and
gaming the system—is prohibited. Users should not respond to such behavior in kind; concerns regarding the actions of other users should be brought up in the
appropriate forums.
- Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
Editorial process
4) Wikipedia works by building consensus through the use of polite discussion. The
dispute resolution process is designed to assist consensus-building when normal talk page communication has not worked. Sustained editorial conflict is not an appropriate method of resolving disputes.
- Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
Area of conflict
1) The disputes presented in this case, while focusing specifically on issues related to Macedonia, are part of a broader set of conflicts prevalent over the entire range of articles concerning the
Balkans; see, for example, the
Dalmatia case and the
Kosovo case. Many of these conflicts are grounded in matters external to Wikipedia, including long-standing historical, national, and ethnic disputes in the region. The area of conflict in this case shall therefore be considered to be the entire set of Balkan-related articles, broadly interpreted.
- Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
Discretionary sanctions
Superseded
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1) Any uninvolved administrator may, on their own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor working in the
area of conflict if that editor fails to adhere to the
purpose of Wikipedia, the
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- Passed 6-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
- Superseded by an
alternate sanction passed 14 to 0, 14:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
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Appeal of discretionary sanctions
Superseded
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2.1)
Discretionary sanctions imposed under the provisions of this decision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the administrators' noticeboard, or the Committee. Administrators are cautioned not to reverse such sanctions without familiarizing themselves with the full facts of the matter and engaging in extensive discussion and consensus building at the administrators' noticeboard or another suitable on-wiki venue. The Committee will consider appropriate remedies including suspension or revocation of adminship in the event of violations.
- Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
- Superseded by an
alternate sanction passed 14 to 0, 14:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
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Standard discretionary sanctions
Superseded
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3) Topics related to the Balkans, broadly interpreted, are placed under
discretionary sanctions. Any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an
arbitration enforcement action on users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.
- Passed 14 to 0 by
motion, 14:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
- Superseded by
motion at 23:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
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Motion: Eastern Europe and Balkans scope (February 2019)
- Passed 5 to 0 by
motion at 23:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
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0) Should any user subject to a restriction in this case violate that restriction, that user may be blocked, initially for up to one month, and then with blocks increasing in duration to a maximum of one year.
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Vujacicm (
talk ·
contribs) issued ARBMAC warning and edit war warning for a slow-motion edit war with already-sanctioned
WhiteWriter (
talk ·
contribs) on
Duklja. WhiteWriter also warned about edit warring.
Toddst1 (
talk) 01:21, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
reply
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FkpCascais (
talk ·
contribs) placed on 1rv/48h limitation on all Yugoslavia-related articles, for revert-warring and tendentious conduct on
Yugoslav Front
[25].
Fut.Perf.
☼ 08:25, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Alinor (
talk ·
contribs) placed
on notice, in connection with
this request for enforcement.
AGK [
• 15:00, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
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Slovenski Volk (
talk ·
contribs) was given a 0RR sanction
here by HJ Mitchell and was blocked 72h on Jan 30, 2011. For breaking that sanction and using an IP to continue their edits, I've
blocked Volk for 1 week. —
HelloAnnyong
(say whaaat?!) 19:13, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Macedoniarulez (
talk ·
contribs) warned for POV pushing at various Macedonia-related articles:
[26] –
GorillaWarfare
talk •
contribs 07:25, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Proud Serbian Chetnik (
talk ·
contribs) warned for POV-pushing on articles related to Serbia
here.
EdJohnston (
talk) 13:23, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Zeibeks (
talk ·
contribs) warned, edit warring on
Zeibeks
Toddst1 (
talk) 16:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
reply
((User|Cplakidas}} warned, edit warring on
Zeibeks
Toddst1 (
talk) 16:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Krivi94 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after disruption and edit warring on
Bar, Montenegro.
Toddst1 (
talk) 22:27, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Emands (
talk ·
contribs) warned, edit warring on
Skanderbeg.
A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (
talk) 16:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Kebeta (
talk ·
contribs) warned, edit warring on
Skanderbeg.
A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (
talk) 16:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
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SamiraJ (
talk ·
contribs) warned, edit warring on
Kaloyan of Bulgaria, per
this notice.
EdJohnston (
talk) 23:49, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Wisco2000 (
talk ·
contribs) warned, edit warring on
National Liberation War of Macedonia and at
Saint Naum, per
this edit.
EdJohnston (
talk) 05:05, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Reanimated X (
talk ·
contribs) notified of ARBMAC (procedural warning; no history of disruption)
EyeSerene
talk 10:23, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Lunch for Two (
talk ·
contribs) notified of ARBMAC and strongly warned about edit warring on
National Liberation War of Macedonia and elsewhere.
EyeSerene
talk 10:23, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Fry1989 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned, cross-wiki edit warring regarding
this image usage.
WhiteWriter
speaks 20:42, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Majuru (
talk ·
contribs)
warned - removal of material against consensus on
Timeline of Kosovo history.
Toddst1 (
talk) 19:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
reply
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Reaper7 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned by Jd2718 here, for suggesting that
the original Macedonia naming convention was tainted by the ethnicity of the editors involved. Warning confirmed by me.
EdJohnston (
talk) 23:30, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
reply
2012 notifications
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MarcRey (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after report to ANI regarding behavior at
Bosnian language.
Danger
High voltage! 07:55, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Ganderoleg (
talk ·
contribs) warned for a series of highly inflammatory personal attack postings on matters of Yugoslavian history
[27].
Fut.Perf.
☼ 21:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
reply
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71.178.106.120 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for
WP:TE on
Giorgio_da_Sebenico. --
WGFinley (
talk) 17:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
reply
- Editors of
Giorgio_da_Sebenico warned of ARBMAC discretionary sanctions related to article, notice placed on talk page. --
WGFinley (
talk) 17:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
reply
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203.213.94.73 was
warned after
inflammatory
comments at
Talk:Srebrenica massacre and other articles in this topic area. --
Atama
頭 18:04, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
reply
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161.53.243.70 was
warned after
tendentious comments on
Talk:Croation Language. --
WGFinley (
talk) 08:10, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Bakersdozen77 (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here due to heated comments at
Talk:Thessaloniki#Racist edits??? and excessive reverting of
Thessaloniki as reported at
WP:AN3.
EdJohnston (
talk) 03:48, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Bracodbk (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here after being blocked for edit warring on
Republic of Ragusa.
Salvio
Let's talk about it! 14:51, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Irvi Hyka (
talk ·
contribs) warned
[28] while blocked for edit warring at
Template:Politics of Kosovo.
Beeblebrox (
talk) 03:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Artem Karimov (
talk ·
contribs) warned
[29] while blocked for edit warring at
Template:Politics of Kosovo.
Beeblebrox (
talk) 03:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
reply
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109.228.84.16 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS)
formally warned (uw-balkans2) for edit-warring on
House of Petrović-Njegoš.
So
Why 21:57, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
reply
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109.242.108.54 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS) was
warned for edit-warring on the name of Macedonia, contrary to
WP:NCMAC.
EdJohnston (
talk) 14:21, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
reply
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213.154.20.199 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS) warned - personal attack
[30] lots of edit filter log hits.
Toddst1 (
talk) 20:34, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Theirrulez (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here for highly partisan edits at
Alessandra Kersevan while reverting cleanup efforts by a regular editor. Also reminded that he is under a 1RR/week restriction on all Balkan-related articles.
EdJohnston (
talk) 04:36, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Dim.vas.nikol (
talk ·
contribs) was
warned/cautioned about the naming convention policy, after attempts to disrupt and start alter the reference of Macedonia to FYROM across several articles, including
Eurovision Song Contest 2012,
Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2012, and
Republic of Macedonia.
Wesley
☀
Mouse 14:58, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
reply
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195.47.198.7 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS) was
warned after repeatedly replacing text at
Decapitation, mentioning beheadings during the Srebrenica massacre, with a general overview of the Srebrenica massacre and an explanation of how this incident was a war crime (but without retaining any mention of beheadings or any of the associated sources). —
Rich
wales 22:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Ottomanist (
talk ·
contribs) was
warned after second revert in a day on 1RR per week subject
Republic of Kosovo. --
WhiteWriter
speaks 19:19, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
reply
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46.12.192.244 (
talk ·
contribs) was
warned/cautioned about the naming convention policy, after altering details on
Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.
Wesley
☀
Mouse 19:48, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
reply
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46.12.92.124 (
talk ·
contribs)
warning issued for breaching 1RR rule on
Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 - IP address is similar to the one directly above this, and is probably the same user.
Wesley
☀
Mouse 10:59, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
reply
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ZjarriRrethues (
talk ·
contribs) Move-warred on the article
Black Drim to
Black Drin. User cautioned. (
talk→
BWilkins
←track) 21:04, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Irvi Hyka (
talk ·
contribs) Formal restrictions implemented
here (
talk→
BWilkins
←track) 09:27, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
reply
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23 editor (
talk ·
contribs) and
Navyworth (
talk ·
contribs) both warned after a rather nasty bout of edit-warring at
Montenegrins. (Navyworth also blocked 24hrs for edit-warring.)
Fut.Perf.
☼ 11:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Angbent (
talk ·
contribs) warned by myself.
[31]
Magog the Ogre (
talk) 14:54, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Evlekis (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here per an ANI complaint that he had violated 1RR at
Republic of Kosovo.
EdJohnston (
talk) 15:54, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
reply
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SkytteholmarN (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here, after an ANI thread regarding a personal attack he made.
Salvio
Let's talk about it! 11:07, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
reply
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141.237.185.88 (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here, following mass changing of "Republic of Macedonia" at
Mil Mi-24. -
The Bushranger
One ping only 02:58, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Snake bgd (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for edit warring on
List of Presidents of Serbia.
Toddst1 (
talk) 22:06, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
reply
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CrnoBelo (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for edit warring about placement of images of churches in Serbian village articles such as
Kljajićevo, per a complaint at
WP:AN3.
EdJohnston (
talk) 01:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Sokac121 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for his part in the war over church images in
Kljajićevo, mentioned in the above entry. This editor was previously notified of the discretionary sanctions under
WP:ARBMAC.
EdJohnston (
talk) 01:15, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Espor (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after battleground behaviour concerning
Bulgaria.
Heimstern Läufer
(talk) 14:46, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
reply
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92.63.27.251 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS)
warned for persistent removal of the Croatian name at
Krško Nuclear Power Plant.
De728631 (
talk) 13:52, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Proudbulgarian (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here after a 3RR block for warring about
Independent Macedonia (1944).
EdJohnston (
talk) 14:43, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
reply
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WavesSaid (
talk ·
contribs)
warned while edit warring on several ARBMAC-related articles.
Toddst1 (
talk) 17:52, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Hannover95 (
talk ·
contribs) had previously been
warned over removing other editors' comments from
Talk:Kosovo and contentious editing of the article
[32]. I have now
blocked him for 48 hours for persistent removal of talk page comments, and issued a formal warning about discretionary sanctions.
De728631 (
talk) 18:21, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Ivantg (
talk ·
contribs)
warned.
Toddst1 (
talk) 23:05, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
reply
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E4024 (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here of both the
WP:ARBAA2 and
WP:ARBMAC decisions due to concerns about nationalist motivations for some of his edits regarding Turkey and its neighbors. For more details, see the text of the notice.
EdJohnston (
talk) 16:49, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
reply
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Medvegja (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after breach of 3RR on
Albanians.--
Bbb23 (
talk) 21:45, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
reply
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TheMistAnchorite1 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned] about ARBMAC and blocked (non-arbmac block) after edit warring on
Georgian alphabet.
Toddst1 (
talk) 00:55, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
reply
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IllusionFinal (
talk ·
contribs) warned
here due to his revert warring at
Albania about percentage of adherents to different religions in that country.
EdJohnston (
talk) 03:24, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
reply
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87.59.200.85 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS) warned
here about ARBMAC after a
questionable edit at
Balkans regarding the origin of the word "Balkans". —
Rich
wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:40, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
reply
2013 notifications
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Funationalists (
talk ·
contribs)
warned following edit-warring and personal attacks on
Miloš Obilić.
bobrayner (
talk) 03:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Noarmsnolegsnolife (
talk ·
contribs) notified
here after three reverts at
Albania.
EdJohnston (
talk) 02:10, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Clarification12 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned following an edit war on
United Macedonia.
Toddst1 (
talk) 13:40, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Ceco31 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned following an edit war on several articles related to Bulgaria.
Lord Roem ~ (
talk) 02:40, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
reply
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58.173.108.6 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned per
ANI thread
Sandstein 13:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Wikiisunbiased (
talk ·
contribs)
warned over
disruptive editing and personal insults at
Bulgaria.
De728631 (
talk) 13:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
reply
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23 editor (
talk ·
contribs) and
Bobrayner (
talk ·
contribs) warned (
[33],
[34]) regarding a brewing content dispute at
Kosovo. Also posted a
notice at
Talk:Kosovo. —
Rich
wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:51, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
reply
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99.241.55.118 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS)
warned after
removing Kosovo from a list of territories at
Balkans. —
Rich
wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:25, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
reply
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23.25.22.249 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS)
warned after changing "Macedonia" to "F.Y.R.O.M." at
Eastern Orthodox Church. —
Rich
wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:29, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Keithstanton (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for various problematic conduct related to Serbia and Kosovo.
Sandstein 21:52, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
reply
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A Gounaris (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after
adding the phrase "
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - not to be confused with
Greek Macedonia" after a mention of Macedonia at
Balkans. —
Rich
wales (no relation to Jimbo) 16:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
reply
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24.57.110.189 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS) warned
on 29 March by
Joy for persistant adding of unsourced contended text, especially names of Serbs, and for completely failing to communicate.
De728631 (
talk) 15:53, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Zetatrans (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for
personal attacks.
Sandstein 07:40, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Bobrayner (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for misstatement of a source and for edit warring;
FkpCascais (
talk ·
contribs) advised.
Gatoclass (
talk) 09:45, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
reply
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212.178.236.59 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after I blocked the IP for edit warring at
War crimes in the Kosovo War as reported at
WP:ANEW. The block was not an ArbCom block as there was no notice of discretionary sanctions on the talk page, nor any warning given to the IP about discretionary sanctions. I have updated the article talk page to include a discretionary sanctions notice.--
Bbb23 (
talk) 18:30, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
reply
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129.12.131.100 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for changing
Eastern Orthodox Church to refer to the Republic of Macedonia as "Skopje". —
Rich
wales (no relation to Jimbo) 02:54, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Chronisgr (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for changing
Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest to refer to Macedonia as "FYR Macedonia".
Wesley♦
Mouse 16:40, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Thenazgullord (
talk ·
contribs)
warned by Future Perfect at Sunrise for edit-warring at
Greece.
De728631 (
talk) 16:37, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
reply
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GiorgosY (
talk ·
contribs) notified
here.
EdJohnston (
talk) 14:23, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Obozedalteima (
talk ·
contribs) notified
here by
PBS (
talk ·
contribs) after edit-warring at
Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War. —
Rich
wales (no relation to Jimbo) 06:17, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Kiril Simeonovski (
t
c) warned
here by
Future Perfect at Sunrise (
t
c) for edit warring at
Macedonian language. —
Darkwind (
talk) 12:34, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Shokatz (
t
c) warned
here after edit warring at
Boro Primorac. —
Darkwind (
talk) 05:54, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
reply
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Cognoscerapo (
talk ·
contribs)
notified following a boomerang-style ANI thread.
Drmies (
talk) 20:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
reply
2014 notifications
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46.65.39.85 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS)
warned after possible linguistic hijacking operation of
Peć.
Drmies (
talk) 04:20, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
reply
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85.72.37.46 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS)
warned after edit warring on
Macedonia.
Callanecc (
talk •
contribs •
logs) 14:25, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
reply
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Vetemekenshkodran (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after a complaint at AN3 about edit warring on football articles about players' nationality.
EdJohnston (
talk) 20:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
reply
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Логаритам (
talk ·
contribs)
warned following a nationalist dispute and
personal attacks.
bobrayner (
talk) 16:18, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
reply
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Ivan VA (
talk ·
contribs)
warned for renaming Ferizaj, amid concerns about a dispute from other wikis spilling onto en.wiki.
bobrayner (
talk) 04:14, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
reply
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IJA (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after edit warring on
Bardhyl Çaushi.
Callanecc (
talk •
contribs •
logs) 11:54, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
reply
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Malbin210 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned by
User:JamesBWatson after editing warring at
Albania.
Callanecc (
talk •
contribs •
logs) 12:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
reply
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Astarti34 (
talk ·
contribs)
warned by
User:JamesBWatson after editing warring at
Albania.
Callanecc (
talk •
contribs •
logs) 12:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
reply
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77.49.58.129 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS)
warned by
User:JamesBWatson after editing warring at
Albania.
Callanecc (
talk •
contribs •
logs) 12:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
reply
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54.193.96.247 (
talk ·
contribs ·
WHOIS)
warned by
User:JamesBWatson after editing warring at
Albania.
Callanecc (
talk •
contribs •
logs) 12:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
reply
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Здраво свијете! (
talk ·
contribs)
warned after edit warring on multiple articles.
Callanecc (
talk •
contribs •
logs) 12:47, 14 February 2014 (UTC).
Blocked the next day as a sockpuppet of
Evlekis.
reply
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AlbertBikaj (
talk ·
contribs), warned for edit-warring, tendentious editing and copyright violation/plagiarism on
Prek Cali.
[35].
Fut.Perf.
☼ 20:08, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
reply
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Aleksa Lukic (
talk ·
contribs)
warned, after canvassing for another
move of
Kosovo.
bobrayner (
talk) 23:44, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
reply
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