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Quick enforcement requests
[edit]| PP done by ToBeFree; request to strike non-EC comments not done by Sennecaster. Arcticocean ■ 09:51, 3 March 2026 (UTC) |
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Requested action: Multiple non-extended-confirmed users are violating the restriction in place on discussing this topic (Arab–Israeli conflict related). Namely, User:RealFactChecker101, who has 35 edits, was already warned three times of the contentious topic on their talk page, and continued to violate the restriction thereafter. User:Editorofwiki9998 has 68 edits, and has also been actively participating in discussions in violation of the restriction; I've just warned them of the contentious topic prior to making this request. Requesting that comments made by non-extended-confirmed users be marked or striked. 9ninety (talk) 11:26, 2 March 2026 (UTC) Note: updated link following page move 13:54, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
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Permission gaming.
[edit]| Permission removed. Arcticocean ■ 15:08, 10 March 2026 (UTC) |
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Requested action: Permission gaming. See their talk. 🐈Cinaroot 💬 09:18, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
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Yet another Gaza Genocide move request
[edit]| This closure request is out of scope for arbitration enforcement, but would be welcome at Wikipedia:Closure requests. — Newslinger talk 17:55, 11 March 2026 (UTC) |
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Snow Close: WP:PIA area RM. Vast majority of responses are snow close, there is nothing fundamentally changed. User:Bluethricecreamman (Talk·Contribs) 00:15, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
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Page protection for high risk article
[edit]| No longer on MP Valereee (talk) 19:26, 24 March 2026 (UTC) |
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Page protection: This is an article currently displayed on the main page about a hospital being airstriked leading to mass civilian casualties, and it's part of a conflict taking place in a region designated as a contentious topic area (WP:CT/SA). If this isn't high risk I'm not sure what is. ―Maltazarian (talkinvestigate) 09:51, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Najibuddaulah1752 (again)
[edit]| Blocked 1 week by Asilvering. Miniapolis 22:56, 25 March 2026 (UTC) |
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Requested action: A longer block than 31 hours. Fresh off a 31-hour AE block for an ECR violation, the editor mass-reverted my careful, NPOV copyedit of Sikh attacks on Delhi with nonsensical (or no) edit summaries. Miniapolis 19:02, 25 March 2026 (UTC) |
Gaming EC
[edit]| Permission revoked as a normal administrative action (as it is not in the WP:STANDARDSET). ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 06:17, 29 March 2026 (UTC) |
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Requestion action: User made a rapid number of small edits adding links before immediately editing the caste group Regar. EC needs to be revoked. 1brianm7 (talk) 18:28, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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| Withdrawn by appellant per last reply. Left guide (talk) 02:12, 29 March 2026 (UTC) |
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Requestion action: @Robertsky:, I saw that you extended-protected the 2026 Iranian supreme leader election article. Can you please change that to semi-protected status as its pageviews and edit number has significantly dropped. Similar to 2020 United States presidential election, 2016 United States presidential election etc. RexFaux (talk) 23:35, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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Page protection
[edit]Requested action: Related to Pakistani military intervention, should be extended-confirmed protected per WP:CT/SA Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 15:35, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
Rejoy2003
[edit]| Rejoy2003 and SerChevalerie are warned that they are required to edit collaboratively and to not treat Wikipedia as a battleground. Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:18, 2 April 2026 (UTC) |
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This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below. Request concerning Rejoy2003[edit]
User has been warned multiple times of this behaviour. I was hoping that this would stop after the sanctions, but this has unfortunately continued. I am also concerned about WP:BLP issues at JoeGoaUk, previously discussed at Talk:JoeGoaUk/Archive 1.
Timeline: 1. Special:Diff/1341061618: I clean up Viresh Borkar, who is in the news 2. Special:Diff/1341073352: User retaliates, removing sourced content on Gerald Pereira with no explanation. I then restore content; I have since declared my COI here. 3. Special:Diff/1341487738: User files WP:ARC against me (rejected) 4. User files COIVRT against me; I am now unblocked. When the both of us are part of WP:GOA, which Viresh Borkar comes under, why did the user choose to escalate? This felt like getting me banned in bad faith, out of retaliation. (I reiterate: I am willing to let this go.) SerChevalerie (talk) 15:03, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Discussion concerning Rejoy2003[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. Statement by Rejoy2003[edit]The sanction was placed because I advocated for Portuguese nationality at BD in its lead section. And the sanction explicitly states "
Statement by (username)[edit]Result concerning Rejoy2003[edit]
Well, that appears to be a very obvious breach of the sanction imposed. I'd be interested to see the rationale for it. Black Kite (talk) 09:59, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Gotitbro
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Request concerning Gotitbro
[edit]- User who is submitting this request for enforcement
- Wisher08 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 16:33, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
- User against whom enforcement is requested
- Gotitbro (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
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- Sanction or remedy to be enforced
- WP:CT/SA
- Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
- 18:02, 27 March 2026 - Clear failure to WP:AGF with the comment "
you deliberately falsified the consensus result, synthesised a false status and labelling of a source at RSP and are still defending that hoaxing
". - 01:14, 28 March 2026 - Continued failure of WP:AGF and actually violation of WP:BATTLE, given User:ActivelyDisinterested had already concluded "
I can't see any deliberate attempt to mislead. Discussion needs to return to the reliability of the source.
" Even the editor (the one with whom Gotitbro was interacted) had acknowledged his misunderstanding.[10] Now instead of letting things go, Gotitbro continued to derail the discussion with continued battleground mentality by writing "You falsified a consensus and status (apparently merely a color according to you), and are still treating it as a no big deal.
" - 01:24, 28 March 2026 - continued WP:IDHT with WP:BATTLE. Worse is that it is written in response to another editor who told him to avoid this battleground behavior and another editor merely had a "misunderstanding".[11] User:ActivelyDisinterested had to finally hat the discussion to avoid further derailing of the thread.[12]
- These diffs came after he was already warned for incivility by an admin just a day ago.[13]
- 19:43, 29 March 2026 - Continued uncollaborative behavior. Asking "SNOWCLOSE" of a properly initiated RfC without any valid basis.
- Violation of 1RR (page notice) on Dhurandhar: The Revenge on 26 March 2026:[14][15]
- Another violation of 1RR on Dhurandhar: The Revenge, this time on 29 - 30 March 2026: [16][17]
- 05:51, 29 March 2026 More of the same WP:BATTLE and failure to WP:AGF.
- Made 4 reverts on Muridke during 8 March - 10 March:
- 13:32, 08 March 2026 (+727)
- 20:35, 10 March 2026 (+727)
- 20:40, 10 March 2026 (+727)
- 20:44, 10 March 2026 (+727)
- Diffs of previous relevant sanctions, if any
- [20]: "warned to provide full and clear justification for any reverts in their edit summaries, and to follow WP:BRD rather than making multiple reverts."
- Multiple blocks for edit warring until 2025.[21]
- If contentious topics restrictions are requested, supply evidence that the user is aware of them (see WP:CTOP#Awareness of contentious topics)
- [22]
- Additional comments by editor filing complaint
@Rosguill: Could the disruption be ignored if the report was not filed in timely fashion? Muridke is not the only place where Gotitbro has edit warred since his last AE warning. These are some more pages where he has edit warred in last few months:
- Asim Munir, 3 reverts over the same content: 9 February, 9 February, 9 February
- Hindutva, 3 reverts over the same content: 13 January, 13 January, 13 January
- Sangh Parivar, 4 reverts over the same content: 14 December, 14 December, 16 December, 7 January.
There is no doubt that Gotitbro has regularly edit warred despite last AE warning over edit warring. Wisher08 (talk) 14:01, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
- @Rosguill: Gotitbro already has received one logged warning for edit warring a few months ago. [23] Wisher08 (talk) 04:49, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
- Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested
- [24]
Discussion concerning Gotitbro
[edit]Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator.
Administrators may remove or shorten noncompliant statements. Disruptive contributions may result in blocks.
Statement by Gotitbro
[edit]This is barely worth responding to, considering that it is a baseless retributive filing stemming from content disputes at one particular article (I have never interacted with this user before nor at the article where this stems from either). Dubious or worse malicious is the only way to describe this (trawling through editor histories to find something to nail at AE).
- RSN: An editor when asked to clarify why they faked RfC results and reliability status when editing the RSP list doubled down claiming it was only a change of color and nothing to be bothered about. The comments followed after. At the same RSN thread an RfC was initiated for another source (which I too agreed wasn't really reliable) for which there seemed to be general agreement about its unreliability, opined a snowclose as the RfC appeared unnecessary and non-specific.
- Dhurandhar: The Revenge (the article from where this retributive filing stems from) [the 1RR pertaining to the lead]: of the first these ([25], [26]) only the latter is a "revert" for addition of unsourced info (with no editor ever having challenged this basic edit then or since); of the second of these ([27], [28]) the first of these was challenging a contentious label which I followed with a discussion at the Talk page (discussion ongoing), the second of these pertained to an edit marked as a revert ([29]) but which wasn't actually so. 1RR was neither intended nor I believe manifested in either case and would/would've retract[ed] any of these if so informed.
- Muridke: The first of these was reverting a vandal blanking of content by a new account. The latter pertain to another editor who restored that blanking without any valid explanation ([30]) then continued doing so asking for consensus despite there being one very well against their prior attempts at blanking (discussions can be seen at Talk and at NPOVN). The user then took this to ANI with no further engagement with that baseless report. Should've been more calmer and somber here with the edits but basic neglection of prior discussions and consensus to double down on vandal blankings by new accounts was debilitating.
Though the previous blocks are hardly relevant, will address. Two of the previous blocks came while dealing with blocked IPs and sock accounts. The last one (at an article for an extremist publisher) from my own report for an editor acting against sources and consensus (see Talk). This is not a defence against those blocks but the context should be seen. Gotitbro (talk) 20:12, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
- The filer here just looks to pile on "dirt" in an attempt to barely a string a case to boot off an editor, without looking at/engaging with any prior discussion.
- But addressing some points below. Past discussions for Hindutva referred to this and this. For Asim Munir, at the RSN discussion my contentions were unanimously supported (i.e. "majority of editors backing Sheriffisintown's reading" isn't correct), I further took it to BLPN again garnering majority support; despite this never bothered with the article again at all for not wanting to partake in the dispute any longer (much like all of the other cases cited here).
- Nonetheless, I agree that in these cases the discussion should have been much more prompt not reverts (however valid that I might've initially thunk they were). Gotitbro (talk) 18:45, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
Statement by (username)
[edit]Result concerning Gotitbro
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- Across the evidence presented here, the only thing I see that warrants concern would be the edit warring, particularly at Muridke. Note that the 1RR restriction at Dhurandhar only applies to the lead and short description--it does not appear that the diffs displayed here show any violations of that. The 26 March diffs only include one edit to the lead (the other is to the Critical response section of the article), whereas the March 29-30 edits appear to have occurred over the span of 31 hours, so 1RR does not apply. I think that the SNOWCLOSE !vote was ill-considered in context but I'd be hard-pressed to consider a sanction on that basis. The comments at RSP seem understandable in context, even with some room for disagreement, and the final few diffs of supposed lack of AGF on the 10th and 29th do not in my view rise to the level of disruption. In general, this report also suffers from a lack of timeliness, what with the reporting of supposed edit wars that had already died down weeks ago. At most, I could see issuing a logged warning for the edit warring at Muridke, but even that may be excessive. signed, Rosguill talk 20:07, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- Wisher08, the lack of timeliness doesn't excuse it entirely, but it is a mitigating factor, and I will say bluntly: when a few untimely edit warring diffs are included alongside a grab bag of other essentially unrelated allegations, it gives the impression that this is an attempt to get an opponent sanctioned, rather than a sincere attempt to address disruption in a topic area. But edit warring can be a serious issue, so let's look at the further examples you provide:
- At Asim Munir, it looks like the chronology is: at 21:34 GMT on 9 February, Bravo786 removed content with a somewhat misleading edit summary (Special:Diff/1337495959). Gotitbro reverts 9 minutes later on the basis of the edit summary. Sheriffisintown then reverts Gotitbro about 11 minutes later, with an edit summary arguing that the sources used for the content Gotitbro restored are not reliable, as well as some comments about BRD that don't really seem to relate to anything relevant in context. Over the next half hour, Gotitbro and Sheriffisintown each revert two more times, before Gotitbro lets Sheriffisintown have the last word on the article and moves to open a discussion at RSN (with discussion on the article talk page indicating this course of action). The RSN discussion ends somewhat inconclusively, with a majority of editors backing Sheriffisintown's reading but no formal closure. At any rate, the edit warring at Asim Munir never restarted, with the status quo favoring Sheriffisintown's preferred copy
- At Hindutva, it looks like EarthDude made an edit at 19:57 GMT, which was then reverted by Gotitbro, resulting in both editors rapidly reverting up to 3 times. At first Gotitbro pointed to a past Talk page discussion, although I'm not able to find which discussion that referred to. Eventually both editors made their way to the article talk page. I'm not terribly impressed by Gotitbro's engagement in the discussion, where they (and others) essentially handwave at a past consensus without clearly identifying it. Nevertheless, the dispute appears to have been resolved (after extended discussion) by EarthDude modifying their proposed inclusion of references to fascism to more closely follow sources, with no further dispute apparent.
- At Sangh Parivar, EarthDude makes a unilateral change, Gotitbro quickly reverts, EarthDude reinstates it, Gotitbro partially reverts, this repeats one more time before talk page discussion commences. The Talk page discussion is not very impressive, as most of it is mired in wikilawyering rather than addressing the substantive issue; it's also muddled by the participation of a sockpuppet who gets blocked during the discussion. The edit warring briefly flares up again a month later on Jan 6/7. Ultimately, a 3rd opinion is summoned, and they largely support EarthDude's view, seemingly ending the dispute.
- So, overall, I do think there is an issue on display of Gotitbro taking 3RR as an entitlement, and I don't like the amount of wikilawyering-to-substantive-content-argument ratio on display in the latter two discussions. I think this puts me squarely in "logged warning against edit warring" territory, but would appreciate other admins' input. signed, Rosguill talk 15:41, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
- Gotitbro, regarding my characterization of the RSN discussion, my view was colored by the article's status quo being what it was. Reviewing them again now, I would characterize both the RSN and BLPN discussion as "inconclusive", although I think that in the BLPN discussion in particular you come across as being significantly more constructive than most of the editors arguing against your point. signed, Rosguill talk 18:55, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
- Wisher08, the lack of timeliness doesn't excuse it entirely, but it is a mitigating factor, and I will say bluntly: when a few untimely edit warring diffs are included alongside a grab bag of other essentially unrelated allegations, it gives the impression that this is an attempt to get an opponent sanctioned, rather than a sincere attempt to address disruption in a topic area. But edit warring can be a serious issue, so let's look at the further examples you provide:
TryKid
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Request concerning TryKid
[edit]- User who is submitting this request for enforcement
- Ratnahastin (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 14:00, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
- User against whom enforcement is requested
- TryKid (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
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- Sanction or remedy to be enforced
- Wikipedia:Contentious topics/South Asia
- Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
- 21 March - Rude and uncollaborative approach.
- 22 March - Another rude edit summary
- 2 April - Another rude edit summary while reverting warning
- 25 March - casting WP:ASPERSIONS
- 27 March - engaging in the same battleground mentality as above
- 30 March - Unnecessarily adding toxicity to a fair discussion. Himself engaging in battleground behavior but falsely accusing others of "brazen ideological battleground complaints" regarding the source in question.
- 30 March - 31 March - Made 3 reverts to remove reliably sourced content from Diet in Hinduism.[31][32][33]
- 2 April - Canvassing and exhibiting page ownership.
- Diffs of previous relevant sanctions, if any
- If contentious topics restrictions are requested, supply evidence that the user is aware of them (see WP:CTOP#Awareness of contentious topics)
- [34]
- Additional comments by editor filing complaint
- Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested
- [35]
Discussion concerning TryKid
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Administrators may remove or shorten noncompliant statements. Disruptive contributions may result in blocks.
Statement by TryKid
[edit](Diffs 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 of the original report are in the context of Talk:Dhurandhar: The Revenge)
Diff 1: Removal of a template that was placed for two edits ([36] [37]) restoring the status quo while discussion was ongoing. An admin action was eventually necessitated to restore this status quo against aggressive edit warring.
Diff 2: Removing another template posted for two edits ([38] [39]) restoring an edit request with substantive discussion that was closed without any attempt to resolve the underlying issue. The edit request was closed after I started an RfC.
Diffs 4 and 5: I agree the talk page was not the right venue to raise my concerns, and I took the advice given at the time and did not post further.
Diff 6: admittedly forceful, but nothing beyond the pale I believe.
(Diffs 3, 7, and 8 are in the context of the content dispute over at Talk:Diet in Hinduism, which seems to have triggered this report.)
Diff 8: The pinged editors are longtime contributers to the article who have previously collaborated on the article despite mutual disagreements and participated in previous discussions on the talk page. Seeking wider input by pinging previous regular contributors is not canvassing.
Diff 7: My engagement with the article was constructive and collaborative. A timeline: an edit adds a long, misattributed quote, I revert along with other material (I ideally should have made individual reverts), but it is added back (with correct attribution this time). I revert again but offer a rewritten version based on WP:FIXCLOSEPARA: (Extensive quotations are forbidden by policy.)
EarthDude states that the idea of not extensively quoting copyrighted sources verbatim in article body "is completely made up, out of thin air". The verbatim quote is added back.
Diff 3 is the removal of another template similar to the other two above. TryKid [dubious – discuss] 18:32, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
Statement by (username)
[edit]Result concerning TryKid
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