User talk:Moreschi

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Contents 1 Recently archived 2 Hey, welcome back! 3 Protected 4 ANI 5 Wikipedia Signpost: 27 April 2009 6 Occupation of the Baltic states 7 A long overdue thanks 8 A sock of Jacob Peters? 9 Wikipedia Signpost: 11 May 2009 10 aegean Macedonians vs Greek Macedonians/Bulgarian Macedonians 11 Wikipedia Signpost: 18 May 2009 12 Merge 13 Luigi 28 14 Problematic user 15 Old sock puppet accusations 16 Given your interest in these areas... 17 Wikipedia Signpost: 25 May 2009 18 Aegean Macedonians vs Greek Macedonians/Bulgarian Macedonians 19 Wikipedia Signpost: 1 June 2009 20 List of important operas 21 Wikipedia Signpost: 15 June 2009 22 HMS Pinafore 23 Assistance 24 Squier M80 article 25 Remove discretionary sanctions at Jewish lobby? 26 Wikipedia Signpost: 22 June 2009 27 WikiProject LGBT studies Newsletter (June 2009) 28 Current Opera Project discussions 29 Macedonia request for comment 30 Civility 31 Wikipedia Signpost: 29 June 2009 32 Wikipedia Signpost: 6 July 2009

[edit] Recently archived

Please check the archives for anything older. Moreschi (talk) 22:09, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hey, welcome back!

We've missed you so much. FAUoFPaS (Ж) 22:15, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

I missed you too. It's great to return and see all the old names are still going strong - Chris, yourself, Dieter, Folantin, Doug, Antandrus, Verbal - the crowd. Perhaps now I can accept my limitations a little more after a couple months of total wiki-detox - no email, no talkpage checks, no noticeboard checks, nothing. It helped, I think.

I see we've got ourselves another ARBMAC. Good heavens. Anything I can do? Moreschi (talk) 22:20, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh God, I just clicked that link. Dear God. 1 week for him. Moreschi (talk) 22:24, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Let's hope that some of the other things that come up aren't as bad as that one. Good to have you back from me as well. John Carter (talk) 22:30, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

It would be great if you could help keep a watch on the noise from the sidelines a bit. With all this "involved admin" talk, I've hardly been able to do any serious admin stuff in the Balkans for a while. I find myself reduced to warning people off counterpoint violations, can you imagine that. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:35, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

You know where to find me. One can but hope ArbCom will deal with the ringleaders of the latest disturbances. But doubtless the usual random crap is still going on at a higher pitch and with less attention.

Oh, and can someone tell me what this is "Tang Dynasty" case is all about? I was trying to classify it in my Plague subpage and got stuck. It looked to be some kind of Turkic versus Chinese bash - is that right? Moreschi (talk) 22:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

That looks like a question of reliable sources and insults, from what little I could see. And sorry about the vandalism. There's some psycho out there who has a sick obsession with "Yo to the Nympho" or however he puts it, particularly on trying to delete User talk:Ned Scott. I protected my talk page, so he came here because I'd just edited here. I guess. Sorry. John Carter (talk) 22:54, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey, welcome back. No kidding. A lot of people missed you. I hope you had a great break! All the best, Antandrus (talk) 00:56, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm so glad to see you back. We've needed folks like you lately. I don't know if you saw that I've managed to get entangled in the Macedonia/"FYROM" mess this time (why is it that editors who would rather just listen to opera always have to deal with nationalists instead?) Heimstern Läufer (talk) 03:57, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

← What kept you occupied for 3 months? Was there an uninterrupted staging of the Nibelungen cycle? Or does that just seem like it would take 3 months? MastCell ^Talk 05:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Whatever, glad to see you back. Dougweller (talk) 05:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey, great to see you back! You will probably not be surprised to learn that the ethnic bitchery on Wikipedia has been business as usual in your absence. In brighter news, the Agrippina article made it to FA. --Folantin (talk) 08:09, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Echo the above - glad to see you back! Oooh and a namecheck! Better than a barnstar (which I've still never been given by anyone). And I'm part of a crowd :) Cheers, Verbal chat 10:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Just noticed this (three guesses;). Welcome home, Jack Merridew 11:15, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome back. We missed you. Hmmm, doesn't sound to original, does it? But it's true :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Protected

I have semi-protected this page so that you know who will get bored. It will expire after not too long. Feel free to adjust or reverse this action. Chillum 22:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Tweaked slightly. Moreschi (talk) 22:56, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] ANI

If I am reading correctly then I believe that User:Sephiroth BCR is advising that I notify the three mentors of this discussion. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 09:26, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] Occupation of the Baltic states

This article could probably use a couple more eyes. You may find some of the comments on Hiberniantears' talk page related to this subject interesting as well. John Carter (talk) 00:57, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A long overdue thanks

		The Outlaw Halo Award
		I saw this just now and thought of you. Thanks for being the only part of the community that was willing to step up to the plate when I was about to tear my hair out over a disruptive, self-proclaimed subject-matter expert in January. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:41, 8 May 2009 (UTC) (about the award)

Amen to that. MastCell ^Talk 03:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A sock of Jacob Peters?

Hi,

could you take a look into User:PasswordUsername's edit history? There's a concern that it might be a sock of Jacob Peters, and I don't know anybody else with that level of experience in recognising Peters' socks. Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 15:26, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Nope. This guy's in New Jersey, JP is always in California. Moreschi (talk) 20:08, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

I see. Thank you. Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 17:34, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Also please look at User:Kupredu. Same pattern - Stalinist-like POV on Russia, Eastern Europe and related articles (and Allende, where his edits seem weird in the same way as JP's) combined with anti-Israel edits on pages related to Hamas and Hezbollah. He's also told me to "consult" some of the same sources (Mawdsley) as an IP on Lenin did some time ago, which you blocked for being JP's sock [1]. Pattern is similar here too - remove text and references of Western authors he considers objectionable and replace with Soviet based sources.radek (talk) 00:57, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

For example consider this statement by Jacob Peters: "The statement that "many countries" consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization is a factual error. Out of nearly 200 countries in the world, the only countries that slander Hezbollah as terrorist are America/Israel, England, Canada, Nederlands, and Australia.", from [2]. And this edit summary by Kupredu: "The opinion of a couple of regimes should not have more coverage than that of the other 190 states in the world.", [3]. Both on Hezbollah. Similar on Hamas (I don't know if JP was ever involved in that one).radek (talk) 01:11, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Some more evidence. This user: [4] that you blocked for being JP's sock - note the contrib list; aside from the pro-Soviet stuff, editing articles related to Sudan [5] and [6], (like Kupredu here: [7]), and articles related to Armenia/Azerbaijan, IP's vandalisms [8] and [9] (and Kupredu here [10]). So very much the same pattern: pro-Soviet/Israel and Palestine/Armenia and Azerbaijan/Sudan + a few a bit more related ones.radek (talk) 08:31, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

I do not have Stalinist POV. In fact, I haven't made a single positive edit about Stalin and I don't edit 1930s Soviet political history, either: so much for that (my edits to the neo-Stalinism article discuss the term and its criteria). I have not made any edits on the Israel-Palestine conflict, except for adding a word or two here or there to one or two articles (like inserting "pro-Israel" once to describe the ADL's stance on "Naturei Karta").

And I do not slander people with very similar right-wing views as sock-puppets.

PasswordUsername (talk) 14:38, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Not you, Kupredu.radek (talk) 14:46, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Kupredu looks to have been blocked. Nice catch, people. Moreschi (talk) 20:08, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] aegean Macedonians vs Greek Macedonians/Bulgarian Macedonians

Hi Moreschi,

I want an explanation as to why Aegean Macedonians are forced into the article Slavic-speakers of Greek Macedonia, while Greek Macedonians and Bulgarian Macedonians get to have their own article instead of being within the article Macedonia (Greece) and Blagoevgrad Province, respectfully?

Mactruth

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[edit] Merge

I've suggested a merge of Beyond Belief (symposium) to The Science Network. Please go to either article for a link to the discussion if you are interested. Steve Dufour (talk) 17:40, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Luigi 28

Hi Moreschi, why did you block this user: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Luigi_28 without checkuser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Luigi_28 ? I'm sure User:Luigi 28 and User:PIO were different users. IPs from www.libero.it provider are all of 151.* range. PIO's IPs were 151.67.*. Luigi's IPs were 151.70.*.

151.67 should be from Apulia http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/151.67.84.100 , while 151.70 is from Veneto http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/151.70.71.169 .

I'm working with him on Italian Wiki where he is a great user: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/Presbite . I think we need his contribution also in English Wiki. Is it possible to ask for a readmission? He was blocked unfairly.--Grifter72 (talk) 16:59, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Problematic user

Hi! I mean Beatle Fab Four (talk · contribs). Though technically within the limits of 3RR, most of his edits so far have been reverts, usually in support of his favorite users across a large number of articles, avoiding any meaningful discussion. This is disruptive. Could you please put him under the Eastern European parole and start a community discussion of his behavior or something? I can't do anything because any discussion would be immediately hijacked by a crowd of his pals, followed by their enemies, and so on. Well, just look at the situation when you have time, you know best what to do. Colchicum (talk) 20:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Old sock puppet accusations

In December 2008 you or someone else accused Roobit (talk · contribs) of operating sock puppets. The claim was that Poetcourt1 (talk · contribs) and Belarus2 (talk · contribs) are sockpuppets of Roobit. At the time it was difficult to refute this claim as the real sockmaster was unknown. The issue was finally solved in March, it turned out that the accounts are in fact sockpuppets of Bloomfield (talk · contribs). The related discussion is here: User talk:Alex Bakharev/Archive23#Nazi crimes in Estonia. Could you remove the sockmaster template from his talk page and restore the banned user template. If you are not convinced, please propose some place to discuss the issue. I have started a thread at User talk:Roobit. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

• I would object to Roobit being unblocked. He has only made 276 edits in Wikipedia but has managed to be very disruptive, including gross incivility in violation of Wikipedia:DIGWUREN#Editors_warned as recently as December 2008:

10:47, 12 December 2008: "This is of course not how an encyclopedic entry should be structured or look like. It is ideologically so charged, so inflammatory, views expressed are so one-sided, that unless you a Baltic or Estonian ethno-Nazi or its close supporter, the entry is worthless"

10:47, 12 December 2008: "Modern Estonian ethno-Nazis fail to grasp the fact"

02:47, 18 June 2007: "modern day Estonian Nazis"

As well as soap boxing:

Open Letter Appeal on his User page and again in article space article space.

Note that Petri Krohn is subject to an ANI report Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Threat_by_User:Petri_Krohn --Martintg (talk) 05:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

It wasn't sockpuppetry that Roobit was blocked for, and this was a decision upheld by the community, i.e. ban. For a taste of his more recent attitudes see [11], if you read Russian. Меня забанили в английской википедии - тамошние этнофашисты, русофобы и прибалтийские антисемиты не терпят критики их фантастической истории, и я решил не писать даже в русской Википедии. Зачем поддерживать чужой и чуждый идеологический проект? A battleground mentality in its clearest form. Colchicum (talk) 10:41, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Nobody has asked Roobit to be unblocked. What this is about is clearing this sockpuppet mixup. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 08:46, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Given your interest in these areas...

have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Israel_Palestine_Collaboration/Placename_guidelines, on the talk page of which I have inquired here, and set up voting on consensus here to get as wide a vote as possible over two months to nail a consensus for naming conventions for I/P as pursuant to remedy 13.1 of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria. Hopefully, once we have some naming conventions set in stone it will make the job of policing partly easier.

I have proposed a similar thing at the ARBMAC2 case to get the community to thrash this out now once and for all. Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] Aegean Macedonians vs Greek Macedonians/Bulgarian Macedonians

Hi Moreschi,

I want an explanation as to why the article Aegean Macedonians was forced into the article Slavic-speakers of Greek Macedonia, while Greek Macedonians and Bulgarian Macedonians get to have their own article instead of being within the article Macedonia (Greece) and Blagoevgrad Province respectfully?

Aegean Macedonian is a subgroup just like Greek Macedonian, or Bulgarian Macedonian is. I believe Aegean Macedonian should have their own article if the other two subgroups are allowed too. Mactruth (talk) 04:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] List of important operas

Hi! I know it's been over two years, but since I only recently found the article, I just wanted to say that you did an awesome job with List of important operas. Keep up the good work! Jafeluv (talk) 10:47, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] HMS Pinafore

Kindly review this and comment or vote: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/H.M.S. Pinafore/archive1 Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:52, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Assistance

Not sure if you're still around, but I could benefit from your opinion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy

Thanks, Hiberniantears (talk) 20:56, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Squier M80 article

Hi--I see that you were the admin that deleted this article as a PROD. Any chance we could get it restored or that I could get access to the original article text? I would like to work on an article for this (admittedly slightly obscure) guitar. Thanks! · rodii · 16:56, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Remove discretionary sanctions at Jewish lobby?

Things have been very quiet for almost a year and even substantial changes have been dealt with calmly. I'd hate to see someone sanctioned for not realizing there are sanctions - I forgot myself til noticed top of page today. Thanks. CarolMooreDC (talk) 18:04, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject LGBT studies Newsletter (June 2009)

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[edit] Current Opera Project discussions

Hello from the Opera Project. I'm writing to all members on the active list to let them know that we could use your input on several issues currently under discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera:

• The use of italics in article titles
• Possible changes to the article guidelines concerning "Selected Recordings"
• Suggestions for the July Composer of the Month and Opera of the Month

Please drop by if you have the time. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Macedonia request for comment

Since you have in the past taken part in related discussions, this comes as a notification that the Centralized discussion page set up to decide on a comprehensive naming convention about Macedonia-related naming practices is now inviting comments on a number of competing proposals from the community. Please register your opinions on the RfC subpages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. -- ChrisO (talk) 11:12, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Civility

Hi, I noticed you have written material on and shown an interest in civility on wikipedia. I have created a poll page to gauge community feelings on how civility is managed in practice currently at Wikipedia:Civility/Poll, so input from as many people as possible is welcomed. Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:59, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

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