User talk:Marshallsumter/Archive 2017

Wiki.J.Sci
Hi,

Given your interest in Wiki.J.Sci, I was wondering if you'd consider listing yourself on its editorial board and helping find peer reviewers if an article in your area is submitted? T.Shafee(Evo&#65120;Evo)talk 22:49, 8 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the consideration! I will place a request for this on the Discuss page. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)


 * If there is some review to become a member of the editorial board I would be happy to undergo it. I would also be willing to review manuscripts or other submissions to the journal in astrophysics and materials sciences. If there are submissions not yet reviewed, in other fields, or when an additional review is needed, I can be tasked to do so and will do so time permitting. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:14, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

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Quadratic Equation
Hi Marshallsumter,

I'm new to Wikiversity, so I hope I'm communicating with you in the most suitable way.

Yes, please. I hope that someone may find it useful

Many thanks for your interest and encouragement.

ThaniosAkro (discuss • contribs) 14:31, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Concerning Line (Geometry) announced on main page: Yes, please.

--ThaniosAkro (discuss • contribs) 13:56, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Mail
I've sent you mail. Thanks! -Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 13:02, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello!
Hello, I've left you a message on Meta Thanks! Cameron11598 (discuss • contribs) 02:57, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

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Canvassing
and demonstrate "discriminative notification and [are] considered inappropriate canvassing". If you want to indiscriminately bring users to the discussion, there are Colloquium, Notices for custodians, and MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Any approach that selectively notifies users of the discussion is inappropriate and must cease. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:47, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Requesting a comment is not canvassing or inappropriate, but I would be happy to use MediaWiki:Sitenotice. How about "Please comment on "? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:56, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks and question
Hi Marshall. First of all I'd like to thank you for the phenomenal work you're doing for the WJS. Right now, if it's moving forward, it's thanks to you. I hope I'll be able to join you this week with a few reviews, so that we may approach the release of the first issue. Anyway, I have a question for you: I noticed that you left some reviews on the talk page of the "submission pages" of various articles. For example, at Talk:WikiJournal of Science/Submissions/Astronomical spectroscopy. My intention was to "phase out" these pages, because they are unnecessary and difficult to maintain. I think that reviews should go in the talk page of the article itself, where it's most natural and useful to find them. Do you agree? Are you posting them on the submission pages because of your ban on Wikipedia? Kind regards. --Felipe (discuss • contribs) 20:13, 27 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your kind words!


 * Do you agree? In general, yes! Contrarily, I like them with the submission on Wikiversity because we have greater freedom to try to get these submissions to be a credit to the journal, although this may not be in agreement with the submitters' original purpose for the article. I also like to have each article as close to a stand-alone piece as possible so links to significant Wikipedia articles can be gotten around by including the salient points.


 * Are you posting them on the submission pages because of your ban on Wikipedia? Yes! As you pointed out most or all of the so-called copyright violations were for cited quotes or sentences as part of what was perceived as original research and easily covered by fair use. But, not on Wikipedia! One way around this would be for me to email the reviews to a rep say from WikiProject Astronomy for posting on their talk page to see if they even want to include them. What would you like to do? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 21:32, 27 May 2017 (UTC)


 * For transferring the reviews to Wikipedia, my user name can be left off. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 01:22, 29 May 2017 (UTC)


 * In looking at contributors to Alpha Centauri over the past two years, five editors stand out as members of w:Wikiproject:Astronomical objects and w:Wikiproject:Astronomy: w:User:Exoplanetaryscience, w:User:Primefac who also has edited Astronomical spectroscopy, w:User:Maranello Prime, w:User:Praemonitus, and w:User:JorisvS. w:User:Primefac appears to be the best choice. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 04:48, 31 May 2017 (UTC)


 * I sent the following email to w:User:Primefac:

"Hi Primefac!

We at WikiJournal of Science have a problem I am hoping you can help with.

Both Alpha Centauri and Astronomical spectroscopy have been submitted to the WikiJournal of Science for publication by w:User:Guy vandegrift. Each has been reviewed and these reviews can be found at v:Talk:WikiJournal of Science/Submissions/Alpha Centauri and v:Talk:WikiJournal of Science/Submissions/Astronomical spectroscopy, respectively.

Both have been authored by w:Alpha Centauri: Revision history (Parent article editors) and w:Astronomical spectroscopy: Revision history (Parent article editors).

The original plan was to have the reviews placed on their respective Talk pages.

So is it better to place the reviews sans my user name on their respective talk pages or on the w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects and w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy?

Thank you in advance for your kind consideration of this matter!

Marshallsumter"

The user's response: "If you wrote the reviews, I think it would be good for you to sign your name ;-) The talk page of the respective articles would probably be good, since those are the pages that would be directly affected."

I have modified each review so that my user name appears as follows: v:User:Marshallsumter. This should allow it to be copied or exported to their respective talk pages without being accused of editing Wikipedia. What do you think? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 18:13, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Becoming a student
How do I become a student of Wikiversity? I thought my perceptions about others would improve. However, suddenly, I realize that they have not. Also, my writing/typing skills need improvement as well. I thought that my contributions in Wikipedia have improved. However, I realized that maybe I need to know how to avoid having more disputes with others. Do you know which e-courses I can take? --George Ho (discuss • contribs) 04:58, 2 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I believe we are all students so Welcome aboard! Feel free to concept search here for resources that may help! Dispute resolution is a tough one! If you don't find much here, feel free to create it! The San people of the Kalahari almost always walk away from disputes for two really good reasons: (1) life is precious to them and (2) everyone carries small poison tipped darts. One scratch and you're dead even before you say "ouch". It's a fast acting neurotoxin. I hope this helps! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 01:31, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Importing w:Light-independent reactions from Wikipedia
Hello again. I could not request importation at WV:Requests for Import because I can't be the one working on the Wikiversity copy. I did ask others at Wikipedia (w:Talk:Light-independent reactions), but they seem reluctant to work on it at Wikiversity. Do you know someone else interested in the topic who does? --George Ho (discuss • contribs) 04:58, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Resource Template Errors
The various resource templates are generating hundreds of high priority errors. See Special:LintErrors/pwrap-bug-workaround and Parsing/Replacing Tidy/FAQ. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 17:24, 10 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if the following is a real fix or not, but on each resource generating the error I put "tlx|" without the quotes in each template call and that error disappeared from Special:LintErrors/pwrap-bug-workaround! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 21:36, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Plasmas
You inverted my edit on Plasmas without any explanation. I wrote that there were two sorts of plasmas: hot plasmas and cold plasmas. It was wrong ? Can you explain the reason of this revert ? cordialement, Geoleplubo (discuss • contribs) 08:17, 13 July 2017 (UTC)


 * First, thanks for your interest in the Plasmas lecture! The top change you made was to a quote so I would have to rewrite it back to the quote. The definitions can go either way though there's no problem using a colon . You also changed another quote! I reverted your edit. Adding a section on hot or cold plasmas as a separate section is okay! Custom here is to discuss changes first to others' bold edits. Adding sections with references is great! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 14:03, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
 * thanks for you answer. Sorry, I had not understood that I was modifying a quote. My level in English is intermediate and I do not understand exactly what mean " others' bold edits " ? cordialement, Geoleplubo (discuss • contribs) 09:05, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Radiation astronomy/Courses/Principles/Final quiz
Why is the my edit deleted ? I added Question ! Jan Paweł ll (discuss • contribs)


 * Thanks for your interest in the radiation astronomy final quiz! Our custom for additional bold edits to a learning resource is to discuss it first on the resources Discuss page! I reverted your edit because your question is elementary arithmetic not astronomy. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 01:10, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Table Tag Errors
The following pages are generating high-priority table tag errors: Wikitables cannot be nested inside of other wikitables. Please correct these errors. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 21:47, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Sport/Volleyball/Asian Women's Volleyball Championship
 * Sport/Volleyball/23 Women's Volleyball
 * Sport/Volleyball/European U23 Women's Volleyball
 * Sport/Volleyball/FIVB World Women's Volleyball Championship

✅ --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 22:42, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Pages using web citations with no URL
See Category:Pages using web citations with no URL. The remaining pages appear to be your resources. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 22:37, 8 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 05:18, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Block of Sci-fi-
Your block of Sci-fi is inappropriate and an abuse of custodian rights. You are personally involved. Please remove the block immediately and address your concerns first through discussion. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:23, 29 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Sci-fi- was warned by both of us to refrain from personal attacks but continued to do so and I blocked Sci-fi- for that. It was not an abuse of custodian rights. Just FYI but you were personally involved in your block on Abd and I backed you up then because it was a personal attack. The comments by Sci-fi- were personal attacks on both Steigmann and myself. I expect the same here. If Sci-fi- returns and appeals the block by agreeing to refrain from personal attacks on users and sticks to issues of content, I will be happy to unblock Sci-fi-. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 17:04, 29 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Sci-fi-'s last edit was yesterday. There is no reason for a block today and absolutely no reason for you to perform the block. Abd was warned repeatedly and directly over a series of weeks, all others were asked / encouraged to get involved before the block, and all others were asked by Abd to remove the block. No one did because the block was reasonable and the requirements 28thfor unblocking were also reasonable. Abd ultimately agreed and was unblocked. You need to remove the block on Sci-Fi- immediately. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:50, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Dave, you wheel-warred with Marshall. You could have referred this to the community. You were, in fact, personally involved when you blocked me, and that was obvious. While Marshall may have failed recusal in blocking Sci-fi-, so did you in blocking me; and recusal failure is not a proper basis for unblocking, that should have been established, even though I saw the principle violated at times. (What Marshall might call the "dominant group" blocked policy formation, again and again, because it would have reduced their dominance.) You were here demanding that Marshall do what was his clear prerogative to not do. There is procedure for dealing with disputes like this which you did not follow.
 * I did not ever agree with your block. I did what it took to restore editing privileges, but abandoned Wikiversity for most practical purposes, because it had become toxic and unreliable, unstable. Your block was totally outrageous. Marshall followed policy: he did not unblock until I gave assurances. You bypassed that and just unblocked a request, without ever gaining his assent, nor did you wait for an unblock request and discuss it. And I see this as simply a continuation of the behavior that I was protesting and seeking community input on when you blocked me. You have seriously damaged Wikiversity, one deletion and one block and one act of domination and recusal failure at a time.
 * I have gone on to much greener pastures. Wikiversity had incredible possibilities, that I worked for, for years. I made it happen that you became permanent. I went to meta to resolve the problems with the rogue sysop. I developed procedures to create content on controversial subjects without creating endless conflict, and the Parapsychology resource was an example of it, one that was working. Part of the plan was to create a space for people who get blocked on Wikipedia, to reduce disruption there. A space where topics can be discussed freely, which is impossible on Wikipedia. Pointing to Wikiversity resources on Wikipedia talk pages should be completely legitimate. Sister-wiki links are used, but the anti-pseudoscience faction has fought against it tooth and claw. I find it all tragic. It is anti-academic. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 02:28, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the further background on the events with Abd! I was not aware of "Abd was warned repeatedly and directly over a series of weeks, all others were asked / encouraged to get involved before the block, and all others were asked by Abd to remove the block." Here's my dilemma: to decide the content of a personal attack, in the matter between you and Abd, I looked at what Abd stated that produced the block: words to effect "Dave doesn't know". This is not a compliment and it's not neutral; therefore, it's a personal attack and I refrained from unblocking Abd. I don't recall reading any additional personal attacks on you, but I take these very seriously! Now, what do we have from Sci-fi-: words to the effects: "Marshallsumter doesn't know" and "Marsallsumter lies". These are personal attacks against me and we have two warnings beforehand, one from you and one from me, followed as I noticed later by these two attacks on me. As I recall this was on the 28th here where I am but UTC on the 29th with respect to Wikiversity. The personal attacks on Steigmann preceded, as I recall, Sci-fi-'s personal attacks on me. So where are we? Sci-fi- made 11 edits between 8/21-28/2017, all and only on Wikiversity:Requests for Deletion against Steigmann and myself. No comments on any Discuss page for any resource, including Steigmann's regarding anything. When I tried to verify Sci-fi-'s accusations of wiki abuse of multiple accounts on whatever wiki the user was from on Google I got nada, no wiki and no supporting evidence of the claims, at least under the username Sci-fi-. As I wrote: "If Sci-fi- returns and appeals the block by agreeing to refrain from personal attacks on users and sticks to issues of content, I will be happy to unblock Sci-fi-." I changed my wording to neutral since we don't know sexual status! We allowed Sci-fi- to comment and "vote" without any verification! So why should we allow Sci-fi- multiple opportunities to continue personal attacks should a return occur? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:27, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Please review Blocking policy. Your actions are inconsistent with this page. There is no continuing behavior to block, there wasn't any continuing behavior when the block was applied, there are custodians capable of impartial treatment available, and you should have asked for a second opinion before acting. I'm sorry, but this isn't a discussion or debate. On behalf of the community, I ask you a third time to please remove the inappropriate block. If you refuse, I will be forced to unblock Sci-fi- tomorrow and begin a Community Review of these events. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:53, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Great. Since I see no Community Review, I may start one. You have gone a bridge too far. I've done it before, arranged for desysop. Do you know what the results were? In this affair, you behaved as if you have superior authority, as a representative of the community, to that of Marshall. You don't. What will the community decide? I don't know. That's up to the community. I was not thinking of going there, but seeing you attempt to bully Marshall here goes a bridge too far. If you want to avoid a CR, you could think about apologizing to Marshall. I'm not demanding it. I'm more interested in policy being established. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 02:38, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Okay! I've reviewed the Blocking policy. "Libelous material about living people.", or potentially libelous statements is a reason for a block and there's no need for any other's opinion because it's a legal matter. I'm well aware that the comments on my user page and talk page on Wikipedia are potentially libelous and have been used to deny or influence decisions on funding. So here's how this is going to go down: I will remove the block after I save this edit. If Sci-fi- returns and commits even one personal attack, assuming you or I become aware of it, you or I block this user. If you believe Sci-fi- does not understand what personal attacks are, please do your best to help this user understand, assuming you are available to do so, or I will do so. Just to be clear about the seriousness here, a Community Review of libelous or potentially libelous comments by Sci-fi- will follow should Sci-fi- be allowed to continue to commit personal attacks. Do you have any questions? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 01:52, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Approximately 42 ± 4 % of User:Sci-fi-'s sentences are potentially libelous, which means his primary purpose is not to commit libel. However, each sentence can be legally significant. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 15:48, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

User account "Sci-fi-" is not registered on RationalWiki nor is Steigmann. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:02, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

The term "Cross-wiki" suggests at least two wikis, apparently Wikipedia (Steigmann's existence confirmed by Steigmann but no Sci-fi-), not Rationalwiki (no Steigmann, no Sci-fi-, no edits by either using their search engine), and "another wiki". "Sci-fi-" appears to be a sock puppet and not a legal one. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 17:03, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Found this using Google web search "Ben Steigmann" Rationalwiki: "Note the above sock IP is the psychotic internet sockpupeteer Mikemikev, who is also: RealBrandonPilcher, Brandon Pilchers, Krom Loser, Communist Scientist,EgalitarianJay,Ben Steigmann Blissentia, Antifa Scientist,John Fuerst and JohnFuerstwithhispantsdown (most on Human Varieties talk). On most those socks he is also impersonating people. Just run a google search for "rationalwiki mikemikev" to get the extent of his abuse.Antifascist (talk) 19:28, 21 October 2015 (UTC)" --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 17:03, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

A Google search as suggested above "rationalwiki mikemikev" produced only the above and "Oliver D. Smith - Encyclopedia Dramatica https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Oliver_D._Smith&diff=next... There seems to be truth in this since Oliver has ignored [http://rationalwiki.org/w/ ... into responding at Rationalwiki. Mikemikev still though obsessed with Oliver ...". Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mikemikev/Archive does not contain Steigmann. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 17:03, 30 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Steigmann posts at RationalWiki, for example see this Reddit post. If you view Steigmann's Facebook, over the past year he claims he's a former racist who has turned anti-racist. You can dig up his old racist/white supremacist comments. However he now says he's ashamed of his racist past and now fights racists; he's been critical of the white nationalist John Fuerst and racialist Emil Kirkegaard at Rationalwiki. Steigmann shapeshifts his ideology a lot, one minutes he's a white supremacist/Alt-righter, next an ANTIFA/anti-racist.Bigcheeses (discuss • contribs) 13:14, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This could be his Rationalwiki account. Notice he spells his name differently on Facebook, so Ben Steigman (with one "m") is nothing unusual and the RW account is BenSteigman(s). Notice on that user he created the Emil Kirkegaard and John Fuerst articles at RationalWiki; Steigmann also showed up on one of Fuerst's racialist blogs. see comments: "Ben, I will look into the matter and get back to you on it. The issue is not particularly relevant to debates about the race concept." (Ben is commentating as "TMI" to John Fuerst, posting as "chuck".) Note the latter (October 2015) was before Steigmann turned anti-racist, and he was still recommending racist literature on race and IQ. In 2016, Steigmann changed his views and became an anti-racist, now proceeds to now criticizes John Fuerst who he was formerly friends with. Bigcheeses (discuss • contribs) 13:27, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Rationalwiki account is User:BenSteigmans. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 21:48, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Re my comment page: I don't know who it is, but I think it could be Rome Viharo. He doesn't like Steigmann and has been attacking him on various blogs/websites. The posting style above is very similar to his.Bigcheeses (discuss • contribs) 22:44, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Marshall, beware of SPAs bearing gifts. I'm not convinced that studying RationalWiki is useful. Someone impersonating Steigmann may have done it then, too. Or that might have been Steigmann. It's not solid. I've had direct communication with Steigmann since 2014, and I think I have communication with Rome Viharo as well. But none of this really matters. What I can see is that there has been disruption by SPAs, and almost certainly impersonation. We used to have guidelines and traditions that made most of this irrelevant. It has been a strong WMF tradition that one is not blocked on one wiki because they have allegedly been Bad on another. There were many good reasons for this. People's behavior is contextual, people may do well in one environment while doing poorly in another. Wikiversity created an environment where many points of view could co-exist and even collaborate and cooperate, something very difficult on Wikipedia, where the structure militated against it (and in spite of Jimbo Wales' vision, because of competition for space). Periodically, Wikiversity academic freedom was attacked, and in one sequence, much of the Wikiversity community left in disgust.
 * What happened on Wikipedia should have been irrelevant to Wikiversity. What I've seen, looking at the sock puppet reports, is that Steigmann was successfully libeled without clear evidence. He had, in fact, socked, and was quite naive, acknowledging it in his resource talk or something like that. His edits had been harmless, and few. The faction against him took that and then created a massive disruption. In fact, checkuser did not connect any of the disruptive accounts with Steigmann, but this was misrepresented by Sci-Fi-, and it appears that this wasn't carefully checked ... except that careful checking should not have been necessary because it was all irrelevant. Deletion of the resource was not at all normal. Such had been attempted many times and failed. At one point, I had invented a technique for a banned editor to make positive contributions without causing harm to ban enforcement. I cleared this with a Wikipedia Arbitrator. It was used quite a number of times, and it worked, until the faction that was, by that time, attacking me on wikipedia because I'd gotten one of their favorite administrators santioned, realized that I'd suggested this and attacked and disallowed it. When I was finally blocked by a on Wikipedia, I decided to test it, with self-reverted edits that were not disruptive and did not increase necessary labor. And then I documented the results of all the cases I knew, including my own, on wikiversity. They came after it, and failed. The Wikiversity documents was not causing disruption on Wikipedia, if anyone was, I was, except that it was all unnecessary. Self-reverted edits don't cause significant harm. What actually happens is that another editor sees them, checks the content, and then brings it back. If it's no good, it does practically no harm. It worked for many banned users, not just me. The page here reviewing that was in my user space. I thought it might eventually become an educational resource. I've seen hundreds of cases where disruption could be avoided. In actual practice, when permitted, self-reversion turned conflict into cooperation. But the Dominant Group only cares about its own power, not about actually serving the community. To avoid this requires structure and an aware community. The Dominant Group will normally avoid creating policy that might restrain it. But even good policy is useless if the community does not stand for it and protect it. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 03:08, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Def. "Someone who is manipulative and able to get others to do what they want in a puppet-like manner" by JillianE, puppeteer, In: Wiktionary, 18 January 2006, is called a puppeteer.

Def. a "user in an online community, who has two or more accounts set up by that user so as to seem to be for different users", sock puppeteer, In: Wiktionary 19 June 2013, is called a sock puppeteer.

User:Sci-fi- as a registered user does not appear to be manipulating any one else to do what they want in a puppet-like manner, as Dave was willing to block Steigmann and delete the resource solely on the available evidence of Steigmann's abuse of multiple accounts on Wikipedia. Even after all Steigmann sock puppets had been blocked by 24 August 2017. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 22:00, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Actually, a review of the Wikipedia checkuser evidence did not show that Steigmann was any of the accounts on Wikipedia, but Steigmann acknowledged being Psychicbias, and an IP and one old account. None of the disruption on Wikipedia was from any account linked to Steigmann except that they claimed to be Steigmann, and it was those accounts that taunted the Wikipedia administrator, leading him to complain on Wikiversity. Steigmann's resource was deleted and his account was blocked, and he was not warned, nor did he apparently know about any of this activity. This is an appalling mess. SciFi- was an SPA, an obvious sock of someone, and should not have been considered at all. The first checkuser request on Wikipedia was filed by another SPA, and the purpose of that request was to attack the Wikiversity resource. When that failed, then all those truly disruptive socks appeared. This was clearly an attack on Wikiversity's hosting of material friendly to parapsychology. It may also have been personal about Steigmann, he has enemies, but he had been nondisruptive here. And, in fact, he is telling me that he doesn't want any fuss. He just wanted his content back, for use elsewhere. This was cross-wiki disruption managed by socking on Wikipedia, then spread by a gullible administrator. (His response was understandable, but naive. Arrayed against Steigmann are some seriously unscrupulous people, who won't hesitate to do whatever it takes to "win.")
 * Sci-Fi- misrepresented the checkuser results. No connection was found between the known Steigmann accounts and the disruptive/defiant ones by checkuser. Because of his being an SPA and showing up when he did, Sci-Fi- is likely connected with the plot. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 02:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

"Cross-wiki spam means that a certain link has been added to multiple projects, normally by a single user, a set of SPAs, or an IP range." by Mike.lifeguard, Cross-wiki spam, In: Wikibooks, 28 November 2008. Spam means that a certain link has been added, normally by a single user, a set of SPAs, or an IP range.

Cross-wiki means to multiple projects.

"Some links are generally blacklisted on meta, even if the abuse has only been to one project, or when the link has not been used abusively yet" by Mike.lifeguard, Cross-wiki spam, In: Wikibooks, 28 November 2008. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 22:45, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Edit wars
Def. a "dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing editors continually change the page without discussion" by Oiyarbepsy, edit war, In: Wiktionary is called an edit war.

"And, if the edit warring between Steigmann and thomson continues, what have we accomplished?" should have been stated: "And, if the apparent edit warring between Steigmann and thomson continues, what have we accomplished?"

"Steigmann's stopped all contributions anywhere (WMF, all but one sockpuppet was edit warring on the Myers Wikipedia article, lately with thomson) on 21 August 2017 ("Discussion started on the 21st.") that I've found so far." should have been stated: "Steigmann's stopped all contributions anywhere (WMF, all but one sockpuppet was apparently edit warring on the Myers Wikipedia article, lately with thomson) on 21 August 2017 ("Discussion started on the 21st.") that I've found so far."

"Removing posts by community sockpuppets of individuals who were community banned for disruptive POV-pushing is not considered edit warring on Wikipedia. If you really think that calling it edit war is appropriate, please report me at the edit warring noticeboard on Wikipedia or even to the administrators noticeboard." While "continually change the page without discussion" may not fit the mathematical definition of "continual", statistical certainty begins with three to five instances. There are "illegal" sockpuppets where deception is the deciding factor. Steigmann has been identifying as "Steigmann" each time or preponderantly (≥ 51 %) as noticed so far but a complete count is needed. Wikipedia policy states: "Reverting edits by banned or blocked users is not edit warring." The definition makes no such distinction. Policies should have a legal basis but can be political. No case law for "edit war", "edit warring", or "edit warrior" was found in a full Google case law search at federal and state levels. "Edit war", "edit warring", or "edit warrior" do not appear to be liability issues and case law mentions applicable federal and state laws near to the time of publication. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 22:00, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

"Could you please explain why the copyright violation-laden material is "legitimate" instead of insinuating that other users just "don't like" or calling me an edit warrior (an insult, by the way, though one I assume coming from ignorance instead of malice)...? Ian.thomson (discuss • contribs) 13:41, 28 August 2017 (UTC)" Correct no malice intended but actions do appear to match Wiktionary definition. Steigmann made less than 50 % copyright violations, probably less than 5 %. More than 51 % or all cites attribute the actual author though URLs are absent. These are not copyright violations and do fall under attributable. Mentioning an author's name for a quote fulfills attribution and copyright under fair use especially on a dot org or dot edu for research purposes. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 22:03, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Oddly, the only user of the two that did put comments on the talk page of the Frederic W. H. Myers article was Psychicbiases (Steigmann).

Bigcheeses is a sock puppet, also Sci-fi-
Checkuser#Sci-fi- this puppet master also filed the abusive checkuser request on Wikipedia (as Michael skater), and was the horde of abusive socks disrupting Wikipedia to attack Wikiversity. I'll file an RCA for this. I don't like being suspicious, but I was right. SPA bearing gifts ... check wallet. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 23:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Ben Steigmann sock-puppeting

 * (edit conflict with below) Ben Steigmann came to Wikiversity as a refuge, where he could research and document what he found in a fringe field, in a context that preserves overall neutrality. He was attacked and harassed here, repeatedly, and those attacks can be tracked back to the same sock farm. Establishing Wikiversity as a refuge avoids disruption on Wikipedia. But if the Wikipedia disruptors are allowed to pursue targets here, that is damaged. Wikiversity administration must become more sophisticated.


 * I had thought this was a certain well-known skeptical faction, that's organized off-wiki, and that checkuser might come up empty. I was wrong. This was just one obsessed fanatic. (And though I did not accuse that faction of this disruption -- at least not publically -- I apologize to them. However, where were they when someone supporting their point of view was on a rampage? Factions, ideally, police their own.


 * Wikiversity should be ready if true factional attack ever starts up. Large factions could mobilize large numbers of "voters." This is why it is essential that decisions be made by established Wikiversitans and based on policy and only secondarily on votes, and vote counts should not include SPAs. It is common on Wikipedia to deprecate SPA !votes, making them stand out as likely biased. This is also why we should have established clear policies long ago. I worked for it, and that was always opposed by enough to keep it from becoming consensus. And, in fact, those same opposers deprecated long-established policy to "proposed." Yuck! --Abd (discuss • contribs) 21:02, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiJSci submission system
Hi, Since you've been organising most of the peer reviews so far for WikJSci, I thought I'd check with you before making a change to the submission system. I'm hoping to switch WikiJSci over to a system that I think requires less manual maintenance. The WikiJournal_Preprints page allows submissions to be added with some basic formatting already in place, and then automatically tracked via categories: I think that overall the workload ends up being lower for both author and editors. It would also allow a unified submission system so that works submitted to one WikiJournal could be easily transferred to another if out of scope. What do you think? Happy to discuss on the WikiJSci talk page if you prefer. T.Shafee(Evo&#65120;Evo)talk 03:37, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Category:Pre-prints_not_yet_included_in_WikiJournal_of_Medicine
 * Category:Works submitted for peer review
 * Category:Articles_included_in_WikiJournal_of_Medicine_in_2017


 * I've been considering your suggestions! Our Chief Editor has designed our submission system with these sections:


 * 1) Articles awaiting reviewer
 * 2) Articles under review
 * 3) Articles approved for the next issue
 * 4) Articles rejected

The last section after number 3 not on the list but for publication concerns a lay-type description, formatting conformity, and journal issue formalities. Our first section Category:WikiJournal of Science/Submissions awaiting reviewer is probably comparable to Category:Pre-prints_not_yet_included_in_WikiJournal_of_Medicine and Category:Works submitted for peer review. Our Category:WikiJournal of Science/Submissions under review and Category:WikiJournal of Science/Submissions already reviewed appear to be between WJM category #2 and #3. WJM category #3 appears to be ahead of WJS category #3 and comparable to our last section not on the list. Perhaps at this point it would be best to include our Chief Editor User:Sophivorus for working out any subtleties. Our sections could easily be journal, article review specific subsections of WJM categories. What do you think? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:22, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Science board applications
Hello Marshal,

We've received several applications for editorial board membership of WikiJournal of Science: Talk:WikiJournal of Science/Editorial board, and I'd like you to join the board discussion about these by email. I don't have (or I've lost track of) your email address, so please send me an email so we can add you.

Best regards,

Mikael Häggström (discuss • contribs) 14:23, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Question about Guillain-barre-syndrome
Should the 2nd dash not be there? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 22:48, 12 December 2017 (UTC)


 * I agree with you! The resource title should match journal article titles, e.g., Guillain-Barré syndrome. Please feel free to change it! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 22:58, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

RAYLEIGH22'S WIFE'S ILLNESS
Marshallsumter, I left a message here for you regarding my wife's illness. Turns out she most likely has histoplasmosis. We are at IU Health in Indianapolis getting her a biopsy. So things are looking up for us. So yes, we had a lung cancer scare.

RAYLEIGH22 (discuss • contribs) 18:17, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

My wife, Rose, is much better now. Histoplasmosis tends to be a chronic problem that's prone to long periods of remission. It seems she may be entering into one. She still coughs, but it comes and goes. Mostly, we are back to normal now, whatever that was. LAst CAT scan of chest showed no change of condition. next CT scan of chest in in November. That's one year from the time we found it.