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Hi! It seems that we have similar interests (Japanese art/history). Perhaps we could work together on an article someday or share resources or something (some of the stuff I have access to I listed here). Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you need anything of it or if I can be of any other help with an article. I also have access to questia, credo references and highbeam. BTW, I recently wrote Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion which I hope to nominate at WP:GAN at some point. It would be good if somebody who knows about the topic could have a second look at it. Also I did not include any Japanese sources such as those listed on top of User:Bamse/Fujiwara_no_Hirotsugu_Rebellion (after "RS:"). If you have the time to take a look or even to expand the article with info from the Japanese sources that would be great, if not that's fine as well. No worries. bamse (talk) 09:53, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the licensing of Tolkien's later works

Hello, We had a discussion a little while ago on the talk page of the Hobbit AUJ. I don't suppose it matters terribly much any more, as the discussion seems to have moved on and much of the introductory section of that Article seems to have settled down. Nevertheless, I thought you might be interested in reading this article on Christopher Tolkien's attitude towards the use of his father's works for the big screen, and why he refuses to license those works not sold in 1969. Also, this incredibly rare interview with Christopher himself sheds a little more light on the matter. I hope you had a pleasant New Year. Wishing you all the very best for 2013. Michael --Mja58 (talk) 12:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Re: Imakagami

I noticed not long after getting blocked that someone marked this classical Japanese text that was discussed by Keene and numerous others, and is part of a series with the other Kagamis, as potentially not meeting WP:N! This is why Wikipedia can't afford to block me... :P elvenscout742 (talk) 13:46, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I just noticed that Drmies above appeared to have taken this comment as an "essay" listing my complaints and inappropriately using emoticons. The first sentence was meant as a reminder to myself to fix that particular article as soon as I get unblocked. The second sentence was a silly joke. The latter may or me not be relevant to Wikipedia (I notice, though, that the user who nominated Man for deletion has never been blocked); the former, though, cannot possibly be taken as unacceptable. I do thank Drmies for the advice provided in the latter part of his above comment, though. Regards. elvenscout742 (talk) 01:39, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Elvenscout, I see you have taken this to AN where things appear to be going your way, with a lot more involvement than at the original ANI thread (and that was the problem, in my opinion). Please note that I never doubted your good faith, and if you get your way in the end I'll (try to) be the first to congratulate you. Drmies (talk) 16:03, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

I know you didn't [doubt my good faith]. Thank you for your good faith. Honestly, I think the reason for the lack of involvement last time was partly that user's fault for overloading the discussion with misrepresentations, but mostly my fault for not knowing how to use diffs. I re-read it last night, and, honestly, I think I've got a lot better at that than I was two months ago. Thank you so much for your advice, and happy editing! elvenscout742 (talk) 00:22, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

It was indeed rather unusual and suspicious that such an important historical text would be nominated for deletion. As you know, it may be a "classical text", but it was an unofficial text, and perhaps written as a reaction to Okagami--the first in the so-caled 'mirror series'--presenting a more superfluous version of life at the court.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 17:53, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

The 47 Ronin

Hello Elvenscout742. Please see a discussion at WP:RM/TR as to how these ronin-related titles should redirect. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 19:21, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Current practice is what Mysterious Island said to do, so I undid your original move. If you still favor that move I suggest opening a formal move request. The debate from WP:RM/TR has been moved to Talk:The 47 Ronin#Material copied from the technical move request. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 01:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Ugetsu

Elvenscout, I've started an ANI report on the sock problem. For the time being, you need to cool it with the reverts at Tales of Moonlight and Rain, you don't want to be caught up in the edit warring problem.--Cúchullain ^t/c 15:31, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Gotcha. elvenscout742 (talk) 15:33, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Use of DVD covers

Hi, thanks for archiving your Talk, it loads properly now - there must have been something triggering my erratic filter. Sorry to see you dealing with various socks. But Cúchullain's advice to keep cool is sound (his advice usually is). One way of relaxing would be to move around a bit more and look at MOS, AfDs, RMs, outside area of personal expertise. Many of the same problems you've noticed hitting Japanese topics are actually sub-problems of wider editing issues. Anyway, the main reason for this message is I was quite surprised to see a full clean DVD cover has been accepted into http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Uzak.jpg (it would not be accepted at Commons I think). Maybe this provides a model of improving images on Japan film articles too (and Vietnamese ones if I can get around to it). Best regards. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:36, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

"1978"?

Hi. Also see WP:EGG. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 07:44, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

No longer IB

Note: as per this close at AN, you are not subject to a topic ban or an interaction ban related to User:Tristan noir. That said, take great care: poking the bear or "grave-dancing" will not be tolerated (✉→BWilkins←✎) 12:58, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

I know, and that is why I haven't posted anything substantial or got involved in the last week or so. But Tristan noir won't stop harassing/undermining me until something is done, and if the discussion closes before that gets resolved then I'm only going to wind up having to post the same thing a FIFTH time in another few weeks. elvenscout742 (talk) 15:14, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I just noticed that you did resolve it. Thank you very much. elvenscout742 (talk) 15:16, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

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Are you online? Would you mind doing me a favour paste the missing piece of bot code and add "WikiProject Writing systems". My firewall is playing up. Thanks! In ictu oculi (talk) 04:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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WP:3RR violation on Jigai

I already posted on the relevant noticeboard here but was this the right way to go? elvenscout742 (talk) 11:39, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I'd certainly be very wary of continuing to change the article. Whilst the accusations of scokpuppetry may or may not be valid, the information being added is pretty well referenced (I've looked up the actual refs, which annoying aren't linked, and they do support the text). The references may be wrong about jigai being a specific form of suicide for women, but they certainly meet the standard for reliable sources (I've used all three myself from time to time). Persisting in the same vein could backfire on you rather badly, I fear; you're basically edit-warring to remove sourced information with which you disagree - and you know that never looks good! Yunshui 雲‍水 11:49, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

The sources are faulty. No Japanese dictionaries give the definition the IP is trying to enforce, so the "sourced information" is factually inaccurate. How does one go about removing "well-sourced" information that is not true? elvenscout742 (talk) 11:56, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, regrettably, the short answer is that you don't. Providing sources that claim the opposite (that jigai refers only to suicide) is pretty much the only appropriate course of action. Thing is, the English Wikipedia is concerned primarily with the use of terms like this in English; whilst I don't for a moment dispute your claim that "自害" refers to suicide generally in Japan, the fact is that in English, jigai appears to have the primary meaning of "suicide by samurai-class women" - leastways, that's what English-language sources appear to support. To offer a vaguely related example, whilst our article on Gung-ho explains the term's original Cantonese meaning as "work together", the primary definition in the article is "dedicated or enthusiastic", because even though 工合 has a different meaning in China, that's what "gung ho" means to English speakers. Jigai, being a far less-common term, is harder to call, but the fact remains that we do give precedence to the concept as it's expressed in English sources. Yunshui 雲‍水 13:32, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I was coming here to say the same thing about reverting. Elvenscout, you really don't want this to come back on you, and it most certainly will. In the future, I suggest contacting an admin as soon as you see a new IP hounding you or acting up. Then they can block the sock and semi-protect the article if need be. You can let me know, though my involvement with Joshu at Ugetsu means I shouldn't do the blocking or protecting myself; TParis and Salvio giuliano have been helpful in responding to the issue, and of course you can go to ANI.--Cúchullain ^t/c 15:45, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Understood. On the Jigai issue, I made the mistake of thinking I could discuss the problem myself. And as I have said a few times already, I still was not completely convinced of sockpuppetry, and I have a habit of taking AGF a bit too far: I didn't want to request any assistance until after the IP had made a blatant 3RR violation. elvenscout742 (talk) 15:50, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

That show of good faith is commendable. However, this is clearly Joshu evading his block through sockpuppetry, and he's using those socks to engage in further disruption through edit warring and stacking RMs. Even if blocked, if the IP really isn't Joshu they'll have a chance to explain themselves or create an account. Additionally, some folks (like Salvio) will have additional tools they can use to determine one way or another. I'd just operate on the assumption that an IP that shows up behaving like Joshu is probably Joshu.--Cúchullain ^t/c 16:31, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Forty martyrs

Hi, Elvenscout742. The Forty Martyrs article has a template at the top of the edit page that says Use British English. Sorry 'bout that, Chief! --108.45.72.196 (talk) 07:50, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:Haiku in English

Hi. Evidently some longer term solution to sock RMs will be needed than answering them. As regards the Haiku in English article, how are you now with the solution worked out? I saw you merged Estonian. Perhaps leave a sum up so it can be closed. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:18, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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User:JoshuSasori

• You have my full support in this matter, and I hope this troll sorts their priorities out and leaves you alone in future. Lukeno94 (talk) 16:22, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

You evidently have the support of all sensible editors, hopefully now that can be behind WP Japan. I have commented at jigai AfD and made a start on changing the article into something more sensible. I'd be happy with what was a good-call AfD turning into a move, and happy with the title you redlinked. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:39, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Bingo. I found a clear source from Joshua S. Mostow saying that Hearn had misunderstood the meaning of jigai - and have used that as justification for relegating the terminology stuff to end of article. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:25, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

• Your new username really threw me off, when I saw it - but I'm glad to see that the Jigai article may now be sorted. Lukeno94 (talk) 18:05, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

I figured that would happen. But for the past few months I've been hounded constantly by JoshuSasori and Tristan noir, so no matter what time I changed my name there would always be some kind of dispute or the like that I was involved in. IIO, regarding the "jigai" thing: kudos! Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 00:43, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

For your efforts

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		I hope that this helps, in some small fashion, to make up for the harassment that you have endured here the last few months. Your efforts to improve various articles is much appreciated. MarnetteD | Talk 22:01, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

In the meantime, I've started a ban discussion on JoshuSasori at AN. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 17:45, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

To which this this edit was made. (and for the record this notification follows a request to User who made this post to notify you himself, but he believed the above from Sjones23 was enough). Incidentally I note today that you have been editing since 2005, award yourself something, cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:44, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

• I'm disappointed that you're retiring, or semi-retiring - if you were to return full time, and I'm still here, I'd be more than happy to try and help you defeat the vandals! Lukeno94 (talk) 19:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry to see you go. I hope you will continue to edit when you can.--Cúchullain ^t/c 17:57, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind, but I mentioned this situation at AN here. Again, I've very sorry to see this happen.--Cúchullain ^t/c 18:43, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

• • I fully second this barnstar. Thank you for everything you have contributed to the project. Best wishes, AGK [•] 20:28, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
• Hey Elvenscout (I kind of liked the old name, and you can't teach an old dog a new trick), I hope you're doing alright. You've had more than your fair share of crap to deal with here; there does seem to be a lot of crap around here these days. Anyway, I hope to see you around again, and I wish you the best. Drmies (talk) 23:16, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Satō Tadanobu for deletion

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Request reason:

I think I was blocked automatically based on a mistake I made while using my original account to e-mail another user. My "current" account doesn't have an e-mail. I have been completely open about my use of multiple accounts. ArbCom got involved, and determined that my use up until now had been justified and had not been "abuse", but that I needed to stop. I did stop. But I accidentally posted from my old account once while logged in. I contacted Salvio by e-mail and explained this immediately.
In short, ArbCom has already determined that I was not "abusing multiple accounts" and my main account should not be blocked. Please unblock me.

Accept reason:

Unblocked; user has been up front with their use of multiple accounts and clearly did not intend to abuse them. However, from this point please be careful not to edit using multiple accounts. Cúchullain ^t/c 14:01, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Welcome back :)

I know it's outside of your usual scope, but can you find and translate any good Japanese language sources on the Daihatsu P5 article I wrote? There's a real dearth of English sources. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 07:19, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! It's good to be back. :D Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:11, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

By the way, I'm up for that once I have a bit more free time. For the next little bit it looks like most of my Wikipedia time will be taken up by dealing with User:Someone not using his real name's continuing assumptions of bad faith. He seems to have declared war on me, and is unwilling to listen to reason. My phone's IP is obviously shared, because this banned conspiracy theorist is on the same IP (the autoblock has prevented me from posting a number of edits from my phone, even while logged-in), but he has now taken it so far as to accuse me of saying that the same IP was JoshuSasori, which I never did... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:09, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

• I've got both your talk pages on my watchlist, so I've seen it building. I think the pair of you just need to try and avoid each other as much as possible. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:14, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

He had never dealt with either Tristan noir or Syngmung before he hijacked threads on them in order to try to "catch" me. I can try to avoid him, but he won't try to avoid me -- and as long as I have anything to discuss on AN or ANI he can use the excuse that those are just places he hangs out... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:21, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

• Hijiri, please. They're blocked now, they're under an IBAN--and they've told me you're not welcome on their talk page. Drmies (talk) 14:40, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

I know. Just pointing out to him that his IBAN precludes him from bringing up prior disputes with me, is all. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:23, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Although why he gets to insult me (no "bait") and revise history and I'm the one who gets told off is beyond me ... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:25, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

• I didn't really you had created the Woodward article; I looked at the user page of the account that made it but didn't quite understand the reasoning--the person is not notable by our standards. Drmies (talk) 15:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

See my comment at the AfD. I made it safe in the knowledge that it might well come to AfD, and I don't really have an argument in the page's defense. It's my opinion that anyone who meets GNG is notable enough for their opinion to be noteworthy for inclusion in Wikipedia, and I spent a lot of effort keeping his opinion from being presented as fact here. 'Nuff said. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:23, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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Konoe

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Some baklava for you!

Welcome back. And thanks for needed comment on the Vietnamese kings, there have been several like that percolating down the WP:RM listing. At some point your input in repairing the VN MOS will be welcome. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:46, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm afraid I didn't even know there was such an MOS -- if I did I would have quoted it -- so if I do anything it will be to add provisos to UE and COMMONNAME that specifically specify that they are not meant to be used as some users have been. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:50, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, look forward to it :) the draft (a distorted draft) is at WP:VIETCON but it basically needs resetting to zero and starting from scratch. Thanks again. In ictu oculi (talk) 16:37, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

That Latin tag

Interesting. I don't like the use of Latin tags to browbeat other editors myself, and in particular when it isn't easily recognizable as his use of Argumentum "vocatis ollam ollæ nigra" was - I couldn't find that anywhere until he said it meant "physician, heal theyself", usually Cura te ipsum or medicus cura teipsum - any comments on this or ideas as to where his version came from? Looking at some of your other comments, at Talk BVM I agree with you but Johnbod's a good editor, I doubt that was a personal attack. As for your problem with 'most scholars', I've had that problem also. It is often very obvious but also hard to source when challenged, as it frequently is. Dougweller (talk) 05:45, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Thing is, in the recent cases I have a Yale professor directly stating "most scholars believe (Peter didn't write either of the epistles attributed to him)". Anyway, regarding the Latin tag: I of course had little difficulty figuring out what M... thought he was saying, but it still didn't apply to half the arguments he was using it to dismiss. The phrase was apparently "coined" by a particular online advocate of Jehovah's Witnesses within the last few months (you can check my Google links for the evidence). To explain much further would be outing the now indeffed user, so I'll hold back, but I'm apparently not the first person to make the connection between the username "M..." and this person, as a Google search of the two names will indicate. (He used "M..." as a pseudonym on other forums than Wikipedia.) Note I did no "opposition research" here: I was confused as to whether this phrase actually exists, and when I Googled it the only results were all tied to the same named Jehovah's Witness. Regarding BVM: yeah, Johnbod may be a good editor but responding to "We should use secondary sources rather than expecting all readers to accept conservative Catholic interpretation of primary sources" with "You're one of those nut-jobs who thinks it's all just based on Isis-worship" shows at best a lack of good-faith. It would be understandable if I was just some anonymous troll who appeared out of nowhere and started attacking articles on Roman Catholicism (although I'd say my edit history is friendlier to Catholics than to, say, Evangelicals), but I've been on Wikipedia longer than him.[1][2] Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:02, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Oh, wait: forgot to answer what now seems like your main question. I don't speak Latin myself, but GTranslate is telling me he's saying "Pot kettle black". Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:42, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

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Per your latest post on ANI, you id publish his email, but I believe it to be inadvertent. (although, really, not a tough one to guess) [3] Gaijin42 (talk) 15:46, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Ugh. So we've found ONE thing he technically wasn't lying about, although I did just accidentally copy-paste too much of his public forum post, and he did lie to me a bunch of times by claiming he wasn't still canvassing. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:56, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Since you have been lying about many issues along the way, just to support your claims and personal war against me, I suggest that you stop and avoid using such bad language. I never lied to you, by the way. Michael Haephrati (talk) 20:46, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

• The irony of someone who keeps whining about being accused of lying, and then making the exact same claim, is astounding. Someone needs to drop the stick and stop beating the dead horse, and a clue; it's not Hijiri. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:35, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

...and yet, you must add your saying... (clue: maybe it's you). Michael Haephrati (talk) 02:22, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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AFD Behaviour

Enough; I thought we'd made it clear yesterday that it is time to stop sniping at each other. Disengage from Michael, please. I appreciate his behaviour violates a number of our guidelines, but he is a relatively new editor and you've taken exactly the wrong approach to educating him. Continuing to post lengthy messages like the one at AFD has two affects. a) it will mean the closing admin is less likely to read your comments in full because they are so time consuming and b) all it will do is create more drama to sidetrack the AFD. You've made your comment, let the community decide. Walk away and let others sort this mess out, please. --Errant ^(chat!) 12:53, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

You didn't read my comment closely enough. I needed to specify that I was not being pointy by !voting delete. Additionally, I suspect I've done more than everyone else combined to educate him, despite his constant attacks against me. You haven't seen the vast majority of my interaction with him because he first insisted on exchanging several e-mails with me. I explained calmly and coolly why a bunch of things don't fly, and he continued to do them anyway. I'm getting pretty sick of it. I don't blame you for not knowing what went on in my e-mail exchanges with him, but I'd appreciate you acknowledging that that's his fault, not mine. I have actually been more patient and careful with him than I was with a number of other users who consensus has already established I was far too nice to. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:10, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

You could have done so without sniping at Michael. And more to the point, you didn't need to do so at all. Just walk away, especially if you are sick of it :) There is plenty else to do! Disengaging is the best medicine - just unwatch a few pages and forget about it for a bit. There are plenty of eyes on now. --Errant ^(chat!) 13:15, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

ano

Ano baka na kutsushita no hito wa ima inai/kinjiru. Ishou ni dekimashta. omedito. mah, watashi no nihongo wa honto ni heta ni narimashita. Tango ya bunpo ga zenzen oboemasen! Gaijin42 (talk) 20:44, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Hijiri approves. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:56, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Although honestly I would have liked to see a CU on HarmonySoft to settle that issue as well. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 23:00, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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September 2013

Whatever happens, it is an absolutely no go to call your opponent a "goddamn idiot" [4]. I did not block you only because I do not see warnings at your talk page, and possibly you have never been exposed to the corresponding policy. Next time, you can be blocked indeed, by me or by another administrator. Even if you strongly disagree, this is not a way to proceed. Please take this into account.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:33, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

The user in question has been openly lying about me on ANI, and when I asked him to stop and calmly explained why what he was doing was wrong, he continued. I think any good-faith user who looks through all the evidence would agree that I am not the one who was in the wrong. I do apologize for my aggressive tone. I was sorely provoked, but that is not an excuse for lack of civility. Can you please take a look at the context, though? I'm beginning to get very frustrated of virtually everyone in the admin corps ignoring me when I ask for help, and the only people who get involved being random ANI-junkies who like to stoke up drahms. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:52, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Hijiri, I do understand your frustration, and I hope the current ANI thread has a better outcome from your point of view than previous threads. But I think you know it's not appropriate to talk like that to another user, no matter how irritated you are with them. Please don't do it again. (And I'm afraid I don't see the point of apologizing to Ymblanter, you hadn't attacked them, had you?) Bishonen | talk 19:15, 11 September 2013 (UTC).

RM

Fromn this I noticed I just noticed this. Let it be reverted. Even when a RM has been messed about the close should be respected. You could and still can leave a message on WP Japan for another editor to put in the same RM again - preferably without disruption. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:47, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Why, though? No one opposed the move. I wouldn't mind appealing the close, but it's been 6 months. And it was not my fault it took me so long... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:51, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

I know, hounded off with real life threats, but all the same best to keep things as clean as possible. Ask for a sponsor editor to RM at WP Jap. If no one else comes forward I will. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:17, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

SPI comments

Let me just be clear and even stronger than the two other editors who already commented--your comments at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JoshuSasori were wholly out of line, and, in fact, pretty near likely the opposite of what Toddy1 intended. I get that you feel pushed on from several sides, but due partially to bad luck but partially due to your way of talking, you're 1) making each legitimate complaint you have less likely to be listened to, and 2) putting yourself in danger of being blocked. You may want to consider voluntarily either walking away from Wikipedia for a few hours/days, or just focusing on aspects of Wikipedia that aren't going to cause you stress. Qwyrxian (talk) 08:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

For whatever it is worth, I am on your side in this. Some of these editors are a little trigger happy and fail to discuss differences. Keep up the faith, bro! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.14.37.195 (talk) 21:50, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

@Hijiri88, deeply disturbing behaviour in last 72 hours by JoshuSasori. I have left a note with Cuchullain to hide history. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:02, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, supported, but probably not a good idea to have all that background in the intro, just speak on merits. Also "insinuated" isn't good to use ever, even if it's the case. Cheers and all the best. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:50, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

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On Talk:Emperor Jimmu you said: "Note also that Necrothesp posted on seven other RMs in the 30 minutes preceding the above !vote, and his last post was but six minutes earlier. It therefore seems highly unlikely that he had read my gull analysis of the sources, clicked on all the links, or put any significant thought behind how real people (visitors to the subject's burial mound or shrine, for instance) might see this issue. He pulled a COMMONNAME argument out of his nose, and has not provided any evidence whatsoever to demonstrate otherwise. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 06:38, 22 February 2014 (UTC)" .. Sorry to say so but this wasn't appropriate. User:Necrothesp clearly refered to his reasons as per previous RM. An apology and strikethrough would be good. It's only a RM. In ictu oculi (talk) 11:15, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for looking up the European spelling of "Jimmu" even after my request was rebutted! ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 06:17, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

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Dwy

Dwy is uncooperative and most definitely not WP:HERE. The fact that he keeps contradicting himself is just infuriating at this point. How is this supposed to be dealt with? ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 02:48, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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Maybe you and Nanshu shouldn't unilaterally remove stuff from the page without a discussion or consensus. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:29, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Please read WP:BURDEN: neither Nanshu nor I require consensus to remove something that was added without and/or against consensus originally. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Content that has been used practically for years before your objections have an implicit consensus for retention.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:34, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

It has never been used practically for years. Please find one article that was explicitly named according to that convention. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:39, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Mainichi Shimbun. Asahi Shimbun. Emperor Jimmu.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 17:39, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

@User:Ryulong: Nope. Both of those newspapers are "official names" and so are the opposite of "COMMONNAME", and Emperor Jimmu was moved to its current title without consensus or any reference to MOS-JA, while the majority interpretation of MOS-JA is in favour of moving Emperor Jimmu to Emperor Jinmu. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 23:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

It still stands that "Shimbun" is common. If English language sources had "Shinbun" predominate when discussing any of these Japanese newspapers, then our article would be at "Shinbun" instead.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 08:30, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

That's not the rule and you know it. The current guideline says "Use Asahi Shimbun because that's the official name". COMMONNAME doesn't enter into it anywhere. The current guidline contradicts itself, and I intend to bring it to WT:JAPAN once the Jinmu RM closes. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

What a nonsense obsession on semantics. No wonder you're conspiring against me with Nanshu. I honestly don't see this contradiction. Maybe if you could point it out, instead of just deleting a sentence you had issue with, it could be fixed.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 13:17, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

@User:Ryulong "The modern version of Hepburn romanization requires the use of n regardless of the following letter, so you should use n, unless the official name of the subject uses m. Also you should determine the common name in reliable sources." This is a contradiction -- either we have a style guideline that requires the use of n under virtually all circumstances, or use the "common name" in "reliable sources". The fact is that what counts as a "reliable source" is pretty much up in the air. General interest books and magazines qualify as "reliable sources" for factual statements and the like, but they are noticeably less reliable than scholarly journals when it comes to the romanization of Japanese. Encyclopedia Britannica, unlike Wikipedia, has a strict style guideline that they stick to in any and all circumstances, even when every single other reliable source disagrees with them.[5] However, Encyclopedia Britannica is also a more widely-used reliable source than the majority of sources that spell it "Gunma". And Gunma Prefecture, unlike the majority of noteworthy, encyclopedic topics related to Japan, is actually covered in a large number of English-language reliable sources -- what should we do when one or two semi-reliable books on the subject (or fan-sites, I guess would be lingo more related to your area of interest) in English spell it "Gemmei", but we can't possibly construct an encyclopedia article based on these? We need to use Japanese-language sources, and for this we need to romanize Japanese words and names, and insisting that we follow the one or two semi-reliable books/fan-sites in this romanization is ridiculous. Determining the "common name" in "reliable sources" is in most cases impossible, unless the subject has an official name in English. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:54, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

So it is an issue of semantics. I think I've nothing left to say to you regarding this.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 05:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

@User:Ryulong: I could quote The Princess Bride here but it might be more constructive to ask you what kind of contradiction in terms is NOT semantic?? Or even if such an oxymoron is possible, how is a "semantic" contradiction in terms not worth fixing? Anyway, if you really think the majority of modern reliable sources say "Emperor Jimmu" why not go over to Talk:Emperor Jimmu#Requested move (2) and !vote against the move? I'll be sure to ANI you for WP:POINT, though; I let you away with this on WT:MOS-JA but not anymore. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:41, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Please stop pinging me. And don't assume that because I did not answer you immediately that it gives you carte blanche to restore our prefered wording at WT:MOS-JA.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 14:24, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

You did respond to me immediately. Your response was "I didn't read your message, and I'm not interested in discussing with you".[6] Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:16, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

I didn't realize the time span of several hours meant you could do what you wanted.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:34, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

You specifically said you were done discussing. Therefore, I was justified in assuming, you know, you were done discussing. Your proposed changes have been rejected by me, and supported by no one. Therefore, they are not "supported by consensus" any more than any of the changes you have reverted. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:41, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

No one has weighed in but you. I don't see how what I've proposed is any different from the original text in meaning. You just seem to not want "COMMONNAME" to be in there because of the Jimmu/Jinmu RM.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:47, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

The original text said m is only "allowed" when it is part of an "official" name. I admit it's vague and can be interpreted a number of ways (why I plan on bringing it for discussion after the RM closes), but your interpretation based on COMMONNAME is not the most intuitive one, as indicated by the fact that virtually everyone on the Jinmu RM interprets COMMONNAME to refer only to subjects widely-known outside Japan, and virtually no one there interprets MOS-JA to say the same thing as COMMONNAME. In fact, MOS-JA should not say the same thing as COMMONNAME; we don't use romanization guidelines in cases where there is a COMMONNAME (try asking on WT:COMMONNAME like I did last August -- they all agree that COMMONNAME does not apply to articles not widely-known in the English-speaking world); MOS-JA is specifically for subjects that have no COMMONNAME. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 17:00, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Article titles should reflect the most common name for the subject of the article. Perhaps 神武 is more commonly "Jimmu" even though in Japan it's officially "Jinmu". The RM will take care of that. Maybe if I was as adamant about the rules I find to be stifling on WP:MOS-JA I would have gotten rid of the bit that says "don't use wave dashes/tildes in article titles for songs and albums" instead of obsessively creating discussions to see if consensus can change on this matter.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:58, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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jōyō kanji performance improvements.

Hi Hijiri88, can you have a quick look at Talk:List_of_jōyō_kanji#Slowness of page, size etc and offer some advice or pass on to the relevant interested editors, thank you in advance.The Original Filfi (talk) 02:37, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Cheers!

At least you have one less thing to worry about. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 08:05, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Ōe no Chisato

Your edit on Ōe no Chisato interfered with the reference tags. Wikipedia has a special template for references under cite templates (above the text box for editing in the blue rectangle). Your edit is how other websites do citations. Anyway, if you would like to fix the citations, please do, and thank you for the article creation. PointsofNoReturn (talk) 02:16, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Already noted, and fixed. Cheers :D Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:17, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Sone no Yoshitada

Hi, about your question at WP:NORN, the link I mentioned was this. It is to an article entitled 好忠集と勅撰集 and it goes into a lot of detail about counting how many of his poems were included in the imperial anthologies. The higher estimates rely on comparisons between his private collection and the anthologies. If you could summarize it in a couple of sentences it might make for an interesting footnote. --Margin1522 (talk) 08:33, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Pushing POV

The historicity of Jesus talk page [8] that page is for discussing the article. If you want to talk about how you're going to get me T-banned, it's probably not the place.

You do seem to talk a lot about me pushing POV. I'm not really sure what you mean, considering that all of my article edits (and many of my talk page edits) are properly cited, often to mainstream Christian scholars. Care to be specific about which POV you think I'm pushing? Fearofreprisal (talk) 06:19, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

"This user is disrupting the article and should probably be TBANned from editing the article" is a legit comment to post in an disruptive talk page thread started by you. "Please discuss article content with me away from the prying eyes of all those other nasty editors who ALL disagree with me" is not legit discussion for my user talk page. 126.0.96.220 (talk) 06:41, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Not suggesting discussing article content here. Just asking what POV you think I'm pushing. Which you've never told me. Fearofreprisal (talk) 06:58, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

The POV that Jesus of Nazareth never existed. You continue to argue for a long, confusing (or even a short, confusing) article that implies there is some sort of scholarly debate on the issue, and that alligns virtually all secular, critical scholars in the "the Gospels aren't reliable, therefore Jesus never existed" camp. Virtually all agree with the former clause in that statement, but none agree with the non sequitur conclusion your preferred version of the article heavily implies.

Earlier today you even change "virtually all scholars" to "the majority [of] scholars"![9]

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:22, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Really? OK... if that's what you thought I was "pushing," you misread me.

• The POV that Jesus never existed (essentially CMT) is based on speculation. I don't think that's appropriate for an article on history.
• "the Gospels aren't reliable, therefore Jesus never existed" - Definitely a non-sequitur. Though I accept the analysis of a number of scholars that the gospels are not historically reliable, I can't see how that provides any proof that Jesus didn't exist. And I can't see how you got the impression that I'd support such a ridiculous assertion.

Fearofreprisal (talk) 10:22, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

The previous version of our article on whether or not Jesus existed (the version you are now trying desperately to restore) devoted roughly 80% of its content to discussion of how the gospels are unreliable, how scholars disagree on the historical Jesus, how some "historical" Jesus models are actually Christian apologetical tracts, etc., etc. These gross proportions were almost guaranteed to lead readers to the incorrect conclusion that these factors add up to a general lack of consensus on whether Jesus existed. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:47, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

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Historical Jesus

If you have the time, would you mind taking a look at Historical Jesus? It's getting a bit tiresome to deal with fringe conspiracy theories by amateurs masquerading as "science".Jeppiz (talk) 12:59, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

@User:Jeppiz: I'll take a look at it, but I should tell you that I'm not an "expert" in the area. The recently-solved problems with the historicity article were primarily the quotes taken out of context and implying that scholars skeptical of any aspect of HJ research were mythicists. It's a lot muddier over on the Historical Jesus article, since there is actually scholarly debate on that subject, and quotations of scholars indicating they disagree with each other are not ipso facto misquotations cherry-picked to give a false impression that they disagree. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:11, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Absolutely, and I don't mind (quite the contrary) the opinions of scholars who disagree. My concern is the inclusion of amateurs with fringe theories being included. I have no intention to even suggest removing the criticism section, just the part of it that is not academic. As it is right now, a reader may get the impression that the criticism is scientific, and while some of it is, some is far closer to Dan Brown than to any actual academic expertise. What I want is to disentangle the academics from the conspiracy theorists and amateurs.Jeppiz (talk) 14:49, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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Wait, what's with the Asatru baiting? Did FOP make a statement of faith somewhere that I missed? >.< Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:08, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

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Emperor Jimmu

Hijiri can you tell me that how Emperor Jimmu's historicity is disputed? Bladesmulti (talk) 16:22, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

He supposedly lived in the 7th century BCE. The first time an extant historical document mentions him is 1,400 years later. Any figure who survived only in the oral tradition for that long is automatically of doubtful historicity. Additionally, the name "Emperor Jinmu" is a historical anachronism arbitrarily assigned to him decades after said historical document was compiled; the "historicity of Kan'yamato Iware-biko" is arguably a different matter from the "historicity of Emperor Jinmu". I think the dates are, of course, a weak argument; the fact that several generations of emperors after him have no legendary narratives attributed to them, and the reign-dates were clearly consciously extended, indicates to me that Jinmu is more likely to have been historical than several of his successors, and he may have actually lived some time in maybe the second century CE. This is of course all WP:OR, and I would avoid adding this claim to an article without a reliable secondary source -- did I do so on some occasion? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:42, 15 December 2014 (UTC) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:42, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

It must be clarified on that article too, that why his historicity is still disputed. Bladesmulti (talk) 03:47, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Fire ahead, but find some reliable sources first. I have never added a claim on the matter one-way-or-the-other to the article proper, so I don't have any decent sources on the issue on hand. (Read: Please don't copy-paste my above talk-page comment into the article space and attribute it to me. :P ) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:52, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Unblock my IP?

unblock|reason=Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. Place any further information here. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:02, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

I just had a super-weird experience. I'm editing at home on a stable connection I've had for over two years, and I'm the only one who's edited from this IP in that time. As far as I know. It's possible my IP changed in the last 10 minutes or so, but... Anyway, I was trying to post a request on this board about what I believe might be a copyvio case on John O'Banion (part of the article reads like it was copy-pasted from his official bio or some such, but I can't find said bio, perhaps because the original was taken down some time after he died), but I got this message:

Editing from 104.131.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by Elockid for the following reason(s): The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web hosts may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. ... This block has been set to expire: 03:15, 9 August 2016.

Anyone know what gives? Does this happen a lot?

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:02, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

• Well, that blocked range doesn't match yours, so your IP must've changed. Try Googling "What's my IP" and see what comes up. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 13:06, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Still came up the same. Might be a bug. I guess if it was just a temporary bug it's not a problem, but it's still super-weird. 126.0.96.220 (talk) 13:16, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I guess it's just a weird glitch, and nothing to be concerned over.

Regarding the copyvio (non-)issue, I initially thought the reason I couldn't find the source of what looked very much like copy-pasted text was that the "official homepage" or whatever it was had been taken down at some point since his death. Looking at the page history, though, it seems like the text was added a year or two later, by at least two separate users (one of whom appears to be a general Asian film buff, the other possibly COI but nothing to be concerned over).

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:34, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

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Assume good faith

Re: [11], first assume good faith. 朝彦 | Asahiko (talk) 14:56, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Umm ... how exactly could that edit have been made in good faith? I implemented a change to the guideline, and edited the examples to conform to the new wording. I then started to work systematically fixing all the articles to conform to the wording too. I unfortunately missed one particularly apt one I should have perhaps dealt with first. Instead of making the change him/herself they went partially reverted my (consensus-backed) edit to the guideline page. This in all a matter of days -- it's not like that red link was laying there for months on end waiting to be fixed by a user who just happened across it by accident. This is not an excuse for making personal attacks, but "childish undermining" is hardly an inaccurate description of that behaviour, and pointing out that it's not my responsibility to do all the work myself within a particular time frame (WP:VOLUNTEER) and that rather than pressurize/criticize me it would have been better for them to help was perfectly apt. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:21, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Before anything, just remember that we aren't supposed to bite the newcomers. The IP has only been active for few months. It's easy to assume good faith when the user was claiming to have been "fixing red link" (direct quote from their summary). It's a wiki. Just revert it back. Problem solved. What's the big deal? No need for your harsh wording in your comment. --朝彦 | Asahiko (talk) 17:24, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

regarding Debito Arudou / Donald Keene "attempting to pad his own wikipedia BLP"

Wikipedia flagged me saying you mentioned me, and I saw that you wrote about this,

I should have been more clear, but I was inferring to his attempts to add material were done under sockpuppets and/or meatpuppets -- a Wikipedia technical investigative ruled that the connection (between the browsers used) between Mr_Mtzplk, Sweetandlovely, and Arudoudebito was "likely." The three were involved in "voting" together on "concensus" and both puppets were used in a Noticeboard complaint that Arudoudebito wrote.

That's all. Happy Australia Day! Eido INOUE | 井上エイド 05:16, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Dragon Ball Online Revelations Edit

I am sorry but I am not the best at editing Wikipedia articles so I don't know all the tags to use or how to cite everything correctly. However, if you did Google Dragon Ball Online Revelations you will see multiple articles by multiple sites. Sites like Destructoid and Dragon Ball Insider are also very credible. Contact them if you need further information. I am also the same user as Dboeditor but I only made that account because I forgot the password and email I used so I created this account and are going to only use this account. The other user you posted on my talk page was, however, not me. If you are looking for a more credible source, the Dragonball Insider page would be better and it has more updated information (however it is still not perfectly up to date). Here is the link of that article. It is a 2014 source but seeing as it is still the first month of 2015 it might take a little bit to get a 2015 source. Also, that article has been updated throughout the year to include more information about the project. The home site I posted also has valuable information on the home page. Like a general FAQ of the project here and the legality information you requested here. Much more information can be found on the site. There is also a Facebook page giving constant updates here. As well as a youtube page. There are many articles covering the project including a couple that are from known sources and should be more reliable. There is also the legality information and all the information you will need on the project in the links posted. I'm not sure what else I could give you to convince you that the project is real and reliable. In the edit history, multiple other users have added the project in the page in the past as well.

A Note

I think the productive way to reorganize that page is to cited as theory the theories, and then provide the actual literature which surveys and challenges or confirms those ideas as theories. Yamanoue no Okura is a good example. These ideas are in circulating, after all, and giving readers guidance as to their status, often dubious, can be more enlightening than mere erasure.Nishidani (talk) 09:03, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

@User:Nishidani: I like that idea in theory: but he's not the only Man'yō poet who one or more scholars have speculated originated in the Korean peninsula. We've also got the problem that he's arguably the famous writer of Japanese classical poetry who had very little influence of Japanese poets of later ages (he was only "rediscovered" in the 20th century), so writing about him in the context of that article, under its current title (by the way, I liked your talk page post, but can I take it you'd support an RM to a more reasonable title?) and surrounded by the remote fringe material (how does Japanese in the 17th century importing movable type from the continent count as a "Korean influence on Japanese culture" -- on ANI Jagello just mentioned Keene and "Lane Richards" [sic] as two "renowned and mainstream Japanologists" who are representative of the sourcing in the article, when they are both only cited in that one paragraph...) is not something I want to take responsibility for.

Both Jagello and KoreanSentry will be indefinitely blocked pretty soon anyway. Even if CU doesn't prove they've been engaging in sockpuppetry (I don't think those two accounts are the same, by the way; I think they are two separate people who have both edited the article in the past under different usernames) they are SPAs who need to be blocked per WP:NOTHERE (and their poor English brings CIR concerns into it as well). Once they're out of the picture, the only person trying to reinstate the previous wording as is will be CN, and you and I both know how to work with him. Once the incomprehensible synth has been washed out, little bits of properly verified, factual and relevant material can be gradually added piece by piece. I'd be happy to write about the Okura toraijin theory in the article then. Despite what certain other banned users would tell you, I actually don't take the attitude that "Okura was Korean" or that "Wikipedia should claim unqualifiedly that Okura was Korean" -- it's a very popular theory among scholars, but so is the idea that the Qumranites were all celibate men and the female graves found at the site were all 19th century Bedouin women. (Sorry, the comparison is a bit 専門外 for me -- Ehrman and Schiffman are both respected, mainstream sources on the Dead Sea scrolls sect, right?)

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:11, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

By the way, N: You wouldn't happen to know anyone who speaks Korean and is a good snoop when it comes to off-wiki canvassing, would you? I've dealt with the issue before now (in the Historicity of Jesus and Rashumon debacles) but in both those cases the canvassing was done in my native language on easily searchable message boards. It's practically a given that Korean nationalists discuss English Wikipedia's coverage of these disputes off-site (just read some of these...), but I'd be interested to know if it's happened recently, in relation to this article... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:30, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

No. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who speaks Korean (I only know a few people who speak Japanese, for that matter!)

No problems with ridding the place of arseholes. When you have a repetitive behavior issue on a contested article, one can be Manichaean (delete/restore) or, um, intelligent, by which I mean, reimagining the material as a meta-subject, so that the war over putative facts becomes a discussion of theories, and of poor sources as opposed to the ongoing results of scholarship. Take an example I haven't mentioned. Man'yõ 1:5 [題詞]幸讃岐國安益郡之時軍王見山作歌, 軍王, though mostly read as Ikusa no opokimi/Ikusa no ōkimi has a reading attached to it Konikishi no opokimi, introduced from a misprision of the correlated section in the Nihon Shoki, and has been used to hazard the idea that this is a reference to a king of Paekche. Well, there's a lot of this kind of stuff around, but rather than dismiss it, I reckon it's more enjoyable to showcase the speculation, and show that, where this is the case, scholarship has either dismissed it, regarded it as weak evidence, or entertained also other interpretations that are not congruent with the theory. As to the wonderful Yamanoue no Okura, he was born in Korea, and that means nothing, given the ethnic complexity there. Getting the facts right, about his father's job at one court over there, where two languages were spoken, and his removal to Japan when Yamamoue was 4, etc., trumps any illusion that we are dealing with a 'Korean' poet. The page could be interesting if one used it to survey the problem of these attributions, which is discussed at length in Japanese sources I'm sure you're familiar with. Cheers Nishidani (talk) 15:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for the word "fustercluck", which has enriched my english language skills. Admittedly I had to resort to internet to find out it has nothing to do with chickens. It has entered my list of favorite funny words right between "koeterwaals" en "oberaffengeil". Kleuske (talk) 13:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

@User:Kleuske: Sorry to be late. Didn't know how to respond to this except to say "You're ... welcome? lol". :P Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

...for that. You make a good point. It's bedtime here. I'll think about this and respond to you at ANI tomorrow. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 16:01, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

@User:Anthonyhcole: Thank you. Your "thank" (what are those things actually called??) and this comment are the mark of a mature editor. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

WP:RFCU

If you were talking about WP:RFC/U, remember that it is closed and now marked as historical. Thanks. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 12:12, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

@User talk:OccultZone: Oh, wow. I'm really getting old. So ANI is the place to look for mentors? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:15, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

How to hatnote.

Hey, you had a pretty good solution for the hatnote on Koreans in Japan, but for future reference here is the Wikipedia editing guide for hatnotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hatnote Qsdd (talk) 08:07, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Section titles at ANI

Hello Hijiri88. I want to follow up here about the topic of ANI section titles, rather than at ANI, to avoid extending off-topic discussion within the ANI incident that you opened. You objected to my changing the section title at the section originally and currently named: "User:Catflap08 ignoring what I say and abusing RFD, and seems to have serious CIR issues" (current link: wp:ANI#User:Catflap08 ignoring what I say and abusing RFD, and seems to have serious CIR issues; permalink this diff of a recent edit by you in the section ) You stated: "Revert. WP:TALKNEW is for article talk pages, where, indeed, threads about particular users are generally a bad thing. ANI is for repirting user problems, and the assertion that it is inappropriate to give another's username in the title of a tread about that user is ridiculous."

I want to agree that you make some fair points, and to respond with three comments:

1) It's a fair point, that at least on the face of it wp:TALKNEW would seem to apply only to article talk pages. And further, even if it applies to all Talk pages, actually wp:ANI is in Wikipedia space and is not in Talkspace; the Talk page for ANI is for general discussion about ANI and is not where specific ANI cases are discussed and resolved. But, in my view, wp:TALKNEW is in fact clearly also about section titles at administrative noticeboards. It states:

Don't address other users in a heading: Headings invite all users to comment. Headings may be about specific edits but not specifically about the user. (Some exceptions are made at administrative noticeboards, where reporting problems by name is normal.)

and

Reporting on another user's edits from a neutral point of view is an exception, especially reporting edit warring or other incidents to administrators."

which both are explicitly covering ANI.

My interpretation: It is saying that using a username in an ANI section heading is allowed, but not within a non-neutral complete title, or, in other words, not when combined with a negative characterization. So avoid matching a username plus a negative characterization. E.g. "Conduct of user:username" is neutral and okay, but not "User:username is continuing tendentious edits" (which uses a verb phrase that characterizes the user's conduct negatively) and not "Incompetent and tendentious user:username" (which uses an adjective phrase characterizing the user negatively).

And further, expressing a negative characterization alone, without naming a user, is okay. E.g. "Continuing tendentious edits at article Article" would not on its own constitute a personal attack, and is okay. It is more polite, leaving open the possibility that editors may disagree about who has been tendentious, if editors agree that indeed there has been tendentious editing. Such a label will not convey a negative accusation about a specific user in the default edit summaries that will repeat the title; it does not prejudge what is the consensus judgment about a specific user; a later link to the archived section does not imply that a negative accusation about a specific user was found to be the consensus outcome; later mention of the label is not hurtful to a victim unfairly accused.

2) It's also fair for you to note "the assertion that it is inappropriate to give another's username in the title of a tread about that user is ridiculous". I don't disagree with that. It's okay to use a NEUTRAL section title like "Conduct of username", and that is often done. What I object to, and I believe wp:TALKNEW disallows, is combining a username with a negative characterization.

3) I also want to say that I don't mean anything personal towards you, and in fact I believe your section title was in line with general practice. I want to change what is the general practice, however, and i have been making a point of retitling in other ANI sections recently (e.g. as in this diff of my edits changing another section title, which was not disputed, and per this discussion about a different section title at my Talk page which seemed to reach good agreement).

I hope this helps to explain where I am coming from, and reduces any negative feelings I might have caused. I probably should have expressed myself better. If you were offended, I do sincerely apologize. I'll watch here and would be happy to exchange views further if you like. Please feel free to contact me at my Talk page, especially if you comment here and I don't reply. I hope and expect to have positive interactions with you in Wikipedia if/when we bump into each other again.

respectfully, --doncram 15:03, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

@User:Doncram: It's bedtime here, so I'll read your comment tomorrow and get back to you shortly. I am glad to engage in dialogue with other users. I was not offended by your edits, just frustrated. If you read through my recent massive summary you will know why I was frustrated. (Yes, I'm aware of the hypocrisy of asking you to read a massive comment while admitting that I have yet to read yours.) I apologize for my gruffness earlier. I'll be in touch soon. Cheers! Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Okay, thanks, no problem. I did just read your long post, and appreciate it. I understand your frustration about the title change breaking links from your contribution history, and I didn't think beforehand about that effect. My point is a peripheral, off-topic issue, relative to the complicated situation you describe. I made my point (or tried but failed to make my point) and am fine / done. While I don't think I am "misinterpreting" the talknew guideline, exactly, I am making a seemingly odd point (asserting that a common practice in ANI section titles is not good), and it seemed that I was implying ANI threads can't describe actions of other editors can't be described as they appear. I meant, but did not communicate adequately, that for various reasons the section title, only, should not have a judgmental label; of course it is essential that the opening statement (OP?) within the section must be explicit in naming user(s) and in describing negative actions. I think i erred in the revised title i suggested, would probably suggest something different if i could go back, too. And i'll have a think and/or plan to consult others about whether re-titling amounts to changing anothers' words inappropriately (even though i did restate the original title). Thank you, actually, for giving me the feedback that my title change and communication didn't work as intended; it will help me do better in the future.

And, your apology towards me within the first hat-noted passage is very generous, is completely accepted by me, and is more than is needed. There's no need for you to consider this topic further now, while you have bigger issues to deal with. I see no need for you to make any change or correction or other comment at all further on this, either here or in the ANI about this. Good luck in your pursuit of the behavior changes or t-ban you seek, and hope you have a good rest and come back refreshed. thanks, sincerely, cheers, --doncram 16:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

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Strike the sentence please

I did not notice that you had partially stuck out the sentence, so I reverted a comment there. But the problem still remains in this section. You have still left misrepresentations. It says it looks like I tried to deliberately undermine a discussion. "The recent close looks like a deliberate attempt to undermine this". I have no stake in this page, I have never edited it, and at the moment wish I had never seen it. But I will not be dragged through the mud. Cunard never supported what you have written about deliberately undermining. Please strike that sentence completely. AlbinoFerret 03:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

I never said you intended to undermine Dekimasu's edits. I said your edits had that effect. I stated numerous times that your timing was an unfortunate mistake. I never said or implied that you intended to do so. Are you asking me to strike my whole comment? I asked you to undo your closing statement because I felt it had the effect of undermining Dekimasu's edits, and you complied, for which I am thankful, but it's not entirely clear what you want me to do -- am I supposed to change my opinion that your post had the effect of undermining Dekimasu's edits? If so, why did you undo it? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

I undid the RFC because Silktork showed that it didnt make any difference if it was done or not. At that point the close didnt matter. I am asking you to strike from "The recent close looks like" to the end, basically the last sentence. AlbinoFerret 12:51, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

@User:AlbinoFerret: So you're asking me to strike my opinion that it looks like it has that effect? Seems like a rather odd request, but in the spirit of AGF I'll comply nonetheless. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:23, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, I look forward to unwatching that page once you have. AlbinoFerret 13:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

WP:RESTRICT

The phrase 'fabricated by Elvenscout' doesn't belong in this file. Please rephrase to make it neutral. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 14:30, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Umm... there're a few things wrong with your notification: I am Elvenscout742, and you mean 'fabricated by Tristan'; the problem with it is ... well, actually "not neutral" is a pretty good explanation. Never mind. Anyway, done. It was a mistaken copy-paste job. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my error and for updating RESTRICT. It looks good now. EdJohnston (talk) 18:17, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

On rewriting an article

Don't take this the wrong way. I know quite well, since I suffer from the same, academic inculcation never to trust secondary sources, that they often get things wrong. However, on Wikipedia, it doesn't work to write as if one were writing a personal doctoral thesis. One simple musters the available sources, and writes in accordance with them (making personal notes for one's files offline is fine, to be used when 難点 can be clarified). My method may trouble you: I take the most recent up-to-date sources I can get my hands on, and systematically add all the data, first from one, then from the next, down the line, and eliminate anything in the received wiki article which can't find any textual corroboration. If the article I rework is undocumented at points, I just remove the stuff, my view being, that no one has a right to add stuff unless they can provide the source, and the page, and if requested, the precise wording. Doing this is second order composition, but it is rapid. There is always time to come back and fill stuff in. It is also, in my view, advisable not to make an ambitious outline of sections and subsections if one doesn't already have sufficient material to fill them out. I've thus hacked out stuff, and notes in-text that no doubt are useful reminders for you, and that may seem disconcerting. But with the several sources we have already linked for reading, a fair basic overview is quite easy to make within a day or two. In any case, I'll lay off it for a few days, and hand it back your way. If you wish to restore your glosses and notes, fine. I just feel that you are making things harder for yourself than might need be the case. I admire pertinacity and the precisian's sense of scruple, but it's a dicey thing here: most editors don't understand it. Cheers Nishidani (talk) 21:12, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

On no, I don't distrust secondary sources. I just think that reworking the article to make it look like it was originally based on Keene, then checked against various other encyclopedias. I'm reluctant to remove material that I personally think is true and can be verified, just not with any of the sources I have checked so far. It's a draft, so it doesn't need to all be verified yet. That's why I use template:cn, so it will be easy to Ctrl+F that material quickly and find sources for it. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 00:43, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Hijiri

Hi Hijiri, are you a native speaker of Japanese? I wanted to ask if you could help to translate some Georgia-related articles for Japanese Wiki? Maybe you could help a bit? Jaqeli 12:26, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Jaqeli. No, English is my first language. I can write Japanese for most purposes, but unfortunately I stay the hell away from Japanese Wikipedia. On English Wikipedia, noticing that certain users have a recurring tendency to post their personal opinions as facts on various articles whether or not they have sources, and then going to other articles on which they have done the same thing and pointing out that it's a recurring problem with them, leaves one open to accusations of WP:HARASSMENT and WP:PA; on Japanese Wikipedia, merely requesting a source for any individual statement in an article (or adding a source and altering the text to match what the source says, therefore "implying that the previous statement was a lie") counts as a personal attack. I'm never editing Japanese Wikipedia again, and I would happily advise anyone else to join me in this venture. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:46, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

I second this. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 18:54, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

What about if you translate here on your talk page in Japanese and then I would paste myself in Japanese Wiki? I mean I need really a sentence or two translations and if you can help I'd much appreciate it. Jaqeli 22:58, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you.

Administrators' noticeboard incident

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.CurtisNaito (talk) 20:34, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Procedures that work

The methods you are using will not work at Wikipedia—your edits are valuable, but there is far too much noise associated with your account, and you will be sanctioned if it continues. You need to take advice or leave—stop posting at ANI. If you want an explanation ask, but like nearly everyone there, I don't have time to get involved and all I can do is provide some brief guidance about procedures that work, and those that don't. Johnuniq (talk) 10:54, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: I know that. I hate ANI. I avoided it like the dickens. That's why I tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to avoid bringing the CurtisNaito issue to ANI, giving him chance after chance after chance (the "threats" he referred to), before finally I had no choice but to ... respond, when he started the ANI thread and essentially asked that I be sitebanned for disagreeing with him? (I know he didn't say siteban but he did leave it ambiguous whether I should be page-banned or "TBANned" from some indefinitely broad topic, and a number of his supporters said I should be TBANned from all Japanese articles -- as in all the articles I have ever shown any interest in editing.)

Anyway, I'm not going to respond directly to his latest assertion that he was the primary author of the Battle of Nanking article (despite the fact that when he first decided to edit it it looked like this) and that this somehow means he shouldn't be TBANned from articles on Japanese history before the Nara period. I'll just leave that to stand as it is.

But please don't try to tell me that "focusing on making constructive article edits" makes the vindictive ANI junkies more friendly, because it doesn't. I'm going to keep doing so anyway but I'm not under any illusions that it will make the sharks less hungry for blood.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

You understand articles on Japan; I understand ANI and wiki culture. You need to stop responding at ANI, and you need to find a way to not respond to an editor where you believe the response is not going to get a good result. I'm commenting here because I have a faint hope you might adapt, but if I thought there was little chance of that, I wouldn't bother. You should follow the same strategy with regard to others. Find other ways of dealing with whatever the underlying issue is—use an RfC if necessary (although that might not be helpful if virtually no other editors can understand the topic), or just abandon an article for a few months and revisit it later. I think I saw Nishidani provide similar advice. The suggestion at ANI about arbitration is appealing, but a significant effort would be required, and the evidence would need to be concise and clear, and free of baggage. Johnuniq (talk) 12:04, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I can only assume you're referring to the CurtisNaito affair, where a number of users including myself believe the underlying problem is some combination of the ones outlined in the essays WP:CIR and WP:TE, and the guideline WP:IDHT. It has followed on the steps of a particular editor whenever he edits in a particular, rather broad, topic area. Because WP:RFC/U no longer exists, RFC would be inappropriate, since it's a recurring problem with a particular user on a broad range of articles. DRN would be just as inappropriate, since DRN is for discussing article content, not user conduct. DRN also suffers from something like a 90% failure rate. The exact same was true, at least from the point of view of me, Sturmgewehr88 and several other users (different users on different articles) of an otherwise entirely separate problem I had a few weeks ago that I think I'm still technically not allowed discuss with you outside of the currently-open ANI thread on the topic.)

Anyway, I'm going to drop back from the ANI thread as per my last reply to you and leave the decision of whether to resolve the issue immediately or send it to ArbCom to the community/admin corps. If it goes to arbitration, I will wait for Nishidani or Sturmgewehr88 or both to post their comments first. I'm actually not the litigious guy a lot of people seem to think I am, and I despise having to spend a certain percentage of my Wikipedia time on ANI and various other such forums, just so that I can be allowed build the encyclopedia in accordance with the policies and guidelines that are very clearly laid out. When people are claiming while logged-out and editing from Filipino proxy IPs that I be site-banned and they are not being sanctioned for such is one of those times when I don't really have a choice in the matter.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:28, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Sinbad and Homer

Of course Homer may very well have been translated into Arabic several times, and we don't know that the echoes of the Odyssey in Sinbad were based on any particular translation. But mentioning a known (and very early) translation does establish that Homer was available to Arabic readers (and as a source for Arab oral story tellers) for centuries by the time of the earliest known versions of Sinbad. This certainly didn't strike me as particularly "irrelevant". Worth a discussion on the talk page for the article? --Soundofmusicals (talk) 23:33, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

@Soundofmusicals: Well, the way I read that section of the article, it wasn't Arabic storytellers but Turkish copyists or printers who added the Sinbad stories to the AN canon, which would seem (admittedly I'm not an expert) to make an arbitrary reference to the earliest known Turkish translation more relevant than a similar reference to an early Arabic translation. Is the eighth-century Arabic translation of Homer often mentioned in reliable sources as being a potential source for the Sinbad mythos? If not, I think drawing the connection for our readers might be a SYNTH-violation. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:55, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

We are not saying anything (and nor do we need to) where whoever "wrote" (originated, anyway) the Sinbad cycle first heard the story of Polyphemus (on which the very similar story in Sinbad is almost certainly based - Burton, for one, had no doubts at all). In fact even if we had that information, its relevance would be pretty marginal. On the other hand we can point out, with the information that Homer was translated into Arabic as long ago as the eighth century, that Homer was familiar enough to the Arabic speakers (Sindbad is an Arabic work, not a Turkish one, although the first time it was linked to any version of the "AN canon" seems to have been in a Turkish edition). Hope I have the sense of this correct - I didn't write it, or do the research on which this passage is based. The first time Sinbad was linked to the Nights in a European language was in the Burton rather than the Antoine Galland translation, as far as I know. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 10:50, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

I have had the temerity to recast this section (of the Sinbad article), without, I hope, changing its intended meaning - but clarifying it in the light of your remarks. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 12:09, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

AN/I only

Do not attempt to discuss the issue on my talk page. It's not personal, it's a community discussion. BMK (talk) 00:47, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

@User:Beyond My Ken: If you continue to make harsh, unjustified personal attacks against me, as you have suddenly started doing on ANI in the last few hours, you can expect that this will not be the last you hear from me. I don't know what has brought on these extremely harsh attacks, but on Wikipedia I like to think and unjustified attacks like yours don't go without being dealt with. Cheers and goodbye. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 01:01, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Let me be entirely clear: do not post to my talk page, unless you are required to by Wikipedia policy, and do not ping me to your talk page again. BMK (talk)

Deal. Goodbye and good luck with ... whatever it is you are trying to accomplish here. It clearly isn't working to build an encyclopedia. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 01:26, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I would also like to point out that I seem to have made a major make up in my post in that ANI thread. I supported the topic ban as it was proposed by AlbinoFerret and BMK. However, my clarifying statement referred to the previous ANI where I did believe that Catflap had violated their interaction ban and should have been sanctioned. I also felt that the interaction ban, at that time, should not be lifted so soon after being levied. Whether a subsequent consensus was to lift the ban is neither here nor there. As it stands the ANI has been closed by Drmies with no action this time beyond a slap on the wrist. I have no dispute with how it was closed. My observations are entirely not personal and are as objective as possible. My post here is merely to clarify my statement which has caused some confusion to you and Wikimandia as I did not wish to edit a closed ANI. Blackmane (talk) 06:48, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

August 2015

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for violation of iBan between you and Catflap. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Drmies (talk) 16:13, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

• Relevant diff: this message. Relevant text from WP:IBAN: you may not "make reference to or comment on editor Y anywhere on Wikipedia, whether directly or indirectly". Consider yourself lucky that I set the block at 72 hours before I noticed that in the follow-up you made another accusation (against TH1980) which goes well beyond acceptable discourse. Hijiri, this has to stop. Drmies (talk) 16:15, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

@Drmies: See the below unblock request, but in short blocking me because you unilaterally and prematurely closed the discussion, and I should have magically intuited the thread had been closed is inappropriate. Also, the TH1980 dispute is completely unrelated. If you look at the history, you will find that he has done almost nothing but follow me around and complain about me for the last few months. He threatened me similarly, with nowhere near as much justification. Please don't comment on issues without doing the homework first. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:32, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

I warned you, you didn't listen. (Gaijin is quite correct.) You want to make a case against another editor, do it in the proper forum, with proof. Without it, you are violating AGF and NPA. Good luck. Drmies (talk) 16:59, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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Request reason:

[12] this was a comment on another user's talk page about said user's pre-close comment on what was as far as I knew a then-still-open ANI discussion of said IBAN. I had seen this diff and responded on the user's talk page so as to not further clutter the ANI thread, without looking at the latest update on ANI. (Drmies himself said in his close that it was cluttered.) The near-universal consensus was that the IBAN should be dissolved, and that the other party had violated it numerous times and should face some sort of consequences. Drmies closed the ANI thread, apparently unilaterally quashing a still-open discussion as to how the problem should be dealt with. I accidentally stumbled across the closed ANI thread after posting the offending comment. While my post may have technically violated the IBAN because the ANI thread had already been closed, I was not made aware of the close, and I think most of the participants would have seen the sudden close as counter-intuitive, so "Hijiri88 should have instinctively known that the ANI thread was closed and that commenting on it on other pages was therefore technically inappropriate" is a weak reason to block me for 72 hours, especially when the other participant in the IBAN has not yet received a block for numerous proven violations. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:33, 10 August 2015 (UTC) Edit: I was under the impression that discussing the other user on a user talk page, in the context of discussing a still-open ANI discussion of whether the IBAN should be dissolved, was acceptable. My reason for believing this was that the other party had not been blocked -- or even warned -- for extensive commentary on me and my edits on his own talk page here and here. Drmies claims below that I had received a "final warning" before being blocked, but no such final warning -- not even any initial warning -- was received. If I am blocked without warning for technically violating the terms of a poorly-defined IBAN because I am mimicking the supposedly-acceptable behaviour of the other party, then blocking me without blocking them makes this a one-way IBAN, something that no one agreed to. Either I should be unblocked or the other party should be blocked. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:20, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Procedural only as the block expired. Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:22, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

The comment would have been an iBan violation even if the ANI thread was still open. The WP:BANEX exception is only for the proper venue. You could have commented in ANI, but not elsewhere. Gaijin42 (talk) 16:36, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

In my opinion the unblock should be declined. Hijiri88's comment here, to User:Snow Rise, in which he mentions Catflap08, violates the existing wording of the IBAN which has been in place since last April. If Hijiri88 was optimistically assuming that the ANI thread would end with by lifting the IBAN, then his hopes were not realized. The very mild 72-hour block should stand. If we see more ANI complaints about conflict between these two editors in the future, I think it will be time for longer blocks. EdJohnston (talk) 19:11, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Well, it could be noted how even though the other party violated the IBAN multiple times, even posting in an unrelated ANI thread about me, without ever receiving a block, I have now been blocked almost immediately without any noticeboard discussion for "mentioning the other party's name". Would joining in an outside discussion and saying "I support the user getting TBANned" have not been a violation just because I didn't type the user's name? I really don't understand how this IBAN works -- it seems to violate both the terms established in the initial IBAN discussion and the definition on WP:IBAN as it works at the moment. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 19:48, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

You both have violated the iBan a number of times. I gave you a final warning and you didn't listen. The rest is just wikilawyering: the iBan says you can't mention the other person, you can't even refer to them. If Catflap had mentioned you first after I closed that thread, they would have been blocked. You've been through this before, Hijiri, and you should have known better. Drmies (talk) 22:32, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Drmies, where was this final warning? You didn't post anything on my talk page. When the IBAN was put in place you not only closed the AN thread in a manner that was quite obvious to all participants, you posted on both of our talk pages informing us that the IBAN was now in effect; here you posted a closing statement that claimed that my edits to the Kokuchukai may have been IBAN-violations (even though no one else seems to agree) and told me to zip it, but took no measures to ensure that I had seen this before blocking me. If you had posted this on my talk page I would have been all too willing to do so -- believe me, I have never actively sought to interact with the other user, even long before I was officially banned from doing so -- but you can't claim you gave me a final warning when you had no reason whatsoever to believe I had read your closing statement. You can't tell me that your previous wrist-slaps to the other party should be taken as warnings to me that the next violation by either party would result in a block (and I would have no reason to believe that that is how IBANs are supposed to work). And the kid gloves with which all previous violations of this IBAN have been treated (by you, no less) should have given you pause before immediately blocking me for the slightest infraction and claiming that you had delivered a "final warning" to me (when no initial, let alone final, warnings had ever been received, to the best of my knowledge).

You may or may not remember past experiences I have with IBANs, but I certainly remember past experiences you had with a certain IBAN, and if I recall correctly that ended with you apologizing to me for blocking me without looking at all the evidence. Can't you even consider that maybe the same thing might have happened again? In this case you specifically asked not to be requested to close discussions or block for violations of this IBAN, and to report violations on ANI, but have actively stepped in numerous times since then, and even claimed that AN and ANI are not the place to report IBANs. I also haven't forgotten when you first told me years ago that AN is the place to discuss IBANs. I really don't know what to make of all of this. No one ever told me IBANs were this complicated and difficult to handle, and I never would have accepted the present one if someone had told me that reporting an IBAN-violation itself merited a "warning", and continuing to report could result in blocks. (I appreciate that in this case I technically mentioned the other party's name on a user talk page; said other party directly reverted my edits and posted attacks against me in unrelated threads and is now being told that because he didn't use my name while doing so it was acceptable. Indeed, the user has previously engaged in extensive discussion of me and my edits on his own user talk page -- with the exact same user, in fact -- and was never even wrist-slapped because he technically never mentioned my name. I never reported this until now because I was under the impression that with a still-open ANI discussion heavily leaning toward dissolving the IBAN, then discussion of said ANI discussion on user talk pages was acceptable. This curious loophole where it is forgivable to go into detailed discussion of the IBAN-parties' conduct but only if the IBAN-parties do not mention each other by name was never elaborated to me either here or in WP:BANEX. The whole thing has essentially become a farce at this point. Clearly Snow Rise was also unaware of how this worked, else he would not have brought me up on the other user's talk page and would have reminded me to be careful when I mentioned him on his talk page. You can say I'm wikilawyering at this point all you want, but what do you call claiming that my behaviour was blockworthy because I had received a "final warning" when no such warning was ever received?)

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 23:50, 10 August 2015 (UTC) Final edit made 00:58, 11 August 2015 (UTC). Sorry for having to go into such detail. I'm not the only long-winded Wikipedian, and Drmies has criticized others in the past for not being will to read long comments. And this is an extremely complex issue. I just hope the unblock request reviewer at least notes all the extra commentary provided down here, such as how the block rationale was at least as wikilawyer-y as the unblock reasoning, and how every single technical violation I made was directly paralleled, earlier and stronger, by the other party.

Hijiri, I am sure everyone understands your defense: "Catflap did it first". Now, moving on to other matters, can I point out to you that you may not have technically broken the iBan with Catflap on Talk:Soka Gakkai, since you have directly responded to them, but that you're playing with fire, and that you can easily be seen as hounding Catflap, since they have 170 edits in that article and you have none, and yet you show up on the talk page when they're mentioned in a thread? Drmies (talk) 21:36, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

@User:Drmies: I have been editing articles on Japanese religion since 2005, and you specifically said in April that edits like that one (posting on a talk page in an area the other party is relatively more interested in, but not directly interacting with them) are not IBAN-violations. I have been monitoring that page because the whole area is a shitstorm of OR/SYNTH/general nonsense (not specifically related to me, or the other user in the IBAN, or any other one, two or even three users) in which I have become inextricably involved since before the IBAN was in place (see my pre-IBAN edits to Talk:Daisaku Ikeda, Talk:Nichiren Buddhism and Talk:Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō and my post-IBAN RM on Talk:Nichiren Shū). If you want to intervene and stop the constant barrage of SYNTH/OR/BS infesting that article and the articles in its immediate vicinity (note that I am practically the sole author of our articles on Miyazawa Kenji, a figure known for his Nichiren Buddhist beliefs, and the Kokuchūkai, a Nichiren Buddhist NRM), please be my guest. You might say that since the user with whom I am IBANned and I had previously disputed in the topic-area in question, I should be staying clear away from that topic-area as a rule, but then the same would have to apply both ways. TBANs and PAGEBANs were never under discussion to begin with. On the talk page in question, I was responding to another user with whom I have no IBAN, whose proposed edits would have been an NOR-violation. If you yourself are not willing to step in and cut through the OR and other nonsense, I would ask that you stay out of my way and stop it with the double standards. The IBAN is not a one-way IBAN in which I can be sanctioned for the exact same behaviour that you yourself asserted was not a violation when engaged in by the other party. I don't see why you are getting so involved here, anyway: you specifically stated in your initial close that you wanted nothing more to do with this IBAN, but now you have started not only unilaterally quashing open ANI discussion of whether the ban should be dissolved, but actively enforcing it in a manner that looks like counting coppers. And don't say that my responding to you here in this manner itself counts as a violation: what else am I supposed to do -- just ignore and/or revert your comment? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:59, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Hijiri, you're in the same thread that Catflap was in. And of course I'm not saying that a response breaks the iBan--please don't be silly. And note that I just made a comment: I didn't block you. Drmies (talk) 14:01, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for not blocking me, but as far as I can see the only differences between this discussion and the discussion for which you did block me are that (1) I used the phrase "the other user" rather than the user name and (2) it is taking place on my talk page rather than that of a third party -- if I responded to you on your talk page rather than here I assume that would also not be a violation, but I would still really like to see some concrete definition of this IBAN lest I accidentally violate it again. Blocking for casual and infrequent use of the other's username in the context of a discussion of whether the IBAN should be dissolved, but not for the exact same with "the other user" subbed in every single time rather than just 80% of the time, seems arbitrary.

As for the "thread" part -- have you actually read the "thread" in question? One of the problems with that topic area (not just that page, but all the others I mentioned, right down to Kenji and the Kokuchukai) is that all semblance of talk-page etiquette and logical/rational discussion has broken down. The comment to which I was responding had very little relation to the thread topic, which in turn had nothing to do with the comments by the other user with whom I am TBANned (three words and just over a line, respectively). Saying that I'm on thin ice because my comments fell into some extremely loose framework known as a "thread" is silly, when 90% of discussion on that talk-page is off-topic banter about the nature of the topic rather than about how the article can improved by reference to reliable sources.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:40, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Hijiri, I firmly believe that a common sense-reading of the iBan policy should be clear enough. A thread was started on Talk:Soka Gakkai about comments made by Catflap. Catflap made a comment or two. You make a comment--three lines below Catflap's comment. It may well have been an accidental violation, but it was avoidable. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 15:52, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't read "thread OPs" before responding to comments by users that have clear proposals. The other user's comments were inconsequential. I don't see how it is remotely as bad as what the other user has done on previous occasions on the Kenji Miyazawa talk page that you called indisputably not an IBAN-violation. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:06, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hijiri88 I always try to be fair in this long dispute, but edits like this one do not help your cause. —Мандичка^YO 😜 04:43, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

@User:Wikimandia: John Carter has previously (four months ago, but he was inactive on Wikipedia for three of those months) requested that the admin corps go to the archives and reexamine all of my past disputes and turn the results back on me. He specifically requested that I be blocked for violating Tristan noir's TBAN on Japanese literature, which led to said ban's wording being altered two years after the fact. There have been similar calls (directly from other users with whom John Carter has apparently been in off-wiki contact, indirectly from John Carter himself) to unblock JoshuSasori (who among other things posted my parents' home address on Wikipedia in order to intimidate me) and Juzumaru (whose last six months of edits before being block consisted of wisecracks about my love life, and who has claimed to be currently evading his block via a sock account). Can you blame me for being a bit jittery when John Carter shows up again and requests that the admin corps go back through the archives and reexamine all my previous disputes? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:16, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't blame you for being annoyed, but that does not give you an excuse to resort to personal attacks. Nobody can provoke you without your consent, so don't give it to them. None of the things you say John Carter did violate any rules, but your reply does appear to be a PA, so all you're doing is shooting yourself in the foot. —Мандичка^YO 😜 06:01, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Repeatedly asserting that I should be blocked for stuff that happened years ago in which I was the clear victim of harassment at that time and virtually everyone agreed is pretty close to violating WP:HOUND, WP:STICK and WP:BEAR, and blatantly violates WP:AGF (John Carter, having no first-hand knowledge of my history, saw the bodies in my wake and assumed I had victimized them rather than the other way around). John Carter has been called out for this by multiple users, including one he himself canvassed. If by personal attack you mean my questioning JC's sanity, what is the acceptable way of calling out another user for doing the same thing multiple times and expecting different results? I admit I am frustrated with this situation, and have most certainly gone over the edge in a few of my remarks, but please bear in mind that, despite what John Carter and Beyond My Ken keep asserting, I actually have nothing to lose here beyond what they are explicitly trying to take away from me: TBANning me from every article I have ever edited or ever will edit would be the end of my Wikipedia career is effectively the same as indefinitely blocking me, hacking my account and changing the password.

But you are right. Questioning John Carter's sanity was the wrong move, as it was every other time my frustration with his accusations drove me to do it in the past, and when I did the same to Beyond My Ken earlier today. I apologize for the lapse. (I would do so directly, but both users have requested I neither ping them nor post on their talk pages, and I have requested the same of them.) And I apologize to you if this thread seems argumentative: your injecting some sanity to these discussions has always been highly appreciated.

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Nishidani

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Can you explain Nishidani's deal? You seem to be on talking terms with him. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 08:09, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

@Curly Turkey: Nishidani is an opinionated user with diligent sourcing standards and a sharp tongue. He and I almost never agree fully on article content. Sometimes he was wrong, I corrected him, and he recognized his mistake; sometimes I was wrong, he corrected me, and I recognized my mistake. The reason we generally work well together despite rarely agreeing is because we are both open to being corrected. In this case, Nishidani and I are both dealing with a user who has proved again and again that he is unwilling to admit his mistakes (and they are many). When that user is indisputably proven to be wrong, he just says "Oh, well I meant to day that from the start -- why didn't you understand me?", and when he can he argues and argues and argues until the other users give up and move on. He also blankly reverts article edits until he gets his way, carefully avoiding making more than three reverts to the same article in any 24-hour period. As you can tell, I'm not talking about you here. It's not your fault Nishidani and I are frustrated as (insert-four-letter-epithet-here) in the present matter. However, as far as I can tell on reading the recent talk discussion your only substantial dispute with him is over whether one lives on or in an archipelago -- I don't have a strong opinion either way, so I don't see how it could be worth fighting over. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:13, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

• It's not just the archipelago thing---he's been on attack mode with every comment he's directed at me (check out the first one in the collapse box---that preceded the archipelago thing). I'm at the article to copyedit, not deal with male PMS. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 11:39, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Sorry -- I had noticed the collapsed section from one of CN's edit summaries, and naturally assumed that CN had collapsed something I wrote that he didn't like, so I clicked on it and read a little. Didn't quite get it at first, but I've examined Nishidani's and your comments in some detail now.

I frankly agree with both of you, to a degree. On philosophical grounds I would tend to take your side, but it's not worth arguing with Nishidani when he's basically the best there is at what that article needs right now. The article before last weekend was utter crap. Nishidani came along and improved it, citing sources that dispute the claims that CN had added and/or made up based on his own misreadings of sources. I am inclined to agree with you that an overview article is not the place for either CN's claims or Nishidani's rebuttals. (This is why when instead of Nishidani I'm the one who corrects CN, users don't have the same -- perfectly reasonable! -- complaints that you made about about Nishidani's modified text -- I just remove the gibberish/OR and replace it with a summary of the scholarly consensus of similar length, whereas Nishidani is a devout inclusionist.)

If the current dispute works out anything like Soga–Mononobe conflict, Emperor Jimmu and Korean influence on Japanese culture, after a few days, weeks or (maybe) months, CN will get bored and move on, at which point other users will have a reasoned discussion as to whether the full text with should remain (probably Nishidani's view), should be summarized to a shorter expression of essentially the same thing (usually my point of view and, I would guess, yours), or should just be cut entirely if it's not relevant to an overview article (another option you presented but that would probably be a bit too far in most cases).

I say just wait it out until the problem subsides. Most of us appear to be in basic agreement as to what the real problem is; dealing with it takes a lot of time, even more patience, and not a small bit of cunning and wit in navigating around with users who flagrantly violate the spirit of 3RR while aggressively demanding that the letter of said be upheld.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:01, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

• Awesome—people can talk shit about me behind my back and I'm just supposed to sit back and put up with the lies: [13][14]. No, I'm not asking you to do or believe anything—I'm just demonstrating the bad faith that has driven me from the article. For the record, it doesn't matter who GARs the article, as the problems with it are so extensive (beyond even sourcing) that there's no way it would survive a delisting—an army of enablers won't save it. The only reason I won't do it is that I've withdrawn my services from the article. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:13, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

• @Curly Turkey Slander? Really? You returned to my talk page after being told not to, slagged me off some more, and I answered your question. If you genuinely think the reply is "slander", take it to AN/I to try and get me blocked like you already did. I can stick it on the Signedzzz "disruptive editing" section there if you really want. My talk page is presently where people can find my response to your ludicrous allegations, as my response there indicates. I don't enjoy the attention, which is why I took my name out of the heading. You wanted to maximise my discomfort by reverting that edit to keep my name there. You then used my discomfort as further ammunition against me, twisting it into another reason to block me. Nevertheless, I'm not out for blood: if I was, I'd return to the sleaze-fest you started. Therefore my response to your question must remain, in case anyone desires the information. zzz (talk) 00:52, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
  • The record speaks for itself: you've successfully derailed attempts at discussion and driven away a productive editor whom you've repeatedly baited. Not the behaviour of one who purports to be out to "improve the article"—especially when you continue to bait me and continue to talk shit about me after I've already announced I'm leaving. If you so desperately want me gone, why do you keep talking about me? If you so desperately want the article improved, why are you disrupting its improvement? Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 01:30, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

• • (EC)Which part of this reply did you not understand? Replying when you cast aspersions at me and others is not "trolling". Calling this edit "a transparent attempt to bait me" is just bizarre. Think again about your definitions of trolling and baiting, please. zzz (talk) 21:36, 6 September 2015 (UTC)???
    • You were more than aware that both changes were contentious, and you've already shown a propensity to editwar. Yup, you were baiting me. The edit sure didn't improve anything. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 01:55, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

You were and are hopelessly mistaken about that. Not much point going into it - it's not rocket science. It is an obvious and necessary improvement). You can disagree, but calling it baiting is irrational. zzz (talk) 02:07, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

• • Or this one: I assume you would claim that "Political Horseshit not focused on improving the article" with the edit summary "Fuck this shit" is not "casting aspersions" (or, indeed, "trolling"!) - which is where the problems all began. You'd be wrong. zzz (talk) 21:46, 6 September 2015 (UTC)??? zzz (talk)
    • I could have chosen my words better, but the goal was clearly to get the discussion on topic. It never did get on topic, did it? Certain editors did their durndest to keep it derailed. Would you like me to strike the cuss words? The situation wouldn't change in the slightest, but I'll willingly do that if that's the bee in your bonnet. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 01:55, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

• • • I don't give a fuck. I just want to point out that responding to you casting aspersions like the above, and your previous comment, and most of your recent comments in fact, is not baiting. zzz (talk) 02:01, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
      • If you don't give a fuck then stop bringing it up. You've certainly been baiting me, on the talk page and in the article. My every edit there has been in good faith, so as long as you keep slandering me I'll keep responding—. Want it to stop? Then you'll have to stop it. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 02:10, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

• Sigh zzz (talk) 02:13, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Yeah, you so want to put an end to this. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 03:21, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

forgot you were "there", bad time for attempt at a joke zzz (talk) 02:13, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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barnstar

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		For navigating the crucible and remaining committed to Wikipedia despite it. LavaBaron (talk) 17:55, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

@LavaBaron: Thanks! Not entirely clear what you're referring to, though: the History of Japan talk page and related, where I had two trolls attacking me (one constantly making direct personal attacks and threats against me, the other one referring to my responses as personal attacks in themselves), or the recent ANI discussion of whether I should be permanently site-banned for editing the Nichiren article once (apparently I was topic-banned from Nichiren Buddhism months ago without being told)? I'm frankly much more interested in building up our Japanese poetry articles (particularly Ariwara no Narihira) than in discussing Wikipedia politics at the moment, so "remaining committed to Wikipedia" was more of an act of selfish laziness, doing what I want to do rather what the community at large apparently wanted me to. ;-) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:53, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Manuscript authorship

Re 'His Dark Materials, Hi, 'authorship' can mean 'creator', in a way that 'scribeship' cannot (suggesting mere penmanship or copying skills), however I agree that NOT knowing who 'authored' the drawing isn't very important. Pincrete (talk) 14:15, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

AN/I

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Permalink to archived ANI thread here. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:58, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

And...

Definitely saw this coming. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 23:02, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

GAR

I got your message on my talk page, but the ping you attempted didn't reach me. If you didn't post a message to the others, they might not have gotten the ping, either. Also, Signedzzz is blocked for a week and won't be able to respond. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 08:44, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

@Curly Turkey: Thanks for the notice. I messaged everyone separately anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Regarding Signedzzz's block: I noticed, and several hours before posting the GAR I considered measaging him about that to point out that if he is going to say "User X is calling me a paedophile sockpuppet" he should post hard evidence, but realized I would need to look into it more closely to comment, and there's no way in hell I'm looking closely into anything that might involve paedophilia and sockpuppetry. But regardless: are you really optimistic enough that you think the GAR will be resolved before the remaing three (four?) days of his block run out? ;-) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:54, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

I'm not optimistic it'll get resolved at all. I think demotion is inevitable. The way Signedzzz's going about the unblock, I wouldn't be surprised if the block got extended (whatever the merits of his case). Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 09:01, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

ANI, September 2015

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You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

As far as I can tell, the only reason you were mentioned by Catflap was to explain why he was trying to go away, not to request anything on your part nor to request anything by others that would affect you. This was not a case of "Engaging in legitimate and necessary dispute resolution, that is, addressing a legitimate concern about the ban itself in an appropriate forum", to quote WP:BANEX. You may do well not to participate in such discussions in the future. Nyttend (talk) 02:23, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Hijiri88 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I understand Nyttend's logic in the block rationale, but if Catflap08 really was simply requesting a block for himself he wouldn't have (1) included such extensive commentary about me and (2) left a notification on my talk page. The reason one is required to leave such notifications is to allow said users (me) to defend against requests for sanctions. If my posting on the AN thread was a violation, then Catflap08 posting on my talk page about it must have also been a violation -- why would you notify someone of a discussion they were not allowed participate in?

Decline reason:

The requirements of WP:BANEX were not met, so you were not allowed to reply. In general, there is no 'right to reply' to the party from whom you were IBANned even if we accept your theory that Catflap08's comment violated the IBAN. Given how long this problem has continued, a one-week block seems mild. EdJohnston (talk) 13:52, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

AN and ANI notifications are generally overlooked as IBAN violations. All editors are required to notify others when they are the subject of an ANI or AN thread. Whether you choose to participate is up to you, but notification is required. Blackmane (talk) 03:25, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@Blackmane: technically Hijiri wasn't the subject of the AN thread, the editor who opened it was (requesting a self-block). ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 03:47, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmgewehr88: However, Hijiri was mentioned in the thread. It is generally expected though not explicitly stated that editors, who are mentioned at AN or ANI as part of a thread, are notified by the posting party. As the notification states, "issue with which you may have been involved" (my emphasis). Blackmane (talk) 04:14, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@Blackmane: ah ok, thank you for explaining. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 04:16, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@User:Blackmane: You are right, of course, but if I am debatably the subject of the AN thread, then how is my posting there an IBAN violation? The other user chose to post a long rant about me on AN, and chose to notify me of it: if my joining in the discussion was unacceptable then his inviting me to join in the discussion was equally unacceptable. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:34, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

• Can't blame him for believing he was being pinged for comment, but ... wow, Hijiri, you didn't really think that comment would fly, did you? Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 04:54, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@User:Curly Turkey: The only reasons such a comment would not be acceptable would be if (a) it was not on an admin board in support of a block for a user (e.g., on an article talk page it would have been a tototally unacceptable ad hominem remark), (b) it was on an admin board but was made without evidence (and enough evidence has been presented over the past 15 months) or (c) it was an IBAN violation. While under normal circumstances I would say my own comment was a borderline IBAN violation, in this case by the same strict logic the other user's mentioning me in his request for a self-block was also a violation, and so it seems one definition of the IBAN is being applied to me and another to the other user. I don't feel at liberty to discuss this with you openly on-wiki, but everything I said was true and verifiable. If you want the details I'll email you, but only if you indicate that you want the details -- I know I can be a bit urusai, mendokusai and shitsukoi on these matters. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:34, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't talking about who was right or wrong—even if every word was right (I didn't follow the Catflap thing), the very act of making such pointed comments about Catflap was sure to draw you into something (I'm talking about the second half of the comment; I think you could have gotten away with the first half). Just think—if you hadn't commented at all, what do you think would have happened to you? Catflap may have gotten some digs in on you, but otherwise your editing wouldn't have been obstructed. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 06:00, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

If I hadn't commented at all John Carter and company would have had yet more ammo to through at me ("look at what happened to poor innocent [not naming him here, even in a hypothetical]"), and the user would have gotten away with yet more lies and badmouthing of me without anyone even correcting him in the same thread.

I'm frankly a bit sick of Wikipedia at the moment (note the distinct drop in my non-gnomish article edits over the past few days) and so could use a break, so the block itself is not so much an "obstruction". I've said what I need to say on the HoJ talk page and GAR, as well as Dennis Brown's talk page, so even if my unblock request is rejected there won't be much harm done on those fronts. I'm appealing the block primarily on the technical grounds that I think Nyttend's judgement was flawed (seriously -- whatever you think of the content of my post, it was less of an IBAN violation than what the other party posted, both on ANI and on my talk page), not because I believe my editing will be obstructed.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:15, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

For the record, I agree with what Only in death wrote ... but, c'mon, you had to've seen this coming. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 08:22, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

(BUT... @Nyttend Even though I'm appealing your block of me because I think you made a bad call here, know that I harbour you no ill will. You aren't the only admin who has made a bad call in this matter, nor by any means was yours the worst. I know you have dealt with a lot of shit over the years and you were the only admin to make the right call the last time you and I interacted. Just clarifying, since the above post could be taken the wrong way as a criticism of Nyttend specifically. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:18, 23 September 2015 (UTC) )

No matter which way you read it, your comment at AN absolutely fell outside the realms of the second point in [{WP:BANEX]]. It also did not satisfy any of the sub points. If anything, your comment was highly inflammatory and would have heightened the tension not lessened it. This block was well deserved. Nyttend's block was a very good call. Blackmane (talk) 11:38, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

See my blocking comment for my thinking. Basically, he's saying "The interaction ban isn't working (insert details on why not), so please block me". Interaction-banned users shouldn't mention each other because mentioning the other guy is normally a way of saying "he's wrong, so hate/discipline/punish him", rather than it merely being a reason for departure and a clear non-request for actions against the other guy. It's a request that says "Here are the big problems, the big reasons that I want to leave", without which the request would more likely be rejected, and you're simply the main one of those. Your comment, on the other hand, is unneeded: as Catflap wasn't asking for anything to be done regarding you, the results wouldn't have affected you, so you should have just watched from the sidelines. Nyttend (talk) 12:39, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Yes, and he wasn't technically asking for anything to be done regarding me when he first posted that he was leaving Wikipedia because of me. Or the second time he did that. Or the time he and John Carter started a thread on ER criticizing me for "driving him off Wikipedia". Or the third time he announced his retirement, again blaming me. And this time he only requested a block for himself and blamed me again, and his friend John Carter only posted in the same thread making a not-so-subtle thread to request ArbCom indefinitely site ban me. (He tried to get community consensus for this several times and failed each time.) The two have been trying all sorts of stunts over the last seven months to cause me as much trouble as possible -- but my posting a response is an IBAN-violation.

I'm logging out for a while. I don't really care if my unblock request is accepted or rejected. I'm sick of all this nonsense. I accepted a mutual IBAN with the other user because I thought it would get him to stop harassing me across multiple pages; instead he used it as an excuse to manually revert all my edits he didn't like, and when I reported him I was the one violating the IBAN and he was therefore justified in calling me a Nazi, a homophobe and (ironically) an anti-German racist. The IBAN needs to go if it's really this one-sided. See you all in a week.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:03, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Catflap08 and Hijiri88 and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted in most arbitration pages please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.

Thanks, Nyttend (talk) 17:53, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

In short, this is because John Carter suggested arbitration and because I can see that previous attempts at resolving this situation have all failed. Obviously you can't participate at the request in the normal manner, but if you write something that you want to be added to the request, I'll copy it to the request if you want me to. If you wish to be unblocked so you can participate in the normal manner, I'll unblock you. NOTE TO OTHER ADMINS If Hijiri posts another unblock request, something basically "unblock so I can participate in arbitration", please grant it without asking me. Nyttend (talk) 17:56, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Unblocked in order to participate at ArbCom

Hijiri88,

I've unblocked you to make your participation in the ArbCom case request (and, if applicable, the ArbCom case) less difficult. Until 9/30 (when the 1 week block would have expired), don't edit anywhere except ArbCom pages and your user talk page; after that, your block would have expired anyway, and you can edit anywhere as long as you don't violate the interaction ban (and any topic bans I'm not aware of; I don't think there are any, but you will know better than I). --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:56, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

I meant to add: if you want to edit elsewhere sooner than 1 week from now, you can request an unrestricted unblock here using the usual template. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:00, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Signedzzz

If you weren't convinced before that Signedzzz was trolling, you should check out this mass revert of every edit I and every other editor made to History of Japan over the past two days. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 15:11, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Bad copyedits on the History of Japan talk page

@Curly Turkey, @Signedzzz, @Sturmgewehr88: I am currently trying to figure out how to handle the ArbCom request that is related to this dispute because John Carter, AlbinoFerret and especially Dennis Brown (who has actually been intimately involved with the dispute in question since the beginning but stated on the ArbCom page that he was only involved because of the CurtisNaito affair) have made it so. I didn't wanna post this on here until I had posted my comment on ArbCom, but the discussion spreading to my talk page without my consent has forced my hand.

How did no one notice that, while slightly improving some kinda awkward but still acceptable wording, TH1980 added the wording "Japan signed the an important military alliance with Great Britain"? Not only did this introduce an ungrammatical element in an edit whose only claim to being worthwhile was slightly improving grammar, but if we're copyediting, then referring to Japan signing alliances with physical features like the island of Great Britain (rather than the United Kingdom) should be one of the first things to be fixed.

Also, someone really needs to change the section title "The road to war". I know most of the other users editing the page are American, and I don't know how the average American WW2/Japanese history buff sees this, but referring to the first ten years of the so-called "Fifteen Years War" as "the road to war" is very Americocentric and somewhat offensive when one considers that half the Sino-Japanese War is being treated as a "lead-in" to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese history books do not describe it this way, nor do (university-level, scholarly) discussions of World War II written by and for European audiences. I would suggest changing "The road to war" to "Manchurian Incident and Sino-Japanese War" and "World War II" to either "Pacific War" or "Greater East Asia War" (despite how our article on the topic somewhat clumsily describes it, this term is still used in discussing the war both in Japan and outside, as for instance Donald Keene's discussion of wartime literature in his volume Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era; Fiction). Thoughts?

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:44, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

• Of course, you're totally right about the "Road to war". "Manchurian Incident and Sino-Japanese War" is ugly, but at least better. "Pacific War" is fine, but I don't see "World War II" as problematic. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 03:12, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@Curly Turkey: "World War II" isn't problematic, per se -- it's not openly offensive like the previous one -- but it's technically inaccurate: Japan's involvement with "World War II" is somewhat muddy, since they were allied with Germany and Italy long before Pearl Harbor, they were at war with China earlier still ("World War II" has that moniker because it involved the whole world, but China's involvement followed a totally different timeline), and the standard dating of the beginning of "World War II", as far as that term is concerned, is Germany's invasion of Poland and Britain and France consequently declaring war -- Japan had next to nothing to do with this. It's more a pedantic reaction on my part to the muddiness of the dating, but I think using a more specific term like "Pacific War" would be better. Since the phrase "World War II" is better known, we could perhaps clarify in the first sentence that this refers to the Pacific theater of World War II. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:39, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

The headers are there to facilitate navigation, so we should anticipate what readers would be looking for. How about "World War II: Pacific Theatre (1941-45)"? Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 04:07, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@Curly Turkey: That works, but it's at least as clunky as "Manchurian Incident and Sino-Japanese War", and unnecessarily so because "Pacific War" works. But I don't feel that strongly about it either way, so discussion of that should take place on the article talk page. I've said my piece; whether I continue discussing this particular issue on the talk page once the conditions on my unblock expire is a non-issue, but might cause problems if you and I determine potentially problematic details on my talkpage while I'm not allowed edit the article directly. We agree on "The road to war" -- that's all that matters for the next three days. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 06:45, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Whatever, I just wanted to see the article both readable and easily navigable, but the thing's been more work and high blood pressure than it's worth. I'd rather spend time being productive and not worrying about someone yanking the carpet out from beneath a house of cards. There are armies of painters and writers who don't even have articles yet, so I'm going to return my focusing to them. If you want your the ArbCom case to come out in your favour I must stress that your comments need to keep to the point (that is, keep 'em brief and comprehensible). Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 07:59, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom draft

Doing this here so people don't think I've been ignoring everything that's going on like the spiteful asshole a lot people seem to think I am. Diffs are in short supply at present for the latter half of the dispute, but will be coming soon.

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I first encountered Catflap08 on Talk:Kenji Miyazawa. I was reading about an author I like and noticed that the lead described him as a "nationalist", despite the cited source not doing so. I removed it and posted a comment explaining my removal on the talk page.[15][16] At this point I had no idea who had added the epithet, when, or why, and I didn't care. Catflap08 immediately reverted me and replied on the talk page, ignoring my rationale and merely saying that because a source was cited, even though that source didn't verify the claim being made, the claim could not be removed.[17][18] When I tried discussing on the talk page, he took this content dispute to AN.[19][20][21]

After he was told that article content disputes should be discussed on the talk page first, he continued refusing to discuss with me and clarify his stance on the talk page, instead opening an RFC with biased wording.[22] The RFC closed with a unanimous consensus that Catflap08's proposed wording was unacceptable, but not before Catflap08 continued fanning the flames by continuously inserting the word "nationalistic" into the article body. User:Dennis Brown told Catflap08 that his edits were unacceptable, and Catflap08 replied with a sarcastic remark.[23][24][25] Dennis Brown, as one of the many admins and other outside observers to notice the Catflap08 problem over a year ago and fail to do anything about it, should not be bringing up remotely related disputes as "evidence" that I have a problem getting along with other users, especially when he is much more involved with this specific dispute than he seems to remember. Since both Catflap08 and the other user with whom I have recently disputed also are in almost constant conflict with multiple users (the admin User:Hoary and various editors of NRM- and Holocaust-related pages for the former; User:Nishidani, User:Sturmgewehr88, User:Curly Turkey, User:Phoenix7777, etc. for the latter), indicating that this is not a problem with me alone.

Because Catflap08 seemed to completely misunderstand our core content policies on the one page where I accidentally interacted with him, I checked another related page he had written, Kokuchūkai, and found the same problems rampant. Several months later, Catflap08 returned to the Kenji article and continued adding references to the subject's "nationalist associations" to the lead of the article, and also continued to refuse to discuss changes on the talk page, instead making a series of aggressive and sarcastic remarks. During the ensuing dispute, Catflap08 was also involved in a similar dispute on the Daisaku Ikeda article (again -- why are unrelated disputes involving me being brought up as "evidence" that I have some sort of recurring problem with civility, when Catflap08 has the same eact problem, only much worse?). I noticed that, there as well, he was inserting contentious, unsourced material, and claiming that the "sources" he was citing inline verified his claims when they clearly did not. I pointed out on the talk page that this was a recurring problem with this user; this was not an ad hominem argument, as it is a recurring problem with the user, and was affecting article content.

After the above incident, Catflap08 started requesting an IBAN with me. Eventually such an IBAN was put in place, and Catflap08 continued posting unverified OR in various articles (I didn't notice these for a while, as I was not monitoring him, per the IBAN), and intermittently joining in unrelated disputes involving me, manually reverting edits I had made before the IBAN, manually reverting edits I had made after the IBAN, discussing me and my edits on the talk pages of other users, and joining in unrelated ANI threads involving me and requesting that I be banned, while carefully avoiding direct mention of my name. These IBAN-violations were almost all ignored by the admin corps, while even the slightest violations on my part were met with blocks. During a discussion to dissolve the IBAN (which took place before my first block, and had received unanimous support), Catflap08 openly compared Sturmgewehr88 and myself to neo-Nazis, based on our usernames.

Catflap08's refusal to abide by our content policies should have resulted in an IDHT/CIR block years ago, and his talk page etiquette is frankly attrocious -- while I have been called out on several occasions for resorting to mild profanity under extremely frustrating, stressful circumstances, Catflap08 almost immediately makes everything personal, he refuses to discuss content in a clear and cordial manner (often posting content disputes to AN and ANI), and at least half of his talk page comments are sarcastic barbs at other users. I don't know why this problem was not dealt with a long time ago, and I am frankly baffled at how many users he has somehow managed to convince this is all my fault.

Question regarding Japanese monarchy

So, royals are quite an interest of mine and I had a question regarding the Empress of Japan (not the current title holder but, the actual title itself) and thought I'd come here to extend an olive branch and ask for your help. I now see you're busy with something big so I won't bother but, I will say, regardless of our differences (or whatever you may want to call them), having been invited/notified to/of a conversation and then blocked for taking part in said conversation seems downright bizarre to me. Should that ever be brought up at ANI, I would support you. Whenever you have more time, if you wouldn't mind pinging me here, I'd be interested in knowing if you had any info about the aforementioned title (specifically: consorts, not any of the eight regnants).Cebr1979 (talk) 00:55, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

@Cebr1979: Thank you for your message. I am otherwise occupied at the moment, and will likely be so until at least the ArbCom case is closed. I say "at least" because unless it ends with reprimands to four other users for their vindictiveness and no reprimand for me -- admittedly not likely -- those four will likely keep trying to force me off the site. Those who have been following this page know I haven't been allowed focus on building an encyclopedia for at least a month now, thanks to those four and another two constantly hounding me.

You will therefore understand my changing your section title. I've frankly been afraid to log in these last few weeks for fear of what new trap John Carter, AlbinoFerret, Beyond My Ken, CurtisNaito, TH1980 and that other guy have set for me, and when I saw another user with whom I have a checkered history leave a message labelled "Woah" I was briefly tempted to just remove it and add you to the list of users who aren't welcome on this page. I thankfully didn't, but for your own sake it might be better to title talk (even user talk) threads based on their content. "Woah" looks more like the first word in "Woah. I was going to start an ANI thread on you because you disagreed with me on this or that talk page, but I guess I'll just wait and see if ArbCom permabans you". This is NOT to say you did or would post such a thing, just that I've seen enough of that to put me on edge. I've seen users leave the project over significantly less abuse than I've been receiving, so I'm very much on edge at the moment. (Hence my assuming a few sections above that when I was blocked for violating the IBAN I was being treated to a double standard -- a double standard had been applied in every other case, so without checking I instinctively assumed the same had happened here.)

TL;DR: If I don't get back to you within the next month, message me again. You are welcome on this page. Water under the bridge and all. But please title your sections better.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:14, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Sure, I'll remember that for next time.Cebr1979 (talk) 01:53, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Hijiri... Let me start by being frank: We haven't been each other's favourite person. You have stated, "water under the bridge," and I thank you for that, because I feel the same way. In regards to the conversation at ANI that's been going on for days and days now... You know the saying, "Long time listener, first time poster?" I've been following it since in began. I don't know the complete history between you and those other users (and, in keeping with being "frank," I don't want to) but... Dude: I feel for you, I really do. I've seen a lot of garbage where... I fully believe... you were set up and I just don't think it's fair. Why am I commenting here instead of at that ANI conversation? Because that ANI conversation has become a joke. It's so long and gotten off-topic (it wasn't even started about you, for crying out loud!) and, I just don't know what I could say that would make anything better. Just know that, if I see an opportunity to help you out, I will take it. If you can think of something where I would/could be of assistance, let me know. Take care, Cebr1979 (talk) 05:41, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

P.S. I solved my own problem regarding the Japanese monarchy: my counting was off regarding the ones who are the same person (even though they're counted under different names) and it set me off as to how many consorts there were/should have been. Thanks for offering your assistance, though. Cheers for now!Cebr1979 (talk) 05:44, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Statement length at arbitration case request

Hi, Hijiri88. I'm an arbitration clerk, which means I help manage and administer the arbitration process (on behalf of the committee). Thank you for making a statement in an arbitration request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Catflap08 and Hijiri88. However, we ask all participants and commentators to limit the size of their initial statements to 500 words. Your statement significantly exceeds this limit. Please reduce the length of your statement when you are next online. If the case is accepted, you will have the opportunity to present more evidence; and concise, factual statements are much more likely to be understood and to influence the decisions of the Arbitrators.

For the Arbitration Committee, L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 13:42, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

@User:L235: Thank you for the notification. As my recent edit history indicates, I worked quite a bit to get it down to <500 words already, but then added on a bit to indicate that I have drafted a response to another user off-wiki. I guess I'll get a chance to present that once the case is accepted, though. Thank you again. Cheers! Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:57, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

"win every election"

[26] That's not what "win an election" means—in a parliamentary system "winning an election" means getting enough seats to form a government (not even necessarily a majority), and the LDP formed every remaining Shōwa-era govenrment, even with minorities in 1976 and 1983. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:52, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

@Curly Turkey: On a macro level, you are of course right, but "every election" is ambiguous, and the only way I would generally approve of its use would be if it included every local, by, diet, gubernatorial and so on election throughout the country during the entire period. Not having been alive for most of this period, and only having moved to Japan 20+ years after it ended, I am not sure. But the LDP has won "almost every election" since 1989 as well, but has not held, for instance, the governorship of Iwate Prefecture for many years. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:53, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Well, that requires no more than throwing in a "federal" or whatever. "Dominated" is open to interpretation; winning a federal election is not. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:18, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015

I won't post any more GA reassessments for the foreseeable future (even though I have half a dozen already drafted off-wiki) as long as you cease your campaign to get me removed from the project. Immediately. This is completely unacceptable. Completely. I have blocked you for a week, and if you do this again, I'll block you indefinitely. I'm unable to fathom the complicated morass of your interaction with Catflap08 - hence the ArbCom case - but this one is simple. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:36, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Floquenbeam: CurtisNaito's article edits are a disruptive, and in the last few months he has been campaigning for me to get banned from Wikipedia for criticizing these edits. He has managed to sneak several poorly-sourced articles past the GA process, and these articles should be reassessed in accordance with the GA criteria. All the other users who have commented on the issue will agree with me. My offering to not request these reassessments if CurtisNaito stops following me and harassing me was a peace offering, not a threat. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 21:48, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmgewehr88: [27] No, he specifically stated that he was doing so because I had stated my "hope" that ArbCom reproach him for his behaviour. He was misquoting me again in an attempt to get me in trouble. And this time he appears to have actually succeeded... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 21:50, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

@Floquenbeam: By the way, I'm asking why you blocked me so I can reflect on what I did and decide whether or not to appeal. There are a number of possible reasons you might think the above quote was unacceptable, including (1) you think I was threatening to abuse GAR to pursue a personal vendetta rather than to improve the encyclopedia; (2) you think CurtisNaito's article edits are awesome and for me to criticize them constitutes a personal attack;See below. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 23:21, 2 October 2015 (UTC) (3) you think what I said constituted a threat (as CurtisNaito keeps claiming all my peace offerings are, at least back to May) and regardless of its merit it created a hostile editing environment; (4) you think it violated some policy I am not aware of regarding off-wiki drafts or some such... (I'm going to stop there.)

If (1): As I have already clarified, the GA criteria indicate that those articles should be either improved to bring them up to legitimate GA status, or reassessed. CurtisNaito's track record of OWNership and edit-warring indicates that the former is impossible, leaving the latter option. Reassessing those articles would be in accordance with content policy, and I wasn't actually threatening to do so anyway; I was threatening not to do so. In my two years of arguing with CurtisNaito, I have in all but one occasion (the Emperor Jimmu article) chosen the carrot over the stick.

If (2): You should express that opinion in an appropriate forum like an article talk page or the currently open History of Japan GAR. Blocking one side of a content dispute because you happen to agree with the other is inappropriate, especially when the other side has explicitly violated an ANI final warning numerous times over the past two weeks. (Note that I don't actually think this is why you blocked me. I'm grabbing at straws.)Sorry. Just noticed this. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 23:21, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

If (3): You may be right, but look what I have had to deal with: CurtisNaito has requested four times in the last five months, on both ANI and ArbCom, that I be site-banned for disagreeing with his edits, even though pretty much everyone else disagrees with them too. If there's a hostile editing environment, I'm not the one to blame. And as in (1) above, it was not a threat anyway -- I was offering a favour in exchange for CurtisNaito granting me the favour of not requesting that I be site-banned anymore. If this is what you meant, it's a good faith misunderstanding, and I will try to avoid such misunderstandings in the future, but I should still be unblocked.

If (4): Tell me the policy. I won't violate it again. I also won't appeal the block, though, since I've been here too long for ignorance of the rules to be a valid excuse.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:50, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Advice?

@Sturmgewehr88 @Nishidani I sent you mail. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:46, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm very sorry to have seen this develop. However, even if your comment had no problem, a reaction like this was inevitable due to the excited, verbose and frequent remarks on numerous pages. What possible benefit did you think your comment would bring? It contains a strong accusation, but has no evidence. It looks like attempted blackmail—if you won't try to get me banned, I won't point out your (alleged) defects. Given their responses to earlier comments, a moment's thought would show that the recipient is extremely unlikely to pay any attention to the claims, so the post is totally ineffective and merely battlefield conduct. Even if there were no prior interaction with the recipient, there is essentially zero chance of anyone reacting to a message like that in a way that would benefit you. I tried to follow the back-and-forth on some article talk pages, but the posts were unhelpful as they attempted to cover too many points, and conducted battles on too many fronts. In particular, an attempt to show that an editor has a pattern of promoting articles with serious sourcing errors needs very calm and careful evidence—that cannot happen in the middle of other disputes. A case of that nature would need to be prepared in a sandbox, mentioning only the facts and no user names. Further, there should be no emotive language—anyone capable of reading evidence knows that overlooking sourcing errors is the worst wikicrime. Good luck with your editing, but my advice would be to take a lot longer to respond to a discussion—fewer posts, each focused on a small number of points relating to text in articles (not editors), with evidence. Johnuniq (talk) 05:32, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: I assumed that offering not to post any more GARs in exchange for CurtisNaito no longer requesting that I be site-banned might actually get through to him. I never in my wildest dreams thought he would take my offer, go to ArbCom, and present my offer as a threat. I probably should have seen it coming because his last post also misquoted me (as saying the opposite of what I very clearly said), but, as Nishidani, Cuchullain and many others will tell you, I take AGF way too far. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 06:12, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Everyone knows that CurtisNaito can't edit for nuts. Everyone knows Hijiri goes overboard every time, and as his anxieties hit the passive-aggressive mirror that is CN, they redound against him. I don't know how many times I've seen you offload huge threads, run up large commentaries, wondering 'who reads this pettifogging'? When you keep running into problems on boards, at some point you have to look at yourself not at the shit-stirrers in question. You take the foibles, feeblies and foilings of the obtuse far too seriously, and if you had spent a 1/10th of the time you spend litigating on talk pages on article construction, you would have found enough consent among fellow editors to ensure than the CurtisNaitor nongocracy of two diminished its textual presence.Nishidani (talk) 07:14, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

@ArbCom: Just for the record, this is an outright lie. The list was meant to be a database of SPAs operating in Japan-Korea dispute areas. There is very clearly a massive sockpuppetry problem in that area, and I was trying to figure out who was whose sockpuppet. I made one poor judgement call (which I quickly retracted) that TH1980 was a sockpuppet of one of those users (per the evidence below, his being a meatpuppet of the pro-Japanese POV-pusher CurtisNaito would make a lot more sense). Many of the users listed appeared to hold views I agree with. It was not an "enemies" list. TH1980 has been trying to throw this in my face for months, even though the second someone complained about it I removed it. It would be really nice if someone could block him for this abuse. In fact, well over half of his edits during this period have been hounding of me.

Breakdown of TH1980's harassment of me over the last five months

22-27 December 2014: TH1980 and CurtisNaito (who had disputed with Hijiri88 on the Korean influence article in October) have friendly interaction on an unrelated article.[28][29][30] 2 February 2015: TH1980 posts a "support" immediately below CurtisNaito's comment, even though there was no specific proposal to "support" or "oppose".[31] 26 February - 2 May 2015: TH1980 shows up on the Korean influence article and reinserts text from Hijiri88 had removed months earlier.[32][33] 26 May 2015: TH1980 joins in a dispute between Hijiri88 and CurtisNaito and takes CurtisNaito's side without even reading the discussion (we were talking about whether a quote should be cited in Chinese, Japanese or English, and he randomly brought up a completely separate dispute).[34][35] 26 June 2015: TH1980 revisits an old dispute resolved over a month earlier to post an ad hominem attack against Hijiri88.[36] 31 July 2015: After Hijiri88 notices the above and responds, TH1980 posts another needless ad hominem attack on the article talk page.[37] TH1980, despite following Hijiri88 around, hypocritically requests that I leave him alone.[38] 9 August 2015: TH1980 joins in an unrelated ANI discussion to request that Hijiri88 be SBANned for three months, having gone through the entire history between Hijiri88 and Catflap08 (all his diffs pre-dated the IBAN), but cherry-picking the very few diffs that paint Hijiri88 as the one who should face sanctions (even though few others saw it that way).[39] 21 August 2015: TH1980 does the same thing he did on 9 August, this time supporting an indefinite SBAN.[40] 30 August 2015: TH1980 shows up on the History of Japan page and edit-wars/argues with Hijiri88 despite having never shown an interest in the page before.[41][42] 31 August 2015: TH1980 posts a pointless personal attack against Hijiri88 on CurtisNaito's talk page.[43] 9 September 2015: TH1980, in his first ever FAC post, suddenly shows up and takes the opposite side to Hijiri88 in the question of whether the Iwane Matsui article should be promoted.[44] 20 September 2015: TH1980, in his first ever GAR post, suddenly shows up and takes the opposite side to Hijiri88 in the question of whether the History of Japan article should be delisted.[45] In total, TH1980 has posted 32 times on ANI, and all of them were requests for sanctions against Hijiri88. It's not like he's an ANI regular, but somehow he always finds his way to ANI discussions involving Hijiri88. Since their first interaction with each other in May, 37/58 of all TH1980's article talk page posts have in disputes with Hijiri88.[46] All 13 of his user talk page edits have been either Hijiri88-related or to remove Hijiri88's comments on TH1980's talk page.[47] Except for the above-addressed ANI posts, TH1980 has made 11 edits to the Wikipedia namespace, and 10 were Hijiri88-related.[48] Of his 74 article edits since May, 21 have been full reverts, partial reverts or manual reverts of Hijiri88's edits.[49] That's a total of 188 edits in all namespaces, with 112 being Hijiri88-related -- does he have nothing better to do on Wikipedia than hound Hijiri88?

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:17, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

@Nihonjoe: Would you be willing to look through the above and see if it constitutes grounds for a HOUND block? Thank you in advance. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 06:50, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

If you think you have enough evidence, feel free to bring it up on WP:ANI. I don't have the time right now to review everything myself. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:19, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

I've started a thread at ANI. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 13:56, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

@User:CurtisNaito: Stop lying. You know perfectly well that this was not an attack page but a message for John Carter's attention (he had requested I not post on his talk page), and nothing about it constituted an attack to begin with -- he had deliberately distorted something I said to sound like a paranoid rant, when in fact it was a completely reasonable assertion that his not having a public email address meant whoever had emailed him had a Wikipedia account with email privileges. Banned users are not supposed to be editing under sockpuppet accounts, so if he had indeed received an email from such an account he should have declared it openly. This was an ANI draft, not an "attack page". I removed it once I posted it on ANI. I was blocked because you lied about me (presented my peace offering as a "threat"), and you are still now lying about me. This needs to stop right now.

@User:Sturmgewehr88: Would you mind pointing out that everything CurtisNaito and TH1980 have posted on ArbCom so far is a distortion of the truth?

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

If I can offer a bit of unasked advice, I second Nishidani's comments. The key here is the policy WP:FOC. I am sure you detest CN's editing (I am pretty sure there are people here who hate my guts and my editing), but you cannot go around fighting with everyone and flinging counter-accusations. The only place for accusations is a properly constituted WP:ANI or ArbCom case. Your "offer" on CN's page was interpreted as a threat, not just by CN but by Floquenbeam. Secondly, you need not rebut every accusation made against you. The Arb Case page only exists for determining whether a case is necessary. The evidence page is a separate one, where you can rebut all the things which someone proposes as evidence on that page. Squabbling with a bunch of editors over multiple pages only hurts your case. WP:TLDR is an iron law on the internet. Kingsindian ♝♚ 01:29, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

@Kingsindian: Technically, Floq interpreted it that way after already reading CurtisNaito's "interpretation", and CurtisNaito has a demonstrable history of deliberately misrepresenting peace offerings as threats. Indeed, after my block he has continued posting deliberate misrepresentations of my edits (message that is not an attack drafted in own userspace = attack page, ANI draft made in own userspace = attack page). You and Dennis Brown (and Nishidani) called me out for bludgeoning talk page discussions by consistently responding to everything CurtisNaito said -- but when I said that I would not be doing this anymore, CurtisNaito opened an ANI thread on me, claiming my statement that I was tired of doing basically what everyone agrees I shouldn't have been doing was a "personal attack" and a "threat". So saying CurtisNaito "interpreted" my latest offer as a threat is missing the point.

But you are right on what the current ArbCom thread is meant for. I just don't want the arbitrators to be biased against me based on completely off-topic commentary by my not-involved wiki-stalkers (CurtisNaito, while not as bad as TH1980, also has a demonstrable history of following my edits). Especially when that off-topic commentary consists of obvious lies.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 01:53, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Consider your statement that "I just don't want the arbitrators to be biased against me...". Now consider that in trying to fix this, you got yourself blocked completely unnecessarily. Which outcome is likely to "bias" the arbitrators more? At some point, you have to stop paying attention to what people write about you. You cannot go around rebutting everyone and fighting with them. In my experience, many people get blocked not based on the edits in the article space, but on useless arguments on talk pages, user talk pages and arb pages. At some point, either you ask for intervention at WP:ANI etc. or if you don't get support against an editor, drop the WP:STICK and get along, always focusing on content WP:FOC. Kingsindian ♝♚ 02:06, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

You're confusing my responses to your two points. The action that got me blocked was my post on CurtisNaito's talk page that was meant as a peace offering ("You stop haranguing me and I'll do this favour for you") was taken as a threat/personal attack. What I said was meant to keep the arbitrators from being made biased against me (discrediting TH1980 and CurtisNaito's open lies about me) was all done after my block. I have tried to ask for intervention on ANI, but two or three particular ANI junkies are at this moment so obsessed with undermining everything I do that nothing I post there has any effect. But I don't even want to fight with CurtisNaito and these users. I want to build a frickin' encyclopedia. Everytime I settle into non-controversial article edits, one of them jumps in with a new thread about me on ANI or some such. I don't know why they keep following me and going higher and higher up in their attempts to get me blocked for something that they claim (without providing any evidence) I may have done to them months or years ago. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:23, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

American vs. British vs. Oxford spelling

@Nihonjoe: Just noticed this. While you may certainly be right (I'd say you probably are), your logic was flawed. The "-ize" spelling is ambiguous in terms of WP:ENGVAR, as it would have made just as much sense to add Template:Use Oxford English. If the IP you referred to had been me (it wasn't) then "American English" would be an inaccurate description. Some other, later, unambiguous edit will need to be found. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:30, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

• Well, unless nobody objects to using AmEng---we only need to know precedence if there's a dispute. Like everything else, ENGVAR can change (particularly if it hasn't been firmly established). Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 11:18, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
• Feel free to go through edit by edit from the beginning of the article, then. I disagree with the spelling be ambiguous. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 22:03, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is HOUND, BATTLEGROUND, and NOTHERE block request. Thank you. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 13:55, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Just to let you know, might not be a good idea to be asking for CN to be blocked "right now" or else a certain someone might come along and acuse you of gaming because of the ArbCom case. Your "suddenly" wanting him to be blocked for "supposed" IDHT might affect his ability to present evidence "directly" to boost the case against you. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 13:58, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmgewehr88: That would make him the biggest hypocrite on Wikipedia, since he already essentially asked another admin to block me even though (unlike CN) I am actually a key player in the ArbCom case. Although his hypocrisy on the point is already pretty obvious, since he also supported my last block which was a direct result of CN lying about me on ArbCom. Also, unlike your ANI thread on TH1980, I don't think an indef block is appropriate here, so I did not request such, nor would I. A 72-hour block wouldn't interfere with ArbCom one way or the other, especially if a week-long block of one of the users whose name is part of the case name apparently was in the best interests of the case.

Additionally, the fact that I was complaining about CN's IDHT issues, and saying he should eventually be blocked for them, literally a full year before the ArbCom case was even proposed, should make it pretty easy to disprove any more of that user's fabrications about "suddenness" and "supposedness".

Anyway, I don't even particularly want a block. I want an admin to tell CN off for his misbehaviour. I know it shouldn't matter how many admins tell him off, given how literally everyone else has already told him off.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:14, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08 and Hijiri88

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Comments on Catflap08 and Hijiri88 PD talk page

Hi Hijiri88, per the notice at the top of the PD talk page editors (excepts arbitrators) are only permitted to post in their own section. So I've moved your comments in TH1980's section into your own section. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:50, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

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December 2015

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for prolonged adoption of a battleground mentality, as you did at Talk:History of Japan. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 00:57, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

@User:I JethroBT:What battleground behaviour? CurtisNaito and TH1980 are the ones who have been outright refusing to engage in constructive discussion. Is this because I said they have refused to engage in constructive discussion? Strmgewehr88, Curly Turkey and about a half-dozen other users have said the same. The only edit I made there in the last 24 hours was this, and I simply expressed the exact same thing everyone else on the page was feeling and had said both there and elsewhere numerous times. Is this because I GARed a different article that I had expressed serious doubts about months before CurtisNaito ever even edited the history of Japan article? That's not battleground behaviour; the article simply is not a GA, and I no longer have the energy to attempt to make it a GA. If it is because of the latter, you need to reword your blocking rationale, as the only connection between the two is that CurtisNaito has engaged in the same IDHT/OR on both pages. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:40, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Shit. Sorry User:I JethroBT. I saw you had blocked me first and noticed you hadn't blocked TH1980, who has engaged in outright PAs against me on that talk page, or Curly Turkey, who said the same things as I did only more aggressively and with less tact about saying them on an article talk page. However I see you actually did block CurtisNaito, which means your block of me was in good faith and not just another attempt by an admin to prop up one side of a content dispute (you'd be surprised how often that happens in the Japanese history and literature area). I don't mind you not blocking TH1980 -- I have confidence that the issue with him will be resolved soon enough. You did a better job here than I gave you credit for, and I apologize for the above failure to AGF. I'll take my block quietly. (I think the ArbCom case would scare off any roaming admins who might otherwise review a block appeal, so an appeal would just stay there until the block expired, like what happened in August; I strongly encourage User:CurtisNaito, who is also party to the ArbCom case, to follow my lead.) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:49, 19 December 2015 (UTC) (Edited: Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:53, 19 December 2015 (UTC))

@User:Curly Turkey: Please bring the dispute to ANI. It belongs there, as it has nothing to do with article content and everything to do with user behaviour. It does not belong on the article talk page. CurtisNaito's outright refusal to listen and TH1980's very obvious hounding campaign against me have now resulted in me getting blocked. That is completely inappropriate and needs to be resolved. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:43, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

User:Curly Turkey: On second thought, bringing it to ANI right now (or any time before either my block or CurtisNaito's expires) might be taken as a proxy appeal of my block (if TH1980 did so it might be taken as a proxy appeal of CurtisNaito's block), and I don't want it blowing up in my face (if no one unblocks me then someone might say six months or three years down the line that a dozen admins reviewed my block on appeal and unanimously refused to unblock me -- things like this have actually happened, believe it or not). Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:05, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm not taking it to ANI until I've hunted up, sorted, and properly contextualized the diffs. Like I've told you before, it's extremely hard for an outsider to see just what the problem with CurtisNaito is—it took me weeks (months?) at History of Japan before I finally figured it out—back then I actually thought you guys were all a big part of the problem, especially since I ran into issues myself right away with Nishidani and Signedzzz. It has to be well organized and framed well—especially since it can't conceivably be concicse. It'll have to be done, though—the article can't be left in his hands. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 06:44, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

@CT: Makes sense. Can you run the draft by me first, though? I have no doubt in my mind that you are better at drafting such things in an ANI-acceptable manner than I am, but I have been dealing with these two a lot longer than you (CN's grudge against me goes back to January 2013 and his acting out on it goes back to September of that year) and it's possible you might miss something. You know my email anyway. Nishidani and Sturmgewehr88 might want in as well. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:19, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, sure. Don't expect it soon, though. It's about the most tedious work I can imagine doing at Wikipedia. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:31, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. Sorry to leave it up to you; it would probably take me even longer, and if my "Japanese culture" TBAN goes through I won't be able to discuss much of CurtisNaito's problems on-wiki once it does (hence my asking you to email me). Aemon Targaryen and all that. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 00:24, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

What holiday?

@H. Humbert: (re: this) What holiday? You keep reverting me with no explanation, and your edit makes no sense: The same year numerous stone monuments relating to key events in Jimmu's life were erected around Japan. The sites at which these monuments were erected are known as "Emperor Jimmu Sacred Historical Sites". After World War II, the holiday was criticized as too closely associated with the "emperor system." It was suspended from 1948 to 1966, but later reinstated as National Foundation Day. One sentence doesn't flow into the other; either fix the prose and find a source to support it, or kindly stop reverting. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 04:14, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Re:ArbCom TBAN proposal and me

@User:Sturmgewehr88: I won't "go elsewhere" either way. I'll bring my "Japanese culture" contributions to French Wikipedia and keep contributing to everything else on English Wikipedia. Probably spend more time on the Christianity and Bible articles, and Chinese history and literature. In a year's time French Wikipedia will have better coverage of Japanese poetry than English Wikipedia -- I have after all been the only one contributing anything worthwhile to that area for at least three years, with no one even being able to find any fault with 99% of my edits. What other users want to do about the ArbCom results is their own business, but I would find it highly surprising if TH1980 gets out of the whole affair without at least 1RR. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:58, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Ah ok, I already assumed you'd go to another Wikipedia (thus counting as "elsewhere"), but hadn't thought about Christianity articles. However, now that I'm thinking about it, that's also the domain of the Warlord of Mars. Hopefully we won't see a grudge match spawn at ANI. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 09:10, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

The Warlord of Mars did specifically express a concern that I would "follow" him there, but the fact that I was most active in the area last September, six months before my dispute with him started, and on that page we were on the same side. If after pointedly getting me banned from 90% of the articles I have ever edited he explicitly tries to force me out of the topic area that already accounted for the remaining 10% because I "followed him" there, I'll have a pretty good case for an IBAN.

Plus, John Carter hasn't actually edited an article on Christianity or the Bible in years, so his case would be weak anyway.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:45, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

"post-occupation authors of note"

@TH1980: Re this -- you should draft it on the talk page first. No one who knows anything about modern Japanese literature would refer to Murakami the way you do, and he is far from being the most noteworthy modern author; making him the "center" of our discussion of post-war literature (let alone the only author mentioned) is incredibly contentious. Per WP:BURDEN you should discuss on the talk page before adding such contentious material. "Noted Japanese authors also began to emerge [after the occupation" is incredibly inaccurate and more than a little offensive for its implication that there were no authors of note before the war. No one disagrees that post-war literature should be mentioned in the article, but you are missing the point. Whether you are doing so deliberately or by accident is beside the point. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:16, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@TH1980: Thank you for this edit, but I would appreciate you not insincerely calling it a "copyedit" -- you made a blunder (I'll assume it was an accident), I called you out on it, and you self-reverted. Your edit summary denying this is not helping an already-toxic situation. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 04:17, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

"Wouldn't solve a current issue"

Unlikely you didn't see this, but I thought it'd make you laugh between sobs of exasperation. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 03:03, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

@User:Curly Turkey: I frankly think ArbCom have been doing an abysmal job of dealing with the CurtisNaito/TH1980 problem. Even worse than Dennis Brown. When I asked them why my conflict over some Nichiren Buddhist topics was resulting in a proposed TBAN from "Japanese culture", the drafting Arb essentially said "your conflict on the Korean influence article proves you are the problem editor in this area". Apparently, the attitude of several Arbs is something like "the worst TH1980 and CurtisNaito have done is edit-war, but they appear to be right on the substance, so they should not be sanctioned in any meaningful way". Don't worry: once the case is closed and the disruption only gets worse because one of the good editors is not allowed get involved, we can ask for an amendment to deal with the root cause of the disruption. (Or you can ask on ANI, but I may be unable to help.) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:17, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case closed

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

1) Catflap08 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to Nichiren Buddhism and its adherents, broadly construed. Appeals of this ban may be requested no earlier than twelve months since the date the case closed.

2.1) Subject to the usual exceptions, Catflap08 is prohibited from making any more than one revert on any one page in any 24-hour period. This applies for all pages on the English Wikipedia, except Catflap08's own user space. This restriction may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.

3) Hijiri88 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to Nichiren Buddhism and its adherents, broadly construed. Appeals of this ban may be requested no earlier than twelve months since the date the case closed.

4) Hijiri88 is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to Japanese culture. Appeals of this ban may be requested no earlier than twelve months since the date the case closed.

5) Subject to the usual exceptions, Hijiri88 is prohibited from making any more than one revert on any one page in any 24-hour period. This applies for all pages on the English Wikipedia, except Hijiri88's own user space. This restriction may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.

6.1) TH1980 (talk · contribs) and Hijiri88 are indefinitely prohibited from interacting with, or commenting on, each other anywhere on Wikipedia (subject to the ordinary exceptions).

For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 23:03, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case closed

Understood, and sorry for all the trouble these disputes have caused. I'll do my best to continue contributing to the encyclopedia within the above restrictions. Best regards, Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 18:46, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry to hear about your topic ban. I did what I could, but it was too little too late. I hope you will continue to contribute here. Just to let you know, good work in other areas is looked upon as a point in favour should you decide to appeal your topic ban in a year or so. Wish you all the best. Kingsindian ♝ ♚ 21:29, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

@Kingsindian: Thank you for your support. This is a happy ending, really: now I can get back to focusing on article content, and I can work more on Chinese literature and Biblical/Second Temple Jewish topics and early Christianity. :-) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 01:39, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Taking this to your talk

Wow, that sounds like a dyspedia. To butcher the greek roots. Anyway, here's a link to a great tabor article, biblical history is so interesting because it has implications for both the history of most of the ancient world's great civilizations and for much of what would become "western culture". --Monochrome_Monitor 09:03, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Catflap08 and Hijiri88 arbitration clarification request archived

The Catflap08 and Hijiri88 arbitration clarification request has been archived by direction of an arbitrator. Thanks. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 01:55, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

AE report

As many people have pointed out on the AE page, the point of the IBAN is for you to leave Catflap alone. Whether they "get away" with violation of a TBAN is not your business, as simple as that. I would advise you to stop digging yourself deeper into a hole.

There are people who I don't like and vice versa. The correct way to handle it is to avoid them, not hold grudges. Wikipedia is very big: just forget about one user. Kingsindian ♝ ♚ 21:29, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

@Kingsindian: You are right, as usual, and thank you for your advice. But I think you may have slightly misunderstood me: when in my latest edit I said "this user" doesn't like me, I was talking about AlbinoFerret; I have no IBAN with this user, although I deeply desire one; every one of my interactions with this user have been instigated by them, and even when a majority of outside users take my side, he somehow always finds a way to oppose me and get away with obviously only being there as part of a HOUNDing campaign against me; I suspect it might have started because I challenged a lousy RFC close he made a year ago (my TBAN prevents me from telling you what RFC...). And when I posted the initial request for clarification, I honestly intended to check if both that other user and I were allowed comment on the area we are TBANned from on "pages" that aren't technically "related" to the topic. This is how our TBAN is currently worded, and I still think it should be amended. The AE filing was a careless action on my part, done on the advice of an admin who acted in good faith but apparentky didn't know about the IBAN; I should have thought more about the implications of this action, and I apologize for the mess it has caused. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 00:02, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Avoiding IBAN vios and Following Catflap08's edits

I think you already got the message but for the sake of clarity, reporting a TBAN vio is a violation of your IBAN. You should not be following Catflap08's edits. IBAN means leave them alone not watch what they do but not say anything. The point of the exercise is to give you both a total break from each other. Spartaz ^Humbug! 13:43, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

@Spartaz: Understood. I will be more careful in the future, and will avoid doing that thing you told me not to do. And I should like to thank you for not throwing me under the bus when you pointed out that you had directed me to file the AE report. I also apologize for not making it clear to you in the original ARCA filing that there was an IBAN in place. I guess you probably wouldn't have given me that direction if I had laid the entire case out properly in the first place. Anyway, no harm no foul. Happy editing!

(By the way, I noticed your other activity on AE: I'm guessing you are better than me at the SPI thing. I don't suppose you could take a look at this? I looked around, and couldn't find the instructions on how to file an SPI case, and my request at the Help Desk has only yielded one response to the effect of something I already knew...)

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 04:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You should place a template {{SPI case status}} or {{SPI case status|CUrequest}} just below the section header (21 February 2016).―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 04:47, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Holy Christ

Do you know this guy? Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 00:04, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

I think I've come across Marnette before, but I'm not all too familiar with their work. To be fair, while anyone could have read your comment as a joke, and a very careful reading of your comment would definitely reveal it to be a joke to just about anyone with a head on their shoulders, to someone not familiar with the history between you, me and the White Weasel who just noticed that you reverted an edit I made to my own talk page and briefly skimmed your comment, it would have looked like you were behaving inappropriately. I guess my not having spoken up on it myself may have misled Marnette to take their own assumptions a bit far.

@MarnetteD: It was a joke. I got it. I understand why you didn't get it, and your initial reversion was justified. But to call what CT did here "poor behaviour" is inappropriate, and "DO NOT POST here again unless it is required by AN or ANI" was definitely way over the top. I spoke to AlbinoFerret in such a manner, true, but only because the latter has been engaged in a pretty consistent harassment campaign against me for almost a year, calling for me to be de facto SBANned (or even de jure SBANned) on more than one occasion, when the only thing I did to deserve this treatment was question his close of an RFC last April. (Ironically, in April he actually admitted that his RFC close had been bad, and took it back, but apparently the wound I struck him was deep enough to merit his eternal wrath.) I tried to ban him from my talk page back in November, but then ArbCom happened and I figured he would get off my back. He hasn't, so I officially told him not to edit my talk page again.

But Curly Turkey is always welcome, even if some of his jokes are a bit too open to misinterpretation.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 04:41, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

e-cig tension

In response to your comment here about not understanding why the article is so embattled.... Basically there are three camps. Two of them are in the field of public health.

• One of those, takes a stance looking at e-cigs themselves. It says - hey, here is this new device the use of which is expanding like crazy. It is delivering a drug (nicotine) that is highly addictive, and for pete's sake the devices and the e-liquid are unregulated.. we don't know what they even are much less what they are doing to people in the short and long term. What the hell are we doing exposing people to all of this risk? We have to slow this whole thing down and hopefully we can get them regulated. But what the hell is everybody thinking?? Plus all these people are getting addicted to nicotine, which is good for nobody.
• The other takes a stance, comparing e-cigs to cigarettes and says: For pete's sake there is no way in hell that these things are worse for people than cigarettes are. Of course we want to encourage people to switch to these from cigarettes. Why the hell would you get in the way of that??
• Then you have the e-cig community, which is on-line, very vocal, and they love to geek out on the technology and customizing things and they of course advocate that they should be able to buy them freely and use them pretty much anywhere they want, since the 2nd hand vapor is pretty much nonexistent.

It makes for a very, very toxic mix. The article shows that. There are Discretionary sanctions on the topic, btw. I will give you formal notice of that in a moment. I am not sure it is wise for you to jump into another controversial area, but hey, you can do as you will! Jytdog (talk) 08:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Notice of DS on e-cigs topic

This message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding Electronic cigarette topic area, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

Template:Z33 Jytdog (talk) 08:46, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

@Jytdog: I am aware of theArbCom decision, not only because AlbinoFerret left a similar notice here not long ago, but also because I had seen the case before posting. I told AlbinoFerret this, which makes me wonder about his/her motivation for telling me something I already know. But I am more concerned about why you left the above notice now. Is it good practice to notify everyone who edits in a DS area just to be on the safe side? Or didI say something in my last post that might be cause for concern? I did indirectly allude to the ArbCom case itself, as well as partially quote a comment on a user talk page that originally contained foul language... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:29, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

hm - I did the required search for the formal notice and it turned up nothing. If he gave you formal notice the system should have picked that up. I will look and come back in a minute. As the notice says, it does not imply any misconduct - I just wanted to be sure you are aware of it. Jytdog (talk) 19:52, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Ah I see. Before I commented AlbinoFerret noted (and then un-noted) that he didn't give you the formal notice. The formal notice is procedurally important, of course. Jytdog (talk) 19:55, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Un-noted that he didn't notify me... the gramnar of that confuses me more than the e-cigs dispute. ;-)

Anyway, yes, I understand a formal notification is a necessary pre-requisite for a discretionary sanction being placed on a user, which makes me even more suspicious of AlbinoFerret's motivations. (His recent actions elsewhere indicate that whatever his motivations, he really, really wants me removed from Wikipedia.) But I don't want to talk about that. I will be careful, and thank you for the notice.

And regarding the comment AF left here before being reverted, I apologize for the misunderstanding. It looked like a template, and bore none of the hallmarks I've come to recognize in AF's original prose, so even checking the source and noting that it wasn't formatted like a template, it still looks like a form message that had been sent to other users with essentially the same wording. Again, I apologize if I am mistaken in this reading.

Also: Sorry. My eye was drawn to the big shiny DS notice and I didn't notice the detailed breakdown of the dispute you gave me immediately before in the section above. Thank you!

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 23:20, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

sure. good luck! Jytdog (talk) 01:32, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Un-noted that he didn't notify me: acutally it was Awilley who reverted the WW. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 02:09, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Sorry

I know I stated on the talk page that I would not respond, but felt obligated to do so here. I'm sorry if you felt I was insulting towards your education or intelligence, but that was not at all my intention. The subject in question sees lively debate on Wikipedia, and it has demanded what I feel is a bordering on unreasonable amount of my time to stay abreast with both the literature and the direction the page is moving in. My comments were meant to disparage that editors would comment in what I perceived to be a WP:drive by fashion and those that would devote limited time towards researching the topic or the massive archives that it has already amassed. CFCF 💌 📧 21:16, 28 February 2016 (UTC) 

Apology accepted, and I completely understand. I dislike drive-by commenting as much as the next editor, but I prefer talk page use to edit-warring or potential edit-warring, and a random editor coming along and radically altering the lead and making claims about material not appearing in the body on that particular page was almost certain to start an edit war. So that is why I did what I did. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:55, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Arbitration clarification request archived

Hi Hijiri88. The Catflap08 and Hijiri88 arbitration clarification request of 26 February 2016 (UTC) has been archived to Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08_and_Hijiri88#Clarification_request:_Catflap08_and_Hijiri88_.28March_2016.29. Thanks. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 17:07, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Able to translate?

How strict is your TBAN? Are you allowed to, say, translate J-poetry into English? I suppose I could butcher do it myself, but I thought J-lit was your background. I'm expanding Eight Parlour Views, and the shunga versions of the prints each come with a tanka. If it's something you can't do, don't worry about it. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 13:59, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

If I do it for you off-wiki and email it it should be okay. But I don't know about translating primary source material and putting it in the mainspace in general (see Talk:Ariwara no Narihira for a list of poems I kinda think should be in the article, but it's a list of ones of which I happen to have access to English translations, rather than ones for which I found a place in the article). Anyway, if you can email me the scans (or better yet the text) I'll take a shot at it. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:18, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Well, I've already got the Japanese in the article itself, though the book also gives glosses (reverse furigana?) with kanji for some of the hiragana. If you need that, I can mail it to you. I've just kind of slapped the Japanese & romanization into the article, but would it be better to format it like you've got at Talk:Ariwara no Narihira? I'm not a big fan of boxes these days, especially wide ones that might be hard to read on a smartphone. The book itself doesn't even break the poems into lines. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 10:38, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I just found a PDF that has translations. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 11:42, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Hmm ... it looks like it's actually an English translation of the main source I'm already using—but only the second half of the chapter. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 11:44, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

It would certainly be possible to put up new translations or public domain translations on one of the other wikimedia sites, like wikisource for existing PD translations or maybe wikibooks or wikiversity for original translations. 150.199.186.2 (talk) 16:08, 28 March 2016 (UTC)