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Semi on proportional representation?

Hello BalCoder. You posted at RFPP, asking for long-term semiprotection. This might be considered, but I'd like to see at least one clearly identifiable sock edit by an IP since February 1, to justify this. User:Odysseus1479 is not a sock. Can you convince me that the most recent IP edit at proportional representation is a sock edit? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:20, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

@EdJohnston: Yes, I can. I'm happy to expand on what I wrote on the SPI request linked to in the RFP ([1]). As you say, the IP reverts back to a good-faith edit, a clerical edit that simply corrects some heading levels resulting from a change by user User:Willowravine (Special:Diff/807510397) made two days earlier, on Oct.28. In effect, the edit re-instates the Willowravine edits from Oct.28. Willowravine was correctly identified by User:Rhys Goldstein as a sock of indef'd User:Ontario Teacher BFA BEd, Special:Diff/807625161. (The relevant SPI archive has confusingly been renamed from Ontario Teacher to Soulspinr [2]). That identification was confirmed on Nov.1, after which Goldstein reverted the Willowravine edits Special:Diff/808205423. To protect User:Rhys Goldstein, patently a knowledgeable and good-faith editor (although I personally disagree with almost all his edits), I asked for protection for PR and several other articles battered by Ontario Teacher and that was granted on Nov.1 for 3 months. 24 hours after that protection was removed that IP edit reverts back to the sock.

The purpose and effect of Willowravine's heading change was to remove "Mixed Member Electoral Systems" from the "PR electoral systems" section. Here is exactly the same edit by Ontario in Dec.2015 [3]. It has been the primary pre-occupation of Ontario Teacher's editing career, that the principal mixed-member system, mixed-member PR (MMP), is not a PR system, in defiance of established academic sources. For example, "MMP is NOT a type of PR" (26 August 2015, in this Talk archive [4]) or search for "MMP is not PR" there and in Archive 6. The IP geolocates to Toronto, Ontario Teacher's location (search the Ontario Teacher/Soulspinr SPI archive for "toronto"). There can be no doubt that the IP edit on Feb.4 2018 is Ontario Teacher. Ontario is a persistent disrupter of Proportional representation and the other articles I listed, they should be protected from him, I think permanently.

(I see PR has now been indefinitely protected by User:Ad Orientem - good, thank-you - so presumably this post has been superceded). --BalCoder (talk) 18:41, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

A minor correction. I've protected the page for 1 year. I declined the requested protections for the other three pages. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:45, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

• JFTR I have no extensive knowledge or strong opinions on the subject; I was just trying to make sense of what was there at the time. Neither do I have any objection at all to User:Rhys Goldstein’s reorganization as outlined on the TP. That said, I doubt that semi-protection will do much to deter the sockmaster, who seems persistent enough that getting socks autoconfirmed will scarcely be an obstacle.—Odysseus1479 19:20, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

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