Balki Chalkidiki

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May 2016

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Turkey. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

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Étienne Dolet (talk) 19:37, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Ankara collage image

How can you defend this hideous Ankara collage? Have you ever looked the other capitals? Tokyo, Madrid, Rome, Paris, London... All of them concrete jungle according to you. Please give up your this idea. Thank you. Ahmet Gürsakal (talk) 15:30, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, but your collage looks very ugly. You have also repeated Kızılay Square (twice) and Kocatepe Mosque (twice), with a couple of meaningless concrete buildings which I couldn't even identify (one of them is the old İş Bankası building designed by Giulio Mongeri, but it's so tiny that nobody can even notice and appreciate it.) Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 08:31, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Choice

All right Shuppiluliuma (yes, I know it's you, I've blocked hundred of your socks before, remember?), you have a choice to make. You can continue edit-warring, which will result in one of two things: An indef block for edit-warring like what happened to your Lord of Rivendell sock, or an indef block after I file an SPI on you if you continue to annoy me. Or, you can stay out of my way and I will pretend not to notice you are a sock and yo can go about your business. Your call. Athenean (talk) 18:16, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I have no idea what you're talking about... All I'm saying is that the CIA World Factbook (which gives a realistic figure like 18%) is a more trustable source than Sandra Mackey, M.A. (with all due respect - may she rest in peace) who claims a figure of "25%" which is neither scientific nor realistic (1 in every 4 people in Turkey is not Kurdish.) Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 10:36, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Turkey infobox

Hello Balki Chalkidiki,

You changed the infobox of the article Turkey and you wrote:

"This is a discriminatory list (cherry picking) and the infobox can't contain them all. The full list of spoken languages is in the Demographics section of this article."

"Linking to the section in the infobox, so that all languages can be seen."

There are some languages which are spoken of a large number of people in Turkey, like Turkish, Kurmanji, Kabardian, Arabic and Zazaki. Other languages (such as Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyge, Cappadocian Greek, Gagauz, Hértevin, Homshetsma, Kabard-Cherkes, Ladino (Judesmo), Laz, Mlahso, Pontic Greek, Romani, Suret, Turoyo, Ubykh, and Western Armenian) are spoken of fewer people (each language less than 400,000 people) in Turkey.

For this reason, it is more useful to mention the most common spoken languages in Turkey in the infobox, and to add a link "various others" to the article "Languages of Turkey" where all spoken languages in Turkey are mention.

What is your opinion about that?

Kind regards,

Balu --Balu12345 (talk) 11:42, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Please don't make a list in the infobox (let's keep the current See section link in the infobox) but feel free to enrich the content of the Languages section. Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 12:28, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

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December 2016

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Turkey. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

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You must have missed the RfC which closed with consensus not to include this. Stop edit-warring against WP:CONSENSUS and read: RfC: Should this article mention the "emblem of Turkey"? Dr. K. 14:41, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

It wasn't me. I don't care too much about the "emblem" detail. Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 08:11, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

The anonymous IP user 212.252.85.62 who did the edit-warring was someone else. I didn't do any editing in Wikipedia between December 1 and December 5. Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 08:18, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Please add my name to the long list of editors who are concerned with your disruptive editing on the Turkey article. The discussion concerning shortcomings of Turkey's unitary administrative structure, as well as its related violation of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, are topics of major relevance and attention both within Turkey and internationally. You cannot delete that from the article just because the topic/discussion does not suit your personal POV agenda. -- 2A1ZA (talk) 16:15, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

The European Charter of Local Self-Government (see article) of the Council of Europe (not EU) is in effect since 1988, and it doesn't give a municipality the right to declare autonomy or to secede from the central government of Turkey. All Turkish municipalities currently have their own legislative bodies, for decisions on municipal issues. Turkey is not obliged to add anything more, as you falsely claim. Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 19:01, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Exactly, the "European Charter of Local Self-Government" has nothing to do with the EU, and you please stop deleting important well sourced content from the article, or I will report your account. Use the article talk page instead of edit warring. -- 2A1ZA (talk) 19:09, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

December 2016

Your recent editing history at Turkey shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Use the article talk page instead of edit-warring. I just opened a new section, as an invitation to you to present any issues you have -- 2A1ZA (talk) 19:22, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

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The European Charter of Local Self-Government (see article) of the Council of Europe (not EU) is in effect since 1988, and it doesn't give a municipality the right to declare autonomy or to secede from the central government of Turkey. All Turkish municipalities currently have their own legislative bodies, for decisions on municipal issues. Turkey is not obliged to add anything more, as you falsely claim. Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 14:38, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Please read the sources given in the article. There is much left which Turkey is obliged to implement, contrary to your incorrect and unsourced claim to the contrary. And please stop this "declare autonomy or to secede from the central government" nonsense distraction which has nothing to do with the issue at hand, namely legal provisions for the administrative and fiscal dimension of local self-government. -- 2A1ZA (talk) 18:16, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Edit warring at Turkey

You've been warned for edit warrring at Turkey per a complaint at WP:AN3. Either of you may be blocked if you edit again about decentralization before you have got a clear consensus for your version on the article talk page. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 17:28, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

It looks like you are continuing to edit about decentralization after my warning. Can you explain why you shouldn't be blocked? EdJohnston (talk) 18:52, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Because I "re-edited" it and kept the core of the information, while correcting the mistake regarding the charter. Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 19:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

If you revert your last change there might still be time to avoid a block. EdJohnston (talk) 19:04, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

I am only defending the truth. The Council of Europe doesn't ask Turkey to grant more regional autonomy to municipalities. This is a deliberately wrong definition, with a definite purpose. Balki Chalkidiki (talk) 19:08, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

This is what the Council of Europe says. Most obviously it does ask Turkey to grant more administrative and fiscal competence/powers to local government, contrary to your claim. And please end your obsession with the term "autonomy", because it is not the accurate term here. -- 2A1ZA (talk) 12:37, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Turkey edit war

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The full report is at the edit warring noticeboard. You've been blocked because you continued to make edits about decentralization after closure of the report, contrary to my warning to both parties. EdJohnston (talk) 19:18, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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Continued edit warring at Turkey

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The full report is at the edit warring noticeboard. EdJohnston (talk) 06:11, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

I feel a perma-block is necessary here. as you can see , the user has been given multiple warnings already. he'll probably just resort to edit war after the week. -Arkhaminsanity (talk) 14:54, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

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February 2017

You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the notes for the suspect, then, if you wish to do so, respond to the evidence at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shuppiluliuma. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 13:52, 2 February 2017 (UTC)