Berkshires

General sanctions alert

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A community discussion has authorised the use of general sanctions for pages related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The specific details of these sanctions are described here.

Broadly, general sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimise disruption in controversial topic areas. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to these topics that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behaviour, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. An editor can only be sanctioned after he or she has been made aware that general sanctions are in effect. This notification is meant to inform you that sanctions are authorised in these topic areas, which you have been editing. Before continuing to edit pages in these topic areas, please familiarise yourself with the general sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

El_C 03:21, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

July 2020

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at User talk:Zefr. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Stop restoring that content on the user's page. Meters (talk) 03:25, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

And your comment "i am ready to edit war till the end." is not going to look good if this ever does get to the EW board. Meters (talk) 03:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Topic ban from COVID-19, broadly construed

The following sanction has been imposed on you:

an indefinite topic ban from the topic area of COVID-19, broadly construed.

You have been sanctioned for disruptive editing, edit warring, willingness to continue edit warring, and failure to live up to the standards stipulated in WP:MEDRS.

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator as authorised by the community's decision at Wikipedia:General sanctions/Coronavirus and COVID-19, and the procedure described by the general sanctions guidelines. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions for that decision. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction at the administrators' noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you. El_C 03:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Warning

Please do not contravene your topic ban or you may face further sanctions, including being restricted from editing for an unspecified duration. El_C 03:57, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Berkshires , it seems our talk pages are both now filled with warnings due to trying to post anything positive about HCQ. It seems as if there are some people that are dead set on it looking bad, can only wonder if their motives are political (Trump drug) or motivated by money (bad news for HCQ = good news for competitor drugs). I think we may need to start reporting these disruptive users soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robbymcd (talk • contribs) 13:47, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, it seems wikipedia is actually worse than most online platforms due to the fact that they claim to be independent and open. But in fact there's a few people controlling article content, and there is no way to know if somebody is paying them for their "work" in maintaining a rhetoric on a topic. I am quite sure there are certain players being paid since they also spend a lot of time on editing the pages, probably a full-time job. Facebook and youtube is also censoring like crazy, but with wikipedia anybody can theoretically just pay a few people to control a topic to say whatever they want. Funny enough, Twitter (@adriaandehaan) seems to be the most open platform of the lot at the moment. Alexbrn actually has a sockpuppet as his profile page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alexbrn So I guess it's not even a secret, he's basically trolling.Adriaandh (talk) 20:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

• This is a topic ban violation isn't it, —PaleoNeonate – 11:53, 18 February 2021 (UTC)