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Greetings, I see you wrote both Quneitra offensive (October 2015) and Latakia offensive (October 2015) with identical content. One should probably be rewritten or redirected.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:29, 24 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi, not really as Latakia and Quneitra are different places, hundreds of miles apart. There is some non-identical content. Guru Noel (talk) 10:47, 24 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
The only non-identical content is one sentence in one row and the titles of the articles. Everything else is a carbon copy. Both articles have now been redirected. Quneitra (which was a rebel, not government operation) to an already existing article on the Quneitra events that has existed for weeks. Latakia to the Northwestern Syria offensive article since the Latakia events are covered there as they fall under the one unified offensive to secure the Alawite heartland (by capturing the Sahel al-Ghab plains, northern Hama and Jabal al-Akrad mountains). EkoGraf (talk) 20:14, 24 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Edit warring at Daraa offensive (October 2015)

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Request reason:

Illegitmate blanking or redirecting a page is WP:Vandalism, repairing that is not 1RR

Decline reason:

If you've linked to the definition of vandalism, you must have read it. Therefore, you should understand what vandalism is and what it's not. Especially since this wasn't even a content dispute - just an administrator closing an AfD. If you disagree with their decision, welocme to WP:DRV, however edit warring will never get you anywhere, as evident from this block. Max Semenik (talk) 05:09, 30 October 2015 (UTC)Reply


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WP:DRV is not necessary as Daraa offensive (October 2015) is a legitimate page that cannot be deleted, without due discussion. The actions I have been blocked for were in defense of those principles from those vandalising and trying to illegitimately blank it. I didn't actually notice at the time that one of the three reverts was an administrator to be fair. I also didn't notice that admin was involved in the deletion discussion for a different article. I thought it was all the same vandal, who twice blanked the page claiming the deletion discussion actioned it, when the discussion suggested nothing of the sort - the exact opposite actually - that the offensive be restructured - a suggestion by another editor that I acknowledged! The fact that it was an administrator backing up vandalistic actions is probably due for investigation elsewhere, but doesn't affect this undue block. Guru Noel (talk) 15:35, 30 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

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This request just makes it more clear that you don't understand how Wikipedia works. As you've already been given numerous relevant policy links in prior unblock requests, the only one left to leave is WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:43, 30 October 2015 (UTC)Reply


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Nomination of Daraa offensive (October 2015) for deletion

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