Ze'ev Red

Reply to your email

Hello. I have received your email, where you inquired about whether your topic ban prohibits you from making edits to Soviet famine of 1946–1947 in Ukraine. In the interest of transparency, and so other administrators can see this clarifying statement, I am responding here rather than by e-mail.

In short, your topic ban does not per se cover this subject wholly. If any edit you make adds content involving the ethnic identity of particular individuals where it is disputed whether their ethnicity is Ukrainian, or adds content relating to disputes between the countries of Russia and Ukraine, then your edit is prohibited.

I am generally not too familiar with the historiography of the 1946-47 famine in the Ukraine, but if it is anything like that of the Holodomor I would strongly advise you to avoid making edits there. It would be very easy to violate your topic ban—there is content on w:uk:Голодомор в Україні (1946—1947) that, if you were to add it, would violate your topic ban. If your goal is to have the topic ban lifted in 3 months, when you can appeal it to the administrator's noticeboard, I would suggest that you continue to translate pages that do not require one to get deep into the weeds on (post-)Soviet politics.

I'm not able to handle your other request myself, but I have forwarded it to the functionaries who can.

Please let me know on my talk page if you have any further questions going forward.

— Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 03:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Understood. Thank you! --UA0Volodymyr (talk) 03:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Your second email is noted. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 05:14, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks again. --UA0Volodymyr (talk) 05:20, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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Email

Hi, I have received an email full of expletives from user "UA0Volodymyr." Are you the author of this email? Alaexis_¿question? 21:50, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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Blocked

I have blocked you for abuse of email and a violation of your topic ban (disputes between Russia and Ukraine). As this block is based on private evidence, you may appeal to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Maxim (talk) 14:51, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

checkuser block

To editor Maxim: Thanks for reverting me if I was in error. What do I misunderstand about this checkuser block? If UA0Volodymyr is blocked for a topic ban, why is it listed in this manner? Chris Troutman (talk) 15:45, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

In rare circumstances, a checkuser block isn't about socking. For example, it could involve information obtained using the CheckUser tool, so the block must by necessity be marked as such, as it would be difficult for a non-checkuser to review the evidence. Maxim (talk) 15:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

OK, thanks. This is the first time in ten years I recall seeing this sort of block. Chris Troutman (talk) 16:07, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

February 2024

It may not have been your intention, but one of your edits, specifically one that you made on Rosa Luxemburg, may have been a change that some consider controversial. Due to this, your edits may have been reverted. When making possibly controversial changes, it is good practice to first discuss your edit on the article's talk page before making it, to gain consensus over whether or not to include the text, phrasing, etc. If you believe that the information you added was correct, please initiate that discussion. Thank you. LegalSmeagolian (talk) 20:13, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of RussischeMontanindustrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft

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March 2024

Wikipedia's technical logs indicate that this user account has been or may be used abusively. It has been blocked indefinitely from editing to prevent abuse.

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Maxim (talk) 15:42, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

To reviewing administrators: please note two ANI threads (1, 2) that have followed the earlier unblock with topic ban. Note that the sockpuppet account P2342 was used while the first ANI thread was ongoing. Maxim (talk) 15:42, 17 March 2024 (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).

Ze'ev Red (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:

The only purpose of the using the sock-puppet was to make one constructive edit bypassing the top ban within WP:IAR, so it was legitimate. Yeah, I made a few more edits before I logged out of it, but they also were good faith. UA0Volodymyr (talk) 15:50, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Decline reason:

What you've just described is textbook sockpuppetry. If you think your conduct was legitimate, then that alone is reason not to unblock you. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:34, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of RussischeMontanindustrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft

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A tag has been placed on RussischeMontanindustrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://web.archive.org/web/20170914061454/https://enc.rusdeutsch.ru/articles/5719 and The above was copied to https://miningwiki.ru/wiki/Общество_Русской_Горнозаводской_Промышленности, see WP:CP#27 February 2024. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

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