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Proposed deletion of The Will That Vanished

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Articles for deletion nomination of The Will That Vanished

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Hello. As far as I remember, I did not duplicate content, just took reference to it and rewrote it in my own language. In a few places where I might have duplicated, I have explicitly cited the book as the reference. That does not warrant removing the entire article on copyright issues. - Cupidvogel ^(talk)

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Tendentious editing at Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Please note that Wikipedia articles are supposed to be written from a neutral point of view. The kind of praise and emotive wording that your edit here heaps on the subject ("tirelessly", "fearlessly" "whole-heartedly") is inappropriate for an encyclopedia, and contrary to our policy WP:NPOV. Wikipedia is not for expressing your admiration of any person or subject, but for neutral description only. Bishonen | tålk 21:04, 2 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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Page block

This long addition is very awkward. In the first place, how is it that you're on first-name terms with Professor Audrey Truschke? Is she really "Audrey" to you? Secondly, you use unreliable sources such as The Wire. At a glance, I see a source from 1867. And now you're edit warring to force your text into the article. You have been page-blocked from Audrey Truschke for two weeks. Please feel free to discuss your proposed changes on the talkpage in the meantime. (It would have been appropriate to do that as soon as you were reverted, instead of reverting back.) You are only blocked from the article, not its talkpage. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bishonen | tålk 21:56, 3 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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Audrey Truschke is the person under contention here, so I assumed it is fairly obvious that "Audrey" refers to her, it is tiresome to keep referring her as "Professor Audrey Truschke" which serves no purpose otherwise. The Wire is considered a leading and supposedly unbiased media house in India as clearly mentioned in the Wikipedia article on the same, and has won several national and international awards for the standards of its publications, and has been used as reference in umpteen Wikipedia articles, so why suddenly is its authenticity in question? The 1867 reference is added as an additional citation to a citation from the "OpenTheMagazine" website to substantiate what it had written, and both sources prove that there is no evidence of Aurangzeb having done his acts of temple destruction as "political or administrative tasks" and it is a modern interpretation based upon no evidence. You mentioned some valid points about the edits I had made on the article on Savarkar, notably towards usage of exalted words like "tirelessly", which I promptly removed and in fact added more sources to corroborate what I had added. I did not do any edit-war, I merely reverted the changes by another user and observed that he/she had reverted changes on multiple occasions to multiple articles with vague reasoning like "too difficult to make sense of", a habit he/she maintains consistently, upon which I mentioned that I will always come back with concrete evidence and citation, which is exactly what I did - how does this count as edit-war, and if so, the brunt of it should be borne by the user who started the edits without evidence, as opposed to the one who did it with incremental evidence true to Wikipedia's standards. A user should be blocked on these grounds - disrespecting others (which I did not even to do, calling Professor Audrey Truschke as "Audrey" is anything but disrespect), making edits that are unsubstantiated (not only did I not do that, but I have barely edited two articles since yesterday, they cannot possibly have enough wrong edits to warrant a blocking, and anyway, not one citation has yet been disproved, The Wire is not a disputed source). Cupidvogel (talk) 22:14, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Feel free to bring all these points to the article talk page. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 22:27, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm afraid I misspoke about The Wire not being a reliable source; it is. I wrote in too much haste; what I wanted to point out about The Wire was that you misused it, Cupidvogel. Its review, that you refer to, mentions the absence of footnotes in Truschke's book on Aurangzeb, but not as a criticism, and not at all to show that she's "leaving the user with no option to cross-check her observations with contemporary sources or works by other eminent historians, and tries to ignore the view of many Hindus of Aurangzeb being a religious bigot", as you write. It merely says there are no footnotes as an example of the book being a popular work aimed at the lay reader. The review is highly positive, which nobody could have dreamed from the way you use it. This is tendentious editing at its finest. I see Vanamonde93 makes this point, along with many others, here on Talk:Audrey Truschke. But I'm sorry I said The Wire was unreliable; that was a mistake on my part. Bishonen | tålk 10:08, 4 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]
There is no correlation between lack of footnotes and its readability to the lay user, footnotes never force the lay user to read them, they can and they often do ignore them and read along, it is only for the interested user that the footnote offers a way to trace the author's viewpoint and find substance in it. The reasoning is ridiculous, particularly in light of the fact that the reviewer - Mukhia, had authored similar books with similar viewpoints on Aurangzeb, and hence he naturally agrees to Truschke's point of view, and this arrangement hardly qualifies as "objective" or "unbiased" review, after all two flat-earthers can write lengthy documents explaining their point of view, and both can endorse each other, that doesn't tantamount to an objective review.. Sample this - if Leonardo Da Vinci draws a portrait of Jesus Christ and proclaims that is is important, and Michelangelo does the same, and both endorse each other on their shared viewpoint, then each of this incident is used a reference in respective articles on Vinci and Michelangelo to drive home the point that Jesus Christ is important and hence he drew his portrait, how will it sound like? In particular, absence of footnotes reduces accountability to zero, giving the author a freehand in concocting lofty tales, which Truschke gleefully does, for example, she cites Maasir-i-Alamgiri (a primary source) and dismisses its mentions of Aurangzeb's religious excesses as "exaggerated", without offering any evidence in favour of its dismissal, and her claim on interviews on websites that Aurangzeb's subordinates hatched those tales to please the king begs the question as to why they would have to hatch stories of temple destruction to ply a supposedly secular and tolerant ruler. This kind of academic dishonesty becomes possible when citations are not offered, that has zilch to do with the interests of the lay-reader.

I am still trying to understand - on what ground could an admin block me here from editing the article? A supposedly long rant on a talk page? That is no ground at all, considering the fact that the rant had no abusive words in it. Edit-warring? There was one round of edit-warring, the first one was me reinducting the deleted passages with ample citations, and they were promptly reverted back by the original user with vague reasoning, which I reinducted with more citations, some of which are in contention here (perhaps rightly so). So basically one round of edit-warring. That's it? This is ground for blocking me? This becomes possible when there is a small coterie of admins and authors who have a particular idea of a topic and are determined to use their might in blocking any view contrary to that, and subjecting new citations to imaginary standards (not only the book cited must be well reviewed, but all reviewers should be uniformly positive about it, and all those reviewers should be of substance, and that substance should be proven by more people of substance, and it goes on) so rigorous that no new addition is possible. May be I will try and draw attention of more admins to the topic and verify if this is blatant misuse of privilege.
It makes no difference if you think Mukhia's argument is "ridiculous". You're referring to Mukhia and making them say something they didn't say; that's what matters. And now you're arguing with your own source? And you hazard that I may have blocked you for "a supposedly long rant on a talkpage"? That's strange. I explicitly blocked you for this edit to the article, as I said in my block notice (did you not click on my links there?) and for restoring it here after it had been reverted. When I blocked you, you had never visited Talk:Audrey Truschke. As for drawing more admins' attention to what you believe is my blatant misuse of privilege, absolutely, why not? You can explain all about it in a new unblock request, which will bring another uninvolved admin here to review it. Or, for still more admins' eyes on the matter, you can post a complaint at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. I should caution you, though, that that will also bring your own actions under scrutiny. Bishonen | tålk 12:48, 4 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

March 2022

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Audrey Truschke. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Vanamonde (Talk) 01:24, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing from certain namespaces ((Article)) for a period of 1 month for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

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Since you continued edit warring at Vinayak Damodar Savarkar while you were blocked from a different article for edit warring, you are now blocked from editing all articles. Please see WP:RECIDIVISM. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:52, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please also note that if you go on like this you're facing a site block. Tendentious in the extreme. --RegentsPark (comment) 19:17, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring.

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. 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 the bold, revert, discuss cycle 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.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.Akshaypatill (talk) 19:19, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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