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Sock puppet
[change source]The 2025 India–Pakistan conflict page has been altered significantly and no longer follows the WP:NPOV rule (thanks to some POV pushing by Zubarkokar). You can compare our Simple English Wikipedia page with the original English Wikipedia article at en:2025 India–Pakistan conflict. I believe he is indulging in logged out editing also; see this and compare it with his later edits to the same page which are similar, then see this and compare it with his previous edits to that page. I also believe that his English is too poor to contribute to the English Wikipedia or Simple English Wikipedia. He has been blocked on the English Wikipedia as a sock puppet, see this.-Baangla (talk) 12:37, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
- First of all these are my major edits on indo-pak 2025 conflict:
All i did is just remove content that was backed by Hindi News Chennals and self published articles. And replace it by the content that was backed by international News Chennals like BBC and neutral sources. Because the previous version of this article was very biased and one-sided, which was also discussed on TP.
Secondly, I only used the this account to edit the page but maybe once or twice I forgot whether my account was logged in or not so i just edited unlogged, but I didn't created any account for my support in TP and any other thing like to revert etc.
User:Baangla constantly lying:
1. Like here he told me that he reversed my edit because that edit didn't have the sources. Meanwhile, there were dozens of sources in that edit.this edit
2. Here he pinged 2 senior editors at TP of 2025 Conflict and he told them that I edit content without sources.
3. In this edit summary he lied again by saying "Restored edits as per earlier consensus" meanwhile there was no such consensuses there.
User:Baangla not just got banned from English Wikipedia but also got ONESTRIKE warning just yesterday in Simple Wikipedia . Zubarkokar (talk) 13:17, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
- The message about the ONESTRIKE is friendly advice, not exactly a warning - I have not violated any rule here on simple wikipedia.-Baangla (talk) 15:58, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
I believe that this and this edit are by the same editor when logged out (he has removed sourced content with it).-Baangla (talk) 11:43, 9 November 2025 (UTC)- And now he is lying for the fourth time, it is not me. He built this whole case on lies. Even after this, the sock puppetry is not proven. But these 2 edits are not made by me.
- Some serious kind of action should taken against this person. Zubarkokar (talk) 11:52, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
- https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=10618109 shows his self admission of logged out editing.-Baangla (talk) 15:42, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
- I am wondering why no action has been taken yet. We should not allow disruptions like this on Simple wikipedia. I don't wish to edit war with a person who does not understand the rules.-Baangla (talk) 15:46, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
- First of all, I said that I may have made some edits in the past in which i was logged out. But the recent 2 logged out edits u alleged on me is not me.
- And secondly, you have to read Wikipedia's policy on sock puppetry that a edit made while logged out will not be considered sock puppetry unless the editor uses another account or a logged out account to disrupt discussion, distort consensus, evade restrictions or avoid blocks. while in the alleged edits no where such behaviour can be seen in first edit the user editing in 1965 war in which he changed the name from war to conflict in paragraph and in the second alleged edit a user did a minor edit on the 2025 conflict page. With a huge time gap as well. How it is a sock puppetry?Zubarkokar (talk) 16:47, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
- First of all, I said that I may have made some edits in the past in which i was logged out. But the recent 2 logged out edits u alleged on me is not me.
- I am wondering why no action has been taken yet. We should not allow disruptions like this on Simple wikipedia. I don't wish to edit war with a person who does not understand the rules.-Baangla (talk) 15:46, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
- https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=10618109 shows his self admission of logged out editing.-Baangla (talk) 15:42, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
Template:OD The user I have complained about has abused multiple accounts on Simple wikipedia as well. Please check out the contributions for these:- https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Zubarkokar (Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, 2025 India–Pakistan conflict, Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Battle of Fazilka, First Kashmir War) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/9Ahmed9 (Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, 2025 India–Pakistan conflict, Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Battle of Fazilka, First Kashmir War) from May-August https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/123Librarian (Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, Indo-Pakistani war of 1971) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pakoland (Tank Ambush at Kushtia) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Muhammad_Ahsan2233 (Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Battle of Fazilka, First Kashmir War, Battle of Chawinda, Tank Ambush at Kushtia) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Foxmaster0987 -Baangla (talk) 13:08, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- If you believe these are connected accounts, you can present the evidence at WP:RFCU. CountryANDWestern (talk) 13:32, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Fr33kman: You have defended this user's use of multiple accounts here but if you see those edits, it is POV pushing which is not as per WP:NPOV. What is the guarantee that he will not use more than one account? On the English Wikipedia, using multiple accounts leads to a complete ban.-Baangla (talk) 16:32, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- The policy clearly says multiple accounts are not forbidden as long as they are not in violation of policy. It will be simple to see if they continue to use multiple accounts in the future. They have said they will stick to one account. Let's wait and see. fr33kman 16:41, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- Please read this.-Baangla (talk) 16:44, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- Why are you linking to the English Wikipedia’s blocking policy? CountryANDWestern (talk) 20:59, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- @CountryANDWestern: Please provide the link to the blocking policy of Simple wikipedia then.-Baangla (talk) 22:50, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Baangla: Please see Wikipedia:Blocks and bans. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 22:51, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks a lot!-Baangla (talk) 09:14, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Ferien: He is continuing to replace sourced content with his version of events.-Baangla (talk) 08:03, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
- I would like to see, where i did this.
- But i could show Baangla did this in his recent edit like here he removed multiple neutral assignment paragraphs without giving any reason.
- And here when an senior editor reverted the Baangla edit because it violated Wikipedia's policy.
- Baangla again restored his POV-pushing edit. Here
- Baangla also got recent twice warning for being blocked because of his immature behaviour. here
- I would like to see, where i did this.
- @Ferien: He is continuing to replace sourced content with his version of events.-Baangla (talk) 08:03, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks a lot!-Baangla (talk) 09:14, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Baangla: Please see Wikipedia:Blocks and bans. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 22:51, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- @CountryANDWestern: Please provide the link to the blocking policy of Simple wikipedia then.-Baangla (talk) 22:50, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- Why are you linking to the English Wikipedia’s blocking policy? CountryANDWestern (talk) 20:59, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- Please read this.-Baangla (talk) 16:44, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- The policy clearly says multiple accounts are not forbidden as long as they are not in violation of policy. It will be simple to see if they continue to use multiple accounts in the future. They have said they will stick to one account. Let's wait and see. fr33kman 16:41, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Fr33kman: You have defended this user's use of multiple accounts here but if you see those edits, it is POV pushing which is not as per WP:NPOV. What is the guarantee that he will not use more than one account? On the English Wikipedia, using multiple accounts leads to a complete ban.-Baangla (talk) 16:32, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
Zubarkokar (talk) 14:08, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
- User: Baangla is possibly a sock puppet check out this Zubarkokar (talk) 17:44, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
- That was declined.-Baangla (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
Revision deletion request
[change source]Please could the edits by User:Big V Andall at Nigersaurus be revision deleted for being grossly offensive. Richard Nevell (talk) 22:16, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
Not done I don't think this meets RevDel policy. It is certainly beyond normal vandalism, being a slur, but not eligible for RevDel. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 22:40, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Ferien: That's a surprising outcome. Perhaps the user account could at least be blocked? It's fair to assume that someone who has chosen the call themselves a vandalism in their username and has made a grand total of two edits, both of which fit their chosen name, is not here to edit in good faith. Richard Nevell (talk) 08:00, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Richard Nevell: Sure, I've blocked the user - sorry I didn't really process the username too much in my head. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 11:43, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Ferien: That's a surprising outcome. Perhaps the user account could at least be blocked? It's fair to assume that someone who has chosen the call themselves a vandalism in their username and has made a grand total of two edits, both of which fit their chosen name, is not here to edit in good faith. Richard Nevell (talk) 08:00, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
2025 India–Pakistan conflict - protection request
[change source]2025 India–Pakistan conflict is experiencing an on-going change war involving both temporary and named accounts. A protection is likely necessary to prevent further conflict. CountryANDWestern (talk) 15:09, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
Done Dished some 24 hour blocks out. Article is fully protected for 48 hours to allow them 24 hours to discuss on the talk page. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 15:20, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
- User: Zubarkokar is a confirmed sock puppet on the English Wikipedia. Now, here, he used multiple accounts and is repeatedly removing sourced content if he dislikes it from this article. Please see this, this, this, this, this, this. A topic ban if not a complete ban is in order here. It is a waste of time to keep restoring the sourced content he keeps removing.-Baangla (talk) 18:47, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
- He is removing sourced content from other articles also, if he dislikes it.-Baangla (talk) 18:49, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
- If the WP:ONESTRIKE policy is applied, he should be banned completely from this Simple English Wikipedia.-Baangla (talk) 18:55, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
- My complaint here did not have an effect but if this user is repeatedly removing sourced content, at least a warning is in order.-Baangla (talk) 19:02, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
- If the WP:ONESTRIKE policy is applied, he should be banned completely from this Simple English Wikipedia.-Baangla (talk) 18:55, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
- Just a week ago, his accusation against me about Sock Puppetry is rejected on Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser, and despite that he's keep calling me the sock puppet which is the gross violation of WP:NPA and WP:ASPERSIONS.
- And secondly his accusations against me is personally motivated, not by any evidence. See his last complaint too, here here
Zubarkokar (talk) 03:51, 8 December 2025 (UTC)- I said that you are a confirmed sock puppet on the English Wikipedia and here, on this Simple English Wikipedia, you have abused multiple accounts. You are also removing sourced content which is not allowed.-Baangla (talk) 07:37, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- U accused me that i abused my multiple accounts and abusing multiple accounts fall in sock puppetry category. So u are calling me a sock puppet. While in Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser i proved that i did not abused my multiple accounts. Clear violation of Wikipedia rules. Zubarkokar (talk) 08:16, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- I have provided evidence of your use of multiple accounts on this Simple English Wikipedia here.-Baangla (talk) 09:17, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- And there you failed to prove your accusations against me about abusing of multiple accounts and despite that now you here repeatedly saying i am abusing multiple accounts.
- And you are dragging my English Wikipedia history here in Simple English Wikipedia while you yourself are banned from the English Wikipedia.
- This user Baangla is only doing personal attacks against me from the start from when he joined the simple Wikipedia after got banned from English Wikipedia. Zubarkokar (talk) 11:32, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- You have admitted that you have used multiple accounts here on this Simple English Wikipedia here.-Baangla (talk) 11:42, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- Having multiple accounts and misusing multiple accounts are 2 different things, I think I'm telling you this for the tenth time. Zubarkokar (talk) 11:52, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- You have used multiple accounts (please click and read the link above).-Baangla (talk) 12:21, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- You should also read why your allegations against me were rejected by senior editors. Click here Zubarkokar (talk) 12:40, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Fr33kman:, @Ferien:, @CountryANDWestern: please have a look @Baangla: is keep calling me sock puppet and accused me for misusing multiple accounts while his accusations against me already got rejected on Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser. Zubarkokar (talk) 13:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- You are still removing sourced content which is unacceptable.-Baangla (talk) 13:52, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- O my god another false accusation, now this guy really piss me off. All i did is improved content by using third party/neutral sources instead of baised Indo-pak references. anybody can see my edit history on 2025 indo-pak conflict. Zubarkokar (talk) 14:01, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- You are still removing sourced content which is unacceptable.-Baangla (talk) 13:52, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Fr33kman:, @Ferien:, @CountryANDWestern: please have a look @Baangla: is keep calling me sock puppet and accused me for misusing multiple accounts while his accusations against me already got rejected on Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser. Zubarkokar (talk) 13:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- You should also read why your allegations against me were rejected by senior editors. Click here Zubarkokar (talk) 12:40, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- You have used multiple accounts (please click and read the link above).-Baangla (talk) 12:21, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- Having multiple accounts and misusing multiple accounts are 2 different things, I think I'm telling you this for the tenth time. Zubarkokar (talk) 11:52, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- You have admitted that you have used multiple accounts here on this Simple English Wikipedia here.-Baangla (talk) 11:42, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- And there you failed to prove your accusations against me about abusing of multiple accounts and despite that now you here repeatedly saying i am abusing multiple accounts.
- I have provided evidence of your use of multiple accounts on this Simple English Wikipedia here.-Baangla (talk) 09:17, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- U accused me that i abused my multiple accounts and abusing multiple accounts fall in sock puppetry category. So u are calling me a sock puppet. While in Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser i proved that i did not abused my multiple accounts. Clear violation of Wikipedia rules. Zubarkokar (talk) 08:16, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- I said that you are a confirmed sock puppet on the English Wikipedia and here, on this Simple English Wikipedia, you have abused multiple accounts. You are also removing sourced content which is not allowed.-Baangla (talk) 07:37, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- He is removing sourced content from other articles also, if he dislikes it.-Baangla (talk) 18:49, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
- User: Zubarkokar is a confirmed sock puppet on the English Wikipedia. Now, here, he used multiple accounts and is repeatedly removing sourced content if he dislikes it from this article. Please see this, this, this, this, this, this. A topic ban if not a complete ban is in order here. It is a waste of time to keep restoring the sourced content he keeps removing.-Baangla (talk) 18:47, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
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Two separate things here: Baangla, if you have evidence that Zubarkokar has misused multiple accounts, please present it. Remember, there is a difference between using multiple accounts and MISusing multiple accounts. Based on the previous checkuser report, there is an agreement that they used multiple accounts, but no evidence that they used them contrary to rules. Right now, all you have shown is that they used multiple accounts. If you don't have evidence of misuse, I suggest you w:en:WP:DROPTHESTICK and move on from talking about multiple accounts.
The second thing, I will mostly leave to admin. Zubarkokar received a 24-hour block for edit warring here on November 29. It may be good for an admin to examine whether there has been subsequent edit warring that has occurred, and whether we're venturing into a territory where ONESTRIKE needs to apply rather than typical escalating blocks. I also note that Baangla has been given a ONESTRIKE warning, so admin can also be mindful of that when examining this situation.
My best advice to both parties is to walk away from one another. Stop commenting on each other; stop reporting each other. If the other's actions rise to the level of administrative intervention, some other member here is likely noticing it and likely to report to admin or take action themselves. CountryANDWestern (talk) 14:02, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much CountryANDWestern, you guys can clearly see that it is the same Baangla who is accusing me here too. I am forced to answer. Wasting my lot of energy and time. Zubarkokar (talk) 14:10, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- No one is forcing you to answer. You can choose to walk away and ignore them and let others handle it. CountryANDWestern (talk) 14:11, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- Okay, next time I'll ignore this guy completely. Zubarkokar (talk) 14:14, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- I have blocked Baangla for 1 month for harassment and placed them on an interaction ban for when they come back. @Zubarkokar: don't interact with them any, just report them if they try to contact you. fr33kman 01:30, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
- Okay, next time I'll ignore this guy completely. Zubarkokar (talk) 14:14, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- No one is forcing you to answer. You can choose to walk away and ignore them and let others handle it. CountryANDWestern (talk) 14:11, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
Revdel request
[change source]Edit summaries by Special:Contributions/~2025-37485-15 contain copyrighted lyrics from "All I Want for Christmas Is You". Please remove. Saroj (talk) 06:56, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
- Done --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 07:38, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
Requesting move of categories
[change source]When someone has time, could they please move the following categories (and the pages in them)? All of them seem to be navigational boxes, so the proposed titles make more sense. Also they were moved on the English Wikipedia.
- Category:American musicians templates to Category:American musician navigational boxes
- Category:American country singers templates to Category:American country singer navigational boxes
- Category:American country rock singers templates to Category:American country rock singer navigational boxes
- Category:American hip hop musicians templates to Category:American hip-hop musician navigational boxes
- Category:American pop singers templates to Category:American pop singer navigational boxes
- Category:American rock musicians templates to Category:American rock musician navigational boxes
- Category:Australian musicians templates to Category:Australian musician navigational boxes
- Category:Australian pop singers templates to Category:Australian pop singer navigational boxes
- Category:Blues musicians templates to Category:Blues musician navigational boxes
- Category:British musicians templates to Category:British musician navigational boxes
- Category:Electronic musicians templates to Category:Electronic musician navigational boxes
- Category:Folk musicians templates to Category:Folk musician navigational boxes
- Category:Pop singers templates to Category:Pop singer navigational boxes
- Category:Canadian pop singers templates to Category:Canadian pop singer navigational boxes
- Category:Reggae musicians templates to Category:Reggae musician navigational boxes
- Category:Rock musicians templates to Category:Rock musician navigational boxes
- Category:Alternative rock musicians templates to Category:Alternative rock musician navigational boxes
- Category:Canadian rock musician templates to Category:Canadian rock musician navigational boxes
- Category:English rock musicians templates to Category:English rock musician navigational boxes
- Category:Singers templates to Category:Singer navigational boxes
- Category:Rappers templates to Category:Rapper navigational boxes
~2025-37934-07 (talk) 19:47, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
- Done I thought I had done a few bonus ones but I think you listed all of them! Will try and also go through them now to make sure they have the type=navbox parameter on the template category template :) --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 20:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
Edit warring on List of programs broadcast by PBS Kids
[change source]The article lists including the temporary account disruption that was took by ~2025-35867-12. Then, it was all of the additionally unsourced or poorly sourced. Can someone protect the padlock from the page from editing to prevent edit war? — Esteban McKeever (talk) 14:30, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
Revdel request
[change source]Please examine this article creation and consider revdel. It has now been converted to a redirect. CountryANDWestern (talk) 23:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
Help to rename
[change source]Dear Sir or Madam. Hope you are doing well. Please may I kindly request your help to rename the article HEC Paris in Qatar in HEC Paris, Doha. That is the new name of the School. Thank you very much in advance. Kind Regards. ~2025-40287-38 (talk) 10:00, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
- Is this really an independently notable subject of HEC Paris? I would be more inclined to merge/redirect these pages. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:49, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
EstebanMcKeever - CIR concerns
[change source]- Esteban McKeever (talk · contribs · logs)
I am increasingly concerned about the changes of Esteban McKeever and whether they have the competence required to successfully contribute to Simple English Wikipedia. They seem to have issues regarding communication, presumably due to a language barrier. An example is their creation of many location stubs. They were asked to slow down at User_talk:Esteban_McKeever/Archive_1#Slow_down and it sounded like they understood the concerns. They continued. I approached them again about it, they responded "Yeah, it seems likely a pattern for created articles each time.". It's not clear what that response meant. They've been further warned not to create these pages at User_talk:Esteban_McKeever#RfD_nomination_of_Beechwood,_Mississippi. They still continue.
The articles that they have made that are not the formulaic town or television show pages are poorly written grammatically, see Anime-influenced animation. Even the formulaic ones have grammar/clarity concerns such as the second sentence in Schladming ("It was established in 1180 to civil rights in 1525 and incorporated in 1925 to dissolved in 2015").
They are now engaged in warning and reporting the good-faith user who first approached them about the quality and volume of their location articles. They issued them a warning for edit warring when none has occurred. They included a custom rationale that also does not make coherent sense ("Do not lock the message until you further notice and please respond why you during the notice for why you had to get rid of the populated place articles while I worked here and you making me nonsense for not having it.") They brought this concern to the Simple Talk page in another unclear manner. Their report of the other user to VIP is also unclear both in its form of communication and in its understanding of policies.
Esteban McKeever is certainly a good-faith user, but I worry that the competence required to contribute and collaborate with other users is not there. Communication with them is extremely challenging and their editing is becoming disruptive as it requires time from others to try to explain things to them and be met with repeating the same behaviors and unclear responses. CountryANDWestern (talk) 13:18, 15 December 2025 (UTC)