I’m not sure what you mean by “
you could council outsiders in productive ways of working with wikipedia.”
They would just be accused of socking if they worked on her page.

HTTPS://viki.wiki


On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM J Hayes <[email protected]> wrote:

> you could council outsiders in productive ways of working with wikipedia.
> but instead we have repeated use of technical tools to deal with people
> problems.
>
> so no - no validation from me. rest assured , There will be
> consequences for the bitey  behavior.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM V C <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We have declared all multiple accounts of people brought in with no COI
>> only to be accused of socking. Is there a “correct” way to handle this?
>>
>> HTTPS://viki.wiki
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: V C <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
>> Subject: Fwd: Rambling Rambler userspace harrassment, edit warring,
>> hounding, suppression of women's achievements on wikipedia
>> To: <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> Edit warring affecting women artists
>>
>>
>> victoria campbell <http://victoriacampbell.io>
>> +12108975814
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: V C <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
>> Subject: Rambling Rambler userspace harrassment, edit warring, hounding,
>> suppression of women's achievements on wikipedia
>> To: <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> Can anyone give advice on this? I am writing from a gallery trying to
>> update pages with contributions from recent scholarship and the other
>> editors are SPA's with good intent but new. We have faced serious hounding,
>> harassment, etc, and any attempt to declare COI or SPA is subject to
>> predictive policing of edits, not quality of content or sources.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> VC
>>
>>
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents
>>
>> This user has blanked out their talk page history which reveals repeated
>> persistent assumption of bad faith, repeated arbitrary or unmotivated
>> removal of any content without appropriate discussion or providing
>> explanation, filing incident reports intended to marginalize or ostracize,
>> stonewalling and the abuse of editor tools or other forms of algorithmic
>> governance to prevent deletion discussions or consensus.
>>
>> User is hounding expert editors with "evidence" as to canvassing,
>> sockpuppetry, etc, while masquerading as an administrator. This user is not
>> an administrator.
>>
>> Diff comparison exhibits the usual mistakes of a new editor and traces of
>> a clean start but no evidence of bad faith contribs from an undesired
>> fidelity
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=An_undesired_fidelity&action=edit&redlink=1>
>>
>> A call to improve pages related to Marcel Duchamp and his peers was
>> broadcast over art world mailing list with links to diffs. No specific
>> instruction to promote a certain point of view but the need to ensure
>> legacy sources already cited in article was emphasized. Materials (like
>> images) sourced from toutfait don't give proper attn to the scholarship
>> they are sourced from; this is in breach of fair use of these resources for
>> educational purposes. If Wikipedia wants to suppress recent scholarship,
>> they can pay royalties -- but I'm not the person they would be dealing with
>> to do so because I'm actually not affiliated beyond the art world with any
>> of these subjects, alive or dead.
>>
>> I have checked Wikipedia policy and this does not seem to be in violation
>> of rules, might be better to host an edit-a-thon than pull in new editors
>> but otherwise in the range of acceptable behavior on Wikipedia.
>>
>> Cloaked redirect to avoid discussion to delete
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiritual_America&action=history>
>>  despite
>> this affecting female-founded art gallery with notability for mounting
>> first presentation of artwork by Richard Prince
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Prince>; page erases women's
>> contributions to redirect to RP with a focus on illicit content rather than
>> historical exhibitions by well known artists of the Pictures Generation
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_Generation>. Ownership behavior.
>>
>> Rhonda Roland Shearer
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhonda_Roland_Shearer&oldid=1316322946>
>>  now
>> features unsourced lede, suppression of content, damage to context for
>> appreciation for 'womens work'
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhonda_Roland_Shearer&oldid=1317112338>
>> ; Rambling Rambler
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rambling_Rambler&action=edit&redlink=1>
>>  is
>> now calling for protected status of page after demonstrating ownership
>> behavior
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content#Examples_of_ownership_behavior>
>>  with
>> no evidence of actual abuse wrt SPA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPA>'s
>> or indication that updates to these pages was excessively promotional,
>> unbalanced
>>
>> this edit provides only empirical object data for this readymade
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Hat_Rack_(Duchamp)>, but drafted
>> without concern for this work as currently part of an educational effort on
>> the part of many editors
>>
>> In advance of the broken arm
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_Advance_of_the_Broken_Arm&oldid=1316733103>
>>  now
>> has a confusing photograph with questionable copyright: how is it a digital
>> rendering and also a photograph (with camera data)?? confusing as to how
>> this is an "ordinary manufactured object"
>>
>> LHOOQ
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L.H.O.O.Q.&oldid=1316838120> has
>> had its version history removed despite the size of the object referenced
>> in article is obviously too big to be a found postcard and so watered
>> down to previous version <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.>
>>
>> This is but a selection of the biased, false, inaccurate or inappropriate
>> content, or hindering, impeding or otherwise hampering the creation (and/or
>> maintenance) of content that seems to be a pattern of behavior for Rambling
>> Rambler
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rambling_Rambler&action=edit&redlink=1>
>> .
>>
>> Asking for audit of sock accounts & quality of contributions be weighted
>> wrt pattern of revert warring on RRS page since July/August and lots of
>> hostility when "socks" are asked to disclose COI's. Unclear how a COI can
>> exist at the same time as copyright violations: either socks are working
>> for ppl that would give them permission to use pics for promotional
>> purposes, or pics are being used w/o permission and therefore no COI.
>>
>> Please pick one and consider the impact of these changes on the state of
>> the field and for the experience of new editors on wikipedia.
>> — Preceding unsigned <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures> 
>> comment
>> added by Alyssadavisgallery
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alyssadavisgallery> (talk
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alyssadavisgallery#top> •
>> contribs
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alyssadavisgallery>
>> ) 22:14, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#c-Alyssadavisgallery-20251016221400-Rambling_Rambler_userspace_harrassment,_edit_warring,_hounding,_suppression_of_w>
>> Without comment as to the above complaint, I want to note that slightly
>> earlier I filed a sockpuppet investigation related to OP's account: 
>> Wikipedia:Sockpuppet
>> investigations/An undesired fidelity
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/An_undesired_fidelity>.
>> — *rsjaffe* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rsjaffe> 🗣️
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rsjaffe> 22:22, 16 October 2025
>> (UTC)
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#c-Rsjaffe-20251016222200-Alyssadavisgallery-20251016221400>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Clean_start all have the right
>> to clean start but userspace harrassment, hounding and abuse of consensus
>> are universally against conduct. I am getting involved because my IP is
>> used for multiple purposes by multiple people and am not connected to other
>> people trying to improve pages on the subject matter. Alyssadavisgallery
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alyssadavisgallery> (talk
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alyssadavisgallery>) 22:25, 16
>> October 2025 (UTC)
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#c-Alyssadavisgallery-20251016222500-Rsjaffe-20251016222200>You
>> were blocked, so, no, you do not, in fact, have the right to a clean start.
>> Any uninvolved administrator should feel free to close this nonsense
>> immediately. See User:An undesired fidelity
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:An_undesired_fidelity>. *Bgsu98*
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bgsu98> (Talk)
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bgsu98> 22:30, 16 October 2025
>> (UTC)
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#c-Bgsu98-20251016223000-Alyssadavisgallery-20251016222500>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> victoria campbell <http://victoriacampbell.io>
>> +12108975814
>>
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