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I did not wiolate 3RR on any of the pages. Unfortunatelly, I did not see that brad warned me also on the Bosnia (early medieval polity), I thought that the warning was just for Kingdom and Banate. Čeha (razgovor) 16:50, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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I understand that. I'm not trying to go into EW. I'm trying to discuss changes, any of my change is very well discussied. I'm also tring to compromise or discuss. I just didn't think that my actions have crossed the line... I'm sorry if they did. Čeha (razgovor) 17:16, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Decline reason:
To answer your question, I see no evidence after Bradv's warning that the other person kept the edit war going. Your comments in the section below indicate that you don't understand what is considered edit warring. Take this 24 hours, read up on edit warring and return to the discussion ready to find consensus (which does seem to be your goal). Barkeep49 (talk) 22:40, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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@Bradv: If I am block for edit war, why am I the only one? Why isn't Santasa blocked also? I'm trying to discuss my changes, using TP etc, trying to be constructive... Why am I the one being blocked? Why are always his versions (if both should be equal) the one which stays as current?--Čeha (razgovor) 21:57, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Mateo K 01: You are correct. However, because of Ceha's repeated problems, he is under an editing restriction for all the right reasons - as this fiasco has reaffirmed. Toddst1 (talk) 18:04, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
1. Santasa participated in edit war with same number of edits, and was not punished
2. All of the articles were "frozen" on his version.
3. Santasa made rv after the warning, yet was not punished (as I did)
4. I was trying to reach a compromise on all of the articles, I wrote a lot, and spend a lot of mine time, what was use of that? For example on Medieval entity we had 7 points of discord. I accepted arguments, we made a compromise on some of the points, but onto that we didn't get to discuss, they were all "frozen" on Santasa version. Even if I did explain my edits here, no one did change the article.
Last Santasa edit also made an error of adding data from the next time period (banate, not entity). I warned about that, no one reacted.
5. In most of the discussions Santasa declined discussion, and in it most of the time he just commented of my behavior, for which he was warned, but not punished.
It seems to me, that behavior to us was not equal.
I do not think that you are bias, rather that you saw us two as infighted children, and punish the one who was "at hand", but I would like to improve that articles and unfortinuately I am afraid that in this pace my stance will not been heard. --Čeha (razgovor) 01:05, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad you're not accusing me of being biased with respect to this topic area. When you and Santasa99 asked me for help on my talk page last week I saw an opportunity to help moderate the dispute rather than just start blocking people for edit warring. That I ended up having to do that anyway was a disappointment. At any rate, you are mistaken on several counts. We do not block people in order to punish them, we block them in order to prevent disruption to the encyclopedia. Santasa99 stopped reverting immediately after I gave them a warning, but if they had continued I would have blocked them too. Regarding your proposed edits to the pages, there is no rush. Present your proposed changes, with sources, and you can engage with the other participants to come up with the best version possible. I realize that being limited to one revert per week is going to make that a slow process, but that's okay - some of these topics are hundreds of years old. – bradv🍁01:24, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
1RW doesn't change much. I was hoping to get a consesus, and to organize discussion. If this behavior continued, those topics would've been locked anyways. My intention is not to make problems on the encyclopedia, but to improve the articles.
The main problem is in the lack of the discussion. In this way, I'm affraid that there will not be any activity on talk pages, my edits will be reverted (no matter the sources), and in one month's time we will have another dispute resolution.
As for Santasa, I checked. You are right. His last edit is three minutes before he was warned. But he was warned an hour and a half latter than I. That's why I made an error. --Čeha (razgovor) 08:29, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ceha:, you really need to stop misrepresenting entire situation to editors and admins (@Bradv:) - for the first couple of months(!) you you refused to even respond to one of my numerous discussion initiation, you used edit-summary to dismiss my edits with short "vandalism", "reverting vandal" and such similarly rationalizations, and when you finally deigned to reply, you did it as if you are WMF president of the board or owner! From March to August you referred to my edits and my discussion initiations in such a manner that you barely escaped block from EdJohnston, who chose to warn you with clear explanation of what were you doing and what could happen if you continue. You started to respond on my discussion initiations sometime in August, and don't let me start on issues of civility and proper argumentation - that I began to discuss your behavior, even if not overly constructive, has its very good and very explainable reasons.--౪ Santa ౪99°17:39, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am not the one who done that. Everything is recorded, so I realy do not see why are you dening it.
As for vandalism... that is very good description of your work on Turkish Croatia. If I'm not mistaken, you denied that even Bihać was part of medieval Croatia. But don't worry, as Donji Kraji is improved so will be and Turkish Croatia, and Bosnian states. --Čeha (razgovor) 20:16, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia editors, by sticking to the wikipedia politics. Donji Kraji are a good example and winning formula. No need to worry. Everything will be good at the end ;)--Čeha (razgovor) 00:33, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Your ARBMAC 1RR/week restriction is apparently still in place[edit]
Ceha (talk · contribs) blocked 2 weeks for a slow-moving edit war on Demographic history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. User subject to 1 revert per week on Balkan-related articles indefinitely as this is not the editor's first EW block on the topic. Toddst1 (talk) 20:06, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
There is no notation elsewhere in WP:DSLOG, so I believe you are still under the indefinite 1RR/week restriction on all Balkan-related articles that was imposed in 2009. This was under the WP:ARBMAC discretionary sanctions. The logging administrator was User:Toddst1. If you believe the restriction is no longer needed, it can be appealed in the usual way. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@EdJohnston: wait, I didn't broke any rule, I'm trying to be constructive, I'm writing pages and pages of data, and I'm trying to compromise, and rase the quality of articles. Look just how much I've done od Donji Kraji pages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ceha/sandbox . I think I am acting very cooperativly.
@BradV: warned me about my behaviour on the topics, I stoped. This situation happened just as I didn't see the last warning. Again I'm trying to be a very cooperative. Why is my behavior being punished? Why am I in a ban, and the other side (with the exact number of reverts, and which is not willing to discuss it's changes) is not? And both versions should be equal?
I am really disappointed that after all our conversations you still don't understand the issues with your behaviour. I could have blocked you for edit warring on this article a week ago, but instead I took the time to help moderate the dispute between you, and I thought we had made considerable progress. Now as soon as the protection ended, you started making the exact same edits as before, completely disregarding the discussion and the fact that the other editors disagree with you. I hope that things will be different when this block expires. – bradv🍁22:30, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@BradV:, wait a minute. Which part of discussion had I disregarded? Can you give me some example? I just returned parts which are not yet agreed to my version, as both should be equal. I argumented those changes. See how much time I invested in making those articles, and discussing them.
Why am I the one being punished? Why is the other version better?
When you warned me, I stoped. I just didn't see the last warning, or I would've stoped even there, that should be obvious.
But you blocked me.
Why is every of that pages "frozen" on the Santasa version? Those are three diferent articles. And every one of them is saved on Santasa version.
And why didn't he also got banned, as he participated in the same behaviour?
I realy don't want to argue, I listened to your every suggestion and am trying to improve those articles.
Okay, I'll give an example. In the edits you just made to Bosnia (early medieval polity) - what part do you feel has consensus? Judging from the conversation on the talk page, is there a consensus to call early medieval Bosnia a "vasal" state? Is there consensus to remove the label of "small country"? Is there consensus for removing the Fine source? – bradv🍁23:03, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't removed Fine because I think he is unreliable source. You can check my other edits, I didn't do anything with Fine there, even if I disagree with him. Till he is marked as unreliable by consensus, I think he can stay. I removed the whole line which quotes Fine, because it is about the other period (Banate of Bosnia), and not early medieval policy. See;
At the end of 12th century, the Banate of Bosnia emerged under its first ruler Ban Borić. After Ban Kulin Bosnia was by practical means a independent state, but that was constantly challenged by Hungary who tried to reestablish its authority.<ref>
Different period, different state.
As for small country, I am the one which puted that label, I didn't remove it. It's in DAI, and I just returned it. I could have been wrong there with references, maybe it should be qouted differently, but it shouldn't be removed. It's valid source, although there is no consensus, and till it's reached, I think it should stay.
As for vassalage, there is similar reasoning. We do not have consensus, but we do not have any sources which describe Bosnia as independent country. We have sources which claims (for example DAI) that it's under foreign soverenity (in DAI example, it's a Serbian one). My opinion was, till we reach consensus, that vassal state should remain. That's why I returned it.
So why didn't you explain this on the talk page? I get that you think you're improving the article, but if you only work against the other editors rather than with them the article will never actually improve. I believe I've linked you to this several times, but please read WP:BRD. – bradv🍁23:50, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@BradV: I returned those parts on which ve hadn't reached consensus and expected we will continue our discussion about them, as we started;
You are right, I've could have written my arguments, but they were the ones who were going against consensus, so I expected comments from them... That is my error, that's true. --Čeha (razgovor) 00:09, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ceha:@Mateo K 01:@Bradv:@EdJohnston:@Mhare: I thought that we are going to sleep through and cool our heads over this, but this, this is a staggering amount of dishonesty and disregard for the project's very spirit and governing principles, both in quantity and quality - I swear to you, I won't get warned again let alone get blocked over this abuse. This isn't a problem that started week or two weeks ago, not even month or two months ago, it's a problem which emerged back in February/March, culminating over merger disruption and meatpuppetry in August, and dragged itself to December. I will ask editor Mhare to compile a report on Ceha's edits across the articles few hours prior to his block, which was sheer and deliberate disruption (and baiting), so that I have time to compile one of my own regarding meatpuppetry, specifically through a solicitation of help, support and vote from the outside of English language Wikipedia, namely hr.wikipedia, to which several editors from that project, including Ceha, Mateo K 01, Silverije, and one of that project most active and most abusive admis, responded.--౪ Santa ౪99°08:40, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No. You were involved in edit war, and your behavior was/is... Well it's obvious. I'm curious why you were not punished for it. Everything should be transparent, right?
Look at your behavior, how many times have you called my name. How many times were you warned not to. And you are doing it still. I'd like to no why you aren't punished for it, yes. --Čeha (razgovor) 09:58, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It was very tiresome. I didn't recognize Ceha intention on improving article, because he was just following my edits and changing my wording. Firstly, I didn't made up those sentences, most of them are copied and adapted from various Wikipedia articles about Bosnian bans and kings (at least 3 of them are official Good Articles!). He should than go to every other article and change wording - whatever that means. It meant that he changed for example: Bosnian history to history in Bosnia (1), putting adjective self to coronation, changing Kingdom of Bosnia and word Bosnia to state, Bosnian to his and etc (2). And when I found those edits disruptive, he was adamant and kept reverting. I was going to add a lot of more content to the article, but edit warring stopped me. Other edits where he is changing wording are (here, here). Also, we had a couple of noticeboards - Dispute resolutions (here, and here with other editors), and now we have questioning of Fine as a source also. Mhare (talk) 09:16, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What's wrong in questioning Fine? Is that standard Wikipedian process? His book is critisied.
1. I added time stamp for most of it's existance. to the de facto independence, because there were periods of outside rule.
2. the king didn't recive the crown from the pope or imperor, he crowned himself.
3. Bosnian church was christian
4. in 1136. Bella did invade upper Bosnia, that was the core of the future state.
5. Kulin brokered peace, not the state itself.
6. area, and mountains that was future rephrased.
7. he was an vassal, not just an ally.
8. the name is Bosnian banate, and it was a vassal, not just an ally
9. Stephen had a daughter, which was married to Hungarian king, he didn't die childless. He just didn't had a male hair, so his nephew (Tvrtko I) inherited him.
ps. I did everything in good faith, and tried to improve the article. I always looked for consensus and tried to found the middle grounds. --Čeha (razgovor) 09:58, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
pps. Maybe it is cherry picking, but I like to be precise in some things, and I think that my changes improved the article. It should be obvious that I try to reach consensus, and that I've improved the articles. From Donji Kraji new maps to other changes. It should be ok that we do not share the same views, but that's why discussion pages and wikipedia procedures are here.
Ceha, I didn't find your edits to be in good faith. This is something that is going on for over a week now, and its the same pattern. I may have thought you had it at first, but these noticeboards have changed my mind. You were essentially trolling me with those changes. I already documented above what kind of changes you were entering. If you believe you were right, please go to Tvrtko I and Thomas of Bosnia articles and make the same changes and let me know if they will be reverted.Mhare (talk) 10:20, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I realy do not understand your suggestion and the point of it? We had cca 10 things on which we disagreed. After the discussion we had only 3. Were is the trolling with that? If you wrote anything on the TP, I responded to you and took your POV into consideration. I wasn't trolling anybody.
Christ help us, infinite loop again! @Ceha, you were reverting edits while defending your case with admin while he was warning you with possible block!? You firmly believe that you solely have right to include edits or revert things without TP consensus, and expect form others to do the same only under condition of discussing theirs on the TP with you - for this, your edit-summaries are evidence on their own right - and even when others agreed to resolve problems in TP you were unable to restrain yourself form editing and reverting freely while participating in agreed TP discussion, with others who advisedly halted all edits at that point!? You have serious issues with this project and I won't suffer any further humiliation of being warned or block or dragged through the mud of infinite debates without end and resolution in sight on TP, AN, DRN, and whatever.--౪ Santa ౪99°10:57, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Facepalm. Santasa99, how many reverts did you have there? More than I? And you were not punished.
How many times were you warned to comment on the articles, and not the other users? And you were not punished.
I discussed one article with the moderator. I stop editing the article, when I was warned.
Then the moderator warned me about the second article. I stoped it also.
I didn't saw the third warning, or I would stop there also.
I explained my changes of the article in this talk. The explanations (at least to my POV, and moderator behavior) are sound. You hadn't changed article back to that version. You hadn't explain why you did your changes. You just continued your edit war. Is that a normal behavior? --Čeha (razgovor) 12:19, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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::Ceha (talk · contribs) blocked 2 weeks for a slow-moving edit war on Demographic history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. User subject to 1 revert per week on Balkan-related articles indefinitely as this is not the ::editor's first EW block on the topic. Toddst1 (talk) 20:06, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, Ceha. I noticed you placed a response about new RfC options inside the already closed discussion. This is less than optimal for two reasons: First, closed RfC's are supposed to be left as-is to provide a record for future editing or dispute resolution. Second, most editors don't look inside closed RfC's for new comments. I suggest that you create a new section on the page and move your comments to that section. I like to refrain from moving other editor's talk page postings so I won't move them myself unless you ask. I hope this helps explain things. Thank you. Eggishorn(talk)(contrib)05:43, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I have blocked you from editing Kingdom of Bosnia for 3 months. The one-revert-per-week sanction applied to you is a restriction, not an entitlement. Making the same edit every week for months on end, with complete disregard for the discussion on the talk page, still constitutes edit warring.
You are still able to propose changes you want to make to the article on the talk page, provided you are willing to work toward consensus. If these issues persist on the talk page or on other articles in this topic area, the next step will be to ban you from all content regarding the Balkans and Eastern Europe. – bradv🍁06:05, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction[edit]
The following sanction now applies to you:
You are indefinitely banned from edits relating to Eastern Europe, including the Balkans, broadly construed.
You have been sanctioned in response to continuous slow motion edit-warring and repeated changing of content without attempt to obtain consensus for your edits. You were previously warned for this behaviour and blocked from editing Kingdom of Bosnia – this topic ban now extends to all content related to Eastern Europe, including talk pages.
You may appeal this sanction using the process described here. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you. – bradv🍁04:19, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Your appeal has been declined. Please apply in 6 months showing how you have worked collaboratively in areas of the encyclopedia outside of Eastern Europe. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi14:31, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]