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MediaWiki message delivery 22:35, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yura Borisov

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Hi @ToBeFree. I hope you're well. We spoke earlier regarding edits to Yura Borisov's entry, and thank you once again for your help with those. I have a new question, if I may: it appears as though another editor agreed with me and re-added the material regarding his work in occupied Ukrainian territories. Taking this and the 3O into consideration (where IOHANNVSVERVS agreed with me), do you think the user Mellk is justified in calling the Guardian article "poorly sourced and unreliable" and removing the entry and source from this Yura's page? At this point, it seems like he's grasping at straws and I don't understand the reversion unless he has a personal stake in protecting Yura's page. Thank you once again for your help. Vermelho7 (talk) 23:03, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Vermelho7, thanks for the kind feedback and for asking. I have no opinion about whether the material should be in the article, but Mellk's Special:Diff/1289540480 is a justified revert of a violation of the WP:GS/RUSUKR restrictions and labeled as such in its edit summary. Users must be logged in and have 500 edits and 30 days account age to edit about this topic.
Talking about logging in, I hope you have no connection to 43.241.145.71. For being "another editor", their Special:Diff/1289539596 is remarkably close in content and edit summary style to Special:Diff/1282389211. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:46, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @ToBeFree Thank you for your assistance, but I wasn't referring to Special:Diff/1289540480. I have no connection to the other editor whatsoever. I think the question is whether or not the Guardian is a legitimate news source, and if so, then how is the addition of this article to Yura's profile libelous or poorly sourced as this editor claims? How can this be settled once and for all since it seems both 3Os and extended-confirmed editors are being sidelined in favor of a single editor's arbitrary decisions? Vermelho7 (talk) 21:04, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Vermelho7, thanks for the clarification. Regarding the article content, again, I don't have an opinion and I'm not in a position to decide about this. All I can say is that you and unregistered editors may not edit articles about this topic and should probably find topics on Wikipedia that are unaffected by such restrictions instead of spending a large amount of time on arguing with experienced editors about topics beyond your current responsibility. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 05:41, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]