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Need your attention!

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Hi Utcursch,

Kindly check these two discussions -

[1], [2], User:McKhan2 is particularly engaging these discussions as clear harassment and just accused of you being tagged there for Wikipedia:Canvassing. Meanwhile, that person tagged you first in the discussion along with Ekdalian to get support from previous editors who have edited my edits in edit summaries while not even checking discussion tagged as "Kalal POV pushing", where you advised to not push Kalal POV here but with context use where Ahluwalia caste is mentioned itself given two different identities. Now, they first accuse me of not letting Kalal mention there, meanwhile, that discussion suggests the opposite. Then they propose to edit the entire article but it has been well attributed and edited in the same way as they proposed.

After I keep hinting at their true opinion of BIAS and Harassment involving my edits by using analysis to gaslight and divert conversations and keep tagging you and Ekdalian, another editor who removed well sourced edits by just mentioning their pov in edit summaries.

It is a caste of varied origins, and "distinct social groups" as you said and should be kept like that but they think "only Kalal/Kalwar pov" is valid. I remember a few socpup-users who were banned for doing same tone edits like @Newworldruler [1] banned by admin @Discospinster. All the same, they engage in talk discussion doing similar stuff while acting as some core-policies fan. I am certainly not that much fan of such discussions Utcursch and would really love your attention and time on reading the discussions and please read my replies as well. Whatever I answer, the next reply carefully is cherrypicked with the words to again "gaslight." They are just so negatively directed with continuos misinterpretations starting from deviating my "note saying, I checked their edits again on the page after nearly a month" by saying that's a lie citing work prior to their such engagements and including your and others edit summaries and now accusing of CANVASS when I cited "KALAL POV PUSHING" to be read and not edit summaries to support their lame accusations.

Repeated warnings and continuous non-good faith replies by first accusing of stuff and then acting like they care and want to move forward by suggesting another misleading edits. After your guidance and Abecdare's as well on previous edits, my work is based on Wikipedia policies with keeping relevance in mind. All the topics are mentioned with sources, and if you find even a single line or two without sources, just let me know, I have bookmarked enough to add but given AirshipJungle... editors note to not overcite as they removed many references, I have limited them. Those conversations are diverting from one topic to another and to next to keep engaging in such deliberate misinterpretation attacks that appear to be subtle and personal.

I have nothing to add but just the discussion there and one-time checking the article which is well-quoted and sourced is enough as a reply. Thank you Utcursch, I am going offline and if they edit anything given their continuous harassment on contentious topics, I will check and respond to it later and do hope your attention there. HilssaMansen19Irien1291S • spreading wiki love ~ Message here; no calls 08:59, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@HilssaMansen19: I am quite busy outside of Wikipedia these days. Please drop a note at WT:IND -- someone may be able to take a look. utcursch | talk 21:06, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
  • Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

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  • The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
    • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
    • The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
    • The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
  • The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

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