User talk:Armeniangigachad
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Sincerely, S0091 (talk) 15:12, 6 June 2021 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
September 2022[edit]
Hello, I'm Uhai. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Duduk—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Uhai (talk · contribs) 03:46, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
- Replacing the Turkish name for an Armenian instrument with its' native one is "not constructive" now? What exactly are you implying? Աշոտ (talk) 03:53, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
October 2022[edit]
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. A b r v a g l (PingMe) 15:47, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for leaving a message on my talk page!
- I'd like to retract the statement I made on Nzhdeh's article, where I said that there was no source accusing him of holding "racist" views. You are justified in reversing this part of my edit, but I stand by my assertion that there is nothing racist about Nzhdeh's teachings, and I know for a fact that the people making this claim have either never read any of his works, or they have and wish to discredit him in the eyes of the world regardless of what he actually believed in. My skepticism regarding the authenticity of these claims is voiced on the talk page under the "Armenian Legion" segment, and I'd like you to look through that, seeing as your page mentions your Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and assuming that the topic of people who allegedly collaborated with the criminal Nazi regime might interest you.
- However, contrary to your claims, I did not add any information to the article other than commenting on Turkey's factual—again, not "alleged" as the text claimed—cooperation with the Nazi regime in Germany, and I linked another Wikipedia article to make sure I was not making an unsourced claim. That, however, didn't stop you from reverting that edit, and claiming that the information I added was "unsourced/POV".
- You said, and I'm quoting you directly, the following under the talk page on Nzhdeh: "2.I also checked source about Turkey, Kars-Ardahan and Soviet Armenian Irredentism, it also does state Althught the Turkey was officially neutral during the war, the Soviets argued that the Turks actually aided the Nazi war... so it was indeed alleged claim." I am once again sourcing the Wikipedia article for you to read, which proves otherwise. Please don't ignore it again. Turkey cooperated with the Nazis, specifically under the Clodius Agreement.
- Furthermore, upon reviewing the discussion you started at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, I was appaled to find out that you selectively quoted me to portray me as belligerent, racist and engaging in pretty much edit warfare.
- My issue has never been with Turks as a whole, and I demonstrated that by thanking another editor who I presumed to potentially be Turkish—given his page's involvement with Turkish mosques—for his constructive and informative reply about why the article in question couldn't be renamed into its Armenian name.
- The real problem here is the fact that you purposefully left out the multiple direct, personal attacks on my character by the user I replied to, who has a talk page where all he does is deny the Armenian genocide. I specifically replied to him in a way that would both discredit his false claims and wouldn't insult his identity, yet you set out to tarnish my good name with obscurantist tactics.
- Other than this conflict, I can't help but notice that you're a level 4 Russian, Azerbaijani, and—naturally—English speaker, along with level 2 Turkish. Are you from Azerbaijan? I don't mean to be hostile, as I'm simply trying to understand your POV - everybody has one. You're not as neutral as you think you are. Աշոտ (talk) 21:57, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
- And you are not as subtle as you think you are. Final warning: discuss the edits, not the editors. I had already blocked Gokchen19 indefinitely before blocking you. But they had a total of 2 (two) edits in total, one to their talk page from almost a year ago (which likely no one noticed), and the other to Talk:Duduk 20 days ago. So you're placing too much weight on that editor.
- Again, if you don't dial back the rhetoric, you too, will be blocked indefinitely and that will be that. Maybe, when your block expires, consider editing topics outside of the ones bearing your user name (see single purpose account); topics that are not as heated, so you could at least get a better sense for the level of discourse expected on Wikipedia, but in calmer waters. Otherwise, your time here will be challenging, not to mention brief. Speaking of brief, please make an effort to be more concise. Brevity is the soul of wit, and so on. Thanks in advance. El_C 00:21, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- I'm sure I was pretty blunt with my reply, with no attempts made at subtlety. I also don't understand which rhetoric you're talking about.
- Anyway, thanks for blocking Gökçen19. I genuinely don't want to emulate his behavior, and would like to avoid those interactions altogether.
- I actually avoid making edits on topics outside of my interests because I don't believe myself to be some sort of all-knowing entity. I suppose I could patrol articles for grammatical errors though? In any case, I'm a guy from Yerevan who is editing in good faith, not trying to skew an online encyclopedia in my favor, so don't act like the "stern policeman" who is interrogating some criminal.
- Otherwise, thanks for the advice. Աշոտ (talk) 06:46, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Armeniangigachad Both of these are entirely inappropriate: "Are you from Azerbaijan?" (what possible difference does that make?) and "...who I presumed to potentially be Turkish" (what possible difference does that make either?). You said "I'm simply trying to understand your POV". Every good editor edits without letting any POV affect those edits.
- I know it's hard in ethnocentric disputes, but please try to assume that all editors are editing without a POV. You should try not to guess what anyone's background is. It will make your editing better. It has been repeated many times: discuss the edits, not the editors. El_C said it again here. Don't even mention the editors; just talk about the edits. David10244 (talk) 02:18, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- The reason I'm asking where the editor is from is because Azerbaijan has a serious problem with xenophobic rhetoric and it crosses into academia, affecting the POV of those who are taught there, then it translates into an information war being fought on sites like Wikipedia. I absolutely detest whataboutism, but I'm sure that some Azerbaijani editors have already showcased that perfectly well on English Wikipedia; as for their version, I would like to avoid discussing az.wikipedia.org altogether. It's an absolute dumpster fire and more attention should be paid to the edits that have been made there over the course of years.
- However, I want to thank you, David, for providing me with a way to try navigating it. It's extremely hard and sometimes to assume that all editors are neutral, and I do not believe in separating the man from the art; however, I'll try to uphold the "innocent until proven guilty" attitude, and focus on the edits themselves. Աշոտ (talk) 05:17, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- It's okay, no one listens to me, anyway (until they have to). But it's assume good faith, not "innocent until proven guilty," which is too adversarial for the English Wikipedia, as a collaborative project. El_C 06:43, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not Turkish I'm afraid, so while your response (based on the assumption that I was Turkish) was polite, you shouldn't be making these assumptions. Iskandar323 (talk) 03:43, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
Block and discretionary sanctions alerts[edit]
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. El_C 16:13, 24 October 2022 (UTC)