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Statement of the issue

Approximately for the last ten years, Croatian Wikipedia (CW) has had a number of major problems:

  • Far-right bias in a number of topics, most notably related to World War II, including outright historical revisionism and Holocaust denial.
  • Proliferation of grossly unencyclopedic, poorly sourced, and unsourced biased content.
  • Administrator abuse, manifested most importantly by blocking editors who try to fix the biased content or even express disagreement with it, while at the same time protecting and encouraging like-minded editors.
  • Mass departure of editors, largely due to blocks and inability to change the above-described circumstances, and, at the same time, a significant influx of new editors with extreme views.

Over the years, these problems have persisted or even gotten worse, and have been widely covered by the media in Croatia and abroad, chiefly in 2013 and 2018, making the general public aware of the situation.

This RfC argues that:

  1. The current state of CW grossly violates the five pillars of Wikipedia - namely, pillars #1 ("Wikipedia is an encyclopedia"), #2 ("Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view"), #3 ("Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute") and #4 ("Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility"). There is a persistent, major failure to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia.
  2. CW is a dysfunctional community, particularly when the general disposition of the majority of currently active admins and editors is taken into account.
  3. CW is, without outside intervention, terminally dysfunctional, because years of abuse and suppression have made the dissenting editors a powerless minority, and change from within is impossible.

Therefore, an outside intervention is both justified and necessary.

Evidence

This RfC stems from "The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia", a 1350-word article I've written on the topic, published in the August 2019 issue of The Signpost. The article gives an overview of the negative media image of CW, and provides a number of concrete examples of extreme bias, unencyclopedic content, and administrator abuse. "The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia" is crucial to this RfC both in terms of background and evidence, and should be considered an integral part of it.

A shortened Croatian-language translation of the article has been posted here. That version omits the discussion of the media coverage, focusing exclusively on the on-wiki evidence, as it - unlike The Signpost version - provides both the examples and the supporting diffs.

All of the incriminating examples in The Signpost article are directly linked to three long-time CW administrators:

  1. Kubura (named in the article as "K").
  2. SpeedyGonsales (named in the article as "Q").
  3. Zeljko (named in the article as "Z").

Of these, two have been desysopped before: Kubura was desysopped in 2010 through a Meta-Wiki RfC for misuse of admin tools, while SpeedyGonsales was desysopped and blocked for one year in 2009 for off-wiki harassment and abusive behavior towards other editors.

Reactions to The Signpost article

I announced The Signpost article and its Croatian translation in the CW's village pump. I was subsequently exposed to a number of rather crude personal attacks,[1] and, a while later, given an indefinite block, accompanied by more personal attacks.[2] A single editor expressed support for my views in the village pump; shortly after, he was given a three-month block under some pretense.

The three accused admins took part in the village pump discussion, but none them made any substantial attempts to deny or argue the accusations.

To my knowledge, none of the remaining admins (there are eight: Ex13, Fraxinus, Jure Grm, Lasta, Maestro Ivanković, Roberta F., Tulkas Astaldo, and Vodomar) have provided any kind of public or non-public comment or reaction on the issue, although it is not possible that they are all ignorant of it. This should be understood - in the absence of evidence to the contrary - as full support for the three accused admins. There is little reason to doubt such support generally exists, since there is no public record of substantial criticism of Kubura, SpeedyGonsales, and Zeljko from any of these admins. In particular, there is also reason to believe that, in this case, non-communication was chosen over open support in order to avoid self-incrimination.

In effect, the above-described aftermath merely provides additional evidence CW is severely dysfunctional.

Background

For context, here is a brief timeline of the CW:

  • CW was established in 2003.
  • In July 2009, local ArbCom was formed.
  • A group of editors, headed by SpeedyGonsales, campaigned for the dissolution of the ArbCom, arguing that it is too powerful. In the process, he was desysopped and blocked for off-wiki harassment that targeted the ArbCom members.
  • In January 2010, ArbCom was dissolved following a community vote. SpeedyGonsales was subsequently reinstated. Kubura and Zeljko, who both sided with SpeedyGonsales and helped him return, became administrators too. From that point on, a small group of admins assumed effective control over the project.
  • In September 2013, a large controversy erupted over the far-right content on the CW. More than 50 articles were published on the topic by the Croatian media.
  • In October 2013, a local vote to demote Kubura, SpeedyGonsales and Zeljko was narrowly defeated (40-46, 38-45, and 42-44, respectively). As a consequence, however, SpeedyGonsales was stripped of his checkuser status.
  • In July 2014, Argo Navis, Dean72 and Conquistador, three prominent dissenting editors, entered the RfA, but were narrowly defeated (58-62, 55-61, and 59-61, respectively).
  • In 2013 and 2014, many editors left the project in disappointment and frustration, among them some admins. Argo Navis, Conquistador and Dean72 left the CW in 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively.
  • In 2017, Kubura was elected bureaucrat with a vote of 21-0.
  • In 2018, more than a dozen articles about the far-right bias and abuses on the CW were published by Croatian and foreign media.
  • As of September 2019, of 46 editors who opposed Kubura's demotion in 2013, 20 have left the CW, and 26 are active. Of 40 editors who had voted in favor of demotion, however, 38 have left, and only 2 are still active.

The following CW-related RfCs have been submitted in the past:

A pattern of issues consistent with the ones discussed by this RfC is readily apparent.

What this is not

For the sake of full clarity, here is what the CW issue at hand and this RfC is not:

  • A complete list of incriminating examples. Here is just one more: in the "External links" section of the CW article on Homosexuality, Zeljko inserted a link to an article titled "Homosexual couple adopted a girl - two weeks later, one of them killed her".[3] The list of similar examples could go on - dozens upon dozens more could be presented - but this is unnecessary, since the evidence already provided is both damning and irrefutable.
  • An exhaustive list of problems with CW. CW suffers from arbitrariness, cabalism, social engineering, sockpuppetry, lack of openness and transparency, poorly written and defective guidelines and procedures, lax attitude towards copyvios and plagiarism... but this RfC is not about all that: quite simply, there are even worse things more or less the same people are responsible for.
  • A list of cherry-picked, isolated issues, honest mistakes, or mix-ups on the part of the admins. I believe no elaboration is necessary here.
  • A reflection of the prevailing ideological positions and divisions among the general population in Croatia. It is rather a reflection of what happens when a large part of the population is systematically shut out from participating.
  • A problem best left to the consensus of the local community. From the above, it should be clear that there is no meaningful community anymore; it should also be clear why.

Proposed actions

The following actions are proposed to address the above-described issues (big thanks to DraconicDark for his original draft proposal):

  1. Remove the admin status from Kubura, SpeedyGonsales, and Zeljko, the three worst offenders.
  2. ... and give them a lifetime ban from reapplying.
  3. Dismiss all local admins.
  4. Remove bureaucrat and checkuser status from all local bureaucrats and checkusers.
  5. Set up a local ArbCom consisting of experienced Croatian or similar language-speaking editors from other wikis, to be appointed by the global community at Meta-Wiki.
  6. Solicit extra participation from the members of similar-language projects.

From these, one or more actions may be chosen, and other actions are possible too.

When considering what sort of action is the most appropriate, it is important to recognize that simple and quick-to-implement solutions are the most likely to have an immediate effect. On the other hand, it is vital to choose the actions which, on the whole, cannot be subverted, worked around, or even rolled back through local consensus.

Your comments and questions are more than welcome. (Pinging the participants of the previous RfC, in no particular order: Notrium, George Ho, Srdjan m, DobarSkroz, Rschen7754, DraconicDark, Sj, Ajraddatz, Rosguill, SpinningSpark, Nosebagbear, Kaldari, Daß Wölf, Santasa99.) GregorB (talk) 21:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • First of all, thank you to GregorB for putting in the legwork of raising awareness of this issue and mobilizing a response to it. For the most part, the proposed actions seem reasonable to me. However, I'm wondering if the motion to dismiss all local admins might not be a bit too drastic––one motivation for not speaking out that doesn't appear to be addressed above is fear of retaliation from the troika of the most problematic admins. Moreover, if other actions are successfully implemented (removing the worst offenders, setting up a local ArbCom, and adding a significant number of good-faith editors who are aware of the situation from similar language projects), it's not clear to me that any remaining problem admins hidden amongst those who haven't spoken up would even have that much power to derail things more than any other user, as their use of admin tools would presumably be subject to significant scrutiny and any wheel-warring would be extremely visible. signed, Rosguill talk 22:17, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • A crystal clear summary, thanks for the insightful and persistent attention to this. I second both of Rosguill's comments. I agree that something should be done that considers the depth and duration of the situation, but removing all admins does not seem necessary and may lead to avoidable confusion or backlash, including from the community that would otherwise provide extra participation. –SJ talk  02:52, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support for the proposed action. The deselection of the 3 incriminated individuals has to be the cornerstone, and after that a moratorium. --Ivan VA (talk) 12:13, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support for all that was written. The only thing I may waver on is dismissing the local admins--their inaction seems to be less of an issue than the rest of the points. --Jesuislafete (talk) 02:34, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I support all proposed actions. At the very least, the three most problematic admins must be removed and banned from reapplying, as well as removing all local bureaucrats and checkusers. If the problematic three are desysopped without doing anything else, they will simply regain their powers within a few months and then it's back to square one. The other thing that needs to be addressed is, if the Croatian Wikipedia ArbCom is reestablished, how will its members be decided? If the consensus of this discussion ends up being in favor of setting up a new ArbCom, a new Meta-Wiki RfC may be needed to decide who is on the ArbCom. It is then important to choose people who will be as impartial as possible, and set up measures to ensure the ArbCom can't be dismantled, in order to prevent the situation from deteriorating again. DraconicDark (talk) 16:11, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. @Rosguill: When you say fear of retaliation is also a possible reason for silence, you are quite correct: for some of them at least, it is actually plausible. While merely clinging to admin tools in the face of such obvious, severe and persistent violations of Wikipedia principles may in itself be seen as a major failure to do one's duty as an administrator, it is quite possible that there are also real-life concerns here. Moreover, I fully agree with you, and I'd even say it is the essence of the matter: other, long-term actions, such as setting up a local ArbCom in particular, make the removal of all admins redundant at best, and detrimental at worst. GregorB (talk) 17:41, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Revisiting message that Kubura gave me, I am more inclined to take sides with the blocked user VS6507 (Alex). Here are interactions between the two. Furthermore, using some mere 2009 incident to indefinitely block the user in 2015 is too delayed and very harsh. Also, the incident itself is mere attack neither intended to be perceived as sexual harassment that "K" claimed to be. That was just expression of frustration. A mere admonishment would have suffice if the admonishment occurred in 2009, but admonishment in 2015 for the 2009 incident is pointless. Still, there's no need to take grudge over just one incident. Disturbingly, "K" gave the blocked user a message saying never to insult Croatians (or something). This makes Alex's rationale for the other RfC more valid and sound.

    Back to the main proposal, I now Support Support proposals #1, #2, and #4. Since the hrwiki possibly contains biased, whitewashed content, those admins and editors with their similar (extremist?) views would be responsible for the state of the project. However, I agree with others that #3 is too excessive. Regarding #5, I don't know whether there will be enough active arbs@hrwiki in the future. Is the hrwiki community large or sufficient enough to have its own ArbCom? As you said, there is "no meaningful community" anymore. However, if ArbCom were to be reestablished, I fear that any admin or editor with extremist or extremely-biased views would become an arbitrator by majority vote. Furthermore, which part(s) of ArbCom voting process would be shared publicly? Would it be similar to enwiki's or what? About proposal #6, I can't decide whether inviting those members is necessary. If so, hopefully they can understand and communicate Croatian, right?

    BTW, Croatian version of five pillars still exists. George Ho (talk) 18:50, 12 October 2019 (UTC); edited, 02:31, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
George Ho, that sentence written by VS6507 to a femal colleague is explicit and rude sexual harassment (violence against women): "come and suck my ... ". [4][5] (European Commission - Statement: "...Around half of women in the European Union have experienced verbal, physical or online sexual harassment.") Kubura (talk) 17:17, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Did VS do anything else to other females? Do you have proof that VS did such things to them? George Ho (talk) 19:48, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Did a bully punched other females?" That excuse does not work. He wrote it. Kubura (talk) 21:59, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
To be fair, user VS6507 said a very stupid thing, so perhaps it warranted a stupid response. I question the impartiality of a user who calls the centuries old Croatian coat of arms, "a washed out fascist movement symbol, chosen by hard line nationalist Tudjman, who prosecuted more than 200,000 people from Croatia." --Jesuislafete (talk) 04:55, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No contest there, even if the reaction looks more like ideologically motivated retaliation than upholding any Wikipedia policies. GregorB (talk) 11:43, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
An ultra-nationalist statement like that carries a long shadow indeed (not to mention the comment on Roberta F. talk page). Whatever may have prompted VS into writing these things, someone who wrote that to/about e.g. British or Americans on en.WP would be quickly indefbanned as en:WP:NOTHERE. But I also don't see the wisdom of blocking someone 3 years post factum. Such "punishments for past crimes" on the whole must do much to inhibit both constructive as well as unconstructive editing. Daß Wölf (talk) 19:36, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Forming a strictly local ArbCom (members coming from CW only) would quickly run into several problems: 1) current admins (other than these three, of course) would normally be natural candidates, but given their conduct in the affair, they can't be trusted (whatever the reasons for that conduct are), 2) few qualified editors otherwise, 3) undue off-wiki influence, since it's a small community, where many editors socialize off-wiki, and know each other's real-life identities (cf. the 2009 ArbCom incident described in the CW timeline above). Editors from Bosnian, Serbian and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias will have no problem at all understanding Croatian, won't generally be vulnerable to undue off-wiki influence, and will make a greater pool of qualified and experienced editors to choose from. This could make them the solution for the ArbCom problem. How exactly should this ArbCom operate is a very pertinent question, perhaps to be discussed once a high-level plan of action is agreed upon. GregorB (talk) 23:05, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • I would also support that this Arbcom have jurisdiction on any of the hr, sr, bs & sh Wikipedias. As these languages are mutually intelligible, there shouldn't be communication problems, and their editors are inextricably linked through recent political history. POV issues which are unlikely to go away are present to one degree or another on all of these wikis, and I feel we would kill two four birds with one stone this way, and also prevent such issues from escalating on other wikis in the future, and somewhat deflect the victim/siege mentality that will likely be exacerbated on hr.WP when actions are taken there and not on the other WPs. Daß Wölf (talk) 19:36, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • I volunteer to be candidate for a member of such Arbcom for sr wikipedia.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 20:55, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
          • @Daß Wölf:@Antidiskriminator: In principle, I support the idea of an ArbCom that has jurisdiction over all varieties of Serbo-Croatian. However, one concern I have about this idea is that there might be pushback from the communities of sh, sr, and bs if they feel it's being forced on them. Therefore, the next logical step would be to notify the communities of sh, sr, and bs that this discussion is taking place, so that they can both a.) provide input on what to do about hrwiki, since they understand the language, and b.) recommend candidates for the ArbCom. The discussion about who should be on the ArbCom should probably be a separate RfC, so that this discussion on a solution to the problems with hrwiki doesn't lose focus. DraconicDark (talk) 13:21, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
              • [6] Calling someone "far-right" and calling the hr.wiki as "neofascist propaganda site" is the dirty lie. Low blow, just to get what You want. Do You know what those words mean? (BTW, e.g. Croatian President, Primer Minister, Min. of Foreign Affairs, President of Parliament are also being called as "fascists", "supporters, protectors of fascists", "they take the bow to fascists" etc.) What is Your next "argument"? The work of Blagoje Grahovac about Yugoslavia as "unicate jewel"? Hr.wiki is not on the line of the apologets of Yugoslavia and Yugoslav and Greaterserbianist crimes. Kubura (talk) 22:23, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
                • Kubura, you seem to conflate Croatian Wikipedia with the country Croatia, when they're two completely different things. I never said anything about the country Croatia or its government officials; I only spoke of Croatian Wikipedia. That page you link to is an old draft that hasn't been worked on in a while, so the wording is obviously not very refined. I didn't use those same words I used before in my comment that you replied to, so, at this current point, in this current discussion, I am not using "low blows" to get anything.
                  You also miss the point of my comment: I was saying that if any proposed ArbCom is to have jurisdiction over bs, sr, and sh, that is something for a separate discussion, and would require the input of a lot more people. Calling all of those people "apologets of Yugoslavia and Yugoslav and Greaterserbianist crimes" is both poisoning the well and a false statement. DraconicDark (talk) 00:21, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
                  • DraconicDark, the attacks/criticism are the same, same rhetorics, both toward hr.wiki, Croatia, Croatian officials. It is Your old draft, but You used those words. They are low blow. Second, I dislike those ArbCom over bs, sr, hr, sh. I more respect their untruths and (edit: not "and", but "than"; here is supposed to be the comparison. Kubura (talk) 21:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)) than the imposed truth by some "outer body". Historical science uses the opposing sources and puts pieces together, so does hr.wiki, they use and hr and sr and bs and others. The sources are good because they are opposing (even if they say untruth, because that indicates the direction of bias, intention, agenda, methods, proofs that compromises them), because the authors had no commisar nor censor above them. Kubura (talk) 00:49, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Kubura - You the hr. Admins have set yourself up as Commissars on hr.wiki, massively reverting and blocking people you disagree with. I’ve had practically everything I edited, instantly mass-reverted – i.e. quotes of Nazi sources, widely quoted by many western historians, quotes of Zagreb University historians, quotes of concentration camp inmates, quotes from the US Holocaust Museum, etc, etc. You yourself mass-deleted my contributions, stating I can’t quote on hr.wp the same German sources western historians cite, since these multiple WWII German sources, per you, all “wrote against Croats”. You also deleted my quotes from the US Holocaust Museum, saying “they are not immune to fraud”. Thus it matters not what western historians or the US Holocaust Museum write, because Commissar Kubura has appointed himself judge of who is “anti-Croat”, or what info from the US Holocaust Museum can’t be quoted on hr.wikipedia. Yet holocaust-deniers and convicted forgers, like Roman Leljak, are freely quoted hr.wiki, with Commissar-Admin, Zeljko, declaring that Leljak’s Jasenovac victim numbers - which are 50 times smaller than those of US Holocaust Museum, the Croatian Jasenovac Memorial and nearly all western historians – are the “only true number”, and “everything else is propaganda”. I.e. Commissar Zeljko has declared that Holocaust-denial is the only truth, the complete opposite to the US Holocaust Museum, Croatian Jasenovac Memorial and the vast majority of western historians, who all say up to two-thirds of Croat Jews were exterminated at your euphemistically-named, "Jasenovac Collection Camp"Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:40, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thhhommmasss, don't put to people the words they have not said at all. Noone denies the Holocaust. Holocaust is a fact. The problem our colleague is talking about is the problem of the certain entries in the database [7]. All these institutions are not immune to misinformations. There's a case of Croats who died in exile in El Shatt, Sinai, but they ended on US Holocaust Museum's site.[8] (article from Slobodna Dalmacija).
Also, "sabirni" and "koncentracijski" are synonyms in Croatian language.[9] "Logori mogu biti po namjeni; zarobljenički, sabirni(koncentracijski) i radni, te privatni i logori za provođenje masovnih silovanja, koji se manje spominju, a izrazito su okrutni. http://hdlskl.hr/o-nama/povijest-logora/ " Kubura (talk) 00:25, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
First as I repeatedly noted, you quote convicted fraudsters and Holocaust-deniers, who deny 98% of the Jasenovac Holocaust victims, as per the US Holocaust Museum, and your Admins state this is the only “truth”, dismissing as “propaganda” the US Holocaust Museum, western and Croatian historians, etc (btw here's a Radio Free Europe article on the CW-cited, convicted-fraudster and Holocaust-denier Roman Leljak) The claim of Sinai victims on the Jasenovac victims list, also found on CW, is one more Holocaust-denier deception. The list they refer to is from Jasenovac.org, a private site in Brooklyn, unrelated to the US Holocaust Museum or the Croatian Jasenovac Memorial, which also clearly states that theirs is a named list of 640,000 WWII victims from across all Yugoslavia, so it is not just a Jasenovac list. Then on this list, clearly marked as not just from Jasenovac, these Holocaust-deniers make the "big discovery" that there are victims who are not just from Jasenovac, and go on to claim this “proves” Jasenovac was not a death camp.
I will not keep replying to this endless nonsense, since with committed ideologues, when someone disproves your arguments, you come up with 1,000 new, unrelated nonsensical arguments, and so on ad infinitum. In any case this isn’t the place to discuss the substance of these issues, this is the place to discuss the fact that you systematically violate core WP principles, when you cite convicted fraudsters and holocaust-deniers as “Reliable Sources”, while mass-reverting citations from truly Reliable Sources, then repeatedly block people when they complain, just because they dare cite sources you disagree with. Plus all the other violations of core WP principles, many perpetrated even here, like refusing to respond to questions you’ve been repeatedly asked, and instead ignoring them or claiming you don’t have to provide any proof, blocking people, name-calling and shouting “Serbo-Croatists” as the “answer” to everything, dismissing people’s views because of their nationality, changing the subject with yet new falsehoods, like this claim about the Jasenovac victims list, etc, etc Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:13, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
            • I'd support such a cross-wiki ArbCom too. However, this would be a matter for a separate discussion and a separate set of arguments, as the other wikis do not have an immediate problem to be solved (at least not nearly of this magnitude). GregorB (talk) 08:18, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I fully support the proposal, but feel additional moves may be necessary.
@Rosguill:, @Sj:, @Jesuislafete:, regarding the qualms about dismissing all admins, you should understand that since Speedy and co. got rid of their ARBCOM and all opposition around 2009-2010, they have kept tight control of all hr.wikipedia.org activity, among other ways by blocking contributors as soon as they see the contributors would cause them trouble by "being anti-Croat" or "aligned with Greater Serbian interests". Basically, there is a single fringe clique and nobody outside it is allowed to edit or become admin.
Regarding those additional moves that may be necessary: because the CW editor and admin groups are all part of the single clique or approved by it, I think greater integration with other Wikis may be necessary. Basically, I think any admins from en, de, and fr Wikipedias should be allowed to act as admins and/or ARBCOM members for CW. Notrium (talk) 20:41, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I also fully support this proposal. Given the serious, now decade-long repeat violations of the most basic Wikipedia principles, I believe CW admin removal is the only possible solution. Personally, I’ve cited sources which leading western historians repeatedly cite, even state they consider these among the “best informed and most objective sources”, and while these same sources are extensively quoted on en.WP, the CW admins repeatedly reverted my citations with claims that these sources are “anti-Croat”, and therefore can’t be quoted on CW. Then when I complained, they banned me. They also deleted my citations from the US Holocaust Museum, with the explanation "the Holocaust Museum in Washington is not immune to fraud", plus they reverted my quotes of history professors at the University of Zagreb, and many others. Simultaneously, they themselves will include outrageous, Holocaust-denial information from convicted fraudsters, and when you challenge them on this, or challenge them instead to provide reliable sources for their claims, i.e. the most basic of WP principles, they respond that such a requests represent “an attack” and threaten to ban me. All this has resulted in highly biased articles on CW, particularly on historical issues.
I also agree with the proposal for a cross-wiki ArbCom. I think that it would be even better if longer-term some general policies were developed to require ongoing cross-checking and attempts to achieve greater consistency across all different language versions, instead of allowing “alternative truths” to flourish (for example, I imagine Indian and Pakistani WPs present quite different takes on some subjects. etc) As a first step I support Notrium's proposal that admins on en, de or other more reliable WP versions be provided admin rights on CW Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:32, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support 1 and 4, Oppose Oppose the rest. I don't think a special ArbCom is the way to go - I think it would result in those other groups pushing their POV on hrwiki. Two wrongs don't make a right. As far as the concerns about the three admins regaining their powers, because stewards would be granting the admin rights, they would have the ability to ensure that elections were done fairly. --Rschen7754 04:42, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Rschen7754: When you say "those other groups pushing their POV", what do you mean specifically? I haven't a priori excluded anyone from ArbCom membership. I'd expect a public discussion with the ArbCom candidates, and I'd expect their history of adherence to WP:NPOV to be examined. POV-pushing is something that can and should be backed with evidence - it shouldn't be conjectured or presupposed. What will happen if 1 and 4 alone are implemented? Will other admins simply continue in the same vein? I see no evidence to the contrary. Will they be willing to revise blocks or restrain POV-pushers? I highly doubt it. Will those three get themselves reelected once more eventually? You bet. What will have been achieved by all that in the end? If nothing else, the lesson from both 2009-10 and 2013-14 (see CW timeline above) is that failed revolutions don't make things the same as before: they invariably make them worse. Therefore, the answer is not "nothing" - it's even less than nothing. I don't care one bit about the "fair" or "unfair" elections. Wikipedia is not a democracy, which means, specifically, that WP:5P beats "fair elections" and "consensus" any day of the week. Those three fellows very likely won't come here to defend themselves: they know that they can't, so they're hoping things will blow over, like many times before, and they're counting on us to play the democracy game. Let's not do that. This is no longer a matter of enough is enough, it's way past that. GregorB (talk) 20:27, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • As I stated in the other RFC - I'm aware that those nations don't always get along very well. And I'm not really sure what the purpose of such an ArbCom would be anyway. In terms of "Will those three get themselves reelected once more eventually? You bet." well, SpeedyGonsales had CU removed by a steward a few years back and still has not gotten reelected to that position. --Rschen7754 00:43, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • @Rschen7754: That's true, but Kubura was desysopped by a steward in 2010 for misusing admin powers, and that user ended up being voted back to admin. So, yes, "you bet" the problematic three will get reelected once more if too little is done. DraconicDark (talk) 20:42, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
            • Wrong. Steward (that was on leaving from the steward position, so he had nothing to lose) did that by a wish of a single malcontent, despite the will of the community. The hr.wiki was furious because of that and reacted. Kubura (talk) 22:39, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
          • You miss the point: with no bureaucrats, stewards will be the ones determining whether or not an admin will regain their rights, and if there is tampering with admin elections, they will be able to take action. --Rschen7754 00:18, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • Would we want a WP where de.WP and fr.WP present vastly different views of WWII, because at the time they did not get along well? That's where I have a problem with separate language WPs having total independence, thus we get hr.WP, azeri WP, etc. There is the separate issue that most linguists say that hr, sr and bs are not different languages, but one language, now increasingly referred to as BCS. Thus the creation of these separate WPs has enabled the propagation of different ethnic "truths", where hr.WP Admins decide what is pro-Croat or anti-Croat, and act accordingly Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:18, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
          • Wrong. There's no "increasing referring as BCS", but the opposite. The only "increase" is by a group of persons (that do not understand Croatian at all + few cases that represent themselves) that by a brute force imposed their PPOV on en.wiki and pushed the agenda about so-called "Serbocroatian" That "BCS" has always been the political product by the serbocroatist remnants. Croatian is a separate and independent language, as such has been recognised in EU, and developing in its own way. Regarding "various ethnic truths", leave it. It is better that everyone has its own "truth" than to have an imposed "unified version", because the "unifiers" have always been heavily biased. Science is such - there is no unison saying, every scientist gives his thesis that is based on some fact. By nature of scientific works, all disagreeing scientists over the time "look over the fence at neighbours yard" and rethink and slightly and slowly change their attitudes. Kubura (talk) 22:08, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not to offtopic, but since a cross-wiki Arbcom is talked about, u first have to locate the problem considered on the other 3 wikis before u pursue such action. The problem on hr.wiki has been clearly identified. I'll just ping @Antidiskriminator: here, since i can detect from the comment below that he's got something in mind. --Ivan VA (talk) 09:56, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, I do not have anything in mind.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 17:24, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Having in mind all circumstances, the future members of the cross-wiki Arbcom should be selected only among the editors who were indeff banned at some of sh.wikis.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 09:23, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I was blocked as a vandal for a simple change to a Trvtko II article. I have provided 3 sources, from real actual books from Croatian authors (they have a habit of referencing anonymous websites like hercegbosa.org as a source.) and they blocked me as a vandal. Unacceptable. --Mhare (talk) 11:41, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I tried again (1) to do simple change with really good sourcing of that one claim, but they have reverted my changes, and refuse to even discuss the reason why they have reverted it. It's really anti-scientific and has nothing to do with an encyclopedia. It is just unacceptable. Mhare (talk) 11:47, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This deletion and blocking for referencing reliable sources goes totally against WP principles, and as described here, I and many others have experienced it. I just want to mention that in this case, the goal is also to create alternative histories and myths. Specifically their claim that Bosnian kings were Croat, has been used to make “Greater-Croatist” (to use Kubura’s term) territorial claims on Bosnia, which in turn resulted in the WW2 Ustashe occupation of Bosnia, with massive crimes and genocides, and in the 1990’s Croat-Bosnian War, where the Hague Court determined Croat forces invaded Bosnia, with the goal of creating a Greater Croatia, committing many crimes against humanity. Thus, again we’re not talking here about run-of-the-mill biases or bragging rights, but the systematic spreading of myths, which all sides on the Balkans engage in, with very harmful results. It is shameful that this has been allowed to persist on WP. We’ve now been conducting this discussion for 3 months – how can we get to some resolution? Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:52, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well done to GregorB for pulling this together. I agree that the three problematic admins have to go, and I believe their desysopping should be permanent. I would be very wary of a new hr ArbCom without strong oversight (which is self-defeating really, as it should be the final arbiter of user conduct), as there are likely quite a few supporters of these three there, and they may just elect a like-minded ArbCom and we are back at square one. I am very sceptical about a cross-wiki ArbCom for sh language variants, as there will be POV-pushers on all sides who will want to influence hr WP to their way of thinking rather than taking a neutral approach. Any such ArbCom would need to be very carefully selected, and members should not have been sanctioned on en WP or another of the sh WPs. It is editors like GregorB that are sorely needed at hr WP, including as admins. Peacemaker67 (talk) 05:49, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, the oposite does apply. Tvrtko's father proclaimed himself as a Croat (and Dalmatian) king. His sovereign and senior was king of Croatia (and Hungary). To proclaim him as something else is...
Funny, to put it mildy.
And of course, medieval borders were not the same as current one, Bihać was capital of Croatia, most of today's western Bosnia/Bosnian Krajina was part of Zagreb Parish, and kingdom/banate of Slavonia, etc.
Today, Croats are one of three constitual peoples in BiH, to erase their history is highly nationalistic and NPOV.
To do it under the cover of ww2 is hypocriticall, at least. --Ceha (talk) 10:22, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good job GregorB for all the effort you've put into this! Based on the above, I also want to give my support to at least remove the three mentioned admins. Although other administrators actively or passively gave their support for the status quo and by doing this failed in their adminship, I think we should avoid the risk of a potential break-up of the community in case of removal of all. -- Edinwiki (talk) 10:29, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just for the sake of having it on the record, my writing to the croatian wiki village pump to infrom the community that there is an ongoing discussion about the issues here and that they should participate, has been deleted. --Ivan VA (talk) 18:13, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

...coincidentally, by an editor who has gone on record saying that Ante Pavelić is "one of the greats of Croatian history". GregorB (talk) 18:48, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Further proof that these guys are totally incapable of adhering to the most basic WP principles and need to be permanently removed as Admins. You may want to post the RfC notice on sh.WP village pump, since some hr editors may have migrated there, given the abuse Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:13, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Quite frankly, if the situation is as egregious as it's being made out to be, I don't think these remedies will be enough. Obviously the three problem admins should be banned, but then what? If the Croat nationalist clique has entirely taken over the website, then won't they just reelect more trouble admins and/or continue resisting attempts to correct the content? I doubt that NPOV good faith editors will just appear out of the woodwork to return to the Croat Wikipedia after being bullied out over the course of several years. English Wikipedia has an essay called TNT for a reason. Might as well blow up this website and start over when there's shown to be enough interest from good faith users. -Indy beetle (talk) 06:18, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Here are my current expectations:
    1. The three above-mentioned admins will be demoted.
    2. The rest of the admins will either denounce the demotions or (more likely) have no comment.
    3. No substantial effort will be made to acknowledge errors, revise blocks, fix POV content, or subdue POV pushers. All attempts to do so will likely be quietly undermined. The takeaway from this RfC will be: don't produce on-wiki evidence which can later be used against you.
    4. There will soon be a RfA, where more admins vetted by the current clique will get "elected" (in the fairest of elections, no doubt - and I'm not being sarcastic here).
    5. At the earliest possible opportunity, the three will get elected back to their positions.
    6. Some time in 2020, I'll be writing yet another RfC on the same issue.
The only good thing about it is writing that RfC will be easy: everything is already documented and there will be nothing new to add. I'll just point to this RfC and the above 6 bullets - chances are I'll be batting a thousand with these predictions. GregorB (talk) 08:56, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's obvious that an (reasonably elected) ArbCom has to bee the next step. If you grasp the whole problem. Btw, just for the record, i'v got blocked on HW indefinitely for going into an argument with one of the admins proposed for deselection about the deletion of the village pump info to join the discussion. --Ivan VA (talk) 09:22, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Or, hr.wikipedia will take it as a warning shot across the bow that if they don't step up and reform their wiki, a second RFC proposal will result in more drastic options. --Rschen7754 18:14, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As per Gregor B's documentation, these guys have taken a whole series of warning shots over an entire decade, and persisted in the same old ways. They are total ideologues, totally incapable of reasoning or reasoned argument. The only solution is to remove them permanently since they are a disgrace to WP and everything it stands for. Would systematic deletion of sources quoted by recognized western historians, Holocaust denial, quoting of convicted forgers as "Reliable Sources", and then banning people who protest such practices be tolerated for 10 years on de or other Wikipedias? Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:54, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
But little was ever done about it those times - only 1 CU was removed. Escalating sanctions would send a stronger message (and is more consistent with the outcome of Requests for comment/Do something about azwiki, where stewards refused to remove all admins). --Rschen7754 00:15, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You've seen their reaction to the Signpost article complaining of their behavior, where they immediately insulted and indefinitely blocked Gregor B, then blocked another user who spoke up in his defense, and later they also deleted the link to the RfC on hr.wikipedia. This is like a crook repeatedly accused of stealing, stealing multiple jurors' watches. Would you propose giving that guy another chance with a warning? The "best" that might be hoped for is that they will find less obvious ways to constantly harass and drive away everyone they disagree with Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:19, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I get that, but the problem is that this would be a hard sell for stewards who didn't act when the problem was more clear-cut and the wiki was smaller. And some might say that was justified, because stewards aren't a global ArbCom and it's difficult for them to take such an action. --Rschen7754 04:07, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here is my vote on this request for comment, split into numbers for each of the proposed actions by GregorB.

1. I Support Support removing the admin status from Kubura, SpeedyGonsales and Zeljko for their misuse in the RFC´s posted for the last 6 years. Issues prior to that where handled by the then-functional ArbCom.

2. I Oppose Oppose the ban from re-applying, mainly because the beurocrats that re-sysoped them no longer have that right. Kauburin was re-elected after an discussion on the Village pump and SpeedyG was elected after an 32-2 election. Luka Krstulović re-added Kaubin as admin and MayaSimFan re-added SpeedyG as admin. They both lost their bureaucratic rights due to inactivity in 2017.

3. I Oppose Oppose dismissing all admins. Their actions do not warrant that kind of response.

4. Support Support removing both Checkusers and Beurocrats, all of them. Beurocrats: SpeedyGonsales and Kabura are also beurocrats. RobertoF blocked GregorB unnecessarily. Denny has not made any action since February 2018 and not edited since August 2018. That leaves just de-crating Fraxinus for good measure.

Checkusers: I support removing Ex13´s checkuser rights. This is because of Ex13´s involvement in the ArbCom case, and for removing the site notice for an admin removal vote, as mentioned in the 2013 issues meta RFC. As Croatian Wikipedia can not have an single CheckUser, Vodomar would also have his rights removed until another CU is elected. CU requests will be handled on meta meanwhile.
Comment Comment Would you be so kind and sign your posts above. --Silverije (talk) 22:02, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

5-6. Oppose Oppose With CheckUser requests on meta, I do not see the need for forcing an ArbCom upon the Croatian Wikipedia.

Additional: That the Croatian Wikipedia implements proper voting regulations on CheckUsers, and that they are stricter than the ones for admins. Explainations of what the CU is for, like is present on hr:Wikipedija:Provjeritelji is not enough.--Snaevar (talk) 17:59, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's meaningful to set up an ArbCom unless the community really have a consensus for do so. An ArbCom with only inactive or biased users does not make things better. Nor does someone be a arbitrator for life.--GZWDer (talk) 19:53, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Given the long history of repeat abuse, and some of the points raised by others above, I'd like to propose consideration of the following additional steps, which would also be applicable to other problematic WPs:

  1. Remove all blocks from everyone the 3 admins have blocked
  2. Send notification to all who’ve posted to hr.wp, or even better, post banner on hr.wp, telling everyone of Admin removal and other changes, and to invite back people who've been driven away from participating, since otherwise they may not learn of changes. This can help rebuild the hr.wp community, compared to what is likely now a POV-selected community, which could perpetuate the same abuses, even if 3 admins are removed
  3. Provide a very simple way to report any further abuse. E.g. in header of all hr.wp Talk pages add a “Report abuse” link which links to a Project page where everyone can report abusive behavior on any hr.wp article (on Project page hr.wp Admins can't block people who complain of their abuse, a major problem to date). This would provide a simple way to monitor and address issues across all hr.wp articles, instead of these issues being buried in many individual Talk page discussions
  4. Just as POV and other tags can be added to individual articles, a tag/notice could be added to all hr.wp Talk or Article pages, to indicate hr.wp is under bias and other abuse monitoring, and this notice remains until issues are deemed to be fully resolved
  5. Per suggestions by others, add an Admin to hr.wp from en, de or other reputable WP, who knows the language, and will be able to monitor behavior, and take immediate action Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:18, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support Strong support, for both sets of proposals: 1 through 6 by GregorB + additional 7 through 12 proposal by Nosebagbear (1-12). Post amended as per GregorB request under 18.1 Pinging the participants.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 22:02, 26 December 2019 (UTC) -- Let me first thank User:GregorB for putting together this case, beginning with the excellent article at Signpost, and than compiling the following Rfc. I {{support}} 1 through 6 (all of the above enumerated actions) in strongest possible manner. (Only, I have some doubts that at the end of the day, even those will be sufficient to hold that language version of the project in check - this, of course, by no means suggests that we should continue to sit, arms crossed, doing nothing.) Also, the additional steps, such as those proposed by User:Thhhommmasss, should be taken most seriously into consideration.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 22:00, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Support 1~6 + globally lock all of them. - PlavorSeol (T | C) 20:05, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support for 1, 2 and 4 –Aνδρέας talk | contributions 01:55, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support items 1-2, 4 & 6. Weak Support item 3. I do not believe point 5 is viable - if it's locals there's too high a chance of the same individuals getting in and making it even harder to solve the problem. If it's similar communities, those individuals might speak the language but don't know the community. Points 1, 2, 6 are obvious based on the evidence. Point 4 will mitigate some of the issues. Point 3 will cause some collateral damage, if I believed it more significant I'd oppose, but I'm not sure removing worst contributors alone from adminning is sufficient Nosebagbear (talk) 12:19, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Also support 10 (external sysops) - we need reliable sysops. Any lingually capable global sysops should be authorised, and admins on similar language projects who want to apply should be encouraged, with them vetted through either meta or Stewards. I suggest 2 year terms. Nosebagbear (talk) 18:59, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support 1, 2, & 6, I think 3 & 4 should be not universally applied, assess it per need by I guess it would have to be the Stewards. I agree with others that 5 is likely not possible nor entirely desirable. While here I will just say that several of the additional actions below have merit too. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 17:00, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I had some interactions with members of the Croatian community, and the worst thing is that few want to speak up. It is crystal clear that the community is heavily divided in two factions fighting each other (one being indeed around 'Q'), but I don't think desysoping everybody will really solve the problem. We did reach the point where an external intervention is really needed, but we need to do something with the divide itself. I would suggest doing the following:
    • Set up a communication channel where Croatian Wikipedians can provide feedback to a neutral party. You will probably get no feedback in the village pump. You will probably not get it here either. Wikipedians who left the project will probably not answer themselves either. However, one can perfectly contact them personally, and community members can provide useful feedback privately.
    • Identify most active members of either group and desysop those who have admin rights and were involved in abusive actions (with specific actions identified for each desysopped).
    • Identify users trusted by both groups who can be administrators during the transition period.
    • On the other side, involvement of participants from similar languages is a road to nowhere. I am confident that there are Croatian Wikimedians who are neutral and can govern this wiki. The problem with similar languages is historical antagonism: Croatians had recent and bloody wars with Serbians and Bosnians, and the current generation still remembers them. I don't think that having users who identify themselves as Serbo-Croatian, Serbian or Bosnian govern Croatian Wikipedia will be accepted by the Croatian community, but this will likely make things worse.
    • Set the goal of making the content accepted by Croatian general public, not by neighbouring language communities. Domovinski rat in Croatian Wikipedia will not become War in Croatia, we should accept it. However, having Croatian history written in a way heavily critised by Croatian media is not acceptable at all and should be the problem to solve.
    NickK (talk) 23:06, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • @NickK If most people are afraid or won’t speak up, this points to a very dysfunctional community. However, I wonder how many objective-minded contributors are left on hr.wp, particularly among those writing on historical subjects like WWII. Like Gregor and others, I believe the problem goes beyond the 3 Admins. In my own experience, Dvanajsti igrac instantly reverted multiple edits where I quoted Zagreb University historians, the US Holocaust Museum, etc. When I protested their reverts of the western historians I quoted, Mateo K stated that “the interpretation of sources in this area of history is in many cases highly questionable. Especially when they are from the former Yugoslavia or from the US”. Thus he’s questioning all US sources, and went on to state that the Nuremberg Tribunal “freed itself of all proof requirements”, implying they proved nothing regarding Nazi crimes. When I asked Mateo K to document some other claims he made - i.e. the most basic of WP principles - I was instantly threatened with a block, for “attacking” Mateo.
In all these cases, plus others, absolutely no one else ever spoke up to differ with that crowd. Since per Gregor, just the 3 Admins blocked 1.000 people, this likely means hundreds have been driven away, as most people will not put up with repeat abuse. I know of excellent editors who left hr.wp because of abuse, and I’m sure others know many more. If after driving many away, Dvanajsti igrac, Mateo and their ilk are all that’s left of historical contributors on hr.wp, and they’re set to replace the 3 Admins, I have zero confidence they can make appropriate decisions now, or in the future. It may be true that those who’ve left have been so thoroughly disgusted and discouraged that they will never return, but strong efforts should be made to bring them back and recruit new editors, as well as put in place ongoing monitoring, including right away having an outside Admin step in at least temporarily, as many have suggested, sort of like a bankruptcy judge when companies go bankrupt, as well as hopefully put in place other strong, ongoing monitoring systems so such things do not occur again. This will all help support the good editors who still remain, and perhaps with some returns and new recruits the community can be rebuilt Thhhommmasss (talk) 05:18, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Thhhommmasss: I fully agree that just removing all admins and letting the currently active community re-elect admins will basically lead to the status quo. This is why I think we need to start with some way to contact those who left the project and those who are still there but do not speak up, and find people who can be trusted to govern the project. I don't know any cases where an outside adminship succeeded without trust of local community — NickK (talk) 17:56, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So, if you desysop everyone who is going to do the daily job? Stewards? Nope, we are probably not interested in such stuff. I am not elected to take care of daily business of one wiki which language I do not speak. Crats and CU — that's not that of a burden but daily admin work for hands of non–language-speaker, hell no. — regards, Revi 02:32, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • @NickK:A big hurdle in trying to lure people back who’ve been driven away by abuse, and bring in new ones (including those who’ve stayed away entirely because of hr.wp’s poor reputation – I know many such cases, I’m sure others do too), will be convincing them substantial changes have been made. In particular after multiple failures to address this problem, there’s a lot of cynicism, and I’ve heard people say that it’s not even worth trying, since nothing will change. Saying that a couple of the worst offenders have been removed (which of course is needed), so now those who left are invited back to work it out with the remaining admins and editors, most of whom are likely very similar, is a very tall challenge, given the dysfunction and distrust, even if some outside mediator is involved.
I believe a temporary, outside Admin can provide an additional assurance that things have changed, particularly if they’re from a reputable WP, like en, where some editors who abandoned hr.wp in disgust, still contribute. Thus if they hear an en Admin has stepped in, they may be more assured that things will be run along the lines of the known en.wp, which despite some similar issues, has nothing like the abuse of hr.wp. This might be much more reassuring than new, untested processes. It might also help to further define the outside admin’s role - e.g. require all blocks, a key source of abuse, to be first approved by the outside Admin. Combined with robust new systems for continuous reporting, monitoring and dealing with abuse, I believe such an approach may stand the best chance of rebuilding a healthy community, which later, after some balance is restored, and people are reassured, can run itself.
Having largely given up on hr.wp, the above would go a long way toward reassuring me that it might be worthwhile to reengage on hr.wp. It’d be great to hear from others who’ve given up on hr.wp, what would it take to personally bring them back. Btw, I agree with trying to reach out to those who left, but in order to first find out what it’d take to bring them back, since I believe it will be a more protracted process to regain trust and rebuild a normal communityThhhommmasss (talk) 03:30, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's worth considering that if we do opt for external admins they are going to have be even more resistant than normal admins, and be capable of dealing without that without losing control or mistaking unhappiness with abuse - otherwise the local community will never be able to rebuild Nosebagbear (talk) 13:54, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Nosebagbear: Yes, I agree. That’s why I believe the outside Admin should be vested with extra powers, in essence make them a SuperAdmin, to act as Custodian, until things are straightened out. That’s what is done with bankruptcy judges and many other custodianships when individuals or organizations fail to perform their duties. Thus, in addition to granting the outside Admin the power to approve in advance all blocks, a key source of abuse to date, I think it’d help to give them the right to suspend any other Admins who abuse their power, as well as appoint new interim Admins from among those behaving responsibly. On top of that, I believe it would greatly help to add easy-to-use, robust systems for reporting, monitoring and taking action on any new abuse (like the instant, wholesale reverts of people’s contributions, another main source of abuse to date). Such systems could both support the outside Admin, since it will be difficult for them to track everything, while establishing systems that will help prevent such abuse, once the outside Admin relinquishes their role. Personally, I think it may take about a year of such outside Adminship, to reestablish trust and rebuild the community, after which it can revert to more normal processes, especially if, as mentioned new systems are put in place, to prevent the return of such abuse Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:52, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss:, for a start, the software won't support that, so there is the risk of basically a full out permissions war being wrought - I'd get very concerned by these users actually having more power (albeit locally) than our stewards do. They'd also be in a position to hold staggering influence even after their term and powers ended, depending on how they used them. The reasoning for them is obvious, but either we will have canned all the admins ourselves or we clearly can't even generate a meta consensus for removal, so we can't then hand power for unilateral de-sysoppings to individuals (or even a triumverate). I DO think it would make sense to let them unblock individuals, even if the other admins don't want them to be (i.e. their power can be grown to a "veto" but not unilateral authority).
Regarding timescale, 1 year is the logical amount. Certainly, even if it's not resolved by that point we should be stopping and thinking because clearly our actions have failed to help. Nosebagbear (talk) 19:42, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Nosebagbear: I mentioned that trusted, experienced outside Admins should be brought in. I do not think that such people will run a mock, instead they can help instill more normal processes. Regarding software issues, perhaps they can coordinate with stewards on needed measures Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:24, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss: My major question is where such admins can be found. This requires a lot of daily routine (hrwiki currently has 6 very active and 3 moderately active admins) and a lot of work resolving really complex conflicts (otherwise we would not need a desysop). I would think that at least 3 very active people are needed, and all of them should speak the language and know local rules. I don't think we will have a lot of outsiders willing to do that.
Regarding users who left the project, I would rather be willing to have them suggest changes themselves rather than wait until they happen — NickK (talk) 19:31, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@NickK: From personal experience, I’d say a lot of their activity now is instantly reverting all quotes of Reliable Sources I contributed, then threatening to block or blocking me, while extensively arguing holocaust-deniers and convicted fraudsters have the only true answer, plus tons of similar nonsense. In any case, I believe the outside Admin should act as a custodian/supervisor. In bankruptcy, just the senior management is typically kicked out, and supervision imposed over the rest. While companies are in bankruptcy, they often still function, and the bankruptcy judge does not make all day-to-day decisions, just important decisions are kicked up to them – I mentioned some of these which I believe the outside Admin should control. Also as mentioned, appropriate new systems for reporting, monitoring and dealing with abuse can both support the outside Admin, to ease their burden, while creating the infrastructure to help prevent such abuse in the longer-term. Finding such a person will indeed be a challenge. Let me suggest one person – Peacemaker67, who is familiar with the subject-matter, I believe understands the language (although may have some difficulty writing it, but could write in English, since practically everyone understands it) is level-headed and fair-minded, etc. Perhaps others can suggest additional candidates Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:14, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss: That's not how adminship works. There should always be admins who block vandals, delete spam etc., no wiki can live without it. If existing admins are desysopped, someone should start doing this instead — NickK (talk) 20:43, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@NickK: So I was going here with the case where only the 3 admins are removed, and others stay in place to do the regular work, but supervised by an interim outside Admin. The alternative is remove all current Admins, and find new ones Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:56, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I Support Support all actions, especially 5 and 3. Similar actions should be done for some admins or bs.wikipedia and sr.wikipedia too. --Obsuser (talk) 16:36, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I would not comment on this request, because I'm not active on hrwiki. But I want to answer the charges of user Obsuser. Yes, I blocked the user Obsuser. Because I was the only one who had the courage to do it. He has for many years made a circus of the project, many things worked without consultation with the community, acted arbitrarily. Violated rules and many things. I have had problems with some administrators on srwiki in the past, but there is no need to even consider taking such measures on srwiki like for hrwiki what we are discussing here. Here are other users in the community to confirm my allegations: @Soundwaweserb, MareBG, and НиколаБ:. Zoranzoki21 (talk) 18:53, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Strongly support 1, 2, 4, 6. Oppose 3 because hrwiki is too large to function without admins and we would have little chance of electing enough new admins soon enough if all the existing admins were blocked. I would say, looking at block logs, there is however evidence of other admins supporting each other, and that a blocked user has no realistic recourse in an appeal. I would hope some new RfAs will fix this problem. Regarding 5, so far only tentative support because few people have come forward in its support and I think an ARBCOM msut be elected properly and in an NPOV way the first time around. I have in my mind some editors I could nominate for the ARBCOM but I have doubts if they'd be willing to take part in this affair, and I'm going to hold back for the moment to see if the mutual ex-yu ARBCOM gets support. I applaud GregorB for getting us to this point, he may not have much confidence in how this is going to pan out but I do. Daß Wölf (talk) 19:26, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Interesting: the proposer refers to previous RfC, that was started in the eve of the biggest Croatian national holiday, when the victory in the war for defense, liberation and independence of Croatia is celebrated [10] (anniversary of Operation Oluja)! Usually these days the greaterserbianists, from the country that attacked Croatia, have escapades and denigrate Croatian major celebration and attack Croatia, with same "arguments" as GregorB, calling Croatia biased, nationalist, (neo)fascist etc.! Kubura (talk) 23:02, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose. Here's the breakdown. GregorB requires the coup d'etat, without any support from hr.wiki. Since he cannot takeover the project, because he and alikes do not have support (nor on hr.wiki nor in Croatia), he abuses the RfC procedure to hostilely takeover the project and impose neoyugoslavist agenda. Just like in real life, to keep the captured project in his hands, he must eliminate the top users ("top", because community gave them the support) and users (without tools) that have high reputation in community.
And who is supporting this attack? Non-Croatian speakers, few Croatian-speaking venomous users (but not sure that they are from Croatia or Croats at all, they could be e.g. Vučić, Dačić and Vulin), and from ex-Yu republic that was hard supporter of Yugoslavia and Serbocroatism (not the Croats from that republic). And users with nothing on their userpages, behaviour pattern of the expendable accounts for dirty tasks while the true owner plays the rosebud.
1. Remove the admin status from Kubura, SpeedyGonsales, and Zeljko, the three worst offenders. This looks like this [11] Nužno je zabraniti rad partija koje su najodgovornije za najveći zločin u Evropi poslije Drugog svjetskog rata, a to je razbijanje Jugoslavije (="It is necessary to ban the activity of the parties that are most responsible for the biggest crime in Europe after WWII, and that is the breaking down the Yugoslavia.")
2. ... and give them a lifetime ban from reapplying. Yugocommunist method, eliminating all other parties as "burgeoisie" and "nationalist", especially those with the major support, otherwise in normal democracy these "burgeoisie" restore the voters support.
3. Dismiss all local admins. Paranoia goes on. Everyone is suspicious! Communists find socialdemocrats as the traitors of the cause.
4. Remove bureaucrat and checkuser status from all local bureaucrats and checkusers. Paranoia goes further. Even the secretaries, drivers, cleaners, janitors are suspicious. What is next? Restoring the star to Croatian flag, coat-of-arms and changing of roof tile on the Church of St. Mark in Zagreb?
5. Set up a local ArbCom consisting of experienced Croatian or similar language-speaking editors from other wikis, to be appointed by the global community at Meta-Wiki. Solicit extra participation from the members of similar-language projects. Imposing the commisariat made of from "confidential peoples" (supporters of Yugoslavhood; interesting, three users from bs.wiki applied here for that) to inobedient "nationalist" "fascist" Croatia that busted "beloved jewel Yugoslavia", silence and dismiss "nationalist" Matica hrvatska (=major Croatian cultural organization).
One more important thing. When this process started (somewhat before this RfC, around major Croatian national holidays), simultaneously started strange persistent rude attacks and threats on our wiki pointed to several users, not on Kubura, Speedy and Zeljko, but to other very active admins, as some kind of auxiliary line of attack. Fresh example, repeated many times before, [12] "name1 name2 fa*s I'll slay You all". As an attempt to additionally disrupt the project, intimidate and chase away the maintainers. Kubura (talk) 00:24, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
By diverting from the topic and comments like this, it tries to divert attention from the proposal to politics, which is not acceptable. Nobody talks about Yugoslavia, Yugoslavhood, communism and the like. I beg that the real arguments be raised against the proposal. Greeting! --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose and Strong support Strong support to attacked admins of hr.wiki --Mateo K 01 (talk) 00:27, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It is an attack of a marginal, extreme political direction in Croatia that represents only themselves in a very public manner. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 00:40, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Mateo K 01: please correct me if I'm wrong - in the CW article on Ante Pavelić, you called him "one of the greats of Croatian history"? GregorB (talk) 13:25, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I was on a shared computer, logged off and left the PC for a few minutes. The cookies remained and a work colleague took a look at the recently visited pages and he made fun of me by writing this in the article. I have been asked about it countless times, and at some point it will be enough. I won't react to anything like that anymore.
And please, don't "ping" me anymore. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 01:57, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Simply placing symbol without arguments... I don't see anything concrete here. --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose IMHO each community should be able to decide whether they want to be left leaning or right leaning. Most language versions are probably left leaning (because people that tend to work voluntarily on an encyclopedia are likely left leaning). But if the Croatian Wikipedia is "right leaning" and the community has decided that that should be that way there should be no interference in that from outside...--Sparrow (麻雀) 🐧 17:11, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not supposed to be left- or right-leaning, nor Croat- or Serb-leaning, but take an NPOV, quote Reliable Source, and allow the editors to engage and discuss things. That is not what is happening on hr.wikipedia, where Admins systematically, massively revert edits and instantly block users they disagree with, while allowing quoting of convicted forgers and other dubious sources, declare that holocaust-deniers have the only true answer, etc - all so that their POV will prevail. Here is just one of many articles from Croatian media criticizing hr.wikipedia, describing how its Admins, led by Speedy Gonsales, have systematically abused the system to drive away many other editors. Individual wikis should not have the freedom to violate the most basic WP principles, and WP would be entirely remiss if it did not take action Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:04, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I do unfortunately not speak Croatian thus I can't look through all sources and come up with a thorough conclusion. I do however doubt that a whole language community would for no reason at all (because all Wikimedians I've met are highly intelligent open minded people) turn into an authoritarian dictatorship that systematically blocks out opinions. I do however feel that this is an attempt to block out certain opinions. If this proposal goes through, then this will set a precedent to have this be done in other language versions. And it'll start with something big but slowly it will progress until there are more and more things that can't be said or written. I'm German. We've had this twice last century. I want neither a right wing nor left wing dictatorship. Both of those always started with a banning of free speech. And this is an attempt to ban free speech. People are agreeing here with the proposal because buzzwords are thrown around. Only few of those people actually speak Croatian and are thus able to understand the whole issue. I find this straight up horrifying. I thought we've been here already. But apparently people never learn. And people never understand what banning free speech leads to.--Sparrow (麻雀) 🐧 20:03, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is not free-speech when, as the above linked Croatian article notes, hr.wiki Admins systematically massively revert edits and block people they disagree with. Plus WP is not based on free speech, certainly not in the sense that everyone should be able to freely spout holocaust-denial, or flat-earth and conspiracy theories, etc. Instead it is based on NPOV, Reliable Sources, ability to discuss disagreements, etc – principles which these guys have systematically violatedThhhommmasss (talk) 20:17, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
On the contrary, @Thhhommmasss:. You are imposing Your point of view and You are systemacitally massively reverting edits. You got thorough explanation on Your talkpage about Your behaviour and the reason for (non)disputing the sources. You do not mention that here. You have not been permablocked nor banned. You're trolling. Misusing the RfC process (by disqualifying) to impose Your point-of-view and permaeliminate the opponent. You've been told that You can put the same text again, just do not use that heavily compromised biased source. Regarding the Holocaust, You've been explicitely told that that is very sensitive topic, that the victims of Holocaust must not be belittled by citing compromised sources, quack scientists/would-be-scientists. "Daklem, možeš unijeti isti tekst, ali pod uvjetom da se pozoveš na ozbiljni i nekompromitirani izvor! Ako ga nisi našao, onda ga ne unosi. Shvati da je holokaust ozbiljna tema koju ne smijemo omalovažiti pozivanjem na nadriznanstvene izvore. Zar bi želio pozvati se na izvor u kojem se za počinitelje krivi ljude-guštere? " Do not misuse buzzwords to get Your point. And others, who just to play along, supported this misuse of RfC process to impose a black myths, please do not interfere into something if You don't understand the language. You got selectively presented information. Kubura (talk) 22:20, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sure Kubura, I'm imposing my POV, by quoting German sources whom the Croatian-American historian Jozo Tomasevich, author of the most widely-quoted book on WWII Yugoslavia, published by Stanford University press, deems the "best informed and most objective of sources", same sources quoted by many other western historians, yet you instantly mass-reverted all these quotes, because per you, these sources are "unreliable" and "anti-Croat". You wrote for example that these sources are "compromised" because they write of "mass-terror against Orthodox Christians", i.e. the same Ustashe mass terror against Jews, Orthodox Christians and Roma that the US Holocaust Museum, Croatian Jasenovac Memorial, and practically all Western historians write. Thus it is obviously one big global conspiracy by all these source, which is why you mass-deleted such quotes. Of course per you, English WP is also part of this "anti-Croat" conspiracy, since here is what you left on my Talk page after you mass-deleted all this information: "I would only advise you not to follow the lead of English Wikipedia. They do not work in a quality manner, they often cite sources who are compromised, writing unnaturally about Croats" Thus it is obviously you who on hr.wiki gets to decide who writes "unnaturally about Croats", and therefore can't be quoted, western historians and Holocaust Museums notwithstanding Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:07, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss:, do not misinform. The other author has been disputed. You have that explitictly written on Your talkpage. Kubura (talk) 23:11, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura - the Croatian authors you quote to dispute von Horstenau and western historians, also clearly dispute the "mass-terror against Orthodox Christians" that the US Holocaust Museum, Croatian Jasenovac Memorial and nearly all western historians write about. Since I can similarly quote you many Serb authors who dispute all Serb crimes in Croatia and Bosnia, and just like you claim that all who say otherwise are "unreliable" and "anti-Serb" - there is all the proof needed that no such Serb crimes occurred, and Serb wiki should follow your lead and mass-revert claims to the contrary Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:24, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss:, a correction: noone denies the "mass-terror" by Ustashi regime, You don't have to read Horstenau for that. But be precise: Serbs (they are mostly Orthodox Christians) were the target of the mass-terror and/or were mistrusted, but not the all Orthodox Christians; Bulgarians, Romanians, Ukrainians, Macedonians, Montenegrins (even they), even the Russians were considered as friends. Finally the Croatian Orthodox Church's priests from those ethnicities. Kubura (talk) 00:08, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Sparrow: But there is a precedent, see m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Til Eulenspiegel. What goes for one checkuser and admin goes for many checkusers and admins. Tgeorgescu (talk) 08:40, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Support 1 and 4 per Rschen7754. ~riley (talk) 19:41, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please null and void my above comment. ~riley (talk) 04:13, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose The easiest thing in the world is to moan that everything is corrupt and disreputable. Should this RfC come to fruition as proposed above, CW itself will die, and users from similar-language projects, who have never lifted a finger to assist CW before, will be granted free reign on it, free to write whatever they see fit, with no regards for truth nor the credence and sentiments of Croatian people. In my honest opinion, this RfC is founded in malicious intent from members of similar-language projects, who wish to spread misinformation and sleaze for their own benefit. Everything listed here has been taken out of context and interpreted with malicious intent, in order to incriminate its authors. --Ivi104 (talk) 01:43, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If this RfC succeeds, some of the many Croatian editors systematically driven away by the abuse on hr.wp, as described in multiple Croatian media articles, will have the opportunity to return, and create a more normal hr.wp. As someone of Croat ancestry, I truly resent a Wikipedia run by those who state convicted fraudsters and Holocaust-deniers have the only true answer, or proclaim "anti-Croat" those who dare criticize genocidal killers Thhhommmasss (talk) 04:45, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ivi104: When you say that "the easiest thing in the world is to moan that everything is corrupt and disreputable", I cannot but agree. But what precisely are you saying: 1) that there is nothing wrong with CW, or 2) that there may be something wrong, but no evidence has been presented? Also, please provide some examples of things "taken out of context and interpreted with malicious intent, in order to incriminate its authors". GregorB (talk) 20:36, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Personally, I'm not a member of any similar-language projects, my only editing of note has been on en.wiki. Since this (sadly) appears to be a matter of importance, let it be known that I'm a Croat by nationality, ethnicity and residence. I hung my flag on 8.10. like everybody else. What I don't stand for is not even promoting and characterizing new Holocaust theories as if they were already culturally accepted and taught in school, I became aware of that long after I left hr.wiki. My main gripe is e.g. taking 6-7 edits to write an entire article with sources, upon which I was harassed for "flooding recent changes", despite other editors having far more edits on the recent changes page than me, after which I naturally lost interest in hr.wiki. Why should I put up with that kind of behaviour? When some years later I'm offered a chance to help make hr.wiki a place where I wouldn't feel like a 2nd class citizen because I'm not on "singular you" with the key people, why should I not make my grievances heard? And trust me, I would've dropped this a long time ago if every word I got from the hr.wiki crowd wasn't a template notice or an outright insult. Daß Wölf (talk) 22:25, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Support all proposals. Banfield - Reclamos aquí 19:21, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment Per w:WP:NONAZIS Holocaust denialists should get banned by WMF. This does not require a vote. Find the evidence, submit it to WMF, and they get a lifetime ban. Tgeorgescu (talk) 02:20, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • @tgeorgescu – I’d certainly place proclaiming that notorious Holocaust-deniers, like Roman Leljak (who also happens to be a convicted fraudster), have the only "truth", represents Holocaust-denial, as Admin Zeljko did. Leljak wrote a book claiming - contrary to the US Holocaust Museum, the Croatian Jasenovac Memorial and great majority of western historians - that Jasenovac was not a death camp, and instead of the 80.000 to 100.000 estimated victims, just 1.654 people died there. Thus he is decreasing victim estimates 50 times, or by 98% compared to these other sources. Since all these other sources also state that up to two-thirds of all Croat Jews exterminated in the Holocaust were exterminated by the Ustashe at Jasenovac, he is also denying 98% of these Jewish Holocaust victims. Yet quoting this convicted fraudster, here is what the Admin, Zeljko wrote: “We have an accurate list of the number of people in the camp (18,600) and the death toll (1,654). All other so-called sources are fabrications and lies”. Thus he is relying on a Holocaust-denier and convicted fraudster, to deny 98% of the Jewish Holocaust victims at Jasenovac, while claiming that “all other so-called sources” (i.e. the US Holocaust Museum, the Croatian Jasenovac Memorial and the vast majority of western historians) “are fabrications and lies" Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:58, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Support, although I worry that these prophylactic actions may not prove successful. After all, experience has shown that determined editors can evade bans. Secondly, even if the problematic editors are kept away, a new cabal may emerge that forces their own bias upon hr.wp. I can't believe I'm actually suggesting this, but we may want Trust & Safety to hire someone fluent in the language to serve as a disinterested observer while this project is assisted back into a healthy state. -- Llywrch (talk) 20:33, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support all proposals, but I also think WMF should appoint a supervisory group, including hired outsiders, with Arbcom-like powers, but over the arbcom (and less involved with the detail). This has been a festering sore of the global movement for years and WMF needs to exert itself to sort it. Johnbod (talk) 17:40, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose. To all proposals. There shouldn't be interference from outside.--Rovoobob Talk 02:35, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? There shouldn't be outside interference because everything is fine, or because there should never be any interference, no matter what? GregorB (talk) 09:08, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Meta is a project for coordination of Wikimedia Foundation's wikis. I do not see anything controversial in discussing the long-term issue about Croatian Wikipedia here. Best regards! --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment It's undeniable that there are problems with bias on hr.wiki regarding certain topics/articles. I still have to read through the whole discussion, and decide which proposals I will support and/or oppose. --Hmxhmx 10:55, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose - Nonsense. The three targeted admins are one of the best admins on hr.wiki, hard-working and determined to their job. Targeted admins, stay strong! --Dvanaesti Igrač (talk) 20:04, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

On what bases do you call them the "best"? Violation of the administrator's rights and Wikipedia's basic rules is surely commendable. --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support Strong support • Strong support to all proposals. Project “independence”, “sovereignty”, “autonomy”… could be valid up to some degree, and only if Foundation principles (chiefly those listed from 4 to 6) are observed and fully implemented. Since that is clearly not the case, the wikimedian community (and WMF) should and must react. When Founding principles are concerned, the hr.wiki acknowledge their superiority over local consensus: m:w:hr:Wikipedija:Konsenzus#Iznimke (it is one of 10 main rules of hr.wiki). Stewards can follow only valid consensus, but are not obliged to implement anything in defiance to the said principles. I support also the ArbCom, which should be defined in the next RfC. -- Несмир Кудилович (разговор) 20:53, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment Regarding #3, I would recommend that Sokac121 remain admin, since he is one of the truly neutral ones. -- Несмир Кудилович (разговор) 13:01, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Несмир Кудилович. --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Nesmir Kudilovic:, no good deed goes unpunished. Those hr.wiki administrators and hr.wiki at all, that are rudely denigrated here, showed You full understanding for You and several times gave You another chance. Not just second, but the third, fourth. We closed our eyes on Your previous behaviour when You reappeared under new accounts. On other project these Your accounts were blocked. Your previous incarnation was user:Bugoslav [13] [14], Imbris (Imbris~commonswiki) [15] [16] [17], [18] Rainman (renamed Rainman~commonswiki; from the time befor unified wikis, because there is also a Serbian user Rainman), [19] Reasons for blocking:Intimidating behaviour/harassment: general problem editor, causing disruption here, hr.wikipedia and other places. Kubura (talk) 21:46, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose - I don't think that this kind of discussion is for Meta. If some user disagrees with wiki politics than he can gives up from editing. Kubura, Zeljko and Speedy are notable admins and users on Croatian Wikipedia and they are trying to save impartiality and objectivity on Croatian Wikipedia. -Kraljnnm (talk) 08:55, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"If some user disagrees with wiki politics than he can gives up from editing" — If wiki policy is such as to impose one point of view over another and to block opponents... "Kubura, Zeljko and Speedy... are trying to save impartiality and objectivity on Croatian Wikipedia" — wrong and unfounded. --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support Strong support The last answer convinced me that CW will not change her violating issues against the five pillars. And CW will not change from inside too - especially if the problem stay since more than 5 years. Sammyday (talk) 19:37, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support Strong support, that's systemic violations of our fundamental rules. --GrandCelinien (talk) 13:38, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose--Croq (talk) 08:46, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Plain vote without arguments... --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support Strong support I finally mustered the courage to take part in this discussion. Stewards should remove admin status to mentioned users, and of course ban them from reapplying. Removing bureaucrats and checkusers will be useful and effective. Violation of Wikipedia's basic rules, imposition of one point of view and blocking opponents must be stopped. I support the creation of ArbCom and want to volunteer in it (if there is room :)). Also, the user-victims of these administrators should be unblocked, and users who have left the project should be invited back to help restore a neutral point of view in the articles and help in further development of project. Allowing an easier method of reporting abuse will also be helpful. Best regards! --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 18:01, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are from Serbia, and You wrote this message in the eve of the anniversary of the occupation of Vukovar (Croatian city), that was occupied by Serb-led Yugoslav Army (and ideology of Serbocroatism is behind any Yugoslavism) and Serb paramilitars (after 3 months of shelling and bombing; the excuse was "liberating the city from "ustashas", "Croatian Neo-Fascists", "Croatian nazis"), as well as the anniversary as the slaughter on Ovčara (near Vukovar) and Škabrnja. You really chose the date. This shows who started this RfC, and what kind of people are supporting it. Kubura (talk) 01:42, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My comment had nothing to do with politics. In general, I think everything could have been settled without war, in a peaceful way. We do not need to attack each other for the past, but we need to look to the future. I have no intention of disputing the territorial integrity of Croatia and I do not hate Croats and the state of Croatia (I've actually been to Croatia several times during the holidays :)). Although this is off-topic. Greetings! --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 07:57, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I want to thank Kubura for making this comment because it precisely describes what the problem is with Croatian Wikipedia and how hopeless situation currently is there. So, we have this RFC for 37 days already and users are adding their comments on daily basis. And, after Acamicamacaraca added this comment on November 17, Kubura instantly make insane consipracy theory saying

You are from Serbia, and You wrote this message in the eve of the anniversary of the occupation of Vukovar (Croatian city) [...] You really chose the date. This shows who started this RfC, and what kind of people are supporting it.

— Kubura
Despite the fact that this discussion lasts practically without interruption for 37 days, he just can't help himself and when a user from Serbia makes a comment on a day before an anniversary of the Serbian occupation of Vukovar, he instantly *sees a pattern*. This is paranoia. There is no other word for that then paranoia. It's not just he personally believes this. He actually thinks it's good idea to share his paranoia with community on Meta, believing that he can actually convince other users that the things he sees are real. Think about that! Take all the time you need and think about that! Kubura made similar statements zillion of times, and GregorB well documented it in signpost article and here. *This* is what Croatian wikipedia under Kubura looks like for more then 10 years. Whenever someone makes a logical argument, he doesn't react to an argument. Instead, he just thinks of another crazy conspiracy theory *why* user made that comments, what are his motives and how the user is connected to Serbian Secret Service. To make things worse, he is not alone. Croatian wikipedia is full of admins who, I'm sure, recognize this as paranoia, but pretend it's not because Kubura makes a dirty work of cleansing Croatian wikipedia of all the users that doesn't fit their preferred ideological profile. I beg WMF to finally solves this problem because it's just sad to what a wikipedia project turned into.
P.S. If this Kubura's comment alone doesn't show the scale of abuse of 5 pillars, specifically "Assume good faith", I really don't know what more proof You need. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 11:14, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Hrwikiuser - excellent comment. Not only do we see paranoia, but obviously clear ethnic prejudice, since he attacked the commenter for his ethnicity, not the substance of his comments, and he has repeatedly made attacks on people’s presumed or real ethnicities, his main “argument”. Also, megalomania, since as is often the case with extreme nationalists, Kubura and the other CW Admins have designated themselves the only “true Croats”, systematically reverting and banning people they deem "anti-Croat". In the above comment, he even makes the ludicrous claim that people shouldn’t have the right to criticize CW Admins around certain national holidays and anniversaries. Thus they see every criticism of CW Admins as an “attack” on the entire Croat nation, and this despite the numerous criticisms of CW in the Croatian media, clearly indicating that they do not speak for all Croats. Yet further proof these guys violate every core WP principle, and thus should be removed forever Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:18, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Another example of obvious croatian-national-holidays-related paranoia by Kubura here:

One more important thing. When this process started (somewhat before this RfC, around major Croatian national holidays), simultaneously started strange persistent rude attacks and threats on our wiki

— Kubura
It is impossible to reason with someone who is this paranoid. I don't think user:Kubura:Kubura should be just de-sysoped. I believe lifelong ban on editing any WMF project is more appropriate. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:46, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I actually think similarly as Hrwikiuser, but de-sysoped, with some topic bans, and editors of such profile wouldn't pose to much of a threat anymore (?!). It is obvious that editors on these "small" wikipedias, at least in this case on Wikipedia in Croatian language, are really convinced that project somehow belong to people of that particular ethno-national group, then from there it gets narrower in ideological terms - they are convinced that they own it. One of these admins in question is on record stating that these activities surounding RfC is nothing less than "diplomatic incident", something like that. There is no arguing with that.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 08:53, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Specifically regarding Kubura’s attacks on the commenter’s ethnicity, I believe there is a need to further clarify, and more vigorously and consistently enforce WP:NPA which forbids attacks on the basis of race, sexual orientation and religion. First, this should be expanded to proscribe attacks on the basis of ethnicity, the type of attacks we most frequently see among Balkan nationalists, in an attempt to discredit people, without dealing with the substance of their comments. Given Kubura’s pattern of repeatedly alluding to, and attacking people’s ethnicities, real or imagined, he should have been permanently blocked from WP long ago for this alone Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:46, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
First, You lie. I do not attack anyone's ethnicity - that's what You said, Thhommmasss. Do not input me the things I have not said. Ethnicity is not the same as citizenship. So, You are on the line of the Serbian leadership (Vučić, Dačić, Vulin). Some of them have compromised themselves during Croatian War of Independence. They use exactly the similar words. I respect if anyone is loyal citizen of his country, but that does not allow him to attack the wikiproject whose main contributors are from other country, the country who was attacked from the same country which now uses other means instead of guns and tanks - now, they are persistently trying to brand Croatia as "neonazi, fascist" etc. Leaving politics aside, it is shame for the Meta to allow to expendable dirty-tasks sockpuppets to require to decapitate and disrupt whole project, project that the attacker has never been co-building at all. Hey, a user with a username that is not normal, it looks like a name created from fooling around (as if he has no ideas for names anymore, after dozens of sockpuppets), without any effort invested to create a decent userpage, requires the elimination of several users, that are major contributors/maintainers to a certain project and to Wikimedian projects at all? Kubura (talk) 21:20, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura – you keep inventing your own WP “rules”. Where on WP does it say that a citizen of one country can’t participate or write on other language WPs? Given the Hague Court has determined that Croatia attacked Bosnia, and Croatian forces committed many crimes against humanity in Bosnia, then according to you, Croat citizens should be forbidden from participating on or criticizing Bosnian WP. And if by chance they still do, they should be instantly attacked as “apologists of Greater-Croatia crimes”, exact same as you’ve attacked others here as being “apologists of Greater-Serbia crimes”. Second, as a WP editor I've been contributing for years to enwiki and Slovenian WP, with hundreds of edits on each, and absolutely zero problems there. So obviously it is again a case were en, sl and other WPs, plus the whole rest of the world is always wrong, not you.
There are numerous articles in Croatian media that criticize CW for its extreme right-wing bias, obviously another mass “Serbo-Croatist” conspiracy. Not to mention all the “Serbo-Croatist” German officers, western and Croatian historians, whose citations you mass reverted, since they are also part of the entire “anti-Croat” conspiracy. Of course, online Croatian dictionaries and the entire .hr domain are in on this “conspiracy” too, since they define and use the Croatian language in a manner that is contrary to what you claim, etc, etc. Why don’t you put in your own RfC to remove the entire rest of the world, since they all dare contradict you Thhhommmasss (talk) 00:00, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura, the idea of Serbo-Croatian language is linguistic subject, not political. Croats can be patriots and call their language Serbo-Croatian in the same time. Croatian nation does not depend on definition of separate Croatian language. Americans call their language English, yet noone doubts they are separate nation. Irish too. Only people who themselves are not sure of their national identity feel the need to prove the Croats and Serbs speak different languages. Unfortunately, You are one of those people. That's why You harass anyone who speaks of Serbo-Croatian language and automatically take that as proof he is "enemy of the state", and consequently, of Croatian wikipedia. I would advise you to cool down a bit, bit You are long beyond that phase. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 09:07, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Hrwikiuser, Croatian nation does depend on definition of separate Croatian language. That applies to all other national states. Remove them the language, and they lose their identity, then You can put there some other nation that speaks other language and expel the native nation or assimilate the native nation that got its language "removed" (by force or forgetting). When the native population loses the language, they lose the identity. Argument of "not sure of identity" is fallacy and switching of thesis: People who themselves are not sure of their national identity feel the need to suppress the difference of Croatian and Serbian and to use the "mixed" term (not to mention those that have agenda of forceful merging). You are the one from them. Maybe someone says that he or she speaks so-called "Serbo-Croatian", maybe they think that they are Croatian patriots, but they are on the wrong way. It will take them to patriotism to "Croatia", but what kind of Croatia? Non-Croat Croatia with the only thing that is Croatia is the sticker with the name "Croatia". Serbocroathood in its essence is against the Croathood, because it directly denies the separate Croat identity, it requires melting/assimilating the Croathood into something else. Kubura (talk) 06:13, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Support It is important that WMF finally starts to take responsibility and breaks down the idea of the immunity of individual wiki-projects to external interventions. Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 08:06, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Says the user from politically protected Serbocroatist project. Calling for external interventions (and that way limiting the sovereignty of wikiprojects) is terrible. Serbocroatism is in close ties with (Yugo)Communism, therefore it reminds on Soviet intervention in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Kubura (talk) 22:06, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly, once more, Support Support all of the propositions in this RfC, especially banning all of the responsible editors, since all of their actions can be interpreted as not being encyclopedic, right-wing biased and essentially malicious --Edgar Allan Poe (talk) 16:06, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Says the user from politically protected serbocroatist project, a project that serves as playground/sanctuary for neoyugoslavist discontents and mostly built itself as botopedia. And the very idea of Serbocroatism is in opposition with the idea of Croatian language, and Croatia at all. Serbocroatism is incompatible with anything that has the attribute of Croatia(n).
Also, this user above that supports this RfC (Edgar Allan Poe) has a sockpuppeteering history (on hr.wiki) with five known sockpuppets on hr.wiki, and before he had a ban on uploading pictures (he oversaturated with uploading copyrighted images, deleted pictures from Commons he uploaded on hr.wiki [20]). In later stages of his work on hr.wiki, he was (short period) blocked because of mistranslating; his edit looked like the playing the game with poor software translations. Kubura (talk) 22:22, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura: Aren't you now saying similar things about shwiki that you are blocking people for on hrwiki? --Rschen7754 02:29, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Rschen7754:, please, give me the diff. Generally, people are being on hr.wiki if they show destructive behaviour; depending on the level of destructiveness and previous activity on hr.wiki, they get blocked shorter or longer, sooner or later or simply they get a warning. Kubura (talk) 05:46, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura: The reasons for block are the provocative disruptive edit on the national Independence Day, and calling hr.wiki as "neofascist propaganda site" (!!!) [21] --Rschen7754 06:51, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Rschen7754:, I have not in the very first edit massively removed the content on the highly sensitive topic on biggest national holiday that celebrates independence, and I do not call them "neofascist propaganda site". Kubura (talk) 07:36, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Support After long debating with myself to add my official stance to this, i've decided to support this. I feel bad for numerous editors who were expeled from community, and can't contribute to Wikipedia in their own language. I was not member of that community, and was blocked for referenced small changes to the article(s). That was just one small example, I can't imagine what they did to their regular users with whom they didn't share their POV. I encourage stronger scrutiny toward other wikipedias as well - bs, sr and sh. Time to rise above. --Mhare (talk) 18:14, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Support For all proposed actions except #3 They shouldn't be punished for their inaction, especially in a community where a part of it has a history of intimidate its detractors. ~ℳɑrio (talk) 14:09, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have spoken with many administrators and could not notice any "extreme nationalism", especially not with Kubura. He is an excellent personality, always friendly and helpful. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 23:06, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose - Nonsense. The three targeted admins are one of the best admins on hr.wiki, hard-working and determined to do their job. Keep on the good work guys! --Ceha (talk) 22:33, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose As far as I can see, the same story again. The same man, aided by more or less the same (little) group of supporters, for the n-th time attacks and obstructs the whole Croatian project because of his frustration and personal anger towards the administrators and lot of the other users he quarreled over because of his aggression. The actions he proposed prove what kind of person he is. Removing the admin status, dismissing admins and giving them a lifetime ban from reapplying? Really? Does somebody want to punish administrators harder than the worst vandals? Administrators, who enjoy the support of the majority of the community? It is worrying that someone wants to be a dictator in the 21st century, on Wikipedia, and silence the dissenters by totalitarian methods. Same thing with checkusers and bureaucrats. ArbCom consisting of similar language-speaking editors? Is this a joke? It is ridiculous to consider Croatian Wikipedia should be controlled by users who are incapable and unwilling to put their own projects in order, such as Serbian Wikipedia, which is full of nationalism, chauvinism and historical revisionism, complete with numerous forgeries. Or „Serbo-Croatian“ Wikipedia, mostly composed of articles directly copied and pasted from the Croatian Wikipedia. Please, get rid of the senseless stories and stop bullying the Croatian Wikipedia. IvanOS (talk) 23:15, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to have misconstrued some of the action points. It's "lifetime ban from reapplying for an admin position", not a block (I never asked for anyone to be blocked), so no, nobody wants to "punish administrators harder than the worst vandals" - even if the damage they have done far exceeds anything a vandal could have achieved. GregorB (talk) 23:58, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose Very good admins, Croatian Wikipedia with them is very high quality and accuracy. I want to give them full support and that they continue to do this quality work. Thanks. Mikola22 (talk) 14:18, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support Strong support I was active contributor back on 2011.-2014. on Croatian Wikipedia, active translator on Meta etc. However many acts of Croatian admins (including comments on IRC after they found I was from "leftist" Rijeka) discouraged me from contributing to Wikipedia anymore. It is sad what happened to Croatian Wikipedia. Even biggest portal in Croatia is writing how awful Croatian wiki is now. --Anton 008 19:34, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose Allegedly „biggest portal in Croatia“ is a portal inclined to yellow press, sensationalism, exaggeration, communism nostalgia, Serbophilia, Yugoslavophilia and generally biased presentation of news. And just this portal is usually cited, when an attack on Croatian Wikipedia is in the timetable. Why not other portals? And who cites it? Mostly users without their own user page or those without any single new article created. Those users are often supported by sockpuppets or/and provocateurs, who only write/talk about removing, deleting, banning, blocking, dismissing etc. Some of them write, for instance, „remove both - Checkusers and Beurocrats, all of them“ or „lifelong ban on editing any WMF project is appropriate” or „there is terror of some paranoid right-wing admins“ or „hr.wiki is a neofascist propaganda site“ or „create a cross-jurisdictional ArbCom for the similar language projects” or „merge the bs-, hr-, and sr-wiki projects into the primary one: sh-wiki“ or „globally lock all of them“! and so on. It seems that their only mission is to destroy. --Silverije (talk) 23:59, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Silverije, your entire comment questions the integrity and motives of the critics, without as much as a word about the issue at hand: the three above-mentioned administrators, did they do something problematic or not? Have you read the Signpost article or its Croatian version? It lists a number of examples. What am I getting wrong? Please provide concrete examples. GregorB (talk) 08:46, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You might not be getting wrong, but rather one-sided. Admins on Croatian Wikipedia reacted on editing which they understood as arrogant, blatant, provocative or as vandalism. Their reactions were very similar to such reactions of admins on English Wikipedia (and other wikipedias as well). Users showing inappropriate behavior (like [22] or [23]) take the consequences for their behaviour. As for the Jasenovac concentration camp or similar issues, the number of victims is rather a question of sources than of editors or admins. And The Curious Case of Major Milan Tepić, whose desperate and disastrous terrorist act was awarded with the “Order of the National Hero” in Serbia, shows how things can be turned upside down. --Silverije (talk) 00:29, 14 December 2019 (UTC
Why don't CW Admins go on de.wiki and similarly cite as the "only truth" convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of Auschwitz victims, and then claim it's just a "question of sources", and see how far that will get them. Or go on enwiki and repeatedly rail, as they've done on CW and here, about how "unreliable" and part of a vast Serbo-Croatist/anti-Croat conspiracy are Encyclopedia Britannica, enwiki, western historians, Croatian historians, the sources these historians cite, the US Holocaust Museum, the official Croatian Jasenovac Memorial, Croatian and international linguists, mainstream Croatian media, the Austrian government, German public television channels, etc. And then instead of these "unreliable sources", claim that the only "reliable sources" are right-wing Croatian websites that promote Holocaust-denial, and celebrate as "heroes" convicted Croatian war criminals and mass murders of civilians, invent "language genocides" while denying real genocides, etc. See how far that will get you on enwiki, plus massive reverts and blocks of sources you disagree with, endless name-calling, repeat refusals to provide any proof for your claims, claims that all this abuse is just "a question of sources", etc, etc. Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:37, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose I strongly oppose these proposals, because they are backed with very hollow arguments.--Ejnal (talk) 00:34, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose all of the proposals because these may harm Croatian Wikipedia community by presenting the wiki to the public opinion as an extremist wiki. --Agusbou2015 (talk) 01:56, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You got to be kidding!!! In Croatia, hr wikipedia is seen as an extremist wiki already. This RFC might actually change the perception for the better! --Hrwikiuser (talk) 08:25, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support Strong support • For all proposals

Under the mentioned three admins and aided by a significant number of loyal accomplices the Croatian Wikipedia was knowingly and willfully transformed into a fully-fledged propaganda platform for croatian far-right nationalist ideas, regulary promoting the same mindset and even theories as adherists of other fascist and nazist ideologies. This conflicts directly with the five pillars of Wikipedia.

Following facts led me to this conclusion:

  • Administrator rights abuse §
    • All three admins - Kubura, SpeedyGonsales and Zeljko - misused their administrator rights by blocking users who conflicted their far-right viewpoints based on shallow explanations as vandalism or even under dubious premises as insulting some a non existing sacrality by editing during national holidays.
    • Several CW editors were blocked after they dared to speak out on this RfC. Furthermore some editors decided to use temporary accounts only for this RfC as they fear to be punished for their whistleblowing.
  • Blacklisting sources §
    • As Thhhommmasss has pointed out K, Q and Z seem to have a clear concept of who/what is credible as a source and who/what isn't. The fact that holocaust deniers, openly fascist extremists and revisionists as well as far-right news portals who cite proven manipulators of evidence seem credible, while a long list of scientific institutions or individuals, including the Croatian Supreme Court, lingvists and historians, both croatian and foreign, and holocaust memorial organizations are declared untrustworthy, speaks for itself.
    • Following this edits which were backed by trustworthy sources but contradicted the opinion of K, Q and Z were subsequently removed or altered.
  • Admin POV §
    • On several occasions at least one of the mentioned admins openly displayed extreme POV, accusing others of being neo-yugoslavists, serbo-croatists, anti-croats, communists, serbs and plotting against the croatian national cause. Even on this RfC some CW admins, including others than K, Q and Z, continue to use this terminology and showing their lack of neutrality. --ValterUdarnik (talk) 20:05, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong support Strong support 1, 4, 5, 6. --QEDK (talk 桜 enwiki) 20:28, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong support Strong support on 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6. Neutral Neutral on 3. — Bilorv (talk) 16:25, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support I support the proposal, obviously, but I never actually spelled out which actions: 1, 2, 5 and 13. There are some other solutions worth considering, but I'm certain these four would be quite sufficient in both quickly resolving the issues and maintaining a long-term stability. Please don't forget two things: 1) the egregious stuff discussed here and the editors behind them have plenty of supporters on CW, because pretty much only the like-minded editors are allowed to freely edit, and 2) the three admins in question are unrepentant and would absolutely do it again if given the chance. Measures that fail to address these two points will almost certainly be insufficient. GregorB (talk) 19:48, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose This RfC is extremely unethical, lacking principles and morals. --Malatrad (talk) 16:39, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Malatrad Could you please specify what exactly is "unethical" about this RfC? GregorB (talk) 18:17, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • Observing the dynamical communication patterns, given the similarity to social networks, this is a fertile soil for thriving passive-aggressive behaviour. Ideal for the persons with no sense of right and wrong, no sense of ethical and unethical. Eluding direct confrontation with a true person, they can express limitless cruelty. Internet trolls belong to that type. The bigger supporter's audience they attract, the more rude are their verbal punches. This RfC is started by inflammatory upsetting false claims and followed by similar upsetting comments. This is the basic definition of trolling. --Malatrad (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong support Strong support I'm not concerned with what was written on hr.wiki, since I cannot read the Croatian language. But what the defending parties wrote here betrays their intent to uphold the patriotic character of hr.wiki, which is a violation of the WMF Terms of Use, and therefore demands that the defenders of the patriotic character of hr.wiki should appear on List of globally banned users. Hr.wiki is the private property of the WMF and by using it for patriotic propaganda purposes they have severely violated the Terms of Use and the mandate conferred by WMF to each and every of its wikis, which demands encyclopedic neutrality instead of patriotism. Hr.wiki was never meant to become the handmaid of patriotism and it should be restored to ethnic neutrality. Wikipedia should never become a tool for advancing ethnic quarrels and it was never intented to serve only one nation. Those who do not understand that hr.wiki is a global, internationalist project which is against discrimination and which obeys the mandate conferred by the WMF do not belong among us. As previously noted, there is the precedent of Requests for comment/Global ban for Til Eulenspiegel, wherein a bureaucrat of am.wiki had openly discriminated against homosexuals. Openly discriminating against other ethnicities is a violation of the principles adopted by the WMF and those who have actively discriminated should be site banned. Wikipedia is not allowed to be nationalist, nor homophobic. These are the rules of the game. Wikipedia is not allowed to serve the national cause of any country/nation. All those who have enacted the ownership of an ethnic group or ethnic POV over hr.wiki should be globally banned. I understand it quite well: this was mutiny against enciclopedic neutrality. They regarded the requirement of neutrality as a worldwide conspiracy against their religion and their nation. They regarded ethnic and religious neutrality as the handmaid of the Antichrist, a lie from the pits of hell. This should be a lesson to all wikis: Wikipedia admins who choose to serve patriotism rather than neutrality are violating the Terms of Use. They have the liberty to be patriotic on all websites, except WMF servers. I say User:Kubura has to be globally locked since he has discriminated against serbocroatist and neoyugoslavist editors, which is prohibited by the Nondiscrimination resolution passed by the WMF. Tgeorgescu (talk) 16:06, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong support Strong support for 1, 2 and 4. I'm not inclined to support 3 as there's no alternate plan to deal with a large project and 0 sysops. Someone suggested earlier that it become a gs wiki and as a gs, I think it's a terrible idea since the community seems to be rife with conflict and GS position should never, ever be brought into that. Oppose Oppose 5, it seems overly bureaucratic and taxing on what is already dwindling participation across the board. 6 isn't really a proposal so I'm indifferent. I would amend the language of 2 to say "indefinite" since indefinite is not forever (in theory.) I understand that we should let each community resolve its issues but POV pushing and abuse of tools effects the integrity of all projects, regardless of language. Praxidicae (talk) 14:12, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Comment Global-sysops would not be affected by this, since hr.wiki opted-out of global sysop wikis (per local consensus). Therefore hr.wiki would become a stews wiki. Since that is not desirable solution for the affected group (or in the long run), and in connection with #3, stews could indefinitely promote only those new admins who have the necessary valid local consensus (measuring that consensus either here on Meta-Wiki for technical purpose of using SecurePoll, or on hr.wiki). If #3 is not implemented, then #5 is the only way to ensure that the future cases be dealt by the local ArbCom (WP:AO; rules for it are already locally in place), and if BoT of the WMF decides to set up this sui generis & temporary ArbCom it could be dismantled by the Board of Trustees, since the Board created it (if anything would go wrong). I propose that the local ArbCom be formed here on Meta-Wiki, where all cases would be handled, discussed, documented… in English and in Croatian, that would ensure the highest transparency of the ArbCom (and many more benefits). -- Несмир Кудилович (разговор) 22:31, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • Comment CommentI agree that given the level of dysfunction, an ArbCom is absolutely essential. However, we do not seem to have consensus on this as of yet. I would therefore suggest that the action items on which there is a consensus, be first closed out, and then discuss separately the specifics of the ArbCom to see if we can get a consensus on that. This could be done by starting a new ArbCom section for the discussion here, so it is not all over the place, or create a separate new RfC for the ArbCom Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:21, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There is no consensus on any item. --Silverije (talk) 00:21, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Bracodbk: you're an admin on the CW, so could you elaborate a bit on your reasons for opposing? GregorB (talk) 20:14, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support All those "strong oppose" !votes convincingly demonstrate that something is rotten in the state of Denmark. I support all proposals (the 6 above and the 7 additional ones below). To remedy this festering situation, harsh measures are needed. As a ommunity we failed the Azeri WP, let's not fail here. --Randykitty (talk) 17:28, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
First take the log out of your own eye and then look for the speck that is other's eye, if any speck at all. The involvement of outsiders with "support" votes indicates contrivance of a false appearance of virtue.--Gjiuh (talk) 15:41, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose --Gjiuh (talk) 15:41, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose I had never any problems with any of the admins on the croatian wikipedia, they were always helpfull. Also I think just because there are a few people, who can't take over the croatian wikipedia through elections and become admins, they try it this way. Get a critical mass on the croatian wikipedia and take it over there. I think all this should stay in house. Cikola (talk) 17:14, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Actually, the opposite is true. There has never been any bias on hr.wiki. It's those who complain here are trying to impose their bias. The dissatisfied users that support this RfC are imprisoned in their narrowminded views that are so strong that they are incapable to act without bias or judgment. On the contrary, Hr.wiki is excellent because they help newbies a lot. Admins are friendly, warm and pleasant. Hr.wiki provides a clear focus on the objectives. The accusations against hr.wiki I find here are poorly based and terribly boring. There is no abuse and violations of WP:PILLARS. Peregrin Falcon (talk) 21:57, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Peregrin Falcon (talk · contribs) is probably a sockpuppet. As you can see in his edits by year, he appears always in time of some crisis, or out of nowhere when his vote is needed. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 08:10, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • Sockpuppet or not, doesn't really matter because it merely continues the pattern, so I'm not going to even bother with the questions. GregorB (talk) 13:37, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • I cannot stay with my arms crossed when I see injustice and I did what I had to do. For You @Hrwikiuser: I propose that You instead of attacking the arguer, talk with arguments. Please don't blame others for the thing You exactly do because it makes You feel less guilty. @GregorB:, You have used something in small portion of the element that is questionably flaw, as a description of the whole system. --Peregrin Falcon (talk) 12:58, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
          • I never claimed I was describing the whole system. Why would I do that in the first place? I'm describing what's wrong and who's responsible. And yes, things are seriously wrong. If by "small portion" you mean the number of articles affected is small - surely you are not implying that right-wing bias would affect articles about field hockey players, animals, or villages in Mexico? GregorB (talk) 14:46, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
            • @Peregrine, so other wikis should then feel free to follow the lead of CW - e.g. openly proclaim an “anti-GreaterCroatist” agenda, then cite “publicists” and convicted fraudsters to deny or minimize crimes against Croats, while inventing genocides that Croats perpetrated, where there were none. Of course, they should then also follow CW Admins, and systematically delete and block people who dare cite historians and other Reliable Sources to contradict these falsehoods, block people who dare post links to RfCs intended to address the abuse, etc, etc. I’m sure you will be first to defend such a wiki, claiming it affects only a relatively small portion of articles dealing with Croats Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:20, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support 1 and 2. There certainly is a right-wing bias on hr.wiki when it comes to political and history topics, as well as some social topics and users with different views. Let me give some examples, some of which may have already been mentioned before. Unfortunately, I did not see a will to improve the situation by the admins subject to this RfC.
    • Example 1: In June 2019, I posted about the commons:Wiki Loves Pride 2019 photo contest in the Village Pump - a simple invitation for interested contributors to participate in it. It was met with mostly neutral to negative feedback - from accusations of it being used to "promote someone's agenda" (Kubura) to questioning if LGBT rights are human rights (Mateo K 01) later. There were also weird responses by other users (e.g. Roberta F.). This certainly isn't the first time LGBT topics were met with negative feedback or right-wing bias (e.g. when the CW article on Same-sex marriage was renamed by SpeedyGonsales to roughly "Marriage and homosexuality" (2013) and "Same-sex legal relationship" (2016); or this edit by Zeljko).
    • Example 2: the whole situation regarding Roman Leljak, the Jasenovac concentration camp, etc. I was blocked by Zeljko while, in my honest opinion, trying to make the article about Roman Leljak more neutral. Maybe another user can provide their opinion on this situation - discussion about it can be found on my CW talk page.
    • Example 3: In August 2018, I nominated the CW article on Atheism for a featured article. The article is well-sourced, neutral and covers the topic well. SpeedyGonsales promptly nominated another article, Mihovil Kombol, which is far shorter and less deserving of being a featured article than Atheism. Not to mention that the article, at the time of nomination, was still a stub. On the Atheism article's talk page Roberta F. wrote how the article was allegedly systematically biased, and how the accuracy of the article was disputed, without giving any evidence of that except for the definition of "atheism" in Hrvatska enciklopedija (which, for the record, didn't necessarily conflict with the definition of atheism in the CW article). SpeedyGonsales also added how Encyclopedia Britannica is not a reliable source because of the encyclopedia's 11th edition from 1910-1911.
    • Example 4: the situation with me being blocked by SpeedyGonsales after posting about GregorB's Signpost article, which you can read in this RfC's "Comment about "Hrwikiuser"" section. Although the block reason was "personal attacks" and "impeding the working of Wikipedia", I do not see where I was attacking anyone. A more detailed description of that event can be read in the aformentioned section.
    • Example 5: right-wing bias in articles about left-leaning politicians (e.g. Ivo Josipović, Vesna Pusić). Such articles often include sections with various information on "controversies" provided by suspicious sources and fringe groups. I'm not saying that we shouldn't include information on controversies, but the sources need to be reliable and unbiased.

--Hmxhmx 19:25, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Since I don't have time to analyze all this discussion, I will not comment on proposed measures. But, I must say I Strong oppose banning anyone from the project, especially Kubura and Zeljko, who are very productive editors and Kubura is very good in welcoming new users. --Suradnik A10 (talk) 08:01, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Suradnik A10: Note that proposals 1 - 6 do not suggest permanently banning them from making any kind of contributions on Wikimedia projects. It is proposed to permanently strip them of their administrator status (i.e. they would not be able to reapply for one, but they would still be able to contribute in all other ways). --Hmxhmx 12:27, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@suradnik10 - yes I'm sure he's good at welcoming users who are compatible with his openly proclaimed ideological campaigns against “serbo-croatism”, “neoyugoslavism”, etc, and also refrain from quoting from his hit-list of “anti-Croat” sources, like Croatian and western historians, and instead cite the “reliable sources” he's cited in this discussion, i.e. websites that claim genocidal concentration camps were mere “rest homes”, celebrate as heroes convicted Croatian war criminals, etc. If this is allowed on WP, then it might as well throw out NPOV, Reliable Sources and all other rules, and put self-proclaimed ideological warriors in charge of all WPs, give them the full authority to revert and block people they disagree with, including for daring to post links to Signpost articles and RfCs, etc Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:02, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Support Support for 1 and 4. Neutral on 2, because I don't think this step would be effective. Wary about 3, but eventually, {{support} because I don't think there's any other way to break up and perturb the clique sufficiently. Obviously, new elections for admins should come rather swiftly.
I lean toward support for 5, but I have not seen a doable way to implement it, and without such a proposal it is hard to decide on 5. I would be for 7 from the additional proposals, i.e. to start concrete discussions on such a proposal. I think this would allow for a long-term solution to the situation, which I don't see otherwise.
Neutral on 6, I don't believe in its effectiveness.
Finally, I am not sure how effective the implementation of any decision will turn out, and what would need to be done to get to a more unbiased situation. So many bridges have been burned, and so many well meaning contributors scared away, and so much groupthink groomed. I am honestly impressed by the work of the clique in the Croatian Wikipedia, and what it achieved, and I think it will be very hard to undo some of the damage caused by it without loosing the good parts. I wish something like 5 (or a path to that) could lead to such a resolution. I wish that 3 was not necessary, but I am afraid it is, or else there won't be a chance for an improvement.
I write this with a heavy heart. --denny (talk) 21:49, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Denny:, You have not been maintaining Wikipedia for over a decade and a half, You have been active only when it was necessary to evade the rule of two year inactivity. Otherwise You neglected the whole project. On the contrary, whome You attack with this message of Yours, have been dealing with all those vandals, trolls, graffiters, explaining to newbies, checking and revisiting them. Daily there is over 500 unpatrolled edits; if that is not solved, tommorrow is 1000. How many edits have You made in recent 15 years? Oh, sorry, 13? And You still use the tools that You've been stripped off by the community [24]. Have a look at Your activity in the mainspace.[25] If You follow just 80 (eighty) edits back, Denny's edits are (minor edits) from 2005.???!!! Not a single major edit!!! And after that Denny dares to say anything against anyone? Kubura (talk) 22:19, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And I am thankful for the large amount of work that you and the others have put into the project. But as your answer to my vote here show, you have frequently found to be attacking other contributors. I wonder if, without these attacks, there would be a healthier and more diverse pool of contributors in the project overall.
The goal, at least for me, is not to get you removed from the project. But to allow for a larger diversity in point of view. Research has shown that such a diversity eventually leads to a higher quality of content. But you and others have been rather effective in reducing this diversity. With behavior, just as exemplified here, and in many other contributions that are linked to throughout this page and others. I fail to see that the goal of a larger and more diverse pool of editors on the Croatian Wikipedia can be reached with the behaviour you repeatedly demonstrate.
Nevertheless, my vote remains unchanged by the answer you have given to it. --denny (talk) 22:41, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In short, You have a right to Your opinions, but You are wrong. You are talking in demagogical phrases. Casting and repeating the phrases around like a politician that has no idea what's he talking about. Like politician that is repeating the words that certain group wants to hear.
Our pool is diverse. How can You say something about the certain project if You have not been present there for over 15 years? You can not judge a country from a postcard.
"Found to be attacking": wrong. The haters always like to present themselves as victims; their cherrypicking, misrepresentation and twisting the reality is not the argument, so it's not been exemplified.
Diversity is not affected. Those that are blocked are those that are militant, aggressive and disrespective. Every block has been thoroughly explained on the talkpages of the concerned users. The "exemplifiers" skipped that part. And You obviously have not read these talkpages. Read that before You judge someone.
It is easy to play "politically correct" and "play nice" when You do not maintain, when You do not confront aggressive and destructive users. When proper user is maintaining the project, he risks popularity, and also attracts weirdos on him, literally, even without any confrontation. The group of colleagues (power and ordinary users) that are maintaining hr.wiki have problems last 5 months with the IP that is threatening with the slaughter and rape; one of them have his privacy frequently exposed. You stood away. But treating rude destructive users is impossible with feather and tickling.Kubura (talk) 23:20, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Umuthi - So following the lead of CW, other Wikis should feel free to spread similar "love" by for example claiming that Croats committed genocides against Bosniaks and Serbs in the 1990's in Bosnia, and after Operation Storm, same as CW claims Serbs committed genocide at Ovcara, even though no reliable sources state any of this is the case. Also, following CW's lead, other wikis should feel free to cite convicted fraudsters, to reduce Croatian victims in various crimes by 98%, compared to reliable sources, etc. And should you and others try to fix any of this, by citing actual reliable sources, then Admins on these other wikis should instantly mass revert and block you, while endlessly ranting against "GreaterCroatists" and their lies. Of course you and other CW participants will then instantly claim that everything is perfectly fine with such other wikis that spread and enforce similar falsehoods against Croats, that CW insists on spreading and enforcing against others Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:30, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose There is a condition if and only if. Your theory is overstretched. Too many connected statements that require the truth of the other to be the true, and You fail. There's absence of necessary conditions to be the truth, and it does not get to the condition of sufficiency.--ImeldoMax (talk) 17:01, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • ImeldoMax, I don't understand what you're saying. Could you explain, preferably with some concrete examples? GregorB (talk) 19:34, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • GregorB, this can be explained with graphs and sets, but let's use good old math logic. Too many ifs, iffs, conditional chains and circular references. (If GregorB's claim1 is true) and (iff GregorB's claim2 is true) then step2. Step2, if reached at all, often is based on fallacies from step1, and step2 is equally formulated as step1. The mere international reputation of the source does not make the information as truthful. The infinitesimal fraction of these reliable sources check the facts themselves from the primary sources. Majority of them forwards someone else's information, and that someone else also was not checking the "ground zero", but it was just another link in the chain. --ImeldoMax (talk) 12:26, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • ImeldoMax, since you are referring to math, you should know one can't have "too many ifs" if one's logic is correct in every step. You are saying "if GregorB's claim1 is true". What does that mean? If you're implying some of my premises are false, please - I'm now asking for the second time - provide a concrete example. Regarding sources, you seem to be confusing reliability and truth value. If you ran into Joe Schmoe in the street, and he told you the Earth revolves around the Sun, he may be quite right, but you don't get to cite him in a Wikipedia article. GregorB (talk) 14:28, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose This is an exaggerated request. This is not a request for comment. This is the request for demolition. Focusing on the particular users, FYI excellent contributors, is just a mean for the true goal of this request. It steals spotlight from the true intention. --TekstViler (talk) 11:38, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose This place is out of competence for this RFC. Users outside of local wiki are totally incompetent to judge the others. This case belongs to the local wiki and discussion pages over there. The small handful of condemners play the role of a victim, obfuscating the true reasons why they were blocked on CW. --Stijenor NGC (talk) 23:50, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Bad idea.--Hergel (talk) 23:49, 20 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose I find it improper that army of non-contributors yesmans holds the trial to the most active users of a particular project. Yesmans that believe to and support calumniator's phabrications, although they don't know the matter that is he talking about.--Pasac (talk) 17:05, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Pasac, surely "non-contributors" could be right and "most active users" could be wrong? GregorB (talk) 22:35, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • GregorB, A can not be the proper judge for the B. E.g., to a Westerner, the customs of some African tribes seem barbaric, violent and non-civilized, like drilling the neck of a with an arrow to extract blood for food. For those Africans, Westerners are barbaric, violent and non-civilized, because the Africans seal that cow's wound and that cow remains alive and that source of meal can be used multiple times, while the Westerners rudely slay the cow for a one time use. --Pasac (talk) 18:39, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Let's go back to the Statement of the issue. The writer wants the outside intervention. It is a method to make CW terminally dysfunctional, which is the ultimate goal of that Statement. --Šimungr (talk) 20:09, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support all proposals. Dismiss all current admins, put in a new set, carefully vet any new admins for a time until hrwiki finds its footing again. And why hasn't the Foundation bothered to close this one way or the other? Is there some procedure to raise this to their attention? If the Foundation thinks this is no big deal, so be it, but close the proposal then and say "not our problem we're hosting nationalist propaganda, nope, carry on." Anyway, agree with the above. The Wikimedia Foundation traditionally spends its money very poorly on boondoggle feel-good projects, but damn if this isn't a case for actual, paid staff. The existing hr Wikipedia user base needs to essentially be swept away and a new community needs to be built. That's an exceptionally hard task, maybe impossible. There needs to be multiple Croatian employees trusted by both the Foundation as well as any future user base to restore credibility on all sides. A project to scrupulously source and maybe use the English articles as a basis for contentious World War II stuff would also be in order. It's a hard task, but I feel that attempting it will be far more useful and impactful than any of the usual "let's hold an edit-a-thon!" style events the Foundation funds. SnowFire (talk) 17:15, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • "use the English articles as a basis " Give us a break from colonialist civilizing mission. "The existing hr Wikipedia user base needs to essentially be swept away and a new community needs to be built." So You would eradicate whole community on ethnic basis and then hold speeches about extreme nationalism, Holocaust, other WWII mass crimes and so on.--Va Kozali morčić (talk) 02:14, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • This is part of why I think there needs to be a lot of staff, and their mission might well be impossible anyway. To be extra clear, I never said anything about getting rid of people on an ethnic basis, and in fact, if the Foundation decided to tackle this immensely difficult task, the core goal of any hired staff would be to build a genuine Croatian community for hrwiki from the ashes, rather than just straight port the Serbo-Croatian wiki's community or the like. In other words, a new community would need to be credible as not some sort of outsider import. I agree with you that would be bad.
      • Anyway, a thought experiment, Va Kozali morčić: suppose a band of Serbian nationalists took over hrwiki 10 years ago, banned anyone who disagreed with them, and put in lots of pro-Serb and anti-Croat material on the basis of fringe scholarship. Would this be a cause for action? Or should the Foundation do nothing in this hypothetical situation, fearful of going on some "colonialist civilizing mission"? SnowFire (talk) 20:42, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • You can't "build a genuine Croatian community for hrwiki from the ashes". Current Croatian community is genuine and very functional. You can't eliminate whole body to please two single hairs for which You can't be sure that they belong to that body at all. "New credible community" means a couple of compradors. That is the colonialist action.
        • That is precisely what happened on en.wiki and de.wiki, more than 10 years ago. A band of Yugoslav nationalists and Serbocroatists (not a name calling, they replaced adjective "Croatian" with "Serbo-Croatian" and "Yugoslav" everywhere they got) mostly non-genuine community (not Croats at all), took over the Croat/Croatian topics on these wikis and put lots of pro-Yugoslavist and anti-Croat material on the scientifically misconcepted, politically apt and obsolete works of scholars, quack-historian journalists, all based on the wrong tenets. --Va Kozali morčić (talk) 23:14, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
          • Kozali, like all Balkan nationalists (including your Serb nationalist brethren), you guys keep claiming you're the “only genuine, true Croats”, when there are scores of articles in the Croatian media criticizing the bias on CW, plus Zagreb University historians criticizing the extreme bias on CW, particularly on WWII issues, etc. You guys repeatedly accused me and others of being “anti-Croat” because we dare cite respected Croat historians and linguists (the chief linguist behind the Declaration on the Common Language, that drives you guys crazy, is Croat, as are many signatories). Of course, you refuse to recognize these historians and linguists as Croats, because they contradict the Balkan-nationalistic propaganda, myths and lies that you guys peddle on CW, while at the same time, contrary to core WP principles, reverting and blocking people who dare cite Reliable Sources, like these same Croat and Western historians and linguists
          • You also repeat general accusations of bias on enwiki, yet when I asked you before to provide diffs proving this – i.e. that like CW, enwiki systematically reverts and blocks people who cite Reliable Sources - you failed to provide any proof. Kubura provided a diff proving I was blocked on CW for merely daring cite Croat and Western linguists. Not that abuse elsewhere justifies abuse on CW, but why don’t you at least provide diffs for your claims, although I'm sure that again you won’t, since this is a repeat pattern where you guys make unsubstantiated accusations, and then when people ask you for proof, you totally ignore them. Given this, any unsubstantiated, unproven claims you guys make should be considered prima facie false Thhhommmasss (talk) 00:56, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • Very interesting: „Dismiss them all“, „Sweep them away“, „Build a new community“ etc. Maybe invent a new hrwiki (?), … or… why not create a new Republic of Croatia (and give it the territory of Neverland). It all sounds like „Hang them all!“, or „Hang 'em High!, Hang 'em Anyhow!“, close this one way or the other (as the User:SnowFire says), „just Hang 'em!“. Or „Damn 'em!, at least“. And the perfection will be achieved (but not that of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).
        • I wonder where such persons come from. Do they jump from time to time out of the film Hang 'em High (starring Clint Eastwood) or a similar one? Are such people aware of what they are talking about? Hard to believe.
        • Do such people come from the Wild or perhaps from the country where mass killings of children, students or other innocent citizens on the street, college or so occur almost every week or month? Nowadays, in the 21st century. Not a hundred or two hundred years ago. In Croatia there are no such mass killings. People in Croatia are tolerant and friendly. All other assertions are malicious propaganda. But people in Croatia cannot accept such an insulting spitting on them, like User:SnowFire has done. He probably hasn't heard that there are scientific researches and reports which prove that Croatia is a country with high inclusiveness and tolerance (e.g. [26] report from the University of Berkeley, California).
        • Thank God, members of the Wikimedia Foundation, who sit on the committees, councils etc., are clever and smart enough not to listen too much to those radicals and extremists. --Silverije (talk) 00:50, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
          • Note: I moved this reply down here, as you inserted this in the middle of a conversation and rendered it incoherent. Silverije, you misinterpt "close this now." I mean "close this proposal now, one way or the other." If the Foundation decides they don't care to take action, they should say so rather than letting this fester and kick up bad feelings, which is something you would presumably support. I am not suggesting that Croatian Wikipedia close.
          • For your other comments, yes, I am aware as to what I am talking about. Croatia is a lovely country. It is not true, however, that all of Croatia is on-board for historical revisionism and denialism, and that daring point drivel out means spitting on all Croatians. There's a perfectly valid Croatian Wikipedia to be had that isn't infested with this nonsense. SnowFire (talk) 01:39, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose The more I see who supports this, the more I am convinced in obvious: that the Request and supporting messages are a cargo of rubble.--Va Kozali morčić (talk) 02:14, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kozali - The only ones making regular references to people's ethnicity are CW Admins like Kubura, who had problems with someone’s comments here, because as he wrote: “You are from Serbia”, plus he insults everyone he disagrees with as “a GreaterSerbianist”, and in his repeat “SerboCroatists” insults, it is clear that he has a big problem with the Serb part of the word. While Admin Zeljko complained that people are forcing the use of “Jewish sources”. Not to mention the nasty insult on an ethnic basis that I got on my Talk page, implying I was Serb and Bosniak, just because I dare comment here
On English WP people can cite Reliable Sources, and not get blocked. That is the opposite of CW where people get reverted and blocked from merely daring cite Croatian and international historians and linguists, who dare contradict the nationalist propaganda CW Admins are enforcing there, contrary to the most basic WP principles Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:10, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose A passer-by wants us to kick out of the wiki our best men just because he "thinks" that his sources are unmistakable and non-biased. Get over it. GregorB's source is internationally considered as reliable, but 30 years ago it handled with false information as truth, and that information was internationally accepted as reliable, because GregorB's source had international reputation. But. The reliability of the source does not make the information as truth. The mere fact does. Katyn massacre was until 1990 internationally interpreted as USSR official historiography claimed, that Nazis had killed the victims. The number of deaths in Jasenovac camp was internationally interpreted as Yugoslavia claimed, and in 1990's the official number sharply declined. Serbian propaganda misused diplomatic channels and media connections at the beginning of Croatian War of Independence to blame the Croatia for neonazism, antisemitism, to becloud the true nature of events. Reuters forwarded the "news" about killed Serb babies in Vukovar. Intelligence Minister of Serb parastate in Croatia Savo Štrbac claimed that Croatian forces in the ample military Operation Storm have killed 2000 Serb civilians, HHO claimed it's 600, ICTY's Prosecution claimed it's 320, and the Tribunal concluded in the final verdict that there are only 44. No bombastic "we were wrong" from the persecutors, just some hidden line with correction, if any. What then? Oops? --Orašnik (talk) 20:35, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Orasnik - Just as Serb nationalist propaganda inflated figures for Jasenovac, so did Croatian nationalist propaganda massively inflate figures for Bleiburg, claiming 600.000 or more Croat victims, when demographic data show that altogether 190.000 Croats died in all WWII and post-war, and the same Croat demographers estimate around 50.000 victims of Bleiburg - ie. 12 times less than the inflated 600.000 figure - while government named-victims-lists show only 10.000 victims. Thus, these Croat nationalists inflate figures by same massive amounts as Serb nationalists, perhaps even greater
Same for the wars of the 90s. E.g. the Croatian government suit against Serbia claimed 123 Croat civilians killed during the Serb forces’ shelling of old-town Dubrovnik. Yet the International Court of Justice said that only 2 or 3 victims could be proven, since that is the number shown on Croatian police reports at the time, and they strongly implied that the other victims were falsified, via much-later produced documents. So again we have Croatian falsehoods, similar to Serb falsehoods.
So the question then is what is a Reliable Source when both sides engage in nationalist propaganda. Certainly NOT the convicted fraudster, Roman Leljak, cited on CW. Second, when Leljak, Vukic and other Holocaust-deniers are cited, at the very least people should be able to cite Croat and Western historians who dispute these claims, particularly when it can be proven that these sources, cited on CW, are massively lying. Yet on CW such citations by Croat and Western sources have been repeatedly reverted, and I’ve been blocked for merely citing what many Croat and Western linguists say about a common Bosnian-Croat-Serb language.
Thus the main problem is that CW Admins are enforcing their nationalist POV-agenda, while systematically reverting and blocking people who dare cite Reliable Sources which contradict this POV-agenda, totally contrary to core WP principles. Show me where other wikis are citing the above Serb nationalist lies, and then same as CW, systematically revert and block people who dare cite Reliable Sources, to contradict these lies. As with all such challenges to provide proof, I'm sure this too will go unanswered. But if for once you do provide proof of such similar systematic abuse on others wikis, I'll be the first to join in asking for sanctions Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:18, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss, the number of killed in Bleiburg and following massacres are not fully investigated and there was no resources and no possibility to neutrally research the matter on the site for 50 years, and some sites are still unreachable. For the Jasenovac issue Yugoslav regime had all that time available and they unused it and misused it for exaggerations. About Bleiburg, moronic nationalists will always inflate the numbers, but reasonable Croatian patriots will try to examine the case carefully. New mass graves from Bleiburg/Way of Cross with true bodies ever appear, unlike with Jasenovac, so there is a ground for the speculations. But the case of Bleiburg is not the issue here.
Homeland War Croatian victims are not the issue here. In any case, these are known by the name so there are very very few falsifications.
Roman Leljak might be convicted for fraud, which means that he lied in one segment of his life, but that does not mean that he lies constantly and in every segment of his life. Reasonably, the verdict decreases his level of confideniality, but I repeat: the verdict does not make the source (of information) as always truthful or deceitful. The mere fact of particular case does. High quality science investigates on a case by case basis. If a researcher (being professional in area or not) is a messenger that brought the news (result of a research) that You dislike, that's not a reason to disqualify him. Leljak and Vukić challenged previous results with their results that revise previous results. That's how science works. It's up to other researchers to challenge and test their methods and results. In scientific way. Not with logical fallacies like ad nauseam "it's not" and ad hominem disqualifications "Holocaust deniers". That rule applies also to opposing authors, both Croatian and other Westerners. Historiography is a science and it does not have tabooized dogmas that are not allowed to be researched or confuted.
CW Admins do not enforce any nationalist POV-agenda. They accuse You that You enforce anti-Croat POV agenda. You are biased (not bad intrinsically), You refer to the Croatian Homeland war with euphemism "wars of 90's". You equalize Croatian and Serbian war fabrications as if they were equal in figures. Scientific community is not homogenous, everyone has its own point of view (POV). POV per se is not something negative. The "nationalist POV" can be correct, and many times is, because they do not fall under the pressure and influence of the mainstream (ad populum, ex cathedra), because they see what others don't see, what others are not allowed or not enabled to see, or what others don't want to see. Neutrality or "let's meet on the half way" is not correct way, and that is proven in Old Testament times. Case of Solomon, two mothers and a child.
Remember the meaning of "if You could walk in my shoes". If You had Croatian experiences, You would have similar (if not the same) opinion.
Croatian users are systematically reverted, topic banned and even blocked on other wikis because they dare to cite Reliable Sources which contradict agenda imposed there. Mostly on en.wiki and de.wiki, but en.wiki matters, because misinformations from that project spread elsewhere.
AFAIS, You got a block for trolling, provoking, ignoring discutants' words and often imputing people the words they did not say. Not for mere citing "what many Croat and Western linguists say about a common Bosnian-Croat-Serb language", Your edits are in such spirit. You were guilty. Your block expired long ago and I do not see the reason why do You waste everyones time with antediluvian stuff. Happy editing, --Orašnik (talk) 22:54, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Like I said, Croat nationalists have repeatedly made massively-inflated victim claims for Bleiburg, even Tudjman wrote so. As for the convicted fraudster, Leljak, he’s claimed that an obviously very partial named victims list, from the first post-war chaotic year of 1946, represents the true number of Jasenovac victims. Why doesn’t the same convicted fraudster go to Germany, and try to make the same patently ridiculous claim that the only true number of Nazi Belsen concentration camp victims is 12, since only 12 named victims were known in 1946, as opposed to the 50.000 now estimated. Why doesn’t he go and claim that perhaps only a few hundred Auschwitz victims, on named-victims lists 1946, is the only correct victim number, and that everything else is a lie
Second, not only does CW cite a convicted fraudster, but Admin Zeljko stated that this convicted fraudster, who denies 98% of all Jasenovac victims and also the vast majority of Croatian and Bosnian Holocaust victims - has “the only truth”, and that everything else (including what Croatian Western historians and the US Holocaust Museum write) is “falsifications and lies”.
Third, when I specifically sought to cite Western and Croatian historians who contradict Holocaust-deniers like Leljak and Vukic, I was repeatedly reverted and blocked. Kubura stated that sources widely cited by Western historians, and considered to be “the most knowledgeable and objective” (e.g. German generals), can’t be cited on CW, because they are “anti-Croat”, because they dared write of massive Ustashe crimes. Kubura in this discussion explicitly stated, and provided a diff, showing I was blocked for merely daring cite what many Croat and western linguists say about a common Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian language. Show me a diff where I was "trolling"
If this is all OK then de wiki Admins should feel free to cite convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of Auschwitz victims, proclaim that these convicted fraudsters have "the only truth", that what historians and Holocaust Museums write about Auschwitz are "falsifications and lies", etc. If de Admins disagree with what linguists say about the German language, they should feel free to block people who dare cite these linguists. At the same time they should feel free to proclaim the're doing all this in pursuit of a "pro-German" and "anti-Slavicist" or "anti-EuropeanUnionist" agenda, just like CW Admins proclaim a Croat-nationalist, and "anti-SerboCroatist" and "anti-neoyugoslavicist" POV agenda. Of course Serb wiki Admins should also feel free to cite convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of Srebrenica victims, and deny 98% of Croat victims at Ovcara and elsewhere, declare this "the only truth". make hit-lists of all western historians who they consider "anti-Serb" and therefore can't be cited on Serb wiki, block people for citing western linguists who say things about the Serb language that goes against their nationalistic myths, openly proclaim a "pro-Serb" and "anti-Croatist" agenda, etc, etc, etc
Btw you wrote above „If You had Croatian experiences, You would have similar (if not the same) opinion”. Similar opinions are used by Balkan-nationalists on all sides, to promote collective guilt and ethnic hatreds (like whoever recently left an insult on my meta Talk page, calling me “Srbadija”, an ugly name for Serbs, and implying I'm Moslem, i.e. Bosniak) According to this collective guilt principle, then all Serbs and Jews would have the right to hate all Croats much more, given that contrary to the Holocaust-deniers cited on CW, most western historians state that the greatest genocidal killers in the region were extreme Croat-nationalists, the Ustase. Similarly the Hague Court determined that in the wars of the 90s, Croat forces carried out an aggression against Bosnia and committed many crimes against humanity. Thus, according to Croat-nationalist “logic”, of hating all Serbs because of Serb aggression and crimes, then all Bosniaks similarly have the right to hate all “GreaterCroatist” aggressors and criminals
I note this because some others have written here that some resentments voiced by CW Admins may be understandable, given the history. If so, then Serbs, Jews, Roma and Bosniaks certainly have a much greater right to profess much greater resentments targeted at Croats. But of course, none of this is right, since there is no such thing as collective guilt. And even if Balkan-nationalists on all sides continuously propound such hatreds, while minimizing and denying their own crimes and inflating the crimes of others (as is done over and over on CW), such behavior certainly has no place on WP, much less when it is practiced by CW Admins who repeatedly violate core WP principles. Thhhommmasss (talk)
  • Strong oppose I am political leftist and I contribute with leftist ideologies, parties and movements. My edits have never been reverted at all. The articles I created have never been reedited to unrecognizable condition. So Your claim about far-right bias does not stand.--Radion (talk) 20:05, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Radion: so, what you're saying if that your articles "have never been reedited to unrecognizable condition", but other articles have, that's just fine? GregorB (talk) 20:22, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • Radion, I glanced at your contributions, and the majority are categorizations, and where you did more it’s been mostly on international themes (War in Angola, other African issues, Max Adler bio, etc). I do not see a single contribution to WWII, 90s wars or other controversial historical subjects in the region, which are the main source of nationalistic distortions, and the main source of complaints in Croatia and elsewhere about CW bias (if this is not the case, can you provide an example of where you edited such articles). In any case, as GregorB notes, even if you personally did not experience problems, this does not justify other repeat, systematic abuse described here. To me it does not matter the least if anyone is a rightist, leftist or whatever, nor does their ethnicity matter, unlike CW Admins who complain about people from Serbia participating and “Jewish sources”. The only thing that should matter is that they follow WP rules, and clearly on nationalistic hot-button issues in the Balkans (history, language, etc), CW Admins have failed to follow the rules Thhhommmasss (talk) 21:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • Thhhommmasss, You judge a book by its package, neither by the cover. You just glance and make conclusions. Too many and too daring requirements You make just based on a glance. WWII is international theme, and I made cotribution on theme of rise of development of radicalisation in Pre-WWII Austrian society that led to nazism. When speaking about "Admins who complain about people from Serbia participating and “Jewish sources”", You use spins, or You are not able to understand the context. Being from Serbia has never been a problem on CW. But, Serbia and Serbs blackmailed Croatia throughout post-WWII Yugoslavia and now with Jasenovac myth. Exploited a lot to prevent international recognition of modern independent Croatia. When a user from Serbia engages in an RfC turned against the Croatian users that he finds as the major serious danger to that myth, because these users have scientifical background, than You have a problem with bias. Jewish sources are good, because their records helped unmasking the multiplications, as shown in one post here. The bad sources he meant were the activist wannabe-historians that misuse the major tragedy of Jewish people for their private goal, and some but not all of them do act according to "Ceterus censeo Croatiam esse delendam" and for that cause they choose no means. Cordially, --Radion (talk) 19:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
          • So obviously the German generals and Croat historians I cited also all “conspired” with these same Serbs you say conspire against Croats. That’s why my citations of these sources and historians were summarily reverted, and Kubura said I can’t cite these sources, because per him they’re “anti-Croat”, because they dared criticize Ustashe genocides. On the other hand, unlike Croat and western historians, holocaust-denying “publicists” and convicted fraudsters are AOK to cite on CW, because per CW Admins they have “the only truth”.
Like I said, there are similar Serb nationalists, who per your words also claim that people “misuse the tragedy of the 1990s”, to “blackmail and destroy Serbs”. Obviously, they need to follow the example of CW, to systematically revert and block people who dare cite historians and others who wish to "blackmail and destroy Serbs”, and instead cite Srebrenica-denying “publicists” and convicted fraudsters, who deny 98% of Srebrenica victims, as well as deny 98% of Croat victims of Serb crimes in the 1990s. Then Serb WP admins need only proclaim this as “the only truth” to bring Serb WP in to same “high quality” as CW
And to rationalize all this, same as CW Admins and editors, all they need to do is repeatedly cite Croat-nationalist massive, false multiplications of Croat victims, like the 10-times or greater multiplications of Bleiburg victims, or per the International Court of Justice the very likely 40- to 60-times multiplications and falsifications of Dubrovnik old town bombing victims, plus the very likely 20-times multiplication of Croat victims at Vukovar-Velepromet, or the estimates of more than 300.000 Bosnia 90s War victims by the UN, when these victims are now estimated at 100.000, etc, etc. This of course will justify citing convicted fraudsters on Serb WP who similarly disprove "the myths" of Srebrenica and Ovcara, and reduce the Bosnian and Croat victims by 98%, to follow CW's example
Btw, since as Prof. Klasic stated, “the scandalous CW” is widely referenced in Croatia, now on Jasenovac Commemoration Day one frequently sees in Croatian online media reader comments who cite the same holocaust-denying “publicists” and convicted fraudster cited on CW, to proclaim that Jasenovac is just a fraud. So when Serb WP follows example of CW, on the day commemorating Croat victims in Vukovar and Skabrnja, Serb-nationalist commentators will be able to similarly cite convicted fraudsters from Serb WP, to claim these Croat victims of Vukovar-Skabrnja are similarly just massive multiplications, frauds and inventions. In fact to follow CW’s example further, where CW gives lots of space to the massive lie of a “post-war Jasenovac”, where Croats were supposedly the major victims, Serb WP can cite “proof” that Serbs were in fact the major victims around Srebrenica (as some Serb nationalists claim), and that Serbs were also the major victims in Vukovar, so that this too can be repeated on Vukovar remembrance day, just like the CW-cited lies of a “post-war Jasenovac” are regurgitated on Jasenovac remembrance day. Because why should CW be the only one that gets to spread falsehoods and massive lies to promote ethnic hatreds and future Balkan wars Thhhommmasss (talk)
Thhhommmasss, You are a spin-doctor. When one tells You "brown, You say "I was told 'pink'". These "anti-Croats sources", when speaking about Jasenovac and other alleged locations, are not good because the ground for their claims is ipse dixit. You can not hide that much dead bodies, they are somewhere or they do not exist at all. When and if the forensicists find those skeletons, we will gladly correct the numbers.
In all circumstances, when 1,000,000 drops to 80,000, and still no skeletons found, that is the good reason to challenge the numbers. Contrariwise, the bodies in Vukovar and Škabrnja are found and majority of them are identified, some with 29 years lag. Their cause of death is forensically confirmed, no room for speculations. From fresh post-WWII history, the skeletons of persons killed in end-war and post-war killings are found in the tank trenches, coalmines etc. Why antifas resist to digging and identification of those skeletons and want to "get out of historical traps and move on to the future"? Why are they are so sure that these skeletons do not belong to e.g. Jasenovac camp victims?
Klasić acts as the attorney of the stereotypes and lies of the Yugoslav historiography and newer Serbian historiography, e.g. qualifies Serb aggression on Croatia as a "civil war", "because the Serbs were Croatian citizens". That is the unability to know the basis of law. Civil war is when all parties involved want to be the part of the same country, and in Croatian Homeland War rebel Serbs did not. Klasić qualifies the victims of end-WWII and post-WWI persecutions as guilty "in advance", with the presumption of guilt. Instead of using presumption of innocence, like civilized Western society. He said: "We can't speak about innocent victims on Bleiburg, because among them were, besides dead civilians, culprits for crimes." He blames in the lump and that way he justifies the killing of innocent persons. That is the way how totalitarist aparatchik thinks. It is scandalous that he spreads his way of rationalizing to Western civilizations.
Srebrenica is not the topic here. Serb nationalists You speak of have been using Jasenovac myth for decades to excuse their imperialist policy and crimes. "Croats killed zillion Serbs in Jasenovac, they must pay for that, we have a right to destroy Croatia, anyone who questions this dogma is extreme right nationalist, 'enemy of people', reactionary burgeoisie and he must be eliminated".
What will sr.wiki do on their project, it's their will.
Serb nationalists do not "follow the CW example", they have been doing that since 79 years ago. As if the CW is "guilty" for Serbian nationalists' actions. They did not need the existence of CW to spread and justify their POV agenda. You speak from Serbian nationalist stand, Thhhommmasss. --Radion (talk) 15:56, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Radion - sure "anti-Croat sources", like the University of Zagreb history professors I cite, plus German generals and Nazi sources who all wrote of hundreds of thousands of Serb victims of Ustashe genocides, and 100.000 victims of Jasenovac alone, plus describe their eyewitness accounts of Ustashe extermination of children in "work camp" Jasenovac, and their eyewitness accounts of the brutal slaughter committed by "Max's butchers", i.e. the genocidal killers of Jewish, Serb and Roma women and children at Jasenovac, whom extreme Croat nationalists like to sing praises to. That's why "anti-Croat" Croat historians, and German sources are summarily reverted from CW, while they freely cite holocaust-denying "publicists" and convicted fraudsters.

Per your Balkan-nationalistic reality-distortion of the 90s Wars, here's obviously another “anti-Croat” - the Yale international law prof. Damaska, a Croat who served on Croatia’s genocide suit against Serbia, and who says that basically no courts have determined a Serb aggression on Croatia (see answer to question 4), and that per the courts this was a civil war. That is in contrast to the Hague court's explicit judgement of Croatia’s aggression on Bosnia in the 1990’s, as can be seen in the case of Dario Kordic. Thus in typical Balkan-fashion Croat nationalists claim Serb aggression in the war in Croatia, where no Court determined an aggression, while denying the internationally-judged Croatian aggression on Bosnia. Obviously, these international Courts and prof. Damaska are all part of the same “anti-Croat” conspiracy that you and your CW cohorts constantly rail about.

Incidentally, the International Court of Justice denied Croatia’s claims of Serb genocide in the 90’s, noting among other things that 99,7% of Croats survived this “genocide”, while pointing to cases where the Croat side massively inflated Croat victim numbers, by much greater multipliers than Serb inflation of Jasenovac, even stated that there is absolutely no proof for some claimed massacres, and denied Croatia’s claim of 12,500 Croatian victims of the war, instead confirmed only a few hundred named victims (thus per one of your buddy's prior claims above of only 42 proven Serb victims of Operation Storm, the Hague then also proved that at most a few hundred Croats were killed during the entire 90’s war, since that is all they name, and per CW Admins everything else is “falsifications and lies”) .

Thus again we have in typical Balkan-fashion Croat nationalists falsely claiming genocide against their side (CW perpetuates that by falsely claiming a Serb “genocide” at Ovcara), while at the same time citing massively-lying “publicist” and convicted fraudsters who deny the true Ustashe genocide’s against Jews and Roma, with 80% and nearly 100% exterminated, respectively, down to newborn, and nearly one-in-five Serbs exterminated and killed. Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:01, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Strong oppose The advocates of Serbo-Croatian cause want to abolish something Croatian.--Anfiets (talk) 08:37, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose I am shocked by outrageous proposals for blowing up whole project. It is easy to destroy the house You've not been building. --Dvastaorla (talk) 15:38, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Current Admins have driven away many contributors with their systematic abuse, here is one story in the Croatian media of just one Wikipedian who was driven away, even naming the current Admins. The title of the article, published in one of Croatia’s largest circulation dailies is: 'Croatian Wikipedia has fallen into the hands of a handful of egoists who have destroyed its reputation'. The article further states that it “It is impossible to count how many potential contributors dropped out of the project because of aggressive reverts” by Admins who seek "to impose their political views”, which has transformed Croatian Wikipedia into “a shameful grotesque”.
If these abusive Admins are removed and the abuse stops, many of these contributors will likely return. In fact if these abusive Admins are removed, CW may well flourish, since as someone stated "most editors on sh-wiki are refugees expelled from hr-wiki. They diligently write articles and sh-wiki has 450,000 articles versus hr-wiki having 212,000 articles". That's what happens when people aren't mass-reverted and blocked, as on CW, contrary to all WP rules, for daring cite Reliable Sources, like Croatian and Western historians, to contradict the holocaust-denying lies peddled on CW Thhhommmasss (talk) 17:53, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And here are some answers dealing with content and the author of „one story in the Croatian media“:„Court epilogue of persecution of administrators on Croatian Wikipedia“,„Močilac the Chemist has very shallow Biblical knowledge“, „Who is Pavle Močilac, a dangerous primitive man who attacked rector Boras?“.
And who really is Pavle Močilac? Egoist or much more than that? A threatener born in Serbia who wrote that „he would take a machine gun, poison gas, bomb or explosive and kill them (excrements) all“ (meaning Croats). How nice and polite, isn't it'? And such persons, who would really destroy its reputation, complain they cannot edit on Croatian Wikipedia. Certainly not; with a machine gun in their hands, poison gas etc.– by no means. --Silverije (talk) 23:50, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Silverije, here’s Vecernji list, a right-leaning newspaper, noting the Facebook post by the same Pavle Mocilac (who they say is a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences), wherein he responds to Zagreb University President, Boras’s, claim that the public Zagreb University should be founded on “Biblical values”. Mocilac responds this is contrary to the Croatian Constitution, which states that Croatia is a secular nation, even though he says Boras is “free to personally believe whatever he wants” (had a public university President in the U.S. proclaimed that the public university should be founded on “Biblical values”, the outcry would've been much greater).
I know you CW folks have tremendous problems with facts – like the facts in the Croatian Constitution, facts of what many Germans said about Ustashe genocides, facts of what Croatian and Western historians and linguists write, which is why CW mass-reverts and blocks people for daring write such facts. Regarding what Mocilac allegedly, separately, many months earlier commented on Facebook, I don’t see Vecernji stating this, only some unknown websites, so I won’t respond to that, and in any case that comment was specifically aimed at a Croatian political party, not as you falsely claim the whole Croat people (btw the same political party that the Hague International Court names hundreds of times as being responsible for the Croatian aggression against Bosnia, and numerous crimes against humanity),
What people with no WP official function write on Facebook about political parties concerns me much less than the holocaust-denying massive lies systematically, widely peddled to young people and others via official CW Admins, on official WP servers, contrary to all WP rules. Also instead of personal attacks on political parties on FB, I’m much more concerned when official WP Admins repeatedly rail against Serbs and “Jewish sources”, seemingly demanding an ethnically-cleansed CW Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Are you on something, Thhhhommmasss? CW was well flourishing before those media attacks performed in Stalinist manner. Many hr.wiki users left because of leftard media persecutions. Vecernji list is not the right-wing newspaper since 2012. The only thing that sh-wiki (that You glorify) does is to diligently copy articles from hr-wiki and sr-wiki and abundantly use bots. Sh-wiki is in handful of egoists who try to destroy the reputation of CW. Sh-wiki is the example of shamful grotesque by people who want to turn the wheel of history back, and to revive Demikhov-type political-language creature that has always been dead. Sh-wiki is a safe haven for those who justify notorious "health education" that includes Kinsey's "research" that is a NSFW content. In short, You justify terrorist Milan Tepić, Communist regime iudicial system (presumption of guilt) that resulted in mass murders (killed bodies exist), Tribunal that uses double standards (no pressure, no allegations regarding "exaggerated shelling" of Vukovar, Karlovac, Zadar, Gospić..., no persecution in whole vertical till the private soldier), Pavle Močilac (who misused FB for hate speech and call for violence, to "use the machine gun, bombs, battle gas" on the gathering of founders of HDZ; would he get away if he said so for gay parade?), armed attack on HDZ (as Močilac described) and international community whose policy that included non-recognising of independent Slovenia and Croatia, Croatian language and defense of Jasenovac myth encouraged Serbian aggression.--Dvastaorla (talk) 22:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Dvastoria, you further made my point by among other things ranting against Kinsey “research” (putting research in quotation marks) and railing that sh.wiki should not be able to quote such research, along with Croat and international linguists, German WWII sources, Croat and Western historians, Croatian Supreme Court rulings against Croat war criminals (promptly erased by Speedy Gonsales), and infinite other facts that are mass-reverted from CW and people blocked, against all WP rules. So to prove your rantings, why don’t you show diffs where sh.wiki similarly blocked people for citing Reliable Sources, like CW Admins openly posted diffs, showing they blocked me for daring cite Croat and Western linguists. I and many others have repeatedly asked for proof your many allegations here, but as long as you refuse to give any proof, you’re obviously just falsely making stuff up, same as CW peddles holocaust-denying falsehoods and massive lies in its articles. Regarding what that guy, with no official WP role, may or may not have said on Facebook, you’re free to report him to FB, if indeed any of that is true, while WP should deal with official CW Admins spreading documented holocaust-denying lies and perpetrating abuse on WP servers (btw, instead of FB writing, WP might investigate who from a Split IP address faked here Cyrillic hate speech against Croats, and then from the same IP person insulted me, calling me an ugly name for Serbs and a Moslem, showing his true leanings) Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:44, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose How self-righteous can you be to utter such disgusting accusations against the project whose language You don't even understand and whose national history You don't know?--Kutni Rez (talk) 18:39, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong support Strong support for any or all viable proposals above or in other sections below. The problems and evidence have clearly been piling up for years. The direct testimony and arguments presented here by the admins themselves is the most damning evidence of all. From legal threats to rabid paranoid nationalistic ranting, they are blatantly and grossly incompetent as editors, much less as admins. They have no understanding of Neutrality, and no grasp of the purpose of Wikipedia. They clearly do not understand that it is not a National-Croatian Wikipedia, it is Wikipedia that happens to be in Croatian language. Things like Neutrality are non-optional, and may not be overruled by any admin or any local consensus. In regards to this RFC I want to strenuously emphasize that consensus is not a headcount, the fact that these admins have so terrorized their wiki that a number of ideologically-purified users could be called in to cast worthless oppose votes should not undermine the clear consensus of the impartial global community. Not only are they destroying the reputation of Croatian Wikipedia, not only are they damaging the reputation of Wikipedia globally, we are failing in our core mission to serve readers if we fail to act here. Alsee (talk) 15:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Why don't you read first the text a few centimetres above, where you can find some of the answers to your comment, before you start writing generally and broadly? --Silverije (talk) 19:17, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Followup to my !vote above: I am a long standing responsible EnWiki community member. Among my work, I am experienced RFC-closer. I closed a 10-vs-20 RFC[27] with consensus for the 10 because a closer is supposed to evaluate consensus by "judging which view has the predominant number of responsible Wikipedians supporting it".[28] The 10 were largely impartial uninvolved editors applying policy, and the 20 were largely canvassed Nationalistic POV-warriors with no knowledge or respect for policy. One side was supported by had few (if any) responsible Wikipedians. I just randomly checked on the most recent opposer, and I quickly found that they are a historical-revisionist Truth warrior citing an insane conspiracy theorist website as a source.[29] The source hrvatski-fokus.hr is filled with crazy conspiracy theories. Skimming the science section I found anti-vaxx conspircacy, evolution conspiracy, and climate conspiracy theories. Glancing at the Religion section I found that the church is being "infiltrated" by homosexuals, and that Corona virus and other pandemics are a retribution from god that can only be cured by prayer. That is not just crazy, that is deadly-dangerous. One of the Admins cited in this RFC, Kubura, also cites the same insane source.[30] This source is cited 121 times on HrWiki.[31] If we spent the time to examine all the opposes here, I have no doubt we will find few if any "responsible Wikipedians" among them. There is something seriously wrong if we can't do anything when AzWiki and HrWiki are taken over by obviously abusive ideological warrior admins. Alsee (talk) 16:10, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Alsee, You are a long standing EnWiki member that in seven years have not written a single main space article [32][33] and has blank user page. There is a same mold of blankist users that like to play the role of supreme court that always condemns. The site You disapprove is highly esteemed. You rush to conclusions. No deep introspective, just by skimming. As if You judge the newspaper by the sections of caricature, leisure (usually contain those conspiracy theories) or horoscope section. You are in a confirmation bias. In the examples You presented; this source [34] You name as "insane" is the esteemed local historian, romanist, publicist and University professor [35]. The other source cited is a text by serious columnist [36] and her original text is not a conspiracy theory, but a serious publicist analysis [37]. FYI, the question of infiltration of homosexuals into the Church arose when in 1980's there was an outbreak of AIDS epidemia in monasteries in USA [38]90, 91. History like any science knows no permanent "truths" and revisionism is the necessity. You failed as the evaluator. Go and start doing something useful for a change, like writing main space articles. --Verud (talk) 12:55, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Verud, on this very page Kubura cited as his “NPOV authority” on why Jasenovac should not be called a concentration camp, the website “braniteljski.hr”, as the title states, a website geared to 90s Croat war vets. Thus, according to him they should have the final word on defining how things are called on CW, not the Croatian official state Jasenovac Memorial, plus many Croat historians, as well as by far the predominant usage on the .hr domain, all of which call Jasenovac a concentration camp. Despite this overwhelming evidence, SpeedyGonsales on CW lied that the term concentration camp is not used in Croatia for Jasenovac. Obviously following this lead, Serb wiki should cite as their lead “NPOV, Reliable Sources” on Ovcara, Srebrenica and other Serb war crimes, Serb websites geared to Serb 90s war vets.
For like the Jasenovac revisionists, widely-cited on CW, Serb revisionists of Srebrenica also claim they’re way ahead of the “falsifications and lies” of western historians (to use CW-Admin Zeljko's words). And when they get around to similarly revising Ovcara, with the “truth” that Serbs were the main victims of Ovcara (just like Jasenovac-revisionists invent a “post-war Jasenovac” with Croats as the main victims), I’m sure you’ll be the first to welcome this “necessary revisionism”, and also congratulate them on the healthy impacts such Ovcara revisionism has on the entire region, when they publish these “truths” on Serb wiki
@verdun, I checked the sources, cited on CW by Kubura, that you claim are esteemed and serious, like Lili Bencik, whose total, self-described qualifications on her Linkedin page consist of: retiree, plus for 4 years as a self-employed editor. In contrast, there was a commission of Italian and Slovene historians who wrote a report on the events in Istria and Trieste, and this professional report differs substantially from the falsehoods peddled on CW, via Kubura’s citations of the self-employed editor, Bencik (e.g. the commission estimated a total 3.000, mainly fascists killed in postwar reprisals in all of Istria and Trieste, vs. Bencik’s claim of 15.000 killed in Trieste alone, etc) Regarding the claim that Tito ordered the bombing of Split, as proof the cited publicist, esejist and French language teacher, Frano Baras, cites the Ustashe newspaper, Novo doba. So following the lead of CW, obviously regarding “the truth” for the wars of the 90s, one only need similarly cite Serb French language teachers who cite Milosevic’s papers from that period, as comparable “NPOV”, “Reliable Sources”. All this Kubura cites from hrvatski-fokus.hr, a website that engages in Jasenovac- and holocaust-denial, and proclaims the convicted Croat war criminal, Slobodan Praljak “a hero above heroes” - i.e. perfectly in line with all the other holocaust-denying “publicists” and convicted fraudsters that CW Admins cite and insist have “the only truth”, while they systematically revert and ban people for daring cite Croat and international historians, plus other Reliable Sources Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:15, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
So, there are self-proclaimed experienced and long standing responsible EnWiki community members(!?), like User:Alsee, who have found that „almost all Croatian Wikipedians (precisely: few if any "responsible Wikipedians" among them) are irresponsible, inexperienced, canvassed Nationalistic POV-warriors with no knowledge or respect, historical-revisionists, deadly-dangerous Truth warriors citing insane conspiracy theorist websites as sources“, etc. etc. etc. How nice! Anything else, please? And all that from such allegedly responsible users with hidden identity, possibly secret agents with vague and troubled past, who most probably hardly speak Croatian language properly, but who have found themselves competent and relevant to discuss and to judge the matters they see through their extremist glasses. Thanks for the information anyway. --Silverije (talk) 22:18, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The only ones who have successfully cleansed many Croats from CW are CW Admins. Many have simply departed because of the repeat abuse. CW Admins have repeatedly reverted citations of Croat historians and Croat linguists, proudly proclaimed here they blocked people for citing same, even reverted citations of the Croatian Supreme Court, plus flat out lied on CW to contradict Croatian state institutions, Croatian dictionaries and predominant language usage on the .hr domain (all 3 of which call Jasenovac a concentration camp), because obviously all these are not “Croat” enough for them - i.e. all these Croats dare contradict the extreme ideological propaganda and lies they peddle on CW. In fact, one of the biggest lies they peddle is that only they represent all Croats, when there is plenty proof that their extremist views do not represent even the majority of Croats. In any case, regardless of any ideologies, no WP Admins should have the right to trample on core WP principles, as they’ve repeatedly done Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose GregorB, Your personal beliefs are so strong that you can't tell them from the reality. You are detained in your beliefs. The reality cannot pour into your world, because all your neurons are occluded. --Žvane (talk) 11:24, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly, as Admin Zeljko stated, the only “reality” are the holocaust-denying “publicists” and convicted fraudsters cited on CW, and everything else is “falsifications and lies” – i.e. everything written by Holocaust Museums, Croat and Western historians, German generals, Croat and international linguists, the Croatian Supreme Court, Croatian dictionaries, etc, etc, etc. That is why people who dare cite all the latter are reverted and blocked from CW. Like flat-earthers, Balkan nationalists insist the rest of the world is wrong, but that does not mean WP should also give free-reign to a flat-earth wiki, particularly when, as historians write, the toxic mess peddled on CW, via WP servers, produces wars and mass-killings 19:06, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Personal attacks? It seems to be vice versa. --Silverije (talk) 22:18, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, what? I'm not understanding what you are trying to say. * Pppery * it has begun 00:39, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You're not understading? Well, let me explain then what I meant. You've written above: „opposing reasons appear to consist primarily of personal attacks“, and I said „It seems to be vice versa“, meaning just the opposite, i.e. „supporting reasons appear to consist primarily of personal attacks“. Was I clear enough? --Silverije (talk) 22:24, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose This RfC stands for Rant for Crap. It violates the five pillars of Wikipedia. #1 Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a quasi-judicial body as this RfC. #2 This RfC is written from the partisan point of view. #3 It turns the Wikipedia into the limited content that only politically suited can use, edit, and distribute. #4 It treats unsuitable editors with disrespect. They are always on suspect's chair and exposed to uncivil accusations. #5 The messages of this RfC are: #5.1 The rules are strict and You must be straight on the line. #5.2: Be a coward, don't You dare to say anything if the Committee does not tell You that You can, and what You can. This RfC is a major endeavor to alter entirely the essence of Wikipedia.--Moderni futurist (talk) 18:22, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@moderni -another general rant, as we’ve now witnessed for over 6 months, without any facts to rebut the many specific charges against CW Admins. The message of this RFC is that you must follow WP rules, like NPOV and Reliable Sources, instead of citing massively-lying, holocaust-denying “publicists”, convicted fraudsters, “self-employed editors”, Croatian websites that also engage in holocaust-denial and celebrate convicted Croat war criminals, etc, while at the same time systematically reverting editors who dare cite Croat and Western historians, Croat and international linguists (then openly bragging here about blocking people for daring cite Croat linguists), even reverting citations of the Croatian Supreme Court, contradicting Croatian dictionaries and common Croatian usage, etc, etc. Plus just during this RfC blocking people for merely posting links to Signpost and the RfC, repeatedly attacking and trying to discredit people by finding infinite ways to call them Serbs (since per CW Admins such ethnic attacks are obviously greatest insult they can think of), railing against “Jewish sources”, proudly, loudly proclaiming a nationalist POV-agenda - all of which we’ve witnessed during this RfC, along with repeat vandalization and outright hate speech, intended to disrupt the RfC. They've repeatedly attacked and sought to drive away all who do not agree with them, and this endeavor is entirely to try to save WP from the massive abuse and violations of core WP principles, perpetrated by CW Admins and their cohorts Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:33, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Wise Dostojevski long ago wrote in his novel Idiot, through the character Yevgenij Pavlovich, "our liberals are not capable to allow that someone has own different opinion, without responding to the opponent with the sequence of insults, and with something much worse." The same applies here.--Neadin (talk) 20:13, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Again generalities, which hav nothing to do with the many specific charges against CW. The only ones systematically censoring, reverting and blocking people for daring cite Reliable Sources, are CW admins. And they’ve proudly proclaimed so here, even providing diffs to prove it, stating that people can’t cite sources they’ve declared as “anti-Croat” (e.g. Croat and Western historians, international linguists, etc), just like all totalitarians proclaim those they disagree with as being anti-this-or-that
And even if CW Admins were not systematically censoring, WP is not a free speech platform, where everyone gets to use WP servers to espouse any POV-agenda they wish, like the nationalist Croat agenda CW Admins have openly proclaimed, and many Croats disagree with. Instead all must follow WP rules like NPOV, Reliable Sources, etc. If you want to push your POV, get a blog, Facebook or Twitter account, where you can say pretty much anything, even delete and block those who contradict you, as CW Admins do Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It is You who want to block those who contradict You. You even up the freedom of speech, freedom of scientific research with nationalist POV-agenda. The generalities from Dostojevski's novel do have many things with these charges against CW. If You want to push Your POV, organize a support group, take a drum and lament together over the exposed myths.--Neadin (talk) 16:59, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Again generalities, zero specifics. I did not block anyone, instead the CW Admins blocked me for daring cite Croat and Western linguists and historians, because this goes against their POV-pushing agenda. Kubura even attached diffs proving this was the case. So they’re blocking my freedom to cite Reliable Sources, as per WP rules, while they themselves cite holocaust-denying convicted fraudsters and massively-lying “publicists”, as “the only truth”. They instantly reverted my citations of Zagreb University history professors who contradict these massive lies. There is no freedom on WP to cite massively-lying convicted fraudsters, in support of openly-proclaimed, POV-pushing, Balkan-nationalistic agendas. The holocaust-denying “scientific research” on CW, is same as the Srebrenica-denying “scientific research” pushed by your Serb nationalistic brethren. Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:19, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose A request founded on "reliable sources". Not all written sources are reliable, no matter how strong the reputation of the source is. Established rating agencies with a century-long strong good reputation proved on daily basis also made major failures and errors throughout their history. For example they have been assigning the AAA credit rating to the junk securities for a long period of time, and the result was the the Great Recession in mid-late 2000s. Equal issue here. The reputation can not change the fact that junk information is always the junk, and junk argument is no argument to disassemble an entire language wiki.--Gretim (talk) 17:31, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yet more claims that CW should not be based on Reliable Sources. This goes with previous abundant proof and admissions that they've blocked people for daring cite Reliable Sources, open proclamations of POV-agendas by CW Admins, etc. Thus repeat admissions and proof that they've violated core WP principles like NPOV and Reliable Sources, and are proud of it. If this were a jury considering a case of self-confessed murder by someone standing over a corpse with a still smoking gun, obviously the jury would be still mulling things over after 7 months. In fact this is more like being an eyewitness to a murder, since they've continued with violations of core WP principles throughout this RfC - blocked people for merely posting links to to Signpost and RfC, insisted that POV-proclamations by their approved politicians are "the only truth", cited here as their "reliable sources" websites that engage in Holocaust-denial and celebrate convicted war criminals, complained of people being from Serbia while finding infinite ways to call someone a Serb as their main "argument", not to mention all the vandalization and even hate speech, intended to disrupt this RfC. So perhaps WP principles, like NPOV and Reliable Sources, mean absolutely nothing when it comes to CW Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:23, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Comment Two months ago I cast a support !vote. Ideological admins have been disregarding Reliable Sourcing and NPOV and other Policies, and have abused their tools to create an ideologically-purified community that disregards (and doesn't understand) Reliable Sourcing and NPOV and other Policies. Since I posted my support, the HrWiki community has only further condemned itself by submitting the following oppose rationales:
    • Kumordinar Žorž: Opposes by equating this RFC to ethnic cleansing. That is about one millimeter shy of Godwin's law. Bravo!
    • Žvane: Sole rationale for opposing is that they disagree with others' "personal beliefs". Personal beliefs are irrelevant. You should be working from Sources and Policies instead.
    • Mala Truba: Gives no reason whatsoever for opposing, other than to complain about "holier-than-thou" tone.
    • Verud: Opposes because hrwiki is "ran by prudent approved users". The entire REASON this RFC is necessary is because the admins only allow ideologically "approved" users to edit.
    • Guburljuk: Doesn't give any reason for opposing, other than content-free personal attack "activistic marginals backed with deletionists want to feed their megaego". They combine that with a simply false claim that the RFC would "expunging a language wiki from the face of the Earth".
    • Moderni futurist: Opposes with a largely content-free and incoherent attempt to appeal to the five pillars of Wikipedia. Essentially they argues that this type of RFC is inherently invalid (simply false, as kind of RFC has been used before), and the rest argues from raw unsupported partisanship.
    • Neadin: Opposes on the basis of a work of fiction, titled Idiot, arguing they are being persecuted by liberals.
    • Gretim: Gretim argues from the clearest and worst sin of all, that Wikipedia is supposed to contain Truth. They flat out argue that sources with a "strong reputation" should be disregarded, because theoretically it could be wrong and because Gretin presumes themselves the arbiter of Truth. Gretim has decided to use Wikipedia as a vehicle to GIFT the world with Gretin's Truth. Tip for all editors: Wikipedia does not contain truth. Wikipedia is (or at least should be) an accurate summary of what Reliable Sources say. If all of the science textbooks say the moon is made of cheese then Wikipedia must accurately summarize those sources. Wikipedia is not a place to debate or resolve Truth, it is not a place for Truth-warriors. Alsee (talk) 07:31, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This is both the reason why I postulated the CW community is dysfunctional and, in particular, why I stressed it is "vital to choose the actions which, on the whole, cannot be subverted, worked around, or even rolled back through local consensus". GregorB (talk) 18:38, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support 1, 2, 5, 6. Everything here is extremely troubling, and I think while banning all admins is too much, there should be some sort of committee to look at all the admins and ban them on a case by case basis--Zoozaz1 (talk) 23:16, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Bossy people want everything to be their way. They want to direct others, give orders, impose deadlines. To that cause they initiated this Request for comment. They speak with a lot of authority, as if Wikimedia is their ownership, but they represent no authority here and they do not own the Wikipedia. GregorB and Thhhooommmmmassss are not in charge of hr.wiki. --Hari Tre (talk) 19:46, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Answer to falsified allegations

Excuse my French, but this RFC is load of crap. First two points GregorB wrote above, namely "Far-right bias in a number of topics, most notably related to World War II, including outright historical revisionism and Holocaust denial." and "Proliferation of grossly unencyclopedic, poorly sourced, and unsourced biased content." are either straight lies, or falsification or misrepresenting the facts. In short:

  • During and after WWII communist government in then Yugoslavia did number of crimes, which are today abundantly documented, by scientists and researchers, and no scholar, domestic - meaning speaking the language and living in the country this crimes were committed, or foreign scholar, disputed that. I don't write about en:The Black Book of Communism, which is targeting communism in whole East Europe, and maybe somewhere it misses its target a bit, I mean books like: "Partizanska i komunistička represija i zločini u Hrvatskoj 1944.-1946. - Documents", ISBN 953-6659-20-4 etc, which are solely based on documents, which make no summarized judgement, but just state the atrocities communist government made. Resolution of European Parliament named "Importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe" is by some criticised as unjust equalization of Nazism and Communism, but it could help in societies where WWII war criminals are still praised and laudated for their crimes, like mass killing is a good thing. Have in mind, this resolution restate that ALL crimes must be judged. That means, crimes of communist states are not smaller because countries opponents of Hitler did it. As US did their best to end WWII with as low bloodshed it can possibly be, Hiroshima & Nagasaki are still mass murders of civilians, but that happened before end of war, and had it's purpose. What to call murders of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands which happened after end of war, and had no purpose except killing all possible opponents of new government?
    • No holocaust denial is happening on Croatian Wikipedia. In Croatian society is active process of estimation of number of victims of WWII, scholars are doing it. Communist regime not doubled or tripled, but multiplied some numbers by 10 or 100, to get more money in reparations from Germany, which is also well documented, by Serbian historic Zoran Janjetović in his book "Od Auschwitza do Brijuna, Pitanje odštete žrtvama nacizma u jugoslavensko-zapadnonjemačkim odnosima", ISBN 978-953-6979-41-7.
  • Croatian Wikipedia is not perfect, I am not perfect, or users of our project are not perfect. But, we allow all valid sources. Some dispute books printed in Croatia after 1990, which is ridiculous, as scientists (historians) are doing their job same today as before 1990.

GregorB clearly lies (OK, misrepresents) about media coverage of our project, there was some media coverage of Wikipedia in Croatian language in 2013, but it was not taken by serious media, and in 2018 there was no criticism in Croatian media at all towards Wikipedia in Croatian language, except in Novosti, paper of Serbian minority in Croatia, which is well known as ridiculous, non-serious paper which exist purely as it is funded by state budget for minorities, and is allowed to publish rubbish as this is called freedom in democratic country.

In conclusion, number of users of Wikipedia in Croatian language is steady, and users would themselves raise an issue, if there would be an issue to be raised, but there is not. Sysops are often under pressure, I myself dislike that my volunteer work of 15 (going on 16) years is in this way denigrated, but, that is obviously the case, sysops are here to fight any ridiculous accusation anybody can issue, and GregorB is kind of serious; if you are not insider, you can easily trust this web of carefully crafted falsifications. But I ensure you, his statements are false.

We can discuss about anything, content of articles, sysop actions, no problem here, but to state that sysops are biased without any serious base for that except things that are in 2013 invalidated is sad or laughable, or both. If Wikipedia would take statuses of sysops because one or few disgruntled users state their falsifications on meta, Wikipedia as a project would be long gone. As I stated in previous sentence, I am open for discussion of everything, but to loose precious time with users who are clearly ready to falsify facts, I am somewhat reluctant, I hope you understand that. Best wishes to you all! SpeedyGonsales (talk) 16:46, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Umm... you did edit the Croatian version of "Black Book of Communism", didn't you? Also, Croatian version of "holocaust denial" looks small-ish in contrast to English Wikipedia one, which is larger, more detailed, and GA-promoted. Also, English version says that those deniers would make "false statements", while the Croatian one (via Google Translate) didn't say much about the deniers. How do you explain the significant differences between the two versions? BTW, English article doesn't deem Novosti as unreliable as, say, en:Daily Mail and en:Breitbart News, both of which are forbidden to be used as source of facts due to mainly due to their content and accuracy issues. Moreover, I don't know why you accuse others of falsehood without substantial evidence. George Ho (talk) 17:43, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The main issue with hr.wp is that it repeatedly deletes citations of sources deemed authoritative and widely quoted by western historians, and when people complain, they block them. For example, I quoted the German general von Horstenau, whom the widely respected historian Jozo Tomasevich deems “the most authoritative and most objective of sources”, and is further quoted by numerous other historians, yet all quotes from him were instantly deleted from hr.wp, with the explanation that he is “unreliable” and “anti-Croat”, presumably because he dared criticize Ustasha atrocities. I guess that means in Serbian Wikipedia, they can declare widely quoted critics of Milosevic as “anti-Serb”, and instantly delete them, then block everyone who protests. I’ve also had quotations deleted from the US Holocaust Museum (with the explanation “they are not immune to fraud”), University of Zagreb historians, etc. For quoting these sources I was repeatedly blocked or threatened with blocks

While deleting widely quoted Reliable Sources, hr.wp simultaneously allows the quoting of the convicted forger, fraudster and Holocaust denier, Roman Leljak. Contrary to the US Holocaust Museum and most western historians, who put the Jasenovac death toll at 80.000 to 100.000, Leljak claimed the toll was 1,654, based on some Yugoslav document from 1946 he dug up, which at the time, in the chaotic post-war conditions, was able to document only 1,654 individual names of Jasenovac victims (many names were added later by subsequent efforts). I responded that in the Belsen trial, the Allied authorities in 1946 could document only 12 named victims, compared to the 50.000 victims of that Nazi camp, that most now estimate. I wrote to admin zeljko, that claiming that an obviously incomplete Jasenovac named-victims-list from 1946, is the only correct count, is like someone insisting that the only correct estimate of Belsen victims are those 12 named victims in the first post-war documents, and that the 50.000 Belsen victims that most now estimate, are all lies. Or that the Auschwitz known named-victims list fromm 1946 (perhaps only in the hundreds, or a couple of thousand), is the only true count, and everything else is "a lie". Yet zeljko and other hr Admins deleted my edits with US Holocaust Museum and other estimates of victims, with the claim “We have official Yugoslav ...names of all who were in [Jasenovac – i.e. the document dug up by Leljak with 1.654 victim names], and among those who was killed.... So everything else remains...malicious propaganda and unfounded charges”. Thus per hr Admins, the only true number of Jasenovac victims are the claims by a convicted fraudster, forger and Holocaust denier. This, combined with repeated deletions, attacks and blocks of editors who protest, makes hr.wp totally unprofessional, contrary to the most basic WP principles Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:05, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That is exactly what is happening. They delete citations that are referenced by multiple authors, and that just hurts. I can just see how one would just give up if they delete your contribution. I wanted to make a little change of obvious misinformation that Tvrtko II was Croatian noble. You can't find any resource or book that would support that claim. I found at least 3 citations (2 by Croatian authors) that speak of Tvrtko II as a Bosnian king - nothing more, nothing less. I was banned as a vandal. Simply unacceptable and unscientific! --Mhare (talk) 19:23, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Here's the hrwiki version, just in case. George Ho (talk) 21:02, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is Your PPOV, @Mhare:. First, You have not been permablocked or even banned, but 1 day block; further explained on the talkpage. You are misusing this RfC for imposing Your point-of-view, instead of using corresponding talkpage. Kubura (talk) 21:26, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
First of all, it's not my POV. It is recognized literature, and I believe they were all Croatian authors. Well, you said it all. I was blocked for 1 day for entering referenced information. Even quoted Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. This is just sad. --Mhare (talk) 22:34, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is, as I stated before. I don't now why you have a problem with Croatians in Bosnia. --Ceha (talk) 10:30, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Poštovani Thhhommmasss nijedan izvor o pretpostavkama i nagađanjima o broju žrtava u Jasenovcu nije obrisan. Pogledajte sami povijest članka i uvjerite se. Ako je ijedan uklonjen, ja ću ga vratiti. U stvari neke suradnike smeta što sam JA u tekstu dodao i podatke koje je naveo Leljak. A ti podaci su fotokopirani spisi koje je nakon rata otkrila OZNA ili UDBA i koji su se krili u Beogradu. Pa kakva je to bila nepristranost na Wikipediji ako se nesmije staviti ono što jednoj strani ne paše. Lip pozdrav iz Hrvatske. --Zeljko (talk) 22:43, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Like I said zeljko, there are Allied documents from 1946 showing only 12 named victims known at the Belsen camp at that point, hence per the convicted fraudster, Leljak, and you, "proof" that only 12 people were killed at Belsen, and the 50.000 claimed victims by most historians today, are just "propaganda". In the Jasenovac article, you quote these ridiculous claims by the convicted fraudster, Leljak, in the very first sentence of the very first paragraph on Victim Estimates, whereas a much briefer sentence fragment of victim estimates by the United States Holocaust Museum (which btw is also the consensus estimate by most Western historians), is buried some 20 or 30 estimates below that. Any objective approach would have reversed this, put the estimates by the consensus estimates by the US Holocaust Museum and other reliable sources at top, and most likely ignored ridiculous claims by fraudsters such as Leljak. And the problem is not only that, but the fact that you went and immediately deleted my quotes of University of Zagreb history professors, who dispute Holocaust deniers like Leljak, Igor Vukic and others whom you extensively quote. hr Admins also repeatedly deleted my quotes of many other sources quoted by western historians, then banned me, or threatened to ban me when I complained Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:49, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Procjena nije činjenica, a te procjene su takve da već postaju besmislene. Bio Leljak lažljivac ili ne, on u svojoj knjizi Mit o Jasenovcu bez komentara iznosi samo dokumenta koje je pronašla politička milicija poznata kao OZNA i koji su se od 1946. donedavno skrivali od očiju javnoasti u Beogradu. Čemu ta skrivanja dokumenata, osim da bi se moglo manipulirat sa brojem žrtava. U dokumentima su poimence navedene sve žrtve sa njihovim imenima, odakle su, šta su bili po zanimanju, i kako su umrli.

@zeljko - Leljak does not just present the 1946 document as "a fact". Here's a video of him claiming that Jasenovac was not not a place of mass killing, and then goes on to claim that the true number of Jasenovac victims was in fact 1.654, and everything else is made up, thus claiming that the number of Jasenovac victims was 50 times less than the number of victims given by the United States Holocaust Museum, the Croatian Jasenovac Memorial and most western historians, who place the victim numbers at 80.000 to 100.000. This claim that you and Leljak made of 1.654 being the only true number of victims is also total Holocaust-denial, since the US Holocaust Museum and many other sources state that 13.000 to 20.000 Croatian Jews, i.e. up to two-thirds of all Croation Jews killed in the Holocaust, were exterminated at Jasenovac. Yet in the section on Victims Estimates you lead with this total misrepresentation and falsehood, and further you made claims that this totally false claim from a convicted fraudster is the only true number, and everything else - i.e. including the 50 times greater estimates by the US Holocaust Museum, the Croatian state Jasenovac Memorial Area and the vast majority of western historians - is "propaganda". Like I said, claiming that the document from 1946 is "a fact" is same as quoting the fact that that court documents from 1946 name only 12 known Belsen victims, and then using this to make the totally false claim that only 12 people were killed at Belsen, and not the 50.000 now thought by most historians. I.e. it is using facts to falsify, since there are many other facts which totally contradict Leljak's claims. The Srebrenica-denier Dobrica Cosic, similarly claimed there is a 1995 US document mentioning just 400 victims of Srebrenica, and thus claimed this is the true number. For all I know such a document may indeed exist (based on what someone may have thought at some point in 1995), since there are numerous documents that all holocaust-deniers - including Leljak, Igor Vukic and Cosic - continuously cherry-pick and selectively quote out of context to make their case. Yet if the Victims Estimates section of a WP Srebrenica article led with Cosic's claim of 400 victims, I'd say every last Srebrenica Admin should be kicked out. Particularly if, as in the case of hr.wp Admins, they repeatedly reverted and blocked people who quote the same sources as western historians, University of Zagreb historians, etc, in order to contradict the claims of the Holocaust-deniers quoted on hr.wp Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:58, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Ako postoji nešto bitno za članak sa potkrijepljenim izvorima vrati, budući da neznam o čemu se točno radi. To je bitno, jer kad istina izađe na sunce, onda će se vidjeti ko je muljao sa tzv podacima i tvrdnjama. Lip pozdrav --Zeljko (talk) 12:17, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@SpeedyGonsales: First of all: you said "GregorB clearly lies (OK, misrepresents) about media coverage of our project", and you claim that "in 2018 there was no criticism in Croatian media at all towards Wikipedia in Croatian language, except in Novosti". Yet, the Signpost article quotes and references, apart from Novosti, two more such articles. You should really know better than to accuse others of lies, when you clearly didn't bother to read the article with any degree of understanding, and it is your claim that is demonstrably false. In fact, a one-minute Google search finds two more such articles: one is titled "Croatian Wikipedia in the hands of the extreme right" and the other "Croatian Wikipedia reaches new low with a new Jasenovac article".
In more than 1/3 of your reply, you're talking about the communists, something that has nothing to do with the topic we're discussing here. It turns out that, whenever Croatian Wikipedia and you personally get accused of right-wing bias, the "communist" card is played, like, for example in this edit you made in 2013 in the English entry on the Croatian Wikipedia. Your edit summary was, and I quote, "rephrased to remove POV", so this also serves as a good English-language example of your approach to NPOV.
It's utterly useless to argue that my claims of "Far-right bias in a number of topics, most notably related to World War II, including outright historical revisionism and Holocaust denial." and "Proliferation of grossly unencyclopedic, poorly sourced, and unsourced biased content." are false, when the Signpost article presents a number of supporting examples (limited, obviously, by available space). What is more, it presents a number of examples where you, Kubura and Zeljko are directly responsible, all easily proven by diffs. This is the crucial issue here, but about that you didn't say a word. I'm sure you know why.
Finally, I'm certain that in the future you'll keep complaining that the accusations were trumped-up, unjust, false, or whatnot, but the fact is you had the time, means, and opportunity to respond, and you managed to say absolutely nothing of substance. GregorB (talk) 09:52, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As a general note to all, your arguments would be more convincing if you found the diffs to back up statements of alleged onwiki behavior. --Rschen7754 16:28, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As stated in the "Evidence" section above, all diffs pertaining to on-wiki actions discussed by the Signpost article, and ascribed to Kubura, SpeedyGonsales, and Zeljko, can be found in the article's partial translation to Croatian here. None of it has been challenged thus far. GregorB (talk) 16:53, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is the diff that was used as reason to ban me. --Mhare (talk) 17:29, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify more - I just changed part of the sentence. "Croatian noble" was replaced with "Bosnian King". --Mhare (talk) 17:34, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
And again, you have a problem with Croats in Bosnia, and you tried to provoke an edit war. --Ceha (talk) 10:30, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This all is trolling as a method of attack on hr.Wikipedia. All these allegations have already been explained on the talkpages of respective users who complained here. Read them first. Not just these complaints with skipped sensible parts that compromise the complainters.
The attack on hr.wikipedia is like the case of minor and loud group (with no support in country) that cannot takeover the reign in the country from inside, so they choose the means of foreign intervention.
Also, this is again the attempt of jamming, so hr.wiki cannot grow, but to live in endless circle of senseless, low blow accusations.
Whenever hr.wiki shows nice growth and excellent editing atmosphere, than the jealous, envious and badintentional users attack.
BTW, this RFC was started just around the en:Independence Day (Croatia). Always at the time of the anniversaries and holidays related to Homeland War and WW2, or when some monument is unveiled, these things start.
Those users here who never talked to the questioned admins here, talk to them first.
The accusing sentence Far-right bias in a number of topics, most notably related to World War II, including outright historical revisionism and Holocaust denial." and "Proliferation of grossly unencyclopedic, poorly sourced, and unsourced biased content." pointed towards the hr.wiki actually is a projection of criticizers' behaviour on the attacked hr.wiki. These allegations are actually Hardline neoyugoslavist, serbocroatist and anti-Croat bias in a number of topics, most notably related to World War II and the attempt of "Proliferation of grossly unencyclopedic, poorly sourced, and unsourced biased content." of neoyugoslavist and serbocroatist colors (e.g. GregorB cited himself as a source).
Science by itself is revisionistic, so is the historiography. No conclusion and no historical document claim is determined "once and for all". It is always the subject to permanent testing, challenging, reexamining, improving etc.
The only ones who violate the principles of Wikipedia are these activists who use street language and political accusations, the same (low blows) ones used in political fight against current Croatian government (President, Prime Minister, Government...). Because of the dirty methods used last time (2013), the attacked Croatian users had to take court action and things ended on the court of law. Kubura (talk) 17:47, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sure everyone should follow hr.wp's lead, where they prominently feature holocaust- and genocide-deniers like the convicted fraudster Leljak and Vukic - who completely opposite to the US Holocaust Museum, the Croatian Jasenovac Memorial and practically all western historians - claim that no mass killings of Jews, Serbs, Roma and others occurred at Jasenovac, that it was merely "a work camp", where people put on plays and played soccer. Following the lead of hr.wp, and your claim that "no conclusion and no historical document claim is determined "once and for all", then sr.wp should feel free to start off its Srebrenica Victim Estimates with Dobrica Cosic's claim of 400 victims, the US 9/11 article should give equal or even preferred billing to 9/11 conspiracy theorists, other articles on the Holocaust should prominently and equally feature Holocaust-deniers, while instantly reverting and banning people who seek to contradict these claims by quoting reliable sources. And btw all those Nazis who wrote with disgust of mass Ustashe killings of hundreds-of-thousands of civilians, women and children, wrote eyewitness accounts of the extermination of children in Ustashe camps, in 1943 from Zagreb reported the extermination of 100.000 people at Jasenovac, etc, etc - per your claims all these Nazis were also "hardline neoyugoslavist, serbocroatist and anti-Croat" - i.e. its all just one big global conspiracy against Ustashe innocents. That's why you instantly deleted my quotes of von Horstenau, since according to you he's "unreliable" and anti-Croat, no matter that Tomasevich and other historians extensively quote him, and consider him very well-informed and objective. I guess following your lead, sr.wp should put together a list of all those who dared criticize Milosevic and Serb crimes, claim they're unreliable and anti-Serb, and instantly revert all citations of such sources, and if people complain, block them Thhhommmasss (talk) 21:14, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@GregorB, no other paper media in Croatia except Novosti published in 2018 any critic of Wikipedia in Croatian language. Index.hr is not newspaper, and although it is not as ridiculous as Novosti, it is kind of yellow news portal, carrying over lot of rubbish, clickbait and such.

@Thhhommmasss, your complaints, if I see right are focused on one article, Jasenovac, not place, but war camp. When I last checked that article (3 or 5 years ago), in that article were present all alleged numbers of victims, ranging from around thousand and half to over one million. It is obvious that all that numbers cannot be correct, some are bullshit, some are facts, but my apprehension of Wikipedia is that we, Wikipedians are not arbiters of truth, but we are here to make encyclopedic content, to clearly present what valid sources state, and maybe even some invalid, if they have some merit, if not validity, but they can be (and often are) presented as evidence of mistakes done by people, and later corrected. It is sad that more than 70 years later there is no clear picture of number of war victims in Croatia, but that is mostly result of dark communist regime, and in last 29 years historians are doing big strides in analysis of that period. When final results will be known, I don't know, but it is clear here that some users are having preference for some works and historians, and are harshly criticizing others, as they have preferred version of facts, or as they know the facts as they were there. That's not encyclopedic, that's not Wikipedia approach, IMNSHO. Lastly, you are accusing Vukić as fraudster, but his works are (to best of my knowledge) heavily referenced by documents from WWII archive in Zagreb, which are also mostly available in Belgrade. Does that mean that anybody proved that Vukić falsified one or more documents? Or are you just accusing him without any proof? This have nothing to do with me, but I am curious, as I have read some of his works, as he is kind of widely present in Croatian media recently.

In other words, as I stated before, this RFC is load of crap. We can talk about sysop actions, I already stated, nobody is perfect, there can be even some grave mistake I don't know of, but if there really is some dubious sysop act, no such was presented to me until now. I see just a one or two angry users which couldn't push their bias. If GregorB's words would be right, I would be first to ask that something need to be done, but his words have no validity at all. SpeedyGonsales (talk) 20:09, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@SpeedyGonsales: Could you please comment on your on-wiki actions and comments as described in the Signpost article? If the RfC is indeed, and I quote, "load of crap", surely that's not going to be a problem for you, because you've done nothing wrong. Your actions and statements from the Signpost article, one by one, with your commentary. I insist. Since the accusations against Kubura and Zeljko are, presumably, also a "load of crap", please do refute these too, one by one, it should also be easy. GregorB (talk) 21:30, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@SpeedyGonsales I said the quoted Roman Leljak is a convicted fraudster, who defrauded 448 private Slovene investors and an Austrian bank, for which he spent 3 years in prison, starting in 2008. He claims the true number of Jasenovac victims is 50 times less than then the US Holocaust Museum and practically all western historians. As far as I know, neither he, nor Vukic has published in any peer-reviewed journal, and certainly not in western peer-reviewed history journals, unlike Ivo Goldstein, Tvrtko Jakovina and many other legitimate Croat historians, who btw have a very different view of Jasenovac. Igor Vukic claims that Jasenovac was merely a “work camp” where no mass killing took place, people put on plays, and for this he also quotes an inmate’s book, while “forgetting” to quote the portions of the same book which describe the most brutal extermination of tens of thousands of men, women and children at “work camp”, or per the hr.wp euphemism, “collection camp” Jasenovac. This too is total fraud
Yet when I tried to cite a University of Zagreb professor who directly criticizes Vukic, this was instantly reverted by Dvanajsti igrac, as were my quotes of Jasenovac victim numbers by ethnicity from the US Holocaust Museum, etc. Contrary to your claims, that you’re not “arbiters of truth”, practically everything I wrote was instantly reverted, and I consistently quoted sources used by western historians, University of Zagreb historians, the US Holocaust Museum, etc. Yet Admin Kubura declared all these quoted sources, which are also widely quoted on en and other WPs, as “unreliable”, and instantly reverted all my contributions, then blocked me when I complained. Admin Zeljko wrote that the only true Jasenovac victim estimate, is the 1.654 claim by the convicted fraudster, Leljak, and that everything else is “propaganda”. So don’t try to sell the notion that you’ve not set yourself up as arbiters, because you definitely have, and with a very particular bias. And it is precisely because of such behavior, totally contrary to WP principles of requiring Reliable Sources, etc., that many good hr.wp editors have left in disgust. Incidentally per your notion that WP should not be an arbiter, sr.wp should also provide equal billing to deniers of Srebrenica and deniers of Serb crimes in Croatia, Holocaust-deniers in general are welcome, etc Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:05, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
GregorB, Thhhommmasss, George Ho you get caught up in a pointless debate over content with someone in position of power, overseeing project appropriate use, and who has obviously abused that power and privilege for years - it's like debating with a bank robber if (s)he has / had an account at a bank (s)he just robbed, killing a bunch of workers and account holders in the process.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 00:27, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Santasa99, on the contrary. Here You have the case of malcontents that are abusing the RfC for the elimination of the persons whome they disagree with, by the method of political disqualification. These malcontents are indefinitely accusing, over and over again, selectively presenting the informations, repeating the same lies, calumnies etc., repeating endless times until someone believes that that is the truth and when the number of those who agree with him get the critical value.
There's a better comparison, like in a proverb "ljudi drž'te lopova". That robber runs away from the bank, and when the robbed person runs after the thief, the thief turns and points the finger towards the robbed banker and yells "People, get the robber!". Gregor, Thhhommasss etc. are doing the same thing, pointing towards the others and You bought that. Kubura (talk) 21:55, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura: Rather than call everyone a bunch of liars, could you provide any diffs to back up your statements? --Rschen7754 01:40, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Rschen7754:, every of those disputed contents, edits, reverts and blocks have been thoroughly explained and discussed (and permanently new material is being provided to prevent editwars) on the corresponding articletalkpages and usertalkpages. The malcontents have not transferred those explanations and discussion. Kubura (talk) 20:54, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura: U're such a liar. U/u'r sockpuppet blocked me indefinitely just for disagreeing with u (2 weeks ago). U accused me of conspiring with the Serbian government against hr.wiki?!???? U literally violated the most basic wp.rules. I said it on the hr.wiki village pump then, and i'll say it again here, hr.wiki is basically a Kubura&sons enterprise, and it's been one for the last 6 years. --Ivan VA (talk) 11:58, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ivan VA:, You are playing the game "I do not know what are You talking about (although everything has been explained to You), so explain me". That is trolling. This is insult on religious basis You wrote [39] and You got the other explanations on Your talkpage. Kubura (talk) 00:53, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura: What has been explained to me? That i'm a SPY?!? for the Serbian government??? What an insult on a religious basis? I don't even know what religion u are. U made the point that u regard yourself as a shepherd of the hr.wiki community. I just made the obvious association where the metaphor comes from. U blocked me INDEFINITELY for exercising freedom of speech. --Ivan VA (talk) 03:02, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It may be difficult to follow some of these arguments if people are unfamiliar with Balkan nationalisms and history, but here’s one easily-verifiable item – Question #1 raised here by others, including Croatian media, as to why the CW Jasenovac article is titled “Sabirni logor (Collection Camp)” instead of “Komncentracijski logor (Concentration Camp)” as on en, de and all other wikis. The hr Admins first answer that is what the Ustashe called the camp. But all mass murderers use euphemisms, yet I doubt we'd want a WP article titled “The work-sets-you-free Auschwitz camp”. But beyond this, all their other claims are false. For example, their claim that “the Croatian language for collecting people in one place uses the word "sabiranje" (collection), it does not use word "koncentracija" (concentration), except sometimes for German camps". But contrary to their claim, the Croatian state Jasenovac Memorial indeed calls it “Koncentracijski logor (Concentration Camp) Jasenovac”. Googling “Koncentracijski logor Jasenovac” on the .hr domain, we get nearly 2,400 articles, vs. only 600 articles for the CW term “Sabirni logor Jasenovac” (most of the latter in holocaust-denier articles). The Croatian Language Portal not only lists the adjective "koncentracijski", but they define "Koncentracijski logor" (Concentration Camp) as a “place of mass detention for forced residence, forced labor, and the killing of political opponents and/or racially, religiously and nationally discriminated groups in totalitarian states” - thus, contrary to CW, clearly indicating Croatian uses concentration in this very sense, and not just for Nazi camps

I guess per Kubura this proves the Croatian Language Portal and the entire .hr domain must've been taken over by "anti-Croats". Actually, the CW Admins are not only inventing their own facts (e.g. who is “anti-Croat” and can’t be cited on CW), but their own version of the Croatian language, different from the Croatian Language Portal, the Croatian internet domain, etc. Yet this might still be considered just a case of semantics, but for the fact that the Holocaust-deniers they cite on CW insist that Jasenovac was indeed just a “collection-” or “work-camp”, where inmates put on plays and played soccer, not the concentration/death camp described by the US Holocaust Museum, the Croatian Jasenovac Memorial, countless western historians, etc. And when people try to cite these other sources to disprove the Holocaust-denial lies, they mass-revert edits and block people Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:05, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thhhommmasss, You are playing the game of playing "I do not understand". [40] "Sabirni (koncentracijski) logori su ...". Your "argument" is from ex-Yugoslavia, where the form in Croatian language was treated as nacionalistic (with further extending the accusations to "ustahi, fascist, nazi", especially when talking about military terminology and WWII. Kubura (talk) 00:53, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Kubura, you're quoting one right-wing portal, which same as other genocide- and Holocaust-deniers, calls Jasenovac a "work camp", versus the concentration/death camp that is called by the US Holocaust Museum, most Western and many Croatian historians. Instead of one right-wing portal, I quoted the official Croatian state Jasenovac Memorial which uses "Concentration Camp Jasenovac", the entire .hr domain which in 80% of the cases employs the same term, plus the Croatian Language Portal, a publisher of Croatian language dictionaries. And all this is present-day usage, not from ex-Yugoslavia, as you falsely claim Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:08, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Additional Proposed Criteria

Various individuals are proposing other solutions, which is blurring the discussion section. Some have been discussed before, others have not. I thought I'd summarise the main ones and they could be added on or taken off as people think. I realise additional criteria discussion in a major RFC is somewhat disruptive; but since it's going to happen anyway.

I've manually made them number from 7 upwards so if people start wanting to !vote for them, they're easier to pick out. I've added any that at least a couple of individuals have mooted Nosebagbear (talk) 12:33, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • 7) Commence a cross-wiki discussion to create a cross-jurisdictional ARBCOM for the similar language projects
  • 8) Remove all blocks from everyone the 3 admins have blocked
  • 9) Review all blocks implemented by the 3 admins
  • 10) Enable the addition of croatian-speaking admins from other sources [global, en, de, similar language have all been proposed]
  • 11) Create an off-wiki method (surveys, etc) for individuals to provide their feedback and concerns with regards to Croatian wiki
  • 12) Create an on-wiki method to continuously report, monitor and address abuse, so that this does not reoccur

Discussion of additional proposals

  • 8 seems foolish because this would mean everyone they blocked gets unblocked, including vandals. --Rschen7754 17:37, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • In that case I'd say at least review those blocks before unblocking Saederup92 (talk) 18:39, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • The three admins have more than 1000 blocks between them. Some of these falsely claim "vandalism". This is going to be very difficult to review. On the other hand, it is important to review the blocks and reinstate the editors who were unjustly blocked. Other than individual appeals, I currently see no other solution. I'd volunteer to analyze and appeal the blocks myself (provided I'm unblocked in the first place), but I believe currently one cannot appeal blocks other than one's own, and the procedure is rather complicated and restrictive. A simpler, quicker procedure would be of help. GregorB (talk) 11:45, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • The 1.000 blocks by the 3 Admins sound abusive in themselves. Is it possible to get Block metrics for all the Admins? It'd also be interesting to compare the number of blocks on hr.wp with other comparably sized sh wikipedias, as well as randomly select some 10 blocks on hr.wp and then see what these blocks were for, all of which could better indicate abuse. Given the large number of blocks we could consider a “reset”, i.e. unblock everyone, and then give everyone notice that behavior will be more systematically monitored. In particular, since some incivility, while inappropriate, may have been prompted in reaction to the systematic abuse by the Admins. I think one of the objectives of the hr.wp Admins is to swarm and systematically revert everyone they disagree with, then block them at the slightest inappropriate response (although they block people even without such responses, as we’ve seen with the blocks of people who merely posted links to the Signpost article and RfC)
I know of very valued contributors on en.wp, who’ve been so thoroughly disgusted by such hr.wp Admin behavior that they’ve left the project. It will be very difficult to get them back, unless thorough changes are made, and everyone is informed of the changes. I believe it’d help to build public, proactive, systematic processes for this, instead of relying on ad hoc, after-the-fact, behind-the-scenes ones. One example would be the mentioned Abuse Reporting link on all hr.wp Talk pages, where users could go to a Project page and report abuse across all hr.wp pages, and hr.WP admins could not block them there. This would surface problems earlier and more systematically, instead of being hidden in many Talk page discussions, across many articles. Thus appropriate action to deal with problems could also be taken earlier, instead of after a decade of abuse, 1,000 people blocked, and many valuable contributors having fled. This approach is also easier to scale and apply to other WPs, as opposed to later trying to dig out all diffs and abuses across many years and many articles. Other, more systematic and proactive approaches could be taken to deal with the problems, to rebuild and maintain a healthy community Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In regards to 8 I agree with Rschen7754 that it would be unwise to just auto unblock all of them, but as others have pointed out maybe they could be reviewed. To me this is a complicated and difficult situation. Having traveled to Slovenia and Croatia I am aware of the political issues in their history. As such I think great care and empathy for their situation needs to be employed to oversee this wiki appropriately. I am guessing we may need to find willing people with the language skills that are currently on other wikis, but great care should be taken with this. 12 years ago I was effectively driven off a wiki and I went back once the abusive admin was dealt with. I was welcomed back and am now a Crat on that wiki. People will come back if they see the changes that need to happen. Most people realise its not going to be perfect overnight. So I would encourage any that left the Croatian Wikipedia to feel they are welcomed back. They have to start from somewhere. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 02:06, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The current Admins do not speak for all Croats, in fact there are many other Croats who very much resent what they've done, and articles of outrage regarding hr.wp have appeared in the Croatian press – here is just one of many, where the author writes of the many editors who have abandoned hr.wp, because of Admin abuse, naming Speedy Gonsales among the chief perpetrators. The writer goes on to say that even when some changes were made, temporarily removing SpeedyGonsales and a couple of others, they managed to return and absolutely nothing changed, the abuse continued. So given this history, I truly doubt that removing Speedy and pals, Part 2, after a full decade of additional abuse, will convince anyone to return, unless other, much more extensive measures are taken. Nor will well-intentioned invites of "come on back" be enough. I know of excellent Croatian editors who've repeatedly said they want nothing to do with hr.wp, and while they remain engaged on en.wp, the fact that they have not even bothered to comment on this RfC to me indicates the total mistrust of hr.wp, as well as total mistrust that WP will ever adequately address this problemThhhommmasss (talk) 04:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm concerned about either de or en-wiki admins (language aside) being the chosen wikis. If there are any global sysops who speak croatian, then they'd be logical to allow (currently crwiki is opted out) and then some process of authorising similar language wikis, perhaps through either a meta process or some suggested set of names Nosebagbear (talk) 17:42, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • This just appear to be tricky situation, but it shouldn't be too inconvenient to deal with - unblock them all, and then deal with any "vandal" that might come back to disrupt articles on a case-by-case basis. Most likely, the vast majority of those who are blocked due to genuine vandalism will not return and probably won't even notice (IP's and single-purpose acc.) they are being unblocked. But even if they do notice and return, so what - now you are going to (re)build proper environment where any real transgression is going to be properly (re)evaluated.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 18:05, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nije nikoga problem odblokitrati ako želi doprinesti svojim radom.

  • Suradnik GregorB je blokiran 10 puta od 5 administratora i zbog učestalih svađa sa mnogim suradnicima. Njegov doprinos su uglavnom napadi na druge suradnike. --Zeljko (talk) 14:27, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Zeljko: We are aware of that, and it does not change anything. That how low the bar is for bans on croatian wikipedia is part of the problem.--Snaevar (talk) 15:00, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Zeljko the fact you blocked people just for posting a link and expressing views on the Signpost article, confirms the abuse
  • In therms of blocks, I think the most resonable thing would be to review blocks of users with decent number of edits, as it would cover established editors. There are over 3000 user blocks on the croatian wikipedia and over 200 ip blocks. When user blocks are limited to users that have more than 50 combined edits & actions, then the block list shrinks to less than 5%.--Snaevar (talk) 15:00, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Snaever, that may be a good start, but would not address people who could not become established editors, because they were immediately driven away by blocks and other abuse. Btw, is there blocks-per-Admin data, since that could further indicate the most abusive Admins? Thhhommmasss (talk) 00:41, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Snaevar:, You are editing small project with small traffic, so You and Your colleagues have plenty of time for maintaining the project. Hr.wiki is bigger and Croatian-language community is even more bigger than Icelandic. Therefore we have much more vandals. Vandals are persistent and stubborn. Once we recognize the pattern, we have to cut it at the start, otherwise You lose a lot of energy and time and still nothing. E.g., currently we have a psycho that threats that he will rape (with full details) and slay several users. He appears everyday twice since August this year, as IP and as registered. Kubura (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've participated at WikiProject Croatia for around five years now, and during that time I've interacted plenty with GregorB. He has helped me write en:WP:GAs and en:WP:DYKs and I've read some of his own DYKs and other work and have found no anti-Croat or yugonostalgic bias that you write about. If it weren't for this whole controversy the thought would never enter my mind. I've also found him to be a reliable, level-headed editor who on enwiki always remains tactful and respectful. He's contributed to countless articles and has probably the highest edit count of all Croatian editors on enwiki. He's well versed in English spelling & grammar and wikitext editing. If he were to run for an enwiki admin, I'm sure he would pass without problems. Hence the question is, is GregorB some kind of a Jekyll & Hyde character, or is something else going on here?
If this was just about one person and one matter (political), I might falter in my judgment here, but I can think of plenty of people on Forum.hr (the largest online forum in all of Southeast Europe and the only one of any significant size in Croatia), from all walks of life, most of whom aren't interested in politics, who act respectably on the forum, yet have been indef blocked, mostly for repeated altercations with admins. I would say that is pretty strong evidence that the hrwiki admins are the ones who are pushing some POV and talking to other editors in a manner that causes said editors to lash out. Daß Wölf (talk) 19:42, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You skipped those that are supporting hr.wiki. And those indef blocked have multiple accounts on that forum.Kubura (talk) 22:53, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
http://www.forum.hr/showthread.php?t=797091, especially the last few pages - it seems my "plenty" was actually an understatement. Daß Wölf (talk) 22:39, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The very fact GregorB has 10 hr.wiki blocks, but zero en blocks further proves what a renegade outlier hr.wiki is. That he persisted despite these blocks, and persisted with the RfC, despite a general sense nothing will change, just goes to his credit and I think he’d make a great Admin Thhhommmasss (talk) 00:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • To bring up an example from my comment on Jimbo Wales' talk page: here an IP editor adds a lot of content to a list of episodes, including some malformed internal links. I could find no evidence you even tried to tell the editor what is he/she doing wrong and how to fix that, you simply protected the page, and wrote "had to protect because the editor doesn't know how to add links". Do you not see how a new editor can get insulted when they make a long, 60-80% useful edit and find that the the page protected without warning because of that bad 20-40%? Daß Wölf (talk) 19:54, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Daß Wölf, You want to impose major coup d'etat on hr.wiki, and You have nothing on Your userpage, but a redirect to the talkpage? That's not a behavioural pattern of the ordinary user. Such pattern is present at the accounts that are expendable and for the dirty tasks. Kubura (talk) 22:53, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Unindenting this personal attack which has nothing to do with the issues I raised in the comment that preceded it. Let's get back to the major problem at hand for me which is biting newbies. Is there no policy against that on hr.wiki? I see for example, hr.wiki admins are still harassing and blocking people for the crime of making multiple smaller edits where one big edit will do. Daß Wölf (talk) 22:39, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • One thing is when a new user shows the pattern of clumsiness, misorientation, or elderpeople's behaviour (shaking hands, typos) and similar. The other thing is when the new user writes graffitti, attacks others, removes massive content or references. Therefore, I find Your stance here as disruptive. You took the side of the destructive users. Wikipedia is not a social institution for integrating persons with unacceptable behaviour, there're specialized professionals for that. If someone enters the bank, store, government office, police station, medical ordination etc. and starts yelling, writing graffitti on the wall of the waiting room or kicking papers, there's no "don't bite the newbies". That newbie is not clumsy, misorientated, or very old but destructive.
      • Further, when I said something about Your userpage, that was not the personal attack. I dislike that sockpuppet (=owner exists under other name) or expendable account (=user's only account, "constructive" part of the usage is solely a disguise, the true intention of the account is to use it solely for editwars, arguing, unpopular actions) pulls me by the nose. True constructive editor almost always puts some effort to arrange a decent userpage. The userpage reflects the user's intentions, behaviour on contentpages and discussions, and finally his/hers personality - that's my experience. There're exceptions, but basically that's it. Are You a sockpuppet, expendable account or an ordinary user - everybody can make conclusion for themselves. It is indicative when a usertype (described above) attacks whole project and most active, constructive and higly appreciated users on that project. Kubura (talk) 23:58, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • I see we agree that vandals and sockpuppets should not be welcomed with open arms. No argument there. I also think your admin corps has proven to be a bad judge of both, first for believing I'm a sockpuppet, second for templating, annoying and blocking users who are obviously not here to do damage to the project. To repeat my example: blocking contributors because they contribute in obvious good faith but in a way that annoys patrollers is biting newbies, creating an unwelcome atmosphere and driving away good contributors. Do you dispute that? I'll also add that I think the reason this goes on is because you're obviously all friends and it's easier to pretend that everyone who argues with you is a vandal and/or a Milošević troll than to disagree with a friend. That's why I give up hope of you listening to my reasons. Ending with a quote from Jimbo Wales about the project Nupedia:
The idea [behind Nupedia] was to have thousands of volunteers writing articles for an online encyclopedia in all languages. Initially we found ourselves organizing the work in a very top-down, structured, academic, old-fashioned way. It was no fun for the volunteer writers because we had a lot of academic peer review committees who would criticize articles and give feedback. It was like handing in an essay at grad school, and basically intimidating to participate in.
Daß Wölf (talk) 22:58, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To !vote:

  • Strong support for 7 since there are persistent POV pages on other wikis too. So long as we can all agree to staff the ARBCOM with sane editors who can make a bona fide attempt to be impartial, I don't see where the problem would be. I appreciate that there is a sentiment (and surely not just in Croatia or ex-yu) to make X language wiki comport with the views of X ethnicity, but I think this needs to be balanced with the driving away of many users who would be accepted but for one disagreement in POV. Also strongly support 9 instead of 8 for the same reason I opposed action 3 above. Re: 11, 12 support and recommend involving T&S, I think they could be a useful asset here in teaching. Re: 10, I support attracting the attention of Croatian speaking admins from large projects to this discussion. Hopefully we can interest some of them into taking up a permanent role on hrwiki. Daß Wölf (talk) 20:14, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • #7-strong support. Ethnic-specific “truths” (e.g. deny/minimize crimes and genocides by one’s own side, and play up those perpetrated by the other) serve to inflame hatreds and wars in the region, so this is not just an academic debate. Support #9 if such a large review is practical, else #8 with #12. Strong support for #10, also support interim, extra powers for outside Admins (e.g. to approve blocks, remove additional misbehaving admins, add new interim admins), particularly if only 3 Admins are removed, and others can still cause trouble (extra powers need not be baked into software - e.g. if outside Admins must approve blocks, other Admins can ask them for approval, and if they violate new block process, outside Admins can work with stewards to de-Admin them, etc). #11 Support, and #12 Strong Support – believe latter will be essential, particularly if just 3 Admins are removed, while other like-minded Admins and editors remain. Systems to report, monitor and deal with abuse could’ve helped prevent problem, and can help address similar issues on other WPs Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:36, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Badava vi glasujete za njega. On kod nas jednostavno ne želi radit, i jedini mu je cilj isprovocirati blok. --Zeljko (talk) 15:26, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think, now that the meta community has seen the responses from Kubura, that u finally can see what we're dealing with here. For me, its perfectly obvious that he regards his work on hr.wiki as highly political . The more u dig in, the more u see that the stuff he talks about has nothing to do with writing an encyclopedia, but some political agenda he regards is the right one, everyone else being an intruder. The fact that this is a common, global project, where everyone is welcome to participate is completely lacking etc. This RfC was so much needed. --Ivan VA (talk) 12:34, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Misrepresentation of events, innacuracies, faking of the truth, malevolent RfC and extreme disrupting of Wikipedia.Lordluka99 (talk) 06:42, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Lordluka99: Some concrete examples of "misrepresentations", "inaccuracies", and "faking of the truth", please. GregorB (talk) 09:08, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is unnecessary to give examples, because the title and the basic idea of this RFC are wrong and fictitious. Questions of content have already been thoroughly discussed, explained and elaborated on the talkpages.
To emphasize it clearly, on the Croatian Wikipedia there is neither a postulated abuse of administrative rights nor violations of the five pillars. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 02:39, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
GregorB showed us the opposite. Nor do I see any concrete argument here against the proposal. --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose the additional proposals due to the same reasons of the initial proposes above. --Agusbou2015 (talk) 02:03, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Strong support Strong support # 7. Short of merging Croatian and Serbo-Croatian wikis (which would be my first choice), I think that this would be the best way at preventing further abuses. It will also help with other language wikis that have similar problems (eg Azerbaijan) and combat the tendency for ethnolinguistic groups to push their own POV on their wikis. Buidhe (talk) 23:50, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose All those additional proposals are just variations of earlier proposals, variations on the same theme, having the same goal: an attack on the Croatian Wikipedia, attack which causes only a confusion and mess, and could have severe consequences. There are some users from distant parts of the world who don't speak at least a few basic words of Croatian language and who would like to merge Croatian and Serbian Wikipedia. What about merging Russian and Ukrainian Wikipedia too, which are also similar, or perhaps Spanish and Catalan? --Silverije (talk) 00:37, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Silverije: all these editors who have read the Signpost article and this RfC, and then decided to support some of the proposals - what are they getting wrong? What am I getting wrong? Please be as specific as possible - I do believe I was quite specific in providing evidence. GregorB (talk) 10:25, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@GregorB: I've already answered such question, but I'll do it again (because Repetitio est mater studiorum [41]): „You might not be getting wrong, but rather one-sided. Admins on Croatian Wikipedia reacted on editing which they understood as arrogant, blatant, provocative or as vandalism. Their reactions were very similar to such reactions of admins on English Wikipedia (and other wikipedias as well). Users showing inappropriate behavior (like [42] or [43]) take the consequences for their behaviour. As for the Jasenovac concentration camp or similar issues, the number of victims is rather a question of sources than of editors or admins. And The Curious Case of Major Milan Tepić, whose desperate and disastrous terrorist act was awarded with the Order of the National Hero in Serbia, shows how things can be turned upside down.“ Now I only can add some more examples, to be specific as possible, hoping it will help you satisfy your requirements: [44], [45], [46]. --Silverije (talk) 21:52, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The Tepic article represents abuse of WP for personal editorializing. By contrast, the CW articles on convicted Croatian war criminals, Mirko Norac and Tomislav Mercep, include no similar editorialized condemnation of their much bigger crimes, and not even one sentence om what they were convicted for. In fact when someone dared quote the Croatian Supreme Court verdict on specific crimes committed by Norac, this was instantly reverted by Speedy Gonzales, while the Mercep article sympathizes with the convicted war criminal, stating: "a media campaign was launched against him, to which they responded in his parents' hometown, expressing support for him". Thus additional, yet by no means the worst examples of CW bias, intended to promote ideological agendas Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:37, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Silverije: - you haven't answered anything. Specifically:
  • "Admins on Croatian Wikipedia reacted on editing which they understood as arrogant, blatant, provocative or as vandalism." Absolutely true - the thing is, they reacted on editing that was actually not arrogant, blatant, provocative, nor vandalism. That's precisely the problem, of which I gave a number of irrefutable examples.
  • "Their reactions were very similar to such reactions of admins on English Wikipedia". True again, their reactions were indeed similar (block threats, blocks, page locks), it's just that their criteria, judgment, rationales and apparent motives were vastly different. This is abundantly documented too.
  • "Users showing inappropriate behavior take the consequences for their behaviour." Could you name just one user whose sanctioning I mentioned in the Signpost article that was deservedly disciplined?
  • "As for the Jasenovac concentration camp or similar issues, the number of victims is rather a question of sources than of editors or admins." Blatantly unreliable sources such as Leljak must not be used in articles, and editors must not be blocked when they disagree with it, which is precisely what happened, as described in the Signpost article.
  • "And The Curious Case of Major Milan Tepić, whose desperate and disastrous terrorist act was awarded with the Order of the National Hero in Serbia, shows how things can be turned upside down" - I have no idea what are you saying here.
  • "I only can add some more examples, to be specific as possible, hoping it will help you satisfy your requirements: [47], [48], [49]" - these three so-called examples have absolutely nothing to do with the concrete issues I presented. Please refrain from the straw man tactics, producing irrelevant examples and passing them off as actual refutation is extremely dishonest.
Since your entire writeup is composed of non sequiturs, where you pretend to respond to my challenge, but in fact skirt around it, here it is once again in plain words and bold style: please take any examples of behavior by the three admins from the Signpost article, quote them one by one, and explain below why that behavior is not problematic. GregorB (talk) 23:01, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@GregorB: I'm so sorry you can't understand what I've said (Major Tepić case), or you ignore naked facts (arrogant, blatant, provocative behaviour), or see the things quite opposite through your biased glasses (only your examples are relevant and other's are „so-called“ and irrelevant; highly problematic is not problematic for you and vice versa). It's very hard to talk to somebody like that, and any reasonable or modest talk, harmonisation or consensus seem to be impossible. It looks like a conversation between the deaf and the mute. --Silverije (talk) 23:36, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Silverije: The reason why my examples are relevant is because the case I'm arguing here is based on them, it's called evidence - it's not because I'm "arrogant" or "biased". You seem to be thinking that CW and its admins are just fine. My case - based on the Signpost article and concrete examples therin - argues they are not. So, if you are right, I must be wrong. If what I'm saying is false or nonsensical - well, that should only make the job easier for you, shouldn't it? But, instead of refuting my actual arguments, you produce some unrelated examples and deplore my tone. I know you find it hard to talk to me: that's because I have the evidence, it's incontrovertible, and you are well aware of that. My bold-style challenge above still stands - why wouldn't you take it? GregorB (talk) 07:58, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Silverije - you don’t understand. WP is not your personal opinion column. While I personally think that what Tepic did was despicable, in typical Balkan-fashion, your moral outrage is totally one-sided. Unlike your questioning of what type of nation are Serbs for building a monument to a terrorist, you do not question, as Croatian media have, what type of nation is Croatia, for building monuments and hero-worshiping Croatian terrorists, like Miro Baresic and Zvonko and Juliana Busic, who’ve all been convicted in the West for terrorist airplane hijackings and killings, including the killing of a policeman. As Croatian media have noted, the convicted terrorist Juliana Busic, was even used by one of the major political parties to record an endorsement for their presidential candidate. Plus there is not a single condemnation on CW of the Croatian war criminals Praljak, Mercep and Norac for what they did, nor any opinions on what type of nation gives honorary public positions, commemorates and invites to presidential inaugurals these criminals who are guilty of many more war crimes than Tepic. Unlike the multiple paragraphs describing Tepic’s crime in detail, there is not one single sentence on the specifics of the crimes of these Croatian war criminals, and when someone tried to add a quote of Norac’s crime from the Croatian Supreme Court verdict, this was instantly deleted by Speedy Gonsales. As I said, many historians have stated that these type of distorted “histories” - where the crimes of the other side are repeatedly emphasized and condemned with outrage, while crimes on one’s own side minimized, even genocides denied - this has been systematically used in the Balkans to generate a sense of victimhood and hatreds, which in turn have played a major role in starting wars. It is shameful that nothing has been done so far to prevent the promotion of such harmful, biased, ideological agendas, which go against everything WP stands for Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:19, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

At first, we were fighting against Sovietization. Bolsheviks let us speak our own language, but not what we want. Everything changed. Today we only hear the slogan Poland for Polish people. We got rid of Bolsheviks, but we kept our mutual despise for each other. Now we have an anti-Bolshevism with a Bolshevik face, that's why I am sad... What is nutured inside Poland is a kind of anti-humanism. Our government is supported by the Polish Catholic Church. What does our government tell us? That now comes the «gay pest», which is more or less the same as the «red pest». It is an idiocy which even Ceaușescu could not utter. In Poland, this Bolshevik mentality, a mentality of despise, of superiority, it remained... There is a great madness all over all post-Communist countries. We all think that our own people is noble, innocent, never did any harm unto others. According to this idea we judge those around us. If somebody says that that's not completely true, he/she is regarded as a traitor to the country

— Adam Michnik in Stefan Both, Disident polonez legendar, despre România post '89: „Iliescu a salvat țara pentru că n-a ales calea lui Miloșevici“
That's the problem: the lunatics have taken over the asylum. And Jimbo has to step in and speak out against nationalist lunatics. Tgeorgescu (talk) 00:23, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Silverije:,@GregorB: Mutual intelligibility of Spanish and Catalan is 55% (oral) and 86% (written intelligibility).[50]
Mutual intelligibility of Russian and Ukrainian is 70% (oral) and 80% (written intelligibility).
Mutual intelligibility of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian is 96-100%.[51] Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 19:56, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As usual the arguments of nationalists have nothing to do with facts or reason, and WP should not be abused for promoting nationalistic myths, particularly in the Balkans, where as many historians have noted, these myths have been employed to fan divisions, hatreds and wars (btw, there are many linguists, including Croatian ones, who state that the 3 variants of Croatian - Stokavian, Kajkavian and Cakavian - are much more different languages than standard Croatian and Serbian, which are both Stokavian. Thus per these nationalists, speakers of the 3 different Croatian variants are much more different nationalities than Serbs and Croats, and on linguistic, instead of political criteria, it would make much more sense have separate Stokavian, Kajkavian and Cakavian WPs) Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:03, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose To the original proposal and Strong oppose to the additional proposals. This is personal and has nothing to do with Croatian wiki.--Fleezer (talk) 19:08, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Fleezer: same question for you - provide a good answer and I'll !vote "oppose" myself. :-) GregorB (talk) 22:47, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There is apparently a recurring theme here: it's {{strong oppose}}, followed immediately by scampering off without providing any supporting arguments, despite repeated calls to do so. That's perhaps based on a mistaken assumption this is a majority vote rather than a discussion. GregorB (talk) 22:42, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@GregorB: Your animosity towards CW is difficult to describe with words. But it's thick like a pudding. The recurring theme here is littering {{support}} about this page w/o proper explanation, but just repeated empty phrases. The only missing thing to those {{support}} is "Hear! Hear!" and North Korean-style standing ovation. --Fleezer (talk) 19:03, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
No, I actually quite like CW and I'm interested in its wellbeing, otherwise I wouldn't be doing this. GregorB (talk) 20:20, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Fleezer, again not a single fact, not a single counter-argument on your part, or from any of your like-minded cohorts, to contradict anything, instead yet more name-calling. But in fact if anyone is acting in a North Korean fashion, it is the CW Admins who systematically delete and block people who dare quote Reliable Sources - Croatian and Western historian, Croatian and international linguists, etc – if these contradict their own, openly proclaimed ideology. Kubura pasted a diff above, stating that I was quite literally blocked for daring write the following sentence “The fact that Croatian-Serbian-Bosnian-Montenegrin language is one language s also stated by many well-known western linguists”. Thus just as people are systematically censored in North Korea for “insulting Dear Leader”, I was blocked for “insulting”, i.e. for daring cite Western linguists, because this violates the official “anti-Serbocroatist” or "Croat-patriot" (similar to "North Korean patriot") ideology enforced on WP, in total violation of the most basic WP principles 20:37, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Strong oppose. It's a witch hunt. Some people don't agree with Croatian wikipedia, have lost the elections, and are trying to "grab power" in this way. There is nothing wrong with Croatian Wiki. This "suggestions" are just continuation of false accusing policy.--Ceha (talk) 10:03, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment @Ceha, you expressed your opinion already on 1st of December 2019 (at 23:33:08 (CET)). This is the second time you inserted your opinion here (in the same discussion). Thanks for your understanding of this comment. Hope this helps. Truly yours, -- Несмир Кудилович (разговор) 14:39, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Comment I see, this is under the additional proposals. My mistake. -- Несмир Кудилович (разговор) 15:52, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose The request is issued by picky persons whome is impossible to please.--Uršul (talk) 17:05, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceha:@Uršul: I am actually very easy to please: my challenge still stands for any supporter of Kubura, Speedy and Željko [52]. If nobody can do it, then that means that Croatian Wikipedia really is what the critics say it is.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 08:31, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This equals that old joke. In which a person can only answer with yes or no, and than you ass him/her do his/her parents know that he/she is gay.
If you have any trouble with that article, you have proper chanels to adress it. Comparing 2 wikipedias will lead you to what? --Ceha (talk) 13:18, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
3E, Your rationalizing on hr.wiki is like medieval test for witches with the millstone around the neck, where in either outcome alleged witch ends dead. Put the millstone around suspicious woman's neck and dump her into the lake. If she sunks to the bottom, drowns and dies, then she is not the witch. If she does not sunk, then she is a witch and then she is condemned to burn alive on bonfire. --Arraque (talk) 14:26, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Just as the 3 Admins rail against “SerboCroatists”, there are similar Serb nationalist brethren who rail against all the “lies” against them, and they too have “the only truth” for Srebrenica, very different from reliable sources (i.e, denying it), just as CW Admins claim holocaust-deniers have the only "truth" about Jasenovac. They also see every Croat act as a genocide, even when it isn’t, just like CW invents non-existent “genocides” against Croats. They both see all criticisms of their “truths” as “witch-hunts”, “conspiracies”, etc. As many historians have noted, it is precisely these types of “alternative histories” - i.e. negating and minimizing the crimes on one’s own side, while exaggerating and inventing crimes by the other side, peddled by Balkan-nationalists on all sides - that led to bloody wars of the 90’s
The ONLY requirement here is to follow WP Rules – NPOV, Reliable Sources, WP:INVOLVED, etc – and not use WP servers as a personal propaganda tool to spread POV-based falsehoods, hatreds and inflame new wars, as CW has done. So I do not agree that it is up to CW Admins to try to fix any articles, instead the only solution is to get rid of the CW Admins for repeatedly violating core CW principles, including blatant violations during the course of this very RfC, and replace them with Admins who will actually follow WP rules Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:13, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@3E1I5S8B9RF7: You were not the sort of thing I had in mind when I posted. I am not convinced in Your impartiality: You made no such challenges for opponents of Kubura, Speedy and Željko. You kind of, require the accused to prove their innocence. --Uršul (talk) 13:21, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I guess you are unfamiliar with the standard operating procedure of a trial. During a trial, the prosecution presents evidence incriminating the accused, and the defendant then has to challenge this evidence. And if the accused SpeedyGonsales and Kubura are not anwsering questions or disputing the charges, then by the end of this session their charges will be regarded as confirmed.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 07:33, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. The participants of this disscussion should be aware that, first and foremost, it is a discussion, not a show of hands. It is not really possible to challenge a 2,500-word case which contains concrete and detailed evidence by posting a single dismissive sentence, and then disappear despite being asked to provide clarification. Kubura, SpeedyGonsales, and Zeljko have been unable or unwilling (which is really the same thing) to mount a meaningul argument against the accusations as described in the statement of this RfC, which is particularly damning. GregorB (talk) 10:55, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@3E1I5S8B9RF7:, very wrong approach. Wikipedia is WP:NOT a courtroom. This is just a RfC. Asking the questions is OK, but the non-answering does not makes the silent user guilty; otherwise, all persons trialed in absentia would be found guilty. Further, make difference between asking questions and posing requests/giving tasks. You are practically obliging one side, accused one by that, to do something contrary to his habits, interests. Why don't You do that for GregorB? Why don't You say to him or Thhhommmasss, "if You're neutral, write something positive about Croatian Homeland War by dismantling media spectacularization, misrepresentation and overmagnification (no good translation for preuveličavanje) of Croatian war crimes, and to on equal terms edit the articles about the war crimes commited against Croats in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro". Kubura (talk) 13:15, 28 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose Ordinary witch-hunt.--Arraque (talk) 14:26, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Arraque: No, my test is actually based on the puzzle of two identical twins, which is an example of induction reasoning. Meaning that it is demonstrable and logical. So if you cannot solve my test [53], then that means that the Administrators of the Croatian Wikipedia are guilty. If you can solve it, what are you waiting for? It is meaningless when you cannot practice what you preach.
@Ceha: Comparing two Wikipedias will lead to identify which one of them violates the WP:PILLARS (hence the title of this topic). Since English Wikipedia is copied by hundreds of other Wikipedias (from Indonesia to the Netherlands) and considered the most ideal (for all of its flaws are constantly corrected), then you can compare how much Croatian Wikipedia deviates from it. If Jasenovac camp is a better article on Croatian Wikipedia, then please, try to insert such claims on the English Wikipedia article. If you cannot, and your claims are disproven, then Croatian Wikipedia is the one that needs to change and improve the said article. Hence, you have nothing to support your claims until you can meet my challenge. --3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 19:10, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@3E1I5S8B9RF7:, a big no. English wikipedia is a wikipedia as any other, and you are suggesting it to be "an ultimate source"? You are using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum and there is nothing wrong with article on CW... Which claimes on it would be disputable? --Ceha (talk) 09:41, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 Please, don't use straw-man argument on a man familiar with Godwin's law. If there are no disputable claims on Croatian Wikipedia, then my challenge would be easy to do: [54]. So what are you waiting for? You have a chance to prove that Croatian Wikipedia has no controversial claims nor deviations from WP:PILLARS. But if you cannot prove what you preach, then you have no argument.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 12:31, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As they’ve repeatedly shown, they will never respond with any specifics, just like they refused to respond when asked to prove that they did not block people for posting links to the RfC, instead they just blew off the questioners. We’ve now had nearly 5 months of general blithering (“everything’s great, these are just enemies of CW”, etc), deranged ranting against “serbocroatists” (i.e. Croatian and Western historians, international linguists, etc). 90% of what Kubura wrote has nothing to do with WP, instead it’s what politicians or government ministries said about this or that, totally unrelated to anything on WP. I’m sure they can continue not-responding, endlessly blithering and ranting for another 5 months and much longer
The Jasenovac article and all its holocaust-denying falsehoods cannot be resolved via this RfC. What's necessary is to first remove the Admins for repeat, gross violations of WP principles, including during this very RfC. Then it’d greatly help to set up, per the RfC, an ArbCom of people willing to follow WP rules, to resolve this. To provide transparency and ensure rules are followed, I believe it’d also help to create a separate coordination project page, where anyone can bring up any issues, and these can be discussed and resolved there, in a manner everyone can see (I think most of the discussion relating to improving individual articles, like the Jasenovac article, should take place on the article Talk page, so this extra project page would be where people can go if they think they’re not being fairly treated as per WP rules). Btw generalized blithering and distractions, merely labeling and ranting against “serbocroatists”, non-responses, plus all responses without reasoned arguments and proofs, should in my view be instantly deleted. Had this been followed here, this would have been a much shorter discussionThhhommmasss (talk) 21:14, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@3E1I5S8B9RF7: People use English wikipedia not because it is good, but because English language is official in science and media. Most texts are available in English. English is worldwide understood language, and speakers of various languages "communicate" over en.wiki by posting there and translating from it. They don't have to learn each others' languages since they know English. Test with "will such claims survive on English Wikipedia article" is wrong. Some claims from en.wiki are disproven regarding that camp, and it is proven with references from all political spectra that Croatian Wikipedia is right. Instead of changing and improving English Wikipedia, discontent person that stubbornly believes in overwhelmed historic claims (proven to be wrong) starts RfC against Croatian Wikipedia.--Rikovers (talk) 13:13, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 Your claim is only somewhat correct. The English Wikipedia is used by everyone because English is understandable to most of the global population, it was the first Wikipedia in history which established guidelines that other language Wikipedias must follow, but this also means that it has the highest standards and the most accurate criteria if it wants to sustain any order. Precisely because an English Wikipedia aticle is always among the first to pop up during Google search, it has the biggest threshold of scrutiny. And if it is the best we have, and Croatian Wikipedia allegedly follows its WP:PILLARS, then we can measure Croatian Wikipedia using English Wikipedia as a guideline. My challenge still stands, feel free to absolve Croatian Wikipedia when you can: [55].--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 12:31, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Example elaborated.--Rikovers (talk) 13:13, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly CW is "right" when it prominently cites the Jasenovac-denier Igor Vukic, who claims Jasenovac was a mere “work camp”, not the death camp described by the US Holocaust Museum, many Croatian and Western historians, etc, And to prove this, Vukic cites the existence of an inmate soccer team at the camp, but “forgets” to mention that the Ustashe killed 19 of the 20 members of the soccer team. He also mentions the account of an inmate about a play put on by the prisoners (Auschwitz had many orchestras and cultural groups), but “forgets” to mention that the same inmate describes his eyewitness account of the Ustashe killing 1,500 old and sick people in the camp in a single day, hundreds of other killings (even though he was there at a “quiet time”), and through other inmates, he got accounts of the extermination 20.000 – 30.000 Roma in the camp, i.e. nearly 100% of the Roma population in Croatia and Bosnia (the extermination of the Roma is attested to by other inmates, in virtually the same way). Thus Vukic “forgets” to mention any of these mass killings, i.e. massively lies, just like writing about the orchestras in Auschwitz, while “forgetting” to mention mass extermination, would be similar massive lies. Yet not only is this massive liar cited in CW, but when I tried to cite University of Zagreb history professor, Goran Hutinec, who disproves Vukic’s lies, this was instantly reverted. Thus on CW it is OK to cite self-proclaimed “publicists”, convicted fraudsters and holocaust-deniers like Roman Leljak and Igor Vulkic, while citations of reliable sources - Croatian and Western historians - are deleted and people blocked, because per CW Admins this is “sensitive”, or cited source are “anti-Croat”, etc, etc. Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:25, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose In my humble opinion, dissatisfied users act out of personal grudge. Requests for comment are not intended for venting painful emotions. --Chiartop (talk) 09:29, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, and other wikis should follow “the great example” of CW – e.g. similarly deny crimes against Croats, cite convicted fraudsters to reduce the number of Croatian victims of war crimes by 98%, claim that Croats committed genocides in Bosnia in the 1990s and after Operation Storm, etc, and then systematically revert and block all who dare cite reliable sources to counteract this. In other words, systematically misuse WP for personal ideological purposes, same as CW, to perpetuate Balkan myths, lies and hatreds. And since nationalistic ideologies predominate on all sides on the Balkans, no doubt many similar Balkan nationalistic brethren will come to cheer and support when WP is similarly abused to spread hatreds against Croats Thhhommmasss (talk) 21:59, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You confirm that You hold a personal grudge against CW. "The great example" of Wikipedia in English and some other WPs do deny crimes against Croats by diminishing them. The same flock on En.wiki denies Croatian language by squeezing it into nebulous Serbo-Croatian. Large portion of Croatia-related articles named in English have translation in brackets "Serbo-Croatian", not separately in Croatian and in Serbian. They silenced Croatian users with a polity that is created for "Balkans topics" (...You have shown interest in Eastern Europe or the Balkans.. blabla). They all received "Discretionary sanctions notification". That polity is ethnic- and geographical- segregation. 18th century colonizators' approach towards "savage tribes". That is systematic misuse of WP for ideological purposes. I ask You not to assault any "Balkan brethren" (seems that You count CW in), because they are not worse than any of those Western wikis. Nevertheless, Balkan neighbours do not cover properly the topic of Croatian victims of war crimes in Homeland war, only the internationally branded massacre in Vukovar (Ovčara). How long will they perpetuate such situation, it's up to them and no user has a right to impose them the content. The truth is best and most properly accepted when it comes from inside peacefully spontaneously, not when violently imposed from outside. --Chiartop (talk) 01:46, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Chiartop - I provided numerous specifics for my criticism of CW, while again your comment is full of generalities with no specifics. Why don’t you write a separate RfC with specific examples where other wikis, just like CW, also cite “publicists” and convicted fraudsters to deny 98% of Croatian war crime victims, with their Admins insisting this is “the only truth”. Plus where these other wikis, same as CW, also systematically delete and block people who dare cite reliable sources, like well-known historians, to contradict such enormous lies, with diffs provided. I’m sure you won’t do this, like you and others haven’t responded with specifics to any other questions posed to you here
On the issue of the Croatian language being entirely separate from Serb and Bosnian, you and others have repeated here over an over that you refuse to accept the views of respected Croatian and international linguists, if these contradict your nationalistic POV. In fact Kubura repeated that I was blocked for merely daring cite the fact that many western and Croatian linguists consider Bosnian-Croatian-Serb to be a common, shared language. So if anyone, per your comment, is “violently imposing” anything, it is CW Admins - in total violation of core CW principles - in order to push their own, loudly-proclaimed nationalistic POV-agenda.
A nationalist agenda, that many historians state has been employed by Balkan nationalists on all sides to foster divisions (e.g. by persistently inventing and magnifying differences, as in languages), as well as perverting history (e.g. CW articles citing holocaust-deniers to deny/minimize crimes on one’s own side, while inventing non-existent “genocide” by Serbs, as in the CW Ovcara article). The same historians note that all this is done to promote a sense of victimhood and hatred, and such nationalist propaganda played a key role in inflaming the wars of the 90s. It is shameful that WP has allowed such systematic abuse of core WP principles, like NPOV and Reliable Sources, to persist on CW, and thus helped promote this harmful, hateful POV agenda Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose In vino veritas, in hoc paginae fatuitas. Considering the examples brought up here and respective proposals, this ought to be commented on the respective talk pages on local wiki and not here.--Vinko Ml. (talk) 22:12, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This was commented on the CW Talk pages, and when people commented and complained about CW citing convicted fraudsters, massive liars and Holocaust-deniers, while systematically deleting citations of Croatian and western historians, the US Holocaust Museum and other reliable sources, users were blocked from WP. Same as CW Admins blocked people for merely daring post links to this RfC, i.e. blocked people for exercising a core WP right. That is the essence of abuse of core WP principles on CW, designed to advance the herein loudly proclaimed POV-ideological agendas of the CW Admins Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:26, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, Vinko Ml., I commented on the local wiki's talk pages and got blocked for it. GregorB (talk) 21:10, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@GregorB: You prefer rebuking on Meta, instead of telling admonition on local wiki. You were not blocked for the mere fact of commenting. You got a lot of responses. Various users dedicated a lot of their time to explain You stuff. Your talk page at hr.wiki and over 240,000 bytes on it tells that.
@Thhhommmasss: Incorrect. No user was blocked for merely daring post links to this RfC. GregorB was blocked two weeks after posting links and was blocked for other reasons. Thhhommmasss, you were not disturbed while editing articles and commented and not being blocked from WP. --Vinko Ml. (talk) 22:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Vinko Ml.: I wasn't blocked for commenting in talk pages, and I wasn't blocked for writing the RfC? Well, obviously I got it all wrong. What was I blocked for then? GregorB (talk) 22:06, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@GregorB:, You are continuously urging me to tell You what You've been previously told by another user. I took some time to read Your talk page. I kindly ask You to do the same.--Vinko Ml. (talk) 22:15, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Vinko Ml.: I'm not urging you to tell me, I'm urging you to tell everyone who is reading this RfC. Please do, I insist. GregorB (talk) 08:03, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose @GregorB: You've gone too far, man. I think a few of you took this too seriously. No Holocaust denying or stuff, when I read You my brain is dying. Few of you write so dark I think I am watching a video on morning briefing for the incarcerated persons in the penalty institution. I've been playing live music for some time, and You're like hecklers on a good gig. Even if they enjoy your gig, they scream all night long at you and do everything disturbing for guests and musicians to ruin the mood. No wonder they kicked you. Relax, man. --Leteći oleandar (talk) 14:45, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Leteći oleandar, when you say I've "gone too far", I take it that you agree that my case is basically valid, it's only that I may be asking for too much. Can you elaborate on what you think I've concluded correctly, and what do you propose instead? GregorB (talk) 19:17, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Again from Leteci oleander and others we see no specifics, no facts, just blanket denials. I’m sure that when other wikis follow the great lead of CW, and cite convicted fraudsters to deny 98% of Croatian victims of war crimes, Leteci oleander will be first to claim that this is not a denial of such crimes. On the contrary, had others similarly cited sources which deny 98% of Croatian war victims, all these same people would be shouting bloody murder at the top of their lungs, instead of proclaiming “relax”, as when their side engages in Holocaust- and genocide-denial. This is typical of the Balkans, where there are many examples of media-generated outrage when the other side denies its crimes, while these very same sources express support for their own deniers. All this is part of perpetuating hatreds in the region, and it is shameful that WP has been, and continues to be abused to promote such an agenda Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:20, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose Considering megalomanic requests expressed by a loud pair, this whole thing is wrong. GregorB, Thhhommmasss, You two want to turn an entire world upside down. To boost Your wishes, You incite readers (who don't know what You're talking about and what kind of users You are) with the sentences spiced with peacock terminology like "Holocaust-denial" and "genocide-denial". Indulging the megalomania of impudent persons (outsiders, BTW) to tumble the whole CW project, is not a healthy thing, because that will generate even more indecent proposals. Next, regarding Holocaust, You never gave us the example where in CW is stated that it did not happened. Because that denial has never been present. You lie to people here all the time. --Tomec (talk) 23:22, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"This whole thing is wrong." - that's easy to say because it doesn't mean anything. What exactly is wrong? The RfC gives plenty of examples and evidence, including an incident in which an editor was blocked on the spot for merely questioning a Holocaust revisionist "source" on the talk page. Yet, you choose to act as if you haven't seen any of that. GregorB (talk) 14:03, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Also: it doesn't matter "what kind of users" we are because what we say here is either true or false and, since it's based on diffs, it's easily checkable. Please refrain from using ad hominem arguments. GregorB (talk) 14:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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@Tomec: My challenge still stands for any supporter of SpeedyGonsales and Kubura: [56]. Think about it: if Croatian Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia in the world that uses these questionable sources, and no other Wikipedia does, then what is more likely - that Croatian Wikipedia is the only car that is driving the right way and that the entire world is driving the wrong way on the street, or that the Croatian Wikipedia is the one driving on the wrong way? Because if the "black myth" of Jasenovac concentration camp "was dismantled" only on Croatian Wikipedia, and you cannot insert these claims on any other Wikipedia, then it hasn't been dismantled at all. If you cannot practice what your preach, your arguments are void.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 09:14, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@3E1I5S8B9RF7:, You have it on this page told several times. Until the fall of Yugoslavia, the official death toll of Jasenovac was 700,000 to 1,000,000. Very few dared to "drive on the other track of the road". Žerjavić directly in 1984, with cca 83,000, Kočović indirectly with total of 200,000 Serbs in the whole war. Tuđman estimated from 30,000-40,000. Official comission in 1964 counted by name 59,188 pages 45-46, but that somehow remained silent. The number of 700,000 remained sacrosanctous under protection of state authorities [57].Now the memorial public institution (JUSP Jasenovac) deals with significantly smaller numbers: 83,145 [58] And still falling. In Serbian textbooks they even now teach youth with numbers of 500,000 - 600,000. That is dismantled black myth. Far-left historian Goldstein also says that 700,000 is impossible, and at the time when his interview was published he operated with 83,881. [59] The falling number is obvious. Leading European explorer of victims of Hitlerist and Stalinist terror Timothy Snyder in his book Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler and Stalin [60] argues that "By repeating exaggerated numbers, Europeans release into their culture millions of ghosts of people who never lived. Unfortunately, such spectres have power. What begins as competitive martyrology can end with martyrological imperialism. The wars for Yugoslavia of the 1990s began, in part, because Serbs believed that far larger numbers of their fellows had been killed in the second World War than was the case. When history is removed, numbers go upward and memories go inward, to all of our peril. " (Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, Europe between Hitler and Stalin (London, 2011), p. 406.) On the same page he emphasises Jasenovac as extreme phenomenon that has with manipulation with the numbers participated in the causes in wars in Yugoslavia in 1990's [61]. --Tomec (talk) 01:04, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Tomec, so now we have CW Admins claiming, per cited convicted fraudsters, that “the only truth” is 1,600 Jasenovac victims, i.e. a 98% reduction in victims, and that the 80,000-100,000 victims, per the US Holocaust Museum, western and Croatian historians, are “falsifications and lies”. Thus CW is now publishing even more massive lies, by self-proclaimed “publicists” and convicted fraudsters, amounting to a 50-times reduction in victims, compared to the 7-times increases of victims previously. Croatian nationalists also still make claims of 500,000, even up to one million Croat victims associated with Bleiburg alone, when per Zerjavic census data shows that only some 190,000 total Croats were killed in the entire WWII and post-war period. Thus these are obvious massive lies on the Croat nationalist side, even denounced by Tudjman himself
So yes, there is competitive victimhood underway by nationalists in the region, and CW Admins are enabling the publishing of Holocaust-denial lies, while deleting and blocking people who dare cite Croat and western historians who disprove these lies. And while minimizing and denying genocides perpetrated by the Ustashe, CW also invents "genocide" perpetrated by Serbs at Ovcara, where no independent observers make such claims, and in fact the International Court of Justice denied such claims. So following the great example set by CW, Serb WP should be free to publish convicted fraudsters who claim only 4 Croat victims killed at Ovcara (a similar 98% reduction), while inventing genocides perpetrated by Croats after Operation Storm and in Bosnia in the 90s. You will no doubt be the first to come praise such an exact same, "great job" by Serb WP 02:08, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


As I stated repeatedly over the past 5 months, citing “publicists” and convicted fraudsters, like Vukic and Leljak, who deny 98% of Jasenovac victims, and claim no mass extermination took place there, is Holocaust-denial since these sources deny the vast majority of Jewish Holocaust victims in Croatia and Bosnia, which per the US Holocaust Museum, Croatian and western historians, were exterminated by the Ustashe at Jasenovac. Let’s see someone on the de.wiki Auschwitz page similarly cite convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of Auschwitz victims, and instead claim Auschwitz was a mere “work camp” where people put on plays and played soccer, and then let’s see if that is considered Holocaust-denial or not. Furthermore, when someone tries to contradict this, by citing well-known historians, let’s have de.wiki follow the lead of CW Admins, and systematically delete and block people who dare correct such blatant Holocaust-denial. For good measure, let's also have de.wiki Admins, like CW Admins, proclaim that the holocaust-denying convicted fraudsters have "the only truth", and that everything else - i.e. what historians and Holocaust museums write - is just "falsification and lies". Then you and the CW Admins come explain to everyone why all this same behavior on de.wiki would be perfectly fine, and should be allowed to continue for decades more, just like it is still allowed to continue on CW Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:25, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose Argumentum ad nauseam with endless repeating of unbased claim of "Holocaust-denial". The more daring the accusing statement, the better. That statement is repeated endlessly, waiting until no opponent cares to respond anymore, then claiming to be right since nobody contradicts anymore. The lame repeated claim is not a reason but a method and a mean to disqualify unwanted admins, and CW as such. Accused admins are not guilty at all, they are just an obstacle for those who want to impose dishonest content.--Zerukruhaivina (talk) 21:54, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Zerukruhaivina - on the contrary, we have ad nauseum blanket denials from CW sources. If not, why don’t you copy and paste here just one of the replies, explaining how it is not Holocaust-denial, when Admin Zeljko claims, that the CW-cited convicted fraudsters, Roman Leljak, has the “only truth” regarding Jasenovac victim numbers - i.e. that the total number of victims was only 1,600, and not the 80,000-100,000 listed by the US Holocaust Museum and many Croatian and Western Historians. Thus the CW-cited "only truth" denies 98% of the Jasenovac victims as per these other sources, and also denies the vast majority of Holocaust victims in Croatia and Bosnia, up to the 20,000 of them, who per the US Holocaust Museum were exterminated by the Ustashe at Jasenovac, alone. Let's see here a copy/paste of the response to this, since you claim it's been responded to many times, and if not, let's hear your response. I'm not holding my breath for the latter, since you guys have repeatedly failed to provide any specifics for your claims when challenged, and instead continue to name-call and throw around generalites, with zero proof for anything you claim Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:19, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose Your implicit bias is a huge problems of Yours, GregorB and Thhhommmasss. You are not generally aware of the attitudes You hold against modern Croatia. Through the idealized narrative of the saloon left might be socially acceptable to delate anyone who desecrates Jasenovac myth, one of the pillars that held Yugoslavia. That's the only pillar that is violated here.--Ustajala voda (talk) 15:54, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • @ustajala - Yes, my “implicit bias" of repeatedly citing Croatian and western historians and linguists, as opposed to holocaust-denying “publicists” and convicted fraudsters cited on CW, which your Admins claim have “the only truth”, while they also claim renowned historians and Holocaust Museums write only “falsifications and lies”. Thus per Kubura, I was blocked for daring cite Croatian and Western linguists, because they contradict the nationalistic myths and lies peddled on CW. Of course if you openly proclaim a nationalistic POV-agenda, as do CW Admins, everything else will be “bias”. That is a very common view among Balkan-nationalists on all sides - i.e. they constantly wail that “colonialists”, local and western historians and linguists, “SerboCroatists” and many others, are forever “conspiring” against their “truths” Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:17, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Gibberish. Everything but the blame for the coronavirus is thrown at CW. CW is anything but Holocaust-denying. Balkanic yugonationalists claim that only they know the truth and for that purpose they cite historians that speak from superannuated positions and that still use pseudoscientific frauds that are dismantled decades ago.--Krljob (talk) 18:58, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
So instead of Croat and Western historians, CW cites the “publicist”, Igor Vukic, who claims the book by Jasenovac-inmate, Milko Riffer, “proves” Jasenovac was merely a “work camp” where no mass extermination took place, when in fact the book has many pages and chapters on the thousands Riffer personally witnessed killed by the Ustashe in the camp, as well descriptions of the extermination of 20,000 Roma. Thus a book with eyewitness accounts of thousands brutally killed by the Ustashe and the genocide of practically all Roma in Croatia and Bosnia, down to newborns, is presented as “proof” no mass killing took place. It’s hard to conceive more blatant and massive lies than this. The CW-cited Vukic also denies up to 2/3 of Croat and Bosnian Holocaust victims who the US Holocaust Museum says were exterminated at Jasenovac. Yet when I sought to cite Croat historians who contradict these massive lies, these citations were instantly reverted
WP needs to decide if it’s going to continue to allow the use of its servers and the WP name to peddle such massive, genocide-denying lies, based on “publicists”, convicted fraudsters, websites that celebrate convicted Croat war criminals, etc, while enabling further abuse and violation of core WP principles, where CW Admins revert and block those who dare cite Reliable Sources, like Croat and Western Historians, Holocaust Museums, etc Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:36, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
So it does pay to set an allegation with megalomaniac numbers. By setting the meganumber, the more difficult for defendant is to prove the real number. Because the percentage of denied "victims" will be higher. Percentage of correction now is more than 4/5. Genocide-denying lie of "publicists"? No. With the current official number in Memorial site Jasenovac (approx 80,000), compared to pre-1990 forged number of approx 700,000, makes 88.5% of denied "victims" (victims in quotes, because it was proved that they were inexistent), and US Holocaust Museum also used those names as the Jasenovac camp victims, like the names of persons that died in refugee camp 2500 kilometres away in Egypt. The decrease of 88.5% and 620,000 fabricated victims gives us the reason to suspect were there any more forgeries.--Krljob (talk) 22:47, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Again all the same bogus justifications of Non-Reliable Sources and massive lies on CW. Croat rightists have claimed up to 600.000 killed at Bleiburg alone, when this is more than 3 times the number, i.e. 192.000 total Croats, that demographics show were killed during the entire war and post-war period (most in fact by Germans, Italians and Ustashe) After working for 10 years, Vice Vukojevic’s State commission came up with names of only 10.300 Croats killed at Bleiburg, so this is almost 60 times less. Thus Croat-rightist Bleiburg claims are equal or even much greater exaggerations than some Jasenovac claims. The International Court of Justice found that Croatia inflated by 40 to 60 times the 1990s victims of bombing of old town Dubrovnik, compared to police records, and they heavily imply Croatia faked 97% of the “victims”. The court said there is no proof for 95% of the 350 claimed Croat victims at Vukovar-Velepromet, and the court found Croat “victims” which are very much still alive. So per your “logic” then, Serb nationalists can say that everything Croatia says about Croat victims is a massive lie and exaggeration, and sr.wiki is free to follow the lead of CW to publish its “truth” and “revisions”, by citing “publicists”, convicted fraudsters, "self-employed editors", websites that celebrate Serb war criminals, etc, to claim Serbs were the main victims at Ovcara/Vukovar (like Croat-rightist invent a “post-war Jasenovac” where Croats were the main victims), and that Croatia exaggerated all Croat victims by 20 to 50 times, etc, etc. And if anyone dares cite Reliable Sources to counter this, then sr.wiki is free to follow the lead of CW Admins, to revert and block all "anti-Serbs" Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support, Your bogus justifications of mass murder of Croats amounts to little more than whataboutism. Vukojevic's State commission's work has never been finished, its work was interrupted and the commission has been cancelled by political act. Croats' victims of WWII, civilians and surrendered soldiers are still found, like in Huda jama/Barbarin rov, after the cancellation of Vukojevic's commission. Tezno is partially explored. Yugoslav historiography in that field is non-reliable source, since it has been hiding the massacre at Bleiburg and other sites. Bleiburg is an informal common name in Croatian historiography for all Croats' victims, civilians and surrendered soldiers, which is the reason for the discrepancies. Many died far away from Bleiburg, like in death marches along and throughout whole Yugoslavia. Croatian historiography has never multiplied the victims of Homeland War, since there has always been the estimate of 10-15,000 Croatian victims [62], with current number of 1,469 missing persons and place of burial of 402 persons (total 1871). In total, 82% of evidented missing persons' destiny has been solved.[63] No multiplication of 40 to 60 times, as You try to belittle Croatian science. --Krljob (talk) 20:55, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@krljob, I’m serving back your own “logic”. Tudjman himself (well-informed since during Bleiburg he was an officer at Yugoslav Army Headquarters, from where Bleiburg was commanded) wrote of “The Bleiburg Myth”, saying that claims of 500,000+ Bleiburg victims were gross exaggerations, since demographic data shows 192,000 total Croat victims during the ENTIRE WWII AND Postwar period (most killed by Germans-Italians-Ustashe). Regarding 20- to 40-times multipliers of Dubrovnik old-town and Vukovar-Velepromet victims (i.e. much greater than Serb Jasenovac-victim multipliers), everyone can see the ICJ Croatia vs. Serbia Judgement (e.g. p.98-99). So following CW “logic”, people can repeatedly cite these exaggerations, plus the courts’ finding still-live Croat “victims”, to similarly justify citing convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of Croat victims

AFAIK 25 years after the war, Croatia has still not published 90s named-victims lists for independent sources to verify Dubrovnik and other claims. Of your cited missing “Croats”, this article states 1,093 are Croats, while 900 are Serbs, despite fact that Croat media also often falsely claim all missing as Croats. It also says all civilian victims on Croat-controlled territory are counted as “Croats”, so Aleksandra Zec, her mother and father are counted as “Croat” victims, even though they and many others are Serbs. If Serbs similarly counted Croats as “Serb” victims, Croat nationalists would scream bloody murder. When Croatia publishes the named-victim-lists and independent sources confirm them, we will know the truth. Even then following the convicted fraudsters quoted on CW, who cite incomplete Jasenovac-victim-lists from 1946 to deny victims of Ustashe genocides, similar convicted fraudsters can dig up similarly incomplete Croat-victim-lists from 1996, then per CW Admins claim these 1996 lists are “the only truth”, and all Croat victim names added after 1996, are “falsifications and lies”

WP must cite Reliable Sources, not the Jasenovac-denying convicted fraudsters on CW, nor their similar Srebrenica-denying Serb brethren. I've repeatedly cited Croat historiographers, and CW Admins reverted this in favor of holocaust-denying convicted fraudsters and massively lying “publicists” – that is the issue Thhhommmasss (talk) 17:26, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Strong oppose I feel compelled to express my opinion. I expostulate with this thin kind of concluding. Communist historiography and juridical system is based on the same pillars: investigator, witness, prosecutor, jury, judge, executor, and often the defense attorney represented the same side. Taking these sources for sound is a wrong choice.--Soljenko (talk) 20:08, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Of course, well-known “Communist historiographers”, like the German generals, Nazi intelligence services, SS-officers, German diplomats and many others, who all wrote with disgust of the hundreds-of-thousands brutally killed by Ustashe, noting their predilection for the mass murder of women and children, informed of 100.000 killed at Jasenovac, wrote eyewitness accounts of the extermination of children at Jasenovac, etc. That is why Kubura instantly reverted when I cited these “Communist” German generals, stating that although they're widely cited by Western historians, they can’t be cited on CW, because they wrote “against Croats” (i.e. dared criticize Ustashe). Obviously following CW, on de and Serb wiki, they have the right to revert all who wrote “against Germans” (i.e. dared criticize Nazis), or “against Serbs” (i.e. dared criticize Milosevic’s regime)
Btw, in 2019 the “Communist” right-wing Austrian government forbade the display of Ustashe symbols, along with Nazi and ISIS ones, due to use of same by Croat extremists at annual Bleiburg commemorations (in his many off-topic rants here, Kubura railed against this). The “Communist” Austrian Catholic Church also forbade the Croatian Church to hold a Mass, stating: "the Mass at Bleiburg has become part of a politically instrumentalized manifestation, and is part of a political-national ritual that serves to selectively interpret history", adding that it misuses "a religious service for political purposes, while not distancing itself from the Fascist worldview"
Nothing describes CW better than the above phrase, “a political-national ritual that serves to selectively interpret history”. The Austrian Church acted to counter such abuse of church ceremony for historical distortion and political propaganda. We’ll see if WP will act to curb CW abuse, and require it to adhere to NPOV and Reliable sources, including the Croat and Western historians, Holocaust Museums, Croatian dictionaries, Croat and Western linguists, etc, that CW Admins rail against, revert, deny and block people for citing. Or, alternatively, if spreading holocaust-denial and other massive lies, by citing “publicists”, convicted fraudsters, “self-employed editors”, websites that promote holocaust-denial and celebrate convicted war criminals, etc, is all just fine, as long as it’s done to push loudly-proclaimed POV-agendas via WP servers Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:41, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Things are good. Things You find bad (facts You dislike) are good, because that makes things moving. If You want the content to be so set, instead in motion, we would be forever fused in the misapprehensions from the past. Science knows no beloved facts, only politics knows that. By dismissing all opponents, You want to hold captive an entire project in(to) Your selfdeceit.--Cvicang (talk) 18:08, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
So following the great example set by CW, similar Serb nationalistic brethren should be free to use sr.wiki to correct all the “misapprehensions” about Srebrenica, the 90s war in Croatia, Serb crimes in general, etc, by citing “publicists”, convicted fraudsters, Serb websites that deny Srebrenica and celebrate convicted Serb war criminals, etc, while systematically reverting and blocking people who dare cite Western historians plus all others they declare “anti-Serb”, “colonialists”, “Croat-Titoist communists” (per Serb nationalists and the SANU Memorandum, former Yugoslavia was the Croat Tito’s plot to destroy Serbs, by carving up only Serbia into Vojvodina and Kosova, etc) Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:54, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Credible information is based on up-to-date research that comes from proper source. Outside mentoring approach, in which plastering of historical fantasies and silencing the researchers (and local moderators by that) is a modus vivendi, represents blatantly unencyclopedic behaviour and it is a disgrace that anyone even dares to propose something like that. --Trainlast (talk) 17:17, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, "up-to-date research" cited on CW, like the convicted fraudsters, holocaust-denying “publicists”, “self-employed editors” and websites that engage in holocaust-denial and celebrate internationally-convicted Croat war criminals. And per CW Admins, these are the only sources with “the truth”, thus they mass revert Croat and international historians, Holocaust Museums, etc. Similar “truths” can be found among your Serb nationalist brethren, with their “up-to-date research" which denies Srebrenica, and in their case they even cite NATO generals, US State Department officials, not just the convicted fraudsters and massively-lying publicists cited on CW.
Next step, following CW’s lead, is for Serb wiki to point to all the cases of massive inflation of Croat victim numbers by the Croat government that the International Court of Justice found, and then present their own “up-to-date research”, i.e. convicted fraudsters to deny 98% of Croat 1990s war victims, and claim that in fact Serbs were the main victims at Vukovar/Ovcara, just like Croat “up-to-date research” claims that Croats were the main victims of an invented “postwar Jasenovac”. Btw, this “up-to-date” Croat research includes the Jasenovac “documentary” by Jakov Sedlar, in which he “proved” this “postwar Jasenovac” by showing photoshopped “newspapers” which claim that many corpses from this “postwar Jasenovac” floated more than 100km UP RIVER to Zagreb. Thus he so massively lies that he even falsifies the basic laws of physics, and these massive lies were then praised by 4. government ministers, all reported in Croatian media Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:20, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Vrtleska225, while this line of questions has proven futile thus far, let me try once again: which accusations against Kubura, SpeedyGonsales and Zeljko are "incorrect"? Please be as specific as possible. GregorB (talk) 21:21, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Misuse of RfC process to inflame hatred towards hr.wiki and highly appreaciated users of hr.wiki. —Uspjeh je ključ života (talk) 14:32, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Uspjeh je ključ života, the same question for you: which accusations against Kubura, SpeedyGonsales and Zeljko are unfounded? GregorB (talk) 10:48, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lasta's statement of facts

Dear GregorB, do not write assumptions and imaginations, especially about me. If you do not know the facts, please ask, do not spread lies around (at least, not about me). Your "quasi statement" is wrong and is based on your lack of knowledge of the situation. Namely, inserting my name together with other admins, you insinuated that nobody of us (me included) did nothing to change the situation and that all of us (again, me included) agree with the present mess. As you falsely accused me of lack of reaction (and you were able to recheck and find the right answer, either with me or with several admins on Meta) I am checking my options of giving you the chance to back up your accusations in front of the court of law. I am ready to accept that you were misinformed, therefore I am giving you the chance to remove my name from the list in next 48 hours, and inform me about that. Regards --Lasta (talk) 10:15, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, please provide:
  1. A clear statement about the CW situation and the concrete responsibility of Kubura, SpeedyGonsales and Zeljko, as described in this RfC.
  2. On-wiki evidence (i.e. diffs) that shows you substantially disagreeing, criticizing or attempting to remedy the said situation.
  3. An explanation as to why you - being fully aware of this RfC - waited for one month before responding.
You don't need to give me any chances, I'm giving you a chance. GregorB (talk) 11:46, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
GregorB, it is too late for that kind of talk. That kind of talk was possible before the accusation, this is another game now. If you are sure of you accusations, you can send me your name, surname and data to my mail (or you can post it here), I will sue you for defamation and see you in court here in Croatia. If you are not sure, and you in fact was misinformed, you can withdraw your accusations against me, that will solve this situation. If you are not willing to do either, that will show me and all others that we are not dealing with honest person, having good intentions towards the community.
GregorB, kasno je za taj način razgovora. To je bilo moguće prije nego si me optužio, sada je ovo sasvim druga stvar. Ako si siguran u svoje optužbe, možeš mi poslati svoje podatke na mail (ili to isto možeš objaviti ovdje), ja ću te tužiti za objedu, pa ćemo se vidjeti na sudu u Hrvatskoj. Ukoliko nisi siguran, i zbilja si bio slabo informiran, možeš povući optužbe priotiv mene, to će riješiti ovuu situaciju. Ako ne želiš napraviti ni jedno, to će meni i svima ostalima značiti da ne komuniciramo s iskrenom osobom koja ima dobre namjere prema zajednici. --Lasta (talk) 13:48, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Before I respond in full, let's just make one thing clear: are you making a legal threat against me? GregorB (talk) 23:34, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I hope the above comment by Lasta, as well as all the other responses here by CW Admins, finally prove to everyone that extreme nationalist ideologues like them are incapable of rational thought or argument, since aside from railing against communist, neo-Yugoslavist, Serbo-Croatist, anti-Croat and who knows how many other conspiracies, they’ve been totally unable to offer any proof of their claims, or put together a single cogent argument. That is why on CW they systematically mass-revert edits, block and drive away numerous Croat editors they disagree with, even deleted and blocked people for posting links to the Signpost article and the RfC. Plus now instead of rationally discussing things, as is the WP-way, they threaten lawsuits. These guys are the total antithesis of everything WP, and should be forever banned from WP 06:30, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Lasta, let's consider this case:
  1. In 2019, a CW editor with a history of right-wing POV and blatantly unencyclopedic editing applied for patroller rights.
  2. He received your support, as well as support of four other patrollers (who, according to the local procedure, support or oppose the candidate in a vote).
  3. A single patroller voted "oppose", providing a number of diffs showcasing the candidate's unencyclopedic work.
  4. In response, you spearheaded an initiative to strip the dissenting editor of his patroller rights, as a direct retaliation for his "oppose" vote.
  5. The dissenting patroller in question was, in the end, demoted without a vote, which grossly violated CW's well-established rules.
This event is a typical example of the pattern of bias, abuse of powers, and dysfunction described in this RfC. It should be clear that, whoever supports, encourages or promotes editors with extreme views, and retaliates against dissenters, substantially fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia. This is why - contrary to your request - I'm not changing or deleting any of my earlier statements about you. (Also, you have refused to provide any evidence these statements are incorrect.)
For the sake of brevity and focus, I left out the names, details and diffs from this story, but I will supply them if anyone is interested, or is disputing the above description of the event. GregorB (talk) 20:37, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
When starting the discussion on something that has been discussed and accusing someone for that, that is trolling and disrupting of Wikipedia to prove a point. In this case he defends one dissenting patroller that his patroller status to opstruct the maintaining process and almost paralyze the maintaing process. That patroller also misused the patience that community gave to him, the second chance(s) they gave him to work under the other name, since he earned reputation of fanatic hiper-hair-splitter and hiper-word-splitter. Community gave him more confidence, hoping that he has improved. Instead, he turned worse he was than before. His nano-hair-splitting always ended, like before, in something irrational. We checked what is he talking about, not just one time - and his remarks made no sense! Anyway, He has a block history on other project(s) under other name(s) because of his behaviour. Anyway, there was a voting on hr.wiki, since he p*ssed whole community off because of paralizing the procedures. BTW, there was a consensus on that voting. If You like him, no problem, I wish that he becomes the admin on meta, en., bs., sh. and commons. Kubura (talk) 01:15, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So, he has been paralyzing the voting procedures by voting the wrong way? GregorB (talk) 08:34, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@GregorB: Wrong thinking. E.g., if You appear on votings for adminship, bureaucratship on some wikis (maybe even on en.wiki), and vote on every candidate "no", and everytime when voting starts someone votes "no", that is considered as destructive behaviour.
Anyway, Nesmir's voting "no" is not a problem per se. He has a right to disagree, maybe he wants higher threshold for standards for getting the patrol statuses - he has a right to think like that. But if You want to set a high threshold, than show the others the example, be the example to others. Work, man. Maintain the project, don't leave the growing task to small community of others to clean it. It can be said: He was not patrolling at all! He was not helping! He was writing tens of hundreds of comment and critics on the discussion, but neglectively small number, very very few clickings on the "mark as patrolled" or reverts. Therefore the patrollers and admins had to mark as patrolled the diffs that had been already reverted by non-patrollers; or, on the other hand, they had to mark as patrolled the hundreds of edits of users that were correct and lose their scarce time and workenergy on that. Giving the status of autopatrolled to those users would solve that problem, but he was undermining these efforts with his hairsplitting. It was really annoying and uncooperative behaviour of Nesmir. It was a matter of time when some from users would lose his patience. Kubura (talk) 23:46, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, your thinking is wrong. People have the right to disagree - period, no buts. Also, Wikipedia is a volunteer project, nobody is on a payroll, so nobody should be punished or degraded for not "helping". That was not the real reason anyway: Nesmir provided some irrefutable arguments why an editor with a history of right-wing bias and unencyclopedic editing shouldn't be a patroller. You and your pals really wanted to promote him, because right-wing stuff and unencyclopedic editing is right up your alley, and you decided to punish Nesmir for merely disagreeing with you - it's that simple. GregorB (talk) 19:37, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@GregorB: stay strong, but also vigilant and responsible regarding your personal safety - don't ignore or underestimate any eventual personal threats, while not allowing to get intimidated.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 09:14, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Neo-nazi whitewashing on croatian wikipedia?

Hi,

I'm user from croatian wikipedia, but I would prefer to remain anonymus (i.e. not linked to my primary account on hr wikipedia). I would like to ask for a comment on the case of, as I see it, white-washing of Croatian ex drug dealer/pimp/neo-nazi (source)/right-wing journalist Velimir Bujanec. His article (see history) used to have well-referenced section that included his drug abuse and drug-dealing past. In the next diff, that has comment "ispravak životopisa, wp:žžo, na zahtjev" (translation: bio correction, en:WP:LIVE, on request), done by Roberta F.. Here, admin Roberta F. beautifies his bio and completely deletes all controversial parts. Based on diff comment, I guess she did it on personal request of this neo-nazi. Later, user Bojovnik returns the part regarding drug abuse, but Roberta F. reverts it. Bojovnik then adds some {fact} templates, but SpeedyGonsales reverts it without explanation. hr:User:Carl Johnson again tries to add referenced claims of drug-related offences, but Speedygonsales reverts it. Carl Johnson is later blocked by SpeedyGonsales (for being rude). Carl johnson later opens a discussion on willage pump Velimir Bujanec vs Ante Tomić complaining about double standards claiming left-wing journalist Ante Tomić doesn't have the same WP:LIVE protection as Bujanec. The discussion leads nowhere. Admin user:MaGa focuses on Carl Johnson's rude comments, patronising him (calling him "my dear son"), not on aledged double standards, and discussion is derailed in that direction.

I would call upon croatian-speaking users to check this case and also Roberta F. and SpeedyGonsales to explain reverting referenced claims in the article. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 14:52, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]


A modest proposal

A proposal to merge the bs-, hr-, and sr-wiki projects into sh-wiki has been rejected by the participants.

I strongly oppose GregorB's suggestion to intervene on hr-wiki in any way. Let me explain my stance.

Do we need Australian and Brasilian Wikipedia and Wiktionary?

The root of the problem with hr-wiki is the mistake of splitting one language into several separate wikipedias per national key. If this solution were good, then it would certainly be a division into British, American, Australian, etc. wikipedias and wiktionaries as well. Wiktionary has for some time accepted the division into Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian language variants, but several years ago it was reversed. Now there is only Serbo-Croatian language on Wiktionary.

Kubura wins anyways

If one accepts GregorB's proposals, a small percentage of hr-wiki articles might improve in next ten years, which means that even if Kubura disappears, he may be satisfied with what he did in the long run. In addition, Kubura and his associates built a wiki-community made up of nationalists, and they chased away anyone who is not a nationalist. Non-nationalists no longer contribute on hr-wiki. And they won't come back. This is permanent irreparable damage.

Newspeak and linguistic purification

Another problem not mentioned before is Kubura's massive linguistic purification of hr-wiki. In addition, he supports those who do it and punishes those who oppose it. The word sport /spôrt/ into šport /ʃpôrt/ is automatically changed everywhere, although 99% of people in Croatia and the Croatian media use the form /spôrt/. In this way he builds the illusion that the Serbo-croatian language in Croatia is even more different from the Serbo-Croatian language in Serbia. Kubura uses hr-wiki as a platform for the propaganda of Newspeak that is not universally accepted in Croatia. So, hr-wiki is stale even at the level of artificial purified language. This powerful propaganda is made possible and still enabled by Wikimedia. The only sensible solution is to fuse three national wiki-projects blooming with nationalism (bs, hr, sr) into old one: sh-wiki.

Google search engine prefers hr-wiki

The huge problem is that the Google search engine in Croatia always comes first with hr-wiki lemmas, bs-wiki or sr-wiki (or even en-wiki) in the second place, and almost never the non-ideologised Serbo-Croatian wiki. And most editors on sh-wiki are refugees expelled from hr-wiki. They diligently write articles and sh-wiki has 450,000 articles versus hr-wiki having 212,000 harticles. Unfortunately, sh-wiki is not visible because people go to what Google search engine offers them. This enabled the nationalist hr-wiki to be a successful platform for spreading of extreme nationalism in Croatian society. It is sad that young people during eduaction and reaching out for information are exposed to nationalist/profascist contents thus extreme nationalist political groups gain more new supporters and future voters. Thus, the Wikipedia project directly influences today's political picture of Croatia.

Suggesting Google to put sh-wiki first in its search engine would achieve far more than can be the rosier result of this discussion.

Hr-wiki enemizes En-wiki (as well as some living folks)

Now, there are many more sub-topics that can be addressed. E.g. that there is not only a problem in historical subjects and historical figures, but as well with innocent living people. Their biographies are biased in way that expressive militant Croatian nationalists are presented in a beautiful light (eg Velimir Bujanec, Mario Grčević, Zlatko Hasanbegović etc.), and peace activists in the negative, for example Vesna Teršelič. Negative hr-wiki articles about living people certainly make it difficult for them to get a job or rent an apartment and many other everyday problems. We can only anticipate that there are public figures who hesitate to publicly criticize nationalism, fearing that their biographies on hr-wiki should become a place of blame. One example of tendently written articles is the article "Declaration of Common Language", which, in addition to rebuking of cartoonish proportions, is also an example of blocking an wikipedian who tried to make the article more objective. I suggest you to compare the English and Croatian versions of this article. By the way, Kubura on the hr-wiki Village Pump constantly depicts en-wiki as his biggest enemy.

{comment}} Hr-wiki does not enemize En-wiki (as well as some living folks). Hr-wiki possibly enemizes ONLY pro-Greater-Serbian users on it, who systematically and continuously attack and provoke anything and anybody about Croatian Wikipedia. --Silverije (talk) 23:59, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusion

This is the only sensible long-term solution. So, I modestly propose to merge the bs-, hr-, and sr-wiki projects into the primary one: sh-wiki. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Micika Bičaš (talk) 17:35, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • Oppose Oppose And people didn't believe me when I raised concerns about this regional Arbitration Committee pushing their own POV on Croatian Wikipedia... --Rschen7754 19:30, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Is the reason why there is no overt bias in e.g. enwiki's ArbCom that enwiki's editors are all devoid of bias, or that biased editors by and large do not get elected to ArbCom? The solution for a non-biased Croatian Wikipedia ArbCom is therefore simple: do not put biased editors into it. GregorB (talk) 09:51, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • @GregorB: If you're looking at nationalism-related biases, English Wikipedia consists of editors from many different countries - US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and many English speakers in other countries worldwide. There is also such a large base of editors to draw from, which also brings a lot of added scrutiny - not to mention accountability from WMF and from other CU/OS holders. --Rschen7754 01:59, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • That’s why it'd help to involve in any ArbCom people with extensive experience on en, de or other more reputable WPs, plus knowledge of the language. Such ArbCom members could also serve as mentors, to help CW get back on track. A similar mentoring approach could help in addressing other problematic WPs Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:21, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Comment @Micika Bičaš: Shouldn't this proposal be a new RfC? Proposing it here only drives the focus of this discussion away from Croatian Wikipedia and needlessly enlarges the scope of the discussion to Bosnian and Serbian Wikipedia as well, which, as far as I know, haven't had similar issues (at least, none to such a massive degree). Diverting the focus of the discussion like this runs the risk of causing no action to be taken at Croatian Wikipedia in the end, which, given the stated issues, is not a good outcome. If you really wish to pursue your proposal further, I would recommend starting a new discussion elsewhere, as starting it on this page won't help matters. DraconicDark (talk) 03:02, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose - see DraconicDark's comments. This requires new RFC. Also, this proposal dilutes current discussion. It's also generally a very bad idea, but since it's off topic considering RFC's topic, I won't elaborate any further. Can I suggest to move this proposal somewhere else (at least to the talk page) since it really clutters this discussion. Just look at the TOC on the top! --Hrwikiuser (talk) 08:03, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose I want to be quite clear: if I had to choose between the current state of CW and your proposal, I'd choose the latter without a second thought. (Not because it is a good solution - it's not - but because it's still better than the alternative.) However, there is no reason to believe these are the only choices we have and, in particular, there is no reason to believe Kubura will "win". True, they chased away anyone who is not a nationalist and created a lot of bad content. In the future, editors who are habitually incapable of adhering to the purpose of Wikipedia will be "chased away", and the content will eventually be fixed. Whatever has been done, can be undone. GregorB (talk) 09:42, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with GregorB. Despite the terror of some paranoid right-wing admins, there is a constant intake of new editors. And there are even some who just like wikipedia too much to be driven away ;). The number of editors will not be the problem, since many new one will come if they learn about the changes. If we solve the problem of admins who are actively driving people away, Croatian wikipedia will in time become much better. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 10:11, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    That's still minuscule base, where diversity of attitudes and perspectives is/will be rarity, and I would bet that of all the currently active editors with significant contributions, 90% of them are in line with admin's worldview, meanwhile, I am 110% assured that rest of the admins there are, a.l.l. of them, mirror image of the fantastic-trio.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 04:07, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    A lot of admins left because they couldn't stand current situation, and couldn't change it because they were outnumbered. Just look at the diagram at hr:Wikipedija:Administratori. A lot of de-sysoping is because of admins asking to be de-sysoped out of frustration or fantastic-trio waiting for them to be inactive for a few years and then asking community to de-sysop them because of inactivity. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:55, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That's right - and I don't believe that most of those who left the project in disillusionment and despair will ever want to return, no matter what is going to happen with all this here - we can only hope that the new wave of editors, the first-timers, will appear and find much friendlier and less anti-intellectual environment there.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 20:13, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- On aside - It's not part of this RfC, but I find a segment of editor's proposition where they discuss fusion of all three wikis into one Serbo-Croatian, to be true, and I also believe, in nominator wording, that fusion would be the "only sensible solution" if we want to diversify attitudes and reduce amount of propagandistic and ideological contamination. But this is still something else, and the admins' grip over that project still need to be dealt with.--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 02:09, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment After the Language Committee decided there should be 4 wikipedias on 1 single language, the idea that u can close 3 projects (hr,bs and sr), which now have quite large communities themselves and an inner life, is pretty much gone. Gone doing it via an authoritarian decision of the Language Committee, made on a scientific basis (that there is, linguistically, 1 language = 1 Wikipedia). That bus is gone. The only way now is through a political campaign/democracy. Meaning u ask the 3 respected communities, via an vote/election, that they themselves close down their projects and merge into sh.wiki. That's the moment u leave science behind and get politics in. Because science is not democracy. And knowing the 'polls' and thinking about this topic on the 3 projects, i think the overwhelming majority is against the merger. As a sr.wiki editor i can tell u that this debate was going on 3 or 4 years ago, and most people don't want it. It doesn't say that they are nationalists or smth like that (most of them aren't), and they write perfectly non-pov articles, but they don't wan't to merge.

As for the argument that hr.wiki is dead and done, i don't share that view. As long as there is a hr.wiki, it by definition has legitimacy for it's existence. And people read it's content. the Wikipedia brand. So if u don't wanna shut it down/close for good, people will read it. If u don't wanna do that, than -repair- is the only option.

As for a regional ArbC @Rschen7754: is wrong here. There are plenty non-biased editors on sr, bs and sh.wiki who are eager to help and do things properly. Writing on bs. or sr.wiki doesn't by default make u biased as is implicated by this commentary. The fact is much more simple. The 1 policentric (serbo-croatian language) is, locally, by each nation -in every day life- called serbian/croatian/bosnian. And when that (everyday) guy comes online and sees that there are wikipedias (existent) that bear that name, he/she/+ just sticks to them (write/read there). If the LangC had 14 years ago decided that there should be 1 wikipedia (sh.wiki), then the people would go there and use that wiki. Plain simple. --Ivan VA (talk) 22:03, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Strong oppose Guys, we live in the 21. century. Left those serbocroatist and "reunified Yugoslavia" daydreams behind. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 22:01, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose there is more to this than language alone and that needs to be respected. Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 18:09, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose A parachutist with a single day of activity wants to eliminate the 17-year work of a hr.wiki, community of over 228,000 editors. And in favor of a politically protected project of a city with no inhabitants - so called "sh.wiki", that is built by human and software copybots. Sh.wiki "has 450,000 articles" with the rhytm of 0 - 2 new articles daily, as it is now - the proof of dead political project, fake world. Neither worth for the Incubator. Micika Bičaš, You will not restore Yugoslavia, and so-called "Serbo-Croatian" never existed in real world. This RfC is just another Serbocroatist attack on Croatian cause. Kubura (talk) 20:38, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just some more questions (from definitely an outsider)

I am asking everyone who participated in this discussion these question and hope to seek an answer:

  1. Given how political this is, how to obtain consensus here?
  2. How to enact any consensus (if any) (of the majority) if local community (some say here in its terminal stage, no comment about such claim) tries circumventing it?
  3. Given the completeness of arguments from one side, where are the arguments from the other side? I believe this whole thing already circulating within hr.wiki for quite some time (correct me if I'm wrong). What can be done to facilitate and resolve these arguments and bring the local community's voice out to meta. I am not stating which side is 100% right or wrong, but it seems problematic when only one side was heard (with the other side being not heard because solely due to language barriers).

I hope I won't receive any emails for me to be sued because I wrote these things above.--1233 （T / C） 11:52, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All good questions, let me try to answer:
  1. This RfC and the issues described in it do have a political background, but the RfC itself is not political, it is a matter of WP:PILLARS.
  2. If the issues persist even after the actions agreed upon in this RfC will have been implemented, there will be another RfC.
  3. The CW community has been informed about this RfC through the local Village pump, and full evidence with diffs has been presented in Croatian. Given that:
  1. ...at least two of the incriminated admins are able to adequately communicate in English, as evidenced by the above discussion
  2. ...no significant counter-arguments have been provided in the CW Village pump or here, despite explicit calls to do so
  3. ...nobody has thus far complained about the language barrier (to my knowledge at least)
  4. ...months have passed
...my conclusion is that the absence of arguments from the other side is because there aren't any. In fact, I found some of the comments delightful, because they attempted to argue some of my points, but ended up actually reinforcing them. GregorB (talk) 18:46, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I fully agree. The “arguments” from the other side have been deletions of the Signpost article links on CW Village Pump, blocks of people mentioning the RfC, name-calling (neo-yugoslavists, serbo-croatists, anti-croats, etc), outright refusals to provide any proof for their “arguments”, threats to sue people in order to shut them up, attacks on people’s ethnicity/citizenship, attacks on people’s choice of usernames, etc, etc, with absolutely nothing that might be considered a reasoned, substantive argument. It is time to put an end to this nonsense and continuing abuse. Thhhommmasss (talk) 21:28, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@GregorB: @1233: I see broad consensus on removing the 3 Admins, with others voting to remove them all. Appointing an ArbCom has been more controversial and more consensus is needed here. Some of the opposition stems from questions about including similar-language wiki Admins. While I believe this is an admirable goal, and could help with POV issues on all these wikis, I can also see where it might encounter resistance from other CW editors, even if they’re not very nationalistic, while more nationalistic ones could use this to whip up resentment (I believe same would happen on sr or bs wiki, if a cross-language ArbCom was appointed there). Thus one solution might be to focus first on CW participants, including those driven away, as possible ArbCom members (I see some good candidates in this RfC discussion), perhaps complemented by experienced admins/editors from en, de or other reputable wikis, who understand the language
I believe ongoing oversight via an ArbCom is much needed, since just removing the 3 or even all Admins will not solve the problem. I’ve had edits citing the US Holocaust Museum and Croatian historians mass-reverted by editor Dvanajsti igrac, and from comments here it’s clear there are editors, beyond the admins, who can be problematic. Given the vandalism and people trying to delete this page, it’s clear how problematic. Thus an ArbCom could help decide which Admins need to be removed immediately, maintain ongoing oversight and remove any further Admins, review and decide who else to unblock, etc. Since regular Admin work is also required, on top of the need to oversee further problematic editors, I believe it’d also help if the ArbCom were given the power to appoint new temporary Admins, e.g. for the period of one year, until the community can be rebuilt and new Admin elections can take place
So perhaps the next step is to find a way to build a consensus on the ArbCom, its composition and role, or alternatively decide how this will work in the absence of an ArbCom Thhhommmasss (talk) 21:37, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I will soon (in a matter of days, hopefully), post some additional proposals (most notably a better alternative to removal of all admins), as well as a more fleshed-out ArbCom proposal. GregorB (talk) 22:01, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@1233:, this is the political issue. Those who started this RfC have same rhetorics as neoyugoslavists and greaterserbianists (e.g. Serbian leader Vučić), denigration of everything Croatian with buzzwords like "(neo)fascists, (neo)nazis etc..." and to eliminate the most prolific admins from hr.wiki, that are also very versed on the topic of Croatian language and Croatian Homeland War. Whenever You confront the persons who started this RfC (and their alikes) and their "arguments" (that are their wishes and conclusions, not arguments) with the facts, they hide it and just proceed on the other RfC, neglect what You say or hide what's been elaborated to them. Note that they very rarely mention what's been said to them on the talkpages, or they blatantly misinterprete what's been written.
Regarding denigrating of Croatian cause with "fascism", here's an example: Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had to give a press release (March this year) regarding such denigrating rhetorics in Austrian media when talking about the commemoration of a mass-murder of Croatian civilians and POWs at the end of WWII.
Now about the attacked admins of hr.wiki. They have full support of their community; recently Kubura (me) was elected for bureaucrat with 20:0.
These questions we are talking about here have been explained and are being explained on hr.wiki. Nothing new, these topics (WWII, attacks on Croatian language) are elaborated in Croatian society whole time. New facts have been revealed. Yugocommunist system resiliantly defends its myths, even in democratic Croatia there was an attempt to prevent the extradition of notorious Yugoslav security agency (UDBA) agents to Germany; these agents were later sentenced by a German court because of the assasination of Croatian emmigrant.[64][65].Kubura (talk) 00:55, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite blocks of whistleblowers

  • Ivan VA (talk · contribs) voted to support this RFC at 12:13, 11 October 2019. Why was he then indefinitely blocked on Croatian Wikipedia with no talk page access 01:19, 21 October 2019? @Zeljko:
  • What about DraconicDark's block at 21:36, 9 October 2019 as this RFC was starting, with talk page access removed? He was heavily involved in the previous discussions about Croatian Wikipedia and has only made 1 edit there. @Kubura: Edit: the rationale for the block is posted here [66] and clarifies that this was explicitly about the RFC.
  • The indefinite block of GregorB at 17:58, 18 September 2019 should be investigated as well. [67] --Rschen7754 22:01, 27 November 2019 (UTC) edits made Rschen7754 18:50, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. DraconicDark's block, in particular, is the most extreme case of admin abuse I've ever seen. I'd be willing to translate the content DraconicDark removed with his single edit, as well as Kubura's block rationale, if anyone is interested. (I thought about adding these to the RfC, but in the end it merely confirms what should already be clear. Google Translate is probably sufficient. Note the block is explicitly a retaliation for this.) GregorB (talk) 23:09, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
A user, who had never edited hrwiki, made a single highly controversial edit to a highly controversial page and got blocked as a result. Did DraconicDark knew in advance that they were going to be blocked? Was this a deliberate provocation? Ruslik (talk) 17:17, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ruslik0: Even under this theory, why the removal of talk page access, and why an indefinite block 1 day and 21 hours after said edit? That seems harsh, even for enwiki. --Rschen7754 18:38, 29 November 2019 (UTC) Striking as GregorB has pointed out that the explanation Kubura gave links to the draft DraconicDark wrote on Meta of this very RFC. --Rschen7754 18:49, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
1 day and 21 hours is a short time. I also do not understand why the draft on meta can not be linked in the block rational if this can help establish motivations of the user who made the edit? Ruslik (talk) 09:04, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik0, I would suggest that you block someone indefinitely on enwiki (or really any medium or large-sized wiki) 45 hours after they make 1 edit and see if that goes down well. --Rschen7754 20:33, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Here I blocked a user indefinitely over two edits four days after the edits were made. Ruslik (talk) 20:09, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No warning and no talk page message? Yikes. --Rschen7754 21:51, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That account replaced the article with some gibberish-like content. It would have been a complete waste of time even to try to reason with them. Ruslik (talk) 11:02, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've been keeping myself away from the saga (in general), but this is interesting. I'd be willing to perform emergency-desysop if the response is not satisfactory. It is clear abuse of the admin privileges to block someone for participating in a RFC. Especially the block of DraconicDark who had one edit and has a (google-translated) rationale of "Defending black myths. Calling on the Serbo-Croatian commissariat. See talk tage." (original text "Branjenje crnih mitova.Zazivanje serbokroatističkog komesarijata. V. SZR."). — regards, Revi 01:21, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Noone has been blocked because of the participation in the RfC. That's a rude lie. I see one thing. As things are now, it seems that here is possible to spit on hr.wiki on with IP-accounts and expendable sockpuppets, and as spitters are also users that do not write articles but just attack and disrupt the wiki to prove their point. Kubura (talk) 20:49, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@-revi:, that user has in his sandbox preparation called hr.wiki as "neo-fascist propaganda site". That's a rude attack on whole community. Saying "this is just a sandbox" is a lame excuse. It is written there for everybody to see. Such accusations are serious, with consequences in real life. Has that attacker any responsibility, or he can spit on everyone he wants whenever he wants? Kubura (talk) 20:59, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura: Well, were I to declare on Meta that enwiki is an uncivil pile of trash, I wouldn't expect to get blocked on enwiki. And if the block was completely unrelated to the RFC (in which it is proposed that you would be desysopped), then why did you mention it in your explanation for your block? --Rschen7754 21:04, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The reasons for block are the provocative disruptive edit on the national Independence Day, and calling hr.wiki as "neofascist propaganda site" (!!!). The last part was the elaborate explanation and analysis of user's proposals on RfC, to prove that user's true intentions, to avoid any misunderstanding "maybe he meant that". This is the key: "Svatko ima pravo misliti šta želi, ali prava i slobode imaju svoje granice. Nazivati druge "krajnjom desnicom" (far-right admin) i našu Wikipediju neonacističkim propagandnim stranicama (neofascist propaganda site) krajnje je bezobrazno, besramno i neprijateljski. Izvrdavaš pojam neutralnosti. Neutralnost nije nešto što je "na pola puta od stavova dviju strana", nego ono što je točno. " Kubura (talk) 21:34, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, this is concerning. GMGtalk 03:25, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@-revi, @GreenMeansGo, what are the threasholds a user must pass to be banned forever for all wikimedia project? I mean, it's possible that this RFC will result in de-sysoping some admins, but they will still be pain-in-the-ass of the project, considering the fact that ruining Croatian Wikipedia seams to be the main joy in their lives for last 10+ years. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:17, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Put it this way, "Hrwikiuser": aren't You the one that wants to ruin Croatian Wikipedia that has been the joy for whole Croatian community for 17 years, and the only ones that dislike it are the pain-in-.... You're now using the pejorative terms. You are running out of arguments, if You ever had any arguments. Kubura (talk) 21:11, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The abuse of administrative privileges is pretty clear. Other abuses which may lead to block should be investigated at a different stage. --Vituzzu (talk) 11:26, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
True, the abuse of admin privileges is about as clear and severe as it gets. More than that: it shows a complete failure to understand even the basic principles. I don't know what is the threshold for emergency desysopping, though. GregorB (talk) 14:16, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@-revi, @GreenMeansGo, @Vituzzu Can I suggest at least de-sysoping Kubura during this RFC, as a temporary measure. That later can be changed. In unlikely case that we found out that everything is cool and super nice on Croatian wikipedia, he can get his adminship back. RFCs takes time, let's not waste time, at least not on this part of measures. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 14:27, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So a parachutist, expendable account require the elimination of the most active wikiveteran on the project. Can anyone undo the time stolen during the RfC? Noone. Kubura (talk) 21:11, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Also, from the perspective of this RfC, blocking people specifically because they took part in it is unacceptable. As a minimum, editors should be able to comment and express their opinions here without fear of retaliation. GregorB (talk) 15:39, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You have presented no evidence that editors were blocked specifically for participating in this RFC. These are just your insinuations. Ruslik (talk) 17:13, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik, let me reiterate: 1) there is nothing "highly controversial" about DraconicDark's edit, and 2) yes, he was blocked for drafting a RfC proposal. Please read Kubura's Google-translated block rationale, it even contains a link to Draconic Dark's draft here on Meta. If you still disagree or are not convinced, I'll post a full translation of these two edits, as I've already offered. GregorB (talk) 18:45, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
GregorB, DraconicDark has been blocked for something else and that is explicitely explained [68]. Kubura (talk) 20:59, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure while are lying about the circumstances of this block. Yes, the meta RFC was mentioned in the expanded rational. However only because the administrator was incensed that hrwiki was called a "neo-fascist propaganda site". The actual block reason was the edit made in hrwiki. In addition, the edit was highly controversial as far as I can judge. Ruslik (talk) 09:01, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What about the fact that the RFC proposes to desysop Kubura specifically? Do you think that is a conflict of interest then that Kubura issued the block? --Rschen7754 18:06, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So, if tomorrow a user created an RFC on meta proposing to desysop a number of enwiki admins then those admins would be unable to block this user? Ruslik (talk) 14:53, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Under normal circumstances yes. We normally do not locally block users for things they did on other projects. And as a veteran en.wiki user, I am confused why it needs to be explained how this would immediately result in a crap-storm with regard to en:WP:INVOLVED. GMGtalk 14:57, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ruslik0, the well-known Croat author, Jurica Pavicic, wrote in a leading Croat newspaper that “[Croatian-language] Wikipedia is an organ of the Neo-Nazis” Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:18, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No link provided. Second, he is not any kind of authority to call anyone as "Neo-Nazis". Don't forget that last time our users had to ask protection via court of law, because of media lynch. Further, that Pavicic is heavily biased person. Among other stuff he did, he signed the "Declaration about Common language" [69] (a Serbocroatist wish), and that Declaration has been signed around the 50th anniversary of Declaration on the Name and Status of the Croatian Literary Language, whose signers were persecuted in Communist Yugoslavia as "contrarevolutionary, (neo)fascist, breakers of unity of "common sh.language" ". Political provocation. Kubura (talk) 21:22, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The link to Pavicic’s article is the Signpost article, for which you permanently blocked GregorB on CW. And, obviously Encyclopedia Britannica is also biased since it has an article on the Serbo-Croatian language, while Harvard University offers the Bosnian-Croatian-Serb language, and many international linguists state this is one polycentric language, etc, etc. Thus obviously, all citations of Encyclopedia Britannica, Harvard University and many other international linguists must therefore be mass-reverted on CW, and people who dare post references to these, permanently blocked, since again all these other people in the world are wrong, and only Commissar Kubura is right Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:07, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss:, please do not misinform. GregorB was blocked for something else. He has a history of mildly said, bad spirit editing. Obviously destructive, and the guidelines WP:POINT, WP:TROLL, WP:PESTERING just partially describe that. Maybe, WP:VITRIOLIC, WP:VENOM. Further, Encyclopedia Britannica pushes the Serbocroatist agenda; official policy of the UK has always been the support for Serbia, Yugoslavia, Serbocroatian and suppression of Croat (if You want to talk about that, than we can talk on some other talkpage); there're lot of sci-works on that topic. If Harvard University pushes the "BCS" agenda, than they have very poor linguist section (despite abundant data available and intelligent experts), that is guided by political and not scientific agenda (it'll be interesting to find out whose policy runs Harvard Univ.). "many international linguists state this is one polycentric language" - that's fallacy (Argumentum ad populum, Magister dixit). Many of them are still imprisoned in their or other's false beliefs or they are repackaging dismantled historical fallacies into something new. "Many" also think that the Earth is flat. Or in short: "the similar (language)" is not "the same (language)". Ferrari on benzine is a car, Audi on diesel is a car, but if I order a Ferrari that runs on benzine, then I ordered Ferrari on benzine, not Audi on diesel. Kubura (talk) 07:09, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The logged actions of User:Kubura are puzzling. They protected hr:Sabirni logor Jasenovac for a year, when there hadn't been any edits at all in about a week, and it doesn't look like there had been any actual vandalism for something like ten months. They seem to, as a rule, block registered accounts with email and talk page access disabled. Then they blocked this user for two days after they made an admittedly inappropriate edit on their user page, and for some reason, randomly disabled email, but left talk page access.
If you wanted to make the argument that this was not targeted vengeance but general and capricious incompetence, I'd be hard pressed to put together a convincing counter argument. GMGtalk 19:13, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You speak as an inexperienced user, GreenMeansGo. This was the preemptive action. This RfC was started, and as my experience tells me, the vandals and provocators (mostly uregistered and "newbie" accounts) in such situations have a golden time for spitting on sensitive topics, because these articles are highlighted and have large monitoring audience; and some of them barely wait for some "nazi escapade" to happen and to report it here "as regular pattern and the proof of nazism". Besides that, the risk of congestion of overediting on the unprotected article is significantly higher in such times, and sensitive topic requires prompt reaction and that makes maintaing the project very difficult. Therefore, to prevent that, the article was locked for unregistered users. Kubura (talk) 20:17, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This was the preemptive action. Yes, this is exactly what I am saying, which seems to be against your own local policy. It's also very difficult not to interpret your responses here as evidence that you approach editing primarily from an ethno-nationalistic advocacy perspective. GMGtalk 22:10, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
First, You lie. That action is not from "ethno-nationalistic perspective", but to prevent vandalisms that are misrepresented. You have no experience. Once during last lynch there was a vandalism in 21:13, removed in 21:18, the vandal restored it late in the night ( Dec 13, 2013) in 01:19, removed again in 01:38, vandal restored it again in 01:43, removed in 01:52 and then the article was locked. it was presented in two media "as a proof on the chaos on hr.wiki" [70]. Therefore, to prevent any such fake news, and to demotivate vandals, the page was locked. No ethno-nationalistic motives nor any buzzwords You use to denigrate us. The experienced admin does not wait for the crap to happen, he prevents that. Kubura (talk) 22:33, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Your block rationale is a naked and near paranoid ethno-nationalistic rant, that those with whom you disagree are secret agents of the "Greater Serbian aggressors" plotting to besmirch Croatian honor on a particular holiday. I realize this may be difficult for your to consider, but most of the world does not think about Croatia...at all. When I started looking into this discussion I had to pull out a map to remind myself where Croatia was.
Your block of VS6507 doesn't come off any better: blocking a user for a comment they made two months prior on a different project, and an unrelated comment they made ten years prior. Again, your primary rationale seems to be explicitly ethno-nationalistic and not directly related to any ongoing disruption to the project.
This comment is more of the same. Almost pitiful self-interested nationalism. (I guarantee if you hadn't provided a link to Operacija Oluja, few to none of us would have had any idea what you were referencing.) This comment seems to sum up the situation quite well: [you] conflate Croatian Wikipedia with the country Croatia, and your response is essentially yes, you do see these as the same.
Your behavior as an administrator and your comments throughout this discussion only reinforce the notion that you view Wikipedia as a nationalistic enterprise, you are using it as a means of advancing nationalistic goals, and you seem to view anyone who disagrees with you in nationalistic terms. That is not compatible with the goals of the movement. GMGtalk 14:37, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I can confirm blocks with disabled email and talk page access are common. For non-vandalism-only accounts, this is highly irregular, because it virtually prevents any sort of appeal. Maybe that's the idea. Grego: rB (talk) 19:25, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Kubura did not protect the page. Ruslik (talk) 10:24, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Umm...@Ruslik0: Are you sure about that? GMGtalk 15:07, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I see only semi-protection. Ruslik (talk) 16:03, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes? GMGtalk 17:00, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the mildest form. To prevent vandalisms from IP's and freshly registered accounts. [71] "Dopušteno samo autopotvrđenim suradnicima". Allowed only to autoconfirmed users. Kubura (talk) 22:14, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The involved administrators are a complete disgrace to the Wikimedia movement, and should be immediately emergency desysopped for blatant abuse of their userrights. I recommend to these administrators that, if their intention is to have a place to exercise a draconian dictatorship over, they pick somewhere that isn't a Wikimedia project. It is impossible to make a neutral encyclopedia when dissenting, to any degree, results in arbitrary and unappealable punishments. Vermont (talk) 18:55, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Put it this way, @Vermont:: if these neoyugoslavist attackers that started this RfC require a place to to exercise a draconian dictatorship over Croatian community and impose neoyugoslavist and serbocroatist agenda, let them pick somewhere else that isn't a Wikimedia project. The disgraces are persons who believe to parachutists and expendable sockpuppets (and not to veteran editors) that persistently avoid to say that every action has been thoroughly explainec on the talkpages. They never gave a link to the explanations on their talkpages! Kubura (talk) 21:04, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That purposefully walks around the blocks you imposed and attempts to blame the issue on an ethnic group rival to that of yourself. Your actions are arbitrary, you leave no room for appealing or questioning your viewpoint, and refuse to recognize the possibility of you being anything but infallible and those who disagree with you being anything but inherently wrong. Vermont (talk) 22:38, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I checked the diff linked above in this section, and as the issue evidently stems from a harsh culture/ethnic war, an inherent bias, I am surprised that involved parties do not try to hide it, and rather flaunt their nationality/ancestry and evidently use it as reasons for blocking other editors. Vermont (talk) 19:00, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ruslik0 Thanks for your critical thinking. This is essential especially in time of fake news, this RFC is full of fake news. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 21:21, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draconic Dark's case

There have been some strange disagreements about how and why was DraconicDark blocked, so here is translation of all relevant content to set the record straight.

DraconicDark made a single edit that removed a paragraph from the intro of the article on Jasenovac concentration camp.[72]

Content removed by DraconicDark from the article on Jasenovac concentration camp

In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a country where the communist regime, in the clear absence of democratic legitimacy, continually sought to justify its existence by the role of the communists in the struggle against fascism in World War II and the need to protect the "brotherhood and unity of the peoples of Yugoslavia" from "hostile emigration", "foreign enemies", and "enemies from within who rear their heads" - the official propaganda intensively promoted a megalomaniacal, mythomaniacal portrayal of Jasenovac as a mass execution site where as many as 750 thousand victims where murdered in the most cruel ways. The purpose of sustaining this black legend was vilification, stigmatization and silencing of Croats, cultivating a permanent feeling of shame inextricably linked to Croatian national consciousness and making any kind of notion of Croatian independence a taboo and, on the other hand, perpetual elevation of Serbs as innocent victims of Croatian statehood and national ideas, to whom Croats and Croatia need to forever apologize and appease them to their own detriment with eternal concessions and gifts, to comfort the "endangered Serbs" as a "permanent victim" and redeem the "merits" of the "keepers of Yugoslavia" - Serbia and the Serbs.

The above content had no sources (unsurprisingly), so no sources were removed. Edit summary was: "the article might not be neutral".

Kubura's reaction?[73]

Kubura's block rationale on DraconicDark's talk page

[74] How can you dispute the content in a language you don't understand at all? Are you acting as a meatpuppet of someone who speaks Croatian, or you do speak Croatian but falsely impersonate someone who doesn't? You have deleted the content which is not controversial in any way, unless you are a nurturer of malicious black legends about the Croatian people and Croatian state. You have deleted the section that spoke about how Croatian people were abused. To you, it was not neutral that the aim of this legend was "vilification, stigmatization and silencing of Croats, cultivating a permanent feeling of shame inextricably linked to Croatian national consciousness and making any kind of notion of Croatian independence a taboo", an insidious cultivation of a permanent feeling of guilt and making the Croats self-supress their desire for freedom so that they always need to ingratiate to the foreign master in their own back yard and are forced to make permanent concessions to their own detriment. Who doesn't understand this, has no understanding of Croatian history or is extremely malicious, that is, he is taking the side of Croatian enemies, that is Greater-Serbianists aggressors against Croatia.

You made this edit on the date of Croatian holiday - Day of Independence, when Croatia freed itself from the dungeon of Yugoslavia. A provocation.

[75] Everybody has the right to think whatever they want, but rights and freedoms have their limits. To call somebody "far right" (far-right admin) and call our Wikipedia neo-Nazi propaganda pages (neofascist propaganda site) is extremely insolent, shameless and hostile.

You're twisting the meaning of neutrality. Neutrality is not something that is "half-way from the positions of two sides", but what is correct. Otherwise we'd have these shameless propositions of peace mediators who proposed that Croatia should share Baranja with Serbia, avoiding the mention of who was the aggressor against Croatia and asking not to use the term "Greater-Serbianist agression" but say it was merely some "war" instead, as if Croatia and Serbia went to war on equal terms for no man's land, and not a rudimentary armed Croatia being forced to defend itself from fully armed Serbia, which also had the international support.

Your proposals are a major diplomatic incident. You are meddling in things much bigger than your ego. You are asking for the removal of status of the most well-respected (Kubura, SpeedyGonsales, and Zeljko) and the most active editors (Kubura, Zeljko). You are spitting all over the Croatian community that elected them and gave them their trust for all these years. On top of that, you are calling them "offenders". You are an offender. You are asking for bureaucratic and checkuser status to be removed from all local bureaucrats and checkusers. Who are you and who do you think you are? A petty egotist with a colonialist approach who goes about imposing a commissariat on the small nations. Shame on you. You are asking the stewards (who can't understand our language and who didn't build the hr project) to review all long-term blocks. Well, look at him, you would strip tools from those who are well-respected, people whom the community gave their trust, and you'd let loose those who create disorder. Wikipedia is not an anarchy. That last bit is worse than the commissariat, it is calling for an enemy occupation under foreign sponsorship. "Set up a local Arbitration Committee consisting of a mixture of stewards and shwiki admins, to be appointed by the global community at Meta-Wiki". You are calling for a commissariat made up from foreigners and, which is an extremely hostile act, from "shwiki". The Serbo-Croatist idea is the idea of the annihilation of the Croatian people and Croatia itself. All such projects have started with an attack against the Croatian language, usually under the Serbo-Croatist banner. That's not going to fly here. I'm giving you a permanent block and a ban.

Two links in the above text are per the original.

The block log reads:

Defending the black legends. Calling for a Serbo-Croatist commissariat. See talk page.

Now, let me reiterate once more:

  1. DraconicDark's edit to the Jasenovac concentration camp article was not in any meaningful way "highly controversial". It is barely debatable, and I'd even say it's commendable.
  2. Since one half of Kubura's block rationale is dedicated to DraconicDark's Meta draft proposal, as well as one half of the block log entry, it is obvious and absolutely undeniable that DraconicDark was blocked for writing it.
  3. Kubura's conduct in this particular case is completely incompatible with being an administrator.

I really dislike being forced to translate this garbage, it literally gave me a headache, but hopefully now everybody will understand what was clear right from the start.

Ruslik: am I mistaken in any of the above three conclusions? GregorB (talk) 12:27, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

But these is your own opinion only. It is obvious that you do not like hrwiki admins but what it all has to do with stewards, meta and global policies? Stewards are not global arbitrators (as I have said many times in the past) and random people, who have happened to participate in this RFC, does not magically constitute an ad hoc arbitration committee either. So, what do you want to achieve by pointing out an obvious fact that there is an editorial dispute in hrwiki? By the way any edit that encounters objections is by definition controversial. So, you claim that 'DraconicDark's edit to the Jasenovac concentration camp article was not in any meaningful way "highly controversial"' is patently false. Ruslik (talk) 14:33, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik: Please state clearly are my conclusions #2 and #3 above mistaken or not? It is you who raised this issue and accused me of "insinuating", so please: yes or no, I insist. 14:39, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Also: "By the way any edit that encounters objections is by definition controversial." - I'm sorry, but that's just nonsense. I can scarcely believe you are a steward. GregorB (talk) 14:42, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What exactly can not you believe? That any edit that is opposed by somebody is controversial by definition? It is so obvious, in my opinion. For instance, merriam-webster thinks so: uncontroversial - "not likely to be disputed or to cause strife or quarrel : not relating to or arousing controversy". Ruslik (talk) 18:51, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Edits that fix vandalism, copyright violations, WP:BLP violations, WP:NOT violations - to name just a few - are not controversial, even if vandals, copyright violators and POV pushers disagree. This is less important, however: please comment on my points #2 and #3 above. GregorB (talk) 18:57, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Fixing copyright violations can be as controversial as resolving BLP issues. Ruslik (talk) 19:33, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik0, can you really look at the content removed and say that a proper response to that is blocking the user indefinitely without talk page access? It's blatantly a non-neutral, biased, nationalist rant. We're here because the administrators on the Croatian Wikipedia enforce this nationalist view as fact and block anyone who dares question it. It may be controversial in the eyes of the administrators, but were such a paragraph to exist on the English Wikipedia or any other project with a decent level of quality it would be removed post haste, and rightly so. You should not be defending such blatant acts of administrator abuse, which can only be rectified by some action by the global community, as (with the evidence presented here) anyone who attempts to fix the issues locally ends up blocked without chance of appeal. Vermont (talk) 19:38, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Please, do not put words into my mouth. I have never said that I agree with this block. I only said that this edit was a deliberate provocation, which I do not like. Ruslik (talk) 20:00, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If I misinterpreted your position, I apologize. For clarification, do you believe this was an abuse of administrative userrights? Vermont (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think that Kubura should have showed a restraint in his actions. The block was not necessary and a warning (if the edit was really controversial) would have sufficed. I think if it would be better if the block were lifted. Ruslik (talk) 14:34, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Can we say that Kubura's block was not because of the RFC? We can't. All we have to go off of is his own claims, and I do not believe that they are credible. As I see it, anything an administrator does that interferes with a desysop process, or is obvious retaliation for it (especially if they are the target for it) - this is grounds for an emergency desysop because otherwise that admin can stifle all dissent and local users are powerless to do anything. --Rschen7754 21:55, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
However we know that the block was primary because of that single edit in hwiki. In other words if DraconicDark had not made that edit he would have probably never been blocked. RFC was just one of the factors that influenced it. In addition I do not understand how this block of a user, who does not have any serious intention to contribute to hrwiki, can interfere with the desysop process that is taking place on a different wiki? Ruslik (talk) 10:55, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment inserted subsequently: No, we should say in plain English and without a beating around the bush: in other words, DraconicDark would never have been blocked for this one change had it not been for his/her RfC participation! As for any other factors, assumed in "just one of the factors" argument - what other should we anticipate?--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 17:23, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik, You are right, blocking s user on hr-wiki can't interfere with RFC. But, Kubura's behavior can't be understood if You look for a rational explanation. When he feels frustrated, he just takes revenge on the person attacking him. He did the same thing in 2010, when he was temporarily de-sysoped by a steward. And Yes, he probably wouldn't have been blocked without that edit, which Kubura took as an excuse for a permanent block. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 11:38, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik - it is undeniable that DraconicDark was blocked at least in part as a direct retaliation for his RfC draft. Even if there were legitimate reasons for the block - there were not, but let's assume there were, for the sake of the argument - you should know, particularly as a steward, that this would still be a severe violation of WP:INVOLVED (severe enough for desysopping, according to precedents). Also, the fact DraconicDark does not contribute to hr wiki is irrelevant, since his block also intimidates those who do. GregorB (talk) 12:09, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik, another part of their M.O. is to instantly mass-revert everything they disagree with (citations of western and Croatian historians, straight quotations of Croatian Supreme Court verdicts, etc, etc), and then swarm the user on the Talk page, accuse them of being a Serb agent, anti-Croat, a Serbo-Croatists, etc, etc, i.e. all the same stuff they've done here, and then when the user complains, use anything they say as a pretext to block them. So then the block supposedly is not for the edit, but the fact that people showed “disrespect” after they mass-reverted legitimate edits and called them every name possible Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:06, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Violation WP:INVOLVED? I do not think that an English Wikipedia policy applies to hrwiki admins. Ruslik (talk) 14:18, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The way I see it, nemo iudex in causa sua is a basic principle of justice. If an admin is using blocks against his own critics, specifically because they are critical of him, that's major abuse regardless of whether hr wiki does or does not have an equivalent of enwiki's WP:INVOLVED (it doesn't, ain't that a coincidence). GregorB (talk) 18:58, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This too should be looked into - wikis not including certain WP rules. One result of such independence is that we get Bizarro World WPs, like CW, where they violate practically all core WP principles, and on top invent their own “rules”, with clearly retaliatory blocks for merely posting links to Signpost and RfCs, claims that they do not have to provide any proof for their claims, hit-lists of reliable sources they disagree with and thus can’t be cited, notions of nationalities and “anti-Croat” Croats who supposedly have no right to participate, etc. And all this is not just some game, but its ultimate goal is to promote the same nationalistic divisions and hatreds that drove previous wars, using WP as a tool Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:44, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rschen7754, your statement ("...that admin can stifle all dissent and local users are powerless to do anything") is factually wrong. a) Nobody has been blocked due to their participation in the RFC. This is an outrageous lie. The deletion of article contents under insufficient justification is by definition vandalism. b) It creates in others a completely wrong image of our Wikipedia. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 00:03, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, then prove it. And I will note that my concerns about this block [76] have not been addressed at all. --Rschen7754 00:11, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

-revi, could you please review the DraconicDark-Kubura incident as described and discussed in this subsection, particularly Kubura's block rationale in the collapsed box, and make a determination whether emergency desysopping would be justified here or not. GregorB (talk) 20:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Emergency desysopping over a two months old block? Where is an emergency? Ruslik (talk) 14:20, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not saying that it is an emergency or that it isn't, but: 1) Kubura was desysopped after a 2010 RfC for a comparably mild infraction (all infractions seem mild compared to this one, I'd say), and 2) an impact on the free discussion in this RfC should be considered. That's all I'm saying, the rest is a matter for the stewards. GregorB (talk) 19:06, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The emergency is that the block continues today, and cannot even be appealed. --Rschen7754 20:46, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Copy from another page [77]. @Rschen7754: please have a look. First, look how DraconicDark misinterpretes the words. "Saveznici fašista, dosta slično, ali ne i isto." means: "Allies of fascists, similar a lot, but not the same". What was wrong here? No whitewashing ("similar a lot" can mean "similar, but worse"), no "not answering" - beginning of the sentence is the answer. DraconicDark is lying.
Futher, in March this year Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted with press release for Austrian media [78] "Bleiburško polje za Hrvate predstavlja simbol masakra i mučenja i simbol povrede ljudskih prava. Stoga smo zgranuti prigovorom da se na Bleiburgu slavi fašizam, što stvara krivu predodžbu o Hrvatskoj i Hrvatima. MVEP je tako izrazio duboko žaljenje zbog percepcije događaja u austrijskoj javnosti koja u okupljanju na Bleiburškom polju vidi 'fašističku zabavu', 'najveće okupljanje neonacista u EU', 'skup ekstremne desnice' ili 'skup ustaša'. U priopćenju je naglašeno kako grubo poopćavanje u izvješćima medija, kojim se današnja Hrvatska i njezino stanovništvo povezuju s oživljavanjem fašističkih misli, u MVEP-u doživljavaju kao bolnu uvredu. Istaknuto je i kako je pogrešno na temelju pojedinačnih slučajeva, koje svakako treba najoštrije osuditi, brojne pripadnike obitelji žrtava kao i predstavnike Vlade i crkvenih vlasti okupljene na Loibaškom polju nazivati fašistima. Ukazali smo kako se upravo to radilo desetljećima pod komunističkom vlašću: prešućivalo se i ublažavalo ubojstvo desetina tisuća vojnika i civila koji su bili izručeni Titovoj armiji bez prava na sudski proces, kao što su utišavani i svi oni glasovi koji su oživljavali sjećanje na taj događaj', ... Mogućnost odvijanja ovakvog skupa u Austriji smatrali su pomakom u smislu demokratskog razvoja i kao takvog ga poštivali. I can translate You this from Croatian. Kubura (talk) 23:08, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
[79] DraconicDark said " saying that the Serbo-Croatian language is some sort of "language genocide" (that's not even a legitimate term, and Croatian Wikipedia has a red link there!) and that there were some sort of attempts to suppress the Croatian language by instead teaching children in Serbian,". "Language genocide" is a legitimate term. Here [80] in the magazine of major Croatian cultural institution is the line "Glasovi oporbe kulturnomu i jezičnomu genocidu bili su u Hrvatskoj nejasno artikulirani dijelom i stoga što onodobna jezikoslovna znanost nije pružala alate za bolji opis jezičnih pojavnosti i razina te odnosa među njima" The article is written by Croatian linguist Nataša Bašić. Articlename: Jezični identiteti nesrpskih naroda u velikosrpskom programu državnoga sjedinjenja - "The language identities of non-Serb peoples in the greaterserbianist program of the state unification"; deals with the serbocroatist and greaterserbianist topics. In the text "Preradović posebno napominje da ne prihvaća naziv srpsko-hrvatski ili hrvatsko-srpski jer je surogat i jer su ga izmislili ljudi kojima je stalo da hrvatstvo oslabi i da se njegov ponos ponizi. " Preradović (grandfather of Paula Preradović) especially notes that he does not accept name Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian because it is the surogate and it was invented py persons who care that Croathood weakens and its (of Croathood) pride gets humiliated." Kubura (talk) 23:08, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura - you again miss the whole point of WP, which is to present a NPOV, based on Reliable Sources, and not to promote your notion of “Croathood”, and attack and block all those you disagree with. People on CW should be able to freely quote western and Croatian historians who describe the Ustashe as fascist, genocidal killers, freely cite the same sources quoted on enwiki and in western history books, fully and freely quote the 50 linguists, both Croat and international, who signed the Declaration on the Common Language, freely cite Austrian EU parliamentarians who stated that the Bleiburg commemorations represent the “biggest fascist gathering in Europe”, etc. You can in turn, cite the Croatian Foreign Ministry or Croat nationalists' responses, but these should in no way be the only permitted views in CW, just as claims by the Serbian Foreign Ministry and Serb nationalists should not be the only permitted views in rs.wiki, to promote “Serbdom”
Yet instead of allowing such differing views, based on reliable sources, you repeatedly revert and block people, to enforce your nationalistic POV, totally against WP principles. That’s what this RfC is about, but even here you repeat the same things you’re accused of – you insist on the ability to use WP to present your nationalistic POV, attack other nationalities, “Serbo-Croatists” and others who you claim shouldn’t have the right to comment, block people because they dared criticize you, etc. So my question is how long are we going to keep going round-and-round on this, with more of the exact same, since I hope by now it's clear to everyone that one cannot reason with committed ideologues Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:41, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"...fully and freely quote the 50 linguists, both Croat and international, who signed the Declaration on the Common Language..." - This is the exact proof that you and the initiators of this RFC want to propagate the Serbo-Croatian agenda. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 02:16, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@mateo Your implied claim that on CW editors shouldn’t be able to cite these 50 respected linguists from Croatia and internationally, proves yet again that at CW you’ve set yourself up as not only the language police (even contradicting Croatian dictionaries), but also as the thought police, seeking to eliminate citations of Reliable Sources with whom you disagree, and then block editors who dare cite these sources. Again proof that whatever you’re running at CW, it bears absolutely no resemblance to Wikipedia and what it stands for Thhhommmasss (talk) 03:55, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mateo K 01, Did you notices that all of those people who, according to you and Kubura, are part of some secret plan to destroy "Croathood", all argued against merger of south-Slavic wikipedias in sh wikipedia (see below). When you are paranoid, no argument helps. Also, it would be nice if You and Kubura finally understood that the role of hr wikipedia is not to be the guardian of "Croathood" but to present facts in neutral way. --Hrwikiuser (talk)
Kubura, the fact that someone somewhere in Croatian media once used the word "language genocide", just to appear more dramatic, does not mean that it's a legitimate term. You could search up practically any combination of 2 words and google will give you some results. It's en:WP:PEACOCK words and it's clear violation of NPOV. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:26, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Hrwikiuser: WP:PEACOCK is whole this RfC, full of buzzwords and peacock terms. Kubura (talk) 05:36, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Hrwikiuser: Not "in some media", but by prominent Croatian author Joža Skok [81]. Further, [82]"U pristupu se odveć ne razlikuje ni današnja slavistika, osobito ona s tzv. demokratskoga Zapada, iz SAD-a i Velike Britanije, dapače, ona simpatizira s višedesetljetnim pokušajima ubijanja jezika nekoliko milijuna živućih hrvatskih govornika, a njihov otpor kulturocidu i jezičnomu nasilju drži hrvatskim nacionalizmom" (culturecide and language violence together). "Glasovi oporbe kulturnomu i jezičnomu genocidu " [83] These are not "some media", but words of prominent Croatian linguist Nataša Bašić in major Croatian linguist and cultural magazines. Kubura (talk) 06:33, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I've just found this. DraconicDark's block by Kubura [84] after DraconicDark made just one edit on Jasenovac "collection" camp article on Croatian Wikipedia, in which he placed the tag "Neutrality issues" on the said article and removed an unsourced nationalistic sentence from the background section [85]. In my opinion, DraconicDark's edit was justified, at a minimum to try to bring the article into a decent, neutral shape, since the removed sentence was just a rant how Croats had to "appologize to Serbs in all eternity" due to "Yugoslav propaganda".
You would summon a commissariat from strangers, and what is the most extreme hostile act, from "Serbo-Croatian Wiki". The Serbo-Croatist idea is the idea of oppressing the Croatian people and Croatia. Each such project began with a blow to the Croatian language, usually under the Serbian-Croat hat [86] This, ladies and gentlemen, is Kubura's response to DraconicDark. And this is, in all seriousness, the summary of the reason for an idefinite block of DraconicDark: Defence of black myths.Summoning of Serbo-Croatian commissariat.[87]
After this, it is obvious that Kubura is not a sane, or even a rational person anymore and that his mental state can be diagnosed. Kubura suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, living in a dellusion that he is under some constant threat of "neo-Yugoslavism" and "Serbo-Croatist" conspiracy which he must fight on some small language Wikipedia subproject which nobody reads, anyway. He thinks there are secret enemies all around him, and that any criticism of Croats is an attack on him and his nation. There is no neo-Yugoslavism, and no associations which advocate for some "Third Yugoslavia" or what not. DraconicDark's case is simply astounding, not only in its personal attack by Kubura, not only in his utter inability to be profesional and calm, but also in its accidental reveal in which it proved to be a Rorschach test for Kubura's state of mind. Kubura is done. He is unable to lead any rational conversation without nationalism getting in the way. He is still living in the 20th century, somewhere in the 1970s, and is unable to live in the present. This is the strongest evidence that Kubura should be desysoped permanently.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 08:23, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Another expandable sockpuppet for the dirty tasks. No ordinary name (3E1I5S8B9RF7), nothing about him on the userpage (state of userpage says a lot about his soul), he has a name that vandals and graffiti writers create. Further, You do not show arguments, You show rude attacking behaviour. Personal attacks. Neoyugoslavism and Serbocroatist attempts [88][89][90][91][92] (Declaration about "common language", Yugosphere...) are not an illusion. "Nobody reads" - wrong, software tools bust Your wishes and imagination. Hr.wiki is highly appreciated, often read, often used as source (and copied from hr.wiki), even by those hypocrits that attack hr.wiki (but they do copy the content of hr.wiki). Kubura (talk) 19:56, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The links you provided are just some personal opinions, speculations and vague conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence. You do understand the difference between an allegation and evidence? (*minus one url link which is just a HAZU website about Croatian independence, not about "neo-Yugoslavism"). Even if they were evidence, is the task of the Wikipedia to fight against "Serbo-Croatism" or "neo-Yugoslavism"? Is this Wikipedia to you? Try inserting these kind of "reliable sources" and writing an article about "Third Yugoslavia" on English Wikipedia, let's see what happens.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 15:48, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Defense of terrorist attack as an "argument" to start this RfC

GregorB started this RfC [93]. He wrote this in his subpage (the translation of his article he wrote in The Signpost?) [94] Suradnik:GregorB/The Signpost. First, he gave wrong diff for the following. Anyway he mentioned this section as problematic, as "extreme example of the right bias", in the article about Milan Tepić: "Nisu uzeli u činjenicu da je odnio u smrt i ročnike JNA, koje nije pitao za žele li u smrt, niti je pogledao u lica roditelja, prijatelja i drugih bližnjih tih ročnika koje je terorističkim luđačkim činom odnio u smrt. " He finds it OK to remove that (Svi pokušaji da se ovaj tekst ukloni su poništeni ). Here is some of the explanations on the talkpage. "Glede udarnog vala koji je došao eksplozijom koju je onaj lik napravio, možete zamisliti koliko je ugrozio zdravlje civila. Udarni val ne pita tko si i što si po nacionalnosti. Koliko je žena pobacilo ili rodilo djece s defektom? Dobilo srčane i moždane? Skratilo vijek unutarnjih organa? Ovo je teroristički čin. Da je uspio u naumu, bjelovarska Hirošima obuhvaćala bi i grad Bjelovar i sve njegove stanovnike. Nikakva ratna akcija ne opravdava ubojstvo tolikog broja civila - 30.000 (trideset tisuća) ubijenih osoba. Nerazumna uporaba sile. Ratni zločin."
That terrorist lunatic act endangered the life of the whole city of Bjelovar, and the starter of this RfC finds that fact in the article as "right bias". Kubura (talk) 22:01, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[95] "The Serbian government decided last week that a monument to Tepić would be erected in Belgrade on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death. ...The tragedy would be even worse if Tepić was not prevented in blowing up several other nearby warehouses.... Serbian Ambassador to Croatia Mira Nikolić has been recently invited to the Croatia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she received “a sharp verbal protest” over the decision of the Serbian government to erect a monument to Serbia’s national hero Milan Tepić. Dačić said that Croatia stated that it was unacceptable and harmful for bilateral relations “to erect a monument to a man whose suicidal actions caused the death of 11 Croatian soldiers and an unknown number of recruits of the Yugoslav National Army”. The tragedy would be even worse if Tepić was not prevented in blowing up several other nearby warehouses.. See also the reaction of Serbian leadership. GregorB is on their wave. See the explosion's mushroom over Bjelovar. And such person starts this RfC and some people here even dare to defend GregorB's positions. Kubura (talk) 22:05, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[96] Video of the explosion. Kubura (talk) 22:08, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kubura, I'm not sure what's your point so let's make it simple. There is a sentence in the Milan Tepić article that says:
[The Presidency of SFRY] did not consider the fact that he caused the deaths of Yugoslav People's Army conscripts, whom he did not ask if they wanted to die, nor did he look into the eyes of parents, friends and family of these conscripts, whose deaths were caused by his terrorist, lunatic act.
Do you find anything problematic with something like this in a Wikipedia article? Please: "yes" or "no". GregorB (talk) 22:20, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What is Your point, man? That is the terrorist lunatic act that brought the lives of whole Bjelovar in danger. Known victims are 11 Croatian soldiers and an unknown number of recruits of the Yugoslav National Army”[97]; Serbs know the name of one soldier of JNA [98]. What is "right bias" in this? Say it. You said that this is the right bias so say it. Enlighten us. Kubura (talk) 22:38, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Is it a "yes" or "no" then? GregorB (talk) 22:46, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I can only thank user:Kubura once again to explaining what is actualy wrong with him. I, personaly, agree that Milan Tepić was nationaliatic lunatic who endangered entire city of Bjelovar and that it's insane to raise a momument to such a person. But that doesn't mean that You can insert a patetic ranting essay in the article. And this is exactly what Kubura (together with Zeljko and SpeedyGonsales) has been doing for years - ruining articles with patetic rants and POV writing. His writing style is the same in articles as is here in this RFC. He is totaly unable to understand what neutral wikipedia article should look like. And he pesistently harras and blocks anyone who complaints calling them neoyugoslav, serbian propagandist or some other BS.
P.S. In this very section, when asked if he understands what is wrong with his writing style, he replies with explanation of what was wrong with Milan Tepić. This pretty much sums up the problem. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 05:45, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting how selective is the outrage of Balkan nationalists. I looked at the CW article on Mirko Norac, convicted of war crimes, in which his subordinates said he commanded the killing of some 200 Serb civilians, including personally firing a bullet into the brain of a kneeling old woman, to instigate the slaughter of 50 civilians. Yet in CW there is no description of these despicable crimes, much less any editorializing on their evil, or the fact that the war criminal Norac later gained major functions in Croatia, was greeted by the Minister of Defense, etc. Same with Ustashe genocides in which they exterminated 80% or close to 100% of entire ethnic groups, down to the newborn – no editorialized outrage on CW, instead we get citations from genocide-deniers, plus massive-reverts and blocks of people who quote Holocaust Museums, western and Croatian historians, etc. Such propagandized outrage and focus on the crimes of the other side, while negating or minimizing the crimes of one’s own side, is what fueled the wars of the 90s, and Balkan nationalists on all sides are still at it, in this case using WP as their tool Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:07, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, sock. May I ask you to reveal the name of your master account? Ruslik (talk) 14:11, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The user in question has clearly indicated that he is not using his primary account here because he wishes to remain anonymous.[99] Please pay closer attention to what people are writing and tone down your approach accordingly. GregorB (talk) 14:20, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think we have had enough socks in Wikimedia projects recently. So, this sock can not be allowed to participate in this RFC. Ruslik (talk) 14:38, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik, I'm not using my ooriginal account here because simply because I don't wwant to be blocked on croatian wikipedia. In case You missed some parts of this RFC, this is exactly what happened to Draconic Dark. Also, this happened bbefore, in 2010, and Kubura was de-sysoped for this, ssee Requests for comment/Croatian Wikipedia-misuse of admin tools by User:Kubura. Also, I'm not using my hr wiki acount in this RFC. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 15:29, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Hrwikiuser, DraconicDark in his very first edit deleted whole section on a highly sensitive topic (that draw the attention and ran the blockdecision). You are defending the vandal. That denigrated whole project by calling it as "neofascist propaganda site". Deleting of content + attacking behaviour. What have You expected? Kubura (talk) 07:25, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Probably I should also create a sock. It would be funny if all these comments were posted by a newly created account instead of my well known steward account. Ruslik (talk) 18:38, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, You shouldn't. Because You are not active on Croatian Wikipedia and You are in no danger of being blocked for expressing Your opinion here. If You or some other stewart already de-sysoped Kubura for the same type of "crime" he was already de-sysoped by a stewart in 2010, I'm sure I would feel much safer to use my primary account here. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 18:50, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It would be even more funny if every user participated in this RFC through their undeclared socks. It would be then such a puppet theater. :):) Ruslik (talk) 19:20, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Although I seem to disagree with you, Ruslik, I'm happy you make your views known, and publicly. If we're to come to some form of resolution with this issue we need to consider all viewpoints. Hrwikiuser, if you used your main account here and ended up blocked, then I would think an emergency desysop of the administrator who made such an action would be in order. One should never feel afraid to express their opinion, especially not on Wikimedia projects. Vermont (talk) 19:45, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Technically if you use one account on one wiki and another on a different wiki it has not been considered a violation of policy on most wikis. It may not be forthright/transparent and I don't like it, but not against policy. --Rschen7754 21:35, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GB, you must understand that not everyone uncritically believes your lies, falsehoods and perfidious interpretations and those of your like-minded people. You did not give us any explanation what is biased in that sentence about the terrorist that almost destroyed the city Bjelovar of 30.000 inhabitants in the single explosion. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 22:49, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please choose your words more carefully. The same question for you (and for Ceha and IvanOS, while we're at it):
[The Presidency of SFRY] did not consider the fact that he caused the deaths of Yugoslav People's Army conscripts, whom he did not ask if they wanted to die, nor did he look into the eyes of parents, friends and family of these conscripts, whose deaths were caused by his terrorist, lunatic act.
Do you find anything problematic with a sentence like this in a Wikipedia article: yes or no? GregorB (talk) 23:10, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The world cannot be viewed in a black-and-white (yes or no) way of thinking. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 00:03, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The question was: is there anything problematic. That sort of question can only be answered with either "yes" (something is problematic) or "no" (nothing is problematic). Other answers make no sense, there is nothing in between. Your talk about "black-and-white thinking" is just an excuse for not answering. (Speedy and Kubura are avoiding straight answers like the plague, and I suppose Ceha and IvanOS will follow suit.) You'd all like to argue, you use some big words, but you know very well you can't cut it in an open discussion, so it's hit and run. GregorB (talk) 00:21, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You have no reason to feel superior in any way. No matter how we answered, you'd use it to discredit us. Complex facts cannot be reduced to a few words in a populist way. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 01:23, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mateo K 01, answer me plainly, is there anything problematic with the statement? If you say no, I agree with you. If you say yes, you're blatantly ignoring clear evidence an inch in front of your eyes. If your reasoning for your nonsensical retorts is nationalistic bias, as I believe it is, say that it is so. When someone tries to engage you in intelligent discussion, asking for you to respond clearly to a question that can only be answered with yes or no, and you tell them that you cannot respond to yes or no questions and that it's a "complex fact", you discredit yourself. Attempting to walk around basic questions by insulting the questioner just makes you look asinine. Vermont (talk) 03:12, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I personally do not consider the Tepic article among the worst cases of CW bias, since there are many, much more egregious bias instances - like CW Admins quoting holocaust-deniers, and claiming that such people have the only “truth”, while dismissing as “propaganda” and mass-reverting/blocking people who dare cite contrary facts from the Holocaust Museums, western and Croatian historians, etc. Also as I noted above, in contrast to the CW Tepic article, there’s no such editorialized outrage in the CW article on Mirko Norac, not even one mention of specifics regarding the vicious killings of some 200 Serb civilians that his subordinates accused him of, i.e. much larger crimes than Tepic’s, including Norac's firing a bullet into the head of an old woman, to instigate the slaughter of 50 civilians. In fact, as can be seen in this diff, Admin Speedy Gonzalez reverted the edit by a user who dared quote some specifics of Norac’s crimes, directly from the judgement by the Supreme Court of Croatia. Thus per CW, obviously the Croatian Supreme Court is also “anti-Croat”, run by “Serbo-Croatists”, and therefor can’t be cited on CW Thhhommmasss (talk) 00:11, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thhhommmasss, it is frightening and incomprehensible that you can place at least one disinformation in each of your statements.
  1. Roman Leljak and Igor Vukić, to whom you most likely refer, are not Holocaust deniers. Evil, inaccurate defamations of persons in public life should be better avoided in one's own interest.
  2. No one has claimed that someone has leased "the truth" to himself only. Rarely read such nonsense.
  3. There's no mass-reverting/blocking people. No one was blocked for citing Western sources. This is one of countless lies propagated by you here. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 01:23, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Downsizing the number of murders in the Holocaust is a prevalent form of Holocaust denial. Even if you support them, which you evidently do, you cannot dispute the claim that they deny the otherwise widely-accepted numerical figures of the deaths at those camps. Therefore, they are holocaust deniers, or if you prefer, holocaust revisionists. Further, please try to engage in discussion rationally. An acceptable argument is not to simply refuse to address the evidence presented to you and call the petitioners liars and defamers. It's highly immature, and I'll request that if you want to participate here you do so intelligently. Vermont (talk) 14:12, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Downsizing the numbers of murders with the falsified data is a crime. Downsizing with legitimate corrections is a scientific, legal and moral obligation. Many of mistakes were discovered thanks to records from the Jewish communities. That's how that taboo with Jasenovac camp was broken. I understand You, Vermont, breaking any taboo is extremely objectionable in society as a whole. But once that black legend had to be dismantled. --Tomec (talk) 23:56, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Mateo - I'm really getting tired of repeating this, but I will do it one more time, so you can't pretend again you haven't seen it:

  • Igor Vukic, quoted in CW, is a genocide/holocaust-denier, who claims Jasenovac was a mere “work camp”, where no mass exterminations of Jews, Serbs and others took place, contrary to the US Holocaust Museum, Nazi sources, western and Croatian historians, etc. When I cited an article by Zagreb University historian, Goran Hutinec, to counteract these falsehoods, Dvanajsti igrac mass-reverted my citations, along with citations of the US Holocaust Museum and German sources, cited by many western historians. Then you claimed, without proof, that these German sources must’ve been tortured by communists, although all of them wrote and published their books in the West. When I asked you for proof of your claims, Admin Zeljko claimed I am “attacking Mateo” – i.e. on CW, asking someone to prove their claims, the most basic WP principle, is considered “an attack”. In addition, you wrote that if I'm referring to documents from the Nuremberg Trials, “then I'd like to mention that the tribunal freed itself from any evidentiary rules” - which I take as your claim that the Nuremberg Trials proved nothing about Nazi crimes
  • Also after reverting my citations of Croatian historians and the US Holocaust Museum, Admin Zeljko wrote: “We have official records from Yugoslavia and the names of everyone in the camp are known, and who was killed and who died. So everything else remains at the level of malicious propaganda and unfounded accusation”. This is a reference to Zeljko’s citations in the CW Jasenovac article of a book by the convicted fraudster and Holocaust-denier, Roman Leljak, who claims Jasenovac was not a death camp, that a mere 1,600 people died in Jasenovac, thus negating 98% of the 80.000 to 100.000 victims estimated by the US Holocaust Museum, western and Croatian historians. Thus, Leljak and Admin Zeljko are also denying 98% of up to 20,000 Jewish victims estimated by the US Holocaust Museum to have been exterminated at Jasenovac, i.e. two-thirds of all Croatian Holocaust victims
  • I was initially blocked from CW by Kubura, for citing Hitler’s Plenipotentiary in the Independent State of Croatia, General von Horstenau, whom many western historian cite, and whom the well-known Croatian-American historian Jozo Tomasevich considers “the best-informed and unbiased” of sources. After that Kubura posted tons of nationalistic clap-trap on my Talk page, as to why von Horstenau is “ureliable” and “anti-Croat”, and therefore can’t be cited on CW, even though he's widely cited in western history books and on enwiki (of course, according to Kubura, enwiki "does not work in a quality manner, they often cite sources who are compromised, writing unnaturally about Croats" - thus again claiming that the problem lies with enwiki and the entire rest of the world)

If need be I can dig up all the diffs on all the above nonsense, reverts and blocks, and provide tons of links to articles from Croatian historians, who thoroughly criticize the Holocaust-denial lies sold by Igor Vukic, Roman Leljak and other sources quoted on CW Thhhommmasss (talk) 02:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This sections speaks about defending the terrorist act done by Milan Tepić that endangered whole city and 30,000 civilians, and the malcontents say that calling that as terrorist and lunatic is "right bias".
Short digression: You cite Hitler's plenipotentiary and You find that OK, please do not accuse any user if someone on hr.wiki cites certain Croatian Axis functionary. Regarding von Horstenau, here You have this [100] "Von Horstenau vrlo često govori o 'ustaškome teroru protiv pravoslavaca' i da daje sarkastičnu i kritičnu sliku ne samo o Paveliću već i o Hitleru, Ribbentropu i o svojim kolegama. No upada u uči da Horstenau nigdje ne spominje četničke zločine nad Hrvatima u NDH. ".... [101] "Knjiga Horstenauovih memoara ...dosta govori o svojim hrvatskim kolegama i prijateljima iz još davnih bečkih dana, kada je s njima, kao budući austrougarski časnik studirao na vojnoj akademiji u Beču, a kasnije, za vrijeme Prvog svjetskog rata, bio na terenu u Bosni. Von Horstenau je Austrijanac, stare austro-ugarske bečke škole. Tradicionalno, a i dandanas, Bečlije sebe smatraju mnogo većom gospodom od sjevernih Nijemaca, koje von Horstenau često zove 'Prusima', a samog Austrijanca, Hitlera, optužuje za pangermanski centralizam. Slične paralele on povlači među ustaškim emigrantima povratnicima, ustaškim čelnicima iz Bosne i Hercegovine i ustašama iz Zagreba. Ti kulturno-psihološki detalji među Nijemcima i Hrvatima, iz različitih krajeva Europe i Hrvatske i Bosne, veoma su bitni u shvaćanju ne samo von Horstenauove proze već i cjelokupne politike Trećeg Reicha prema Balkanu, a u konačnici i u njihovim ogromnim svjetonazorskim razlikama." Kubura (talk) 23:25, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Kubura, You are either avoiding the answer or unable to comprehend the principles of Wikipedia. So, I will clarify to you. 1) Yes, AFAIK, what Milan Tepić did was terrorist act. 2) You need to describe what he did in encyclopedic words, not write pathetic texts like ...whom he did not ask if they wanted to die, nor did he look into the eyes of parents, friends and family.... Now, will you finally stop changing subject (nobody is defending Tepić here!) and answer the question (similar to what GregorB asked You above, in this section): do You understand that this pathetic writing style does not belong to a wikipedia article and removing such sentences is actually improving the article, not act of vandalism? Yes or no? --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:36, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Hrwikiuser:, why do You repeat GregorB's question, do I talk to the same person? Further: what You said under 2) is something else. I agree with You, it is publicistic/belletristic/journalist style, not the exact style for encyclopedian entry - but that was not the question regarding that sentence/section. We were accused for the "right bias" for that section directly and violation of 5 pillars (or "unable to comprehend the principles of Wikipedia") as a part of whole this RfC. That's the problem. When someone disagrees with the style (belletristic, publicistic, journalist or encyclopedic) in a particular sentence/section/chapter/article/work-at-all, but the content is correct, than that is not the reason to start the RfC with the requirement to decapitate whole very functional community (incorrectly calling it "disfunctional", despite being the opposite) and to strip the community of the major, very prolific and very popular contributors (whose works very copied on other projects) and maintainers and even permanently ban them the access (+denigrating them as "extremists, neonazi whitewashers etc". Instead, when having such situations, that matter that can be pleasantly discussed on the talkpage without any fuss: "Hey, fellow, everything You wrote is correct, but I'd write that this way, let's make it less belletristic and more encyclopedic." Kubura (talk) 06:32, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The reaction of Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ZDF

There's an interesting recent case that touches this topic. [102] (in Croatian) and [103] (in German). Reaction of Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the expressed points in the documentary aired on ZDF. Explained many of the "right bias", "western viewpoints", "fascism", Croatian Homeland War... Here is also interesting text connected to that one. [104] "d 3. siječnja 2000. na političkome planu u Hrvatskoj više ništa nije prepušteno slučaju. Nadzire se i kontrolira svaki politički proces, vodstva stranaka i mediji. Riječ je o iscrpljujućoj politici neoproštene pobjede kojom se iznutra iz dana u dan guši slobodarstvo, demokracija, težnje hrvatskoga naroda i budućnosna perspektiva uz istodobnu obnovu i promoviranje jugoslavenskih, velikosrpskih i komunističkih mitova i krivotvorina. ... a interpretacija raspada Titove Jugoslavije pripala je kreatorima prve i druge Jugoslavije i njihovim domaćim slugama.... jugoslavenska totalitarna baština prepuštena tihom zaboravu. Tako i Titovo lovište Macelj s procijenjenih 13.000 ubijenih bez suda i evidencije. Tako i Titova Huda jama. Daksa, Široki, Jazovka… Tihom zaboravu prepuštene su kosti nevinih žrtava Titova režima i njegove osobne zapovjedne odgovornosti u prekomjernom „granatiranju“ hrvatskoga naroda i ostalih „narodnih neprijatelja“....Nije dopušteno potpuno osvjetljavanje ni najnovijih zločina počinjenih u velikosrbijanskoj agresiji. And [105] "Vučić poručuje: Hrvati trebaju prestati govoriti da smo agresori". Kubura (talk) 07:15, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing "interesting" about it - Kubura, please don't post off-topic political rants here, I'll delete such posts in the future. GregorB (talk) 11:03, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Do not play the dictator, GregorB. Leave that commanding behaviour. Political peacock terms and various other rants are also present on this page, but You have not said a single word to the authors of those messages. Kubura (talk) 19:56, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Kubura, why the hell do you think that croatian ministry's opinion is relevant here? Because it's "croatian" wikipedia and we should all accept "official croatian" line of thinking? Your posts here are as much nonsensical as they are useful in understanding Your screwed way of thinking about what wikipedia principles. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 11:54, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Not an opinion of Croatian ministry. It was the reaction on the distribution of malevolent black myths and other unscientific claims presented on nationwide media (ZDF) as "scientific truth". Diplomacy reacts in such situations; it does not react if it doesn't have scientific background. Further, please do not use the words like "screwed way of thinking" or "nonsensical". Kubura (talk) 19:56, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Why would any Wikipedia user from Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Beijing, Seoul, Sydney, New York, L.A., Sao Paolo or other cities care about any of this, Kubura?--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 07:44, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Not a good formulated question, 3E1I5S8B9RF7. On the other hand, why would all those users, that do not know Croatian and do not know anything about Croatian matters, be judges on the topic that is just a matter for some talkpage on Croatian wiki? Kubura (talk) 19:56, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Index.hr article about this Meta RFC : a new low

Congratulations folks! The most read croatian web portal has published an(other) article about the croatian wikipedia, it's right-wing admins and this process here. Named Hrvatska Wikipedia je takvo smeće da su i vlasnici digli ruke od nje [translation: The croatian wikipedia is such garbage that even it's owners have given up on it]. For the non-native speakers, google translate works just fine. Among the highlights of the article: the Jasenovac NPOV, the denunciation of hr.wiki by a history university professor, and, surprisingly, a more in-depth analysis of the inner workings of WP and Meta as such, as well as a mention of this process here. At the end there is a call to save hr.wiki from the hands of @Kubura: and people alike. The article has been commented 108 times, and was conveyed by some of the well read serbian news portals like Politika, and Večernje Novosti. How many times this has to happen before stewards here decide to act?!

A message just for for @Kubura:: I would like to assure u, before u denounce this news article, that, YES, you are absolutely right! The most read news portal in Croatia (Index.hr), is on the payroll of the serbian government. All of this is a giant conspiracy against the croatian cause, and a part of an ongoing secret war. U are on the verge of discovering who killed Kennedy, that the earth is actually flat coz u don't see no curve form your living room etc. Keep it up! --Ivan VA (talk) 10:27, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You forgot write that Index.hr made it clear that decision about arbitration between Slovenia and Croatia must be respected even Slovenians for some part of decision influenced in a criminal way(confirmed this month by themselves). Therefore Index.hr is highly anti-Croatian portal. Otherwise on Serbian wikipedia Ivan Gundulić and Ruđer Bošković are presented as Serbs, where Index.hr wrote about that, not to mention articles about war in Croatia? Reason for attack on Croatian wikipedia is because there is no more Yugoslavia and some would like to return Yugoslavia, and probably an Yugoslavian communist history, they miss it on wikipedia. Sugar on the end by Serbian wikipedia, I quote: "Srebrenica.. According to Bosniaks and much of the Western press, as well as the International Court of Justice in The Hague, this crime qualifies as genocide" Thank you God for such wikipedia. Mikola22 (talk) 11:03, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mikola22, to sum it up, index.hr is anti-Croatian because his editors differ from You in thinking what's best for Croatia. Just like all those anti-hr-wikipedia users who differ from you in thinking what's best for hr wikipedia. This is precisely the mindset among Croatian wikipedia admins. Thank you very much for this illuminating comment! --Hrwikiuser (talk) 11:50, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Croatian Parliament rejected arbitration process with 100% of votes, if some portal and editors know that fact and fact that crime was committed in arbitration process why they were against Croatian decision. How would you qualify this portal? Why other portals did not follow Index.hr? Therefore anti-Croatian portal cannot evaluated Croatian wikipedia because this portal has a different view of Croatia probably from Yugoslavian perspective. I respect that and that is their right but it must be known here because some might think that this portal loves Croatia. Mikola22 (talk) 12:31, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No it means that that is just the view of the croatian parliament (if it's right what u are saying), nothing else. No one here is obliged to take that decisions as something absolute. We, hare, are not some state officials. The croatian parliament also has voted for legislation which permitted a criminal privatisation in the 90's and 00's. When Index.hr, or any other citizen of Croatia is debating that, is that also anti-croat? --Ivan VA (talk) 12:46, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Mikola22: U didn't go into the merits and allegations of the article itself, but discredited the MOST READ portal in Croatia, just because it, on some topic, supposedly didn't share a political view like you. It's very interesting to observe through this whole discussion how some people put themselves into a position from which they can label who is anti-croatian/pro-croatian. And some well minded, fellow users here accepted that. I don't. Who gives u the right to throw ad-hominems around here? That that portal is somehow anticroatian is JUST YOUR OWN opinion.
Secondly, u are misleading by pointing out at NPOV content from sr.wiki here. On sr.wiki there is NPOV content. U pointed out some of it. But NO ONE will block u if u try to edit it, with serous references (which is the most basic WP rule). That's the difference. If u do it on hr.wiki, u will INSTANTLY GET BLOCKED. Like me. There is no such thing on sr.wiki. That's why the analogy/symmetry is completely false. And that's the whole point of this RfC. It wasn't started coz hr.wiki has some NPOV content (like any other wikipedia branch), but because there is admin abuse towards people who try to edit those articles in a serous manner. --Ivan VA (talk) 12:40, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Then go to sr.wiki and change fact that Ruđer Bošković and Ivan Gundulić are Serbs, write and that is a "crime" in Sreberenica genocide without further explanation. I'm waiting for you. Mikola22 (talk) 16:27, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't want do engage in those articles because i didn't study them/the academic works behind them in depth. And that is how i operate as an editor. But i have experience in editing „controversial” articles, like the most important bosniak medal from the war in BiH, i'm currently working on the Ferhadija mosque article which has been destroyed during the war etc. More recently an article about the arrest of Draža Mihailović has got featured status (not my work). Just to give u a few examples. So, if u got the literature and the credible sources on the topics u're mentioning, u're good to go. I don't, so i won't. --Ivan VA (talk) 17:01, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Even if you are correct, your point amounts to little more than whataboutism, as it doesn't refute any of the points in this RfC, nor it is in any way an actual argument in favor of the current state of CW. GregorB (talk) 17:22, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest that controversial articles from hr.wiki be presented somewhere so that we all can say something about these article. I follow history of the Balkan peoples and I can present my own example. I quote hr.wiki "Serbs in Croatia..Most of today's Serbs in Croatia are descendants of Balkan Vlachs who immigrated to Croatia in the early new century during the Ottoman conquests". eng.wiki I quote "In some regions of modern-day Croatia, mainly in southern Dalmatia, ethnic Serbs have been present from the Early Middle Ages., Emperor Ferdinand I granted them the right to settle on the territory of the Military Frontier. In exchange for land and exemption from taxation, they had to conduct military service and participate in the protection of the Habsburg Monarchy's border against the Ottoman Empire. They populated the Dalmatian hinterland, Lika, Kordun, Banovina, Slavonia, and Western Syrmia". Which wikipedia is correct? We could vote before I answer to be more interesting and ultimately to test accuracy of hr.wiki. Mikola22 (talk) 18:03, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to point out that i find this analogy between hr.wiki and sr.wiki quite useful and worth exploring, since i'v seen that it's been heavily used by the incriminated individuals/admins and their supporters and that it has found some ground and justification among the well minded individuals who participate in the discussion.

The argument, as we all have read, goes like this: yes there is nationalist NPOV content on hr.wiki (the Jasenovac article as the main talking point), but there is also nationalist NPOV content on sr.wiki. So, why only intervene in hr.wiki? This also is used to, by default, discredit the contributions to the debate by sr.wiki authors...If there should be an intervention, then also for sr.wiki as well, or don't intervene in either project = leave hr.wiki alone etc. — goes the argument.

For once and for all i want to make this point and put this argument to the dustbin: the main difference is that the nationalist NPOV content on sr.wiki is a product of a lack of serious editing/individuals who want to take that NPOV article and edit it with serious references, while on hr.wiki a big chunk of the nationalist NPOV content is the product of admin abuse/people getting blocked for trying to edit those articles.

Most of the NPOV articles on sr.wiki are 7—10 years old (most of that kind of content is not being tolerated in recent years, since the community got bigger and the review process more vetting. Most of that kind of edits now days get reverted instantly). They haven't had serious edits for years, and all of them got that NPOV sticker on. Just to be clear for the reader. In comparison, the current policy on hr.wiki is a whole different ball game. No stickers, admin abuse/blocking and deliberate privileging of marginal/right-wing/discredited sources.

Having said all that, in conclusion, the analogy doesn't hold water. There is very much need for this RfC. --Ivan VA (talk) 18:06, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If it were interpreted in that way(hr.wiki-sr.wiki) then we must also change the leadership of Bosnian, Albanian, Montenegrian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Greek, Turkish, Armenian etc wiki. Let's change the leadership of all wikipedia in the world that would be most fair. Mikola22 (talk) 18:28, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No it doesn't. It's all about SYSTEMATIC admin abuse. --Ivan VA (talk) 18:32, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Everything you're saying here is just an attempt to muddy the waters and derail the discussion. Like some other participants, you are probably aware that you stand very little chance of actually refuting anything, so you'd rather talk about something else. That, however, won't help. GregorB (talk) 18:43, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I started with an example that all see which wikipedia is correct, if no one wants to answer hr.wiki is correct. Therefore I present concrete evidence. Mikola22 (talk) 19:55, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A few days ago was the 20th. Death anniversary of the first Croatian President Dr. Franjo Tuđman. The ideological heirs of those who sentenced him to 2 years in prison for "nationalism" today attack us for the same reasons. Index.hr (or better Index.yu) is not a trustworty source as a yellow press with tendentious, sensationalistic content, let alone for politically relevant topics. The contents are often characterised by unprofessional behaviour and gross disregard for journalistic etiquette. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 22:14, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If Index.hr is correct about CW, then it doesn't matter whether it is trustworthy or not, and, if it's not correct, then its trustworthiness also doesn't matter. Therefore, your remark is irrelevant, except perhaps in one aspect: you say Index.hr is not trustworthy, rather than not correct - sure you know why. Also, none of the evidence presented here has anything to do with Index.hr, so doubly irrelevant, I'd say. GregorB (talk) 01:24, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Mateo - Index.hr is the most popular Croatian portal, which doesn't make it authoritative, but the article quotes Zagreb University history professor, Hrvoje Klasic, who strongly criticizes CW. He states: "many [CW] articles are based on lies and misinformation, and on a revisionist approach to Croatian history, which means that the criminal character of the Ustashe regime is relativized, while minimizing the number of Ustashe victims." He goes on to say that "Wikipedia is often the first and only source of information for young people. When they see that the name includes the word Encyclopedia, they take it for granted. But learning history from Croatian Wikipedia is simply scandalous"
Certainly Prof. Klasic is a much more reliable source then the convicted fraudsters and Holocaust-deniers quoted on CW. Other mainstream Croatian media, like Jutarnji list (one of 2 largest-circulation dailies), have published multiple articles heavily critical of the extreme bias on CW, including an article by a Wikipedian who described extensive Admin abuse on CW, and how many editors have left CW as a result. Again, Jutarnji list is a much more reliable source, with journalistic standards, unlike the 2 websites (Kamenjar and Braniteljski portal) cited here by Kubura as "authorities", both of which engage in Holocaust-denial, and celebrate as "heroes" convicted Croatian war criminals Thhhommmasss (talk) 02:02, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Self-referencing. GregorB's or Thhhommmasss's message c/p. Media that have just transferred the message. Obviously one of malcontents here has pulled his media connections and told to the portal's journalist what to write. Regarding the media attack on hr.wiki, there was an excellent answer long time ago.[106] Kubura (talk) 19:37, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Let it be mentioned here that Croatian Wikipedia does not have a guideline for reliable sources[107]. Other three projects in Serbo-Croatian variants (Bosnian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian) do have this guideline. The creation of this guideline should be included into the list of suggested actions. Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 16:54, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not truth. Croatian Wikipedia has that guideline. Wikipedija:Provjerljivost#Vjerodostojni_izvori. Since June 10, 2009. --Zerukruhaivina (talk) 21:28, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Obviously Reliable Sources means something very different on CW, than on a normal wiki. Thus per Admin Zeljko, the only “Reliable Source” on the number of Jasenovac victims, the only one with “the truth”, is the convicted fraudster, Roman Leljak, who denies the vast majority of Croatian Jewsih Holocaust victims, while Admin Zeljko declares everything else to be “falsifications and lies”, including what western and Croatian historians and Holocaust Museums say on this matter. Admin Kubura stated that sources deemed by western historians as among “the most reliable and objective”, can’t be cited on CW, because Kubura claims they wrote “to the detriment of Croats” (i.e. these were Germans who dared criticize a genocidal Ustashe regime), and therefore such citations were mass-reverted. Kubura and others obviously don’t recognize well-known Croatian and western linguists as Reliable Sources, since I was blocked for merely stating what these linguists say about the common Bosnian-Croat-Serb language. Thus CW Amins systematically revert and block editors who dare cite Reliable Sources, like Croatian and Western historians and linguists, while holocaust-denying “publicists” and convicted fraudsters are promoted as “Reliable Sources”, the only ones with “the truth” Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:29, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The CW "Rule Book"

Thank you, Kubura, for enlightening us above that Encyclopedia Britannica is also part of the whole Serbo-Croatist, Neoyugoslavist, anti-Croat conspiracy thing. Since I’m having trouble keeping track of all this, I thought I’d summarize, what given CW practice and what you’ve said here, you obviously think are the CW rules, so everyone knows, and won't get into trouble, in case they’ve been inspired to edit CW:

1. “Unreliable Sources” per CW Admins, the citing of which will likely result in rants, name-calling, mass-reverts, threats of blocks, and actual blocks (as happened to me):

  • Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Enwiki ("I would only advise you not to follow the lead of English Wikipedia. They do not work in a quality manner, they often cite sources who are compromised, writing unnaturally about Croats" - Kubura)
  • The United States Holocaust Museum (“not immune to fraud” - Kubura)
  • German generals extensively cited by western Historians as being very knowledgeable and unbiased (“unreliable” and “anti-Croat”, per Kubura, thus instantly reverted on CW, and editor blocked)
  • Western historians who define the Ustashe as both genocidal and fascist
  • Numerous Croatian historians who define the Ustashe as both genocidal and fascist
  • Austrian EU parliamentarians who dared describe Bleiburg commemorations as a fascist gathering
  • The official Croatian Jasenovac Memorial, which despite your claims that the Croatian language only uses the term Concentration Camp for Nazi camps, insists on calling Jasenovac a Concentration Camp, not a "Collection Camp" as on CW
  • The entire .hr domain which also disagrees with your claims of Croatian language usage and instead calls Jasenovac a Concentration Camp 80% of the time
  • The Croatian Language Portal which further disagrees with your notion of language usages (must be part of the Serbo-Croatist conspiracy as well)
  • Harvard and numerous other Slavic departments around the world which offer BCS or Serbo-Croatian as a language
  • 50 respected linguists from Croatia and around the world who signed the Declaration for the Common Language, plus of course all Croat writers and others who dared sign the same declarations, and against which you've repeatedly railed here
  • The Croatian Supreme Court, whose brief description of the crimes committed by the convicted war criminal, Mirko Norac, was instantly reverted by Speedy Gonzales, since obviously no mention can be made of any specifics of these horrible crimes
  • Etc, etc, etc

2. On the other hand we have “Reliable Sources”, per CW Admins, since they repeatedly cite these and insist only they have “the truth”

  • Convicted fraudsters, like Roman Leljak (the lead “authority” on Jasenovac victim numbers)
  • Holocaust-deniers like Leljak and Vukic, who deny 98% of Jasenovac Holocaust victims, as per the “unreliable” US Holocaust Museum
  • Holocaust-deniers and celebrators of convicted Croatian war criminals, like the right-wing tabloid Kamenjar, which you cited above
  • Croatian right-wing veterans’ organizations, who are obviously the only “true authorities” as to whether Jasenovac was a concentration camp or a “work camp” (which of course means that right-wing Serb veterans organizations should be the ultimate arbiters as to whether Srebrenica was genocide or not, and also the ultimate arbiters of Serb crimes in Croatia, if any)
  • The Croatian Foreign Ministry which per you should be the only authority when other countries dare criticize Croatia (same as obviously the Serbian Foreign Ministry should be the only authority when others dare criticize Serbia)
  • Assorted other Croatian right-wingers you cited, who engage in Holocaust-denial, while ranting about invented “language genocides” (i.e. the same “language genocide” committed daily by linguists who dare say Spaniards, Mexicans, Colombians and Argentinians all speak Spanish, even though the local variants of Spanish differ much more than Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian variants)
  • Etc, etc, etc.

3. More Rules. Yet merely avoiding above “Unreliable Sources”, while sticking to the “Reliable Sources”, will not keep you out of trouble, since there are yet more CW “Rules”, e.g.:

  • “Members of undesirable groups rule”. Clearly from what's been said here all these are unwelcome on CW (you don’t even know what some of these terms mean? Don’t’ worry, if the CW Admins disagree with you, they will instantly tell you which undesirable group you precisely belong to):
    • People from Serbia
    • "Serbo-Croatists"
    • "Neoyugoslavists"
    • "Anti-Croats"
    • Etc, etc, etc
  • “Forbidden dates to criticize CW Admins rule”. Both here and on CW the Admins repeatedly mentioned holidays and anniversaries, before, during and after which people can’t criticize CW, since that is a compounding violation for blocks. I suggest to help everyone, that the CW Admins put together a calendar of all Holidays, anniversaries and other observations, before, during and after which it is forbidden to criticize CW Admins, since obviously daring to criticize a CW Admin is the same as insulting the entire Croatian nation
  • “Don’t ask for proof rule”. As people have experienced here, asking CW Admins for proof of their claims is a big no-no, resulting in responses that they owe no proofs, or merely ignoring people’s statements to provide proof, threatening to sue people, etc. I experienced that on CW too, when asking Mateo to provide proof for his unsubstantiated, totally false claims, I was told by the Admins that asking Mateo for proof is an “attack” on Mateo for which I received threats of a block and a yellow card
  • "Deny, attack, name-call and play everyone for a fool rule”. When confronted with accusations of wrongdoing, just simply deny you did anything wrong, and instead respond with name-calling (“Serbo-Croatists”, “Serb agent”), change the subject to unrelated attacks (e.g. unprompted, extended rants against German and Austrian criticism of Croatian extreme right-wingers, again betraying your POV-agenda). Simultaneously, you play everyone for a fool, by for example claiming you did not block people for participating in this RfC or posting links to Signpost article, when clearly you did Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:22, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[108] Anyway, Your message is just another form of trolling, masked under the package of RfC. No matter what's been explained and thoroughly elaborated to You previouosly on other project on the talkpages, as well as here (again!), You still again ask the same questions, although these have been answered here and/or on the various talkpages on hr.wiki. You are misusing the processes and wasting human and temporal resources of fellow wikieditors and wikimaintainers. You use so many fallacies (and ignore facts!), by using ad hominem attacks. Kubura (talk) 19:45, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ipse dixit / magister dixit. Have in mind that facts are important, no who said, but the factual accuracy of the written text. Therefore, although the (secondary, tertiary) source may be Britannica, or US Holocaust Museum, they can still be misinformed, because inaccurate information has been passed to them (or they may have been politically forced to present particular information that is inaccurate). Kubura (talk) 19:48, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"50 respected linguists" against the majority of Croatians and Serbs who speak Croatian and Serbian respectively? Stop dreaming. Serbo-Croatian is a (neo-)Yugoslavian theoretical construct that has never existed in reality. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 21:38, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Kubura, you haven't provided a single shred of evidence to the contrary, regrading anything I wrote. Instead (same as in your above response to the sharp criticism of CW by a Zagreb University history professor), you provide a link to a screed, this time from some anonymous blogger, against the "yugo-serbian, universe-wide assault against Croatian Wikipedia", with racist-style insults thrown in for good measure (e.g. calling one of the two main Croatian dailies "Serb-defender"), and peddling tons of other total garbage like stating that Jimmy Wales' "sources of information are primarily Serb and Yugoslav" . I will not keep responding any more to your whacko conspiracy rants, since this only gives them legitimacy Thhhommmasss (talk) 02:28, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Additional proposal

Proposed actions by GregorB (10 October 2019) - measures 1-6
1) Remove the admin status from Kubura, SpeedyGonsales, and Zeljko, the three worst offenders.
2) ... and give them a lifetime ban from reapplying.
3) Dismiss all local admins.
4) Remove bureaucrat and checkuser status from all local bureaucrats and checkusers.
5) Set up a local ArbCom consisting of experienced Croatian or similar language-speaking editors from other wikis, to be appointed by the global community at Meta-Wiki.
6) Solicit extra participation from the members of similar-language projects.
Additional Proposed Criteria by Nosebagbear (27 October 2019) - measures 7-12
7) Commence a cross-wiki discussion to create a cross-jurisdictional ARBCOM for the similar language projects
8) Remove all blocks from everyone the 3 admins have blocked
9) Review all blocks implemented by the 3 admins
10) Enable the addition of croatian-speaking admins from other sources [global, en, de, similar language have all been proposed]
11) Create an off-wiki method (surveys, etc) for individuals to provide their feedback and concerns with regards to Croatian wiki
12) Create an on-wiki method to continuously report, monitor and address abuse, so that this does not reoccur

Since, as already pointed out earlier:

  • departure of dissenting administrators in recent years has contributed to the deterioration of the state of CW, and
  • the role of administrators is vitally important in addressing the current issues

...I'd like to propose:

  • 13) All former admins who either lost their adminship due to inactivity or voluntarily stepped down can regain adminship by contacting a bureaucrat.

I feel this is a more positive version of #3 ("Dismiss all local admins"). In particular, participants who supported #3 might consider supporting #13 either as an alternative to #3, or as an additional measure.

A more detailed ArbCom proposal

While, in my opinion, the actual details of the original proposal #5 ("Set up a local ArbCom consisting of experienced Croatian or similar language-speaking editors from other wikis, to be appointed by the global community at Meta-Wiki.") are less important, since they could be discussed later, this has perhaps made the idea and its execution rather unclear to some participants. Therefore, here are some additional details.

CW ArbCom members will be chosen by (any combination of):

  • WMF staff
  • Stewards
  • Experienced Wikipedia editors (Croatian or similar language-speaking editors from other wikis)

ArbCom member candidates should have a history of adhering to WP:NPOV and, if possible, admin experience or experience in editing major Wikipedias (en, de, fr...).

ArbCom members:

  • ...work like regular admins
  • ...oversee the work of local admins and resolve conflicts that can't be solved by other admins or community discussion
  • ...are allowed to block or (ask bureaucrat to) de-sysop an admin if they break 5 pillars
  • ...have the final word in all future RFAs and RFDAs, taking into account will of the community and arguments given in discussion

Because of previous cases of off-wiki harrassment of ArbCom members, starting from 2009, if an ArbCom member already has a Wikipedia account and feels that his identity might be easily revealed (for example due to info on his user page or his previous edits), he/she will be allowed to open a new account (e.g. "Croatian Wikipedia ArbCom member #1") just for ArbCom activity on Croatian Wikipedia.

Note that general support for proposal #5 (setting up a local Arbcom) does not necessarily imply support for any of the implementation details above.

Are you proposing to create an arbcom made of socket puppets? Are you really serious? I find this whole proposal facetious at best. Ruslik (talk) 17:33, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't quite understand what you mean. Surely you're aware that ArbCom members must disclose their real-life identity to the WMF. Stewards do, and you are a steward. The reason is the same, namely access to nonpublic information. With that in mind, how would the above proposal be conducive to electing socks into ArbCom, as your question seems to imply? GregorB (talk) 19:51, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ruslik0: please try to read a little bit about history of hr wiki before making such comments. In this and prefious RFCs, You can find the information about previous ArbCom in 2009 dissolving because members quit due to off-wiki harassment from SpeedyGonsales and his clique. Although users are anonymous in theory, in practice, Croatia is a small country and almost all experienced Croatian-speaking users from en, de, hr, sh and other projects have their identity partly revealed during the years. We don't want the ArbCom members to be harassed, and their names and personal information dragged through the mud in Croatian right-wing press. WMF should know not just the original usernames, but also all personal information of ArbCom members, but the information should not be spread outside that circle. BTW, we can always leave that option open and ask directly WMF. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Your seriously think that WMF is going to be involved in all this? And by the way do you know how the identification currently works? You seems to be naive at best and more likely simply incompetent. Ruslik (talk) 10:09, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Since you're presumably not naive and not incompetent, please tell us how the identification currently works. GregorB (talk) 11:23, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The way forward

Whatever measures may be chosen, they should result in:

  • Removal of unencyclopedic, poorly sourced and unsourced biased content
  • Unblocking of wrongly blocked users (on their request or on request of other editors)
  • Removal of patroller and autopatrolled rights from editors with a history of blatantly POV or unencyclopedic editing
  • Ending the practice of using blocks and page locks under various pretenses, aimed at preventing the editors from fixing POV and unencyclopedic content
  • A higher degree of inclusivity towards editors who are trying to improve the encyclopedia in good faith
  • Open and public discussion about the issues, the RfC and its consequences

As already noted, the role of administrators is vital, and they are expected to actively work towards Wikipedia values as described by WP:PILLARS.

The progress - or lack thereof - along these lines should be assessed within 3 to 6 months and, if necessary, discussed further in a separate Meta RfC. Absence of significant progress will entail additional, more comprehensive actions. GregorB (talk) 00:55, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • @GregorB: I'll be blunt: you should quit while you are ahead. I agree that the three admins named in the proposal and other hrwiki admins have abused tools and pushed their POV one way, but I am starting to wonder (as I have in the past) if you are trying to push hrwiki to a different non-neutral POV. A blanket reaccepting of admins who have resigned I feel would do just that. hrwiki should start with a clean slate and the community should be rebuilt from the ground up. --Rschen7754 07:07, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • User:Rschen7754, there isn't a single record of any of former admins who left hr wiki because of frustration with the trio fantasticus pushing any left-wing POV. Actually, to my knowledge, based on their work on the articles and presented interests and user boxes, some are actually conservative (right-wing), but they understand NPOV concept and they left because they just couldn't fight with *this* level of insanity of Kubura, Zeljko and SpeedyGonsales. So, no, returning of any of old admins will not result in turning hr wiki into communist propaganda site. Removing *all* admins will just help the clique remove a few remaining normal admins and install some of their sock-puppets as new admins, all perfectly legalized by the "community". Also, if this RFC doesn't result in adding an external ArbCom with power to solve *all* future issues that might happen, I suggest You that we just leave things as they are and give up once and for all on this project. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:39, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Rschen7754: What specifically makes you think what I'm doing is POV-pushing? Why would the return of former admins make things worse? (Some of them actually support Kubura, Speedy and Zeljko.) Do you know something about them that I don't? GregorB (talk) 09:00, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Rschen7754:, if you still wander if GregorB is a POV-pusher, just read his comments on talk page of en:Croatian Wikipedia. There, in 2014, he argues that article is too harsh on Croatian wikipedia and that article needs to mention some opinions from Croatian media where some people don't see the problem with it.
      This is the spirit we need on Croatian Wikipedia - not to push for your own POV, but to push for some opposite opinions to be included in order to achieve NPOV. Croatian wikipedia have some (former and even some current) admins who do understand the principles of NPOV and I don't want to see them all swept away just because they decided not to argue with those 3 hopeless cases in order to avoid stress (and achieve nothing in the process). Yes, some of the admins also could communicate better, but they make honest mistakes, not provoking people on purpose like user:SpeedyGonsales and blocking them when they bite the bait. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 13:29, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A few more ideas of how to proceed:

  • PRIO 1:
    • De-sysop 3 above-mentioned admins and remove bureaucrat and checkuser status from all local users
    • Make site-notice on hr wikipedia about results of this RFC
  • PRIO 2:
    • ASAP, choose a single bureaucrat who can immediately start:
      • ...analyzing POV edits and removing patrol (P) and autopatrol (AP) rights from worst offenders to prevent further POV-pushing. A beurocrat should have the final word in all future request for giving/removing P/AP statuses at local page for RFAP, RFP, where giving and taking those statuses is regularly discussed. Ordinary hr wiki users can help in this endeavor by detecting potential candidates for revoking P or AP status and making requests at local page for RFAP, RFP. I suggest taking auto-patrol rights from Kubura, Zeljko and SpeedyGonsales, they can regain their AP (and maybe even patrol) status later, if they prove they stopped POV-pushing.
      • unblocking wrongly blocked users (on their request).
      • unblocking controversial pages (mostly locked under the pretext of "vandalism", but actually to prevent fixing biased content), so they can be fixed
      • helping other admins in regular anti-vandal activities, if his/her help is needed
  • PRIO 3:
    • In coordination with WMF, discuss setting up the ArbCom from experienced users.
    • Ask WMF about possibility to allow Arbcom members to open new accounts, with identities known only to WMF.

--Hrwikiuser (talk) 10:20, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support Support for 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13,  Weak support for 6, Oppose Oppose to 3, 8, 9 --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:40, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@-Rschen7754: M8, u really need to study the history of hr.wiki and these accusations over the last decade, and argue with historical accuracy. There's no left-wing, center-wing or any other POV. This argument has been proven historically wrong, and is actually a kind of whataboutism. --Ivan VA (talk) 16:05, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support Strong support for additional proposals, except No. 8 (removal of all blocks). Case by case support for 9. -- Несмир Кудилович (разговор) 15:57, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Question for Kubura

Kubura I have a question for you. You say you are a neutral, objective admin at Croatian Wikipedia. As we all know, each country has some good moments and some bad moments in its history. Could you, Kubura, write an article about something bad that was done from the Croatian side in its history? 3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 15:03, 11 December 2019 (UTC) @Kubura: Can you please anwser the question?--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 07:15, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And all of this was about that? Kubura (talk) 00:22, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Can you anwser the question, please: if you say you are a neutral, objective admin, can you write an article on Croatian Wikipedia about something bad in history that was done by the Croat side?--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 18:47, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It's not a problem for me. I already did that. Kubura (talk) 19:35, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If you claim so, then: A) Which articles of such topic did you write? And B) can you write these articles in Croatian Wikipedia—Blagaj massacre, Varivode massacre, Bradina massacre—exactly as they are written in English Wikipedia, verbatim, without any addition or justification of the Croatian side?--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 17:39, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
A) I did that on article about the camp in Jasenovac.[109] I posted at the very top of the article that blessed cardinal Alojzije Stepinac. He condemned that camp as the major Croatian place of shame in history, and said that Croats will heavily pay for that. If a person who is the the right-wing icon for hardline Croats and Catholics said that, noone from them will challenge that, nor try to beautify it. Second is example is ustashi atrocity against Croats [110][111], and cited far-left icon by that. B) From what I've seen, en.wiki is not neutral, they are very biased and rarely they listen to Croatian side; when they do that, they do it just formally, and marginalize and push aside Croatian arguments. So many misrepresentation. I am aware of that fact, and that rude bias (at the damage of Croat side) was one of reasons that made me edit Wikipedia. Therefore, I am very cautious when writing about the bad things done by Croats. In "Croatian" media, although the number of Croat crimes is much smaller than the number of crimes against Croats, the latter are overrepresented, spectacularized. So, if I write something about some bad things that Croats did, I engage in things that I know more of. I planned to write an article about very rude epizode, but since that had no proper scientific or media coverage, I was not able to write it, since it would be original research. Now the researcher documentary reportage is made, I can do that. Kubura (talk) 13:37, 28 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As I had said, I wrote the article about that documentary series [112]. Kubura (talk) 17:08, 28 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Kubura you pleasantly surprised me today. I admit I haven't expected you to anwser (after 22 days). Yet, I have to point out something: just adding one sentence is not enough to claim you wrote an entire article. Just inserting that Stepinac said something against Jasenovac camp is rather insignificant. Likewise, the article "Massacre at potkamešničkim selima" is about Croats who killed Croats. But I was asking about specific examples where the Croats are not victims in any way, but where Croat forces are perpetrators of a crime. So can you write these articles in Croatian Wikipedia—Blagaj massacre, Varivode massacre, Bradina massacre—exactly as they are written in English Wikipedia, verbatim?--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 15:53, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura, yes you’re “very cautious” in editing Wikipedia, by citing “publicists”, convicted fraudsters and Holocaust-deniers like Leljak and Vukic, who deny 98% of the Jasenovac victims, and thus also deny the vast majority of Croatian Jewish Holocaust victims, further claim Jasenovac was a mere “work camps” where no mass extermination took place, and instead people put on plays and played soccer. Your “cautious” Admins proclaim that these massive lies, peddled on CW, are “the only truth”, and that everything else – i.e. what western and Croatian historians and Holocaust museums write – are “falsifications and lies”, And when editors try to contradict these massive lies, by citing Croatian and Western historians, you revert and block them. Following this great example of CW other wikis should be similarly free to cite "publicists" and convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of Croat victims, and further delete and block editors who dare cite Reliable Sources to contradict this
You also exercised “caution”, when as you stated above, you blocked me for merely daring state on a Talk page, the fact that many western linguists say that Bosnians-Croatians-Serbs share one common language, because this goes against the nationalistic myths and ideologies you peddle and enforce on CW, totally contrary to the most basic WP principles
Btw, you repeated a core myth of Balkan nationalists on all sides, when you write above “although the number of Croat crimes is much smaller than the number of crimes against Croats”. That certainly is not the way most Western and even many Croatian historians see it, who instead write that the extreme-nationalist Croat Ustashe regime was the most genocidal and criminal on the Balkans, exterminating 80% of the Jews in Croatia and Bosnia, close to 100% of the Roma, plus nearly 1 in 5 Serbs were killed or exterminated in the Ustasha state, which many historians also consider a genocide. Serb nationalists likewise try to present their side as the greatest victims, even when they were not, as was certainly not the case in 90s, when again per western historians, Serb forces committed the majority of crimes, even if not nearly as many as the Ustashe. Again, as many historians have noted, the main purpose of promoting these falsified histories is to present one’s own side as always the main victims, in order to perpetuate hatreds against the other side, which in turn played a major role in inflaming past bloody wars on the Balkans. It is shameful that WP has allowed such abuse on CW, to continue to perpetuate these falsehoods in order to inflame further hatreds Thhhommmasss (talk)Thhhommmasss (talk)

Question for SpeedyGonsales

SpeedyGonsales I have a question for you, too. You claim that there are no problems with Croatian Wikipedia. I therefore ask: do you think that the methods, criteria and conduct of the admins on Croatian Wikipedia are different than all other language Wikipedias (English Wikipedia, for instance) or not?--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 10:04, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@SpeedyGonsales: Can you please anwser my question: in your opinion, do you think that the Croatian Wikipedia has the same standards and criteria as the English Wikipedia?--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 07:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Question for Thhhommmasss

Thhhommmasss, again and again you claim that according to our administrators Leljak and similar people are the only ones who have leased "the truth" (for example [113]:"...with CW Admins further claiming these fraudulent sources are the only ones with the truth"). I have followed the discussion about the Jasenovac article and cannot remember such a statement. Since, to my knowledge, you have not provided a diff link for this assertion, I would ask you to do so. The statement should be unambiguous and leave no room for interpretation. Otherwise, that's another irrelevant, non-fact-based assertion. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 23:21, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Mateo - I already provided this information, but here it is one more time:
  1. In the Jasenovac article, intro to Victim Numbers section, the entire lead paragraph is based on the convicted fraudster, Roman Leljak, where he claims the total number of Jasenovac victims is 1,654, i.e. equal to 2%, or less, of the figures given by the US Holocaust Museum, official Croatian Jasenovac Memorial and numerous western and Croatian historians, who all put the victim numbers at 80.000 to 100.000 (exact quote from the CW Jasenovac article: "Ove dokumente objelodanio je slovenski publicist Roman Leljak u svojoj knjizi Mit o Jasenovcu. Po ovim dokumentima evidentirano 18.600 zatočenika, od kojih je smrtno stradalo njih 1.654, od kojih su neki umrli prirodnom smrću")
  2. When I disputed that, Admin Zeljko responded that "we have...the exact number of people who perished in the camp (and that is 1.654). All other so-called sources are fabrications and lies" Thus he is claiming that Leljak's numbers, which deny 98% of Jasenovac victims, are the only correct ones, and he is calling all other sources "fabrications and lies" - i.e. the US Holocaust Museum, official Jasenovac Memorial, numerous western and Croatian historian, etc. (just so you don't play ignorant again, since I already posted this, here's Zeljko's entire quote from the Jasenovac discussion page: "Imamo točan popis broja ljudi koliko ih je bilo u logoru (a to je 18.600), i koliko ih je smrtno stradalo (a to je 1.654). Svi ostali takozvani izvori su izmišljotine i laži") Thhhommmasss (talk) 00:55, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(convicted fraudster, Roman Leljak,)..This is exactly reason why is Roman Leljak on CW. No one has concrete challenged or refute him neither the great interpreter of Yugoslavian history historian Hrvoje Klasić nor someone else. That's why they keep mentioning of "fraudster" but no one mentions arguments which refute Roman Leljak. Leljak does not interpret history because history was written by communists and we still believe in that history or you and that is your right and we should respect this but unfortunately you have to understand that this is communist history and today there is and new history(based on original documents) which you do not respect. Leljak says what the documents say and documents are as they are. If he is lying then and Belgrade, Zagreb, Banja Luka, Novi Sad etc archive lying. If in Nedic's(Serbian) archive there is no single document which notes that corpses float on the Sava river then let's respect that. Why don't you respect that? Or we will respect Yugoslav and Serbian historians who say the corpses floating on the Sava river although they do not have documents which prove it, maybe one or two but in one document are also mentioned and Croatian soliders. Here should be include and logic, half of the Balkans would be infected if so many corpses float on the river, in that time cattle and people drink that river. Therefore if someone has its mytomania why this mythomania should be promoted on CW? What we have with Serbian mythomania? We no longer live in a common state. The only cure for mytomania is original documents, and now when Leljak or someone else presents these documents in their books, now they are "fraudsters". He may be the worst criminal but I'm interested in challenging any of these documents. No one is doing this and that's why Leljak etc is on CW. When these documents are refuted then we will remove them together from CW. You obviously bothered by these documents and since they are not refuted by Croatian or Serbian historians then it is easiest to remove admins of CW. I hope that peoples now understand what's this all about. Mikola22 (talk) 15:05, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Let's cut to the central issue here: what makes Leljak a reliable source? Namely, what are the criteria reliable sources need to meet, and how does Leljak and his works meet them? GregorB (talk) 15:10, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Considering it is a sensitive issue Leljak chose the way(historical interpretation) in which documents speak instead of him. This is logical because documents he uses speak very differently from official history. This is his way, is it wrong? The criticism is that he uses documents selectively but if those documents do not exist in Yugoslavian history, then and Yugoslavian history is selectiv. The problem is that these documents are not liked by someone and they cannot be challenged and therefore they attack his personal life. But I'm not interested whit that, I'm interested in data that refute Leljak's documents. And there is none, or maybe some of the documents have been refuted, I haven't followed that for a long time so I'm not 100% sure.Mikola22 (talk) 15:46, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mikola22 Yes, peoples now understand what's this all about, as You said. Please do continue to defend a guy who claims only 1654 people died in Jasenovac. That way, You will speed up the process. (me eating popcorn). --Hrwikiuser (talk) 16:05, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As far as i know it is from the Belgrade archive so you go to Belgrade archive and speed up process of dismissing director of that archive. History is determined and based on historical documents. Therefore, if no Croatian historian has refute this document, then it is probably correct. How did you think that some documents are being challenged? With official number of victims in Jasenovac? But these lists are written when and this document i.e. from the same peoples. Why some documents would be correct and some others not? Whether official Yugoslavian excavations in Jasenovac refute this document?Mikola22 (talk) 16:24, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mikola22, that's not really the answer to my question, but never mind. Consider this: AFAIK, Croatian Wikipedia does not have a no original research policy, and it doesn't have a reliable sources guideline. Let that sink in, folks. GregorB (talk) 16:46, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps it is because of 45 years of Yugoslavia and Yugoslav history which had its history based on brotherhood and unity. Imagine that Yugoslavian history was based on historical documents about Vlachs in Croatia and Bosnia, today we wouldn't have Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia(there would be some in Slavonia) also it would not be and small part of Croats. We would have Vlachs. And now when Croatian historians write about Vlachs then this is the original research i.e. fascism. While foreign historians use Yugoslav(Serbian) historiography which is a fairy tale based on nothing. What kind of history is this, no original? Croats just now writing their history and someone doesn't like it and I can understand that policy of CW because if that were not the case then we would have Yugoslav CW, and this is probably in the interest of some groups. Mikola22 (talk) 17:17, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I rest my case. GregorB (talk) 17:56, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Mikola - as I mentioned elsewhere, Leljak pulled out a Jasenovac named victims list from 1946, i.e what people were able to document in the first year of the post-war chaos. There are similar documents from the Belsen Trials, conducted by the western allies in Germany in the same year of 1946, which show only 12 named, documented victims of the Belsen Concentration Camp at that time, compared to 50.000+ now estimated. Why doesn't the convicted fraudster, Leljak, "discover" these documents, and then go to Germany and claim that only a total of 12 victims were killed at Belsen, and then Admin Zeljko go on the Belsen Trials enwiki or de.wiki page and claim that these 12 named victims from 1946 documents are "the only truth", and everything else is "fabrications and lies", and see how far he will get with such garbage (from now on I will refer to holocaust-denying garbage on CW, as holocaust-denying garbage, I've had with trying to be civil with the Holocaust-deniers and lunatic conspiracy theorist here, who call everyone else a liar and every other possible name). This is typical Holocaust-denial garbage that all Holocaust-deniers perpetrate, i.e they pull some document out of context, ignore tons of other information that disproves their garbage, etc, as Zagreb University professor, Hrvoje Klasic, specifically said is the M.O of the convicted fraudster and Holocaust-denier, Leljak, in this Radio Free Europe articleThhhommmasss (talk) 19:56, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"1942. Tito writes to Slavonian partisans about Jasenovac in which he says that 10,000 partisans were killed" If they know numbers in war I guess that they know numbers and in peace. It is a historical document which has not been challenged by any historian, this is a factual state. But Ljeljak that data compares with Yugoslav excavation data who do not refute this document. " Zagreb University professor, Hrvoje Klasic, specifically said is the M.O of the convicted fraudster and Holocaust-denier, Leljak" I need concrete data from University professor Hrvoje Klasic i.e. where hi concretly refutes Leljak documents. I don't care about personal life of Roman Leljak I'm interested in concrete data. Mikola22 (talk) 21:15, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is not the place to discuss this, but I'll briefly mention a few points, since it goes to the holocaust-denial lies peddled on CW. Top Nazi generals, who were present in Croatia and in direct contact with their Ustashe allies, all wrote of hundreds of thousands killed by Ustashe. Hitler's Plenipotentiary in Croatia, General von Horstenau, even described his eyewitness account of the extermination of children in "collection-" or "work-camp" Jasenovac, and the vicious slaughter of men women and children, perpetrated by "Max's butchers" (i.e the genocidal Jasenovac guards, that the Croatian Nazi singer, Thompson, who is also a pal of the current Croatian President, sang about). The lead Nazi intelligence service, Sicherheitsdienst, reported from Zagreb in 1943, that the Ustashe exterminated 100.000 people in Jasenovac alone. All these Nazis where infinitely more knowledgeable about Jasenovac and Ustashe genocides than Tito in 1942 (and in any case not only Partisans, but nearly 100% of Roma and two-thirds of all Jewish holocaust victims, plus tens-of-thousands of Serb civilians, were exterminated there). So that is again typical Holocaust-denial garbage of pulling out some isolated fact out of context, and ignoring all the other evidence that contradicts this, which in turn is extensively discussed in numerous books by western and Croatian historians. Yet when I sought to quote these sources on CW, I was instantly reverted and blocked. That is because CW Admins like Zeljko, Kubura and SpeedyGonsales, are trying to peddle the same holocaust-denial lies as the convicted fraudsters and holocaust-deniers they cite on CW.
Instead of citing convicted fraudsters and Holocaust-deniers, everyone can go to the website of the official Croatian Jasenovac Memorial, which is also a research institution, and get a pretty good summary of Concentration Camp Jasenovac (i.e. not the Ustashe euphemism of "Collection Camp", used on CW), and the mass extermination of 80.000 to 100.000 Jews, Roma, Serbs and others, including 20.000 children below age 14, and over 23.000 women. There are numerous other reliable sources, including a 900-page book on Jasenovac, recently published by Zagreb University professor, Ivo Goldstein. All these reliable sources are available to anyone interested in the truth, instead of peddling holocaust-denial, like on CW Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Therefore show concrete data where Hrvoje Klasić or someone else refute all documents and facts arises from these documents. Or is a personal life of Roman Leljak or you talk about anything and everything. We have been hearing these answers for years. That's why Roman Leljak is on CW because no one concretely disputes his documents. I quote: "The story of the corpses floating on the Sava became one of the most remembered in the array of Jasenovac horrors - it spread through words, and even after a while it lost its historical credibility. However, there are numerous documents on this says Ivo Goldstein" And then he quotes a document where and Croatian soldiers float in the river. Where are those other "numerous" documents? Roman Leljak found 0 documents from Nedić archives (Serbia) who speak about "corpses floating". You don't need documents here, logic is enough. People and livestock drink that water. Half of Europe would be infected that this was so. Communists did not find many skeletons in Jasenovac and then they started inventing various things, so we cannot take communist and Yugoslav history as a factual fact and therefore CW has to keep an eye on it because there is no more Yugoslavia and in this procedure someone wishes to return that history. We see from this example how accurate is this history. Mikola22 (talk) 07:43, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Leljak's works can be used if (and only if) they constitute reliable sources. So, once again: what makes Leljak a reliable source? Anyone? GregorB (talk) 12:32, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the original documents. I've said it before. What constitute Yugoslav history? Which sources? We do not have any documents on mass killings in Jasenovac, allegedly they are burned. And what now? We turn to witnesses in communist era? We have parents of Igor Vukić who passed through Jasenovac without a single hair falling off their heads, were they lucky? Is he a witness? Why Hrvoje Klasić not used his case? Why Serbian politicians in the exhibition about Jasenovac at the UN presented pictures of starving (Kozara) children from Serbia as children from Croatia, Sisak? That's what Leljak discover, is that reliable source? Where are portal Index.hr and Hrvoje Klasić? Why don't they talk about it? And now when we put that information in CW then it is revisionism. Mikola22 (talk) 16:30, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No. The original documents are primary sources, and can't be used without proper interpretation: that's what secondary sources do. What makes Leljak a reliable secondary source, i.e. someone whose assessment of primary sources can be trusted ? GregorB (talk) 20:50, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mikola22, go to the Jasenovac concentration camp Wiki talk page and try to insert your claims there. Let's see what happens. If you can make it on English Wikipedia, you can make it anywhere.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 18:21, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
3E1I5S8B9RF7 If anyone mentions Roman Leljak and CW here then we have to explain to people what this is all about. When you nicely directed me to that page then you will supply information from there where Hrvoje Klasić refute with documents and clames book and documents of Roman Leljak. When you deliver it here(concrete data) for all to see then I go there for discussion. Otherwise if the readers(editors) have not noticed I for several days writing here and I asked concrete data which refute book or documents of Roman Leljak but concrete data is not coming. This is what i'm talking about, like this could be for a month but that data will not be provided. Everything is said with that, and this proves and correct attitude of CW. Mikola22 (talk) 18:50, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Mikola - You're just repeating the same nonsense. Like I said, let's have the convicted fraudster, Leljak, try to sell the exact same garbage about Nazi concentration camps - i.e. that the total of 12 known, named victims of the Belsen Camp, from 1946 documents, is the true number of victims, and not the 50.000+ now estimated. Or that the few hundred, or whatever small number of named Auschwitz victims people were able to document in the post-war chaos by 1946, is the only true number of Auschwitz victims, not the one million now estimated. Then you and your CW crew go on enwiki and de wiki and try to repeat this total garbage and see where it will get you. You can even throw in your total nonsense that people need to prove to you that the 1946 documents do not show only 12 named Belsen victims, or a few hundred Auschwitz victims, and if they can't prove that, then according your lunatic "logic" this means that those highly partial 1946 documents are the "only truth" regarding victim numbers

Trying to reason with Holocaust-deniers is like trying to reason with flat-earthers. Except that the garbage Holocaust-deniers peddle is much more dangerous, and it is outrageous to see WP being abused to peddle this type of junk. So in the case of CW, WP needs to decide is it going to be an Encyclopedia, or a peddler of Holocaust-denial, falsehoods and endless conspiracy theories, intended to perpetuate Balkan hatreds and fan the next war Thhhommmasss (talk)

Unfortunately, there are still no concrete data(Hrvoje Klasić, etc..) which refute documents or books of Roman Leljak. We can't remove something from CW if is not refuted whit documents in direct confrontation. As I sad no one has refuted Roman Leljak and that is unfortunately a fact and that is the fundamental reason why is Roman Leljak on CW. Mikola22 (talk) 20:24, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Flat-earthers also proclaim that no one has refuted their claims that the earth is flat. Like I said, trying to reason with Holocaust-deniers is a total waste of time. If WP wants to keep the current CW crew (and it's obvious this goes beyond just the 3 Admins), I suggest it next create a Flat-Earth WP, and an entire Holocaust-denial WP, so they too can get their say, and revert and block everyone who contradicts them Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:45, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We must accept the fact that Croatia is an independent state and if we do not like it we cannot change that. Independent state has a right for their own history based and on facts which were not presented 45 years. And now we have it. Therefore Leljak presents hundreds of new documents which no one refutes or some document or clame. We need a complete challenge of these documents. As we see from your example you still do not present this information. Therefore everything is clear. Mikola22 (talk) 21:27, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No you do NOT have the right to peddle your own "alternative history" on WP. First, many Croatians vigorously disagree with the right-wing, nationalist distortions you're selling, hence the Croatian media articles and comments by Croatian history professors on the scandal that is CW. So the nonsense that you're selling here, that only you represent Croatians, is total bunk. More important, many truly reliable sources contradict the convicted fraudsters and Holocaust-deniers you peddle on CW - Croatian and western historians, the official Croatian state Jasenovac Memorial, the US Holocaust Museum, etc, etc. The mission of WP is to present a NPOV, using Reliable Sources, not peddle a right-wing Croatian and Holocaust-denial agenda. Clearly you're totally unable to adhere to these most basic of WP principles Thhhommmasss (talk) 21:47, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Therefore, as I said data which refute claims and documents or the book of Roman Leljak do not exist in publicly available scientific work. And what we should do now? Remove admins from Croatian wikipedia? We do not live in communism and I think people will understand that. Until this data arrives we will listen information about Roman Leljak's private life as in the good old times. Mikola22 (talk) 11:33, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, the Nazis who wrote of hundreds of thousands exterminated by the Ustashe, as well as 100.000 exterminated in Jasenovac alone, were all "communists". Same with the Catholic priest in Jasenovac during WWII, he too was a "communist", since after the war he wrote from Germany, how the Jasenovac guards confessed to him the most horrendous crimes, that even small children in town knew what was going on in the concentration camp, and estimated 40.000 victims of Jasenovac. The official state Croatian Jasenovac Memorial is "communist", because they list over 83.000 names of individual victims, among them 20.000 children under age 14, and 23.000 women, etc, etc. Not to mention numerous western historians, the US Holocaust Museum, and many others, are also all "communists", since they pretty much write the same. There should obviously be some additional rules on WP, like WP:No Admins or editors incapable of basic rational thought, WP:No conspiracy nuts, WP:No holocaust-deniers
Btw, if you want to push your POV, get a blog, Facebook or Twitter page, since unlike WP there are pretty much no rules there, and you can cite convicted fraudsters and Holocaust-deniers all you want Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:14, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss:, please, do not criticize Zeljko. That number has been told much befor Leljak's works. Here is the scientific magazine. Not some "grossly unencyclopedic, poorly sourced, and unsourced biased content" as it was stated in the start of this RfC. [114], the article Excavations on the site of the concentration camp Stara Gradiška immediately after the World War II and estimation of the number of victims. The former Yugoslav and the present Serbian historiography have been continually submitting arbitrary assessments of the number Jasenovac camp victims. According to these assessments, approximately 600.000 to 700.000 people lost their lives in Jasenovac and around 75.000 in Stara Gradiška camp. The excavations carried out by the Government of the People’s Republic of Croatia, accounts given by the survivors of the camps and the list of the World War II victims dating from 1964 and kept secret from the wider public, point to a reasonable conclusion that such estimates have been scientifically unsubstantiated and prejudiced...When examining data on camp terror victims we must not disregard the fact that victims were not only those who lost their lives directly in the war but also those who died of various diseases, exhaustion and hunger. Analysis of this subject matter draws special attention to the fact that in some cases same people could be found registered in different places, which additionally increases the number of victims and thus represents a deadly weapon for one-time political use. "Istraživanja jasenovačkog područja su vršena i 1961. i 1964. godine. Iskapanja iz 1961. godine zorno pokazuju kako su se na nekompetentan i neozbiljan način utvrđivali brojevi jasenovačkih žrtava.". See also the number of excavated persons. Kubura (talk) 20:17, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Kubura - The point is that the CW Jasenovac article starts the victim estimates section with a full paragraph of citations of the convicted-fraudster and Holocaust-denier, Leljak, which is the same as if convicted fraudsters, who deny 98% of Auschwitz victims, kicked off the Auschwitz victim estimates section on de wiki. There's a way of doing these things properly, per WP principles, and that is starting first with something like "Most reliable sources, like the US Holocaust Museum, Croatian Jasenovac Memorial, western and Croatian historians, place the number of Concentration Camp Jasenovac victims, at 80.000 to 100.000". I.e. you do not start with a Holocaust-denier, then helter-skelter throw in a bunch of other figures, including long-refuted inflated ones, and then only somewhere in 30th place, only very briefly mention truly reliable sources, like the US Holocaust Museum and Croatian Jasenovac Memorial

This resembles Putin-KGB-style disinformation campaigns, which also peddle all sorts of contradictory stuff, with the sole purpose to confuse and then be able to push their own lies. Not only Zeljko's claims, but the fact that other CW editors have jumped in here to insist the convicted fraudster Leljak is correct, indicates that the primary goal is to peddle these Holocaust-denial lies. That's further confirmed by the fact that you systematically revert and block people who try to counteract these lies, like you did when I dared cite western and Croatian historians, including reverted my citations of historians who specifically refute the Holocaust-denying lies peddled by Vukic, Leljak and others cited on CW. You yourself posted tons of garbage on my Talk page. as to why German sources, deemed by western historians as "highly knowledgeable and reliable", are as per you, "unreliable" and "anti-Croat", and therefore can't be cited on CW. And that is only part of a whole array of systematic biases and behaviors which totally violate WP principles, that you guys have perpetrated not only on CW, but during this very RfC Thhhommmasss (talk) 21:24, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hrvoje Klasić is by no means a reliable historian. Among other things, on the basis of statements that relativize communist crimes. For example, he claimed that "enemies of the state" were murdered in the course of the Bleiburg massacre, thus taking over the rhetoric of Yugoslav state propaganda. Short summary for those who are not familiar with this subject area (translation from the Croatian Encyclopedia, Croatian national encyclopedia published by the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography): At the beginning of May 1945, much of the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) began retreating along the Austrian border in order to surrender to the Western Allied Forces. Many civilians followed them along the way, fleeing mostly for fear of partisan units coming. These victims are for Klasić, mind you, completely undifferentiated (!) "enemies of the state". I can't believe that such a person is considered quotable. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 00:53, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mateo - First you're citing a website that extensively promotes holocaust-deniers like Vukic and Leljak. Second, even in the quote in that article Prof. Klasic states that the post-war executions constituted "horrific crimes by the partisans". But he also criticizes those who fail to state that most of the victims were soldiers, i.e Ustashe and Serb and Slovene soldiers who collaborated with the Nazis. He further criticizes people who focus just on these post-war killings, while totally ignoring or even denying the much greater Ustashe crimes and genocides. In this other article, Prof. Klasic explicitly states that in addition to the remnants of the Ustashe army, "innocent people who did not deserve such a fate were killed" in "wild [post-war] executions in which there were no rules or justice".
So unlike the CW-cited holocaust-deniers like Vukic and Leljak, who claim Jasenovac was merely a "work camp" - where people put on plays and played soccer, and no mass exterminations took place - Klasic fully recognizes the post-war crimes (btw, Mitja Ferenc, the Slovene researcher primarily responsible for uncovering the post-war graves in Slovenia, where most of the post-war killings took place, said that according to their research 93% of these victims were collaborationist soldiers, which fully conforms with Klasic's claim that most of the post-war victims were collaborationist soldiers - i.e. unlike the up to two-thirds of all Croatian-Jewish Holocaust victims, and 20.000 individually-named children plus over 23.000 women exterminated by the Ustashe at Jasenovac alone, all of which the CW-cited Vukic and Leljak entirely deny) Thhhommmasss (talk) 02:19, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Let me just note that this thread is not really productive anymore. The RfC is not about the truth-value of particular sources and various claims therein. In effect, this only plays into the rather obvious strategy of muddying the waters by discussing anything else but the issues at hand. GregorB (talk) 14:46, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Close Request

Could we find a couple of stewards willing to look at a close for this? I imagine it will take a while, since there's a bunch of suggestions mixed in with the formal proposals, and a number of non policy supported votes (mostly, but not entirely, on one side) Nosebagbear (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's not going to be the easiest RfC to close, and I would appreciate help from the stewards willing to do it. May I, however, ask for two to three more weeks before closure? I'm about to add a couple of additional proposals (by Sunday, hopefully) and I'd like to see the feedback, plus I'd say there is no hurry. GregorB (talk) 20:00, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What sort of additional proposals? I worry that any more proposals will get diminishing returns and be further confusing and distract from any potential positive outcome. --Rschen7754 02:03, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Rschen7754, I think we don't have consensus on the part of current proposal where we should remove all admins. Personally, I think it's bad idea, since even some of current admins voted to de-sysop the trio in 2014. Removing *all* admins in current situation, without defined ArbCom, will mean helping the far-right admins to get rid of last few admins that don't follow their agenda. You will create hazy situation where only the older crocodiles in the pond will know how to swim and it will not be the change for the better. I hope GregorB will address that issue. Let's see what he has to say. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 10:45, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment There is no need to hurry. There are enough suggestions and proposals as well. The decision must not be one-sided, but rational and reasonable, neither far-right nor far-left. Stewards surely do know what to do and, unlike some one-sided users, they think about consequences. --Silverije (talk) 00:29, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment If GregorB, or anybody else want more time before closing this, please give them time. To the best of my knowledge, they did not provide a shred of objective evidence that anything is wrong with hr.wp, but they should get every chance to provide it. So they could not (or their sock-puppets) in 2 or 6 years start this again, and again, and we can have the same RFC every 6 years or so. I don't know how much clear I was before when I tried to describe, explain main problem here, so I will try in few short sentences: History of Croatia, from 1941-1945 is unfortunately still quite a blur. Not blur in a way that it is not known there was a war, and there were casualties, that is known. But how much casualties, and who exactly is to blame, that is unknown. That can seem impossible, but it is not. Croatian historian works before and after 1990 are not in conflict, but publicist's works before 1990 and after are quite in conflict. There are also some books published after 1990 which are not published by academic press and are of low quality. In short, it's hard to have encyclopedic articles if sources are conflicting and lacking. Our users are mostly fighting about sources and content, and there is strong tendency to hide communist crimes, which is not something that can be allowed. This RFC is that, n-th try to banish good sysops because we oppose to hiding the facts. I repeat, I never said that any user is perfect, we all do mistakes. So be so kind, and let me know, and I'll try to correct any mistake if it is clearly so. Some user accounts like this wrote here such amazing bullshit, which is reverse hate speech. This user defames us that we are allegedly racist, as we allegedly segregate people by Members of undesirable groups, which is utter rubbish. Some POV pushers seems to be losing their shit. Finally, give polite users time to present their case, as till now they presented nothing at all, I saw only - house of cards. I realize, meta RFC's serves two purposes, sometimes to show local projects if there is some error to be corrected, sometimes to give POV pushers space to vent their frustrations. My talk page and my e-mail inbox are open for the first (or of any active sysop on hr.wp), this page is here for the second. Kind regards! SpeedyGonsales (talk) 06:31, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • @SpeedyGonsales: Okay. I'll bite.
    1. You accuse users of sockpuppetry above. What are the names of their sock accounts? Do you have any proof of their sockpuppetry?
    2. Quite a few of the main proponents of this RFC have been blocked after the proposals were drafted or they commented on this RFC in support of the actions. Coincidence or no?
    3. There is a perception that administrator inactivity policies are being selectively enforced to get rid of admins that the main admin clique doesn't like. Why is that?
    4. Why do you think you lost the CU right in 2014?
    5. Why do you have an administrator Lasta (talk · contribs) who thinks it is okay to make legal threats on Meta? --Rschen7754 07:03, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Rschen7754: Okay. I'll bite.
    1. I did not accuse anybody. Did I? I just stated (maybe in other words) that it is quite improbable that different users came here to accuse users of hr.wp of something that has no merit, 6 years later, with same arguments as 6 years before.
    2. I don't know answer to your question. Did I block any of main proponents of this RFC after the proposals were drafted? If yes, is the block valid? Can you be so kind and share with us what is the exact number of "Quite a few"? TIA.
    3. It is being perceived that stewards a year ago (or so) ignored valid vote on hr.wp. Why? I do not care, but that is not right. Did anybody offer some sensible explanation? No. I got just plain, obstinate ignoring. I know that wiki hierarchy is sometimes rigid, but this rigidity saddens me.
    4. There were vote for me as sysop, not for CU. As my approval at that time was not 80 %, there was some merit to remove my CU status. I never misused my tools, and I did not squeal when CU tools were revoked.
    5. From 2009 I know Lasta's judgment is sometimes quite off. I broke all contact with him around that time, but as he did no harm to project in last 8 years, I had no reason to act. You are saying he made legal threats here? Nice. You can desysop him, as I recall one steward did that to Kubura a while ago without any reason, as last action before removal of his steward status. Quite bitchy move.
  • And now, something completely different. Wiki hierarchy (meaning Wikipedia, sysops, stewards and such) have good rules, but that rules are enforced by people, and people are imperfect. I'm here long enough to know that every project has it's problems. Croatian Wikipedia problems of 2013 arise because we adhered to rules and tried to have sane, encyclopedic project. That is hard in country which is going through political changes. Most of articles which were problematic are of same content on hr.wp as in paper and online Hrvatska enciklopedija, premier encyclopedic edition in Croatian language, in 11 volumes (paper edition). If content is basically the same, why there are attacks on Wikipedia, but not on publisher of paper-edition of Hrvatska enciklopedija? - Simply because there is nothing to gain by attacking public institution, which won't change it's content as it is written by academic staff, and it can sue journalists and publishers. But if you attack users of Wikipedia, you can gain effect, as volunteers will run when threatened, when your names are published and you are defamed. I asked for protection of WMF, talked with legal counsel, zero effect. Long story short - GregorB is just polite version of POV pusher, and that's it. But to explain that to somebody who gulped hook, line and sinker would take too much of my time, which I don't have to lose. Kind regards. SpeedyGonsales (talk) 19:09, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      1. @SpeedyGonsales: Thank you for the clarification that you are not accusing anyone of sockpuppetry.
      2. See section #Indefinite blocks of whistleblowers above.
      3. Compare to [115]. Why was Denny included in that request and Saxum (and your bot) were not? It is interesting that Denny has been critical of what is happening at hrwiki - and yet he has not had his rights removed due to AAR since he does not meet the 2 year criteria - and yet you decided to include him in that rights removal request. I see this pattern across wikis - inactivity rules that are inconsistently applied to get rid of admins that those in power don't like.
      4. Okay, and then the logical question is - why did you get less than 80% in that election? --Rschen7754 19:33, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • @SpeedyGonsales: I have received an email from you but I will not reply to it by email because I believe that everyone should see your answers. This is a fundamental Wikimedia value: transparency. I will say that we all have outside commitments, including myself, but administrators should respond promptly to legitimate concerns about their actions (and these concerns are legitimate) - because they are accountable to the community. If they don't have the time to do that then they don't have the time to be an administrator (besides it looking very suspicious and a case of "the dog ate my homework"). --Rschen7754 08:14, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment @SpeedyGonsales:, don't try to change the subject, this is *not* about either communist or nazi (ustasha) crimes. This is about You and the other 2 guys preventing the users to fix the articles and chasing them away. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:48, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment @Speedy, your last excuse above, i.e. that it is hard to find good sources, is such complete nonsense. For example, that table in the Jasenovac article is from you, in which you claim total falsehoods like the fact that the term "Concentration Camp" is supposedly used in Croatian only for Nazi camps, when the official Croatian Jasenovac Memorial site specifically uses "Concertation Camp", instead of "Collection Camp", as on CW, a term consistently used by Holocaust-deniers. Also the .hr domain directly contradicts you, since 80% of the time the term "Concentration Camp Jasenovac" appears, plus the Croatian Language Portal specifically states that Concentration Camp is used for all mass-murder camps, not just Nazi ones. Thus there are multiple good, reliable sources, and you're either showing total ignorance of what is in these well-known, authoritative sources, or you're simply making up stuff to serve your purpose. As I said, this is just one example, I can go on about the consistent bias and abuse that you alone have perpetrated Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:02, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here, Speedy is counting on nobody actually having read the Signpost article, as well as everybody believing he would certainly refute all these phony accusations in a minute, only if he didn't have other pressing matters to attend to, alas. But hey, that's the best he has at the moment. The thing is, it's not nearly enough. GregorB (talk) 20:48, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment May I suggest one simple way forward for closing out this RfC:

  1. There has been greatest support for getting rid of the 3 most abusive Admins, some with over a decade of continuous abuse. To the 3 I believe we should add Lasta, for threating to sue people to shut them up, since that is simply not the WP way. Thus I propose that as part of closing out this RfC we agree to remove and desysop these 4 Admins
  2. For the next steps I suggest we open a new RfC. I agree with Gregor and others that an ArbCom is absolutely necessary, given the continuing abuse we've seen just during this RfC, including attempts to delete this page, vandalization, etc (if not, we need to discuss how exactly this could work without an ArbCom) I believe we need to discuss how the ArbCom will reflect a variety of legitimate views, i.e. people capable of adhering to WP principles, and not conspiracy theorists, also not people who cite convicted fraudsters, or who claim they need no proof and are incapable of putting together a rational argument, etc. I think the 4 abusive Admins should be excluded from further discussion, as well as all non-autoconfirmed users who've jumped into this discussion with zero history of participating on WP, and are thus either sock-puppets, or part of someone's campaign Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:27, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
These are suggestions of a user without user page here, without user page on enwiki, without single new article created and with empty user talk page (except the welcoming message). And he claims that "There has been greatest support for getting rid of the 3 most abusive Admins etc.". No, there has not been greatest support for that. Whatever a "greatest support" might mean. --Silverije (talk) 00:52, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Silverije - everyone can see my contributions on en and Slovenian wiki, with hundreds of edits, where I've had zero problems, unlike getting blocked practically the first time I tried to edit CW. And that was for daring to cite sources widely cited by Western historians, who consider these sources among the "best-informed and most reliable. So I am not like the non-autoconfirmed users with zero contributions, who jumped in here just to say that you guys are wonderful and they 1000% agree with you Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:27, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
To everyone: there are "hundreds of edits" by Thhhommmasss [116], in total = 4 (four). --Silverije (talk) 00:31, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Silverije, don't know where you pulled those 4 edits out of, but here is my real Slovenian wiki contributions list, of a couple of hundred edits, including a big chunk of the "WW2 in Slovenia" article. I've also done hundreds more edits on enwiki, mainly on WW2 themes. That's certainly a whole lot more than your non-autoconfirmed buddies, who just happened to pass by this RfC, and thought they'd jump in and sing your guys' praises Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:29, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment@Nosebagbear: Could u please tell me what the conclusion of this RfC is, in regard to the next steps taken? Ok, we had the debate, what's next? Is the Meta going to do something, or will this, once again, will be one of those -all talk, no action- RfCs? Please specify what the next concrete step is going to happen. --Ivan VA (talk) 16:09, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ivan VA: - in equivalent cases stewards have closed it. They're pretty conservative by nature, so I suspect they'll only act on motions with a seriously large majority, beyond usual consensus standards, but I can't predict where that will be. If they do agree something then they'll also be the ones who enact it. Nosebagbear (talk) 17:39, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging the participants

I'd like to ask the participants of this RfC to review all of the proposed actions once again and amend their stated positions if necessary. (You can find the full list of proposed actions 1 through 13 here.) In particular, if your stated position is just "support", without additional qualification, then please indicate which actions from the above list have your support.

As far as I'm concerned, and absent any major developments, this RfC may be closed in a week or so. GregorB (talk) 18:23, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging the participants

@-andreas: ,@-revi: ,@~riley: ,@1233: ,@Acamicamacaraca: ,@Ah3kal: ,@Ajraddatz: ,@Antandrus: ,@Ante Perkovic: ,@Antidiskriminator: ,@Anton008: ,@Apokrif: ,@Argo Navis: ,@Atlasowa: ,@Augustus Niva: ,@B. Ivsi: ,@Banfield: ,@Billinghurst: ,@BokicaK: ,@CourtlyHades296: ,@Croq: ,@CT Cooper: ,@Dalibor Bosits: ,@Daß Wölf: ,@Dean72: ,@Dijxtra: ,@DobarSkroz: ,@DraconicDark: ,@Duma: ,@Dvanaesti Igrač: ,@Edgar Allan Poe: ,@Edinwiki: ,@El Diablo: ,@Faendalimas: ,@Fejstkajkafski: ,@Flopy: ,@Francis Christian: ,@George Ho: ,@Giftzwerg 88: ,@GrandCelinien: ,@GreenMeansGo: ,@GregorB: ,@GZWDer: ,@Hmxhmx: ,@Hrwikiuser: ,@Iilija64: ,@Imbehind: ,@Indy beetle: ,@Ivan Štambuk: ,@Ivan VA: ,@Ivi104: ,@Janezdrilc: ,@Jesuislafete: ,@Johnbod: ,@Jon Kolbert: ,@Joy: ,@Kaldari: ,@Kolega2357: ,@Koryaksky: ,@Kraljnnm: ,@Kubura: ,@Lasta: ,@Llywrch: ,@Lordluka99: ,@Lotje: ,@MarcoAurelio: ,@Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf: ,@Mario Žamić: ,@MarioFinale: ,@Mateo K 01: ,@Matthiasb: ,@MayaSimFan: ,@Mhare: ,@Micika Bičaš: ,@Miranche: ,@Nesmir Kudilovic: ,@NickK: ,@Nosebagbear: ,@Notrium: ,@Obsuser: ,@OC Ripper: ,@Pavlemocilac~metawiki: ,@Peacemaker67: ,@PlavorSeol: ,@Praxidicae: ,@Rosguill: ,@Rovoobob: ,@Rschen7754: ,@Ruhubelent: ,@Saederup92: ,@Sammyday: ,@Santasa99: ,@Saxum: ,@Seiya: ,@Sj: ,@Snaevar: ,@Sokac121: ,@Sparrow (麻雀): ,@SpeedyGonsales: ,@SpinningSpark: ,@Srdjan m: ,@Tgeorgescu: ,@Thhhommmasss: ,@Torana: ,@Vermont: ,@Vituzzu: ,@Wariormark: ,@Wariormarktwain: ,@Wikiwind: ,@Wisenhammer: ,@Zeljko: ,@ZI Jony: ,@Zoranzoki21: ,@Павлица:

Comment Comment My take is that anyone, on any wiki, who dares to negate the Holocaust should get a lifetime Foundation Ban. This is not supposed to be voted for or against at meta, but evidence has to be communicated directly to WMF, which has the discretionary power to ban anyone, without even mentioning a reason for the ban. Tgeorgescu (talk) 10:28, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please specify who dares to negate the Holocaust and add a link for that? --Silverije (talk) 21:43, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Silverije see all the prior discussion above as to how Zeljko and others insist that the convicted fraudster and holocaust-denier, Roman Leljak, is the only one with the "truth" about Jasenovac, even as he denies 98% of Jasenovac victims, including up to 2/3 of all Croatian/Bosnian Jewish Holocaust victims, who per the US Holocaust Museum, were exterminated there. Plus CW-Admins systematically revert and block people when they try to cite reliable sources, to contradict CW-cited holocaust-deniers like Leljak and Vukic (Vukic compared Jasenovac, where the majority of Croatian/Bosnian Jews were exterminated, to a "rest home") If de or enwiki cited convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of Auschwitz victims, and call it a "rest home", would that constitute Holocaust-denial? Thhhommmasss (talk) 22:57, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
98% of which number of Jasenovac victims? There are various numbers of Jasenovac victims, allegedly up to more than a million (see [117]). -- Silverije (talk) 00:24, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As I wrote multiple times, most reliable sources (US Holocaust Museum, the Croatian Jasenovac Memorial, most western and many Croatian historians, et.) all place the Jasenovac victim numbers at 80.000 to 100.000, as opposed to the 1.600 claimed by the CW-cited convicted fraudster and Holocaust-denier, Roman Leljak. I will not keep repeating this, and this RfC is in large part the result of the fact that the discussed CW-Admins have no idea what a Reliable Source is, and instead purposefully peddle Holocaust-denial lies, along with many other distortions Thhhommmasss (talk) 00:44, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Silverije: I'm not jury, judge and executioner and I do not mean any specific user: it is a general principle which WMF should abide by. It is not specifically restricted to Croatian wiki, but should apply to all servers of the WMF. I mean it, WMF should step in and use its discretionary power. Holocaust denialists and grooming pedophiles are just as unwanted on WMF servers. We do not want that such people edit on WMF servers and WMF should take action. Tgeorgescu (talk) 07:08, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose we are talking about the same article on Croatian Wikipedia - Jasenovac concentration camp (if not, please specify where those Holocaust denialists and grooming pedophiles are). It's a large article full of numbers of victims, either from more reliable or less reliable sources. If the numbers of Roman Leljak and some other similar numbers are wrong (because being too small) and should be removed from the article, what about the numbers of the sources (mostly from the present Serbian or former Yugoslav communist propaganda) whose numbers are too big and, what is most important, without evidence (500 000, 600 000, 700 000, 800 000 or so). Should they also be removed from the article? And would Croatian admins also be responsible for not having them removed? And accused of Holocaust denial? Or would it be perhaps better to keep them all and let the reader of the article see them all and judge them himself? --Silverije (talk) 23:28, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Silverije, you miss the whole point of WP, which is to cite Reliable Sources, not present a Putin-KGB-style disinformation mishmash, to allow people to believe any lies they wish, which is obviously the purpose here, given how strenuously Zeljko and others have argued that CW-cited Holocaust-deniers are the only ones with "the truth". If other WPs similarly started their Auschwitz or Srebrenica Victim Number sections with full paragraphs by convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of the victims, that alone in my view would be enough to get rid of the Admins, particularly if as on CW, the Admins systematically reverted and blocked people who try to contradict these lies. The focus must always be on Reliable Sources, and perhaps in a separate section on Other Estimates, or Holocaust-denial, discuss liars like Leljak and Vukic, along with critiques of same (btw their 50-times reductions in Jasenovac victims are much more massive lies than those who inflate victims by 7 or 8 times, to 700.000 - and these too should be placed with unreliable sources). Beyond this there are many other problems and abusive behaviors on CW, which the Admins and others have fully demonstrated here as well Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:29, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

So, liars who reduce victims 50 times must be removed but liars who inflate them only 7-8 times can remain as unreliable sources. And that would not be "a Putin-KGB-style disinformation mishmash", as said above. How nice! --Silverije (talk) 16:15, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I did not say that. I said that if they are discussed, both should be in lower, separate sections, or something similar, as unreliable sources, with critiques of each. But removing both would also be fine. In any case that could be discussed on the Talk page, when the Admins are removed and CW becomes a normal wiki, not here Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Silverije: It's a general principle which I want adopted as binding for all WMF servers. I won't comment on real people, who wrote in a language which I don't understand. I don't know the Croatian language, I don't know the Croatian history, so I won't be the person who decides who is a Holocaust denialist. All I am saying is that this is a reasonable principle which should become binding to all editors at WMF projects. Tgeorgescu (talk) 00:48, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

An analysis

An analysis to follow. Kubura (talk) 23:18, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not over. Section in work. Please not edit until it's not over.

Approximately for the last ten years, Croatian Wikipedia (CW) has had a number of major problems:

  • Sure, imposing “a far-yugoslavist bias” by daring cite western and Croatian historians, the US Holocaust Museum, Croatian and international linguists, the Croatian Supreme Court, etc., instead of the convicted fraudsters and holocaust-deniers your Admins claim are “the only truth”, plus websites you cite that celebrate as “heroes” convicted Croatian war criminals. Following your lead of proclaiming your “anti-yugoslavist” and “anti-serbocroatist” ideological agenda, other wikis should be free to proclaim an “anti-GreaterCroatist” agenda, and in pursuit of this POV, same as you, mass revert and block people who dare cite reliable sources who contradict their POV. Furthermore, they should cite convicted fraudsters who deny crimes against Croats, and/or reduce Croat victim estimates by 98%, compared to reliable sources. Simultaneously, they should freely proclaim, in bold letters, that Croats committed genocides – e.g. in Bosnia in 1990’s or after Operation Storm - even when reliable sources state these crimes were not genocides, same as your Ovcara article invents a Serb genocide where there was none. I.e. do everything, same as you, to perpetuate Balkan hatreds and help fuel the next war. And should anyone object and publish an RfC to address such Admin abuse, then the Admins should again follow CW Admins, to block people who dare post links to the RfC, while endlessly ranting and railing against all who dare oppose them, as “GreaterCroatists”, instead of responding to the questions raised. In other words do everything, same as CW, to systematically violate core WP principles Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:26, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Today (Jan 13) the subpresident of Croatian Parliament Željko Reiner said that the rise of left extremism is something that society must be worried about (""zabrinjava činjenica da se javlja lijevi ekstremizam, a da on ne dobiva dovoljno pozornosti, niti u medijima, niti u javnosti"");[118] he said that regarding the words of left politician and parliament deputy who said that UDBA (notorious Yugoslav Communist secret police) "obviously has not killed enough Croatian emigrants" (BTW: over 100 political assasinations [119]) and indirectly tagged Croatian protagonists of Independence War as "fascists co-guilty for war". Here is the Tweet [120] "Over 100?? Obviously not enough. We sow who did the shit and who made all of the wars from 91. to 99. Fascist in ex-YU and in other countries who unfortunately escaped UDB-a.". the reaction of State Attorney is being expected [121]. Similar thing said another left politician and parliament deputy that "It seems that in May 1945 has not been done properly. What a negligence from winners! ". The original post is even more provocative towars Croatian defenders. [122]
    Far-left extremism is not "far-right imagination". [123] Don't ignore far-left extremists, German police said a week ago.
  • Attempts of imposing grossly unencyclopedic, poorly sourced, and unsourced Yugo-leftard biased content.
  • Abuse of RfC procedures, manifested most importantly by attacking the admins and most prolific who scientifically explaining eliminate Yugocommunist bias, stereotypes and lies, or even attacking the hr.wiki users that express disagreement with Yugocommunist bias, while at the same time protecting and encouraging cyberbulling, media lynch and like-minded editors to do so on hr.wiki and Meta
  • There was no "Mass departure of editors". Violent, rude in other ways destructive editors were blocked - but not all of them, some improved their behaviour. Those who "left" were actually the task force of users gathered outside wikipedia (if any had accounts or edits on wiki, this were inactive for years, with small amount of edits) for the violent hostile takeover of hr.wiki.
  • "at the same time, a significant influx of new editors with extreme views." This is fallacy argumentum ad hominem. Extremists? No way. Unfortunately, there were regular active users that opposed to the attack on hr.wiki, that have never appeared on hr.wiki again. Also, as You see, they admitted that new people arrive.
  • Hr.wiki dysfunctional? The only ones who tried to paralyze the system is the task force who tried to eliminate the most prolific users and admins, that are also the biggest maintainers. Otherwise, system has always been working perfectly. Also, dysfunctionality is the property of the project where those discontents (came from) were usually editing or moved to work: sh.project. After a short period of time there were arguing, mutual accusing and fighting, demonstrative leaving of sh.project. Usual accusation on sh.project was "You behave like hr.wiki, this became like hr.wiki". Hr.wiki felt instability for over a decade until that attack, while those discontents in less than few years got into a mutual verbal brawl.
  • The criticizers with the tools were not maintaing the project, but the whole burden of maintaing fell on the back of the active admins and patrollers.

More to come. Kubura (talk) 22:55, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There was no "Mass departure of editors" ... Those who "left" were actually the task force of users gathered outside wikipedia...

— Kubura
This is a lie. Just to name a few:
--Hrwikiuser (talk) 11:45, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Wrong. (show some patience, man)
You have just made a list of user now inactive. Many of these were inactive for long time and appearing periodically, and with the course of time, their editnumbers were smaller and smaller.
Dalibor was active just enough to keep his admintools, and when needed to sanction someone he dislikes. Poor patrolling. ::MayaSimFan has been inactive, her edittopics rarely crossed ways with someone else's, we rarely talked to each other.
Those users who "left" to sh.project had that in mind long time ago, they've been preparing that for a long time. And still you'll find examples when some of them made article in sh.wiki than copied it to hr.wiki with summary "from sh.wiki" (I think Dean72). Their goal was to promote sh.project (but not for all of them).
Flopy has been inactive and avoiding tasks; he always tries to stick with the side he thinks that is stronger. Major Croatian LGBTIQ activist told him once on some talkpage "faggot". Draw conclusions for yourselves.
Maria Sieglinda is the advocate and supporter of serbocroatist ideology, propagates someones (hers?) work on "sh language festivals" etc; and any Croatism irritates her. Maria Sieglinda (strongly) and Dean72 (mildly) are pro-sh. Sieglinda is so fixated on bloating the sh.project that she manually copy-pasted bunch of articles from hr.wiki... see for yourself how many without attribution.
Saxum has not been very long time admin. He has been for some time, then gave up the tools, then he was reelected during the peak of the media lynch in 2013. Saxum showed strange sharp change of behaviour, propensity and inclination of attitudes. As if there were 2 persons.
Mario Žamić has been chosen for admin on that wave too, when many users were intimidated via bullying over media and social networks. He is not a person for admin, no social skills, not so much active. Not a bad person. His activity has been solely to do the dirty tasks (not his idea!), just to show that he's active and then he slowly disappeared.
Argo Navis is a person with many human qualities, far ahead in qualities of all before mentioned. In many attitudes regarding these persons we agree. Fully. We both share Mediterranean temper. I'm so sad that he did stupid things in past that ruined his reputation in the community. He sided with wrong people (especially during that lynch - man, why did you need that?), and it's impossible to delete that from mind. He has nice social skills, but his social skills also have downside, which, when activated, messes all his excellent work. He has not disappeared from hr.wiki. I am very convinced that he periodically appears (or he's whole the time there) on hr.wiki under some other account(s). We pleasantly chitchat, he pretends that he's someone else and I pretend that I don't know that it's him. Personally, I find that he sided with wrong people more because of his hurt pride (and because of "the despite") and stubborn mentality. Otherwise, I am very sure that he would be on this list together with Speedy, Zeljko and me, because he also dislikes anti-Croat stereotypes, and sanctions the parachutist/sockpuppet destructive activity in similar way as me. As far as I remember, the destructive persons accused him also on Meta (or meta IRC channel, there was a discussion there, it was long time ago). Kubura (talk) 00:40, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to be shorter, but Hrwikiuser posted the claim. Most of those who "left hr.wiki" were not regular users. These were inactive users, whose activity sharply rose before the votings, so they can be eligible for voting. Second group were the sockpuppets with no mainspace content contribution, just bunch or (re)categorizations or other crumb edits like typo fixing or putting into brackets, to gather sufficient number of edits. Third group is a small group of less then ten users, that really talked about the matter. Fourth group were other discontents that have never said or asked "hey, this is not ok, can you fix it", and nobody can read mind. Part of 3rd and 4th group is described in the message above. Fifth group are those who were and are temporarily active two years here, two years out, so they have not left. Kubura (talk) 00:45, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I do not see what this psychological profiling has to do with the main topic. Except to remind the folks that Kubura knows them personally. Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 23:36, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

He named the "users that left". Therefore he got the explanation when, why and how they left. Someone insinuates the "pressures", so these descriptions were for the explanation. Kubura (talk) 19:01, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Selfciting as an "argument", circular reference, like the case with the Signpost. User quotes the article in the Singpost - that he wrote. "It's so because I say so". Ipse dixit. Is that scientific approach?
  • The argument GregorB wrote are list of cherry-picked, isolated issues, honest mistakes, or mix-ups.
  • The problem is to be left to the consensus of the local community. GregorB can't find support for his ideas. He evades discussion on the talkpages, especially when confronted with questions and answers and counterarguments. This looks like childish approach: when he is not able to impose his POV among other children, than he calls the outside help from daddy. Kubura (talk) 22:14, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Regarding 5 pillars, its the malcontents the ones that are violating that.
    1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Not an experiment in anarchy or democracy, not a vanity press (and we see the use media as a method of attack on opponent and pressure on (non)participants in discussion). Participants discuss on scientific basis, they do not disqualify non-samethinkers with attibutes like "neonazi".
    2. Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view. Not from the POV of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, nor its "official truths" and black myths e.g. number of Jasenovac camp victims, "genocidal nature" of Croatia, Croats, any idea of Croatian independence.... Busting the black myths is a scientific task, not denial of crime.
    3. Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. No editor owns the article, including the malcontents. Unfortunately, the malcontents want to behave like in former Yugoslavia, to have exclusive rights ("members only") on politically sensitive topics, to impose their "truths" .
    4. Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility. That means do not denigrate anyone. Including disqualifying it with attibutes "neonazi, fascist " etc. That means use users' and articles' talkpages, seek consensus. Do not try to impose Your POV by going around local wiki and eliminating the opponents by disqualifying them politically and blocking him eternally. Things that are to be discussed on the talkpages are to be solved there on languagewiki, not on Meta and RfC. Never disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point: the form of disruption is if You require from editors and maintainers to waste their time and energy on endless RfC's and to endlessly defend themselves from the attacks and heavy accusations on RfC's.
    5. Wikipedia has no firm rules. Be bold. Allowing someone to be bold means let someone do something, and not immediately accuse/denigrate/dehumanize/disqualify.
  • Please read this when You think about those rude false accusations. Kubura (talk) 22:40, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment about "Hrwikiuser"

"Hrwikiuser", your account doesn't make sense to me. You once wrote that you are using this account for fear of an alleged imminent block due to participation in the RFC. This is completely absurd, because you could substantiate your claim by writing with your real account (if you are actually an author of the Croatian Wikipedia) and then being (allegedly) blocked for it. --Mateo K 01 (talk) 21:48, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's not that absurd, because thus far four editors (including myself) have been blocked after expressing support for this RfC. For completely unrelated reasons, of course. I suppose Hrwikiuser's wish is not to substantiate his claim, but rather not get blocked. GregorB (talk) 23:01, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Incorrect. People have not been blocked because of supporting this RfC. Examples: Acamicamacaraca, Obsuser (but blocked on his homewiki bs. and sr.), Edinwiki, Thhhommmasss, Mhare, Nesmir Kudilovic, Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf, Anton008, Hrwikiuser, Micika Bičaš, 3E1I5S8B9RF7. Kubura (talk) 19:23, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What is "incorrect"? GregorB (talk) 19:35, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I was blocked by Zeljko and Kubura.[124]
Zeljko blocked me because I foretold that Meta will have to handle things on CroWiki because we can’t do it ourselves.[125]
After that, I moved to Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and Wiktionary. Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 21:16, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Do You ever read explaining messages in the summaries and on the talkpages? You are just like other complainers: You never mentions explanations You got. Kubura (talk) 18:43, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

┌─────────────────────────────────┘
 @Kubura: You couldn't block me simply because I never made any edits on Croatian Wikipedia, anyway. Hrwikiuser cannot be blocked because he edits under a different username on Croatian Wikipedia, as he already said. When you try to whitewash your errors, try to be more convincing, because these lies are quickly and easily demolished when checked or reviewed by others. DraconicDark's case alone, however, is already sufficent to declare you guilty. Let alone others.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 09:45, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@3E1I5S8B9RF7:, when I talk to the user with nothing on userpage, or redirect to a talkpage, or with the name like that looks like graffiti (člaskgaćgagh, 222222aaaau3gggg...), I have a feeling that I talk to the sockpuppet or the account created for the dirty task. Even if such account is regular, but the namechoice tells a lot. Therefore, such profile of user is not the measure to judge the others. The user with the name JĆIOAGA30A9 is telling me about the mess and order and errors. First You (white)wash Your username, then tell others about the whitewashing.
Also, how do You know that those users edit under the different username? Because they said so? Kubura (talk) 23:05, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf: I haven't been blocked because of participating in an RfC (since I haven't participated much in any RfCs about hr.wiki), but I have been blocked by SpeedyGonsales for alleged "personal attacks". This block was issued for one of my comments in the hr.wiki Village Pump in the same discussion (also part of the discussion, in my opinion needlessly separated into another section by SG) in which I pointed out GregorB's Signpost article about hr.wiki. I honestly do not see any personal attacks in that comment. It seems to me more like retaliation for posting about the Signpost article. Maybe some other users who understand Croatian can give their opinions on this whole ordeal (e.g. User:GregorB, User:Nesmir Kudilovic). Further discussion about the block has also taken place on my talk page. --Hmxhmx 12:48, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. There was no personal attack, it's just a thinly veiled retaliation, same as in DraconicDark's case (or my case, for that matter). GregorB (talk) 15:42, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not a retaliation. Many were gaming the system with "I behaved nicely on hr.wiki so You can't block me", while on other locations they showed aggressive rude behaviour. One cannot insult someone everywhere, then appear on the doors of his home, playing rosebud and say in angel voice "I want to get in, You are so evil and rude because You do not let me in". Kubura (talk) 00:50, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura: I do not see where I was "showing aggressive rude behaviour" prior to or after that block.--Hmxhmx 22:34, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Hmxhmx:, I am talking about situations when certain user(s) were "playing rosebud" on one wiki and being rude and aggressive on the other wiki. So it's not about You. Kubura (talk) 18:57, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Online bullying/cyberbullying

The hategroup that was the background and gathering place for the attackers on hr.wiki during the previous attack on hr.wiki (Autumn 2013), when there was a media lynch and cyberviolence on the social networks, now has crossed the line again. Is the cyberbullying [126] federal offense in the United States? AFAIK, co-perpetrators in the crime are also the persons that liked that picture and/or gave positive comment. How many of them are the users of Wikimedian projects?
Last time I saw the message "ja bi sad moga nać lika i izcipelarit ga posrid rive... i šta bi onda? samo bi me noga bolila" , after few years modified to mislim da bi ga moga potražit kad buden iša do Splita... mali grad... svi se znaju....
I see the rants of discontents who say that they got threats, but the only true evidences anyone can find on the net are those that show that the admins and patriotic users of hr.wiki are the target of the blatant threats and cyberbullying.
To put such profile picture (with such violent comics picture and text + illegal use of trademarked character) on the biggest social network in the world?!! Kubura (talk) 22:30, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You missed the whole point: hr.wiki should never be patriotic. No wiki belonging to the WMF is supposed to be patriotic in respect to any country in the world. Wikis work with Neutral Point of View, not with Patriotic Point of View. Sorry, this is the private property of the WMF, these are the rules of the game and you will be WMF-banned if you continually disobey them. It's not the property of the Croatian nation and Croatian laws do not apply to hr.wiki, nor to any WMF wiki. Wikipedia has never been meant to spread patriotic propaganda. If you want to promote patriotism, you are entitled to do so in the off-wiki world. Inside Wikipedia patriotic propaganda is unwelcome. All Wikipedians are voluntary servants of the purposes of the WMF and only have the rights stipulated at en:WP:FREE. If they continually fail to serve the norms and values demanded by the WMF, they get banned from all WMF websites. So, if you insist that hr.wiki should be patriotic, there is no other solution than a Foundation Ban. Yup, if you uphold the patriotism of hr.wiki you will get a lifetime ban. These are very clear words and a very clear solution, and you may not even say that you did not knew it. You had plenty of opportunities to anticipate it. Editing Wikipedia is a privilege, not a right. WMF may deny such privileges to any person they wish. If you put patriotism above encyclopedic neutrality, you are not one of us and you have never been one of us, and in such case you should be banned. All this drum-beating about neoyugoslavist agenda is nauseating. At least you should have had the decency not to do it openly, not right here. Tgeorgescu (talk) 09:23, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Tgeorgescu: Okrići da ne zagori. Do not draw the discourse from the topic. Stick to the topic. In this section the topic is online bullying and cyberviolence towards the users of hr.wiki. Kubura (talk) 23:57, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And when you present references, they just protect the article. Such un-Wikipedian and unacademic behavior is outrageous. It prohibits any normal user to enter any information, even supported by mainstream Croatian historians, that does not correspond with "patriotic" views of several particular editors/administrators there. Its privatization of WMF servers, which they use to propagate a unique view on some of the matters, that has no foundation whatsoever in accepted historiography. --Mhare (talk) 13:56, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Mhare:, topic is cyberbullying in this section, not the some subject that must be discussed on the talkpages, not on the Meta. Kubura (talk) 23:57, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
WMF projects are not for patriotism. Vermont (talk) 17:44, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Vermont:, topic in this section is cyberbullying, not the "patriotism". Follow the discourseflow. If You want to talk about the particular point about something in that article, discuss it on the article talkpage.Kubura (talk) 23:57, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If I start a discussion on topic X and focus part of my comment on topic Y, I have no right to criticize someone for responding to topic Y. You glorified the "admins and patriotic users of hr.wiki", and to that I responded that WMF projects are not for patriotism. My objection has nothing to do with content in an article; rather, it revolves around your lack of recognition that neutrality and your nationalistic/patriotic opinion do not cooncide, and that blocking users you deem as non-patriotic while supporting those who post content favorable to your view is disruptive. Vermont (talk) 02:41, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura: People who don't edit ethnically neutrally, religiously neutrally, who aren't internationalists in behavior if not in mind, and discriminate against other ethnic groups don't belong upon WMF servers. The purpose of hr.wiki isn't to save the national essence of Croatia, the same as the purpose of ro.wiki isn't to save the national essence of Romania. We are servants (scribes) of worldwide en:WP:MAINSTREAM en:WP:SCHOLARSHIP—if you can't kowtow to it, you don't belong here. We aren't servants of nationalist propaganda, and if you are you will be banned. Hr.wiki was never meant as a defense wall against the dangers of serbocroatism and neoyugoslavism. I don't know if you realize: we're encyclopedists, we serve objective knowledge, we are not running an agit-prop circus. If between objective truth and your country you always choose your country, you are the enemy of the WMF. Tgeorgescu (talk) 08:15, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Vermont:, @Tgeorgescu:, You are missing the point. The Patriotism does not mean "not neutral". On the contrary, it can contribute to the truth. E.g., there is a selective presentation about the Homeland War in Croatia from the side of media in Croatia (mostly held by so-called "pro-regiOn" "left"); there was a crime against a smaller group of Serbs (we do not deny that!) in the Croatian city of Osijek; perpetrators are Croats and they are sanctioned. That case has been spectacularized and overrepresented in media as if Croats have not been doing anything else in the Osijek but killing the Serbs. The massacres in which much bigger number of Croats have been killed (in the same war) do not have that media coverage at all, these cases are underrepresented. Further, You will not be able to find the information that the city of Osijek is by the number of (in)direct civil and military casualties (killed) of greaterserbianist aggression almost the second, behind Sarajevo (victims of Srebrenica were killed outside of city). Many of these are (half)Serbs loyal to Croatia. Measured by the destruction of the city, Osijek (and Croatian cities like Zadar, Županja, Karlovac... even Dubrovnik) was more destructed than Sarajevo. True patriot will say that fact. And saying that is not a lie. Vermont, Tgeorgescu, do You understand me now?
Regarding "discriminating other ethnic groups", GregorB had a not smart action. His action was denying the ethnic origins of a particular (female) parliament representative [127][128](edit warring for that cause!); I had to correct that, it was not difficult to find additional proof [129]. There was a discussion on the talkpage about that [130]. Further "internationalist" does not mean "neutral" at all. Who is acting as narrowminded nationalist now [131][132] and who finds normal arguments as "missed" [133]? That action and his words are descriptive for his behaviour. Always denying, disagreeing, he would always delete, he would always remove someone or something. Kubura (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
*Sigh*... After being an admin for more than a decade, you're still unable to grasp what WP:BLPREMOVE entails. It seems that having it quoted and profusely explained to you multiple times did not help at all. GregorB (talk) 21:34, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Tgeorgescu:, being the servant to MAINSTREAM leads contradicts to SCHOLARSHIP. BTW, en:WP:MAINSTREAM is just an essay from one particular wiki, not a guideline. If the science was the slave of current mainstream, that would mean eternal slavehood to stereotypes, no Ph.D.'s with new discoveries, no new approaches, no busted myths. Here in Croatia we have problems with black myths whose (full) demolition was impossible during Yugocommunist era, and these black myths were "mainstream"; any challenging was risk of eternal loss of scientific reputation. The scientific battle for busting those myths last for over 60 years. Kubura (talk) 19:14, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@kubura – I guess as a direct result of your “patriotic neutrality”, you reverted my quotes of sources widely cited by western and Croat historians, for being “anti-Croat”, and blocked me, while you cite Holocaust-deniers. Same for Mhare for citing Croatian historians on Tvrtko II. Also due to this “patriotic neutrality”, the CW articles on the convicted Croatian war criminals Praljak, Norac and Mercep, do not have a single sentence on the specific crimes they were convicted for, and in fact when someone dared quote the Croatian Supreme Court on Norac’s crimes, this was instantly reverted by Speedy Gonsales. This in contrast to the full paragraph on the specifics of what the Serb commander Tepic did, a 2nd paragraph on what-could-have-been, and 3rd paragraph opinionating on what kind of nation Serbs are. I guess following similar “patriotic neutrality”, on sr.wiki they can revert and block people for citing “anti-Serb” sources, while widely citing deniers of Serb crimes, need not include a single sentence on the specific crimes of Serb war criminals, while opinionating on the nature of Croatia, where, as reported by Croatian media, convicted war criminals are commemorated and celebrated. With such “patriotic neutrality” on both sides, WP can do its best to help inflame the next Balkan wars Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:26, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss:, You were not permablocked. You've been blocked before five years and never again. You made some edits that are insult on ethnic basis [134] (denying the independence of Croatian language). You got several thorough explanations on Your talkpage, instructions/directions/guidances "what to do", "what no to do", goodintentional advices. You were blocked back then because of trolling, twisting of the words and ignoring of guidances, and provoking of local community. In the final message, You got the open invitation for future cooperation. "Otvoreni smo za buduću suradnju s Vama, rado ćemo prenijeti Vaša uređivanja, svi korisni izvori nađete dobro su nam došli, ali morate se držati reda. Kad se piše o osjetljivim temama morate biti krajnje oprezni, a ne prosljeđivati opasne mitomanije niti kompromitirane autore; beskritično prenošenje brojaka (pa makar iz pouzdana izvora) bez popratna komentara isto je kao vađenje stvari iz konteksta, kao da ste dali punovažnost nepouzdanom izvoru. ". Kubura (talk) 19:14, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura You claim you blocked me for a month because I supposedly made "insults on an ethnic basis", which in this case was daring cite Western historians and state what many international linguist state – that Bosnian-Croatian-Serb is one language. Of course these international linguists are obviously also constantly “insulting on an ethnic basis", and same when they dare state Germans, Austrians and some Swiss all speak German. To you citing linguists, historians and other reliable sources are "insults on an ethnic basis", while "the truth" are supposedly the lies you peddle by citing convicted fraudsters and holocaust-deniers. This for the umpteenth time proves that you are a total, extremist POV-pushers, who contrary to the most basic WP principles, repeatedly revert and block people who dare cite reliable sources, only to serve your POV-agenda. This again proves why you and your cohorts should never be WP Admins. Btw I haven't been editing since then, but earlier last year when I tried to edit again, again quoting Croatian and Western historians, to counteract the convicted fraudsters and holocaust-deniers that you cite, you guys again instantly reverted me and threatened blocks Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:49, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Here is a translation of my comment for which Kubura, above, said I was blocked:
“@El Hombre – as I said I specifically quoted only the statement of Cijondara Friedlender, from the trial of Ante Vrban, and he himself confessed this crime of killing children with gas, and has been cited by other historians [Note: the well-known Croatian historian, Ivo Goldstein, among others, cites this specific incident]. So give me some proof that the quote is incorrect. There are many people who write that Igor Vukic is unreliable - so if you obeyed your and Kubura's rules, all contributions from all people who have ever quoted Igor Vukic should be deleted [Note: Vukic is a Holocaust- and Jasenovac-denier, cited on CW, yet when I cited Croatian historians to contradict him, this too was instantly reverted]. And the other deleted quotes were directly from the books of well-known Western historians, such as Jozo Tomasevich, who wrote the most widely cited book on World War II in the region, but on Croatian wikipedia this is systematically deleted because it is "sensitive" to you, and according to Kubura, Nazi generals should not be cited because they wrote "to the detriment of the Croats," and instead, only sources from the Church and those who did not write "to the detriment of Croats" can be cited in Croatian Wikipedia.
The fact that Croatian-Serbian-Bosnian-Montenegrin language is one language s also stated by many well-known western linguists [Note: this was in response to El Hombre writing to me that “you all the time defend enwiki on hr.wiki, same wiki which negates the Croatian language”]. Accordingly, it is not permissible to quote Croatian experts in Croatian Wikipedia, or citations not from the Croatian church, so it seems that some alternative "reality" is being created here"

Kubura says I was blocked for the above comment for “insult on an ethnic basis – denying the independence of the Croatian language”. In other words, I was blocked for daring cite Croatian and international linguists regarding the common Bosnian-Croatian-Serb language, plus daring cite western and Croatian historians, etc. As mentioned, if this is allowed to stand, then all wikis should be given carte blanche to delete and block people who dare cite Reliable Sources, whenever these contradict their own, loudly-proclaimed ideologies, myths and falsehoods, as well as systematically violate NPOV and any other core WP rules they wish Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:58, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, at ro.wiki I got accused by Romanian patriots of: defilement of the history of my country; defilement of the religion of my country; having sold my own country to the highest bidder; being a traitor to my country; being an agent of the New World Order—and all this because I have opposed en:WP:FRINGE/PS (pseudo-historical) sources and theories and because I kowtow to en:WP:CHOPSY. So I know perfectly well what patriotism means for Wikipedia. Tgeorgescu (talk) 16:35, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura, if someone is making threats that's different, but you've repeatedly abused processes to enforce your POV. I was blocked for a month for citing sources historians deem to be very reliable, because per you, they are "unreliable" and "anti-Croat", and therefore can't be cited on WP. I was told that asking Mateo to provide proof for his spurious claims, i.e. the most basic WP principle, represents "an attack on Mateo", and if I ask him for proof, I will be blocked. When I could not get this resolved in Talk pages, and said that I'll need to take it up through other WMF channels, you said this basic WP principle, represents "a threat". You've continued to abuse most basic principles during this very RfC by blocking people who merely posted links to the Singpost article and the RfC, etc, etc. Btw, your view of "patriotism" is a perversion of the term. Just here you've cited as "authorities" sources which engage in Holocaust-denial, and celebrate as "heroes" convicted mass murderers of civilians. This is POV-pushing pure and simple, and goes totally against WP NPOV principles Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:47, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss:, topic in this section is cyberbullying. Second, were You reading the talkpages in userspace and articlespace? Kubura (talk) 23:57, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kubura, you're trying to change the subject. No one brought up the above issue. As I said repeatedly, you've mass-reverted and blocked me for daring to cite sources cited by Croatian and western historians, others here have also given examples of being blocked for invalid reasons, you've cited unencyclopedic sources and proclaimed them to be "the only truth", you totally invent things, even contradicting Croatian dictionaries and common usage, you've blocked people for daring to post links to the Signpost article and this RfC, you've proclaimed that many criticisms of you in the Croatian media are all conspiracies, when asked for proof of your claims, you've state that is an "attack", or you totally ignore people, as you've repeatedly done here, and instead keep bringing up unrelated issues, such as this - this is what we're talking about Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:16, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmasss, follow the discourseflow. This section is about the cyberbullying. Regarding Your question, You are abusing processes to enforce Your POV. Kubura (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Narcissism and bullying on Croatian wikipedia

One of the mayor problems of croatian wikipedia is actually not just POV-pushing, but narcissism of some of its admins, primarily user:SpeedyGonsales, and harassing of anyone who tries to be bold and raise his head in the community. Just look at his edits in period 12/11/2019-1/3/2020 - nothing but shitposting on village pump and intimidating users.

Basically, he feels threatened and tries to belittle every user who noticed anything wrong on wikipedia since he feel it's "his private project" and behaves like he is personally attacked.

On Dec 5th, there was a threat on village pump about which one of 2 forms of genitive for November hr wiki should use, "studenog" or "studenoga", since one is used in the article title and other in user signatures, here. After user "Mosorska gušterica" (ex Buco III, very productive user, does wiki maintenance, user since 2018) (M.G., not to be confused with MaGa) pointed that out, SG went on explaining that nothing is wrong and insisting on too much uniformity is "obstruction of this project". SG even ridiculed M.G. saying he can't read mind and asking for better description of the problem. After M.G. gave him 4 quotations of his previous comments, he finally stopped asking for the clarification.

On Dec 6th, M.G. opened another thread on village pump, asking the community to reconsider criteria for politicians in a way that mayors of Croatian cities should also be considered "important enough to have an article". As an alternative, to avoid having articles of unimportant people, he proposed to put restrictions on cities above 100 000 people or just mayors of county capitals because, the way it is now, a poet with one book can have an article on croatian wikipedia, but mayor of mayor city can't (because "we don't want to became a platform for political propaganda"). SG obviously felt threatened and again insisted that this proposal was bad and without any explanantion and compared it with jumping through the window. This is clear example of provocation and bullying.

On Dec 28, another new and productive user, "Suradnik A10" (A10) opened a thread in village pump asking if anything could be done to stop a vandal (IP range block, for example) who inserts profanities in random articles every day. SG replied with a rant about Croatian media always writing bad about Croatian and wrote some unrelated stuff about people escaping the mental hospitals (if I get it right, SG is really not good in presenting his point). IMHO, he feels irritated every time *anyone* outside his circle of trust makes any initiative in village pump. Another user, ex-admin Maga, known for his cynicism and lack of communication skills, jumps in and suggests that A10 is "pushing into area he doesn't understand". User Bonč jumps in and says A10 is "rushing" and that all the answers are in corresponding articles. To be true, Bonč at least gives a decent explanation why IP range block is bad idea.

On Dec 24, user Vrtleska225, who wrotes about Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbs in Croatia, created a very detailed articles hr:Inicijativa za REKOM (about multi-state initiative aiming to make ex-Yu countries investigate all war crimes together). The article is currently here. The article is perfectly formatted and user obviously invested great effort to write it. SG obviously felt irritated by this "neo-Yugoslavist" article, so he moved article to hr:Talk:Inicijativa za REKOM and gave a user 2 weeks to "fix" it. This is standard (very stupid) procedure on Croatian wikipedia where articles are moved to their own talk page, so if You want to discuss what is wrong with your article, you must go around user talk pages instead of just using, well, talk page.

SG left a message on Vrtleska225 talk page saying that article "doesn't satisfy wikipedia criteria" and that it will be deleted in 2 weeks if it doesn't became "valid encyclopedic article". He also insisted that "non-encyclopedic content might have a go in some other places, but here, we have some standards". BTW, The article is very long, well written and perfectly formatted, a real master-piece. Considering that, this is very clear example of SG trying to intimidate a productive user and make him leave Croatian wikipedia just because he doesn't like his subject of interest. User A10 jumped in, moved article to Vrtleska225 user namespace to avoid being deleted and on Dec 30 explicitly asked SG to explain what is wrong with the article. He decided to ignore the question.

On willage pump, A10 suggested that the process could be improved by moving article to user's namespace instead od article's own talk page, in order to keep a talk page to discuss the text. Again, ex-admin MaGa jumped in and argues that nothing is wrong with Croatian Wikipedia's procedures and A10's suggestion is invalid. A10 asked MaGa to give him clear answer to question "what are comparative advantages of current process compared to what he suggested", but MaGa refused to answer saying "he said what he wanted to say". SG jumped in insisting that all problems can be solved on user talk-pages, and that a user who's article is on ice should just ask the admin who moved the page, and no talk page is needed for that type of article. Despite writing an answer to village pump several times, he didn't find the time to answer a question about what is actually wrong with the article he proposed for deleting.

On Jan 2nd 2020, M.G. removes a sentence from hr version of hr:Wikipedia:Interface administrators. The sentence was literally a first person remark "(actually consulting, because I get the impression that a decision has already been made in higher instance)" added by SG. Since SG is narcissist who beleives he personaly represents croatian wikipedia, this was typical of him. M.G. left a mesage on SG's talk page explaning what he did, with comment "I don't think it makes sense to write pages in the first person singular on pages like this. I hope you don't mind."

SG replied with no less then a yellow card (actually "half a card"), see hr:Predložak:Žuti pola), spiced with badly hidden insults. This is clear example of intimidation of a user who threatens SG's enormous ego.

So, from these examples, You can see SG's modus operandi:

  • Not working much on the articles, instead stalking new users and provoking whoever stands out (because he feels threatened and because his ego is just too big to allow anyone else stand out)
  • Attacking, insulting, belittling and patronizing anyone who dares to say *anything* is wrong on Croatian wikipedia, or he doesn't like
  • Ignoring valid questions if he feels he doesn't have a valid argument to reply
    • Attacking anyone who dares to ask for an answer because "we all have limited time", "no one is payed for this", "You are taking a time that could be used for something better", so anyone needing his answer is put into defensive
  • Adding "yellow cards" for no reason, belittling and insulting people and their ideas, hoping to promote a conflict that could give him proper excuse to block a user and, eventually chase him away.

SG is not the only problem, most other admins (not all!!!) are very bad in communication. The general attitude towards anyone who dares to question anything on hr wikipedia is very defensive, admins are very protective of anything related to project, and every suggestion for improvement is seen as an attach on project (but more likely their ego is feeling threatened). Removing the SG, Kubura and Zeljko from admin positions will certainly help the project, because it's not just the articles that are the problem. The biggest problem is chasing away anyone who is seen as a threat even in a long run, o matter how productive they are. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 09:44, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hrwikiuser, You are talking about Yourself. You are very bad in communication. You are very imposive in anything related to project, and every defense of the project is seen as an attack to Your ego. Your biggest task is to chase away anyone who is seen as a threat even in a long run, no matter how productive these users are (e.g. Zeljko, Kubura, SG). Your editnumber = 0. Kubura (talk) 19:12, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Let me just briefly comment on the "yellow card" incident described above. It is never OK for admins to use blocks (or block warnings, as in this particular case) to protect content contributed by themselves from good-faith changes by other editors: it is a clear violation of WP:INVOLVED. Yet, WP:INVOLVED and WP:COI are violated on a daily basis, and this RfC is replete with examples. Although self-serving behavior and personal despotism are strictly speaking not the focus of this RfC, as already mentioned, these are also real problems that drive editors away. GregorB (talk) 15:24, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That was not the yellow card, but the half-yellow card. That is not the threat, not even the warning. That is information: You are possibly (!) on the wrong way. Kubura (talk) 19:12, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And all of this is because of disagreeing with non-inserting the all mayors of the cities in Croatia for the articles (You want to spread the criteria, to make it closer to the phonebook)??? Community discussed that! And You call that as "administrator abuse"??? You call that as "narcissism" and "bullying" (how do You dare to compare that with the hategroup on the Facebook with the graphical representation of physical violence against the opponent)? All of this because of THAT?

I prefer not to be mentioned in this RFC. If I have any dissagreements with any user, I will solve them myself. --Suradnik A10 (talk) 07:52, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Question on Process

Why are non-autoconfirmed users allowed to participate in RfC discussions? What is the logic behind that? It allows disruptions and provocations with an obvious agenda, just as we’ve witnessed other obvious gross manipulations and violations of rules here – campaigning, blocking people for posting links to Singpost article and RfC, plus previous similar vandalism intended to disrupt this RfC Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:19, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The reason here is simple (not suggesting a support for any side), you can get autoconfirmed status in any Wikipedia but not that in meta at the same time. This is not contradictory.--1233 （T / C） 08:42, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure I understand. Does the autoconfirmed-users restriction, when placed here mean that users have to be autoconfirmed on meta, not on other wikis? I brought this up only because of flagrant, repeat attempts to disrupt this RfC, where non-autoconfirmed users played a key role. Probably a better place to discuss this, along with possible solutions, would be on VPIL Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:07, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

medium.com article on rampant historic revisionism in Croatia, names Croatian Wikipedia "an inspiration for revisionist ideas"

medium.com (global alexa rank 92 site) has new article: Holocaust Denial: Croatia Erases Jasenovac Extermination Camp — Auschwitz of the Balkans:

Journalist Sven Milekic writes, “Articles that refer to the Croatian WWII fascist Ustasa movement and its crimes are criticised as particularly unreliable, ideologically loaded and imprecise, thus downplaying the crimes. The clearest example is the Ustasa’s biggest concentration camp, Jasenovac, which in the title of the Croatian Wikipedia article is referred to as “Jasenovac Collection Camp” — a term which does not have such negative connotations as ‘concentration camp’.

Milekic further explains these concerns in the Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa, “Riding the waves of the rampant historical revisionism which has now become part of mainstream rhetoric in Croatia, Croatian-language Wikipedia has become an advocate — even an inspiration — for revisionist ideas. In a process aimed at a completely uncritical review of the last 70 years in the history of Croatia and the entire ex-Yugoslav area, Croatian-language Wikipedia acts as an incubator of right-wing radicalism. Although managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, Croatian-language Wikipedia operates independently and in recent years has been particularly focused on trying to rehabilitate the Ustasha regime while demonising Yugoslavia, socialism, communism, and everything related. One of the most dangerous aspects of this tendency is the recourse to historical revisionism devoid of any scientific basis, namely the denial of the genocidal nature of the Ustasha regime and the crimes it committed in the Jasenovac concentration camp. Furthermore, the very reality of the Holocaust is questioned.”

I'm really wondering how WMF can stay silent while bunch of cripto-fascist from Croatia completely ruin the global image of entire Wikipedia project. --Hrwikiuser (talk) 08:33, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The real issue here is not revisionism and far-right POV by someone, somewhere, because it can't be helped - it's revisionism and far-right POV on the WMF-owned and governed servers. Surely that can be stopped, and - given WMF's charter - should be stopped, without regard to local consensus and other secondary considerations. In fact, stopping it is precisely what we're doing right now, so I suppose we'll see. Let's formally close this RfC. GregorB (talk) 16:54, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And I'm really wondering how from time to time some people, most probably sockpuppets, jump out of nowhere (e.g. Hrwikiuser has no edit or user page, neither on English nor on Croatian Wikipedia: [135], [136]), and put biased opinions (like this one of a private company like medium.com) to Meta-wiki and misuse Wikipedia. The clearest example of misuse is alleged “Jasenovac Collection Camp”, which DOESN'T exist on Croatian Wikipedia, but only „Jasenovac Concentration Camp” (“Sabirni logor Jasenovac“ in Croatian language), and nobody on Croatian Wikipedia denies neither the crimes that happened in that camp nor Holocaust.
The term of so-called “Jasenovac Collection Camp” was invented by users acting in bad faith who misuse the similar words for their POV pushing. They either don't understand or ignore the meaning of the words in Croatian language (e.g. Concentration camp means Sabirni logor in Croatian, and "Collection camp" would be some kind of "Skupljajući logor", which term does not exist). Those bunch of users, most of them left-wing extremists or Serbian nationalists, only see a „significant number“(!) of far-right revisionists, radicals, nationalists, extremists, fascists, nazists, holocaust deniers and whoever else (etc.) marching every day through streets of cities, towns and villages in Croatia. And the longer this RfC is open, the harsher they will be. And more nervous, more aggressive, because they cannot push their evil ideas or personal attacks through. Perhaps they don't know or just ignore the fact that millions of tourists and business people visit Croatia every year, feel safe and show satisfaction during their stay. Maybe those biased users haven't heard that there are scientific researches and reports which prove that Croatia is a country with high inclusiveness and tolerance (e.g. [137] report from the University of Berkeley, California).
Only I can agree with those biased users attacking Croatian Wikipedia is that this RfC should be closed. And put into the Category:Requests for comments (unsuccessful), or any other appropriate category. Forcing actions opposite to majority of local Wikipedia comunity is not what Wikipedia is to be: Welcoming Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. --Silverije (talk) 02:07, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Since you brought up the issue of “Collection Camp Jasenovac” for the umpteenth time, I will again repeat what I wrote above, i.e. everything Speedy Gonsales stated as to why the article is not instead called “Concentration Camp Jasenovac”, is a total falsehood. And this is part of other total falsehoods and Holocaust-denial evident in the article, with citations from the Holocaust-denier and convicted fraudster Roman Leljak, while CW Admins reverted my quotes of the US Holocaust Museum and sources quoted by Western and Croatian historians, and then blocked me for citing the same. And while CW Admins engage in systematic Holocaust-denial, I recently noticed that the CW Ovcara article, in bold letters in the first sentence refers to this as genocide. This was a massacre of some 200 mostly Croatian soldiers, after Serb forces took over Vukovar in the 90s. While a heinous crime, no western historians refer to this killing of 200 as genocide, nor do the vast majority of Croatian historians, while the international Court of Justice specifically judged that no genocide was committed in Croatia in the 90’s. Thus on the one hand CW engages in outright Holocaust- and genocide-denial, denying 98% of the Jewish victims exterminated at Jasenovac, among the 80.000 to 100.000 total victims of that concentration camp, in what historians describe as Ustashe genocides against Jews, Roma and Serbs. Yet at the same time CW invents genocide at Ovcara, where there was none. Like I said before, the purpose of such propaganda is to inflame hatreds and the next Balkan wars, just as many historians have written that the Yugoslav wars of the 90s were sparked by similar propaganda. Now as to why WP wants to enable Holocaust- and genocide-denial, while helping inflame the next Balkan war, and simultaneously allowing every WP principle to be violated (as further repeatedly proven even during this RfC), I will leave that to someone else to answer Thhhommmasss (talk) 09:57, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Personally, I find the issue of sabirni vs koncentracijski rather weak, that's why the Signpost article doesn't discuss it. It's no use, therefore, to "debunk" it. Silverije, I'm quite certain that my article is factually correct, and I'm quite certain you are well aware of that, so I double dare you once again: quote the statements from the Signpost article here and try to expose either the facts or the reasoning as incorrect. If you're unable to do that, then say so. Also, since you mentioned the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", try to explain why for example I can't edit it. GregorB (talk) 12:12, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In my view the main point of Collection vs. Concentration Camp is that Speedy went out of his way to propagate total, easily verifiable falsehoods to justify this – e.g. the official Croatian Jasenovac Memorial uses the term Concentration Camp as do most Croatian historians, as do 80% of the references on the .hr domain, etc, etc, while Collection Camp is consistently used by Holocaust-deniers, with the purpose of seeking to dissociate it from Nazi concentration camps, which Jasenovac clearly resembled. So this again proves an unwillingness to use reliable sources, and instead follow the lead of dubious sources to justify their POV agenda. Along with other systematic holocaust- and genocide-denial in the article, while simultaneously totally inventing nonexistent genocides at Ovcara, demonstrates the willingness to falsify for POV-propaganda purposes. Beyond that, in my view desysopping is justified just by the behavior they demonstrated during this RfC – blocking people for merely posting links to the Signpost article and the RfC, when confronted flat-out lying why they did it, and not answering people’s questions, instead endlessly bringing up totally bogus issues to divert attention, etc Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:31, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you, and it's a very good point: this is definitely not how admins should conduct themselves in any sort of debate, regardless of whether their position is otherwise valid or not. Not being able or willing to discuss, explain, analyze, and give arguments for and against - that's in my opinion incompatible with the position. I didn't want to raise the issues of attitude and competence, but things aren't too great in that department either. GregorB (talk) 21:23, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It also goes beyond just attitude. In the course of this RfC discussion, and contrary to the most basic WP rules, they themselves proclaimed they are totally committed POV-warriors, intent on battling “serbocroatistst”, “neoyugoslavists”, promoting their version of Croat “patriotism” (which many Croatians thoroughly disagree with), quoted on this page as their “reliable sources” websites that proclaim as “heroes” convicted Croatian war criminals, and write that Jasenovac - where per the US Holocaust Museum up to 2/3 of Croatian Jewish Holocaust victims were exterminated – was instead a “rest home” where no mass killings took place. Not to mention that blocking people who posted links to the Signpost article and the RfC violates WP:Involved, etc, etc. So this is not just attitude - this is clear violation of core WP rules, in plain site in front of everyone, during this very RfC Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:49, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Non-signed article as an "argument". Where is the name of the author? Anyway, that pamphlet is paid advertisement. By those who support this. Or, just a media connection that forwarded someone else's text. Regarding "alexa rank", the Reuters, at the time one of world's most prominent agencies, forwarded rude unsourced lie about the "slaughter of Serb babies in Vukovar, perpetrated by Croatian Ustashas" - [138]. Two days later it proved to be rude lie, but the damage has been done. That lie was a greaterserbianist "excuse" for "liberating" of the Croatian city of Vukovar from "neonazi ustasha Croatian troops", during the greaterserbianist campaign of conquest of Croatian territories.
So, where is Croatian Wikipedia mentioned? In few lines, repeating the words of a single unimportant activist (Sven Milekić), written several years ago for some neoyugoslavist site.
Sabirni and koncentracijski should be synonyms (Antifašistički vjesnik uses also term "sabirni", while in Yugoslav historiographic work that cites as source uses the term koncentracioni[139]). When that adjective was changed would be interesting.
Until Croatian independence, it very recently it was very risky for life to question the Jasenovac black myth. Last number before the War was 700,000 dead in Jasenovac camp. Croatia got the requirements from certain circles not to question and not to decrease and not to investigate and not to press books that question that myth; despite that rude request, now the official number is questioned and lowered to 80,000. And still falls, because it is discovered e.g. that significant number of victims have been sent to other locations (and died or killed there, or even escaped or survived from other locations).
That article in medium.com quotes the person that still openly opposes to Croatian liberation and restoration of the conquered territories (Operation Storm), and that means holding the side to greaterserbianist aggressor.
Also, the author this section misuses the sectiontitle to impose his attitudes. Kubura (talk) 21:51, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Both sabirni and koncentracijski could be found used in articles in this issue of magazine Ha-kol, No. 109, (March, April, May 2009), published by Zagreb Jewish Community. One article on p. 12 uses only sabirni and the other one on p. 13 uses both sabirni and koncentracijski. Rovoobob Talk 05:47, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That same Zagreb Jewish Community publication also writes that while Jasenovac was also a collection camp from where people were sent to Nazi Germany, and work camp with slave labor (like Nazi concentration camps), it was “above all a death camp. It was a place of extermination for most of those who entered it, but did not fit into the notion of racial purity (Jews) or belonged to ethnically less desirable peoples (Serbs and Roma), as well as opponents of the Ustasha regime and their family members, regardless of nationality or race”. The official Croatian Jasenovac Memorial calls it a concentration camp, as does 80% of the usage on the .hr domain, thus Speedy’s claim that in Croatian the term concentration camp is not used for Jasenovac is clearly false. Unlike CW, I also do not see the Jewish community publication citing any holocaust-deniers, like Roman Leljak and Igor Vukic, who claim Jasenovac was merely a work camp, where people put on plays and played soccer, and no mass extermination took place Thhhommmasss (talk) 07:35, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Croatian Wikipedia revises falsified historiography and debunks Yugoslav black myths

[140] This is one of example from Croatian War of Independence, when greaterserbianist propaganda has been forwarded to world by prominent agency without proper checking. At that time "mainstream" in World politics was the preservation of Yugoslavia. The Jasenovac black myth was one of "holders" of Yugoslavia, because it has been misused to disciplinize Croats whenever the Croats stood up for their rights. Kubura (talk) 21:51, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Close Request: Take 2

Anything that was functionally a discussion directly citing wiki-applicable evidence, relevant rebuttals, suggested solutions and their pros/cons, was 2 weeks ago. Almost everything that might help the Stewards consider it was twice that long ago.

Do we need to go hunt down Stewards, or are they paying sufficient ongoing interest to close and enact actions, if any, now?

Below I'm posting a Support/Oppose purely on whether a close is desired. Please indicate your position on that with a very brief summary of why you disagree, if you do, preferably saying what specifically you're waiting for. Unlike the last close section, I'm hoping we can avoid getting sidetracked into discussion that belongs elsewhere. Discussion that isn't reasonably relevant will get moved to a section below (anyone is welcome to join in on that, particularly is they're less involved that almost all of us). Diatribes/personal attacks will just get removed. Nosebagbear (talk)

Support seeking immediate steward close

  1. Support Support - as proposer, as I believe there isn't genuine new discussion occurring. Nosebagbear (talk) 16:11, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Support per the above. Closing was discussed more than a month ago, and not much has changed since then, so I'd say it's high time to close it. GregorB (talk) 18:16, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Strong support Strong support per all of the above. The procedure was thoroughly adhered. -- Несмир Кудилович (разговор) 18:44, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support I don't see anything fresh to be added to the discussion. --Mhare (talk) 19:36, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support Diminishing returns for the more time we spend here. --Rschen7754 19:58, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support closing - Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:15, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support as per Nosebagbear. Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 23:42, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Support per Nosebagbear. It's about time to bring this months-long discussion to a conclusion. DraconicDark (talk) 01:58, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Support as per Rschen7754 --denny (talk) 19:09, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment Comment -There is no consensus on proposed actions, neither on the first 6 of them, nor on the „additional proposed criteria“ (from 7 to 12), as well as on several other additional proposals, e.g. PRIO 1, PRIO 2, PRIO 3 etc. They caused confusion and distraction. For instance, some users supported only proposals No.1 and No.2, some of them No. 1, 2 and 4, the others No. 5 and 3, or No. 1, 4, 5 and 6 etc., whereas the majority of the local Croatian Wikipedia community opposed all actions, basing it on falsified allegations (e.g. alleged denial of Holocaust, crimes, massacres and so on).
    Therefore, without consensus on what to do, it can hardly be expected from stewards to make any decision. At the moment they can only put this RfC into unsuccessful and stale RfCs, as they did with some other similar RfCs before.
    Furthermore, it can hardly be expected from anybody to oppose this immediate steward close proposal, because the most of users do want this RfC to be closed soon and not to last for a long time. The request here missed the target: it shouldn't have been „immediate or not immediate“, i.e. „when to close?“, but „how to close?“. --Silverije (talk) 23:50, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    There is no consensus - leave that up to the stewards to make that call, please. --Rschen7754 01:43, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  10. This RfC appears to have degenerated into rambling. * Pppery * it has begun 00:27, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support though it's unlikely we're going to be able to get a single steward to voluntarily go through all of this and close it, knowing full well that, regardless of the final decision, there's going to be people dissenting. Vermont (talk) 03:38, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support Support per Nosebagbear --Hmxhmx (talk) 10:05, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Support – The productive bit about what ought to be done about this happened months ago, and now it's mostly unrelated off-topic posts. Good luck to the closing steward. – Srdjan m (talk) 22:52, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support Support — All important arguments are presented. It is time to close and put an end to this discussion. I wish good luck to the closing steward. --Acamicamacaraca (talk) 16:00, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support Support — Serbian Nickmen (talk) 15:02, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Support Dragging way too long and the discussion is way sufficient. --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 15:25, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Strong support Strong support Per all of the above. Sadko (talk) 16:14, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support Support Per the comment above. --Ivan VA (talk) 23:03, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Support Support Sure, this should be finally closed. Zoranzoki21 (talk) 23:20, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Support Support This boil has to be cut... --Randykitty (talk) 17:48, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Strong support Strong support The pro-CW faction shamelessly talks about black myths. What further proof do you want? Tgeorgescu (talk) 02:15, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Support Support yes this has gone on long enough I think. Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 23:18, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Support Support Any day now!?--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 22:40, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Support Support MBH (talk) 13:29, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose seeking immediate steward close

  1. Oppose Oppose. What's the rush? We have not seen any answers from the complainants when faced with the messages from their talkpages, we see just reprocessing of the same sentence(s) on the other place on the page. They are evading that whole the time. They just nag "I've been blocked for the reason A, but they've been blocked for the reason B with a long explanation. And they got thorough explanations on the usertalkpages (block explanations). They also got thorough explanations on the articltalkpages (content, reverts, edits, unclear stuff, doubts...). Kubura (talk) 21:57, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    As You see, I'm still writing the comments. I try to stay WP:COOL and to write with the cold head. And when I have free time. Kubura (talk) 22:41, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Oppose Oppose. I agree with Kubura. Where is the problem? Some users have some complains, but when you ask them a certain question, they just evade the answer, and start talking about something else. --Ceha (talk) 10:13, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on why/why not to seek close

@Silverije: how to close is indeed the first of the (possibly) two jobs that the Stewards would be carrying out - they are both assessing close and carrying out any executive actions needed. The discussions and !votes tell them "how". If we had an ultra-clear cut agreement then we could always state that, but that was never going to be the case for anything in this type of discussion. Nosebagbear (talk) 10:38, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This RfC should not be closed. Why? The commencers of this RfC have been "cooking" this RfC for months before they started this. They were heating the atmosphere and gathering think-alikes around various projects to give some falsified picture of "support". As You see in the first edit of the RfC, at the end of the message, the commencer pinged users of the same attitude. That's biased canvassing. The big majority of those "supporters" of the malcontents and their think-alikes are not the editors of hr.wiki at all! Almost all of them do not speak Croatian at all! On the other side, the criticised users were building the criticized project and maintained it whole the time. They did not have the time to deal with the canvassed avalanche of malcontents' messages; many of these messages were stubborn reiterating of the same buzzwords, that played on readers' emotion (argumentum ad passiones) - manipulating the emotions of uninformed user. Many of these fallacies were placed on different places in text, obviously counting that the reader will not read all the text and that the reader will fall into the trap of the first read sentence. The other group of malcontents that do speak and understand Croatian are the marginal activists that are like marginal political bunch that knows nothing else to do but to say "not good, not good, not good, resign, resign, resign..." like skipping/looping vinyl (argumentum from repetition, Ceterum autem censeo hr.wiki esse delendam), walking around, protesting and doing nothing useful.
On the other hand, whenever the attacked/criticized side wanted to write some comprehensive message/analysis that would shorten all this and made it easier for others to understand (to spare them from reading of all this), they were sliced and interrupted while the post was still in making.
Writing answers takes time. Reading poisonous (or at least misunderstanding) messages on regular basis is not good for health. People have life, and they do not want to waste their precious time to make company to venomous persons with no life. At last, we more like to build and maintain our homeproject than to argue with disruptive venomous malcontents whenever they start some RfC.
Note that malcontents got the thorough explanations on their usertalkpages and articletalkpages on hr.wiki, and that they evaded to talk about that and the things said there. Do we have to copy all those messages here, to double the size of this RfC?
All this RfC is just another overskipping of procedures. This is dirty way of thinking: "Why should one (the biggot) discuss, argument and elaborate on the talkpage and try to find consensus, if the biggot can impose his dirty agenda by denigrating and eliminating opponent on the site outside of that project, by manipulating readers' and stewards' emotions and calling for direct blocking of opponents. Communist way of thinking: play like I want You to do, or I will accuse You for something contrarevolutionary/anticommunist, dehumanize You and denunciate You to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and You will forever disappear in some Gulag. Kubura (talk) 20:49, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure your reasoning makes sense, if you think there were procedural errors of a scale to require the RfC to be scrapped, it would still take a close by a Steward to execute that. Writing answers on complex issues does indeed take time, however, it doesn't take in excess of 4 months. And on your base point, assuming that en-wiki's canvassing rules applied, then pinging every member of a draft discussion for an RfC still wouldn't be canvassing. The standard breach of prior discussion canvassing is specific summoning of those known to support your viewpoint from a prior discussion while not pinging those who disagreed. The remainder of the your comments aren't directly relevant as to whether a close should be made, so I won't reply to it here. Nosebagbear (talk) 09:44, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Nosebagbear:, here is the smaller example of canvassing that preceded this RfC. Here is the end of the first message of this RfC: Your comments and questions are more than welcome. (Pinging the participants of the previous RfC, in no particular order: Notrium, George Ho, Srdjan m, DobarSkroz, Rschen7754, DraconicDark, Sj, Ajraddatz, Rosguill, SpinningSpark, Nosebagbear, Kaldari, Daß Wölf, Santasa99.) GregorB (talk) 21:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC) . Do You see whome did he ping? And if You look back on previous page(s), You'll see that this lasted for almost a year, or more. In the meantime, while GregorB and other non-contributors and non-maintainers spread their poison and made plots, the attacked admins and the other users of hr.wiki were building and maintaing hr.wiki. Kubura (talk) 21:37, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's not canvasing - this is canvasing: Solicitation of assistance and support at Croatian language wikipedia] !--s a n t a | t a l k | p i t 13:59, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And my comment was that as that was every participant of the drafting process, it isn't a breach of (en-wiki's since that was cited) the canvassing policy. Nosebagbear (talk) 22:15, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note to closing admin(s)

May the closing admin(s) please contact me via email before starting the closing process? There's some information relevant to this RfC I'd rather not discuss publicly. GregorB (talk) 19:43, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I just add the obvious conclusion: this cannot end in truce. Either Thhhommmasss has to be site banned for calling others "Holocaust denialists" or those called Holocausts denialists have to be site banned. It's either one or the other, there is no compromise solution. Tgeorgescu (talk) 22:25, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not emptily claiming holocaust-denial - I very specifically stated that CW cites holocaust-deniers like Roman Leljak and Igor Vukic, who claim that Jasenovac was a mere "work camp", not the death camp described by the US Holocaust Museum, as well as many Croatian and Western historians. Specifically, the US Holocaust Museum states that up to two-thirds of Croatian Jewish Holocaust victims were exterminated at Jasenovac, among the 80.000 to 100.000 total victims, whereas for example, Leljak denies 98% of these victims, and the CW Admin Zeljko has specifically claimed that this cited convicted fraudster is the only one with "the truth", while everything else, including what the US Holocaust Museum and historians write, are “fabrications and lies" Thhhommmasss (talk) 23:25, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This shouldn't be closed by a meta admin, IMO. The issue is too broad to be closed by one and the possible actions that need to be taken. A steward closure will be more appropriate.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 16:15, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'd tend to agree. And it's time too. GregorB (talk) 18:43, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
One full month later, it's really time to close it. GregorB (talk) 11:16, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And soon: two months later. --Mhare (talk) 08:20, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A question

Since the main problem here seems to be the alleged Holocaust and Jasenovac concentration camp denial on Croatian Wikipedia (which caused blocks of some users and further issues), could anybody specify in which article can we find that denial? Could we expect a link to that? Otherwise, without objective evidence, such accusations are worth nothing. Citing, for instance, a lot of various sources with different numbers of Jasenovac concentration camp victims does not mean Holocaust denial, does it? --Silverije (talk) 23:56, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As stated many times above, it is not just a case of numbers, it is citing convicted fraudsters, like Roman Leljak, who claim only 1.600 people died at Jasenovac, and then Admin Zeljko further insisting this is the only “truth”, and everything else is "a lie", including the 80.000 to 100.000 victims listed by the US Holocaust Memorial and most western historians. It is reverting German sources, cited by many western historians, who state these are the most reliable sources, and then Kubura blocking me for a month, because he claims these reliable sources are “anti-Croat”, and therefore can’t be cited on CW. It is reverting citations of Croatian historians, like Goran Hutinec, whom I cited to contradict convicted fraudsters and massive liars cited on CW. It is Speedy deleting a Croatian Supreme Court description of what the convicted war criminal Mirko Norac did, and other convicted Croatian war criminals also missing descriptions of crimes they were convicted for, while for Serb war criminals’ multiple paragraphs are given to elaborate and editorialize on their crimes. It is claiming in bold letters, genocide for 200 Croats killed at Ovcara, where international courts specifically denied such claims, while on the other hand citing genocide-deniers like Leljak and Vukic, to deny real genocides committed by the Ustashe. It is blocking me when I dared cite Croatian and international linguists who say Bosnian-Croatian-Serb is one language, but this cannot be stated on CW, because it contradicts Kubura’s POV-agenda, and he repeated this here, along with loud proclamations that he is on an “anti-serbocroatist” ideological crusade. It is blocking people for merely daring post links to the Signpost article and this RfC, for which alone in my view they should be forever banned from adminship, etc, etc, etc. All this, plus many more violations of core WP principles, including what others stated here many times over, including to your questions, yet you keep ignoring everything, and just repeat the same questionsThhhommmasss (talk) 02:47, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Silverije: My challenge still stands for anybody supporting Speedy, Kubura, Zeljko and co[141]: go to the Jasenovac concentration camp English Wiki page and try to insert your claims there. Let's see what happens. Or you can also simply re-write the entire Croatian Wiki Jasenovac concentration camp page by translating it to look like the one from the English Wikipedia article. Problem solved. So what are you all waiting for? If there is no problem with Croatian Wikipedia, one of these two solutions would be simple to implement, and then you would have your peace, right? --3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 15:02, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is not just the Jasenovac article, it is repeat violation of core Wikipedia principles – NPOV, Reliable Sources, repeat reverts and blocking of people who dare contradict their self-proclaimed ideological agenda, etc. All this has continued with blocks of people here for merely posting links to the Signpost article and the RfC, even more proclamations of an ideological POV-agenda and more claims why reliable sources can’t be cited on CW, if they contradict their ideological agenda, etc. In other words proof positive that they have learned absolutely nothing and insist on their right to continue to violate core WP principles Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:18, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's not the answer to the question. --Silverije (talk) 22:41, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
it’s the answer to the question posed by the RfC – i.e. the systematic abuse committed by the Admins, by repeatedly violating core WP principles like NPOV, Reliable Sources, WP:INVOLVED, repeatedly reverting and blocking people for daring cite reliable sources, all in the name of openly-proclaimed POV-agendas, then continuing the very same abusive behavior even during this RfC. I know you’d like to make it about how after 10 years of abuse we can quickly try to fix here all the many resulting biased articles, but this is not the place for that. Just like after you violate traffic laws and repeatedly run over people with a car, the police do not let you practice how to drive around those people, until you get it right, while you loudly proclaim that per your ideological agenda you have the right to run them over, traffic laws notwithstanding, as Kubura's repeatedly done here Thhhommmasss (talk) 01:17, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's still not the answer to the question. I'm waiting... --Silverije (talk) 23:29, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Even if de.wiki cites other victim estimates for Auschwitz, this would not give them the right to cite holocaust-denying convicted fraudsters, who deny 98% of Auschwitz victims, just like CW cites holocaust-denying convicted fraudsters who deny 98% of Jasenovac victims, and thus per the US Holocaust Museum deny up to 2/3 of all Croatian and Bosnian Holocaust victims. This would be doubly unacceptable, if following CW, the de Auschwitz article also started its victim estimates section with numbers that deny 98% of victims, and de Admins insisted that these numbers that deny 98% of victims were “the only truth”, and all other estimates by historians and Holocaust Museums are “falsifications and lies”. It would be triply unacceptable, if de Admins on top of this systematically reverted and blocked people who try to correct such massive falsehoods, just as CW Admins do. Thus CW Admins are totally unacceptable for multiple, persistent, gross violations of core WP principles Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I u čemu je problem. U Jasenovcu nemože biti. Sve šta je pisano ostalo je uza sve navedene izvore. Biće da je problem u nepristranosti, pa se smiju stavljati jedino jugokomunisčki i židovski izvori, jel vidim ostali izvori smetaju i treba ih brisat, prvenstveno mislim na Leljka. U Hrvatskoj nema fašista, jedino možda oni što su za vrijeme rata u Hrvatskoj vršili pokolje, danas plaću za Jugoslavijom, govore izmišljeni srpskohrvatski jezik, pa imaju i svoju wikipediju, a hrvatski administratori im smetaju. Lijepo bogami. --Zeljko (talk) 23:42, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand Croatian. Is that antisemitic? Tgeorgescu (talk) 00:29, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
CW Admin Zeljko claims that the purpose of this RfC is to force the use of only “yugocommunistic” and “Jewish” sources. Since I’ve been citing only western and Croatian historians, the US Holocaust Museum and German Nazi sources (who wrote eyewitness accounts of, for example, the extermination of children in Ustashe concentration camps) – obviously all these western, Croatian and German sources are all “yugocommunists” and “Jewish”. He then again defends the citation on CW of the convicted fraudster, Roman Leljak, who denies 98% of the victims of Jasenovac, including the vast majority of Croatian Jewish Holocaust victims. I.e. same stuff they’ve been repeating for years on CW and for 5 months here, while continuing to spread such falsehoods via WP Thhhommmasss (talk) 00:53, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Tgeorgescu: I took the liberty of translating that comment:

What's the problem, then? It cannot be in Jasenovac. Everything that is written remains alongside all cited sources. It seems like impartiality is the issue, so you're only allowed to cite Yugocommunist and Jewish sources, because from what I can see, people are bothered by the other sources and think they should be deleted; I'm primarily referring to [Roman] Leljak. There are no fascists in Croatia, except, maybe, for the ones who committed massacres in the Croatian War, who are nowadays crying over Yugoslavia, who speak the fictitious Serbo-Croatian language, and who even have their own Wikipedia, yet the Croatian administrators bother them. Lovely.

— Zeljko; 23:42, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
I'd say that that use of "Jewish sources" didn't sit well with me. – Srdjan m (talk) 13:45, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As self-proclaimed POV ideologues, the maximum extent of their “reasoning” is labeling and name-calling all sources they disagree with. Thus western and Croatian historians, international linguists, Holocaust Museums, German generals and others are all “yugocommunists”, “Jewish”, “Serbocroatists”, “Neoyugoslavists”, “anti-Croat”, etc, etc. If this yet again goes unsanctioned, WP should at least be honest and publicly announce that other wikis are free to do exact same as CW. I.e. just as CW has loudly proclaimed “anti-serbocroatist” or “anti-neoyugoslavist” ideological agendas, others should be free to choose their own POV agendas – e.g. anti-Pakistanism or anti-Indianism, or anti-Croatism for that matter. Then in pursuit of these POV-agendas they should feel free to ignore NPOV, Reliable Sources and any other WP rules, and instead cite their own versions of "publicists", convicted fraudsters and holocaust-deniers, to propagate falsehoods via WP, while systematically reverting and blocking people who dare cite reliable sources to counteract such falsehoods. All in the name of perpetuating hatreds or any other POV-agenda one wishes to push via WP Thhhommmasss (talk) 19:43, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ja nemam šta u vezi tih zločina ne priznat ni priznat, možemo samo čuvati izvore za unesene podatke, a to i radim. Šta je od toga istina neznamo, ni ja a ni vi. Mnogo je manipulacija brojevima, a zabranjuje se da se izvrše ispitivanja, da se vidi čiji ostaci leže u Jasenovcu. Čemu zabrana? Nije li to malo čudno, neko ne želi da istina izađe na vidjelo. --Zeljko (talk) 09:34, 20 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Zeljko - this is not the place to discuss specifics and try to resolve problems with CW articles. But I will say this - the issue of “missing corpses” at Jasenovac is another example of manipulations by holocaust- and genocide-deniers. Namely just as Igor Vukic “forgets” to mention the eyewitness accounts of extermination of thousands and tens-of-thousands in the inmate memoirs he cites, he and other “missing corpses” proponents fail to mention multiple accounts by Ustashe and the few surviving prisoners of the systematic digging out and mass burning of corpses that took place before the end of the war, i.e. exact same as the Nazis did at their camps in Serbia and elsewhere. So per Vukic and you, this obviously proves there were no mass exterminations of Jews in Serbia, since the bodies there were similarly burned
There is much more proof related to that, as well as many other lies and distortions cited on CW (including the notion of a “post-war Jasenovac” which is another wholly manufactured lie), but the way to resolve this is not to try to debate it here, but instead create a normal CW, which follows WP rules, so editors can indeed cite reliable sources, like Croatian historians who systematically dismantle such lies. I tried to do that to contradict the massive lies of Vukic and others, cited on CW, but was instantly reverted. Same as I was reverted and blocked for daring cite western historians and the US Holocaust Museum. So once such rampant abuse is eliminated from CW, with new Admins who are willing to follow core WP rules of NPOV, Reliable Sources and others, these issues can be resolved Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:39, 20 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So-called black myths

In croatian media, even in right wing media, I never ever heard phrase "black myths". The only person I ever heard using this phrase is Kubura. So, it's very likely that at least 10 of users who votes against proposal, who talk about "black myths", are actually his sockpuppets. Those sockpuppets also interfered in recent steward elections. Can we ask CU for those users? --Hrwikiuser (talk) 07:32, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't it just another piece of a witch hunt and Inquisition? --Silverije (talk) 23:29, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is perpetrating fraud with CW

Since I'm very disappointed by WP's non-action on this serious issue which now goes back a decade, I want to add to SnowFire's comment above, and state that in my view with its failure to act on CW, WP is perpetrating fraud. WP makes repeat representations that it enforces rules like NPOV, Reliable Sources and others, to help ensure reliable encyclopedic information. Yet as documented above, CW Admins have repeatedly violated these rules, violations which have been repeatedly brought to the attention of WP, and WP has repeatedly failed to act. The result is not only blatantly false information, but Holocaust-denial and ethnic hatreds fanned on CW, all with Wikipedia's permission.

As the Zagreb University history professor Hrvoje Klasic recently noted in the Croatian media: "many [CW] articles are based on lies and misinformation, and on a revisionist approach to Croatian history, which means that the criminal character of the Ustashe regime is relativized, while minimizing the number of Ustashe victims." He goes on to say that "Wikipedia is often the first and only source of information for young people. When they see that the name includes the word Encyclopedia, they take it for granted. But learning history from Croatian Wikipedia is simply scandalous"

Thus he is affirming that via CW, WP is knowingly misrepresenting its claims to being a reliable encyclopedia, thus perpetrating fraud. And as many other historians have stated, the purpose of such systematic historical misrepresentations, falsehoods and lies by Balkan-nationalists is to perpetuate hatreds and inflame wars, so WP is doing its best to contribute to this shameful business as well Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hate speech from IP Address

I see hate speech written in Cyrillic, coming from an IP address from Split Croatia, same place as where it looks like one of the CW Admins resides, and also the same place that the IP insult on my page came from, calling me an ugly name for Serbs, and a Moslem, both favorite Croatian extreme-nationalists insults. It should also be noted that the Croatian media has reported repeat incidents of anti-Croat hate or Serb nationalist graffiti, written in Cyrillic in Zagreb, Vukovar and elsewhere, and when the police caught the perpetrators, it turned out they were Croat provocateurs, obviously trying to whip up anti-Serb hatred. It's hard to say for certain, but I'd certainly put my bets on this being a similar case, in fact I have very strong suspicions as to who exactly is doing this

The same person who vandalized this page using anti-Croat hate speech, just did us the favor of confirming that he is the same person who previously left anti-Serb and anti-Moslem insults on my meta Talk page, by just now repeating these insults in an even uglier fashion on my meta Talk page, using the exact same IP address from Split Croatia, as the anti-Croat hate speech on this page. Thus not only is he exactly one and same, but I now have even less doubt as to who this is coming from, and not only is he an extreme racist hate-monger, but someone obviously extremely sick of mind Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:59, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • WP should make every effort to find out who did this IP vandalization, writing vile anti-Croat hate speech in Cyrillic, and permanently ban them from WP. There’s plenty of circumstantial evidence who might’ve done this, but if by some odd chance it is a Serb nationalist from Split, Croatia, who also uses ugly names to insult people as Serbs, they too should be lifetime banned
Beyond that I want to state that language used here by CW Admins and others is totally unacceptable. I.e. when Kubura finds infinite ways to attack people he disagrees with, by imputing their ethnicity – “people from Serbia”, “GreaterSerbianists”, “SerboCroatists” (he obviously has no problem with the Croat part of latter, only the Serb), while Zeljko disdainfully dismisses “Jewish sources”. Other CW-ers have followed suit, attacking here people’s ethnicity (even when there’s plenty evidence that “people born in Serbia”, etc, are in fact ethnic Croats, not that it should matter)
This is typical Balkan-nationalistic garbage, and the next step is outright ethnic hate-speech, like the above-mentioned vandalization, no doubt perpetrated by one of the participants here. And one result, in Balkan-lands where soccer stadiums-full yell “Kill Serbs” and graffiti proclaims “Hang Serbs on trees”, are physical hate-attacks, like multiple attacks on Serbs around Split last year, where in one case, a mob shouting “Where’s the Serb”, 20-against-4, “bravely” attacked 2 Serbs, plus 2 young Croats who came to their aid, sending both Croats to the hospital, including a tiny Croat girl they viciously kicked on the ground, as she lay on top of her Serb friend, trying to protect him
As a major source of Balkan-nationalistic myths and lies, that historians say fuel such ethnic hatreds and even Balkan wars, CW and with it WP, are playing a major contributing role to this shameful and very harmful business Thhhommmasss (talk) 20:16, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Thhhommmassss:, please do not insinuate to any of us from hr.wiki that we do that. Do not equalize that maniac with the civilized discussion above. That IP user has been harassing hr.wikipedians since (at least) June of 2019. Since that person is rude, detailed, hounding, profound in hounding on wikimedian projects and in users' personal lives, persistent, that regularly appears, that does not give up, it does not get boring to him, and that has not found new things of interest in his life, it seems that we deal with mentally disturbed psychopath. His messages are threats with raping and slaughter. Because of characteristics described before, that person's threats must not be neglected, but taken seriously. Usually it takes just a single trigger to take the sicco to a "higher" level. Kubura (talk) 11:29, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes same IP maniac who previously appeared here, from a Split IP, shortly after you did, both of you posting after midnight on a weeknight when most people sleep. You came here to draw attention to that IP maniac before, and I checked out some of the posts you pointed out – vandalization that appeared after this RfC was initiated, in a Talk page (who vandalizes talk pages that many fewer people read?), posing as a leftist, who insults people as gay, which I've yet to see leftists insult people as gay, although as some have pointed out, CW Admins have shown an anti-gay bias. Just like the IP maniac here posed as a Serb posting anti-Croat hate speech, then turns around and in typical Croat-nationalist fashion insults people with ugly names for Serbs (similar to how some here find infinite ways to call people Serbs, since they obviously consider that the ultimate insult), plus calls them Moslems. Like I said before, all that appears fake as a 3-dollar bill. Btw, did the same IP maniac from Split suddenly start making those rape threats during another RfC against CW Admins?
In any case, WP needs to thoroughly investigate these postings, and if they find this Split IP vandal, instantly lifetime ban him for the death, rape, racist and other threats he's made Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:45, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I want to ask the Admins to put back the Split IP post they deleted from my meta talk page. I saw it, and I want others to see it, as I respond to it here. I take this as Kubura’s in-your-face confirmation that he’s indeed the Split IP vandal, whose recent Cyrillic post, proclaimed to kill all Croats. In addition to local Split color, he calls me again the same ugly name for Serbs, as he did in other IP posts, and peddles the same Balkan-nationalistic garbage he’s peddled here, i.e. that all Serbs (with a few exceptions he approves of, which he’s also noted here), are collectively responsible for the crimes of Vukovar and Srebernica. His Serb nationalistic brethren peddle the same garbage, when they also proclaim, that aside from a few exceptions (“čast izuzecima”), all Croats are genocidal killers, collectively responsible for the mass murder of Serb women and children in Jasenovac. Kubura goes further to confirm this view of Croats, by praising in his post the genocidal Ustashe leader Ante Pavelic, who signed the Race Laws with which his Ustashe exterminated 80% of Jews in Croatia and Bosnia, while also commanding genocides against Serbs and Roma

Being partly Croat, I know that, unlike Kubura, most Croats aren’t professional Balkan hate-mongers, who praise fascist, genocidal mass-murders. Be that as it may, I also want to say that this RfC process has been a shameful farce, and it became so as soon as the CW Admins blocked people for merely posting links to Signpost and the RfC. I can’t think of anything more contrary to basic deliberative processes, never mind the WP rules that these people have been allowed to stomp on all over for over a decade, and now continue to do so for 6 months, in front of everyone, during this RfC, with absolutely nothing being done. Beyond that they’ve repeatedly attacked people here on an ethnic basis, so obviously WP thinks that on enwiki Admins would be perfectly OK to attack people as being from Mexico or Asian, or on de.wiki rail that they are from Turkey or use “Jewish sources”, and thus have no right to participate

Shame. Shame. Shame. As many historians have stated, the nationalistic garbage and lies that WP has allowed CW to peddle, has been repeatedly used to foment ethnic hatreds and wars in the Balkans. WP is an active, willing partner in this shameful and highly harmful process. In fact those Serbs and Croats who came to their aid, who I mentioned above, can thank at least in part WP for their beatings, for allowing the holocaust-denial and other nationalistic sludge be spread via widely-read WP, which contributes to such an atmosphere. Now why don’t you spend another 6 months mulling this over, doing nothing, if indeed anyone is paying any attention any more, or you think none of this concerns you Thhhommmasss (talk) 18:37, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thhhommmasss, as I said, that maniac is hounding us on hr.wiki. In real time. Kubura (talk) 19:05, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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