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Jennifer McKenzie

Hi Nixon Now! There is no need to create a disambiguation page for only two individuals. It is standard practice to simply have a hat note added to the main biography. I would argue that the priest is the main person in this case (an archdeacon is similar in "rank" as a bishop) rather than a regional leader of a junior party (the New Brunswick New Democratic Party holds no seats). Unless you have an objection, I shall move it back to how it was: IE the priest as the main page with a hat note linking to the politician. Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 21:24, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

@Gaia Octavia Agrippa: there's also the Paralympian. In any case, I would say a political party leader is more significant than a local priest and to support this Jennifer McKenzie has been covered by a number of news sources while the coverage of McKenzie the priest seem to be largely from small church bulletin s and local newspapers. An archdeacon is not in fact similar in rank to a bishop but is below a bishop, basically a deputy to the bishop. If she were a bishop or archbishop there'd be more of a case but I don't think Archdeacons are generally considered to be notable. Nixon Now (talk) 21:39, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

The Paralympian doesn't have a Wikipedia article, and as she competed almost a decade ago and didn't win a medal it is unlikely she ever will. The priest has an entry in Who's Who (this isn't vanity press, and provides coverage of the most notable British/UK-related individuals). As stated above, priority is based on the level of notability and this politician is only borderline notable: see WP:POLITICIAN. In fact, as per WP:POLOUTCOMES (eg "Leaders of registered political parties at the national or major sub-national (state, province, prefecture, etc.) level are sometimes considered notable despite their party's lack of electoral success"), if a deletionist came along, the article would most likely fail notability in their eyes and the article would be deleted. In England, the level of responsibility of an archdeacon is equivalent to an assistant bishop in other countries. It is a full time job and they can oversea 100+ churches. Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 21:58, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

@Gaia Octavia Agrippa: There are also many more incoming links to Jennifer McKenzie (politician) than to Jennifer McKenzie (priest). Considering that all current and most past provincial NDP leaders in Canada have wikipedia articles I don't think a deletionist would get very far. As for Who's Who, as a provincial NDP leader she'll be in the next edition of Canadian Who's Who. Furthermore, according to Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Basic_criteria:

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Aside from the Who's Who entry, the sources for the article are authored by Archdeacon McKenzie herself and are thus not "independent of the subject" i.e. there is only one independent source for the article so, frankly, I think a deletionist would have more success attempting to delete Jennifer McKenzie (priest) than Jennifer McKenzie (politician) as it is not clear that the former passes the minimum requirement for notability that there be "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are... independent of the subject" (emphasis added). Nixon Now (talk) 23:05, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

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Saskatchewan Party leadership elections

The 2018 leadership election section doesn't have to be blank just because I started an article. I was thinking that the Saskatchewan Party leadership elections article would have a summary of the election where Saskatchewan Party leadership election, 2018 article would be more extensive. Kingjeff (talk) 19:35, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

The election results should be there when they're in but anything else is redundant. Nixon Now (talk) 23:06, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia general elections by number

Hi Nixon Now. I apologize that I've just undone a large number of your edits without leaving edit summaries for all of them. I came across your edits when I was patrolling the speedy deletion categories. First, the "original research" and "unsourced" tags don't normally apply to disambiguation pages: they are just navigation aids and don't normally contain any information requiring citations. In fact, we usually remove citations from disambiguation pages. I did see your note somewhere else about proper numbering of the general elections and I agree, but deleting the pages isn't a good solution.

You mentioned WP:ONEBLUELINKDAB in some of your speedy deletion requests, but this isn't a WP:G6 criteria, and I don't think it's the right section of the disambiguation guideline to link to for this situation. I think this is a WP:TWODABS situation. You mentioned hatnotes in discussion somewhere else, and I think you're right that this is the best way to handle this situation, but in this case the disambiguation page should be replaced with a redirect to the correct target, rather than deleted. I'm doing one as an example here: 6th New Brunswick general election. However that's a bad example as we don't have an article on the 1816 general election.

I'm not doing them all because I think there's disagreement over the proper numbering sequence. I'm going to continue discussing this elsewhere. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:06, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

I started a discussion at the WikiProject Canada discussion board. Please see this discussion. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:44, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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Today's New Senators

Hey. So regarding today;s new senators, normally I would be implementing all the changes you are now (that their appointment is pending). But, as I read the release, "The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that the Governor General has appointed two independent Senators...". Do you have information conflicting with this (that they have not been formally GG-appointed), or maybe I'm missing another step? Cheers. --Natural R_X 21:10, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Are they listed on the Senate of Canada website yet? If not, they haven't taken their seats. Nixon Now (talk) 00:44, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

They are now. --Natural R_X 22:27, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

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I wish Mulroney would just make the announcement already so we can stop reverting good faith(?) edits listing her as a declared candidate. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 22:34, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

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Since the function is currently not working properly, just wanted to say thanks for your recent, and on-going housekeeping on Senate-related stuff with standing changes. Cheers! --Natural R_X 18:53, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

COI re James and Michael Laxer

Sorry about having included you in those {{connected contributor}} tags. It seems that I inserted the incorrect username. For future, however, please assume good faith before accusing others of "presumptuous[ness]" (especially when you could see that the tag used the self-declaration parameter). 142.161.81.20 (talk) 00:28, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

@142.161.81.20: The new username you inserted hasn't actually contributed to the articles you've tagged or their talk pages. I have accordingly removed the tags.Nixon Now (talk) 05:04, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

That's correct. Rather, they were discussing the article on a user talk page. But {{connected contributor}} doesn't require that the user has edited the article, hence why it has a parameter that indicates that the user in question has not edited the article. 142.161.81.20 (talk) 06:00, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

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Why is CBC news reporting the Ford is the Ontario PC party's new leader? GoodDay (talk) 00:11, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

There's been a change. Turn on your tv.[1] Nixon Now (talk) 00:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

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Just noting FTR that I've also added it several times, while Nocturnalnow and several unrelated sockpuppets have removed it (four plus several minus one) times, since roughly the end of December. It's an ongoing, slow-motion edit war. As long as everyone involved commits to not reverting until there is some conclusion to any of the discussions I'd be happy to withdraw the protection request, but Soulspinr's involvement seems to indicate that at least ongoing semiprotection is going to be required. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:46, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Oh, never mind, CambridgeBayWeather has already protected it. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:48, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

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1) I was not evading any blocks 2) I was not editing any articles being edited by my main account. Nixon Now (talk) 15:13, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

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Procedural decline only. There's not enough information here to review your block. What other accounts were you using? Yamla (talk) 15:38, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

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@Yamla: see Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Nixon Now. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:42, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

@Yamla: I opened an account called User:Zoltan Rideout. Then I couldn't remember the password so I opened User:She Who Must Be Obeyed Without Equivocation. You can check the edit histories of both. There was no block evasion nor was their an attempt to evade any restrictions on reverts or game talk pages. I've felt harassed and bullied by a user and decided to open a new account and eventually use that instead for most of my editing. Nixon Now (talk) 15:46, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) Courtesy links to editor interaction, and specifically Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. For what it's worth I can attest that Nixon Now likely feels harassed given ongoing editing disputes at Talk:Doug Ford Jr. but sockpuppetry is rarely a good solution. At the least you should have informed Arbcom that you were going to use an alternate account, and it's always a bad idea to use an alt (especially an undisclosed alt) to edit in the same topic area. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:53, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

FWIW, regardless of how NN feels, the actual record shows the opposite: he's been hounding CT, even showing up to random unrelated discussions on the latter's talk page.[2] Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 23:03, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

All three accounts edited Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Two accounts edited Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Two accounts edited Ontario general election, 2018. Two accounts edited Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. It doesn't look like "I was not editing any articles being edited by my main account" but you are welcome to clarify. --Yamla (talk) 15:51, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

@Yamla: To clarify, the accounts were not editing any articles concurrently. As I pointed out, I forgot the password of User:Zoltan Rideout so I opened another. The Nixon Now account has, to my recollection not edited Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, or Ontario general election, 2018 since I opened an alternative account. Also, none of the edits involved edit warring or disputes. As I recall, they were mostly housekeeping edits but in no case were they used for edit warring. If you can point to any examples where the accounts were used to gain an advantage in an edit warring situation or otherwise game the system I would be surprised because there are no such instances. Nixon Now (talk) 16:02, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

• Because of your post-block, disruptive socking, I've increased the length of your block to two weeks from today. Next time will be indefinite.--Bbb23 (talk) 03:01, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
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NixonNow, as you saw at the admin. noticeboard, I think you add a lot to Wikipedia, albeit with some of the similar personality traits that I have, which are problematic for many and the community overall perhaps and sometimes. I think Ivan will also support the block removal at some point. In the meantime, (and please forgive me if I am being presumptuous in any way) being someone likely much older than you, I thought I'd share with you what I finally found which helps me when I feel my blood pressure rising while working on a contentious Wikipedia issue.

• Just close your eyes and slowly breathe deeply in and out while counting to 10 with each in or out breath. Concentrate on the air going into or out of your lungs while you do this, and try hard to not think about anything else other than the air going into and out of your body. Try to do this for 5 minutes, it is not easy for me to make the full 5 minutes. All the best wishes, Nocturnalnow (talk) 13:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

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Request for consideration

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Nixon Now (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I no longer have access to this (or any) wikipedia account, however I am posting here as this is the designated sockmaster

In 2018, I got into a dispute and was blocked by User:Bbb23. The block was evaded and became indefinite. I offered to not edit for six months and ask for standard offer and commit to use only one account but the response from Bbb23, the blocking admin, was discouraging and left me with the impression that this would be pointless. I subsequently edited as User:Ffolkways and most recently User:Sowny. I created a number of what I think were well researched articles. Some of Ffolkways' articles were challenged for notability. I learned from that and none of Sowny's articles, generally extensively sourced, were put up for AFD. In particular I used my library access to dig up very old election results and extend the current series on Toronto election results back a further 15 years. All of this has been deleted as the work of a sockpuppet.

Except for the fact of block evasion my editing has been productice and largely free of dispute- certainly no more or less so than the average editor. I am sorry for that and for the dispute that led to the initial block.

I would like to come back as a legitimate editor and am willing to not edit for six months and then use only one account and only edit when logged in.

I would need to create a new account as I no longer have the password for Nixon Now, Ffolkways, Sowny etc.

So could I have a path to return to legitimacy?

RoySmith, Onel5969, Swarm, Ivanvector, Berean Hunter

208.98.222.0 (talk) 17:04, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Checkuser confirms recent article edits while logged out. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 19:12, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

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• You've been given the answer to this more than a few times and you even described it just now. The standard offer to blocked users is six months with no edits (see WP:BMB; this includes the edits you've been making logged out since Sowny was blocked) and then log in to your account and make an unblock request. If you've lost the password for your first account and can't can't reset the passwords for any of your accounts then I suggest emailing the Arbitration Committee and explaining the situation, but don't just make a new account for this purpose. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 19:12, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
• Ivanvector I've been given the answer only once and it was that the blocking CheckUser ie Bbb23 could veto such a request so it seemed pointless for reasons that the Arbcom and CUs are well aware of. I'm aware of editing logged out since Sowny was blocked and didn't say otherwise. I am saying as of now (or a few hours ago) that I am willing to desist. What I am trying to ascertain is if I follow said conditions would I have a route to being normalized now that Bbb23 is no longer an obstacle ie would one of you support that request?208.98.222.0 (talk) 20:14, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

  I'm sorry if something Bbb23 said discouraged you, but nobody vetoes requests, except if a checkuser finds continuing block evasion. So don't do that, and that's really all there is to it. You dug your own hole, but if you come back in six months having abided by the standard offer and ask for reconsideration, I can't promise anything of course but I think you'll find the community more willing than you realize. We want people to edit, not stay blocked forever. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 20:38, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, that's encouraging. This is a dynamic IP so I can't prevent others using it (unless it's blocked) but I will not be editing as an IP or with a sock account. 208.98.222.0 (talk) 20:45, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nixon Now, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Singularity42 (talk) 21:47, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

per UTRS appeal #60730

Nixon Now = Wellington Bay (talk · contribs) --Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:17, 13 July 2022 (UTC)