User talk:Bill Williams

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BLPN discussion[edit]

You may be interested in this discussion[1] based on your comments in this old RfC "far-right"_to_the_lead. I'm not looking for a specific article level change rather a general opinion about situations like this. Springee (talk) 15:56, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Springee thanks for letting me know, I definitely would have joined the discussion but don't want to get you into any trouble with any overzealous editors who think you were trying to canvass. I fully agree that the label "far-right" should never be hyperlinked because it's a completely misleading term that American media likes to use. The hyperlink leads to an article talking about Nazism and other far more extreme positions supporting literal genocide compared to the braindead American conspiracy theorists who are also called "far-right" but have expressed 0 support for murdering millions of people. Bill Williams 04:18, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Academia[edit]

Hi Bill

Doing some googling I found an archive of a discussion you had regarding andy-academiaathotmail.com. He has emailed me 26 times operating under User talk:Fagerbakke, asking me to rollback and edit war various articles on the Israel-Palestine conflict. I have to admit, I do agree with some of his reasoning behind the edits, but it seems that he is attempting to use me (a reviewer perms and auto/extendedautoconfirmed user) as a shield to hide behind his edits in a war with another annoying user, User talk:Makeandtoss. Is there a way to email-ban all accounts created by his email, because I'm getting tired of him asking me to do work for him. He even reached out to me yesterday asking for general requests:

Fri, Oct 6, 12:51 PM (21 hours ago)

Could you add something about the many deadly shootings against Israelis in that town after this POV atrocity in lead?

At this point, I think he is just asking me to make edits for him because he knows it is less likely that a user with nearly 5k edits is less likely to be banned/blocked for making these types of edits. It seems that he has also been threatened on his talk page with a block if he continues to edit Israel articles. EytanMelech (talk) 14:08, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

EytanMelech sorry you have to deal with that, the man is insane and emailed me dozens of times as well. Make sure you report his accounts and emails to CheckUsers, and it is possible to block his email. You can specify that specific users are not able to email you anymore in Wikipedia email settings. Also, make sure that if you do report his email itself, do so privately to a CheckUser so nobody thinks you're doxxing someone. Good luck, he is a really pathetic one. Bill Williams 04:16, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Kast[edit]

Michael Kast does have an article, so the whole point of removing his mention from the lead of José Antonio Last is moot. Bedivere (talk) 13:07, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What a joke of an idea, cherrypicking one thing that I said to pretend like mentioning his father being a Nazi is relevant. He was nearly a child during the war and it has zero reason to be in the lead of his son's article, besides to commit a BLP violation and slander him. Bill Williams 18:48, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your revert on Joe Biden[edit]

Hi Bill. Will you please self-revert this edit? Biden's article is subject to WP:Enforced BRD, and an edit like yours which was challenged by reversion may not be reinstated by you until after you start a discussion on the talk page discussing the edit, and a minimum of 24 hours has passed since that discussion was started. Sideswipe9th (talk) 18:56, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note, this restriction is explained in both the edit notice that appears whenever you go to edit the article, and prominently on the talk page banners. Sideswipe9th (talk) 18:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sure I can self revert, even though my edit was reverted for literally no reason besides "Biden is compared to LBJ" which I find to be a hilariously pathetic reason to revert every single one of my changes. Bill Williams 19:07, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I recommend discussing it on the article's talk page, maybe you can convince other editors why this content should be changed. Just please be mindful in the future that Biden, along with several other articles about US politics (eg Donald Trump), are subject to this same restriction. As with Biden's page, if an article has this restriction, it'll be noted in its edit notice and the article's talk page. Sideswipe9th (talk) 19:11, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that makes sense, I self-reverted and spoke on the talk page, and will be mindful of this in the future. Bill Williams 19:11, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]