User talk:Polygnotus

Hello! I am assuming you have come over from the English Wikipedia, so you are probably familiar with the way this wiki works. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Here are a few links to help you adjust:

• An English Wikipedian's guide
• Writing in Simple English
• Simple talk: our help desk, reference desk and village pump- in one page
• How to copy from English Wikipedia

There is much to do here. For example, there are a lot of articles that do not exist yet, which you can bring over from the English Wikipedia and simplify. Do have a look around and see what you would like to do. Thank you for joining us! If you need any help, be sure to visit Simple Talk or contact an administrator. Happy changing! MathXplore (talk) 02:31, 5 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Can I ask why you removed those edits. I have read the page and it seemed useful to me. Please do not alter it without getting consensus on the talk page first. fr33kman 16:36, 19 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Fr33kman: Like I explained on WP:AN, Steven1991 was POVpushing by writing something and then spamming it everywhere. When they wrote something they posted it in on average about 7 articles.

I have removed much but not all of the spam. So for example, if you look at Antisemitism in Europe and you look at a bit of text I haven't touched yet (like the Romania section), and you copy some of the words and paste them in the search bar surrounded by doublequotes, you see that the stuff about Romania was posted in 6 different articles. Steven1991 did not use references as sources, but used them to spread their POV in as many articles as possible. Polygnotus (talk) 16:50, 19 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

The claim that antisemitism is also called Judeophobia does not need 5 sources of course; they just added them to spread their message. That antisemitism has a long history in Europe does not require 6 sources. That the worst instance of antisemitism in European history is the Holocaust does not require 5 sources. That those who hold antisemitic views are called antisemites does not require 5 sources. The only reason all that spam was added is because Steven1991 agrees with their political POV. That text about the holocaust is a copy of The Holocaust which was also copied to a bunch of other articles before I removed it. For example this version of this article contains simple copy and pastes of ~6 other articles. So what I am doing is deduplication. In many but not all cases I left editsummaries. Steven1991 introduced many errors, like this one. You can't mediate because they are not here to write an encyclopedia, their goal is to fight the I/P conflict on Wikipedia. Polygnotus (talk) 16:55, 19 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Fr33kman: Have you read the email I sent you? I made 15 improvements on that page, which one(s) do you want an explanation for that is not in the editsummary? Polygnotus (talk) 17:01, 19 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

I didn't understand why you removed so much text but if you're deduplicating that's fine as long as the article points to the main article version for each country. fr33kman 18:36, 19 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Fr33kman I was trying to rewrite it but then I came to the conclusion that it is best to delete it. Most of the reliable sources focus on specific locations and eras, they don't describe an entire continent from creation to today. Polygnotus (talk) 18:47, 19 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

As of now, you are no longer under a topic ban as its clear your edits are not problematic. fr33kman 15:20, 20 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Polygnotus (talk) 15:29, 20 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For cleaning up the POV pushing. Polygnotus (talk) 13:40, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, me. Polygnotus (talk) 13:40, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the clean up! Things turned out a bit messy but there is no point engaging in discussions that'd never end. I went through some of their earlier edits and it was mostly POV pushing, so things should be obvious. But steven did leave a lot of mess behind for us. Thanks again for cleaning that up. BRP ^ever 11:53, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@BRPever Thank you! You'll enjoy User:Polygnotus/tmp. They seem to have moved on to Justapedia which is an interesting choice. Polygnotus (talk) 14:34, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello. This message is being sent to tell you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Disruptive editing". Thank you. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 15:03, 21 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Honestly, I would suggest at this point to just let Steven keep digging their own hole and ignore them on the ANI thread. Clearly they have no interest in productive discussions and until an admin gets involved, it's counter-productive to stoop down to their level. Ravensfire (talk) 02:34, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Ravensfire Indeed. I was kinda hoping my offer to talk to them would achieve something but oh well. I do think Xeno-canto is a decent little article now. Not great by any means, but good enough. It is a pretty cool website. I'll go grab a bite to eat. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 02:36, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I agree! About all three things, actually - the article, the website (and the idea behind it!) and the faint hope that they'd actually discuss, well, anything productively. From my reading of their talk page and the ANI threads on en wiki, that's not exactly their style though. Ravensfire (talk) 02:38, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Ravensfire I kinda want to do the same thing, but for the sound of aircraft passing overhead. [1][2] If you train a model (put a microphone near an airport, get data about the incoming and outgoing flights to label the data automatically) it should be possible to have your phone say: "this is a 737-800" or whatever. Modern smartphone microphones are pretty decent, even though the quality is reduced when making a call. Polygnotus (talk) 02:48, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply