User talk:Empiricus-sextus

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Thank you very much for your nice welcome and yout tips, I´m a wikipedian over 5 years, but mostly I´m working (if I have time) in the German Wikipedia with a concentration on science. Only sometimes I come here:--Empiricus-sextus (talk) 14:20, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Wikipedia and copyright

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I understand this 100 % (I was a strong fighter for the copyright issue in wikipedia -see my german side) but the press statement is more or less an open source UN document without any copyright (until you citate the source correctly !) Specially in the context it is even necessary to use the "UN words". I´m offically for Wikimedia Germany at the conference - the text was exactly verbal communicated on the press conference. For me it`s enough to care for the german version.... --Empiricus-sextus (talk) 16:27, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The UN webpages are copyright, according to their copyright page: "COPYRIGHT © UNITED NATIONS All rights reserved. None of the materials provided on this web site may be used, reproduced or transmitted, in whole or in part..." so you're not allowed to copy their material to Wikipedia. Everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be written in your own words please. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:07, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Sources on Estiphan Panoussi

Hello Empiricus, if you could have a look at your article Estiphan Panoussi and make sure all content there is sourced to a reliable source, that would be ideal. The English Wikipedia has stricter norms around the sourcing of biographies of living people than the German Wikipedia does. If he has gotten significant coverage in independant sources, that is also good to add to demonstrate notability.

See you around, – Thjarkur (talk) 15:34, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, I add some strong source. Should be o.k. now ! Best Greetings --Empiricus-sextus (talk) 10:59, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Estiphan Panoussi

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I add some strong sources - should be o.k.--Empiricus-sextus (talk) 11:01, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Long overdue

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Template:Z33 RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:51, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And now with a nice thread at WP:ANI. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:10, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Notice that you are now subject to a sanction

The following sanction has been imposed on you:

You are indefinitely topic banned from pages related to COVID-19, broadly construed.

You have been sanctioned

because you have repeatedly personalized a content dispute with statements such as
- "One has to be blind not to see [...] Who does not understand this - has understood factually nothing.",^[1]
- "Sorry, you don't understand the relationship between politics and science in China [...] You do not understand that",^[2] and
- "If you don't know anything about biosafety, you should better not respond here. I see you are a proven expert in medicine but this is a biosafety issue for which other scientific backgrounds are relevant.",^[3] and
because you are persistently perpetuating disputes by sticking to your viewpoint long after the consensus of the community has decided that moving on to other topics would be more productive, by:
- repeatedly insisting on the creation of an article deleted at WP:MFD/Draft:COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis:
  - "We need neutral article on the laboratory hypothesis. This is pure disinformation !",^[4]
  - "possibly in another article",^[5]
  - "we need a neutral balanced article on this very fundamental issue [...] an additional article on the controversy of the laboratory hypothesis",^[6] and by
- steadily insisting that the origin of COVID19 is not an issue to which WP:MEDRS applies:
  - "Laboratories are per se not research subjects - and therefore strict scientific standards do not apply here. [...] This is not only an issue of science but also of international politics",^[7]
  - "One has to be blind not to see - that the laboratory thesis is a highly political issue. [...] this has less to do with science, but with politics. Who does not understand this - has understood factually nothing.",^[8]
  - "The laboratory lack question is a biosafety and biosecurity issue [...] The question of natural origin belongs first of all to animal virology.",^[9]
  - "from a scientific point of view regarding biosafety",^[10]
  - "all this has nothing directly to do with medicine and missinformation",^[11]
  - "MEDRIS must be the central source for all medical questions concerning COVID 19, but this question is about biosafety [...] It is the wrong methodology to answer this question. For this reason, we have no choice but to consult other reliable sources."^[12]
This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator as authorised by the community's decision at Wikipedia:General sanctions/COVID-19, and the procedure described by the general sanctions guidelines. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions for that topic. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.
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ToBeFree, kindly consider lifting the topic ban placed on Empiricus-sextus. The two reasons you gave for the ban simply do not hold up.

Firstly, Biosafety is a field dedicated to managing occupationally-acquired infections and the WHO Director General publicly acknowledged that the WHO team’s report on a possible laboratory incident was not extensive enough. The team did not have a biosafety expert and the DG said the possibility of a laboratory incident requires further investigation by a more specialised team. This is what Empiricus-sextus was trying to say in the statements you cited in the topic ban notice.
Secondly, the deletion of a long abandoned draft by the esteemed CambridgeBayWeather was before the March 30 WHO report and WHO DG remarks, and does not make for a good reason to topic ban an editor bringing up the topic for WP:CCC in good faith. A much improved version of that draft was published as an article titled COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis by the affable Arcturus, which was repeatedly WP:BLARed by certain NOLABLEAK zealots, in circumvention of the customary WP:AFD and WP:RFC procedures, causing much upset. The article does not claim there was a leak like the WP:NOLABLEAK essay claims there wasn’t, and could be renamed to COVID-19 lab leak controversy with further improvements from experienced editors. Even if the hypothesis is disproven, the controversy is WP:N and will be a value to future historians, bored housewives who scroll through our random articles, or songwriters looking for inspiration for their next hit.

If you do lift the ban, my advice to Empiricus-sextus would be to leave this topic to experienced EN:WP editors. Tinybubi (talk) 08:18, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Friendly note

Since you have already been issued a topic ban under general sanctions relating to COVID-19, I would recommend you quit engaging in discussions that could be construed as relating to the subject (such as these two edits to User:ToBeFree's talk page). jp×g 22:01, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@JPxG: Thank you for your nice advice. I didn't want to get involved here either way. I could not contribute anything here anyway - there was already an implicit, even dogmatic source ban not only for me, but also for many arguments, sources also from many colleagues.I made only one suggestion for improvement and was very surprised by the selection criteria. This very strict and wrong rule interpretations (from few editors) leads to dogmatic discussions (in one other topic) - is a logical consequence. There is nothing more to say about it.

You are a source expert, as I have seen -what I have understood so far, is that in Wikipedia to certain topics the sources must fit (but what happens if scientific sources can be automatically excluded ? - is not regulated !), that we must also take into account the background and circumstances and then weigh what where we find consensus. This basic rule is here out of order, I have oriented my behavior to it and I do not think that is wrong with me, my behavior, but we have a rule problem - resulting in a content problem.

In special cases an adjustment (what you suggestet- I think !) would make sense, reasons I and other had mentioned, otherwise you violate rules and that leads to misbehaviour. I think that in the future much more research will follow, pro and contra, but I think we should (not as now) exclude none of the results of both options here, also not the cirumstances, etc... Thanks again and have a nice Sunday.--Empiricus-sextus (talk) 11:19, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@JPxG: There is no adjustment necessary for rules; because in WP:MEDRS we have this rule: "Sourcing for all other types of content – including non-medical information in medicine-articles – is covered by the general guideline on identifying reliable sources." That was exactly my position in the discussion and above, which I emphatically defended. It's logic. Biosecurity and Biosafty - the laboratory topic in general is a multidisciplinary topic, with a lot of non-medical informations. I have behaved correctly according to WP.There is a misunderstanding of the application of the MEDRS rules. Also - I have never used a NON MEDRS source in an article, wrote nothing - only discussed, that is a big difference.--Empiricus-sextus (talk) 20:06, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Empiricus-sextus: I would, again, recommend you quit engaging in discussions that could be construed as relating to the subject (such as this one). jp×g 20:17, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I realize that. I am not interested in discussions on the topic, as I said, I respect the topic ban here. I'm just trying to understand the rules that led to my ban. Our Wikipedia can't be that illogical - fortunately. If the rule applies, the topic ban is disproportionate. There is a need for clarification. As I said it is a problem of interpretation and correct application of rules - my mistake was that I didn't really check deeper the WP:MEDRS correctly. I have discussed for something that has long existed here !--Empiricus-sextus (talk) 21:10, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A topic ban means you are not allowed to discuss the subject, anywhere on the website, nor are you allowed to argue about the specific details of why you were actually right in the argument about the subject that led to it. While you can appeal it on the issuing admin's talk page or at WP:AN, I do not recommend you immediately doing this: it would probably be a better idea to spend a while editing elsewhere on Wikipedia (in non-controversial subjects) and get a better feel for how things work beforehand. jp×g 03:10, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]