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Hi Peaceray. Thanks so much for your help with the Natalie Jay Banus page. The instructions I have are that I cannot use her memoir as a source for information. As her ghostwriter, I know it is the single most authoritative source on her life, it is entirely uncontested and without it I am very limited in what I can say. Also advised that I can't use Famousfix, Instagram, Reddit and IMDb as sources. That limits the information further, almost to nothing. Is it the case that I should delete all this information? Just need to check as it's probably not worth her having a page in that case. Thanks again for your help.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Natalie_Jay_BanusCeaselessSearch (talk)10:28, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@CeaselessSearch: Unfortunately for this matter, I am traveling & will have limited time (currently responding from at aField Museum cafeteria).
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Maybe there's a good reason but I'll just note that an apparently new editor started their talk page by first adding, and then adjusting, their own welcome note from you[1]Andrew Lancaster (talk)08:32, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Andrew Lancaster:Thank you! Since the copied welcome message bore my signature & misrepresented that it came from me, I deleted that page. I added a shorter welcome message & a warning about copying material without proper attribution, & also left instructions so that that editor can welcome themself using{{Welcome-menu}} should they wish to refer the many links in that message. You can see my last posthere.Peaceray (talk)15:50, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Peaceray, hope all's well! We haven't interacted before but I wanted some uninvolved admin opinions/oversight/help and your name was the first on therandomly generated active admin list. Specifically, my issue regards what seems to me to be a pattern of problematic, POV-pushing edits by another editorVice regent in the very contentious Gaza War/Middle East topic area.
I mostly avoid editing in the topic area given how heated it is and since there's other topics I'm better at contributing to, and I also won't have much time to edit these next few weeks anyways so I thought it would be good that this came to the attention of a random uninvolved admin so, if necessary, the correct, appropriate action can be taken.
I'll leave it to you to decide what, if any, issues there are with the editor's edits though full disclosure I didstart a discussion here regarding one of the edits, and replied to two other discussions involving themhere andhere (those are my first-ever interactions with this editor too). For full transparency, I also made two semi-manual revertshere andhere before realizing that there are many more edits by Vice regent that have the same issues of (at least in my view) misunderstanding/misusingWP:WEIGHT and trying to push their POV consistently. I'm fine with my manual revert edits being modified though would say they were well reasoned compared to the edit summary-lacking contentious edits Vice regent made.
I apologize for bothering you about this, and feel free to let me know if you'd prefer me reaching out to another random active admin (your the second random admin I've asked after thefirst said he couldn't help too much about this). I'm not as savvy with the forums and procedures as I'd imagine you and other admins are, and I also have absolutely no interest in being caught up in Wiki polemics, but it's good to bring attention to these cases sometimes, earlier than later. Thank you in advance for the help and feel free to ping me with any follow-up questions or comments though I would strongly prefer being uninvolved in any formal cases or related things. Best,DantheAnimator22:54, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure that timing works great and feel free to do whatever you believe would be best. I opted to contact a random admin individually instead of going to the noticeboard so as to not get involved in a dispute. If you decide to post at the noticeboard, I wouldstrongly prefer that I'm left out/not mentioned, as I really have no interest in getting involved with Wiki bureaucracy and will be short on time these coming weeks. If you decide after taking a closer look tomorrow that you would also prefer not to be involved, just ping me again here and I'll try my luck with another random active admin. Best,DantheAnimator00:05, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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