Editing Eurovision Wiki:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (section)

==Faronnorth==
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===Request concerning Faronnorth===
; User who is submitting this request for enforcement : {{userlinks|Butterscotch Beluga}} 23:38, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

; User against whom enforcement is requested : {{userlinks|Faronnorth}}<p>{{ds/log|Faronnorth}}</p>

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Faronnorth's behavior in GENSEX has repeatedly been unconstructive & uncollaborative in nature
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#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tonia_Antoniazzi&diff=prev&oldid=1287842323 28 April 2025], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tonia_Antoniazzi&diff=prev&oldid=1321142484 8 November 2025], & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tonia_Antoniazzi&diff=prev&oldid=1328957854 22 December 2025] Repeatedly changing "LGBT+ rights" to "Trans rights" at [[Tonia Antoniazzi]].
#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamie_Raines&diff=prev&oldid=1328956128 22 December 2025] Changing "LGBTQ activist" to "Trans activist" at [[Jamie Raines]] with the edit summary of ''"false teaming"''.
#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharron_Davies&diff=prev&oldid=1327566376 15 December 2025] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharron_Davies&diff=prev&oldid=1328957496 22 December 2025] Repeatedly removing the term "cisgender" from "cisgender women" at [[Sharron Davies]].
#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairness_in_Women%27s_Sports_Act&diff=prev&oldid=1333547705 18 January 2026] Inserting a non-neutral description to [[Fairness in Women's Sports Act]] that removes mention of transgender athletes being banned.
#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LGB_Alliance&diff=prev&oldid=1333548574 18 January 2026] Adding a "citation needed" tag to the lead of [[LGB Alliance]] regarding its description as "anti-transgender", despite the majority of the article's content addressing said description.
#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-transgender_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom&diff=next&oldid=1341222931 2 March 2026] Inserting a non-neutral description of ''"Rape law"'' at [[Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom]] that reads as soft peddaling.
#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:LGB_Alliance&diff=prev&oldid=1341602980 4 March 2026] Left the comment ''"The real issue arises when, for example, lesbians are labelled ‘transphobic’ for not wanting to date trans-identified men"''.
#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Faronnorth&diff=prev&oldid=1341776226 5 March 2026] Left the comment ''"I said a transman and a woman in the sense that they're both female"''.

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#[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Faronnorth&diff=prev&oldid=1328958369 22 December 2025] 31 hour block for disruptive editing

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*Alerted about discretionary sanctions or contentious topics in the area of conflict, on [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Faronnorth&diff=prev&oldid=1131733984 5 January 2023].

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I became aware of Faronnorth due to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Anti-transgender_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom&diff=prev&oldid=1341311282 this reply of theirs] to a topic I started on the [[Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom]] talk page. After thinking it over & reading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Faronnorth#Please_don't this discussion] on their talk page with [[user:DanielRigal|DanielRigal]], I 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Black_Kite#Concerns_regarding_Faronnorth's_conduct brought my concerns] to [[user:Black Kite|Black Kite]], who subsequently suggested I bring the matter here. - [[User:Butterscotch Beluga|Butterscotch Beluga]] ([[User talk:Butterscotch Beluga|talk]]) 23:38, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Faronnorth&diff=prev&oldid=1342438132 Notified]

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===Discussion concerning Faronnorth===
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====Statement by Faronnorth====

* A lot of this discussion is [[Straw man|misrepresenting]] what I actually think. I already explained to Daniel why I write transman as one word. It also seems that having an opinion about sex-based fairness in sports is being portrayed as “anti-trans,” even though someone having a trans identity is not the issue in that context; their sex is. it needs to be framed like that as a motte and bailey to shift focus away from technical fairness and onto moral failure. The argument often has to be framed as anti-trans in order to portray it as bigotry against people based on how they identify. That’s why I tried to change the wording in the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act article to make the framing more neutral. 
Are there people who might use this issue as an excuse to get at people they dislike for being gender non-conforming? Probably yes. That's just a case of concurring opinion. [[User:Faronnorth|Faronnorth]] ([[User talk:Faronnorth|talk]]) 20:43, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

====Statement by DanielRigal====
Since I told Faronnorth "I won't take any action unless you disrupt Wikipedia again" I get the sense that they have dialled it back a bit, shifting from trans related articles to other "anti-woke" targets, but are continuing to probe the limits of what is tolerated here. This report concerns GENSEX specifically but I think this is broader than that. Anti-trans editing is often comorbid with general "anti-woke" editing and we see that here. I think the GENSEX problems easily justify a topic ban but the question is whether we need to go further than a topic ban from GENSEX. For that reason, I'm going to cover some broader problems here.

Faronnorth isn't always straightforward. They are willing to play linguistic games. The deliberate misspelling of "trans man" as "transman" was [[WP:POINTY]] and, in my view, tips over into trolling. Yes, I know that some people do make this mistake in genuine good faith but it is clear Faronnorth they did it intentionally as shown by the replies on their User Talk page. This brings their other "mistakes" into question. Normally, when I see an edit like [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Woke&diff=prev&oldid=1342085492 this recent one], I assume that that's just sloppiness. After the language games, I'm not so sure. The bad edit to [[Woke]] seems like moving on from disruptive editing on trans issues to subtle disruption on other contentious topics. In the past, they tried to make an article called "Anti-Woke Left". I don't know what it was like but it seems possible that this was more "anti-woke" disruption.

Faronnorth joined in 2021 and tried to make constructive edits. There are no obvious problems until November 2022 when they make this [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No_Regrets_(Robbie_Williams_song)&diff=prev&oldid=1118974002 bad joke edit]. In December 2022 the logs say {{tq|"created page 19348 FIFA World Cup (←Created page with 'The '''19348 FIFA World Cup''' will be held in the year 19348 on the moon.'"}}. This is where a period of outright vandalism started. They continued to make semi-constructive edits, many of them reverted as unsourced, on some topics while, on other topics, they committed straight-up vandalism. Examples: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Whiteley&diff=prev&oldid=1209883910 1] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irish_Americans&diff=prev&oldid=1222609862 2]. This faded away as the anti-trans stuff started to come into focus.

In January 2023 the anti-trans stuff starts tentatively, with edits to [[Graham Linehan]] and [[Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull]] which are intended to soften coverage of their views but which could be interpreted as being in good faith, but it's all downhill from there: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2023_Nashville_school_shooting&diff=prev&oldid=1147670472 misgendering], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trans_man&diff=prev&oldid=1207142623 vandalism], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Trans_man&diff=prev&oldid=1207143399 trolling], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isla_Bryson_case&diff=prev&oldid=1225363544 obfuscation], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Isla_Bryson_case&diff=prev&oldid=1234291778 ranting], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Trans_man&diff=prev&oldid=1261877960 more ranting], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharron_Davies&diff=prev&oldid=1327566376 censorship/obfuscation], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairness_in_Women%27s_Sports_Act&diff=prev&oldid=1333547705 obfuscation again], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-transgender_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom&diff=prev&oldid=1341223631 whitewashing] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:LGB_Alliance&diff=prev&oldid=1341602980 linguistic games].

Faronnorth is an editor who can edit constructively, when they want to, but who often chooses not to. It looks like a topic ban could go in three ways: It might redirect them back towards constructive editing. It might send them off to troll on "woke" topics outside of GENSEX or it might send them back to the outright vandalism. I don't know which is most likely but I think a topic ban is worth a try. --[[User:DanielRigal|DanielRigal]] ([[User talk:DanielRigal|talk]]) 01:14, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

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===Result concerning Faronnorth===
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* For their persistent [[WP:BATTLE|battleground conduct]], I support an indefinite topic ban of Faronnorth from the [[WP:CT/GG]] (gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them) contentious topic. As approximately half of Faronnorth's edits in article space to date ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Faronnorth&namespace=0&end=20260307&limit=500 43 of 87]) have been reverted, any further [[WP:DE|disruptive editing]] is likely to be met with an indefinite sitewide block. —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 09:09, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
*: Faronnorth's response does not address most of the diffs in the filing, and additionally gives the impression that Faronnorth does not intend to improve their conduct. As such, I also support an indefinite sitewide block of Faronnorth, as Faronnorth is continuing to fall short of behavioral standards while maintaining a low acceptance rate for their article-space edits over an extended period of time. —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 15:44, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
* We aren't in the business of removing editors for [[wrongthink]]. But we're an encyclopedia, not a reddit forum. Faronnorth's history does not inspire confidence that they are here to build an encyclopedia: I'm seeing a lot of edits, even in mainspace, that have only a tenuous relationship to what reliable sources say about their subject. I would like to hear from them, but I think a sanction is necessary, and based on edits like [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All-women_shortlist&diff=prev&oldid=1278786514 this] (yes, that's a year ago, but only about 30 edits ago) an indef feels more appropriate than a TBAN. [[User:Vanamonde93|Vanamonde93]] ([[User talk:Vanamonde93|talk]]) 17:40, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
* Either an indef or a tban are probably needed to control the disruption --[[User:Guerillero|Guerillero]] <sup>[[User_talk:Guerillero|<span style="color: green;">Parlez Moi</span>]]</sup> 10:16, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
* The conduct is beyond battlefield editing, and goes well into violations of [[WP:CIV]] and [[WP:HAR]] (particularly [[WP:HNE]]). I would have concerns about imposing only a topic ban. The appropriate outcome is an indefinite block. [[User:Arcticocean|<span style="color:#5A4FCF">Arctic'''ocean'''&nbsp;■</span>]] 17:21, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
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