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I would like to make a statement regarding my ban and request it's reduction to an indefinite topic ban on "fringe" subjects, broadly construed. You can add Anglo-Saxon History to the indefinite topic ban as well if you like.
I would like to make a statement regarding my ban and request it's reduction to an indefinite topic ban on "fringe" subjects, broadly construed. You can add Anglo-Saxon History to the indefinite topic ban as well if you like.


Almost eight years ago, I visited an untested archaeological site in the [[Aaiha Plain]] that was very ineresting and I began writing Wikipedia about it and surrounding archaeological and historical topics. I am fully aware this has caused a number of problems for Wikipedia, especially around the time of my ban when I was living alone in Nottingham with unsuitable or no employment, without much to do but explore all types of fringe concepts around the subject, often down various unexplored, "fringe" avenues and using innaccurate, primary and old sources that I had not properly read in detail. Sometimes with elements of original research and causing disruption with other editors, accusations of bad faith, using material deleted from other articles, not abiding to consensus, etc. as detailed in the RfC below:
Almost eight years ago, I visited an untested archaeological site in [[Aaiha]] that was very and I began writing Wikipedia about it and surrounding archaeological and historical topics. I am fully aware this has caused a number of problems for Wikipedia, especially around the time of my ban when I was living alone in Nottingham with unsuitable or no employment, without much to do but explore all types of fringe concepts around the subject, often down various unexplored, "fringe" avenues and using , primary and old sources that I had not properly read in detail. Sometimes with elements of original research and causing disruption with other editors, accusations of bad faith, using material deleted from other articles, not abiding to consensus, etc. as detailed in the RfC below:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Paul_Bedson#Summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Paul_Bedson#Summary
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As a consequence of my visit to this untested site in Lebanon, I have spent a considerable amount of time during those eight years extensively studying, reading and writing about Near Eastern Archaeology, including editorials for the [[Association for the Protection of Lebanese Heritage]]. The material I would be editing Wikipedia about would be from reliable sources such as [[Lorraine Copeland]], [[Jacques Cauvin]], [[Graeme Barker]], [[Assad Seif]] and the mainly French archaeologists that have more extensively studied this area and given it greater detail than the English ones in many areas. It will be very dry, factual page creation about sites, lithics, pottery and finds from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age, mainly in the Near East.
As a consequence of my visit to this untested site in Lebanon, I have spent a considerable amount of time during those eight years extensively studying, reading and writing about Near Eastern Archaeology, including editorials for the [[Association for the Protection of Lebanese Heritage]]. The material I would be editing Wikipedia about would be from reliable sources such as [[Lorraine Copeland]], [[Jacques Cauvin]], [[Graeme Barker]], [[Assad Seif]] and the mainly French archaeologists that have more extensively studied this area and given it greater detail than the English ones in many areas. It will be very dry, factual page creation about sites, lithics, pottery and finds from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age, mainly in the Near East.


Some may question whether my continued work will influence this area to my point of view, to which I would suggest we ignore, as I will the [[Aaiha plain]] as the focus of my work previously but rather I will be focussing around [[Tell Aswad]] (30km away from Aaiha), where the first [[emmer wheat]] was discovered at 8,800BC. This mainstream subect area - the first wheat and settlement development is my speciality and I would suggest is important for the Wikipedia project as it helps document and inform people about where we all came from as a culture and this type of knowledge is of the highest value for both Wikipedia and humanity.
Some may question whether my continued work will influence this area to my point of view, to which I would suggest we ignore, as I will the [[Aaiha plain]] as the focus of my work previously but rather I will be focussing around [[Tell Aswad]] (30km away from Aaiha), where the first [[emmer wheat]] was discovered at 8,800BC. This mainstream area - the first wheat and settlement development is my and I would suggest is important for the Wikipedia project as it helps document and inform people about where we all came from as a culture and this type of knowledge is of the highest value for both Wikipedia and humanity.


I would like to "prove" myself with an indefinite ban in on fringe topics for some period of time to concentrate on what I would like to edit Wikipedia about, which is mainstream, Near Eastern Archaeology, particularly Neolithic. History is somewhat intertwined with archaeology, so I would request only a topic ban on Anglo-Saxon history if one is deemed necessary.
I would like to "prove" myself with an indefinite ban in on fringe topics for some period of time to concentrate on what I would like to edit Wikipedia about, which is mainstream, Near Eastern Archaeology, particularly Neolithic. History is somewhat intertwined with archaeology, so I would request only a topic ban on Anglo-Saxon history if one is deemed necessary.

Revision as of 17:06, 22 May 2017

Hello,

I would like to make a statement regarding my ban and request it's reduction to an indefinite topic ban on "fringe" subjects, broadly construed. You can add Anglo-Saxon History to the indefinite topic ban as well if you like.

Almost eight years ago, I visited an untested archaeological site in a place called Aaiha that was very interesting and I began writing Wikipedia about it and surrounding archaeological and historical topics. I am fully aware this has caused a number of problems for Wikipedia, especially around the time of my ban when I was living alone in Nottingham with unsuitable or no employment, without much to do but explore all types of fringe concepts around the subject, often down various unexplored, "fringe" avenues and using inaccurate, primary and old sources that I had not properly read in detail. Sometimes with elements of original research and causing disruption with other editors, accusations of bad faith, using material deleted from other articles, not abiding to consensus, etc. as detailed in the RfC below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Paul_Bedson#Summary

I have read in detail and fully understand the points raised in this RfC. They are mostly criticisms of my edits on fringe subjects and Anglo-Saxon history, which in particular, I have no intention of writing more about. I have read and re-read and fully understand all the reasons for my ban including use of sock puppets which I will not repeat, questionable sources and divergent anomalies sprouting from what was my primary focus at the time of my banishment - the promotion of investigation into the Aaiha plain near Rachaya el-Wadi as the potential starting point of the Neolithic Revolution.

I regret and am sorry for this behaviour and accept that the methods I used in the past to promote the investigation of this site were not acceptable or productive for the Wikipedia project. I do not intend to repeat such behaviour but instead concentrate on productive efforts to expand the coverage of Lebanese Archaeology in general, which has hardly expanded since I was banned. I am an expert on Lebanese Archaeology and the Archaeology around Mount Hermon, with a number of unique and hard to find sources that I would like to use to develop this section of Wikipedia again. Most notably, the inventories of Lebanese archaeological sites compiled by Lorraine Copeland and Peter Wescombe in the 1960s, Julien Aliquot’s inventory of Mount Hermon temples, along with personal friendships with leading figures in the field such as Lebanon Head of Archaeology at the Directorate General of Antiquities, Assad Seif (I wrote his page if you want to look him up). I should even be able to provide a letter of reference from Dr. Seif if required.

In brief, I would like to appeal that my ban be reduced to a topic limitation to Lebanese, Syrian and Israeli Archaeology and Lebanese Heritage Management, which I would not edit outside of and feel is an important area Wikipedia should help support and document, perhaps for a limited amount of time as a trial to show that I can provide a positive contribution to the project using only reliable sources. I would like to demonstrate that I can edit productively without use of any original research, etc. Simply to provide useful information for future generations of Heritage Management specialists. I have previously sent ArbCom Dr. Seif’s latest article regarding Lebanese Heritage Management for consideration of it’s importance.

As a consequence of my visit to this untested site in Lebanon, I have spent a considerable amount of time during those eight years extensively studying, reading and writing about Near Eastern Archaeology, including editorials for the Association for the Protection of Lebanese Heritage. The material I would be editing Wikipedia about would be from reliable sources such as Lorraine Copeland, Jacques Cauvin, Graeme Barker, Assad Seif and the mainly French archaeologists that have more extensively studied this area and given it greater detail than the English ones in many areas. It will be very dry, factual page creation about sites, lithics, pottery and finds from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age, mainly in the Near East.

Some may question whether my continued work will influence this area to my point of view, to which I would suggest we ignore, as I will the Aaiha plain as the focus of my work previously but rather I will be focussing around Tell Aswad (30km away from Aaiha), where the first emmer wheat was discovered at 8,800BC. This mainstream subject area - the first wheat and settlement development is my specialty and I would suggest is important for the Wikipedia project as it helps document and inform people about where we all came from as a culture and this type of knowledge is of the highest value for both Wikipedia and humanity.

I would like to "prove" myself with an indefinite ban in on fringe topics for some period of time to concentrate on what I would like to edit Wikipedia about, which is mainstream, Near Eastern Archaeology, particularly Neolithic. History is somewhat intertwined with archaeology, so I would request only a topic ban on Anglo-Saxon history if one is deemed necessary.

I have shown below pages in this area which I have created or edited that I feel were and are beneficial and the type of work I would like to continue contributing if the community ban is lifted and replaced with a fringe topic ban:

Temples of the Beqaa Valley

Temples of Mount Hermon

Stone Age industries

Stone Age cultures

Archaeologists

Sumerian Myths

Ancient pottery

Ancient lithics

Ancient writing

Ancient chronology

Ancient buildings

Bodmin Moor megaliths

Other Megaliths

Sites damaged during the Syrian civil war

Lebanese fish

Archaeological sites

Heavy Neolithic sites of the Qaraoun culture in Lebanon

Heavy Neolithic sites of the Qaraoun culture in Palestine

Tahunian culture sites in Palestine

Trihedral Neolithic sites

Shepherd Neolithic sites

Archaeological sites in Lebanon

Archaeological sites in Syria

Archaeological sites in Israel and Palestine

Archaeological sites in Jordan

Archaeological sites in Egypt

Archaeological sites in Iran

Archaeological sites in Iraq

Archaeological sites in Turkey

Archaeological sites in Yemen

Archaeological sites in Iran

Archaeological sites in Libya

Lebanese politicians

I would also like to add that I like to think I have matured a lot in the four and a half years since the ban and am at least now over 40. I moved back to my hometown of Coventry, UK and got married, hence have no time or desire for writing anything nonsensical or fringe, causing arguments, disruption, etc. I have a highly successful job which occupies most of my time now, am no longer Druze and converted to Islam, which is also much more mainstream. My wife is Arabic and is more fluent than me in French and Arabic. If my ban is reduced, I am sure she will also be able to benefit the encylcopedia helping me translate, understand and edit with mainstream sources from these other languages in the area of mainstream Near Eastern Archaeology. We may even work on mainstream Moroccan Archaeology, if allowed, as that is where my wife is from. I look forward to your considerations and would be pleased to provide any further information or answer any questions required. Thanks. Paul Bedson ❉talk❉ 16:47, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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