Some kind soul wishes to link to us because we have an excellent
collection of posters. I've removed the personal details, but I think
the legal ramifications of this are pretty clear.
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Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Important Information about your site
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:11:16 -0600
From: (NAME REMOVED)
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Could people interested in fixing the problems AFD is causing in the
wider world please come to [[WT:AFD]]? At the moment most of the
responses to my message there are varying degrees of denial and/or
indignation. I've pointed out that I put it there to point out the
need for severe internal reform rather than a solution being imposed
from without. But helpful suggestions on how to deal with problematic
nominations/nominators and (not-a-)votes are most urgently needed.
And remember: just because a nomination or (not-a-)vote is in good
faith doesn't mean it's not stupid or damaging.
- d.
I am very pleased indeed to see the arrival of and first appointments to the
position of Arbitration Committee Clerk. These editors will perform many of
the administrative tasks previously performed by the ArbCom members, and I
hope that we will see a consequent reduction in the stress and workload that
is the lot of our senior magistrates. Perhaps this will transfer the
"burn-out factor" to the Clerks!
In any case, a hearty cheer from me for the first Clerks in volunteering
their services, congratulations on being accepted, and may they work
diligently and well in the service of the ArbCom and Wikicommunity!
Peter (Skyring)
I've temporarily deleted this article because it has been notified as
a possible hatchet job on the politician.
The article is quite opinionated and certainly not worthy of
Wikipedia. This isn't another Seigethaler but it certainly seems like
some politically motivated bit of tripe that has been on Wikipedia for
far too long.
Username: Itake
IP: 213.67.50.30.
I was banned by the user "FeloniousMonk" because he felt I violated
wikipedia's civility code even though I was warned several times. Not only
is this untrue, but it is clear that the user in question has a bias against
me because he and I are involved in an ongoing AfD dispute.
First off, I'd like to say that I did indeed violate the rules in question.
At that time, I wasn't aware that there even existed rules for civil conduct
on wikipedia. I was warned that my behavior was against the rules.
I replied to the warnings on my talk page. I didn't even edit the AfD
disputes any further, or violate the civil conduct rules again, but then
suddenly I was banned. So user FeloniousMonk is lying. I wasn't warned
several times, I was told I violated it one time and continious violations
would lead to my ban. I didn't continue to violate it, yet I was banned.
Further, I belive the user FeloniousMonk should have his admin powers
removed. He is quite clearly abusing them. I direct your attention first to
examples of uncivil conduct found on the wikipedia page about it:
rudeness
judgmental tone in edit summaries ("fixed sloppy spelling," "snipped
rambling crap")
belittling contributors because of their language skills or word choice
ill-considered accusations of impropriety of one kind or another
starting a comment with: "Not to make this personal, but..."
calling someone a liar, or accusing him/her of slander or libel. Even if
true, such remarks tend to aggravate rather than resolve a dispute.
More serious examples include:
Taunting
personal attacks
racial, ethnic, and religious slurs
profanity directed at another contributor
lies
defacing user pages
calling for bans and blocks
First off, the users Feloniousmonk is grouping with fit in on several of
these criteries. Yet he didn't ban them. For example:
From my user talk page:
::Both of you need an objectivity lesson. And Itake needs a civility lesson.
[[User:Daycd|David D.]] [[User talk:Daycd|(Talk)]] 17:05, 21 January 2006
(UTC)
::: What's the matter, Daycd? Can't you just feel that "Christian" love? -
[[User:WarriorScribe|WarriorScribe]] 19:14, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
That's it, you've pushed it too far
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/J…
this time]. Continue violating [[WP:CIVIL|the civility guidelines]] and you
will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --<font style="background: #000000"
face="Impact" color="#00a5ff">[[User:Cyde|Cyde Weys]]</font> 04:19, 21
January 2006 (UTC)
::::: Interesting. So you interpret Matthew 5:39 as not applying to you,
then? - [[User:WarriorScribe|WarriorScribe]] 01:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Delete pity we can't delete the author. — Dunc| ☺ 22:21, 19 January 2006
(UTC)
(last one was from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Thomas_Ice)
Secondly, the admin himself violated several of these principles in a very
serious way. As can be shown by his comments on the AfD in question, he does
not only have a serious bias that no doubt played a role in my ban, but he
also does some uncivil conduct himself:
Delete Neither diploma mills nor their presidents warrant articles. Another
non-notable from our most prolific creator of articles on non-notables,
Gastrich. FeloniousMonk 22:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Delete. Another non-notable from our most prolific creator of non-notable
bios, Gastrich. FeloniousMonk 22:08, 20
Your campaign here to promote your diploma mill is its most notable aspect.
Who knows, maybe they'll name a "hall" in your honor... FeloniousMonk 22:33,
19 January 2006 (UTC)
Delete Another tool off the diploma mill assemblyline. FeloniousMonk 22:42,
19 January 2006 (UTC)
Delete Though I was impressed with the fact that "he regularly reads
academic papers at Oxford University." But since I regularly read the Pixley
Press and the ingredients on the back of cereal boxes and I don't get an
article here, why should he? FeloniousMonk 03:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
The admin in question is quite clearly being rude, he's throwing around
accusations, he's doing blatant lying, he is taunting and he is being
judgemental. In my opinion, he has violated more of these criterias then I
have. But because of his admin powers, not only does he escape justice but
all the users who favor his side of the argument and violate these criterias
seem to escape being banned aswell.
Further, FeloniousMonk has just banned the User "Jason Gastrich" on equally
poor basis. In the wake of this ban, and before the ban, FeloniousMonk
himself continued to violate Wikipedia rules and throw around unfounded
accusations. The admin FeloniousMonk is abusing his admin powers, both to
punish users he doesn't like and to influence AfD disputes in his favor.
I feel the entire AfD dispute around the Louisiana Baptist University
articles is being handled very poorly, and it gets even worse when admins
like FeloniousMonk comes along to abuse their powers. I hope this dispute,
FeloniousMonk's status as an admin, and my ban all gets the attention it
deserves.
Yours sincerely,
Itake.
(ps. I didn't quite get the procedure for these kinds of things. There was
something about a mailing list, but I think that signing up to it wasn't
necessary? If my inquiries are going to the wrong place or so, please tell
me so I know who to send them to .ds)
>--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The image itself has been deleted too. Does anyone have a copy to
>> hand? I want to put it on Uncyclopedia, where it would almost
>> certainly be just fine in a suitable context. Parody and satire allow
>> *fantastic* leeway for fair use ...
>Why can't we use it as parody and satire within Wikipedia user space?
Well, theoretically we could. But it's IMO a bit sideways from the
mission (we're here to write an encyclopedia) *and* it's a fair use
image, and we do have a reasonably accepted policy to minimise fair
use images to when there really isn't a substitute. And to get the
fair use images off the user pages. So it really doesn't belong on my
userpage and Gmaxwell was entirely right to remove it (and I left a
note on his talk page thanking him).
People can still link to it at [[Uncyclopedia:Image:Wp ayb.gif]] as
they wish (interwiki link), though you can't make it display as an
image that way.
- d.
fred,
my screen name is KnessetP.R.Guy
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:05:20 -0700
From: Fred Bauder
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Eliezer is not a suitable administrator
To: English Wikipedia
Cc: Fred Bauder
Message-ID: <5B24E546-2E9E-4507-B724-E95D01340D41(a)ctelco.net>
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Again what is your user name?
Fred
On Jan 27, 2006, at 4:02 AM, david weiss wrote:
> sorry i accidently sent more than one message. it wasn't clear to me
> that my first message got through. now i know better how to use this
> tool (i think).
>
> in response to your e-mail, you gave one of six incidents i observed
this
> past week where Eliezer silenced a dissenting voice. most of them
> involved different users. let me focus upon my own problem with
> Eliezer. he currently has me under a 24-hour block because he claims i
> violated the 3rr rule (though the 3rr rule permits me to revert
vandalism
> by OpenInfo. e.g. "he claims to be from the knesset" "opinion of ONE
> israeli", etc. instead of permitting me to entitle my own comments
> "reason for alert" and the like) if i violated the 3rr rule, then so
did
> OpenInfo and the 3rr rule specifies Eliezer must apply the rule fairly
to
> all offending parties. Eliezer deleted my tags, blocked me without
> warning and did not block OpenInfo. what's the difference between
> OpenInfo and me? OpenInfo shares Eliezer's anti-messianic agenda and
> admits on the talk page that he supports outreach judaism - an
> anti-messianic group. i expressed the mainstream voice of judaism that
> is pluralistic.
>
> on this same note, i tagged the alert and went to the talk page to
> explain the reason for my tag. as i was typing part 2 of my reason,
> Eliezer blocked me. my full explanation never saw the light of day. the
> partial explanation i managed to get onto the talk page was ignored by
> Eliezer and criticized by OpenInfo. this certainly does not represent
> the voice of the community who watches this article.
>
> (please note: i never stated that i personally sibscribe to any of the
> above-mentioned views. Eliezer and OpenInfo ASSUME i'm expressing my
own
> religious views. while i have my own religious convictions this forum
is
> not the appropriate place since all of us are supposedly neutral.)
>
> finally, your question about the messianic jews executed during the
> spanish inquisions is a valid question (though i never got the chance
to
> address that issue either in the article or on the talk page.) the
> inquisions exclusively tagerted jews who were in the church - i.e. jews
> who confessed belief in Jesus. while the majority of jews in spain at
> that time refused to join the church or confess belief in Jesus, the
> spaniards focused exclusively on jews within the church. they rounded
up
> 1500, killed 500 who refused to renounce their jewish identity while
> believing in Jesus and released 1,000 under a death threat who agreed
to
> renounce their jewish identity while believing in Jesus (at least
> publicly). did the term "messianic jew" exist at the time? no. by
> PROPER definition, were their religious beliefs and practices
consistant
> with messianic judaism or hebrew christianity? they certainly weren't
> behaving like orthodox jews (though they could have). if we apply a
> consistant and fair logic, then the article inaccurately asserts
> messianic judaism "began" in the 1860's and came from the church of
> england. the term "messianic jew" didn't exist at that time, either.
> we'd have to say messianic judaism started in the 1970's when the
> movement adopted the name and was clearly in full swing for a long
time.
> if we more appropriately analyze the CHARACTERISTICS of messianic
> judaism, then we find this unique religious expression has existed
2,000
> (which predates christianity by over 300 years). we further discover
> messianic judaism has always existed over the past 2,000 years -
whether
> in large or small numbers.
>
> give unbiased third parties who have done over 10 years research into
> messianic judaism a voice in this article and i believe the end result
> will be an article that preserves the intrigrity of wikipedia and does
> not serve the radical agenda of Eliezer and OpenInfo.
>
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:32:05 +0100
> From: MacGyverMagic/Mgm
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Eliezer is not a suitable administrator
> To: English Wikipedia
> Message-ID:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Sending one message to the list is quite enough.
> If you are talking about reversions like
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
> title=Messianic_Judaism&diff=36540336&oldid=36537686
> then
> Eliezer was quite right to make them. Articles are about facts, and
> questioning the validity of any of them, should happen on the talk
> page.
>
> Where and when did you post those concerns on the talk page? Just
> tagging is
> not enough.
> I've seen several people tag the article as totally disputed without
> putting
> any discussion on the talk page.
>
> It would help a lot of you posted diff links to the edits you are
> referring
> to see WP:DIFF.
>
> About the first editorial comment. If the article says Messianic
> Judaism
> started in the 1800s, then are you sure Judaism was actually called
> Messianic in the 1490s? Jews may have died during Crusades or at the
> hands
> of Queen Isabelle, but they may simply be a completely different form
> of
> Judaism altogether.
>
> Mgm
>
>
> On 1/26/06, david weiss wrote:
>
>>
>> eliezer imposes an unfair, seriously biased and inaccurate article
>> dealing with messianic judaism. when i had previously raised my
>>
> concerns
>
>> in the discussion page and point out the gross misinformation in
>>
> the main
>
>> article, eliezar would delete my tag. (as a side note, i observed
>>
> others
>
>> tag this article as violating the npov policy only to have their
>>
> tags
>
>> deleted without explanation.)
>>
>> i expressed my concerns on the talk page, only to be vandalised by
>> OpenInfo and blocked by Eliezer. Eliezer prevented me from
>>
> explaining:
>
>> 1. where the npov policy was violated in several places; 2. show
>>
> where
>
>> the facts were seriously inaccurate and, 3. show where the author
>> contradicted himself. eliezer blocked me without sufficient warning
>>
> per
>
>> the blocking policy.
>>
>> while i strongly disagree with eliezer's anti-messianic agenda, i
>>
> do not
>
>> feel i vandalized the article or site in any way. this site's
>>
> policy
>
>> allows me the freedom to edit articles that violate the npov in a
>>
> good
>
>> faith effort to make them more accurate.
>>
>> i believe eliezer will only force his anti-messianic agenda upon
>>
> the
>
>> public and a new administrator needs to be appointed who will
>>
> fairly
>
>> address the topic. thank you for your prompt and open-minded
>>
> attention
>
>> to this matter.
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