On 12/12/06, Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu- tariqabjotu@gmail.com wrote:
Take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/RunedChoz... ; the block was not lengthened for the edits on his talk page; it was over possible block evasion and further incivility. If the Request for CheckUser concludes that the IP is indeed RunedChozo, the block is most certainly valid. Otherwise, perhaps it will go back to the original forty-eight hours. However, I don't appreciate the accusations (not from you, George) of this being some Muslim Guild conspiracy. It's not; I'm not even a member of the Muslim Guild.
-- Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu-
George Herbert wrote:
As far as I can see, it's entirely over his editing of his talk page, removing unblock request refusals and re-unblock-requesting, plus arguing with people there.
As a personal opinion - lengthening blocks due to ongoing argument ONLY on a blockee's talk page is among the worst abuses that a pack of administrators can commit, ganging up on someone.
RunedChozo came into the argument with a bunch of abuses he'd committed counting against him, and certainly was being disruptive on several levels. He did have one point that I see - Itaquallah did use inappropriate edit summaries and remove material with source info claiming it's unsourced. There was a two-sided abusive edit war going on; Itaquallah was not an innocent party there, and should have been warned against that.
It's hard to see this and not wonder if RunedChozo is too disruptive to be a Wikipedia participant, but a bunch of admins have gone and collectively beaten up on someone in a way which is not called for or appropriate. If someone can't stop being a dick on their talk page while they're blocked, admins need to just walk away and let them cool down.
Bad day.
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If this sort of evidence is not posted in the ANI discussion, user talk page, or in the block message, it's a little hard for other admins to figure out that there are other evasion claims outstanding...
Note that the time-of-day of edits by ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/70.114.237.14 ) are completely outside hours of the day when RunedChozo has typically edited before, and predate his being blocked by a day. A reasonable suspicion could be made based on targets and content, but you might want to checkuser this first and extend a block for evasion later...