Given your obvious conflict of interest, I'm not interested in any quibbling on your part.
"Former member" is just as bad in this case. Or perhaps worse, since it shows you're trying to hide a conflict of interest.
It is my considered opinion, having looked through the edit histories of the pages involved and your contributions, that you, Future Perfect, Itaqallah, and others who have piled on have not behaved in good faith through this.
Slapping a denial into an unblock request, when you are the blocking admin, is something you should NEVER do. I don't care if you think it's justified, you just opened up a massive conflict of interest, and that shows that you were being vindictive.
Parker
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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