On 7/28/05, Lapsed Pacifist lapsedpacifist@campus.ie wrote:
Hi. My user name is Lapsed Pacifist, and my IP is 159.134.233.225. I'm sorry to say I've been here before, the last time things were resolved amicably. I've been blocked for 3 days by Jtdirl, and I believe this administrator is in breach of Wikipedia policy as outlined on Wikipedia:Blocking policy, specifically: "blocks should not be used...against user accounts that make a mixture of disruptive and useful edits" and "users should not block those with whom they are currently engaged in conflict." I don't agree that my edits are disruptive, but even if this administrator does, my contentious entries are easily outnumbered by hundreds of others, and this administrator and I are currently disagreeing on different matters.
This particular admin has a history of making inappropriate blocks, especially as a weapon in edit wars in which he is involved.
The case of [[user:pwqn]] is before us. A long history of good edits, he makes a perfectly reasonable edit to an article in which this admin has sunk a lot of ego, and bingo, he's blocked for a month. No warning, no consultation, no discussion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden...
Although the block was speedily lifted, pwqn has not returned. This admin made no apology and in fact would not admit that he had made any error at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pwqn
Not too long ago, Jimbo was in this forum asking for links and diffs showing abuse of admin powers. These were provided here, but no action was taken.