Hm. I've had some private email exchanges with the
user, and I've finally
managed to calm him down, a bit. By preliminary looks through page
histories, it looks like he *was* being pretty disruptive and edit warring,
with a persistent failure to use talk pages -- but then, he wasn't the only
one doing so. The full protection of the page seems more or less
appropriate, as a means of forcing discussion.
RuinedChozo absolutely must back off or cool down on his personal attacks
and accusations -- if some of those complaints about lying and cabalism are
legitimate, let such be revealed through an RfC or brought before Arbcom for
consideration. On that count, I don't think I'm going to bend.
I am disappointed, however, that the admins involved didn't put more effort
into discussing things with this user. It's true that he's got a long block
log, but I notice that most of the blocks come from the same "group," -- in
situations where I have trouble getting through to someone, I'd say it's
better to try and find a neutral third party to talk things over, with the
person.
There really should have been more discussion from all sides. In heated
disputes, repeating the same superficial arguments ad nauseam usually
doesn't work -- why not explain in detail why you feel a particular edit was
or wasn't sourced, unsourced, original research, neutral in tone, or such?
Why wasn't more effort put into this, especially by experienced admins?
I'm still looking, but as of this moment, it's not yet clear to me where the
alleged block evasion took place. Anybody see something I'm missing?
-Luna
On 12/12/06, Parker Peters <onmywayoutster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Parker Peters <onmywayoutster(a)gmail.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2006 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Completely unreasonable block and behavior by
admin
friends of Itaqallah to win a content dispute
To: Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com>
On 12/12/06, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com> wrote:
1. I'm not the list moderator. I'm merely reporting, so that we don't
have 10 people asking "please moderate him"
2. He should maybe get a bit more calm... Words as "dick" and
"bullshit" simply don't help your cause.
michael
No, they don't. But the utterly dismissive attack rhetoric that's been
heaped on him, both here and on wikipedia? The fact that I'm the only
person
it seems who's even bothered to check the merits of his complaint?
I can see where someone would start to get really angry, and throwing oil
onto fire doesn't help.
Parker
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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.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com