Hello fellow Wikipedians and administrators,
I would like to invite all the subcribers to the list to know about an on-going disputes which have resulted to me getting blocked.
Problems have started by a conflict of opinions and ideologies between Iranian Wikipedians and some few Kurd contributers.
The problems were reported to the incident board, and can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden...
These users have tried to push their POV and creating much hassel for Iranian Wikipedians as they have put up dispute tags on many Iranian articles, as mentioned on the incident board, most importantly on the "Iranian peoples" and "Persian people" articles.
After user Aucaman's motives were questioned in the pretty much one-sided mediation, which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-03-02_Pers... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Aucaman
Other users (the other two mentioned in the incident report beside Aucaman), have decided to follow the same agenda on the Iranian peoples article.
Now lets get down to the point: No admin seems to have taken part to do anything on these issues, and instead I was blocked because I tried to organise the disputes on the Iranian peoples' talk page.
The opposition (three Kurd (?) contributers) are trying their best to keep these disputes up, even after clear arguments by Iranian and non-Iranians have taken place in the Mediation link posted above.
I think an admin should have warned me, and it was unfair of them to Block me from Wikipedia for apparently 'blanking' the talk page. The action referred to as blanking the talk page, can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Iranian_peoples&oldid=421...
To conclude:
1- I would like an admin (or more admins) to look at the issue, and bring about an end to the pointless mediation and disputes 2- I would like the admin to have a look at the articles mentioned, most importantly Iranian peoples and Persian people and find out the real motivation behind such disputes, which are on-going even though hundreds of academic evidence have been provided by both sides. 3- I would like to be un-blocked, I think me being blocked was unfair. Although an apology would not be necessary, as I understand my doing was perhaps wrong, but I was only warned by a user - after - I did it (on my talk page), not by an admin, and I did not repeat the offence. The admin blocking me could have checked the times, looked at the situation, and could have made a better decision in my opinion. 4- I would like admins to issue warnings to anyone they believe is doing wrong, because if this is not sorted I think it will (and already has) made many contributers quit Wikipedia because of huge amount of stress. Which is not in the interest of Wikipedia, as we are all contributers with a lot of knowledge to contribute.
I have a lot of other wiki pages as evidence to support for what I believe is 'Anti-Iranian' action, and if you do look at the case properly I believe you would understand that most Iranian and non-Iranian contributers feel the same.
Thanks for your attention and have a lovely (wiki) day!
-- Kash Karimi User:Khashayar Karimi
I think a) Kash should be unblocked b) Kash should take a break from contentious Iranian articles for a while c) Some brave editors should wade in to mediate...
I also think b) shouldn't be mandatory, and I'm not volunteering for c), so take my recommendations for what little they're worth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Iranian_peoples&oldid=421... was clearly done in good faith, although it may have exacerbated the problem anyway, since I don't know how contentious the discussions between the various editors had gotten by that point. Talk pages should *not* be considered sacred cows.
And yes, I know that if Kash does b), if the Kurdish advocates are being unfair (and I have no idea one way or the other) they "win" by beating out their opposition, which is certainly no good, but it won't last forever.
And it's just Wikipedia.
I can't stand the {{disputed}} tag, by the way.