I've been blocked for a month from Wikipedia for personal attacks. Now, I do grant that a block was perhaps justified... but I also feel that a month is quite egregarious.
Yes, I had stated my intention to go on wikibreak, but that isn't to say that I had not intended to come back from time to time, perhaps to comment on discussions or to perform some RC patrol on occasion.
To be fair, I didn't necessarily handle the block appropriately, instead responding by creating (and using some existing) sockpuppets and posting responses laden with even more personal attacks to the relevant thread on WP:ANI. (Sockpuppets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia:Suspected_sockpuppets_of_Blu...)
However, I also believe that I had legitimate cause for upset, as I was responding in part to being accused of being a neo-Nazi/racist/anti-Semite. The statements that I was subjected to where highly offensive, and I responded in a very similar vein. This isn't to justify my actions, which, in retrospect, where clear violations of numerous policies, but nonetheless, I do want to make clear that, in part at least, my personal attacks were a response to what I felt were also personal attacks.
I would like to request that my block be reduced to 24 or 48 hours, because, although I can grant that a block was appropriate, I do not believe that a block of one week (the initial length), or one month (the extended length after my response to an admin on my talk page) is appropriate. I do grant that my actions with sockpuppets may have ruined any chance at getting my block reduced to a more appropriate time frame, but I feel I must at the very least request it.
On 3/31/06, WikiAardvark@butterflyfiles.cjb.net < WikiAardvark@butterflyfiles.cjb.net> wrote:
I've been blocked for a month from Wikipedia for personal attacks. Now, I do grant that a block was perhaps justified... but I also feel that a month is quite egregarious.
Yes, I had stated my intention to go on wikibreak, but that isn't to say that I had not intended to come back from time to time, perhaps to comment on discussions or to perform some RC patrol on occasion.
To be fair, I didn't necessarily handle the block appropriately, instead responding by creating (and using some existing) sockpuppets and posting responses laden with even more personal attacks to the relevant thread on WP:ANI. (Sockpuppets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia:Suspected_sockpuppets_of_Blu... )
However, I also believe that I had legitimate cause for upset, as I was responding in part to being accused of being a neo-Nazi/racist/anti-Semite. The statements that I was subjected to where highly offensive, and I responded in a very similar vein. This isn't to justify my actions, which, in retrospect, where clear violations of numerous policies, but nonetheless, I do want to make clear that, in part at least, my personal attacks were a response to what I felt were also personal attacks.
I would like to request that my block be reduced to 24 or 48 hours, because, although I can grant that a block was appropriate, I do not believe that a block of one week (the initial length), or one month (the extended length after my response to an admin on my talk page) is appropriate. I do grant that my actions with sockpuppets may have ruined any chance at getting my block reduced to a more appropriate time frame, but I feel I must at the very least request it.
Actually, nobody accused you of being any of those thing's; they just pointed out some rather unsavory comments you had made. If you think those comments made you look like a neo-Nazi/racist/anti-Semite, then perhaps you should have thought twice before making them.
In any event, since that point you've used dozens of IPs to continue your attacks, and deliberately vandalized WikiMedia and WikiCommons. Are you really suggesting that, at this point, you should be allowed to come back to Wikipedia?
Jay.