Seeing as people have derided to trivialize my complaints instead of
acting upon them, I have remanifestestinied my account under the
CLEVER name "U Tworonto." It's pronounced the same way, but it's
spelled such as to include the fact that it's the SECOND in a series!
Isn't that just absolutely clever?!
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:38:01 -0700, Polytarp! <polytarp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To whom it may concern (and it should concern
everyone!):
I have reason(s) to believe that one or more of the administrator(s)
of the Wikipaedia Online Encyclopaedia, owned and/or operated by (the)
Wikemaedia Foundation, Inc./Org./Co., has violated one (1) or more
(>1) of Wikipaedia's or/and (the) Wikimaedia Foundation,
Inc./Co./Org.'s rules &/| regulations. I was prompted to believe this
by the following message, which appeared when I attempted to make a
delightful, beneficial, truthful, and good (though not necessarily in
that order) addition to an article about that most lovable and eminent
among preemnient German philosophers, Friedrick Nietzsche the First
(1st):
...
Your user name or IP address has been blocked by RickK.
The reason given is this:
all of user\'s edits are vandalism -- was blocked, came back, and
immediately began vandalizing again
...
Everyone who reads this message is someone who cares about Wikipedia.
We all enjoy contributing to it, and do so in the best of faith, and
are determined to make it grow and succeed. Imagine the shock-horror
any one (1) of us would feel upon being excluded from doing so by an
apparently malicious stranger.
I knew that none of my\ edits were vandalism. All were made in good
faith and with the foremost intention of improving the Wikipaedia. I
therefore figured that it was a mistake; perhaps, as another part of
the message suggested, "...[a user] with a [dynamic IP had been]
blocked accidentally, due to that fact that [his] present IP [had
been] previously used by a blocked user." To verify whether or not
this was the case, I went to the block list to check. It was then I
learned the ban wasn't an accident. Someone going by the name of Erl,
RickK had banned me indefinitely and purposely:
22:06, 9 Oct 2004, RickK blocked Ute Oronto (expires indefinite)
(contribs) (all of user\'s edits are vandalism -- was blocked, came
back, and immediately began vandalizing again)
Who was this RickK? Who would ban a user who had made countless
useful good faith edits, and call these malicious acts of vandalism?
Who could be so kerlish?
It was then I remembered: The day or so previous, I had reverted some
vandalism inflicted upon the Neva article. Someone had removed the
Geo-stub template. I replaced it, and checked to see who the errant
user could be. Noting that it was a long time user, who should know
better, I added him to the vandalism and progress list and went on
with my day.
Could this have been the same person as the one who banned me? I
checked. It was him, apparently seeking to quiet me and to enact
vengence upon me.
However, I (capital i, not number one) refuse to be quiet about this
issue. I'm E-mailing all of you this so that we'll no longer have
administrators who feel free to vandalize Wikipaedia and then silence
users who object by banning them indefinitely for supposedly commiting
the very same Wikicraeme.
Lovingly yours,
Ute Oronto.