I am user:Eyeon. Sysop:SlimVirgin has wrongly suspended me, accusing me of using sockpuppets (user:niglet and user:fecologist) to get around 3rr. Furthermore, she has blocked editing of Feces article for content reasons, and admits it on the talk:feces page - quote: "If any regular editor wants to edit, drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll unprotect." I'm pretty sure that the role of a sysop is NOT to pre-screen edits.
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Furthermore, she has blocked editing of Feces article for content reasons, and admits it on the talk:feces page - quote: "If any regular editor wants to edit, drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll unprotect." I'm pretty sure that the role of a sysop is NOT to pre-screen edits.
A fairly standard way of dealing with socks without haveing to use range blocks and the like
On 6/13/05, Jane Halliwell hundredpurses@hotmail.com wrote:
I am user:Eyeon. Sysop:SlimVirgin has wrongly suspended me, accusing me of using sockpuppets (user:niglet and user:fecologist) to get around 3rr.
[[User:Eyeon]] has been causing trouble around a number of articles for some time, including [[Feces]], where she's trying to insert a photograph of a human turd against the wishes of the editors on the page. She's has already been blocked twice for 3RR on that page, once by me, and several editors have said her behavior is troll-like.
Today, Eyeon and two new accounts, Niglet and Fecologist, started reverting at [[Feces]] to the version with the photograph. Eyeon and Fecologist reverted six times in 10 hours. I therefore blocked Eyeon for a 3RR violation, and blocked the two new accounts indefinitely as sockpuppets created to violate 3RR. I also protected the page in case Eyeon turned up with more sockpuppets, and to give the other editors a rest from having to revert. I've made it clear on the talk page that I'll unprotect if the other editors want to edit.
Eyeon has e-mailed me several times insisting the new accounts were not controlled by her, and requesting an IP check. I wonder about the value of that, as she may have asked friends to set up the accounts for her, which would still make them sockpuppets. I've put a request for advice as to how to proceed on [[WP:AN/I]]. If anyone here has ideas, or feels I should assume good faith and unblock, please let me know.
Sarah
I think you have proceeded with the correct course of action. Good job!
UtherSRG
On 6/13/05, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/13/05, Jane Halliwell hundredpurses@hotmail.com wrote:
I am user:Eyeon. Sysop:SlimVirgin has wrongly suspended me, accusing me
of
using sockpuppets (user:niglet and user:fecologist) to get around 3rr.
[[User:Eyeon]] has been causing trouble around a number of articles for some time, including [[Feces]], where she's trying to insert a photograph of a human turd against the wishes of the editors on the page. She's has already been blocked twice for 3RR on that page, once by me, and several editors have said her behavior is troll-like.
Today, Eyeon and two new accounts, Niglet and Fecologist, started reverting at [[Feces]] to the version with the photograph. Eyeon and Fecologist reverted six times in 10 hours. I therefore blocked Eyeon for a 3RR violation, and blocked the two new accounts indefinitely as sockpuppets created to violate 3RR. I also protected the page in case Eyeon turned up with more sockpuppets, and to give the other editors a rest from having to revert. I've made it clear on the talk page that I'll unprotect if the other editors want to edit.
Eyeon has e-mailed me several times insisting the new accounts were not controlled by her, and requesting an IP check. I wonder about the value of that, as she may have asked friends to set up the accounts for her, which would still make them sockpuppets. I've put a request for advice as to how to proceed on [[WP:AN/I]]. If anyone here has ideas, or feels I should assume good faith and unblock, please let me know.
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Stacey Greenstein wrote:
I think you have proceeded with the correct course of action. Good job!
UtherSRG
Hear, hear! User:Eyeon is an archetypal troll, making edits in bad faith to test Wikipedians' patience under the guise of superficially reasonable argument.
I would have blocked him myself long ago for being a vandal, but I had already become deeply involved in the [[feces]]-storm. I must say, though, that unwatching that page has dramatically improved my quality of life over the past couple days.
- David [[User:Nohat]]
--- slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote: including [[Feces]], where she's
trying to insert a photograph of a human turd against the wishes of the editors on the page.
To be fair, that's not strictly true. The Talk page has gone to a rather lame vote, but even discounting any possible sock-puppets, editors seem fairly evenly split on the issue.
Dan
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Well whatever the case, 24 hours of not editing a page on feces isn't going to be the end of the world, is it? "Pre-screening" -- also known as coming to some sort of agreement before getting into or continuing a revert war -- is often an essential way of keeping articles from getting, um, crapped up in the process of disagreement. If a user can't be bothered to discuss changes beforehand with other editors before insisting on re-inserting and reverting contentious information, I think that's a good sign of a problem.
FF
On 6/13/05, Jane Halliwell hundredpurses@hotmail.com wrote:
I am user:Eyeon. Sysop:SlimVirgin has wrongly suspended me, accusing me of using sockpuppets (user:niglet and user:fecologist) to get around 3rr. Furthermore, she has blocked editing of Feces article for content reasons, and admits it on the talk:feces page - quote: "If any regular editor wants to edit, drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll unprotect." I'm pretty sure that the role of a sysop is NOT to pre-screen edits.
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