bleh, I feel like an idiot now, the four people I'm talking to in private messages about this on irc are adding in details they didn't tell me before :/
let me clarify really fast: Erik is his real name Xirzon is his IRC nick Eloquence is his wikinews name Ida_mayhem is his bot name
sorry I didn't mention that earlier
Ok, I have now been informed that nGerda was blocked validly. I was told he was just blocked and the Erik was doing this improperly. Once I posted this email, I was told otherwise. I feel like an idiot right now, sorry for that :(
As for the specific examples, I'm making those fools dig up evidence now as I'm a tad bit embarrassed that they told me lies in the first place.
Once again, sorry, Kyle
Nathan Reed wrote:
I'm a nobody at Wikinews, but...
User:Xirzon doesn't exist and User:Erik is not a sysop and has no edits. What aliases is Kyle referring to?
NGerda appears to have been validly blocked after a 3RR rule -- I think he would have been blocked earlier but all the available admins were involved in the dispute.
Perhaps kyle can cite specific examples (with diffs?)?
--User:Chiacomo
On 7/6/05, Kyle Lutze kylelutze@cox.net wrote:
Kyle Lutze wrote:
There have been slight issues on en.wikinews.org that are quite troubling and need to be addressed.
It seems that one of the admins, Eloquence, has been causing many problems by abusing his admin/sysop rights. He is also, from what I gather, the research director for WMF.
He has now banned other sysops on that wiki, including Nick Gerda (ngerda), uses a bunch of aliases that he has given admin status to, and has been disregarding the wiki process and community.
Please note, I do not do too much work on the wiki itself, but I keep in touch with quite a few people in #wikinews on freenode that have left disgruntled because of what Erik/Eloquence has done, which I believe just isn't right.
Kyle
forgot one of the aliases, Erik/Eloquence/Xirzon are the one's I've been told
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