Thanks to JCB I've gotten a bit more information about this situation and it's no longer so one-sided.
ILVI is an INACTIVE user. He has made less than 50 edits in the past 12 months on ia.wiki.
ILVI blocked JCB without even trying to talk to him in advance.
In March, JCB found a lot of blanked articles at ia.wiki. He spoke to a steward and was asked to undo the blanking. He reverted the blanking of more than 500 articles.
JCB claims he doesn't delete "hundreds of articles", but rather that he deletes only nonsense. Sometimes people contact him at his Dutch discussion page to ask him to delete a nonsense article.
He, unlike ILVI, is an ACTIVE user, he does a lot of bot-maintenance with RobotJcb, he's done a lot of categorisation, and he checks for vandalism almost every day. He could stop this robot-attack immediately, because he was online.
To me, it seems as if Jay Bowks got an e-mail from somebody saying "Oh noes my artikkal disappeared!!! HELP ME!" and then Jay, defender of the underdog, went "Oh my!!! This article which has only one word in it was deleted by the incredible vandal JCB!!! I shall block him now!"
Of course, Jay himself wouldn't know what was REALLY going on because he's not active at ia.wiki...
Mark
On 22/11/05, ilooy ilooy.gaon@gmail.com wrote:
Dear fellow wikipedians,
The regrettable situation at ia.wikipedia.org has gone on for too long.
Numerous articles have disappeared... ...editors were not told about this in their discussion pages... Articles were deleted at the whim of someone who acquired administrator access and has gone on with this behavior despite the warnings and even pleadings of several users in the ia.wikipedia.org community.
This behavior will not be tolerated. I have blocked the Trojan-horse admin and his IP address.
This person is not the only one who has done this type of activity at the ia.wiki ...and... to substain this type of abuse is just intolerable.
Hundreds and hundreds of articles have been deleted since this wiki reached its highest amount of submitted articles. Since then many contributors have walked away from the project disgusted that the articles they were working on were deleted.
Many of the articles were deleted because they were "mere stubs". The reason they are stubs is because many folks are still working on these articles... Is this the situation in other Wikipedias... to delete stubs willy-nilly? I think not!
I consider this attack on the ia.wiki to be akin to vandalism. It has got to stop and it better stop soon.
Whatever I can do to halt this form of abuse I will do. And so would any other reasonable member of this community. I'm sure.
Sincerely, Jay B. [[ia:Usator:ILVI]]
In Interlingua
Car collegas wikipedian,
Le situation regrettabile al ia.wikipedia.org ha continuate pro troppo tempore..
Numerose articulos ha disparite... ...redactores non esseva informate de isto in su paginas de discussion... Articulos esseva delite al gusto de alcuno qui obtineva accesso como administrator e ha sequite con iste comportamento abusive non obstante le appellos per varie usatores in le communitate de ia.wikipedia.org
Iste comportamento non sera tolerate. Io ha bloccate iste admin Cavallo-Trojan e su adresse de IP.
Iste persona non esseva le unic qui ha facite iste typo de activitate in le ia.wiki ...e... supportar iste typo de abuso es intolerabile.
Centos e centos de articulos esseva delite desde que iste wiki habeva colligite su numero plus grande de articulos submittite. Desde tunc, multe contributores ha vadite via disgustate del projecto proque le articulos con le quales illes laborava esseva delite.
Multes de iste articulos esseva delibe pro que illos esseva solmente un "semine de articulo". Le ration que illos es solmente un "semine" es que multe gente ancora labora con lor redaction... Es iste le situation in altere Wikipedias? ...deler le semine de articulos a gusto proprie? Io non lo crede.
Io considera iste atacco contra le ia.wiki esser quasi un forma de vandalismo. Isto debe stoppar e illo debe stoppar tosto.
Qualcosa que io pote facer pro poner un halto a iste forma de abuso, io lo facera. E tamben facerea assi qualcunque membro rationabile de iste communitate. De isto io es secur.
Sincermente, Jay B. [[ia:Usator:ILVI]]
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