[Foundation-l] The Communist Vandal Trashed the Dine (Navajo) Wikipedia

[Jeff V. Merkey]

This really isn't the place for this.   I will take the matter to meta.

Jeff

Mark Williamson wrote:

>>why was his block length shortened to 19 days?
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>19 _fortnights_. That's equivalent to 266 days. I had thought a
>permanent block was too harsh, but I did not know it was an interwiki
>vandal with such an illustrious history. When Jeff re-blocked him, I
>left it that way, although that didn't stop Jeff from hurling a
>barrage of less-than-good-will at me. In fact, he blocked me recently
>for "legal threats", apparently not realizing that admins are capable
>of unblocking themselves.
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>Regarding so-called "spaming links", the link was a "contact us"
>mailto link to my personal e-mail. Similar arrangements have been used
>in the past on the Chinese and Romanian Wikipedias.
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>Since Jeffrey clearly felt there was a problem with this, I moved it
>off the site notice onto a "Contact Us" page, where it was listed as
>one of 3 contact options (the other two being the local Community
>Portal and Wikipedia-l). Considering how long my e-mail was there
>prior to the arrival of Jeffrey, and the fact that I received several
>e-mails regarding the site but no complaints about the presence of the
>e-mail address, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.
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>Jeffrey proceeded to remove the e-mail from that page, again accusing
>me of "linkspamming" (which, although I told him it offended me that
>he accused me of "linkspamming", he has repeated several times).
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>He said that that was against foundation policy. I asked him to cite
>the appropriate policy, but rather than citing any sort of policy, he
>accused me of legal threats (unrealted to this matter, from a separate
>conversation), again called me a spammer, and blocked me for 12
>months.
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>He seems to also be accusing me of holding back the nv.wp from making
>any sort of progress, while he claims to have several native speakers
>on hand, and yet neither he nor they have contributed any articles.
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>Mark
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