[WikiEN-l] Abuse of powers by admins as per usual: Tony Sidaway

[David 'DJ' Hedley]

Are you still here? Do you even edit Wikipedia? If yes, surely you have a
username/IP you can sign with instead of the troll-like "A. Nony Mouse"? If
no, why do you even care?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Nony Mouse" <mousyme at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:01 AM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Abuse of powers by admins as per usual: Tony Sidaway


> We have a situation.
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Existentializer.2C_suspected_sock_of_Enviroknot
>
> As far as I can tell, this is pure bullshit. Tony Sidaway has taken a
> cherry-picked list of edits out of a long list, and is using them to
> "prove" a point which cannot be made.
>
> Analysis of Tony Sidaway's "Proof":
>
> - An edit made to MoveOn.Org  regarding a Drudge Report document.
> - A following exposive commentary back and forth with an equally
> partisan writer from the other side.
>
> - A revert edit on [[Jihad]] during a time when user
> BrandonYusufToropov and a number of anonymous IP address sockpuppets
> were in a revert war over some highly NPOV-violating content.
>
> Tony Sidaway thinks this "proves" that Existentializer is Enviroknot.
> However, this was Existentializer's ONLY edit to the article and
> multiple editors were opposing the edits by a highly pro-Islam
> anonymous IP. In the whole line, Existentializer makes only one edit,
> although he (along with other editors) deals fiercely with the
> POV-pushing BrandonYusufToropov on the talk page
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jihad/Arhive7).
>
> It should be noted at this time that it is BrandonYusufToropov who
> makes indiscriminate accusations of sockpuppetry at ANY editor who
> contradicts him.
>
> The WHOLE chain of edits:
> # (cur) (last)  16:52, 19 July 2005 SlimVirgin m (protected)
> # (cur) (last) 16:25, 19 July 2005 Texture m (Reverted edits by
> EnviroFuck to last version by Existentializer)
> # (cur) (last) 16:14, 19 July 2005 EnviroFuck (wrong on both
> accusations i'll give you a third try)
> # (cur) (last) 16:12, 19 July 2005 Existentializer (rv, and you've
> surely violated 3RR now BYT. It's obvious it's you.)
> # (cur) (last) 16:08, 19 July 2005 67.78.186.19 (RV edits by
> Enviroknot (has the hurricane hit yet?))
> # (cur) (last) 16:04, 19 July 2005 212.247.200.185 (rv: I think that's
> all the proof we need that the "anonymous" IP is really Brandon
> YouSuck Islamist Toropov evading 3RR by dropping to IP.)
> # (cur) (last) 15:58, 19 July 2005 67.78.186.19 (rv edits by EnviroKnot)
> # (cur) (last) 15:56, 19 July 2005 70.85.75.42 (rv islamist vandalism
> to last relative compromise version by Gren. Go away Heraclius.)
> # (cur) (last) 15:42, 19 July 2005 67.78.186.19 (rv to NPOV version)
> # (cur) (last) 13:29, 19 July 2005 Grenavitar (Zeno's link system was
> more organized I think... -- but, Muhammad is a worthless link -- Zeno
> -- you are not talking -- talking is good.)
> # (cur) (last) 13:17, 19 July 2005 Zeno of Elea (rv to version with
> new links section and other edits)
> # (cur) (last) 12:49, 19 July 2005 Ni-ju-Ichi (rv prior to edit
> warrior bickering)
> # (cur) (last) 12:09, 19 July 2005 83.73.161.47 (revert pov vandalism)
> # (cur) (last) 11:59, 19 July 2005 24.34.164.83 (revert to npov version)
> # (cur) (last) 11:59, 19 July 2005 24.34.164.83 (revert to npov version)
> # (cur) (last) 08:04, 19 July 2005 62.243.243.31 (rv/v)
> # (cur) (last) 05:39, 19 July 2005 67.78.186.19 (rv: pov pushing by
> zeno of elea)
> # (cur) (last) 05:32, 19 July 2005 Zeno of Elea (rv - vandalism by
> anonymous user)
> # (cur) (last) 05:26, 19 July 2005 67.78.186.19
> # (cur) (last) 05:14, 19 July 2005 Zeno of Elea (→Philosophers of
> Jihad Doctrine)
>
> -The fact that Existentializer has also made GOOD EDITS is used as
> evidence AGAINST him (what kind of fucking lunacy allows this to
> stand?!!!!!)
>
> -The user's reverting away from his own user page of an edit by a user
> ("EnviroFuck") who was reported to be a sockpuppet of the banned user
> Yuber:
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Yuber/Proposed_decision
>
> I will also have to note at this time that User Ni-Ju-Ichi and user
> Zeno of Elea have also been accused of being "Enviroknot", either by
> anonymous IP sockpuppets (and wholly WITHOUT justification) or by
> BrandonYusufToropov.
>
> Despite this, Tony Sidaway took it upon himself to put in place an
> eternal block upon Existentializer " pending a decision on whether he
> is a sock of Enviroknot."
>
> Tony Sidaway is VERY out of line doing this.
>
> A. Nony Mouse
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