[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Completely unreasonable block and behavior by admin friends of Itaqallah to win a content dispute

[Parker Peters]

On 12/12/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> <snip>
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> As far as I can see, it's entirely over his editing of his talk page,
> removing unblock request refusals and re-unblock-requesting, plus
> arguing with people there.


That appears to be the case.

Further, no unblock request refusal appears removed save one, and that one
appears to be the result of the servers misprocessing an edit conflict;see
his talk page in the "To Rosicrucian" section.

And that one unblock request refusal was made by Tariqabjotu, who's the
admin who blocked him in the first place. No matter if Tariq had good
intentions or not, that's a definite no-no!

As a personal opinion - lengthening blocks due to ongoing argument
> ONLY on a blockee's talk page is among the worst abuses that a pack of
> administrators can commit, ganging up on someone.


Precisely.

RunedChozo came into the argument with a bunch of abuses he'd
> committed counting against him, and certainly was being disruptive on
> several levels.  He did have one point that I see - Itaquallah did use
> inappropriate edit summaries and remove material with source info
> claiming it's unsourced.  There was a two-sided abusive edit war going
> on; Itaquallah was not an innocent party there, and should have been
> warned against that.


But that's unfortunately not how Wikipedia has worked, that I've ever seen.
It's always one side getting swatted and the other side being held
blameless.

It's hard to see this and not wonder if RunedChozo is too disruptive
> to be a Wikipedia participant, but a bunch of admins have gone and
> collectively beaten up on someone in a way which is not called for or
> appropriate.  If someone can't stop being a dick on their talk page
> while they're blocked, admins need to just walk away and let them cool
> down.
>
> Bad day.


Indeed, very bad day. And what makes it worse is the sheer number of
problems I documented a few emails back, where I doublechecked
FayssalF/Svest's claim that RunedChozo had "five blocks in one month" and it
didn't look nearly as bad as he was making it out to be when he was using
the block log as a bludgeon.

There are plenty of conflicts of interest here, and there's plenty of
evidence that it is a collective effort to beat up on one user rather than a
real problem user.

Parker