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

[Jimmy Wales]

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
> Parker Peters wrote:
>> I've asked Jimbo to step in and stop you and David Gerard from trying to
>> flame me.
>>
> 
> Well, now that that's sorted out, could we please get the same coherent
> evidence that you presented to Jimbo?

It was a complex situation.  Parker tends to present it with a lot of 
moral conclusions that I think overstep the evidence to a degree.

The point is, there was a bit of an edit war in which both sides were 
not behaving in a particularly shining Wikipedia way.  There were 
misleading edit summaries.  (Parker views this as deliberate lying, I 
see it as carelessness in the heat of a stupid fight.)

One person got indef banned.  The other did not.

One is an admin, the other is not.

And, as is usual for this kind of situation, there are many many many 
complexities.  The person who was banned, should have been banned long 
before, if you ask me.

Opinions may vary.