On 1/5/06, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
jayjg wrote:
So, for example, in order to avoid being "heavy handed", one might ask an editor (and fellow administrator) to remove "fair use" images from their page [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=prev...], and then when they object to the request on several grounds, including not considering one of the images to be "fair use", say their comments are "so full of lies, misinformation and patent nonsense" that you must assume they are "ignorant, not malicious" [
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=prev...],
and finally (a whole 39 minutes after your first request) delete them yourself.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:SlimVirgin&diff=prev&...] Have I got that right?
I removed them, in accordance with our fair use policy, because she was clearly not going to remove them. Is two talk page messages not enough to establish that the images are not permitted on the user page? How many do you propose I leave in future?
You twice reversed the indefinite block of a highly abusive troll who spent a lot of his time on WP attacking me (someone I know emailed lots of people looking for someone to unblock him, including you, in my opinion). When I objected to your wheel warring, you made personal attacks against me on another talk page I was editing, and reverted to them several times when I tried to remove them. You called my post about admin concerns "whining"; you called me a liar on your talk page; you deleted another admin's warning to you about it; you turned up on my user page deleting two images half an hour after first asking me about them; and then, apparently astonished that I would dare to revert you, you reported me on [[WP:AN/I]]. Then you went to WP:Fair use, and changed the tag from guideline to policy, in order to support your report; and you're currently bickering with another admin who has tried to reason with you about it. (As for the images, I've deleted one, and I'm trying to find out about the second, which used to carry a free-licence tag, and that would have happened without your bullying.)
If you think your behavior is appropriate -- an example of the kind of civility you were earlier advocating -- the situation's even worse than I thought. What it looks like is that you're continuing where Marsden left off, and I very much hope it's just that it looks that way. At least Marsden didn't have admin privileges, though the way things are going, he's likely got a sockpuppet fighting vandalism as we speak in preparation for his nomination.
Sarah