Elonka wrote:
I am a public figure who has contributed over a thousand edits to Wikipedia, and created dozens of articles. I was attempting to go through the dispute resolution process to build an RfC to address a series of personal attacks that were generated towards me by user DreamGuy, but earlier today I was accused by Admin Bishonen of harassment, and then blocked
"indefinitely", without
warning, by Admin David Gerard, with the comment, "clearly not here to write an encyclopedia in any way." More information is available here, including a link to the related discussion on the Admin noticeboard: _http://www.elonka.com/wikipedia/_ (http://www.elonka.com/wikipedia/)
There's a pile of discussion on WP:ANI on this case. There's been a pile of socks after DreamGuy for a while, and when Elonka started as well, several admins (me included) presumed this was another one. This probably isn't the case. Someone else has dropped the block to a week. I've exchanged email with Elonka on the matter, and strongly suggested that the abovelinked page be removed or severely toned down if she wants a happier involvement in general with Wikipedia.
ps: I'm probably about that famous, but I don't state a claim of such every breath I take. I'm just picturing WMC or someone doing that sort of thing ... nah.
- d.