jayjg wrote:
Not only would Jonathan's idea not have helped in this case, but the fact that Jonathan was blocked several times for 3RR violations, then tried to re-write 3RR so he wouldn't be blocked in the future, and now is trying to get Wikipedia adjusted somehow so that future 3RR violations will be extremely difficult to track, is not "poisoining the discussion", but rather entirely relevant.
Jay.
Jayjg, all you have done since I met you is to accuse me also. Please, do me the diginity of an actual argument with facts. If you want to point out how terrible of a person that I am, take the honorable time to do a proper anecdotal presentation. For example --
Blocks should have no relevance to punishment. What you have argued is to try to validate a block as punishment and label anybody that has been blocked as perimission to continually accuse them of wrongdoing. That is straight out libel.
- libel n. (a) false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation. (b) The act of presenting such material to the public.
Let's examine the order of events more closely:
Katefan0 posted a message to wikien-l: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-February/040207.html Katefan0 declared there was an "edit-war" at on the 3RR page after a single edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AThree-revert_rule&... The edit was done by me because I notice a redundancy. There were to similar paragraphs that caused confusion. Later, JzG removed and merged the same paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AThree-revert_rule&... However, NOBODY complained about such similar edit. BUT, they still complain about my first edit as "watering down" or "to re-write 3RR so he wouldn't be blocked in the future."
Let's examine more closely what has happened here.
I was blocked. I believe I was blocked unfairly. However, I read the 3RR page and other pages that asured me that the blocks are not punitive. As you see by this Jayjg reply, such replies do not purely reflect a "not punitive" attitude.
Blocks are a preventative measure only. They shouldn't be used to discredit someone. It's to easy for any admin to block a user. The ease should not be taken advantage of to reflect on the personality. Especially, when blocks are given out blindly just to stop an edit war. It by no means has any justification as to actually who caused the edit war.
Jayjg, if you so desirely want to continue to ruin my reputation -- THEN WITH DIGNITY, PLEASE -- go dig out my history and let's examine the reasons why I was blocked. However, remember... as you threatened me... that WAS a wp:point violation to do so: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AThree-revert_rule&...
Jonathan