[WikiEN-l] Unblock request - Critique on administrators is no personal attack

Selina . wikipediareview at gmail.com
Sat May 27 20:21:04 UTC 2006


Should just plain ban, he's trying to start up "Wikipedians for Decency" all
over again

-Selina


On 27/05/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
>
> If you raise enough hell you can get in a mess even when you are
> right. Next time just express your opinion and let it go if folks
> don't agree.
>
> Fred
>
> On May 27, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Raphael Wegmann wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > even though I haven't touched the J-P Muhammad cartoons since
> > my last block one month ago, I have now again been blocked
> > for a week for criticizing administrators, who unjustifiably
> > blocked editors for "Censorship" resp. "removing Muhammad
> > images" and literally called editors vandals, who merely
> > removed an insult on their religious belief.
> >
> > I am not a Muslim myself, but discrimination bothers me wherever
> > I see it. Therefore I created a page in my userspace, where
> > I documented cases, in which editors apparently only have been
> > blocked, because of the strong "free speech" convictions of
> > some administrators: [[User:Raphael1/Persecution of Muslims]]
> >
> > One of those self-proclaimed free speech proponents deleted
> > that page, filed a report on the Administrators' noticeboard
> > and threatend to block me indefinitely should I recreate that
> > article in any fashion. After some fruitless discussion on
> > WP:AN/I, where I consented to change the title, I decided to
> > file a Deletion review
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
> > title=Wikipedia:Deletion_review&oldid=55213632#User:Raphael1.2FPersecu
> > tion_of_Muslims
> >
> > which itself got removed after administrators commented
> > "Keep this shit deleted" respectively "Why are we discussing
> > this unspeakable crap?" merely 9 hours after I created it.
> > It truely lets me doubt the "free speech" motives of
> > administrators, if they have to censor people they disagree
> > with.
> >
> > [[WP:ANI#User:Raphael1.2FPersecution_of_Muslims]]
> > Zoe reports the deletion of my critique on 22 May
> >
> > [[WP:ANI#User:Raphael1_blocked_for_a_week]]
> > block report by Zoe on 26 May, where he lists diffs
> > where I allegedly personally attacked him.
> >
> > Btw. I have never claimed, that any administrator is a persecutor
> > of Muslims. Instead I've made clear on [[WP:ANI]], that I consider
> > the persecution a side-effect of their blocking habits.
> >
> > best regards
> > --
> > Raphael



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