[WikiEN-l] What exactly is Durova saying here?

[Jay Litwyn]

"Developments in the Alkivar case also precipitated [[Wikipedia:Requests for 
arbitration/Eyrian]], which arbitrators began voting to accept two hours 
before Jonas created his sock account, in which a second administrator was 
not only desysopped but also sitebanned for disruptive socking."

She lost me about there. It looks to me like she believes in meat puppets. 
Maybe that sentence is a dangling participle of some kind. An administrator 
was desysopped and sitebanned (got a service provider blocked), because 
Jonas created a puppet...not too likely. Then she talks about Eyrian, and I 
can't tell if or how she knows that Eyrian and Jonas are the same.

In a previous message, she seems to be claiming that Saboto215 is also a 
sock puppet. I'm lost, because I don't know how to do checkuser queries with 
e-mail, and the contributions she pointed at tell me nearly nothing.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonas Rand" <joeyyuan at cox.net>
To: <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 2:05 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] What exactly is Durova saying here?


>I recently sent an unblock request to Tiptoety, asking him to post it on 
>the
> Admins' Noticeboard, as he said he would on IRC. Durova made a comment on
> it, and then she wrote a long-winded addendum to it that I really didn't 
> get
> the point of, and am unsure of how to respond to. It seems to me that she
> wasn't accusing me of anything, as I could make out no clear accusation, 
> but
> why did she write all of that? For nothing? I don't think that she was
> accusing me of being JB196, because if she read the long term abuse page 
> on
> him, she would see that his real name is Jonathan Barber, and that he is a
> wrestling commentator who promotes himself. Then again, she's accused me 
> of
> not being as young as I say I am, and she may think that I am a made-up
> person. A Yahoo! search on my name can disprove this. Any connection 
> between
> me and JB196 is purely coincidental. I have never even communicated with
> Alkivar and Eyrian (who have been accused of editing for JB196), let alone
> JB196, and I surely didn't "proxy" for him.
>
> I don't know what to say in response to her speech, except that I cannot
> understand a word of it.
>
> Link:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=253095771
>
> Jonas Rand
>
>
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