[Foundation-l] Will Beback

[Phil Nash]

And yet on the other hand, we have myself, User:Rodhullandemu, who has/had 
over 1000,000 edits, including 6 GAs and 21 DYKs, not only blocked, but also 
banned, on the basis of a dispute with one editor which has been 
subsequently vindicated in part by ArbCom, and some airy-fairy nonsense 
attributable only to malice based on forged Usenet posts and a complete 
failure to assume good faith. To coin a phrase, "something is rotten in the 
state of ArbCom", and the sooner this becomes more widely realised the 
better. The Foundation should take responsibility for abuse of power at the 
highest level in any of its projects, including Jimmy Wales.

Will Beback was entitled to at least mitigation on the basis of his sterling 
contributions to a project in which he believed; so was I, but I didn't get 
any.

Thank some deity or other that I can still contribute to Commons when I am 
able to do so, but as far as Wikipedia is concerned, the lunatics *have* 
taken over the asylum.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gwern Branwen" <gwern0 at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Will Beback


> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:15 AM, James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We appear to have a problem with Arbcom. We have an editor who has
>> contributed significantly to Wikipedia over the previous 7 years, making
>> more than 100,000 edits and generating a couple of featured articles. 
>> Than
>> in a vote of 8 to 4 he is block indefinitely for issues related to a
>> specific religious movement.
>
> Reading between the lines of the Arbcom decision - necessary because
> most/all of the evidence is secret an off-Wikipedia - Will Beback
> framed an editor he opposed over content issues, got him banned
> indefinitely, and tried to cover it all up.
>
> Regardless of whether you have 10k edits or 100k edits, this is
> indef-ban worthy behavior.
>
> -- 
> gwern
> http://www.gwern.net
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