Many of us take the opposing view that we do not have enough reason to think the ban was justifiable, and that the ban itself is a small part of the issue, which is seen as lack of due process, compounded by poor communication and bad crisis management. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Olatunde Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 12:01 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block
Nobody seems to be insinuating that Fram is lying. It's just plain stupidity to demonize the WMF's action solely on their part of the story alone. Fram has penchant for irritating people he disagrees with and it's possible they have crossed the line.
Recently there was an AbCom case against Rama, an English Wikipedia administrator (now desysoped), Commons administrator and oversighter. While the case was ongoing, Fram began to follow this user to an extent that they began to mass-nominate for deletion the user's uploads on Commons, a behavior the user considered as stalking and harassment. Some users including myself requested that Fram stay away from Rama and their uploads. A behavior like this would normally get users blocked but nobody felt the reason to ban or blocked Fram partly because they wear the English Wikipedia's admin hat.
This incident is barely a month ago.
I am unsure if this form part of the reasons for the ban but I have no enough reasons to think that the ban was unjustifiable.
Regards,
Isaac
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 10:15 AM Benjamin Ikuta <benjaminikuta@gmail.com wrote:
Why do you doubt Fram? What do you think happened? And why can't the WMF say even so much as a, "That's not accurate."?
You really think he's just outright lying?
On Jun 14, 2019, at 4:03 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
If you really think Fram's framing of events here is even plausible, let alone the story, then you're less competent than I have previously considered you to be.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 18:47, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
According to Fram, the WMF told him his "interaction ban" was for maintenance tagging two articles, yes (and when I looked at the diffs,
the
maintenance tags were accurate and necessary). So, either Fram is lying
or
omitting something (and the WMF, for whatever reason, is not challenging him on it), the WMF lied to Fram, or they did indeed sanction him for
what
they told him they sanctioned him for.
Todd
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 4:37 AM David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
and you're *seriously* positing that the WMF would ban an admin for doing only what you describe?
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 11:32, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
The only case of "harassment" apparently cited here was "I kept
writing
garbage articles, and someone kept flagging them as garbage!
Harassment!
Bad!"
If you don't want your articles to be flagged as garbage, FIND YOUR
SOURCES
PRIOR TO WRITING THEM, AND CITE THEM. That's rather a requirement
anyway.
The editor in question repeatedly failed to do that, repeatedly had
her
articles flagged for failure to do that, and regarded that as
"harassment"
rather than her own failure to follow the English Wikipedia's
policies.
Next time, she needs to find the sources first, and write the article
only
after she has them in hand.
Todd
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:14 AM Robert Fernandez <
wikigamaliel@gmail.com>
wrote:
If someone is able to harass someone for years and nothing is done
then
clearly community procedures are not “perfectly adequate”
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:36 AM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
> This misses the point, as others have highlighted already. > > The WMF can and /should/ globally and permanently ban paedophiles, > terrorists, system hackers and people making multiple cross-wiki
death
> threats or threats of suicide. There are perfectly good and > understandable reasons as to why the evidence behind these attacks
and
> threats would be kept unpublished, it's seriously personal or
criminal
> stuff. > > The WMF making topic bans, interaction bans and limited project > specific bans against Wikipedians is a brand new invention, which
goes
> against the pre-existing understanding that the WMF do not replace > existing and perfectly adequate community agreed procedures for > banning bad behaviour on our projects. Once full time WMF employees > start doing in parallel what volunteer administrators already do,
then
> we should question why we do not *pay* volunteers administrators the > same hourly rate and we are likely to see a mass exodus of > administrators. After all, would you, say, deliver the post for free > in your area for fun, but thereby take away decent full time > employment with a guaranteed pension for your local postie? > > If the reason for the WMF stepping in to ban Fram for a year is > because the WMF do not trust Wikipedia administrators or Wikipedia's > Arbcom to take sensible action in harassment cases, then they should > be raising that honestly and openly with Arbcom. If the English > Wikipedia's policies are not fit for purpose, or implementation of > policy is incompetent, we need a much bigger discussion than whether > Fram did something so terrible it cannot be named, but oddly was not > worth a global ban but only the equivalent of a 12 month block on > Wikipedia while they are free to do whatever they feel like on other > Wikimedia projects. > > Fae > -- > faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 15:35, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com
wrote:
>> >> When you bad mouth other users there should be, and will be, > consequences. >> An admin got desysoped and banned after repeated warnings? So
what? The
>> only ting to be learned is that some people believe they can do whatever >> they want and it has no consequences, and other people goes
ballistic
> when >> consequences happen. >> >> I would have given desysoped fram and 14 days to cool off, and if
that
> did >> not work out repeated with one month. Banning someone for one year
is
> like >> telling them to leave and don't come back. Someone at WMF is
clearly
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