On 6/20/06, Jon Awbrey <jawbrey(a)att.net> wrote:
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Ok, I'm sorry, but I don't understand what your complaint is here that
is causing you to want to withdraw.
You appear not to have been seriously or lastingly sanctioned for
anything; GTBacchus warned both you and JJL not to 3RR / edit war, and
then Voice of All blocked you for 24 hrs and then 2 minutes later,
changed that to just a warning. I think it's clear that for the
activities of the 12th and earlier, both you and JJL were in some way
misbehaving, though you're the one who got slightly and temporarily
bitten.
None of that concludes the underlying content issue in JJL's favor.
You essentially "got away with" a 3RR vio (block was changed back to a
warning), which is unusually tolerant. You may not be very familiar
with block policy, but generally only well known and apologetic
editors are unblocked early after a 3RR 24 hr block. You were clearly
by normal standards given the benefit of the doubt regarding whether
it was serious misbehavior.
Being blocked and warned is merely a symptom that you carried on the
mutual edit warring with JJL for a couple of hours too long after the
warnings. That's not a decision that you were all wrong and he was
all right.
I also think that you and JJL have not constructively engaged in
discussion on the article talk page regarding the key points of
dispute. Nor have you asked for mediation with JJL.
This is not intended as a personal attack on you, but you appear to be
an ineffective editor, in that you do not appear to understand the
mechanisms Wikipedia is using here. Your perception that you're being
picked on or driven away is an overreaction to what are really
fundamentally mild warnings and reactions to your making some mild but
clearly good intentioned steps across the WP policy line.
There are cases where I believe longer experience "more popular"
admins and editors have abused newer editors to some degree or
another. But I think your claims here are unsubstantiated. If you
cannot understand Wikipedia well enough to work with the system, then
perhaps you should stop editing for the time being. But blaming the
system, when it has not fundamentally mistreated you, is an excuse.
The system is not perfect, but the system isn't the problem here. You
have a perfectly normal, reasonable content disupute with another
editor. You haven't been abused or pushed around. If you can't work
within the Wikipedia rules to resolve the problem, then that is your
problem. Thousands of other active editors are able to resolve these
sorts of problems routinely.
--
-george william herbert
gherbert(a)retro.com / george.herbert(a)gmail.com