Toby wrote:
Furthermore, you apparently protected the page to win an edit war
that you were taking place in.
I did nothing of the sort and how dare you suggest it. An anonymous user
appeared and added in highly POV rascist material into a page. The material
could not be substantiated and the language used suggested it was someone
trying in a very blatent way to POV the article. I reverted the addition
and notified those who had worked on the article as I suspected they might
be better placed to deal with the issue. The user in question proceeded to
re-insert his anti-zionist rant and verbally abuse everyone else who
touched it. I checked his list of contributions to try to ascertain whether
this was a rather naive newbie with a problem of grasping NPOV, or a
vandal. (The page in question had been subject to nakedly sectarian
vandalism for a while.) All the evidence I could find was of a user who had
made other contributions that had been seen as vandalism and had been
reverted elsewhere. When he continued abusing other users, in the belief
that he was a vandal I blocked him.
He then came back as a new IP added in the same POV stuff and called people
''fucking morons'', ''fucking hypocrites, etc
Among his talk page comments were
<Sarcasm> Yes, I'll admit it: everyone here on Wikipedia is a paid
propogandist for the worldwise Zionist colonialist genocidal conspiracy!
That's why we have articles on Israeli terrorism and Deir Yassin massacre,
and why the Palestinian page doesn't even *contain* the words "terror" or
"terrorist" or "terrorism". </Sarcasm> Look, there are lots of
facts in
the world. It's a fact that the Israelis assassinated Muhammad Sadr, the
Islamic Jihad leader in Hebron. It's a fact that afte that, two Palestinian
militant groups, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, claimed responsibility for a
deliberate attack on a civililan bus that killed quite a few people,
including many children. It's a fact that the Israelis then killed Abu
Shanab, one of the founders of Hamas, in the Gaza strip.
I have disagreed with some users on the page who have been pushing a less
than NPOV pro-Israel stance. I reverted and requested the banning of a user
who inserted rascist anti-Israel attacks all over wiki. I have regularly
reworded mentions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the current events
page to remove one-sided comments from either side and ensure equality of
language and interpretation. I was NOT involved in an edit war with this IP
contributor. I was simply doing what I was doing with /everyone else/,
ensuring that NPOV standards were followed. The behaviour and threats of
the user in question pretty much shows that he was not some poor newbie
wrongly treated but someone determined to vandalise articles.
/If/ I had abused my sysop powers to 'win' against an opponent, I would not
have drawn attention to the fact by contacting other users, by putting a
note on the Vandalism page and sent a note about it around on the wiki
list, would I?
I stand over my decisions and resent your gross and dishonest
misrepresention of them.
JT
In the above message, I inadvertently included a mistake. In a rush to leave
(I was already 20 minutes late to meet friends), I cut the wrong section.
The above comment marked <sarcasm> was /not/ the bit I meant to put on the
page. That was from Noel who was criticising the anonymous user and, lest
their be any confusion, I am not IN ANY WAY associating Noel with the
behaviour of the anonymous user. I should have cut the line just above it
from the anonymous user, which read
>> The more you ugly baboons try to control
things and hide the truth,
>> the more you contribute to your own perennial replusiveness.
That comment pretty much sums up the attitude, mentality and contributions
of the blocked user. It shows that Toby's presumption that the anonymous was
just some niave and misguided newbie is wide of the mark. And as I said
earlier, I stand by my decision to block him.
And again, apologies to Noel for cutting /his/ sarcastic put down to the
neanderthal ejjit who wrote the above and suggesting that it was part of the
bigot's comments. It wasn't. As we Irish say in gaelic, ''Tá brón
orm'' (I
am sorry).
JT
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