[WikiEN-l] Abusive Blocking

Thu Apr 21 05:58:42 UTC 2005

I honestly believe many admins are abusing their blocking privileges 
and that the arbitration committee is not working. Here is what has 
happened to me. I have written and edited NUMEROUS articles, you can 
see a list on user:Please Don't Block. Most of these were edited under 
the name "Noah Peters." In December and January I engaged in a heated 
contest with several other users over the Abraham Lincoln page, much of 
which I have written, over whether to include Lincoln's alleged 
homosexuality on the page. This provoked a long editing war which 
resulted in the material being deleted. After this, I started editing 
the "gays in Nazi Germany" article. These edits were in good faith. But 
one user, Apollomelos, a self-described homosexual, began smearing me 
with all sorts of false charges, including that I vandalized the 
Abraham Lincoln page (not true) and that I am a member of the Ku Klux 
Klan (also not true). I grew very alarmed at these allegations and 
requested my username be changed to "5440orFight," because "Noah 
Peters" is my real name and I don't want to get smeared with these 
charges. Well, the admins were totally insensitive to this desire and 
referred to "Noah Peters" repeatedly in a derisive way, many branding 
me a homophobe, and still do to this day even though the username is 
dead. Indeed, many admins have hurled false charges against that 
username to this day. For example, my userpage now says, "As Noah 
Peters he had a habit of reverting pages or removing the texts of 
others, was warned and switched to 5440orFight and got blocked by an 
Admin under that name for continuing the same practice." This is 
completely untrue, and yet whenever I try to change my userpage it gets 
changed back by some admin, and if I persist in trying to change it I 
am blocked.

  Out of frustration with Apollomelos' charges, I had a fit of bad 
judgment and added the now-deleted "gay" template to various articles. 
I was promptly blocked by fvw, another homosexual administrator, who no 
longer works on wikipedia. Frustrated at the fact that my IP username 
page included charges against me that were not true yet kept being 
reverted back by various admins when I tried to delete them, I deleted 
fvw's page repeatedly in retaliation for my own inability to edit my 
personal page. I also made ill-tempered remarks to other admins who 
reverted my repeated attempts to delete my userpages. Meanwhile, my 
efforts to get my username changed have gone nowhere, and I panicked 
and emailed an admin to tell him to please delete my username; I didn't 
want my reputation ruined.

Then, Apollomelos decides he wants to pursue arbitration against me, 
taking several of my quotes out of context and embellishing with false 
charges. I was never informed arbitration was being pursued against me, 
but it was. Apollomelos has done this to several other users; putting 
quotes out of context and making misleading edits and over-the-top 
allegations. He also does not allow edits to the gay-themed pages and 
smears anyone who changes these pages as "homophobes" if they write 
anything he doesn't agree with. Read his talk page. In another fit of 
ill-temper, to combat his own charges against me, I created 
user:Apollomelos2 and user:Apollomelos3. I can't delete Apollomelos2, 
even though it was blocked as soon as I created it, it must remain, 
"Abusive sockpuppet of Noah Peters."

Now, whenever I try to get a new username, it is blocked for being an 
"abusive sockpuppet of Noah Peters." Whenever I try to delete the pages 
of my old usernames which bear the title, "abusive Sockpuppet of Noah 
Peters" (never mind that "Noah Peters" no longer exists) and which are 
now blocked, they are reverted back; I have absolutely no control over 
them; they must remain as monuments to Apollomelos' false charges and 
my bad response to them. The admins don't understand why I have to get 
a new username and instead assume I am creating a username for 
vandalism. So I can't have a new username. This is really frustrating. 
It is also frustrating that the "Noah Peters" username has attracted a 
false reputation for bad and misleading edits when all of my edits 
under that name, except for some ill-temper that was provoked, was of 
strerling quality.

The latest thing is that I chose the username, Jesus H. Christ III. 
Refdoc blocked this permanently on account of it being offensive; 
though if I had known it would be offensive, which I did not (Jesus 
Christ is a cultural figure too, I didn't know that anyone on wikipedia 
would care), I wouldn't have damned well picked it in the first place. 
No one will ever be able to edit under it again unless Refdoc wills it 
to be so. I can't delete the userpage either; it must be reverted back. 
I can't delete the false charges against me from any userpage; they 
must remain because the admins said so.

I then picked a new username and complained about my treatment on 
Refdoc's talk page. His response was to ban my new username for, of 
couse, "obvious reasons."

I have never been able to communicate with anyone on wikipedia; no 
human interface to explain what has happened, to explain that I have 
added a lot to wikipedia and want to be forgiven. The first instinct is 
always to ban me; always to revert without asking me; always to assume 
my bad motives; never to communicate.

I want all references to "Noah Peters" deleted. The username is banned 
permanently and I want admins to stop damn well referencing it. I want 
to be anonymous with an anonymous username not smeared as a sockpuppet 
so I can edit without fear to my reputation. And this process has been 
hellish for me. This is a community of mistrust and anger, of abusive 
edit wars, of sarcasm, of contempt; not of support.

NP