[WikiEN-l] Abusive Blocking

Fri Apr 22 12:50:16 UTC 2005

It is firly common. I was chased around by Violet/Riga because she didn't 
like me. She eventually persuaded another admin to block me for breaking 
3RR, dispite the fact that I had not. When this was pointed out she claimed 
I had still acted wrong and she refused to apologizes. It was impossible to 
start an RFC against this person, as the admins now protect each other.

Then there is SnowSpinner, ignore him get blocked. Various admins 
engage in the same kind of behaviour, but the arbcomm prevented me from 
starting a complaint against him or them.

I have started the WLF and the PFLW in an attempt to reverse the 
perversion of the system introduced by the ArbComm and various admins. 
Who are basically so up tight because they have a very limited ability to c 
control Wikipedia, what with DHCP etc.

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> 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
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