[WikiEN-l] Re: Abuse of blocking powers (The Recycling Troll)

Thu Mar 10 01:13:44 UTC 2005

Recycling Troll wrote:
> Well, the case that you're making seems to be that
> admins are never wrong, it is an afront to check their
> edits, and the important thing is to have 'friends',
> presumably, who protect you from the rules.
> 
> If you don't like a peer review process, then a
> collaborative encyclopedia seems like the wrong
> project for you. However hard you try to avoid the
> point, the fact is that checking other people's edits
> is a GOOD THING, not stalking.
> 
> The Recycling Troll
> 

I have no idea what you are doing as I haven't looked into your editing 
very carefully, but I DO know that I haven't seen an RFC filed by you on 
any admins. If you have a problem with what they are doing there are two 
ways of discussing it:

* [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard]]. I set this up last year for 
discussion amongst admins about admin duties, but anyone is free to edit 
here. If you have an informal complaint or question about admining 
decisions, this is the place to ask.
* [[WP:RFC]]. If you have serious issues against admins, you should file 
them under this article in the admin section. This will be commented on 
thoroughly and if necessary something will be done about the admin. Mind 
you, if you make a friviolous RFC, you'll be pretty quickly shot down. I 
wouldn't advise you use this feature lightly.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that we have many 
thousands of reasonable editors on Wikipedia, none of whom seem to be 
having major problems that required the use of the block feature. That 
you did suggests to me that you need to modify the way you edit on 
Wikipedia.

TBSDY