[WikiEN-l] A Request

Fri Sep 9 02:37:40 UTC 2005

Greetings to everyone.

My wikipedia name is Enviroknot. Up until a few days ago, I did not know why 
my time at Wikipedia was met with such hostility, persecution, and horrid 
conduct from plenty of users.

A recent emailed admission by one A. Nony Mouse and subsequent contact over 
IRC have explained the situation to me. I was caught up in an experiment 
that this user conducted using hijacked systems (routers?), in an effort to 
root out problems in the behavior of certain wikipedia admins, which 
backfired and caused many users including myself to be falsely accused of 
being parts of that experiment.

I never understood why I was included in a request for arbitration which had 
nothing to do with me, except that it seems to be a common theme in that 
users who were involved in any sort of conflict were inevitably accused of 
being part of this project.

I believe if you look back at my edits themselves, instead of trying to lump 
them in with any conduct you can find, you will see me in a different light.

For your convenience, here is the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Enviroknot

I will be completely honest with you. Up until this point I had completely 
given up on Wikipedia, to the point of forbidding my students from citing it 
in their papers as I considered it a completely unreliable source. I had 
hoped to make it better, and if I have the chance I would do so.

It is your choice whether you will behave in the good faith which you claim 
to exercise, or whether you will prove no better than a normal internet 
message board system.

Cranston Snord, AKA Enviroknot

P.S. No, it's not my real name, but as an untenured educator I do have to be 
careful.

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