[WikiEN-l] A Request

Fri Sep 9 04:35:28 UTC 2005

Are we to understand that you are an educator, who has
been caught up in a dispute due to an association with
your student's accounts?

A precursory look at your edits suggests that your
edits are reasonable (junior high school teacher?).
Continue to express yourself in a reasonable manner,
and things will sort themselves out. Arbcom reviews
matters presented to them -- thats what they do. Dont
take offense at the basic fact that disputes will
arise, and with experience you will learn to balance
your manner more in accord with our core principles.
Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia -- its also an
encyclopediastic culture.

SV

--- Cranston Snord <enviroknot at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
>
_________________________________________________________________
> Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger!
> Download today - it's FREE! 
>
http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at Wikipedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
> 

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 