Please take this to dispute resolution after your block. Right or
wrong this kind of disruptive struggle and revert warring is no good.
Calm down and take it to dispute resolution. Jtdirl may be in the
wrong also, but I have not considered that here.
Fred
On Jul 27, 2005, at 10:46 PM, Lapsed Pacifist wrote:
Hi. My user name is Lapsed Pacifist, and my IP is
159.134.233.225.
I'm sorry to say I've been here before, the last time things were
resolved amicably. I've been blocked for 3 days by Jtdirl, and I
believe this administrator is in breach of Wikipedia policy as
outlined on Wikipedia:Blocking policy, specifically: "blocks should
not be used...against user accounts that make a mixture of
disruptive and useful edits" and "users should not block those with
whom they are currently engaged in conflict." I don't agree that my
edits are disruptive, but even if this administrator does, my
contentious entries are easily outnumbered by hundreds of others,
and this administrator and I are currently disagreeing on different
matters.
The first three of the six points of the recommended procedure on
the Wikipedia:Controversial blocks article read:
1. Check the facts with care.
2. Reread appropriate parts of Wikipedia:Blocking policy.
3. If possible, contact other administrators informally to be sure
there are others who agree with your reasoning. The administrators'
noticeboard, IRC and email are effective tools for this.
I will go through Jtdirl's entries on my talk page and comment in
parentheses where I feel it is appropriate.
last warning
Your behaviour on Wikipedia has gone beyond the bounds of what can
be tolerated. You are engaging in widespread reverts to insert
blatently POV language [this is a reference to the use of the terms
"Northern Ireland" and "six counties" and there was a long debate
on Talk:Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution of Ireland about this]
into articles. But for the fact that you were once a credible
editor here you would have been blocked long before now for your
behaviur, but you have used up all the previous goodwill that
existed towards you in your recent behaviour. Please stop. If you
continue, you will be subject to a long block for this behaviour.
This is your final warning. Please heed it.
FearÉIREANN\(caint) 21:55, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Because you have continued, despite repeated warnings, to wage edit
wars [this would be difficult on my own] and reverts to push your
political agenda [I strongly dispute this last comment], and
because as soon as you came back from your last block you started
back on your old behaviour on many of the same pages, you have now
been blocked for 3 days. If when you come back you continue to
behave as you have been doing you may face a far lengthier block.
FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
[There now follows a list of 34 edits, all whole or partial
reverts. 16 are mine. The first 10 mostly concern a dispute on
whether election results in Northern Ireland should be included in
a paragraph attempting to construe the political aspirations of
Northern Ireland's population, and the prominence of a survey on
the region's future. The rest are about the nomenclature of the
region.]
[edit]
Just some of the evidence of constant reverting of articles
(cur) (last) 03:33, 28 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv blanking; 59
out of 108 is slight)
(cur) (last) 17:35, 27 July 2005 JW1805 (rvt. Once again, 59% is
not a "slight" majority)
(cur) (last) 10:53, 27 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv blanking)
(cur) (last) 00:02, 27 July 2005 JW1805 (rvt attempt to obscure
poll results)
(cur) (last) 23:36, 26 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (Revert edits by
Timrollpickering to last version by Lapsed Pacifist)
(cur) (last) 14:14, 26 July 2005 Timrollpickering m (Reverted edits
by Lapsed Pacifist to last version by Timrollpickering)
(cur) (last) 10:25, 26 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv; That's why
it's mentioned. Why the other changes?)
(cur) (last) 13:58, 25 July 2005 Timrollpickering (Revert on poll -
the question is more clear cut than an election - see talk page;
wikify links)
(cur) (last) 07:18, 25 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (Make a better
case, Jonto)
(cur) (last) 00:58, 25 July 2005 Jonto (Revert to version by
JW1805. I disagree - I have outlined the reasons for polls on the
talk page - Please discuss there first Zoney.)
(cur) (last) 22:39, 27 July 2005 Djegan m (revert vandalism)
(cur) (last) 22:32, 27 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv)
(cur) (last) 10:00, 27 July 2005 Djegan m (revert)
(cur) (last) 06:59, 27 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv; please write
accurate edit summaries)
(cur) (last) 22:30, 26 July 2005 Djegan m (revert sectanism and
vandalism of LP)
(cur) (last) 22:28, 26 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv NPOV)
(cur) (last) 10:15, 26 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV term "six
counties")
(cur) (last) 08:22, 26 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv NPOV)
(cur) (last) 09:53, 25 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV term "six
counties")
(cur) (last) 06:59, 25 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv needlessly
simplistic edit)
(cur) (last) 21:48, 24 July 2005 JW1805 m (rvt (corrected
needlessly complex sentence structure))
(cur) (last) 21:39, 24 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv needlessly
simplistic edit)
(cur) (last) 15:37, 24 July 2005 JW1805 m (corrected needlessly
complex sentence structure)
(cur) (last) 15:34, 24 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv; Restore context)
(cur) (last) 04:57, 24 July 2005 JW1805 m (simplify sentence)
(cur) (last) 04:08, 24 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv NPOV)
(cur) (last) 00:00, 23 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV)
(cur) (last) 23:48, 22 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (Revert edits by
Djegan to last version by JavaJive)
(cur) (last) 20:27, 22 July 2005 Djegan (revert sectanism and
vandalism)
(cur) (last) 20:20, 22 July 2005 JavaJive m (wikify date)
(cur) (last) 19:06, 22 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV)
(cur) (last) 17:37, 22 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv)
(cur) (last) 10:14, 22 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV)
(cur) (last) 05:18, 22 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv)
In addition you have been adding in factual errors all over the
place [I also strongly dispute this, and only the following
inaccurate example is given]. It is hard to believe that calling
the Irish state the Irish Free State years after you know very well
it ceased to have that name, and was only called that by fringe
republicans, is anything other than deliberate POV vandalism [I
believe this is a reference to an edit summary on the Éamon de
Valera article, when I reverted a change made by this user. The
block came one minute after I did this. This is 2005, and the state
is now known as th Republic of Ireland, but the edit concerned
events in 1926, when that was the state's official name.], as is
using Sinn Féin language [an obtuse reference to the naming debate]
about the name of Northern Ireland when you know very well that
Wikipedia cannot use that name for the northern state as it is POV.
FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist"
The block, if it had to come, should have come from another
administrator. This is my third block, my second by this user. On
neither occasion did Jtdirl consult with other administrators
before the blocks, unless it was by email. As well as wrongly
accusing me of factual errors, this user has failed to check the
facts e.g. the Free State comment. I believe this editor is in
breach of parts of the blocking policy. I believe, from the
comments made on my talk page, that this administrator has allowed
emotion to overrule responsibility. I have not attempted to contact
this user by email, partly because I do not expect a fair hearing
there, partly because I would rather the block and the events
surrounding it receive a wider audience, which is not available to
me on any talk page at the moment. Sorry about the length of the
mail, I am sure you have better things to do.
LP
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