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(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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.