[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Kafkaesque story on the English Wikipedia

Mon Aug 30 02:01:04 UTC 2010

Ive double checked with multiple sources and cross referenced both
unblock-en and OTRS (in case you mixed up your emails) and can find no
record of a request or email from you to either group. So Unless your using
even more sockpuppets than your claiming, (or used an unknown email address,
failed to state your IP address, user account or blocking admin. Which is
very unlikely) You are full of bullshit. Please stop lying, or admit to all
your sock puppets, because with the information that you have provided, the
logs for both unblock-en-l and OTRS prove that you did not send or get a
message from either group.

John

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> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Seventy Nine <ip791819231 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I am sending this letter to this mailing list after several failed
>> attempts
>> to address administrators in the "Arbitration Committee" and the "Unblock
>> mailing list". Apparently this is a Kafkaesque story which no one wishes
>> to
>> handle.
>>
>> I have recently started to edit on the English Wikipedia. I wished to
>> remain
>> anonymous, which, to my best knowledge, is legitimate on the English
>> Wikipedia, therefore I contributed under my IP address. Later on, and
>> after
>> several pleas on behalf of other editors, I opened an account. In order to
>> keep my edits under the same attribution, I called the account
>> "User:KnownAs-79-181-9-231" (
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KnownAs-79-181-9-231). My edits on the
>> article "Golan Heights" were reverted. I was asked to explain them, and so
>> I
>> did, in details, on the "Talk Page" affiliated with the article. This
>> explanations were contested in a lengthy discussions. Some of the comments
>> were good, and I addressed them. Some, especially from two users whose
>> aliases I won't mention in this message, offered comments which seemed to
>> be
>> politically motivated. One of these users posted questions on my personal
>> "Talk Page", which included threats (not "real life" threats, but threats
>> to
>> act against me within the English Wikipedia editors' community). I refused
>> to answer his personal questions.
>>
>> Then, one morning, and without any previous notice, I found myself banned
>> for being a "sock puppet" of some editor. The person who submitted the
>> request to ban me (a request which I found after searching many
>> administrative pages), is one of the two aforementioned users who objected
>> my edits. The editor who posted threats on my personal "Talk Page" second
>> him. The "evidences" were my edits, which, according to them, resembled
>> the
>> edits of another editor who had been previously banned for one reason or
>> another. Apparently, my ban was sweeping, i.e. I couldn't comment on the
>> allegations against me, nor post a request to overturn the ban. I sent a
>> letter to the "Arbitration Committee" with copy to the "Unblock mailing
>> list". I asked to revoke the ban immediately, as it was based on sheer
>> speculations. The committee can ask me questions if it deemed it
>> necessary,
>> but their first task is to lift a ban which was imposed without due
>> process.
>>
>> I received an outrageous response, suggesting my ban was legitimate until
>> I
>> could prove otherwise. How exactly can I disprove far-fetched
>> speculations?
>> Furthermore, after searching the administrative pages a bit more
>> thoroughly,
>> I found out that the two users who asked my ban, where banned themselves
>> several times for making problematic edits on articles related to Middle
>> East issues. This makes the allegations against me even more peculiar.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your attention.
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