Toby wrote:
Furthermore, you apparently protected the page to win an edit war
that you were taking place in.
I did nothing of the sort and how dare you suggest it. An anonymous user
appeared and added in highly POV rascist material into a page. The material
could not be substantiated and the language used suggested it was someone
trying in a very blatent way to POV the article. I reverted the addition and
notified those who had worked on the article as I suspected they might be
better placed to deal with the issue. The user in question proceeded to
re-insert his anti-zionist rant and verbally abuse everyone else who touched
it. I checked his list of contributions to try to ascertain whether this was
a rather naive newbie with a problem of grasping NPOV, or a vandal. (The
page in question had been subject to nakedly sectarian vandalism for a
while.) All the evidence I could find was of a user who had made other
contributions that had been seen as vandalism and had been reverted
elsewhere. When he continued abusing other users, in the belief that he was
a vandal I blocked him.
He then came back as a new IP added in the same POV stuff and called people
''fucking morons'', ''fucking hypocrites, etc
Among his talk page comments were
<Sarcasm> Yes, I'll admit it: everyone here on Wikipedia is a paid
propogandist for the worldwise Zionist colonialist genocidal conspiracy!
That's why we have articles on Israeli terrorism and Deir Yassin massacre,
and why the Palestinian page doesn't even *contain* the words "terror" or
"terrorist" or "terrorism". </Sarcasm> Look, there are lots of
facts in the
world. It's a fact that the Israelis assassinated Muhammad Sadr, the Islamic
Jihad leader in Hebron. It's a fact that afte that, two Palestinian militant
groups, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, claimed responsibility for a deliberate
attack on a civililan bus that killed quite a few people, including many
children. It's a fact that the Israelis then killed Abu Shanab, one of the
founders of Hamas, in the Gaza strip.
I have disagreed with some users on the page who have been pushing a less
than NPOV pro-Israel stance. I reverted and requested the banning of a user
who inserted rascist anti-Israel attacks all over wiki. I have regularly
reworded mentions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the current events
page to remove one-sided comments from either side and ensure equality of
language and interpretation. I was NOT involved in an edit war with this IP
contributor. I was simply doing what I was doing with /everyone else/,
ensuring that NPOV standards were followed. The behaviour and threats of the
user in question pretty much shows that he was not some poor newbie wrongly
treated but someone determined to vandalise articles.
/If/ I had abused my sysop powers to 'win' against an opponent, I would not
have drawn attention to the fact by contacting other users, by putting a
note on the Vandalism page and sent a note about it around on the wiki list,
would I?
I stand over my decisions and resent your gross and dishonest
misrepresention of them.
JT
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