[WikiEN-l] (fwd) bishonen exercises abuse of admin power

Thu Jun 30 11:13:06 UTC 2005

Figuring out which accounts are the sockpuppets or Ip addresses of  
banned users is inexact and there may be collateral damage when a new  
user mimics the editing style and tactics of a banned user. The ban  
of a user regularly using sockpuppets or editing anonymously is in  
effect a ban of all users who are edit in the same way. Obviously if  
it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and flies like a duck, it  
might be a grebe and not the original duck at all. Likewise the real  
duck might be sanctioned for what the grebe has done.

Fred

On Jun 30, 2005, at 4:06 AM, Nathan J. Yoder wrote:

>> This is not meant to imply that I attribute any substance to this  
>> complaint
>> whatsoever, and personally I would say "cheers to Bishonen, keep  
>> up the
>> good work." But anyway.
>>
>
> Of course you would say cheers, you're the one who created the
> injunction and in the process violated Wikipedia policy by personally
> attacking me in the injunction itself.  It's too bad there's no one to
> regulate the arbitrators.
>
> Also, it appears bishonen, out of her personal vendetta, has renewed
> my block:
>
>
>> Nathan, I blocked you for 24 hours at 0:15 UTC. You're perhaps not
>> aware that the clock is automatically reset if you try to edit
>> without being logged in to your usual account. I've noticed here
>> that that has happened several times now. (Only the latest time it's
>> happened will be recorded on the blocklist.) In other words, you're
>> lengthening your block yourself. Provided you stop doing it now, I'm
>> willing to unblock you 24 hours after my original block, as a
>> gesture of good will. Bishonen | talk 30 June 2005 08:02 (UTC)
>>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Njyoder
>
> I'd say a gesture of good will would to be to stop lying and to remove
> the block since it was motivated by a personal vendetta.
>
> She didn't even check the ips and I'm not sure she even has the
> authority to do that in the first place.  Go ahead, check the ips
> yourself, they two are not the same.  Admins most certainly should not
> be blocking ips and extending blocks without checking them first. It
> doesn't even make sense anyway, why would I post during a block with
> the same ip?
>
> Notice how she didn't provide a link to whatever account was
> supposedly doing the editing and what article it was editing.  Yes,
> totally honest admins make an accusation of circumventing a ban
> without providing a link to where it was supposedly cirumvented!
>
> Also, I have to wonder if David Gerard, the one who created the
> injunction, is ever going to bother abiding by the no personal attacks
> rule himself and actually bother to qualify what counts as a personal
> attack.  He won't bother since he knows he's guilty of it himself.
>
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