[WikiEN-l] Abuse of blocking privileges

Mon May 9 18:03:01 UTC 2005

Look at Eric's reply. It never changed.
I don't see any reason to strip someone from their admin powers for
enforcing the rules.

--Mgm

On 5/9/05, Richard Rabinowitz <rickyrab at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
> No offense, but I thought this was a 3RR rule - 3 reverts and revisions
> on a page. Since when did it go to 5 reverts/24 h?
> 
> On Sun, 8 May 2005, Leif Knutsen wrote:
> 
> > User:Jtdirl blocked me (Leifern) for allegedly violating the 5 reverts in 24 hour rule.  This is both unreasonable and an abuse of his admin privileges, for the following reasons:
> > - There are actually 4 reverts in about 4 hours
> > - The reversions were of deletions of graphs - since it's simply not possible to reword images, I had little option besides reverting the deletions
> > - The person who kept deleting the graphs did very little to justify them besides saying that they were irrelevant
> > - My adversary (Geni, also an admin) reverted three times, but this apparently didn't bother Jtdirl
> > - Jtdirl has an axe to grind - we had an editing dispute that he lost about heirs apparent - I can't help but think this is a vindictive act.
> > - Jtdirl gave no warning, made no effort to mediate, simply went ahead and blocked
> >
> > I don't know what the remedy for this is, but I would propose that both Jtdirl and Geni lose their admin privileges.  If I am not unblocked immediately, I am happy to find another hobby.  I believe my contributions speak for themselves - that would be a great loss for the WP community.
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