Block, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, edit
14,282
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 7:
Line 7: − +
→My time at Wikipedia
==My time at Wikipedia==
==My time at Wikipedia==
Back in 2012, I was a senior editor on Wikipedia and could boast tens of thousands of edits as well as a clean eight-year track record. I was especially active in a forum called “requested moves.” One day, an editor I will refer to as “IIO” got jealous of my unofficial status as an “RM expert” and began picking fights with me. Day after day, he complained about me in one forum after another. After a year of this, some admins summarily imposed a series of blocks. Admins can block as they like, a power they need to deal with spammers and trolls. But an editor who has been around for a while generally receives some degree of due process and procedural protection, including second chances, topic bans, and interaction bans.
Back in 2012, I was a senior editor on Wikipedia and could boast tens of thousands of edits as well as a clean eight-year track record. I was especially active in a forum called “requested moves.” One day, an editor I will refer to as “IIO” got jealous of my unofficial status as an “RM expert” and began picking fights with me. Day after day, he complained about me in one forum after another. After a year of this, some admins summarily imposed a series of blocks. Admins can block as they like, a power they need to deal with spammers and trolls. But an editor who has been around for a while generally receives some degree of due process and procedural protection, including second chances, topic bans, and interaction bans. I didn't even get a warning, which is pretty standard even for beginning users.
The original block arose from a dispute as to whether the city of Can Tho should be spelled with [[diacritics]], as the Vietnamese spell it, or without, as English-language reference works give it. When IIO is not picking a fight with me, he focuses on music and art articles, not Vietnam. The Can Tho move was something that happened nine months earlier and didn’t involve him.
The original block arose from a dispute as to whether the city of Can Tho should be spelled with [[diacritics]], as the Vietnamese spell it, or without, as English-language reference works give it. When IIO is not picking a fight with me, he focuses on music and art articles, not Vietnam. The Can Tho move was something that happened nine months earlier and didn’t involve him.