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==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.” Then an editor I will refer to as “IIO” began picking fights with me. Day after day, he complained about me in one forum after another. He put an astonishing amount of time and energy into harassing and stalking me, apparently jealous of my unofficial status as "RM expert." After a full year of this, the powers that be decided that the simplest solution was to ban me.

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.” After an editor named GoodDay was topic banned over [[diacritics]], the people who had been involved in the campaign against him began targeting me. I am not sure what, if anything, he and I had in common. Perhaps they had fun harassing him and wanted to keep that going. An editor I will refer to as “IIO” began picking fights with me. Another Day after day, he complained about me in one forum after another. He put an astonishing amount of time and energy into harassing and stalking me, apparently jealous of my unofficial status as "RM expert." The harassment campaign against me went on for a full year. For a time, a sympathetic admin protected me. As soon as he took a break from editing, I was banned.

The ANI discussion that followed was obviously rigged. It was full of people I'd never heard of up to that point, as well as other people IIO had recruited. Although no compelling arguments were presented, everyone voted to ban me. So they must have been canvassed together somehow. One editor accused me of multiple voting. No actual case was mentioned. This was apparently a drive-by editor, someone making a wild guess as to what the fuss was all about. The other votes were even less specific. They typically did little more than toss around ANI clichés like "disruptive" and "Hasn't he been banned already?" Not a single diff was presented -- a diff being Wikipedia's version of evidence. Although IIO had often made a fuss about [[diacritics]] earlier, this issue was not mentioned in the banning discussion.

The ANI discussion that followed was obviously rigged. It was full of people I'd never heard of up to that point, as well as other people IIO had recruited. Although no compelling arguments were presented, everyone voted to ban me. So they must have been canvassed together somehow. One editor accused me of multiple voting. No actual case was mentioned. This was apparently a drive-by editor, someone making a wild guess as to what the fuss was all about. The other votes were even less specific. They typically did little more than toss around ANI clichés like "disruptive" and "Hasn't he been banned already?" Not a single diff was presented -- a diff being Wikipedia's version of evidence. Despite the fuss about diacritics that arose earlier, this issue was not mentioned in the banning discussion.

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