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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 spent a lot time of my time in a forum callled "request moves" where I promoted the use of conventional English in titles, and opposed unnecessary reliance on foriegn languages. I was banned in 2013 following  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive252#Ban_proposal:_Kauffner a discussion that was obviously rigged]. It was full of people I'd never heard of up to that point. Although few coherent arguments and no diffs were presented, everyone voted to ban me. If any reporter ever digs into the Wikipedia payola issue, he may discover that the French embassy has been making payoffs to admins. Very little of my editing related to France, but it was enough to attract negative attention from senior editors. Perhaps my sin was to lead a successful effort to move an African country from it's French name (''Côte d'Ivoire'') to it's English name (Ivory Coast). Oddly enough, Ivory Coast is still at Ivory Coast all this time later. They can accept my arguments and my article writing, but they can't put up with 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 spent a lot time of my time in a forum callled "request moves" where I promoted the use of conventional English in titles, and opposed unnecessary reliance on foriegn languages. I was banned in 2013 following  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive252#Ban_proposal:_Kauffner a discussion that was obviously rigged]. It was full of people I'd never heard of up to that point. Although few coherent arguments and no diffs were presented, everyone voted to ban me. If any reporter ever digs into the Wikipedia payola issue, he may discover that the French embassy has been making payoffs. Very little of my editing related to France, but it was enough to attract negative attention from senior editors. Perhaps my sin was to lead a successful effort to move an African country from it's French name (''Côte d'Ivoire'') to it's English name (Ivory Coast). Oddly enough, Ivory Coast is still at Ivory Coast all this time later. They can accept my arguments and my article writing, but they can't put up with me.  

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