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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 much of my time in a forum called "requested moves." There I promoted the use of conventional English in titles, and opposed unnecessary reliance on foreign languages. (Wikipedia has a lot of editors from Europe who are partial to non-English terminology and spellings.) I was eventually blocked over an article I wrote about Sino-Vietnamese characters. This is a highly obscure subject. I doubt the article would been remotely controversial if anyone else had wrote it.

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 much of my time in a forum called "requested moves." There I promoted the use of conventional English in titles, and opposed unnecessary reliance on foreign languages. (Wikipedia has a lot of editors from Europe who are partial to non-English terminology and spellings.) I was eventually blocked over an article I wrote about Sino-Vietnamese characters. This is a highly obscure subject. I doubt the article would been remotely controversial if anyone else had wrote it.

The block got me out of the way so a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive252#Ban_proposal:_Kauffner banning discussion could be held] without my interference. The discussion is full of people I'd never heard of up to that point -- I assume they were canvassed together somehow. There are no diffs or specific accusations, just various editors are going off in different directions. The article that triggered the discussion is barely mentioned. In other words, something else was going on.

The block got me out of the way so a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive252#Ban_proposal:_Kauffner banning discussion could be held] without my interference. The discussion is full of people I'd never heard of up to that point -- I assume they were canvassed together somehow. There are no diffs or specific accusations, just various editors are going off in different directions. The article that triggered the discussion is barely mentioned.

 

The over-the-top reaction against me makes sense only if someone lost money over something I did. If anyone wants to get to the bottom of Wikipedia corruption, I suggest investigating the French embassy as a possible source of payola. My crime against France 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). This was in June 2012, just before the offensive against me was launched.  

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