PeterKa

==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 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. I could boast tens of thousands of edits as well as a clean eight-year track record. I estimate that I ranked somewhere around No. 5 as an active non-administrative editor. So what does it take to get banned? Write [[User:PeterKa/Filipacchi | an essay mocking a friend of the executive director]]. Sue Gardner, executive director at that time, moved on long ago. My essay is long forgotten. But [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive929#User:Kauffner_request_for_unblock_per_WP:STANDARDOFFER the ban itself continues] as senior admins nurse old grudges. It's mostly for the fun of it, I think.

 

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.

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