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| − | Back in 2012, I could boast tens of thousands of edits on | + | Back in 2012, I estimate that I ranked somewhere around No. 5 as an active non-administrative editor at Wikipedia. I could boast tens of thousands of edits on as well as a clean eight-year track record. So what does it take for a senior editor 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. 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 still nurse grudges. It's no longer about politics or anything interesting, just the rage of those who blank articles at those who write them. |
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| + | The appeal I link to above got sixteen angry replies in the space of eight hours. According to the guidelines, the admin is always right and the user must apologize. So there is a basis to reject the appeal. But all the same, why are all these people I never heard of before so angry at me? And why do so many replies make similar points? They are not points that were made in previous discussions, but were created for this occasion! During my time on Wikipedia, I count five occasions when angry mobs came out of nowhere to dominate otherwise sleepy talk pages. The system is obviously rigged. Somebody is the whip and sends out notices to the troops. Note that many of these people have less one tenth, or even one twentieth, the level of experience I have. Yet each and every one them is confident they understand the system better than I do. | ||
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Revision as of 11:52, August 17, 2016
What I have written
- Nazarene, J. Frank Norris, Peter Ruckman, Textus Receptus, sensus plenior, divine accommodation, Yule, Johannine Comma, Codex Washingtonianus, Star of Bethlehem, Fundamentalism, Tertiary, Andy McIntosh, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Nefertiti
- Republicans (Jeffersonian), Classical Chinese, Empress Dowager Cixi, diacritic, Mandarin, Nuclear option, Star_Trek_franchise#Political_themes, Tang Tuyet Minh, Roman Warm Period, No Gun Ri, Vietcong, Republic of China, rule of law, YAD06, Girls' Generation, Xia dynasty, Shang dynasty
My time at Wikipedia
Back in 2012, I estimate that I ranked somewhere around No. 5 as an active non-administrative editor at Wikipedia. I could boast tens of thousands of edits on as well as a clean eight-year track record. So what does it take for a senior editor to get banned? Write an essay mocking a friend of the executive director. Sue Gardner, executive director at that time, moved on long ago. But the ban itself continues as senior admins still nurse grudges. It's no longer about politics or anything interesting, just the rage of those who blank articles at those who write them.
The appeal I link to above got sixteen angry replies in the space of eight hours. According to the guidelines, the admin is always right and the user must apologize. So there is a basis to reject the appeal. But all the same, why are all these people I never heard of before so angry at me? And why do so many replies make similar points? They are not points that were made in previous discussions, but were created for this occasion! During my time on Wikipedia, I count five occasions when angry mobs came out of nowhere to dominate otherwise sleepy talk pages. The system is obviously rigged. Somebody is the whip and sends out notices to the troops. Note that many of these people have less one tenth, or even one twentieth, the level of experience I have. Yet each and every one them is confident they understand the system better than I do.
Related pages
- I blow the lid off the Ivory Coast RM scam. This post created a few awkward moments for corrupt admin Billinghurst.
- Read my parody of Wikipedia's gender categories affair
- My Arbcom appeal has a blow-by-blow account of what happened during my time on Wikipedia.
- Diacritic — This is a zippy overview of one of the most controversial aspects of my editing.
- Diacritics proposal — You can find a detailed set of arguments here.