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'''To the Ban Committee''':
'''To the Ban Committee''':
I would like to appeal my ban of 23 August 2013. I have a collection of supporting material, including my appeal from 2013 and testimonials from Bermicourt and Jenks24. Jenks reviewed this document and suggested that I express my willingness to accept a diacritics topic ban, which I am willing to accept.
I would like to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive252#Ban_proposal:_Kauffner appeal my ban of 23 August 2013]. I have [http://www.conservapedia.com/User:PeterKa/Arbcom a collection of supporting material], including my appeal from 2013 and testimonials from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bermicourt Bermicourt] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jenks24 Jenks24]. Jenks reviewed this document and suggested that I express my willingness to accept a diacritics topic ban, which I am willing to accept.
At one point, I was one of the editors most eligible for adminship, according to a scoring matrix. Following a year-long campaign against me by several editors, I was blocked and banned. An article I wrote about Sino-Vietnamese characters was the catalyst. Other issues involved include Vietnamese diacritics and a parody I wrote about the gender categories issue (made famous by Amanda Filipacchi). It is [http://www.conservapedia.com/User:PeterKa/Diacritics_proposal the style of every major publishing house] to give Vietnamese names without diacritics.
:MSGJ blocked me in July 2012 over the diacritics issue. However, I was unblocked almost immediately by Jenks24. Several unsuccessful proposals to topic ban me followed. After I was blocked for opposing the merger of my article on Sino-Vietnamese characters, there was a banning discussion where the old accusations were rehashed. But this time I was not allowed to defend myself, so it was passed.
*'''How it all started'''. On [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scottywong/Admin_scoring_tool_results Scottywong’s admin hopeful list] for 4 March 2013, I have a score of 320. This is after 500 points were deducted on account of [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3AKauffner MSGJ’s block] of July 2012. If you add these points to my score, I am ranked No. 12 on the list. (In ictu oculi is No. 184.) Up until this block, I had a clean record going back eight years that included tens of thousands of constructive edits.
:IIO and I used to translate foreign language titles to English together. This partnership lasted until June 2012, when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GoodDay GoodDay was topic banned over diacritics]. The editors who had been involved in that case may have seen my case as a way to continue their pro-diacritics campaign. IIO has a surprising amount of time and energy to devote to following me around. He not only goes through my edit history to find people I have disagreed with in the past, but also sends warnings to anyone who might support my position. He is supported by Cuchullain, an admin with no interest in Vietnam or its diacritics. His complaint is that I had some sort of privileged status that I didn’t deserve. I was never even a rollbacker, I don’t know where this idea comes from.
:IIO and I used to translate foreign language titles to English together. This partnership lasted until June 2012, when GoodDay was topic banned over diacritics. The pro-diacritic editors who had been involved in that case were thus looking for a new project at this time. IIO has a surprising amount of time and energy to devote to following me around. He not only goes through my edit history to find people I have argued with in the past, and also sends warnings to anyone who might support my position. He is supported by Cuchullain, an admin with no interest Vietnam or its diacritics. His complaint is that I had some sort of privileged status that I don’t deserve. I was never even a rollbacker, I don’t know where idea comes from.
:After IIO complained that I had moved the Vietnamese city of Can Tho to a non-diacritic title, MSGJ blocked me. As I had made over nine months earlier, I was unblocked almost immediately by Jenks24. Several unsuccessful proposals to topic ban me followed. After I was blocked for opposing the merger of my article on Sino-Vietnamese characters, there was a banning discussion in August 2013 where the old accusations were rehashed. But this time I was not allowed to defend myself, so it was passed.
*'''It was entrapment.''' My Han-Nom article has nothing to do with diacritics, politics, and any other hot-button subject. Sino-Vietnamese characters get so little attention that I had to base much of the content on Vietnamese-language sources. I assume the group of editors who favored merger was assembled by IIO through email. Kanguole and Gaijin42, neither of whom otherwise has any particular interest in Vietnam, developed an odd interest in this obscure subject simultaneously. They also adopted the same curiously vindictive attitude. After an article gets merged, demanding that the author be blocked is not logically the next step. I assume the idea was to entrap me into violating the 3RR rule. Although I never actually broke this rule, I was blocked for “edit warring” all the same. According to WP:3RRNO, page blanking is a form of “obvious vandalism.” So I should have been able to revert without sanction.
*'''It was entrapment'''. My [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han-Nom&oldid=563875554 Han-Nom article] has nothing to do with diacritics, politics, and any other hot-button subject. Sino-Vietnamese characters get so little attention that I had to base much of the content on Vietnamese-language sources. I assume the group of editors who favored merger was assembled by IIO through email. Several editors who had not previously made Vietnam-related edits developed an odd interest in this obscure subject simultaneously. They also adopted the same curiously vindictive attitude. After an article gets merged, demanding that the author be blocked is not logically the next step. I assume the idea was to tempt me into violating the 3RR rule. Although I never exceed the three-revert limit, I was blocked for “edit warring” all the same. According to [Wikipedia:Edit_warring#3RR_exemptions WP:3RRNO], page blanking is a form of “obvious vandalism.” So I should have been able to revert without sanction.
*'''Diacritics.''' In July and August of 2011, there was an RFC on diacritics with a very large participation. This RFC proposed that Wikipedia follow the style of ''Britannica'' and ''National Geographic.'' Although these two publications represent the most diacritic-friendly style models that the authors of the proposal could come up with, neither uses Vietnamese diacritics. Nor did anyone in the discussion suggest that they should be added. I then rewrote the Vietnam naming guideline to reflect the apparent consensus. I also made various article moves to comply with this rewritten guideline. The changes I made to the guideline, as well as the article moves I made, were in effect for over two years.
*'''Diacritics'''. In July and August of 2011, there was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28use_English%29/Diacritics_RfC an RFC on diacritics] with a very large participation. This RFC proposed that Wikipedia follow the style of Britannica and National Geographic. Although these two publications represent the most diacritic-friendly style models that the authors of the proposal could come up with, neither uses Vietnamese diacritics. Nor did anyone in the discussion suggest that they should be added. I then rewrote the Vietnam naming guideline to reflect the apparent consensus. I also made various article moves to comply with this rewritten guideline. The changes I made to the guideline, as well as the article moves I made, were in effect for over two years.
:The purpose of an article title is to tell the reader the English-language name of the subject. None of the relevant style guides or reference works support the idea of including diacritics in the English-language form of a Vietnamese name, as I discuss in detail here.
:The purpose of an article title is to tell the reader the English-language name of the subject. None of the relevant style guides or reference works support the idea of including diacritics in the English-language form of a Vietnamese name. The situation is thus quite different than for European diacritics, as I discuss in detail [http://www.conservapedia.com/User:PeterKa/Diacritics_proposal here].
*'''Filipacchi.''' When I posted a draft of my first Arbcom appeal on Wikipediocracy, it unleashed a storm of WP:OUTING and personal attacks. As these attacks focused on an essay I wrote concerning gender categories, I will comment on this essay briefly. I consulted Amatulic at the time and followed his advice in good faith. That’s a full defense regardless of what anyone might think of the essay itself. Not only that, but the content of the essay is entirely innocuous.
*'''Filipacchi'''. When I posted a draft of my first Arbcom appeal on Wikipediocracy, it [http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3489&view=unread unleashed a storm of personal attacks]. As these attacks focused on [http://www.conservapedia.com/User:PeterKa/Filipacchi an essay I wrote concerning gender categories], I will comment on this essay briefly. I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Amatulic&oldid=555311398#My_user_page_keeps_getting_blanked consulted Amatulic] at the time and followed his advice in good faith. That’s a full defense regardless of what anyone might think of the essay itself. Not only that, but [http://www.conservapedia.com/User:PeterKa/Filipacchi the content of the essay] is entirely innocuous.
--Kauffner
--Kauffner