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'''To the Ban Committee''':

'''To the Ban Committee''':

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.

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 [http://www.conservapedia.com/User:PeterKa/Filipacchi parody I wrote about the gender categories issue] (made famous by Amanda Filipacchi).

 

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.

*'''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.

*'''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.

: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.

: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 [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.

*'''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 anything else remotely resembling a hot-button issue. Sino-Vietnamese characters get so little attention that I had to base much of the content on Vietnamese-language sources. Several editors involved whad not previously made Vietnam-related edits, but nonetheless developed an odd interest in this obscure subject simultaneously. I assume this group was assembled by IIO through email. These editors had a 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [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.

*'''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 rewrote the Vietnam naming guideline to reflect the apparent consensus of the RFC. 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. The situation is thus quite different than for European diacritics, as I discuss in detail [http://www.conservapedia.com/User:PeterKa/Diacritics_proposal 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 [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.

*'''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 the content of the essay is entirely innocuous.

--Kauffner

--Kauffner