User:PeterKa
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
- 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, rule of law
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 callled "requested moves." There I promoted the use of conventional English in titles, and opposed unnecessary reliance on foriegn languages. I was banned following a discussion that I assume was rigged somehow. This discussion was full of people I'd never heard of up to that point, so someone must have canvassed them together. Although few coherent arguments and no diffs were presented, everyone voted to ban me. The gusto on display seems out of place when you consider that few of these editors could have known much of anything about me. If anyone ever gets to the bottom of Wikipedia corruption, I suspect they will find that payola was involved, perhaps from the French embassy. Although very little of my editing related to France, this was the issue that triggered the attention of senior editors. My biggest sin 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, a few weeks before the offensive against me was launched. Oddly enough, Ivory Coast is still at Ivory Coast all this time later. They can accept my arguments concerning titles, as well as my article writing. But they can't put up with the presence of a dissident who may expose their misdeeds.
Related pages
- 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.