User talk:PalestineRemembered
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[edit] Most suspicious and likely improper way to Block an editor from Wikipedia
The process of blocking me [1] would appear to be most suspicious and likely improper.
The imposition of a one month ban, on a first offence, with minimal warning, after just 18 13 minutes of administrators "discussion" looks very much like prima-facie evidence of an abuse of power.
In those 18 minutes there were 3 hostile and accusatory contributors. (Complaint posted 23:09, 26 Nov, blocking 18 13 minutes later at 23:2722, 26 Nov).
Two "defenders" didn't appear until over 24 hours later (28th Nov), long after an exceptionally harsh (one month) first blocking had been implemented, when protest was clearly useless. (Both these people then suffered Not Good Faith attacks, their objection that other editors were the same or worse were dismissed with "This section is about PalestineRemembered, not about other editors with whom you have content disagreements").
I believe many other people would have come to my "defense" (or at least opened up the debate to include what one editor called "ludicrously POV changes and PalestineRemembered disputing them") if time had been allowed.
I'd also like to protest at the fact that my WP e-mail was never actioned, making it impossible for me to be contacted (advised/warned/helped) by other users with whom I might have had things in common. 7 weeks and over 500 edits is more than adequate to count an editor as a "genuine participant" in the project.
[edit] Other examples of administrator misbehaviour and/or abuse of power
I think I have some striking examples of this kind of thing - but rather than posting them here, I'd like you to contact me with your evidence. andy.dyer9@tiscali.co.uk
I think a good case could be made for stripping some of these people of their privileges. The principles of Wikipedia, the building of consensus, are entirely sound - but that doesn't mean the project cannot be hi-jacked, as would appear to have happened by one particular special interest case.
[edit] Would I ever have been a good editor?
There is no way of knowing - I carried out 540 edits and found the process extremely frustrating. I can understand why some of my edits were reverted, but it rapidly became clear that there was a lot of good information out there that would never be allowed into the encyclopedia.
In my short time in Wikipedia I only started one article [2]. See my attempt to build a consensus and avoid edit-warring at [3]. As best I can tell, I have a genuine 100% Reliable Source for the claim I need to insert (that the book was banned in Israel and the US). I know the claim is dubious, I'm seeking to present it in in a balanced fashion. Note how the objections, from far more experienced authors than me, look exactly like banned Original Research.
Later, see [4] and ask yourself whether the encyclopedia is following Biographies of Living People policy, or whether rampant point of view editting is going on, with other good editors being driven from the project by personal attack. The living person in the article is being pointlessly linked to white supremacists (no reliable source here) - when he's dark-skinned himself!
I'm protesting on the behalf of people who are/would be good editors, but are being driven from the project by rampant POV obstruction (rising to privileged abuse) from certain quarters. I can identify several of these just in my short time here - can you?
[edit] Do I want to come back? Should I appeal my one month Blocking?
I have a great deal more to contribute - but it would be pointless to be re-admitted and find the process as frustrating as it's been up until this point. Stamp out the abuse of power, and many of the serious frustrations suffered by good editors would melt away.
PalestineRemembered 20:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- There used to be a regular UserTalk page at this location. I've taken a copy of everything that was on it, and will faithfully put this material into "Archive 1" when I'm free to do so again.
