User:Risker/Tango Blocks
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This information is prepared in respect of a Request for Arbitration initiated 12 April 2008 by User:Bishzilla involving administrative actions taken by User:Tango.
I have reviewed Tango's block log quite thoroughly; it didn't take long, as he has only issued 77 blocks since becoming an administrator on 19 November 2006. Tango appears to make appropriate routine blocks of IPs and accounts created for vandalism purposes, and that encompasses the majority of blocks made. When dealing with registered users, however, Tango seems to have genuine difficulty; these blocks are small in number, but almost consistently questionable. There is questionable use of tools in 14 of 16 blocks Tango has issued to regular editors.
- 20 Nov 2006 (one day after being sysopped) - Block of User:Fys, as described in the RFAR. Tango warned by Mackensen that this was not an appropriate block.
- 16 Dec 2006 - Block of two users for 3RR on Goa Inquisition, followed by page protection and admin rollback to a previous version of the article. Discussed on AN/I and advised this was inappropriate by User:Dmcdevit, but Tango's responses appear to be antagonistic.
- 22 Feb 2007 - Block of User:Smeelgova (3 hours) for 3RR on Cult apologist. Smeelgova made 4 edits, none of them reverts; three were to add varying descriptions to a weblink, and one to add "scare quotes" to a phrase. This is one of only two blocks involving a regular editor that does not cause me concern.
- 26 Jul 2007 - Four regular editors blocked for edit warring on Atanas Badev. No apparent consideration of protecting the page and forcing the dispute to the talk pages. Blocks ranged from 3 hours to 1 week.
- 22 Aug 2007 - Blocked two regular editors for 3RR/edit-warring over an image in Mulatto, although other editors had been involved in inserting/removing the image as well. After the two editors were blocked, another editor returned to remove the image. No apparent consideration of protecting the page and forcing all of the involved editors to the talk page.
- 27 Aug 2007 - Blocked two regular editors for edit warring on Stargate Atlantis. Neither editor had edited the page on that date. There was discussion between the editors taking place on the talk page, attempting to resolve their content dispute. Tango also was a regular editor of this article, although his last edit was a few months before, although he edited several related articles in the interim.
- 1-2 Sep 2007 - Block of User:AlexCovarrubias, subsequently extended considerably because the editor used an IP to place a politely worded unblock request on her userpage.
- 30 Jan 2008 - Block of User:Justpassinby for "vandalism." While the edits were not purely vandalism (the core information being deleted has subsequently been revised), there was a 3RR violation that would have justified blocking regardless.
- 21 Mar 2008 - Block of new (less than 1 month) User:Tubesship and an IP for 3RR violation on List of countries and outlying territories by total area. Four editors over 24 hours had been inserting and removing the same information from the article, two IPs removing sourced info and Tubesship and another regular editor returning it to the article; no apparent consideration that the IPs were vandalising the article, or of protecting the page and forcing discussion on the talk page. Neither of the blocked editors received 3RR warnings, and there had been no report to the 3RR noticeboard.
- 12 Apr 2008 - Block of User:Mongo. No further comment is required.
[edit] Total blocks by month
Nov 2006 - 14 (one of a regular editor, and one unblock of same editor)
Dec 2006 - 21 (two of regular editors)
Jan 2007 - 8
Feb 2007 - 3 (one of regular editor, appears appropriate)
Mar 2007 - 2
Apr 2007 - 2
Jul 2007 - 4 (all of regular users, related to a single article)
Aug 2007 - 5 (4 of regular users, 2 each from two separate incidents. The fifth was a new user, apparent SPA.)
Sep 2007 - 4 (2 of the same regular user and one of his IP, all stemming from same edit war; one unblock of same editor to extend original block)
Jan 2008 - 9 (1 of regular user, appears appropriate)
Mar 2008 - 4 (1 of regular user and IP involved in edit war, other IP and regular user not blocked)
Apr 2008 - 1 (1 of a regular editor)
