QUOTE(Heat @ Tue 21st April 2009, 10:32pm)
QUOTE(Heat @ Tue 21st April 2009, 9:06pm)
SV has a double standard on outing, just as she has on POV pushing, 3RR, sockpuppeteering, canvassing, meatpuppetry and most wikicrimes. If her friends like Proaby, Zeq, Jayjg, FeloniousMonk (or herself) do it then it's ok and excusable. If someone she dislikes or who is on the wrong side of a political issue does it then it's a capital crime.
Oh, I forgot to mention a double standard on proxy IPs and CheckUser abuse.
Seen from SV point of view, Zeq was an excellent editor. He was instrumental in ridding Wikipedia of two of her opponents, Zero, and one of the editors he started an attack-article on.
Zeq´s third victim has become, AFAIK, the victim of the worst stalking/harrassing
ever to take place on Wikipedia. I am of course referring to the victim of the socalled
Runtshit-vandal. 883 cases, and still counting. In all: many many
thousands of obscene/harrassing edits. Mostly done during day-time European/Israeli time.
The Runtshit-vandal has been linked to a named guy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. (Ask Jayjg
)
Funny, isn´t it, that admins could block whole neighbourhoods, or people in Japan(!) trying to stop Wordbomb. But what is being done to stop the Runtshit-vandal? <shrug>
QUOTE(written by he who wrote it @ Tue 21st April 2009, 8:43pm)
QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Mon 20th April 2009, 6:37am)
I was in touch with Zero by email about this block, and he knew it wouldn't stand. He was just making the point that he had a right to defend himself, and I agreed with that, and said so at the time. But it's clearly absurd to indefblock someone for mentioning that you went on holiday, with no identifying details. What was I meant to say to Zeq when he requested an unblock? "No, you said the word 'holiday,' which is personal, so be off with you?" Or perhaps, "No, you're an Israeli with a politically incorrect POV, so you can bugger right off"?
You're leaving something out. In
the instigating edit (admins only), Zeq speaks as if he knows exactly where Zero went, and therefore knows his real-life identity.
Now, I believe that anonymity and administration of a top ten website are incompatible; this is why I rarely edit and never administrate any more. I'm aware that this view is not widespread; Wikipedia policy is to come down like a collapsing mountain on anyone who even hints at outing another editor. (Witness WordBomb.) Since you are one of the architects and enforcers of that policy, it's disingenuous to claim that Zeq was blocked simply for using the word 'holiday',
especially because he did not use that word; his post, under the heading "Welcome Back", was "How was [the place that he believed Zero had been]?".
Oldtimers here on WR are shocked,
shocked that ms. Hell did not give a quite correct full summary of the situation.