I've written previously about the troubling history of innocent users being indef-blocked on false allegations of sockpuppetry. Many examples are well known to this audience.

Browsing Majorly's talkpage, I found that he executed a block of "David J Wilson" on Simple English Wikipedia based on an ambiguous checkuser result. Apparently, the sockpuppeteer (or another troublemaker) behind "Snow Funn at tall", who was legitimately blocked and mistakenly linked to Wilson, created a new account "Dave 'Snow Funn' Wilson" to support the hoax, and - amazingly - two other Simple admins fell for it. (Majorly was inactive during the appeal, when this issue came up.) And at the end of the discussion on Simple, yet another troublemaker account "DJW" signed as "David J Wilson" to say that he still couldn't edit his talk page. It was a hoax, as the "real" David J Wilson pointed out.

There is no doubt in my mind, upon reading the discussions, that David J Wilson is completely legit, and the admins on Simple are woefully incompetent.

Read all about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Maj...k_on_simplewiki

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia...:David_J_Wilson

Now I fully expect responses on the trend of "Simple English Wikipedia admins are incompetent - what else is new?" But it's really an issue on the scope of the Wikimedia Foundation itself. We've seen repeatedly how abusive sockpuppeteers (Sam Blacketer, Poetlister, the incident on Serbian Wikipedia of one man with three admin accounts) go unnoticed and tolerated for months and years, while legitimate editors are indef-blocked on mere suspicion that, upon full analysis, proves meritless.

I haven't edited Wikipedia in several months (on any account or IP), and I don't intend to return soon or probably ever. Nothing important has changed.

Do we have to create a Simpleton Annex too!?

Jon

Simple English Wikipedia bosses do not do any of their work well. This is new! I joke.*

MR

*Simple English is very bad at irony. (Bzzzzzzt!)

BREAKING NEWS: Simple Wikipedia Admins not able to spot complex trolling. News at 9

Well, not much has changed here, either.

Complex? You flatter yourself.

My hell and wecome to it.

As for David J. Wilson: WP-Simple is a bizarre mess.
And Majorly blew it. Well, probably.
Best part is all the douchebaggery on AN.
Funny, and makes me angry too. Thanks a lot.