So anyway, I've revealed everything that happened up to July 18, 2008. For the next three weeks I did not edit Wikipedia at all. Then I relocated to get a checkuser-proof clean start. I created a new account, whose name I will leave to the side for now. It and a bunch of vandal-socks got blocked in September. Around that time I also made troll accounts on other projects, for example, "Poetloser" on Wikiquote.
One of my troll accounts caused a Commons admin to make a colossal blunder. I created User:Robdurbar2 and his RFA.
User talk page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Robdurbar2RFA:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:...votes/RobdurbarSo I created a fake RFA while pretending to be Robdurbar. I also pretended to have Archtransit vote for me. The real folks whom we know as Robdurbar and Archtransit had no involvement.
Platonides wrote:
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Closed Not enough commons edits, created by Robdurbar2 voting as Archtransit. Platonides (talk) 20:42, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
ShakataGaNai then blocks me with the log summary "Vandalism: Creating RFA's for a sock, claiming to vote as someone else"
Link:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?t...User:Robdurbar2I request unblock, but he refuses my request:
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Request reason: "This block is against policy. You say the reason is "Vandalism: Creating RFA's for a sock, claiming to vote as someone else." It's not vandalism. I looked at the link, and nothing I did is vandalism. You say "Creating RFA's for a sock." I'm not a sock of Robdurbar. Why can't I create an RFA for him? You say "claiming to vote as someone else." Why can't I do that? Also, since the RFA is over, what's the problem?"
Decline reason: "No reason given"
I request unblock again; he reverts the edit and locks the talkpage. Fair enough. Game over. Or so I thought.
Later I googled and found ShakataGaNai's subpage where he describes the incident:
Link:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ShakataGaNai/CasesQUOTE
WJBscribe noticed and asked ShakataGaNai why he had blocked two innocent users:
Link:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_tal...es/2008/OctoberQUOTE
== Recent blocks ==
Hi, is there evidence that Robdurbar and Archtransit were one and the same user? Both accounts are of former admins who were desysopped and banned on enwiki, but never linked to each other. I suspect Robdurbar2 was an unrelated troll. Is there now evidence to connect these accounts? WJBscribe (talk) 20:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Well if I was wrong, I'm sure they'll speak up. But this was a good enough start for me. --ShakataGaNai (IMG:
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Archtransit has no contributions in Commons. I found this out after checking the IP for Robdurbar2. This is just some random troll. Bastique demandez 21:11, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Nevertheless, Cary Bass did not unblock Robdurbar or Archtransit from Wikimedia Commons. They remain blocked in perpetuity, victims of my impersonation and ShakataGaNai's woeful incompetence. (IMG:
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