QUOTE(Cla68 @ Tue 21st April 2009, 5:02pm)
Those are strong words by Kirill. If being allowed to participate in Wikipedia as an admin, or in any function, is important to Jayjg, I can't imagine he's too happy to be reading that.
Well, tough shit. You, Cla68, edit without being an administrator and so do I. We manage to write quite easily.
Nor should a 20 or 40 article ban bother anybody who is out to write an encyclopedia with 2.4 million articles. Clip out 40 of the articles I've been most active on, and I'd hardly even notice. I'm done with them now, and changes to them irritate me more than not! The measure of any true encyclopedist is that you can remove their 40 most edit-warred and contributed to, and discussed wikis, and they'll still be fine. It doesn't cut off their oxygen because they are whole people.
Voltaire, in his 80s, made a plea to the academe of letters to re-start the grand encyclopedia. He offered to take the letter "A". Now there's the kind of guy we should be admire.
So I refuse to bleed for the prick Jayjg. Don't topic ban him from all Israel related topics-- there are thousands. Just ban him from the 40 top articles where he's been pushing the second-intifanda and recent conflict stuff along with the Kabbal (I gave a list above). And remove his admin bit so that he can't harrass and block people. Then let him go. If he can't write, after that, he should look for a job with an Israel-lobby blog. He's misplaced on Wikipedia.
Milton