I don't have time for formal requests and submissions and promises to "behave". I'm an adult human being with a steady job at a Fortune 100 media company, a dad, a husband, a website operator, and the corporate secretary for my church. I'm a fairly decent writer and researcher. If you want me to be a part of Meta or of Wikiversity, I am happy to participate in those projects where I see my skills fitting. If you're asking me to promise not to say "ouch" when somebody raps me over the head with a wooden mallet while I'm writing a historical narrative or fixing some grammar errors, I'm afraid I can't make that sort of promise.
As for the Meta issue of "this speaker is blocked on several/most/nearly all Wikimedia Foundation projects"... I think the best way to convey that fact (for my own personal delight, since nobody's really reading that speakers list, anyway) would be:
"Kohs offers a point of view and way of expressing it that is so antithetical to the sensibilities of the Wikimedia community and governance structure, that his primary User account is banned from nearly all WMF projects."
I think that has a nice ring to it, and you certainly can't say it's not factual.
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