QUOTE(Moulton @ Mon 5th July 2010, 9:55am)
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Fri 28th May 2010, 3:38am)
QUOTE(tarantino @ Fri 28th May 2010, 1:03am)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 27th May 2010, 6:19pm)
Am I seriously still blocked on
English Wikiversity? Not only that -- but no e-mail access rights, no Talk page rights, and I can't edit my User page to look the way I want it to?
Does Adambro run that joint? Wikiversity really has a problem.
Adambro is an eccentric 22 year old college student. He's eminently qualified by wikimedia standards to lord over learning projects and decide what type of porn is the most educational for children.
I wish he would actually adambrate or adumbrate or whatever those standards, because I can't find them anywhere. I suppose you just have to know it when you see it.
I now have enough evidence to adumbrate Adambro's current policies and practices regarding acceptable content on Wikiversity.
As of today, he is no longer executing 1-year rangeblocks on 32,000 addresses at a clip.
This is his new practice, as of this morning:
1. He now only blocks a single IP at a time, and for just a week.
2. He quickly reverts any edits by the blocked IP, putting a ludicrously specious reason in the blocking log.
3. He semi-protects the page edited by the blocked IP.
His intention, near as I can tell, is to systematically deny the rights of his fellow scholars at WV the freedom to peaceably assemble and study the subjects of their choice with the collaborating scholars of their choice.
No, he's simply, now, taking minimal action to enforce what he believes to be a ban, which is a somewhat reasonable belief. He's willing to allow due process to truly find out if there is a ban or not, so he's actually, where it counts, on the right side.
He's not wheel-warring, and I won't tempt him into it. His range block was excessive, I reversed it, and he backed off. If however, you continue pushing it, I'll point out that I won't wheel-war myself, and you may convince someone else to go ahead and range-block, and I'd be powerless to fix that directly.
His lesser actions are within his normal rights and responsibilities and discretion.
If disruption continues -- which means disregard for due process and community rights (and wiki due process includes wide admin discretion, short-term) -- then I will start to move for more effective and less disruptive means of dealing with it, that might even make the "disruption" useful. Moulton, you are succeeding in convincing most of those who would be your friends that the block should remain.
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In this manner, he is systematically disabling Wikiversity and rendering it dysfunctional and unusable as a collegial and congenial learning community of collaborating scholars.
That's a rather narrow view, Moulton. He's just continuing, to some degree, the status quo, and is being relatively restrained. He is certainly not increasing disability or dysfunction, and by being willing to consider such things as the unblock of Thekohser and perhaps even you -- unless you continue as you have been acting -- he's becoming part of the solution instead of being part of the problem. If you don't see him as an improvement over certain others, well, I can only shake my head in wonder.
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I reckon the likely result of this clearly visible policy and practice will be to drive veteran scholars like Geoff Plourde, PrivateMusings, JWSchmidt, and Abd away from Wikiversity and over to alternate venues like
NetKnowledge, where they will not be encumbered and impeded by Adambro's oppressive thumb.
Ah, preposterous! Adambro is not creating new damage, he is taking actions within what is reasonable, given all the preconditions. It is not him who is stopping you from contributing to Wikiversity, it's the adversarial relationship between you and "those on high," which is then transferred to anyone you see as cooperating with them. And you've been told this for something approaching two years, and those who attempted, in the past, to help resolve this situation, frequently ended up with egg on their face.
Adambro isn't even close to driving me away, I see him as welcoming. As to Netknowledge, great! The more the merrier. Diversity is essential to academic freedom and depth.