QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 6th August 2010, 9:57am)
QUOTE(Adrignola @ Thu 5th August 2010, 5:38pm)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 5th August 2010, 8:42am)
Apparently, Jimbo's global ban does not have the strength to halt
"version 2" accounts on sites like Wikibooks.
Wikibooks flies under the radar of most Wikimedians. Not much drama, but not much going on period.
Well, there is
this, of course, which you kindly pointed out to me privately:
QUOTE
00:58, 6 August 2010
Jyothis (talk | contribs) changed status for global account "
User:Thekohser-v.2@global": Set locked; Unset (none) ‎ (Sock of a banned user)
If a local wiki wants Thekohser unblocked, it can and should establish this by consensus, and then request the global unlock. If stewards continue to globally lock accepted accounts at local wikis, meta process can and should be started to examine this. This is nothing but the attempts of individual stewards, without public discussion, to implement the rejected actions of Jimbo. I did not see that a steward attempted to interdict efforts to open up Thekohser access on Wikiversity, the obstacle to that remains, AFAIK, purely local and can be addressed locally. The local obstacles are Adambro, who apparently believes that community consensus should precede unblock actions, and that the unlock should come first, so the original account is used, which is a weak position, in my view, and Ottava, who is out to blast everything that interferes with his own image of himself as Mr. Wikiversity.
Adambro's position is reasonable, except that it doesn't really follow policy, because there was no community ban of Thekohser. I think he will come around. Ottava may not, from his history. So Ottava may have to go. We'll see if the community recognizes the problem, wikis can be very slow to wake up.
He is practically committing wiki-suicide on Wikiversity at this point, personally insisting on utterly unjustifiable incivility ("liar!" "hypocrite") and he has filed a Community Review over minor bullshit. Apparently, he believes that he's bullet-proof, he can do whatever he wants, le wiki c'est Ottava. This is a
Community Review on Jtneill, perhaps the gentlest 'crat I can imagine, and the charges Ottava made up are clearly invented to harass. The real reason is utterly and blatantly obvious: Jtneill, after reading my tome,
confirmed that my block of Ottava had been proper, in a cogent and coherent comment, and then proceeded to
warn Ottava."Warn me? Who does he think he is?"
If anyone here wants to be supportive of Ottava, review the discussion on
his talk page and elsewhere and help him to have a clue. I have a history of taking down abusive administrators, when I tried. That's not personal power, actually, it is rather an ability to anticipate consensus if the wiki ever manages to actually discuss a matter in a deliberative fashion. Short of that, I tend to have something like two-thirds of a community thinking I should stuff it. It's classic, I'm sure Moulton understands this.
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