Well, Ryulong has once again blocked a user for not making enough contributions in article space, the same thing he did to the admin CattleGirl last year. I can't remember if that's what led to his Request for Comment, but it did lead to calls for his desysopping and for NewYorkBrad to tell him to knock it off. Note that he's still blocking e-mail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...User:Condolence
The user was tag-teamed by admins until they lost their temper and cursed on their talk page, the usual tactic. This is an excuse to protect the talk page.
Granted the person was a bit silly, but they did say they wanted to improve Wikipedia and were just experimenting with their userpage. No attempts to mentor, apparently. This is an old, old problem for Ryulong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...comment/Ryulong
Full Version: Ryulong still block-crazy
QUOTE(Bob Boy @ Wed 18th June 2008, 1:08pm) 
Well, Ryulong has once again blocked a user for not making enough contributions in article space, the same thing he did to the admin CattleGirl last year. I can't remember if that's what led to his Request for Comment, but it did lead to calls for his desysopping and for NewYorkBrad to tell him to knock it off. Note that he's still blocking e-mail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...User:Condolence
The user was tag-teamed by admins until they lost their temper and cursed on their talk page, the usual tactic. This is an excuse to protect the talk page.
Granted the person was a bit silly, but they did say they wanted to improve Wikipedia and were just experimenting with their userpage. No attempts to mentor, apparently. This is an old, old problem for Ryulong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...comment/Ryulong
Don't click the diff on the user's last edit. Something weird.
(s)he has gotten the source for her talk page and posted it.
"Not making enough edits" - actually, this was not making any. Condolence had been using Wikipedia as a webhost for months and never once edited an article (see here). I still wouldn't have blocked them, but it's not (by a long, long way) the worst block he's made.
QUOTE(Alex @ Wed 18th June 2008, 8:36am)
Don't click the diff on the user's last edit. Something weird.
Heh, I did click on it, crashed my browser, so I deleted that diff.
QUOTE(Neil @ Wed 18th June 2008, 2:09pm)
"Not making enough edits" - actually, this was not making any. Condolence had been using Wikipedia as a webhost for months and never once edited an article (see here). I still wouldn't have blocked them, but it's not (by a long, long way) the worst block he's made.
I'm surprised to be saying this, but it was a very good block.
QUOTE(Neil @ Wed 18th June 2008, 2:09pm)
"Not making enough edits" - actually, this was not making any. Condolence had been using Wikipedia as a webhost for months and never once edited an article (see here). I still wouldn't have blocked them, but it's not (by a long, long way) the worst block he's made.
Actually, Daniel gave some good advice about going elsewhere. Obviously a junior member and a block might point them in the direction of doing something sensible.
Perhaps we should have a barnstar: WR Award for Socially Aware Blocks, awarded to any admin who makes someone's life better and more productive instead of frittering away time on Wikipedia. Mind you, we could probably do with our own... must get back to that unruly website.
QUOTE(Neil @ Wed 18th June 2008, 8:09am)
"Not making enough edits" - actually, this was not making any. Condolence had been using Wikipedia as a webhost for months and never once edited an article (see here). I still wouldn't have blocked them, but it's not (by a long, long way) the worst block he's made.
I can't look right now (looks like Lar is cleaning up the html code from the page and it is deleted), but I don't remember seeing a single warning - just a block from the blue with no warning, and of course the e-mail block. It's the lack of warning and the e-mail block that bothers me, because that's exactly what he's been getting hammered for over and over again. He also apparently didn't leave any block message on the page explaining what he had done - the block was at 08:26 and Ryulong didn't post until much later, after unblock requests had been made.
Ah, the page is back up. Daniel seems to feel the need to be gratuitously insulting, saying the person shows a "lack of intelligence". No wonder they got upset and cursed. A review of Daniel's talk page shows that the person had asked for some advice and was treated insultingly and condescendingly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=219660820
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...219661011#Reply
The person begged for a second chance, and correctly complained about being personally attacked by Daniel. They also, interestingly, say that they had complained about Daniel making personal attacks and the complaint was deleted?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=219662320
This is met by an insulting suggestion to go to Simple Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=219663089
I'm trying to figure out how Ryulong even found this user, given that they didn't edit any Power Rangers article. The answer, of course, is that the person annoyed Daniel, and Daniel went to IRC and told Ryulong to block the user. Of course this person was not an ideal editor, but this is a pretty classic case of how admin status is abused to drive someone off the site.
QUOTE(Bob Boy @ Wed 18th June 2008, 2:39pm)
QUOTE(Neil @ Wed 18th June 2008, 8:09am)
"Not making enough edits" - actually, this was not making any. Condolence had been using Wikipedia as a webhost for months and never once edited an article (see here). I still wouldn't have blocked them, but it's not (by a long, long way) the worst block he's made.
I can't look right now (looks like Lar is cleaning up the html code from the page and it is deleted), but I don't remember seeing a single warning - just a block from the blue with no warning, and of course the e-mail block. It's the lack of warning and the e-mail block that bothers me, because that's exactly what he's been getting hammered for over and over again. He also apparently didn't leave any block message on the page explaining what he had done - the block was at 08:26 and Ryulong didn't post until much later, after unblock requests had been made.
Ah, the page is back up. Daniel seems to feel the need to be gratuitously insulting, saying the person shows a "lack of intelligence". No wonder they got upset and cursed. A review of Daniel's talk page shows that the person had asked for some advice and was treated insultingly and condescendingly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=219660820
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...219661011#Reply
The person begged for a second chance, and correctly complained about being personally attacked by Daniel. They also, interestingly, say that they had complained about Daniel making personal attacks and the complaint was deleted?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=219662320
This is met by an insulting suggestion to go to Simple Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=219663089
I'm trying to figure out how Ryulong even found this user, given that they didn't edit any Power Rangers article. The answer, of course, is that the person annoyed Daniel, and Daniel went to IRC and told Ryulong to block the user. Of course this person was not an ideal editor, but this is a pretty classic case of how admin status is abused to drive someone off the site.
I agree the tone of some of those diffs wasn't very nice, but that user really did not have a clue. They wouldn't be missed. In any case, it's not insulting to suggest another project. Simple English Wikipedia is a lot more relaxed and easier to work on in my opinion; quite a few banned users from English Wikipedia have moved there.
She had posted on her talk page, in a code box, the raw HTML for the page displayed in the browser when one is editing the selfsame page.
It didn't crash my browser, but it's a weird page to look at.
It didn't crash my browser, but it's a weird page to look at.
QUOTE(Bob Boy @ Wed 18th June 2008, 8:08am)
Well, Ryulong has once again blocked a user for not making enough contributions in article space, the same thing he did to the admin CattleGirl last year. I can't remember if that's what led to his Request for Comment, but it did lead to calls for his desysopping and for NewYorkBrad to tell him to knock it off. Note that he's still blocking e-mail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...User:Condolence
The user was tag-teamed by admins until they lost their temper and cursed on their talk page, the usual tactic. This is an excuse to protect the talk page.
Granted the person was a bit silly, but they did say they wanted to improve Wikipedia and were just experimenting with their userpage. No attempts to mentor, apparently. This is an old, old problem for Ryulong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...comment/Ryulong
Uh-oh. I guess I should be worried then...
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