This is related to myself (hence I understand if it gets moved to the annex or whatever) but it is also relevant to the Dreadstar/Sandstein case and to general admin conduct and abuse at Arbitration Enforcement hence it has wider relevance.

Basically a stupid spat over naming between Polish and Lithuanian editors, and a completely misguided AE report by Future Perfect at Sunrise, has given Sandstein an opportunity to apparently engineer some kind of block or sanction for me.

He first more or less accused me of "nationalist bias" and edit warring - on articles I've never edited plus a couple articles on which I've only made a single edit EVER. I wrote up a response and since I was pissed off when I wrote it I made a unclear statement in which I referred to "Lithuanian editors" whereas really I should have been specific about the ones I had in mind (though which ones I had in mind is obvious from the nature of the report). And now Sandstein is threatening to sanction me for that statement. Which makes this a classic case of "baiting" - accuse someone of ridiculous things and when they get mad and reply in haste, switch to the "I'll block you for that one"

Seriously, while I've disagreed with Sandstein in the past (often) I didn't expect him to stoop to that level.

While this would be "bad faith" on Wikipedia, it's hard to avoid the suspicion that this is in some way related to my criticisms of him in the "Mass Killing under Communism" decision and my disagreement with him on the Ludwigs2/Dreadstar issue (now part of the ArbCom case - and both of these instances were ones where I was standing up for people that I normally disagree with). I'm still inclined to ascribe this just to misjudgment but who knows.

Wow, this is just like how a real encyclopedia is written, wouldn't you say?

Almost but not completely unlike it. (1)

1 - in that I expect there must have been some minor backbiting now and again over at Funk-n-Wagnals, back in the day...

Wiki Brown Shirt Fut Perv, aka Lukas Pietsch, seems to have a nose for nationalist disputes, what have we had so far, Greece versus Macedonia, Korea versus Japan, now Poland versus Lithuanian.

Someone caught him with a fake forum post in 2009 which kind of sums it up. It appears to have widened his fiefdom from the Balkans to Northern Europe ...