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No, it’s not. I wrote neutrally and sourced my material about a controversial figure and was pursued (wikistalked) by a user who doesn’t make substantial contributions other than page patrol.

In fact, my article remains roughly the same, but is only half of what I was trying to make it because of what they did to me. I’m a hugely experienced editor who was researching the topic openly and transparently but was accused of an agenda because I showed my sources in the talk page of the article.

I complained on ANI and asked for help, but it was shutdown and nobody has ever reviewed the abuse I suffered from the other parties. Those other parties actively canvased on another board, and didn’t bother communicating with me. Then one of the editors actively changed the archives of the talk page of the article I was working on to auto archive in a few days and once all my talk discussions rapidly expired restored the default archive timeframe. Totally got away with it too!

Don’t think for a moment that most admins know what they are doing. They can’t, the topics are too broad and the agendas can often be opaque.



You didn't complain on AN/I. You complained on the 3-revert-rule violation (now Edit Warring) noticeboard, and failed to even mention the edit warring that the noticeboard is about. Again, it's errors like this, and mis-labelling people as Wikipedia administrators when they are not and never have been, that undermine the credibility of this account of events.


Except that I did, multiple times. You need to stop telling me I'm misremembering things that can be easily verified in the history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%...

And I never claimed that all the people involved are Wikipedia admins. In fact, I specifically didn't say any names. You will also note that I didn't initiate the edit warring notification.



"You didn't complain on ANI"

And yet I did.

And I never said I didn't complain on that other board. In fact, if I recall correctly (and on this point, my memory may not be 100% correct, but you have raised this...) it wasn't me who initiated the notice, but I did respond.

What is your point? You are the one telling me I never took it to ANI.

In the end, I was clearly not in my right mind. I started having suicidal thoughts, and I did indeed edit as an IP address but not to evade any blocks. I accept that this was not wise, but in my own defense, I was in a heightened state of anxiety and unwell. After the whole debacle, I left Wikipedia and never came back.

It is remarkable that I didn't mention who I was, yet you know specific revisions from an IP address. Who exactly are you?


It's not that remarkable. You have recounted this hole-filled tale before here on Hacker News.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795753

And mentioned it several times since.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17111646

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498494




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