The Dubious Dealings of an Online Enyclopedia


WIKIPEDIA CRUSHING A WHISTLEBLOWER

Then it happened. When it became clear that the wrong would stand, the editor, seeing this, told the prime pair of abusive admins Jim F. Bleak and SarekofVulcan that if they didn't right this immediately, he'd be sending an explantory letter to the DOJ and Wikipedia's head office about it. Understandably, RandyKnotts was at the very end of his plentiful rope and said the one thing that could be used to scapegoat him. Freedom of speech outside of Wikipedia isn't lawyering, it's whistleblowing. However, some admins may interpret whistleblowing as a legal threat and Wikipedia doesn't tolerate whistleblowers.

Just then, another admin Theroadislong who had been page stalking like a creep suddenly slapped RandyKnotts from behind with a posted Disciplinary Warning on his Talk Page. The public action was an official Wikipedian templated warning to the editor that his last sentence may appear to some to be a legal threat, and that any further talk like that would result in a block. Though disagreeing in principle, editor RandyKnotts made no more such statements and fully adhered. It was finally over.

Jim F. Bleak had successfully abused his power, and though he and his friend SarekofVulcan had been ripped to shreds on merit, the abusive destroyer just didn't have to do the obvious right thing. RandyKnotts humbly moved on. He took a break and then decided to edit elsewhere on the encyclopedia. Then, during an unrelated edit, he got the templated official message. He had just been blocked by the obese knitting man SarekofVulcan.

SarekofVulcan's grudge was just too much. He'd retaliated with double jeopardy and an after the fact double discipline. Though RandyKnotts had already received disciplinary action and fully adhered to it, the petty admin could never let it go. SarekofVulcan had pounced like a hog on an odorous mud pie, and taken a bad-faith capital punishment action because he could. The action was for the same issue which had already been acted on by another admin, and the issue had been concluded.

RandyKnotts was now left with the option to either walk away from this misjustice or file a block appeal. With a historic and extraordinarily profound appeal statement, RandyKnotts appealed the retaliatory block by SarekofVulcan. In his appeal, RandyKnotts explained everything that had happened and hoped for a decent human being to appear. Maybe a UTRS admin would recognize all of the guidelines broken against the editor, and that he had received double jeopardy disciplinary action for the sentence in question, and that he had even adhered to the posted warning fully. Maybe they'd even help restore the draft article and allow Teahouse to review it.


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