SERIOUS INCIDENTS ON WIKIPEDIA

Another small number of top admins actively oversee "Serious Incidents". Any issue can be escalated to a serious incident by any admin. Many admins hesitate to perform an escalation because there's some chance, even if only a very small chance, that the responding admins which have the power to remove their adminship could side against them, or decide to atleast look at all of their actions of late with scrutiny. There's always an element of unpredictability with anything and remember there are always various internal politics going on, and the tide could shift against any particular lower admin for any reason.

To escalate an issue to the world's most serious incidents on Wikipedia, all any admin has to do is post a brief (one sentence) complaint saying you're a problem accompanied with a link to wherever the issue is being discussed. When that happens, you will almost certainly be dealt with swiftly and harshly. Not only you, but there's a good chance that large IP ranges even remotely close to your IP address will be blocked too. Admins call it collateral damage.

Hundreds if not thousands of other people who may have never even had a Wikipedia account before are now blocked from Wikipedia too. If they ever decide to edit Wikipedia, they'll quickly find out when they go to edit that they're blocked. They'll be met with a full-page cookie cutter block message which will usually be accompanied with some generic abuse accusation as the reason it was necessary. Almost nobody ever questions the details behind that and it wouldn't be fruitful anyway. In other words, some admin who probably calls himself something like BlueToastwButter or GreatBigVampire and commonly resides in West Europe has decided that you're guilty and that's it.

Not only that, but hundreds of other people nobody involved has ever met will go down with you. All blocked. No trial. No need. You're thinking about fairness and that's not how Wikipedia works. If you try to speak up diligently for yourself, it only seems to anger the admins no matter how reasonable or diplomatic you are. They may even call your very protesting inappropriate. Merely defending yourself against unfair admin treatment or statements made to or about you on your own talk page can in itself be labeled as inappropriate or disruptive. Wikipedia effectively made advocating for your contribution and defending yourself a crime worthy of capital punishment on the encyclopedia. The contributing game is utterly rigged against you as an outsider. You will lose and it doesn't matter if you were right.

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