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=== BLOCK NUMBER SIX - JIMBO STEPS IN - 6 September 2008 ===

=== BLOCK NUMBER SIX - JIMBO STEPS IN - 6 September 2008 ===

The final block was on 6 September, by Jimmy Wales.  The block was for a remark made in the Wikipedia Review forum, on this thread.

The final block was on 6 September, by Jimmy Wales.  The block was for a remark made in the Wikipedia Review forum, for [[http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=20205&view=findpost&p=127093 this] remark.  'All hail, chief of security and protector of the community, FT2. The bodies of the guilty and the innocent burn together with that sweet sickly smell of death, in the pit, in the morning.'  Note this was not a holocaust reference, but to the Junta period, when people would be taken out and shot, and dumped in the rubbish pits.  At the time, FT2 was blocking a large number of editors, and I was returning to my concern about the increasing 'police state' aspect of Wikipedia.

'All hail, chief of security and protector of the community, FT2. The bodies of the guilty and the innocent burn together with that sweet sickly smell of death, in the pit, in the morning.'"

I [[http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=20205&st=280&p=127117&#entry127117 apologised immediately].  Note that FT2 himself was a contributor to Wikipedia Review, and had also made a number of personal attacks on me, including [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=20332 this whole thread].  "Peter... Yes, you go back on your word. Repeatedly." [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=20332&view=findpost&p=129819]

 

Wales suggested I could come back if I apologised to FT2. I have thought about that. On the other hand, FT2 has made many personal attacks against me, so I see little reason for an apology unless it were returned. There remains, in any case, the matter of the blocks that FT2 has imposed on ''other'' good contributors to the project, and there remains the fact that FT2 is deeply committed to pseudoscientific subjects. This makes him unsuitable in my view for holding an influential position on the remain.  I am not saying the project should be run by academics.  However the commitment to neutrality should be sacrosanct, and this will not be achieved when such a senior person as FT2 holds such influence.

I was welcomed back, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Peter_Damian&diff=235891295&oldid=235821429 Even my enemies make peace], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Peter_Damian&diff=next&oldid=235893763].

 

 

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:FT2&diff=prev&oldid=236613155 Damian complaint] "These blocks look to me, rightly or wrongly, as a continuation of the campaign of victimisation he has been waging against me since I opposed his arbcom campaign. (And which he is neatly transposed, with administrative help, into the issue of ''my'' apparently victimising ''him'')."

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=236845389&oldid=236842333  Wales' reason for blocking]  "It's one thing to say "I don't agree with this decision, can we talk about it?" It is quite another thing to say things like 'All hail, chief of security and protector of the community, FT2. The bodies of the guilty and the innocent burn together with that sweet sickly smell of death, in the pit, in the morning.'"

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