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The case against Gwen Gale (view source)
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#was blocked at 20:56, 9 November 2011. Another admin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gwen_Gale/archive20#Why.3F questioned the block, saying in particular "I don't think BLP concerns are a carte blanche for disregarding AGF like this and especially not BITE since we can't expect newcomers to understand these complex policies within their first 10 edits. I would appreciate if you would be more polite and welcoming towards new editors in the future, and not be as quick with the block-hammer, if you feel you don't have the patience for giving adequate explanations to a newcomer feel free to contact me and I'll gladly take over"], but Gwen failed to clarify her position.
#was blocked at 20:56, 9 November 2011. Another admin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gwen_Gale/archive20#Why.3F questioned the block, saying in particular "I don't think BLP concerns are a carte blanche for disregarding AGF like this and especially not BITE since we can't expect newcomers to understand these complex policies within their first 10 edits. I would appreciate if you would be more polite and welcoming towards new editors in the future, and not be as quick with the block-hammer, if you feel you don't have the patience for giving adequate explanations to a newcomer feel free to contact me and I'll gladly take over"], but Gwen failed to clarify her position.
===Gwen Gale using her administrative tools when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INVOLVED#Involved_admins involved]===
When an involved administrator blocks an editor it is anyway as a teenaged bully is harassing a toddler.
In [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Gwen_Gale#Some_examples_of_unwarranted_blocks_and_unwarranted_removing_of_talk_page_access this section] I provided an example of using tools while involved. Here are two of the most striking examples.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gwen_Gale/archive5#Your_Block_on_User:Southerndata This thread is about yet another bad block imposed by Gwen Gale]. She blocked this user while involved with him (edit warring on the same article). The user [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3ASoutherndata&type=block was blocked at 15:04, 28 June 2008] for so called "vandalism" at [[en:Fred Noonan]]. Gwen Gale edited this article a lot. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Noonan&oldid=2399161 Actually Gwen Gale wrote this article, when she still edited as Wyss], but let's see June 28,2008: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Noonan&action=historysubmit&diff=222286333&oldid=222286201 Gwen Gale] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Noonan&action=historysubmit&diff=222287525&oldid=222287133 was edit warring] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Noonan&action=historysubmit&diff=222288253&oldid=222288170 with the very same editor she later blocked].
*Interestingly enough after blocking the user while so heavily involved, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gwen_Gale/archive5#Your_Block_on_User:Southerndata being told and agreeing she should not have done it], Gwen Gale [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3ASoutherndata&type=block blocked him again] just two days later on 22:38, 30 June 2008 in spite of being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gwen_Gale/archive5#Your_Block_on_User:Southerndata "not happy with having been the blocking admin".]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Proofreader77&diff=prev&oldid=345321695 This is the last edit mate by Proofreader77]. After this Gwen Gale removed his talk page access. She did it during [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&oldid=344569343#Proofreader77_blocks the request for arbitration] that was initiated to discuss prior unwarranted and overturned blocks of this editor the very blocks that were imposed by the very same Gwen Gale. She was not just involved. She was heavily involved, but nobody from arbitrators bothered to undo her action and at least warn her.
===Gwen Gale is dishonest and untruthful===
===Gwen Gale is dishonest and untruthful===