User:Martinvl/Sandbox3

I wish to appeal this ban on a number of items. In order to speed things up, I plan to first contest a number of "show-stopper" procedural items - items which if upheld will save everybody having to wade through reams of text.

• When Wee Curry Monster wrote that I had resumed edit-warring, he was not in full possession of the facts.
• My version of the vote-stacking issue might well have got lost in a WP:Wall of text.
• As an adjunct to my version of the vote-stacking episode, I made it clear that I did not intend to rebut the allegations against me until the vote-stacking issue had been cleared up. The closing editor has made no reference to this request and I have not yet rebutted the accusations made against me.

Wee Curry Monster misunderstood my activity on the page Template:Systems of measurement

Firstly, the claim by User:Wee Curry Monster (WCM) that I was continue to edit-war was ill-founded. Although he gave a number of references, he was unaware that I was in the process of preparing an this ANI request for an investigation into User:EzEdit.

EzEdit appears to be running an account for the sole purpose of discrediting then article Imperial and US customary measurement systems of which I was the principal editor. If it transpires that EzEdit is running an account for this sole purpose, then the actions on which WCM commented were totally justified making WCM's claim ill-founded. This should be sufficient for the block to be raised forthwith.

I notice that this SPA request has been closed by an uninvolved administrator. I request that this SPA be reopened and investigated as part and parcel of my appeal. It is highly possible and that User:EzEdit is a sock-puppet of the banned editor User:DeFacto - he is quackling like DeFacto but has possibly fooled WP:CheckUser by changing his editing habits and in particular using different sock-puppet accounts for each type of attack (cw a One-time pad. For the record, User:R.stickler used this technique - more details on request). If this is the case, then the trigger for this ban become null and void.

Wee Curry Monster factually misrepresented facts In his last posting

WCM's account of what happened in the last few hours is factually wrong.

• He stated that I was blocked for week. The actual period was 48 hours.
• He stated that I was edit-warring. The reality is that a new user EzEdit started edit-warring. In exasperation with EzEdit, I set the page back to its last stable version - the version that existed when EzEdit first opened his Wikipedia account. Since WCM had never been involved with that page, he was unable to asses the true situation.
• His statement about natural justice showed his ignorance about legal matters. This is discussed in more detail in the section #Right of Reply.

Vote stacking issue

I twice outlined my reasons for vote-stacking: here and here. In both of these I laid out exactly why I was making accusations of vote-stacking.

My case might well have been hidden by a WP:Wall of text, in which case the administrator might well have missed it - the first of these two posting is hidden under green banner with the text "Moot. Beyond My Ken (talk) 09:48, 23 October 2013 (UTC)". The first of these requests were lying around for a week without action.

In both postings, I requested that if the closing administrator did not see fit to close the ANI on grounds of vote stacking, that I be in formed so that I could prepare a rebuttal of my case. I request that the closing admin revisit the vote-stacking issue taking note that WCM selectively notified certain editors and as a result the whole case was prejudiced from the very beginning. Will the closing admin please also note that it was WCM who made this request which should also be viewed in the light of WCM's vote stacking.

Right of Reply

As explained earlier, I have not yet exercised my right to reply. I knew that to reply to an accusation where the vote-stacking issue had yet to be resolved would merely cause the ANI to expand out of all proportion, so I decided to wait until the evidence was in place and then, when requested to do so by the closing admin, reply.

May I draw to attention that Wikipedia has very strict rule about WP:BLP. Editors are also living people and like non-Wikipedians, are entitled to demand that facts about them are accurately reported. Normally if a Wikipedia discussion is getting out of control, an editor can walk away unscathed. However, if the discussion is about the editor concerned, then I submit the editor has an unfettered right, just as any other living person, to ensure that his rights are not infringed.

When I tried to exercise that right here, User:Beyond My Ken suppressed that right. When I protested, User:Beyond My Ken was assisted by two other administrators to supress those rights further and to impose a 48 hour ban on me, (not a week as alleged by WCM). Beyond my Ken subsequently posted this statement which showed his complete ignorance of the situation - Wikipedia is subject to the law of the State of Florida and as such, I have many rights. I do not know all of them, but everybody, including Beyond My Ken, must surely be aware of the right redress in cases of libel. These rights are very closely tied in with the concept of natural justice.

I ask therefore that the ban is lifted and that I have the right to reply without interruption from any other party. This is exactly what happens in a court of law - the accuser lays his case and then the defendant answer the case, thereby avoiding the problems of Ochlocracy.

Misrepresentation of fact by other editors

In this section I will rebut the evidence placed by other editors. This will involve considerable preparation work by me and considerable work by whoever reads is, so rather than waste a lot time, it is probably best to initially examine the first parts of the appeal. If those are grounds for the appeal to be upheld, then a lot of work will be saved all round.