Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Freestylefrappe

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Statement of the dispute

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Freestylefrappe has been incivil and attempted to game the system in his role as an administrator.

Description

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I was asked to step in by Creidieki (talk · contribs) at Kumanovo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) during a content dispute between Freestylefreappe and a few other editors. Many of Freestylefrappe's edits were in good faith at first,[1][2], and his intentions in the edits seemed to be good faith, but how he approached other editors went down from there.

He also blocked a new user for a single page-blanking, without warning or discussion. In the course of being asked about this, he made accusations of other users, made false statements and misquoted policy to suit his views, then eventually asserted that he did not see the point in following blocking policy.

Evidence of disputed behavior

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1. [3] This content here went back and forth between Freestylefrappe and Bitola (talk · contribs) a few times, although there isn't any real reason to show it over and over because ultimately, all that concerns me with this here is that it becomes the basis for his confrontational behavior later.
2. [4] Content conflict continues. FSF calls other edit "nonsense" in edit summary. This is the first in his 3RR vio seen here.
3. [5] He insults Bitola on the talk page
4. [6] He calls asbestos (talk · contribs) lazy, and says he will start an rfc on me because he believes I have a grudge against him.
5. [7] Belittles Bunchofgrapes (talk · contribs) comments with an attempt to intimidate him with his admin status in order to add weight to his side of the argument. Edit Summary is "Cut the BS"
6. [8] Threatens me while blocked from his IP Address.
   [9] incorrectly insults me here.
   [10]Anon edits again changing his mind over what the problem is. At the page, it was copyvios, not it's the poor editing skills of those who disagree with him.
7. [11] Loses temper on his talk page apparently(edit summary is in all caps) about something as small as section naming.
8. [12] FSF turns his user page into an attack page against all those he has a grudge with apparently, which he copies below here on this rfc.
9. [13],[14]Talk Page Section On The Issue FSF blocks a newcomer, Stephenj (talk · contribs) without warning for a large blanking.
10. [15] Assumes bad faith in regards to Stephenj (talk · contribs) to SCZenz (talk · contribs)
11. [16] FSF attempts to intimidate SCZenz into withdrawing his findings at this rfc.

Detail on Stephenj

Since it's been raised, I will thrown in a detailed description of my conversation with Freestylefrappe with regard to the Stephenj. I think it indicates a serious misunderstanding on the part of Freestylefrappe of a number of Wikipedia policies and the role of administrators, which I think must be corrected, hopefully voluntarily. -- SCZenz 21:38, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• 04:17, 15 December 2005 - [17] - Bunchofgrapes asks Freestylefrappe about a user he has blocked. The user is Stephenj (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). It should be noted that Stephenj is a new user, who appears to have made some legitimate contributions in addition to an incident of page blanking, such as uploading an image, placing it in the relevant article, and fixing an error he'd made in the image name. Freestylefrappe did not give any warnings or information on Stephenj's talk page, either before or after the block.
• 8:27, 15 December 2005 - [18] - Freestylefrappe replies with the statement that Stephenj's edits were "all vandalism", and accuses Bunchesofgrapes of "following him" because of the previous dispute.
• 18:49, 15 December 2005 - [19] - I reply to this statement, asserting that Freestylefrappe is incorrect about Stephenj's edits, and further noting that it's appropriate for admins to have their actions reviewed.
• 18:56, 15 December 2005 - [20] - Freestylefrappe replies, saying he'll look into Stephenj's contributions. He also makes some accusations regarding Bunchofgrapes
• 19:10, 15 December 2005 - [21] - I reply with a clarification of Stephenj's edits, and concerns about his accusations. I say I'll look into the dispute if he provides info
• 19:19, 15 December 2005 - [22] - I note that he's commented at his RFC, promise to look into it, and express concern about his attitudes toward a user's fitness to edit because of alleged grammatical errors.
• 19:23, 15 December 2005 - [23] - He replies, asserting that vandals do not need to be warned.
• 19:33, 15 December 2005 - [24] - I reply, noting that they do according to Wikipedia:Blocking policy
• 19:38, 15 December 2005 - [25] - he replies, with a partial quote from blocking policy that is misleading. He also states, "StephenJ is a stepup from an anon. He has no talkpage and no userpage."
• 19:44, 15 December 2005 - [26] - I reply, giving the full quote and noting that it says he should have warned Stephenj. I also suggest he review WP:BITE in regard to the comment quoted above.
• 19:52, 15 December 2005 - [27] - he replies, saying he doesn't see the need to warn vandals and saying "I doubt he'll ever edit under that account again."
• 20:02, 15 December 2005 - [28] - I state I am concerned about his views of administrator discretion over policies, and ask him to read WP:AGF as well as WP:BITE.

Bitola's view on the Kumanovo dispute

I would like to describe my view on the dispute.

• 8 January 2005, 21:30 - FSF (FreestyleFrappe) added the article about the Kumanovo. It contained three paragraphs: Introduction, Violence and Narcotics.
• Next five edits of the page introduced only a minor changes
• [29] 22 May 2005, 21:04 - FSF correctly reverted the country official name
• [30] 22 May 2005, 21:04 - FSF again correctly removed vandalism on the page
• [31] 12 November 2005, 03:15 – 203.122.97.13 introduced an apparent commercial into the page
• [32] 23 November 2005, 20:12 – Believing that the sections: Violence and Narcotics shouldn’t be present in the Kumanovo’s official page, I removed those sections and inserted info related to the city history and culture monuments. I also noted the source of the info as external link (official page of the city). I was guided by the fact that the FSF’s Narcotics and Violence sections are taken from the Christopher Deliso writing for Antiwar.com, because he also noted that as an external link.
• [33] 23 November 2005, 20:24 – I added the Economy section
• [34] 23 November 2005, 22:53 – FSF reverted to the previous version, completely removing all my additions to the page, without any explanation.
• [35] 23 November 2005, 23:44 – FSF blocked me 24 hours without any warning with reason: deleting content and adding copyvios to various pages
• [36] 24 November 2005, 08:47 – I reverted to my version, with the following edit summary: Please don't put things like drugs, narcotics and violence in the page for this beautiful macedonian city.
• [37] 24 November 2005, 08:50 – User:Akamad reverted to the FSF version
• [38] 24 November 2005, 19:42 – I reverted to my version, but also I gave up from the idea of removing his Violence and Narcotics sections. I thought that I’m expressing good will with that and he will leave me to add another info to the page. My edit summary was: OK FreestyleFrappe, I will leave your "violence" texts, yet I'm not sure why it is so important to you to have only bombs, blood and killing in an article for a normal town like Kumanovo
• [39] 8 December 2005, 02:00 – A period of half a month passed and I believed that the things are settled, but FSF reverted back his version with edit summary: rv to last version at 22:53, I previously reverted yet my reversion seems to have inexplicably disappeared....anon c & p'd a copyvio
• [40] 12 December 2005, 07:43 – I reverted to my version noting that his version is unacceptable
• [41] 12 December 2005, 17:28 – FSF reverted back his version
• [42] 12 December 2005, 18:19 – FSF blocked me for 48 hours with reason personal attacks, reverting to copyvios
• [43] 12 December 2005, 21:34 – I again reverted my version, AGAIN leaving his sections with the edit summary: Now there are no copyvios by my side. I’m stressing the fact that for the second time I’m accepting his sections and only adding the new ones.
• [44] 12 December 2005, 22:32 – FSF again removed my adds with edit summary: rv. posting nonsense is not a substitute for copyvio
• [45] 13 December 2005, 00:13 – Another users are beginning to notice the dispute. User:Glenn Willen corrected the article with the following edit summary: Revert good faith edits removed without consensus by freestylefrappe -- please see talk page. If they are removed, I don't intend to revert again
• [46] 13 December 2005, 02:38 – FSF didn’t accept that and returned his version with edit summary: rv – self explanatory
• [47] 13 December 2005, 03:05 – Several administrators blocked FSF with reason: vio on Kumanovo plus several NPA vios, including one while blocked from an IP
• [48] 13 December 2005, 11:20 – User:Macedon5 reverted the previous version with edit summary: Reverting to the Bitola's version, FreestyleFrappe is vandalizing the article
• [49] 13 December 2005, 17:29 – User:Glenn Willen reverted the previous version with edit summary: Please, don't remove other people's contributions! If you have a dispute about the article, please, PLEASE _discuss_ it on the talk page. Don't just revert the article until this has been discussed!
• [50] 13 December 2005, 18:41 – While FSF was blocked, I tried to calm down the situation, saying that I’m accepting his sections, but also I hope that he will leave mine as well.
• [51] 14 December 2005, 21:01 – FSF, after his unblocking expiration, AGAIN removed all my adds, with edit summary: cleanup and restoration
• [52] 15 December 2005, 13:20 – I added bigger good-faith material to the page that included:Geography and climate, Road connections, History, Kumanovo tourist attractions and again LEAVED his sections
• [53] 15 December 2005, 20:25 – FSF removed all my additions, leaving only a few sentences, but removed in inappropriate sections.
• [54] 15 December 2005, 21:43 - I asked him why hi is doing that in the Discussion page: His answer was: what are you talking about? All I did was correct grammar.
• [55] 15 December 2005, 20:55 – I reverted the previous version that included my new adds as well as his previous sections.
• [56] 15 December 2005, 21:44 – FSF again reverted his version
• [57] 15 December 2005, 21:50 – User:Flcelloguy protected the page

Also, all the time he is doing personal attacks on me. I’ll note just a few of them:

• 1. He is accusing me of vandalism.

answer: Why my desire and determination to improve the image of the city described by him only by terrorism and narcotics would be a vandalism?

• 2. Copyright-violating dump of the page.

answer:My first addition to the page included text from the Kumanovo official page, but I also included the source of the information as an external link. His sections about Violence and Narcotics are also taken from the Christopher Deliso’s article in Antiwar.com and he included the source of the info in the same manner as I did, as an external link.

• 3. Bitola's edits were sloppy and ungrammatical

answer: If my edits were sloppy and ungrammatical, why he didn’t just simply corrected the edits grammatically?

• 4. The later reverts removed the nonsense Bitola added

answer: Why my additions about the important monuments, geography, climate and tourist attractions to the page would be a nonsense? From my point of view, his sections about Violence and Narcotics are really nonsense (I have never seen similar article on Wikipedia that describes a normal, ordinary town only by violence, terrorism and narcotics), but I gave up of trying to remove it, leaving another users to judge what should stay and what shouldn’t in the article.

From all this I conclude that FreestyleFrappe is trying to keep only his version of the article and he is not willing to accept my good-faith adds to the page. In the current version of the page (which is now protected) he left several sentences, but he deleted the most of my info and reordered the text so it has lost its meaning. I have no strength to deal with this only by myself (I’m just an ordinary user and FSF is a Wikipedia administrator) and I’m asking other users to find I way to convince FSF to accept good-faith edits to the page.

Applicable policies

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1. WP:CIVIL
2. WP:3RR
3. WP:NPA
4. Wikipedia:Blocking policy

Applicable guidelines

1. WP:BITE
2. WP:AGF

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

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1. [58]
2. [59]
3. [60]
4. [61]

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

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1. karmafist 04:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
2. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 04:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
3. SCZenz 21:38, 15 December 2005 (UTC) (with regard to banning of Stephenj and appropriate response to questions, not with regard to original edit war)
4. User:Glenn Willen (Talk) 06:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

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1. --Sean|Black 22:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Response

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Over the past few days several users, 2 of whom are administrators on Wikipedia, engaged in deceit and arbitrary blocking. They lied in order to create an atmosphere of mistrust and tried desperately to hide the truth. Here are the indisputable facts:

January 8

• I created Kumanovo.

November 23

• Bitola deleted content with the edit summary: "Don't put things like narcotics and violence!!!". I reverted his edits.

November 24

• Bitola reverted back to his version under the anonymous IP address 62.162.226.197 with the edit summary: "Please don't put things like drugs, narcotics and violence in the page for this beautiful macedonian city."
• Akamad reverted Bitola's vandalism to my last version.
• Bitola, under the anonymous IP 62.162.226.48, then copy and pasted a copyvio with the edit summary: "OK FreestyleFrappe, I will leave your "violence" texts, yet I'm not sure why it is so important to you to have only bombs, blood and killing in an article for a normal town like Kumanovo"

December 8

• I reverted Bitola's vandalism with the edit summary: "rv to last version at 22:53, I previously reverted yet my reversion seems to have inexplicably disappeared....anon c & p'd a copyvio"

December 12

• Bitola reverted to his version with the edit summary: "Reverting to the previous version, the FreestyleFrappe version is unacceptable"
• I reverted back to my version.
• He reverted back to his version.
• I reverted back to my version AGAIN.

December 13

• Glenn Willen reverted to Bitola's version insisting in his edit summary: "Revert good faith edits removed without consensus by freestylefrappe -- please see talk page. If they are removed, I don't intend to revert again.)"
• I rolled back Glenn Willen's reversion.
• Credieki reverted.
• I rolled back AGAIN.
• Karmafist blocked me for 24 hours.
• Macedon5 (A.K.A. Bitola) reverted to his version with the edit summary: "Reverting to the Bitola's version, FreestyleFrappe is vandalizing the article"

At some point after Asbestos decided to lengthen my block.

Throughout this entire ordeal I was accused of breaking the 3RR. Originally I thought the arguing over my actions was over once Bunchofgrapes explained my actions (emphasis added):

"Attempted summary of the history I'm just trying to understand. I've dug a little into the history. Bitola's original changes on Nov 23 here (with the edit summary of "Don't put things like narcotics and violence!!!") were clearly a copyright-violating dump of this page. His later changes, at least until Dec 12, also largely dumped text from that same page. Freestylefrappe's reversions seem to make sense up to here. The Dec 12 change [1] by 62.162.225.230 (with summary "Bitola:Now there are no copyvios by my side") appears to add "History" and "Cultural Monuments" sections to the existing contents, leaving the others (including "Violence" and "Narcotics" alone.) For reasons unclear to me, Freestylefrappe then reverted these additions with the comment "rv. posting nonsense is not a substitute for copyvio.". [2] I'm not sure why the new content was "nonsense", though I very much want to believe I am missing something. At that point, Glenn Willen and Creidieki started reverting the article back to the state before Freestylefrappe's revert. Freestylefrappe has the last edit right now, edit summary "rv self-explanatory." Freestylefrappe, it isn't. Please fill us in. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 05:13, 13 December 2005 (UTC)"

The later reverts removed the nonsense Bitola added. Bitola's edits were sloppy and ungrammatical. If Bitola does not speak English he should not edit English Wikipedia.

Later on, when questioned, BunchofGrapes seems to change his stance:

"That's simply not true. Vandalism must be manifestly bad-faith. See Wikipedia:Vandalism. Slapping in some copied text from a web page is not manifestly bad-faith: some people don't know it isn't permitted. Even if you, from a past history, believe Bitola knew and understood copyright rules, that still does not make it "simple vandalism", removable without regard to 3RR. Simple vandalism is obvious on its face and does not require further research, neither into the origins of the text added during the edit nor into the motivations of the editor adding it. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 22:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)"

As the earlier evidence shows, anyone can see that Bitola's edits were bad-faith. He deleted content he disagreed with. As for the erroneos claim that he was unaware that what he was doing was wrong, I would suggest looking at User talk:Bitola where he repeatedly accused me of adding copyvios. Unfortunately it was conveniently, mysteriously deleted, most likely by Karmafist. Fortunately, Bitola's edit summaries on Kumanovo can still be seen, and Criedieki's comment about not adding copyvios on Talk:Kumanovo remains.

Throughout this entire time, the word of an administrator was considered less reliable than the word of three anonymous users, and three registered users with no userpage. Now I have to deal with harassment by BunchofGrapes.

I am requesting that Karmafist have his blocking privileges temporarily revoked until he can demonstrate good-faith.

Recently, another user stated in another (not sure how related to this) incident- "In particular, the notion that contributions should be thrown out simply because they're not well-written is entirely contrary to how Wikipedia works" This statement is not at all true. If users only engage in sloppiness then their edits are incorrect. There's a difference between starting an article to the best of one's ability and messing up existing articles by dumping text.

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1. freestylefrappe 19:33, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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