I'm flattered, but it seems this is nothing to do with me. Bizarrely, he is simply pissed that he wasn't completely absolved at a recent AE report. His retirement post makes it clear he thinks he is owed an exception to the usual behavioural standards because he 1) writes lots of articles 2) writes in a stressful area 3) the AE report was by a fellow battler from the 'other side', not a completely independent observer. Like that ever happens......
As is normal for Wikipedia, most Administrators accepted all this as perfectly fine mitigation, and so, wanted to let him go on his merry way. Free to continue to aggressively push his POV.
As is sadly usual, Sandstein, an Administrator who never touches these articles and never takes sides in blocking anyone, was the only Administrator to call bullshit here, and wanted to apply a sanction on this basis......
This is unacceptable conduct, and Nishidani has a record going back to 2007 of blocks and warnings for overly aggressive conduct in the ARBPIA topic area. According to the AE log, the user has already had two one-month topic bans. I am therefore considering imposing an indefinite topic ban. Sandstein 18:27, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Unusually, he was persuaded not to act given he was alone in this view. One wonders if more time might have produced a more just outcome from the bench than 3-1, that three including Drmies and Black Kite, whose record of corruption and bias in how they deliver their Admin opinions, is legendary. I have not heard good things about the other one, Fish+Karate too. Then again, maybe not.
It says everything about how utterly biased and corrupt Wikipedia is, that a user who basically gets away with it, and wasn't even facing a block, just a permanent ban from the area they clearly have massively strong bias over, still has a tantrum and 'retires' because Sandstein posted this....
I am closing this without action at this time, given that I am the only admin that considers this actionable. Nonetheless, I will consider imposing a block or an indefinite topic ban, with or without any prior discussion, in the event of continued battleground-like conduct by Nishidani in this topic area. Sandstein 16:41, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Nish consider this to be an open invitation to his enemies, a Sword of Damocles. Unacceptable!
This may well just be a tantrum though, as his reporter put it: "I have seen you retire from this project many times in the past, only to continue your offensive and disruptive behavior after a while."
As seen in the comiserations from all his fellow battlers, who of course want Sandstein burned at the stake, it turns out he does have other interests......
Over the past 18 months or so, Nishidani has created and written nearly 700 articles on the Aboriginal nations and peoples of Australia (with a little help from me, but 99% of the drive and effort behind these articles has been Nishidani). That documents a set of peoples who have suffered genocidal extermination or near-extermination as a result of British settler colonization. All with no disruption at all, since nobody is trying to justify that genocidal extermination. The contrast with the Palestinians is obvious, and I would love to see the result on Israel/Palestine articles if Nishidani were allowed to get on with them in the same way, with none of this constant, time-consuming, energy-draining hassle, petty niggling and blatant bad-faith disruption. --NSH001 (talk) 06:37, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
See, totally different!