Richard Arthur Norton

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In a few short hours it will have taken ten editors just twenty four hours to decide to ban an editor for incompetence and recidivism, an editor who proudly declares this on their userpage.......

This user is one of the 120 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

This user is ranked No. 96 on the list of Wikipedians by pages created.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years, 5 months and 20 days.

This jarring dissonance barely raises and eyebrow with the Wikipedians. Best they can think to say about it is, it should have happened long ago, by which they certainly don't mean ten or even twelve years earlier.

As is a regular theme, had they stuck with Uncle Jimbo's advice regarding how and when to say goodbye to well meaning but problem users, they'd never even have got into this sort of mess. They might never have had enough users to do much of anything, but at least they'd have known the whole thing was unsustainable from the very beginning.

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I don't think that he was aware of the discussion on AN. Looks nothing more than canvassing all editors off-wiki that oppose a specific editor and then canvass an admin who can close the banning/blocking discussion after 24 hours since it is the minimum limit.

[CrowsNest]

Well, if he never saw it, he isn't saying that. And what he has said, has just buried him further because it was just more classic RAN, merely illustrating how bizarre it was they let him edit for this long, even though now they're all saying in virtual unison, the problems were obvious and irredeemable, the solution long overdue.

The slimy fuckers can't have it both ways. Somebody dropped the ball here. People have either been epically lazy and irresponsible on the one side, or been massively obstructing justice on the other. Carrite is making a strong case that he at least has been doing the latter. But most likely it is the former. Which is kind of sick, given how it just prolonged the agony.

That is, if we assume RAN is going to be pissed at seeing all his junk eroded out of existence, meaning all that time stuffing it into the wiki was completely wasted. Can it be assumed? He may find comfort in the fact that due to the myriad of scrapers and mirrors, and the odd lazy journalist/blogger, it will always be out there now, somewhere. He may simply copy paste it all into Wikidata. They have quote parameters, right?

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He has been blocked again and the original block discussion has been closed. So bad they can't afford to leave it opened for a week. Few of those editors who supported the block had to be sitebanned ages ago if Wikipedia was truthful to its own rules.

Yes it was a waste of time for him to contribute in a project that shows him a door like that. Few of the editors are now planning how they should destroy the work of RAN.

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He has been blocked again and the original block discussion has been closed. So bad they can't afford to leave it opened for a week. Few of those editors who supported the block had to be sitebanned ages ago if Wikipedia was truthful to its own rules.

Yes it was a waste of time for him to contribute in a project that shows him a door like that. Few of the editors are now planning how they should destroy the work of RAN.

[CrowsNest]

Rules mean nothing on Wikipedia. They have a rule that says that ban discussion need not have gone beyond 24 hours, yet that was ignored for no good reason, and merely compounded his humiliation. They have a rule which says don't be assholes, not even to people who have done wrong and are being shown the door, and yet at the very same time they tell him he can appeal in six months, they're gleefully blowing up his entire userspace, all 571 pages, not giving the tiniest fuck whether they were copyvios. Nothing they have ever done in how they handled Richard was according to the rules. Things should never have been allowed to get this bad. It is so typical of the Wikipediots to think they're the victims when the car crash inevitably occurs. They're irresponsible, selfish, nasty pricks. No person with all their faculties willingly chooses to be a part of it. You need to have whatever illness or affliction Richard has, to be able to tolerate it for any amount of time. Then only victims in all this, are the people whose work Richard ripped off, and is probable still live on Wikipedia.

[CrowsNest]

Wtf?

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