Wikipedia Sucks!

Dear Ovsk Mendov,

This communication is to notify you that the Wikimedia Foundation (Foundation) has globally banned you from Foundation websites and platforms (including but not limited to any site listed at www.wikimedia.org, mailing lists hosted by the Foundation, Wikimedia Cloud Services, and the Wikimedia blog) as well as any in-person events sponsored or funded by the Foundation including any events hosted by Wikimedia Affiliates using funds from the Foundation. You accordingly may not participate in, edit, contribute, or otherwise modify any content on those sites, platforms, or lists. This ban is placed against you personally, not against a particular username. It applies to any alternate accounts that you may control and any accounts you may create in the future. Furthermore, you may not participate as an anonymous user ("as an IP user").

We are taking this action due to the concern of the safety of our users and the integrity of the projects, and in compliance with the WMF Global ban policy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Global_Ban_Policy>. Based on our review, we determined that you engaged in behavior that violates section 4 of our Terms of Use <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/P ... rms_of_Use>. We have received credible complaints regarding your targeted harassment, automated email spam, privacy breaches and doxxing, and template vandalism on multiple wikis which we feel on review requires this action.

As part of this process, your username will be listed as a globally banned user here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of ... nned_users. Our normal practice is that only this account ban information will be made public while other information communicated to you in this notice will not be published elsewhere. If necessary for the defense of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia users, or the public, the Foundation reserves the right to later publish this information.

Under some limited circumstances, you have the option to appeal with the Case Review Committee. You can read more about this process here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_a ... _Committee>. The role of the case review committee is to provide an opportunity for a second review by community members. If the case review committee does view your case as eligible, they have direct access to our investigation documentation for review. While we are unable to provide you with any evidence around this investigation beyond the information provided here, you have an opportunity to reach out to the case review committee if you wish for this type of review.

Sincerely,
Trust & Safety Team
Wikimedia Foundation

ericbarbour wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:59 pm

PS, this means NOTHING. As usual. Change your IP address and browser agent and you can keep editing (although that is clearly not what you were doing with the OvskMendov1 account). You need to stop picking at those scabs.

Proncutor wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:49 pm

I mean, I don't really understand how there can be different levels of banning, or how unlocking and relocking one account makes anyone more banned than they were previously.

Proncutor wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:49 pm

Now I find myself curious as to how many of those are people who have been WMF banned multiple times under different usernames.

Bbb23sucks wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:58 pm

Proncutor wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:49 pm

Now I find myself curious as to how many of those are people who have been WMF banned multiple times under different usernames.

I was thinking the same thing too.

journo wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 08, 2023 2:01 am

I'm actually 100% sure I never violated Wikipedia's terms of service at the time I was globally banned. Don't think I even sockpupetted or ban evaded a language specific ban at the time. Might have been because I took a former WMF employee to ArbCom, and had a negative article on one of my wikis about a top Wikipedia spokesperson. But the article wasn't even mean or harassing, and they are a public figure in the news. WMF just pretended I was another editor to keep me from coming back on another language wiki or something. At the time, i had no plan on coming back really. Asked them in their iRC why i was globally banned years ago and they just said "kick him out", lmao.

Yourself however, I can see how you might have violated their terms of service.