User:Int21h

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"Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ ὅτι οἷα ἡ πρόθεσίς ἐστιν ἀδικεῖν, παρ᾿ αὐτοῖς οὐδὲ δικαία ἀπολογία ἰσχύει."

- Aesop

"All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in [a system 25 trillion miles away] for 50 of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now. […] I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams."

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"The need for our movement to make any further changes […], will depend on how well the [censor] sees us as addressing those risks."

- Phil Bradley-Schmieg

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This is only the beginning, our work is never finished. For my latest work, see my recent contributions on the English Wikipedia (testwiki) and Wikidata (testwikidata).

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ArbCom
I am currently of the opinion that ArbCom should be abolished, along with their familiars, but I do not yet have a reasoned argument why or how. I have come to view them as an existential threat to the Wikipedia community. These "administrators" do nothing but police actions, so it was just a matter of time before they started carpet bombing their perceived threats. Undeleting articles all these years later may be one thing, but undeleting editors is likely beyond our abilities.

They've violated pretty much every unspoken rule. They set the CheckUsers loose on the community, perhaps the most powerful user right with the least transparent review procedure. They punish editors for (on-wiki and off-wiki) speech (e.g., Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds), but treat on-wiki abuses (e.g., DeltaQuad's "verified evidence" "not a permaban" permaban) as "simple mistakes". It is not just a problem on the English Wikipedia, but almost every other project I have come across (French, German, Wikidata), with the possibly one exception of Wikisource (and maybe the Spanish Wikipedia). The most vandalism and "personal attacks" I have been subjected to at this point have come from administrators connected with ArbCom.

If one has learned anything from history, its that certain radical ideas will take a while to sink in. The Stanford prison experiment is a case in point which gave people an easily reference-able example. It speaks to what many already know in their daily affairs with government officials (which is what these administrators are); what history speaks volumes to. I simply do not believe Hitler was evil, but was simply responding to his environment (Germany and Austria, esp. their political culture and history) with what is apparently a natural response.

And know this: no one is going to prematurely end the experiment for you, nor is an external force going to come save the day. (Jimbo? LOL! Have you seen how busy his talk page is?) But as I see it, currently this is a problem without a proposed solution, and that is another thing people have a psychological coping mechanism for, by ignoring it. This is why I have not said anything so far. So I am trying to finish my work on the European-American government, because I feel it has bigger real world consequences, has bigger and more active information suppression/disinformation campaigns, and will give a foundation of information for the discussion at hand. Then I will devote a significant amount of time to this.

And as before, I ask those of you who have not brought information to my attention to please do so directly through email or preferably on my talk page for all to see. There is simply so much information to review, it may get lost in the commotion, or may to be seen for many months or years from now, but I will not overlook my talk page.-->