User:Montanabw/List

, having been on wikipedia since March of 2006, I have never been blocked, banned, restricted, or sanctioned. Note that the following issues have already been brought to my attention:


 * 1) Sometimes I've been cautioned to be nicer and less sarcastic or snarky. That is fair enough, I am working to focus on content, not contributor
 * 2) I believe in WP:BRD. Disagree? If I revert I'll talk if you want to open up a discussion. Often, I revert to an earlier version and build back in the useful intervening edits
 * 3) There is a line between stewardship and ownership. I engage in active stewardship and I know my subject.  I actually do assume good faith and would prefer to help you improve articles.  I'm not a fan of WP:CHEESE arguments.
 * 4) I believe in NPOV, and am firmly of the view that sometimes NPOV is best achieved by "teaching the controversy," presenting ALL the mainstream POVs in a balanced manner so that the reader is fully informed and can draw their own conclusions. I have little patience with WP:FRINGE views of POV hidden in apparently neutral tones, but likewise, I do not believe that ignoring certain unpopular or fringe views will make them go away.
 * 5) I like a good infobox. I like a good footer navbox.  Nearly all articles benefit from these.  Arguably, hindgut fermentation doesn't need an infobox.  I dislike side navboxes.  Infobox content discussions are legitimate, some infoboxes need improvement.  There is a need for both good graphic design and proper underlying coding.
 * 6) Good people can disagree on the interpretation of WIkipedia policies. Consensus can change.

Here's the ANI list of all cases where I was a party. I think it's complete. If not, do note at talk:
 * Posted by an individual who disagreed with my !votes and rationales at AfD. Closed with no action and filing party advised, "But please tone this down a little". (August 2016)
 * Wherein a Slovenian nationalist is upset that I suggested that Slovenian nationalism was inappropriate at the never-ending discussion of whether Lipizzan horses are more Austrian or Slovenian.  (February 2015)
 * I reacted too strongly about a poor-quality photo being replaced by another poor-quality photo that the person who took the second photo insisted on inserting.  Both of us just warned and told to behave. (December 2014)
 * Wherein I lost my cool at a Brony.  (August 2014)
 * , and  wherein a battle escapes article space for ANI over WP:CRYSTAL along with how to focus due and undue weight in a BLP.  An actively-campaigning political figure whose self-inflicted errors led to dropping out of the race creates a feeding frenzy; those of us with (most of the time) calmer heads generally prevailing. Everything that needed to be said got said as actual facts developed. (July-September 2014)
 * User with COI issue was unhappy with me. Case closed with no action, we eventually established some civility toward one another later. (June, 2014)
 * Other user blocked. (March, 2014)
 * Yet another case of an editor preferring ANI to BRD.  We were sent back to talk page to work it out. (January 2014)
 * No action taken. Complaint involved one of my worst losses of temper, prompting the famous User:Drmies comment, "Montana, you know I respect you greatly--you write FAs that have fewer adjectives than that outburst." (October 2013)
 * No action taken.  Brought one evening and closed before I ever got to wiki the following morning. Everyone was told to play nice. (October 2013)
 * No action taken. A minor side issue in the classical music infobox disputes brought by relatively uninvolved user. (August 2013)
 * Here, another spat at the Lipizzan article, my version was protected.  (July 2013)
 * I bring a report, the other user is formally warned. (December 2012)
 * No action taken. Both sides got snarkier than we should have. Everyone told to get along.  (July 2012)
 * User attacks several others, including me.  That user is blocked indefinitely. (May-June 2012)
 * No action taken. I brought this case and both parties were seriously angry at each other.  After excessive waste of bandwidth, everyone is told to just get along. (February 2012)
 * Not brought by me, but I was involved. This was a weird, creepy anon IP guy with a fringe obsession about stallions.  He was back in September 2013, but went away quickly.  May yet return again.  (December 2011)
 * Anon IP and likely sockpuppet of blocked user brings me to ANI, IP is blocked. (October 2010)
 * No action taken. My report of someone else, went nowhere.  (June 2010)
 * I am brought to ANI by one of Wiki's more notorious sockpuppets, said sockpuppet is busted and indeffed as a result. (April 2009)
 * No action taken.  Future blocked user accuses me of being mean to a sock account of an notorious sockpuppet who was indef blocked within the month.  (April 2009)
 * No action taken, editor bringing case against me later blocked due to unrelated issues.  (November 2008)
 * No action taken.  I think this was my first interaction with ANI, a report on someone else, both parties angry and overreacting. Learned a lot from this one. (October 2007)