User:Phobine/sandbox

For those of you who are in the know, just in case it gets disappeared, posting a copy here:

Happy to see that at long last, sense has prevailed. Not happy to see that Future Perfct, Kww and Black Kite are trying to cover their asses, and Masem is still trying to pretend he's just an observer in all this. It's a sad fact that, apart from the common interest in Learning Management, none of the evidence above is remotely new. It had all previously been noted, either by other users, or myself, many months ago. And there was enough evidence even years ago that meant these admins should at least have been asking Werieth some serious questions, which he obviously wouldn't have been able to answer. AGF doesn't even come close to excusing that basic failure. The problem is, Future and Kww, ably cheerled by Masem and Black Kite, didn't to that. They used their block buttons and their privelaged ability to revert on trust, and even toward the end their delete rights, to ensure none of it saw the light of day, by ironically conducting a campaign of misinformation, harassment and intimidation against me. Which is indeed ironic, given what's finlly brought this to a head. Werieth/Beta does indeed have an amazing ability to not be aware of when he is shooting himself in the foot. It's hilarious to see Kww claiming that doing so makes it more likely it will come to light. Hogwash. Yes, for the rules lawyers, Andy was 'wrong' not to file the SPI evidence himself, but he absolutely cannot be faulted for that, it's an incredibly hard thing to do if you don't know the case intimately - even for people who have the will, once you realise just how long it would take to do it the right way for this particular case (combing through thousands and thousands of edits to find diffs and links for everything), odds on you aren't going to do it. These admins can, and should, be held to account for the truly incredible lengths they went to ensure the people who did know the case, never got a chance to present a coherent or complete package of evidence, leading to the situation we have here, where even now the full extent of the weatlh and breadth of the evidence that was available is not realised (although some have alluded to it). It's because of them that the only place it's available in one coherent narrative, is not at SPI, but out of their grasp, on the critic site. And they need to be held to account, because that didn't happen out of sheer incompetence or rigid adherence to the rules for rules sake (namely EVADE over all other considerations) - it's no coincidence that the thing that ties Future, Kww, Black Kite and Masem all together, is their shared hard line on NFCC, and their prior support, to the bitter end in Future's case, of Betacommand. As Kww is fond of saying, the block of Werieth and the unblock of Andy would have been done shortly by any admin with any sense - therefore, they should not be getting any credit at all for being the ones to do it now. Their block/unblock needs to be taken over by truly independent admins, and they need to be investigated. There are others too - SPI clerks Mark Arsten and Rschen7754, and Checkusers DeltaQuad, DoRD and Reaper Eternal, all played a part in this cover up (I'm not just talking about just what they did in the SPI, but all they did after, a lot of which was at the direct request of Werieth, or Future et al). Their motives will have to be determined by those with better access to their backchannel communications than I. Special mention should also be made of Floquenbeam, who somehow has made it to arbcom, despite being the perfect example of the precise sort of fuckwit you have to be to make issues like this turn into complete farces. The same can be said of Guy Macon, but I suspect he's bever going to be in a position of any power, so he can be ignored, for now. Bookmark the name though. For those of you who think nothing should have been done because Werieth wasn't a problem editor - you weren't looking hard enough. He had all the same hallmarks of the sort of problems Beta had - they were just a little less obvious, both in scale and frequency. To be any more obvious, would have meant he would have been spotted straight away. And as someone said, it's immaterial anyway, he had just one permitted way back in the event he believed he was a changed man. As it was, with the help of Future et al fighting his corner from the inside, he was able to last far longer than he should have, for someone who had effectively just ignored a ban and come right back to Wikipedia to do work in exact same areas he'd done before. If there are any of you still thinking it's right that this issue went on for so long because every barrier put in my way was legitimate because I myself was obviously a sock - just ask yourself one question - if I have another account in good standing, or indeed if I am a banned editor myself - in cases like this, where, if the full evidence had been allowed to be posted, and remain unmolested, so that a proper conclusion could have been reached at SPI by editors in good standing, then what possible benefit to Wikipedia was there in delaying? It's a basic fact that the strength of the evidence doesn't change depending on where it comes from, as long as it only relies on basic factual things that anyone can verify for themselves (as I was very careful to do). Contrary to what many of you tried to claim (and like I said, your motives for doing so need to be investigated), I was not simply trolling, I was simply trying to enforce a ban that, in this particular case, had been extremely well deserved, and hard won by all the people that Beta had come up against in the past. It's perhaps only because so much of that was so long ago, that in the end so few people took this issue seriously enough. It's not remotely hyperbole to describe Betacommand as one of the top 5 worst ever of the 'good faith but ultimately not compatible' type of users in Wikipedia's history. Obviously, even though it won't find anything, a (publicly verified) CU check of the Werieth account is in order, and obviously, since this block makes it official that Betacommand has been socking, his arbcom ban should be reset to 0, and this attempted illegitimate return needs logging in the arbcom pages. Special thanks to all those who eventually got this over line (you know who you are, no need to highlight you and place you at risk of reprisals from any future reincarnation), and apologies to Andy, who I didn't think would have walked into this block after my previous cautions, but noting that if it weren't for it, Werieth could quite easily have still been editing this time next year. It was a very real concern of mine that had he managed to get a few years under his belt, he would have applied for a bot flag, so even though it's many months too late than it needed to be, this block did ultimately prevent a total disaster. The real tragedy is that nobody is likely to comb through all of Wereith's edits and attempt to repair any damage he did during his illegitimate return (botched edits, lost files, lost editors, distorted consensuses, etc), least of all Future et al. And obviously, it will be extremely bad for Wikipedia if Future, Kww and the higher functionaries mentioned are able to walk away from this as if they had nothing to answer for, that they were merely following the rules, but I'd be a liar if I said I hadn't seen that happen many times before in other cases /cynicism.