User talk:Randomcommenter

Blocked
Oh, wikipedia, how you failed me. My last edit was an attempt, however humble, to add a rationale to an image, cleaning up the mess caused by random deletions. My edits before were to talk pages.

I guess the discussion I started will be a lot easier to finish now that now that you had to resort to strong-arm tactics to stop the discussion. Bad show, Wikipedia, bad show. Shame shame shame. I raised valid questions that can't be blocked away.

Now I feel comfortable in citing WP:DICK. Banning me to silence discussion is a dick move.

Evidence on Conduct issue (wrt Hammersoft)
I have a disagreement about what our policy should become. Another editor has a radically different stance, and has been tendentiously arguing about the same exact subject since his very first edit. IF I got heated with that editor, rest assured, there have been lots more before me, and until somebody takes this to arbcom, there will be lots more after me.

I'll step up to hash this out, arbcom needs to review both our behaviors. --Randomcommenter (talk) 03:16, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Pattern

 * Dec 08 dispute
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 * I'm not really uninvolved, but my experience of Hammersoft was extraordinarily unpleasant and uncomfortable too. Majorly talk 15:14, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * "Here is a third opinion: having looked at the diffs and contribs, I agree that Hammersoft has recently been making minimal contributions while repeatedly showing disrespect for other editors, and that this pattern will call for sanctions if it continues." Looie496 (talk) 15:47, 8 May 2009 (UTC)"

The Substantive Discussion: What's Going Wrong Image Deletions Process
Here's my point, distilled to it's finest:
 * Sometimes fair use images are necessary.
 * Some people have an ideological commitment to a free-content-only encyclopedia.
 * Sometimes images are being deleting at the EXPENSE of article quality. That is, sometimes legal images are being deleted and the result is a less informative article.
 * For a vocal minority (or more) of editors, they are happy gain "ideological purity" at the expense of "educational quality"
 * For readers, editors, and donors, they are not well served by this "ideological purity". They would prefer to keep "article quality'.
 * I do not believe this extreme stance has true consensus of any group.
 * I believe changes to the guidelines should be made to encourage 'rehabilitation' of images wherever feasible, recognizing that the 'burden of proof' to produce such a rationale can never be on those arguing for deletion, I nevertheless feel those arguing for deletion have a duty to their fellow editors to try to explain or rehabilitate the images if possible.
 * I have proposed changes to the policy to clarify this.
 * I am currently unable to discuss the subject on any of the previous venues due to block. Although I had not yet raised theses issues with the candidates on the arbcom election, that's all the more reason we shouldn't be blocking people for "allegedly-disruptive conversation".  Claiming I have no interest in improving the encyclopedia is not a defensible allegation given my extensive statements on policy matters above and beyond any specific content dispute.   --Randomcommenter (talk) 00:22, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Question for the Candidates
Your philosophy and vision is important, because you won't just be arbs, you'll also be our representatives and our leaders.

As a general principle, how would you describe yourself philosophically on the issue for Fair Use media. On the one hand, fair-use-media presents some ideological and bureaucratic problems for us. At the other hand, each image presents a unique educational opportunity. All things being equal, should we be maximizing educational opportunity or should we be minimizing fair-use-media?

As we go forward, do you think Wikipedia should aim to include more fair-use-media or less? In five years, do you see Wikipedia having more fair-use-images than we do now? Or fewer?

(This must be considered in raw numbers in order to present a dilemma-- everyone wants the overall percentage of free-license-media will increase.)

'''Someone care to post this before my block wears off? much obliged.