Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Yunshui


 * Yunshui;'''雲

Statement of the dispute
This administrator has fully protected the page Rising sun flag because of an edit war. However, instead of blocking the edit warriors, ALL editors have apparently been blocked as well. I requested on the article's talk page that an edit be made since I was unable to make it myself, and was told that this was not possible until a consensus was formed on the article talk page, however no discussion is taking place there and there have been no responses to my proposal. The page was locked for 3 days, and then two more weeks, and it sounds as if this administrator plans to keep the article locked indefinitely until a consensus is reached (which seems unlikely). I don't think well referenced, NPOV edits of all Wikipedia editors should be blocked, and I don't think it's reasonable to demand consensus before allowing edits. The administrator apparently disagrees. I've attempted to discuss it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rising_Sun_Flag#Page_protected and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yunshui#Rising_sun_flag Ghostofnemo (talk) 01:20, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Desired outcome
Only ban the edit warriors from editing the page, not all Wikipedia editors.

Description
Not sure how this differs from "Statement of dispute".

Powers misused

 * Protection (log):
 * {Rising sun flag}

Applicable policies

 * Protection policy
 * {Sanctions should be taken against the edit warriors instead of fully protecting the page. So far none of the disputed edits have apparently been supported by reliable sources, but my proposed edit is.}

(BTW, it would be helpful if the Protection policy page explained how to appeal administrative locking of pages.)

Evidence of trying to resolve the dispute

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rising_Sun_Flag
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yunshui#Rising_sun_flag

Evidence of failing to resolve the dispute
Page is still locked and my requested edit has not be made.

Page has been unlocked and requested edit has been made. Ghostofnemo (talk) 02:37, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Users certifying the basis for this dispute
{Users who tried and failed to resolve the dispute}



Response
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I request a procedural closure of this RFC as uncertified. It involves a complaint by a single editor (not the two required by the RFCU minimum requirements), and the complainant's attempts to discuss the issue were limited to this request for the page to be unlocked and this objection to my initial response, followed - without waiting for any further reply on my part - by this RFC. I am happy to continue to debate this issue with Ghostofnemo, and indeed, am doing so on the article talkpage in question; thus, there has not yet been any failure to resolve the issue - it is still under discussion. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 07:52, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

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