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Cla68

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Request concerning Cla68

User who is submitting this request for enforcement

Mathsci (talk) 02:57, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

User against whom enforcement is requested

Cla68 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Sanction or remedy to be enforced

WP:ARBR&I: Cla68 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from commenting on, or interacting with, Mathsci (talk · contribs), broadly construed, anywhere on Misplaced Pages, per AE thread.

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it

Additional comments by editor filing complaint

Barely six weeks ago, Cla68 was banned from making comments about me of any kind, anywhere on wikipedia. The original restriction was in relation to matters arising from WP:ARBR&I. Since that ban, he has nevertheless continued to do so on arbcom pages in a previous failed attempt to open an arbcom case "Race and intelligence 2". Now, in a request for amendment unrelated to him, he has written an unprovoked personal attack on me, directly related to WP:ARBR&I. In the diffs above Cla68 writes: "If you want to continue to facilitate the ongoing feud between an obsessive, established Misplaced Pages editor and an obsessive, established banned editor in their years-long personal feud with each other, while allowing thin-skinned admins to squish us peon content editors who try to say something about it, be my guest." Cla68 might think that by not mentioning my name explicitly he can exploit a loophole in his interaction ban allowing him to make any kind of vicious personal attack on me that he wishes. Without producing diffs or evidence, Cla68 has made a claim unsupported by any evidence (such as diffs) that there is an ongoing feud with an unnamed banned editor. If he is referring to Captain Occam, Ferahgo the Assassin or TrevelyanL85A2 or the recently blocked account Zeromus1 (a sockpuppet of Captain Occam / Ferahgo the Assassin), there is no evidence of any "feud" in the findings of arbitrators either in WP:ARBR&I, the subsequent review or any later statements by arbitrators. Suggesting that there is just compounds the problems already present in Cla68's unprovoked statement, which is written in the hyperbolic over-dramatic language of a flame war. Cla68 is quite aware that he is prohibited from making statements about me of any kind. What he has written is a gross and deliberate violation of his AE ban. Since this is by no means the first time he has done so since that ban was imposed, the violation should now result in some form of editing restriction (a block of at least one week).

The response of Cla68 below shows that he has no understanding of his interaction ban. It confirms that he is determined to ignore the AE restrictions and cause whatever disruption he pleases. At no stage has Cla68 appealed against his AE restrictions: that appeal should normally have been lodged here. Contrary to Cla68's hyperbolic statements, this is the second request to enforce the AE restrictions. The first occurred on 23 October, one day after the restrictions were imposed. The first request for enforcement was a direct consequence of Cla68's failed attempt to initiate an arbcom case, "Race and intelligence 2". That request was essentially a list of complaints or grudges that Cla68 had assembled concerning me. It was rejected by the arbitration committee. It is probably worth administrators reading the comments made here during that enforcement request, since it contradicts Cla68's own description.

Cla68 has now repeated more explicitly the unsupported claim that I have been fighting or feuding with somebody on wikipedia for three years. Presumably he means Captain Occam. If not, whom does he mean? That user was AE-banned by Risker in December 2011 and was subsequently site-banned by arbcom, so which on-wiki interaction or feud is he referring to that can be ascribed to 2012 and for which months (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December—Cla68 can take his pick)? I have no idea why Cla68 has decided out of the blue repeatedly to make these unsupported statements about me. He is blatantly violating his AE restrictions.

@Timotheus Canens: during each month of 2012 some form of arbcom activity has been kept going that can be traced back to the site-banned user Captain Occam and his cronies. The same is true now. All I can do is respond to the comments made about me. If Cla68 describes me as an "obsessive, established Misplaced Pages editor" engaged in a "three years-long personal feud", I prefer to raise my objections to his personal attacks here. Disruption has been caused by a number of unsuccessful requests for new cases or amendments, and the current request is very little different from recent ones. By contrast the amendment I requested soon after the review was passed fairly quickly. Given the findings of the review, the current murky request for amendment has almost certainly been orchestrated off-wiki by site-banned users. That persistence is what is wearisome. Because of post-operation trauma which has truned my life upside-down, I cannot concentrate sufficiently to add content to wikipedia as I did prior to October. I would still hope, however, to be protected from unjustified and unprompted personal attacks. I expect attacks like that on wikipediocracy, where Cla68 has free rein as one of the founding members, but not here.

Discussion concerning Cla68

Statement by Cla68

Admins, could you please do something about this? I think this is the third or fourth enforcement action Mathsci has filed against me. Do you need the links? Admins User:Timotheus Canens and User:Future Perfect at Sunrise, I'm especially interested in what you have to say. You helped make this mess. Cla68 (talk) 03:12, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

My comment was referring to Mathsci and to whoever this banned editor is that he has been fighting all over Misplaced Pages for the last three years. They are both clearly obsessed with their pursuit of each other, so much so that Mathsci was, by his own admission, dueling with this guy from a hospital bed. As far as I'm aware, I'm allowed to comment on the subject in related dispute resolution forums such as here, ArbCom admendments, and ArbCom case requests, etc. If I'm not, then that's news to me. Cla68 (talk) 03:47, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Admins, if you look at Mathsci's contribution history over the last few months, you will see that 90%~ are dedicated to sock puppet investigations, blocking IPs, and filing AE requests or AN notices against editors or admins who comment negatively on his behavior in pursuit of this (admittedly real) boogeyman. In my opinion, your actions in the past have facilitated or encouraged Mathsci's behavior. Could you please do something to stop it, at least as far as it is affecting other editors? Cla68 (talk) 04:50, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Comments by others about the request concerning Cla68

Result concerning Cla68

This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.

• Cla68, for clarity, are you denying that the comment in question was in regards to MathSci? If so, an explanation of what its intent was would be very helpful. Seraphimblade 03:43, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
  • I'm in general agreement with T. Canens, after reviewing the surrounding context. It would be extremely rare to prohibit someone from appealing sanctions against them (in fact, I know of no such case where that has ever been done), and comments in the context of an appeal in the proper venue (which ArbCom is one of, for an AE sanction) is broadly and generally considered an exception to a topic or interaction ban, since disallowing the sanctioned editor from discussing the matter in the appeal would essentially prohibit them from appealing at all. What are they going to say? "I'm appealing something I can't name, on grounds I can't discuss"? This is essentially a frivolous request given that, and I would support the restrictions proposed on future enforcement requests. Seraphimblade 04:30, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
• I can't speak for Fut. Perf., but my patience is wearing thin. The amendment request at issue does request that Cla68's interaction ban be lifted. Cla68 is therefore allowed to comment in that thread unimpeded by the interaction ban. (I voice no opinion about the accuracy of Cla68's characterization of the overall situation, as that is irrelevant to the question whether the interaction ban applies.) Moreover, AE generally does not interfere in arbcom's own pages.

  I think Mathsci's enforcement requests are doing more harm than good, and I propose that we direct him

  1. to seek enforcement of the interaction bans at issue arising out of edits on any page whose title begins with Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests only from arbcom clerks or arbcom itself, and not from any other venue, including AE; and,
  2. to not seek enforcement of the interaction bans at issue arising out of edits on any other page by means of an on-wiki posting, unless he has obtained permission for such posting from any uninvolved administrator by email. T. Canens (talk) 04:06, 5 December 2012 (UTC)