Requests for comment/unexplained blockage in Hebrew wikipedia

The following request for comments is closed. Closing, as this RFC has quickly gone stale and there is no need for multiple open requests about a single wiki's governance. --MF-W 20:44, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

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Hello friends,

I would like to complain about my recent permanent blockage from Hebrew Wikipedia. This blockage was unjustified, in my opinion, with no warning, reasoning or explanation given, and I would appreciate your kind help in getting it canceled.

It is worth mentioning that I was blocked along with some other ~40 users, as part of a so-called “enforcement action”. This action was allegedly based on some secretive data analysis. However, the administrators did not expose any of this data analysis, nor any evidence of any rule that was breached, nor any reasoning whatsoever for this severe action. To the best of my knowledge I did not break any of Wikipedia rules; but I did not get any opportunity to explain or respond to any of the (hidden) allegations.

I tried sending messages to the people who performed the blocking, twice, but did not get any response. I also tried posting the same questions on my user page and also via info@wikipedia mail but did not get a response. Some background about me and my Wiki activity: I enrolled a year ago. As a newcomer, most of my contribution were medium-sized editing, such as improving existing entries, correcting entries that were marked as “need rewriting” , expanding entries, adding sources, etc; and some were larger. I received 34 ‘Thank You’ notes from various users, indicating that my editing was genuine, and not aimed at accumulating voting rights.

Some of my editing were related to political and/or controversial entries. I never thought this to be violating any of any Wikipedia rules, nor do I think so now, but I have a hunch that my blockage is related to this fact. My feeling now is that some witch-hunting is happening on Hebrew Wikipedia, aimed primarily at liberal editor who have inclinations for Democratic, Feminist and Progressive values. Having said that, I should note that editors with opposite opinions were also blocked. All in all, it seems to me that being politically vocal on Wikipedia is the main common factor for all those who were recently permanently blocked.

I am hoping that, perhaps with your kind help, my blockage shall be removed, and I will resume contributing to Hebrew Wikipedia.

with gratitude, mnm2023 Mnm2023 (talk) 09:27, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Five RFCs related to hewiki in a week. Sounds like it's time to intervene if situation goes haywire. We need to merge all hewiki RFCs created in a week into one RFC. Ahri.boy (talk) 10:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

I suggest any commentaries on this matter go into the first/oldest request for comment made, that being Requests for comment/Abuse of power by bureaucrats in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Please note that multiple editors from hewiki also made their own inputs on Requests for comment/Unjustified block in the Hebrew Wikipedia, Requests for comment/blocked and ignored by the bureaucrats in Hebrew Wiki, Requests for comment/Banned without any explanation, and Requests for comment/Abuse of power by bureaucrats in the Hebrew Wikipedia. To answer Ahri.boy's concerns: requests for comments can be closed via precedens so we can except closure of whole batch per outcome of the first request for comment. A09|(pogovor) 18:31, 3 July 2024 (UTC)