Talk:Requests for comment/Global ban for Til Eulenspiegel

An additional comment regarding what happened at Wikidata. Til Eulenspiegel, as the owner of amwiki (almost sole contributor, sole admin, etc) was making (sub)minimal pages (example: "tomato is a plant found in Ethiopia" as sole content) and linking these to the enwiki page, so as to create maximum exposure, and to artificially up his score at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_sample_of_articles. As such he took exception to having these pages evaluated for their actual content, and having them linked to the corresponding concept at Wikidata. He voiced his exceptions in violent rhetoric (repeated many times) claiming discrimination of small wiki's (or wiki's in developing countries). This rhetoric obviously was not based on any facts, as confirmed by an uninvolved admin who evaluated the edits in question and who felt that a block of Til Eulenspiegel was called for. After being exposed to so much of Til Eulenspiegel's rhetoric he felt so disgusted that he did not want to execute this block himself. Unfortunately, no other admin followed this up.

        The "I am honestly at a loss to explain how he could be disfavored in the underlying dispute, which seems bizarrely discriminatory against certain wikis" of The Devil's Advocate shows a user who was taken in by this rhetoric. It is very unfortunate that we live in a world where empty rhetoric has such power. - Brya (talk) 04:30, 24 April 2019 (UTC)