User:Rich Farmbrough/FAQ/Block log

Here is (will be) a breakdown of my block log. All the blocks to date took place in a 2 1/2 year period during my 11 1/2 years of editing, and were largely driven by a small group of editors. Though in some cases one can fault those editors, the majority, if not all of them were doing what they thought best, even if they failed at WP:AGF and other basic Wiki principles from time to time.

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25 March 2013 Sandstein (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 year (account creation blocked) (Arbitration enforcement: Violating editing restrictions, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WP:AE&oldid=546985904#Rich_Farmbrough)

I'll touch the last block only, to illustrate, the others may have had similar causes but were not as long:
· I have a restriction on making automated edits. Many people disagree and some have always disagreed with it. But it was current a the time of this block.
· I was active at Wikipedia:Teahouse.
· On the inauspicious day of 22 March, 2013 I helped a new editor with a draft article by fixing a lot of formatting and by copy editing it.
· Much to my surprise one of the edits was reported to Arbitration enforcement by User:Fram
· The claim was that I had replaced ''' with '' by some automated means, and that this had somehow caused errors (in a Draft article remember) such as " ‘Eureka’ becomes Eureka’ "
· This claim was clearly spurious, or at best confused. Clearly ''' was not involved. When you look at the source the change was actually the joyous quote ‘Eureka’ which ..." to the joyous quote Eureka’ which .... There is a big difference between ' and ‘. Clearly what happened was that I removed all the ‘ and only removed the first eight ’ - (E.G. changing the two in ‘It’s My Life’ to It's My Life - pretty clear evidence that I was doing it manually.
· Since the AE request was clearly wrong, and was one of a series of such claims (that had been predicted by other editors) I requested a clarification (or amendment I forget which) from ArbCom.
· An admin (User:Sandstein) asked there if he AE could proceed, while the clarification was going on. One Arb replied in the positive.
· A short time later User:Sandstein blocked me for a year. No one but Sandstein and Fram had commented at the AE.

In good news, the draft shortly afterwards became an article.

   21:37, 19 January 2013 Sandstein (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 59 days (account creation blocked) (Arbitration enforcement: Violating editing restrictions, see en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WP:AE&oldid=533904381#Rich_Farmbrough)
   09:57, 6 November 2012 Rschen7754 (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (account creation blocked) (violation of community sanctions http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=407721334#Automated_creation_of_incorrect_categories)
   22:26, 6 June 2012 AlexandrDmitri (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 30 days (account creation blocked) (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions&oldid=496335676#Motion_on_Rich_Farmbrough_enforcement)
   00:05, 2 April 2012 Thehelpfulone (talk | contribs) unblocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) (Will need to give a statement in the ArbCom case, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#User:Rich_Farmbrough)
   23:21, 30 March 2012 Elen of the Roads (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 month (account creation blocked) (Breach of editing sanctions)
   02:48, 25 January 2012 Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 8 hours (autoblock disabled) (Leave it alone, dramaz will still be there in the morning. )
   02:12, 17 November 2011 Fences and windows (talk | contribs) unblocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) (If Xeno had to recuse as arb, he should recuse as blocker)
   16:02, 14 November 2011 Xeno (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (account creation blocked) (Violation of editing restriction: cosmetic changes)
   13:03, 9 September 2011 LessHeard vanU (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 week (account creation blocked) (Violation of mass article creation restriction)
   20:10, 19 January 2011 Rd232 (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 72 hours (autoblock disabled) (see user talk)
   13:44, 17 December 2010 Rd232 (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 48 hours (autoblock disabled) (Violation of Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Mass_article_creation)
   20:26, 17 November 2010 Rd232 (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 24 hours (autoblock disabled) (see user talk)
   20:02, 30 September 2010 Wknight94 (talk | contribs) unblocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) (User agrees to participate in ANI discussion and to stop doing what he was blocked for)
   21:09, 28 September 2010 X! (talk | contribs) blocked Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of indefinite (autoblock disabled) (Running unauthorized bot without approval on main account, is clearly being disruptive (uncatting Main Page, controversial spacing changes, etc))

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