I Give Up :`(
I regret that I give up. It is clear User:Golbez has won in his campaign to run me off wikipedia. This all began when User:Lew19 began making mass undos without edit or discussion and was warned. Then a sock campaign started up against this article (see: User:MikFantastik). I took it upon myself to try to contribute to that article in a proactive manner that would prevent the vandalism and was told to kill myself, stalked (documented), called names (see complaint saying I've been banned for "douchiness" - below), had people like User:Golbrez spend - literally - dozens of hours compiling partial citations that could be massaged to cast me in a light that is not true, all because his girlfriend - he said - was a member of the fan club of this article's topic and didn't take kindly to edits that were disparaging.
I'm just an old grandma, a retired zoologist, who wanted to participate in wikipedia while taking care of her grandkids during the day. I don't have many years left and this is too much for me. In the last day I've been shaking and crying and absolutely beside myself because of some of the nasty comments left on my Talk Page, my User Page and emailed to me directly. I've been afraid the user - User:Golbrez - who has been following me from article to article, taking notes on every little thing I say then selectively citing them in his daily complaints to everyone who will listen until he can make just one stick, will take this to IRL. I have grandkids and it's just not worth it to potentially expose them to this danger; I fear for my safety and that of my family. I've seen too much joy and sadness in my life - from the moon landings on the joyful side to the holocaust on the sad side - to let one person get me down by spreading malicious lies about me and devoting literally dozens of hours - all to destroying my online identity, knowing those of us who have non-wikipedia life commitments will never be able to defend ourselves in the face of such an onslaught.
I'm very truly sorry for any inconvenience to which I may have inadvertently contributed here. I had no idea some articles could be so political and elicit such a reaction and I accept full repsonsibility for not taking time to observe a few days more before posting. Thank you for your understanding and thanks to the support of friends here who have lent me their support and shoulder to cry on.
PS: One final note - several people have said they would have voted to unblock me if not for the "multiple sock investigations requesting bans because users disagreed with me." This is what User:Golbrez claims in his block report, however, to clarify, no such thing ever occurred. Here is my one (1) sock investigation request, and here is the exact text of my reasoning for request (note I am not making the request because people disagree with me):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Unknown_Puppetmaster/Archive
I would appreciate the one (1) courtesy of reading this link before you buy-in to the mischaracterization leveled against me. It is one of the selectively cited arguments for my banning that are contained within. Again, thanks for your understanding.
--- Gladys
GENERAL NOTICE - I like to keep a clean house and blank my Talk Page immediately after I have read messages. Please do not be offended if I have lbanked your comment here, it just means I read it! :) :) :) Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 02:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Recently I have had a person blank my user page and leave the phone number for a suicide hotline on it along with a sinister suggestion I call it [1] after I made an edit with which they disagreed and falsely characterized as "vandalism." I have also had people email me with threats against my family. My generation does not run away. I am taking two steps: (1) I have made my email account private and (2) I will not be replying to people who seem to be asking me to kill myself, I will just be turning the other cheek (Matthew 5:39). I'm not the kind to complain when things get rough, I like to handle situations on my own and not bother the busy admins. I keep my chin up and my head back and am proud to be known on wikipedia as The Gigabyte Granny. Thank you for your understanding and support to everyone who's written me and offered their shoulder for me to cry on. Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 02:57, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
---
National Primate Research Center - look forward to continuing to work on this soon ( fingers crossed! ;) )
the Ron & Don Show - love my two drive time guys ;)
Scott Noble - a notable pol who had no wikipedia entry - Gigabyte Granny to the rescue! ;)
Dorcus_tenuihirsutus - "you like BUGS, Gigabyte Granny?!" LOL, yes! I am a zoologist by training (didya know that?)
Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 03:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Note: Sorry if this is mish-mash but I'm just absolutely shaking and crying right now for fear of what Golbrez may do to me IRL given his OL obsession with me. Even in his blocking note below he repeats the frequent names he's been calling me like "douche" and so forth. I'm at my wits end. Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 00:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
To All Whom May Read This:
Background: An admin who has stated his SO is the member of a fan club of an article I nominated for deletion issues an INDEFINITE BLOCK (even socks don't get that kind of block) against me within minutes of me making a RfC about him in response to, what I perceived to be, abusively following me from article to article.
This followed an attempt by him to get another admin to block me, a request that was denied when it became clear there were no grounds on which to do so. I am now permanently and forever banned from editing wikipedia. My crime? Making an edit to an article that the girlfriend of an admin didn't like, then filing a RfC against that admin when he tried to run me off wikipedia by filing daily, frivolous complaints about me.
This admin was seeking to send a message to me and has succeeded. "Don't cross me or my girlfriend or you'll regret it." I had the audacity to recommend an edit to a pet article and this prompted a campaign of harassment against me. I am at my wits end in the absolute vitriol to which I've been subjected, all I ever wanted to do was work on some of my favorite topics like taxonomy and food while I'm watching my grandkids. I never wanted to spend hours daily just fighting for my right to be on wikipedia. I've been targeted and threatened. I've had suicide hotline phone numbers posted on my userpage by supporters of the edit-position of User:Golbrez with the sinister suggestion I should call it and, then, when I complain about it I've essentially been told by Golbrez (see his comments below) to stop whining about it. User:Golbrez has lodged complaints directly to admins against me DAILY so he doesn't have to go through the formal process and notify me (knowing I could prove my innocence) in an attempt to exhaust me and chase me off. I am in tears at the kind of anguish and mud I've been pulled through by this admin, because of his girlfriends membership in the fan club of an article I nominated for deletion. PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME.
Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 21:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
GOLBEZ RFC RETRIBUTION BLOCK BEGINS BELOW THIS LINE ---
I am blocking you for being a troll, disruptive editor, and massive attempts to game the system. Here is my evidence:
At this point I don't have time to continue to respond point-by-point to the rest of your mischaracterizations about me and selective citations. I spend virtually all my time on wikiepdia defending myself against you. I don't have the same amount of time as you to do this. A reasonable admin will see that everything to this point has been part of a generalized effort at mischaracterization and make a logical conclusion about the rest. IF IT IS NECESSARY for me to also counter-cite you on the below I will do so, but I'm PLEADING with admin at this point for some kind of relief from this abuse. This situation has become completely out of control and I am shocked and in a state of disbelief this individual is allowed admin privileges.
Have you had constructive edits? Yes, you created Dori Monson which, after some trimming, might be a good article. You've made a few others. But these are outweighed by your disruptive editing, baseless accusations, and willful gaming of the system. This stops now. -- Golbez ( talk) 19:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Dorcus tenuihirsutus, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dorcus tenuihirsutus. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Chillum 03:22, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
In this case since you are blocked I can put a link from the MfD to an area here if you wish to make arguments. Chillum 03:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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Request reason:
please help me, a personal vendetta is being carried out against me by an out-of-control admin - even in his block complaint he calls me names like "douche", etc., as noted above - please read the complaint thoroughly before passing judgment and email me with requests for clarification
Decline reason:
Unblock declined. I'm not going to read that whole mess up there. Please explain, totally within an unblock request and limited to 3-10 sentences, why you feel you should be unblocked. I understand this may feel like an onerous requirement, but I want to hear your side of the story as neutrally and briefly as you can present it. If, from that request alone I feel that there are sufficient grounds to investigate this block, I will read the rest of this page and review other information. If not, I will decline the unblock. I suspect that most other admins will do pretty much the same. Also note that unverified claims of bad faith on the part of the blocking admin are not persuasive reasons to unblock you. Read the guide to appealing blocks and provide evidence in the form of diffs where possible. Thank you. Protonk ( talk) 03:46, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
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Request reason:
please help me, a personal vendetta is being carried out against me by an out-of-control admin
Decline reason:
The entire diatribe above this unblock request is a long rambling personal attack against a respected admin, and only seems to confirm the reason for his block of you. Jayron32. talk. contribs 03:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Notabilitypatrol ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Hello, I have recently been indefinitely IP blocked by an admin, Golbez, immediately following my filing of a RfC regarding him. The RfC was regarding, what I perceived to be, wikistalking, to wit: he and one other user have followed me from article to article, accusing me of being disruptive for disagreeing with them and filing almost daily complaints against me. In each case these complaints have never been upheld but their clear goal is to simply throw enough against the wall that something will stick. He apparently got tired of that and just placed an indefinite block against me. He and I had an editing disagreement over the article Too Beautiful to Live, a radio show which his girlfriend is a member of the fan club for and for which he took offense to my nomination of the article for deletion. I have responded to his specific accusations on my Talk page, but, unfortunately, this is part of a long story I have had to retype and recite almost daily for the last week in response to the many, many frivolous and unsubstantiated complaints to which I've been subjected by him and another user. Each time he files a complaint that is dismissed he provides selective references to the logs of that complaint that require me to, in turn, dredge through pages of information to find the explanatory files that ultimately exonerate me. I would be happy to do so again as I have had to in the past but, at this point, all of my time on wikipedia is simply spent defending myself against daily harassment so I would like to make sure someone is reading this before I have to go through all this yet again. I am sorry for directing this to you but Golbez has made sure I am unable to file a normal request for mediation due to his permanent block that he placed moments after my RfC. If you wouldn't mind reviewing my Talk page and, if you find there is some indication that would warrant greater examination or explanation I will be happy to provide a citation-by-citation, cross-referenced and point-by-point history of what I have had to go through with this admin that, I believe, will exonerate me in face of his increasingly aggressive accusations and extremely selective citations he's using against me. Thank you very much for your consideration.
Decline reason:
I'm going to bring this up at AN, as there's a bit too much here for one person to review on their own. However, I would note that Golbez does appear to have some very good points, and at the very least your username violates our username policy as it implies you have some position of authority here or that your account is controlled by more than one person. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 22:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
I'm not going to decline this request offhand, but I don't advise others to grant it out of hand, either; there's certainly something fishy about the editing habits of this user. Sandstein 21:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
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I Give Up :`(
I regret that I give up. It is clear User:Golbez has won in his campaign to run me off wikipedia. This all began when User:Lew19 began making mass undos without edit or discussion and was warned. Then a sock campaign started up against this article (see: User:MikFantastik). I took it upon myself to try to contribute to that article in a proactive manner that would prevent the vandalism and was told to kill myself, stalked (documented), called names (see complaint saying I've been banned for "douchiness" - below), had people like User:Golbrez spend - literally - dozens of hours compiling partial citations that could be massaged to cast me in a light that is not true, all because his girlfriend - he said - was a member of the fan club of this article's topic and didn't take kindly to edits that were disparaging.
I'm just an old grandma, a retired zoologist, who wanted to participate in wikipedia while taking care of her grandkids during the day. I don't have many years left and this is too much for me. In the last day I've been shaking and crying and absolutely beside myself because of some of the nasty comments left on my Talk Page, my User Page and emailed to me directly. I've been afraid the user - User:Golbrez - who has been following me from article to article, taking notes on every little thing I say then selectively citing them in his daily complaints to everyone who will listen until he can make just one stick, will take this to IRL. I have grandkids and it's just not worth it to potentially expose them to this danger; I fear for my safety and that of my family. I've seen too much joy and sadness in my life - from the moon landings on the joyful side to the holocaust on the sad side - to let one person get me down by spreading malicious lies about me and devoting literally dozens of hours - all to destroying my online identity, knowing those of us who have non-wikipedia life commitments will never be able to defend ourselves in the face of such an onslaught.
I'm very truly sorry for any inconvenience to which I may have inadvertently contributed here. I had no idea some articles could be so political and elicit such a reaction and I accept full repsonsibility for not taking time to observe a few days more before posting. Thank you for your understanding and thanks to the support of friends here who have lent me their support and shoulder to cry on.
PS: One final note - several people have said they would have voted to unblock me if not for the "multiple sock investigations requesting bans because users disagreed with me." This is what User:Golbrez claims in his block report, however, to clarify, no such thing ever occurred. Here is my one (1) sock investigation request, and here is the exact text of my reasoning for request (note I am not making the request because people disagree with me):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Unknown_Puppetmaster/Archive
I would appreciate the one (1) courtesy of reading this link before you buy-in to the mischaracterization leveled against me. It is one of the selectively cited arguments for my banning that are contained within. Again, thanks for your understanding.
--- Gladys
GENERAL NOTICE - I like to keep a clean house and blank my Talk Page immediately after I have read messages. Please do not be offended if I have lbanked your comment here, it just means I read it! :) :) :) Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 02:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Recently I have had a person blank my user page and leave the phone number for a suicide hotline on it along with a sinister suggestion I call it [1] after I made an edit with which they disagreed and falsely characterized as "vandalism." I have also had people email me with threats against my family. My generation does not run away. I am taking two steps: (1) I have made my email account private and (2) I will not be replying to people who seem to be asking me to kill myself, I will just be turning the other cheek (Matthew 5:39). I'm not the kind to complain when things get rough, I like to handle situations on my own and not bother the busy admins. I keep my chin up and my head back and am proud to be known on wikipedia as The Gigabyte Granny. Thank you for your understanding and support to everyone who's written me and offered their shoulder for me to cry on. Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 02:57, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
---
National Primate Research Center - look forward to continuing to work on this soon ( fingers crossed! ;) )
the Ron & Don Show - love my two drive time guys ;)
Scott Noble - a notable pol who had no wikipedia entry - Gigabyte Granny to the rescue! ;)
Dorcus_tenuihirsutus - "you like BUGS, Gigabyte Granny?!" LOL, yes! I am a zoologist by training (didya know that?)
Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 03:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Note: Sorry if this is mish-mash but I'm just absolutely shaking and crying right now for fear of what Golbrez may do to me IRL given his OL obsession with me. Even in his blocking note below he repeats the frequent names he's been calling me like "douche" and so forth. I'm at my wits end. Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 00:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
To All Whom May Read This:
Background: An admin who has stated his SO is the member of a fan club of an article I nominated for deletion issues an INDEFINITE BLOCK (even socks don't get that kind of block) against me within minutes of me making a RfC about him in response to, what I perceived to be, abusively following me from article to article.
This followed an attempt by him to get another admin to block me, a request that was denied when it became clear there were no grounds on which to do so. I am now permanently and forever banned from editing wikipedia. My crime? Making an edit to an article that the girlfriend of an admin didn't like, then filing a RfC against that admin when he tried to run me off wikipedia by filing daily, frivolous complaints about me.
This admin was seeking to send a message to me and has succeeded. "Don't cross me or my girlfriend or you'll regret it." I had the audacity to recommend an edit to a pet article and this prompted a campaign of harassment against me. I am at my wits end in the absolute vitriol to which I've been subjected, all I ever wanted to do was work on some of my favorite topics like taxonomy and food while I'm watching my grandkids. I never wanted to spend hours daily just fighting for my right to be on wikipedia. I've been targeted and threatened. I've had suicide hotline phone numbers posted on my userpage by supporters of the edit-position of User:Golbrez with the sinister suggestion I should call it and, then, when I complain about it I've essentially been told by Golbrez (see his comments below) to stop whining about it. User:Golbrez has lodged complaints directly to admins against me DAILY so he doesn't have to go through the formal process and notify me (knowing I could prove my innocence) in an attempt to exhaust me and chase me off. I am in tears at the kind of anguish and mud I've been pulled through by this admin, because of his girlfriends membership in the fan club of an article I nominated for deletion. PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME.
Notabilitypatrol ( talk) 21:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
GOLBEZ RFC RETRIBUTION BLOCK BEGINS BELOW THIS LINE ---
I am blocking you for being a troll, disruptive editor, and massive attempts to game the system. Here is my evidence:
At this point I don't have time to continue to respond point-by-point to the rest of your mischaracterizations about me and selective citations. I spend virtually all my time on wikiepdia defending myself against you. I don't have the same amount of time as you to do this. A reasonable admin will see that everything to this point has been part of a generalized effort at mischaracterization and make a logical conclusion about the rest. IF IT IS NECESSARY for me to also counter-cite you on the below I will do so, but I'm PLEADING with admin at this point for some kind of relief from this abuse. This situation has become completely out of control and I am shocked and in a state of disbelief this individual is allowed admin privileges.
Have you had constructive edits? Yes, you created Dori Monson which, after some trimming, might be a good article. You've made a few others. But these are outweighed by your disruptive editing, baseless accusations, and willful gaming of the system. This stops now. -- Golbez ( talk) 19:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Dorcus tenuihirsutus, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dorcus tenuihirsutus. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Chillum 03:22, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
In this case since you are blocked I can put a link from the MfD to an area here if you wish to make arguments. Chillum 03:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Notabilitypatrol ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
please help me, a personal vendetta is being carried out against me by an out-of-control admin - even in his block complaint he calls me names like "douche", etc., as noted above - please read the complaint thoroughly before passing judgment and email me with requests for clarification
Decline reason:
Unblock declined. I'm not going to read that whole mess up there. Please explain, totally within an unblock request and limited to 3-10 sentences, why you feel you should be unblocked. I understand this may feel like an onerous requirement, but I want to hear your side of the story as neutrally and briefly as you can present it. If, from that request alone I feel that there are sufficient grounds to investigate this block, I will read the rest of this page and review other information. If not, I will decline the unblock. I suspect that most other admins will do pretty much the same. Also note that unverified claims of bad faith on the part of the blocking admin are not persuasive reasons to unblock you. Read the guide to appealing blocks and provide evidence in the form of diffs where possible. Thank you. Protonk ( talk) 03:46, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Notabilitypatrol ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
please help me, a personal vendetta is being carried out against me by an out-of-control admin
Decline reason:
The entire diatribe above this unblock request is a long rambling personal attack against a respected admin, and only seems to confirm the reason for his block of you. Jayron32. talk. contribs 03:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Notabilitypatrol ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Hello, I have recently been indefinitely IP blocked by an admin, Golbez, immediately following my filing of a RfC regarding him. The RfC was regarding, what I perceived to be, wikistalking, to wit: he and one other user have followed me from article to article, accusing me of being disruptive for disagreeing with them and filing almost daily complaints against me. In each case these complaints have never been upheld but their clear goal is to simply throw enough against the wall that something will stick. He apparently got tired of that and just placed an indefinite block against me. He and I had an editing disagreement over the article Too Beautiful to Live, a radio show which his girlfriend is a member of the fan club for and for which he took offense to my nomination of the article for deletion. I have responded to his specific accusations on my Talk page, but, unfortunately, this is part of a long story I have had to retype and recite almost daily for the last week in response to the many, many frivolous and unsubstantiated complaints to which I've been subjected by him and another user. Each time he files a complaint that is dismissed he provides selective references to the logs of that complaint that require me to, in turn, dredge through pages of information to find the explanatory files that ultimately exonerate me. I would be happy to do so again as I have had to in the past but, at this point, all of my time on wikipedia is simply spent defending myself against daily harassment so I would like to make sure someone is reading this before I have to go through all this yet again. I am sorry for directing this to you but Golbez has made sure I am unable to file a normal request for mediation due to his permanent block that he placed moments after my RfC. If you wouldn't mind reviewing my Talk page and, if you find there is some indication that would warrant greater examination or explanation I will be happy to provide a citation-by-citation, cross-referenced and point-by-point history of what I have had to go through with this admin that, I believe, will exonerate me in face of his increasingly aggressive accusations and extremely selective citations he's using against me. Thank you very much for your consideration.
Decline reason:
I'm going to bring this up at AN, as there's a bit too much here for one person to review on their own. However, I would note that Golbez does appear to have some very good points, and at the very least your username violates our username policy as it implies you have some position of authority here or that your account is controlled by more than one person. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 22:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
I'm not going to decline this request offhand, but I don't advise others to grant it out of hand, either; there's certainly something fishy about the editing habits of this user. Sandstein 21:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Logo eadm.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 01:20, 8 April 2009 (UTC)