Thread:Sannse/@comment-1251315-20160606142915/@comment-1251315-20160606191218

87.6.135.76 wrote: I agree with you that HP wiki admins are a weird lot, but you've come up just days after J-7's debacle, and, in my opinion, you made the same mistake as he did: you antagonized people. Of course, it's hard to be as obnoxious as J-7, but one admin has been enough. Days? I was editing the wiki since January 2016, long before he showed up and disrupted the site. I actually had a hand in dealing with that troll's vandalism, by protecting pages while waiting for a sysop to show up and actually do something about it.

Revoking talk page rights are a fairly standard procedure when blocking people, particularly if it's indefinite. There have been too many instances of a blockee ranting to get the block revoked, invariably falling back in the rut that has caused the block. That isn't true. Talkpage rights are generally only supposed to be revoked when the user actually vandalises their talkpage/message wall, not just so the user cannot defend themselves when a sysop blocks while being far too involved in a situation. Users should be given the chance to use their talkpage to ask about the block, not be forced into using Community Central: that is a last resort.

Additionally, infinite blocks are only meant to be used on users who have a long block history on the wiki in question: using irrelevant blocks on other wiki's as justification to infinite block a user that someone doesn't like is quite frankly ridiculous.

In your place, I would leave the matter alone for a quite a long while, one year at least, then start clean. Open a new account, start editing within the rules of HP wiki, and accept that challenging a policy is likely to be unsuccessful; especially on a wiki like HP. It's one of the biggest and most active ones; the rules there are now very robust, That is a reprehensible suggestion to make of an editor who is a bureaucrat on a number of wiki's and has been editing for over 6 years on Wikia. I think it's insane that you would suggest such a thing where a Wikia Staff member can see it and who would never ever recommend such things.

And size of wiki has nothing to do with it. When I turned up there, the wiki was mostly dead, save the odd random edit. It's still going to be that way because the HP franchise is mostly dead, I doubt the recent things like the Fantastic Beasts film or the live-action play are going to drum up new interest in the franchise.