Thread:CzechOut/@comment-27280472-20161230033831

Per w:c:tardis:Help:I'm blocked I'm apologizing and appealing my ban Tardis Data Core ban here.

I think that the reasons I’m banned all fall into one of two categories: places where my intentions were misunderstood (partly my fault I'm sure, and I'm sorry for that), and places where I was completely wrong and unreservedly apologize. I’ll go through the reasons given in more detail.


 * Calling admins “cakesniffers” on my user page: “Cakesniffer” isn’t a real insult. It doesn’t mean anything bad at all. It comes from the A Series of Unfortunate Events, where it’s used by Carmelita Spats, a “rude, violent and filthy little girl.” My use of it is necessarily and deliberately self-deprecating.
 * Saying “#OccupyWikia” on my user page: I equated wikia admins with a significant real life issue. Obviously that’s ridiculous, and anyone who would do that seriously would have no sense of perspective at all. So again, by saying that I’m trying to take the piss out of myself, not wikia admins.
 * Violating T:ATTACKS, then editing it out: I wholeheartedly apologize for any case where I’ve violated T:ATTACKS. I haven’t meant to edit as subterfuge — rather, it’s an admission that I realize I’ve gone too far.
 * “Accused an admin...of bad faith abuse of her powers”: My best guess (though I may be wrong) is that that’s a reference to this post of mine, and its link to Shambala108’s user page. But it’s not an accusation. It’s a completely literal description of what Shambala108 did here — she closed the thread on the grounds of the previous discussion, without even mentioning the central argument of the thread (“authorial intent only places Death Comes to Time outside the DWU in relation to the TV movie, not the preceding stories”), which hadn’t been considered in the original discussion. My comment was a factual description of her actions, and was meant as a legitimate prediction of the thread it was posted in — but I'm still sorry for writing it so that it could be interpreted that way.
 * Leaving revision notes that came off as rude: I'm absolutely sorry for that. I’ve been writing revision notes as terse commit messages, just so that my edit isn’t unexplained. I didn’t consider well enough that it could offend other editors.
 * Saying “FASCIST BASTARDS at http://tardis.wikia.com”: This’ll take several points.
 * It’s not meant to be literal. As I explained before, it’s a joke, about the encumbering bureaucracy of the Tardis Data Core. Of course nothing that can be done in the context of wiki editing could be seriously equated with the actions of real life fascists. Therefore if you assume good faith, it’s clear that I couldn’t mean it as a serious attack against the admins or editors of the tardis wiki.
 * In no way does it meet or exceed the definition of hate speech. (unless wiki editors became a protected group at some point, without telling me)
 * The link to timeship.wikia.com inserted in people’s favorite wiki lists is both unintentional and beyond my control. I used Special:Import to import the revision histories of pages from tardis.wikia.com, and that caused it. I didn’t know it would, and wouldn’t have done it if I had. But as far as I know (you're more an expert than I am) I can’t undo it now; otherwise I would undo it. However, the individual users can easily remove the link, and I’m very happy for them to.
 * You're right that I've read T:ATTACKS in its entirety. Importantly, I’ve read the first sentence, which says “Do not make personal attacks anywhere on the Tardis Data Core, the Doctor Who Wiki.” And the “fascist bastards” comment fails to violate T:ATTACKS at that very first sentence. The comment wasn’t made on the Doctor Who wiki. It was made on a completely separate wiki, which is run by me and has no rules against personal attacks (or any rules at all, actually). As I’ve indicated before, whatever concerns someone may have about what I say in another context needs to be brought up in that context, and not on the Tardis Data Core. If I had been told that I would be banned from Tardis for my comments elsewhere, I would have removed them — but I wasn’t, and the rule used to ban me doesn't cover what I did.

I think that, in the spirit of assuming good faith, it would be nice if you re-evaluated my intentions, and ideally shortened or removed by ban.

Thanks,

—Fwhiffahder 