User talk:Jahaza

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--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:58, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Please be more careful

Your MfD nomination of en:User:Geo_Swan/review/Christine_Rosen seemed to imply that you advocated deletion of material I wrote, because I had been banned.

For the record, I found your comment disturbing.

Even if, for the sake of argument, my ban was policy compliant, and I had committed some act that merited a ban, that would have come at end of 17 years of valid policy compliant contributions. Historically, blocked or banned former users do not get their contributions deleted. Post ban there might be a selective deletion, but only of material where someone recognizes a genuine breach of policy.

However, when looked at in detail, my initial block, and subsequent community ban, were not in order, were not policy compliant. My initial indefinite block relied on a false claim. When looked at in detail the blocking admin's case unravels. The blocking admin claimed I used the Wikipedia to get even with someone with whom I had a long term real life grudge by creating an "attack page"

When looked at in detail the record shows I had no prior contact with the individual who complained of being attacked. The individual who complained tacitly admitted I had no prior contact. And he said the article was an attack because it wasn't detailed enough. That is an obvious bullshit claim. Some people who haven't read the deletion policy properly think a person can get a courtesy deletion of an article about them.

Attack pages are routinely deleted, but this wasn't actually an attack page. An article can be speedy deleted under en:WP:CSD#A7, but the article I started clearly sailed past A7, as reporters had sought him out for interviews. The deletion policy does authorize a little more discretion to administrators, when the subject of an article makes a courtesy request for deletion. The deletion policy authorizes discretion for the closing administrator to close an AfD that they would normally close as "no consensus" as delete, if the article subject requested delete. But, historically, clearly notable people do not get their articles deleted, as a courtesy. See the AfD for Jeffrey Norwitz

The blocking admin claimed I had "fabricated" an unflattering image of that third party. In fact I used the wikimedia's widely used crop tool. The image in question was one of 10 headshots I cropped from an image from the Canadian Film Centre's (CFC) Flickr collection. The crop tool is not a vandal tool. I cropped approximately 600 headshots from images from the CFC's Flickr collection. I have used that tool thousands of times. It was a bullshit accusation, just as the claim I created an attack page was a bullshit accusation. I believe anyone who actually read the article in question recognized it was not an attack page. It was a fair and neutral article.

In summary my indefinite block and subsequent community ban were not policy compliant.

So, I urge you to more careful. Geo Swan (talk) 22:56, 30 July 2025 (UTC)