I Just Got Temporarily Blocked from Wikipedia

[tmc_6882]

The administrator tried to twist my words around. It was pretty much they're word against mine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... lt:_31h.29

Result: Blocked 31 hours for 3RR violation. It is not enough to 'clearly state and articulate' your rationale. You also need to persuade the other editors that your version is correct. If the others disagree you should wait for consensus and not just continue to revert. EdJohnston (talk) 05:40, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Basically, this user named MikeWazowski (yes, he apparently, named himself after that giant, green eyeball character from Monsters, Inc.) just reported me for edit warring over a template that I made in regards to the CW:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BornonJune8

Please see WP:AN3#User:BornonJune8 reported by User:MikeWazowski (Result: ). You may respond there if you wish. Since you've clearly broken WP:3RR, you may be blocked unless you promise to wait for consensus regarding the content and usage of Template:The CW Television Network. EdJohnston (talk) 05:04, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

The issue at hand stems from me incorporating articles relating to the networks that proceeded the CW, UPN and the WB.

In a nutshell, this is MikeWazowski's logic behind his point of view:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =420269399

(Undid revision 420269149 by BornonJune8 (talk) technically, no. Both networks shut down and a new entity was formed. Please stop edit warring.) (undo)

He adds:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MikeWazowski

You've included many things that don't belong in a template referencing the CW network. Please don't add them back, as the prior networks are not the same as their successor. You also need to stop edit warring over this. MikeWazowski (talk) 04:16, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

[--NightBattery--]

i once add my birthday as an important day, it's still there.

[Esomark]

Wikipedia are pretty damn trigger happy. I got blocked for adding information on a Suffocation (Used to be a big death metal fan) album simply because a song title said "Jesus Wept"...

[Asato]

That's odd, because I've made thousands of troll edits and never even been warned

[Esomark]

Mine was accused of being a troll edit because the idiot mod was most likely was unfamiliar with Suffocation's music. The only times I've gotten away with troll editing is if I used the school's computers.

[The Egg]

Wikipedia's problem is it doesn't know whether it wants to be TV Tropes or Encyclopedia Britannica. It wants its user base to do the work of putting up important and relevant information but it also wants veto power in what constitutes "important" or "relevant." In one sense it's a good idea, since the whole premise of Wikipedia is founded on trustworthy anonymous edits, which is just plain not how human beings are. In another sense, it creates an atmosphere of totalitarianism, and if that's what you need to do to protect your idea, then maybe it wasn't such a good idea in the first place.

Back in the 1990s I was something of a minor underground electronic music celebrity and I once had a Wikipedia article about myself, written and posted by someone else (so it wasn't a vanity page). Someone with a vendetta against me, and completely unrelated to either Wikipedia or my music career, started posting relentless personal attacks on it. It got so bad that they eventually took the page down entirely. So now my whole career is "unimportant" and "irrelevant" because some douchebag with too much time and not enough maturity shit on my lawn.

[Saya]

I have run into similar problems myself. Part of the problem is also that people tend to have different interpretations of things, and rather than ask a committee or others, they tend to shoot towards their own interpretation, declare the previous to be 'wrong' and you end up with lots of conflicting information. It's a problem I have had doing editing work on both TV Tropes and Wikis, which is why I hardly bother with either anymore and edited a page on Wikipedia proper a grand total of once. I generally got the feeling of "unless you are a member of the old boys club, anything you say is wrong". It's ironic, because that attitude found in printed works is what created Wikipedia in the first place. This attitude even got me into trouble on a wiki about Max Brook's zombie books for crying out loud!