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ceagleWell, encountered one of life's worst tragedies... injustice. One of my pet peeves... as when people are convicted falsely, because of a lazy court...
Lives taken away unjustly... how do you ever repay that?...
..."It is a greater duty of any empowered body, to let the occasional guilty man free, than ever to convict a single innocent person."
- from The Jeffersonian Chronicles (views by USA founding father Thomas Jefferson)
I've started with that drastic example, to show the correlation with a less extreme, yet related one...
I recently lost a case for a bid on Wikipedia, due to all the 'jurors' just being too lazy or swamped to go the distance, read all the facts I submitted or even investigate any on their own, and act on them.
There you are, sitting in your cell, with all the facts... but how can you ever win your case unless those entrusted with the power to absolve and rectify are willing to act?
*eeeeesh* :/
Here is a bit of the summary I submitted in my closing statements, after it was clear that it was too much trouble for the honor guard to step forward and prevent the train wreck, just for the LJ record...
I have the same name on 3 wikis, and am (was) the rightful owner the Home Wiki location.
On Aug 27, I registered with the wikicommons in order to begin extensive editing of specialty topics. This shows primarily that the OTHER user did not already own the name.
On Aug 29, encouraged that registration was moving in a positive direction, I discovered that the one wiki had been vandalized by someone else many years ago, and made a pledge to the those local admins to clear up that name in the Wikipedia world and proceed with editing toward the worthy goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and they accepted. One victory for now at least.
I momentarily considered SUL (on Aug 29 also, and put in a request), but after some research when I saw that the OTHER user seemed active, my (Achille's heel apparently of) politeness kicked in, and I withdrew my SUL request (on Sep 4), deciding to pursue only the english wiki name claim there, since the account was never used, and appeared to be abandoned. I would be satisfied with just 4 wiki linked I.D.s to be effective at editing, and such would not pursue any further ones.
On Sep 8, apparently, the wiki software changed re-assigned my Home Wiki to the OTHER user, because they unconventionally pursued the SUL behind my back. Unbeknownst to me, it was at this point that my courtesy had permanently backfired.
My questions and regrets:
.. I question why I never received any replies from the OTHER user, nor any other notifications of any kind, yet I was told that protocol indicates one is supposed to Post a request in the other person's Talk Page at the very least, when wishing to use a name that is already taken. Summary - They never answered my posts in their talk page, and never placed any in mine. Frankly I don't see how the SUL was even granted, since applying for it (as the software seems to prompt) means you have to sign in on the Home Wiki, and I owned the Home Wiki... so I see a glitch in the system which noone seems to be willing to look into. "What? There's DNA evidence? Naaaaaaah, we don't need to look at that..." ;/
.. I regret being polite and courteously respecting the OTHER user's active use of their own language wiki pages, by withdrawing the SUL I had initiated before them. While courtesy is imperative while editing Wikipedia, this episode has taught me that the political aspect is still at least somewhat ruthless and CYA ... a disappointing discovery.
Note: An "SUL" is a somewhat new and buggy feature of Wikipedia software (it only works well in FireFox, and in other more positive news, I've been working with Wikipedia programmers to try to solve some issues it has). It allows people to "unify" their accounts across all the Wikimedia projects... but only (supposedly) if the name is unclaimed, unused or undisputed.
Unfortunately that is not the bug I've been working on, and it looks like it got its bite in before the exterminators got ahold of the biter ... :/
The major disappointment however, is that a properly armed administrator could reverse many of the errors of such bugs and/or breakdowns in protocol... but so far, it seems to be too much trouble.
(end of rant).
Lives taken away unjustly... how do you ever repay that?...
..."It is a greater duty of any empowered body, to let the occasional guilty man free, than ever to convict a single innocent person."
I've started with that drastic example, to show the correlation with a less extreme, yet related one...
I recently lost a case for a bid on Wikipedia, due to all the 'jurors' just being too lazy or swamped to go the distance, read all the facts I submitted or even investigate any on their own, and act on them.
There you are, sitting in your cell, with all the facts... but how can you ever win your case unless those entrusted with the power to absolve and rectify are willing to act?
*eeeeesh* :/
Here is a bit of the summary I submitted in my closing statements, after it was clear that it was too much trouble for the honor guard to step forward and prevent the train wreck, just for the LJ record...
I have the same name on 3 wikis, and am (was) the rightful owner the Home Wiki location.
On Aug 27, I registered with the wikicommons in order to begin extensive editing of specialty topics. This shows primarily that the OTHER user did not already own the name.
On Aug 29, encouraged that registration was moving in a positive direction, I discovered that the one wiki had been vandalized by someone else many years ago, and made a pledge to the those local admins to clear up that name in the Wikipedia world and proceed with editing toward the worthy goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and they accepted. One victory for now at least.
I momentarily considered SUL (on Aug 29 also, and put in a request), but after some research when I saw that the OTHER user seemed active, my (Achille's heel apparently of) politeness kicked in, and I withdrew my SUL request (on Sep 4), deciding to pursue only the english wiki name claim there, since the account was never used, and appeared to be abandoned. I would be satisfied with just 4 wiki linked I.D.s to be effective at editing, and such would not pursue any further ones.
On Sep 8, apparently, the wiki software changed re-assigned my Home Wiki to the OTHER user, because they unconventionally pursued the SUL behind my back. Unbeknownst to me, it was at this point that my courtesy had permanently backfired.
My questions and regrets:
.. I question why I never received any replies from the OTHER user, nor any other notifications of any kind, yet I was told that protocol indicates one is supposed to Post a request in the other person's Talk Page at the very least, when wishing to use a name that is already taken. Summary - They never answered my posts in their talk page, and never placed any in mine. Frankly I don't see how the SUL was even granted, since applying for it (as the software seems to prompt) means you have to sign in on the Home Wiki, and I owned the Home Wiki... so I see a glitch in the system which noone seems to be willing to look into. "What? There's DNA evidence? Naaaaaaah, we don't need to look at that..." ;/
.. I regret being polite and courteously respecting the OTHER user's active use of their own language wiki pages, by withdrawing the SUL I had initiated before them. While courtesy is imperative while editing Wikipedia, this episode has taught me that the political aspect is still at least somewhat ruthless and CYA ... a disappointing discovery.
Note: An "SUL" is a somewhat new and buggy feature of Wikipedia software (it only works well in FireFox, and in other more positive news, I've been working with Wikipedia programmers to try to solve some issues it has). It allows people to "unify" their accounts across all the Wikimedia projects... but only (supposedly) if the name is unclaimed, unused or undisputed.
Unfortunately that is not the bug I've been working on, and it looks like it got its bite in before the exterminators got ahold of the biter ... :/
The major disappointment however, is that a properly armed administrator could reverse many of the errors of such bugs and/or breakdowns in protocol... but so far, it seems to be too much trouble.
(end of rant).
