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Evidence presented by Melsaran

(will elaborate later)

Alkivar has misused admin tools

• Deleted a page in userspace per WP:OR (which is not applicable to userspace) while it had been kept by MFD twice before. Deletion was overturned by Spartaz after unanimous consensus to restore at WP:DRV.
• Protected a page after reverting a user who added information he disagreed with (and he inappropriately used admin rollback to remove the content). Protection was overturned by Edokter with the comment not a valid reason for protection.
• Protected a page while involved in a content dispute over the addition of a "pop culture" section. Protection was overturned by B with the comment inappropriate protection - admin tools should not be used in this manner.
• Blocked a long-term constructive user for "wikistalking" who was reverting someone who removed pop culture sections from hundreds of articles en masse. Block was almost immediately overturned by Nishkid64 with the comment User seems to have been acting in good-faith per discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Trivia sections. Indefinite block was a bit too much.
• Unprotected Phil Sandifer's talk page that had been briefly protected due to a coordinated vandal attack, in retaliation for this edit removing an inappropriate banner that was in violation of WP:BITE. Protection was overturned by Phil Sandifer.

Alkivar has been incivil in log summaries

• since idiots seem inclined to continuously readd pop trivia to ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES... this will be protected until said time the parties agree to stop
• thanks to idiot vandals spamming their websites this article is now semi-protected
• bullshit licensing
• WP:NOT for shit you wrote in school one day
• give me a fucking break
• nonsense crap

Evidence presented by User:B

Disputed actions

There are three administrative actions that were the reasons for this request:

• Protection of Palatine uvula (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (undone by B)
• Block of Equazcion (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (undone by Nishkid64)
• Protection of Area code 205 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (undone by Edokter)

There are several other administrative actions I have noticed on a cursory glance of Alkivar's logs that, on the surface, appear questionable and should be explained:

• Unprotection of User talk:Phil Sandifer (logs) with the message "if i cant have my banner... you cant have your protection... how's them apples?"
• Two-week block of Wwefan980 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), apparently in response to . The user has since left Misplaced Pages.
• Protection of Talk:Demonoid (logs) - as far as I can tell, there was only one IP vandal, who simply could have been blocked rather than protecting the page. In any event, indef protecting talk pages is usually a bad idea.
• Deletion of Misplaced Pages:What would Jack do? (logs)

Evidence presented by User:Bfigura

Alkivar has blocked without warning

• User:Chiangkaishektwnroc was blocked for 1 week for uploading copyrighted material. The user wasn't given any warning, or talk page suggestions.
• User:Auzzz24 was blocked indefinitely for copyright violations without being warned by a human. The user was indef blocked while having only 176 edits, many of which were productive.
• User:Dingv03 was indefinitely blocked for copyright violation with the message (Copyright infringement: User has absolutely no understanding of copyright or WP:Fair Use.) No human warnings or messages were given to suggest a better course of action to the editor. This seems to have led to surprise on the part of the blocked user .
• Bellavinci was indef blocked, email disabled, with the message (repeated copyright violations). User had received 4 bot warning messages , but no warning before block, or any suggestions on how to fix behavior. User's contributions suggest a good faith editor.
• Krysttt was indef blocked with message (Repeated violations of Misplaced Pages copyright policy: once ... ok AGF.... twice... ok pushing it... 22 times... cya!). User had received a number of bot warnings, but again, no human contact . Contribution history suggests an editor attempting to add to Misplaced Pages in good faith .
• Cranny07 was indef blocked with message (Repeated violations of Misplaced Pages copyright policy: once... agf ... twice... agf ... more than 10... block). No warnings of block, or any other human contact . Contributions suggest a new good faith editor .
• User:LeoGard was indef blocked, email blocked, with the message (Repeated violations of Wikimedia copyright policy). Only bot warnings, no human contact. In this case, according to the user's talk page , the images uploaded were his own work, but he was confused by the copright policy, and got warned from bots, then indef blocked. Editor's contribs suggest another productive editor. Editor was unblocked with the message (unjustified block, no human warnings), per some talk page comments . However, the editor hasn't contributed since his unblock request, so he may have left.

I think the lack of warnings is important here because these all seem to be good faith editors who could have changed their behavior with some simple human contact. The goal of blocking is to prevent harm to wikipedia. Maybe that goal could have been accomplished with mere communication, rather than forcing editors out of Misplaced Pages. After all, our copyright policy isn't trivially simple, so unless editors learn it on the first go, if they upload many images in an attempt to contribute, their talk page will probably have a number of bot warnings about licensing issues.

Mild disclaimer for the above: IANAAdmin, so I haven't been able to review the deleted contributions for any of the above users. If there's something there that contradicts anything above, please do let me know. Thanks. --Bfigura 18:27, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Alkivar has unblocked without discussion (and against consensus?)

• User:Burntsauce was blocked for prodding pages without using edit summaries (in effect submarine deleting). This was discussed on ANI (see here), and there appeared to be support for the block. Alkivar overturned the block, without attempting to contact the blocking admin, with the message (ten of all trades should remember that blocks must be placed according to blocking policy.) . As a result of consensus on ANI that the block was for disruption, the block was reinstated. Alkivar was contacted by Ryan_Postlethwaite and TenOfAllTrades regarding the (un)block, but declined to make a response on ANI, either user's talk page, or anywhere other than the original block message . While Alkivar may not have been aware of the consensus on ANI when he unblocked, he still should have made an attempt to contact the blocking admin before issuing an unblock (per WP:BP#Unblocking).

I think the unwillingness to communicate exhibited in the above incidents is inappropriate given the collaborative nature of Misplaced Pages. (And especially undesirable for an administrator). --Bfigura 21:33, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Alkivar has blocked email blocked against policy

As the blocking policy states that email should only be blocked... in cases of abuse of the "email this user" feature, I think the following email blocks were unjustified (searching back to July 2007):

• User:Equazcion was blocked , in a dispute described elsewhere in evidence. There's no evidence that the user was abusing email, and the block was quickly overturned by consensus .
• User:Tim_Long was blocked with the message Repeated violations of Wikimedia copyright policy). No evidence to suggest abuse of email. (User's contributions appear to be otherwise productive ).
• User:LeoGard was email blocked on copyvio grounds, see first section for diffs.
• User:Bellavinci was email blocked on copyvio grounds, see first section for diffs.
• User:Dingv03 was email blocked on copyvio grounds, see first section for diffs.

Please note that there are a number of additional email blocks, however, I'm willing to give Alkivar the benefit of the doubt and assume he had a reason for blocking the email of the people he blocked for disruption and vandalism. --Bfigura 03:10, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence presented by east718

Alkivar has wheel-warred

On October 15th, Alkivar (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) blocked G2bambino (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for a week for uploading images without source information, despite not having warned the user for it. After G2bambino requested an unblock, AuburnPilot (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) unblocked him, stating that the intial block was "unjustified by policy." Six minutes later, Alkivar reblocked him, which was undone by Sam Blacketer (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) after a discussion on AN/I. The reblock by Alkivar constitutes a wheel war.

Evidence presented by Davnel03

Alkivar has clearly abused admin tools

I think it is pretty clear from the evidence given above that Alkivar is and has been abusing admin tools. Another example of where he abused admin tools is here. He speedy deleted a subpage within a userspace, despite the fact that there were no votes for delete. Also, Alkivar indef blocked the user just two months earlier , so speedy deleting the page, despite a consensus not to just further heated the argument. In this particular discussion, it is pretty clear that Alkivar is only using admin tools to his clear advantage over other users who are not administrators. Whenever something begins to tremble out of hand, Alkivar has to for no reason resort to admin tools that are not exactly necessary at that point of time (page protection, blocks, image deletions etc.) Personally, I think Alkivar should be punished for his actions; if he isn't then other adminstrators might unfortunately resort to Alkivar's petty decisions. However, saying that, the discussion over at ANI concerning the trivia sections got very heated, and I feel that some of this could of been easily avoided if we co-operated with one another.

Alkivar needs to learn how to use admin tools properly and efficiently, not to abuse that at every moment, like he has been doing. Davnel03 21:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence presented by Rockpocket

I wish to present one minor example of perceived misuse by Alikivar, as an example of his disregard for accepted process.

Example of an unilateral and unjustified page deletion by Alkivar

WP:JACK, an essay that is mostly my work, was deleted by Alkivar without any justification in the deletion summary (log). As no WP:CSD justification was offered and I could find no record of community discussion, I politely asked Alkivar on his talk page if he would mind explaining his reasoning. Five days later Alkivar deleted my request without providing an answer, his edit summary on that occasion was nothing in this section is needed anymore. The essay itself is hardly important to me or the project, and had he provided even a nominal nod to policy or reason to justify the deletion I would not have protested. However, this process (or lack therefore) appears to be typical of his use of the tools. If admins are to use their tools for for reasons that are not obvious in policy, one would at the very least expect a willingness to explain their reasoning. It is a concern that Alkivar does not appear to appreciate this. However, more concerning is that he chooses to ignoring requests for such reasoning, dismissing them instead. Rockpocket 21:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence presented by W.marsh

Incivility/lack of accountability

As seen here in a prominent comment, Alkivar often makes rude, over-the-top comments. In this case, and it hardly seems to be an isolated one, we see a rude comment followed by... nothing. Alkivar doesn't check back (or if he does check back, gives no indication of caring) to see replies to his comment, or developments in the discussion. In this case, Alkivar made an offensive comment about deleting the article, then the article was totally rewritten, and no one wanted it deleted anymore. In this case, it was all "veterans" involved so there was really no harm done... but I cringe to think of some well-meaning new editor encountering "nuke it" Alkivar... if I was a new user, spent hours reading policy and carefully improving an article, only to be told Nuke it again... and again... and again... and again... and again... ad nauseum until its finally gone I probably would not edit much more. That's not how anyone should act, let alone an admin.

This RFAr itself conveniently shows an example of this, too... Alkivar had no interest in responding when it was just lowly admins and respected editors complaining. He even stated he was going to wait until ArbCom was on the verge of desysopping him before he would defend his actions. Is that really how admins should act? "Don't like something I did? I won't change, explain myself, or do anything but continue to abuse you, until you are a few days away from removing my adminship". --W.marsh 23:38, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence presented by Wikidemo

Alkivar's participation in popular culture deletion campaign

On October 8-10 Alkivar, User:Burntsauce, and fellow administrator User:Neil joined forces to delete "popular culture" sections from 168 articles simultaneously, using administrative tools to mop up articles and block users who got in the way.

Early Octeober 8, Alkivar edited then immediately protected an article under no dispute at the time , in the edit summary threatening "next person to readd the trivia section gets a boot upside the head." Later, User:Burntsauce deleted 167 sections in 68 minutes with the identical sumamry "popculturectomy" plus occasional asides like "FUCKING RIDICULOUS". User:Baseball Bugs restored one he had been editing for five months (see , ). Alkivar re-deleted then immediately and indefinitely protected , in his summary calling Baseball Bugs an "idiot" and admitting his purpose was to block addition of "pop trivia".

Community reaction was swift. Baseball Bugs complained four times to Alkivar and, after Alkivar deleted each without response (, , , , filed an AN/I complaint . In my first involvement, I investigated and raised serious concerns over Alkivar . Several warned Burntsauce to stop (, , ). Extensive discussion on Misplaced Pages talk:Trivia sections reached consensus that the deletions were improper, that the guideline's rule against deleting trivia sections should be followed, and that popular culture is not necessarily trivia . Neil tried to change the guideline three times to favor deletion (, , , triggering protection of the page . Equazcion announced then enacted reversion of 137 of Burntsauce's deletions (the others had been restored by other editors, including at least one administrator ). Equazcion and others initially stood by a summary of these as "vandalism" reversions (, , ), but later backed off the claim (see Equazcion's statements here).

Burntsauce soon re-deleted 118 sections, claiming "vandalism" and "disruptive addition of trivia". Alkivar re-deleted others (, , , , ). I called the re-deletions improper and contentious . Burntsauce responded to my new warning that I should "get head checked" , prompting my civility warning and AN/I warning / block request . Equazcion also asked that Burntsauce be blocked , then restored 111 sections . Alkivar then blocked Equazcion indefinitely without warning, and Neil refused to block Burntsauce then blocked me for using the undo button to restore three sections Neil himself had deleted for a third time . Neil later claimed he mistook me for Equazcion and later invented rules to justify his actions (; also see talk page here).

Alkivar was promoting a content dispute

Alkivar's protect-and-block ploy went against the legitimate, majority, and likely correct application of Misplaced Pages content policy. In mentioning this I am omitting others' good faith arguments and occasional cheerleading for the deletions. I bring this up not to win an argument over article content but to establish for the Committee that there was a good faith disagreement, and that Alkivar was using his adminship to take sides in a content dispute, not to deal with any clear behavior problem.

The 168 sections were apparently chosen indiscriminately for deletion based on having the words "popular culture" in the heading or body (Burntsauce refers to searching the term on google ) Analyzing 1/3 of them, many had sourced statements (, , , , , ), described the article subject directly (, , ), or supported articles that were about popular culture to begin with (, , , , , , ). Among facts removed are that buffalo wings are used in competitive eating events, Cochise's grandson played Cochise in The High Chaparral; superconductivity , oscilloscopes , and spacefaring are staples of science fiction; an 1855 painting of Scranton, Pennsylvania hangs at the National Gallery of Art; The Matrix is an exposition of Plato's cave and other philosophical constructs ; Neuschwanstein is the model for Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle; Nemo is a clownfish ; and buffalo wings are not related to American bison . Many described notable adaptations, sequels, treatments, and performances of popular works, or notable portrayals of mythological beings.

Misplaced Pages considers popular culture a notable subject and devotes vast portions of its content to the subject (e.g. anime, Hip Hop, Film). Universities have departments for popular culture. Trivia, which is clearly not the same thing, is explicitly allowed and is not summarily deleted per WP:TRIVIA. Whether popular culture belongs in in article or not, it is a reasonable content decision to have it. Per WP:CONSENSUS removing content in good faith is allowed, and restoring it is allowed too. If parties disagree they should talk about it; deleting a second time is contentious editing.

Personal statement

I affirm that I am a productive, good faith editor who has made many constructive contributions to Misplaced Pages. I have not been blocked or participated in an Arbcomm case before and have spent considerable time dealing with this one. I restored the three popular culture sections mentioned above after (i) carefully surmising that they contained uncontroversial material that added to the article and could be sourced if needed; and (ii) becoming convinced after a close reading of the relevant policies, guidelines, and debates that the deletions were improper, and that the material was best improved through normal editing process. I am mortified by the block, which I consider an unfortunate and unjustified blemish on my record from an ugly situation not of my making, and by Neil's ongoing accusations against me, which I consider shameful and uncivil.

Such is the chilling effect of misuse of tools that the damage goes well beyond two blocked users and two locked articles, both quickly reversed. I see that the other articles are in intermediate states, some with the sections restored, others with useful information still missing. I am still afraid to touch any of them, or to go anywhere near an administrator who is using cursewords or contentiously editing content lest I get blocked again. People suggest I would be a good administrator. After seeing how some administrators behave and elsewhere I don't want to be part of that club, and I think I can do more good simply editing and adding my opinions where I see a problem or a policy question. A strong stand by the committee against the kind of administrative abuse would go some way to restoring my faith in the project.

Contempt for Arbcomm process

Alkivar argued with the arbitration clerk and refused to participate here or on AN/I until forced (a comment he removed after confirming that the reason he agreed to answer was that the Committee agreed to take the case ). He deleted relevant evidence from his talk page after arbitration started, calling it "stuff thats over and done with that no longer matters." , and again .

Evidence presented by Erik

Unilateral deletion of images

Alkivar unilaterally deleted four non-free images from Children of Men and Fight Club (film): 1, 2, 3, and 4. He then removed the Children of Men image without elaboration. For Fight Club, he removed each image right before/after its deletion: 1, 2, and 3. The images were deleted and removed from the articles with zero attempt to initiate discussion or to pursue WP:IFD. Considering that the two aforementioned articles are Good Articles, the brusque approach was completely unwarranted. All these images had fair use rationales attached, and while they were questionable, this did not warrant immediate deletion. Misplaced Pages is about building consensus, and there was no intent to inquire about how the images could be better implemented or if they could be replaced by more suitable images. His conduct was a gross misuse of the tools to which he is privy. Having worked on a lot of content for Fight Club (film), I was able to add other non-free images that suited the admin's perspective, but the process would have been more amicable to improving the article if the judgments made by the admin had not been so swift.

Evidence presented by Random832

Inappropriate banner on Alkivar's user talk page

The banner mentioned above (the one that, when Phil Sandifer removed it, he unprotected his page in retaliation) is still present as of today.

Alkivar does not comprehend the protection policy

This diff shows that Alkivar believes that WP:WRONG (or, rather, the underlying message that "it's the wrong version" is a frivolous complaint) means that he is entitled to choose what version to protect, and to revert to that version before protection, without either violating the protection policy or, indeed, the revert itself qualifying as being "involved" in the content dispute. It is possible, though, that this is a good-faith misunderstanding. (Incidentally, his very claim that there was no edit war—which was, by that point, true, though it's quite possible that had he not protected there would have been one—shows that there was no basis for protection)

Old evidence

These have been brought up elsewhere before, including here for completeness

• diff from his first RFA, included to demonstrate his incivility in edit summaries dating back to March 2005.
• diff showing his attitude towards non-admins, brought up in the RFC

Other

• diff showing assertion that the unblocking admin had wheel-warred, and that he had not by reblocking
• ANI threads, for reference:
  • Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive311#Alkivar (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves)]]
  • Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive308#Admin incivility (the main focus of the section this appears in is pop culture section removals)

Evidence presented by JJJ999

Alkivar has blocked without warning

Add me to list- no warning, 2 week block for one supposed copyvio (my first and only ever image added too), and false (unexplained and unjustified) reasons for the block. As I note on the workshop page for Alkivar, his notice was a tissue of lies, and even he must have known it. He wrote "Repeated violations of Wikimedia copyright policy: copyvio, recreation of deleted content, reupload of copyvio". Now, given exactly one image had ever been uploaded by me, and I was in the process of discussing on the deletion discussion of images why I thought in good faith this was not covered under copyvio, he must have known this was a lie. Additionally, this image was never "reloaded" nor was deleted content "recreated", unless recreated means me posting quite openly on the deletion board that Pete.Hurds original argument (not his, since he didn't bother to engage) for deletion (not in use anymore) was false, because I had since used the same image on another page (subject to the consensus on the deletion of image discussion). There were 2 posts about this image on the deletion discussion, neither by Alkivar (http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_September_26#Image:Winner_1.jpg) Someone who chronically lies like this to justify a block should be removed The block was reversed obviously. Remove this guy. While Alkivar has since claimed a 2nd copyvio, this was in dispute (the text is v.likely public domain), but as Alkivar never attempted to discuss it, or look with me for evidence of this, and I was blocked, I never ended up pursuing it further.JJJ999 03:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

• Alkivar has apparently flat out stated he will not bother to present any evidence, just offer token and selective refutations on his workshop page. why bother to even wait to dump him? He clearly has no respect for this process, and nothing but contempt for other posters on wikipedia.JJJ999 19:52, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence presented by Isotope23

Another view of the Core dispute leading to this arbitration

This is more a counterpoint to something presented in the evidence section by Wikidemo (talk · contribs) as I don't think his characterization of the core "popular culture deletion" dispute that led to this arbitration tells the whole story. Take it for what it is worth (and if this would be more appropriate in Workshop#Analysis of evidence, please feel free to move it there). Wikidemo's description of events fails to mention that while some editors supported Equazcion's use of an editing tool populating the edit summary of "vandalism" on his reverts of Burntsauce's text removal, there were several editors at Misplaced Pages talk:Trivia sections and pop trivia ANI (myself included) who disputed characterizing these edits as vandalism. In my opinion, the usage of script assisted editing with what I (and others) considered to be misleading edit summaries contributed to the escalation of this situation. Of course this doesn't in any way justify the usage of blocking in this case, but it bears pointing out that there were several editors and admins involved in the discussion that somehow managed to not start reverting edits and blocking editors, but there was a small group (Burntsauce, Equazcion, Wikidemo, Alkivar, and Neil) who, while I believe were acting in what they considered to be good faith attempts to protect Misplaced Pages, were engaging in behavior that was disruptive and detrimental. In regards to this particular situation, Alkivar isn't the only one who got his hands dirty so to speak. --Isotope23 13:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence presented by Equazcion

Response to Isotope's evidence

As I've tried to make as clear as possible everywhere else, I did not necessarily consider Burntsauce's edits to be vandalism. I was using the Twinkle vandalism rollback function because that was the only feasible way to roll back edits on such a massive scale. Twinkle does have other rollback methods, but they require multiple steps per rollback, whereas the vandalism rollbacks can be accomplished in a single click. It was not my first choice, as I knew the edit summary calling the edits vandalism would at least be easy for my opponents to refute. Again, I did my best to clarify to everyone that I did not mean to call the edits vandalism, but that this was just a matter of the most technically feasible way to perform such a massive rollback.

Now, why were the rollbacks necessary, and why participate in what could be perceived as edit warring? Well, Wikidemo has more or less stated this a lot better than I could on the Trivia guideline's talk page, but I'll give it a shot because it seems a response to Isotope's concerns should exist on this page.

Had I not rolled them back right away, Burntsauce's edits, which went against the consensus established in the trivia guideline, would have succeeded. What else was there to do? How do you fix a mass-edit like that without mass-reverting it? What exactly should I have done? The common suggestion as an alternative to reverting immediately is to participate in a discussion on an article's talk page -- but there were 150 articles (I don't know if that's the exact number, but it was at least that) and discussing the revert on each talk page would've been impossible. I did participate in the only feasible discussion I could -- a centralized discussion about the mass-edits, in which there was consensus that the edits were disruptive along with consensus support for the mass-rollback -- and, which I might add, neither Burntsauce or Alkivar participated in, despite knowing that the discussion was taking place.

Besides which, if we can agree that the mass edit was wrong, then this really would've been the only way to fix it. Had I even waited a day to do it (for argument's sake, assuming that would've assuaged concerns over the method), there would've surely been further changes to these articles, making rollbacks impossible.

The debate over trivia and pop-culture sections has been long and heated; Everyone involved is frustrated and wishes they could have things their own way -- but most of them realize they must wait patiently, participate in the debate, and honor the current consensus and compromise. If Burntsauce and Alkivar (and Neil) had an opinion and wanted to change things, they should have made the effort in the appropriate Misplaced Pages fashion, just like everyone else has -- and yet, as a longtime resident of WT:TRIVIA, I've yet to see any of their names there once. They didn't want to discuss. They wanted to take a shortcut. I simply didn't allow them to, and I stand by that decision.

Evidence presented by Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles

Suspected sockpuppet

In addition to the disruption that brought about this discussion, a new account appears to be acting as a meat- or sockpuppet of one of the users under discussion. The very first edit of this new account states in the edit summary "I agree with Burntsauce" and the fourth of which states "Burntsauce is correct"; indeed, practically all of the handful of edits by this new account are anti-"in popular culture" material either along the lines of those edits that occurred earlier this month or in direct defense of them. This new account is also making stalking accusations. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 01:28, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

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