I had a rather different impression of events around Pieter. I remember several times where he got admins on his case because he nominated copyvios for deletion which said admins had uploaded to Commons.
I'm also not sure whether a sarcastic reference to German efficiency in a talk page discussion qualifies as a racist remark. Etc. Andreas --- On Mon, 6/12/10, Adam Cuerden <cuer...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Adam Cuerden <cuer...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Foundation-l] Pieter Kuiper > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Monday, 6 December, 2010, 20:25 > It concerns me greatly that Commons > seems unable to deal with a user who, at > various times, has attacked a Jew with anti-semitic > cartoons, has thrown > racist abuse at a German theen harassed that user - and > still has numbers of > admins willing to unblock him, simply because he does > supposedly good work > on Deletion reviews. Diod I mention the Jew was blocked for > several months > for A SINGLE COMPLAINT ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOUR? > > > Pieter has harassed numerous users away from contributing > to Wikipedia. That > he is still editing after all he's done is disgraceful. > Commons' > administration has clearly failed, and failed horribly. > > A list of evidence follows: > > The most recent incident was racist abuse against a German > user, followed by > harassment > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Martin_H.&curid=11544309&diff=46672583&oldid=46672239 > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Farrel.jpg > and > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Tiotio.jpg > > The report, which before I noticed and acted upon it was > full of people > claiming that racist abuse was fine, and that Pieter was > being harassed by > being called out on it, is here: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems#Racist_personal_attacks_by_Pieter_Kuiper > > > Pieter has a block log as long as your arm: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3APieter+Kuiper&type=block > > However, he also has an unblock log, where the same few > admins constantly > unblock him, without insisting on a change in the > problematic behaviour. > This is a user who gets serial warnings and second chances, > all the time > becoming bolder and bolder. > > A few past incidents will suffice: > > The Wall of Shame incident, and the Havang_nl harassment. > > Pieter's modus operandi has been to attempt to harass > admins who do things > he dislikes by scouring their image uploads to find > something to request > deletion on. The validity of these deletions varies in > quality, and are > often grasping at straws. Several of the blocks in the > block log are for > this. > > One of the clearest incidents was when he attempted to > refight old battles > where the DR had gone against him, attacking the admins who > uploaded and the > admins who closed the DRs as keep. Here's the wall of shame > he created. > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3APieter_Kuiper&action=historysubmit&diff=41686053&oldid=41680497 > > The next few edits are him editwarring to keep the Wall of > Shame up. He got > blocked for this. He made an unblock, and Havang_nl denied > it. So he > promptly attacked Havang. > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3APieter_Kuiper&action=historysubmit&diff=42357364&oldid=42352174 > > ---- > > I believe there were other incidents involving antisemitic > cartoons being > used to attack Mbz1, a Jew, but one can be found here, > where he constantly > insists on including a cartoon which he knows will upset > said Jew. > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pieter_Kuiper/Archive2009&diff=prev&oldid=33056706#BTW_about_copyright > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pieter_Kuiper/Archive2009&diff=next&oldid=33056706 > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pieter_Kuiper/Archive2009&diff=next&oldid=33056769 > this was followed by a WP:POINTy FPC nomination > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Latuff_nazi_camp_2.png > > > It's clear that Commons cannot handle him, and I beseech > the Foundation to > step in, investigate the matter, and deal with it. I also > think that every > administrator invoilved in defending him, and encouraging > the harassment of > other users, should lose their admin rights. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
