From WP:AN

I will respond to the block and list my reasons for requesting an unblock within the following section copied from WP:AN#Request_some_independent_assistance:

Request some independent assistance

Request some independent assistance

Could another admin have a serious word in the ear of StuRat (talk • contribs). He is a consistently disruptive editor who regularly accuses admins of abuse and cabalism. This evening alone he has been:

Accusing an admin of "an abuse of Admin authority" in protecting a page being targeted by a persistent banned user (whom, incidently, StuRat was an erstwhile colleague of and still occasionally adds content on his behalf). 

Goading an editor who indicated they are leaving the project (after a run in with a new editor with a suspiciously detailed knowledge of the project) 

Replacing the goading comment after three independent editors expressed disaproval (the aforementioned new user gets in on the act too). 

I have already warned him, but he ignored me, and I am a bit too close to take any action without stoking the claims of abuse. Thanks. Rockpocket 

1) Note that RP did not request a block, is it normal to take a request to talk with an editor and ignore that and issue a block instead ?  

2) I do believe that it is inappropriate for an Admin involved in an edit war on a page to protect that page when it has the version they support, and believe the talk page for that page, in this case Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk/guidelines, was the appropriate place to bring up that concern.  

3) As I stated on RP's talk page, I was not "goading" an editor who said they were leaving Wikipedia, but merely stated that I believed they would be back, and why I thought so.  I did object to the removal of that statement from User:Clio the Muse's talk page, by anyone other than Clio.  However, once Clio removed the statement herself, I respected that, and had already told RP that I would respect that.  Somebody else then put it back in (possibly a banned user) and I suspect that RP mistakenly thought it was me putting it back in, due to this edit comment: . 

Does this have anything to do with User:Light current? —Kyриx  

How did you guess? Rockpocket  

The names are familiar, and I commented in Friday's admin recall mess. —Kyриx  

Y'all are a pretty useless lot. Maybe try supporting deserving editors instead of coddling the disruptive ones.—eric 

Eric, I have discussed the matter with Clio privately, and I don't really think my actions today could be described as coddling. Rockpocket  

Hm, the user has a history of incivility and a talk page full of warnings. Looking through his recent edit history reveals many incivil remarks or attacks [101] [102], as well as complaints of abuse [103] and vague threats [104]. I think this is well beyond what we usually tolerate with respect to wikiquette, and have blocked him for 12 hours. >Radiant< 

4) I don't believe a WP:3RR warning is a "vague threat", but rather a proper notice of a Wikipedia policy.  

'''5) Note that, with the exception of