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 Ky x How did you guess Rockpocket The names are familiar and I commented in Friday s admin recall mess Ky x 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