Wikipedia Requests for Comment GoRight Thanks for your kind words about my comments I d disagree though I m not convinced that GoRight was exactly baiting WMC he was more accurately confronting some clear double standards The edits which got him blocked for harassment were echoes of what WMC had said and which had been supported by as I recall Schulz Whether it was true or not those comments were set up GoRight just noticed it and said it violating User Abd Rule 0 I d call it uncivil but on a scale not worse than what had preceded it and certainly because of it s mirror nature more just I ve tried to reach out to Connolley but he rejected it which is sad I suspect that he s a good man who has fallen into some bad company Maybe they are all good men who have fallen into a bad constellation some pattern that reinforces the worst aspects of the way they are working here The incivility serves no obvious good purpose from any POV except one that would hate the project to be successful and I m sure that s not Connolley s POV In any case I have not denied the uncivil aspects of GoRight s edits I ve merely noted that they are easily explainable as a natural response to what clearly appeared to him to be an abusive cabal and what he was seeing confirmed what was in the Solomon source I believe that he is now able to see beyond that and that he s learned to not make accusations that involve assumptions of bad faith I draw a distinction between noting a reasonable suspicion that something is off and claiming that it is off I might note that a user shows characteristics of a block evading sock but I won t claim that the user is a block evading sock unless I m prepared to back it up with sufficiently solid evidence I ll only state the former as well the suspicion if the suspicion is clearly reasonable so I d just be stating the obvious which sometimes must be said And that s how I ve treated sock puppetry charges against me if there was some reasonable basis not matter how shallow I didn t charge abusive SSP filing GoRight clearly went too far but he didn t keep it up Meanwhile he was blocked in outrageous violation of block policy and I m mulling over whether or not I should do anything about that Baley has denied that there was any error in the block and this is what actually might make it necessary to go for an RfC It s pretty clear it s not marginal But of course RfC isn t the first step The first step would be something like what I just did on User talk William M Connolley The next step for me would be to attempt to identify someone Connolley might trust to give him a friendly nudge Has to be a friend not merely an ally