Betacommand is back Hello I am contacting you because you are one of the editors admins who is still active now and was aware of the notoriously disruptive editor User Betacommand a k a User Delta As you probably know he was eventually banned after a third arbitration case due to the way he conducted himself in the pursuit of his main interest on Wikipedia WP NFCC enforcement What you may not know is that he has evidently returned and has been editing as User Werieth since 2012 in violation of that ban After just a year Werieth is already causing the same sort of disruption that Betacommand did you may experience some deja vu by reading reports made about Werieth such as the one at the top of this AN archive There are already several others A quick perusal of Werieth s contributions will also reveal the same Betacommand like self assured approach grounded in the belief that their edits are always 100 correct and 100 according to policy when the reality was that he made basic errors and pushed policy boundaries at a rate that while acceptable in ordinary users for a time limited period was found to be unacceptable in an editor with the edit rate and communication issues Betacommand had especially given their inability to change I and others have already tried to expose his return via these sock puppet investigations although as you can see it s not getting far That s not for the lack of an answerable case though you can see the latest summary in this post Most of the obstruction can be put down to the usual dysfunctional and counter productive aspects of Wikipedia governance which of course will always aid experienced WP GAMErs like Betacommand But you may or may not be surprised to learn that the people obstructing this investigation the hardest are three admins whose own conflict of interest with regard to Betacommand NFCC is best demonstrated in their own words Black Kite repeatedly deflects attention away from Werieth and onto accusers Kww blocks accusers and has already unblocked Werieth once and Future Perfect at Sunrise has basically declared all out war on anyone who even whispers that Werieth might be Betacommand The purpose of this post is to raise awareness about his return and hopefully persuade one or more of you to resubmit that SPI with the evidence I m sure you will be able to compile using your own knowledge of Betacommand s characteristic traits At the very least to prompt you to put his talk page on your watch lists and regularly review his contributions although obviously don t waste your time trying to deal with any issues you see on the flawed basis that he is just any old user Also obviously you should also raise a red flag every time you see one of those three admins trying to further suppress the inevitable exposure of his ban evasion If his return is to be covered up for an unnecessarily long time it should at least be done simply through general incompetence rather than obvious COI based abuse of the tools trusted position of admin A few emails to the arbcom members who dealt with Betacommand also probably wouldn t go amiss if ordinary admins aren t bothered about this particular user s return and you will remember blinded by their enthusiasm for having someone anyone perform NFCC enforcement edits a great many of them were unwilling to even admit his particular approach to that necessary work was a problem Betacommand s clandestine return to Wikipedia is bad enough as it is given that he has simply resumed where he left off in the NFCC enforcement field with several users already having wasted a lot of time having to deal with him as if he were a legitimate user But obviously the nightmare scenario if the cover up is allowed to continue for another year is if Werieth Betacommand decides script assisted batch editing is not fast enough for his liking and decides to take an altogether faster approach possibly even trying to