I was initially told not to edit Avestan and Old Persian by someone who, by his account, has not a grasp of said languages and claimed further that I had insulted him -re my reply wherein no insult is to be found-, signalling faulty reading comprehension [1]. I then got an apology, which I accepted [2], thinking that would be the end of it, but shortly after Wyang (now an admin) claimed my Chinese edits were “completely ungrammatical” because he heeded not that the phrases I used were from Confucian texts (ie, grammatically different than today’s Standard Chinese) [3], and this time I got no apology when I pointed his mistake out.

I was, too, told to employ mainstream sources -and cite them properly-, which I gladly did until my entries using Strong’s Bible Concordance and the Vasmer Dictionary were deemed faulty as well without further elaboration (ie, the ones who accused me of not citing sources still accused me -without citing anything- when I used them [4], [5]). Further instances chanced wherein an admin (Wyang) wrote in my talkpage I was “making mistakes” in my edits, whereas his ulterior fixes showed no correction re mines [6], [7], [8], [9] (he added -in my opinion- useful stuff in his edits but did not correct what I wrote). There were, in addition, “amusing” situations wherewith an admin called for someone to “fix” an entry I created in Catalan (ie, one of my mother tongues) [10], despite his inability to understand whether it needed a fix or not but, alas, I quarreled not back then and my main user (Gfarnab) was permanently banned by Wyang.

Since then -while editing with sock accounts- some of the Sanskrit translations I added were obliterated by an admin who explicitly recognizes his incapability of judging their adequacy [11], my aim of archiving the 2017 conversations in my talkpage was deemed “vandalism” [12] by an admin who immediately after deleted content therefrom (not giving a reason for it) [13]. All this, I posited, could be a tremendous misunderstanding, but shortly after one of the most active and knowledgeable contributors around (Palaestrator verborum) was banned by the same admin and wrote he had “been banned under a pretext by an administrator who no doubt wanted to ban me the first time I talked with him” [14], leading me to discern a pattern which I hazard will also be discernable by you.

Being healthy and young as I am I can keep editing with sockets for the next 60 years, but I know this is not the best arrangement possible for the Wiktionary (why would admins squander time fruitlessly banning throwaway IPs of mine for 60 years?). I hereby ask for my ban to be lifted immediately and, for the sake of the community, an agreement to be found between me and those who are wasting their precious time with unsourced and contradictory stings against me. I know, eg, Wyang has not shown us to be the best negotiator, but on the other hand I am more agreeable than Rua so I think we can succeed in finding a stable array which works best for everyone (and may you pardon the unpardonable length of my message: this is what happens when months of grievances go ungrieved).

Sincerely,
Gfarnab


[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gfarnab&oldid=47041398

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gfarnab&oldid=47045096

[3] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gfarnab&oldid=47148105

[4] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gfarnab&oldid=47448393#Making_too_many_errors_in_Chinese_entries_-_again

[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gfarnab&oldid=47219183

[6] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%AD%9D&type=revision&diff=47297469&oldid=47295459

[7] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E9%9B%B7&type=revision&diff=48162324&oldid=47295417

[8] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E9%81%B7&type=revision&diff=47450157&oldid=47323937

[9] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%81%A3&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=47450110&oldid=47341521

[10] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:safareig&oldid=47601964

[11] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2018/January&oldid=48433392

[12] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gfarnab&diff=48417051&oldid=48417049

[13] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gfarnab&diff=48423471&oldid=48417053

[14] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Palaestrator_verborum&oldid=48426033