Удзельнік:Kazimier Lachnovič/Спрыяньне расейскаму этнацыду беларусаў на Вікісховішчы

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Мая скарга ад 19 студзеня 2023 году:

Dear T&S team,

My Wikimedia username is Kazimier Lachnovič, and I'm currently a bureaucrat of the Belarusian (be-tarask) Wikipedia. Another large area of my contribution is Wikimedia Commons, where I have uploaded more than 48 000 images (by hand, i.e. using the default file uploader). I have also been on the local Organizing committee of Wiki Loves Earth several times. I am writing about a frustrating situation in the Wikimedia Commons that violates the Movement principles. I eventually realized this after 14 years of working there. Unfortunately, there is no Arbitration Committee in the Wikimedia Commons, so I cannot do anything inside the local community. Moreover, on December 25th, I got my first block there for my attempt to report the admin violation of the official policies and guidelines (specifically Commons:File_renaming and Commons:Project_scope/Neutral_point_of_view). And it's not the first time that I have faced violation of the official policies and guidelines there (e.g. I asked to stop slandering and harassing of me by User:Pofka, which was ignored by the administrators, as well as my previous request to properly revert User:Ymblanter's administrative edit, which was Russian-based censorship of Belarusian language, i.e. its Russification). They also commented that I'm an unfit editor because the Republic of Belarus is a dictatorship; therefore, all Belarusians' edits are suspect.

I find the situation with my block (as well as the simultaneous block of User:Лобачев_Владимир) quite strange for several reasons. After the correspondent request by User:Pofka (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=719488166&oldid=719485774), it took just 4 hours for User:A.Savin to block me for 6 months without any relevant evidence provided (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=719535149&oldid=719533456) except the slandering of me by User:Pofka. I also find the behavior of User:Yann, who decided not to provide any explanations (except the very short and formalist ones) of their non-trivial administrative decisions, quite strange. User:Adamant1 noticed that the involved administrators (User:A.Savin, User:Yann and User:Ymblanter) act in concert supporting User:Pofka. They ignore their own formal warning given to the user. They refuse to block User:Pofka for its violation (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=724440080&oldid=724439109, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=724421459&oldid=724405242, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=724743156&oldid=724741217). User:Adamant1 has also noticed that User:Pofka and User:Yann copied and pasted the same comments in two deletion requests which looks like evidence of their cooperation (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=724542401&oldid=724535600). On the other hand, User:A.Savin refused to provide any valid reasons for the indefinite blocking of User:Лобачев_Владимир even after being asked on their talk page (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:A.Savin&diff=724383345&oldid=724374331). The same strange behaviour of User:A.Savin was noticed by User:Johnny_Moor, who showed that User:A.Savin has been accused in writing advertisement articles in the Russian Wikipedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=724107140&oldid=724010840). I need to notice, that there was a desysoping voting about User:Yann in 2019 (19 support, 42 oppose, 4 neutral) and the last desysoping discussion about User:A.Savin took place in 2021. And User:Pofka was caught on an attempt to assemble a team to push their national POV by contacting a user with the same nationality on a random talk page, where they directly wrote that they "selected this random page for the purpose of conspiracy" - "Pasirinkau šį atsitiktinį puslapį konspiraciniais tikslais" (https://lb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benotzer_Diskussioun:Sabbatino&diff=2352820&oldid=1825609). It looks like they can use email for this purpose as well. I find probable that User:Ke_an (who is blocked indefinitely in the English Wikipedia for nationalistic POV pushing), User:Cukrakalnis and User:Guido den Broeder are connected to User:Pofka as well, and I can provide some evidence if requested.

Generally, it seems to me that the issue here is not just unfair blocking of me (which looks like national discrimination against Belarusians) as well as my filemover rights revoked by the same administrator (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kazimier_Lachnovi%C4%8D&diff=722085209&oldid=721204248), but the discrediting of the Wikimedia Commons. There are Commons:File_Renaming and Commons:Project_scope/Neutral_point_of_view, which clearly state that the Wikimedia Commons is not the place where issues with ambiguous (in terms of correctness or neutrality) filenames or file descriptions should be resolved. Administrative actions should only be taken in obvious cases. Still, as it turns out, some administrators of the Wikimedia Commons can evaluate the quality of reliable sources and their reliability based on someone's original research (even without providing any reliable source directly criticizing the original reliable source, without any real consensus in the discussion, without reasoning their own decision in the form of at least one sentence), and then block for criticizing such a practice. As a result, the correct filedescriptions and filenames (given according to the reliable sources) are replaced by some fiction ones, that eventually misleads users. At the same time, it looks like the Wikimedia Commons policies and guidelines are misleading as well. From the beginning I have been attracted to the Wikimedia Commons by the simplicity, understandability and liberality of its policies and guidelines, but it turned out that I was wrong. The most frustrating thing here is that without the Wikimedia Commons (i.e. without adding illustrations) it is impossible to contribute normally to any Wikipedia, while User:Ymblanter's public definition of the Wikimedia Commons as "completely disfunctional" (back in 2021) looks close to reality, and it seems like the things even got worse since then.

BR.

Афіцыйны адказ ад 7 лютага 2023 году:

John Sullivan (Wikimedia Trust & Safety / Legal)

Feb 7, 2023, 00:40 UTC

Hello Kazimier Lachnovic,

Thank you for reaching out to the Trust & Safety team about the issues you have been experiencing. We have now looked into this matter and wanted to let you know our conclusions. As you likely know, Trust & Safety Office Actions are a powerful but limited tool. We can only act in certain circumstances, when there is sufficient evidence to support a severe and final action against someone. We cannot act in cases where the community is capable of handling the matter, and we are not an appeal body for cases where the community has already handled a matter, but not to the satisfaction of an involved party. Given all of this, we are unable to take action in the case you reported.

In this case it seems as though your unblock request has been accepted by the community, which we hope rectifies the situation.

Please do not interpret our inability to take action in this case as meaning that we are not concerned about your safety and wellbeing, or that we do not believe you. We always want our users to feel safe and comfortable on Wikimedia projects, and we hate when that's not the case. However, we are restricted in what actions we can take and when we can take them, and this case does not meet the necessary criteria.

Please let us know if the behavior you reported changes or escalates, as we may then be able to re-open the case. We also encourage you to take care of yourself first. We have compiled a list of resources for situations like yours. We hope they will be beneficial to you.

If you’d like to understand more about when the Foundation does and does not act in such cases, please see <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Global_Ban_Policy> Wishing you all the best with your future editing.