Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems

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== [[User:Uh oh Uh Oh Again]] ==
 
== [[User:Uh oh Uh Oh Again]] ==
 
Looks to me like another uploader of private images without any educational purpose. Please check. -- [[User:Ies|Ies]] ([[User talk:Ies|talk]]) 16:05, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 
Looks to me like another uploader of private images without any educational purpose. Please check. -- [[User:Ies|Ies]] ([[User talk:Ies|talk]]) 16:05, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 
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== [[User:Foroa‎]] ==
 
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I feel overrun by admin [[user:Foroa|Foroa]] who reverts my edits without showing interest in any discussion.
 
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'''Background:'''
 
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There has been a practice that all user categories should be hidden. I, as well as others, have reoccuringly questioned the support for this practice. The discussion has taken place at [[Commons talk:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy#Hidden user categories. OK?]] and (in short and with some of the same users) [[Template talk:User category]]. The discussion started in 2009, and I made the conclusion in 2010 and again this month that there is no consensus for the practice. Noone has questioned this conclusion, but the practice still remained in the policy by demanding the use of {{template|User category}} which includes the hidden attribute, until I [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:User-specific_galleries,_templates_and_categories_policy&diff=92118334&oldid=87669334 changed] it a couple of weeks ago. After my edit I waited for a little more than a week to give time for people to react. Nothing happened, so I began to implement the change by replacing the user cat template in my user cats with simple categorization.
 
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'''Reactions from Foroa:'''
 
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Admin Foroa reacted by reverting (almost) all of my edits, without any kind of notification on my talk page. Allready at this stage the user is at the brink of breaking [[Commons:Rollback#When to use rollback|rollback guideline]]. Just the fact that the reverts were done to several user cats should be sufficient to show that I am not a vandal, but rather a quite experienced contributor. (I am an administrator, check user, and former bureaucrat at one of the larger Wikipedias.) I responded by requesting a show of consensus in support for the reverts ([[User talk:Foroa#User cats]]). I awaited any discussion on the matter, but Foroa soon explained that the user is not inclined to actually read the policy supposedly supporting them. Since an admin who is not interested in policy wording nor in the (rather short) discussion behind it shouldn't invoke a consensus which the admin simply is "pretty much convinced that there is", I redid my edits. By now Foroa obviously must know both that I am an established user and that I am willing to back my actions on talk pages. I am also willing to back off if consensus is really shown. Still the admin speedily reverted my edits with no further explanation, but with a threat of also, by bot, ruining my user cat structure, still referring to some unsupported consensus.
 
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'''Request:'''
 
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I have been active on talk pages to question a practice. When noone has objected I have made a few changes to policy text. I have awaited reactions to these. When I at last act on these changes, my actions are undone, but my argument stays unanswered. I thus question Foroa's use of admin tools, primarily to the second round of reverts, and request that the user undo these. Secondly I welcome a more thorough discussion on the matter at [[Commons talk:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy]].
 
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:/[[User:Dcastor|Dcastor]] ([[User talk:Dcastor|talk]]) 16:13, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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