User:Beelzebarn

User:William M. Connolley complaint

On January 29, User:William M. Connolley entered a "revert war" at [Middle East Media Research Institute], protecting the article five minutes after User:Isarig had reverted the article. Prior to Isarig's revert, the article had been quiet for 3 hours 22 minutes. [1]

I found the timing of the revert-then-protect suspicious, and I asked Connolley to explain how it occurred. [2] Rather than explaining his actions, Connolley responded, "If I hadn't protected it you'd now find yourself with a 24h block, so be grateful." [3] (The block threat may have been made in relation to a mistaken accusation by Isarig that I had violated the "3RR" rule: [4])

Following this uncivil and threatening reply, I informed Connolley that I would be looking into how I could report him for abuse, and after being told of the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents route, I informed him that I would begin preparing a complaint against him, but that I'd prefer that he just answer my original question.

Prior Protections by Connolley:

January 25: Protected [Baibars] article 9 minutes after revert by user:Khoikhoi: [5]

January 15: Protected [Toad (Nintendo)] immediately after reverting it himself (this seems to have been done in response to a nonsensical editor)

January 4: Protected [Execution of Saddam Hussein] article 3 minutes after revert by user:UBeR: [6] (Connolley apparently made some edits to the article while it was "protected" [7] and was told by user:Halo that "using page protection to keep the page supporting your opinion on a matter is /extremely bad form/."[8]

December 18: Asked to protect Afghanistan article on talk page, but declined. [9]

December 13: Protected [Sveasoft] almost an hour after revert by user:24.218.180.170