Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-166-20191106043111/@comment-4651179-20191106064536

I've know Gijimu for almost as long as I've been editing in this site, and the loss of a competent contributor is always regrettable from the perspective of the person as that, a contributor. However, Gijimu's behavior was unbecoming of a member of the type of community that FANDOM is meant to foster.

For context, the catalyst that resulted in Gijimu's ban occurred when I superseded a few images he had uploaded. One of the images, for instance, was this one. What I did was upload a differently-cropped image to improve the subject framing. I'd say the improvement from one version to another is noticeable.

I think some background is useful, so I'll clarify that superseding images is something that I occasionally do. Whenever I stumble into a file that can be improved I try to improve it (common causes are subject framing, image resolution, and changing from a print scan to a digital scan). It's part of the purpose of a community project. It's no different than rewording another editor's contributor to improve language.

Shortly after I superseded these files, I noticed that Gijimu reverted my upload. This resulted in a edit war since he was unwilling to let the images be changed, despite the fact some of the files were noticeably improved. This forced my hand and I protected these pages (as it can be seen ). In response to this, Gijimu blanked the pages these images belonged to, expressing that was his right as the creator of the articles. When the pages were restored by either mine or Copeinator123's hand, he added a deletion tag, claiming that the restoration of the pages was plagiarism and a violation of FANDOM's Terms of Use (example | here.

Afterwards, he contacted me on my message wall (here), accusing me of targeting him for the image supersedence. This kind of confrontational and sometimes victimizing behavior is not uncommon of Gijimu. Some examples can be found here, here, here, here, here (this outburst being in response to a corrective edit in the page), here, and here. In the last example, Gijimu interrupted a user rights vote to express dissatisfaction at the fact he himself had never been nominated.

Because of Gijimu's history, I put my foot down and called out his beahvior, and told him he was being petty and paranoid. I was forthright, but I told him that in a context in which I was asking him to please reevaluate his actions. I also offered him some examples of other images I had recently supreseded, to show him that I wasn't targeting him. Afterwards, he continued accusing me of ToU violation and plagiarism, additionally telling me "You need to stop being a fucking [sic] prick." I refused to continue engaging in a discussion until he calmed down, and warned him not to repeat the same situation that resulted in his prior block years ago. He threatened to have me blocked, called me something related to a horrible situation I was put through months ago by a troll account, and finally told me "fucking dick ass motherfucker your not god [sic]." The situation was tightly monitored and discussed at the Discord server, and it was decided he should be blocked.

Like I mentioned in the last paragraph, this is not the first time Gijimu was blocked. Something similar happened in 2013, here. I would also like to bring to attention his behavior after being blocked. Most of his messages in Community Central were excusatory and didn't seem to acknowledge the severity of what he did. He replied to a thread concerning a corrupt bureaucrat from another wiki, expressing that his situation was apparently the same, and it involved administrators abusing power. I have to recognize, however, that days afterwards he came back to a discussion in my Community Central wall that I had abandoned to apologize for his actions and admit his wrongdoing.

I respect Gijimu's contributions and I know the kind of positive person he can be. However, his behavior is fluctuating and erratic, and it doesn't seem to take much for him to become extremely confrontational, and is a kind of conduct that is risky for the environment of this site. Because of this, I have been torn about this situation.