Russavia, aka Scott Bibby, formerly known only as one of the Wikipediametric players and huge fan of Polandball, conceived the successful troll of Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales by commissioning a portrait of Jimbo by Pricasso, an Australian artist who paints with his penis. After rancorous discussions about these, Russavia was indefinitely blocked by Spartaz to prevent him from causing any further disruption. The block was immediately posted at the administrator’s noticeboard for discussion and was overwhelmingly supported by community consensus. One administrator, Scott Martin, believed that “due consideration had been had”, added him to Wikipedia’s banned users list. Dennis Brown unilaterally reverted the ban listing against Wikipedia’s banning policy and added an uncivil argument: “I endorsed this, not that”; this unilateral action created a consensus which is to let it wait a while (noting that “a while” means “forever”). Ironically, three Wikipedia administrators endorsing or enforcing Russavia’s block – Dennis Brown, AGK and Boing! said Zebedee – are known to be affiliated with BatteryIncluded, and, along with him, compared to a “regime that killed countless civilians, treated women as subhumans and mutilated people for transgressing religious laws” like other people on Wikipedia and Wikipediocracy.
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