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Ryulong was a major lolcow on Wiki Abuse, after lurching in to start "correcting" the page about him.

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Ryulong (often rendered as Ryulóng and or Řÿūłóñġ) is an administrator on the English Wikipedia.

Details

• Ryulong (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • edit count • full stats)
• Open to recall: No, although he was asked about it at the time and said he would be.
• First edit: 2/6/2006
• Number of edits as of Wed Jun 20, 2007: 57,723 (Note: rate=150+ edits per day for over a year)
• First page edited: Sábado Gigante
• Article most active: 651 edits to Juken Sentai Gekiranger

Complaints about Ryulong

• "Incivility by Ryulong". Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Complaint made by blocked user Videmus Omnia. 04:07, 18 June 2007 (UTC) in relation to alleged comments made on the "#wikipedia-en-unblock" IRC channel.
• "User:Ryulong closing unblock requests even though he is not an admin". Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Complaint made by Pynopoulous. 07:44, 24 November 2006 (UTC). Action discussed on noticeboard, some debate as to whether non-admins should review unblock requests, no real consensus.
• 3RR: "User:Ryulong and User:71.117.250.160 reported by User:SchmuckyTheCat (Result: Warnings to both )". Wikipedia:3RR Noticeboard. Warned by abakharev 07:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC) - the edits reverted by Ryulong were unsourced and speculative
• Ryulong deletes thoroughly-sourced article that overwhelmingly survived AFD, citing that it was created by a banned user and despite multiple admins and overruling other users that argued it should be kept because it was a great article on its own terms" - see extensive WikipediaReview.com thread for more details. This article was created and substantially edited by banned user JB196.
• Ryulong closed unblock tag of TheTruth2 despite not being admin at the time and falsely says he was blocked for vandalism when the block was 3RR. User was later unblocked.
• Uses "rvv" edit summary despite there being no vandalism in the edit he was reverting
• Personal attack on user over a minor spelling error ("meat" instead of "meet")
• Attacks new user for vandalism which never occurred
• Reverts vandalism
• Unnecessarily harsh warning - user had already been warned for the incident in question
• Personal attack - "go fuck yourself"
• Ryulong removes complaints of admin abuse that happened at #wikipedia again and again: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. The whole time Ryulong had his talk page protected so no one could communicate with him [7] [8]. Ryulong then goes and erases any comments to hide this fact (and again)
• Blocked user as "disruptive account" when their edits did not appear to indicate that
• Ryulong vandalizes a talk page when someone mentions SlimVirgin gave a legal threat and then without warning or communication, he eternally bans the person who mentioned it, giving the personal attack "troll" where the reason should go.
• He reverts an edit that consisted of one press of the spacebar.
• On an image he uploaded, an IP improves the description and Ryulong reverts the improvement, although it was genuine improvement and not vandalism. WP:OWN violation.
• People complaining in an offsite forum about Ryulong's activities in power range articles like "List_of_Power_Rangers:_Mystic_Force_episodes" [9] [10]
• People complaining in another offsite forum about Ryulong's activities. [11] [12]
• Reverts a perfectly good wikify of someone he banned. [13]
• Reverts a good faith edit that was NPOV and factual by falsely claiming it was vandalism. [14]
• Without warning, bans an editor forever who had no bad edits, then to ensure the victim cannot tell anyone, he prevented the victim from communicating by locking their talk page and bannning them from sending email. [15] [16] Then he mass-reverts all the user's edits.
• Nominates the article Use of biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing for speedy deletion as "patent nonsense" despite it being factual, encyclopedia-quality, and true. Another person, who was an administrator, took off the speedy tag and the article still exists. [17]
• Ryulong reported an anon in mid-September for this edit - the removal of some campaign puff from a senator's page. Ryulong used a javascript tool to revert him once twice (the third time he did manage to use an edit summary). (Sample of the material restored by Ryulong: "Senator Raymond A. Meier brings extensive private and public sector experience to his service in the Senate... Meier has served as a leader in promoting economic development initiatives and job growth opportunities... A widely respected member of the Republican party" etc.) When he did justify his restoration of the material, the reason seemed to be "it's a lot of text" which others did not find convincing [18]. Even less convincing was his suggestion that inappropriate material should remain in Wikipedia unless someone finds the time to rewrite it [19].
• When Giano blanked his talk page, Ryulong began edit warring over restoring it. [20] [21] [22] [23]
• When administrator Sarah left User:Kyereh Mireku a warning message, Ryulong reverted her [24]. When I restored my message, Ryulong reverted me again [25]. When admin Sarah went to Ryulong's talk page to ask him to stop deleting her talk page comments, he told her that he was doing it because Kyereh was blocked before Sarah left the message (he wasn't, he was blocked a few minutes after), but in Sarah's opinion this is completely beside the point. She cannot see any reason to repeatedly delete, from another person's talk page, a non-vandalism, non-disruptive message that has been left by another editor. Forget that Sarah was leaving Kyereh a warning as an administrator, she feels's not appropriate to do that to any editor: new, established, admin, whatever. (note: diffs on the Kyereh Mireku deleted, but evidence saved at Ryulong's second RFA page)
• Jimmy Wales has also had some queries about Ryulong's practice of deleting inoffensive comments from other people's talk pages [26], such as when Ryulong vandalized a talk page by blanking this comment. [27]
• Ryulong has a tendency to use high level warnings when low level ones should be used. He gave User:80.6.32.80 a blatant vandalism warning and listed it at AIV [28] because the anon had changed spelling in the Globalization article from globalization to globalisation. When Ryulong dropped the bv template, the IP had (and still to this day has) no history of vandalism and had made only one prior edit and that was a spelling correction (Septemper > September). If he listed this at AIV, he would have blocked this user if he had the tools. [29]
• After Bindi Irwin was deleted, admin Mike Rosoft posted on the talk page saying that the deletion was without prejudice and a new article could be written. So a new editor, User:Romtobbi, wrote an article and Ryulong promptly redirected it to Steve Irwin and gave Romtobbi a vandalism/nonsense warning. Romtobbi was very upset [30] and although admin Sarah thinks an apology and retraction was warranted, but it wasn't forthcoming, though Ryulong did consent to Romtobbi removing the warning himself ("If Romtobbi wants, he can get rid of the message. I can't do anything after the fact"), then four minutes later Ryulong archived the discussion saying that he had nothing more to say on the matter. [31]
• Ryulong reported user Awsomepossum as a vandalism-only account on their first and only edit without even placing a warning at the user's talk page. [32] [33]
• He went into a contriversial article and re-inserted a wrong quote [34] that was currently being disputed by many users on the talk page. [35]
• Evidence in talk page archive that he is trigger-happy in labeling vandalism where there is no clear vandalism present. [36]
• Denies an unblock request to User:Tennis_expert before being an admin [37]. Tennis_expert was found not to be a sock puppet. [38]. Ryulong then nominated article Tennis performance timeline comparison (women) for speedy deletion purely because Tennis_expert created it -- the article was later kept.
• Using anti-vandalism rollback to rather than giving an edit summary to do a revert where where Ryulong repeatedly blanks a page. [39] [40] [41]
• Someone brings up a valid point but makes a typo, so Ryulong reverts it using rollback as vandalism [42], spawned this discussion, which could have easily been prevented had the unnecessary text just been removed along with an edit summary.
• Reverts good faith edits by IPs as rollback [43] while giving edit summaries when reverting logged in users [44] [45]
• Reverts a cleanup template with rollback when the template was appropriate and the person adding it only made a small spelling error in its name. [46]
• Blocks users without giving them warning. [47]
• Reported user MichaelLinnear as a "troll account" [48] and others investigated it and found MichaelLinnear was a valuable contributor and Michael was not blocked. [49]
• Reported Dnomhcir1 for copyright violations in an article without giving them warnings. [50]. Admins revied this and no one blocked Dnomhcir1 [51] at that time (or to this day).
• States, "Pictures on Wikipedia are not covered by Florida law." while fighting to keep an unfree image. [52]
• Bites newbie by reverting them and calling them an idiot. [53]
• Bites newbie by reverting them and saying "my god, who the hell wrote this?" [54]
• Admits in RFA to abusing rollback. [55]
• Violated prod policy using rollback. [56]
• Uses rollback to edit war in the Midna article. [57]
• For four months, Ryulong prevented people from creating requests for comments pages on him, thus preventing people from filing them based on his abuse. (added) (removed). There was some request on WP:ANI about this, but administrator Nick "archived" the discussion 9 minutes after the complaint was filled, with suggestion of "taking this to WP:RFC"
• Protected a page in which he was involved in a dispute - more info here - also in that discussion accuses a user of "stalking my logs"
• Unexplained reversion of unblock request
• Talk page discussion
• Questionable reversion - later reverts himself
• Complaint about Ryulong
• Reports for vandalism a brand new user who hadn't vandalized and who obviously hadn't been warned
• Reinserted wrong quote that was being edit warred about [58]
• AIV report followed by giving a user a Template:Bv warnings: [59], [60]

Voting patterns

Sample of recent votes on various wikipedia issues

Articles for deletion

• Delete: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Brandt (14th nomination). 10 June 2007
• Delete: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magical items and weapons in Power Rangers. 7 June 2007
• Delete: Alison Stokke. 31 May 2007

Request for Administrator

Ryulong had two prior attempts to become an administrator; on the third and successful attempt his request had 125 supporting voices and 55 opposing voices. The final rate (69.4%) remained below the levels normally considered to indicate consent, so Raul654 stepped in to illicitly promote him without it.

Suspicions were expressed about Ryulong having lobbied for this on IRC, which met with mixed reaction from the community. Raul654's closing statement (essentially to the effect that "I like him so I gave him what he wanted"), unfortunately now overseen, caused concern from some in the "community."

Much of the opposition was due to concerns regarding Ryulong's track record: "too trigger happy with reporting to AIV, and would presumably be the same with the block button".

• First RFA
• Second RFA
• Third RFA

Quotes

• "You are too much like JB196, so in the eyes of Wikipedia, you are JB196." [61]