AdvancedCanineScienceInformatics

This user is the owner of multiple Wikipedia accounts in a manner permitted by policy. This user is the owner of multiple Wikipedia accounts in a manner permitted by policy. This is the WINDOWS OS Account of the same individual User:Appreciation This is intended as a means to publish free Commons Licensed media for use by Wikimedia Foundation projects on the topic of canine management and research. It is separate and distinguishable from any other activity by this individual because it is hoped that CSI can and will grow into a separate collaborative entity perhaps even a nonprofit 501(c)3, if it turns out to be successful.

There appears to be no WMF policy prohibiting that. Due to technical reasons, when time was of the essence to try to resolve the deletion dispute, a separate Wikcommons account was created User:APpreciation which works on my Linux operating system. I had a freshly installed dual boot, which is very problematic these days and therefore the easiest technical fix was to create a separate account. That is not "sock puppetry". "Socking" is when undisclosed separate accounts are created for the purpose of creating a falsified sense of consensus. These two separate accounts were fully disclosed from the very bet go. That is not "sock" and it is a red herring to suggest otherwise.

Unfortunately, there has been a very counterproductive dispute over the very first file uploaded by this user. IMO WMF policy has been violated and this user has been targeted with a series of arbitrary adverse administrative actions for no apparent reason other than unwillingness of the administrators to admit to error. The dispute escalated with a personal attack on this user claiming that the file in question was a "copyviol" with no real basis.

I am a long time WMF contributor with discretionary privileges and many page originations to my credit. I am appalled that when I went to the trouble to take photographs and uploaded one pending use on a WMF project, WC deleted it for just absurd reasons and at this writing has not restored the photo which I took with my camera, of my dog and certified as such. The reasons they gave were that the photo had not yet been used, but now I can't use it. That is called circular reasoning. And that there was not a bunch of superflous metadata. I only certified what I was asked who cares what kind of camera I used.

This experience has really soured me of WMF. I will continue to do what I do on WMF, but the thrill is gone. It is now just a job and a pain and I am fed up with the deletionist administrators at WC in particular. It just takes a minute to hit the delete button and ruin hours of work and it seems clear that the hierarchy at WC just does not care one way or another that they are ruining WMF for other projects when they act so arbitrarily.