User talk:Moulton/Caprice

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Caprice

Caprice, the Fantastic Flying Scape-Goat for Azazel

Midwifing the Epiphany Since The Dawn of Consciousness

Caprice the Flying Scape-Goat is an iconic character who rises up whenever there is a pathological instance of the hoary Scapegoat Drama underway in these Motets.

Caprice will take the hit and die as many times as it takes, until humans tire of reprising the unbecoming and dispiriting practice of rerunning the ungodly scapegoat drama.

In the annals of Hero-Goat Dramas, Caprice is not a SuperHero.

No mes frères et mes amis. Caprice is a SuperGoat.

Sisyphus

Nice name, but given your claimed objective, "Sisyphus" seems more apt. - WAS 4.250 01:01, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Are you referring to the objectives of Caprice, or the objectives of Moulton? --Montana Mouse 01:45, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Fictional characters act in ways that reflect the goals of their real-life script-writers. WAS 4.250 11:04, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

I suppose all of Moulton's Muppets (Caprice, Barsoom Tork, Gastrin Bombesin, Original Spin, Azazel Nation, and Albatross) reflect his utterly hopeless didactic goals as a schmeggegy scientist. Perhaps that's why he keeps me around, to document his silly adventures. --Montana Mouse 11:37, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Unblock?

Do you intend to request that you are unblocked? Adambro 11:49, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Which account are you referring to? --Barry Kort 11:51, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

en:User:Moulton, but since this account is also blocked, if not en:User:Moulton, do you intend to request this account is unblocked? Adambro 11:58, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

As I indicated above, this account (en:User:Caprice) is a response to Geoff Plourde's express request for me to work with him in his upcoming course on Types and Shadows. Do you, Diego, Abd, and Ottava intend to facilitate and support that planned collaboration, or do you (individually or collectively) intend to impede, disable, or disallow it? In order to plan for the course, I will need to be able to work constructively with Geoff, in the namespace where he and I will be setting up and hosting the course. Given that both Geoff (the course organizer) and Diego (a responsible Custodian) are working with me in a collegial and congenial manner, I am unclear on what your unresolved issues are here.

As far as I am concerned, it is up to the local community to establish the customary operating norms for resident scholars here at Wikiversity to work with invited guest speakers in their courses, seminars, workshops, and colloquia.

As you know, the en:User:Moulton account has been rendered unusable by the unilateral out-of-process actions of Jimmy Wales and Mike.lifeguard. Even though it is now possible to log into the en:User:Moulton account, no one (other than a local Custodian) can leave messages at en:User_talk:Moulton even if the account were unblocked.

In any event, I would suggest the Custodians and members of the resident community of scholars here first review and discuss the analysis here, regarding the curious practice of blocking and banning, as it relates to the functionality of an online learning community. (See also this parallel article for even more analysis.)

Barry Kort 12:28, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Note: I have removed from this section inappropriate remarks which are unbecoming, inconsiderate, and/or incivil. Caprice 11:19, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

en:User talk:Moulton

I've now removed the relevent global title blacklist entry so you should be able to log in under your proper account and edit your talk page. If there is anything here you wish to respond to, please move the section over there before doing so. Thanks. Adambro 21:38, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

I have tested it, logged in as en:User:Moulton, and I find there is a variant of the error message saying that I still don't have permission to edit that page. —Moulton 21:48, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Excessive Dissembling

If you are not a Custodian, try to create the en:User:Caprice page. You will get an error page that states:

This page is currently protected and can be edited only by custodians.

This title has been protected from creation by Adambro. The reason given is "Excessive vandalism".

Excessive vandalism?!? Really?

It occurs to me that the "reasons" being deposited into the logs are evidence of excessive dissembling by dishonest admins.

Moulton 01:04, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

The correct reason would be "Excessive Civil Disobedience" because that is precisely what Moulton is doing. He is demonstrating the use of Civil Disobedience to expose corruption in the power structure. It's a classic technique used in the 20th Century by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, but it has roots in bible stories, too. —Montana Mouse 01:18, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

The above (Montana Mouse is Caprice/Moulton) was outside the boundaries of what this page may be used for. To answer the point, yes, "Excessive Vandalism" was an incorrect protection reason. Perhaps Adambro should be taken out and shot for using an incorrect reason to protect a page?

Not quite sure why he protected it, but that page wasn't needed for the purposes of this account, and Caprice was allowed to put the material above, I think. In any case, this kind of continued argument over administration here is why Moulton continues to be blocked, and why I have now reblocked Caprice to prevent Talk page editing. If Moulton wants Caprice to be unblocked, he has a simple course: agree to avoid using this account for trying to reform Wikiversity (i.e., through "exposure" of "corruption,") but use it only for positive contributions, as with the proposed cooperation with Geoff Plourde. Moulton is not censored, he has means to write to the Wikiversity record, and almost all of it can be read by anyone who wants to.

Moulton never agreed to this restriction, it was merely an offer, an attempt to see if he would restrain himself in this harrow forum. As not, so not. --Abd 05:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)