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the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour
governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!
Hello AndreJustAndre, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 23:56, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
In 2018 I came under criticism for making some mistakes and I resigned under a cloud. Most of those mistakes I wouldn't make today. Andre🚐19:51, 27 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
There's an apology at AndreJustAndre/2018 that I wrote in 2022. Even that apology would probably be written a bit differently today. We live and we learn. For example, in 2018, I blocked the user Dewythiel under a 3RR but he hadn't actually violated 3RR because of consecutive reverts (a rule I seem to still forget somehow, or have a blind spot about). Of course, he was a sockpuppet and obviously disruptive, but I blocked him too early, aggressively, without considering how it might appear unduly political, and for reasons that weren't defensible according to the blocking policy in 2018 (though they would have probably not been too far off in 2004). I also reblocked Sk-gorka with settings that were overly aggressive and weren't merited. I'm not really sure why I did that, but it also doesn't follow the norms or policies of blocking. Or 101.103.154.182, an IP vandal, should have been not blocked indefinitely but for a shorter time. These are all pretty stupid mistakes partly brought on from the fact that I became an admin when things were a lot faster and looser about how these things were done, and I didn't bother to brush up on the details of the policy to ensure that I was following it more closely, just kind of jumped into the driver's seat and did some reckless things, then I dug in on it when called out. I became an admin in 2004 when we really applied a lot more discretion. Today, they call that the "cowboy admin" days and the community expects a lot more from admins. The community doesn't take kindly to running willy nilly. You could say those were unforced errors. I also lost a lot of community trust through some other statements I made prior to this, some of which were construed as OUTING and ASPERSIONS - policies that didn't exist in 2004 and I completely wasn't up on. I can't get into all the details of those, but at least one of the editors that I got into a dispute with, Winkelvi, was indeffed as a disruptive editor. At the time I claimed "temporary insanity" and I do think I wasn't really thinking straight at the time. I was going through some stressful things in real life and career at the time, a death in the family and trouble adjusting to some changes in my life at the time. It's not really an excuse but an explanation, I've apologized for it before, and I will again. Andre🚐21:51, 27 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
