Editing Eurovision Wiki:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (section)

====Statement by DanielRigal====
Since I told Faronnorth "I won't take any action unless you disrupt Wikipedia again" I get the sense that they have dialled it back a bit, shifting from trans related articles to other "anti-woke" targets, but are continuing to probe the limits of what is tolerated here. This report concerns GENSEX specifically but I think this is broader than that. Anti-trans editing is often comorbid with general "anti-woke" editing and we see that here. I think the GENSEX problems easily justify a topic ban but the question is whether we need to go further than a topic ban from GENSEX. For that reason, I'm going to cover some broader problems here.

Faronnorth isn't always straightforward. They are willing to play linguistic games. The deliberate misspelling of "trans man" as "transman" was [[WP:POINTY]] and, in my view, tips over into trolling. Yes, I know that some people do make this mistake in genuine good faith but it is clear Faronnorth they did it intentionally as shown by the replies on their User Talk page. This brings their other "mistakes" into question. Normally, when I see an edit like [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Woke&diff=prev&oldid=1342085492 this recent one], I assume that that's just sloppiness. After the language games, I'm not so sure. The bad edit to [[Woke]] seems like moving on from disruptive editing on trans issues to subtle disruption on other contentious topics. In the past, they tried to make an article called "Anti-Woke Left". I don't know what it was like but it seems possible that this was more "anti-woke" disruption.

Faronnorth joined in 2021 and tried to make constructive edits. There are no obvious problems until November 2022 when they make this [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No_Regrets_(Robbie_Williams_song)&diff=prev&oldid=1118974002 bad joke edit]. In December 2022 the logs say {{tq|"created page 19348 FIFA World Cup (←Created page with 'The '''19348 FIFA World Cup''' will be held in the year 19348 on the moon.'"}}. This is where a period of outright vandalism started. They continued to make semi-constructive edits, many of them reverted as unsourced, on some topics while, on other topics, they committed straight-up vandalism. Examples: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Whiteley&diff=prev&oldid=1209883910 1] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irish_Americans&diff=prev&oldid=1222609862 2]. This faded away as the anti-trans stuff started to come into focus.

In January 2023 the anti-trans stuff starts tentatively, with edits to [[Graham Linehan]] and [[Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull]] which are intended to soften coverage of their views but which could be interpreted as being in good faith, but it's all downhill from there: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2023_Nashville_school_shooting&diff=prev&oldid=1147670472 misgendering], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trans_man&diff=prev&oldid=1207142623 vandalism], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Trans_man&diff=prev&oldid=1207143399 trolling], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isla_Bryson_case&diff=prev&oldid=1225363544 obfuscation], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Isla_Bryson_case&diff=prev&oldid=1234291778 ranting], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Trans_man&diff=prev&oldid=1261877960 more ranting], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharron_Davies&diff=prev&oldid=1327566376 censorship/obfuscation], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairness_in_Women%27s_Sports_Act&diff=prev&oldid=1333547705 obfuscation again], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-transgender_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom&diff=prev&oldid=1341223631 whitewashing] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:LGB_Alliance&diff=prev&oldid=1341602980 linguistic games].

Faronnorth is an editor who can edit constructively, when they want to, but who often chooses not to. It looks like a topic ban could go in three ways: It might redirect them back towards constructive editing. It might send them off to troll on "woke" topics outside of GENSEX or it might send them back to the outright vandalism. I don't know which is most likely but I think a topic ban is worth a try. --[[User:DanielRigal|DanielRigal]] ([[User talk:DanielRigal|talk]]) 01:14, 9 March 2026 (UTC)