confocaloid wrote: December 11th, 2023, 12:40 pm
There was no meaningful way for you to make an "executive decision" on the condition/transition issue where you were the first person to disagree with my rewording, and actively continued to do so. You are a side in this dispute.
I agree that I'm "a side in this dispute". I don't have a very _strong_ opinion about the particular uses of 'transition' that you've replaced with 'condition' so far -- but it's absolutely true that I personally believe that you are way off on the wrong track in continuing this argument.
You're trying to insist on changes to multiple LifeWiki articles now, based on a limited definition of 'transition' that simply doesn't match the way 'transition' is most commonly used here in the community, either on or off the LifeWiki. No amount of quotes that contain the term 'condition' will do anything at all to address the problem with this arbitrarily limited definition of 'transition' that you're insisting on.
You still seem to think that the simple fact that I hold this opinion is some kind of problem. It isn't a problem. There are no rules that say that a moderator can't have an opinion about a topic -- even "from the very beginning". More important, even if I am doing my moderation job Completely Wrong, due to a conflict of interest ... that would still completely fail to nullify the executive decision I made in my capacity as moderator. You're still breaking the rules.
My decision -- like any future moderator executive decision -- really needs to be able to officially stand until and unless it gets overruled by some kind of community decision, following
LW:DR rules. You can't overrule an executive decision all by yourself ... but that's exactly what you keep trying to do.
You've already gotten an
independent opinion from another moderator, Sokwe, on this issue. Please don't keep bringing the point up (except as part of LW:DR dispute resolution procedures, of course).
Recap on the actual issue
The transition-vs.-condition topic is almost completely irrelevant to the actual problem at this point. The problem is that you're continuing to refuse to follow the rules of the community, based solely on your own judgment of whether my actions as a moderator are valid or justified. As far as I can tell, you haven't looked for a "touchstone" -- you haven't asked a single other community member whether they think that your judgment is correct or that you're "doing the right thing" here. What you actually seem to be doing is making a whole lot of fuss, and breaking rules a lot -- and several people have strongly suggested that you stop doing that.
There
are rules that say not to make edits that try to overrule a moderator's decision. So -- take as much time as you need, but please reassure me and/or the rest of the moderator team that you will be careful never to do that again. Follow
LW:DR rules instead.
All of us on the admin/mod team will be very happy to restore the trusted flag to your LifeWiki account, as soon as we can trust you not to continue your current pattern of pointless edit warring. Unfortunately, if you keep on implicitly insisting that
what you've been doing is not edit warring ... then we can't trust you to not do it again.
