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Gac

Status: Done

Gac (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)
Nominated by: Gianfranco (talk · contribs · CA), 00:40, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this user awesome?

A true pillar in it.wiki, the author of a tremendous amount of precious work, one of those users that made a difference in this Project's history

Comments

Support as nominator g (talk) 00:40, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vituzzu (talk) 19:28, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ruthven (msg) 20:53, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 23:46, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Elwood (talk) 00:24, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Phyrexian ɸ 09:10, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Civvì (talk) 12:11, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --.mau. ✉ 19:26, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Support Etienne (talk) 20:31, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Nicolabel (talk) 22:23, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Shivanarayana (talk) 11:13, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Actormusicus (talk) 07:26, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Contre [1] - [2] [3] - [4] [5] and [6] - [7] no apology !!! The worst admin that I have met, who does not dialogue and does not answer questions, but blocks without understanding the problem !!! Lomita (talk) 12:57, 16 November 2021 (UTC) (Admin/OS/AF)[reply]
Oppose several members of fr-wp are targeted by long-term, cross-wiki abusers who write disgusting comments on their talk pages (and such garbage, obviously, has to be removed). That should be met with "We're sorry this happened to you"; not with blocking the victim. And if one made a mistake, it's not that hard to say "I didn't understand the situation, sorry". Bédévore (talk) 13:54, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I witnessed the exchanges mentioned above and I noticed the lack of eagerness for Gac to answer. --Arcyon37 (talk) 15:12, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Gac refused to answer to Lomita and kept silent, then disappeared, That's not the attitude one can expect from an administrator, --Pierrette13 (talk) 15:24, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - for a better comprehension of the whole above, despite what it might seem, there is no contreposition at all between the Italian speaking and the French speaking Communities; a French user was blocked by Gac because Gac is not required to understand French language when working in an Italian language Project, and he saw something that required a block. I would have given the same block, had it been something in a language I don't know, but I can read French even if I'm not required to; yet, Gac was there at that moment and, believe it or not, he doesn't know French. Believe it or not, there's a lot of people walking in the World without knowing a single word of French, and many of them are good and honest people. But there's a but. A compact group of French users suddenly appeared from nowhere in it.wiki attacking Gac as if it was some sort of vandalism, some complicity in the abuses the blocked user was suffering, then refused and rejected any kind of explaination given by other it.wiki's users (some of which are French native speakers) in Italian, in English and in French. Please do follow those links that someone provided here above, read yourselves what we are talking about. The blocked user actually was right, she was the victim of verified abuses, but this wasn't visible to anyone who doesn't understand French; she and her friends just can't accept that an accident might occur when we don't speak the same language and we are not expected to. We already apologised for the accident, even if it only was an accident. An accident and nothing more than that.
The rest can be bitterly summarised as follows:
1) Elegance too might have different meanings across different languages
2) What happened only regards those users who took part in the confusion, it.wiki still and always is wide open to our French-speaking friends and Colleagues whom we are eagerly glad to welcome
3) Gac truly is an EXCELLENT admin and user and I would very much like to be able to say it in every language of the World, my own limit is that I don't know them all --g (talk) 10:59, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Gac never deigned to apologize, not even in Italian it's that simple .... It is not worthy of an admin not to recognize his dramatic mistake Lomita (talk) 11:17, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And it is wrong to say that Gac was there at that time since he arrived .... 19 days after the harassment to block me [8] Lomita (talk) 11:41, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
sorry, I'm not Gac's attorney, and this is not a page for that case, which was widely discussed in the links that you yourself provided. I only had to give some context for those readers who are not required to understand French and Italian and I'm not going beyond that, here. --g (talk) 12:12, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approved - This is not a situation this process is used to handling. Reviewing the situation it seems that this was an unfortunate circumstance. Given Gac seems to retain the confidence of his community including support here from it.wiki administrators and a steward; that this venue is not the place to bring such individual disagreements; and that I'm not aware of any other issues, I'm happy to see the user receive a gift in acknowledgement for his work in the italian community. Seddon (talk) 17:58, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]