The when not to block section of the blocking policy page states that "blocks to gain
advantage in a content dispute" are not allowed. Furthermore AndyL stated in his
block message: "adding other material in addition to your reverts doesn\'t stop
an edit from being a revert".
This is not documented anywhere and is obviously a judgement call. I did not use the
revert mechanism (going to history and selecting an older page), and I made substantial
and responsive changes to the page, while AndyL, used the revert mechanism (apparently).
Since I was blocked in violation of this policy, please use the provided mechanism to
unblock me, that documents this as a legitmate reason..
-- thanx,
Silverback
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AndyL has just blocked me (Silverback), alleging that
I violated the 3 revert
rule on the page "communism". He abused the administrator priviledges for two
reasons:
1) I was making substantantive changes in response to his fabricated objections,
not merely reverting, he was being obtuse and failing to see obvious points.
2) If these were somehow, technically reverts on my part, he was the one
instigating them, it is abusive for him to be the one to block me in such a
situation, he should have to call in another administrator, rather than judge an
"edit war" he was a participant in.
-- thanx for your attention,
Silverback
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