That would be the cased with blocked users, except that you have not been
merely blocked, but banned. From the ArbCom archives:
User:Skyring <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Skyring> is banned from
Wikipedia for one year for wiki-stalking and acting in
bad faith towards
other contributors, as demonstrated in evidence. Any attempt at sockpuppetry
shall, as per policy, result in this ban being reset.
According to [[Wikipedia:Banning policy]], an official policy of Wikipedia,
banning is defined.
A Wikipedia *ban <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban>* is a formal revocation
of editing privileges on Wikipedia. Such a ban may be
temporary and of fixed
duration, or indefinite and potentially permanent. The standard invitations
Wikipedia extends to over six billion people worldwide to "edit this page"
do not apply to banned users. Banned users are simply not authorized to edit
Wikipedia.
So, no, you are not allowed to edit your talk page, your user page, or any
other page in Wikipedia. The user page, again according to [[WP:BAN]],
may be replaced by a notice of the ban and links to any applicable
discussion or decisionmaking pages. The purpose of
this notice is to
announce the ban to editors encountering the banned user's edits.
You are not authorized to edit on Wikipedia. All of your edits, or your
sockpuppet edits, shall be reverted, and any pages that you create shall be
speedily deleted. You may return on August 29, 2006, or later if you edit
again. The admin who cleared your page and added the ban notices was clearly
allowed to do so.
[[User:Bratsche|Ben]]
On 8/28/05, Skyring <skyring(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/29/05, Ben E. <bratsche1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What do you mean by this? Would you like an admin
to clean up your
user/user
talk pages? Or do you have another request?
I'd like the policy explained and appropriate action taken. My
understanding is that I'm allowed to edit my own talk page, even when
blocked, but it seems that one particular admin is unaware of this,
and when I cleared it, leaving a message of thanks, he went off
half-cocked.
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