[WikiEN-l] Re: Blocking policy

Mon Aug 2 00:48:19 UTC 2004

The language now reads, "When a Wikipedia administrator discovers an
instance where a block was made without appropriate reference to the
Wikipedia:Blocking policy, they may reverse the block but should post a note
on the offending Wikipedia administrators talk page explaining why the block
was reversed."

Fred

> From: Finlay McWalter <finlay_wikipedia_94ac at mcwalter.net>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 01:22:23 +0100
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Blocking policy
> 
> I agree entirely with Rick.  A policy is anything that affects future
> conduct by parties unrelated to the matter before the AC.  Fred's
> original posting read "...It would require any administrator...".  The
> AC has no powers whatever to make requirements of the conduct of "any"
> wikipedian.
> 
> This is clearly either policy making or policy clarification, neither of
> which the AC is constituted to do.  If a policy requires clarification
> then only the body of the wikipedia may do so.  The AC is not a court;
> its decisions do not constitute jurisprudence.
> 
> Please don't get me wrong: I understand its members do a thankless,
> unpleasant task, dealing calmy with those many of us would gladly see
> (metaphorically) hang. But this is clearly policy making, and that's not
> the AC's job.
> 
> FIn
> 
> 
> 
> Rick wrote:
> 
>> OK.  I said that for the arbitration committee to try to make policy is
>> outside the scope of their charter.  I was told that they were not making
>> policy, they were only pointing to it.  They are trying to require sysops to
>> point to a policy page when they block a user.  When I asked where the policy
>> is that says that a sysop has to do that, you say that this is not a policy,
>> but what is proposed.  Therefore, my original point stands.  The arbitration
>> committee is trying to create policy, and this is outside of the scope of
>> their charter, and therefore what they're trying to do is unacceptable.
>> 
>> RickK
>> 
>> Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
>> It has not been, but that is what is proposed.
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> From: Rick <giantsrick13 at yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:09:19 -0700 (PDT)
>> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blocking policy
>> 
>> When has it ever been policy that a sysop must point to a policy page when
>> blocking a user?
>> 
>> RickK
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