[WikiEN-l] Block #1

Mon Aug 2 22:31:59 UTC 2004

This page is a bit of information and photos from the Boston meeting of
Wikipedians. It is obviously in violation of nothing. What were you
thinking?

Fred

> From: "Anthony DiPierro" <anthonydipierro at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:41:53 -0400
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Block #1
> 
> I find this amazing.
> 
> Raul creates a page, [[User:Raul654/Boston]], in blatant violation of
> [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]] (see #15).  The page consists of a bit
> of text and a number of images all of which violate [[Wikipedia:Copyright]]
> ("If you contribute material to Wikipedia, you thereby license it to the
> public under the GFDL").  I list the page on [[wp:VfD]], stating that it
> violates "Wikipedia is not a file repository", and I get blocked.
> 
> Yes, perhaps it was technically not against the rules for me to be blocked
> (at least not provably so).  But give me a break, this is just ridiculous.
> 
> Anthony
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