[WikiEN-l] Re: Block #1

Mon Aug 2 22:43:18 UTC 2004

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

> 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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Anthony_DiPierro

reads

   "Decrees:

      1. The arbitration committee instructs Anthony to refrain
         from playing around and making provocative edits on VfD and
         associated pages"

QED.
FIn

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