[WikiEN-l] Protest againt blocking

Sun Apr 10 21:28:07 UTC 2005

Hello,

Matthew Li wrote:
> My IP has been blocked by RickK. The reason he gave me is repeated 
> vandalism. According to what I have read in the blocking policy, 
> vandalism exists only if the user edited a significant portion of an 
> article into profanity or offensive contents or deleted the article. I 
> never did any of those. I just merely erased the dispute template on the 
> article "Nanjing Massacre". Even if this is "vandalism", how is it a 
> "repeated vandalism"? I have only done once! I erased the template in 
> the article because the article itself should not be disputed. I have 
> posted comments in the disscussion page in the same article and people 
> agreed with me. Unless the Wikipedia administrator is trying to repress 
> voices that they don't like to hear, there is no reason why I should be 
> blocked. If you don't like what I am doing, reply my comment or even 
> send me a warning not to repeat what I have done. However, I have 
> received none of those. If I am blocked merely because of the 
> administrator don't like my opinion, then you are repressing the 
> democratic voices of the people and shame on you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nanjing_Massacre&diff=prev&oldid=12118590
Is this your edit?

The blocking was probably because of other, later edits by the same IP 
address, such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mma_troll&diff=prev&oldid=12112319
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mma_troll&diff=prev&oldid=12112340
etc.

HTH,
elian