[WikiEN-l] Abusive Blocking

Thu Apr 21 18:54:00 UTC 2005

--- slimvirgin at gmail.com wrote:
> On 4/20/05, noahp4485 at aol.com <noahp4485 at aol.com>
> wrote:
> > I honestly believe many admins are abusing their
> blocking privileges
> > and that the arbitration committee is not working.
> Here is what has
> > happened to me. I have written and edited NUMEROUS
> articles, you can
> > see a list on user:Please Don't Block. Most of
> these were edited under
> > the name "Noah Peters." 
> 
> I wrote to Noah about this issue a couple of weeks
> ago because I
> stumbled on it and it seemed odd. He replied to me
> this evening and
> asked me to delete the user and talk pages for all
> these accounts,
> which I have now done (with the exception of the
> talk page of Noah
> Peters, which can't be deleted because of some
> technical problem, so
> I've blanked and protected it instead).
> 
> I've advised Noah to start from scratch with a new
> user account so his
> IP is not visible, and then he'll be able to rebuild
> his profile. So
> long as he sticks to Wikipedia policies, he
> shouldn't have any
> problems.
> 
> Sarah

So long as he doesn't try to get another User's User
ID and account moved, like he tried once before.

RickK

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