[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Wed Mar 9 15:24:26 UTC 2005

I didn't look it up Ed. I don't do a lot of policing myself and have often
found myself wrong if I don't carefully examine any policy that becomes an
issue. I may once again, in a negative way, sinned by not being fully up to
date on what can and cannot be done. Rooting for you though,

Fred

> From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:16:13 -0500
> To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Abusive editors
> 
> I gave Adam Carr a 15-hour block (for abusive language).
> 
> But then I read Fred Bauder's remark that:
> * We do not provide for automatic blocking or banning of persons who
> make personal attacks.
> So once again I hereby "place myself on report".
> I had thought that any of the 415 admins, having the "ability" to block
> signed-in users, were "authorized" to use that ability to enforce the
> rules - such as:
> [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]]
> If I'm wrong, then I hope the first thing the arbcom will do is unblock
> Adam Carr. In fact, if I'm OBVIOUSLY wrong, than I guess ANY ONE of the
> 415 admins will reverse the block.
> Hmm. This is interesting. Let's see what happens.
> Uncle Ed
> 
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