[WikiEN-l] Re: Abusive editors

Thu Mar 10 01:33:31 UTC 2005

Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> 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

I have done it myself on a totally unreasonable editor. In this case 
there should have been an RFC, I feel. Please consider the circumstances 
of this case.

Incidently, I don't condone the language that Adam used.

TBSDY