[WikiEN-l] Blocked?!?!? Lunatics running the asylum??

Thu Sep 1 00:37:03 UTC 2005

Hi,

I don't know what's going on here - I followed policy to the letter  
here.

The page in question is -

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ 
index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion&curid=1003209&action=h 
istory

I was restoring comments blanked on the page by Kim Bruning, an admin,  
with the summary

"BIG RV. Some id10t tried to implement voting on the "let's make sure  
vfd is not voting" discussion. Um. Ok. Undoing the screwage"

(It wasn't my comment it was someone else's). Basically that dispute  
was they were renaming all "votes for deletion" pages to "articles for  
deletion", and assuming there was consesus to do so, but were not  
holding anything formal like a VfD process or whatever.

That's irrelevant though, because I wasn't trying to prove anything at  
all. I just wanted to have a VfD conversation over it, and this was on  
the talk page which seemed appropriate (and evidently several other  
people thought so too).

The summary before I reverted again was
"Del the requested move vote again. I didn't look too hard who put it  
back, because if I did, I'd have to do really bad things to them"

To which I responded on the talk page that I thought it would be better  
for them to come up with something better, rather than simply wiping it  
from the talk page.

Anyway, there were NO warning on my talk page about the possiblity of  
violating WP:POINT or being blocked for 24 hours. This has a left a  
very bitter taste in mouth, and I don't know if I'll be coming back  
after this, as I have always thought I acted in a mature and  
responsible matter.

Ryan