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

Thu Sep 1 01:14:27 UTC 2005

Kim's been acting a little strangely with votes lately, i've noticed.

On 9/1/05, Ryan Norton <wxprojects at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
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