[WikiEN-l] Violation of Blocking Policy

Fri Sep 16 02:28:51 UTC 2005

Hello,

My user name is 'Brian Brockmeyer' and my IP address is 66.254.232.219.

I am writing because I have been the victim of an unfair block by Phroziac 
over edits relating to the University of Miami article page.

User:Arigold reported me on the Wikipedia:Administrators' Noticeboard/3RR 
for alleged violation of the 3-revert rule, which was not the case.  
Phroziac, who handled Arigold's complaint, readily acknowledged that there 
had been no 3RR violation, writing:

"Maybe I'm blind, but i don't see any four reverts from him that fall into a 
24 hour period. However, that is gaming the system, and I have blocked him 
for 24 hours. In the future, please sign posts on pages like this with ~~~~ 
--Phroziac (talk) 15:20, 15 September 2005 (UTC)"

By Phroziac's own admission, I did not violate the 3RR, yet he proceeded to 
block me anyway with no basis in Wiki's Blocking Policy.

His claim that I was "gaming the system" amounts to nothing more than an 
affirmation that I did NOT violate the 3RR.  Even still, it lacks all merit, 
since there were merely 4 reverts in a 5 day span (19:36 September 9 to 
19:54 September 14, the date of my last reversion that precipitated 
Phroziac's block), which hardly evinces any kind of intent to manipulate and 
exploit the 3RR.  The 3RR prohibits 3 reverts within a 24-hour window.  I 
made 4 in 100+ (interestingly enough, the same # as AriGold, who was NOT 
blocked).  Neither the 3RR was violated, nor its spirit, was violated.  Not 
even close.  That a block was issued is an eggregious abuse of 
administrative power on the part of Phroziac.

Furthermore, even after being blocked in violation of Wiki's Blocking 
Policy, Phroziac failed to follow the suggested procedures for informing a 
blocked user in the Policy, specifically: "It is helpful to leave a notice 
of the block, with links to the differences that demonstrate the violation, 
on the user's talk page."

No such notice was ever rendered on my talk page.  I did not learn that I 
had been blocked until I attempted to make edit.  The reason is quite 
obvious: Phroziac did not have any grounds for invoking a block that he 
could point to on my talk page--he knew he could not demonstrate any 
violation, so he neglected to provide notice altogether.

In sum, I request that the block be lifted and that Phroziac be made aware 
of proper Wiki Blocking Policy.

Thank you for your attention,

Brian Brockmeyer

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