The "user is blocked" message says: "If you believe that our blocking
policy was violated, you may discuss the block publicly on the
WikiEN-l mailing list." This does not mean you have the absolute right
to disrupt the mailing list by spamming it with numerous demands to be
unblocked.
As usual, there is a lone voice bleating away about administrators
being 'rogue' and being "more interested in hiding what they do and
preventing users from reporting them than they are in following
policy". Of course, we could be authoritarian and point out to these
users that nobody has "the right" to edit Wikipedia, except where
allowed by the Wikimedia Foundation. We could point out that it is the
administrators who, day in, day out, have to delete the tonnes of
vandalism, block the spambots and deal with petulant wankers with too
much time on their hands and decide to pass the time by disrupting
Wikipedia as much as possible. But people probably wouldn't care.
Wikipedians don't take kindly to insults, against ourselves or against
other decent users. Enviroknot has blown his chance to get any
sympathy or recourse from the mailing list by making wild accusations
and failing to address the actual reasons behind his or her actual
block.
~Mark Ryan
WikiEN-l administrator
On 5/31/05, Cranston Snord <enviroknot(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Well, there's a vote for Wikipedia policy meaning
nothing.
I bring complaints to this list because it is my only recourse under
Wikipedia policy. The fact that you are talking about blocking me off
indicates only that you are a Rogue Admin as well.
She broke policy. Good-faith edits are never reverts, and she knows that,
but she did it anyway because she intends to persecute me.
-Enviroknot
From: Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>,English Wikipedia
<wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
To: slimvirgin(a)gmail.com, English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] cool it
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 17:16:11 -0700
On 5/30/05, slimvirgin(a)gmail.com <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone who wants to check this block is welcome
to do so. The details
are at [[WP:AN/3RR]] under [[User:Enviroknot]].
I truly hope that the only reason he is being permitted to mail to
this list is because of the amusement factor. I seriously doubt
anyone, except the usual suspects, is giving his accusations any
serious consideration.
-Matt (User:Morven)
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