I'll unblock you on the condition that you agree to talk it out with the
involved parties, especially the blocking admin, before you resume the
disputed behavior. I don't mean that you have to get permission from an
admin to do this, because personally I don't think it's objectionable
behavior, but I don't want to create a situation where I unblock you, you
start mass messaging people, and get re-blocked, thus creating a
wheel-warring evironment. Just make sure that the situation has cooled off
if you do this again, okay?
Also, I haven't looked to see if there was any corellation, but I strongly
urge you not to be selective about the people you send this kind of notice.
That would be interpreted as political vote stuffing which is very strongly
frowned on at Wikipedia.
Ryan
On 4/6/06, Molu Bosu Palit <loom91(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I, Loom91 (59.93.194.7), was recently blocked by sysop Commander Jean for
disruption. I believe that this is a mistake and appeal to have this block
lifted. I've already requested Commander Kean by email to reconsider the
block.
I was banned for supposedly spamming user talk pages. What really happened
was that a poll on the proposed policy Wikipedia:Censorship is ongoing and I
wanted to inform potentially interested users abut this, so I posted a short
and polite message on their talk page requesting them to review the policy
and make their opinions known (I did not ask them to vote for any particular
side, and votes in response to these messages were divided). I sent these
messages both to those likely to vote Support and those likely to vote
Oppose. I do not believe such messages constitute spamming or disruption.
Some of the receivers thanked me for letting them know about the poll and
voiced their opinions. Disruption is defined in Blocking policy as
disrupting the normal workings of Wikipedia, but by involving more
wikipedians in the discussion I facilitated better working of Wikipedia. As
shown in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SPAM#Internal_spamming, this sort
of communication is not considered to be inherently bad, let alone worthy of
blocking.
In the light of these circumstances, I ask sysops to investigate the
matter and unblock me if they feel as I do that the block was unwarranted
and a mistake on the part of Commander Kean. Thank you very much.
Loom91
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