[WikiEN-l] Question

Sun Dec 7 07:38:16 UTC 2003

Ariddia is the creation of this user on NationStates, which is a GAME.  The creations at NationStates are not to be considered as even on the same level as the crackpot "nations" that crop up from time to time on [[List of microstates]].  *I* have a country on NationStates, and if you look at any of the informatoin on that page, you can see that NOBODY on NationStates take their creations seriously.  There are THOUSANDS of fake "nations" on NationStates.  If everybody there wanted to come to Wikipedia to add their fake country to it, we would be swamped (I know, "slipper slope argument").  But Ariddia is not a real place, it is not registered at a real place, it is not intended to be a real place, it is nothing but a place created to play the game.

RickK

aridd <aridd at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Greetings. 

I have a question, and I hope this is the right place to ask it... I saw that Wikipedia has a page listing micronations and with links to other pages containing information on each of those micronations. I contributed a page with a micronation. It was deleted, and I received an IP ban: 

Your user name or IP address has been blocked by RickK. The reason given is this: 
repeated creaton [sic] of nonsense articles 
You may contact RickK or one of the other administrators to discuss the block. 
Note that you may not use the "email this user" feature unless you have a valid email address registered in your user preferences. 
Your IP address is . Please include this address in any queries you make. 

My entry was a serious one, and I only made one (NOT repeated entries). I understand that Wikipedia might feel my contribution was not a useful one, and I will not repeat it. Obviously, not everything can be accepted. However, I would have appreciated that explanation being given me, rather than the above offensive message. 

I apologise for the invconveniance, and also if this was not the right place to send this message. 

Kind regards, 
Adrian 

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