[WikiEN-l] User:Non-liberals are stupid

Mon Oct 13 00:54:57 UTC 2003

So if one person (without any discussion) declares a username to be trolling
then they can ban that user immediately? I don't see that on WP:NOU...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] User:Non-liberals are stupid

> LDan wrote:
>
> >At the time I was banned (approx. 1 min after
> >my account was created), I had made no edits aside
> >from creating my userpage and editing User:Liberal's
> >talk page. I intended to use the account to make
> >completely NPOV edits on articles related US politics
> >to prove that usernames are irrelavent, but I was
> >banned before I could do that.
>
> The point I've been trying make all along was that user names /are not/
there
> to make points! What you did amounts to trolling and thus is something
that
> warrents an immediate ban. However, since you have never done anything
like
> this before and we all know that you are an upstanding young man, then I
see
> no reason to ban *you* from editing under user:LittleDan so long as you
> promise not to pull a stunt like this again and not to edit under
> user:Non-liberala are stupid or similarly provocative user names.
>
> >Camembert said that this was a childish point to make,
> >but I don't see why. Maybe this is because I am a
> >child. Maybe Wikipedia isn't a place for children.
>
> Childish doesn't mean that all children are childish all the time. Many
adults
> act childish (some almost all the time). However you almost always act
very
> responsibly and have intelligence and reason way beyond your years. We all
> make mistakes and hopefully learn from them. If you'll try to not repeat
this
> particular lapse of judgment again, then Wikipedia is most definitely a
place
> for you.
>
> Oh, and you are a teenager, not a child IIRC. ;-)
>
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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