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(a)yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l(a)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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