[WikiEN-l] blocking policy violated?

Sat Nov 20 23:34:15 UTC 2004

The IP address you were using, 62.252.0.4, has a long history of nothing but vandalism.  The IP has been warned time and time again.  Your addition of the weasel words "It is claimed that members of the [[al-Qaida]] militant [[Islamism]] group hijacked four aircraft." and "The '''attacks of September 11, 2001''', are described by the Ubited States Government to be a series of coordinated [[terrorism|terrorist]] attacks against the [[United States]] " was read as more of the same.

I don't know if you also edited the [[Playboy]] article earlier today, but the same IP was used to insert the words "gay gay gay" into the article.

The problem is that you were using an anonymous IP address with a long history of vandalism.

RickK

R E Broadley <20041111 at stardate.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,

I recently discovered Wikipedia, and I am very impressed by the vast
range of information, and by the neutrality of many of the definitions.

I have only today started to contribute to Wikipedia, and made a few
additions of links to some of the articles.

I noticed that the definition of the September 11 attacks was claiming
as fact some information that is widely disputed, and so a few minutes
ago inserted information making it clear who claims these facts, and I
was going to elaborate further with information on which facts are being
disputed and by who, only to find that my IP address had been blocked by
a user "Flockmeal".

This user was claiming the reason for the block was "repeated vandalism".

I went on to check what the blocking policy was, and then the Wikipedia
definition of vandalism, to discover that by input was in no way
anything close to vandalism. I was stating nothing than the facts, with
no bias whatsoever. The entries I made were made entirely in good faith,
and I am very disappointed that such abuse of the blocking policy has
been made.

Since the block, I have registered and now have a username and am
contactable at my email address. I would ask that the IP address block
be removed, and a discussion started as to why elaborating on facts and
remaining factual can be classed as vandalism.

Many thanks,
Edmund Broadley

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