[WikiEN-l] JoeM ban

Sun Jul 10 08:43:02 UTC 2005

I have forwarded this message to the mailing list originally sent to Jimbo.

-JoeM

Jimbo,

This is User:JoeM from Wikipedia. I'm contacting you concerning my ban from 
editing Wikipedia.

I want to apologize for some of my more rude behavior on your site. I at 
times got too angry and enthusiastic in defending my views, and patriotism 
is so important to me that I got a little out of control. I've had a lot of 
time to think and cool off, though, and I'm not angry anymore, even at the 
Communist and pro-terrorist users. My views on America and the importance of 
defending freedom have not changed, but I now realize that the way I went 
about stating these views only hurt the causes that were important to me.

If I am unblocked, I won't use sockpuppets anymore. I will not engage in 
personal attacks. I won't engage in revert wars. I will calmly discuss my 
edits and views on talk pages without attacking users that I disagree with. 
and I will definitely never, ever vandalize pages again. I will respect the 
principle of NPOV.

I think that the Wikipedia project has great potential to shine light on the 
TRUTH that the mainstream media hides, and I'd like to be an active 
contributor again to make sure the project reaches its full potential.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help get my account 
back.  I really want to help Wikipedia grow.

Your friend,
Joe M.

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