[WikiEN-l] Blocking edit war

Fri May 27 14:35:05 UTC 2005

>I didn't think you were accusing me of anything sinister :-) I chose not to
>re-unblock so as not to continue a cycle of blocking/unblocking. If someone
>agrees with me they'll unblock, if not they won't. There's lots of admins.

Oh, okay, good! :) Then I misread that, because you said I
charactarized your unblock, so I thought you meant bad. That said, I
did hope the reason you didn't didn't unblock again was because you
had a closer look at the evidence, information which, as I mentioned
on your talk page, you were not privy to at the time of unblocking. If
not, oh well, it dosen't matter. As I also said, you're not obliged to
get involved and immerse yourself in the details if you don't intend
to unblock the re-block anyway.

>Even though *usually* if another admin removes a block the first one
>shouldn't reblock, just to avoid the appearance of a blocking war. But if
>Mel judges it's severe enough then I'm happy to wait until/if someone else
>thinks Sam should be unblocked.

Usually, but usually an admin such as yourself, dosen't get persuaded
to unblock only to discover such severity -- I'm positive you have
scarcely enocuntered that in the past. Yes, if another admin thinks he
should be unblocked, they can do so, this is how the wiki runs.

>Sam can rub people up the wrong way, but I don't doubt his sincerity.
>"Assume good faith" can require gritted teeth when someone is really
>annoying you ...

>- d.

David, if this was really limited to the realm of annoyance, I would
not be going through this lenghts, I hope you believe me.

El_C