[Wikipedia-l] unblocking

Wed Nov 2 13:06:53 UTC 2005

This is particularly important in the case of disruptive users who an  
administrator has blocked for a long period of time, perhaps  
indefinitely. Any administrator who feels it is appropriate can  
unblock them, but if no one out of hundreds of administrators is  
willing to, perhaps it is best to leave it in place.

The downside is that some of those blocked don't know how to ask to  
be unblocked as perhaps they would be unblocked if they knew better  
who to appeal to.

Fred

On Nov 1, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Andrew Lih wrote:

> On English Wikipedia, this often happens. It's not a matter of "right"
> but at the admin level, unless it's an arbcomm decree, it's done in a
> wiki-like manner.
>
> -Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
>
> On 11/2/05, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the policy on other Wikipedias concerning unblocking  
>> users. In
>> particular, does a sysop have the right to unblock an IP another  
>> sysop
>> blocked, if he thinks the block was unreasonably long?
>>
>> --
>> Andre Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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