Hi, James.
I'm glad to see you haven't given up and are still with us. I hope you
will be able to forgive the people who seemed to be working against you
at first, and I'm sure you'll find there's a lot of fun to be had at
Wikipedia!
Please remember that everyone involved is human, and hence fallible;
even someone who blocks you from editing is doing so in good faith from
his point of view. I'm sure that Texture and Oberiko will be happy to
learn from this situation, and treat the next newbie with more respect.
Now, about what you wrote I have mixed feelings...
* On the one hand, I'm pretty sure a lot of people here will think of
you as having little credibility if you, as a newbie, keep insisting
that we are not following our own policy.
* On the other hand, however, you are not the first one I see react in
this way, so I'm beginning to think that at least from an outside
point of view, there must be substance to it.
Hence, to resolve this, I would strongly suggest that you show us
exactly the "policies" you think were violated (give us links to policy
pages and quote the relevant paragraphs verbatim), and explain in detail
why you think Texture and/or Oberiko were violating it.
For example, you mentioned that addition is encouraged and deletion is
discouraged; I can't imagine there is such a general statement anywhere,
because deletion is sometimes necessary (e.g. when reworking an article
or when removing patent nonsense) and addition is sometimes pointless
(again, patent nonsense would be an example). So, where did you find
that "policy"?
I think we should all have a critical look at this, rather than just
waving it off as "oh, it's just a newbie". In general, we should all
care more about what sort of impression we and our policies make on newbies.
Timwi