On 29 April 2012 02:17, Richard Symonds <chasemewiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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I was of the understanding that it was something to do
with copyright/legal
issues, but it's been a few years since I passed RfA, and I'm struggling to
remember the arguments that I once remembered so well. I had a trawl through
all the appropriate pages on meta and enwp, and although I could find out
that role accounts were blocked, I couldn't see the justification behind it
mentioned anywhere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_contact_role_accounts
does say it is a copyright matter; but the page linked to doesn't seem
to spell that out. Perhaps it should.
Charles