[WikiEN-l] Re: Madchester's wrongful blocking (user: shultz) (ip: 68.102.193.78.)

[Brett Gustafson]

While I don't agree with deleting comments from other users on one's own
talk page, I don't really think it should be blockable. However, changing
and removing other people's comments from other talk pages is unacceptable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Shultz&diff=26754109&oldid=26717544
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Vanna_White&diff=prev&oldid=26848851

On 10/31/05, Brian Haws <brian at bhaws.com> wrote:
>
> On at the least the narrow point of deleting things off of your own talk
> page, I see it done fairly often, admins and non-admins alike. It's not a
> blockable offense is it?
>
> Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/05, geni wrote:
> > On 10/31/05, Michael Turley wrote:
> >
> > > Blocking someone for doing what a Wikipedia arbitrator explicitly
> > > claims the right to do is wrong.
> >
> > I've blocked an arbcom member in the past. I assume they thought what
> > they were doing was right.
>
> I suppose you got me on a technicality based on me phrasing my point
> less precisely than I intended.
>
> I'm sure, however, you see how this particular example presents a
> "two-faced" appearance to those who aren't administrators or
> arbitrators, and how that appearance should be corrected as quickly as
> possible, either by justifying the block on other grounds, reversing
> the user block, or applying the same standards to our own community
> servants.
>
> --
> Michael Turley
> User:Unfocused
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