Dear Sir/Madam,
I, Loom91 (59.93.194.7), was recently blocked by sysop Commander Jean for disruption. I
believe that this is a mistake and appeal to have this block lifted. I've already
requested Commander Kean by email to reconsider the block.
I was banned for supposedly spamming user talk pages. What really happened was that a
poll on the proposed policy Wikipedia:Censorship is ongoing and I wanted to inform
potentially interested users abut this, so I posted a short and polite message on their
talk page requesting them to review the policy and make their opinions known (I did not
ask them to vote for any particular side, and votes in response to these messages were
divided). I sent these messages both to those likely to vote Support and those likely to
vote Oppose. I do not believe such messages constitute spamming or disruption.
Some of the receivers thanked me for letting them know about the poll and voiced their
opinions. Disruption is defined in Blocking policy as disrupting the normal workings of
Wikipedia, but by involving more wikipedians in the discussion I facilitated better
working of Wikipedia. As shown in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SPAM#Internal_spamming,
this sort of communication is not considered to be inherently bad, let alone worthy of
blocking.
In the light of these circumstances, I ask sysops to investigate the matter and unblock
me if they feel as I do that the block was unwarranted and a mistake on the part of
Commander Kean. Thank you very much.
Loom91
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