[WikiEN-l] Blocked for a week for some harmless fun on a wikiproject page and a your mom joke

MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 12:32:59 UTC 2006


Yes, removing an {{unblock}} notice and blocking for a week might a
bit over the top, but "harmless fun" are the operative words here. By
now (after multiple blocks) you should've realized this is not the
type of fun most wikipedians appreciate.

Just be careful.

On 3/19/06, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SPUI#March_19
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#user:SPUI_again
>
> User:Nlu (who I note is part of the CVU - that may be coloring his
> outlook, as he presumably deals mostly with vandals) has blocked me for
> a week for these edits:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_California_State_Highways&diff=next&oldid=43822380
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_California_State_Highways&diff=next&oldid=44465253
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SPUI&diff=prev&oldid=44465982
> The first two are a bit of harmless fun on a project page. The third is
> a simple inoffensive your mom joke as a response to an overreaction to
> the first. I put {{unblock}} on my talk page, and he nowiki-ed it and
> protected my talk page to prevent me from putting it back. Something
> seems off here.
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