[WikiEN-l] The current purges in English Wikipedia (...and my personal case)

[Andrew Turvey]

----- "Desiphral" <desiphral at gmail.com> wrote: 
> From: "Desiphral" <desiphral at gmail.com> 
> To: "charles r matthews" <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>, "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, 9 July, 2009 20:49:28 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The current purges in English Wikipedia (...and my personal case) 
> 
> Thank you for these thoughts. The suggestions of Andrew about how to make an 
> appeal will probably get me unblocked. 
> 
> But, in the first place, I'm not sure if I was blocked correctly. I was told 
> in my last request for unblock that "the same person and only that one 
> person may press the keys on the keyboard". Is this part of the policy 
> regarding the role accounts? 

No, but it is part of the policy regarding user accounts generally. Personally, I think you were correctly blocked - not because of "role accounts" - which is a slightly different issue - but because of the policy [[WP:NOSHARE]]. Two people should not share a single user account - although the wording you quoted was that of the individual, the principle is clearly laid down in policy. 

Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOSHARE if you want more information. 

Regards, 

Andrew