Yes, support this though I can't directly at Wikipedia. Seems rather harsh to me. The comments there are mostly to wish Carol well, the Slate link supplied by someone else and already provided by Anne/Risker elsewhere and pinging the editor concerned. Carol subsequently edited to provide a link to some resources, the same she posted here, that I for one found useful (and a small addition there, the first piece I saw raising worries about Wikipedia was at The Economist January 2011 http://www.economist.com/node/17902943 - nothing about the gender gap but well about Wikipedia's emerging insularity, what I suggest we are seeing here with this Talk page ban).

Responding to a user contribution I saw at Anne's intercession imputing to me doxxing/opposition research, I was emphatically not doxxing an editor who had already in any case doxxed himself, and I was merely expressing an interest with a view to exploring the evolution of power relations in Wikipedia, hardly "opposition research" thus, and in any case on reflection I have in mind now another editor's contributions to analyze, and since that is an academic I shall be submitting my meditations to a peer-reviewed journal. I trust all that is acceptable to the user in question (bless).

Marinka

On December 12, 2014 at 5:52 AM Fæ <faewik@gmail.com> wrote:


Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Carolmooredc

After adding links to the Slate article to Carol's talk page, the page
has now been protected against all edits apart from sysops. In my
view, the gradual change over the last two years to seeing the edit
rights of banned users changed so they can no longer discuss their ban
or related issues, is a poor move for openness of the project, and a
distinct lack of belief in reform or the ability of the project to
welcome back past banned or blocked users.

This case is doubly offensive as now nobody can use Carol's talk page
to ask about the ban or develop evidence that might help with an unban
request.

I have raised a polite request with the admin that took this action at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ricky81682#User_talk:Carolmooredc>,
should this fail, then I can escalate to have this reviewed at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection>.
If anyone on this list would like to support removing the edit block
on Carol's page, now is the time to make yourself heard on-wiki.

Thanks,
Fae
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faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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