Hi,
my wiki name is saladin1970. I joined just 3 days but find myself banned.
i was banned by Jayjg . He cited the following reasons
1) 3RR rule
2) No useful edits
3) Copyright violoations
4) attacks on talk pages
They all seem very serious. yet when we look into each of the reasons, they
really have no substance.
1) I have two pc's one is shared at work - hence the same ip address and
editor
the othe is my home pc. I only reverted 3 times, as did my collegue at work.
2) I have made many contributions, including a section on moors in the
spanish inquisition, additions to the islam in china section, background
info on harold shipman and contributions to alan harts page and zionism
page, and turkic.
3) There have been NO copyright violations. Every post was referenced to a
website or to a book. All of whom allow references to as part of their
copyright. So there was NO copy right violation
4) there were no personal attacks on talk pages. The worst that could be
said was that i called someone a 'zionist'.
Clearly there is something more to this than the above, as these at best are
minor violations that would carry warnings.
however I contend that this blocking falls under the "not advised to block
rule".
my posts in the zionism forum have illicited strong responses . Including
the person that banned me jayjg. These posts included
a) a section on the talmudic three oaths - which is the reason behind
orthodox jews who oppose political zionism. This was reverted many times by
jayjg amongst others
also i added a further reading section book entitled "zionism the enemy of
the jews by alan hart",
who was a itv corrospondent during the 80's. His book is well researched
'historical and political' of the lead up to the creation of israel.
Given that Jayjg was part of this debate, i can see no other reason for my
ban (as the reasons given are spurious) other than to eliminate a user who
has a different view of zionism.
for this reason i am asking a moderator to look at the material posted by
me, and make a fair decisions as to whether i should be banned indefinately
thanks saladin
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"Thus, to avoid future problems, Wales plans to bar anonymous users from
creating new articles; only registered members will be able to do so.
That change will go into effect Monday, he said, adding that anonymous
users will still be able to edit existing entries."
Why were Wikipedians the last to know about this? I only saw some
discussion on the mailing list about this, but nothing final. Why do we
have to learn of this from the media instead of straight from Jimbo?
This is really disturbing.
John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])
Wikipedia has followed a policy whereby it's content is not censored
for children. Having said that would it be useful to put a
warning/advisory on the website to make it clear to users that though
it is legal for them to enter the site, they should be aware that
Wikipedia's content is not censored for minors and the latter may come
across some sexual or other adult material so it is advisable for them
to be careful what they view? As Wikipedia's popularity increases, so
do the njmber of kids who access it-mainly for homework help. As a
result the chances of young users coming across such material are high
so perhaps a warning like this will be for the best? Also there may
also be some adults who for various reasons would prefer not to view
such content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Price_is_Right_pricing_games
No less than 102 pages, detailing each and every "pricing game" ever
used in the American version of the game show The Price is Right.
And what do we have to say about them? Analyses, statistics, etc? Nah,
just when it showed up, and when it went.
Heh.
Steve
Amanda Congdon (rocketboom.com) was gracious enough to be our press
representative at the recent Time 100 party in New York. She got a lot
of footage of the guests, which was quite a group of famous people,
probably at least 100 people at the party already have wikipedia
articles, many with no photos or fair use photos.
As a condition of being invited, I asked that she release her footage
and photos under a free license.
I do not know yet exactly how we will get this, but based on what I saw,
her team was mostly just doing filming, so it will probably be raw video
(I asked for the highest possible resolution, so that would be the raw
tape). To get good screen caps, someone will have to take this raw
footage and import it into something and do captures or whatever.
My guess is that, due to the size of it all, we will get a tape rather
than a downloadable file. I am looking for someone with good experience
with video to do something useful with it. :)
Please volunteer by emailing me directly. Since I will probably just
have them mail a tape copy to you, you must be reliable and known to me,
because I don't want to have them mail the tape to someone who vanishes. :)
--Jimbo
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On 16 Jun 2006 at 11:37, "Lord Voldemort" <lordbishopvoldemort(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Still longer than me, and the rest of us wahoos. We never had to walk
> to our dial-up computers, uphill both ways, on Windows 3.1, from AOL,
> like you oldbies. ;-)
AOL as a source of "oldbies"? The *serious* oldbie crowd regards
them as the biggest source of clueless newbies! And Windows
(whatever version) just brought more crowds of people too computer
illiterate to handle a command line interface.
No, the *real* oldbies were the ones who used computers without a
wimpy graphical interface... maybe a printing terminal using a modem
switchable between 110 baud and the "high-speed" 300 (like they had
at the high school I attended in the early '80s)... or even punch
cards (like they also used when I was in high school, taking a class
in Fortran).
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>
> WP:3RR was changed (without there first being consensus) back in April so
> that reverts count towards the 3RR even if they are unrelated. This has
> resulted in some editors playing "gotcha" by invoking the 3RR without first
> giving a warning.
I'd like to propose the following exception to the 3RR policy:
Exception:
Lack of warning
A 3RR ban cannot be imposed against an editor who has not been warned that
he or she is in danger of violating the 3RR. A ban can only be imposed when
an editor violates the 3RR after receiving a warning even if he or she has
already tecnically violated the 3RR prior to receiving a warning.
----
This policy is already implied on ANI:3RR which states:
"If you find yourself in a revert war, it is a good idea to ensure that the
"other side" is aware of the 3RR, especially if they are new, by leaving a
warning about WP:3RR <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:3RR> on their talk
page. Administrators are unlikely to block a user who has never been
warned."
Unfortunately, admins seem increasingly willing to block without regard to
warnings, a practiced that assumes bad faith.
On 29 Jun 2006 at 14:14, Jon Awbrey <jawbrey(a)att.net> wrote:
>For example, under the proper ordering of priorities a
>statement that is relevant and sourced should not be deleted
>in favor of an opinion that is unsourced just because the
>source is not the favorite writer of 2 or 3 editors or because
>the sourced statement contradicts the personal POVs of 2 or 3 editors.
>But this is actually the routine way that things are done in WP.
Cite please - preferable at least a dozen or so of examples, they should
be easy to find if this is really the "routine way" of doing things on
WP. This is a persistent, recurrent and systematic pattern in your
emails that I have observed, you describe something that you claim is
taking place without giving any specific and real-life examples.
Cheers,
Michal