The when not to block section of the blocking policy page states that "blocks to gain advantage in a content dispute" are not allowed. Furthermore AndyL stated in his block message: "adding other material in addition to your reverts doesn't stop an edit from being a revert".
This is not documented anywhere and is obviously a judgement call. I did not use the revert mechanism (going to history and selecting an older page), and I made substantial and responsive changes to the page, while AndyL, used the revert mechanism (apparently).
Since I was blocked in violation of this policy, please use the provided mechanism to unblock me, that documents this as a legitmate reason..
-- thanx, Silverback
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AndyL has just blocked me (Silverback), alleging that I violated the 3 revert rule on the page "communism". He abused the administrator priviledges for two reasons:
- I was making substantantive changes in response to his fabricated objections,
not merely reverting, he was being obtuse and failing to see obvious points.
- If these were somehow, technically reverts on my part, he was the one
instigating them, it is abusive for him to be the one to block me in such a situation, he should have to call in another administrator, rather than judge an "edit war" he was a participant in.
-- thanx for your attention, Silverback _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l