Figuring out which accounts are the sockpuppets or Ip addresses of banned users is inexact and there may be collateral damage when a new user mimics the editing style and tactics of a banned user. The ban of a user regularly using sockpuppets or editing anonymously is in effect a ban of all users who are edit in the same way. Obviously if it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and flies like a duck, it might be a grebe and not the original duck at all. Likewise the real duck might be sanctioned for what the grebe has done.
Fred
On Jun 30, 2005, at 4:06 AM, Nathan J. Yoder wrote:
This is not meant to imply that I attribute any substance to this complaint whatsoever, and personally I would say "cheers to Bishonen, keep up the good work." But anyway.
Of course you would say cheers, you're the one who created the injunction and in the process violated Wikipedia policy by personally attacking me in the injunction itself. It's too bad there's no one to regulate the arbitrators.
Also, it appears bishonen, out of her personal vendetta, has renewed my block:
Nathan, I blocked you for 24 hours at 0:15 UTC. You're perhaps not aware that the clock is automatically reset if you try to edit without being logged in to your usual account. I've noticed here that that has happened several times now. (Only the latest time it's happened will be recorded on the blocklist.) In other words, you're lengthening your block yourself. Provided you stop doing it now, I'm willing to unblock you 24 hours after my original block, as a gesture of good will. Bishonen | talk 30 June 2005 08:02 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Njyoder
I'd say a gesture of good will would to be to stop lying and to remove the block since it was motivated by a personal vendetta.
She didn't even check the ips and I'm not sure she even has the authority to do that in the first place. Go ahead, check the ips yourself, they two are not the same. Admins most certainly should not be blocking ips and extending blocks without checking them first. It doesn't even make sense anyway, why would I post during a block with the same ip?
Notice how she didn't provide a link to whatever account was supposedly doing the editing and what article it was editing. Yes, totally honest admins make an accusation of circumventing a ban without providing a link to where it was supposedly cirumvented!
Also, I have to wonder if David Gerard, the one who created the injunction, is ever going to bother abiding by the no personal attacks rule himself and actually bother to qualify what counts as a personal attack. He won't bother since he knows he's guilty of it himself.
Nathan J. Yoder http://www.gummibears.nu/ http://www.gummibears.nu/files/njyoder_pgp.key
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