Hi. The one major fact that your comment is lacking is an IP address; as
soon as you provide us with one we'll be happy to look into this more
fully. As it stands, I am inclined to believe that the IP you're using
may be in use by more than one person in some fashion; we'll be able to
tell you more as soon as you get back to us with an IP.
Thanks for your concern.
~Grunt (Steven Melenchuk)
R E Broadley wrote:
Hi,
I recently discovered Wikipedia, and I am very impressed by the vast
range of information, and by the neutrality of many of the definitions.
I have only today started to contribute to Wikipedia, and made a few
additions of links to some of the articles.
I noticed that the definition of the September 11 attacks was claiming
as fact some information that is widely disputed, and so a few minutes
ago inserted information making it clear who claims these facts, and I
was going to elaborate further with information on which facts are being
disputed and by who, only to find that my IP address had been blocked by
a user "Flockmeal".
This user was claiming the reason for the block was "repeated vandalism".
I went on to check what the blocking policy was, and then the Wikipedia
definition of vandalism, to discover that by input was in no way
anything close to vandalism. I was stating nothing than the facts, with
no bias whatsoever. The entries I made were made entirely in good faith,
and I am very disappointed that such abuse of the blocking policy has
been made.
Since the block, I have registered and now have a username and am
contactable at my email address. I would ask that the IP address block
be removed, and a discussion started as to why elaborating on facts and
remaining factual can be classed as vandalism.
Many thanks,
Edmund Broadley
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