I'll unblock you on the condition that you agree to talk it out with the involved parties, especially the blocking admin, before you resume the disputed behavior. I don't mean that you have to get permission from an admin to do this, because personally I don't think it's objectionable behavior, but I don't want to create a situation where I unblock you, you start mass messaging people, and get re-blocked, thus creating a wheel-warring evironment. Just make sure that the situation has cooled off if you do this again, okay?
Also, I haven't looked to see if there was any corellation, but I strongly urge you not to be selective about the people you send this kind of notice. That would be interpreted as political vote stuffing which is very strongly frowned on at Wikipedia.
Ryan
On 4/6/06, Molu Bosu Palit loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I, Loom91 (59.93.194.7), was recently blocked by sysop Commander Jean for disruption. I believe that this is a mistake and appeal to have this block lifted. I've already requested Commander Kean by email to reconsider the block.
I was banned for supposedly spamming user talk pages. What really happened was that a poll on the proposed policy Wikipedia:Censorship is ongoing and I wanted to inform potentially interested users abut this, so I posted a short and polite message on their talk page requesting them to review the policy and make their opinions known (I did not ask them to vote for any particular side, and votes in response to these messages were divided). I sent these messages both to those likely to vote Support and those likely to vote Oppose. I do not believe such messages constitute spamming or disruption.
Some of the receivers thanked me for letting them know about the poll and voiced their opinions. Disruption is defined in Blocking policy as disrupting the normal workings of Wikipedia, but by involving more wikipedians in the discussion I facilitated better working of Wikipedia. As shown in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SPAM#Internal_spamming, this sort of communication is not considered to be inherently bad, let alone worthy of blocking.
In the light of these circumstances, I ask sysops to investigate the matter and unblock me if they feel as I do that the block was unwarranted and a mistake on the part of Commander Kean. Thank you very much.
Loom91
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