David Gerard wrote:
Norath Norath (norath2005@yahoo.com) [050707 06:44]:
User:Norrath was block by David Gerard for "admitted sockpuppet and role account". This account is indeed a sockpuppet of a user in good standing, created to protest other blocks caaried out abusively by Snowspinner. The account was declared as a sockpuppet, in accordance with Wikipedia policy (which does not prohibit this) and the only edits were polite questions to Snowspinner about why he did not follow policy.
Role accounts are not allowed on en:.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppet#Multiple_accounts says nothing of that sort. "not officially sanctioned" is very different from "not allowed". In any case, it doesn't make sense to block this user, something that should take precedence over any supposed policy violations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden... is also over the top. I am involved in trolling. I troll various people online sometimes.