So if one person (without any discussion) declares a username to be trolling then they can ban that user immediately? I don't see that on WP:NOU...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 5:10 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] User:Non-liberals are stupid
LDan wrote:
At the time I was banned (approx. 1 min after my account was created), I had made no edits aside from creating my userpage and editing User:Liberal's talk page. I intended to use the account to make completely NPOV edits on articles related US politics to prove that usernames are irrelavent, but I was banned before I could do that.
The point I've been trying make all along was that user names /are not/
there
to make points! What you did amounts to trolling and thus is something
that
warrents an immediate ban. However, since you have never done anything
like
this before and we all know that you are an upstanding young man, then I
see
no reason to ban *you* from editing under user:LittleDan so long as you promise not to pull a stunt like this again and not to edit under user:Non-liberala are stupid or similarly provocative user names.
Camembert said that this was a childish point to make, but I don't see why. Maybe this is because I am a child. Maybe Wikipedia isn't a place for children.
Childish doesn't mean that all children are childish all the time. Many
adults
act childish (some almost all the time). However you almost always act
very
responsibly and have intelligence and reason way beyond your years. We all make mistakes and hopefully learn from them. If you'll try to not repeat
this
particular lapse of judgment again, then Wikipedia is most definitely a
place
for you.
Oh, and you are a teenager, not a child IIRC. ;-)
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