Toby Bartels wrote:
As for Wikipedia bans and block policy, however, I'm not sure that's resolved. Was RickK right to block Adrian? Was Adrian a vandal? I don't think so. But I'm not sure what the blocks justification was, since it's not in the log.
It is in the log. See [[Wikipedia:Block_log]], not [[Special:Ipblocklist]]):
04:01, 7 Dec 2003 RickK blocked "203.51.60.29" (repeated creaton of nonsense articles) 05:00, 7 Dec 2003 Angela unblocked "203.51.60.29" (Was blocked without warning. See http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-December/008819.html)
I'm not saying it was necessarily wrong to block this user, but it was certainly wrong to block him without warning. He had only made three edits to an existing article and created a new one twice. This isn't a huge number of edits and they were all easily reversible, so there was no emergency need to block him in my opinion.
Angela.
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