--- Lisa Thurston lisathurston@gmail.com wrote:
- Amalekite was banned for making a threat to disrupt Wikipedia (even
though this was off of Wikipedia)
That's the reason given, but think it's arguable. Amalekite certainly was encouraging people to edit Wikipedia to remove what he perceived to be bias. At least initially, he was specifically asking people to follow NPOV, avoid personal attacks and insults, and generally follow the rules.
He did post a list of users he believed were part of a "Zionist cabal" along with a few insults ("vicious", "ruthless" and "idiots"). And after he was banned, he did start speculating about edit warring over a long period.
That's only from one thread (http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=225536). He might have said more elsewhere, but from that thread, I don't think there's evidence he was inciting disruption of Wikipedia before he was banned.
I would argue that the blocking admin(s) would have done well to document exactly why this user was banned, complete with URLs, because it's darn hard to find the evidence.
-- Matt
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
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