On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Steve Bennett wrote:
Guilty as charged. Nothing I do, have done, or am likely to do on Wikipedia is affected by these kinds of shenanigans. So I'm writing articles about Victorian state parks...how am I affected by whether someone got a bit zealous with the block stick?
Imagine that some group of admins get together to decide that no articlr should be allowed to use the letter 'Z' in an article, except when that letter is in the subject, and even then it should be minimized as much as possible.
Your article about Victorian state parks contains the letter Z. But people who try to put the letter 'Z' in articles, in violation of policy, get blocked. Since you ignore the admins, the first you hear of it is when someone takes all the Z's out of the article you just wrote.
Presto, you're affected.
Admins make decisions which affect the whole Wikipedia. Replace 'contains a Z' with 'contains a BADSITE' or 'has a spoiler warning' or any other global change.