Dear Colleagues,
My username is AndriyK. IP address is 141.2.247.88
I was blocked by David Gerard at 13:13, 28 October 2005. The reason was formulated as
"The reason given for AndriyK's block is: "massive disruption (read the MoS, talk before creating huge amounts of work for others)"
In my opinion, the blocking policy was violated. According to the official Wikipedia blocking policy blocking is used to deal with vandalism, bots, personal attacks, and inappropriate usernames.
Nothing of this is unapplicable in my case. I did not violate 3RR.
I indeed have done a lot of changes, but I did not vandalize the articles. I corrected the names of Ukrainian city according to their proper English spelling (e.g. those used by Encyclopaedia Britannica, see, for instance, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9023842?query=Chernihiv&ct=)
What I did completely conforms the Wikipedia policy concerning using of modern English in the articles. Doing these changes I corrected several subtles mistakes (because of wrong spelling, some lings were wrong and led to articles that actually were not ment in the text).
David Gerard was likely misinformed by a one group of users. These users try to force wikipedia community to use a sort of "Russian English", i.e. transliteration from Russian prononciation of the names of Ukrainian cities instead of the spellings used by modern creadible English sources (like Encyclopedia Britannika and many others). I tried to explain my edits on the talk pages, but this group of users do not accept any reasons. They push their POV so to say "by force".
The same group makes also often propaganda insertions to the article, which is also an obvious abuse of Wikipedia.
Thank you in advance for solving the issue.
Best regards,
AndriyK
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