On 16/09/2007, Wily D wilydoppelganger@gmail.com wrote:
Everything can be undone, any block can be appealed (including to the unblock mailing list). I agree that your scenario might be grossly insulting if it were true. But it's not. Blocks are easily appealable.
Come to think of it, appealing blocks of any kind can often result in being attacked. Therefore, my advice to blocked or banned users who have disclosed their real name or a long-standing pseudonym is this: DO NOT APPEAL. Simply request any courtesy blankings / deletions you want, hoping that by not appealing you don't become 'notable', by some odd defintion that Wikipaedia uses as a justification for destroying the online and offline reputations of banned users, and then go poof! Unless your requests for courtesy blankings and deletions are refused, or worse yet responded to with more attacks, in which case I guess you are screwed.
And by poof I mean leave Wikipaedia altogether. Do not attempt sockpuppetry - you can easily get caught and then things will just get worse. There is more at stake here than simply being able to edit Wikipaedia. If you have disclosed your real name, imagine what future potential employers will think if they Google your name and find something about you being banned from Wikipaedia. And even if you haven't, if you have a long-standing pseudonym, you probably want to protect the online reputation of said pseudonym. (If you have not disclosed your real name or a long- standing pseudonym, I guess you are okay.)
If it's a short-term block, it depends, you might be better riding it out and archiving your talk page when it ends.... And by archive I mean history link archive, so the blocking notice is hidden from Google.