To whom it may concern (and it should concern everyone!):
I have reason(s) to believe that one or more of the administrator(s) of the Wikipaedia Online Encyclopaedia, owned and/or operated by (the) Wikemaedia Foundation, Inc./Org./Co., has violated one (1) or more (>1) of Wikipaedia's or/and (the) Wikimaedia Foundation, Inc./Co./Org.'s rules &/| regulations. I was prompted to believe this by the following message, which appeared when I attempted to make a delightful, beneficial, truthful, and good (though not necessarily in that order) addition to an article about that most lovable and eminent among preemnient German philosophers, Friedrick Nietzsche the First (1st):
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Your user name or IP address has been blocked by RickK.
The reason given is this: all of user's edits are vandalism -- was blocked, came back, and immediately began vandalizing again
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Everyone who reads this message is someone who cares about Wikipedia. We all enjoy contributing to it, and do so in the best of faith, and are determined to make it grow and succeed. Imagine the shock-horror any one (1) of us would feel upon being excluded from doing so by an apparently malicious stranger.
I knew that none of my\ edits were vandalism. All were made in good faith and with the foremost intention of improving the Wikipaedia. I therefore figured that it was a mistake; perhaps, as another part of the message suggested, "...[a user] with a [dynamic IP had been] blocked accidentally, due to that fact that [his] present IP [had been] previously used by a blocked user." To verify whether or not this was the case, I went to the block list to check. It was then I learned the ban wasn't an accident. Someone going by the name of Erl, RickK had banned me indefinitely and purposely:
22:06, 9 Oct 2004, RickK blocked Ute Oronto (expires indefinite) (contribs) (all of user's edits are vandalism -- was blocked, came back, and immediately began vandalizing again)
Who was this RickK? Who would ban a user who had made countless useful good faith edits, and call these malicious acts of vandalism? Who could be so kerlish?
It was then I remembered: The day or so previous, I had reverted some vandalism inflicted upon the Neva article. Someone had removed the Geo-stub template. I replaced it, and checked to see who the errant user could be. Noting that it was a long time user, who should know better, I added him to the vandalism and progress list and went on with my day.
Could this have been the same person as the one who banned me? I checked. It was him, apparently seeking to quiet me and to enact vengence upon me.
However, I (capital i, not number one) refuse to be quiet about this issue. I'm E-mailing all of you this so that we'll no longer have administrators who feel free to vandalize Wikipaedia and then silence users who object by banning them indefinitely for supposedly commiting the very same Wikicraeme.
Lovingly yours,
Ute Oronto.