elian wrote:
Hello,
there is usually so much fuzz about banning certain users, weeks of tedious discussions, scrupulous arguments if someone like Lir should be really banned or if he/she could learn to work cooperatively in the end...
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First question: I seem to have missed this debate (the user has written under IPs starting with 142.177.) Could someone direct me to some links in the archive?
This person has been determined to be 24 beyond a reasonable doubt. 24 was banned for making a threat to Larry and 24 under the new IP made a death threat to me and the rest of the "cabal."
.... Third question: I can't reproduce the first reason for the ban:
- 08:12 Jan 13, 2003, Maveric149 blocked
142.177.97.215 (contribs) (racial insult at Talk:Space Shuttle Columbia: "(On [[January 12]], [[1986]] Columbia took-off with the first [[Hispanic-American]] astronaut, Dr. [[Franklin R. Chang-Diaz]].) " Well, that explains where the Challenger's O-ring went... <-- ;-D")
In the history of [[Talk:Space Shuttle Columbia]] I can find no edits by this IP. Could someone explain the story of this ban?
There is no history for it because I deleted the talk page. If you like I can restore the talk page. The ban, BTW, was for the stated major violation of Wikipetiquette and was only supposed to be temporary but this user later left a death threat on my meta talk page so the ban was never lifted. The problem is that this user keeps getting new IPs. Thus another Wikipedian got sick and tired of dealing with 142.177's edits when 142.177 shouldn't be editing at all.
And my fourth and last question: Why the hell do you ban users who write articles like this: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asharites ???
Violations of Wikipetiquette and making death threats. DW also created a lot of valid content - but was banned for violating Wikipetiquette.
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Okay, okay...one prefers to let other, more knowledgeable people write about Islam. These people do also behave very civilly.
Hardly.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma: My usual updates at [[February 20]]
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