From: Sascha Noyes sascha@pantropy.net Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] admin abuse Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:19:30 -0500 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org
On Monday 26 January 2004 12:41 am, UB 1 wrote:
Wikipedia:Administrators - As of September 2003,
it is
now possible for sysops to block usernames. It is important to note that sysops are not authorised
to
decide whether a particular case of vandalism
warrants
banning by username. The ability to ban by
username
has been made available for the purposes of
enforcing
a ban already approved by Jimbo. It may be used to block obvious reincarnations of hard-banned users.
Special:Ipblocklist - 05:10, 26 Jan 2004, Angela blocked UnbannableOne (contribs) (Unacceptable
user
name. Please log in with something different. Unacceptable behaviour. Please quit it.)
I'm behind Angela on this one. [[user:UnbannableOne]] is an obvious "boundary-experiment" by an old troll taking advantage of there not existing any officially sanctioned policy enforcing body in order to troll wikipedia, while making themselves "unbannable" by adding legitimate content.
Best, Sascha Noyes
Although I disagree with this, it has been set by precedent when I was banned (temporarily) under the username "Non-Liberals are stupid" when I was seeing if I would get banned. (BTW, I don't believe that)
LDan
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