From: Sascha Noyes <sascha(a)pantropy.net>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] admin abuse
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:19:30 -0500
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)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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