I tried to edit an article on Wikipedia today, but I found that my IP had been blocked due to the actions of an anonymous user:
The reason given is this: 24-hour block for blanking user page of user who submitted page to VfD, and then repeating this behavior from multiple IP addresses You can email The Anome
</wiki/Special:Emailuser/The_Anome>
or one of the other administrators to discuss the block.
Ok. Someone was bad, and they got blocked. Here's the problem. The Anome aparently has no e-mail address set up! When I go to The Anome's User page to e-mail him, I get this response:
"This user has not specified a valid e-mail address, or has chosen not to receive e-mail from other users"
Kind of ironic, since the message says that e-mail should be sent to him! :)
If you believe that our blocking policy was violated, you may discuss the block publicly on the WikiEN-L mailing list
I don't have a problem with the blocking of this IP; if that kind of problem appeared, then a 24 block is fine. The policy is good; The problem is that some other contributors (like me) can't edit, and we can't e-mail the Anome as we are told to. So this is a situation that someone should know about. (And many people in my city use my ISP, so many people are potentially blocked.)
Your IP address is 209.247.222.84. Please include this address in any queries you make.
Done. Any suggestions?
Could we come up with a way of people with known Wikipedia accounts getting around such blocks? Or is such a solution already extant?
Thanks for your time,
Robert (RK)
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:36:33 -0700 (PDT), Robert rkscience100@yahoo.com wrote:
I tried to edit an article on Wikipedia today, but I found that my IP had been blocked due to the actions of an anonymous user...
I've unblocked this now. Please can other admins keep an eye on the 209.247.222.0/24 range to see if it needs reblocking.
The problem is that some other contributors (like me) can't edit, and we can't e-mail the Anome as we are told to. So this is a situation that someone should know about. (And many people in my city use my ISP, so many people are potentially blocked.)
I proposed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
Could we come up with a way of people with known Wikipedia accounts getting around such blocks? Or is such a solution already extant?
Currently, the only solution is to email this list.
Angela.
Folks,
I have the same problem. I have tried editing over the past week and have been told IP address 203.166.76.237 or similar has been banned for repeated vandalism by 21804 -whoever that is. As it wasn't due to my edits - presumably as I have never been warned for vandalism for edits.
Theresa Knott has done some investigation on my behalf and has found that this IP address has been blocked for six months. This is rather a long time.
I was wondering whether bans could be put in place for shorter periods to stop people who make positive contributions enduring lengthy bans together with the vandals.
Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:36:33 -0700 (PDT), Robert wrote:
I tried to edit an article on Wikipedia today, but I found that my IP had been blocked due to the actions of an anonymous user...
I've unblocked this now. Please can other admins keep an eye on the 209.247.222.0/24 range to see if it needs reblocking.
The problem is that some other contributors (like me) can't edit, and we can't e-mail the Anome as we are told to. So this is a situation that someone should know about. (And many people in my city use my ISP, so many people are potentially blocked.)
I proposed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
Could we come up with a way of people with known Wikipedia accounts getting around such blocks? Or is such a solution already extant?
Currently, the only solution is to email this list.
Angela. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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Keith Maxwell wrote:
I have tried editing over the past week and have been told IP address 203.166.76.237 or similar has been banned for repeated vandalism ... for six months.
The whole range 203.166.96.232/29 was blocked. A history of the vandalism can be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:203.166.96.239 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:203.166.96.236 which shows this user, or users, were warned a number of times. However, I feel strongly that six months is too long for a range block, particularly one which is affecting other users. I have unblocked this now.
Angela.
On 07/06/04 22:50, Angela wrote:
I proposed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
argh. I switched mine off to cut the crank mail down. (My address is really easy to find, but I got nothing through the Wikipedia 'send an email' setup that didn't belong on a talk page.) I have switched it on again, though the other factor is accidentally deleting stuff that isn't obviously not spam ...
- d.
I used to have my email address available, but I got so much abusive email I changed my preferences.
RickK
Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote: I proposed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
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Perhaps you should stop blocking people then ?
Rick wrote:
I used to have my email address available, but I got so much abusive email I changed my preferences.
RickK
Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
I proposed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
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Perhaps you should take a course in Wiki etiquette. Congratulations. You just made my list of people whose emails are blocked due to obnoxiousness.
RickK
Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote: Perhaps you should stop blocking people then ?
Rick wrote:
I used to have my email address available, but I got so much abusive email I changed my preferences.
RickK
Angela wrote:
I proposed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
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Low threshold indeed...
Rick wrote:
Perhaps you should take a course in Wiki etiquette. Congratulations. You just made my list of people whose emails are blocked due to obnoxiousness.
RickK
Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Perhaps you should stop blocking people then ? Rick wrote: > I used to have my email address available, but I got so much abusive > email I changed my preferences. > > RickK > > Angela wrote: > > I proposed at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal > that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure > now whether that was a worthwhile proposal. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail > > - 100MB free stor age! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:52:11 +0200, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Low threshold indeed... Rick wrote:
Perhaps you should take a course in Wiki etiquette. Congratulations. You just made my list of people whose emails are blocked due to obnoxiousness.
Perhaps you shall next block Jimbo's emails as well?
For efficiency, I would reccomend that you simply unsubscribe from the mailing list, and send mail to a dummy address. It will be more effective in the long run.
And perhaps you should mind your own business.
RickK
Fennec Foxen fennec@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:52:11 +0200, Anthere wrote:
Low threshold indeed... Rick wrote:
Perhaps you should take a course in Wiki etiquette. Congratulations. You just made my list of people whose emails are blocked due to obnoxiousness.
Perhaps you shall next block Jimbo's emails as well?
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Not that I approve of it. but I think the amount of abusive email one gets can be a useful bellweather of the level of approval of actions. Mark
--- Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com wrote:
I used to have my email address available, but I got so much abusive email I changed my preferences.
RickK
Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote: I proposed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal
that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:25:51 -0700 (PDT), Mark Richards marich712000@yahoo.com wrote:
Not that I approve of it. but I think the amount of abusive email one gets can be a useful bellweather of the level of approval of actions. Mark
Hey, some of that abusive email is fun! Like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vernon_John_De_Duckmanton ... :)
This from Mister "I love trolls."
RickK
Mark Richards marich712000@yahoo.com wrote: Not that I approve of it. but I think the amount of abusive email one gets can be a useful bellweather of the level of approval of actions. Mark
--- Rick wrote:
I used to have my email address available, but I got so much abusive email I changed my preferences.
RickK
Angela wrote: I proposed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal
that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
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Well, I didn't appreciate your trolling on my talk page, if that's what you are refering to, in general though, I do love the ability of talk and user pages to represent a diverse range of views. If you want to call that trolling, then fine, but it's not a very useful definition. Mark
--- Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com wrote:
This from Mister "I love trolls."
RickK
Mark Richards marich712000@yahoo.com wrote: Not that I approve of it. but I think the amount of abusive email one gets can be a useful bellweather of the level of approval of actions. Mark
--- Rick wrote:
I used to have my email address available, but I
got
so much abusive email I changed my preferences.
RickK
Angela wrote: I proposed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal
that all sysops should have a valid email address, though I'm not sure now whether that was a worthwhile proposal.
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