On Apr 23, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Stephane Charette wrote:

<snip details of dispute> > My comments were reverted. Today, that user posted my username on > WP:AIV. I've been blocked ever since by Royboycrash.

Happily, this error was quickly resolved:

* 18:05, 23 April 2006 Royboycrashfan unblocked S charette 

(contribs) (Decided to simply unblock.) * 18:05, 23 April 2006 Royboycrashfan blocked "S charette (contribs)" with an expiry time of 12 hours (shorter block time) * 18:04, 23 April 2006 Royboycrashfan unblocked S charette (contribs) (shortening block) * 17:30, 23 April 2006 Royboycrashfan blocked "S charette (contribs)" with an expiry time of 31 hours (stalking/vandalism)

35 minutes blocked. It still shouldn't have happened, from what I understand, but I hope that the quick resolution restored at least some of S_charette's faith in Wikipedia.

Jesse Weinstein

I disagree -- not happily resolved. Here we are 9 hours later, and I'm still blocked. Please see my talk page for details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:S_charette

I'm quite dissapointed for the following reasons:

1) The {{unblock}} template has not helped me in any way; 9 hours after I was told I'd be unblocked, I'm still blocked and still cannot finish off the school article I'd started.

2) Why was I blocked in the first place? Are there rules to follow before a user is blocked? Besides the fact that I'm not a vandal or a spammer (any check of my contributions will confirm this), the WP:AIV page seems to indicate there are some rules, such as:

-> 1) The vandal has been warned with the appropriate warning templates. If you can't justify leaving these messages on a user's talk page, it likely isn't vandalism.

-> 2) The vandal vandalized within the last few hours and after the final warning.

Even though neither of these conditions apply to me, a disruptive user who is unhappy with my edit and posting my name on WP:AIV has now managed to have me blocked for the past 9 hours...and counting...

Isn't there anything that can be done about this? Do all users go through this upsetting experience?

Stephane Charette