It's pretty tough when I can't even clear my own talk page. Can someone take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Skyring and see if they can work out what sort of official policy the relevant admin is following, apart from WP:BLOODYMINDEDNESS?
What do you mean by this? Would you like an admin to clean up your user/user talk pages? Or do you have another request?
[[User:Bratsche|Ben]]
On 8/27/05, Skyring skyring@gmail.com wrote:
It's pretty tough when I can't even clear my own talk page. Can someone take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Skyring and see if they can work out what sort of official policy the relevant admin is following, apart from WP:BLOODYMINDEDNESS?
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On 8/29/05, Ben E. bratsche1@gmail.com wrote:
What do you mean by this? Would you like an admin to clean up your user/user talk pages? Or do you have another request?
I'd like the policy explained and appropriate action taken. My understanding is that I'm allowed to edit my own talk page, even when blocked, but it seems that one particular admin is unaware of this, and when I cleared it, leaving a message of thanks, he went off half-cocked.
That would be the cased with blocked users, except that you have not been merely blocked, but banned. From the ArbCom archives:
User:Skyring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Skyring is banned from
Wikipedia for one year for wiki-stalking and acting in bad faith towards other contributors, as demonstrated in evidence. Any attempt at sockpuppetry shall, as per policy, result in this ban being reset.
According to [[Wikipedia:Banning policy]], an official policy of Wikipedia, banning is defined.
A Wikipedia *ban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban* is a formal revocation
of editing privileges on Wikipedia. Such a ban may be temporary and of fixed duration, or indefinite and potentially permanent. The standard invitations Wikipedia extends to over six billion people worldwide to "edit this page" do not apply to banned users. Banned users are simply not authorized to edit Wikipedia.
So, no, you are not allowed to edit your talk page, your user page, or any other page in Wikipedia. The user page, again according to [[WP:BAN]],
may be replaced by a notice of the ban and links to any applicable
discussion or decisionmaking pages. The purpose of this notice is to announce the ban to editors encountering the banned user's edits.
You are not authorized to edit on Wikipedia. All of your edits, or your sockpuppet edits, shall be reverted, and any pages that you create shall be speedily deleted. You may return on August 29, 2006, or later if you edit again. The admin who cleared your page and added the ban notices was clearly allowed to do so.
[[User:Bratsche|Ben]]
On 8/28/05, Skyring skyring@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/29/05, Ben E. bratsche1@gmail.com wrote:
What do you mean by this? Would you like an admin to clean up your
user/user
talk pages? Or do you have another request?
I'd like the policy explained and appropriate action taken. My understanding is that I'm allowed to edit my own talk page, even when blocked, but it seems that one particular admin is unaware of this, and when I cleared it, leaving a message of thanks, he went off half-cocked.
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