I have forwarded this message to the mailing list originally sent to Jimbo.
-JoeM
Jimbo,
This is User:JoeM from Wikipedia. I'm contacting you concerning my ban from editing Wikipedia.
I want to apologize for some of my more rude behavior on your site. I at times got too angry and enthusiastic in defending my views, and patriotism is so important to me that I got a little out of control. I've had a lot of time to think and cool off, though, and I'm not angry anymore, even at the Communist and pro-terrorist users. My views on America and the importance of defending freedom have not changed, but I now realize that the way I went about stating these views only hurt the causes that were important to me.
If I am unblocked, I won't use sockpuppets anymore. I will not engage in personal attacks. I won't engage in revert wars. I will calmly discuss my edits and views on talk pages without attacking users that I disagree with. and I will definitely never, ever vandalize pages again. I will respect the principle of NPOV.
I think that the Wikipedia project has great potential to shine light on the TRUTH that the mainstream media hides, and I'd like to be an active contributor again to make sure the project reaches its full potential.
Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help get my account back. I really want to help Wikipedia grow.
Your friend, Joe M.
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Below is a letter that JoeM sent to this mailing list, as well as to me privately. I have consulted with the ArbCom and found no opposition to my lifting Joe M's ban, which predates the ArbCom and was a long long time ago anyway. The apology is quite sound, and I welcome him as a newcomer and hope that everyone will mentally wipe the slate clean and greet him warmly.
I've recommended to Joe that he go out of his way to be extremely and extraordinarily mature, polite, and peaceful especially in the early months of his return.
--Jimbo
Joe M wrote:
Jimbo,
This is User:JoeM from Wikipedia. I'm contacting you concerning my ban from editing Wikipedia.
I want to apologize for some of my more rude behavior on your site. I at times got too angry and enthusiastic in defending my views, and patriotism is so important to me that I got a little out of control. I've had a lot of time to think and cool off, though, and I'm not angry anymore, even at the Communist and pro-terrorist users. My views on America and the importance of defending freedom have not changed, but I now realize that the way I went about stating these views only hurt the causes that were important to me.
If I am unblocked, I won't use sockpuppets anymore. I will not engage in personal attacks. I won't engage in revert wars. I will calmly discuss my edits and views on talk pages without attacking users that I disagree with. and I will definitely never, ever vandalize pages again. I will respect the principle of NPOV.
I think that the Wikipedia project has great potential to shine light on the TRUTH that the mainstream media hides, and I'd like to be an active contributor again to make sure the project reaches its full potential.
Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help get my account back. I really want to help Wikipedia grow.
Your friend, Joe M.
Don�t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
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Dear Mr. Wales,
If JoeM is coming back to Wikipedia, what will happen to his sock puppet/multiple IP accounts? Will they also be unblocked?
Regards,
Zachary Harden (User:Zscout370)
From: Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] JoeM ban Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:30:28 +0200
Below is a letter that JoeM sent to this mailing list, as well as to me privately. I have consulted with the ArbCom and found no opposition to my lifting Joe M's ban, which predates the ArbCom and was a long long time ago anyway. The apology is quite sound, and I welcome him as a newcomer and hope that everyone will mentally wipe the slate clean and greet him warmly.
I've recommended to Joe that he go out of his way to be extremely and extraordinarily mature, polite, and peaceful especially in the early months of his return.
--Jimbo
On 7/22/05, Zachary Harden zscout370@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear Mr. Wales,
If JoeM is coming back to Wikipedia, what will happen to his sock puppet/multiple IP accounts? Will they also be unblocked?
IPs shouldn't be permanently blocked, so those shuld have expired by now anyway. I've removed the block on User:JoeM but I see no reason to remove the blocks on the sockpuppet accounts.
Angela
Zachary Harden wrote:
Dear Mr. Wales,
Mr. Wales is my father. :-)
If JoeM is coming back to Wikipedia, what will happen to his sock puppet/multiple IP accounts? Will they also be unblocked?
I see no reason to unblock those. If he makes good on his promise to be a good user now, he won't be needing them.
--Jimbo
Ok, Jimbo,
Based on an email from Angela, the IP addresses JoeM used should have expired by now. Based on a search I did, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=JoeM&..., JoeM used three ip's that were blocked: 4.247.194.236, 4.247.239.36 and 4.247.197.156. Not sure what happened to those, but I figured those could be unblocked, due to Angela's suggestion.
Regards,
Zachary Harden
From: Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] JoeM ban Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:20:40 -0700
Zachary Harden wrote:
Dear Mr. Wales,
Mr. Wales is my father. :-)
If JoeM is coming back to Wikipedia, what will happen to his sock puppet/multiple IP accounts? Will they also be unblocked?
I see no reason to unblock those. If he makes good on his promise to be a good user now, he won't be needing them.
--Jimbo