I have written several articles on wikipedia. I no longer wish to have an account due to the fact Mr. Wales promises were hot honored regarding an article written about me which contains false and misleading content (Jeffrey Vernon Merkey). A 23 year old admin, Frank V. Waveren (fvw) has continued to block my account making claims I am a sockpuppet user and allowing stalkers to harrass me on this site. I have setup my own wiki at en.wikigadugi.org and am moving my editing and authorship to this site. I do not wish to have an account on this site any longer. I would, however, like to be able to retrieve the source from the articles I have written. The new site isn't GNU based, and the content is copyrighted and will remain so.
I have reviewed the blockage of this admin (fvw) and have noted he himself has been recently blocked for violating site rules. I have not made legal threats, and I have a hard time accepting the judgement of a 23 year old and tolerating this level of harassment and false edits. I have also noted this admin abuses his authority on this site repeatedly and is basically an "enforcer" of the Linux Community. This admin has also obtained and posted private logs from kernel.org to this site, and has succeeded in getting my accounts at kernel.org revoked.
I ask I be unblocked long enough to retrieve materials origianlly authored by me, at which point I wish my account (gadugi) to be deleted from this site.
Thanks
Jeff V. Merkey
you can view the source of apage w/o being unblocked. There is a button which says "view source" or some such instead of "edit". Try that.
Cheers,
Jack (Sam Spade)
On 10/5/05, jmerkey jmerkey@utah-nac.org wrote:
I have written several articles on wikipedia. I no longer wish to have an account due to the fact Mr. Wales promises were hot honored regarding an article written about me which contains false and misleading content (Jeffrey Vernon Merkey). A 23 year old admin, Frank V. Waveren (fvw) has continued to block my account making claims I am a sockpuppet user and allowing stalkers to harrass me on this site. I have setup my own wiki at en.wikigadugi.org and am moving my editing and authorship to this site. I do not wish to have an account on this site any longer. I would, however, like to be able to retrieve the source from the articles I have written. The new site isn't GNU based, and the content is copyrighted and will remain so.
I have reviewed the blockage of this admin (fvw) and have noted he himself has been recently blocked for violating site rules. I have not made legal threats, and I have a hard time accepting the judgement of a 23 year old and tolerating this level of harassment and false edits. I have also noted this admin abuses his authority on this site repeatedly and is basically an "enforcer" of the Linux Community. This admin has also obtained and posted private logs from kernel.org to this site, and has succeeded in getting my accounts at kernel.org revoked.
I ask I be unblocked long enough to retrieve materials origianlly authored by me, at which point I wish my account (gadugi) to be deleted from this site.
Thanks
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Jack Lynch wrote:
you can view the source of apage w/o being unblocked. There is a button which says "view source" or some such instead of "edit". Try that.
Actually it still says "edit", and blocks your IP for 24 hours every time you click it...
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On 10/6/05, Phroziac phroziac@gmail.com wrote:
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Jack Lynch wrote:
you can view the source of apage w/o being unblocked. There is a button which says "view source" or some such instead of "edit". Try that.
Actually it still says "edit", and blocks your IP for 24 hours every time you click it...
Jeff, use [[Special:Export]] to retrieve the source. Instead of starting your own wiki, why not join up with us at Jnanabase? Anthony
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jmerkey wrote:
I have written several articles on wikipedia.
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I have setup my own wiki
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I would, however, like to be able to retrieve the source from the articles I have written. The new site isn't GNU based, and the content is copyrighted and will remain so.
Any material you wrote and placed on Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL. If you use anyone else's work edits in placing your own edits on your own site, those documents must also be licensed under the GFDL.
at which point I wish my account (gadugi) to be deleted from this site.
The GFDL prevents us from doing that.
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