Oh, sorry, basically he had admitted he was being a troll, by going around adding Polish names to German cities in revenge for places like Gdansk having "Danzig" mentioned in their articles. I asked what relevance the Polish name had to cities like Kiel or Munich, but he said it didn't matter. (Unfortunately, as en: is down I can't find exact quotes right now.)

I really shouldn't have blocked him, of course, as I had become semi-involved...and I know "being annoying" is not a good reason. But it had to stop somehow.

Adam Bishop

From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Adam Bishop temp-blocked user:Gdansk Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:47:08 -0500

<< 22:35, 20 Mar 2004 Adam Bishop blocked "Gdansk" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Being annoying, minus a million points!) >>

I'd like to know why Adam did this, and I wish he had said something about the block on the mailing list. Does every admin have the right to temp-block a long-time contributor just for "being annoying"?

TUF-KAT asked me to be a Mediator for an issue involving user:Gdansk, and I think I'm owed the courtesy of being informed if an administrator blocks a party involved in a mediation.

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