why was his block length shortened to 19 days?
19 _fortnights_. That's equivalent to 266 days. I had thought a permanent block was too harsh, but I did not know it was an interwiki vandal with such an illustrious history. When Jeff re-blocked him, I left it that way, although that didn't stop Jeff from hurling a barrage of less-than-good-will at me. In fact, he blocked me recently for "legal threats", apparently not realizing that admins are capable of unblocking themselves.
Regarding so-called "spaming links", the link was a "contact us" mailto link to my personal e-mail. Similar arrangements have been used in the past on the Chinese and Romanian Wikipedias.
Since Jeffrey clearly felt there was a problem with this, I moved it off the site notice onto a "Contact Us" page, where it was listed as one of 3 contact options (the other two being the local Community Portal and Wikipedia-l). Considering how long my e-mail was there prior to the arrival of Jeffrey, and the fact that I received several e-mails regarding the site but no complaints about the presence of the e-mail address, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.
Jeffrey proceeded to remove the e-mail from that page, again accusing me of "linkspamming" (which, although I told him it offended me that he accused me of "linkspamming", he has repeated several times).
He said that that was against foundation policy. I asked him to cite the appropriate policy, but rather than citing any sort of policy, he accused me of legal threats (unrealted to this matter, from a separate conversation), again called me a spammer, and blocked me for 12 months.
He seems to also be accusing me of holding back the nv.wp from making any sort of progress, while he claims to have several native speakers on hand, and yet neither he nor they have contributed any articles.
Mark
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This really isn't the place for this. I will take the matter to meta.
Jeff
Mark Williamson wrote:
why was his block length shortened to 19 days?
19 _fortnights_. That's equivalent to 266 days. I had thought a permanent block was too harsh, but I did not know it was an interwiki vandal with such an illustrious history. When Jeff re-blocked him, I left it that way, although that didn't stop Jeff from hurling a barrage of less-than-good-will at me. In fact, he blocked me recently for "legal threats", apparently not realizing that admins are capable of unblocking themselves.
Regarding so-called "spaming links", the link was a "contact us" mailto link to my personal e-mail. Similar arrangements have been used in the past on the Chinese and Romanian Wikipedias.
Since Jeffrey clearly felt there was a problem with this, I moved it off the site notice onto a "Contact Us" page, where it was listed as one of 3 contact options (the other two being the local Community Portal and Wikipedia-l). Considering how long my e-mail was there prior to the arrival of Jeffrey, and the fact that I received several e-mails regarding the site but no complaints about the presence of the e-mail address, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.
Jeffrey proceeded to remove the e-mail from that page, again accusing me of "linkspamming" (which, although I told him it offended me that he accused me of "linkspamming", he has repeated several times).
He said that that was against foundation policy. I asked him to cite the appropriate policy, but rather than citing any sort of policy, he accused me of legal threats (unrealted to this matter, from a separate conversation), again called me a spammer, and blocked me for 12 months.
He seems to also be accusing me of holding back the nv.wp from making any sort of progress, while he claims to have several native speakers on hand, and yet neither he nor they have contributed any articles.
Mark
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