This is madness. I have been watching debate on ALERT, and I would
like to express my displeasure at the way this has been handled.
Without commentating on the individual merits of the case - there has
been a massive overreaction. We may not be wikipedia, but I would
expect we at least remain CIVIL in matters such as this. Community
civil wars are never helpful.
I note that we tend to have a civil war like this, every so often
throughout our history. In addition, every time, people are driven
away. It is something, that I feel, needs to be worked on to ensure,
this never happens again.
Anyway, I have an exam to sit :S
Brian Anderton
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Mikemoral <thenewmikemoral(a)aol.com> wrote:
That's what I'm doing now.
On 6/3/2010 1:30 PM, bawolff wrote:
Please tell me someone has emailed him back explaining why he was blocked.
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Mikemoral <thenewmikemoral(a)aol.com> wrote:
I went ahead an redacted all the email addresses below as a courtesy for
Matthew Edwards and myself.
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Wikipedia e-mail
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:25:42 +0000
Hi,
I'm not really sure what's going on. I haven't been on Wikinews in several
days, and my family and I have been out of the country for most of last week
and this, so if there has been any recent vandalism or other activity
associated with my account please notify Wikipedia and Commons, or meta or
something, because it is not me and I have unified login and use the same
account password, and I am also an admin at WP.
I will have to deal with it all when I get back to America but I'm not
coming home til Saturday, and even then might not get online til I go back
to work Monday.
I don't have any access to the internet right now; nomally I could use my
cellphone but I don't want to pay international roaming data charges, and my
mother doesn't own a computer. I will try to get to an internet cafe, but I
have other things I.R.L. that I must deal with first that are more
important.
Thanks for letting me know, and I'll also see if I have any WP admins in my
email contacts to tell them to block my account.
Regards, Matthew Edwards
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Sent from my Verizon Wireless mobile phone
------Original Message------
From: Mikemoral <redacted>
To: "Matthewedwards" <redacted>
Date: Thu, Jun 3, 4:32 AM +0000
Subject: Wikipedia e-mail
Hello,
I'm informing you as a Wikinews sysop that you have been indefinitely
blocked from Wikinews. You may see details of the block at Wikinews' version
of ANI at
<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Admin_action_alerts#Matthewedwards_.28talk_.C2.B7_contribs.29_indef_blocked>.
Regards,
Mikemoral
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