Dear Sir,

I am the wife of David W. Thornton. I logged in to Wikipedia.org as "Lucie" on our computer under the User name, Black Widow . On my User Page, I clearly posted an official notice that I was the wife of User:DW.

Today, after posting much hard work, I received the following message when I tried to log in:

Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Maveric149. The reason given is this: Alias of DW

You may contact Maveric149 or one of the other administrators to discuss the block.

Sir, I would like to point out that this person calling him or her self Maverick149 has no proof or the statement he made as to any alleged alias.

This block was made a day after DW was banned - I had no idea you even existed at that point.

I searched your website and could find no official legal notice stating that you ban people from participating on your website on speculation or that you discriminate against wives / partners / friends / acquaintances etc. who may use our

computer.

/You/ were not blocked, DW was. Just look at the time and date of the block - your user account didn't even exist back then.

Please advise why you authorized this discrimination.

Sincerely yours. Christine Thornton, B.A., LL.B.

Now before you throw words like "discrimination" around perhaps you can actually do a bit of homework first?

In the future use the "Email this user" feature that is located on an Admin's user page to ask for a block removal. If you had visited my user page you would have seen an easy to use and find shortcut to this link. If you had visited the Admin page you also would have seen /another/ such link right next to my user name in the Admin list. If you had looked on the "IM a Wikipedian" page you would have seen my AIM nickname. The reason I'm pointing this out is that I check my email 5-10 times a day and am usually on AIM while at my home computer but I get Wikipedia-l in 10-20 email digests which can take up to 2 days to arrive in my mailbox (the IP block would probably have been lifted within an hour if you had emailed me - instead it looks like it lasted about a day). Another important piece of information would be your IP address - but I see you are editing again so everything is OK for now.

Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

WikiKarma http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez (new)

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