(Also, if one is blocked accidentally, it's not very
clear how to
contact anybody about it. It tells you the username
of the person who
made the block, but you can't leave a note on their
talk page. You can't
e-mail them through the "e-mail this user" function
because you're not a
logged-in user with an e-mail address set...)
That's why somebody added a link to [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] (at least on [[en:]]). Then they find the list of administrators. And they can't email mav, and they can't email Ilyanep ... but they can email me! (And on a few occasions, they have.)
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all right.
I thought it was time I was banned. So I am.
My IP is blocked. So Anthere can't edit any more.
Here's what I saw, the name of the banner (she does not provide an email address on her page) and the admin list (most not providing email address on this list either)
So Anthere went to Tim page, and emailed him a message. That worked.
Of course, if it is from a loggued-in user with no email address, and naturally from an IP, no mail can be send.
Well, I think it is bad, very bad, very very bad, that blocked users are nearly unable to contact any one, and usually not the banning sysop himself, since most people do not give their email in clear.
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Anthère wrote in part:
Well, I think it is bad, very bad, very very bad, that blocked users are nearly unable to contact any one, and usually not the banning sysop himself, since most people do not give their email in clear.
For people hesitating to give their email in cleartext:
The email addy that I use for all Wikimedia matters is toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu, which is given in cleartext on both [[wp:en:Wikipedia:Administrators]] and [[wp:en:User:Toby Bartels]] since, respectively, 3003 May 30 and 2002 July 22 (when I became an admin). It also appears in all of my mailing list posts, for that matter. To date, I have received a grand total of 1 spam email to this address.
-- Toby
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