[Foundation-l] pt:wiki policies

Virgilio A. P. Machado vam at fct.unl.pt
Thu May 14 22:19:11 UTC 2009


Dear Sirs,

The day before yesterday 
(http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pedidos_a_administradores/Discuss%C3%A3o_de_bloqueio/Arquivo/2009/05#NH), 
while discussing a private case, whose full details are confidential, 
I described a strictly hypothetical case as follows:

Suppose a tetraplegic girl learns how to use a computer and finds out 
about Wikipedia. After registering as a user she does all sort of 
trampling. Would there be any administrator willing to block her from 
editing Wikipedia?

Three administrators, one of them a bureaucrat and member of 
arbitration committee have answered YES.

The administrator bureaucrat later quoted 
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Non_discrimination_policy>Wikimedia:Non 
discrimination policy, explaining that that policy did NOT allow them 
to treat editors differently, based on their [...] medical 
condition. 
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct_Policy>Wikimedia:Code 
of Conduct Policy was also quoted.

I wonder if you would care to comment on all of the above.

Sincerely,

Virgilio A. P. Machado


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