[WikiEN-l] Wrongful Block

Jack Lynch jacklynch at excite.com
Wed Dec 15 13:02:04 UTC 2004



Actually, I thought I was obeying MGM's voluntary injunction, and acting in an immaculate manner. I had absolutely no clue whatsoever that the edits I was making could be considered reverts by anyone. I had made two reverts the day before, and thought I had made none the day in question. AFAIK I made 2 reverts in a 24hr period, not 4. I can see how one of my edits may be considered a revert, because I did edit an out of date page, but I also inserted what were said on the talk page to be important edits by andreas, the guy who had reverted me. So mmmaybe 3 revets in 24 hrs, but that last was very dubious, since I inserted content from his edits as well. I tend to think this is less a problem w the wording of the policy than it is a situation of an admin attempting to be overly "fair" in response to an email.

Jack



 --- On Wed 12/15, Theresa Knott < theresaknott at gmail.com > wrote:
From: Theresa Knott [mailto: theresaknott at gmail.com]
To: jacklynch at excite.com, wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:56:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wrongful Block

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:49:04 -0500 (EST), Jack Lynch<br><jacklynch at excite.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> I did reinsert those words, but I also made other substantive edits. This has nothing to do w reversion. If I had reinserted thoise terms, and made other, non-substantive edits, i could understand, but thats not the case here. I went way out of my way to obey the policy, and have been blocked. I insist this is a violation of proper blocking procedure.<br><br>Hmm I'm not sure. Did you not think that you might be blocked for<br>doing this? It looks to me as if you were trying to sneak a revert of<br>the words into the edits. What I am saying is that you appear not to<br>be editing in good faith. Since it was clear that the god --> God etcs<br>were likely to be contentious, why didn't you make the substantive<br>edits without them?  then you could have gone back tomorrow and tried<br>again or whatever?<br><br><br>Theresa<br>

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