[WikiEN-l] Abe, I've gone to the "No Orginal Research" talk page and a search reveals no reference to Deng

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Sun Jan 2 02:31:52 UTC 2005


I also tried the archive pages.  Can you be more specific?  Also,
can you reverse this abusive block?

           -- thanx,
                 Silverback

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> The when not to block section of the blocking policy page states that "blocks to 
> gain advantage in a content dispute" are not allowed. Furthermore AndyL stated 
> in his block message: "adding other material in addition to your reverts 
> doesn\'t stop an edit from being a revert". 
> 
> This is not documented anywhere and is obviously a judgement call. I did not 
> use the revert mechanism (going to history and selecting an older page), and I 
> made substantial and responsive changes to the page, while AndyL, used the 
> revert mechanism (apparently). 
> 
> Since I was blocked in violation of this policy, please use the provided 
> mechanism to unblock me, that documents this as a legitmate reason.. 
> 
> -- thanx, 
> Silverback 
> 
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> 
> > AndyL has just blocked me (Silverback), alleging that I violated the 3 revert 
> > rule on the page "communism". He abused the administrator priviledges for two 
> > reasons: 
> > 
> > 1) I was making substantantive changes in response to his fabricated 
> objections, 
> > not merely reverting, he was being obtuse and failing to see obvious points. 
> > 
> > 2) If these were somehow, technically reverts on my part, he was the one 
> > instigating them, it is abusive for him to be the one to block me in such a 
> > situation, he should have to call in another administrator, rather than judge 
> an 
> > "edit war" he was a participant in. 
> > 
> > -- thanx for your attention, 
> > Silverback 
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