I'd love to.
Unfortunately, Gerard has made perfectly clear that any contradiction of his behavior is punishable by summary banning from Wikipedia. So, I could theoretically revoke such a block, but (a) Gerard or one of his flunkies would just reestablish it anyways and (b) they would impose penalties upon my own account for doing so.
As he is one of Snowspinner's protectors, you're stuck.
Sucks to be this way but those in power don't care about policy unless they can use it as a bludgeon to smack someone with.
A. Nony Mouse
From: Norath Norath norath2005@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Abuse of admin powers by David Gerard and Snowspinner Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:21:45 -0700 (PDT)
User:Norrath was block by David Gerard for "admitted sockpuppet and role account". This account is indeed a sockpuppet of a user in good standing, created to protest other blocks caaried out abusively by Snowspinner. The account was declared as a sockpuppet, in accordance with Wikipedia policy (which does not prohibit this) and the only edits were polite questions to Snowspinner about why he did not follow policy.
It is outrageous that admins block users simply for making legitimate requests for explanation from other admins about why they did not follow policy.
Please help.
Norrath
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