[WikiEN-l] Unfair Blocking

Joe Anderson computerjoe.mailinglist at googlemail.com
Mon May 1 15:28:59 UTC 2006


Indeed.

On 5/1/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> maru dubshinki wrote:
> > On 5/1/06, Galen Williams <banbanbananaman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> *I have been blocked for using my first name, Ban, as a username. Your
> >> username policy says nothing that could indicate "Ban" as being an
> >> impersonation of someone, offensive, or otherwise worthy of any level
> of
> >> blocking. Here is the error message:*
> >>
> >> *Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing*.
> >> You were blocked by Anonymous
> >> editor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anonymous_editor>for the
> >> following reason (see our blocking
> >> policy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy>):
> "username"
> >>
> >> Your IP address is *64.233.172.4*.
> >>
> >> *If there is some obvious reason for blocking me that I cannot see,
> then can
> >> I use "Ban Galen?"*
> >>
> >> *Thank you for your time.*
> >>
> >> *: Ban Galen :*
> >
> > Heh. It is unfortunate that your chosen name is "ban", and we "ban"
> > vandals. Anyhoo, I've unblocked you, since you don't seem to be
> > foaming at the mouth.
> >
>
> Might want to cc: that to the OP...
>
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