[WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.

[Parker Peters]

The "original" account was claimed to be NoLongerScieno (blocked for
"name..") and the second account was ScienoSitter.

Possible sockpuppet? Certainly.

Worthy of blocking under name block? Maybe.

Wrongful to tag as a "vandalism only" account and wrongful to block for
being a sockpuppet of a username block? Definitely.

On 10/7/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:37:51 -0500, "Parker Peters"
> <onmywayoutster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Oh, plus, blocking is preventative.  Is there  a potential problem to
> >> be averted?  Will blocking and then discussing on the user talk page
> >> be a better result for the project than letting them edit?
>
> >In the case I quoted, there was no "blocking and then discussing on the
> user
> >talk page", there was instead "blocking and chain reverting the unblock
> >template and then getting someone to block them for supposed template
> >abuse."
>
> Name names.  If it was a Zephram Stark sock, for example, then that is
> absolutely as it should be.
>
> Guy (JzG)
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