[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Ilmari Karonen]

Anthony wrote:
>
> I am not the one wikilawyering.  Yes, the IP addresses are blocked by
> policy.  That is pretty much indisputable.  If your only comment is
> that Charlotte *knew* the IP addresses were blocked, I don't think you
> need to look at this AfD to know that.  Of course Charlotte knew the
> IP addresses were blocked.  The question is whether or not Charlotte
> knew that it was wrong to edit using them anyway.

This seems pretty disingenious.  The message normally shown when one 
tries to edit via a blocked Tor node, [[Template:Tor]], says:

   "This IP address has been blocked because it is believed to be a Tor
   network open proxy.  To prevent abuse, editing Wikipedia from these
   proxies is prohibited."

For an analogy, imagine you wanted to get into a building and, for some 
reason, didn't want to use the door.  So you try to climb in through a 
window, but it's barred, with a sign saying: "Entering the building 
through windows is forbidden!"  So you try another window, and it too is 
barred with a similar sign.  You try a couple more, and they're all 
barred.  Then finally, you find a window that's ajar and has no sign. 
Would you conclude:

  a) that entering through *this* window is perfectly acceptable, or
  b) that the signs you saw previously in fact apply to *all* the
     windows, but someone simply forgot to bar this one?

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Ilmari Karonen