[WikiEN-l] Featured Editors

[Flameviper Velifang]

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:00:37 -0800
From: Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured editors?
To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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It is actually rather hard to get sitebanned from Wikipedia and it's
 pretty
easy to return.

Simply wait on the sidelines quietly without trying to evade the ban on
sockpuppets and either let the ban expire or make a polite request to
 have
it lifted.  Promise to abide by policies and site standards.

If the editor has done those things, and hasn't done anything
 extraordinary
(such as threatening bodily harm to another editor), then I'll support
 their
return.  If I weren't the blocking admin I'd open a dialog to make sure
those standards have been satisfied.

I give barnstars to people who make productive contributions after
 making a
legitimate return from a siteban.

Also, there is *no such thing* as a ban from GDFL licensure.  People
 who get
banned from Wikipedia and think they can do things better are welcome
 to
start a new wiki and test their principles at it.  They don't have to
 start
from square one: Wikimedia's wiki software is free and Wikipedia's
 article
content can be taken and adapted free of charge.

-Durova


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Hi, this is real life. Have you ever been here before?
You seem to have come from Wiki-Fantasy Land. We get a lot of people who come from the place where things work how they're supposed to.
  Unfortunately, this is not Happy Happy Fun Time, it's Wikipedia.
  And on Wikipedia, a siteban is grounds for a ban everywhere else.
  And if by some freak of nature, you get unblocked, you'll get reblocked within 5 minutes because you didn't use edit summaries.

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