[WikiEN-l] Cla68 blocked for asking question

[Thomas Dalton]

On 20/10/2007, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> Durova has blocked Cla68 for 24 hours for responding to Jimbo's
> posting on [[Talk:Gary Weiss]], which included "No nonsense, zero
> tolerance, shoot on sight.", with "Most of us usually try to give
> some reasoning for any action, proposed action, or threatened action
> that we discuss on an article's talk page. Would you mind doing the
> same?"  It was claimed that this was a "WP:POINT" violation.  Just
> how is asking the reasons behind a draconian statement a block-worthy
> violation?

Looks a little unfair to me, too. A lot of people seem to miss the
"disrupting Wikipedia" part of "disrupting Wikipedia to make a point".
Just making a point is NOT a policy violation. Posting to a talk page
is not disruptive.