[WikiEN-l] The current purges in English Wikipedia (...and my personal case)

[Fred Bauder]

> Put simply, because there was an ongoing issue with a compromised
> account. A user was allowing other people to share his account, and had
> not agreed to stop doing this. That is an ongoing problem and rightly
> deserved a block.
>
> Of course if the user later agreed to stop doing this, the rationale
> might not still apply.

There is still a problem: He still has friends; there is probably still
only one computer; and his friends may be interested in writing Wikipedia
accounts for hire, a legal activity, as he points out. We might have to
sort some of this stuff out. I think we can.

Fred

>
> ----- "Nathan" <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: "Nathan" <nawrich at gmail.com>
>> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, 9 July, 2009 18:51:45 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
>> Portugal
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The current purges in English Wikipedia (...and
>> my personal case)
>>
>> I'm not sure how blocking someone for conduct admitted from "some years
>> ago", that doesn't appear to have hurt anyone or caused any disruption,
>> is
>> "the right thing to do." That's like saying "You violated 3RR in 2004,
>> I'm
>> blocking you for 24 hours. If you wish to be unblocked, admit your
>> guilt and
>> promise never to edit-war again." It's not bad advice for someone who
>> wants
>> to be unblocked, given human nature, but it shouldn't be necessary.
>> Nathan
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