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

[Desiphral]

I agreed as I knew about it, I said "they will stay away from it" (without
knowing about this policy, just for avoiding accusations of association) and
I changed my password. If it's about the present tense of "I do not let
'arbitrary' people use my account, even less spammers", it was as a reply to
the present tense of the previous text of Rspeer, considering that they talk
about what happened in the past. Then I continued to describe what happened
in the past and how they did what they wanted by themselves. The present had
no relevance for me, since I did not edit on Wikipedia for a lot of time
and, as far as I can foresee, I don't have plans to edit in the near future.


Plus that, anyway, with my knowledge of English, not letting arbitrary
people does not imply automatically letting specific people (as one derived
a conclusion).

Deiphral

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>wrote:

> > 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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