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

[Fred Bauder]

OK, I'll unblock you, and save you a step in the appeals process, to
unblock-en-l. I can see several things going on, some cultural. There is
no evidence in recent edits, checked by checkuser, that there is any
editing by others or for pay. In other words, this user has, other than
impudently disclosed information about events in the past, done nothing.

Fred Bauder


> 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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