[WikiEN-l] User blocked

Mon Apr 14 19:18:08 UTC 2003

Well, 2 out of 2 people commenting so far think I'm wrong, so effectively immediately I'm banning myself from Wikipedia (I'll still participate on this mailing list, though).

Ed Poor

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Moeller [mailto:erik_moeller at gmx.de]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 3:10 PM
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] User blocked

> I blocked 80.14.137.218 for re-posting the diatribe at [[Censorship in the
> United States]].

This is an inappropriate use of sysop powers. You were involved in an edit  
war regarding that article. You should have asked another sysop to protect  
the page, or to block that IP (which, as far I can tell, is hard to  
justify, given that the user has only made one edit).

Please do not use your sysop privileges to block users who make edits you  
disagree with.

Regards,

Erik