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| :I didn't block that user. Possibly my unblock decline was too strongly worded, since he was at least the tenth person I'd declined for unblock in a similar position, and I was heartily tired of people using Misplaced Pages to advertise- and yes, it's still advertising even if what you're advertising is not a business. If he isn't interested in editing Misplaced Pages, but only in using Misplaced Pages for promotion, then there's nothing I can do, and in any case, the ] don't allow us to use website or organization names for our usernames, so that account can't be unblocked anyway. -]<span style="font-size: smaller;"> (] · ])</span> 19:14, 7 July 2009 (UTC) | :I didn't block that user. Possibly my unblock decline was too strongly worded, since he was at least the tenth person I'd declined for unblock in a similar position, and I was heartily tired of people using Misplaced Pages to advertise- and yes, it's still advertising even if what you're advertising is not a business. If he isn't interested in editing Misplaced Pages, but only in using Misplaced Pages for promotion, then there's nothing I can do, and in any case, the ] don't allow us to use website or organization names for our usernames, so that account can't be unblocked anyway. -]<span style="font-size: smaller;"> (] · ])</span> 19:14, 7 July 2009 (UTC) | ||
| ::Ok fair enough but what do you suggest him to do then? I assure you that his intentions were genuine, the problem is that this specific article was tricky. I understand the spirit of the rules but you have to understand that there is a fine line between "promotion" and "presentation", a line which can easily be crossed by a non-native speaker who wishes to present his hobby. I agree that the ] should not edit ] but when we have an activity of a somewhat closed community, who would know enough and care enough to edit this article if not the members of the community? --] (]) 06:47, 8 July 2009 (UTC) | ::Ok fair enough but what do you suggest him to do then? I assure you that his intentions were genuine, the problem is that this specific article was tricky. I understand the spirit of the rules but you have to understand that there is a fine line between "promotion" and "presentation", a line which can easily be crossed by a non-native speaker who wishes to present his hobby. I agree that the ] should not edit ] but when we have an activity of a somewhat closed community, who would know enough and care enough to edit this article if not the members of the community? --] (]) 06:47, 8 July 2009 (UTC) | ||
| :::Greeks can and do edit ]. If no one outside this community knows or cares about something, why would an encyclopedia need to write it? The people who want to know already know, and no one else wants to know. -]<span style="font-size: smaller;"> (] · ])</span> 12:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC) | |||
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 SnarkyThis gave me a good laugh. Snarky as hell and damned funny :) - NeutralHomer • Talk • 18:57, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
About a blockDear FisherQueen, I am sorry that I'm using this channel to communicate with you but as an old wikipedia lover, I am really dissappointed by this matter. I have noticed the blocking on User:Socrates.awmn, I have read your explanation and I would like to give you some advice on the matter since I strongly believe that you have been mislead by someone. AWMN is not a business and thus it cannot be "advertised" in the commercial sense. As the article explains, it is an open community of human beings, no profit, no selling, no material gain involved whatsoever, only knowledge and fun. There is however a strong competition for control and a lot of arrogance since it is composed by a 99% male community. I do strongly, very strongly, believe that some envy person reported socrates.awmn for "advertising" and this lead to the block. If you spoke Greek you could visit the webpages related to AWMN and then you would immediately realise that it is a genuine non-profit hobby and that there is no realistic conflict of interest of any kind. However, you obviously do not speak Greek and thus I understand that it might have looked like a clear violation of rules while scorates.awmn was just presenting the community. I strongly suggest to invite some Greek speaker to review the AWMN web page and the forum and advise you if he believes that AWMN can be classified as a business in any way. If you are still not satisfied and you are still unwilling to unblock the user then please write your comments on socrates.awmn's talk so that we could see that you took this message under consideration. --racergr (talk) 10:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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