Hallo, I have accounts on dozens of wikis and i am an admin on a few of them. I opened an account on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/ , created a user page and put there a link to my blog. That's always the first thing i do on wikis to which i plan to contribute, because that's the easiest way to tell the world who i am before i start changing pages that other people wrote. It's not so different from filling in the "website" field on the profile page on GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn or any other website and it's pretty normative. On the Git wiki, however, the user page i created was deleted for "link spam" and my account was blocked for "Spamming links to external sites". I asked on the deleting admin's user talk page what is wrong about putting a link to my blog. The admin didn't reply, but deleted my question with the comment "Inappropriate abuse of the Wiki as a messenger, as well as abuse of the admin". On all the wikis i know the whole point of user talk pages is sending messages between users and with all seriousness i just can't understand how what i did constitutes "abuse of the admin". It is possible, of course, that this wiki has different rules. For example, you may want nothing but technical pages and no personal content whatsoever. Although it is quite contrary to the wiki idea, it is legitimate, but you should at least write it somewhere. Wikis usually have a "Help" or a "Community portal" page - i couldn't find anything like that on yours. And if you don't want user and user talk pages to exist, just don't allow people to edit them in the first place. I would be glad to have my account, Amire80, unblocked. I can open another one, but i happen to like this user name. Thank you, -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html