Heya, [+Dscho] On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. See also the rest of the thread on gmane [0]. [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/152861 -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- 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