User talk:Norrath

'''I have been blocked, permanently, by User:David Gerard, for asking User:Snowspinner why he made two other, apparently baseless, blocks. I consider this an outrage, but apparently it is business as usual around here.'''

6 July 2005 17:01, David Gerard blocked Norrath (expires indefinite) (contribs) (admitted sockpuppet and role account)

I am, indeed, a sockpuppet, of a user in good standing on Wikipedia. Sock puppet policy specifically allows this. I created the account in order to ask Snowspinner why he made apparently baseless blocks, because I fear retribution against my regular account if I did this. It appears my fears were well founded.

David's only response to this was to accuse me of having a 'role account', which he claims is prohibited, the penalty, presumably, being instant and permanent blocking. Firstly, this is not a role account, secondly, role accounts are not prohibited. I have heard nothing from him since.

Discussions on the mailing list about how users who question admins are clearly 'wildly trolling' lead to the notion that blocked users should be able to edit their own talk pages. I am not sure what good this will do, since David will simply ignore this.

Please, if anyone with any influence, or someone who is not too afraid of the rogue admins, can do anything to put this right, I'd appreciate the help.

I've unblocked you.
You're welcome. Andre ( talk ) 01:57, July 11, 2005 (UTC)