User:JoeM/ban

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Jimmy Wales wikien-l@wikipedia.org 
Sun Aug 10 17:11:54 UTC 2003 
This sounds like an only 10% milder counterpart to the Palestinian
activist from last week.  Well, if he keeps it up, I approve that we
should put him on auto-revert unless and until he gets the message.

WikiEn-l post by our benevolent dictator.


(This comment has been moved from User:JoeM)

Note: this account has now been hard-blocked. After a spate of repeat vandalism on December 13 it is clear this user has no intention of working with the community. - Hephaestos 21:40, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Jimbo,

This is User:JoeM from Wikipedia. I'm contacting you concerning my ban from 
editing Wikipedia.

I want to apologize for some of my more rude behavior on your site. I at 
times got too angry and enthusiastic in defending my views, and patriotism 
is so important to me that I got a little out of control. I've had a lot of 
time to think and cool off, though, and I'm not angry anymore, even at the 
Communist and pro-terrorist users. My views on America and the importance of 
defending freedom have not changed, but I now realize that the way I went 
about stating these views only hurt the causes that were important to me.

If I am unblocked, I won't use sockpuppets anymore. I will not engage in 
personal attacks. I won't engage in revert wars. I will calmly discuss my 
edits and views on talk pages without attacking users that I disagree with. 
and I will definitely never, ever vandalize pages again. I will respect the 
principle of NPOV.

I think that the Wikipedia project has great potential to shine light on the 
TRUTH that the mainstream media hides, and I'd like to be an active 
contributor again to make sure the project reaches its full potential.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help get my account 
back.  I really want to help Wikipedia grow.

Your friend,
Joe M.



[above] is a letter that JoeM sent to this mailing list, as well as to me
privately.  I have consulted with the ArbCom and found no opposition to
my lifting Joe M's ban, which predates the ArbCom and was a long long
time ago anyway.  The apology is quite sound, and I welcome him as a
newcomer and hope that everyone will mentally wipe the slate clean and
greet him warmly.

I've recommended to Joe that he go out of his way to be extremely and
extraordinarily mature, polite, and peaceful especially in the early
months of his return.

--Jimbo

(Wikien-l, 22 July)