Re: wiki "abuse"

> 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.