Simply Gone
The Legal Department often deals with questions and requests about blocks to individual Wikimedia project user accounts. Sometimes, users are blocked and ask us to remove the block and/or to delete the account. In most cases, the Foundation supports the decisions of the volunteer community around user blocking. The Foundation believes the community is best equipped to ensure Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects run smoothly and safely, and they are best suited to identify disruptive users. The Wikimedia community provides explicit reasons on any decisions to ban a user.
During this reporting period, someone contacted the Legal Department believing their username had been blocked on Simple Wikiquote, and they requested the removal of this block to continue posting.
After reviewing the situation, the Legal Department informed the individual that their username wasn’t blocked. The real issue was that Simple Wikiquote had been discontinued since 2009, which meant posting was no longer possible for anyone.