My signature and your actions I thought about taking this to a dispute hearing but I couldn t be fucked So I m just going to outline here why I think that your blocking of my account was unjustified and against policy You stated when you blocked me anon only account creation blocked with an expiry time of indefinite personal attack in signature will unblock on signature change I disagree with your action on three levels The first is that it was a personal attack the second on the indefinite ban and the third on any action at all Why it wasn t a personal attack The primary purpose of creating any block is to protect Wikipedia and its editors and users from harm From WP BP Of the list of reasons on WP BP the only one plausibly applicable is Disruption Under this it has A user may be blocked when his her conduct severely disrupts the project his her conduct is inconsistent with a civil collegial atmosphere and interferes with the process of editors working together harmoniously to create an encyclopedia And Blocks for general incivility are controversial In no way could any of my actions be considered severely disruptive Or even simply disruptive While it could be argued that my signature was generally uncivil and I disagree more later blocking for this reason is controversial and should have been discussed first So from WP BP there is no reason in my opinion to block Now we examine WP NPA This is simply Do not make personal attacks anywhere in Wikipedia and I agree with it The point here is personal My signature was not a personal attack on anyone It was a generalised comment and an in joke I can t help it if you are not in on the joke For the attack to be personal you would need to find someone who was attacked you would not be able to do this So my signature did not constitute an attack on anyone it did not disrupt discussion or affect the quality of my edits thus it should not be a factor in anything As to general incivility I simply disagree From WP CIVIL Whereas incivility is roughly defined as personally targeted behavior that causes an atmosphere of greater conflict and stress My signature was not personally targeted behavior as explained above and I also fail to see how it could cause an atmosphere of conflict or stress There is nothing in this policy which is applicable in this case Why I should not have been blocked In blocking me indefinitely you violated WP BP which states Established users with significant constructive edits should not be indefinitely blocked except when there is a community ban In all other cases they should be handled with appropriate time limited blocks or arbitration Indefinite blocks should not usually be placed on IP users whether individual IPs or IP ranges in order to avoid inadvertently blocking legitimate users In blocking me at all I also feel that you violated WP BP You did not have a clear reason to block me and you did so indefinitely In these cases you should have posted at WP ANI asking for advice and or detailing why you felt that the block was needed What could have happened So what could you have done Well the simplest thing would have to post on my talk page a comment asking me to change my signature and pointing to the policy which it violated see the previous case for an example If you had have done this and I had agreed with your argument then I would have simply changed my signature If I had failed to change my signature then you could have discussed it with me more and or taken it to a hearing Conclusion As I said at the beginning I didn t want to take this to a hearing However I feel that I would be perfectly within my rights to do so and I reserve the right to do so This by the way is simply a statement What would I like you to do Well an apology would be nice perhaps something worded along the lines of I m sorry for not talking to you first not checking policy and for violating policy by indefinitely blocking you If you are unable to give an apology for whatever reason say you believe that you were in the right and still are then I would appreciate a comment regardless A comment on my userpage would be noticed faster but here would be fine as well Postscripts PS This is the first time I ve encountered you but I notice that you objected to my comments at the Talk Tasmania