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Racial Slurs
I was contacted last night by a user who claims he was banned with this message: "no more message for you, you freakin jew" (I'm not sure if that's a direct quote or not). I never saw the ban in question on the blocked IP list, so, if it really existed (and I firmly suspect it didn't), it must've been a timed block that expired before he contacted me. I will always side with admins and sysops in conflicts like this, but I hope it goes without saying that if this did indeed happen I'm sorely dissappointed. Racism simply cannot be tolerated coming from our admin/sysop staff. — 
Joey (talk·edits) 15:19, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- According to the Block Log (which contains every block and message by sysops whether the block has expired or not), no one called anyone "a freakin jew". —FireBird|Talk 17:05, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- This is absolutely ridiculous, but just for completeness sake:
- I just searched the entire database and %jew% appears 11 times in current pages, and never in a derogatory manner. Results include "jewel case" (x2), "Jewish skullcap," "Jew's harp" (x3), "jewelry" (x2), "jewelrey," "jewel cases," "asjhfijewifjaskdjfkajewifjewjf," and of course this page. In archived (deleted) pages it appears once as "Jeweettoch" in some spam comment. One email address of a user contains a variant of the word "jewel." Nothing else.
- I thought perhaps this user was referring instead to the forum, so I searched that database as well. No red flags there either.
- This user didn't provide their username that was blocked or their IP address? The Blocked text includes a user's IP address and clearly instructs them to include that address in any queries they make. Also, did they say they were blocked from editing the Wiki or that they were banned from posting on the forum? Did they say who blocked/banned them? Any answers to these questions would certainly clear things up. -- Tom 20:14, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
