Delirium-
The vandalizing user talk pages and so on
I'll agree is over the line,
but I disagree that it warrants a temporary ban. Simply revert the
changes, like we do with everyone else. We've had plenty of other users
who've vandalized pages, including EntmootsOfTrolls and BuddhaInside,
BuddhaInside was instantly banned after vandalism. EntmootsOfTrolls is
banned now because of threats, I'm not aware of any vandalism by him but I
can assure you that I or someone else would have banned him had that
happened to a significant extent.
among others, who were not summarily banned
through the extraordinary
use of developer powers.
No use of developer powers was involved. All sysops can ban signed in
users.
That power is supposed to be used only to enforce an already-existing
ban: it was created to deal with Michael's endless aliases and can
reasonably be used in any similar situation. It doesn't mean that any
sysop--of whom, as you note, there are many--can exclude someone
from Wikipedia. That way lies instability at best.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
vr(a)redbird.org