Gregory Kohs (of MyWikiBiz) emailed me to tell about his attempts to get an
article fixed.
I can speak from my own experience (and his) that OTRS can easily get
clogged which means posts to that list take a long time to be responded to.
So that makes me think. What other email addresses can banned people write
to in order to get something fixed without posting to the wiki?
Mgm
On 3/29/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29/03/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/29/07, Steve Bennett
<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/29/07, Denny Colt <wikidenny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > My question: *if* there is concensus to allow banned users to post
if
> "some
> > people feel like letting them", why not SAY that in the
banning/blocking
policy? Because that seems to be... the practice.
Quite clearly two unrelated policies are in conflict in this instance:
1) WP:AUTO says that you can't edit your own article; you should post
complaints on the talk page instead.
2) WP:BAN says that banned editors can't edit anything, except
possibly their own user talk page.
No one ever thought of the situation where the subject of an article
is a banned editor. Now that it's happened, the conflict has to be
resolved by setting a priority to the above. Consensus in this thread
appears to be that WP:AUTO overrules WP:BAN. Problem solved. Have a
nice day and thank your mother for the rabbits.
Steve
I don't see why a banned user would need to edit the wiki to complain.
We
have multiple email addresses to which complaints
can be addressed.
This way, the banning policy is upheld and the complaint is taken into
consideration. Both policies would be upheld without any conflict
occuring
that would need us to put one policy over the
other.
Problem articles can be dealt with far more effectively if they are
dealt with on wiki by Wikipedians. Back channels tend to be populated
by administrators aware of past problems and who are a lot more wary
and unforgiving of users who have been problematic in the past.
--
Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)
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