<DIV><sarcasm> Sure. People don't EVER use their Watchlists to make sure the garbage they put on a page didn't get deleted. </sarcasm><BR><BR><B><I>Sunir Shah <sunir@sunir.org></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Erik Moeller wrote:<BR>>I banned Anthony after he repeatedly vandalized the same page, even though<BR>>I had told him to stop. I immediately unbanned him after the matter was<BR>>resolved. I am 100% positive that this was a perfectly appropriate action<BR>>to take, with arbitration committee or without, and is backed up by<BR>>precedent (BuddhaInside, RK etc.). Protection was not an option, because<BR>>the page in question, a list of sites using our MediaWiki software, is<BR>>supposed to be openly editable at any time so that sitemasters can add<BR>>their site to the list.<BR><BR>A cheaper solution would have been to wait a while,<BR>say a day or two, and then delete the problematic<BR>text after the user had forgotten about the page.<BR>Time is a more powerful weapon than banlists, and<BR>it's free for everyone to
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