[Wikipedia-l] Lir and Christopher Columbus

[koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com]

Larry Wrote:
>I would like to weigh in here to say that I'm just slightly disturbed
that
>we are getting into the habit of publicly proposing, on this list, to use
>the banning power to settle acrimonious edit wars.  I've noticed this in
>the case of Lir and of DW.  When Jimbo and I were the only ones who had
>the authority to ban people, we never used it for this purpose, or at
>least, I can't remember a single case.  This is the first time I recall
>anyone proposing to ban someone for *one hour* so that the person could
>"cool off."  This is the first I've heard of "cooling people off" as a
>reason to *ban* them for any length of time.

Yes, people are becoming a bit quick on the trigger, I'd say.

I disagreed with some of Lir's edits, and doubt she'll win any
congeniality contests, but I think some of the sysops also could use a
cooling down.... Not that they deserve banning, either.

kq