[Wikipedia-l] Re: Less than an outright ban

[Ray Saintonge]

Jeroen Heijmans wrote:

> Same point. The Canadian thing wasn't the first time DW "violated" 
> wikipediquette. Also: these were mainly on the talk page, which 
> wouldn't have helped. The Canadian thing seems to go quite well now, 
> we all seem to be satisfied with a new approach on which we're working 
> at a temporary page.

Even DW has been co-operating there now.

> Anyway, maybe it is better to have something like this: If a user 
> repeatedly violates some rule, convention, whatever and has ignored 
> pleas from others to follow that rule, we could raise some flag in the 
> database and show the user a page with "Other Wikipedians have not you 
> have repeatedly violated X. Please read this documentation over X. If 
> you disagree with X, please go to Talk:X or Wikipedia-L. If you 
> continue to disrespect X, other measures may follow...".
>
> In this way, the use "gets reminded" all the time, and can't deny 
> knowing about the rule. Next measures be a ban from editing specific 
> articles, all articles (or talks if appropriate), etc. 

This is an interesting approach.  When the offender tries to post he 
would be redirected to such a page that would explain his offense 
followed  by "Do you understand and agree to the above?"  He would then 
have yes and no buttons.  A yes would bring him back on track; if he 
presses no he would ban or suspend himself.  This all assumes that this 
is technically feasible.

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