No, it wasn't. At first it was only enabled on enwiki. On commons was activated on Brianna's request. "Essjay" wrote: Tim 'avatar' Bartel wrote: Hi Wikipedians,
Brianna Laugher wrote on 07/18/2006 05:04 PM: While they're blocked they can still edit their talk page.
Do they? I haven't tested it at the Commons, but in DE. A blocked user (in DE) is not able to edit his talk page. It's blocked like every other page.
Bye, Tim.
That should be reported to wikitech-l; as far as I know, the "blocked users can edit their own talk pages" fix was enabled everywhere around this time last year.
Essjay