On 15/06/06, John Pozniak <gentgeen(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I agree. Unless this user was blocked from all
Wikimedia projects by the board, a block on one
project shouldn't mean a block on all. After all, we
have very few enforced policies, and one of them is
"Wikibooks is not Wikipedia".
Just an observation from a relative wikibooks-newbie, there seems to
be a pretty hostile attitude to Wikipedia. Don't you trust the
Wikipedia community to make the right decision?
Coming from Commons...if a user was blocked in another project for
copyright violations, I would be very prepared to block them if they
did the same thing there. If an image was deleted in a project for
having no source/being a copyright violation, I would trust that
project's decision and delete it on Commons too, if there was no new
compelling evidence.
But copyright is a different issue to what is essentially being
blocked for social reasons (trolling)...OK it's probably not
appropriate to just automatically block anyone who has blocked
elsewhere. But don't you think it might be useful to find out why they
were blocked elsewhere? If you could save yourselves a lot of
potential hassle (some vandals are extremely disruptive), wouldn't you
consider it at least? I mean it's not like Wikipedia is this totally
separate thing and they're all strangers, that's all.
cheers,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise