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Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
I don't see why we should have to wait until the disruption begins before blocking him. He tried to cause massive disruption: that he (appears to have) failed was simply down to the others' lack of response.
In a charitable interpretation he tried to recruit new editors who would agree with his POV on a particular issue within compliance of Wikipedia rules. I've tried that too - with much the same luck...
In my personal opinion, and assuming I have the facts right, the user in question should be unblocked again.
I agree. If we block people from editing Wikipedia because of what they may or may not have said somewhere other than Wikipedia, or because we feel threatened by them, then we are... well, Godwin was right.
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