Angela wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
As for Wikipedia bans and block policy, however, I'm not sure that's resolved. Was RickK right to block Adrian? Was Adrian a vandal? I don't think so. But I'm not sure what the blocks justification was, since it's not in the log.
It is in the log. See [[Wikipedia:Block_log]], not [[Special:Ipblocklist]]):
I'm not saying it was necessarily wrong to block this user, but it was certainly wrong to block him without warning. He had only made three edits to an existing article and created a new one twice. This isn't a huge number of edits and they were all easily reversible, so there was no emergency need to block him in my opinion.
I agree. When Sysops are too quick to use heavy-handed methods against newcomers they are often more harmful than the problems that they pretend to solve. There was a time when everybody would be outraged when Ed Poor was too quick to block pages or ban users. From the little that I've seen about Adrian, he has been more than willing to adapt when the problem was explained to him. Trying to impose excessive orthodoxy just drives people away.
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