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.
Ec