Thomas Dalton schreef:
If he's not actually blocked/banned, can we ban him from the mailing list for outright lying?
He may just be confused on terminology: the difference between blocking and banning is not easy, and one should also clearly differentiate between people, user accounts, and IPs.
* People can be banned. That means they are not allowed to come back under any name.
* User accounts can be blocked (not banned). This may happen because they belong to banned people, because they are sock puppets, because of our user name policy, or some other reason.
* IPs can also be blocked. This may happen because they belong to banned people, or because they are anonymous proxies.
People whose user accounts or IPs are blocked, are allowed to return to editting under another name or from another IP, unless they (the people themselves) are actually banned.
It is my understanding that when ABF says he's banned from editing wikipedia, he actually means that his IP is blocked. The result of this may well be that he is unable to edit Wikipedia at all, if he is unable to get another IP to edit from.
Eugene