Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com writes:
I'm not sure right now who 142.177.* is, but perhaps someone will remind me. This is the death threat guy, right? Or am I forgetting?
I don't know. I could not find any death threats and I can't remember that he (142.177.) got mentioned on the mailing list. I read first Aharites and was delighted to see that Wikipedia finally had attracted some expert in orientalism. Yesterday I discovered that he had been banned several times and I unsuccessfully tried to find out why.
elian wrote:
Second question: Since when is the fact that some user was banned a valid reason (without giving any other reasons) for deleting entire articles?
This is not as easy a question as it first appears. My own position is that if someone is sneaking in to edit after a ban, it's really important to simply revert everything they do, in order to deprive them of the benefit that they seek. Debating over the quality of each individual edit only encourages them to stick around and argue about it, as if they had never been banned.
I can accept this for bans where there was a open debate on the mailing list or in clear cases of vandalism. But this case seems to be neither (correct me if I am wrong and only missed something)
And my fourth and last question: Why the hell do you ban users who write articles like this: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asharites ???
Well, here's the thing. If someone does good work, and *also* behaves like a royal ass to others, at some point it's necessary to say, hey, you know, the good work is good, but it's costing us more good work from other people.
check for yourself - contributions from the banned IPs: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... (the first IP-ban I cited yesterday is not in the list anymore today)
So, if there happened a repeated ban, it should be possible to provide the reasons for this.
Why were these IPs banned in the first case?
greetings, elian