On 17/03/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I only ask that the request be logged if you block someone, not just because it was done. The block messages have by and large not been nearly sufficient, which is why I'm asking.
Ah, ok :-)
Again, summary of policy: If you take user restrictive action (block, ban, propose ban) on a CU done by a request or mechanism other than en WP:RFCU, you or the checkuser who ran it need to log that it was done and by whom. That's all. If you don't block the policy has no effect whatsoever. Don't log anything that didn't result in a block/ban/proposed ban.
Hm, could be useful. Need to put something into the checkuser code not to make it a PITA. It was only recently a "reason" field was added to the checkuser tool itself (cheers to VoiceOfAll) and it's a damn good thing but also easy not to fill it.
- d.