Anthere wrote in part:
I understand very much Heph tiredness. The best point in his decision is that it allows us to realise a new tool was provided, but that no discussion occurred upon how using it (except for pure hard Michael vandalism).
There was /some/ discussion, and Jimbo said this: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-September/006242.html
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Toby Bartels wrote:
AFAICT, it's so far authorised only for Michael. But it will probably be expanded as soon as Jimbo pronounces something.
Yes, that's right. I suppose it's for Michael or what we have traditionally called blatant vandalism (goatse.cx, etc.). Certainly it would be a *grave* abuse to use it in any case other than that.
We'll also want to take reasonable care that we not ban logged-in users who aren't really Michael. Mistaken identity is worse than a few random idiot edits on his part.
I would advise that it be used just as for IPs, which means that new usernames doing only vandalism can be blocked. But established user names can't be blocked for new errors, just as IPs that have done more than vandalism can't be.
That's right.
--Jimbo
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My citation here should not be interpreted as an opinion one way or another as to whether the user BuddhaInside should be hard-banned or not; it is only about "processus". ^_^
-- Toby, Who has not had very much time at all lately but happened to notice this post that I had just the citation to answer!