From: Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au
JAY JG wrote:
In my experience, when this kind of person is blocked from editing one article (e.g. via page protection), he or she typically moves on to start edit warring on a related article. A good example is one of the people currently being proposed for RfAR, who has managed to get perhaps 10 articles protected so far, one after another, returning to the originals for further revert warring when they are unprotected again.
Well, the feature I have in mind would allow the user to be blocked from an arbitrary list of articles. In the scenario you refer to, the effect would be the same for the badly behaving user, they would continue to move from article to article. The difference is that other editors would still be able to edit the articles left behind. Since the collateral damage is lower, action could be taken sooner, and the bad user would run out of related articles to edit more quickly.
For how long would these individual article blocks remain?
Jay.