Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I expected the new software to include the feature we've all been asking for, that would block a user from "all pages but his own talk page" - or "all pages but a few specific ones". The purpose of this was to enable a user to protest a block - without having to create a new account or find a new ISP.
Pending development of this feature, why not: (1) Unblock the user account. (2) Requent the user to confine his edits to his user talk page (and possibly a short list of other pages) (3) Watch his contribs, and instantly revert and edits outside his assigned scope. (4) Re-block his account if #3 becomes tedious.
This is bending over backwards to be fair. And I wouldn't mind being the first to try it - if enough others think the experiment is worth trying.
I could do a quick hack to allow blocked users to edit their own talk page, if that's what you want. It's a much simpler feature to the other thing I'm working on at the moment, i.e. per-article blocking.
-- Tim Starling