On 14/03/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe I'm too hungry for efficiency but this kind of redundant repetition of work strikes me as pointless. What's more, deleting another's edits and resubmitting them as your own seems plagiaristic - credit where credit's not due.
The correct person should be credited in the edit summary, that's true. It does seem pointless, but if you're going to let banned users edit then they aren't really banned, are they?
Banning doesn't stop a person editing Wikipedia, it is used with an aim to do this by banning their username of choice (and any sockpuppets they're found to have). If a user cannot freely edit Wikipedia under their username of choice they are banned.
IMO, the punishment is not lessened if we passively accept useful edits made by them during a ban.