Grounds would be the likelyhood of permanent damage to the project resulting from serious offenses combined with a general refusal to listen.
From: Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:41:29 -0800 (PST) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Duck Court
Do we really need temporary bans? We didn't have the need for them before and they would be very damaging to the Wiki principle. Remember: Wikipedia is a Wiki Encyclopedia, not a courtroom. There's no real danger of letting someone off, aside from the chance that they might vandalize a few pages, something which is easily reversible. In the past, we've had a lot of trouble with unilateral bans, and they have always been condemned after the fact by almost everyone.