Gregory Kohs (of MyWikiBiz) emailed me to tell about his attempts to get an article fixed. I can speak from my own experience (and his) that OTRS can easily get clogged which means posts to that list take a long time to be responded to. So that makes me think. What other email addresses can banned people write to in order to get something fixed without posting to the wiki?
Mgm
On 3/29/07, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
On 29/03/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/29/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/29/07, Denny Colt wikidenny@gmail.com wrote:
My question: *if* there is concensus to allow banned users to post
if
"some
people feel like letting them", why not SAY that in the
banning/blocking
policy? Because that seems to be... the practice.
Quite clearly two unrelated policies are in conflict in this instance:
- WP:AUTO says that you can't edit your own article; you should post
complaints on the talk page instead. 2) WP:BAN says that banned editors can't edit anything, except possibly their own user talk page.
No one ever thought of the situation where the subject of an article is a banned editor. Now that it's happened, the conflict has to be resolved by setting a priority to the above. Consensus in this thread appears to be that WP:AUTO overrules WP:BAN. Problem solved. Have a nice day and thank your mother for the rabbits.
Steve
I don't see why a banned user would need to edit the wiki to complain.
We
have multiple email addresses to which complaints can be addressed. This way, the banning policy is upheld and the complaint is taken into consideration. Both policies would be upheld without any conflict
occuring
that would need us to put one policy over the other.
Problem articles can be dealt with far more effectively if they are dealt with on wiki by Wikipedians. Back channels tend to be populated by administrators aware of past problems and who are a lot more wary and unforgiving of users who have been problematic in the past.
-- Oldak Quill (oldakquill@gmail.com)
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