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.
Kindly ol' Uncle Ed (User:Ed Poor)
Chairman (pro tem), Mediation Committee
Admin, Bureaucrat, Developer Emeritus, wikien-l admin, etc., etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: MacGyverMagic/Mgm [mailto:macgyvermagic@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 5:32 AM
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Abuse of admin powers by David Gerard
and Snowspinner
On 7/6/05, Norath Norath <norath2005(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
User:Norrath was block by David Gerard for
"admitted sockpuppet and
role account". This account is indeed a sockpuppet of a
user in good
standing, created to protest other blocks caaried
out abusively by
Snowspinner.
Regardless of whether a block was within policy or not,
creating another account to circumvent it is against policy.
This is especially what the list was made for and if you
asked to be unblocked while citing relevant sections of
policy, I'm sure you could get a lot more admins to unblock
you if you contacted them privately, than when you go
straight to accusations of abuse.
--Mgm