Fred Bauder wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
If he does I will revert it and protect the page.
So let him delete it! If a notice is placed and he deletes it, then we know that he's been informed. That is all that due process (or anything along those lines) requires.
I think reverting it and protecting the page will work much better. It gives a strong message that business as usual is over unless they pay attention.
So starting arbitration proceedings doesn't send that message?
Instead, you'll protect the user talk page (which /ought/ to be viewed as a huge abuse of administrator power but which somehow isn't), thereby preventing any further attempts at mediation by non-admins.
In MNH's case, that probably doesn't matter anymore. But it's an awful precedent to set.
(And in MNH's case, protecting his user pages has happened before, so it wouldn't send any message to speak of either.)
-- Toby