This evening I blocked User:Borderer as an alias of User:Kenneth
Alan, who was banned for a year by the arbitration committee on
October 2, 2004 for highly abusive behavior and other controversial
editing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kenneth_Alan
Many of you are familiar this user, so I wanted to notify the mailing
list as a whole.
Kenneth came back as Borderer in December. I noticed him in mid
January, because an edit he made on one of my watchlist articles. The
edit was suspicious enough that I went to the user's contributions
and immediately verified it was him, based on the unique telltale
constellation of topics that he has edited in the past. I didn't act
at the time, however, because in his new identity he was editing in
a very restrained and lowkey manner, and I was willing to look the
other way and let him perhaps evolve into a productive editor, all
the while with the ban hanging over his head.
In the past two weeks, however, he began returning to form, insulting
users in an increasingly strident manner, and rousing animosity in
the way he has before. When he switched from small edits and
additions to adding a full-scale essay (on [[Danelaw]]) linking 9th
century Scandavian history with contemporary U.S. politics, I knew he
was "back" in full and immediately blocked him again idefinitely. I
apologize to anyone who have been antogonized by him in his new
identity over the last month, not realizing it was him, but I wanted
to give a chance to redeem himself. I will certainly not do so again.
According to the rules of the arbitration com, I don't know how or if
this affects the "clock" on his 1-year ban.
best wishes to all,
Matthew Trump [[User:Decumanus]]