Erik Moeller wrote:
Tim-
Eloquence obviously has a different idea of "simple vandalism" than I do. RK got angry, he lashed out at a few users.
He did so by vandalizing their user pages. I told him to stop. In response he vandalized mine.
And so you got angry and banned him.
The issue could have brought up on the mailing list. In the past, we have often discussed weeks and weeks before banning long-term Wikipedians. I do not think that this practice should be changed now. There was no imminent danger. RK rudely and unexcusably replaced four people's user pages with angry messages, that's all. Wikipedia was never under attack.
Axel