On 2/7/06, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
The wheel war was well underway when I stepped in
to set things back to
an appropriate status quo, and desysopping several people as a part of it.
That's simply factually incorrect. The user was blocked once (by
Carbonite), then unblocked once (by Radiant!). You then blocked the
user again, without discussion, thereby starting a "wheel war". That is
not "well underway"---you were the first re-blocker.
The usual procedure for a controversial block is to go through normal
channels. A similar thing happens with speedy deletions---if I
speedy-delete someone as non-notable and it gets undeleted by someone
who claims otherwise, it's not appropriate to simply speedy-delete again
without discussion.
I suspect that Jimbo is referring to the other blocks involved
(Carnildo's, El_C's, etc.) as well as the deletion/undeletion war over
the actual userbox, rather than the initial block itself.
Kirill Lokshin