Jimmy Wales wrote:
I'm not sure right now who 142.177.* is, but perhaps someone will remind me. This is the death threat guy, right? Or am I forgetting?
elian wrote:
Second question: Since when is the fact that some user was banned a valid reason (without giving any other reasons) for deleting entire articles?
This is not as easy a question as it first appears. My own position is that if someone is sneaking in to edit after a ban, it's really important to simply revert everything they do, in order to deprive them of the benefit that they seek. Debating over the quality of each individual edit only encourages them to stick around and argue about it, as if they had never been banned.
Hmm! This bout seems to prove my point. When you start to delete an offender's work (in addition to his generally accepted banning) you open up that banning debate to whole new generations of disputatious individuals. Do we love these arguments, or what? :-)
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