Egad, where the Cunctator when you need him? At the drop of a hat, people are talking about banning this one and banning that one.

If someone writes badly, just revise their work. If someone puts something on the wrong shelf, just put it back.

SoftSecurity, right?

Uncle Ed

-----Original Message----- From: Jimmy Wales [mailto:jwales@bomis.com] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:30 PM To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Return of DW?

Lee Pilich wrote:

I strongly suspect that User:Ron Davis is User:DW (who was banned a while ago) under a different name.

Has anyone asked Ron Davis?

One possible route for redemption, one that I don't really want to encourage but can't really prevent, is for a person who has been warned repeatedly and then banned for bad behavior to come back under a new name *and behave*. If they actually *do* behave, well, there's not much harm.

The only harm, really, is that a standing policy like that might encourage some people to just keep coming back under new names. In particularly problematic cases, we might have to be really strict about it, up to and including complaining to ISPs or bigger authorities if absolutely necessary.