Personally, I have no problems with you logging out and making uncontroversial vandalism only reverts if you can, mainly because even e-mailing through to us, it'll take longer than we would like for vandalism to be dealt with, and on BLPs, that's a big problem.

You would still be evading your ban however and are liable to being blocked at any time without notice, and given that we are all human and all have different standards and feelings on issues like this, some see such behavior as nothing more than a way to successfully evade a ban, whilst at the other end of the spectrum, people are quite happy for the help on the quiet and generally won't go around asking questions unless you make it impossible to do otherwise.

Nick

On 02/12/2007, private musings thepmaccount@gmail.com wrote:

I have 'Heather Mills' watchlisted and noticed this;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/82.13.188.247

Is there an email address banned users can report such stuff to?

I'm also interested in the broader ethical question - this vandalism isn't the nastiness I've seen, but were it much worse, would it be a terrible thing for me to log off and fix the problem? Can banned users have a recourse to IAR if they're accused of breaching their ASBOs? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASBO)

best,

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I'm also interested in the broader ethical question - this vandalism isn't the nastiness I've seen, but were it much worse, would it be a terrible thing for me to log off and fix the problem? Can banned users have a recourse to IAR if they're accused of breaching their ASBOs? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASBO)

As long as it's completely obvious vandalism without the slightest possibility of anyone (including the vandal) thinking otherwise, then I would be happy to turn a blind eye to banned users reverting it. Reporting it to someone else via email, IRC, whatever, might be better, though.