<sarcasm> Sure. People don't EVER use their Watchlists to make sure the garbage they put on a page didn't get deleted. </sarcasm>

Sunir Shah sunir@sunir.org wrote:Erik Moeller wrote:

I banned Anthony after he repeatedly vandalized the same page, even though I had told him to stop. I immediately unbanned him after the matter was resolved. I am 100% positive that this was a perfectly appropriate action to take, with arbitration committee or without, and is backed up by precedent (BuddhaInside, RK etc.). Protection was not an option, because the page in question, a list of sites using our MediaWiki software, is supposed to be openly editable at any time so that sitemasters can add their site to the list.

A cheaper solution would have been to wait a while, say a day or two, and then delete the problematic text after the user had forgotten about the page. Time is a more powerful weapon than banlists, and it's free for everyone to use.

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