On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola aaron.adrignola@gmail.com wrote:
It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse <! --globally locked[1]; about bot[2]-- >".
These local blocks are made when the account has been globally locked by a steward (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SH#lock ). There can be no further undermining of local community autonomy, because the local account is blocked with or without an explicit local block. The local blocks are implemented automatically as a way for local communities to know the user is blocked, since there is no other local indication of the implicit block. (The bot scans for unreverted edits on each wiki, so blocking them while it's there is no trouble.)
Would you prefer the bot explicitly ignore your wikis? I can modify it to skip them, although local blocks will still be used when necessary to globally suppress attacks names.
-- Yours cordially, Jesse (Pathoschild)