On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Al Tally majorly.wiki@googlemail.com wrote:
So what if they are banned on one project? That project might have it wrong for all we know.
There's no rule "for" the idea, nor is there a rule "against".
Agreed. It's my experience that Wikipedian admins are a little more quick to pull the ban-trigger then admins at other projects. en.wikibooks, for example, has only ever banned 1 good-faith user from editing over behavior problems and edit warring, and that user was rapidly unbanned and continues to edit actively still. Several editors who have been blocked from WP have moved to WB and become valuable and prolific editors and authors.
Being blocked on en.wp is therefore not that big a red flag. However, vandal-style behavior (massive sockpuppetry) is a bit of a red flag on any project. We can't stop him from running for behavior problems at WP, but it is something that people should be made aware of. I would maybe be interested in examining why this user was blocked and why he resorted to sockpuppetry in the first place but I have neither the time nor the inclination to undertake such an investigation myself.
--Andrew Whitworth