Jesse (Pathoschild), 08/08/2010 16:53:
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.
I'm ok with those block, but if this is all you want, why isn't a short block enough? It would leave a trace in the local logs, although it wouldn't be displayed on [[Special:Contributions]].
Nemo