Jesse (Pathoschild), 08/08/2010 16:53:
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
<aaron.adrignola(a)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