The ban is not infinite. Will Beback is free to appeal the ban after six months. I recall having positive interactions with Will Beback in the past, however, the English Wikipedia community is more than capable of taking care of itself. Thanks. anirudh On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

And yet on the other hand, we have myself, User:Rodhullandemu, who has/had over 1000,000 edits, including 6 GAs and 21 DYKs, not only blocked, but also banned, on the basis of a dispute with one editor which has been subsequently vindicated in part by ArbCom, and some airy-fairy nonsense attributable only to malice based on forged Usenet posts and a complete failure to assume good faith. To coin a phrase, "something is rotten in the state of ArbCom", and the sooner this becomes more widely realised the better. The Foundation should take responsibility for abuse of power at the highest level in any of its projects, including Jimmy Wales. Will Beback was entitled to at least mitigation on the basis of his sterling contributions to a project in which he believed; so was I, but I didn't get any. Thank some deity or other that I can still contribute to Commons when I am able to do so, but as far as Wikipedia is concerned, the lunatics *have* taken over the asylum. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gwern Branwen" <gwern0(a)gmail.com> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Will Beback