On 10/25/02 12:01 PM, "Imran Ghory" imran@bits.bris.ac.uk wrote:
A more formalish proposal:
Banning should mean the suspension of all write access to the wikipedia with the exception of the users own "User:" space page.
A first time ban for any purpose should be lifted if the user apologises (either on their own "User:" page, on the mailing list, or on the "Talk:" page of the relevant article) and agrees not to repeat the offence.
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Imran's proposal, while clearly well-intentioned, would hurt the project.
As STG wrote,
"I fight to keep things open, not to tolerate anti-social behaviour, but to keep Wikipedia from becoming the online equivalent of a police state. I believe that soft security is the best way to run a wiki community, and that too much hard security will eventaully kill us.
If we lock down Wikipedia too tighly, we'll lose *most* of our great contributors."