You are banned from editing at any wikipedia site
other than en.
Personally (and with all due respect to Jimbo), I'd prefer that
judgement be left to individual Wikipedias to decide, per their usual
policy of banning users.
Specifically, I personally wouldn't mind if Mark edit on zh-min-nan.
Evidence suggests that he is not a fluent speaker or writer of Southern
Min by any measure, but at the same time he has also shown some
willingness to learn. That willingness may well just be curiosity or
dabbling, but those tendencies are not themselves evil. Regardless of
his ultimate attainment in proficiency (if any), a degree of "language
exploration" might even be encouraged. In practice this could mean
devoting more community resources to correcting the learner's sentences,
but so long as the errors are made in good faith and not meant to
disrupt, they will be corrected in the usual wiki way.
Of course, if Mark were to engage in spamming (on zh-min-nan) or other
actions based on bad faith, he'd become a candidate for censure,
including the possibility of banning. Until and unless that occurs on
zh-min-nan, I'd personally not mind participation from him (or anyone).
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:26:10 -0800
Subject: Banned from editing except on en
To: Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com>om>, anthere9-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org
As a courtesy to you, Mark, I'm not going to make a big public
spectacle of this, but if you would like to take it public, please do
so. I just see no reason at this juncture to put you through the
embarassment of a public ban.
You are banned from editing at any wikipedia site other than en. I
will make an adjustment to this if you can convince me that you are
fluent in any other language. It is simply unacceptable for you to
continue making edits to minor language wikis in the way that you
have.
We could enforce this ban at a technical level if we had to, but you
know how our system works enough to see that it would be quite a lot
of work for us. I don't think I've seen enough evidence of bad faith
on your part to think that you'd do that.
--Jimbo