Henry H. Tan-Tenn wrote:
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.
The problem is: he has been making annoying edits on wikipedias that do not have any current users. He removed all the interlanguage links from one, and replaced the standard boilerplate text with his own message and email address. When Angela fixed this, he reverted her.
This is just one example of an ongoing pattern of difficult behavior.
He is one of the main factors forcing us to pursue a policy locking or closing small wikis, which is of course ironic, since he is an activist for small language wikis.
He and I had a partly constructive dialogue about these issues earlier today in IRC, and I am hopeful that some compromise can be worked out.
I admire his energy and enthusiasm, and I find him to be very bright. But there have been several incidents that are just problematic to say the least (look up the unresolved issue of sockpuppets for example), and his hostility and personal attacks against people who are highly respected in the community don't help at all.
I took this action at a global level rather than at an individual project level, because that's where the problem has arisen.
If you want him to be able to edit at zh-min-nan, then that is enough for me. He can do that. If anyone wants to vouch for him anywhere else (in an active project), email me and it will be done.
--Jimbo