[Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption

[Milos Rancic]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 20:13:26 Ray Saintonge wrote:
> > For example checkuser info on indef blocked user should be shared among
> > checkusers. If user 'A' is banned on wiki 'X' and then decides to
> > register the account 'B' on the wiki 'Y' the local community should be
> > prepared for it.
>
> I have no use for this kind of infectious paranoia.

This is our reality. I already have one example: a person with the account A 
was on tr and az wps. They were banned at tr some time ago, then, after some 
time at az wp, while having the account B at tr.wp. With somewhat more 
effective CU organization, account B would be banned at tr.wp at the time 
when the account A was banned at az.wp. However, account B was in the process 
of getting admin permissions at tr.wp. And the process of blocking it was 
very painful for tr.wp community. Instead of having a regular method for 
dealing with such kind of problems, they needed deux ex machina, some steward 
who will do one IAR for them.