[Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister?

[David Gerard]

On 3 June 2011 17:21, Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Poetlister is the level of case where project autonomy is an actively
>> bad idea. e.g. en.wikiquote deciding to demonstrate their independence
>> of en:wp by letting him onto the Checkuser list. Nice one.

> Not to digress, but in fairness to the folks active on Wikiquote, I don't
> think that WQ User:Cato had been identified as Poetlister at the time he was
> made a checkuser there.


We had extremely strong suspicions, but the reasons some en:wq people
gave for ignoring them was that they wouldn't be told what to do by
en:wp.

I suspect there is more than a little of that in current local wiki
defiance of global bans. And it's really, really not a good idea.


- d.