[WikiEN-l] Intention to (re-)ban: Pizza Puzzle (Lir)

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Jun 23 18:21:43 UTC 2003


Oliver Pereira wrote:

>On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, cprompt wrote:
>
>>Erik Moeller wrote:
>>
>>>Unless there are objections, I intend to ban "Pizza Puzzle", who is
>>>another incarnation of Lir.
>>>
>>I haven't had much interaction with this account, so I can't really
>>speak for or against them. I will say that Adam hasn't told me about
>>this account, and other than being suspiciously similar to Adam, and
>>making lots of edits, what's the harm? If it is another incarnation of
>>Lir, and they have the same writing style and habits, why ban them if
>>they aren't harassing other users or defacing pages? (Or are they?)
>>
>
>I have an objection. Mr. Puzzle has made quite a few useful edits, and has
>hardly annoyed anyone. The long sequences of small edits can become
>annoying, but as far as I'm aware we're not running out of disc space, and
>I hear rumours that we may be getting an enhanced "diff" feature in which
>non-consecutive page versions can be compared using radio buttons, and if
>that's the case then I don't think it would matter quite as much.
>
There has to be a way for people to redeem themselves.  For Lir, leaving 
aside the multiple incarnation issue, the multiple small edit issue, may 
be an editing style that annoys some people, but looked at alone I would 
not consider it a banning offence.  What are his other '''recent''' 
offences?

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