[WikiEN-l] Helga's back?

[martin at myreddice.freeserve.co.uk]

Hi all,

Having looked at a selection of the edits from 66.47.62.78, they look fine. The 
problem with Helga was apparently due to her "unique" POV on history, and her 
refusal to work with others. To date,  66.47.62.78 doesn't appear to have done either 
of these things. There was a somewhat dubious sentence added to [[Nazi 
Germany]], ("No allied Soviets were ever put on trial for their crimes against 
humanity") - factually true but probably not central to this particular article (better at 
[[Nuremberg Trials]], and swiftly reverted. There were also plenty of completely 
inoffensive edits.

Further, Helga has respected the terms of her ban from wikipedia for three months. I 
feel that it would be appropriate to allow Helga back, on probation, to demonstrate 
that we Wikipedians don't bear grudges for months no end, and to offer an 
appropriate exit strategy for users such as Lir. Forgiveness would seem an important 
part of WikiLove, at least to me. (insert similar platitudes here).

Of course, if she starts falling into bad habits again, by all means let us swiftly soft 
ban her and follow that up with a hard ban as appropriate. Apparently it took around 
a year to decide to ban Helga - we need not take so long the second time, should 
that turn out to be necessary.

-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper