I don't propose we start screening people before we let them edit. Just that once they start trolling Wikipedia and it becomes so much of an issue that it is before the arbitrators that then behavior in other forums becomes relevant both for determining what kind of a person we are dealing with but also for determining remedies, keeping in mind that there is little prospect that a person with long-standing habitual habits of disruption will be able to change or would want to.
Fred Bauder
From: Delirium delirium@rufus.d2g.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 05:08:05 -0800 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] outside evidence and arbitration
pros of taking it into account include an ability to avoid dealing with known trolls and troublemakers (we don't wait for someone to troll Wikipedia extensively if they've already trolled a dozen forums and sites before).