[WikiEN-l] Selective blocking (was: Abuse of admin powers by David Gerard and Snowspinner)

[Poor, Edmund W]

I expected the new software to include the feature we've all been asking
for, that would block a user from "all pages but his own talk page" - or
"all pages but a few specific ones". The purpose of this was to enable a
user to protest a block - without having to create a new account or find
a new ISP.

Pending development of this feature, why not:
(1) Unblock the user account.
(2) Requent the user to confine his edits to his user talk page (and
possibly a short list of other pages)
(3) Watch his contribs, and instantly revert and edits outside his
assigned scope.
(4) Re-block his account if #3 becomes tedious.

This is bending over backwards to be fair. And I wouldn't mind being the
first to try it - if enough others think the experiment is worth trying.

Kindly ol' Uncle Ed (User:Ed Poor)
Chairman (pro tem), Mediation Committee
Admin, Bureaucrat, Developer Emeritus, wikien-l admin, etc., etc.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MacGyverMagic/Mgm [mailto:macgyvermagic at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 5:32 AM
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Abuse of admin powers by David Gerard 
> and Snowspinner
> 
> 
> On 7/6/05, Norath Norath <norath2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > User:Norrath was block by David Gerard for "admitted sockpuppet and 
> > role account". This account is indeed a sockpuppet of a 
> user in good 
> > standing, created to protest other blocks caaried out abusively by
> > Snowspinner. 
> 
> Regardless of whether a block was within policy or not, 
> creating another account to circumvent it is against policy. 
> This is especially what the list was made for and if you 
> asked to be unblocked while citing relevant sections of 
> policy, I'm sure you could get a lot more admins to unblock 
> you if you contacted them privately, than when you go 
> straight to accusations of abuse.
> 
> --Mgm
> 
>