[WikiEN-l] Indefinite block and desysopping by User:Danny

[Delirium]

Kelly Martin wrote:
> On 4/20/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>   
>> But Danny has explicitly said (on this list) that he is also a normal
>> editor, and only his actions that are accompanied with a statement that
>> they are WP:OFFICE actions should be treated as such.  So if he does
>> something and does not tag it WP:OFFICE, we should all operate on the
>> presumption that he is doing it in his capacity as a normal Wikipedian.
>>     
>
> That does not excuse reversion without discussion.  Even taking as an
> assumption that Danny had been acting on his own behalf, Erik's
> actions could easily have been the start of a wheel war, and were
> inappropriate by any reasonable standard.  WP:OFFICE has nothing to do
> with that; wheel warring is still wheel warring.
>   

He didn't revert Danny's edits or wheel war.  Danny stubbed and 
protected the page; Erik noted that he was willing to give Danny the 
benefit of the doubt on stubbing, but that the protection was contrary 
to the protection policy (a correct observation), so unprotected the 
page but left it stubbed.  It is quite acceptable and even encouraged to 
unprotect pages that have been inappropriately protected.

If Danny had reprotected and Erik had unprotected again, that would be a 
wheel war.  A single correction of a presumably mistaken admin action is 
not wheel-warring, especially when it doesn't even involve completely 
reversal of the action, just the problematic part.

In addition, blocking another user yourself after you personally have 
had an altercation with him has always been regarded as inappropriate, 
so Danny's block was inappropriate by any reasonable standard.

-Mark