on 8/11/07 11:43 AM, Armed Blowfish at diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
In that case, I'd like to suggest the following:
- Blocking/banning notices (the templates and the Blockedtext and
Autoblockedtext messages) should be sensitively worded and contain clear instructions on a) the proper course of appeals, if there are any viable options, or else an apologetic explanation that there are no viable options, b) asking for courtesy blankings, deletions and the occasional oversight (it is far too difficult to figure out how to contact the OTRS), and c) how to get advice (Editor assistance, I guess, since the Association of Members Advocates and Mentorship Committee are both rather dead). 2. Said notices should use relaxing colours - light blue, lavender, green - and avoid stressful red Xs. 3. Blocking templates should be placed in the 'Blocking reason' slot, not on the editor's talk page, where they would show up on Google. 4. The OTRS ought to be given more room to work in terms of courtesy blankings, deletions and the occasional oversight. 5. Please, pretty please, do not discuss the courtesy blankings etc. publicly, on-wiki. This defeats the point. Use email. 6. Please do not continue to discuss, in a hurtful way, the banned users when they are not even appealing. Also see [[Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Dealings_with_banned_users]] where it states 'Wikipedia's hope for banned users is that they will leave Wikipedia with their pride and dignity intact, whether permanently or for the duration of their ban. As such, it is inappropriate to bait banned users or take advantage of their ban to mock them.'
This all sounds good to me. It also reminds us of our policy on Civility.
Marc