[Wikipedia-l] Lir and Christopher Columbus

[Ray Saintonge]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Sean Barrett wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have a strong objection to banning Lir for an hour or so, to
>>let him cool off?
>>
>I'm a little late to weigh in on this, but my personal mode of conduct
>is that instead of banning someone to let them cool off, I should let
>them have their way for an hour to let them cool off.  Just come back
>to the article tomorrow or the next day and fix it.  Probably he won't
>feel as emotional about it then -- and neither will I.
>
>Banning, even for an hour, should be reserved for pure vandalism.
>Disagreements about content seldom rise to that level.
>
In some respects one-hour bans are useless.  If by pure chance the 
offender had just finished his evening's efforts and gone to bed hoping 
to take the matter up again in the morning, he might not even notice 
that he has been banned.
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