[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia-l Digest, Vol 4, Issue 41

[Robert Graham Merkel]

> > Doesn't that imply that any contributions from a banned individual
> > should be deleted  on the spot, and not reinstated?
> > 
> > If people want to argue that a particular user should be unbanned,
> > that's another issue.
> 
>     I would personally consider that at least disturbing, but more like 
> appalling, if, say, there was a contributor that /contributed/ some nice 
> articles, say, to things related to early quantum physics, Wolfgang 
> Pauli etc. on the, say, Hungarian wikipedia, but for other 
> ?contributions? that were inappropriate ? and the warnings about those 
> being ignored ? they had got banned, then even the actually useful and 
> worthwile articles would have to be deleted, just because the person is 
> incapable of, say, keep themselves on the NPOV fence in regards of 
> religion or something.
>

Maybe you misunderstood.  I wasn't implything that past contributions
should be removed automatically, I was saying that once they are banned 
they are *banned*, full stop.