You are banned from editing at any wikipedia site other than en.
Personally (and with all due respect to Jimbo), I'd prefer that judgement be left to individual Wikipedias to decide, per their usual policy of banning users.
Specifically, I personally wouldn't mind if Mark edit on zh-min-nan. Evidence suggests that he is not a fluent speaker or writer of Southern Min by any measure, but at the same time he has also shown some willingness to learn. That willingness may well just be curiosity or dabbling, but those tendencies are not themselves evil. Regardless of his ultimate attainment in proficiency (if any), a degree of "language exploration" might even be encouraged. In practice this could mean devoting more community resources to correcting the learner's sentences, but so long as the errors are made in good faith and not meant to disrupt, they will be corrected in the usual wiki way.
Of course, if Mark were to engage in spamming (on zh-min-nan) or other actions based on bad faith, he'd become a candidate for censure, including the possibility of banning. Until and unless that occurs on zh-min-nan, I'd personally not mind participation from him (or anyone).
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:26:10 -0800 Subject: Banned from editing except on en To: Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com Cc: Angela beesley@gmail.com, anthere9-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
As a courtesy to you, Mark, I'm not going to make a big public spectacle of this, but if you would like to take it public, please do so. I just see no reason at this juncture to put you through the embarassment of a public ban.
You are banned from editing at any wikipedia site other than en. I will make an adjustment to this if you can convince me that you are fluent in any other language. It is simply unacceptable for you to continue making edits to minor language wikis in the way that you have.
We could enforce this ban at a technical level if we had to, but you know how our system works enough to see that it would be quite a lot of work for us. I don't think I've seen enough evidence of bad faith on your part to think that you'd do that.
--Jimbo