[Wikipedia-l] Expanding CheckUser permissions

[Andre Engels]

On Apr 12, 2005 10:41 PM, James D. Forrester <james at jdforrester.org> wrote:

> Who blocked him? Why? Based on what?

The original blocking was made by one of the sysops, based on
reverting. After that the original block (which was 6 hours or 24
hours or something like that) was lengthened to a week, based on
repeated problematic behaviour (doing his own thing after a discussion
where everyone else had the opposite opinion, POV editing, and such),
with a request for some kind of mediation. This was done after a vote
on the village pump. Because he was believed to have edited during his
blocked period, the block was lengthened to 2 weeks then to 4 weeks,
which was retroactively approved by a vote of the community.

> Was this an official decision made by
> one person, a small group of people, all sysops together, the entire
> community?

The original block was made by a small group, the lengthening to more
than a few hours was made by the entire community.

> If either of the first two, you evidently have natural candidates
> to form an official blocking group, of whom one might be appropriate to
> grant access to such an easily-abused tool, no? What, exactly, is the
> problem, then?

The problem is that some of the sysops want to use the tool, but
nobody has access to it.

Andre Engels