From: Caroline Ford <caroline(a)secretlondon.me.uk> Reply-To: caroline(a)secretlondon.me.uk, English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:18:03 +0000 To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Block Log Caroline Ford wrote: My worry is that if Khranus, Mr Natural Health etc had been around this week - they would have just been permanently blocked with no discussion. This _is_ what is happening at the moment - and for lesser cases as well. I'm wondering whether we should go as far as to have a temporary time out on blocking usernames. Of course, the minute we do that we'll have Michael. We need to put the genie back in the box. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 02/17/04 at 01:29 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> said: And how many months will this take???

And how many months will this take???

From: "Jake Nelson" <jnelson(a)soncom.com> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:58:29 -0600 To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Block Log Fred Bauder wrote: Here's a thought- have the blocking code require two sysops to both do it to take effect, at least in the case of logged-in users. Might solve some of these issues. -- Jake _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

From: "Jake Nelson" <jnelson(a)soncom.com> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:31:24 -0600 To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Block Log Fred Bauder wrote: I said some. Not all. And if the number were three? Or four? I didn't suggest those before, because I think being able to block someone who starts going nuts immediately is important, but the RC patrol tends to number more than two at any given time... -- Jake _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

They just need to quit blocking people without authorization. We have a procedure. Try talk, then mediation, then appeal to Jimbo if mediation doesn't work to request Jimbo to ask for arbitration.

What procedure?

Where is it?

Has it produced one result?

Caroline Ford wrote: My worry is that if Khranus, Mr Natural Health etc had been around this week - they would have just been permanently blocked with no discussion. This _is_ what is happening at the moment - and for lesser cases as well. I'm wondering whether we should go as far as to have a temporary time out on blocking usernames. Of course, the minute we do that we'll have Michael. We need to put the genie back in the box.