[Textbook-l] Block against

Wed Jun 14 23:11:04 UTC 2006

Lord Voldemort wrote:

>On 6/13/06, Michael R. Irwin <michael_irwin at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>Kernigh wrote:
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>>>[[en:User:Zephram Stark]] was recently blocked:
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>>>* 13:18, 8 May 2006 Jimbo Wales blocked "Zephram Stark (contribs)" with an
>>>expiry time of infinite (trolling, banned user on en.wikipedia)
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>>snip
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>>>It appears that the only reason for this block concerns trouble on
>>>en.wikipedia, and of such trouble I have no knowledge. (Maybe someone
>>>could describe to me what happened?)
>>>
>>>I think that this user should be unblocked immediately or the block be
>>>shortened to 1 week or less. What does everyone think?
>>>-- [[en:User:Kernigh]]
>>>  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Kernigh
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>>I suppose this depends on whether one views the wikis as subprojects of
>>one big project and community hosted by Wikimedia or as separate projects.
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>>Personally I think the individual projects have separate communities and
>>identies, so I agree with you.   If this user has caused no problems on
>>wikibooks then this is a case of unnecessary persecution probably
>>intensifying problems in the future.
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>>However, there are a large number of people who have chimed in that
>>Wikiversity should be defined around the other existing projects so
>>there is absolutely no duplication.   In this view we essentially have a
>>single project.  So once a handle or puppet is banned in one place
>>perhaps the ban should be in force everywhere else.
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>>Regards,
>>lazyquasar
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>Where did Kernigh write this?  Zephram Stark will not be unblocked in
>the near future.  --LV
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I would be curious over what sort of problems this user has made on 
Wikibooks.  While he has done some things that I think approach the 
limits of "original research", he has not been a vandal on Wikibooks nor 
has caused any other signficant problems.  Certainly being banned on 
Wikipedia should not be cause to be banned on Wikibooks by itself.  This 
is a disturbing development to me in this sense.  Show me damage that 
this user has done on Wikibooks, including perhaps the alleged trolling, 
and I might support a ban.  In addition, try to demonstrate (even though 
I think it is likely) that this is even the same user on Wikibooks that 
it is on Wikipedia.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning