On 6/13/06, Michael R. Irwin <michael_irwin(a)verizon.net> wrote:
Kernigh wrote:
[[en:User:Zephram Stark]] was recently blocked:
* 13:18, 8 May 2006 Jimbo Wales blocked "Zephram Stark (contribs)" with an
expiry time of infinite (trolling, banned user on en.wikipedia)
snip
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
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.
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.
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.
Regards,
lazyquasar
Where did Kernigh write this? Zephram Stark will not be unblocked in
the near future. --LV