[WikiEN-l] Re: bans and vandalism (was Wik)

Fri May 28 18:35:10 UTC 2004

On Thu, 27 May 2004 19:08:11 UTC, "Martin Harper" 
<martin at myreddice.freeserve.co.uk> 
wrote:

> > Does this mean that at the end of the week, he comes back unbanned?
>  
> Note that, in the unlikely event that Wik returns after his ban expires, the other 
> components of the arbitration ruling will still apply. However, there is a broader point. 
> There are roughly three schools of thought:
>  
> A) A ban of one month lasts one month, regardless of attempts at evasion.
> B) A ban of one month requires one month of uninterrupted absence from Wikipedia - 
> any attempt to evade that ban automatically resets the ban timer. Banned users with 
> poor self-control may end up banning themselves indefinately.
> C) Evading a ban is itself a bannable offence - doing so automatically triples the ban 
> length (after which, (B) applies).

Thanks, that explains it nicely. I was concerned that (C) might require 
yet another long process -- in fact, it still looks as if it might -- but 
Wik is now extending his ban one day at a time under (B), so the simple 
answer to my question is a solid No.

Reservation: The No is as solid as the consensus behind it.  But the 
precedent looks good.

But I just re-read what you say.  The "automatically" and "after which" 
imply that the ban is now 3 weeks, not 1, starting on whatever day he 
begins to comply.  If I've got that right, I'll shut up, because the 
system is _not_ hopelessly tangled in unnecessarily long procedures.

-- 
Dan Drake
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