I have unblocked Blair P. Houghton. Re: [WikiEN-l] Unreasonable block of user Blair P. Houghton by adminCryptoDerk

Wed Mar 16 18:32:05 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>Andrew Lih said:
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>>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:58:20 +0000, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>The 3RR was supported by comunity conmsensus. If you want to change it
>>>get another consensus
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>>Text that was voted on says:
>>"If you violate the three revert rule, sysops may block you for up to
>>24 hours."
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Three_revert_rule_enforcement
>>
>>The policy provides authorization for blocking, but not much wisdom or
>>guidance on whether to use it. Just wanted to note that page locking is
>>also a viable (and less drastic) option for admins.
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>I dispute any suggestion that protection of a page is in any way *less*
>drastic than blocking a user.  If a page is protected, *nobody* can edit
>it.  If one or two over-enthusiastic revert warriors are blocked for up to
>a day, only their potential edits are lost--and since they're likely to be
>holding up editing by their reverts, their loss is often a very good
>thing.
>
If an editor has something to add that is not related to the war it will 
still be just as valid afte the lock-up period has ended.  Very little 
is of such immediate importance as to not survive the application of a 
little patience.

Ec