Rick wrote:
As far as I can remember, I've only blocked three
logged-in users:
Ric, who just yesterday created a user account and then copied my
User and User Talk pages to his pages. I blocked him and deleted
the pages.
I think that's totally legitimate. What you might do, in the
interests of preserving an aura of neutrality, is ask another sysop to
do the dirty work. But that kind of behavior falls pretty cleanly
into the category of "pure vandalism", and I see no real pressing need
for us to hold a full court case about it.
Wik, twice, for the same violations -- blanking
articles and
reverting useful content. And both of those times, I reported it on
[[Wikipedia:Conflicts between users/Wik]], so those were NOT "sneaked
in under the tent flap".
But these were controversial, and remain so. Wik is a regular
contributor, not a "simple vandal", a general pain in the neck, but
not an emergency situation.
--Jimbo