Poor, Edmund W wrote: I support 24 hours as the appropriate banning period. This is an otherwise productive Wikipedian who has out-of-control moments. The disrespectful "Nazipedia" comments should likely be acknowledged as having come in the midst of a rage. In cases like this we need some kind of a "mentor" system. In this case the mentor could be a person whom RK personally trusts, and to whom he would pay attention. When he shows signs of going out of control, that person could say "STOP" or some other agreed secrt word, and get the appropriate reaction. Ec

Poor, Edmund W wrote: My personal preference would be to unban him in some relatively short period of time (perhaps 2-3 days to allow things to cool down slightly), and dispatch to him an email informing him that he has been unbanned, and is welcome to return in a productive fashion, but will be rebanned if he engages in any vandalism. If he does in fact engage in vandalism again, then I'd support banning him for an indefinite period of time (basically, "permanently," unless he in the future requests to come back and promises to behave, like Lir did). If he chooses not to return at all, then unbanning him does no harm either. -Mark