[WikiEN-l] RK temp-banned

Thu Oct 2 03:43:52 UTC 2003

Erik Moeller wrote:

>Shortly after I sent a mail to Jimbo asking him to examine whether RK  
>should be banned for his obnoxious behavior, RK started vandalizing  
>several user and talk pages because he felt *his* talk page was being  
>vandalized. The vandalism: People placed comments on it. I have  
>temporarily banned him (and no, I won't read through his lengthy diatribes  
>which will inevitably follow). I strongly suggest turning this temporary  
>ban into a permanent one, at least for a month or so.
>
I disagree with both a temporary and a permanent ban.

The vandalizing user talk pages and so on I'll agree is over the line, 
but I disagree that it warrants a temporary ban.  Simply revert the 
changes, like we do with everyone else.  We've had plenty of other users 
who've vandalized pages, including EntmootsOfTrolls and BuddhaInside, 
among others, who were not summarily banned through the extraordinary 
use of developer powers.  I don't see why RK should be treated differently.

As for a permanent ban, while RK has been somewhat obnoxious in his 
complaining about anti-Semitism, several other people (notably SV) have 
been equally obnoxious in their complaining from the other side (e.g. of 
the "pro-Israel" bias of adding Israeli census data).  RK has also added 
quite a bit of useful content to Wikipedia, much of it entirely 
unrelated to Judaism, Israel, or related issues.

-Mark