[WikiEN-l] Re: Selective blocking (was: Abuse of admin powers by David Gerard and Snowspinner)

Thu Jul 7 16:40:07 UTC 2005

Tim Starling (t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050708 02:21]:
> Poor, Edmund W wrote:

> > I expected the new software to include the feature we've all been asking
> > for, that would block a user from "all pages but his own talk page" - or
> > "all pages but a few specific ones". The purpose of this was to enable a
> > user to protest a block - without having to create a new account or find
> > a new ISP.
> > Pending development of this feature, why not:
> > (1) Unblock the user account.
> > (2) Requent the user to confine his edits to his user talk page (and
> > possibly a short list of other pages)
> > (3) Watch his contribs, and instantly revert and edits outside his
> > assigned scope.
> > (4) Re-block his account if #3 becomes tedious.
> > This is bending over backwards to be fair. And I wouldn't mind being the
> > first to try it - if enough others think the experiment is worth trying.

> I could do a quick hack to allow blocked users to edit their own talk
> page, if that's what you want. It's a much simpler feature to the other
> thing I'm working on at the moment, i.e. per-article blocking.

That'd be great, actually. IMO. How's the 1.5 beta bug load going?

- d.