AndyL said:
Considering Don's behaviour and considering that
the conflict was
occurring only on two or three pages related to the very narrow topic
of red ensign flags the proposal to temp ban both of us from *all*
articles pertaining to Canada (ie thousands of pages) was excessive and
had I not noticed it (ie because I was busy with something else for a
few days) it would have passed. So no, it should never have been
considered. In fact, I believe it was on the verge of being approved
(or technically even had the needed number of endorsers) until I
intervened so this isn't a case of one arbitrator making a wild
proposal and no one else picking it up but of the ArbComm panel
agreeing to a proposal until the affected party noticed what was going
on and said, in essence, "are you guys nuts?"
Suppose it had been passed, what harm would have been done to Wikipedia?