It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse <! --globally locked[1]; about bot[2]-- >". This has been occurring since March. In every case I've checked the user in question has a unified account and in nearly all cases they have not made any edits locally, much less done anything for a local block. If there are cross-wiki issues, their account should be locked as is already the case, but the making of these local blocks on top of that is counter to what I've come to expect. English Wikibooks has a dozen admins, with about half active. Stewards will not rename users there because there are local bureaucrats and they will not CU users there because there are local CheckUsers. Why are they making local blocks when there are administrators? These weren't local emergencies because, as stated above, in nearly every case there were no edits. I don't expect that they are aware of local policies and with the exception of one steward, none of them have been made local admins. English Wikibooks opted in to global sysops, but in none of these cases were the people blocking members of such a group; even if they were, the block would have to be for local disruption. Local blocking by stewards for accounts that have already been globally locked is not only redundant, but undermines local project autonomy. Please stop.
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