That would be an acceptable solution.  Thanks.

--User:Adrignola

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Jesse (Pathoschild)
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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]-- >".
>
> These local blocks are made when the account has been globally locked
> by a steward (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SH#lock ). There can
> be no further undermining of local community autonomy, because the
> local account is blocked with or without an explicit local block. The
> local blocks are implemented automatically as a way for local
> communities to know the user is blocked, since there is no other local
> indication of the implicit block. (The bot scans for unreverted edits
> on each wiki, so blocking them while it's there is no trouble.)
>
> Would you prefer the bot explicitly ignore your wikis? I can modify it
> to skip them, although local blocks will still be used when necessary
> to globally suppress attacks names.
>
> --
> Yours cordially,
> Jesse (Pathoschild)
>
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