Is there anyone active on Wikiversity that hasn't been banned from every other project? It seems to be turning into a regular Mos Eisley cantina.
Ryan Kaldari On 6/3/11 8:40 AM, Newyorkbrad wrote: > In view of the entire history of this matter, not all of which should > necessarily be discussed publicly, Poetlister should not be editing under > any account name on any project. The fact that as recently as a couple of > months ago he was applying for advanced permissions on a project is > particularly concerning and I would not be averse to Foundation-level > intervention at this time. > > Newyorkbrad > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Aaron Adrignola > <[email protected]>wrote: > >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: "Scott MacDonald"<[email protected]> >>> To: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'"< >>> [email protected]> >>> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:17:54 +0100 >>> Subject: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister? >>> What does it take for a global ban? >>> >>> Do you remember "Poetlister"? Aka Cato, aka Runcorn, aka Quillercouch, >> aka >>> British Civil servant with various anti-social problems. Multiple >>> sockpuppeting, manipulation, lies, harassment, identity theft, acquiring >>> checkuser and crat status on various projects. Banned from en.wp, banned >>> from commons, banned even from wikisource. >>> >>> The same user is now opening editing on Wikiversity: >>> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Poetlister >>> >>> I'm genuinely shocked. >>> >>> I know projects value their independence, but really? Can this user >> simply >>> wander round projects wreaking havoc? It seems that the only person evil >>> enough to get globally banned is Greg Kohs - and as annoying as he is, he >>> does not reach this level of fuckedup. >>> >>> >> Glad you pointed out Thekohser. I will point out that despite the use of a >> global lock on the account (not vandalism/spam only [1]) several projects >> have detached the local account from the global one through a double rename >> by bureaucrats [2]. Projects do value their independence and will detach >> accounts globally locked by stewards in cases where their ability to make >> their own decisions has been infringed. Wikiversity has done this for >> several users globally locked. No policy prohibits it. >> >> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_lock#Global_locks >> [2] http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?rights=1&user=thekohser >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
