User:Mathsci/temp

Discussion of possible editing restrictions on Pmanderson

(temporary copy of material to be posted on noticeboard)

The previous entry opened by Carcharoth was archived before a decision had been reached on the subpage listed above. In previous discussions, there was no consensus for a one month block proposed by Born2cycle, but overall support for some form of topic ban on Pmanderson. Johnbod has suggested that a more realistic topic ban might be as follows (the text below is copied is directly from the subpage):

Ideally, one might do something like banning, for a period, PMA from editing articles that have had their text edited in any significant way for say 3 months. PMA is clearly very well-informed in many areas, but hardly ever seems to add non-controversial text anywhere (feel free to contradict with recent examples). Instead he spends his time cruising for a bruising on talk pages, homing in on disputes from afar, and then prolonging and intensifying them. He hardly edits articles except for small changes to stir the pot of controversy. It's all a real waste. Johnbod (talk) 09:37, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Sandstein had previously proposed a topic ban as follows:

  1. Pmanderson is indefinitely restricted from moving pages in the article namespace. He may still propose moves via WP:RM, but, to prevent abuse of this facility, he may not initiate more than one move discussion per day.
  2. This restriction does not apply to the following moves if they are clearly uncontroversial: Reverting clear move vandalism, or fixing clear spelling or capitalization errors in article titles. But this limited exception to the restriction does not allow reverting any non-vandalistic move, and it does not allow any move on the basis of bringing an article into perceived compliance with any guideline or convention.
  3. This restriction is to be enforced by escalating blocks.

Although this topic ban was supported by most of those who expressed an opinion, Pmanderson indicated that he was unwilling to abide by such a ban.[1]

I am reposting here for visibility, so that this discussion can continue on the main page and hopefully come to some speedy conclusion about whether editing restrictions need to be imposed and, if so, in what form and for what duration.

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