Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-11-14/Unbanning and mentorship

I emailed the AC just in case Linuxbeak doing this had crossed the streams (MARMOT was not actually under AC restriction, but Jarlaxle was), strongly recommending we accept this on the principle "All bad users are theoretically redeemable" (e.g. the transition of User:Michael from a notorious vandal to a tolerable editor). No-one objected and one said they really hoped it can work out. So that's the AC perspective on the matter. - David Gerard 15:15, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and of course Michael is the first hard-banned editor to be welcomed back in- David Gerard 15:16, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

MARMOT also caused trouble on the Freenode IRC network - coming in through Tor proxies and impersonating respected names around Wikimedia (e.g. Raul654) to try to make problems for Linuxbeak and Cool Cat. It was bad enough the Freenode admins actually found it a matter for their concern (as opposed to the usual channel drama). That's where the fourth MARMOT provision comes from - David Gerard 15:20, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Follow up

Just noting that MARMOT was banned by Jimbo subsequent to this. [1] Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 09:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Correction

I corrected a minor thing. [2] ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 23:17, 24 June 2006 (UTC)