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 Mgstone has conducted a fair bit of vandalism. I'm not disputing that. What I do find issue with is the indefinite block placed on this account, which I feel was outside of procedure. There were no earlier blocks of this user, there was no RfC, RfM or RfAr that I can find on him, yet the notice on his talk page says "per ruling of administrators, Jimbo Wales and/or the Arbitration Committee"  Also,  put a notice on his talk page at 02:22 8 October 2005 which was a final warning before being blocked. Thereafter, this user did not contribute any edits. Nonetheless, you permanently banned him 4 minutes later. This seems out of line to me. In your block you said the account was "(Vandalism only account)". This is simply not true. There are multiple edits made in good faith by this user. Since their break, and coming back October 5, they've been a vandal. However, they've not always been a vandal. Also, there's no mention of this user on WP:AN or WP:ANI that I can find. There's also no commentary about it in your talk page archives. There appears to be no dialogue among admins which generated a rationale for the permanent block. This is very troubling to me, as it is in opposition to the stated policy at Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Bans.   

 I have seen cases where people who were vandals were coached into becoming productive editors. In cases where this seems unlikely, we should try anyways. Successively stiffer blocks should be used to bring the message home to a user, and give them an opportunity to correct their ways prior to permanently banning them. In this case, there 's been little effort to correct this user's habits. In banning them, it is quite possible that another account will be made by the user, and the problem will still exist. We should be making the effort to correct the user's behavior, rather than hitting them with the sledgehammer of banning...which in this case may not solve the problem anyways.  

 Please either remove the indefinite ban of this user or provide a justification for it. In the least, please revert this edit. Yes, I could unban this user and revert the edit; but I'd rather see you do it as I'd like to give you an opportunity to justify your actions.  

 I've just had a look at . Essjay, this is very troubling. I now feel obligated to review all of your blocks of obvious non-sock puppet logged in users to determine their basis in policy or rationale behind violating policy.  

 Thanks,