::::::: Sandy, as I've said I'm not bothered about consistency just now - I'm more interested in taking the right action here, that is, the action which will best prevent The Fat Man from disrupting Wikipedia. that action may not be the same as the actions taken in other cases, but that doesn't matter if it's the right action. If those other cases were dealt with incorrectly, then they need to be fixed separately from this issue, okay? Users (including admins) do make mistakes, but we shouldn't then prevent the right action from being taken later, simply because it's inconsistent with those mistakes. The consistency argument really doesn't work here, I could equally say that users who disrupted less then TFM faced more serious consequences -