:You are clearly misinterpreting WP:INVOLVED. I have been involved in this in a purely administrative capacity, I have no involvement in the underlying content dispute. As I noted in the log when unblocking, any uninvolved admin is free to review and re-evaluate the situation, but since Arcadian had been blocked for edit warring in the same subject area with the same user it was wildly inappropriate for him to issue a block, which any admin with five years of admin experiance is well aware of, meaning he chose to ignore it and issue a block he knew he shouldn't. So yes,  am quite certain ot was justified and I don't believe the block was punitive, it was intended to prevent him from taking further foolish actions in this area and give him a chance to review the wisdom of his actions.