This is not the first situation I ve dealt with of sock abuse though I won t give the others any recognition by naming names However given that WP CSD draws a clear distinction between indefinitely blocked and banned and since banning is effectively a Wikipedia death penalty I wanted to make sure of the situation and community s collective opinion before tagging him as banned I do see your point and I agree in this case that this user has exhausted the community s patience and that yes formally now but informally before he is banned I need to reread the banning policy and the list of bans since the user I was thinking of is on the community ban list talk