Comment by Ynhockey The sanction is puzzling to me as well and appears ill advised for the following reasons Amoruso is a prolific contributor to Israel related topics therefore the ban is extremely counter productive Amoruso has apologized and acknowledged the BLP violation If you look at the article in fact the editor who filed the complaint was the one who edit warred and violated other policies therefore by banning Amoruso who user the talk page to discuss the issues per policy and was not aware that he was violating BLP you are in fact encouraging bad conduct from other editors who now know they can get away with edit warring personal attacks soapboxing etc just not BLP violations The other evidence brought up by you in the case like sock puppetry etc is irrelevant seeing as how the issue was dealt with and Amoruso stopped using sock puppets In other words treating BLP as a sacred cow and banning anyone who remotely touches it while letting other editors get away with just about anything with only strong warnings and the like speaking of which you might want to look at the Vexorg case because you gave him a strong warning and on the same day he started violating policies again is not going to help improve Wikipedia in my honest opinion I request that you review and lift the ban and give Amoruso a chance to make productive contributions to Wikipedia something that he was not given with the swift and sweeping sanction which now effectively prevents him from editing Talk