Discussion on this matter also underway at Wikipedia talk Requests for arbitration Attack sites Proposed decision New proposals concerning Cyde I agree with Fred Viridae I m going to pretend for a moment that I believe the SlimVirgin engaged in abusive sockpuppetry The account had not been used for two years so there was no urgency There is a precedent for letting people in similar situations give a private explanation and only to sanction them if they refuse or fail It was not possible to provide public evidence without giving further publicity to a website which engages in stalking and which gave speculation about not only SlimVirgin s identity but also another contributor s And you seem to be overlooking the fact that Cyde was in a longstanding dispute with SlimVirgin so obviously should not have been the one to block See also This is not a question of making a mistake in believing WordBomb This is a question of believing WordBomb and then instead of reporting it privately to the ArbCom or asking SlimVirgin privately for an explanation engaging in extremely inappropriate hasty behaviour even crowing over the person he was accusing of sockpuppetry and showing most clearly that he had a grudge against her Additionally in another case which is being heard at the moment a user who had originally registered with his real name requested a name change and repeatedly asked people not to keep referring to him by his old name and Cyde responded by provocatively posting a link to the user rename log Unnecessary inflammatory Discourteous talk Worth desysopping Jesus I can think of a few people that we could get rid of if we are going to make this so easy Talk