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• You've been careful to not say that editors can make legal threats on-Wiki. But it bears repeating that WP:NLT prohibits making legal threats on-Wiki. But it does not, indeed cannot, prohibit calling the police when you've seen a crime or fear for your safety, or even just taking legal action.

As the policy states "That a legal dispute exists between users, whether as a result of incidents on Wikipedia or elsewhere, is not a valid reason to block, so long as no legal threats are made on Wikipedia. The only concern of this policy is the posting of legal threats on Wikipedia." So to put it as simply as possible: if you need to call the police or take legal action, you can (and even should in extreme situations), but just don't make a legal threat on-Wiki. Even simpler - don't talk about it, just do it when needed. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:08, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

To summarise it even further, this piece is a pointless exercise. Not only does it smack of stating the obvious, but what's the profit in speculating on the WMF's motives for doing anything; men have have gone mad attempting to unravel these secrets... SN54129 17:19, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Good days and thanks for your comment. Nope, I've never tried to speculate on the WMF's motives, and this is a little bit Misrepresentation. WMF have varieties of practices for banning him or her, these and those. In the piece I still respect what WMF has done and what they are going to do, but honestly, sometimes global bans, even enacted by WMF, are not really the last resort. Anyway, thanks for pointing out the piece is based on the obvious, will try to work on some complex points in further if possible. ---Lemonaka‎ 10:43, 3 August 2023 (UTC)