@TBolliger Do we have any idea how many admins are looking for this feature?

In T201853#4499045, @TBolliger wrote:

This may be an insurmountable blocker for database reasons.

Nothing is insurmountable.

I love your optimism. :)

Let me rephrase: "The prioritization of this task will rely on the technical estimation. If this requires significant database changes (including proposing schema changes, RFCs, and other planning work) it may be declined due to other Anti-Harassment team commitments."

@TBolliger If you wanna do this anytime in the near future, we should probably make some changes to T197144 now (imho), or we can change the schema later, up to you and @aezell. :)

Unless the effort required to add this is extremely low we can hold off. We're very unlikely to build this, given other projects.

In T201853#4545826, @TBolliger wrote:

Unless the effort required to add this is extremely low we can hold off. We're very unlikely to build this, given other projects.

The effort is really low, but it does open up the schema changes to a new discussion that might take time. :/

Then it's a no. Maybe later, if partial blocks are a roaring success and this is a much clamored-for feature. (which seems unlikely)

I can also think of a handful of workarounds:

1. Leave the page created, block the user, then delete the page
2. Create the page, block the user, then delete the page
3. Create the page as a redirect, then block the user
4. Create a stub article, then block the user

In T201853#4545918, @TBolliger wrote:

1. Leave the page created, block the user, then delete the page
2. Create the page, block the user, then delete the page
3. Create the page as a redirect, then block the user
4. Create a stub article, then block the user

1 and 2 will not work since when a page is deleted, it is completely removed from the database (id and all). It would prevent the user from restoring the page (if they have permission), but not from re-creating the page with the same title (which generates a new id).

Though, those issues might be fixed for us when T196950 is completed.

3 and 4 should work just fine. :)

I think salting (creation protection) or social solutions already work pretty well in the situations described in this task; seems like this would get limited use.

Just want to ask, if you create a page, and ban user to edit the page and then delete the page, so is the ban still valid? If so, then this can be done as a solution.