Administrators can now grant immunity to underlying IP blocks to certain "trusted" editors. See this thread on WP:AN. The official policy statement is still getting firmed up.

As well as this, a new privilege called "Account creator" has now been added. This overrides the cap on daily account creations per editor. Currently, it's set to 6, but this allows certain editors to create unlimited accounts (as happens on WP:ACC, for example).

There yiz go!

Will this forever be known as the "AB Rule"?

Ironically, at this point there's almost no way they're going to let AB back in, is there?

At least we can tell her she can end her hunger strike now...

I was unaware he was banned.

Who knows? At some point or other, somebody "vanished" her. Or him, or it, if you prefer...

I don't even know what AB's Wikipedia username is at the moment. I'm not sure she even knows. That's good, of course, since nobody should know, but either way, I'd have to say there are probably some WP'ers who would object to her returning, given what's happened recently.

It's Special:Contributions/RenamedUser2.

Aww, man, you outed her! Now I'm going to have to delete more posts...

But as you can see, blocked indefinitely.

It wasn't that hard. Just do a Whatlinkshere on AB's original username and check through the contribution history. Of interesting note is that AB didn't edit his/her RFA at all - everything was done by transclusion.

There's a User:AB on wiki but that's not the same as our AB who I think was called {redacted by me in case it's a secret} on there.

How many socks does any admin need?

It's for WP:ACC, people who make accounts for others.

She disappeared after Day 5 of her hunger strike.

This way they can make 6 socks per minute and help at ACC

Nice. They've just granted every damn sysop a license to sockpuppet with impunity. It's good to see that someone realizes this, though.

More like the Abdication of the Proletariat —

In favor of the Admindicktatorship of the Puppetariat …

Jon