Remove ability to block other users whilst blocked
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	• bzimport
	Sep 18 2008, 6:47 PM

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Author: majorly.wiki

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It seems that admins can block other editors, whilst they're still blocked themselves. This serves no purpose, and could possibly be damaging, so please remove that ability. Thanks.

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Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=20080918182600&limit=4&type=block&user=Misza13

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:17 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-User-management.

• bzimport set Reference to bz15642.

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• bzimport created this task.Sep 18 2008, 6:47 PM

cf: bug 15641

Done in r41108

misza wrote:

I may be dumb or something, but I just made up a private wiki based on the trunk and blocked myself. Then,

when trying to block myself again, I got the "You cannot block other users while you are blocked" error,
I have managed to block, for example, 127.0.0.1 and a second attempt failed with the usual "is already blocked" error.

After I modifed the "$wgUser->getId" thing to "$wgUser->getId()" (I believe getId is a method, not a property), further self-blocks fail with "already blocked", but I'm still unrestricted in blocking IPs.

Fixed in r41314.

A blocked sysop can still unblock themselves, and then block other users.

Reclosing. Sysops are supposed to be able to unblock themselves.

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