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Prohibited from becoming a mentor. How to?

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Summary by Trizek (WMF)
Iniquity (talkcontribs)

There is a problem. I have a partially blocked mentor who I want to exclude from mentoring/change his status to away and make sure he can't come back. There is a possibility?

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

First of all, you should exclude them from mentorship. While being away, this mentor can still have their name displayed at some newcomers. Excluding this mentor, using Special:ManageMentors, will reassign their mentees.

But this mentor can still reapply. Hence, I filled T322047 to provide an option to exclude users from mentorship.

Side note: if the user is excluded from mentorship because they are toxic, the best solution is to exclude them from the wiki. These users may "do useful things", but they also prevent more users who'd do useful things to join. :)

Iniquity (talkcontribs)

Thanks! He's not toxic, he's just quite young and has a very strange way of communicating, which in my opinion can be very bad for newcomers: they get very bad answers. In addition to blocking NS Wikipedia, it is contraindicated to be a mentor :)

Martin Urbanec (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Technical note: As of today, only sitewide blocks affect mentorship features (by fully excluding them from mentorship). I described several solutions how we can extend the partial blocks to mentorship features at T322047#8359548, thoughts are welcomed.

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