[Wikipedia-l] Re: Blocking

[Tim Starling]

Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Tim Starling <ts4294967296 at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I was discussing possible measures against this guy on the IRC
>>channel. I came to the conclusion that the best feature to implement
>>would be a method for quickly rolling back page creation. Possibly,
>>sysops could have a column of checkboxes on RC.
> 
> 
> Those power features will do more harm than good.  Using such a feature
> would mean that the wiki concept failed.

Rubbish. The ability to revert is an important part of the wiki model.

> 
>>Perhaps this could be submitted to Sourceforge feature requests.
> 
> 
> It's much easier.  Just do nothing for some days and the offender will
> quickly loose interest in his destructive doings.  The real vandals are
> those who add (commercial) stuff for optimizing their search engine
> results.

This is an encyclopedia project, not a playground. We have a 
responsibility to our readers to keep the content maximally accurate, at 
all times.

-- Tim Starling.