Pine, I think it is a good idea. But there are some spams that are subtle, so that a better understand of the local language would be necessary - a business page, like a bar or restaurant, in a neighborhood. I am sure lots of spam would be detectable even not knowing the local language, but not all of them.

A little off topic, but today I read a theread on a mailing list where a professor very commited to open education resources (he uses CC-by) is now complaining about the bad use of his educational content by spammers:

http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2013/04/creative-commons-has-failed-me-and-my-heart-is-breaking/

Damn. How can we solve that? :(

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:12 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss@hotmail.com> wrote:

We have stewards who impose global IP locks and global account locks frequently for the purpose of blocking spam. Would it make sense to develop a tool that globally removes every edit of an editor who has been blocked by a steward or global admin for spamming, or is that too much power to give to stewards and global admins? My guess is that this would remove a lot of spam from smaller wikis that lack the volunteer resources to do a lot of local spam cleanup, but there are tradeoffs.

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."