Theresa,
Thanks
for outlining your "disciplinary process". It's completely in line with what I
have been proposing and/or doing for the two years I have acted as a steward of
Wikipedia.
>
But you don’t need to be so harsh either. This is just some kid mucking about.
>
We deal with this kind of thing all the time. (well I do anyway) I go through a
procedure
>
> 1) Talk page. You
must warn them on their talk page first. It’s only polite.
> Tell him he can’t take down wikipedia, so give up. Invite him
to contribute properly.
> 2) Talk page
again. Stern warning this time
> 3)
delete nonsense articles and protect real ones as necessary, explain what
>
you are doing
> 4) Block for 24
hours
> 5) Block for longer if
necessary
>
> I rarely get to stage 5
The
idea is to begin by assuming good faith. Explain, request,
remind.
If
that doesn't work, start turning on the heat. Warn, temp block,
ban.
It's
amazing how many variations of this principle have appeared over the nearly 3
years Wikipedia has been in operation.
Ed
Poor, aka Uncle
ED