At 07:55 01/04/2003 +0100, sannse wrote:
Zoe wrote:
He came in last night under an IP address and immediately began deleting
Talk pages which had to be rolled back. He then created a NEW User Id as Weezer, and tried doing the same thing. I've begun to automatically rollback anything he inputs, because 9 times out 10 it's either Talk page vandalism or it's wrong.
Personally, I think Weezer is a copycat rather than andother incarnation Michael. But either way he seems out to cause trouble - perhaps more so than Michael who, most of the time, just seems to be careless and uncommunicative.
I'm almost certain they're the same person - the first time Weezer signed his name on a talk page it was using an IP number that Michael had used to sign his name about three minutes earlier. (By the way, Michael has blanked talk pages as well - it's not just carelessness, there's a good degree of wanton vandalism as well.)
I still don't think a ban (in the sense of blocking his username and IP numbers) will work - he uses too many IP numbers for it to be practical, and if we block them all for a day or two, as Erik suggested, I'm pretty sure he'll just return at the end of that time (and in the meantime we'll have kept out a whole ISP-worth of legit contributors). If we block his username, his contributions will be harder to follow because they'll be spread over a variety of different IP numbers (he sometimes edits from IP numbers now, but not all the time by any means).
If we want to be practical about this and make Michael either go away or improve his work, then the best approach at this stage, I think, is to revert all his edits on sight.
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