The blocking templates are very helpful in most of these situations. I recently updated [[MediaWiki:Blockipsuccesstext]] to include a note and link to the [[Category:User block templates]]. Most of these are wikified, written in plain english, and clear.
xaosflux ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bennett" stevage@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 9:42 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Block messages
Hi, I note in the previous message that the user was given the block message "3rr, evasion with sock" - I wonder, how could any new user possibly understand what that means? Wouldn't it be better to use plain language, even if it does mean taking slightly longer to block? In this case "Repeatedly undoing other people's changes to an article, using alternate accounts to get around having their account blocked".
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