Hi!
On Fri, 7 May 2004 14:37:06 -0700, uninvited@nerstrand.net wrote:
- If a user edits the same article with more than one user ID (sock puppet) within 10 days, they will be banned
for a period of 7 days.
Then you have to be able to definitely tell who is and is not a sock puppet. I have been accused of being one myself, although I have no clue whom I was supposed to be a sock puppet for. (Not to mention that I had to look up the word in the first place.) Also, some users simply share the same opinion, without them being the same person. And IP addresses don't work all the time, either; most Europeans don't have a fixed one, and I guess many non-Europeans neither.
- If a user reverts an article excessively without discussion and in such a way as to prevent useful work from
being done on the article, the article should be protected. If the user is culpable in more than three such pages within 10 days, they will be banned for a period of 7 days.
Again, this is easily written, but not always easy to confirm. The one who's work is reverted will always complain "that they are just trying to do useful work" and the one doing the reverting will always consider it "vandalising" or "trolling". And not every article is about subjects easily understood by other people, so that decision might be a triffle difficult to make.
- If a user has a pattern of editing in bad faith, such as vandalism, threats of violence, personal attacks,
legal threats, racism, the problematic edits should be reverted, regardless of where they are made (talk space, user page). If they continue (more than five?) the user should be banned for 7 days.
That is the one point that can be easily determined to have taken place.
Greetings from Cologne Alex