All three were malicious, yes. Very much so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#more_Arm…
provides backgroud for my final suggested solution. Looks fairly harmless to me, at any
rate. Is it technically possible?
CM
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.> From: kmw(a)armory.com> To:
wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:45:56 -0600> Subject: Re:
[WikiEN-l] Is this normal?> > On Friday 29 February 2008 11:43, Christiano Moreschi
wrote:> > One relatively brief day of adminning enwiki and I find myself blocking
the> > sockpuppets of no fewer than three separate returning banned users.> >
Hkelkar, Ararat arev, and BryanFromPalatine, if anyone's interested. Is> > this
a normal experience for my fellow admins?> > Just curious, but were they doing
anything malicious, or were they honestly > contributing in good faith? If it's the
latter, so what if they've been > declared "banned"...if they're not
doing anything wrong leave them alone.> > >> > And do we do enough to keep
banned users off Wikipedia? Should we chase> > them up in real life a little
more?> > Absolutely not.> > > After all, I believe we do know who at >
> least two out of the above three are. Wikipedia is hardly sinking under a> >
deluge of banned users, but a little more proactiveness would be nice on> > this
front. Is protecting articles from a specific user or IP range> > technically
possible?> > The latter is totally unacceptable as a long-term solution.> -- >
Kurt Weber> <kmw(a)armory.com>> >
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