On 6/17/06, Arwel Parry arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk wrote:
I have to differ. I think admins are often far *too* lenient with repetitive vandals - I long ago lost count of the number of times I've gone to a vandal's talk page to issue a warning and found up to a dozen consecutive "final" warnings; in that case I will block immediately without any hesitation, and the worse record the vandal has, the longer I will block for.
You should check to see whether the {{test4}} templates were left by an admin or a user. A lot of the time, a user will leave a final warning and then fail to report the vandal to [[WP:AIV]] for blocking. Or they will report the user too early and the entry will get removed because they haven't vandalized since last warning.
Alternatively, some IPs are shared and/or repeat sources of vandalism, so the warning templates might have been applied to a different user.
Ryan