172.147.58.92 made some badly titled articles such as [[of the]] and pointers to them; I blocked the address, and I and someone else reverted the edits. 172.147.58.92 also made some changes to [[Doctor Who]] and a couple of other articles which I don't know whether are vandalism or not. Someone who knows, please check.
The address is in AOL, but appears not to be a proxy from its name.
phma
At 22:48 03/01/03 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
172.147.58.92 made some badly titled articles such as [[of the]] and pointers to them; I blocked the address, and I and someone else reverted the edits. 172.147.58.92 also made some changes to [[Doctor Who]] and a couple of other articles which I don't know whether are vandalism or not. Someone who knows, please check.
The [[Doctor Who]] edit was one sentence of POV commentary: "Daleks are so cool". The [[Colin Baker]] and [[Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers]] articles which were started by this IP are trivial, light-hearted and opinionated, but are about genuine(-ish) topics and aren't obscene. All five edits made by this IP fall into the category of "newbie experiment" rather than vandalism, and I think blocking was very harsh.
Rob [[user:Rbrwr]] wikikarma: [[Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers]] at 10:12 GMT
On Saturday 04 January 2003 05:18, Rob Brewer wrote:
The [[Doctor Who]] edit was one sentence of POV commentary: "Daleks are so cool". The [[Colin Baker]] and [[Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers]] articles which were started by this IP are trivial, light-hearted and opinionated, but are about genuine(-ish) topics and aren't obscene. All five edits made by this IP fall into the category of "newbie experiment" rather than vandalism, and I think blocking was very harsh.
There were nine edits, not five (the other four were the creation of useless articles). I thought, looking at the times, that two people used the same IP address - one created [[Colin Baker]] and [[Jive Bunny]] and then the other created the useless articles.
An article called [[of the]] containing "The french leader of the guerilla movement in the 20th decade." does not look like a newbie experiment to me. It looks like someone intentionally polluting the Wiki with silliness. An article containing "Put your text for the aoeusnth page here" is a newbie experiment.
If you think blocking was too harsh, go ahead and unblock the address.
phma
At 22:33 04/01/03 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Saturday 04 January 2003 05:18, Rob Brewer wrote: There were nine edits, not five (the other four were the creation of useless articles). I thought, looking at the times, that two people used the same IP address - one created [[Colin Baker]] and [[Jive Bunny]] and then the other created the useless articles.
That puts things in a slightly different light. Thank you.
An article called [[of the]] containing "The french leader of the guerilla movement in the 20th decade." does not look like a newbie experiment to me. It looks like someone intentionally polluting the Wiki with silliness. An article containing "Put your text for the aoeusnth page here" is a newbie experiment.
I don't entirely agree with you here. If a newbie wants to experiment with creating pages, they aren't necessarily going to type at random into the edit box. If they have some wit, they might well type something silly. The question is, how long do we put up with that silliness? If he got to nine edits and was getting sillier, it does look like he came to be silly, not encyclopedic.
If you think blocking was too harsh, go ahead and unblock the address.
I'm not a sysop, and I'm happy for those who are sysops to have the final say in these matters.
Rob wikikarma: is [[Chain]] at 23:11GMT substantial enough?