At 07:55 01/04/2003 +0100, sannse wrote:
Zoe wrote:
>He came in last night under an IP address and
immediately began deleting
Talk pages which had to be rolled back. He then created
a NEW User Id as
Weezer, and tried doing the same thing. I've begun to automatically
rollback anything he inputs, because 9 times out 10 it's either Talk page
vandalism or it's wrong.
Personally, I think Weezer is a copycat rather than andother incarnation
Michael. But either way he seems out to cause trouble - perhaps more so
than Michael who, most of the time, just seems to be careless and
uncommunicative.
I'm almost certain they're the same person - the first time Weezer signed
his name on a talk page it was using an IP number that Michael had used to
sign his name about three minutes earlier. (By the way, Michael has blanked
talk pages as well - it's not just carelessness, there's a good degree of
wanton vandalism as well.)
I still don't think a ban (in the sense of blocking his username and IP
numbers) will work - he uses too many IP numbers for it to be practical,
and if we block them all for a day or two, as Erik suggested, I'm pretty
sure he'll just return at the end of that time (and in the meantime we'll
have kept out a whole ISP-worth of legit contributors). If we block his
username, his contributions will be harder to follow because they'll be
spread over a variety of different IP numbers (he sometimes edits from IP
numbers now, but not all the time by any means).
If we want to be practical about this and make Michael either go away or
improve his work, then the best approach at this stage, I think, is to
revert all his edits on sight.
lp (Camembert)
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