A user named "Wanli" has, afer making some contributions that look OK, started to create dozens of new articles all consisting of the text "Goolge keywords: Canada America cooperation" (or something like that). I asked him to stop that and removed these articles. He started recreating them and told me on my talk page to "stop deleting valuable encyclopedia content".
I then blocked his user account, but he created a "Wanli2" user and asks to resurrect the "Wanli" account.
Does anyone know Wanli? Can anyone reason with him/her? Just in case: Brion, how do I block the IP of a logged-in user (never did that before)?
Please assist, Magnus
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:59, Magnus Manske wrote:
Just in case: Brion, how do I block the IP of a logged-in user (never did that before)?
If you really need the IP of a logged-in user, you'll need to match up their last edit (as shown by contribs) with the web server logs. This is somewhat annoying, and deliberately so; banning people is a serious step, and isn't supposed to be one-click easy. (For one thing we can't afford the patent license!)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:59, Magnus Manske wrote:
Just in case: Brion, how do I block the IP of a logged-in user (never did that before)?
If you really need the IP of a logged-in user, you'll need to match up their last edit (as shown by contribs) with the web server logs. This is somewhat annoying, and deliberately so; banning people is a serious step, and isn't supposed to be one-click easy. (For one thing we can't afford the patent license!)
I was just asking because I was afraid of another "Google keywords" flood, and didn't have the time to revert them. Fortunately, it seems to have stopped.
Maybe we could afford the patent fee if we redirect our search queries to Amazon? That would also reduce server load ;-)
Magnus