On Tuesday 05 November 2002 04:13, Rob Brewer wrote:
This is a good policy, except that (as far as I can tell) when you check contribs for an IP address you only see edits made anonymously from that IP, but when you ban an IP you ban both anonymous and signed-in users at that IP. If a proxy or a shared computer has been used by an anonymous vandal and a useful signed-in user, the signed-in user will be blocked, and Wikipedia will lose the benefit of his edits.
This needs to be changed, then. Either we have to see the signed-in contributions from an IP address, or blocking an IP address needs to not block signed-in users and we need a way of blocking signed-in users.
phma