The Cunctator wrote:
I still wouldn't ban. The harm of the stubs is minimal.
But in this case it was dumb legwork we could avoid. This person was adding dates as "4-5-1945", which means someone later on has to go look it up again.
But I won't cry if you do it.
I wasn't comfortable either about using the ban feature for this, which is why I brought it up here. :-) I'd rather we had a "soft" way of doing this. For example, make the contents of the page [[user:{IP address}]] appear above every edit box this IP sees.
That way: * they see it (hopefully ... I've seen people overlook what's right in front of them when it comes to computer interfaces) * we're not banning them, and they can still edit * they can reply to confirm they've read the message on the same page.