Brion earlier today deleted several junk entries whose content related to sexual perversion. Looking at the deletion log, I can't tell whether they are the same IP address (in which case it's a vandal and should be blocked) or different ones. If different people delete junks by the same person, no one knows that he should be blocked. Please, therefore, when deleting junk entries, list the IP address (or user name, if any) of whoever wrote the junk.
phma
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:13, Pierre Abbat wrote:
Brion earlier today deleted several junk entries whose content related to sexual perversion. Looking at the deletion log, I can't tell whether they are the same IP address (in which case it's a vandal and should be blocked) or different ones. If different people delete junks by the same person, no one knows that he should be blocked. Please, therefore, when deleting junk entries, list the IP address (or user name, if any) of whoever wrote the junk.
Why bother blocking? The entries are gone.
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 20:26, The Cunctator wrote:
Why bother blocking? The entries are gone.
Huh? Blocking doesn't delete entries already made, it prevents future entries. The guy could be a vandal in the middle of pasting junk. Blocking the IP prevents him from pasting any more junk.
phma
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:42, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 20:26, The Cunctator wrote:
Why bother blocking? The entries are gone.
Huh? Blocking doesn't delete entries already made, it prevents future entries. The guy could be a vandal in the middle of pasting junk. Blocking the IP prevents him from pasting any more junk.
Why bother? The IP could belong to more people, now or in the future. The guy could decide to make valid contributions. Or most like, the guy will stop adding detritus now that it's evident it'll just be erased.
Path of least harm.
Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 20:26, The Cunctator wrote:
Why bother blocking? The entries are gone.
Huh? Blocking doesn't delete entries already made, it prevents future entries. The guy could be a vandal in the middle of pasting junk. Blocking the IP prevents him from pasting any more junk.
Blocking some of these guys strikes me as a useless effort. Many of these guys have a short attention span, and they soon become bored by their own work. Eclecticology
Pierre Abbat wrote:
Brion earlier today deleted several junk entries whose content related to sexual perversion. Looking at the deletion log, I can't tell whether they are the same IP address (in which case it's a vandal and should be blocked) or different ones. If different people delete junks by the same person, no one knows that he should be blocked. Please, therefore, when deleting junk entries, list the IP address (or user name, if any) of whoever wrote the junk.
If you're referring to the junk edits to Sukarno, Suharto, Adolf Hitler, etc; those came from various IPs, mostly from what looks like a school or library in Ohio (probably public machines or a cache/proxy); banning wouldn't help much.
Suharto - 156.63.200.159 Sukarno - 156.63.200.159, 156.63.205.5 Image talk:Hitler.jpg - 156.63.205.5 Talk:Hafez al-Assad - 198.234.102.59 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - 156.63.205.5
156.63.205.5 and 198.234.102.59 also each vandalised Adolf Hitler once; both were quickly reverted.
You'll notice that after cleaning the first batch, I added the IP in the deletion notice for "Hitler: The Last Ten Days". You'll also notice no further activity from these IPs, though no ban is in place.
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