Our practice for this has been to just revert, leave a talk message, and if necessary, blacklist the spammer's url.  We've actually never indefinitely blocked anyone except for doppelgangers and spambot created accounts.  The more exhaustive guidance is at or linked from Wikivoyage:How to handle unwanted edits.

-Peter

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Snowolf <ml@snowolf.eu> wrote:
I should also add that the user was not indeed banned but rather
indefinitely blocked.

Snowolf

On 2013-01-21 0210, Snowolf wrote:
> Run of the mill spammer, replaced normal useful texts with spam to his
> own website and ignoring warnings, not sure what the big deal or problem
> is. How would you suggest it be dealt otherwise?
>
> Snowolf
>
> On 2013-01-21 0159, Ian Sergeant wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What's going on here?
>>
>> http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User_talk:SheikhTravel
>>
>> It appears we got one of our first actual user indef ban without so much
>> as nomination?
>>
>> I don't want to tread on toes, but this seems totally out of line with
>> current policy..
>>
>> Ian.



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