[Mediawiki-l] not emailconfirmed user still able to edit pages

[Platonides]

Marcello Perathoner wrote:
> I have one particularly dear user that continues to create offensive 
> accounts and pages with offensive content. (He is a known vandal of 
> Wikipedia too.)
> 
> I have followed instructions in
> 
>    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_rights
> 
> to allow editing only to emailconfirmed users.
> 
> He still uses bogus email addresses to register and is able to create pages.
> 
> I noticed that all his edits start with the delete template. This is a 
> typical edit:
> 
>    {{delete|Stupid}} Obama
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

Does user_groups list him as emailconfirmed?


> Follows excerpt from LocalSettings.php
> (...)

Maybe you are including DefaultSettings after it or otherwise rewriting
those values with default ones?