[WikiEN-l] Criteria for banning

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Nov 22 23:07:13 UTC 2002


Toby Bartels wrote:

>>For ip addresses, anonymous contributions, we should continue our
>>policy of banning them for simple vandalism at the slightest
>>provocation.
>>
>
>At the slightest provocation?
>Note that according to [[en:Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress]],
>an isolated instance of text deletion, for instance, is not vandalism.
>So the slightest provocation that qualifies as vandalism,
>but not the slightest provocation that might be so interpreted
>if the interpretation as vandalism is incorrect by our policy.
>
A single simple deletion can often be a newbie that's trying to figure 
out how to do it, and accidentally spilled his seed outside the hole. :-)

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