[WikiEN-l] A few different topics

[Dante Alighieri]

At 06:11 PM 8/31/2003, you wrote:
>We don't yet have a deletion/sysop event log table. If you'd like to whip 
>one up before I get to it, it would happen sooner rather than later.
>
>-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

C'mon, Brion, you slacker! Get to it! What the heck are we paying you for, 
anyway? ;)

I would suggest an auto-expiration of IP blocks at one week. This will most 
likely be long enough to discourage people from repeat vandalism without 
unduly affecting those poor souls who share dynamic IPs with vandals.

On another note, could someone (sorry Brion) please make it easier to IP 
block? Unless I'm missing something obvious, as it stands right now I have 
to muck through the Recent Changes until I find an edit by a given IP 
before I can block them. It would be extraordinarily useful to have a 
Special:Block_this_IP page where one could manually enter in an IP to have 
it blocked. At the very least, an option to block could be a link on an 
IP-users contribution page or something.


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Dante Alighieri
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