[WikiEN-l] three revert rule and quickpolls

[Jimmy Wales]

David Gerard wrote:
> That's a sweet thought, but 24.45.99.191 has been going hogwild
> with (a) spamming large slabs of text across the place (b) altering
> archives of talk pages yesterday and today. I put it on the
> Vandalism page, but it doesn't seem to warrant any action. Just
> what does it take for an anon IP vandal to get blocked?

Whether or not it is Paul Vogel, posting from an anon IP relieves him
of most due-process protections generally afforded to logged-in users.
"Sysops may, at their judgment, block IP addresses that vandalise Wikipedia."

--Jimbo