Netholic is not an IP address, however - he's a logged in user, and he certainly doesn't qualify as a "new" account, which is a criterion for blocking logged in users under this policy.
Not saying I don't think he's a problem - just pointing out once again that we do need more options in the blocking policy, because as it stands the rules don't leave any room for dealing with this.
-Snowspinner
On Sep 7, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Brian Corr wrote:
The relevant policy is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Disruption, which says in part:
"Sysops may, at their judgement, block IP addresses that disrupt the normal functioning of Wikipedia. Such disruption is to be objectively defined by specific policies, and may include changing other user's signed comments or making deliberately misleading edits. Users should be warned that they are violating policy before they are blocked."
And, BTW, the warning has now become a discussion. See: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Netoholic#Warning_re: _refactoring> and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Netoholic#refactoring for the previous discussion that led up to this.
Thanks, Brian (BCorr)
Phil Sandifer wrote
What portion of the blocking policy are you invoking in this warning?
-Snowspinner
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