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Fred Bauder wrote:
Plautus satire is probably an older man. What you suggest is appropriate for younger users who get carried away. We should give 10 year olds plenty of chances to get it right.
Proposal for a new policy:
1. User does something stupid -> User is warned. 2. User does something stupid -> User is warned, pointed to relevant policy pages. 3. User does something stupid -> User is blocked for 12 hours (which will most likely be overnight), pointed to relevant policy pages.
At stage 3 (that is, third act of stupidity) some software changes are required. Namely:
* Editing restriction to user's talk page (and *possibly* subpages of their user_talk page) * Edit link is automagically changed into View Source, but visiting an &action=edit page will still reset the block
Possibly (or otherwise), I think something more drastic (but potentially more beneficial) might be required if this doesn't/won't work:
Per-user, per-namespace, per-category blocking. Which means:
* User can be prevented from editing any pages in a particular namespace (eg. articles); * User can be prevented from editing any articles in a particular category
Now, tell me where and how to do these things in PHP (I'm fairly certain I could do them in pseudocode), and they'll be implemented by Mediawiki 1.8 :)
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