[WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?

[Gracenotes]

On 6/18/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 18/06/07, Eagle 101 <eagle.wikien.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The primary reason for blocking proxies of any kind is to make sock
> puppetry
> > > very difficult.
> >
> > Not really - the primary reason is that open proxies are
> > overwhelmingly used for vandalism and trolling, not merely
> > sockpuppetry (though that too).
> >
> Wikipedia attempts to do the impossible, create a site that anyone can
> edit except those who are banned, without placing any barriers to
> entry for those who aren't banned.
>
> Proxies are banned to try to accomplish this impossible task.
>
> Maybe I'm oversimplifying things, but that's how I see it.
>
> I wonder what will happen to Wikipedia's block policies if IPv6 ever
> becomes a reality.


Range blocks would possibly to the trick, although they would be
very, very, very messy.