[WikiEN-l] Would this be kosher...?

Oldak Quill oldakquill at gmail.com
Tue May 29 18:44:14 UTC 2007


Have you tried contacting the library itself to ask? Some libraries
require users to sign in on entry - perhpas they could identify who's
doing it and sort it out? Vandalism might be in conflict with one of
their usage policies.

On 29/05/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Situation: Sockmaster, very persistent, has been going for a month
> plus, editing from a major city's public library system using IP
> accounts initially but creating up to several named accounts per day
> more recently.
>
> Articles have been semi-protected in many cases, but... I am wondering
> if it would be considered abusive to do a "can't create new users from
> these addresses" IP block on the range of IPs used for those
> libraries.
>
> That's not "all edits blocked", just "can't create new accounts".
>
> Comments?
>
>
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