[WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp

Soxred93 soxred93 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 23:07:29 UTC 2008


The problem with that is that many articles we have would not be  
found in any dictionary.

X!

On Dec 29, 2008, at 6:02 PM [Dec 29, 2008 ], Ian Woollard wrote:

> On 29/12/2008, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Allow blocking on a more granular level, if we know his ISP, and lock
>> out moves and redirects for the whole damn ISPs, and specifically
>> point the finger back in the block message: Blocked because of
>> JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp with a nice shiny link to his long-term abuse
>> page.
>
> It probably wouldn't work because of proxies and people that would
> emulate/help him.
>
> Still, ideas that would affect less people rather than more like that
> are almost certainly IMO the way to go; for example restricting the
> range of characters and checking that the move title consists of words
> in a dictionary before permitting non admins or users with a small
> number of edits to complete a move might be desirable.
>
>> - Joe
>
> -- 
> -Ian Woollard
>
> We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
> imperfect world would be much better.
>
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