[WikiEN-l] Is this normal?

[John Lee]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Christiano Moreschi <
moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>
> One relatively brief day of adminning enwiki and I find myself blocking
> the sockpuppets of no fewer than three separate returning banned users.
> Hkelkar, Ararat arev, and BryanFromPalatine, if anyone's interested. Is this
> a normal experience for my fellow admins?
>
> And do we do enough to keep banned users off Wikipedia? Should we chase
> them up in real life a little more? After all, I believe we do know who at
> least two out of the above three are. Wikipedia is hardly sinking under a
> deluge of banned users, but a little more proactiveness would be nice on
> this front. Is protecting articles from a specific user or IP range
> technically possible?


Chasing them in real life? Are you joking? As long as the most serious
threat they pose to our existence is annoying admins who have to block them
once in a while, I hardly think vigilante action is warranted.

Johnleemk