[WikiEN-l] Blocking of School IPs

[Ian A Holton]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 15:43 -0500, Rjd0060 - wrote:
> That isn't a good idea at all (sorry) and it goes against guidelines set in
> the Blocking Policy, as well as the basic principles of Wikipedia.  As Gary
> Kirk said, there are some constructive edits in there, but I'll admit it is
> sometimes difficult to find them.
> 
> On Jan 8, 2008 2:49 PM, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It would most certainly not.
> >
> > Cases should be dealt with individually. We do have good editing coming
> > from
> > IP addresses registered to schools, and we have bad edits, as with most
> > shared or public computers..
> >
> > On 08/01/2008, Ian A Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > wouldn't it be a good idea to start blocking school (not university)
> > > IPs indefinitely. I have rarely seen a good edit come from one of these
> > > and the time spend on vandal fighting them is just wasted time, really.
> > >
> > > Ian [[User:Poeloq]]
> > >
> > >
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Thanks Rjd0060 for pointing out the policy :) Okay, bad idea... It's
just sometimes I get frustrated with vandal fighting during school time
as it just gets silly...However, I will keep the flag flying of
course :)

Ian [[User:Poeloq]]