[WikiEN-l] Jeremy Hanson

[brewhaha%40edmc.net]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GRAWPTHEGIANT07
BTW, since this guy has been confirmed as LtWinters, then my suspicion that 
he is grawp is also confirmed. I will look for the template for placing that 
suspicion, because I am not sure that the same people are looking at the 
same records. I see no reason why a different vandal would use the name of a 
chased vandal. For that matter, there are three spellings of Psychonaut, and 
the simple one is still active for some reason.

The problem with increasing the account age requirements for moving a page 
is that it penalizes ALL NEW USERS, not just those with verizon who *might* 
be personally affected, and only at an inconvenience. There are ways around 
it and I do not see that Grawp is using them extensively. I see one obvious 
range on his checkuser page that probably *was* blocked. Verizon is big and 
no RFC that I know of concerns how IP numbers are allotted. The blocks he 
has direct access to might concern a district or an entire city. Serious 
editors with an account on wikipedia are only about one in ten thousand.

The advantage to blocking verizon, 64k at a time according to their whois 
records, is that we might actually get a response from them, saying, yes, he 
is with us, yes, we do hav a policy problem concerning him, and we are 
concerning his mother. They hav a policy regarding unwanted communication. 
All they need is feedback from their own users to get it enforced. I do not 
really *know* that they ignored previous e-mails from me. I suspect that 
they might actually pay attention to fifty.

"collateral damage" is too strong of a military euphemism for unintended 
death. Please use "unintended delays" or "requring rudimentarily confirmed 
channels", because that is all that is entailed.

"Ian Woollard" <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:781c50250901152204q733764aayc1d2758c0201a72f at mail.gmail.com...
> In my experience these kinds of problems need to be dealt with firmly,
> with a minimum of collateral damage, but in a reactive way that tells
> the vandal that they can't in general win, in no uncertain terms.
>
> Messing around with proxy blocks and filters and stuff- it's much too
> brittle, it's probably never going to work.
>
> I think the easiest and most effective way to handle this GRAWP issue is 
> just to
> temporarily increase the account age requirement for page moves to (say) 6
> months on the wikipedia, and make any account less recent than that go
> through an admin.
>
> If it puts him out of business he'll probably get bored and stop.
>
> In a few weeks we could try reducing it again, and if he starts back
> up, raise it again promptly.
>
> The point is, there is no way around that; he can't win. Even if he
> ages accounts we just raise the requirement, wait a while, and then
> lower it again. Rinse, lather, repeat. The point is to give them the
> idea that they're up against an implacable obstacle; which... they
> are.
>
> -- 
> -Ian Woollard
>
> We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
> imperfect world would be much better.
>
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