Our practice for this has been to just revert, leave a talk message, and if
necessary, blacklist the spammer's url. We've actually never indefinitely
blocked anyone except for doppelgangers and spambot created accounts. The
more exhaustive guidance is at or linked from Wikivoyage:How to handle
unwanted
edits<http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:How_to_handle_unwanted_ed…
.
-Peter
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Snowolf <ml(a)snowolf.eu> wrote:
I should also add that the user was not indeed banned
but rather
indefinitely blocked.
Snowolf
On 2013-01-21 0210, Snowolf wrote:
Run of the mill spammer, replaced normal useful
texts with spam to his
own website and ignoring warnings, not sure what the big deal or problem
is. How would you suggest it be dealt otherwise?
Snowolf
On 2013-01-21 0159, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's going on here?
>
>
http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User_talk:SheikhTravel
>
> It appears we got one of our first actual user indef ban without so much
> as nomination?
>
> I don't want to tread on toes, but this seems totally out of line with
> current policy..
>
> Ian.
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