It made banners cold feeted and made the issue hot
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Today's Topics:
- Re: User bans (Ian Sergeant)
- Re: User bans (Powers)
- Banners no more? (Peter B Fitzgerald)
- Re: Banners no more? (Federico Leva (Nemo))
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:56:51 +1100 From: Ian Sergeant inas66@gmail.com To: Wikivoyage Mailing List wikivoyage-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikivoyage-l] User bans Message-ID: CALDa4YLsL+SP8DOi+JE=8rZ-4ebVnT2MuFxskHm5WQVequ_=xg@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi,
In this case I'm not even convinced there was anything much to revert. The only edits the user made were to his own talk page, and a clear mistake in editing a policy page. I'm not sure there was any real need for any kind of block or ban.
Personally, I'd have given them a welcome along the lines of
http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Welcome,_business_owners
and hoped that their edits to the guides were constructive.
I'm a bit concerned about the undocumented appeal policy that seems to have crept in too.
Ian.
On 21 January 2013 13:34, Peter B Fitzgerald pbf5@georgetown.edu wrote:
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 editshttp://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:How_to_handle_unwanted_edits .
-Peter
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Snowolf ml@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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