Grawp doesn't just do page moves. Also good luck finding consensus for such a change. - Chris
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
