On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/5/9 Andrew Turvey <[email protected]>: > > > I'd suggest for now creating a user template notice and a project of > volunteers who could go around looking at editors contributions and putting > this template on their pages if appropriate. Let's see the impact that has > first, before we start banning people. > > > *headdesk* > > Templating people who are editing problematically never works, ever. > > You can word the template however carefully you like (do we have any > under 200 words?) but the message is: > > "You are doing something I don't like, this is a threat of blocking." > > Result: more sockpuppetry. I think the results are better than 0%, but they're terrible. When I spend a couple of minutes with an editor and topic specific writeup asking someone to stop and explaining the policy, it seems to be much more effective on average. I also template people - but I leave a paragraph or two of custom note nearly every time I template. I template at the bottom so that other admins who review can see "Oh, that's a uw-foobar-3, one more strike" rather than having to figure their way through the note i left to determine how serious it was etc. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
