On 20 January 2015 at 03:30, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > The page itself is interesting, as is some of the related discussion on > the talk page. I'm not sure if wiki bans strictly fall within security > theater, but it seems fairly clear that these bans are for show and not > much else. It's the Internet, after all, and anyone can edit. Under the > current scheme, the best we can do is try to revert and prevent bad > behavior alone. Attempting to ban individuals has proved impossible.
There exist people with actual restraining orders against editing; as I understand it, that's the escalation step after this. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>