It made banners cold feeted and made the issue hot
Thankyou
With Best Wishes
Amalkiran
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> 1. Re: User bans (Ian Sergeant)
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> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:56:51 +1100
> From: Ian Sergeant <inas66(a)gmail.com>
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> 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(a)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
>>
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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