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 &lt;ml(a)snowolf.eu&gt; wrote:

Our policy pages have never been updated to make a distinction between bans and blocks; they should be considered synonymous for policy purposes, at least for the time being. (It's never been a problem before because we never block anyone except to enforce a ban.) I quote from https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:How_to_handle_unwanted_edits#User_ ban: "Bans made without a vote and without an understanding of the gravity of this action (and not covered by one of the exceptions listed below) are considered abuse by the administrator. '''In other words, a user ban is a really, really big deal.'''" At this point, you should either rescind the block or else put it up on the ban nominations page for consideration by the community. Powers &8^]