[WikiEN-l] three revert rule and quickpolls

Thu May 6 19:49:42 UTC 2004

This is Paul Vogel who is a hairbreath short of a 1 year ban. He has only
hours, perhaps minutes to go. See [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Paul
Vogel]].

Fred

> From: David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:39:45 +0000
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] three revert rule and quickpolls
> 
> On 05/06/04 13:40, KNOTT, T wrote:
> 
>> The general consensus appears to be the quickpolls do not appear to work in
>> the case of violations of the three revert rule. Fair enough. So what do we
>> do now? I would like admins to have the power to 24hour block someone who
>> violates this rule, once they have received a warning. I personally can't see
>> any situation where someone would have a legitimate reason to revert more
>> than three times in a day.
>> Vandalism - protect the page.
>> Um what else? I can't think of anything. What does everyone else think?
> 
> 
> That's a sweet thought, but 24.45.99.191 has been going hogwild
> with (a) spamming large slabs of text across the place (b) altering
> archives of talk pages yesterday and today. I put it on the
> Vandalism page, but it doesn't seem to warrant any action. Just
> what does it take for an anon IP vandal to get blocked?
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> 
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