[WikiEN-l] Re: Page move vandal - there is a feature that can help with it ...

Tue Mar 8 21:47:42 UTC 2005

actionforum at comcast.net wrote:

>>>Although it's a prominent PITA, the page move vandalism is probably not 
>>>presently bad enough to disable the last 10% of accounts from page moves 
>>>as an emergency measure. 
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>>>
>>What if we lowered it to 1%. how many people would that affect and for 
>>how long roughly? ( I take it that we are still growing 
>>exponentially?) 
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>>
>How many users have EVER used move?  Why not disable it, and make it a sysop only function.  I don't think its meaning is intuitive, the only time I ever tried to use it was to reverse a vandal that had moved the page, and I think I botched it.
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It's often very useful, especially with non-controversial moves 
involving something like correcting page titles with wrong capitalizations.

Ec