[Wikipedia-l] warning user fauxpas

Tue Dec 17 17:00:52 UTC 2002

The Cunctator wrote:

>I still wouldn't ban. The harm of the stubs is minimal. 
>
But in this case it was dumb legwork we could avoid. This person was 
adding dates as "4-5-1945", which means someone later on has to go look 
it up again.

>But I won't cry if you do it. 
>  
>
I wasn't comfortable either about using the ban feature for this, which 
is why I brought it up here. :-)
I'd rather we had a "soft" way of doing this.
For example, make the contents of the page [[user:{IP address}]] appear 
above every edit box this IP sees.

That way:
* they see it (hopefully ... I've seen people overlook what's right in 
front of them when it comes to computer interfaces)
* we're not banning them, and they can still edit
* they can reply to confirm they've read the message on the same page.