[WikiEN-l] Re: Per-article blocking (was: RickK leaving)

Wed Jun 22 03:52:26 UTC 2005

>From: Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au>
>
>JAY JG wrote:
> > In my experience, when this kind of person is blocked from editing one
> > article (e.g. via page protection), he or she typically moves on to
> > start edit warring on a related article.  A good example is one of the
> > people currently being proposed for RfAR, who has managed to get perhaps
> > 10 articles protected so far, one after another, returning to the
> > originals for further revert warring when they are unprotected again.
>
>Well, the feature I have in mind would allow the user to be blocked from
>an arbitrary list of articles. In the scenario you refer to, the effect
>would be the same for the badly behaving user, they would continue to
>move from article to article. The difference is that other editors would
>still be able to edit the articles left behind. Since the collateral
>damage is lower, action could be taken sooner, and the bad user would
>run out of related articles to edit more quickly.

For how long would these individual article blocks remain?

Jay.