I disagree with Gerard about the approach to use here. To deny
thousands (millions?) of AOL users the right to contribute to
wikimedia projects because of some guy who tried to create a word
called "exicornt switch" would be a mistake. To justify it because we
supposedly receive very little benefit from AOL is typically elitist.
If said user were blanking out whole useful sections of wiktionary or
launching DOS attacks or something else that would affect the end user
(whom I doubt is affected by the addition of nonsense words such as
this), then maybe a temporary block would be in order. Until then, I
think wiktionary editors need to suck it up and delete these pages as
they come along. Wikipedia is great precisely because it strives to
not privilege one group of users over another. Let's keep it that way.
On 3/19/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
It may be disproportional, but the disruption of this vandal is also
disproportional to the benefit we get from AOL. There is no other
method available to prevent this sorry sod somewhat. It would help if
we could put some bumbs on the road making vandalism less easy. It
would also help if we could go to the police.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3/19/06, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2006/3/15, Mark Williamson
<node.ue(a)gmail.com>om>:
Seeing as the user comes from AOL, I can't
help but agree.
Unless AOL changed it policy recently, I think him being from AOL is a
good reason NOT to give a site-wide ban. AOL uses, or at least used to
use, variable IP-numbers. Any blocking would thus block other AOL
users just as likely as the perpetrator himself. And to block all of
AOL for this seems widely disproportional to me..
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
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