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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] Example of a user who should have been banned a long
From:       geni <geniice () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-09-09 13:12:29
Message-ID: f80608430609090612i5cae61c1qb2aaa70df844df5c () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 9/9/06, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/06, geni <geniice@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/9/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia.com> wrote:
>
> > > gee, if a person gets that many warnings, and doesn't respond, and keeps
> > > up the bad behavior, then an indef ban is certainly justified.
>
> > The problem is that normaly they do a load of uploads then go away so
> > there is little point in blocking them.
>
>
> If we're getting a string of these hit and upload burst people, some
> checkusering *may* be in order (I don't *know*, but it might be) to
> see if they're repeat offenders. Remembering that the recentchanges
> table only goes back a limited time (one to four weeks on dev whim and
> system resources). So if you have a string of recent hit-and-run anon
> uploaders, please leave a list of usernames on WP:RFCU with a note
> that I suggested checking for persistent offenders might be in order -
> insisting on dropping us in the copyright poo is not nice or suitable
> behaviour.
>
>
> - d.

No it appears to mostly be companies advertiseing themselves or people
creating a small number of articles with lots of pics.

-- 
geni
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