Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/August 2006/Blocking policy

Blocking policy

I've set up the shell of a blocking policy at WV:BLOCK, and I'd appreciate input and expansion! --digital_me^talk 22:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will say that as a personal policy, I block anybody that adds profanity, particularly if it is in the name of the user. That is immediate and usually infinite, especially if that is about the only edit the user has made. As for anon users, I tend to follow a policy of starting out with modest blocks (about a year) and move up over time. There is also a general policy of blocking open proxies with infinite blocks that has been suggested on Meta.

It would be nice to have some people with Check User rights here, but that is very unlikely at the moment for reasons I won't get into here (it is a part of my political beef with the WMF right now and I will be spewing some very POV stuff here). I think that we can work around that, however. --Robert Horning 05:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think we'll need to use CheckUser at this stage, unless we come under fire from some serious, concentrated vandalism, in which case, we can ask a steward for assistance. robchurch | talk 22:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]