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This page in a nutshell: Assuming Good Faith does not allow vandals to be disruptive in an attempt to Game the system. |
This essay is an attempt to explain why I believe people should be firm when dealing with obvious
vandalism that is an attempt to disrupt the project, and not to
assume good faith when the editor in the question is being severely disruptive.
Throughout my somewhat brief time at Wikipedia, I have seen countless things that are (albeit impossible), attempts at disrupting the normal activity of Wikipedia:
Vandalism has been slowed down significantly by tools like Huggle and Twinkle. However, there are more ways to stop it. One of the best ways to stop vandalism would be to instantly block someone if they have added shock images in an article that is totally inappropriate, blanked a page repeatedly disregarding warnings more than once or twice, or done anything else they knew was wrong, they should be blocked, not warned. This would be the same for Death threats as well. Admins should be firm in their punishments to users. We should perhaps create a log of all blocked users however, in case it become necessary to revise it.
It is unfortunate that the way ISPs provide IP addresses causes indefinite bans to be ineffective. Therefore, caution must be taken when banning ANY IP address for longer than a week.
Despite what I have mentioned, it is a good idea for editors to assume good faith unless it is an extraordinary situation. Accidentally blanking a page is acceptable, doing it 10 times is not. Inserting a bad image by mistake is acceptable, obviously inserting it to damage the project or to be a troll is not etc. etc.
Harmless newcomer activity should ALWAYS be considered in good faith; do not bite the newcomers, but harmless is the keyword.
This is an
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This page in a nutshell: Assuming Good Faith does not allow vandals to be disruptive in an attempt to Game the system. |
This essay is an attempt to explain why I believe people should be firm when dealing with obvious
vandalism that is an attempt to disrupt the project, and not to
assume good faith when the editor in the question is being severely disruptive.
Throughout my somewhat brief time at Wikipedia, I have seen countless things that are (albeit impossible), attempts at disrupting the normal activity of Wikipedia:
Vandalism has been slowed down significantly by tools like Huggle and Twinkle. However, there are more ways to stop it. One of the best ways to stop vandalism would be to instantly block someone if they have added shock images in an article that is totally inappropriate, blanked a page repeatedly disregarding warnings more than once or twice, or done anything else they knew was wrong, they should be blocked, not warned. This would be the same for Death threats as well. Admins should be firm in their punishments to users. We should perhaps create a log of all blocked users however, in case it become necessary to revise it.
It is unfortunate that the way ISPs provide IP addresses causes indefinite bans to be ineffective. Therefore, caution must be taken when banning ANY IP address for longer than a week.
Despite what I have mentioned, it is a good idea for editors to assume good faith unless it is an extraordinary situation. Accidentally blanking a page is acceptable, doing it 10 times is not. Inserting a bad image by mistake is acceptable, obviously inserting it to damage the project or to be a troll is not etc. etc.
Harmless newcomer activity should ALWAYS be considered in good faith; do not bite the newcomers, but harmless is the keyword.