Forum:Deny recognition

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I was talking to someone on the Wikia staff on IRC after making a checkuser request (the last few banned usernames were, unsurprisingly, all one person.) They pointed out that archiving the userpages of a serial vandal's sockpuppets can serve to help them keep score. We don't really want to do that: the general idea with vandalism is to calmly revert it and refuse to engage them, so they'll get bored and leave. Even being blocked should be as dull an experience as possible.

We currently have three templates that get slapped on user pages for long-term blocks: banned, proxy, and impostor. Does anyone think we need all three of them? All of them could be easily be taken by a vandal as a mark of success (except possibly the proxy template, since that only goes on open IP addresses which no vandal could seriously "claim.") A lot of the blocked usernames are also insults directed at some regular user &mdash; what do we need those user pages for? Should we quit using those templates entirely? Would removing the categorization be sufficient? Would it be best to only use banned on users who have made significant "real edits" before being blocked?

Also, in Category:Wookieepedia:Vandalism in progress, there are a few VIP subpages which haven't been touched in some time (so if we deleted them, it's not like we'd be giving up on an actively used resource.) Wikipedia has already deleted most of their "Long term abuse" pages, on the grounds that they simply attracted copycat vandals. Is there any point to keeping them? What do the rest of you think? &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 03:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)