Thread:Sannse/@comment-4643078-20150719041129

I really felt like asking someone about this, because it's been making me feel confused and annoyed. (It's going to be kind of long.)

I recently became an admin at the JumpStart Wiki through adoption. I'm essentially the only contributor there. There used to be about five others, but none of them have made any contributions in months. I'm trying to attract people to wiki, but that's a different story. Recently, I've gotten two "regular" contributors. The problem is, they're making harmful edits. Both of them have repeatedly removed content from pages- such as deleting entire paragraphs or pictures from pages. They've also inserted gibberish and nonsense, and often create spam pages. For example, one of them recently created a page titled "Sheep" which only said "Baa-baa! I have wool to sell." They never leave edit summaries explaining *why* they do these things. I've sent messages to both of explaining that I think their editing style needs work, and they haven't responded even once. After repeatedly trying to talk to a contributor, I blocked him for a week, and he continued to make harmful edits as soon as his block was over.

I don't *want* to block people, and I certainly didn't think I'd have to do it so soon. But it's a hassle trying to carefully check each edit and make sure nothing is lost or vandalized. Also, I don't know if this is nosy or not, but I've looked at their activity on the other wikias they regularly visit, because I wanted to know if this was normal for them, and to see how other admins were handling this sort of behavior. One of them has already recieved an infinite ban on the Disney Wiki, and been blocked several times on another wiki. (Also, I'm suspicious that the second vandal is actually a sock puppet of the first. Is making the same edits, word for word, typical of users that have no association with each other?) So, it really doesn't look good. I don't know what I can do, other than blocking them. Communication just seems impossible. But am I maybe getting too worked up, too soon? Or is there something I can do, other than blocking them? If I don't, I can gaurantee they'll have a field day vandalizing the wiki. 