Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.230.177.15-20130622203534/@comment-3175425-20130701005948

I'm very sorry about all this.

As of recently, the Scribblenauts wiki has been under a rather odd sort of vandalism. Not simple blanking/vandalizing of pages, but in the categories. For the last month, every few days or so, an anonymous user would go to a category page, such as Category:Food, add an irrelevant category, such as Category:Weapons, repeat it with other categories, and so on. At first, I thought it was just one or two trolls, and I gave out lighter blocks of maybe a month. However, the more and more these happened, the more and more frustrated and perplexed I got. Why was there continuous vandalism? Why were the IPs so different (there was no consistent location)? Was it one guy using proxies? I then made a bad decision, that all anons that miscategorized were in on this conspiracy of sorts. The 2060 block was meant to be an infinite block, because if it was a single person ban evading, they clearly wouldn't be reformed after a short ban. You were probably caught in this flurry of bans, because you created a category I didn't approve of (King Arthur), and instead of just deleting it or informing you, I assumed you were a vandalizer and banned you. I never did find the source of these attacks. Needless to say, my blocks were rash and I should leave warnings before blocking, and lighten the blocks down to a year or a few months. You've been unblocked, I've learned my lesson, I'm sorry for any trouble I've caused. Sorry about the wall of text, I hope this clears things up.