Forum:Does Wikia have standard vandal warning templates?

When I saw that User:Жаль Biana, Жизни Duappy vandalized your user page but had a redlinked talk page, I manually warned the user. However, I would prefer something like the list at Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace. Will (Talk - contribs) 02:38, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Do you really believe in such templates? Personally, I'm not. Imho Central Wikia contributors are:
 * experienced users, staffs, sysops and major contributors from other wiki,
 * n00bs,
 * vandals who just want to vandalize, know that they will get blocked for vandalism and wants to be blocked.
 * If I'm not wrong, this make no sense to make that templates. However, you can start topic on forum. I wonder what will people say. :) Szoferka 02:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Topic started. Despite what Szoferka wrote, the admins at Wikipedia found reasons for this type of template. Will (Talk - contribs) 01:02, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * well... if it get's a list of people on watch.  but I think that those template's on Wikipedia are just... useless.  I guess in cases of simple misbehavior, this might be worth using.  otherwise...  what's the point?  Ban and revert: ~ 01:13, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I have found that many users don't know about sandboxes. So they create a page or modify existing pages in a test type of manner. Others don't know or didn't know it mattered that they uploaded a copyright image or entered copyrighted text.

Such users should not be banned immediately. I say wait until you know it's a chronic problem. However, you don't know it's chronic until they have been warned a few times. Users like me (not an admin on WP) can warn without admin help. However, we have to tell an admin that a user needs banned.

A group of templates on the page listed above count as "final warning" templates. Once those have been on a page for several hours and the user is still vandalizing pages (or whatever), I can add them to Wikipedia:WP:AIV. Once there, the user will be blocked shortly.

The way you keep track of the current warning level for an user is a comment at the end of the template (which always gets substed). This comment includes something like Test2. If you see that, you know to use Test3 rather than a lower warning. Will (Talk - contribs) 04:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)