User blog comment:Meighan/Wiki Wisdom: Reacting to Trolls and Vandalism/@comment-256681-20111111232618

The Zoids wiki has a very simple admin formula:

Revert vandalism.

If they complain or otherwise, point them to the rules page, which disambiguates most conflicts.

If they disagree with the rules, talk it out on the rules page to get the rules changes.

This has 3 effects:

1) vandalism is undone at the source

2) intelligent contributors always have a chance to talk it out on the rules page (confining edit wars to a single place, keeping all other pages consistent)

3) only people who aren't willing to contribute are banned. (it's not hard to post on a talk page)