Forum:Vandalism - (adult material)

Help! I've just been starting to revitalise The Bill Wiki at thebill.wikia.com and I made an article which is currently only a very small stub for the character PC Tony Stamp. However, someone seems intent on posting "adult" stories in it. The user in question is "Cooky" and as you will be able to see from the page history for "PC Tony Stamp" after I reverted it once they've done it again.

For now I've protected the page, but as I'm new here I didn't know what to do. Could this be dealt with in whatever way needs to be done.

Many Thanks and I hope he/she doesn't move on to other articles!!

( Just The Q ) ( talk )' 16:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * An admin can ban the user. For milder forms of vandalism, the ban would usually be short.  And then an explanation of why would be posted on the user's talk page where he or she can still respond.  The more outragous, destructive, repetitve or intentional the vandalism, the longer the ban.  Cross-wiki vandals can be "nominated" for cross wiki user blocks here on Central.  Good luck!  --CocoaZen 18:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Actualy, I'd say that the warning/banning methods used by Wikis on Wikia are Wiki specific. At The Gaiapedia we have a admin/priviliged user only advanced template that gets added to a user's userpage(or IP address's talk page because it's more accessable). The template has 4 Levels of warning, each of which can be lightened by placing a . and then number from 1 to 10(Actualy 9 because 10 would be 10/10 or otherwise the actual full warning) after the number. It's also signed by the user who added it with 4 tides(~) and the page that they vandalized is placed in the template if it can be(A ifexists makes sure the template dosen't link to deleted pages). And it also has an option for blanking type vandalism and a reason can be added. Basicly we give out the warnings based on Level and repitition. Usualy for light vandalism we just hand out the Level 1 with a 5 out of 10, for normal vandalism we'll give out the full First level, and heavier stuff we may skip a level or two for the real big stuff. If the user continues to vandalize after they have gotten their 4th level warning they are indefinately blocked to avoid the hastle of realizing an old vandal has come back later on after a block has expired. The system has worked excessively well for our situation. The only blocks we've ever had to give out were one or two by the old founder, a large number of Indefinate blocks when 7Chan decided to host a crapflood on our wiki, and a short few week ban I had to give out to a vandal because their vandalism took place during the crapflood. Dantman (Talk) 10:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)