Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-3032314-20170110225228

I'm the admin of a pretty small wiki&mdash;so small, in fact, that I'm often the only editor for weeks or months on end. The other day, someone new showed up and created a page that, while not spam or overtly malicious, certainly wasn't good. I deleted it and left him a message explaining why and suggesting another, way more useful thing he could do. Which he ignored, in favor of creating three more bad pages, and removing data from a third.

The thing is, I don't think he's trying to be destructive. He replied to the welcome bot (three times!) asking what he could do to help. He sent me a message after I deleted his first bad page, a couple of minutes before I finished writing my explanation. He asked me to review his second one, and delete his third (which he promptly re-wrote afterwords)! Even removing data from that page seems like an accident, apparently caused by not understanding the VisualEditor or Page history features.

What's more, it seems like English isn't his native language. He wrote on his user bio that he's from Romania, and according to Wikipedia, only 31% of the population could speak English in 2012.

How should I handle this situation? I don't want to ban him, but do I have much of a choice if he keeps damaging the wiki? 