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)


 * I agree that many users don't exactly know what wikis are and are testing the software - they put something on the page just to see if the software will accept the changes immediately. So these users should not be banned. I know that it's hard to find if the user is trying the system or is trying to vandalize, but we all should assume good faith. But placing templates on the vandals' talk pages is useless, because the ones who comes here to vandalize will continue with or without warnings, templates etc. --DCLXVI 16:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)