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In light of the recent vandalism

It seems creating spam/fake pages is a main method of attack by some vandals. We've seen it quite a lot, especially recently. And since our recent vandal has been constantly recreating those pages after creating more accounts one after another, I feel we need to combat this. One way that I could think of would be to restrict mainspace page creation to autoconfirmed and up, like some wikis are doing. Are there any other ideas? Feel free to discuss. Berrenta (talk) 16:38, 14 September 2014 (EDT)

I second this. I don't even know why we don't already do this. Air Conditioner ばか. 16:39, 14 September 2014 (EDT)

I'd support making mainspace page creation require autoconfirmation. Miles (talk) 16:40, 14 September 2014 (EDT)

I've posted on Porple montage's talk page about this. Toomai Glittershine The Interspacial 16:41, 14 September 2014 (EDT)

Given the user's predictable behavior patterns, I would assume that a range block should prevent him from recurring. Anothrgamer1234 (talk) 19:22, 14 September 2014 (EDT)

A range block isn't possible, as tommy barnes's IPs are all different and not remotely the same. Even if we could issue a range block against him, he'll just come back again. Rtzxy Smashing! 19:26, 14 September 2014 (EDT)

If there's any opposition to this, you should voice it now. Otherwise, I think we should put it into place for a month or two. Miles (talk) 17:22, 15 September 2014 (EDT)

The only opposition would be from tommy barnes. Do it. It'll help (to an extent, though). Rtzxy Smashing! <

Do it, it will at least stall him out for a week, sad to see many potential editors locked out, but at this point.... it's gotten too out of hand, this guy clearly doesn't have anything better to do than vandalize the wiki..... Laikue (talk|contribs) 17:26, 15 September 2014 (EDT)

Support. I know MarioWiki does this. ZeldaStarfoxfan2164 (talk) is bad for me 17:29, 15 September 2014 (EDT)

Support Yeah...I think everyone here has seen why it's necessary at this point. Scr7(talk · contribs) 17:31, 15 September 2014 (EDT)

Yeah, I think it's time to put this into action if it is not already. I also think we should update our vandal policy, since recent changes is clogged to the brim with fruitless reverts Laikue (talk|contribs) 15:42, 22 September 2014 (EDT)

On this very page, I'm currently drafting an idea I have to combat this. I'll draft an actual policy if it gets enough support. Return of Air Conditioner Yuno best girl. 15:43, 22 September 2014 (EDT)

Okay, we better consider implementing the page creation restrictions I mentioned in the original post. With the potential traffic from the English release of Smash 4, as well as Tommy barnes returning, it is long overdue. Berrenta (talk) 15:00, 2 October 2014 (EDT)

I think that only some people should worry about Tommy Barnes. I haven't seen any of the things he's done (lucky me, I guess), but there are multiple people, myself included, who want this wiki to be as accurate as possible. And we can't really do that if everyone's ganging up on one guy. Granted, he has it coming; I'm not feeling sorry for the guy. But if everyone does one thing (and only one thing), then the other thing gets...too tedious to take care of. If people take care of the wiki, then Tommy Barnes has every opportunity to vandalize. If we take care of Tommy, then we end up frantically trying to catch up with information we missed. I say we split the burdens, 50-50. Aidan the Gamer 15:19, 2 October 2014 (EDT)

Maybe we could create some type of Anti-Vandalism task force or something. Or would the junior admins take care of things like that? Gpev96 (SHAZAM!) (talk) 08:59, 3 October 2014 (EDT)