Last modified: 2007-05-03 16:06:00 UTC
Over time, I've noticed a *lot* of confusion about autoblocks. It's very difficult to explain them, especially to new users who've barely even edited before and are very upset at the apparent admin conspiracy to block newcomers for no reason. The current MediaWiki:Blockedtext has to split itself between dealing with account blocks, IP blocks, and autoblocks, and it's occurred to me that it might be a lot easier to explain things and help resolve these issues, if we at least split off the autoblock issue to its own page at MediaWiki:Autoblockedtext. Might let us give things a fairer (and less confusing) treatment. To avoid creating extra work for lots of people, it might redirect to Blockedtext by default (I believe redirects work in MediaWiki space?). Anyhow. Just a thought. Thanks for all the work you do!
Created attachment 3483 [details] Patch that adds a separate message for autoblocks
(In reply to comment #1) > Created an attachment (id=3483) [edit] > Patch that adds a separate message for autoblocks > Applied with r21827.