Re: annoying polish bot

Tim Starling <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> Peter Gervai wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Someone from Poland started a bot which _tries_ to create interlanguage
>> links. I wouldn't care if they would mess up polish wikipedia but they
>> started to generate havoc on other wikipedias (including our well beloved
>> hungarian one, and as I noticed netherlanders aren't really happy 
>> either).
>>
>> Their bot (anonymous naturally, so nobody seem to know where does it come
>> from) started to create empty articles, which doesn't make me happy 
>> since we
>> do not want empty articles, so I have to delete them by hand, one by one,
>> since cannot rollback freshly created articles. (maybe this is 
>> something to
>> consider as a wanted feature: rollback-like delete submissions? aargh!)
>> So far we only had some, but I don't know what i'll gonna do when they 
>> start
>> to create all years article from 10000 BC to 2003 AD. :-((
>>
>> Please don't do that. If you wanna run a bot on a wikipedia, ask someone
>> there whether they want it to change "their" 'pedia. It's not nice to
>> force your ideas on others.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> [[user:grin]]
> 
> 
> The IP 80.49.184.77? same problem here on fr:
> 
> -- Looxix

Can't you just block it?

-- Tim Starling
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