Template talk:Spamblock

Temporary user page category
While I think I understand the philosophy behind the temporary user page category and why we use it with other vandal blocks, I don't think we want to do this with spammers.

We use the information on a spammer's talk page to track a spammer across multiple IPs and sock accounts. This is really vital for keeping track of spam and prioritize which spammers to concentrate on. The hard-core spammers -- those that go through multiple warnings and then get blocked will almost always come back with a new IP or user name and with more domains to spam.

The code  in this template places the associated talk page into the temporary user page category, setting it up to be deleted a few months later.

I have removed that code from this template. -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)