User:Donald Trung/Blockbox (Wikipedia's Miranda rights)

'''This is a concept page and a work in progress, as I am very busy in real life and on Wikimedia Commons do not expect this project to change substantially in a short period of time or momentarily. --Donald Trung (Talk 💬) (Sockpuppets 🎭) (Articles 📚) 18:10, 8 February 2018 (UTC)'''

I thought of an idea that could basically serve as “the Miranda rights of Wikipedia” (or “the Blockbox”) where after a user or IP gets blocked by an admin (so not rangeblocks or autoblocks but direct blocks) a bot will automatically leave this message on their talk page (even if the talk page was previously deleted). This could start off on English wikipedia and then if it turns out to be successful could be “exported” to other wikis.

Notes: As of currently the standard offer is 6 months but maybe if a user confesses this could be reduced to 3 months or something in that direction, this would give sockpuppeteers more of an incentive to co-operate.

The above are all the blocking criteria I am currently aware of, this is just a suggestion and open to improvement.