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 {{{category|[[Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}} 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)