Template talk:Rangeblock

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Looks OK to me. A couple of suggestions if I'm going to be picky.

• Is having a link to the mailing list a good idea? It's useful when used properly, I suppose, but it's inevitably going to lead to yet more emails. Can you guys cope?
• Since the user hasn't necessarily done anything wrong, perhaps something like the "info" icon, or the icon currently on {{anonblock}} would be better than the warning triangle?
• Perhaps there should be a link to the blocking policy somewhere? Vandalism is already linked, but I assume there's at least a chance this will be used in other circumstances. I can't quite see where best to link it from the current wording, though.

– Gurch 13:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Hm. All some good points. I think I'd prefer that the link stay, since it seems to be their last good line of communication, but I can see the argument. Should probably link to blocking policy. Icon switch may be good. I think a really major concern, for me, is making it clear that a range of IP addresses has been blocked, and that the user seeing the message may not (probably not, in fact) have had anything to do with the block. An unfortunate number of people don't understand that and get offended. Luna Santin 16:40, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. Perhaps, "Due to persistent vandalism or other disruption from one or more users..."? – Gurch 01:58, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Should anonblock and rangeblock be merged? At the moment there's no difference to the end user between them. So I think it would be more useful to modify and reserve rangeblock for situations where even registered users are temporarily locked out. --  Netsnipe  ►  18:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

It's a thought. I'd assumed the difference would be whether account creation was enabled or not -- unless we'd prefer that be a moot point? Luna Santin 20:26, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

On further reflection, I've noticed that I tend to use {{anonblock}} in practice, and I haven't seen too many people using {{rangeblock}}. The masses prefer anonblock, it seems. ;) Well done. Luna Santin 04:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)