General Discussion

How exactly can you tell the difference between someone experimenting with the code while doing silly things with it and someone abusing the wiki for the sole purpose of being silly?
 
Fair enough, but those are really obvious outliers. The looseness of the sandbox lets new users edit without worrying about accidentally breaking a rule or doing anything wrong, but if we start actively analyzing and criticizing every edit that's made to the sandbox, we've pretty much lost its whole purpose. If one or two users are abusing the system, tell them off, but don't get rid of the entire garden because of a couple of weeds.
 
Well, that's settled then. Thanks, Time Turner.
 
Baby Luigi said:
This entire IP edit history.

And this very blatant edit summary (he was even told to stop.)
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That's called vandalism and spam, respectively, the same as if it was done to any other page besides the sandbox; the IP gets a block, and the user gets a warning, 'nuf said.

(And on that note, don't give warnings, informal or otherwise, to blatantly vandalizing/spamming/trolling IPs/new accounts: just report them to an admin immediately so we can get rid of them sooner than later.)
 
Okay then, but it's pretty hard to determine whether it's spamming or not on the MarioWiki: Sandbox, so you have to look into the history. I know this particular IP wants to spam solely because, today, I've noticed that it edited the sandbox again, with the same thing, and I took a look at its edit history. The reason no one took action was because it edited the sandbox.

Eh, I just wanted to slap some sense into the IP but I guess it probably wouldn't listen otherwise.
 
For me, it was both: had I noticed the edits previous times the IP came around to spam the sandbox, I would have blocked them then, but I only noticed when I saw Baby Luigi's helpfully long and descriptive edit summary on RecentChanges just now, since otherwise I don't really pay attention to the sandbox back-and-forths, because I generally have my hands full with patrolling mainspace edits, which are higher priority.

Baby Luigi said:
Okay then, but it's pretty hard to determine whether it's spamming or not on the MarioWiki: Sandbox, so you have to look into the history. I know this particular IP wants to spam solely because, today, I've noticed that it edited the sandbox again, with the same thing, and I took a look at its edit history. The reason no one took action was because it edited the sandbox.

Eh, I just wanted to slap some sense into the IP but I guess it probably wouldn't listen otherwise.
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You have to look into an account's history regardless of where they're spamming: if they have a history of shady edits, block 'em; if the spam's their first edit, they're probably just gonna continue, so block 'em before there's more to clean up; however, if it's making mostly legit edits, but then just randomly spams once, I'd be less inclined to block them on sight, and just give them a heads up that this latest bsns is Not Cool (and also CheckUser them to see if it's just a different person altogether, who happens to share an IP, especially if there's a long time gap in between editing patterns).
 
And why does Mail Truck get its own article while Milk Truck and Fruit Truck don't?
 
They need to be merged too. Especially since most have conjectural names.