Author: jredmond

Description:
Today on en:, an anonymous user
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/193.207.168.126) vandalized
a number of pages in a fairly short period of time. Judging from the pattern of
edits (year articles in sequence from 1950 on), this person probably used a
script to add the offending image to several articles per minute - faster than
regular users could notice and revert. This continued until an admin blocked
the user.

By restricting the number of edits a particular anonymous user can make in a
given amount of time, we can slow vandalbots' progress to the point that human
users can keep pace. While there are legitimate uses for anonymous bot edits -
interwiki links are often added en masse to year and date articles by anon bots

• this throttle should hinder the progress of an automated vandal so that human

users can keep pace.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement