[OSM-newbies] How to block a user for editing

Xan dxpublica at telefonica.net
Mon Dec 13 20:25:23 GMT 2010


Al 13/12/10 17:56, En/na Richard Weait ha escrit:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Xan<dxpublica at telefonica.net>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Perhaps it's not the best place for asking it. Today I found a user
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/sergiclar that simply invents highways for
>> funning and the changeset comment he/she do is "a joke, please delete it".
>>
>> I'm sending a message now for delete this edits, but if he/she don't do
>> that, should we block that?
>> How to do that?
>>
>> See the edits of this users and see the comments (spanish)
> These situations are almost always because a new user didn't realise
> they were working with a real database.  Inform the user kindly, ask
> them if they need help fixing the errors, and point them towards the
> community mailing lists.  have a look at the vandalism page for more
> details.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism
>
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Ok. Thanks a lot, Richard, and congrats for you OSM award ;-)

Xan.



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