Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-24580860-20140425095840/@comment-7697305-20140425193455

Linaret wrote: I'm an admin in the german terraria wiki, and if someone do such things we ban them for lifetime. Why should someone stopp? They start some day again. And we have job to do, inform people about Terraria. If someone come and mislead them, they will ask us, why we don't do anything against this.

Thats my opinion, but this is your Wiki, you have to decide what is the best for you. That's a good question, one which is best answered on a case-by-case basis.

Obviously, clear vandalism-only accounts are to be blocked (probably indefinitely) and possibly reported to the VSTF.

However, I find that a user who makes one or two bad edits over the course of ~2 minutes will (in most cases) just leave and never return, in which case blocking them realistically does nothing. It makes them physically unable to edit, true, but that doesn't mean much when they weren't going to edit anyway. If they do come back at some point to edit, then base judgement on how they edit then: they may start editing in bad faith, in which case they should be reverted and possibly blocked; or, they might actually start contributing positively to the wiki.

It essentially boils down to assuming good faith. I (almost) never rule out the possibility that someone could change and start editing the wiki properly, so I almost never give out indefinite blocks.