Vandal reporting Syncing with my own user page Vandal Reporting Hi Excirial I have been blocking a lot of editors which you have reported to WP AIV recently Just wanted to thank you for your efforts and give some tips on increasing your effectiveness I noticed that a number of your reports include the reason vandalism directly after release of block but that this has often not been the case For While these have in fact most often been legitimate cases of vandalism the level of vandalism has not always warranted a report to AIV In the example above the vandalism did not take place right after the release of the block but in fact a number of days had passed I have seen a few other examples where the period of time was weeks or months In a few instances I have not blocked because there had not been much current vandalism which is not to say a block might not happen eventually and the fact that an IP has been blocked before does not mean that they should automatically be on a short leash In the case of an IP with an established history of vandalism and blocks feel free to circumvent the normal four warning process but do at least try to issue a few warnings and verify that vandalism is still in progress when you report to WP AIV A lot of admins are unlikely to block an account that stopped editing hours before being reported or did not make any edits following a final warning The process can be a little annoying but following it more routinely will make the blocking process go more smoothly The less detective work and admin has to do to make sure warning are in place vandalism is recurrent and that actions reported are accurate the quicker we can put a stop to vandalism Hope this helps and keep up the good work Many thanks for brining this to my attention Lupin which i use to revert vandalism has a checkbox that states Vandalism after recent release of block Personally i have been interpreting this as a two week period as edits prior to that date are to long ago to call them recent But it seems like lupin reports this as vandalism DIRECTLY after a block release which is certainly not the case Most times i use that option in conjunction with a vandalism after final warning to emphasize that the vandal is a second time offender But recently i started to use these alone for schools which received long term block Guess i d better lay of that checkbox use a bit as its not entirely doing what i suspected it would