background color FFFFFF border 1px solid A9A9A9 border right width 7px border bottom width 7px vertical align top moz border radius topleft 19px moz border radius bottomleft 19px moz border radius topright 19px moz border radius bottomright 19px rowspan 3 you can check my logs and contribs to know if I m here MentifistoMentifistoMentifisto TOC c archiveC 1st archive 07 08 2nd archive 09 3rd archive 09 Mar 4th archive 09 Apr Index Blatant Racist editing Hi Mentifisto You kindly acted on a report just now of vandalism on Sol Campbell diff by User talk 86 153 188 51 I thought such blatant racist editing would receive an immediate block as per Wikipedia No personal attacks rather than just a 1st level warning Please can you advise how I should act in future many thanks Well in that case the edit had been made some time prior and the latest was not clear vandalism so the IP may have possibly be reassigned but generally I think it s best to give them a warning so as to prepare them fisto Hi Mentifisto Thanks for your feedback and I am truely sorry to trouble you again but I am left even more confused and need to know where to refer to to get an understanding of the line is drawn on racism on Wikipedia The IP used the term stupid n r in caps at 20 38 on 16th May This to me is just as bad as it gets I reported this to WP AIV at 21 19 and you applied the warning at 21 20 I can only assume you looked at the later edit to Didier Zokora which was not obviously that offensive to me at least Thanks I am also a little confused I agree that there is a fine line in dealing with personal attacks I simply would like this line pointed out so that we will know how to deal with it in the future Thanks Well I think it s down to individual discretion blocks are preventive so if the IP is unlikely to commit another similar edit in the next ten minutes or so it d be somewhat redundant Personally I d give them the above immediate final warning so they know the consequences of their actions User talk Mentifisto