re your comment on jim douglas' talk page you wrote if you can permantly block this i p address it is a shared address in an australian tafe library if it is not permantly blocked it will be continued to be abused even when the block does expire some other punks will jump a computer here and destroy more stuff the day it comes back to being able to edit this happened monday passed when the most recent block expire after the holidays only monday morning first chance anyone gets thety will destroy files this ip address must be permanently blocked thankyou thanks for bringing this to my attention jim's not an admin so he asked me to investigate this the thing is it's against wikipedia policy to block a user or an ip address based on the idea that they might vandalize again this ip address is associated with a school which explains why there's a high incidence of vandalism coming from it however there may be contributors there who make constructive edits and we don't want to discourage or preclude them from contributing what we can do is to make sure that our vandalism fighting efforts are strong and enact a number of short term blocks if the problem worsens vandals can't destroy files all they can do is make a temporary mess that is fairly simple to fix if you're interested in fighting vandalism you can read about it here and learn about reverting vandalism here happy editing