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::I didn't want to block the IPs because we had previously had a problem with an IP collision with a legitimate user. I'm not really sure what else I can do. We do have a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit CAPTCHA], but maybe it's not good enough. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 13:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
::I didn't want to block the IPs because we had previously had a problem with an IP collision with a legitimate user. I'm not really sure what else I can do. We do have a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit CAPTCHA], but maybe it's not good enough. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 13:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
:::Since I think it's not robotic spam, I can't see that a CAPTCHA would help. —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 14:13, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
:::Since I think it's not robotic spam, I can't see that a CAPTCHA would help. —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 14:13, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
::::Yeah and I wouldn't suggest turning off anonymous edits because we've had a recent surge of legitimate anonymous editors (and some people would probably think that was inconvenient). We may just have to keep up the old fashioned delete and block strategy. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 14:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)