Wiki account removal needed?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:40:55PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On 09/23/2009 01:34 PM, Jon Stanley wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Looks like the user "Georgia10" just inserted spam on that page.
> >> Aiyiyi.
> > 
> > What's our procedure for deleting/disabling a rogue FAS account?  It
> > appears that the account in question was just created today, probably
> > for the express purpose of spamming the wiki and then disappearing.  I
> > would like to think that only a human could create an accounts,
> > there's a variety of steps involved.  But maybe some sort of CAPTCHA
> > on the signup page could reduce this in the future?
> > 
> We added a captcha last week so this is definitely a person or smarter
> than average bot:
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new

Note that the change, a website advertisement, was actually made in
context, which I don't think would be as likely with a bot.  Most of
the bot vandalism we see is a mass replacement of text.

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