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Different wikis have different policies and block lengths are inevitably arbitrary. [[Wiktionary]] hands out short blocks when [[Wikipedia]] would warn a user and in my opinion the Wikipedia policy is better for several reasons, | Different wikis have different policies and block lengths are inevitably arbitrary. [[Wiktionary]] hands out [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Log/block short blocks] when [[Wikipedia]] would warn a user and in my opinion the Wikipedia policy is better for several reasons, | ||
#Wiktionary users may not realize that they have been blocked if they don’t happen to try and edit again till the block has expired. Then they get repeated entries in their block logs without even knowing that they have done anything unacceptable. | #Wiktionary users may not realize that they have been blocked if they don’t happen to try and edit again till the block has expired. Then they get repeated entries in their block logs without even knowing that they have done anything unacceptable. | ||
#When they realized they have been blocked or try to edit during a block this is unnecessarily punishing. | #When they realized they have been blocked or try to edit during a block this is unnecessarily punishing. | ||