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 #'''No.''' Let [[SmashWiki talk:Character articles protection list|the previous discussion on this topic]] take effect before even considering any "next step". [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Steppin' 16:34, December 27, 2019 (EST)
 #'''That's gonna be a no from me, chief.''' Toomai basically said what I would have. [[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: red;">'''Aidan'''</span>]], [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: green;">'''the Festive Rurouni'''</span>]] 17:40, December 27, 2019 (EST)
+#Eh, as an admin on WikiBound, where IPs are restricted from editing, this looks more like an attempt by those irritated by the recent IP incidents to stop IPs from messing up any article for good. Voqéo mentions that it is especially an issue on the techical data,  which we [[SmashWiki talk:Character articles protection list|currently have a proposal to resolve this issue that hasn't been passed or failed]], so this is way too rushed. Yes some IPs are a pain to deal with, but at the same time a lot of IPs are good faith and have been helpful on a lot of pages, even on character changelists.
+::Saying "creating an account taks no effort" only makes the support side look worse when saying it will prevent vandalism: that means people can easily also create a vandal account to vandalise pages. Even if IPs can frequently recently vandalize pages, look at the [[SmashWiki:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 16|archives on the admin noticeboard]], which clearly proves restricting IPs will ''not'' stop vandalism.
+::Another way to resolve this is to have more administrators, or as Porple said, add another patroller group. If you look at the archive, there are plenty if users (myself included) who catch vandals and sock puppets, but can't do anything about it (heck I would like to become an admin here, but I feel I don't have the experience and have jumped the gun in dealing with a few bad faith users in the past). We [[SmashWiki:Junior administrators|have]] [[SmashWiki:Junior administrators (version 2)|had]] [[SmashWiki:Junior administrators (version 3)|proposals]] for a new patroller group, all of which have ultimately failed, but if anything something like that would be a much better option than preventing IPs altogether.
+::Restricting IPs goes against how wikis are community effort and this this is taking it '''a step too far'''. <span style="font-family: Algerian">'''[[User:supatoad64|<span style="color:green;">Supα</span>]][[User talk:supatoad64|<span style="color:red;">Toαd</span><span style="color:blue;">64</span>]]'''</span> [[Image:001Toad.jpg|20px]] 19:31, December 27, 2019 (EST)
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