Wikipedia:Quick and dirty Checkuser policy/proposal

Rationale

As those of you regular to RC patrol may have noticed we've been visited by some vandalbots lately. Blocking these has either caused temporary blocks of dynamic or proxy IPs (which should be unblocked as soon as possible to avoid collateral), or of open proxies, which should be blocked indefinitely and would serve as good seeds for the open proxy blocker bot. Since the stewards aren't willing to give users the checkuser priv without policy on the matter (can't say I blame them), and there's an obvious urgent need for more people to do IP checks to combat vandalism, I'm proposing the following checkuser policy for en:. There is probably also a need for more extensive CheckUser usage, but this is supposed to be a proposal we can all agree on quickly so we can find people to handle at least these cases.

Proposed policy

The community can grant administrators the permission to use the m:Checkuser interface solely for the purposes of tracing the source of persistent vandalism by showing concensus in favour in an WP:RfA-like vote. Any users granted the Checkuser right in this way may not use the checkuser privilege for anything else than tracing the source of persistent vandalism unless further policy on the matter allowing to use it for other purposes is created.

Comments

Comments go on talk, amendments or changes should be made here but remember to keep it short and something we can all agree on.