Thread:Toqgers/@comment-32769624-20200523214615/@comment-16241899-20200524072417

While a block right away surely seems a bit harsh to the blocked party, I agree with Geist on that measure. In case someone's on a massive editing spree blocking will stop them in their tracks for sure, unlike a message to the wall which gets easily overlooked when focused on editing. A month is a bit much, though, I agree with that.

As for the reason you were stopped: massive wiki-wide changes like changing the method of how things are sorted in every article without any consultation, simply because "but this is how other wikis/wikipedia do it" is frowned upon here. We are NOT other wikis!

We have had problems with similar actions in the past which is why nowadays admins react quite strictly to this sort of thing.

Different things might work differently well on different wikis. If you notice something is handled differently here than from what you know, the polite thing would be to bring it to the attention of an admin instead of jumping to the conclusion that it needs fixing just because Wikipedia does it differently.

Maybe it is something we overlooked, or your way of doing things does work better, and we might implement the suggestion.

But maybe it is also something that we found to work fine for our wiki, and asking beforehand spares us having to undo tons of edits and will also help avoid situations exactly like the one we are currently in.