From: "David Gerard"
<dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:37:07 +0000
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] User Pages & Editing in Wikipedia
On 28/12/06, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Sources can be checked. What I'm presenting
to are the totally mindless,
malicious vandal edits by totally anonymous fools who have complete access
to the encyclopedia. Perhaps I am being naive, but I believe a named,
accountable User Page would go a long way to ridding Wikipedia of them.
Our big problem is not random hit-and-run anonymous vandalism; it's
hard-working and malicious vandals who view trashing Wikipedia as a
challenge. Technical barriers to entry will discourage sincere new
contributors but not stop the problem children for a moment.
- d.
David,
Thanks. Still learning. Still frustrated.
Marc
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