At 22:33 04/01/03 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Saturday 04 January 2003 05:18, Rob Brewer wrote:
There were nine edits, not five (the other four were the creation of useless
articles). I thought, looking at the times, that two people used the same IP
address - one created [[Colin Baker]] and [[Jive Bunny]] and then the other
created the useless articles.
That puts things in a slightly different light. Thank you.
An article called [[of the]] containing "The
french leader of the guerilla
movement in the 20th decade." does not look like a newbie experiment to me.
It looks like someone intentionally polluting the Wiki with silliness. An
article containing "Put your text for the aoeusnth page here" is a newbie
experiment.
I don't entirely agree with you here. If a newbie wants to experiment with
creating pages, they aren't necessarily going to type at random into the
edit box. If they have some wit, they might well type something silly.
The question is, how long do we put up with that silliness? If he got to
nine edits and was getting sillier, it does look like he came to be silly,
not encyclopedic.
If you think blocking was too harsh, go ahead and
unblock the address.
I'm not a sysop, and I'm happy for those who are sysops to have the
final say in these matters.
Rob
wikikarma: is [[Chain]] at 23:11GMT substantial enough?