--- james duffy <jtdirl(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
[[User BuddhaInside]]'s antics on wiki are
becoming
a serious cause for
concern.
1. His has devoted much of his time to creating
[[List of . . . ]] pages,
and when his generally ridiculed pages are deleted,
he tries to create yet
more lists or bizarre renamed version of the list
proposed for deletion.
For example, he created a [[List of heterosexuals]]
which was generally
dismissed as nonsensical. When 28 people voted on
it, after it was listed on
the VfD, 20 voted to delete (accompanied with
scathing comments about the
list), 1 said 'delete or rename', 7 said keep. The
debate went on for eight
days. When it finally was deleted, he went
ballistic, claiming that there
was no consensus for its deletion (71%, or 75%,
depending on how you
interpret the votes, said delete! No consensus???)
He then tried to edit the [[Consensus]] page to
redefine what a consensus
is, forcing the comment Angela,
Changing the definition on the [[consensus]] page
won't help Buddha . . .
[[User:Angela|Angela]] 18:04, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)
He also created * [[List of heterosexuals]] not
notable in connection with
their heterosexuality]]
* [[List of heterosexuals not noted for their
heterosexuality]] (I deleted
these on the 6th. They were simply an attempt by
him to create alternative
pages with the same contents as [[List of
heterosexuals]] but without the
VfD boilerplate reference.)
His latest lists are [[List of famous black people]]
and [[List of famous
white people]] which again have been listed by
people on the VfD page. He is
the only defender of the lists. Among the criticism
made is
# This is getting ridiculous. The next thing will be
'people with two arms',
or 'list of people without disabilities'. Please
delete these stupid lists.
Mintguy 18:51, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The [[Protected Page]] contains -
* List of famous heterosexual people. Blanked
and protected. Repeatedly
deleted page that keeps being resurrected. Angela
02:51, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
o This page had a new title and new content, making
it completely distinct
from any prior page. In addition, consensus was NOT
reached on the deletion
of the prior page. -BuddhaInside
Today the same page contains:
* [[List of famous white people]], [[List of famous
black people]] - more
trolling attempts by User:BuddhaInside; listed on
Vfd. - Hephaestos 18:57,
14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
2. He is determined to silence any comments on his
actions by deleting /all/
comments on his talk page, even though he is
involved in many controversies
that people wish to ask him about. Erik summed up
the situation on his talk
page with the following:
BuddhaInside, refusing to communicate with other
users on your talk page by
consistently blanking it is not in the spirit of
Wikiquette and WikiLove,
which are fundamental concepts of the Wikipedia
community. Nor is your
behavior on the silly List of heterosexuals. You are
welcome to make
contributions to Wikipedia, but if you continue with
your current trolling,
it is likely that you will end up being banned.
Please focus on useful
contributions instead of alienating other
contributors. Thank you! Note that
this page might be protected if you continue to
blank it, to guarantee that
at least these messages are a matter of public
record.�Eloquence 00:45, Sep
7, 2003 (UTC)
His response, as with every other comment, was to
blank it.
His constant creating of frankly ridiculous pages,
largely as revenge for
the deletion of his beloved [[List of
heterosexuals]], is getting absurd and
annoying many users who find themselves undoing his
nonsense and cleaning up
his mess. His refusal to tolerate comments on his
talk page is outrageous.
Among users who have criticised his behavour on a
range of pages are
Ark30inf
Eloquence
Angela
Martin
Hephaestos
Tweak
Wiwaxia
Unwilling though I am to contemplate it, I can't
help wondering if this
user, with his preoccupation with lists and with
provocatively challenging
people, and with blanking his page, is merely a
troll. I can think of at
least two trolls in the past who specialised in list
making and blanking
their user pages. At the very least, if BuddhaInside
is a /real/ but
seriously misguided contributor, he needs to be told
forceably and
unambiguously by the community that his behaviour is
unacceptable and /has/
to change if he wants to remain a contributor.
JT
Yes, I agree that BuddhaInside is misguided, and
possibly a troll. But we shouldn't immediately ban
him. I think that it is a real possibility that he
merely has a misunderstanding of the policies of
Wikipedia. I could see how an honest
misinterperatation of the WikiLove page could lead
someone to believe that we shouldn't critisize people.
LDan
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