I've just given you all more to argue about ;-) at http://www.wikipedia.org But ''please'' read the Talk page before clicking that "edit" button: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk: Www.wikipedia.org_portal#To_boldly_go_where_one.27s_been_reverted_before .3F Please don't kill me. -- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com

On 11 Jan 2005, at 18:47, Jens Ropers wrote: That was supposed to be http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk: Www.wikipedia.org_portal#To_boldly_go_where_one.27s_been_reverted_before .3F

Jens Ropers wrote: This is wholly inappropriate on Brion's part. There is a *lengthy* discussion on the talk page over using or not using flags, which is largely reasonable on both sides, and there was no indication on Jens's part that he was adamant about including the flags, or would revert their removal, merely that he thought their inclusion made for a better page than not including them. Brion did not participate in this discussion, and merely came by later calling people names and threatening to abuse his server admin access to block them. -Mark

--- Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote: While his use of language and threat was regrettable, the revert was justified due to the very large amount of opposition to using flags. -- mav __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Brion Vibber wrote: He added flags once, they were removed, he reworked it and added them again, posting a discussion of the changes and the reasons he thinks the new version is better on the talk page. Isn't this how wikipedia editing is supposed to work? After the first time he added them, three people commented they disliked flags entirely, two people seemed (one facetiously?) to support the idea of an animated gif scrolling through the flags of countries for each language, and one person (Jens) supported the flags as-is. After the reworking, one person called his edits "nationalist hatemongering" and reverted, one person said they were offended by the use of the Union Jack to represent English, and one person said they applaud his changes but consider them not terribly practical. -Mark