[WikiEN-l] 172--what happened

Tue Apr 1 14:46:03 UTC 2003

Danny did nothing wrong. I intend to follow his example.

If I see people fighting over an article, I'm going to protect it and tell them to chill out.

AND I reserve the right to choose which "old version" to revert to.

AND FURTHERMORE, if I can figure out a neutral way to fix the article, I see no ethical reason not to:
* make ONE edit
* describe it on the talk page
* and report what I did to this mailing list

Ed Poor

-----Original Message-----
From: daniwo59 at aol.com [mailto:daniwo59 at aol.com]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:36 PM
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] 172--what happened

Actually, Eric, I disagree. 

Trolling is a form of vandalism. This could justly be interpretted as trolling. (I am reminded of the constant edit wars with Helga, which cost Wikipedia quite a lot in terms of time and people who were disgusted and left)

For me to just ask some other "neutral" sysop to do it instead of me is hardly a neutral step. 

I was not involved in an edit war. It was not an article that I care too deeply about. I was protecting it from what I (continue to) perceive as trolling.

Given the situation with Lir/.Vera Cruz/Susan Mason as well as Michael/Weezer and 172, perhaps its time sysops took more steps to limit trolling and not just the "George Washington had big balls" kind of vandalism. I open that for discussion. 

Danny 

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