[WikiEN-l] What are we going to do about Wik and Lir?

Thu Nov 13 07:18:51 UTC 2003

Adam Bishop wrote:

> Also Impressionism and Dostoevsky. So far these have all been 
> protected, but they seem to find completely random articles to use as 
> each one is protected.  I don't really know much about either of them, 
> so I don't know how much of an option banning them completely would be 
> (and I'm glad I don't have that power...)
>
>> From: Rick <giantsrick13 at yahoo.com>
>>
>> Wik and Lir are engaged in several edit wars in such such articles as 
>> [[Joseph Goebbels]], [[Anton Chekhov]], [[Adolf Hitler]], God knows 
>> how many more.  Every time one reverts something, the other one turns 
>> around and re-reverts it.  It's as if we're going to have to Protect 
>> every page that either one of them works on, because as soon as one 
>> of them works on a page, the other will go right in behind them and 
>> revert it.  This is getting ridiculous.  It has to come to a stop
>
Most of these seem to be rather trivial edit woars over alternative name 
spellings.  Protecting the articles is pointless.  If they want to keep 
beating each other over the head over this they should feel free to do so.

Ec