[WikiEN-l] BuddhaInside's behaviour

Sun Sep 14 22:18:03 UTC 2003

[[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

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