[WikiEN-l] I am not a troll

Tue Feb 3 02:33:17 UTC 2004

> I wish we could all be real editors, and focus on the
> task of making a quality encyclopedia, rather than a mob of ghosts
gossiping
> around the water cooler. :(
> Jack Lynch

Well, there are a couple of hundred thousand non-controversial articles out
there which you could happily edit.

It seems to me that you spend a majority of your time on non-article pages
(47 out of your last 50 edits), 'around the water cooler' if you will, time
that you could spend copy-editing actual articles as a real editor might.

I'm not commenting on your being a troll one way or the other, I'm just
saying that if you spend all your time on talk pages all you're going to see
is discussion of issues relating to Wikipedia, of which trolling and
vandalism is quite a Big Problem.

Andrew (Ams80)