Leo Trollstoy - still no evidence presented. Re: [WikiEN-l] Yes, A Reincarnation

Mark Richards marich712000 at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 13 19:19:53 UTC 2004


Well, assuming you have access to more information
than I do, because what has been published is precious
flimsy, I'm prepared to take your word for it on JRRT,
but what about LT? I see no connection in edits.
Mark

--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> I have finally looked at this and the evidence is
> clear. JRR Trollkien is
> The Cave Troll is EntmootsofTrolls. There is no
> reasonable scenario which
> would result in someone reposting that stuff and
> calling it a minor edit. I
> believe, based on that evidence alone, any
> adminstrator may within Wikipedia
> policy ban JRR Trollkien as a reincarnation and
> revert any edit he makes. Or
> am I going too far?
> 
> I still think any user who has "troll" in their name
> should be summarily
> banned, after a request to change their name just in
> case a mistake has been
> made in choosing a name. However when this kind of
> edit is made the chance
> of that is vanishingly small.
> 
> Fred
> 
> From: John Robinson <john at freeq.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:24:19 -0500
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Don't look for trouble. (was
> Re: Blocking without
> following policy)
> 
> 
> I find the idea of a popularity contest to see
> whether
> someone is returning user bizarre. In fact, I find
> the
> whole idea of returning users bizarre. If the user
> needs to be banned, ban them on the basis of the
> edits
> they make, there is no need to speculate on whether
> they are returning.
> If they don't do anything worth banning, so much the
> better. Don't provoke conflict unless it is
> necessary
> - I think there is a word for that.
> Mark R
> 
> Here is JRR Trollkien's first edit:
> 
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Political_dispute&diff=
> 2878571&oldid=2754803
> 
> I find it bizarre that you think it is someone
> besides this
> previously-banned user who is attempting to "provoke
> conflict". Even more
> bizarre than the fact that this user is still
> posting three months later.
> 
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