[WikiEN-l] Advice about an abusive editor?

Tue Feb 15 23:41:10 UTC 2005

I think emails of this nature should be considered as we deal with a user
who indulges in them.

Fred

> From: "steven l. rubenstein" <rubenste at ohiou.edu>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:43:06 -0500
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Advice about an abusive editor?
> 
> 
> Some time ago I criticized user:Xed on his/her talk page for insulting a
> notable wikipedian without justification.
> 
> Xed responded on my talk page with "Fuck off you little shit" -- you can
> see the brief exchange that ensued here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Slrubenstein#Small_mind
> 
> Now, normally I reach a point where I am able just to ignore such
> irritants.  But when someone stops writing on my talk page, and e-mails me
> directly, I kinda feel they have crossed a line.  I just received this e-mail:
> 
>> X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
>> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:46:13 GMT
>> X-Authentication-Warning: tingxi.wikimedia.org: apache set sender to
>> wiki at wikimedia.org using -f
>> To: Slrubenstein <rubenste at ohiou.edu>
>> Subject: Cunt
>> From: Xed <xed2507 at yahoo.co.uk>
>> X-Mailer: MediaWiki interuser e-mailer
>> X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621, Antispam-Engine: 2.0.2.0, Antispam-Data:
>> 2005.2.15.12 (pm8)
>> X-PMX-Information: http://www.cns.ohiou.edu/email/filtering/
>> X-PMX-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0,
>> __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_VERSION 0,
>> __SANE_MSGID 0'
>> 
>> It's interesting to read here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt
>> that "North Americans generally find the word more offensive than the
>> British and Australians; in Britain, unlike in America, "cunt" can be used
>> as a jovial term of endearment in specific contexts"
>> As someone quotes on my talk page, "Thank God it was the convicts and not
>> the puritans".
>> What a sycophantic cunt your are.
>> Love,Xed
> 
> I'd appreciate it if someone would either calm me down, or suggest what
> kind of disciplinary actions may be appropriate at this point.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> Steven L. Rubenstein
> Associate Professor
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> Bentley Annex
> Ohio University
> Athens, Ohio 45701
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