[WikiEN-l] Odd

Tue Jul 12 21:52:49 UTC 2005

I happen to share the view that the LaRouche people are a cult and a
pretty bonkers in general (I would behoove anyone who thinks LaRouche
is a good idea to go through the stuff he wrote in the 1970s in New
Solidarity before proclaiming him likely sane), but that's not the
point, of course -- Draconian is Draconian, and is not Wikipedian.

But as you said, "Surely Wikipedia is not going to be destroyed by the
presence or absence of one particular editor", which seems to apply to
this fellow and his rather extreme notice as well. While this message
isn't very civil (if you applied it to other political groups or
religious groups, it would be seen as quite offensive), and might be
in violation of some sort of "don't use your user page to be a jerk"
rule, I don't think it by itself is much of a threat to the project.

FF

On 7/12/05, Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just spotted this on the talk page of a user: "I will revert all
> edits to all articles on my watchlist by the LaRouche cult "editor"
> Cognition, or any other recognisable LaRouche editor. I will do this
> until either the LaRouche cultists are banned from Wikipedia or I am.
> I don't much care which, since an encyclopaedia which allows crackpot
> cultists to edit its articles is not worth writing for."
> 
> Now, to my poor understanding, this user is threatening to revert any
> edits made to any article on his 1000+ witchlist, regardless of merit,
> so long as that edit is made by someone he identifies as a particular
> sort of crackpot.
> 
> What I know about LaRouche could be summed up in one word, but surely
> Wikipedia is not going to be destroyed by the presence or absence of
> one particular editor?
> 
> --
> Peter in Canberra
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