[WikiEN-l] The 3RR made Ennis do it?

Sat Mar 5 12:38:29 UTC 2005

> From: "Arno M" <redgum46 at lycos.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] 3RR: Pluses vs Minuses
>

> Check out the edit history of the Sollog article, particularly
> around Dec 27 2004, where a mother of all edit wars took place in spite
> of, and possibly even because of, the 3RR rule.
>
> This now seems to have consequently bought about that Sollog site that
> I mentioned earlier.
> Arno

You can't be serious.

The edit war, Mr. Ennis' (SOLLOG)'s fury, and the wikipediasucks site 
were caused by a belief on the part of Mr. Ennis (SOLLOG) that he could 
use Wikipedia as a free publicity vehicle, and that he should be 
allowed to control the content of a Wikipedia article.

The intensity of the edit war simply reflects the combativeness of Mr. 
Ennis.

_Any_ reasonably neutral article, achieved by _whatever_ means, would 
have infuriated him.

As the long-time operator of a number of websites, he retaliated in a 
natural way.

Do you really believe that we could have achieved a reasonably neutral 
article without the use of blocks? What indicates to you that his anger 
was provoked by the procedures and process by which he was blocked, 
rather than by the blocks themselves?

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