On Monday, March 21, 2005 12:10 AM, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:28:35 -0600, Richard Holton
<richholton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Denelson83's expressed attitude on his/her
talk page seems to be in
direct contradiction to the Wikipedia policy on
[[Wikipedia:Civility]].
I would strongly agree, having gone to look at it. This user does not
answer ANY questions or comments about their behavior or actions,
instead replacing the question with "<Comment deleted - General
violation ("Negative criticism not tolerated")>" and the like, in red.
They state: "If you are going to post a message on this page, it must
be a positive comment. Any comments that I interpret as destructive
will be disregarded and removed from this page. Thank you."
They also attempt to place conditions on the use of article history:
"n.b. All past revisions of this page are considered to be deleted,
and may not be reviewed. To review past messages, see my archive
subpages."
This is, IMO, completely ridiculous.
It's not ridiculous, though it is mildly amusing (in a rather sad way).
"Ridiculous" suggests that the comments are actually evaluated in a rational
light, which these do not qualify for. People making such demands have no
basis to make them, and can be ignored as safely as those who demand payment
for the oxygen plants on their land have produced which has found its way
into one's lungs.
However, it is probably for the best for such users to be given a friendly
word that their posturing and posing merely serves to make themselves look
foolish in the eyes of a great many people, and does not serve their cause
(which one could, perhaps somewhat unkindly, term 'Narcissism'), if only for
their perceived image.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester -- Wikimedia: [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
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