[WikiEN-l] Wikisqualking

I know that Skyring specialises in Wikistalking, but reading his preposterous edits, maybe we should have a new category for him - "Wikisqualking". It seems to be his new technique, endless complaints with himself as the victim, given that he cant stalk me right now on Wikipedia. Suffice to say that as with Pete's standard claims in all the various edit wars he had been involved with, and the arbitration committee discussions that his behaviour has necessitated, his claims are pananoid and nonsensical. BTW what is the running total of sockpuppets he is up to now? Has he surpassed 30 yet since his ban? It was moving rapidly in that direction when I left. Discussing things with Pete (in so far as anyone's communication on Wikipedia with him ever qualified for the term 'discussion' since he ignored everyone's comments ad nausaum) reminds one of Lloyd George's description of how negotiating with de Valera was like trying to pick up mercury with a fork. (Oh dear. I suppose writing this will mean that the list will be overrun by more Skyring wikisqualking now, how he is just a poor honourable Aussie whom has been innocent picked on by Jimbo, the ArbCom (twice), Petaholmes, Adam Carr, John Kenney, everyone on the Government of Australia page, yada yada yada.) Have fun with him. Thom aka jtdirl/fear eireann PS: maybe in his honour Wikipedia should create a special verb - to skyring, meaning 'to ignore all rules, hound people who don't agree with one, and when banned launch waves of sockpuppets onto Wikipedia, all while portraying oneself as the innocent victim of everyone else's intrigue.' Skyring <skyring(a)gmail.com> wrote: On 9/4/05, James D. Forrester wrote: My problem with all this is that you don't necessarily evaluate the information. In the case of Jim Duffy and myself you listened to him squawking that I'd made more than a hundred edits on his articles, one after the other, and accepted his claim that this was wikistalking. But did you look at my edits? Go to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Presidential_Inauguration_%28Irel… Presidential Inauguration (Ireland)] and look at the diffs. Jim Duffy wrote the article single-handed and I then made fourteen edits on it. My very first one was to correct "President of the United Kingdom" to "President of the United States" and the following edits are all good ones, some of them correcting really silly mistakes. As anyone can see. This wasn't wikistalking, this was wikiduty. Jim Duffy's problem is that he doesn't like to admit making mistakes, and he reverted all my changes! I think that I was quite justified in taking a good look at his other articles, and surprise, surprise, I found a lot more errors and fixed them. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Jim Duffy is a good editor and he produces some excellent work based on superb research. But he makes silly mistakes now and again - I don't know why, maybe he was in hour 48 of a day long wikisession or something - and if I come along and polish up his articles, it's for the good of the project. I was wrong in the "enfeebled mind" edit summary I made when I fixed the "President of the United Kingdom" thing, and for that and any other slights, I apologise. But I'm never going to apologise for correcting an obvious error in Wikipedia, and I trust that my outrage at being suspended for a year for doing the right thing is understandable. -- Peter in Canberra _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre.