[WikiEN-l] User Pages & Editing in Wikipedia

Fri Dec 29 00:37:07 UTC 2006

On 28/12/06, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Sources can be checked. What I'm presenting to are the totally mindless,
> malicious vandal edits by totally anonymous fools who have complete access
> to the encyclopedia. Perhaps I am being naive, but I believe a named,
> accountable User Page would go a long way to ridding Wikipedia of them.

Our big problem is not random hit-and-run anonymous vandalism; it's
hard-working and malicious vandals who view trashing Wikipedia as a
challenge. Technical barriers to entry will discourage sincere new
contributors but not stop the problem children for a moment.

- d.