[WikiEN-l] Userboxes situation "not acceptable"

Thu Feb 16 19:02:22 UTC 2006

On 2/16/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/16/06, Jeffrey M. Smith <wikipedian at jeffsmith.us> wrote:
> >
> > If it is possible to distinguish between userbox edits and userbox template
> > creation when querying the database, that might go a long way in figuring out
> > where these 2500 new userboxes have come from and what they're used for.
>
> Yes, there are thirteen editors who have each created more than fifty userboxes:
>
> Addaone, AzaToth, Bourbons3, Commander Keane, CyberSkull, Dussst,
> Ã(c)gÃ(c)sippe Cormier, Mistress Selina Kyle, Morgan695,
> Nightstallion, Silence             , Soman, Think Fast
>
> Dussst was recently blocked indefinitely (I don't know why),

Apparently he was blocked as a reincarnation of Bourbons3, who was
blocked as a persistent copyright infringer who used false upload
summaries such as "self edited photoshop" to describe material he
obviously did not own.