[WikiEN-l] Template usage?

Sat Sep 9 13:00:13 UTC 2006

G'day Akash,

[Please don't top-post]

> Some day we'll need to come up with a comprehensive list of all those
> working on CVU / RC patrol and together switch all the policies so
> that vandals no longer know the location of AIV :) I remember when

CVU is not as important as it thinks it is, nor is it as successful[0] 
as it ought to have been.  The emphasis some people place on CVU, as if 
it's all there is to vandalism cleanup efforts, is irksome.

> someone put hundreds of instances of the nazi symbol on an article and
> it took half an hour till somebody figured out how to use the
> index.php?target=...&action=edit format to get rid of it, and after
> various accounts vandalised with the same vandalism, yet another
> sockpuppet applied for the page to be semi protected and succeeded!

I think posts like this one, considering both your suggestion at top 
(however tongue-in-check you intended it) and the story you relate here 
show just why CVU, if it must exist at all, needs a swift kick in the butt.

[0] Depending on how you define it.  If you don't care about newbies
     bitten, games of Chinese Whispers enjoyed, Cluey people pissed off,
     etc., CVU is wonderful.

-- 
Mark Gallagher
"What?  I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse