[Wikipedia-l] the OsmosisTwo pest

Tue Oct 1 13:34:22 UTC 2002

Fred Bauder wrote:

>>http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=128.19
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>>this guy keeps making stupid comments on the OsmosisTwo page (which, as
>>far as Mav & I can tell was created in error in the first place)
>>i've checked his edits: his most contentious seems to be on  [[gun
>>politics]] , butI'm not entirely sure about, being a Brit.
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>It seems personal to you, starting with [[gun politics]]. He was apparently
>there trying to create a simpler restatement of the issues that read a bit
>easier, at the cost of leaving out some information. A worthy goal, but
>rather annoying. Your response, to leave both the wordy list and his new
>elegant list in, and the remark, "are you happy now?", seem a bit snappy as
>applied to someone who had never edited an article before. I would say this
>contributor got off on the wrong foot and things have progressed downhill
>from there. Perhaps not focusing on him would do more good than "watching"
>him.
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I'm inclined to agree in the light of day.
You should have seen his comments on OsmosisTwo, he kept editing that 
page to say "tarquin is part of the cabal and wants to delete OsmosisTwo".
Annoying.