[Foundation-l] Indefinite block and desysopping by User:Danny

Fri Apr 21 03:43:14 UTC 2006

On 20/04/06, Kat Walsh <mindspillage at gmail.com> wrote:
> WP:OFFICE is pretty much a invitation to every troll on the wiki to
> come and make noise -- and now, apparently, to grab the deleted
> material and post it elsewhere. It's been Slashdotted; we can't claim
> we don't know about it, and it's not exactly something we want. (Yes,
> good editors are questioning, too, but they are doing it sanely.)
> While it has been a good barrier to prevent admins from mistakenly
> undoing Danny's admin actions there, it has failed to be a means to
> handle potential problems in a discreet manner and instead only draws
> more attention to it. This seems to have been an attempt to try to
> minimize public attention and be sure the problematic material was not
> more widely distributed. It didn't work, but it was a reasonable
> attempt, though unclear.

Maybe Danny etc. need to start getting developers to remove revisions
of WP:OFFICE articles directly from the database, if we continue to
have the problem of dirty admins leaking deleted material.

~Mark Ryan