On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:35, daniwo59(a)aol.com wrote:
Actually, Eric, I disagree.
Trolling is a form of vandalism. This could justly be interpretted as
trolling. (I am reminded of the constant edit wars with Helga, which cost
Wikipedia quite a lot in terms of time and people who were disgusted and
left)
For me to just ask some other "neutral" sysop to do it instead of me is
hardly a neutral step.
I was not involved in an edit war. It was not an article that I care too
deeply about. I was protecting it from what I (continue to) perceive as
trolling.
Given the situation with Lir/.Vera Cruz/Susan Mason as well as Michael/Weezer
and 172, perhaps its time sysops took more steps to limit trolling and not
just the "George Washington had big balls" kind of vandalism. I open that for
discussion.
No, it's not time. And it should never be. "vandalism" is a loaded,
poorly defined term that should never been introduced to the Wikipedia
lexicon, but since it was, its definition definitely shouldn't be
extended.
And page protection should just about never be used. It's much healthier
to just ignore the page for a while.