[WikiEN-l] Question

Sun Dec 7 19:11:48 UTC 2003

Rick wrote:

> Ariddia is the creation of this user on NationStates, which is a GAME.
The creations at NationStates are not to be considered as even on the same
level as the crackpot "nations" that crop up from time to time on [[List of
microstates]].  *I* have a country on NationStates, and if you look at any
of the informatoin on that page, you can see that NOBODY on NationStates
take their creations seriously.  There are THOUSANDS of fake "nations" on
NationStates.  If everybody there wanted to come to Wikipedia to add their
fake country to it, we would be swamped (I know, "slipper slope argument").
But Ariddia is not a real place, it is not registered at a real place, it is
not intended to be a real place, it is nothing but a place created to play
the game.
>
> RickK

I think the question here is, was there any attempt to communicate with
Adrian in any way before the block?  Did anyone explain to him why his edits
to [[List of micronations]] were being reverted and why his article at
[[Ariddia]] is not suitable for the 'pedia?  I see that RickK used a comment
on one of his reversions to communicate ("rv. The entries at NationStates
are imaginary") but maybe a comment on a talk page might have been helpful?

I guess you might feel that it would be a waste of your editing time to do
this in each similar case, but it might be worth it if it helps retain a
potentially useful user (anyone who spends lots of time on the details of
inventing a country might spend lots of time on the details of an
encyclopaedia too!)

Personally I think it should be general practice to at least give a "stop
that or you will be blocked" message on a IPs talk page before most blocks
(I'm not making that a stronger statement because I recognise there are many
variable situations).

Regards

sannse