[WikiEN-l] RK temp-banned

Thu Oct 2 21:11:48 UTC 2003

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Since wikipedia isn't really accessible at the moment (sigh, new parts
> arriving tomorrow or Monday, though!), and also just for the
> historical record of the mailing list, can you give the mailing list
> some details of what RK was doing?

At first, there were issues of him misreading the sources of some edits on
controversial articles. He then started frothing about "vandalism" of his
"home page" when people posted comments on his talk page. When other
comments were made on there, and no one agreed with him that this was
vandalism, he declared that everyone was ganging up on him. He added lines
like 'It's okay to vandalise the Jew's pages, so he can write on yours!'
(not quite an exact quote) on the user pages of those messaging him (Martin,
Angela, others). He was told to stop on his talk page... and he replied by
posting similar messages on those users' pages, which is when Erik blocked
him. RK responded to this with the 'Nazipedia' rant to the mailing list.

That's how I recall it.

-- Jake