That's very peculiar because ExplorerCDT encourages deleting things he
sees as insignificant, to the point of encouraging "statement VfDs"
(ie Jean-Luc Picard, nominated by another user at his suggestion).
He's also made and many, many deletion replies in VfDs like
[[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Anya Schiffrin]]. Yet this anticruft
crusader recently nominated [[Festivus]] for FAC. All of this is
completely baffling to me.
But we can't ban someone for making "bad votes", even if they _are_
misleading editors, right?
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:31:09 -0000, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
The current listing at VfD of [[Cayley-Newbirth
operation matrix]] has
flushed out User:ExplorerCDT, who at the very least knew this was a hoax
page, and posted comments at VfD designed to obfuscate and mislead.
User:ExplorerCDT is apparently otherwise in good standing as a Wikipedian.
How to proceed in such a case?
Context is that there have been a number of attempts to place hoax pages in
mathematics in the English Wikipedia. This example is evidently written with
at least a well-informed graduate student knowledge (as with the recent
vandalism attack by [[User:Slim Jim]], with plausibe disinformative
tweaking). The page was been around for eight months, since it has the
look-and-feel of a piece of obscure, dull abstract mathematics quite
accurately.
For myself I would like to see User:ExplorerCDT banned, for bad faith
editing.
Charles
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