Are his edits contributing to building an encyclopdia? Was (Re: [WikiEN-l] Ban policy)

Fri Jun 4 18:51:14 UTC 2004

Ban him or not on the merits of his edits. If he is
adding crap, revert it, if he keeps introducing it,
ban him for it. The name is an irrelevant distraction
from the important thing, which is "Are his edits
contributing towards building an encyclopdia".
Mark

--- John Robinson <john at freeq.com> wrote:
> I respect what the Arbitration Committee is trying
> to do, but I have 
> a distinct lack of respect about the way they're
> going about it.
> 
> User JRR Trollkien (who, it is increasingly clear,
> is either a 
> reincarnation of a previously permanently-banned
> user, or so close to 
> him as not to make a difference) was blocked by an
> administrator 
> before he had made 20 edits.  He has now racked up
> 1500, which will 
> someday have to be gone through, each one, in an
> effort to remove the 
> introduced crap, due in large part to the fact that
> it has taken:
> 
> a) over a month to even get the Arbitration
> Committee to accept this case;
> b) two months and counting while it's been sitting
> in Arbitration 
> Committee being mulled over;
> c) at least a month of which was caused by some sort
> of crazy 
> departure from the case itself ("JRR Trollkien is an
> offensive name". 
> Where did that come from? Why was that even put
> forth?)
> 
> The end effect of the Arbitration Committee so far
> is that virtually 
> no users have been blocked (with the notable
> exception of Wik, who 
> should have been blocked almost a *year* ago
> anyway). It would be an 
> understatement to say that I'm not pleased with
> current affairs. 
> Several other valuable users have left because of
> this.
> 
> The end effect is that serious contributors are
> leaving this place to 
> let the rest of us play with the trolls. All due to
> an apparent 
> distinct inability to use common sense.>
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