Leo Trollstoy - still no evidence presented. Re: [WikiEN-l] Yes, A Reincarnation

Fred Bauder fredbaud at ctelco.net
Sun Jun 13 22:25:44 UTC 2004


Sorry, but who is LT?

Fred

> From: Mark Richards <marich712000 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:19:53 -0700 (PDT)
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Leo Trollstoy - still no evidence presented. Re: [WikiEN-l] Yes, A
> Reincarnation
> 
> 
> Well, assuming you have access to more information
> than I do, because what has been published is precious
> flimsy, I'm prepared to take your word for it on JRRT,
> but what about LT? I see no connection in edits.
> Mark
> 
> --- Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
>> I have finally looked at this and the evidence is
>> clear. JRR Trollkien is
>> The Cave Troll is EntmootsofTrolls. There is no
>> reasonable scenario which
>> would result in someone reposting that stuff and
>> calling it a minor edit. I
>> believe, based on that evidence alone, any
>> adminstrator may within Wikipedia
>> policy ban JRR Trollkien as a reincarnation and
>> revert any edit he makes. Or
>> am I going too far?
>> 
>> I still think any user who has "troll" in their name
>> should be summarily
>> banned, after a request to change their name just in
>> case a mistake has been
>> made in choosing a name. However when this kind of
>> edit is made the chance
>> of that is vanishingly small.
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> From: John Robinson <john at freeq.com>
>> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:24:19 -0500
>> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Don't look for trouble. (was
>> Re: Blocking without
>> following policy)
>> 
>> 
>> I find the idea of a popularity contest to see
>> whether
>> someone is returning user bizarre. In fact, I find
>> the
>> whole idea of returning users bizarre. If the user
>> needs to be banned, ban them on the basis of the
>> edits
>> they make, there is no need to speculate on whether
>> they are returning.
>> If they don't do anything worth banning, so much the
>> better. Don't provoke conflict unless it is
>> necessary
>> - I think there is a word for that.
>> Mark R
>> 
>> Here is JRR Trollkien's first edit:
>> 
>> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Political_dispute&diff=
>> 2878571&oldid=2754803
>> 
>> I find it bizarre that you think it is someone
>> besides this
>> previously-banned user who is attempting to "provoke
>> conflict". Even more
>> bizarre than the fact that this user is still
>> posting three months later.
>> 
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