[WikiEN-l] More Seigenthaler fallout

Tue Dec 13 16:16:05 UTC 2005

Well, this gets to my other point.  I haven't checked my watchlist this morning, but I'm assuming that the person who made this crazy rant -- who was blocked until late last night for 3RR and other bad behaviors -- is going to come back full speed if he hasn't already.  I have no reason to believe he won't continue to make the same crazy rants.  It's one thing to remove somebody's offensive talk page comment that's 5 months old, but what if they're still banging on about it?  Do we then get into the practice of actively censoring someone's speech?  Are we to be expected to come behind this person and simply erase that portion of his comments every time they get made?  

K.

----- Original Message ----
From: Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com>
To: Katefan0 <katefan0 at yahoo.com>; English Wikipedia <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] More Seigenthaler fallout

On 12/13/05, Katefan0 <katefan0 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd like to reiterate that the information I am assuming he's unhappy with wasn't backed up
> by sourcing, it was just a crazy rant about his relationship with UT and his book being
> biased.

We can't stop crazy rants and we can't go around deleting each one
from article histories - removing them from the current version should
be enough in almost all cases.

In many cases we should consider removing them from the article's talk
page (but not its history).

-matt