[WikiEN-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Schools on en:(wasDoImisunderstandWikipedia

Thu May 19 19:33:58 UTC 2005

On 5/19/05, JAY JG <jayjg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: "Tony Sidaway" <minorityreport at bluebottle.com>
> >JAY JG said:
> > > You obviously do; you've even voted to delete some schools.
> >
> >Haven't we all?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> > > The
> > > organized  inclusionists do not read the article, nor do they believe
> > > they should have  to; for them, including all school articles is a
> > > matter of "principle",  usually of the "Wikipedia is not paper" and/or
> > > "schools are intrinsically  notable" sort.
> > >
> >
> >
> >Well that's a very serious charge.  You're accusing some unnamed people of
> >making bogus votes on VfD--copy-pasted and without looking at the article
> >in question.
> >Do you have some evidence to support this?
> 
> "Very serious charge"?  Get real, this is a Wikipedia mail-list.  As for
> evidence, here's one example of an editor who took some valuable time out of
> editing Pokemon related articles to make 17 identical keep votes on schools
> in 9 minutes, and soon after another 10 identical keep votes in 4 minutes:
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Ketsuban]
>   Several times she was able to get in 3 keep votes a minute.  I envy her
> her internet connection; I couldn't have even gotten to all those VfD pages
> in that time, much less read the related article, edited, voted, saved, and
> returned.
> 
> Jay.

I could just about match that edit rate using multiple tabs in
firefox. It would be very tricky though and I would have had to open
all the edit window first.

-- 
geni