[WikiEN-l] Re: Complaint: Cyberderk

Wed May 25 19:02:31 UTC 2005

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:05 -0400, Derk wrote:

> Anyway.  When the party in question decided to insult me, 
Sorry.  I see it was Cyber rather than Crypto.  My apologies. I do more
of one than the other.

> they also
> removed a warning from their talk page about some old edit. 

I'm puzzled here.

1.  it was a notably old edit, past history.
    1b   Surely an assumption (especially by someone not looking 
         at the list of contributions) about a talk page for an 
         IP address would usually be that this is not reliably
         related to any particular user?
         So until I register, pop up here and actually _claim_ it
         is it in any way safe to assume that it relates to me?

2.  but if it is mine, why shouldn't I delete old stuff from a talk
page?  It isn't a charge sheet, nor of lasting interest, by its general
appearance?

      2b If it is indeed my (singular) talk page, then again, 
         who else would.

3.  And I didn't actually see it as a _warning_.
    I saw it as advice on how to do something, absorbed.

    3b.  There is an attitude here, that is worth some self-examination
         Vandalism is bad, but not everything one sees, 
         even if one wrote a premier division anti-vandalism tool
         (as well as another weapons-system) 
         is vandalism.
         So not all responses to something done wrong, 
         or unnecessarily, or in the wrong place,
         are "warnings".

> Creating
> an article to put a POV statement about where a page should be,
Not so though.

> removing a prior warning, 
This is worth deciding on, and actually noting.

If a talk page says "This is your talk page, well, not yours, ours,
don't remove anything anyone puts on it" then I suppose a point would be
expected to be got, by a reasonable man.

> and insulting me after being warned is
> enough for me to block.  I had assumed good faith up to the point at
> which they decided to start with personal attacks.

Ah, assumptions.  
I had assumed .... well, never mind.
-- 
Adrian Midgley <amidgley2 at defoam.net>