[WikiEN-l] The Counter Vandalism Unit? Whaa?

Fri Feb 3 08:40:17 UTC 2006

On 2/3/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/3/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wikipedia's still great, I love it, but really. The Wikipedia Counter
> > Vandalism Unit?
> >
> > Let's just strap on the jackboots and start humming Beethoven's 5th.
> >
> > Silly, silly me, thinking the Wikipedia Militia was bad. They've even
> > got their own freaking logo! Which, if I'm not mistaken, is a gross
> > copyright vio.
> >
>
> Sure but we tend not to worry about that as long as it stays within
> wikimedia projects. Otherwise there are rather a lot of othr images
> that need to go.

Maybe it's time to start enforcing the rules. It seems a bit odd to
have rule-enforcers breaking rules.

> > "Semi-protection" is also something that bothers me no end. As does
> > the concept of needing to "semi-protect" talk pages.
> >
> > Wikipedia doesn't need protection. It needs participation. It's not a
> > piece of china, folks.
> >
>
> Ummm are you going to sit there refreshing your talk page once a
> second to catch all the vandalism at GWB?

Nope!