Thanks to JCB I've gotten a bit more information about this situation
and it's no longer so one-sided.
ILVI is an INACTIVE user. He has made less than 50 edits in the past
12 months on ia.wiki.
ILVI blocked JCB without even trying to talk to him in advance.
In March, JCB found a lot of blanked articles at ia.wiki. He spoke to
a steward and was asked to undo the blanking. He reverted the blanking
of more than 500 articles.
JCB claims he doesn't delete "hundreds of articles", but rather that
he deletes only nonsense. Sometimes people contact him at his Dutch
discussion page to ask him to delete a nonsense article.
He, unlike ILVI, is an ACTIVE user, he does a lot of bot-maintenance
with RobotJcb, he's done a lot of categorisation, and he checks for
vandalism almost every day. He could stop this robot-attack
immediately, because he was online.
To me, it seems as if Jay Bowks got an e-mail from somebody saying "Oh
noes my artikkal disappeared!!! HELP ME!" and then Jay, defender of
the underdog, went "Oh my!!! This article which has only one word in
it was deleted by the incredible vandal JCB!!! I shall block him now!"
Of course, Jay himself wouldn't know what was REALLY going on because
he's not active at ia.wiki...
Mark
On 22/11/05, ilooy <ilooy.gaon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear fellow wikipedians,
The regrettable situation at
ia.wikipedia.org
has gone on for too long.
Numerous articles have disappeared...
...editors were not told about this in
their discussion pages... Articles
were deleted at the whim of someone
who acquired administrator access
and has gone on with this behavior
despite the warnings and even pleadings
of several users in the
ia.wikipedia.org
community.
This behavior will not be tolerated.
I have blocked the Trojan-horse
admin and his IP address.
This person is not the only one
who has done this type of activity
at the ia.wiki ...and... to substain
this type of abuse is just intolerable.
Hundreds and hundreds of articles
have been deleted since this wiki
reached its highest amount of
submitted articles. Since then
many contributors have walked
away from the project disgusted
that the articles they were working
on were deleted.
Many of the articles were deleted
because they were "mere stubs".
The reason they are stubs is because
many folks are still working on these
articles... Is this the situation in other
Wikipedias... to delete stubs willy-nilly?
I think not!
I consider this attack on the ia.wiki
to be akin to vandalism. It has got to
stop and it better stop soon.
Whatever I can do to halt this form
of abuse I will do. And so would any
other reasonable member of this
community. I'm sure.
Sincerely,
Jay B.
[[ia:Usator:ILVI]]
In Interlingua
Car collegas wikipedian,
Le situation regrettabile al
ia.wikipedia.org
ha continuate pro troppo tempore..
Numerose articulos ha disparite...
...redactores non esseva informate de isto in
su paginas de discussion... Articulos
esseva delite al gusto de alcuno qui
obtineva accesso como administrator
e ha sequite con iste comportamento
abusive non obstante le appellos per
varie usatores in le communitate de
ia.wikipedia.org
Iste comportamento non sera tolerate.
Io ha bloccate iste admin Cavallo-Trojan
e su adresse de IP.
Iste persona non esseva le unic
qui ha facite iste typo de activitate
in le ia.wiki ...e... supportar iste
typo de abuso es intolerabile.
Centos e centos de articulos esseva
delite desde que iste wiki habeva
colligite su numero plus grande de
articulos submittite. Desde tunc,
multe contributores ha vadite via
disgustate del projecto proque le
articulos con le quales illes
laborava esseva delite.
Multes de iste articulos esseva
delibe pro que illos esseva solmente
un "semine de articulo". Le ration
que illos es solmente un "semine"
es que multe gente ancora labora
con lor redaction... Es iste le situation
in altere Wikipedias? ...deler le
semine de articulos a gusto proprie?
Io non lo crede.
Io considera iste atacco contra le ia.wiki
esser quasi un forma de vandalismo. Isto
debe stoppar e illo debe stoppar tosto.
Qualcosa que io pote facer pro poner
un halto a iste forma de abuso, io lo
facera. E tamben facerea assi qualcunque
membro rationabile de iste communitate.
De isto io es secur.
Sincermente,
Jay B.
[[ia:Usator:ILVI]]
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ilooy.gaon(a)gmail.com
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