Let's focus on solving problems, not creating them. I don't think this
thread is a productive use of this mailing list's time and energy.
Actually, I think the roughness Tim just got at the hands of some of the
experienced people (all men, funnily enough) from this list is part of
the problem. If Tim is rude, taking him down a peg to even the score
won't do much to make the wider community a much nicer place. I don't
think any of us likes having one of those days where the dreaded new
messages bar pops up every few minutes, especially when it's all these
people you don't know turning up out of the blue to complain about your
past actions they had no involvement in. Yes, his reaction was
predictable; it was predictable insofar as you instigated it.
Really, this mailing list has an unfortunate signal-to-noise ratio
already, considering how new it is and how few subscribers there are. We
can be better, for example, about focusing on the actual causes of the
problem, rather than personal gripes.
Dominic
On 2/9/11 11:36 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case wrote:
Timneu22 has
now blanked his user talk page, again, deleting the ongoing
RfC
Fred started on it.
And he has now claimed to have left the project.
What is really funny is that this user and
WP:VANISPAM fan has a Wikipedia
biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Neumark "It's more than just a little
bit ironic, don'cha think?"
which as far as I can make out is as clear a case
of a vanity biography as
I
have seen; there is not one decent source among the references. His
youtube
channel has had all of 125 views since 2006:
http://www.youtube.com/user/timneu22
Notability? This is the sort of biography which, if it were on a garage
band,
the chap would nominate for deletion within five minutes of creation.
On top of it, the account that created his bio looks like a sockpuppet or
meatpuppet ... responding to the AfD within four hours, after not editing
for more than a year.
I have started the SPI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Timneu22
As I noted it is quite possible that there may be others in the drawer.
Further increasing the irony factor, this comes right after my comments on
the positives and negatives of the transparency and minimal expectation of
privacy on Wikipedia. [[Quod era demonstratum]].
Daniel Case
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