tannin Wrote:
The enormous frustration, disruption, and harm to
Wikipedia that Vera
Cruz creates is perfectly clear.
The probability of successfully negotiating with her to
effect a
reform is equally clear: near enough to zero
as makes no difference. She shows not the slightest
sign of being
able to reform, and every sign of being
able to evade and make a mockery of any and all
attempts to restrain
her: indeed, she obviously delights
in them, and goes out of her way to court them. An IP
ban is the only
practical response, and is probably
in any case inevitable. The sooner the better.
Vera Cruz posted to mav's talk page a ranting (and quite redundant and
self-pitying) Faulknerian screed which mav (rightly, I think) refused
to read. The interesting thing about this is that she did so while
not logged in, and from the IP address 172.130.118.81 . The
temptation to ban her immediately was quite strong. Now, this
morning, I did ban her.
It occurs to me that Vera might *also* be user:172. If so, I'd say
she's been having us on even better than I thought. what is the rest
of 172's IP?
cheers,
kq
wikikarma: cashing in various [[Russia]]-related edits from yesterday