On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 07:03:07PM +0100, martin(a)myreddice.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Having looked at a selection of the edits from 66.47.62.78, they look fine. The
problem with Helga was apparently due to her "unique" POV on history, and her
refusal to work with others. To date, 66.47.62.78 doesn't appear to have done either
of these things. There was a somewhat dubious sentence added to [[Nazi
Germany]], ("No allied Soviets were ever put on trial for their crimes against
humanity") - factually true but probably not central to this particular article
(better at
[[Nuremberg Trials]], and swiftly reverted. There were also plenty of completely
inoffensive edits.
Read
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Malbork&diff=956630&old…
That's the basic pattern: "The cities are German, and therefor she names them by
their German name. The Poles just stole them." She adds this subtle POV to all
articles.
Or read
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Bydgoszcz&diff=956642&o…
This are some completely useless facts she added. They prove that this is German
land, of course. There is a map with two cities. But what's the link to Bydgoszcz?
No, she did not change.
Further, Helga has respected the terms of her ban from
wikipedia for three months. I
feel that it would be appropriate to allow Helga back, on probation, to demonstrate
that we Wikipedians don't bear grudges for months no end, and to offer an
appropriate exit strategy for users such as Lir. Forgiveness would seem an important
part of WikiLove, at least to me. (insert similar platitudes here).
The rules are: Ask Jimbo first. Helga knows this. She apparently doesn't care. That
doesn't show that she accepts the rules.
Of course, if she starts falling into bad habits
again, by all means let us swiftly soft
ban her and follow that up with a hard ban as appropriate. Apparently it took around
a year to decide to ban Helga - we need not take so long the second time, should
that turn out to be necessary.
It's not the second time. She has been banned at least two times, if not three (she
was
unbanned by accident, if I remember correctly).
JeLuF