On 5/31/07, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As am I. Granted that the original author of the
essay/rejected policy was
a relative newbie (a very knowledgeable one, who had attracted enough
attention to rate his own Wikipedia Review thread), the earliest editors to
the page included several longtime editors with considerable experience
recognizing trolls and disingenuous editing. I have a hard time imagining
that neither Slim Virgin nor MONGO would have sussed him out; both of them
seem to have a genuine talent for identifying problem editors, often well in
advance of others.
I did to begin with. My first thought was that he was a strawman
sockpuppet and I e-mailed someone to that effect. I stayed away from
the [[Wikipedia:Attack sites]] proposal to begin with for that very
reason. He created it on April 6 and asked me for advice about it on
April 7;
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASlimVirgin&diff=1…
and I didn't respond because I was suspicious. Then I told myself I
was being silly and he was probably legit, so I made a few edits to
the page for one day on April 10-11. A few days later I found out the
shortcut was BADSITES, a provocative title that reeks of censorship
and omits the crucial word "attack." And that's when I began to wonder
again about the creator.