On 11/6/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 6, 2007 2:59 PM, Monahon, Peter B.
<Peter.Monahon(a)uspto.gov> wrote:
Earlier:
there is a big difference between "a necessarily imperfect
work in
progress" and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_S._Patton&curid=42090&…
iff=169628093&oldid=169618698 (first diff on English WP RC when I
loaded it) ... At least this instance of vandalism is probably not going
to [do?] material harm to anyone..."
So, we agree about dispensing with spam and vandalism and off topic
contributions. Now that we have that out of the way, perhaps we can
agree to leave such irrelevant straw-men out of conversations about ...
biting newbies.
That would be much easier if people would stop armwaving and SHOW SOME EXAMPLES.
Come on. If this newbie biting is so rampant, just provide some
examples... and then we can talk about those.
From the 50 most recent edits to the User talk
namespace, and not
counting {{test}}-style warnings for newbie tests:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kyle_m4&curid=14110…
- A user indef-blocked after his sixth edit, for test-style vandalism
to George W Bush.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Hoggboss&curid=1400…
- A new user given a spam4 warning for what looks like a good-faith
but misguided attempt to insert a YouTube video into [[Chuck Norris]].
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevelihn&curid=131…
- A user given a spam1 template for inserting reasonably relevant
external links into three articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:82.13.64.246&oldid=…
- A user given a templated warning for a series of what look like
good-faith edits to [[List of channels on Virgin Television]].
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:70.144.180.227&oldi…
- A ClueBot vandalism warning for a newbie test.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:216.171.252.29&diff…
-A ClueBot vandalism warning for a newbie test.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:72.213.63.137&oldid…
- A ClueBot vandalism warning for a newbie test.
And this does not include the formatting of the templates that ClueBot
hands out. The mix of bold, non-bold, blue, and bold blue text on
those templates makes them unreadable, and I consider that
newbie-biting all by itself.
--
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]