<P>James,
<P>All you can do is to ask for help from the people on the mailing list, and try to revert back to a reasonably NPOV article and make the needed changes. Or give up. That's pretty much what I've done. I'm tired of being the bad person whenever there are problems, and I never get any support. See the articles in support of 172 below. Why should we care?
<P>Zoe
<P>
<P> <B><I>james duffy <jtdirl@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi Zoe,<BR><BR>I've a serious allegation to make about a fellow Wiki. I wrote a page on the <BR>Irish Potato famine which became rather controversial with two people. One <BR>of them threatened to revert any changes I made, and make sure I could not <BR>revert his changes back.<BR><BR>He rewrote one section of the page in a decidedly POV, dodgy historical way. <BR>When I tried to revert, I found that many of the earlier versions had been <BR>vandalised, by him, so as to ensure that either I could not revert to them <BR>or that if I did, the page would be so littered with POVs (his <BR>interpretations of what he thinks my POVs are!) as to be pulled off.<BR><BR>Here's an example of one of the paragraphs vandalised. The changes he made <BR>are in capitals.<BR><BR>One issue which divides the perspective of Ireland on the history of the <BR>Famine from some BOGUS attitudes among the FAKE Irish - living abroad, is <BR>the claim, made by some of the latter, that the Famine amounted to genocide <BR>by the British against the Irish. Few Irish historians accept such a <BR>PATENTLY FALSE definition, which would imply a deliberate policy of <BR>extermination. While all are agreed that the British policies during the <BR>Famine, particularly those applied by the ministry of [[Lord John Russell]], <BR>were somewhat misguided, perhaps ill-informed and frequently <BR>counter-productive, with Professor Joe Lee calling what happened a <BR>'holocaust', [9] Irish, British and American historians of the cailbre of <BR>Professors [[F.S.L. Lyons]], John A. Murphy, Joe Lee, Roy Foster, and James <BR>S. Donnelly, Jr, as well as historians Cecil Woodham-Smith, Peter Gray, Ruth <BR>Dudley Edwards and many others have long dismissed claims of A DELIBERATE <BR>POLICY OF genocide. PERHAPS MORE THAN A STRONG BELIEF.<BR><BR>I spotted this paragraph by chance. I saw other dodgy add ons as well. I had <BR>to go back to the version before he began his first of a series of <BR>(seemingly innocent) changes (announcing how he was correcting a spelling or <BR>a grammatical mistake, etc) to find a version that had not been vandalised.<BR><BR>The person responsible is Stevertigo.<BR><BR>What should we do about this? It is one thing to row over interpretation, <BR>but to deliberately vandalise earlier versions so that they cannot be used <BR>or would get pulled as being POV, is astonishing. I know how annoyed many of <BR>us are with 172, but at least (as far as I know) all he does is revert <BR>versions, not vandalise earlier versions as well so that no one can revert <BR>his revertions. I don't fancy having to stand guard over an article most <BR>people are happy with, all because some twat is determined to find some way <BR>of screwing it up<BR><BR>If this is the standard of behaviour that Stevertigo is bringing to Wiki, <BR>then he should be banned.<BR><BR>JT<BR><BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* <BR>http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org<BR>http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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