Let's focus on solving problems, not creating them. I don't think this thread is a productive use of this mailing list's time and energy. Actually, I think the roughness Tim just got at the hands of some of the experienced people (all men, funnily enough) from this list is part of the problem. If Tim is rude, taking him down a peg to even the score won't do much to make the wider community a much nicer place. I don't think any of us likes having one of those days where the dreaded new messages bar pops up every few minutes, especially when it's all these people you don't know turning up out of the blue to complain about your past actions they had no involvement in. Yes, his reaction was predictable; it was predictable insofar as you instigated it.
Really, this mailing list has an unfortunate signal-to-noise ratio already, considering how new it is and how few subscribers there are. We can be better, for example, about focusing on the actual causes of the problem, rather than personal gripes.
Dominic
On 2/9/11 11:36 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case wrote:
Timneu22 has now blanked his user talk page, again, deleting the ongoing RfC Fred started on it.
And he has now claimed to have left the project.
What is really funny is that this user and WP:VANISPAM fan has a Wikipedia biography:
"It's more than just a little bit ironic, don'cha think?"
which as far as I can make out is as clear a case of a vanity biography as I have seen; there is not one decent source among the references. His youtube channel has had all of 125 views since 2006:
http://www.youtube.com/user/timneu22
Notability? This is the sort of biography which, if it were on a garage band, the chap would nominate for deletion within five minutes of creation.
On top of it, the account that created his bio looks like a sockpuppet or meatpuppet ... responding to the AfD within four hours, after not editing for more than a year.
I have started the SPI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Timneu22 As I noted it is quite possible that there may be others in the drawer.
Further increasing the irony factor, this comes right after my comments on the positives and negatives of the transparency and minimal expectation of privacy on Wikipedia. [[Quod era demonstratum]].
Daniel Case
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