On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:57:06 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
I hope you're right about this. However, when I mentioned the complaint on the uploader (Denelson83)'s talk page, I received a most unpleasant and uninformative response. It would seem to be easy for the uploader to help resolve the issue, rather than ranting about it...
Denelson83's expressed attitude on his/her talk page seems to be in direct contradiction to the Wikipedia policy on [[Wikipedia:Civility]]. His/her talk page says, in part:
"any time I am sent a message with regard to bad edits, copyright violations, or any other alleged negative contributions, it is involuntarily interpreted as either an assault on my intelligence, an action I take extremely personally, or a pure threat..."
Taken at face value, this leads me to believe that Denelson83 has issues that preclude civil participation on a collaborative project such as Wikipedia.
Also, Denelson83 is not the first user I've come across who insists on maintaining a blank user page. It seems that one likely motive for this is the desire for their user name to "stand out" in various listings. Another possibility is the desire to discourage the use of their talk page. Either way, I think this is a practice that we should actively discourage, with changes to the software if necessary.
-- Rich Holton en.wikipedia:User:Rholton