At 01:19 PM 5/31/2003, you wrote:
You misunderstand me. I was not referring to the
[[User:Viking]] deletion.
He deleted the page [[User talk:Kils]] after he responded there to my
query regarding the Kils/Viking relationship, even before I could read the
response. I restored the page and revoked his sysop status to prevent him
from deleting it again, at which point he reverted it to a prior revision.
I restored the response and protected the page, to have an open track
record for this discussion. Kils then posted on my page (in German) that
he did not want his talk page to "link to pornographic pages" and asked
me, in very formal language, to delete it. Of course there is no link to
any pornographic page on the talk page, just his response which I posted
here.
That he may have deleted the Viking experiment without prior discussion, I
can understand. But normally pages should be listed on [[Wikipedia:Votes
for deletion]] first, and in this case, he really just used his sysop
privileges to remove something which, for whatever reason, he did not want
to be publicly visible.
Regards,
Erik
Oh, oh, OH!!
Yes, I most certainly DID misunderstand you... let me go look at the
deleted Kils talk page. Hmmm... yeah. That is considerably more damning.
Personally I'd still like to give him the benefit of the doubt, given that
he's been a good contributor.... but it certainly doesn't look good. I
support at least a temporary revocation of his sysop status and think that
the best thing Kils can hope for is a message to the list explaining his
actions.
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