Thanks for saying that Slim - it is reassuring that at least I was right about your instincts. I agree about the shortcut; unfortunately, WP:ATTACK was already in use at WP:NPA, so I suspect that is why more people didn't pick up on it right away.
Risker
On 5/31/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/31/07, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
As am I. Granted that the original author of the essay/rejected policy
was
a relative newbie (a very knowledgeable one, who had attracted enough attention to rate his own Wikipedia Review thread), the earliest editors
to
the page included several longtime editors with considerable experience recognizing trolls and disingenuous editing. I have a hard time
imagining
that neither Slim Virgin nor MONGO would have sussed him out; both of
them
seem to have a genuine talent for identifying problem editors, often
well in
advance of others.
I did to begin with. My first thought was that he was a strawman sockpuppet and I e-mailed someone to that effect. I stayed away from the [[Wikipedia:Attack sites]] proposal to begin with for that very reason. He created it on April 6 and asked me for advice about it on April 7; http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASlimVirgin&diff=12... and I didn't respond because I was suspicious. Then I told myself I was being silly and he was probably legit, so I made a few edits to the page for one day on April 10-11. A few days later I found out the shortcut was BADSITES, a provocative title that reeks of censorship and omits the crucial word "attack." And that's when I began to wonder again about the creator.
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