On Feb 13, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Rick wrote:
In a similar vein:
We spent a great deal of time dealing with a User who was insistant on creating a vanity article at Shawn Mikula, pumping up his notability and recreating the article despite several attempts by admins and a VfD process to delete. It was finally recreated as an empty article and protected, so it could not be created again.
Another User then asked for it to be undeleted on the Votes for Undeletion page, and the votes were clearly in favor of Keep Deleted.
Let's be perfectly clear here. Another User is someone who is under a standing order against trolling. Another User listed it as a history only undelete and insisted no vote was necessary. It was a history only undelete by a pure technicality, having been protected blank because of the recreation vandalism. After repeatedly being banned because of the standing order and having his request deleted with the simple direction to relist it in a section where there could be a vote on it, he finally managed to trick an admin into giving him the history, and he promptly recreated the article in his userspace.
-Snowspinner