This is an old union trick called "work to rule". Instead of striking, which, say, public employees have a hard time doing, they simply follow every rule and regulation to a hyper-T, thus bringing things to a halt in ways that it is hard for management to complain about.
Tom P. 088
|From: tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com |X-Accept-Language: en-us, en |Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:25:15 +0000 | | | |Erik Moeller wrote: | |>If you have problems with Vera Cruz, just remind her[1] that she is on |>borrowed time. Vera Cruz is also known as Lir. Lir was banned in November and |>immediately signed up under the new handle. By doing so, Lir subverted the ban |>and thereby Wikipedia policy -- instead of talking to Jimbo about lifting the |>ban, she pretended to be someone else. This alone would be reason enough to |>re-establish the ban. |> |> |> |Vera Cruz has a habit of following NPOV policy down to the very last |dotted t and crossed i. | |Today Vera Cruz insisted on removing this from the article on Isaac Asimov: |"a highly successful and extraordinarily prolific" | |Does VC have a metal health problem which makes her/him incapable of |seeing what is reasonable? |Or is s/he a troll, bent on applying NPOV so hard it breaks us? | |would s/he have us write: |"Isaac Asimov (dates), described by some as a writer"? | |or "born in Russia according to some"? |or "Asimov was a human being accoding to some advocates"? | | | | |> |> | | |_______________________________________________ |WikiEN-l mailing list |WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org |http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |