Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:46:59 +0930, "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Bear in mind that I actually take the time to userfy egregious vanity from single purpose accounts if the username matches the subject, because in the end newbies *do* matter, but demanding that every vandalism edit be accompanied by the planting of a shrubbery on the user's Talk page does not seem to be based on any realistic assessment of the problem.
You make it sound like we're asking you to chop down the tallest tree in the forest with a herring. We're not. We're asking you to use a little bit of Common Sense. How on earth is someone meant to defend themselves if they don't even know the crime that they've been charged with? How on earth is a newbie meant to learn that there are certain things they're not supposed to be doing something if nobody ever tells them?
Common sense indicates that wholesale blanking is usually vandalism.
Experience (rather than common sense) may very well suggest that possibility. It's a valid presumption, but that only suggests that the matter should be investigated further before asserting that it is in fact vandalism.
Ec