On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:46:59 +0930, "Alphax
\(Wikipedia email\)"
<alphasigmax(a)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