On 10/19/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
I'm also wondering why it isn't "ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE" for the human who originally blanked the article to be acting in a manner that's no more intelligent than a bot as well. We grant newbies a lot of slack, and we grant the aggrieved victims of libel even more slack, but if the inexcusability of this is really absolute then in this case the original blanker is just as much in the wrong.
Joe random person off the street is not going to be familiar with Wikipedia's process and procedures in any significant way. Even if they happen across an article and click on "edit" for some legitimate reason such as libel.
Any experienced editor, particularly admins, should be held to the higher standard of knowing what our policies are, and what proper notifications and efforts are.
If anything, perhaps the unregistered account editing should be made a bit more blatantly hand-holding to encourage people who are newbies to do the right thing.