Er, some difficulties with terms here...
On Jul 6, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Cobb wrote:
Puppy wrote:
Same as always. Afd, userfy, welcome messages, and lots of links and explanations of and to WP:V, WP:NPOV, and WP:NOR. -kc-
Weeks of AFDs and sockspuppets/newbies, followed by DRVs. full of socks/newbies, followed by idiot admins undeleting the articles and putting them on DRV for yet more weeks of socks/newbie infested discussions and stupid editors who haven't read the policies etc etc etc etc.
Yet... of course... vandalism doesn't work on a WIki because it's as easy to fix as it was to vandalise in first place... isn't it?
Well, since *nothing* you mentioned or implied above was "vandalism", yes. Vandalism refers to intentional, bad faith edits - newbies ain't that. Ignorant or busy editors ain't that. Idiot admins ain't even that. What all of those are is misguided people. Misguided people make trouble everywhere, and have since time began, and will until a while after the heat death of the universe. The answer to them is the same as always - lots and lots of tiresome, irriating, frustrating discussion. Sorry.
Wasn't that the Wikipedia war-cry once?
And, for "vandalism", it still is. For misguided people - it has always been discussion until either the misguided people change their minds or enough other people get fed up, then more or less forceful requests to leave.
Did you have some mistaken idea it was otherwise?
Jesse Weinstein