On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:33 -0700, The Uninvited Co., Inc wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy_Genshaft&diff=82245476&a…
Yes, the University already saw it, and no, they're not happy.
This is not an isolated incident and I'm not trying to pick on the admin
who did it. It reflects poorly on all of us that we have a culture that
puts twitch-game vandalism reversion on a lofty pedestal to the point
where people don't read the edits they're reinstating.
Bots are doing this too. I've contacted the bot writers and asked them
to help prevent it but nothing gets done.
Yours in frustration,
The Uninvited Co., Inc.
(a Delaware corporation)
Pages should not be blanked, as [[WP:BLANK]] states. If someone has a
problem with an article's contents, we have numerous ways to deal with
that, including Office actions if the content is libelous or otherwise
legally problematic.
Blanking a page does no good anyway, since all the previous revisions
are in the history. And anyway, I'd be willing to bet that upwards of
90% of all page blankings are genuine, bad-faith vandalism, so you can't
really blame editors for occasionally making bad reverts.
--
Christopher Larberg <christopherlarberg(a)gmail.com>