I'm not "refusing" to provide the name. I would like to understand the situation from a general standpoint. The Wikipedia community has a tendency not to deal with generalities. I would like to know how I should approach the situation in the future, or what I should have done differently, rather than discussing the particulars of this one situation. If we start with names and posts the conversation will degenerate into a discussion of this specific incident--which I can and will get on the Wikipedia articles of concern.
This is not Wikipedia, but a mailing list discussing Wikipedia. In spite of accusations of refusal (good grief), I use my user name on this list and anyone in here can go and review my edit summary and find out all the specifics they want. But my post is not about the specifics, it's about the generalities, and it relates to recent discussions on this list.
So, can we discuss how this issue should, in general, be approached by Wikipedia editors, as it may be more common than the one news worthy incidenct led me to believe, and the issue remains, how to handle this situation when problems arise for Wikipedia because of it.
Also, if we want to discuss specific editors, let's include them in the discussion by having that discussion on their talk page.
Signed, the evil refuser who is not really KP Botany, KP
On 4/20/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
KP wrote:
I would rather not post the information on this list, but I am having repeated problems with an editor who appears not to be who and what they claim to be.... What should I do? How should I go about this considering how littel time I
have?
None. Let's leave the editor's name off the mailing list for now, but please offer me some general solutions and approaches...
Unless there's some exceptional circumstance you're not mentioning, there's no reason not to mention the name of this editor or the articles you're worried about. That way, you get more eyes and hands helping, solving your problem. (If you refuse to provide the name, based on some vague, unstated reason, you run the risk of appearing not to be who *you* claim to be!)
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