On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:42:12 -0700 (PDT), S.Vertigo sewev@yahoo.com wrote:
How about just protecting them, use a very condensed version of the {{protected}} banner, (its just too much text and graphics people) and make people work on a proxy draft instead?
That has already been tried, to no effect. Some of the above articles were protected for two weeks (a few for more than a month), but the anonymous users started their reverts very early after they were unprotected.
We (me and [[User:Refdoc]], mainly) also tried to act in the NPOV way, finding how hard it ethically is to include some complete nonsense in an encyclopedic article, but doing it finally. But even when the anonymous users' opinions were included in the articles, they went and removed the other POVs or the objections to their own POVs, and reverted to the earlier wordings of themselves (also removing wiki links and boldfacing many many phrases).
We could not make them talk much either. Instead of talking on topic, they were either blaming people, or were being called names (by, for example, [[User:K1]]).
Anyway, let's hope this is history, and we can get [[History of Azerbaijan]] in shape again...
Really appreciating any kind of advice, [[User:Roozbeh]]