At 22:33 04/01/03 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Saturday 04 January 2003 05:18, Rob Brewer wrote: There were nine edits, not five (the other four were the creation of useless articles). I thought, looking at the times, that two people used the same IP address - one created [[Colin Baker]] and [[Jive Bunny]] and then the other created the useless articles.
That puts things in a slightly different light. Thank you.
An article called [[of the]] containing "The french leader of the guerilla movement in the 20th decade." does not look like a newbie experiment to me. It looks like someone intentionally polluting the Wiki with silliness. An article containing "Put your text for the aoeusnth page here" is a newbie experiment.
I don't entirely agree with you here. If a newbie wants to experiment with creating pages, they aren't necessarily going to type at random into the edit box. If they have some wit, they might well type something silly. The question is, how long do we put up with that silliness? If he got to nine edits and was getting sillier, it does look like he came to be silly, not encyclopedic.
If you think blocking was too harsh, go ahead and unblock the address.
I'm not a sysop, and I'm happy for those who are sysops to have the final say in these matters.
Rob wikikarma: is [[Chain]] at 23:11GMT substantial enough?