On 8/28/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Mark Wagner wrote:
I've turned a spellcheck bot loose on Pseudodoxia. I figure it's politer to do that than to replace user pages with goatse, or move articles around at random.
Sample results:
Page title: Chordate Corrected taxon to tax-on Corrected Subphylum to Sublet Corrected Tunicates to Tunics Corrected Lancelets to Lancets Corrected Hagfishes to Garfishes Corrected Coelacanths to Volcanoes Corrected Urochordate to Crochet Corrected notochord to blotched Corrected Cephalochordates to Schoolchild's Spellcheck successful
Please do not do things like this. We're the good people. Let's never forget that.
I can't see how you can possibly hope to recover the moral high ground here without making a massive public apology to the Nazipedia folks.
Without wanting to offer the least scintilla of support for Nazis or their hateful views, they have seen their project vandalised, probably to a far greater extent than anything they ever wanted to do to Wikipedia. They have been handed an incentive and moral imperative to retaliate.