Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:11:13 -0700 From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Re: The curse of Jack

Sarfatti?

To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org

1. I unblocked his [[user:JackSarfatti]] account.

.2. I unblocked the [[Jack Sarfatti]] article. 3. I tried (twice) to tone done the anti-Sarfatti

rhetoric there, but

have given up for the day. 4. I marked up with HTML strikeout the message on

Jack's user talk page

which threatened legal action against Wikipedia; he

told me over the

phone that I could delete it. 5. I suggested to Jack that he confine his wiki

activity to the

[[talk:Jack Sarfatti]] page - rather than trying to

edit the article

directly.

He is a newbie. He does not know the rules. He didn't

know that users

aren't allowed to delete other users' talk page

comments, for example.

This sort of thing is going to happen more and more,

now that Wikipedia

is the 45th most popular web site (and has 750,000

articles in the

English edition). Let's treat the public right.

Yes let's, eh?

If you claim to "be entitled to anything", you get permablocked for it and told that it counts as making legal threats. Which it doesn't anywhere else in the world.

If you really make legal threats, and act on them, and send "unpleasant emails", you get unblocked.

!

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