That's completely pointless if the user doesn't really care about what version a page remains in but enjoys the process of fighting per se. That seems to be the case with Wik. He reverts, reverts, reverts, reverts, then he even *asks* for protection of the page. As soon as it becomes unprotected again, he will continue reverting to his preferred version. This happened with [[McFly]] -- I unprotected it three times already, and every time Wik came back to revert it almost instantly. It is protected to this day. So what are we gonna do -- keep it protected forever? That is an unfair punishment of everyone else.
The common theme among malicious users is that they sooner or later disappear. Sooner or later they will get bored and go away and then someone will be there and revert their trash. Or they learn the wikispirit and stop doing malicious things. Meanwhile, there are about 200,000 other articles you and everyone else can edit. As I highly doubt that you (or anyone except for Anthony himself) are any interested in [[McFly]] at all.
BL
Now that we have a decision regarding Wik, we need to take a look at unprotecting the articles that were protected because of him. If he keeps it up we need to take another look at remedies for Wik.
Fred
From: Bjorn Lindqvist bjrn.lindqvist@telia.com Reply-To: bjrn.lindqvist@telia.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:20:24 +0100 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Edit war policy meaningless
I unprotected it three times already, and
every time Wik came back to revert it almost instantly. It is protected to this day. So what are we gonna do -- keep it protected forever? That is an unfair punishment of everyone else.