Thanks, tough cat. I appreciate your concern both for the integrity of the encyclopedia and for the inclusiveness of the community. We want to keep bad _material_ out while encouraging new _contributors_ to come in and learn the ropes.

Uncle Ed

-----Original Message----- From: Tucci [mailto:tucci528@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 3:04 PM To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] empty album pages, years in MTV and KROQ, Baha Men...

I just banned an anonymous user who had created many of the track-listing only album pages, future-releases on 2003 in music, plus list of years in KROQ, a fact-free article on the Baha Men and, most recently, list of years in MTV and related pages. See User talk:64.175.250.205 for the sordid details of the MTV stuff, which was what made me finally do it.

I hesitated because he has entered true and relevant information, it just takes me three times as long to fix it than it took him to write it. Plus, the Baha Men thing scared me, because I would never have bothered to check the facts if somebody hadn't pointed out that the article said they formed in 1987 and 1988 -- a quick trip to allmusic shows they released their debut in 1979, and that many of the other facts were simply wrong as well.

Maybe the ban should be lifted in a day or two, as he has at least discovered talk pages. Anyway, I just wanted to make a note here on the mailing list since I'm normally opposed to banning users who have made valuable edits in the past.

Tokerboy