If he's only willing to contribute on his own terms, and if he reacts
to
a "time-out" by running a computer program that automatically
vandalizes
our encyclopedia database,
I'm just correcting factual errors here -
It wasn't the 7 day ban by the AC that prompted Wik to run the script, it was the continual creation of subpages to Wik's user page by certain people who were trying to taunt him. The subpages in question were being deleted by various admins but that wasn't good enough for Wik.
... THEN it's fairly obvious that he never had a congenial purpose in
mind.
I can't agree with that. Wik certainly made a whole lot of very good edits and wrote some very good articles. I'm sure that when he joined Wikipedia he did so with the same altruistic intentions as everyone else.
Note also that the vandalbot is attacking user pages, user:talk pages, policy pages, and pages in the wikipedia namespace. It is not(as far as I've seen anyway) attacking articles in the main namespace.
Theresa
Yes, while not condoning the vandalism, I think that is important to realise how much frustration, resentment and anger is caused by users behavior to others sometimes. Unfortunately, this also includes some admins. Mark
--- "KNOTT, T" tknott@qcl.org.uk wrote:
If he's only willing to contribute on his own
terms, and if he reacts to
a "time-out" by running a computer program that
automatically vandalizes
our encyclopedia database,
I'm just correcting factual errors here -
It wasn't the 7 day ban by the AC that prompted Wik to run the script, it was the continual creation of subpages to Wik's user page by certain people who were trying to taunt him. The subpages in question were being deleted by various admins but that wasn't good enough for Wik.
... THEN it's fairly obvious that he never had a
congenial purpose in mind.
I can't agree with that. Wik certainly made a whole lot of very good edits and wrote some very good articles. I'm sure that when he joined Wikipedia he did so with the same altruistic intentions as everyone else.
Note also that the vandalbot is attacking user pages, user:talk pages, policy pages, and pages in the wikipedia namespace. It is not(as far as I've seen anyway) attacking articles in the main namespace.
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