After quite a while of personal abuse ('moron', 'retard' etc) DW sent me the following message:
Will suggest you stop vandalizing the [[Amedeo Modigliani]] page on which you have made no contribution except to vanadalize it. Keep it up and I guarantee you that a dozen people will start examining very carefully anything your retarded brain might have created as per your list....DW
For the record, what I did was revert the page to the style as laid out by Zoe (she asked me a few days ago to keep an eye on the page 'invert and hurl abuse around' phases. I duly did that while carefully keeping in the one textual change he made. However DW does not appreciate anyone else touching 'his' pages. It is one thing to leave insults on people's talk pages (is there anyone he hasn't done that to by now?), but to threaten to vandalise the work of someone if they 'vandalise' (ie, touch) anything of his seems astonishing. Or maybe there is nothing astonishing in anything DW says or does anymore.
Do we have to put up with nonsense from DW or could someone out there (preferably someone he hasn't already hurled abuse at, if there is anyone he hasn't hurled abuse at, that is!) have a quiet word with him. Or maybe feed him a dozen valium!
JT
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, james duffy wrote:
After quite a while of personal abuse ('moron', 'retard' etc) DW sent me the following message:
Will suggest you stop vandalizing the [[Amedeo Modigliani]] page on which you have made no contribution except to vanadalize it. Keep it up and I guarantee you that a dozen people will start examining very carefully anything your retarded brain might have created as per your list....DW
Threat? He clearly insulted you. If there's any threat here, it's that 12 of his friends will very carefully examine the pages you've created as per your user contribution list.
I think the repeated insults after a number of people, myself included, with which he had never had any previous interaction gently warned him justify bannishment.
M Carling
I told DW, pointblank, not to insult people. But DW continues to behave in this way. So, goodbye DW. It's time for a ban.
Could some sysop make this happen... AND, I'm sorry to have to ask, but what's the best procedure for me to do this myself?
--Jimbo
Unfortunately, DW doesn't always log in, and when he doesn't, he uses lots of different IP addresses. Zoe Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:I told DW, pointblank, not to insult people. But DW continues to behave in this way. So, goodbye DW. It's time for a ban.
Could some sysop make this happen... AND, I'm sorry to have to ask, but what's the best procedure for me to do this myself?
--Jimbo _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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