http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3540166/stop-being-sanctimo...
He was upset it was in what he considered an unsuitable state, tried fixing it, was reverted and started putting silly stuff in other bios.
I didn't comment on that, but I did leave a comment on how to get bad living bio issues dealt with effectively - talk page, info@wikimedia.org, BLP Noticeboard. Hopefully will be out of the mod queue soon.
Goddamn, living bios are an eternal pain in the arse.
- d.
"I went into the profile of the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and added the words ‘cheating Portuguese c***’ in every sentence and was delighted to see that my alterations remained in place for a week or so."
Now, that shouldn't have happened. We have anti-vandal bots that are meant to catch things like that...
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
"I went into the profile of the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and added the words ‘cheating Portuguese c***’ in every sentence and was delighted to see that my alterations remained in place for a week or so."
Now, that shouldn't have happened. We have anti-vandal bots that are meant to catch things like that...
I had a brief flip through the history and didn't see anything like that. Looks like there are a few editors who keep a close eye on the page, so it seems unlikely. Perhaps he made it up?
2009/4/16 Nathan nawrich@gmail.com:
I had a brief flip through the history and didn't see anything like that. Looks like there are a few editors who keep a close eye on the page, so it seems unlikely. Perhaps he made it up?
Oh, lord, it's the Hattersley thing all over again...
Anything I can do to help, please just let me know.
Giano.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
2009/4/16 Nathan nawrich@gmail.com:
I had a brief flip through the history and didn't see anything like that. Looks like there are a few editors who keep a close eye on the page, so
it
seems unlikely. Perhaps he made it up?
Oh, lord, it's the Hattersley thing all over again...
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2009/4/16 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
"I went into the profile of the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and added the words ‘cheating Portuguese c***’ in every sentence and was delighted to see that my alterations remained in place for a week or so."
Now, that shouldn't have happened. We have anti-vandal bots that are meant to catch things like that...
Unless I see an actual link I think we can safely assume it didn't happen. Vandalism on that scale in such a high profile article is a bit too obvious. Article doesn't normally go a week without being edited.