From: "Arno M" redgum46@lycos.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] 3RR: Pluses vs Minuses

Check out the edit history of the Sollog article, particularly around Dec 27 2004, where a mother of all edit wars took place in spite of, and possibly even because of, the 3RR rule.

This now seems to have consequently bought about that Sollog site that I mentioned earlier. Arno

You can't be serious.

The edit war, Mr. Ennis' (SOLLOG)'s fury, and the wikipediasucks site were caused by a belief on the part of Mr. Ennis (SOLLOG) that he could use Wikipedia as a free publicity vehicle, and that he should be allowed to control the content of a Wikipedia article.

The intensity of the edit war simply reflects the combativeness of Mr. Ennis.

_Any_ reasonably neutral article, achieved by _whatever_ means, would have infuriated him.

As the long-time operator of a number of websites, he retaliated in a natural way.

Do you really believe that we could have achieved a reasonably neutral article without the use of blocks? What indicates to you that his anger was provoked by the procedures and process by which he was blocked, rather than by the blocks themselves?

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