The vandalism of the Main Page was the last straw. I have banned BuddhaInside. This should not require Jimbo's approval since it was a case of simple and obvious vandalism.
I hope we can get rid of all these Deletexxxx pages he idiotically created now.
Regards,
Erik
--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
The vandalism of the Main Page was the last straw. I have banned BuddhaInside. This should not require Jimbo's approval since it was a case of simple and obvious vandalism.
I hope we can get rid of all these Deletexxxx pages he idiotically created now.
Regards,
Erik
How did he vandalize the main page? It's protected. LDan
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Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
The vandalism of the Main Page was the last straw. I have banned BuddhaInside. This should not require Jimbo's approval since it was a case of simple and obvious vandalism.
I hope we can get rid of all these Deletexxxx pages he idiotically created now.
Regards,
Erik
How did he vandalize the main page? It's protected. LDan
He found a security flaw. If a page was protected, no move page link showed up in the sidebar. However, there were no checks for page protection in the move page code itself, so it was trivial to move a protected page with a hand-edited URL. When a page is moved, the redirect left behind at the original location is not protected.
This is now fixed. I implemented a simple patch about an hour after the problem arose, and Brion did it properly shortly thereafter.
-- Tim Starling.
I give my retroactive stamp of approval for this. Recall, I had asked that someone have him email me or come to the mailing list to chat, but vandalizing the Main Page is extreme and certainly falls under the standard 'emergency' exception to our general rule against sysops banning people who have a username.
--Jimbo
Erik Moeller wrote:
The vandalism of the Main Page was the last straw. I have banned BuddhaInside. This should not require Jimbo's approval since it was a case of simple and obvious vandalism.
I hope we can get rid of all these Deletexxxx pages he idiotically created now.
Regards,
Erik _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l