I'm not "refusing" to provide the name. I would like to understand the
situation from a general standpoint. The Wikipedia community has a tendency
not to deal with generalities. I would like to know how I should approach
the situation in the future, or what I should have done differently, rather
than discussing the particulars of this one situation. If we start with
names and posts the conversation will degenerate into a discussion of this
specific incident--which I can and will get on the Wikipedia articles of
concern.
This is not Wikipedia, but a mailing list discussing Wikipedia. In spite of
accusations of refusal (good grief), I use my user name on this list and
anyone in here can go and review my edit summary and find out all the
specifics they want. But my post is not about the specifics, it's about the
generalities, and it relates to recent discussions on this list.
So, can we discuss how this issue should, in general, be approached by
Wikipedia editors, as it may be more common than the one news worthy
incidenct led me to believe, and the issue remains, how to handle this
situation when problems arise for Wikipedia because of it.
Also, if we want to discuss specific editors, let's include them in the
discussion by having that discussion on their talk page.
Signed, the evil refuser who is not really KP Botany, KP
On 4/20/07, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
KP wrote:
I would rather not post the information on this
list, but I am having
repeated problems with an editor who appears not to be who and what they
claim to be.... What
should I do? How should I go about this considering how littel time I
have?
None. Let's leave the editor's name off
the mailing list for now, but
please offer me some general solutions and approaches...
Unless there's some exceptional circumstance you're not
mentioning, there's no reason not to mention the name of this
editor or the articles you're worried about. That way, you get
more eyes and hands helping, solving your problem. (If you
refuse to provide the name, based on some vague, unstated reason,
you run the risk of appearing not to be who *you* claim to be!)
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