On Oct. 26 UncleBungle made the following contribution to the Jew Watch talk page: "I'm not going to start an edit war User:Slrubenstein." I don't really like other people posting comments to pages in my name. Is this something I just have to watch out for and delete, or do we have some policy on this? Clearly it is not at the level of a banable offense -- I am not even sure if it is enough to ask for mediation. Still, it is wrong and I wonder if there is some community response. I appreciate any suggestions/thoughts,
Steve
Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701
I would simply delete it and move on unless it is repeated. Although, as vandalism, it is at the level of a banable offense.
Fred
From: "steven l. rubenstein" rubenste@ohiou.edu Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:49:45 -0400 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Jew Watch
On Oct. 26 UncleBungle made the following contribution to the Jew Watch talk page: "I'm not going to start an edit war User:Slrubenstein." I don't really like other people posting comments to pages in my name. Is this something I just have to watch out for and delete, or do we have some policy on this? Clearly it is not at the level of a banable offense -- I am not even sure if it is enough to ask for mediation. Still, it is wrong and I wonder if there is some community response. I appreciate any suggestions/thoughts,
Steve
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steven l. rubenstein wrote:
On Oct. 26 UncleBungle made the following contribution to the Jew Watch talk page: "I'm not going to start an edit war User:Slrubenstein." I don't really like other people posting comments to pages in my name. Is this something I just have to watch out for and delete, or do we have some policy on this? Clearly it is not at the level of a banable offense -- I am not even sure if it is enough to ask for mediation. Still, it is wrong and I wonder if there is some community response. I appreciate any suggestions/thoughts,
Steve
This is the edit in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Jew_Watch&diff=6882438&a...
The talk page guidelines say:
"Don't misrepresent other people: Typing errors, grammar, etc are always fair game, and remove personal attacks where you can, but don't edit someone's words to have them say something they don't believe in."
Whether that specifically covers signing as another user isn't clear - but generally, doing so is considered a Very Bad Thing to say the least.
*However* ... reading the context of the text, I believe that UncleBungle was actually trying to direct the comment /to/ you, rather than pretend to /be/ you. It's just unfortunate that your name was at the end of the sentence and the style he chose for your name is the same as you use for your sig (something he may not have realised as your sig did not appear on the page at the time). What I think UncleBungle intended the text to say was something like:
"I'm not going to start an edit war User:Slrubenstein, so I'll discuss this here... -- UncleBungle"
I'm sure UncleBungle could confirm if my interpretation is correct, but it looks to me to be a misunderstanding. He could do with being reminded to sign his posts too - that would help make things clearer in itself.
--sannse
steven l. rubenstein wrote:
On Oct. 26 UncleBungle made the following contribution to the Jew Watch talk page: "I'm not going to start an edit war User:Slrubenstein." I don't really like other people posting comments to pages in my name. Is this something I just have to watch out for and delete, or do we have some policy on this? Clearly it is not at the level of a banable offense -- I am not even sure if it is enough to ask for mediation.
I think it's a bannable offense, without question. Whether it would be sensible to pursue, given how long it takes to get through the process, is a different question. It will depend on the behavior of the individual user.
This is the sort of thing where I think a faster process than ArbCom would be quite helpful.
--Jimbo
It IS a bannable offense to sign someone else's name to a comment.
RickK
"steven l. rubenstein" rubenste@ohiou.edu wrote: On Oct. 26 UncleBungle made the following contribution to the Jew Watch talk page: "I'm not going to start an edit war User:Slrubenstein." I don't really like other people posting comments to pages in my name. Is this something I just have to watch out for and delete, or do we have some policy on this? Clearly it is not at the level of a banable offense -- I am not even sure if it is enough to ask for mediation. Still, it is wrong and I wonder if there is some community response. I appreciate any suggestions/thoughts,
Steve
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I think this was a very misleading description. As I look at the edit in question, it looks to me as though the statement was meant to be "I am not going to start an edit war, Slrubenstein." I base this on the fact that there is substantial amount of text after the "sig" and that the rest of the text is unsigned, as are most of Bungle's posts.
So I don't think this is bannable, simply because I don't think the comment was in your name at all.
-Snowspinner
On Oct 28, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
steven l. rubenstein wrote:
On Oct. 26 UncleBungle made the following contribution to the Jew Watch talk page: "I'm not going to start an edit war User:Slrubenstein." I don't really like other people posting comments to pages in my name. Is this something I just have to watch out for and delete, or do we have some policy on this? Clearly it is not at the level of a banable offense -- I am not even sure if it is enough to ask for mediation.
I think it's a bannable offense, without question. Whether it would be sensible to pursue, given how long it takes to get through the process, is a different question. It will depend on the behavior of the individual user.
This is the sort of thing where I think a faster process than ArbCom would be quite helpful.
--Jimbo _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Check out the Onion this week for an article on Wikipedia! Mark
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Mark Richards wrote:
Check out the Onion this week for an article on Wikipedia!
d'oh! I just sent that link to the list!
Anyway, here it is: I Must Take Issue with the Wikipedia Entry for 'Weird Al' Yankovic http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4045&o=2
What really cracks me up about this piece is how accurately they parody our POV warriors.
Mark Richards wrote
Check out the Onion this week for an article on Wikipedia!
http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4045&o=2
Errs (the parody rant) on the side of being far too reasonable.
Charles
Charles Matthews wrote:
Mark Richards wrote
Check out the Onion this week for an article on Wikipedia!
http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4045&o=2
Errs (the parody rant) on the side of being far too reasonable.
Charles
Agreed. I get complaint emails that are funnier than this one on a regular basis. :-)
--Jimbo
Well, all the facts from the onion have now been added to our article. Ironic?
paz y amor, rjs [[User:The bellman]]
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:31:47 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Charles Matthews wrote:
Mark Richards wrote
Check out the Onion this week for an article on Wikipedia!
http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4045&o=2
Errs (the parody rant) on the side of being far too reasonable.
Charles
Agreed. I get complaint emails that are funnier than this one on a regular basis. :-)
--Jimbo
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Howdy, anybody got any idea why in [[amazon]] all the edit buttons for the sub-sections get squashed into just above ===enviromentalism=== ? i dont get it, and cant see how it could be fixed.
paz y amor, rjs [[User:The bellman]]
It looks like the pictures were moving the "edit" links into funny places. I've rearranged them.
--Slowking Man
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:45:28 +1100, Robin Shannon robin.shannon@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy, anybody got any idea why in [[amazon]] all the edit buttons for the sub-sections get squashed into just above ===enviromentalism=== ? i dont get it, and cant see how it could be fixed.
paz y amor, rjs [[User:The bellman]]
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