I'm in London, and can deal with this if it's not already been done. J.

I have reported this to the police; they're sending officers to the address given to investigate. James.

The police just called me back. "It was a young lad's idea of a hoax" was the expression the officer used to me. Apparently he's been given a severe talking to.

On 10/1/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote: So they found the "young lad" alive and well? —C.W. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Riana#User:Alexgunns Apparently Wikipedians do not limit their love of process to Wikipedia. On 02/10/2007, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Riana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Riana http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Riana _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

s/talk/user, of course... On 01/10/2007, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 10/1/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote: Why? I can't think of any good reason the page needed to be public. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

(I've already sent this to David, but I may as well post this here too) I was not aware of either the ANI post or the conversation on Moe's talkpage. David and Moe both have my full apologies on this, and I have made a statement to that effect on my talk as well. I was really very surprised that the personal info was undeleted, but I realise now that David knew what he was doing as well as I knew what I was doing. Respectfully, Riana I saw where you were coming from Riana, it's not a problem. I honestly thought you read AN/I and deleted it because there was discussion on AN/I proposing an block of the account and for the message to be ignored as trolling. I was wrong for assuming that. All I can say is that I'm sorry for wasting my time on the hoax like I did, but I guess it was worth to to ensure anything bad from happening. -- Moe --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Gah. I hadn't read everything. I am so sorry. :-( On 10/2/07, Anirudh <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

They did, thankfully. On 01/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/1/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > The police just called me back. "It was a young lad's idea of a hoax" > > was the expression the officer used to me. Apparently he's been given > > a severe talking to. > > So they found the "young lad" alive and well?

No, it didn't feel quite right, but as I told the officer who called me to tell me it was a hoax: I couldn't not report it. On 01/10/2007, Angela Anuszewski <psu256(a)member.fsf.org> wrote: hoax" given _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 01/10/2007, Josh Gordon <user.jpgordon(a)gmail.com> wrote: A more cynical approach is that if people know that we will report such incidents to the police who will not be amused by such hoaxes they are less likely to carry out such hoaxes in the first place.