[User:Jon_Awbrey]] has moved [[Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]] to [[Wikipedia:WikiCaviling]], on the grounds that he claims the original title is defamatory to lawyers. However, politically- incorrect or not, "Wikilawyering" is the actual terminology that has been in use on Wikipedia's discussion areas; "WikiCaviling" is an ugly neologism with no support that I know of. Page titles should reflect actual usage instead of attempting to impose political correctness.
On 28/08/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
[User:Jon_Awbrey]] has moved [[Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]] to [[Wikipedia:WikiCaviling]], on the grounds that he claims the original title is defamatory to lawyers. However, politically- incorrect or not, "Wikilawyering" is the actual terminology that has been in use on Wikipedia's discussion areas; "WikiCaviling" is an ugly neologism with no support that I know of. Page titles should reflect actual usage instead of attempting to impose political correctness.
I'[ve moved it back. Either Jon is trolling, in which case he doesn't deserve any more than the page being moved back and locked in place (which I've done), or he really doesn't appreciate how stupid this is - and he's reverted it being moved at least once so far - in which case no mere discussion will sway him and there's no plausible reason to wait on such.
- d.
On 8/28/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
[User:Jon_Awbrey]] has moved [[Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]] to [[Wikipedia:WikiCaviling]], on the grounds that he claims the original title is defamatory to lawyers.
Jon Awbrey has been making a nuisance of himself on several policy and guideline pages recently, engaging heavily in wikilawyering (hence his undoubted interest in it) and generally driving people nuts. I've been contemplating an RfC, but a speedier remedy might be in order.
Sarah
On 28/08/06, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/28/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
[User:Jon_Awbrey]] has moved [[Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]] to [[Wikipedia:WikiCaviling]], on the grounds that he claims the original title is defamatory to lawyers.
Jon Awbrey has been making a nuisance of himself on several policy and guideline pages recently, engaging heavily in wikilawyering (hence his undoubted interest in it) and generally driving people nuts. I've been contemplating an RfC, but a speedier remedy might be in order.
Revert as needed, note on WP:ANI and block 24 hours if he's being really quite disruptive so other admins can work out what to do. He's busy playing basic-level WikiNomic.
- d.
On 28/08/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Revert as needed, note on WP:ANI and block 24 hours if he's being really quite disruptive so other admins can work out what to do. He's busy playing basic-level WikiNomic.
I've put a note on WP:ANI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden...
- d.
Not that Jon Awbrey's been blocked this page can probably safely be unprotected.
-Scott
On 8/28/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/08/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Revert as needed, note on WP:ANI and block 24 hours if he's being really quite disruptive so other admins can work out what to do. He's busy playing basic-level WikiNomic.
I've put a note on WP:ANI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden...
- d.
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On 8/28/06, Scott Stevenson wikinetscott@gmail.com wrote:
Not that Jon Awbrey's been blocked this page can probably safely be unprotected.
-Scott
On 8/28/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
[User:Jon_Awbrey]] has moved [[Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]] to [[Wikipedia:WikiCaviling]], on the grounds that he claims the original title is defamatory to lawyers. However, politically- incorrect or not, "Wikilawyering" is the actual terminology that has been in use on Wikipedia's discussion areas; "WikiCaviling" is an ugly neologism with no support that I know of. Page titles should reflect actual usage instead of attempting to impose political correctness.
-- Dan
Bah. Stop caviling about minor things like what "lawyering" and "caviling" mean; the real problem here is his blatant disregard of process!
~maru process nuts: attack!