Hi All,
I would like to request the temporary banning of both Wik and Anthony DiPierro. They have spent the last half an hour reverting the Votes for Deletion page, a page which should not be protected dur to its high use. They have filled the edit histories of many pages with their junk today and have done so on many previous days. Sometimes one is in the right, sometimes the other, but they are both acting in a totally unacceptable way. I believe banning them both for a period of 24-48 hours would reinforce to them the fact that they can't just log on to Wikipedia and do whatever the hell they like (which is what they currently seem to favour) and would give everyon a break from their incessant niggling. In my opinion the Wikipedia would be a better, calmer place without them.
Please consider making a community-backed concensus on this as they are getting beyond tolerable.
Andrew (Ams80)
Andrew Smith wrote:
Hi All,
I would like to request the temporary banning of both Wik and Anthony DiPierro. They have spent the last half an hour reverting the Votes for Deletion page, a page which should not be protected dur to its high use. They have filled the edit histories of many pages with their junk today and have done so on many previous days. Sometimes one is in the right, sometimes the other, but they are both acting in a totally unacceptable way. I believe banning them both for a period of 24-48 hours would reinforce to them the fact that they can't just log on to Wikipedia and do whatever the hell they like (which is what they currently seem to favour) and would give everyon a break from their incessant niggling. In my opinion the Wikipedia would be a better, calmer place without them.
Please consider making a community-backed concensus on this as they are getting beyond tolerable.
Andrew (Ams80)
It seems we both came to the same conclusion at the same time. I blocked Anthony and Wik, and saw this post some time later. Here is my rationale, copied from the village pump:
After an edit war between Anthony DiPierro and Wik over VfD, that page was protected. Apparently recognising the inconvenience of an edit war on VfD, or the protection of this extremely heavily edited page, they both made comments suggesting the acceptability of a temporary mutual ban. Wik said in an edit summary:
"ban Anthony, or, if you can't tell a serious contributor from a troll, ban both of us, but this can't continue"
And Anthony said on IRC:
<anthony> as long as he gets banned as long as i do i'm fine with it ... <anthony> i didn't volunteer to be banned <AdamBishop> but you said you'd be happy as long as Wik was banned with you, and Wik asked to be banned <anthony> wik asked to be banned? <anthony> well, if that's true, let's do it
So I did it, and unprotected VfD.
-- Tim Starling