Mark Williamson wrote:
He doesn't appear to be "actively working to get more people involved". Bombo is not a more experienced Wikipedian than Themalau or Moyogo, as far as I can tell, and as I already noted he can speak nearly no Lingala and seems to enjoy posting long articles entirely in French.
Have you tried asking him to stop? Or asking him what he's doing?
The point is, I see no reason for *us* to interfere. If the other users have a complaint, then that's a different matter.
So, I'm not important enough? How are other users different from me? I am a user on the Lingala Wikipedia, and frankly I'm a bit insulted by that remark.
WikiLove, please. I'm not trying to insult you. You mentioned 3 users, you did not mention yourself as a user.
If you *are* a user, then I would recommend to you that rather than complaining to the mailing list to try to get Bombo desysopped, you ask him what he's doing, and offer some helpful and kind suggestions to him that you think might be better.
And the same is true for many other languages -- English speakers wanting to help out on the Irish or Scottish Gaelic Wikipedias, German speakers wanting to help out on the Plattduutsch Wikipedia, French speakers wanting to help on the Breton Wikipedia, Spanish speakers wanting to help on the Basque Wikipedia... yet none of them has a bilingual user interface. Why?
I don't know. It strikes me as a good idea, at least on a temporary basis.
Ok, well, I'm quite sure they'll do as they see fit. Trust them.
What about what I do, and what I see fit? As a Lingala Wikipedian, I don't understand why my opinion should count for less than any other user's.
I wasn't aware that you considered yourself a member of that community. My apologies for that.
--Jimbo