I'm at whits end with the edits that Khranus makes to talk pages. He added this comment to the Robert Mugabe talk page (http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Robert_Mugabe).:
---- Mugabe is an asshole, and should be hanged for having deceived the people of Zimbabwe into believing that he was going to help 'liberate' them.
Kofi Annan is another example of a corrupt, authoritarian motherfucker. The UN in general has made liberating mid-Africa near-impossible--they have only served to further enslave a people who have for the past couple hundred years taken more crap than any other region on Earth. Khranus ----
I reverted it a couple of times but gave up after another user posted a response to the effect that such rants are not allowed on talk page.
My lingering concern is the possibility of libel action against wikipedia. notice that allmost all other discussion sites have a notice to the effect that the comments represent the view not of the site but only of the author, blah, legalese, blah.
With an implied death threat such as the above, we are probably better off adding such a disclaimer talk pages. Also, I think Khranus should be banned.
Best, Sascha Noyes
Well, Khranus made it easy for me.
From his User_talk page: In response to Kosebamse's complaint about "ramblings, contempt, insults, hostility", etc. -- the owner of this website user:Jimbo Wales, asks that you contact him via e-mail.
See his letter about this matter here. --Uncle Ed 15:55, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
So now there's a wikipedia gestapo? I don't think I have to reply to any of this non-sense. If you have some sort of a problem with the memes I distribute, you can go ahead and distribute yours--but please, don't decrease the overall amount of information being transmitted. Khranus
His refusal, above, to email me about this, coupled with his accusing me (or Ed?) of being a "gestapo" conveniently eliminates the need for a long drawn out process of discussion and attempts at reformation. If he isn't willing to talk about it, we can just end this right here.
I just banned him. As usual, my offer that he can email me to discuss our behavioral and editorial standards remains open, and who knows, maybe reform is possible.
But I see no reason to subject the rest of you to this nonsense in the meantime, so for now he's history.
This applies across all languages and meta, but does not apply to the mailing list, as he's welcome to come here and state his case. It applies to ip's and any followup username he may want to try to use.
--Jimbo
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