On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:44, TMC wrote:

tarquin wrote:

...

seems we have multiple vandals:

• TMC (though whether it's the same as the

TMC we know of old, who knows)

I had no involvement with any edits made as "TMC". Whatever happened on Saturday (when the above was sent), I missed it.

It was evidently someone who participates in Wikipedia or is otherwise fascinated by its participants, given the tributes (not of a desired kind, to be sure) to TMC, Ed Poor, Lir, Ram-Man, and the Wikipedia moderator concept.

What interests me is not particularly trying to discern who it was, but the fact that the action was entirely a response to the atmosphere of paranoia about "vandalism" that pervades so much of the discussion about Wikipedia.

I still think the "VANDALISM in progress" page is a terribly named page which encourages juvenile behavior, and the ALL CAPS SHOUTING is entirely unnecessary, especially now that we have watchlists.

That said, I'm glad that there are people who enjoy keeping the site clean.