Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada wrote:
I edited/added images and managed bots (generating edit
rankings and
other) in many Wikipedias. I didn't spammed anything, just had to create
the redirect userpages years ago because MediaWiki didn't offered
anything better.
Indeed. I briefly looked at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Emijrp> and places
where there are three edits seem to be creating a soft redirect template,
soft-redirecting your user page, and soft-redirecting your user talk page.
If you don't know about the case, shut up.
I know a bit! :-) We should not be antagonizing each other. I really
respect and appreciate the work that you do across Wikimedia. Spam is a
pretty loaded term and it was in poor form to use it here. I apologize.
Certain users are in a funky situation currently where, using a bot or
browser tabs, they've created dozens or hundreds of user pages that now
preempt a global user page. We definitely considered this scenario, but
ultimately this practice of creating many local user pages was never
considered supported. It was tolerated because of the lack of global user
pages and now we face a reconciliation with past acts. (Or not...
retaining local user pages doesn't really harm much.) If you or anyone
else wants help getting rid of these local user pages, there are
volunteers at Meta-Wiki who would be happy to offer assistance.
MZMcBride