ahhh sorry, I just realized this was talking about an import ;) and
therefore they can't really do much at the moment... but the thoughts stand
for what we can do. In general we can't delete a user but we can remove the
username from being viewable anywhere (just like we suppress pages and
edits if necessary as well).
James
James Alexander
Manager, Merchandise
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:07 AM, James Alexander
<jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Yikes,
We can't delete accounts but local Oversighters (who can be elected by the
community as it grows) and the Stewards (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards who can do it globally as well
when needed ) have ways to strike the username/userpage etc so that no one
(other than other oversights/stewards and staff ) can see it. I'm going to
poke them now and have them take a look.
If you want to send me the list please feel free to and I'll pass it on
but they may find everything once pointed in the right direction as well.
For people who see things like this happening (or find it later) you can
contact stewards on IRC (freenode) in #Wikimedia-stewards almost 24/7
usually (obviously as volunteers it depends but someone is usually around
and other active cross-wiki users hang there as well to help) as well as
through the request boards on meta.
James
<sent with staff email because I'm not subscribed to wikivoyage-l with
community email yet but said as Volunteer/Global Sysop (jamesofur)>
James Alexander
Manager, Merchandise
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Ravikiran S. Rao <
registrations(a)ravikiran.com> wrote:
Hi
I am 13 days late to this, but my two attempts to forward this to the
list 13 days back bounced (the first because I included an attachment and
the second because I sent it from a different email) and then I was
travelling and couldn't devote time to the list.
Can some admin or bureaucrat look into the below mail? My understanding
was that we can block users and delete user pages, but I didn't realize
we could delete users. But things might have changed with the new
Mediawiki..
The user in question is a Wikitravel import, but still, is there a way
to purge objectionable users?
(The attachment the mail refers to has been deleted because I can't send
it to the list. Arun, if you could find a way to share the PDF, that would
be great)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25(a)gmail.com>
Date: 3 December 2012 13:20
Subject: WIkivoyage: Objectionable user name
To: "Ravikiran S. Rao" <ravikiranr(a)gmail.com>
Ravi,
I created a PDF page of the Bangalore Wikvoyage page:
In the credits I noticed a list of contributors. (Page 42 of attached PDF)
One of the user anmes is titled:
"Wikitravel's anus is raped by Grawp's massive cock"
This is rather objectionable and uncalled for.
I am sure this violates some principle of Wkivoyage and can take speedy
deleted.
Request your help as admin.
regards
Arun
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