On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:35, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Actually, Eric, I disagree.
Trolling is a form of vandalism. This could justly be interpretted as trolling. (I am reminded of the constant edit wars with Helga, which cost Wikipedia quite a lot in terms of time and people who were disgusted and left)
For me to just ask some other "neutral" sysop to do it instead of me is hardly a neutral step.
I was not involved in an edit war. It was not an article that I care too deeply about. I was protecting it from what I (continue to) perceive as trolling.
Given the situation with Lir/.Vera Cruz/Susan Mason as well as Michael/Weezer and 172, perhaps its time sysops took more steps to limit trolling and not just the "George Washington had big balls" kind of vandalism. I open that for discussion.
No, it's not time. And it should never be. "vandalism" is a loaded, poorly defined term that should never been introduced to the Wikipedia lexicon, but since it was, its definition definitely shouldn't be extended.
And page protection should just about never be used. It's much healthier to just ignore the page for a while.