On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 07:03:07PM +0100, martin@myreddice.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Having looked at a selection of the edits from 66.47.62.78, they look fine. The problem with Helga was apparently due to her "unique" POV on history, and her refusal to work with others. To date, 66.47.62.78 doesn't appear to have done either of these things. There was a somewhat dubious sentence added to [[Nazi Germany]], ("No allied Soviets were ever put on trial for their crimes against humanity") - factually true but probably not central to this particular article (better at [[Nuremberg Trials]], and swiftly reverted. There were also plenty of completely inoffensive edits.
Read http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Malbork&diff=956630&oldi... That's the basic pattern: "The cities are German, and therefor she names them by their German name. The Poles just stole them." She adds this subtle POV to all articles.
Or read http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Bydgoszcz&diff=956642&ol... This are some completely useless facts she added. They prove that this is German land, of course. There is a map with two cities. But what's the link to Bydgoszcz?
No, she did not change.
Further, Helga has respected the terms of her ban from wikipedia for three months. I feel that it would be appropriate to allow Helga back, on probation, to demonstrate that we Wikipedians don't bear grudges for months no end, and to offer an appropriate exit strategy for users such as Lir. Forgiveness would seem an important part of WikiLove, at least to me. (insert similar platitudes here).
The rules are: Ask Jimbo first. Helga knows this. She apparently doesn't care. That doesn't show that she accepts the rules.
Of course, if she starts falling into bad habits again, by all means let us swiftly soft ban her and follow that up with a hard ban as appropriate. Apparently it took around a year to decide to ban Helga - we need not take so long the second time, should that turn out to be necessary.
It's not the second time. She has been banned at least two times, if not three (she was unbanned by accident, if I remember correctly).
JeLuF