Dante-
At 12:54 PM 5/31/2003, you wrote:
Dante-
how do you feel about the fact that he deleted his own talk page, thereby not even leaving his explanation of the incident?
Regards,
Erik
I don't think it's strictly true to say that he deleted his own talk page.
You misunderstand me. I was not referring to the [[User:Viking]] deletion. He deleted the page [[User talk:Kils]] after he responded there to my query regarding the Kils/Viking relationship, even before I could read the response. I restored the page and revoked his sysop status to prevent him from deleting it again, at which point he reverted it to a prior revision. I restored the response and protected the page, to have an open track record for this discussion. Kils then posted on my page (in German) that he did not want his talk page to "link to pornographic pages" and asked me, in very formal language, to delete it. Of course there is no link to any pornographic page on the talk page, just his response which I posted here.
That he may have deleted the Viking experiment without prior discussion, I can understand. But normally pages should be listed on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] first, and in this case, he really just used his sysop privileges to remove something which, for whatever reason, he did not want to be publicly visible.
Regards,
Erik