[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 2, Issue 26

[Björn Lindqvist]

> 1. His has devoted much of his time to creating [[List of . . . ]] pages, 
> and when his generally ridiculed pages are deleted, he tries to create yet 
> more lists or bizarre renamed version of the list proposed for deletion.
> 
> For example, he created a [[List of heterosexuals]] which was generally 
> dismissed as nonsensical. When 28 people voted on it, after it was listed on 
> the VfD, 20 voted to delete (accompanied with scathing comments about the 
> list), 1 said 'delete or rename', 7 said keep. The debate went on for eight 
> days. When it finally was deleted, he went ballistic, claiming that there 
> was no consensus for its deletion (71%, or 75%, depending on how you 
> interpret the votes, said delete! No consensus???)

75% is not a consensus, I can understand a user getting angry if it is a 
page s/he has spent a lot of time on. This user seems to rather be in a 
deep disagreement with the majority of Wikipedia users/sysops rather 
than a genuine troll. In general I agree.

BL