That's very peculiar because ExplorerCDT encourages deleting things he sees as insignificant, to the point of encouraging "statement VfDs" (ie Jean-Luc Picard, nominated by another user at his suggestion). He's also made and many, many deletion replies in VfDs like [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Anya Schiffrin]]. Yet this anticruft crusader recently nominated [[Festivus]] for FAC. All of this is completely baffling to me.
But we can't ban someone for making "bad votes", even if they _are_ misleading editors, right?
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:31:09 -0000, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
The current listing at VfD of [[Cayley-Newbirth operation matrix]] has flushed out User:ExplorerCDT, who at the very least knew this was a hoax page, and posted comments at VfD designed to obfuscate and mislead.
User:ExplorerCDT is apparently otherwise in good standing as a Wikipedian. How to proceed in such a case?
Context is that there have been a number of attempts to place hoax pages in mathematics in the English Wikipedia. This example is evidently written with at least a well-informed graduate student knowledge (as with the recent vandalism attack by [[User:Slim Jim]], with plausibe disinformative tweaking). The page was been around for eight months, since it has the look-and-feel of a piece of obscure, dull abstract mathematics quite accurately.
For myself I would like to see User:ExplorerCDT banned, for bad faith editing.
Charles
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