G'day geni,
On 2/24/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
geni wrote:
Wikipedia's internal politics long ago reached the point where it is posible to be a perfectaly good editor and still upset the wrong people.
Can you give an example?
Well for an extreme example [[User:SPUI]] is a competent editor. Unfortunetly people have not learned to ignore the other stuff.
What a load of cobblers! SPUI, nice guy that he is, has a loooong history of trolling, incivility, casual use of personal attacks, disruption of Wikipedia, refusal to behave appropriately, and extremely poor judgement. One incident that sticks in the mind is when he edit warred over a valid AfD he wanted to "speedy keep" within a few hours of creation; I *assume* that, in doing so, there was more at stake than just "upset[ting] the wrong people".
Back in the day deletionist had a very hard time on WP:RFA although that does appear to have been replaced by userboxes with certain voting patterns making people understandably paranoid.
Uh ... ?
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