[WikiEN-l] More Angry Admin Abuse

Philip Welch wikipedia at philwelch.net
Thu May 4 22:57:34 UTC 2006


On May 4, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Bacchante Maenad wrote:

> Hi,
>   I tried again to create a username and predictably the self  
> described
> angry Wikipedia admin username, Freakofnurture, immediately blocked  
> me from
> editing.  The name I choose was "Even Small Children Can Edit  
> Wikipedia" and
> his explanation is "yep, and i'm keeping it safe for them".  It's  
> curious
> how this person became an admin, being so angry, his consistent not  
> assuming
> good faith and not being genuine in his communications.  It seems  
> in the
> wikipedia user-space there is plenty of room for anger and  
> nastiness and not
> much for humor.

I've got an idea. Stop registering inflammatory usernames and we'll  
stop blocking them.

-- 
Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch






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