[WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.

[Parker Peters]

On 10/9/06, Parker Peters <onmywayoutster at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/9/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:14:02 -0400, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>
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> > >> The most egregious account I've seen was brought to us a few days
> > ago, where
> > >> an admin blocked a user and then tag-teamed with a non-admin to
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> > >> remove the user's unblock requests, and finally got a third party to
> > lock
> > >> the user's talk page for "unblock abuse."
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> > >Diffs?
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> > My thoughts exactly.  "Parker Peters"' last example turned out to be
> > an unambiguous vandalism sock.  I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps
> > Parker Peters isn't better known to us by another name...
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> "Unambiguous"? Hardly. Unless you didn't bother to read my reply earlier?
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> Your definition of "vandalism" seems to be that you disagree with an edit.
> That's not a definition of "vandalism" that anyone at Wikipedia is supposed
> to follow, and the last person I met who followed that was a definite pov
> warrior.
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> Parker
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Re-reading my own comments, this might have been phrased in a less
flammatory manner. If I crossed a line, I apologize.

However, I still take issue with your calling what I believe to be
good-faith and sourced edits vandalism, especially when the same sources are
just fine for another related article on the same topic.

I don't believe we can allow ourselves to fall into the trap of calling any
edit we disagree with "vandalism", or we do the whole project a disservice.

Parker