On 19/10/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:29:45 +0200, "MacGyverMagic/Mgm" macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
I couldn't agree more. I can't just assume a blanking is valid if the person doing it provides no reason whatsoever.
Not least because the verifiable instances of blanking by newly registered accounts for good reasons are, to date, precisely one, whereas the documented instances of it being vandalism are too numerous to count.
[hand up]
I've seen plenty. I've never stumbled across them, but I've seen a good few where after the blankings have been helpfully reverted, I've cleaned up the mess when they emailed us.
Pause for a second. Imagine you're entirely unfamiliar with Wikipedia. You see some horrible crap. You figure out you can edit. What do you do? You delete it. Getting new users to spot and understand the edit summary box is a bit of a lucky dip anyway - a new and angry user, somewhat less likely.
"That's not the way we do things around here" isn't an automatic ticket to not check if they had a point.