On 19/10/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:29:45 +0200,
"MacGyverMagic/Mgm"
<macgyvermagic(a)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.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk