From: Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au Reply-To: m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au,English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Madness of King Infobox Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 20:10:32 +1000
G'day Christiano,
From: Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au What I *am* qualified to comment on is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giuseppe_Di_Stefano&action=his...
And the little edit war in which you and an IP engaged. Has this become appropriate wikiconduct in this day and age, now?
Try the checkuser page, and you'll see that that was scarcely some
passing
IP. And the user behind the IP had done that sort of thing before.
What sort of thing? Edit warring over infoboxen?
There are circumstances where edit-war-like behaviour is justified. Reverting vandalism, for example. Not silly infoboxen. Heck, even if it's a banned user, rather than edit-war you're better off blocking the user (or getting someone else to block him).
What's the rush to get your version to the top? It's a bloody infobox, not tubgirl.
Now see ANI.
Actually, there are possibly more problems with this particular infobox than I thought, let alone wider issues. For starters, the time given for when he was active contradicts the article, and Grove, when I check that. Then again we have redundany: if you're going to describe him as an opera singer, then obviously he sang opera, you don't need to state that twice.
Then the image is fair use, which I'm just a bit iffy about. Can someone advise me as to the copyright status of that?
Moreschi
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