[Wikipedia-l] Is this a waste of time?

[bderksen]

>===== Original Message From "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> =====
>Tarquin suggested:
>
>> Ban Lir.
>> Or flood the page -- recruit enough sysops & old hands to watch that
>> page (subject AND talk) around the clock  simply wipe everything Lir adds.
>>
>> Whenever this sort of stupid edit war happens, the outcome is that we
>> lose an old hand and keep the moron -- let's not make that mistake again.
>
>I might protect some of the pages that Empress Lir is mangling, if it gets 
out of hand. But I think SLR is more than a match for her.
>
>If he puts in an "Archaeologists say" thing, but she deletes that, we can 
just revert her deletion. What's all the fuss?

The fuss is that once again contributors are spending their time banging their 
head against a wall instead of writing new material. I have myself spent some 
of my meagre wikipedia time this week reverting or correcting most of the 
stuff Lir has done to articles on my watchlist, so I'm painfully aware of how 
frustrating it is. Unfortunately I haven't had the time to exhaustively check 
over Lir's recent changes, so I won't give any opinions on whether she's worth 
the effort, but if people are complaining then the complaints should be taken 
seriously.

If people are making a fuss, then there _is_ a fuss. Don't assume that the 
people who are cleaning up after Lir are happy to continue doing that 
indefinitely.

Really, if we're going around and manually reverting every change that a 
particular user makes, how is that any different from simply banning that user 
(other than that it takes way more effort and causes way more frustration to 
those who do the work)?