[Wikipedia-l] Re: How to ban a logged-in user

[Toby Bartels]

Karl Eichwalder wrote in part:

>Vandalism is something different -- vandalism is destroying cities by
>building road where drivers are "free" to drive fast and killing
>children (we Germans are great in this sport ;-((( ).  Or vandalism is
>spoiling oceans with oil.

Gak.  Now an *anti*-banning person doesn't know what "vandalism" means.
These are both evil things, I agree, but not every evil act is vandalism.
Deliberately writing POV articles is not vandalism
(as we have recently had to remind several people on the [[en:]] list),
and making poor regulatory decisions is not vandalism either.
If you want a catch-all term for every evil act, the word is "evil".
Let's save the word "vandalism" for vandalism,
lest language become useless when every word has exactly the same meaning.


-- Toby