[Wikipedia-l] Re: toki pona

[Mark Williamson]

Rules of good conduct? I acted in good faith. I did not realise how
much trouble it would cause. I figured if there really was an issue,
then good, and if there wasn't the notices could easily be removed
(had somebody asked, I would've done it myself).

Regardless of whether or not there are copyright issues with
tokipona:, I believed there were and I put up copyvio notices.

And I strongly object to you calling my actions vandalism - I added
copyvio notices to pages where I suspected copyright violations.

Others have suggested I used a bot, the simple fact is I did it
manually. I'm too stupid to write a bot, though I could probably
learn.

As I said before, I am truly sorry for the time I have wasted and the
bad feelings I have caused.

--node

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:01:30 +0200, Jens Ropers <ropers at ropersonline.com> wrote:
> I clearly support a TEMPORARY ban.
> 
> Rationale:
> This is a significant breach of rules of good conduct.
> Even if we're not a higher moral authority or in any way "teachers"
> over the next guy (and really, we're not), a ban will be better for
> Node, because it will give him the opportunity to return to this
> community afterwards in a way that makes it easy for everyone to accept
> that he has "served his time" and can then be welcomed back without
> anyone continuing to hold a grudge. No penalty at all would lead to a
> situation where people would continue to hold a grudge, and maybe not
> entirely without some justification.
> 
> I have left a note about this to Sonjaaa, who is also a WP contributor
> on the English Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sonjaaa#Toki_Pona_vandalism
> 
> I would imagine that she should be able to clarify the copyright
> situation.
> 
> -- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
>      www.ropersonline.com
> 
> 
> 
> On 22 Sep 2004, at 05:05, Tim Starling wrote:
> 
> > Angela_ wrote:
> >> I've just reverted over 200 edits on the toki pona Wikipedia. Someone
> >> apparently feels the language is copyrighted so decided to replace
> >> every page, including user pages and the main page, with a copyright
> >> violation notice, presumably with the use of a bot. I've reverted
> >> these, although unfortunately the "bot rollback" failed on later pages
> >> so recent changes is a mess. I haven't deleted anything, so if people
> >> want to see the pages, such as "copyviopedia" this person created they
> >> can still do so.
> >
> > Edits were performed anonymously with the IP address 24.251.242.236 .
> > The corresponding hostname is ip24-251-242-236.ph.ph.cox.net.
> >
> > On the English Wikipedia:
> >
> > mysql> select distinct rc_user_text from recentchanges where
> > rc_ip='24.251.242.236';
> > +--------------+
> > | rc_user_text |
> > +--------------+
> > | Node ue      |
> > +--------------+
> >
> > I suggest a temporary ban from all projects effective immediately.
> >
> > -- Tim Starling
> >
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