On 7/9/06, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
This user has deleted hundreds of pages without even notifying anyone that he did so.
Perhaps because he thought that deleting these duplicated system messages that were identical to the centralised, standard MediaWiki messages was not harmful in any way - indeed, from the user experience point-of-view, absolutely nothing seems to have been changed. He probably was under the impression that it was self-evidently, obviously mistaken to have local versions that did not differ from the defaults.
It sounds like an opportunity for discussion and gentle reminder of the benefits of warnings even in such "obvious" cases, since no actual harm to the project was done.
Since this had to have been done by someone already an administrator on nl:, I think the paranoia about things being 'forced upon' a project by those outside sounds a little overblown to me - and saying more about the complainers than the complained-about.
-Matt