QUOTE(Shalom @ Fri 27th March 2009, 12:20pm)
Going back to my original point, the one IP address I deliberately did not bother to track down for the purpose of my RFA was the one I used to make the following edit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=130469943The edit summary refers to the words atop the Auschwitz concentration camp entrance. The article was the university I was attending at that time.
QUOTE(Shalom @ Fri 27th March 2009, 1:26pm)
I thought my revelation two posts earlier would shock people. I did hide it at the end, but you guys are supposed to notice this stuff.
I think you've got to give people more than just one hour to notice and be "shocked," Shalom, not to mention actually
react - many of us go for days without checking the site or logging in.
As it happens, though, putting a Swastika at the top of the Yeshiva University page, while obviously not funny and extremely naughty and provocative, is hardly the sort of vandalism that one would expect to stay on the page for long. In a word, it's
amateurish. In this case it lasted
six minutes, which isn't bad for a non-BLP and a relatively non-controversial subject.
More importantly, were these uncontrolled-rage episodes you're describing derived from your frustrations on WP, or maybe they were just a partial contributing factor? Or was it something else, mostly/completely unrelated? I might go so far as to disagree with the prevailing wisdom and say that such episodes derived from WP frustrations aren't necessarily more or less unhealthy than rage episodes derived from anything else - if anything, they might be
more healthy in the long term, because at least you probably have a better chance of weaning yourself off of a Wikipedia addiction than you would of many other things, such as getting a better job, preventing your getting ripped off in a business transaction, or getting your wife or girlfriend to dress up like Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS just before hanky-panky time. (Or for that matter, getting her to just bring you a sandwich!)