Reading the
ANI discussion (non-perma-link) on this is a barrel of laughs. If anyone ever wanted evidence that the upper echelons of Wikipedia are populated by a bunch of bone-headed, argumentative, self-important morons, this is it. These people are wetting themselves over the bizarre belief that they are editing an encyclopedia, rather than participating in a social club wrapped around a set of random misinformation.
The admin in question has
deleted her emails to the professor, but amusing quotes include:
"Lets just range-block the school for a week if it happens again" (User:J.smith),
"he's suggesting ... the online equivalent of his asking his [students] to pick a random store, throw a brick through the front window and see how long it takes the cops to arrive" (User:HalfShadow), and
... this academic's conduct sickens me. The wanton destruction of knowledge - free knowledge, yet - violates just about every single academic principle I can think of by the ever-idiotic User:Moreschi. The understatement award, in response to the question
"what are we trying to do here? get a guy sacked? " goes to this:
If he refuses to respond to emails. This is a bit harsh, but ignoring Zoe's emails is no good either."
But the best of all has to be by the instigator, User:Zoe --
destruction of a privately-owned website is a federal offense Sorry, I have to go now and change my pants because I wet myself laughing when reading that. After that I'm going to go vandalize Wikipedia a little, maybe.
Zoe vs. NIU, Was: Jimbo approves of vandalism!
