QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 3rd August 2011, 1:30am)
QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Tue 2nd August 2011, 6:33pm)
I know you are still new here, but WR really isn't known for giving flowers to spurned badmin, especially the block-happy variety. Rod was the admin who suddenly infef-blocked the pretty mild-mannered Larry Sanders (one of the co-founders of Wikipedia) simply for criticising it once too much for his taste. No grounds in civility etc - Rod just thought it was un-Wikipedian and felt Die Project would do better without him around.
That's
Larry Sanger (not Sanders) that RH&E indeff blocked May 9, 2010 without warning, for "disruptive editing." Ah, sweet karma. But yes, the cofounder of WP.
Here's all the bad stuff, hidden under piles of courtesy blanking, but not gone, as it's not been oversighted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=419058112http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...losed_by_motionAnd incidentally, not being Australian or British, I didn't know there was such a guy as
Rod Hull who had an arm-puppet Emu, which was the dark side of his personality. Hmmm.
"No. You're either with us or against us. But you have made it quite plain, and that is why you are blocked."
"As an admin here, my duty, and my responsibilty, is to protect this encyclopedia from damage, from wherever it may originate, and that includes pointed edits from those who no longer subscribe to our collective values. "
"It's perhaps obvious that such a campaign isn't going to work on Wikipedia itself, and Wikipedia Review is largely populated by disaffected and banned users."
Prophetic words.
See also:
Genrikh Yagoda,
Nikolaj Yezhov.
(But since those two went to their death with loyalty on their lips, I was looking for a better metaphor and just realized how POV the article on Georges Danton is. Who'd expected it?)
(To be fair, the nonsense in the Danton article appears to be due to the fact that they copy/pasted it from the 1911 EB. "Moderating influence" my butt.)
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