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Jonny Cache
post Wed 28th November 2007, 4:20pm
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QUOTE(Jonny Cache @ Sat 17th November 2007, 12:54am) *

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You guessed it — JustZapitGuy is in it.

QUOTE(Guy Chapman @ 16 Nov 2007 UTC 09:57)

As David Gerard has previously said, checking the edits and making them again in your own name is the way to do that. Yes, tedious and to an outside view somewhat silly, but when we ban people *we ban them*, if we think they should be allowed to come along and edit some then *we should not ban them*.

You need to remember that the source of this problem is not our behaviour, it's theirs. They are the ones evading a ban. They are the ones deliberately gaming the system and disrupting Wikipedia to make their point. Sockpuppets of banned users correcting typos as a way of building up an edit history is *not actually a good thing* because the aim is to do some damage that is massively greater than the benefit of the trivial typo fixing.

Policy on banned users says that we should revert all edits made by banned users after banning. And we should, even if (as with Arch Coal) we then go and rewrite a whole article from scratch, from sources. I do not subscribe to the idea of being "a little bit banned".

Guy (JzG)

Guy Chapman, Re: Featured Editors, 16 Nov 2007 UTC 09:57


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Jonny Cache   The Non-Painful Discussion Of WP:Deny Attribution   Wed 28th November 2007, 4:20pm
Jonny Cache   This is the ultimate in Wikipediot logic. "W...   Wed 28th November 2007, 5:16pm
Jonny Cache   As David Gerard has previously said, checking th...   Wed 28th November 2007, 6:14pm
Jonny Cache   I suppose "comment on content, not the contr...   Wed 28th November 2007, 6:50pm
Jonny Cache   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='60733' date='Sa...   Wed 28th November 2007, 7:06pm
Jonny Cache   As David Gerard has previously said, checking th...   Wed 28th November 2007, 7:36pm
Jonny Cache   Another flagrant GFDL violation is List of Fellow...   Wed 28th November 2007, 9:44pm
Jonny Cache   I have no idea whether there is any applicable l...   Wed 28th November 2007, 10:18pm
Jonny Cache   To my mind, the Law is already an ass, independe...   Thu 29th November 2007, 1:06pm
Jonny Cache   [quote name='Moulton' post='60762' date='Sat 17t...   Thu 29th November 2007, 1:38pm
Jonny Cache   As David Gerard has previously said, checking th...   Thu 29th November 2007, 1:58pm
Jonny Cache   [quote name='Guy Chapman' date='16 Nov 2007 UTC ...   Thu 29th November 2007, 2:28pm
Jonny Cache   Let us now continue with current developments on t...   Thu 29th November 2007, 3:00pm
Jonny Cache   [i]Lather, Rinse, Repeat … Anyone who's bee...   Thu 29th November 2007, 4:02pm
Emperor   Interesting. I guess if the admins take responsib...   Thu 29th November 2007, 4:12pm
Jonny Cache   I have never known Ben Udell, who writes under the...   Thu 29th November 2007, 4:26pm
Jonny Cache   This Just In — And I Use The Word "Just...   Thu 29th November 2007, 8:33pm
GlassBeadGame   [b]This Just In — And I Use The Word "Just...   Thu 29th November 2007, 11:37pm
Jonny Cache   [b]This Just In — And I Use The Word "Jus...   Fri 30th November 2007, 12:15am
Jonny Cache   When Ben Udell asked me to clarify my position on ...   Thu 29th November 2007, 9:00pm
Jonny Cache   Of course, Faithful Readers of The Wikipedia Revie...   Thu 29th November 2007, 10:53pm
The Joy   They would have done well to just delete all your ...   Thu 29th November 2007, 11:18pm
Jonny Cache   They would have done well to just delete all your...   Thu 29th November 2007, 11:40pm
The Joy   Apologies, I meant "work" but I said ...   Fri 30th November 2007, 2:17am
Jonny Cache   Apologies, I meant "work" but I said ...   Fri 30th November 2007, 3:44am
Moulton   It occurs to me that the WP admins have adopted an...   Sat 1st December 2007, 3:23pm


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