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| Hipocrite |
 Wed 25th March 2009, 1:50pm
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| everyking |
Tue 21st April 2009, 9:04pm
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Date linking is dumb, and it was a mistake all along. UC Bill's proposal would have been all right as a compromise, I suppose. The incivility was outrageous and warranted a block, although it should have been subject to community review before implementation.
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| UC_Bill |
Tue 21st April 2009, 9:53pm
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QUOTE(everyking @ Tue 21st April 2009, 2:04pm)  Date linking is dumb, and it was a mistake all along. UC Bill's proposal would have been all right as a compromise, I suppose. The incivility was outrageous and warranted a block, although it should have been subject to community review before implementation. Oh, totally agreed about the outrageousness of my rant. In fact in that particular instance the incivility was at least partly contrived, as I'd recently been through a lengthy debate on the talk page for WP:CIVIL itself, pointing out how civility blocks were essentially just profanity blocks, since if people were arguing it was almost invariably the one who cursed first that was blocked, regardless of the content of their messages otherwise. So really I should've been blocked for WP:POINT, which I think at least a few people suspected anyway. My anger at the blocking admins was entirely authentic though.. I had about 50 tabs open in my browser, doing an assembly-line-style set of related edits to fix the categories for some pages that were on the "Wikipedia Backlog" page. As I finished my edits and was going through the tabs submitting each one, I got blocked and lost all that work. Very irritating. My views on WP:CIVIL are that it should never be used as a reason for blocking anyone. I don't see how blocks help calm a situation down, and I don't buy into the argument that people need to be "protected" from being called names. We're talking about words here, not sticks and stones. The way to deal with incivility is to ignore it, and if WP had killfiles then there really wouldn't be a problem. |
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| Moulton |
Tue 21st April 2009, 10:00pm
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QUOTE(UC_Bill @ Tue 21st April 2009, 5:53pm) My views on WP:CIVIL are that it should never be used as a reason for blocking anyone. Bill, see this essay on the subject. |
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Hipocrite UC Bill Gianoed Wed 25th March 2009, 1:50pm
Peter Damian This is excellent.
http://en.wikipedia.o... Wed 25th March 2009, 1:59pm Peter Damian This is what caused it:
This man is a hero.
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Bottled_Spider This is what caused it:
This man is a hero.
Yes... Wed 25th March 2009, 2:24pm Mike H The drama and lulz were very nice. And to be fair,... Wed 25th March 2009, 10:25pm Milton Roe
User:UC_Bill has a short temper. He's also, I... Thu 26th March 2009, 1:07am Cla68
User:UC_Bill has a short temper. He's also, I... Thu 26th March 2009, 2:05am CharlotteWebb
If he's a developer, does that mean he's ... Thu 26th March 2009, 2:13am EricBarbour Funny guy. Colbert should hire him. :sick:
Guys ... Thu 26th March 2009, 3:09am Gandoman The admin who blocked him indef and blanked his us... Thu 26th March 2009, 7:48am KamrynMatika This is a good example of what Kato was going on a... Thu 26th March 2009, 1:04pm CharlotteWebb
Can you imagine a work colleague turning to you a... Thu 26th March 2009, 1:54pm Peter Damian
This is a good example of what Kato was going on ... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:42pm Kato
Can you imagine a work environment in which peopl... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:45pm Peter Damian
Can you imagine a work environment in which peop... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:50pm Somey Interesting case...
From what I can determine, UC... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:16pm CharlotteWebb
Finally, just to clarify, UC Bill seems to be a M... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:32pm Somey Only if he could sneak malicious code past one of ... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:36pm CharlotteWebb
Are you saying there's a feature that prevent... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:49pm Kato
Tony1 doesn't like Date Autoformatting, and e... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:38pm Milton Roe
[quote name='Somey' post='163628' date='Thu 26th ... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:43pm Jon Awbrey
Linking all those dates is one of the most cringe... Thu 26th March 2009, 5:56pm Milton Roe
Linking all those dates is one of the most cring... Thu 26th March 2009, 6:03pm Somey Linking all those dates is one of the most cringe ... Thu 26th March 2009, 6:12pm Sarcasticidealist But often it seems like the only people on WP who ... Thu 26th March 2009, 6:14pm CharlotteWebb
[Obviously I say this at the risk of having UC Bi... Thu 26th March 2009, 6:28pm Malleus
It just struck me that UC Bill was suggesting a c... Thu 26th March 2009, 6:43pm Kelly Martin The issue was only tangentially related to links, ... Tue 21st April 2009, 8:57pm Bottled_Spider The drama and lulz were very nice. And to be fair,... Thu 26th March 2009, 7:12pm UC_Bill
Obviously I say this at the risk of having UC Bil... Tue 21st April 2009, 8:02pm Somey Nah, I usually only use language like that when it... Tue 21st April 2009, 8:34pm UC_Bill
The date formatting issue seems more problematic ... Tue 21st April 2009, 10:02pm Eva Destruction
My views on markup in general (and date markup in... Tue 21st April 2009, 10:12pm UC_Bill
Is that not what [wp]Template:Wikify does? There... Tue 21st April 2009, 10:33pm Kelly Martin It was the same situation with the date formatting... Tue 21st April 2009, 9:07pm Cedric
I wish I'd found this site earlier, it would... Wed 22nd April 2009, 12:32am Milton Roe
In any event, nothing ever came of that bit nonse... Wed 22nd April 2009, 12:42am Apathetic He wanted to make an entirely unnecessary dab page... Thu 26th March 2009, 7:08pm Milton Roe
He wanted to make an entirely unnecessary dab pag... Thu 26th March 2009, 8:38pm gomi Welcome to WR, Mr. ... er ... UC Bill! You mi... Tue 21st April 2009, 8:13pm UC_Bill
Welcome to WR, Mr. ... er ... UC Bill! You m... Tue 21st April 2009, 8:17pm gomi Thanks! Weren't you supposed to hack my a... Tue 21st April 2009, 8:26pm EricBarbour So novice editors could edit an article -- [i]any ... Tue 21st April 2009, 10:35pm UC_Bill
And may I just add, I loved this exchange on your... Tue 21st April 2009, 10:47pm |
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