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Law Lord
post Sat 19th September 2009, 2:29pm
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(I am posting this here instead of the German forum, since my German is rusty and I prefer an outside view.)

I rarely (never) edit deWiki but a sudden piece of interesting information about the late Hans Diller came to my attention. As far as I could tell, an article on him was only present at deWiki.

I inserted the info (in German). A user reverted. I asked for the reasoning. None was given. It seems said user thought that it is good for the mutual respect that instead of participating in a discussen about an article, you write your admin friends in private and have them threathen anybody you disagree with.

So, asking again made this being entered on my user page:

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Please stop your editing without references, which, by the way, looks like „on the wrong side of the enyclopaedic border“. And if you revert that again, I'd have to stop you by efficient means.


The poster was a German administrator, and he has a very anti-French image on his user page.

I posted a request on the bottom of his user page for the removal of said image:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Disk...hateful_content

This led to immidiate reaction by 3 different user, none of them adressing the issue but rather "shooting back" at me. The 3rd one write in German calling me a "troll" and stating I have no interest in "encyclopedic coopoeration" and asking for my immidate block.

Certainly, the culture at deWiki is very different from enWiki.



Any thoughts?

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post Sat 19th September 2009, 2:39pm
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QUOTE(Law Lord @ Sat 19th September 2009, 2:29pm) *

I posted a request on the bottom of his user page for the removal of said image:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Disk...hateful_content

Is it really any more "hateful" than the original?
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Law Lord   Are they all crazy at German Wikipedia?   Sat 19th September 2009, 2:29pm
Lar   [quote name='Law Lord' post='194948' date='Sat 19...   Sat 19th September 2009, 2:41pm
Tarc   Perhaps someone who reads Russian could evaluate t...   Sat 19th September 2009, 3:37pm
CharlotteWebb   Extremely rusty, but since the the top-left box l...   Sat 19th September 2009, 4:34pm
Law Lord   Well, the French version makes fun of particular F...   Sat 19th September 2009, 2:42pm
Law Lord   Wow, they are crazy at German wikipedia. Account ...   Sat 19th September 2009, 2:53pm
CharlotteWebb   Wow, they [i]are crazy at German wikipedia. For ...   Sat 19th September 2009, 7:05pm
Herschelkrustofsky   Wow, they are crazy at German wikipedia. Account...   Thu 24th September 2009, 12:17am
Law Lord   Actually, Charlotte is right, and your history of...   Thu 24th September 2009, 12:29am
CharlotteWebb   Well, the French version makes fun of particular ...   Sat 19th September 2009, 3:00pm
Somey   Well, the French version makes fun of particular F...   Sat 19th September 2009, 3:59pm
Jim   A bold statement, if ever I saw one - if only it...   Sat 19th September 2009, 4:10pm
gomi   This "tit-for-tat" would then continue f...   Sat 19th September 2009, 7:20pm
Law Lord   Well, having made 1 minor controversial edit and t...   Sat 19th September 2009, 9:26pm
Milton Roe   Well, having made 1 minor controversial edit and ...   Sat 19th September 2009, 10:37pm
written by he who wrote it   Well, the French version makes fun of particular ...   Sat 19th September 2009, 4:47pm
Dr. Blofeld   I've created an article for you at http://en.w...   Sat 19th September 2009, 4:48pm
Law Lord   I don't think it's any more hateful than ...   Sat 19th September 2009, 5:07pm
Appleby   Just for the record, the original English version ...   Sat 19th September 2009, 5:42pm
dtobias   Not defending the indef block, which seems like an...   Sat 19th September 2009, 10:06pm
Gandoman   The German Wikipedia does have certain cultural di...   Sun 20th September 2009, 10:13am
CharlotteWebb   The German Wikipedia does have certain cultural d...   Sun 20th September 2009, 11:28am
dogbiscuit   [quote name='Gandoman' post='195047' date='Sun 20...   Sun 20th September 2009, 11:37am
Peter Damian   The German Wikipedia does have certain cultural d...   Sun 20th September 2009, 11:31am
Appleby   Interesting they have the same word for troll ht...   Sun 20th September 2009, 3:01pm
CharlotteWebb   [quote name='Peter Damian' post='195052' date='Su...   Wed 23rd September 2009, 8:15pm
Law Lord   Basically, admins are the bosses, and if someone ...   Sun 20th September 2009, 12:10pm
Somey   I understand now, what it is in German spirit that...   Sun 20th September 2009, 4:54pm
GlassBeadGame   Germans are NOT stupid people; most of them kno...   Sun 20th September 2009, 5:08pm
Random832   It has impressed me greatly the generations of Ger...   Mon 21st September 2009, 4:43am
GlassBeadGame   It has impressed me greatly the generations of Ge...   Mon 21st September 2009, 4:58am
Milton Roe   [quote name='Random832' post='195155' date='Sun 2...   Thu 24th September 2009, 6:07am
Law Lord   Well, they are crazy: Unblock request denied Mayb...   Fri 16th October 2009, 12:49am
Moulton   The Politics of Disempowerment So now I know that...   Sun 18th October 2009, 12:35pm
Law Lord   The Politics of Disempowerment What prison teach...   Sun 18th October 2009, 7:05pm
Somey   Though that in turn requires one to take it as rea...   Mon 21st September 2009, 5:26am
Herschelkrustofsky   There's a spy novel I like to recommend calle...   Wed 23rd September 2009, 8:59pm
Somey   ...at least on the surface you seem to agree with ...   Thu 24th September 2009, 5:47am
Cla68   [quote name='Herschelkrustofsky' post='195679' da...   Thu 24th September 2009, 5:59am
Cedric   The German Wikipedia does have certain cultural d...   Sun 20th September 2009, 2:03pm
Law Lord   Sounds like the sort of place Abraham Lincoln ref...   Sun 20th September 2009, 3:21pm
InkBlot   Am I missing a joke here, or is my German worse th...   Wed 23rd September 2009, 11:33pm
Law Lord   Looking at the edit which began all this, it, um,...   Thu 24th September 2009, 12:26am
Shalom   Why don't y'all ban me from WR already, y...   Thu 24th September 2009, 12:28am
A Horse With No Name   Why don't y'all ban me from WR already, y...   Thu 24th September 2009, 12:46am
Milton Roe   Why don't y'all ban me from WR already, y...   Thu 24th September 2009, 5:18am
Herschelkrustofsky   [quote name='InkBlot' post='195707' date='Thu 24t...   Thu 24th September 2009, 12:30am
Law Lord   Wow, it seems said (anti-French) administrator (Wa...   Thu 24th September 2009, 12:52am
Law Lord   I have finally gone back to that place and started...   Mon 12th October 2009, 4:40am
Guido den Broeder   Note that the flagged revisions do not make a diff...   Fri 16th October 2009, 9:52am
Law Lord   In fact, compared to other WP's, the German c...   Sun 18th October 2009, 12:35am
Moulton   A prison is neither a church nor an institution of...   Sun 18th October 2009, 7:08pm
Law Lord   A prison is neither a church nor an institution o...   Sun 18th October 2009, 7:14pm
The Joy   [quote name='Moulton' post='200224' date='Sun 18t...   Tue 20th October 2009, 12:09am
Law Lord   Are you suggesting that the German Wikipedians sh...   Wed 21st October 2009, 9:10pm
CharlotteWebb   Are you suggesting that the German Wikipedians s...   Thu 22nd October 2009, 3:29am
Jacina   1. Your entry was not sourced. 2. "Hans Dille...   Wed 18th November 2009, 10:02am
Law Lord   Yeah you're an idiot Your argument has such...   Tue 23rd February 2010, 3:15am
NotARepublican55   (I am posting this here instead of the German for...   Tue 23rd February 2010, 6:28am


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